Chapter 21:

When Ban Wan arrived, the work in the fields was almost done, so Hua Zizhou took the cat home early to cook. When he got home, just as he had just arrived home to wash the rice and set it on fire, there were several voices outside the door. It was familiar, but he didn't remember who it was for a while.

When Hua Zizhou went out, he saw that it was the few **** in the village who had a good relationship with Ermazi. There were three people in total. Seeing their unkind expressions at this time, he knew that there was probably nothing good in the future.

He pushed Qu Xin into the kitchen, pulled the door of the kitchen, locked it, and then glanced at the **** and sickle not far away, and asked calmly, "You guys, what are you doing here at my house?"

When the three saw him, they were surprised at first, and then they laughed: "Yo! Why is Hua Gou'er so ugly?"

"I heard that he was given away by his mother. It turned out to be at Qu Qing's house. I really didn't expect that such an ugly Qu Qing would want it?"

Hua Zizhou clenched his teeth immediately, his hands on both sides clenched into fists.

Seeing the angry expression on his face, the three of them burst into arrogant laughter, full of malice: "How dare you want such an ugly monster? Isn't Qu Qing afraid of being woken up in the middle of the night?"

"Stop talking nonsense, it's best if Qu Qing is not at home, but even that trash is useless at home, brothers, search for me!"

One of them said this, and several people immediately went to the main house where Qu Qing lives now. Hua Zizhou thought that there was still two hundred and ninety pennies in the bottom of the box that they had sold their hair for, and panicked in his heart, he immediately rushed He blocked a few people in front of the door: "Get out of here! This is my house. You are blatantly robbing things. Is there any royal law?"

When the leader of the three heard his words, he immediately laughed: "Yo, Wang Fale? Are you scared? I'm so scared."

A few other people also thought that Hua Zizhou's appearance was really funny. They had heard that the Hua Zizhou in the village was fierce, but now in their eyes, no matter how fierce they are, they are at most a mother who dares to pretend to be brave. Just brothers.

"He's blocking it like this, it seems that there are really good things in it, brothers, whoever finds it first will take the big head!"

Several people suddenly became excited. One of them was about to push Hua Zizhou, who was blocking the road, to the side. As a result, Hua Zizhou's eyes narrowed and he pushed the person out at the right moment. Ass squatted and fell to the ground.

Seeing that he still dared to resist, the other two were instantly furious, and they all started to teach a lesson to this dishonest sheep, grabbing his hands from left to right and trying to confine him.

At this time, Xiao Qu Xin, who was locked in the kitchen, kept looking out through the crack of the door, crying patiently, but when he saw Hua Zizhou being caught, he couldn't hold it any longer, it was heartbreaking. He started to cry: "You are not allowed to hurt my father... father! Come back soon, there are bad people in the family!"

When Qu Qing was still a few hundred meters away from home, he heard the voice of Qu Xin crying loudly. He knew how well-behaved and endurable Qu Xin was. Even if he cried, he would cry softly. It's lovable and lovable, he really can't imagine what happened to make such a child cry so miserably.

Something must happen.

He immediately threw down a lot of farm tools in his hand and ran to the house desperately. Jiang Zhu, who was next to him, panicked when he heard the cry, and hurriedly threw down the things in his hand and followed behind Qu Xin's buttocks. His legs were short and he had to fall behind a lot.

The person who was pushed to the ground felt that he had lost face. At this moment, he got up from the ground viciously, moved his neck, spit on the ground, and came up with a face full of flesh and wanted to beat Hua Zizhou, but he was flying up by Hua Zizhou. With a kick and wailing, he fell to the ground, got up again, and found that he had nosebleeds all over his face, and the angered flames suddenly soared to the highest level.

The three thugs really felt that they had lost all their face, and when they were about to take revenge, Qu Qing rushed in and shouted, "What are you doing!?"

Hua Zizhou was going to open his mouth to bite one of them desperately, trying to get away, but when he heard Qu Qing's voice, his body froze, and his mouth, which was already showing sharp teeth, immediately closed, biting the person. action stops.

At this moment, there was only one thing in his mind: he couldn't let him see how fierce he was.

But then his face hurt, and the guy with the nosebleed slapped him so hard that his face was slanted to one side, accompanied by burning pain.

When Qu Qing saw this, he became angry all of a sudden. Even if he was a little cowardly, it didn't mean that he was not **** and wouldn't fight. The beatings had already come to his own house, how could he bear it?

Without saying a word, he rolled up his sleeves and went over to fight with the three of them.

Qu Qing knew that he couldn't beat three people, so his goal was very clear. No matter how others beat him, he grabbed the one who beat Hua Zizhou and beat him to the ground, while the other two tried to save them. He killed Qu Qing, and the man who was caught by Qu Qing was beaten and screamed.

The four big men in the arena fought violently, stunned Jiang Zhu who had just entered the door, and also frightened Qu Xin, who was looking outside through the crack of the door, and suddenly tried hard to open the door and came out, while crying even more heartbreakingly. .

Hua Zizhou, who had just been released, was slightly tinnitus because of the beating, and staggered for a while. When he regained his senses, he saw that the three of them were ganging up together to make a big Qu Qing. Only then did his hearing recover a little, and Qu Xin's cries lingered. in the ear.

I didn't want to be seen so badly.

Why force him?

His face was filled with eerie calmness, he walked to the corner of the yard, bent over and picked up the sickle, the expression on his face changed suddenly when he turned around, and there was a chilling, murderous aura in his eyes.

He walked over quickly, raised the scythe in his left hand and slashed at the calf of the man on the left. Before the man could scream, Hua Zizhou stretched out his right hand and pulled the man from Qu Qing's side like a Throw it aside like throwing rubbish, the whole process takes less than a second, and it happens so quickly that people are caught off guard.

Before the other person with red eyes could react, his scalp was numb and he found a sickle on his neck.

Hua Zizhou said calmly in his ear, "Hit, why don't you continue?"

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Chapter 22

Everyone present was stunned by this scene.

Qu Qing suddenly found that the fist and force exerted on him were gone, and when he turned around, the fist that was raising to be punched was stunned in the air.

Qu Qing's first thought was that his eyes wouldn't dwindle.

The man with the knife on his neck was almost scared to urinate, and the cold touch on his throat almost made him think that his skin had been slashed deeply. What kind of face and arrogance were all gone, and his legs were shaking. No, he stretched out his hands and carefully squeezed the face of the knife, and said for mercy: "The strong man spares his life, spares his life, I dare not, I will never dare again! Please don't kill me."

At this time, the scene in the courtyard has changed greatly. On the ground next to him is a man crying with his calf on his back, Hua Zizhou is begging for mercy, and the one on the ground has been beaten by Qu Qing to the point where he is almost inhuman, with a bruised nose and a swollen face crying and admitting his mistake. beg for mercy.

