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Arrived at Yao Xiaonian's house at about ten o'clock, and it was easy to find. There were always piles of wood in front of the carpenter's door. After finding this house, the two of them arrived at the gate. The door was open, and Yao Xiaonian was processing wood in the yard. , Qin Jiu shouted: "Uncle Yao."

Yao Xiaonian saw the two of them when he turned his head, wiped his hands quickly, stepped forward and hugged Qin Zao and said, "Come early, come, uncle, see if you have gained weight during the Chinese New Year."

The neglected Qin Jiu: "..."

Qin Jiu always felt that Yao Xiaonian hadn't forgotten that he wanted Qin Zao to be his future son-in-law, otherwise why would he pay so much attention to Zao'er.

"Uncle Yao, my dad said that you made lanterns for us, let us come and get them." Qin Jiu interrupted the two who were kissing each other over there, and explained the purpose of coming here this time.

"I was thinking that I would send this piece of material to you after I finished processing it, so you came here, wait, I'll get it." After saying that, he put down Qin Jiu, and went to get the lantern.

Soon he took out a round bamboo basket and put it in front of the two of them: "It's here, just take it back, and there are those boys from the Zhang family and the Qu family."

There were several lanterns in the bamboo basket. Qin morning squatted down and counted exactly five. There were round lanterns with big bellies and long polygonal lanterns. The material should be wood. Qin Zao said it was wood. I'm not quite sure, but the whole thing has been hollowed out and painted with red and yellow colors, like a lantern with a big belly, it's a yellow pumpkin lantern, very delicate.

Qin Zao didn't dare to touch it too much, it was too thin, and he was afraid that it would fall apart as soon as he touched it.

Yao Xiaonian took out a lantern, which was long, and held the handle. The six corners were just right for people to see clearly, like a raised eaves. It’s fine, I’ve chosen a good material, it’s tougher, and it’s thinner and more light-transmitting.”

Qin Zao was taken aback by Uncle Yao's actions. Fortunately, the lantern was fine, so he followed up and touched the upper part of the lantern: "Then uncle, have you been doing it for a long time? You seem to be troublesome."

"Except that it took a long time to prepare the materials, everything else is fast. How do you like it?"

Even Qin Jiu, who has always been emotionless, couldn't help nodding along, and Yao Xiaonian smiled: "As long as you like it, as long as you like it."

While the two of them were fiddling with lanterns, Yao Xiaonian went back to the house to check the time, it was almost noon, five lanterns plus a basket was not light, and there was no one at home today, so it was time to go to the master's house for a meal, thinking I went to change my clothes covered in sawdust.

Back in the yard, he said to the two of them: "I'll go back with you two, and I can just go for lunch now." Thinking of the delicious lunch beckoning to him, Yao Xiaonian couldn't wait, and urged the two of them to set off.

Carrying the basket and walking outside the gate, Yao Xiaonian realized that he hadn't taken the key and the bottle of old wine, so he put the basket at the door and said to Qin Jiu, "Come with me to find a bottle of wine."

When Qin Jiu agreed, he said to Qin Zao, "You'll be waiting for us at the door in the early morning, and you'll come out soon, and make sure the lantern doesn't get damaged." Several children came over, the children were ignorant, they went directly into the yard yesterday to take the lantern away, but it was his daughter who found out and took it away, that's why Yao Xiaonian said so much.

Qin Zao nodded, and after the two entered, he squatted at the door and played with the lantern.

The two people looking for wine in the yard did not go so smoothly. They dug a big hole, but they didn't see where the wine was. Qin Jiu pointed at the land under his feet with a shovel: "Uncle Yao, are you sure you're here?" ?”

"Sure, there is a cactus beside it as a mark, isn't that right?" Yao Xiaonian was very sure that the wine was buried here.

"When was it buried?" After digging for a long time, thinking that he was still outside early, Qin Jiu wanted to say that we will not dig, and look for it next time.

"It's been a year or two. There are rice wine and white wine. Don't they all say that the wine tastes better when buried in the ground? I'll try it."

After Qin Jiu heard this, he changed the place silently and began to dig. It has been more than a year, how could he still be in the same place under the ground.

After finally finding the cardboard box containing the wine from the ground, it was almost rotten. In order to save time, the two went directly to get the wine bottle. Unexpectedly, several bottles of wine were buried, and only two bottles of rice wine and one bottle of white wine were left. The others are either already empty or have a little leftover.

"It's volatilized, and it's good to have three bottles left, but I don't know if I can drink it or not." Seeing Uncle Yao's unbelievable expression, Qin Jiu explained his doubts.

This incident was so impactful that Yao Xiaonian still couldn't believe it, and the moment he opened his mouth, his face was full of disbelief: "Then what's the daughter who has been popular on TV for so many years, is there any more after digging it out?"

"Then who knows, maybe they have some special storage method." Hearing vaguely arguing outside the door, worried that it was Qin Zao, Qin Jiu walked out of the outer gate with the wine bottle in hand.Yao Xiaonian obviously heard it too, and followed him out.

