Retired soldier king and his little sweetheart

"If the child likes it, just give it to her. It's not bad."

Brother Bao wore a suit that didn't fit very well, and held a very mismatched ancient style folding fan in his hand to fan Lu Yan and himself.

They came over early in the morning to help, and told Lu Yan to play by herself, they didn't look for her until Tang Huai saw Brother Bao leading Lu Yan and Lu Yan walking over with a sheep.

Brother Bao has dozens of goats on his farm, and they are usually free-range on the farm. Today, he was penned up for fear of affecting the activities. Lu Yan, who happened to be strolling around, saw them. He looked at the goats until the Brother Bao found her and said he would give her one.

Tang Huai did not agree.

He thought that Lu Yan would not stay here for a long time, nor did he have the ability to take care of the goats.

It's not cheap either. An adult goat costs at least 2000 yuan, not to mention that it is free-range on organic pastures, and it is even more expensive.

Lu Yan led the goat, didn't let go and didn't speak, rolling his eyes at Tang Huai from time to time.

Seeing Lu Yan's awkward look of wanting but refusing to act like a baby, Zhuang Xiaoduo couldn't help persuading Tang Huai: "Why don't you let her take it back, and we'll give Brother Bao a present as well."

"That's not the point. Let me ask you, do you think she has the ability to take care of this sheep?" Tang Huai said coldly.

Tang Huai seldom talked to Zhuang Xiaoduo like this, even when there were conflicts of principle in the past, Tang Huai would just deal with it coldly.

The atmosphere was a little cold for a while.

Zhuang Xiaoduo didn't want to argue with Tang Huai in front of outsiders, so he turned to comfort Lu Yan: "Sister, if you like it, we can take it home for a few days and send it back later, okay?"

"I don't want it anymore," Lu Yan shoved the rope into Zhuang Xiaoduo's hand, and turned around to leave.

Zhuang Xiaoduo wanted to chase after her, but was stopped by Tang Huai: "Leave her alone."

Lu Yan, who had already walked a few steps, stopped when he heard this, clenched his fists with his two little hands and couldn't help trembling, tears welled up in his eyes.

She turned around and yelled at Tang Huai: "You are just like mother! Scoundrel!"

After saying that, he ran away, Zhuang Xiaoduo shook off Tang Huai's hand, "She's just a child, what are you doing!"

Brother Bao was a little embarrassed by this incident, but he was also a teenager older than them, and he saw things much more transparently than Tang Huai.

"Tang Huai, Brother Bao, just talk too much. If you were unhappy when you were young, you will not know how to love when you grow up."

Tang Huai's eyes trembled slightly, and he smiled dryly.

"I'm sorry, Brother Bao."

Brother Bao: "What's the use of telling me, the two people who love you have already run away, go."

Tang Huai walked slowly towards the direction where Zhuang Xiaoduo and Lu Yan left, only one sheep and one brother Bao remained.

Zhuang Xiaoduo followed behind Lu Yan, panting so hard that his lungs were about to explode.

"This kid...huh...send him to practice track and field."

Lu Yan ran too fast, when the wind from the top of the farm blew, the fisherman's hat on his head was blown away and slapped Zhuang Xiaoduo on the face.

"Ah!" Zhuang Xiaoduo took off his hat, pretending to be seriously injured and fell to the ground.

Lu Yan was really fooled, turned around and knelt beside him: "What's wrong with you? Zhuang Xiaoduo, you..."

Zhuang Xiaoduo playfully opened one eye: "Teasing you."

"Don't cry, come here, wipe away your tears." Zhuang Xiaoduo raised the corner of his clothes and wiped Lu Yan's face.

Lu Yan laughed angrily at the sweaty T-shirt.

Zhuang Xiaoduo: "Your brother is just too straightforward. You know, he was a soldier, so he likes to lecture people like this."

Lu Yan pouted: "I didn't see him scolding you, he was very nice to you, and even helped you blow your hair."

Zhuang Xiaoduo: ...

"I'll raise lambs with you, okay? I've already raised 2000 pigs, and there's no problem with one more lamb." Zhuang Xiaoduo tilted his head to see Lu Yan's expression.

Lu Yan's face was covered with dried tears, and he blinked his eyes: "No more, brother is right."

Zhuang Xiaoduo: "He's a fart! At worst, we will send the lamb back when you leave. You are only 7 years old. It's normal to be willful and happy. Don't listen to him. If your brother dares to object, I will beat him."

Zhuang Xiaoduo stretched out his thin fist.

Lu Yan looked Zhuang Xiaoduo up and down, and his tightly pursed mouth finally bent upwards, "Really?"

Zhuang Xiaoduo: "Once a man speaks a word, it's hard to follow him."

The two walked back hand in hand, and saw Tang Huai smoking by a pond not far away, Zhuang Xiaoduo asked Lu Yan to go find Brother Bao, and he would be back in a while.

"What are you thinking about?" Zhuang Xiaoduo moved to Tang Huai's side and lightly bumped his shoulder.

Tang Huai put out the cigarette and sighed heavily.