Qu Qing never imagined that playing less and playing more would not only win, but also win so beautifully. The usual shy Hua Zizhou was so domineering at this time that it was unbelievable.

Seeing that the scene was under control, Qu Qing also begged for mercy, so he let go of the person he was holding. As soon as the other party escaped from Qu Qing's control, he immediately rolled and ran out.

When Hua Zizhou turned back to Qu Qing and saw the wound on his face, his anger reached its peak for a while, and he almost wanted to kill all these bastards.

But then he saw Qu Qing let the person in his hand go, he clenched the sickle tightly, but finally slowly moved the knife away from the deadly place like the gangster's throat, and lowered his head to cover his eyes. Unwilling to let people go.

Seeing this, the three thugs immediately fled here as if they were escaping from hell. They never thought of it at first, but they just wanted to blackmail and seize other people's things. Today, they kicked the iron plate and even nearly lost their lives.

The first thing Qu Qing did when he stood up was to walk to Hua Zizhou, and gently stretched out his hand to cover the back of his hand that was clenching the sickle tightly, and patted his back soothingly with the other hand: "It's alright, it's alright. , Zizhou, relax."

Hua Zizhou released his hand with a bang, and the knife fell to the ground. Qu Qing felt his body trembling faintly, so he hugged him and asked with concern, "When I was away just now, did they have any injuries other than their faces? where are you?"

Hua Zizhou unconsciously reached out and touched his injured face. He immediately reacted and pointed at Qu Qing's face and said, "I'm fine, I just got beaten up, but you have injuries on your face..."

"It's alright, I don't have any major incidents... It's all minor injuries." Qu Qing actually frowned in pain, but in the midst of a bunch of children, he felt that it was necessary to erect a manly image. So even if it hurts, he has to endure it.

Xiao Qu Xin was still crying inside, but Qu Qing quickly opened the door and took him out to comfort him. Seeing Jiang Zhu still standing at the door, he knew that the child must be startled by such a scene, so he went over to hold his hand, and then took him with him. He entered the house with Hua Zizhou, put the two little ones on the bed, coaxed them for a while, and then remembered the farm tools that were still outside.

After Hua Zizhou calmed down after the violent explosion, he began to worry. Will Qu Qing be afraid or even hated by his vicious appearance just now?

But he had to do that just now, and if he didn't, he would have to watch Qu Qing being bullied by bad guys in order to protect himself and his children.

Seeing that Qu Qing was going out, he immediately got up and followed.

The two brought back the farm tools together. Fortunately, none of them were missing. Otherwise, if someone passed by and took it away, they would have nowhere to cry.

After that, Qu Qing went to fetch water again, and Hua Zizhou followed behind him. After fetching water, Qu Qing gave him another handkerchief dipped in ice-cold stream water; "Put it on your face, the face is very important, and you have to take good care of it."

Hua Zizhou took it in silence, but he recited his words "face is very important" in his heart, remembering how the few people just called him ugly, and suddenly realized that Qu Qing didn't care. appearance person.

Pressing the handkerchief on his face, he quietly got up to the door and looked into the yard. He saw that Qu Qing had poured a basin of water, frowning, looking at something in the basin with great concentration, and from time to time Carefully touch the injured area on your face.

After a while, he suddenly realized that Qu Qing was looking at his face through the reflection of the water in the basin?

After confirming, he leaned back against the door in a daze, with a thoughtful look on his face, then put his hand into his pocket and touched the candy in his pocket nostalgically.

Their eyes turned to the gangsters. Although their parents knew that their son was not a good thing, they were still furious after seeing that their son was beaten like this.

The only one who was okay was the one who was put on the neck by Hua Zizhou. His parents saw that the other two were injured so badly, so they ordered him not to go out to make trouble during this time. The elders of the other two families panicked at first. Zhang Di took his son to see the doctor. After taking the medicine, he sat around at night, shouting loudly that he must go to Qu Qing tomorrow to settle the bill.

And Qu Qing still doesn't know the crisis that is about to come to his family tomorrow.

On the second day, Qu Qing took his family to work in the fields as usual. After the incident of the intrusion that happened yesterday, he was even more afraid to leave the two children alone at home. Simply take it with you.

Since Hua Zizhou was crushed by the crowd yesterday, in the eyes of the two children, he has completely become a hero. As for Qu Qing, he embarrassedly touched his nose, saying that it is nothing to be a supporting role behind the hero. not good.

"Zizhou." When he was having a meal by the field at noon, he suddenly opened his mouth, and Hua Zizhou looked at him suspiciously.

"You were really domineering yesterday!"

Hua Zizhou blushed suddenly, and gave a low hum. After that, Qu Qing didn't say anything. After a while, Hua Zizhou nervously squeezed the rice ball in his hand, and carried food on his chest for a long time: "That... the head of the house, today I am I want to go back early, okay?"

"Okay, just tell me when you leave. Is there anything you want to do?"

"I..."

Qu Qing saw his hesitant look, and didn't ask any more, just asked him to pay attention to safety on the way back.

When the party arrived, Qu Qing waited for a long time. Seeing that Hua Zizhou hadn't said to leave yet, he took the initiative to stop work ahead of schedule, saying that he would bring two small children home to make delicious food today, and let Hua Zizhou do anything by himself. Wait for him to come back for dinner.

He looked at the direction Hua Zizhou was leaving, which was the village. This time, Qu Xin was unexpectedly not with him. Qu Qing was a little surprised and a little curious in his heart.

On the other side, the parents of the two thugs who were beaten were rushing to Qu Qing's house in a hurry, but on the way they met a big man with a shaggy beard who was carrying a wild boar.

Several people felt that his figure seemed familiar, so they couldn't help looking at it for a while. Suddenly, one of the middle-aged women screamed and shouted in horror: "You are Jiang Orion?"

Seeing that he was recognized, Jiang Orion was about to give a kind smile, when the few people in front of him ran away in fright. At this time, he still remembered to find Qu Qing to trouble him.

Jiang Orion felt very inexplicable, shook his head, carried a wild boar that weighed about 100 kilograms, and carried a large bag behind him. He took heavy steps and walked home expectantly.

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Chapter 23:

Before going home, Jiang Orio passed by the nearest neighbor, Mrs. Hua, a hundred meters away. Mrs. Hua was feeding the chickens with corn in the yard. She didn't notice his arrival at all, so Jiang Orio took the initiative to call the other party kindly: "Aunt Hua, where are you feeding the chickens? Your chickens are really good."

As soon as Madam Hua looked up, she saw a man covered in blood, with stubble covering most of his face. He was carrying a wild boar with sharp teeth on his shoulders. Standing far away, he seemed to be able to smell him. The **** smell makes the whole person look like a demon who has returned from hell.