When I went out, I saw Qin Zao and a little boy who was about the same height as him fighting for a pumpkin lantern with a fat belly. Obviously, Qin Zao didn't dare to use his strength for fear of tearing the lantern, and the lantern was about to fall into the boy opposite. Qin Zao was still trying to reason with the other party: "You can't just grab other people's things. It's wrong. Be gentle. It's very troublesome for Uncle Yao to do it."

Seeing that Qin Zao was being bullied, Qin Jiu walked over quickly, grabbed the child's arm, and said in a deep voice, "Let go."

Qin Jiu was tall and serious at first, and his deep voice showed that he was already angry, and he looked even more frightening. The child cried out with a "wow", and immediately slapped the lantern to pieces. But his own hand was also cut out by the wood, and now it was all right, crying even harder, turned around, kicked Qin Jiu and ran away.

After turning around, the eyebrows and eyes became very clear. Qin Jiu felt a little familiar, but he didn't care who the child was, so he went to see Qin Zao first, took the loose lantern and asked him, "Is there any?" Where did it hurt?"

"No." Qin Zao shook his head, knelt down and patted the footprints on the front of his brother's calf: "Does it hurt?"

Before Qin Jiu could answer, he was interrupted by a voice that broke in suddenly. Looking back, he saw a thin old lady holding the child standing at the gate of the next door, looking at them and repeating what she just said: "Who hit my grandson just now?"

The old lady probably saw two adults standing beside them, and said, "You two adults are too embarrassed to bully a child."

Yao Xiaonian interrupted him before he finished speaking: "Auntie, that's not what he said. He snatched my nephew's lantern, but failed. He cut his own hand. Besides, children are playing together, how can they not bump into each other? Yes, we can't let him take other people's things casually in the future."

The old lady who spoke these words was dumb. Obviously she also knew what kind of grandson she was. Gan Xin said, "If you ask that child to apologize to my grandson, this matter will be over."

Not to mention how Qin Jiu and Yao Xiaonian reacted to these words, even Qin Zao was not happy about it. He stood up after squatting there, turned to the old lady again, and said to her in the most ruthless words he felt: "Although you I'm old, but I don't want to respect you at all, I can't apply any respect to you, why... why are you so unreasonable, obviously he was the one who robbed me first."

After waiting for a long time, the old lady didn't reply. Qin Zao felt that he was very powerful. Yao Xiaonian didn't want to quarrel with the old lady, so he picked up the basket, and when Qin Zao turned around, he said, "Let's hurry up!" Let's go, if you don't make it in time for lunch, you don't need to be familiar with them, and uncle will make you a better lantern later."

The three of them walked towards the main road, and Qin Zao said to the two of them: "Am I very good, she was too embarrassed to answer what I said."

Qin Jiu wanted to say that this might not be the case. He felt that the old lady was not such a thin-skinned person if she could say something that made Zao Er apologize, but he couldn't find the reason for the other party to stop for a while.

Until a sentence came from behind: "Does your family live on the dam?"

Qin Jiu turned around, and the old lady knew from his face that she had guessed right, and asked again: "Then did your family pick him up on the dam..." The "he" is self-evident.

"Keep your mouth shut and you won't have any problems." Qin Jiu interrupted the other party's words sharply, then turned around and led Qin Zao to continue walking. He was relieved to make sure that Qin Zao was fine, otherwise he...

At the same time, I understood in my heart that the problem just now had been explained.Why did I feel that the child looked familiar? It was clearly because of his resemblance to Qin Zao, and the reason why the old lady was silent.But it doesn't matter, he's already a member of their family.

There was only an old lady with a pale face behind her. She didn't wake up from the shock until she could no longer see the figures of those people. When the child turned around just now, she saw a picture that was very similar to her little son when he was a child. She didn't believe such a coincidence, but at that moment, the child who was stuffed into the basket by herself and thrown on the dam flashed across her mind, so she asked that question, the tall man As soon as the child replied, she was sure, but she didn't expect that the child was still alive...

The child next to him was upset when he saw his grandma standing there motionless, and the others left without stopping them to ask them to apologize to him: "Grandma, they are all gone, why don't you stop them."

The old lady looked back at her grandson and recalled the past. After she lost that child, her daughter-in-law gave birth to another girl, and the grandson standing in front of her was the grandson standing in front of her. The grandson who was looking forward to spoiled him very much. The whole family developed this temperament after coaxing him. No matter how bad it was, it was taught by them. He couldn't bear to beat and scold him, so he could only continue to coax him.After seeing that child today, I realized that this might be retribution. He was raised so well by others.

Thinking about it this way, she pretended she couldn't hear her grandson's complaints, leaving only one sentence: "Go into the house and get punished." Then she entered her eldest daughter's house.

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Chapter [-], Qin Zao is still wandering around in elementary school, I'm so procrastinating, and talk a lot of nonsense