"My mother loves herself so much, I don't know why she wants to have a baby.

"Even if it is an accidental consequence, you should be responsible, right? I used to think 'why did this happen to me', why did my mother treat me like this, what did I do wrong? I became a person who was very hard on myself, I was responsible for everything, and I wanted to be different from her."

Zhuang Xiaoduo gently held Tang Huai's hand, and pressed him as tightly as possible.

"I thought I did it a little bit. I was about to forget that feeling. She asked Lu Yan to come to me again, reminding me that people who have been hurt by my mother can't get over that hurdle. It's useless to be responsible. The effect is still the same. Same as hers."

Tang Huai smiled self-deprecatingly: "Xiao Duo, are you happy with me?"

Zhuang Xiaoduo: "Happy."

Tang Huai stretched out his hand and snorted Zhuang Xiaoduo's hair: "You are completely different from me. It is my good fortune to meet you."

"What's different?" Zhuang Xiaoduo leaned on Tang Huai's shoulder: "We are all human beings, we all eat and sleep, and we all work hard to live. We are two puzzle pieces, not exactly the same, but they fit together. We complement each other. You Say yes or no."

The corners of Tang Huai's mouth turned up, and the moisture in the corners of his eyes was dried by the air. The two walked back slowly holding hands.

Brother Bao's exhibition has become lively, and Zhuang Xiaoduo runs back and forth to help Brother Bao receive customers. After knowing where Zhuang Xiaoduo worked before, he still needs to ask him to help set up a line for cooperation.

"Are you hungry?" Tang Huai came over from the tasting area and brought Zhuang Xiaoduo a matcha cake.

Zhuang Xiaoduo didn't even need a spoon, so he finished eating in two or three mouthfuls, his cheeks were bulging like a hamster, and he couldn't speak clearly and asked for water.

They still didn't bring the goat home, so Lu Yan didn't want it anyway, so Brother Bao invited her to come to the farm tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

A lot of people came to the event, and the evaluation was very good, but no cooperation was reached.

Looking at the looted display table, Brother Bao smiled helplessly.

Zhuang Xiaoduo comforted him: "It's normal, Brother Bao, the logistics cost here is high, and the production volume is not big or small, no matter how good the stuff is, the other party is afraid of winning word of mouth and losing money."

"But I can't even sell it, let alone encourage local people to do it." Brother Bao said.

This is the difficulty of developing e-commerce in rural areas. Even if it is a really large enterprise, it does not say that it can cover all the rural areas, and the agricultural products in rural areas are often vegetables and fruits with high losses. The cost of building logistics is too high, and the income is covered Can't live.

Although both Zhuang Xiaoduo and Brother Bao knew this fatal principle, it was not something they could solve.

It is even more difficult to attract investment and invest in them.

On the way home, Zhuang Xiaoduo received a call from the bank, asking him to take the documents to the bank to complete the final loan procedures, and the funds came down immediately.

Zhuang Xiaoduo breathed a sigh of relief. Most of the money in Tang Huai's hand had already been put in. At this rate of spending, the first batch of piglets probably wouldn't be able to hold on.

"Then let's take our sister to the county seat tomorrow."

"I'm not going," Lu Yan said in the back seat.

Zhuang Xiaoduo: "But we may go for a long time, we don't worry about you being at home by yourself."

Lu Yan tilted his head: "Then you send me to the farm to find Uncle Dabao, who said he would take me fishing."

After making a decision like this, Zhuang Xiaoduo thought about going to learn about free-range chickens by the way, whether to buy chickens directly or to buy equipment to hatch by himself, checked a lot of information, and each had its own theory.

In the evening, Zhuang Xiaoduo played games with Lu Yan for an hour, and Tang Huai drove them to bed after taking a shower.

Zhuang Xiaoduo just told Tang Huai that he was going to take a bath, but when he went to the room to get his pajamas, for no reason, he began to lie on the bed holding his phone and started to use it.

When Tang Huai came in, he first folded the clean clothes that Zhuang Xiao had collected one by one and put them in the closet, and then put the iPad and books that he left on the bed on the table.

"bring it on."

"It's not so good...my sister is next door."

Tang Huai bent down and carried the quilt onto the chair, "Do 50 sit-ups and three sets of planks tonight."

Zhuang Xiaoduo: "What?!"

When Zhuang Xiaoduo said that he wanted to exercise, he was just talking casually. He had no athletic ability since he was a child, and he didn't like sports. He made up his mind to get a gym card countless times and then sold it at a low price.

"Can you start again in a few days, it's very tiring to take care of children."

"The amount is very small, it will be over in a while, come on, don't delay." Tang Huai grabbed Zhuang Xiaoduo's calf and pulled hard.

Zhuang Xiaoduo acted coquettishly and rolled around, but Tang Huai pressed him on the bed and began to do sit-ups.

5 minute later.

"How many? I can't do it... 30 is almost the same."

"17, make 50"

Zhuang Xiaoduo lay flat and wailed: "It took so long to make 17?"

Tang Huai: "It's only been done for 5 minutes, be good, keep going."