For Aunt Hua, he is indeed the evil ghost who came back from hell, because she recognized this person as Jiang Hunter, the father of Jiang Zhu, who is said to have died!

"Ghost!!!" She screamed, like a crowing rooster, shaking her hands, the pot of corn fell to the ground, and the golden corn was scattered all over the ground, and the chickens that were pecking were caught by her at first. The abrupt scream made him flee in all parts of the courtyard.

Madam Hua turned around and ran into her house, slammed the door, locked the door tightly with shaking hands, leaned back against the door, her legs and feet were weak, her hands clasped together, she kept begging for the Lord's blessing, and the debt collectors must not enter her door of home.

Jiang Orion was stunned for a while, and then touched the beard on his face again. He didn't blame the neighbors for calling him a ghost. He thought that he probably had a full beard that he hadn't taken care of for more than a month, which was really scary.

He felt a little sorry for the frightened neighbor, so he said apologetically to the inside: "Aunt Hua, I'm sorry to frighten you, it's me, Jiang Zhu's father, something happened to me in the mountains, and I couldn't Come back in time. For more than a month, my son has really troubled your family. I came back with a wild boar this time. Later, I will cut half a slice of pork to thank you. I'm going home, I'll see you after I shaved my beard."

After he finished speaking, he left, and Madam Hua, who was hiding in the door, suddenly widened her eyes, turned around abruptly, and looked out through the crack of the door. It looks like a ghost, and there is still the sun, how can a ghost come out in broad daylight, is it really not a ghost?"

She thought about it for a long time, and decided that the person just now should be a human. Oh my god, Jiang Orion is not dead!

She thought of the pig that Jiang Orion was carrying just now, and her heart was coveted for the first time, but she suddenly remembered the fact that her family and those gangsters split up his family's property a few days ago, and then thought of Jiang Orion's brutality, and she couldn't help but think about it. Frightened and worried.

She landed on the ground and kept mumbling: "It's over, what should I do? If Jiang Orion knew that not only did I not protect Jiang Zhu, but that I joined forces and robbed his belongings, he would definitely not let him go. I still have my family, what should I do..."

The chickens outside the yard hid and waited for a while after being frightened. Seeing that there was no danger at all, they walked carefully to the place where there was corn. After a while, they happily picked up the corn. What, seems to have nothing to do with them at all.

Jiang Orion saw that the door of his house was open from a distance. Thinking of his young son, he must have been extremely worried and frightened. He might even hide in the house and cry without knowing how many tears. , he started to let go of his rough voice and shouted, "Son, Dad is back!"

He thought that his lively young son would run out to meet him like a bunny, hugging his thigh and chattering to ask him what he had encountered in the mountains this time, what he had hunted, and blamed him for being so late.

However, the expected welcome didn't come, and he didn't even hear his son's voice.

"Did he run out to play?" He said suspiciously, and continued to walk forward. As soon as he stepped into the house, all he could see was a messy yard, a wide open door and an almost empty home, Jiang Orion. The smile on his face suddenly froze.

Panic in his heart, he threw the wild boar he was carrying to the ground with a thud, and rushed into the house with red eyes and two steps to look around, quilts, tables and stools, clothing, money, food and meat, pots and bowls. The ladle, everything that could be taken away, was gone, but the most important thing was that his son was gone!

He could see that the stove had not been fired for a few days. He went out in a panic and went to the place where Jiang Zhu would play on weekdays. .

Until then, something that he had been reluctant to admit in his heart finally came to his mind.

Something happened to his son.

But how come, didn't he ask Mrs. Hua's family to help take care of his son and his family? Why is it like this now?

Thinking of Aunt Hua, he hurried out and almost ran to Aunt Hua's house.

Madam Hua saw that he was faintly afraid, and her eyebrows seemed to be somewhat guarded and afraid of him. He thought it was because of his stubble, so he didn't care. However, when he recalled this memory afterwards, he wished to be able to return to Delete yourself a few slaps in the past.

He asked, "Aunt Hua, is my son here with you? Did something happen to my house? As soon as I got home, there was nothing at home."

Madam Hua looked a little flustered, but when she was sure that Jiang Orion didn't know about this, she suddenly thought: "Oh, your son, ah! It's really serious, a few days ago, everyone in the village I thought you were dead, so those thugs who didn't do their jobs ran to your house and robbed your stuff and beat your son. It's so pitiful for that kid, we went to him for theories, but you know, those thugs I even started to use my old bones, there is no kingly law, we have no ability, and we didn't save you anything, I'm really sorry..."

As soon as Jiang Orion heard that his son had something serious, he was already panicking. Before meeting Aunt Hua, he had to talk nonstop, but he didn't mention the son he cared about most, so he asked anxiously, "Auntie Hua. After this, I will settle accounts one by one, you tell me first, where is my son, is he injured?"

When Mrs. Hua heard that she was going to settle accounts one by one, she panicked a little in her heart. She quickly calmed down, went up to pretend to appease the other party and justified herself with eloquent words:

"Jiang Hunter, don't panic, listen to me, your son is fine, but he's not at my house now. When I went to protect your son, there was a little misunderstanding, and your son listened to half of my words, thinking that we The family is also a bad person. I asked him to live in my house and he didn't want to come. He ran away when he saw me. I really tried my best for this matter of your family. I was beaten by those gangsters before. After a while, you see, it's all dark green here"

Saying that, she even picked up her sleeves to show him.

When Jiang Orion heard that his son was fine, he finally let go of half of his heart, but he still knew where his son was, and he was still uneasy. Hearing what the aunt said, he tried to calm down and replied:

"It's alright, when I find my son, I will let him come to apologize to you and clear up the misunderstanding. As long as you do your best, I will be very grateful. Then, after that, my son is so young, where can he go?"

Seeing his letter, Mrs. Hua relaxed her expression and said, "He was coaxed away by the prodigal Qu Qing in the village. Didn't we help him go to Ermaziniang to get some things back? I don't know about Qu Qing. What was said to him, what ecstasy soup was poured into him.

He took those things and moved them all to Qu Qing. Later, I heard that he also stayed at Qu Qing's house, and he spent all day eating, drinking and sleeping with Qu Qing. Alas, as the saying goes, follow good people to learn good people, and follow Witch Dance God, your son is messing with that prodigal son, maybe he will be ruined, you haven't..."

When Jiang Orion heard about Qu Qing, he was almost jumping up and down: "Hey, auntie, don't talk about it, where is Qu Qing's family? I'll go find my son now!"

Aunt Hua pointed him in the direction, he raised his feet and ran to Qu Qing's house. When he walked out of Aunt Hua's house, Aunt Hua's son ran in from outside. There was a bit of a resemblance, the doubts in my heart just flashed, and I walked away, just took two more glances before leaving, but these two glances almost didn't force Aunt Hua's cold sweat out.

