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Served the food on the table, and then served homemade rice wine.The wine is made by Xia Silang and Xiaosan together. It is brewed with aged glutinous rice, and it is somewhat sweet and sour.Xia Silang likes to take a few sips of rice occasionally, and Xiaosan often uses it to make vegetable stew.

Xiao San doesn't like restrained scenes very much. When strangers come to the house, he hides as much as he can, and he can't learn those polite things in two lifetimes.Anyway, he didn't have anything to do, so he simply took Xiaosi and the two of them to the kitchen to eat, and it was much more comfortable to eat that way.

Liansheng glared at him several times to no avail.In the past, she loved Xiao San'er and was reluctant to take care of him, but now she wants to take care of him, but she can't take care of him anymore.Liansheng murmured to himself as he greeted the guests to take their seats.

After entering the kitchen, he coaxed Xiao Si with a big chicken leg. Before he started serving the dishes, the servant in gray clothes came again. The servant rigidly explained that he could not eat at the same table with the master, so he came to the kitchen to ask the little brother for help. Prepare simple meals.

Xiaosan thought a few words about the slavishness of the evil old society, and then found a large ceramic bowl, and handed it a full bowl.In fact, they ate well in the kitchen. All the dishes were left in small portions, and there were extra mixed vegetables, so they were happy to eat them.After Xiaosi put the chicken leg in his hand, he quietly went to the side and gnawed away, so naturally he stopped making trouble.

After the three people in the kitchen finished eating, they were still toasting and chatting in the main room, most of them were Xia Silang and Xia Hu who were arguing, and they didn't hear much from the guest.That person may be from a wealthy family, I heard that those rich people pay attention to eating without talking, but they don't know, if they don't talk, how can they eat well and feel comfortable!For the Xia family, the ancestors on the table can also talk while eating, if they don't talk, I'm afraid they won't be able to eat any more!

Xiao San doesn't like washing dishes very much, and Xin He used to clean up all the dishes at home.After eating this time, I just cleaned up the stove, piled all the dishes in the wooden basin and soaked them in water, and let's talk about it after eating in the main room!

Today's sunshine is not very strong. In early summer, this kind of temperature is very warm and comfortable for people.

Xiaosan drove Xiaosi out of the house to play, while she went to work in the vegetable garden with the wooden bucket.The bitter gourd has started to fruit. Today he has to knock off some old leaves from the branches and fertilize again.The fertilizer is fermented from chicken manure, earthworm manure, and shredded straw. It smells a little disgusting. Fortunately, Liansheng sewed a cotton mask for him, which can reduce the smell to some extent.

Not too many bitter gourds are planted. In a small piece of land, a total of ten herringbone-shaped bamboo frames have been built.The green branches and vines are all over the bamboo frame, and they have been fixed one by one by straw ropes.Threshing is to remove too many old leaves and diseased leaves that have turned yellow, because most of those leaves are in the lower part, and Xiao San has to bend over to work in the field.Although it was only a small piece of land, my lower back still felt a little swollen after working, so I beat it with my hands.

"Hey~ Xiaosan! I heard that your second brother is back?!"

"Ah~Yinzi~" Xiaosan straightened up, and saw Yinfang standing outside the ground, wearing a long emerald green gown, his appearance was a bit better than when he was a child, with a pair of single phoenix eyes and willow-leaf eyebrows, everyone except Xiaosan Another pretty guy from Yuan Village.But now this picture of pinching her waist, covering her mouth and gossiping, can't be said to be very good-looking.This person is like what Xiaosan said when he was a child, he is really the trumpet flower in Dayuan Village, and all kinds of gossip have been in and out of his mouth.

"Tsk~ Xiaosan, I didn't say that your family is rich, but what are you doing in the field all day long?! Look at your skin is tanned, and your hands are thick! Clothes Those things are only worn by uncles! It’s no good, the work in the field is not done by our little buddies! If you continue like this, you won’t be able to get married!”

After Yinfang patted the bamboo pole to attract Xiaosan to look at him, he continued: "Hey! I heard that you drove away that matchmaker surnamed He in Shanghe Village with a broom a few days ago! This is the first Already?! I said, in this Dayuan village, you have driven away matchmakers in several villages with a broom. If this continues, you are good-looking and no one will help you to marry me! Where does your father go? Help you find a relative?! You really don’t plan to get married, do you? Or, your father really plans to marry you to the big city?! It’s not me who said... hey... hey... Xiaosan, why are you going? ah!"

"I'm going to lift the manure bucket, I have to fatten the bitter melon! Ah~ It doesn't matter if you keep talking! I'll listen while I work."

"I'm going to die! You put on fat, what am I doing here?! It stinks! Hey~ I'm leaving~ It took me a lot of effort to get the incense on my clothes, it can't be ruined in your filthy land!" Silver After Fang finished speaking, he quickly twisted his body and walked away.

"Hey~you keep talking~hehe~" Xiaosan laughed by herself, Yinfang is so talkative, it is easy to drive him away, holding a dung bucket in his hand can basically isolate him within a few hundred meters outside.