The next morning, Zhuang Xiaoduo had a sore back and back, and was listlessly eating noodles at the dining table.

Lu Yan sucked the noodles, her eyes were clean and bright: "Zhuang Xiaoduo, what's wrong with you?"

Zhuang Xiaoduo rolled his eyes at Tang Huai, and said angrily, "Your brother beat me up last night."

"Don't talk nonsense," Tang Huai came over with a pan and added a poached egg to everyone's bowl.

Lu Yan: "Brother, have you really hit Zhuang Xiao much?"

Tang Huai held up the spatula: "I don't have one, and it's Brother Zhuang Xiaoduo, do you understand?"

Lu Yan pouted unconvinced, "Oh."

The two exchanged dissatisfied eyes dominated by the 'head of the family' and ate their noodles.

After sending Lu Yan to the farm, the two drove to the county town to go through the formalities. After a while on the national highway, they saw a stall selling small pineapples on the side of the road, and Zhuang Xiaoduo slammed on the car door.

After Tang Huai parked the car, Zhuang Xiaoduo got out of the car to buy pineapples without looking back.

There are many places in Yunnan that sell this small Thai perfumed pineapple. It is much smaller than ordinary pineapples. It does not need to be soaked in salt water. It is very sweet and can be eaten in two bites.

Zhuang Xiaoduo bought a bag of 6, and as soon as he got in the car, he couldn't wait to stuff Tang Huai's mouth: "Eat quickly and see if it's sweet or not?"

Tang Huai took off his sunglasses, turned sideways to avoid Zhuang Xiaoduo's behavior of feeding pineapple up his nose, stretched out his hand to take it, tasted it carefully, and said, "It's not bad."

"Is this okay? This is my favorite fruit!"

Tang Huai: "Very sweet."

The late summer morning breeze made his bangs stand up, and there was Zhuang Xiaoduo's 80 Hong Kong and Taiwan hits downloaded in the car, and Wu Bai was singing "I will wipe away the tears I accidentally dropped~" at the top of his voice.

Zhuang Xiaoduo followed closely behind: "I will still pretend that everything is fine~ so-so~"

Because she sang too emotionally, she accidentally leaked the pineapple residue from her mouth, and hurriedly reached for the paper.

Wearing sunglasses, Tang Huai touched the green stubble on his chin that he didn't have time to shave off, and replaced Zhuang Xiaoduo and Wu Bai in a passionate chorus: "Crush the love between you and me! Break it all~"

Zhuang Xiaoduo has seen many movies, and this scene has appeared in countless romantic and cruel road movies. At this time, Tang Huai, who is wearing sunglasses, looks a little decadent because of his long hair and unshaved beard.

But he was smiling again, and the fingers on the steering wheel danced to the music from time to time.

Zhuang Xiaoduo looked at Tang Huai infatuatedly, and couldn't help but want to go up to him and give him a loving bobo.

However, the road safety traffic law killed his romance, and the ass was pulled back by the seat belt as soon as he lifted it.

Tang Huai smiled: "What are you doing?"

Zhuang Xiaoduo said viciously: "Fuck you!"

Tang Huai: "Understood."

Zhuang Xiaoduo didn't take it seriously, and began to move his body to the rhythm of Zheng Xiuwen's "Embrace".

It’s already noon after finishing the bank’s business, so I found a small shop in the alley, and sat at the door to eat rice noodles. The store gave free hot and sour lotus white with pickled peppers as a side dish, lotus white is cabbage, hot and sour Crunchy, it's the perfect appetizer for a sweltering midday meal.

Zhuang Xiaoduo went to add another bowl after eating.

"I like to eat it and make it for you," Tang Huai said.

After eating at the restaurant, Xiaoduo thought about going to the livestock wholesale market to find out what the price of free-range chickens is in the market now, whether they are good for sale, and to find farmers to learn from.

There is a hotel across from the alley. The golden signboard seems to have just been replaced, with 7 words shining: Century Garden Hotel.

I don't know if the signboard is too bright, or Zhuang Xiaoduo is really tired, intentionally or unintentionally looked at the hotel many times, but didn't pay attention when the green light appeared.

Tang Huai held Zhuang Xiaoduo's wrist: "Let's go."

Zhuang Xiaoduo: "Oh."

5 minute later.

"Hello, sir, the river view double bed room you opened is ready. Here is the key card, room 4 on the 803th floor."

The lady at the front desk politely handed over the room card and the ID cards of the two of them.

Tang Huai reached out to take it from behind: "Thank you."

Zhuang Xiaoduo pretended to be calm, walked into the elevator with Tang Huai, and the moment the door closed, he couldn't help but hit Tang Huai's chest with his small fist: "I told you I'll open the room, you can sneak in again!"

Tang Huai: "According to regulations, registration is required."

Zhuang Xiaoduo sighed, looking at the payment information on the phone.

"It should be enough to open an hourly room just now. It's more than 400 a day."

In the evening, the two checked out and left. Zhuang Xiaoduo's footsteps were flimsy, wearing Tang Huai's sunglasses, and Tang Huai walked towards the parking lot with Tang Huai's support.