At this time, Hua Zizhou happened to be walking into the village, and a sturdy man came towards him in the distance. He looked like a savage, aggressive, and looked like he was about to hit someone. He avoided giving way to the man. The big man took a second look, and he always felt that this person seemed familiar, but he didn't remember who the other party was.

Hua Zizhou shook his head and continued walking towards the destination. He soon walked to the house of Uncle Dong, who is skilled in medicine in the village. The door was open. He stood at the door and then respectfully called Uncle Dong. There was an old hoarse voice.

"Enter--!"

Hua Zizhou walked into the yard, and soon a slender man with a goatee, a few wrinkles on his face, and only half-black hair, but his eyes were still bright, walked out, followed by a man who was still wearing open-crotch pants. half doll.

The old man saw Hua Zizhou and thought for a while: "Oh, it's a dog. What are you doing here at my house? I heard that you are married. How are you doing at your husband's house?"

This old man once helped Hua Zizhou to heal the cat. At that time, everyone regarded the cat as ominous. He was the only one who was willing to lend a hand, and he had not yet received any money from him. Therefore, Hua Zizhou respected the old man very much, because he did not I was embarrassed, so I would go to the mountain to pick up some firewood from time to time and bring it, but other than that, the two didn't communicate much.

"Yes, Grandpa Dong, I'm married to Qu Qing, he treats me and the cat very well, and even gave me and the cat new names, I don't call me a dog anymore, I call Hua Zizhou, a kitten My son has also changed his name to Qu Xin."

Uncle Dong glanced at the slap print on his face, asked him to go in and poured him a cup of tea, then sat across from him with his little grandson, and said, "Did he beat you?"

Only then did Hua Zizhou remember that the mark on his face that hadn't disappeared was misleading, and he quickly waved his hand to explain to Qu Qing, "He treated me very well, he didn't even scold me, let alone hit him."

Then he repeated what happened yesterday.

"So that's the case," Uncle Dong nodded. "He really let the cat follow his surname?"

Hua Zizhou hurriedly replied, "It's true, and he treats cats as well as his own these days."

Uncle Dong said: "That's really good, even ordinary people may not be willing to raise other people's children. When I looked at him, I was like seeing my poor grandson without a father and a beautiful mother, so I can A hand is a hand. This Qu Qing, he has not only raised him, but he is also willing to let the child take his surname, that must be sincere, he is a good man, you must cherish him. "

With a hint of shyness on his face, Hua Zizhou said firmly: "Of course I don't need to say this. As long as he doesn't drive me away in this life, I will follow him even if he is a cow and a horse."

Looking at the vague happiness on his face, Mr. Dong knew that what he said just now was not a lie. He knew that he was really doing well, and he was very happy for him. The Hana Zizhou brought by a child was extremely hard, making him, an outsider, feel very pitiful.

After a few words of greetings, Hua Zizhou said hesitantly: "I'm here today to trouble you, can you help me see the pimple on my face, and is there any way to cure it? As for the reward, I can use Has this arrived? In the future, when the farming is over, I will help you pick up firewood and cut grass until you are satisfied.

Uncle Dong saw that he took out three good candies from his pocket. When he saw the little boy in open-crotch pants sitting on the ground playing next to him, his eyes immediately straightened, he stood up and ran to this side. He came over and stood on his grandfather's leg, looking like he wanted to take it but didn't dare to take it, and finally looked at his grandfather who was holding him.

Uncle Dong was a little embarrassed to take it, but looking at the appearance of his little grandson, he hesitated.

Although his family is not poor, he does not dare to spend any extra money.

His wife died a few years ago, and his son also died on the battlefield. After his daughter-in-law heard about it, she remarried and left Huajia Village, leaving only a young grandson who was just walking, so he had to pull the little grandson alone. When I grew up, because I was worried that I would die early, I frugally saved my family and daughter-in-law's books for my little grandson, so even if I was distressed, I was never willing to spend a penny to buy two candies for my children. To save up.

At this moment, when he saw that his little grandson couldn't move when he saw the candy eyes, he couldn't stop snorting and drooling, looking at his eyes full of longing, feeling a little sad for a while, he reached out and took the candy, and the little grandson next to him was immediately excited. Called grandpa, looked at it eagerly, and when I finally got it in my mouth, I kept jumping and saying that it was delicious.

Uncle Dong took the remaining two candies into the house and put them away. He was going to keep them for the children later. After he came out, he gave them to Hua Zizhou.

After a while, he said to Hua Zizhou: "Your disease is actually because you didn't take care of it when you should grow up. The best way is to take medicine, and you have to take a lot of it. My suggestion is not to treat it. Now Where do people have this spare money, why don't you keep it and wait for it later, if your family is really good to you, ask him to take the money and bring you to buy herbal medicine."

Hua Zizhou nodded in disappointment, then got up to leave, and the uncle comforted him: "I know that you want to be beautiful because of your family, but in my opinion, if you grow up like this, he can also If you are good, then I think he is not a person who cares about his appearance, you live with him well, everything else is secondary, understand."

"Thank you, Grandpa Dong." Hua Zizhou thanked him and was about to leave when he saw an acquaintance suddenly passing by the door.

It was the gangster who was threatened by him with a knife yesterday. He taught two people a lesson yesterday, but he didn't realize it until he was about to sleep. The person who was threatened by him with a knife almost didn't suffer at all. However, I had known that he was also given a knife at that time.

He originally regretted that he didn't teach this person a good lesson yesterday, but when he met him today, he was a little concerned.

Uncle Dong also saw it next to him, so he pulled Hua Zizhou and said a few more words: "Yesterday, the gangster who wanted to rob your house was there, but there was that person who just passed by?"

Hua Zizhou nodded.

Uncle Dong looked at the door with contempt, spat out a mouthful of spit, and turned to him: "It's rude and shameless, do you know what he's doing now?"

"Going for hemp?"

"You were an unmarried child before, I would never have told you such dirty things, but now that you are married, I can tell you, this bastard, he will look for him every seven days. The daughter-in-law of the Wang family in the village is having an affair, because today his husband is going to the town to go to the market to buy things, and he won't be back until tomorrow, and this guy goes there for an hour or two every time."

Hua Zizhou said in surprise: "Did no one in the village tell Wang Daniu..." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered Wang Daniu's personality, and immediately showed an epiphany expression.

Wang Daniu is not a good person. He has a fiery personality. He fights with people at every turn. He likes to take advantage of others. He often bullies people. Everyone could hear the wailing of his wife.

Seeing his expression, Mr. Dong knew that he understood: "Yeah, people like Wang Daniu secretly joke that he deserves to wear a green hat, but no one tells him, bah, it's not a funny thing."