After getting older, Xiaosan will also hang out with the young brothers in the village, but they are not very enthusiastic.Yinfang is a bit delicate, and sometimes the elder brothers in the village don't like to play with him, and the third mistress is also excluded because she is beautiful but taciturn.The result is that they obviously don't like each other, but the two get closer somehow.Xiaosan is not always polite to her own people. After Yinfang was teased by him a few times, the relationship between the two has become better and better!

"Little San still likes to tease people so much, doesn't she?"

"Ah~Second brother!" Turning around, he saw Xia Hu standing on the ridge with a smile. "When did it come, I didn't make a sound."

"I just came here, hehe~ when you drove Yinfang away! I came here to talk to Xiaosan!"

"Of course, let's go to the old house, I made herbal tea and put it there!" Xiaosan patted on the clothes and Xia Hu walked to the back of the old house.

The vegetable field behind the house has been expanded a lot by Xiaosan in recent years. The original chicken farm was moved not far from the small river, and the empty land was turned over, and now it is more than an acre wide.Vegetables are common in this season. Cowpeas, hot cabbage, water spinach, amaranth, bitter gourd and cucumber are the least grown, and only a few bamboo trellises are built!Near the wall of the old house, a few pumpkins were planted, and they are still in the stage of growing vines.

Two benches were placed under the thatched eaves of the old house, and a lame table was supported by thick branches. On the table were old teapots and large teacups.The two came over and sat down, Xiao San first poured a cup of tea for Xia Hu, and then drank half of the cup himself.

"Drink it, I made it with honeysuckle, it can detoxify and disperse the wind! By the way, why didn't you accompany the guests?!"

"The guest has already arranged to rest in the room! I came out to find you specially! Heh~ Xiaosan talks a lot when she grows up! When I was young, I always liked to ignore people!" Xia Hu smiled and took a sip of herbal tea , put the cup back on the table again, knocked on the table with his hand and then said: "I came back this time because I was sent back to Fuzhou City to be a steward!"

Back then when Huzi was young, the Xia family didn't agree with him going out to be a peddler, so he secretly followed Liu Buyi's carriage, and was only discovered when the carriage was unloading in Sanfang County.Liu Bu refused to return him once he persuaded him, so he had to take him for a run.After arriving in Fuzhou City, Huzi had opened his eyes, but he also became more determined in his thoughts!

He was not convinced that he was despised and beaten up just because he was a poor boy in the country!He wants to prove that even a country boy is not just so poor all his life, he will have a wonderful day!

He followed Liu Buyi to the business a few times, mainly to speculate and earn the price difference between the two places. The money he earned was not small, but not much.A year later, he joined a business firm in Fuzhou City as a clerk. Because he was clever and clever, he was favored by the owner of the firm two years ago and brought him to the capital for exercise.But he didn't expect that in less than two years, he would be able to be in charge!

"The steward~ seems to be very good! How about the monthly money? Are the benefits good?!"

"You obviously care about money, why haven't you thought about making a lot of money by yourself?!"

Xiao San twirled the cup in her hand, and shifted her gaze to the vegetable garden. "As long as you have enough money to spend! Why do you earn so much! I don't feel like putting it under the pillow!"

"You are always unreasonable!" Xia Hu laughed, reaching out to rub Xiaosan's head.

"Forget it! It doesn't matter if you don't earn money, the second brother earns it for you to spend! Okay!"

"That's what I love most! Don't count your words then!" Xiaosan laughed, her long and narrow eyes narrowed like a cat's.

"I'm going home this time to see that my family is leaving. Do you want to go to Fuzhou with me?!"

"Huh?! Then... I'll think about it!"

In fact, Xiaosan didn't want to see Fuzhou, she just wanted to leave home for a walk, because Lian Shengnian has been a little upset recently!

The little buddies in the village began to talk about marriage when they were around 14 years old, and they usually married out of the family when they were [-] or [-]!Although I have stayed in Dayuan Village for many years, Xiaosan is still Xiaosan!There are some things that I don't want to change from the bottom of my heart, such as finding a man to marry, and the mistress thinks that she can't do it yet.

So at the age of 16, he has not said that he is married, and every time he either pretends to be a monster to scare people away, or simply sweeps people out of the house with a broom.He is obviously a good-looking and hard-working buddy, but now it is rare to find him!Xia Silang is okay, but he just said to follow the fate, Liansheng watched his little brother grow up day by day, and now he talks a lot, Xiaosan's ears are almost calloused by him.

"By the way, thank you very much, Xiaosan! I haven't thanked you all this time! It's the second brother's fault!"

What Xia Hu was talking about were the letters sent to him by Xiaosan. Although there were only two or three letters a year, each time he could understand something new and create some new and different ideas for him.

"Those things are useless to me! It's good if I can help you!"

"Little San, those things..."

"This is my secret! Will the second brother mind?!"

"No, no! Just tell you, just tell your family about those things, don't tell outsiders! Understand?!"

Xiao San froze for a moment, then nodded.