The little man on the apex

In the past few days, whenever the private school is having lunch, Gouwa can see Gouwa take out a wooden bowl from the cloth bag that holds the books, put it in his arms and run into the kitchen, and sit down next to Xiaoyue. She sat on the seat, then took out the things in her arms, and held them in front of her like offering treasures.

Yuan Xi watched from a distance, and saw Gouwa smiling obsequiously, carefully pulling the cotton cloth wrapped around the wooden bowl. He stretched his neck and saw that there were two chubby sugar nests inside, wrapped in a A layer of soy flour.

Xiaoyue saw Gouwa sitting down and had a very bad expression on her face, but when she saw these two Tangwowo, the tip of her frowning brows slightly flattened.

She took out a candy nest, broke it apart, and shared it with the girl on the other side, then pushed the wooden bowl in front of Gou Wa to Gou Wa, and said quite proudly: "You can eat too."

"Hehehe, I don't want to eat, I'll give it to you, hehehe." Gouwa grinned as if he had just learned to laugh, his eyes narrowed, and he pushed the wooden bowl in front of Xiaoyue again. , just like this "hehehe" while laughing and staring at her eating candy nestwowo.

Yan Heyi cast a glance here inadvertently, thinking to herself, this kid is really a bit stupid, it seems that he usually memorizes poems and essays slowly, and his abacus is messy, but it can't be all due to him not working hard.

Alas, I still have to be more gentle with him in the future, but don't hurt the child's heart.

Yan Heyi was here worrying about Gouwa, while Yuan Xi, who was sitting next to him and eating noodles, also had a silly smile on his face, raised his face and kept staring at Gouwa, and kept putting his hands into his mouth. Grilled noodles.

"Yuan Xi, what are you looking at?" Yan Heyi patted Yuan Xi's arm lightly, "The noodle soup is dripping on the table."

Yuan Xi came back to his senses, hurriedly ate the unbroken noodles on his mouth, and moved towards Yan Heyi, "Brother, look over there, there are two candy nests, let me take a closer look Yes, it seems to be stuffed with sesame seeds and walnuts, it's packed full."

Yan Heyi didn't understand, "Do you want to eat? Can I make it for you when I go back tonight?"

"Okay, okay, put some crushed peanuts in, it needs to be fried."

Hearing this, Yuan Xi's eyes lit up, and he pulled Yan Heyi's arm and said a few words before he seemed to remember something, and then pointed at Gou Wa, "Brother, don't you think there is something wrong with Gou Wa?"

"What's wrong?" Yan Heyi looked sad, "You can see it too?"

"Yeah," Yuan Xi lowered his voice, "Recently, he brought delicious food to Xiaoyue in different ways every day. When he was crazy in the yard at noon, he would go to Xiaoyue's place to talk to her from time to time. You said they both......"

Only then did Yan Heyi suddenly realize "Oh", "This is what you're talking about."

"What did brother think I said?"

"No...it's nothing." Yan Heyi reached out and wiped the noodle soup from the corner of Yuan Xi's mouth, "Students care about each other, it's very good."

Yuan Xi insisted that the two of them were tricky, so when the girl next to Xiaoyue came to refill the soup, he grabbed them and asked about it.

It turned out that it was because of the big snowball that Gouwa put on Xiaoyue's head when she was playing with snow in the yard last time.

More than half of the snowball got into Xiaoyue's neck, and the clothes inside were wet a lot. She didn't feel anything at the time, but she developed a fever when she got home. Since then, Xiaoyue has ignored Gouwa.

Gouwa panicked all of a sudden, and went to visit Xiaoyue's house every day, and brought delicious food for her every day after class.

"Brother," Yuan Xi poked Yan Heyi's finger, "They are still young, as a gentleman, do you want to intervene?"

"En." Yan Heyi nodded thoughtfully, and the heart that was hanging just now was actually relieved.

Gou Wa is not a stupid kid, so he feels relieved.

-

Tomorrow is Laba. In the evening, after Yan Heyi made the sugar nest for Yuanxi, he opened the jars in the kitchen and grabbed a few handfuls from each of them, such as red beans, yellow rice, glutinous rice, dried lotus seeds, peanuts, etc. There are all kinds of colors, filled a large bowl, and soaked it with clean water.

Before dawn on the second day, Yan Heyi got up, went to the kitchen to light up the fire, and started cooking Laba porridge.

Yuan Xi also got up afterward, and came over wrapped in a coat, sitting beside Yan Heyi, stretching out his hands to roast by the stove, his face was flushed red.

"Brother, aren't we going to the Taoist temple in town to eat porridge? Why do we have to cook it ourselves?" Asleep."

"The Taoist begging for porridge is just for auspiciousness, but it's actually not delicious." Yan Heyi wiped away a tear that flowed from his yawn, "Let's make it ourselves. We put all your favorite food and sugar Enough."

"Go to bed and sleep for a while, I will call you when the porridge is ready."

"Hmm..." Yuan Xi moaned a few times in his throat, and lay on Yan Heyi's lap with a crooked body, "I want to stay with my brother."

There is yellow rice in the Laba porridge, which is thicker than ordinary porridge. The beans are also soft and rotten, each with its own sweetness, and a few spoonfuls of sugar. bowl.

"Brother," Yuan Xi patted his chest, and hiccupped lightly, "We're full, shall we go to the Taoist temple?"