Hua Zizhou and Uncle Dong contemptuously finished their conversation, then left thoughtfully. Walking on the road, he thought about the terrain of the village and what Uncle Dong said just now.

On the way out of Wang Daniu's house, there is a small road, and there is a ditch that is as deep as a person's waist.

After thinking about it, he slowly formed a plan in his mind.

On the way home, he suddenly remembered the aggressive man he met not long ago. He felt familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was.

He checked the names of the people he knew in his mind one by one, but there were really none, and he thought about the people he knew in the village but was relatively unfamiliar, and then a flash of light flashed, that person! Isn't it Jiang Zhu's father?

Yes, it must be him. The only person he doesn't know very well in the village is Jiang Zhu's father. Because his father is often away from home and the two families live far away, there are very few opportunities to meet each other, and he only sees them from a distance. Several times, but never spoke to anyone at all.

If he comes back, then he must know that his son Jiang Zhu was bullied. He should find someone to settle the account, no, the direction he went is not those gangsters.

Ah, it seems to be going... in the direction of his own house?

He suddenly remembered the murderous appearance of Jiang Orion, and the ghostly virtue of his neighbor. He roughly guessed 80% of what Jiang Orion would encounter when he returned.

Hua Zizhou's heart jumped, and he hurriedly ran to the house. He was so panicked that he hoped that Jiang Hunter would see Jiang Zhu's well-being and not listen to bad people's slander. Injured, and Jiang Orion's size, most people are afraid that it is difficult to even resist.

He ran to the house in a panic, all kinds of pictures of Qu Qing being injured and the children being frightened flashed in his mind. As a result, when he ran halfway, he strangely saw Qu Qing and Jiang Liehu chatting happily, side by side. The scene of walking towards him was a little dazed.

When Qu Qing saw Hua Zizhou from a distance, he greeted him: "Zizhou, are you done?"

Hua Zizhou nodded indiscriminately, looked at Jiang Orion strangely and asked, "Okay, where are you... where are you going?"

Qu Qing remembered that he didn't know the current situation, so he pointed to Jiang Orion and introduced him: "This is Brother Jiang, Jiang Zhu's father, you should know about him, he just came back, and we are going to his house to move things. , do you want to go together?"

"Move things?"

"Yes, I chatted with Brother Jiang for a while just now, and he thought he was nice, and he also thought I was nice, so he wanted to move to live near our house, hoping to take care of each other in the future. After all, he often goes hunting, always I don't worry about letting Jiang Zhu be at home alone, this time, if he hadn't met us, Jiang Zhu would have been in danger."

"But..." When the words came to his lips, he immediately stopped. He wanted to say, shouldn't all the things in Jiang Orion's house be emptied, but he realized that it was not good to say such words, so he didn't say it.

Jiang Orion next to him guessed what he wanted to say, and said: "My hunting work, and the wild boar that I brought back today are still there. I could have taken it by myself. Brother Qu wants to help, so we can just do it. go together."

"That's it, I... I saw you walking over aggressively before, and I thought..."

Jiang Orion suddenly smiled: "You thought I was looking for trouble?"

Hua Zizhou didn't expect that this person seemed to be big and three rough, but his speech was quite polite.

"It turns out that I still don't go. Are the two children alone at home? I'll go back and watch them first to avoid any accidents."

Qu Qing thought about it too, and let him go home.

Seeing him leave, Jiang Orion said to Qu Qing, "Is he a brother, is he your husband?"

"Hmm..." Qu Qing felt a little distressed all of a sudden, but remembered that he had been sleeping in the same bed all the time. If he denied it, it would be bad, so he said, "Forget it."

Jiang Orion asked strangely: "Why do you look unsure? Isn't he the one you are marrying?"

Qu Qing also knew that he was an outsider, and he came relatively late. In addition to being poor, and because he was often out of the village for hunting, he didn't know much about many things in the village, and he listened to Qu Qing's past deeds even more. Haven't heard of it.

Qu Qing said: "You have seen the situation in my family. If it wasn't for the unexpected encounter with your son, I would be out of food in a month. How can I know that the media is marrying a wife? It's just that he's here, and we'll be together. Just live with a partner." Qu Qing blurred some information that he didn't even know.

The two who met each other just talked like this. When passing by Aunt Hua's house, Qu Qing saw with sharp eyes that the door of Aunt Hua's house was closed, the crack of the door was slightly opened, and there seemed to be a figure inside. flashed by.

Jiang Orion also saw it, smiled sarcastically, and continued to walk forward with Qu Qing: "That poisonous woman, she lied to me during the day that it was my son who misunderstood them, if I didn't see his son wearing me later. My son's clothes, I'm afraid I will believe his words."

Qu Qing asked him strangely, "Aren't you going to trouble them?"

Jiang Hunter snorted coldly, his eyes full of ferocity: "I won't go for the time being, I want them to taste the horror, and when the time is almost up, I will naturally not let them go."

Qu Qing gave him a thumbs up.

The two went together, the hunter resisted the wild boar, Qu Qing took the remaining bag, and the two walked forward together.

When passing under the wall of Aunt Hua's house, a peeping person saw the two of them and immediately hid. Aunt Hua didn't believe in evil, opened the door and called Jiang Hunter: "You didn't say you wanted to add to me. Half a pig? It's so late, where are you carrying the pig? And why are you hanging around with Qu Qing, didn't I tell you before?"

Jiang Hunter looked at him with a half-smiling smile and said, "Mrs. Hua, your son is wearing my son's clothes, which seems to fit quite well."

The expression on Madam Hua's face froze all of a sudden, and she couldn't help but feel guilty: "Wh...what clothes, don't falsely accuse people, those clothes are made of new cloth I went to town this month, but the materials are the same. , have you also listened to Qu Qing's coaxing and misunderstood us, oh, you feel your heart and ask yourself, the two years you came to the village, have I been sincere to you?"

Jiang Orion didn't give him another look, he called Qu Qing, and the two of them only left each other with a back.

Madam Hua turned her head to look at her family, pointed at the back of Jiang Orion who left, and said, "What do you mean by him? Does he know that our family robbed his family?"

The family started to discuss in a chattering way.

The old man Hua said: "It shouldn't be, according to this person's temperament, if he knew it, he would definitely not speak so kindly today, but there is something wrong with him, didn't he agree with half a fan of pork? , could he plan to give it to us tomorrow?"

A bunch of children who haven't tasted meat for more than a month swallowed their saliva: "Dad, can we eat meat tomorrow?"

Madam Hua was actually a little upset, and when she heard the child's words, she slapped her: "Eat, eat, are you a starving ghost reincarnated, you know how to eat."

Children are scolded for no reason, and they are wronged, they want to cry or not.

In the evening, when Old Man Hua and Aunt Hua were sleeping, they kept talking about Jiang Orion's affairs, and they went back and forth with worries, and they didn't fall asleep in the middle of the night.

On the other hand, when Qu Qing and Jiang Orion went back, he asked Jiang Orion curiously, "Why did you leave in such a hurry just now? Are you afraid of them?"

"Afraid?" Jiang Hunter snorted again, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm really afraid, I'm afraid I can't help but go up and tear the face of the poisonous woman, but it's too cheap for his family, don't worry, I'm absolutely sure. I won't break the law, just let them remember that my son is not so easy to bully."

The two returned to Qu Qing's house and cut a piece of meat from the wild boar in the yard. It was the first time they heard about hot pot. He carried his iron stove into the yard and used a temporary torch made by Jiang Orion, and a group of people sat around the yard and ate hot pot.

When the meat is paid to the mouth, everyone except Qu Qing can be said to have opened the door to a new world.

The scalded kitten held the scalded tears from the corners of her eyes, exhaled, swallowed it with difficulty, and said to Qu Qing, "Dad, it's so delicious!"

Jiang Hunter, who was next to him, was busy feeding Jiang Zhu with meat, and Jiang Zhu ate it with a big mouth, looking like he wanted to swallow his tongue. The distracted Hua Zizhou's eyes widened.

The meat that has just been put in the pot is not fully cooked, and it is basically covered.

Qu Qing felt that they were too exaggerated, so he picked up a piece of meat and tasted it. The taste was indeed very good. The wild boar was fresh and delicious, but it wasn't that exaggerated, right?

He was next to him, placing meat and vegetables at the same time.

I have to say that when there are more people, eating is really fragrant.

In the end, the bottom of the pot was eaten clean, and everyone was content to eat with their stomachs bulging.

After resting for a while, it was the full moon in the sky, and the road was illuminated brightly.

A few people packed together together, Qu Qing and Jiang Orion could chat very well, the two were ready to chat for a while, and let the two children go to sleep first. After Hua Zizhou had everything done, he lowered his head, Some hesitantly walked to Qu Qing's side, some nervously pinched his fingers: "Master, I want to go out and come back later."

Qu Qing thought that he wanted to go to the toilet, but wouldn't it be a bit strange to ask him for this kind of thing?

He thought about it for a while, and Jiang Orion next to him saw that he was worried, and said: "There will be some wild beasts out at night outside. If you are worried about it, it is better to go out and have a look."

Qu Qing remembered that he always heard the howls of wild beasts at night, and agreed with him in his heart, so he planned to go out. After a while, he ran back and said to Jiang Orion: "He seems to be going down the path, the farther he goes, the farther he goes. I think he's a little weird, I'm a little worried, I want to go and have a look, come back and tell you."

Jiang Orion stood up all of a sudden: "I'll follow along and have a look. If the door is locked, nothing will happen. I think he should have something important when he goes to the village, otherwise he won't go out in the middle of the night. After all, it is very dangerous to approach the villages in the mountains at night, so he shouldn't be unaware."

Qu Qing was even more worried when he said this. After the two closed the door, they went out together. Jiang Hunter also took the bow and arrow.

The two carefully followed Hua Zizhou all the way and did not stop him.

When Jiang Orion walked halfway, he suddenly realized that the brother who went out in the middle of the night like this... Wasn't he running to have an affair with someone?

But he looked at Qu Qing with a serious face, and he didn't seem to think in this direction at all, as if he was really just worried about the safety of the other party, rather than trying to catch rape.

But then he thought again, Qu Qing's husband's face has grown like that, it's impossible to cheat.

After walking for a while, I saw Hua Zizhou walk to the side of the village, and then hid in the grass on a small road.

Qu Qing thought he had found his stalking, so he subconsciously pulled Jiang Orion to hide.

Jiang Hunter, who had been holding back for a while, finally couldn't bear it any longer. He poked Qu Qing and asked in a very low voice, "Hey, brother, you didn't bring me here to catch the rape, did you?"

"What..." Qu Qing almost asked loudly, but fortunately he stopped his voice in time, and whispered, "How is it possible, the two of us are just roommates who live together now, if he can have a good place, I will definitely not Stop it, I really just came out to worry about whether something would happen to him, after all, no matter what, it's a family now, right?"

Jiang Orion nodded suspiciously: "Yes, but don't you think our current appearance is really a bit like catching rape?"

"Well, I admit, I was worried about him at first, but now, I'm just curious about what he's doing here. It's mysterious, don't tell me, you're not curious at all."

Jiang Orion acquiesced, so the two of them just kept watch.

The three of them hid in the grass, one far away and one near, and waited for a while, when the door opened in a house in the distance, and a man in the shape of a man walked out, with a pocket in his pocket and whistling, Comfortably walk down the path here.

Qu Qing was a little surprised, and was a little shocked in his heart: "Hua Zizhou wouldn't really come out for a tryst, right? My god."

The man approached Hua Zizhou step by step, and the two people who were squatting behind also stared in that direction.

It's close, only a few steps away.

Just as Jiang Orion and Qu Qing were excitedly and nervously waiting for something unknown to happen, something really exciting happened next.

I saw that when the man was about to pass through the grass where Hua Zizhou was squatting, Hua Zizhou suddenly stood up, and before the two peeking behind and the gangster who was passing by didn't react, he lifted his foot and knocked the person off. He kicked him into the ditch, and picked up a wooden stick that he didn't know where to pick it up. He beat the people in the ditch violently, and for a while, he only heard the people in the ditch screaming. .

Qu Qing and Jiang Orion promised that if they were holding something in their hands at this time, they would definitely fall to the ground in shock.

Hearing the sound of the sap, Jiang Orion swallowed in fear and looked at Qu Qing with sympathy: "Your husband... is this always like this?"

Qu Qing didn't know what to say anymore, so he said ignorantly, "I'm not, I don't know, don't ask me."

Chapter 24:

The gangster who was beaten thought that the person who beat him was Hua Daniel, so not only did he not dare to fight back, but he also did not dare to shout for help.

When Hua Zizhou was happy, he threw away the stick, turned around and left in a hurry. He expected that this **** would definitely not dare to chase him, but in fact the other party was curling up in the stinky ditch and humming.

Seeing Hua Zizhou approaching, Qu Qing and Jiang Hunter hurriedly lowered their bodies and hid in the bushes motionless. When Hua Zizhou had stepped out of the bushes, the two stood up from the bushes, looked at each other with mixed feelings, and remained silent. He followed Hua Zizhou in a whisper.

Along the way, the two of them seemed to have a lot to say in their hearts, but in the end they didn't say a word. When they arrived at the door of the house, Jiang Orion patted Qu Qing on the shoulder and walked in first.