"Go, let's join in the fun," Yan Heyi wiped the freshly washed bowl with a cotton cloth, "buy some more crispy candy, and, besides, didn't you yell that you haven't seen Ziyu for a long time? Let's go see him too. "

These few times he went to the town, Tuanzi also followed him, and he didn't rest all the way, sniffing the stones on the side of the road from time to time, scaring the dogs who were younger than him on the road.

A shed was set up at the entrance of the Taoist temple, and many people were already queuing up for the porridge. Yan Heyi led Yuan Xi over there, and waited for a quarter of an hour before the porridge arrived.

Sure enough, as Yan Heyi said, this porridge is not as delicious as homemade ones, and there is no sugar in it, but after walking all the way from the village, both of them are a little hungry, and they are sitting under the big tree at the entrance of the Taoist temple with hot porridge. Suck it up and drink it up.

After eating the porridge, the two walked arm in arm to Zhao Jing's carpenter's shop. There were not as many pedestrians on the road as usual, and some shops on the street were closed. gone?"

Yan Heyi also felt that something was wrong, "It stands to reason that this month before last should be the best time for business."

Walking to the stone bridge, there was a sudden clatter of horseshoes in front of him. Yan Heyi subconsciously pulled Yuan Xi to the side of the road and protected him in her arms.

A few sturdy men passed by on flying horses, all wearing neat short shirts, with broad knives on their waists, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

When passing by them, the man in the lead blew a long whistle at Yuan Xi.

Although he didn't see their faces, Yuan Xi knew their identities when he saw the clothes of those people. He held Yan Heyi's hand, with a look of horror on his face, "Brother, bandits..."

Yan Heyi held him in her arms, patted his shoulders to comfort him, "Don't be afraid, Yuan Xi, they're gone."

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Hongxi followed with a group of arresters. Seeing Yan Heyi and the others, he ran over to inquire. Yan Heyi immediately pointed forward.

Zhou Hongxi's face was covered with sweat, and he seemed to be chasing him all the way, and he was panting when he spoke, "Mr. Yan, bandits have appeared again, you should go home quickly, strengthen the doors and windows, don't go out now, and protect Xiao Yuanxi .”

Yan Heyi didn't dare to disturb them chasing after them, she nodded her head repeatedly, and after Zhou Hongxi and the others chased after them, she took out a handkerchief from her bosom and wrapped it around Yuanxi's head.

Zhao Jing's carpenter's shop was right in front of him, and Yan Heyi hurried over and told them about the bandits.

Zhou Ziyu was lying on the table drowsy, but when he saw Yuan Xi coming over, he immediately regained his energy. He has been in the town these days, so he doesn't see Yuan Xi very often.

After a while, when they heard the news about the bandits, everyone had a look of fear on their faces. Zhao Jingdang even closed the shop, put up the closed wooden sign, and brought Zhou Ziyu back to Ping'an Village with them.

Zhou Ziyu's eldest brother and sister-in-law were at her natal home, so Zhao Jing simply let Zhou Ziyu live in his own home, so that even if bandits came, he was sure he could protect him.

Yan Heyi asked Yuanxi to stay in the house honestly, and then, together with Zhao Jing, informed every household in the village.

In the evening, Yan Heyi nailed the windows outside with wooden boards, and locked the door inside the house. After eating, the two of them didn't go out to digest food. They washed it early and went to bed.

Yuan Xi had met this group of bandits before, so he was always worried. He went to bed, curled up in Yan Heyi's arms, and didn't say a word.

Yan Heyi naturally lost her usual thoughts, hugged Yuan Xi tightly, kept patting him on the shoulder, and coaxed him warmly.

-

The people in Ping'an Village stayed at home for a few days. Seeing that the bandits had not arrived, they let go of their worries a little bit. Niu Er drove the ox cart to the town. Those bandits were killed, and everyone was already in prison.

The Chinese New Year is approaching, and at the crossroads where the two countries have just opened up business, the town is in chaos, and this group of bandits, who had been punished by the government before, dared to come forward. This time when they heard the news of their arrest, the villagers also felt relieved. Started preparing for the new year.

At noon that day, the sun was shining brightly. Yan Heyi put on a thimble and sat at the door of the house with a fluffy scarf sewn on. Yuan Xi slipped into his arms and sat face to face on his lap, turning her face to her. Stick it on the scarf that hasn't been sewn yet, "Brother, is this for me? It's so comfortable."

"It's for you," Yan Heyi pinched the needle with a thin thread, and stroked the scarf on Yuanxi's neck, "I asked the hunter in the neighboring village to spank it. The snow rabbit fur is soft and warm."

"Rabbit hair?" Yuan Xi turned his head and stared at Yan Heyi with wide eyes in disbelief, "I like rabbits the most..."

Yan Heyi was a little at a loss, and quickly wrapped the scarf around Yuanxi's neck, "I...I know you like rabbits, so the rabbit fur you specially asked for, now it seems that I was thinking wrong... .”

He dodged Yuan Xi's eyes, and tentatively said cautiously: "How about... let's bury this fur..."

Yuan Xi stared at Yan Heyi for a while, then suddenly tilted his head and smiled, "Brother, look at you nervous, you like rabbits, so you like rabbit fur, that's right, I also like to eat roasted rabbits."

"Really?" Yan Heyi looked like a child who did something wrong, "Don't coax me."

"Really," Yuan Xi pulled out the needle from Yan Heyi's hand, "brother, the needle was bent by you."

Yan Heyi smiled embarrassedly.

"Brother, sew quickly, your neck is cold."

Yuan Xilai lay in Yan Heyi's arms, resting his chin on his shoulder, and when Yan Heyi finally finished sewing, the person in his arms had fallen asleep peacefully.