That action is like saying: Brother, take care!

Hua Zizhou felt a little strange when he saw that they came from outside. Before he could ask, Qu Qing felt a little guilty and said, "I just went outside with Brother Jiang to make it easier before you came back?"

Hua Zizhou was also a little guilty, and replied slightly dodgingly: "Ah, yes."

After that, several people tacitly stopped mentioning this matter.

In the evening, Jiang Orion used the thatch and a quilt that Qu Qing had dried over the past few days, and slept in the room next to him overnight.

The next day, a few adults got up early and started to deal with the wild boar. They heated the water and scalded the pig's hair. The limbs and feet were left to make ham. The meat of the pig was divided into pieces and processed. The internal organs were boiled in a large pot on the fire, and the fragrance wafted far away, and the two sleeping children were woken up by the smell of meat.

Halfway through the process, the three found that the salt and soy sauce and other seasonings at home were gone, and there was no such thing as onion, ginger, and garlic. This made the boiled meat fragrant, but the taste was too bland.

"This... what should I do? I don't know if anyone in the village sells salt. It would be better if I could buy some other seasonings. I just have some money in my hand." When Qu Qing was proposing with some distress, Jiang Orion Said: "I know where there are seasonings, I feel that there will be a little more stuff, do you want to follow me to get it?"

Hua Zizhou and Qu Qing looked at each other, wondering how he was going to get the things he needed, and he nodded with confidence: "Go, we can still help with some things, when will we leave?"

"Don't be in a hurry, no matter what you say, you have to eat your stomach before you go." Jiang Hunter looked very leisurely.

So a few people used the remaining seasonings and cooked a pot of stewed meat to eat. This extravagant act once made Hua Zizhou and Kitten feel like they were in a dream. Qu Qing was used to seeing it. Realizing how extravagant pork is in this day and age, it's not stressful to eat it.

Jiang Hunter saw it, and said, "You are my son's savior, that is, my savior, to be honest, I am very grateful to you, I will be this son in my life, if I don't have him, I really don't You know how to endure it. When all these things in the village thought I was dead, you didn't have enough food for your own family, and you were willing to adopt my son for his sincerity, so what's the point of doing this? I hope you don't have any grudges."

Jiang Zhu kept nodding beside him when he heard the words. In fact, during the few days he stayed in Qu Qing's house, he almost really thought that his father was dead, and he gradually regarded this place as his home. Qu Qing and the rest of the family treated him to him. Well, he saw it all.

"And I also heard from Brother Qu that you are in some difficulties right now. The grain you plant will not be harvested until autumn. During this period, there is no solution to your grain problem, right?"

Seeing that Qu Qing did not deny it, Jiang Orion continued: "Actually, I also have something I want to ask you. Although I am a hunter, I do not worry about food and clothing when the season is good, and I can even eat meat every day, but if I am unlucky, When the season is bad, it is difficult to eat, especially in winter.

So... I just thought that if you don't mind, the two of us can make do with this. I'll help you to farm the fields if you're busy, and go hunting if you're not busy. If the season is bad, I'll eat here with you. , but don't worry, when I save enough money to buy two fields, I will definitely not bother you, and I will build my own house next to it soon, and I won't disturb you for too long. I hope you don't mind. "

Qu Qing agreed without hesitation. On the one hand, he liked Jiang Zhu, a good boy, on the other hand, because most of the food and meat in the family belonged to Jiang Orion. He can now be said to have embraced Jiang Orion. It's too late to be grateful, how could I refuse.

Moreover, he found that when the Jiang family and his son appeared, they could bring him luck. If he hadn't met them, Qu Qing would still not know if he would be able to eat meat and survive the food crisis in the last month or two.

In fact, they are each other's benefactors.

So things were so happily decided.

After a group of people had eaten and drank, they collectively patted their stomachs with satisfaction, Jiang Orion wiped his mouth, stood up and said, "When we're full, let's go for a walk in the village."

Qu Qing and Hua Zizhou looked at each other, and Qu Qing said, "Bring the two little ones too?"

"Take it, and take them out to learn more. You can lend me the sickle." Jiang Hunter picked up the sickle, and before Qu Qing agreed, he inserted the sickle into the waistband of his trousers.

Qu Qing felt that something was wrong. Why did he bring a knife when he went out for a walk in the morning?

Seeing that everyone else was following, Qu Qing had no choice but to follow.

On the way to the village, Jiang Hunter said earnestly to everyone: "I'm sorry for my son, in the early days, I always wanted to get along well with the villagers, to please them, and to give them meat from time to time, so that I could be in the village. I have a foothold and integrated into this village, but only now, I know that I was wrong, and if I want to gain a foothold, it is useless just to please, and I can't see people's hearts without doing anything."

Jiang Zhu felt that his father was a little sad at this time, so he stepped forward and took his hand: "Dad, it's alright, it's all over."

Jiang Hunter touched his son's head: "Son, Dad told you before that you have to endure when you are bullied, otherwise you will make people in the village dislike it. Now Dad tells you that Dad is wrong, and people are kind to others. Bully, Ma Shan is being ridden, starting today, if someone slaps you, you must pay it back ten times!"

Jiang Zhu said, "Are you going back with eighteen palms?"

Jiang Orion replied, "That's fine too."

Inexplicably, Qu Qing felt that this conversation was a little dangerous, but he turned his head to see Hua Zizhou's face next to him, and he felt that he probably wanted to hide.

The sun has just risen, and most of the people are still cooking breakfast. Some of the industrious villagers have already gone to the ground. Jiang Orion brought Qu Qing and his party into the village not long after they entered the village, and soon aroused the attention of the villagers. Pay attention, many people are holding bowls and eating noodles while standing on the road in the village, looking at them curiously.

Jiang Hunter would greet people in the village cordially, saying that he had hunted a pig, there was too much pork to eat, and he was going to sell some of it. For ten pennies a pound, he could also use things to pay for it, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, and anything that could be used. It's all right. If he really has nothing, he will build a house after a while, and if he can help with three days of work, he can send a pound of meat.

When everyone in the village heard the words, the reaction was very strong, and they all said ok, some people have already started to go home and figure out what they can exchange for meat.

Some good things in the village asked him: "Jiang Hunter, your house was robbed, don't you mind at all?"

Jiang Orion smiled and patted the knife on his waist and said, "Isn't this just going to find someone to settle the account."

"My mother!" The onlookers exclaimed. After a few bites of the breakfast in the bowl, they ran around excitedly, telling all the relatives, friends, and children in the neighborhood that they could tell about this.

To say that the life of the people in the village is really boring, so when such a thing happened, it easily detonated everyone's desire to watch a good show.

Of course, not everyone is so idle. Some people still carry their hoes down to the ground, and plan to come back at night to ask others about the follow-up. It is also a coincidence that some family members are on their way to the fields, and they happen to meet Aunt Hua's family. So he joked:

"Ms. Hua, you are about to be in a disaster, why are you still going to the fields? You have done something immoral. Now Jiang Hunter is holding a knife and going to your house to settle accounts. Why don't you go back and have a look?"

Aunt Hua heard the words "Bah" and said: "You slaying a thousand knives, what nonsense, what wicked things have I done? If you talk nonsense again, be careful if you have a child."

The person who was scolded gave a "hey", his eyes were full of sympathy and contempt, and there was no anger at all. He walked forward and muttered: "Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, the way of heaven is good, look up, if you don't believe it, who will the heaven forgive? People, maybe the home is gone, and I still have the leisure to scold people here, maybe go back early, at least I can save the pots and pans..." After saying that, he carried his **** without looking back and left. .

Although Aunt Hua was cursing people very loudly at this time, she actually panicked in her heart. After he couldn't see the shadow of that person, he ran to the house, thinking that his children were still at home, and his heart almost felt Terrified to stop beating.

When she finally ran to the village, her house seemed to be fine, but there was a family surrounded by people in the middle of the village.

Aunt Hua finally pulled the crowd apart and looked inside, and her heart was suddenly cold when she saw it.

That house really robbed the home of one of the gangsters who had robbed Jiang Hunter. Jiang Hunter was in it. If he didn't say a word, he would smash it when he entered. People around saw that he had a knife on his waist, and none of them dared to approach him. While crying and begging Jiang Orion to let him go, the family was miserable.

The child who was pushed aside saw Aunt Hua, and just wanted to start coaxing, but was stopped by Aunt Hua's vicious expression. Aunt Hua left in fright, and hurried to find someone in the family for help - she must not let her own family Got smashed like this!

Qu Qing carefully guarded the two children on the side, and looked inside again in shock and disbelief.

He found out that the people around him were more ruthless than each other, Jiang Zhu who set fire, Hua Zizhou who beat people in the middle of the night, Jiang Hunter who smashed people openly...

In the end, he picked up the now soft and cute kitten, and thought happily that at last, you and Dad are of the same kind.

Chapter 25

Aunt Hua began to look for helpers everywhere in the village. All the people in the village, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, called those who could be heard, and those who couldn't be lured, and found a large group of people.

In the end, I was still worried, and went to the village chief's house to find the village chief, but the village chief's daughter-in-law said sarcastically: "You are late, the other family has already invited the village chief, and I have persuaded you before that you should not be so immoral, I still think we are jealous of you, yo, look at my eyes now, are they blood red?"

Aunt Hua had no time to take care of other people's ridicule at this time. She guessed that 80% of them were one of the three other companies that robbed things, and left absent-mindedly.

It happened that the three families lived not far away, so she quietly pretended to pass by and glanced at the one with more people, but her heart suddenly became cold.

She saw that this was not the same house as before. The village chief was persuading him in a good voice outside the door, and there were a pair of brothers and sisters from that house standing beside him. She was surprised that no one dared to step forward. It seemed that she thought of it. Others have thought about it for a long time, but obviously, these are useless to Jiang Orion!

Her legs suddenly softened halfway.

Walking in a little more, standing outside the door, I could see the scene inside, and as a result, I saw Jiang Orion was carrying the gangster who was robbing things that day, and the knife edge overflowing with cold light was on the gangster's neck at close range.

When the outsiders saw that he was about to make a real move, they suddenly became excited. The **** said fiercely: "Jiang Hunter, if you dare to touch my son, don't even try to run away!" He was about to walk behind Qu Qing and stand behind him Wearing Jiang Zhu.

Jiang Hunter sneered: "Go, touch my son with your hand, I will cut a hole in your son, if something happens to my son, it doesn't matter, I will kill your whole family and bury him with him. There are only two people in my family, and you can see who is at a loss."

The bastard's footsteps immediately stopped in place, and he didn't dare to move.

Qu Qing's heart that was hanging high can finally be put down a little. He felt that the eyes of the villagers were looking towards this side, so he became even more nervous, and he and Hana Zizhou invariably guarded the two little ones.

When Hua Zizhou saw that the gangster with a knife on his neck was the one he beat up last night, he felt a little gloating in his heart, but he was afraid that something was wrong, so he resisted his desire to laugh happily. Pretending to be an ordinary onlooker, his expression was appropriately adjusted and imitated, exuding a meaning: We don't know at all, how could Jiang Orion be such a person!

In fact, Qu Qing almost had the same expression, but the difference was that he really didn't know it, while Hua Zizhou knew what Jiang Orion was going to do when he took the knife from Jiang Orion.

Seeing that he was about to be serious, he immediately shouted at him to calm him down, and the scene was as noisy as a vegetable market for a while.

Seeing the excitement in the scene, the village chief came out to preside over the situation. He first spent a long time trying to get everyone to calm down and stop talking. Then he looked at Jiang Orion inside, and half raised his hands to tell him not to be impulsive.

"Jiang Hunter, this family is really sorry for you. You are bound by you, and you deserve it. They bully your children and rob your house while you are still unknown. They are simply **** who will be punished by heaven, everyone. Guys, isn't it?"

When the family heard that the village chief was scolding themselves, they were about to stand up to express their dissatisfaction, but they were stopped by the winking person next to them.

The surrounding villagers listened to the village chief's words, and immediately nodded their heads and followed suit, and a man onlookers Xiaozhi said with emotion: "Yes, their family deserves to be punished, but you are a hero, you have to pull this family. It's not worth it to die together, Brother Jiang, we are still waiting to go to your house to buy meat, you must not do stupid things."

The village chief: "It makes sense, Jiang Hunter, your son can marry a wife in two years. If you drag him to die with you like this, you are too incompetent to be a father. You have to understand. what."

Jiang Orion snorted coldly: "I don't want to do this either, but everything in my house has been robbed, and I can't live any longer. What do you think?"

The village chief immediately said: "I'll be the master, and let them return all the things they robbed you, even a pot and a pair of chopsticks will not be missed."

"That's it? I robbed my house, beat my son, and just wanted to solve it by returning the things to me? This is still my luck and good luck to live. If I really can't get it back, then my son's sin is my son's fault. What's wrong? Who will give him justice?"

The gangster's mother rushed up, she stood up and said loudly: "Then what else do you want? Jiang Orion, let me tell you, you are just an outsider, don't be content!"

"Really? I'm not satisfied? Well, I don't need compensation, I just want my own things, and..." Jiang Hunter sneered, went up to lock the door from the inside, and found a rope to tie the person Then he started smashing inside, and seeing what he was smashing, the clanging sound of pots and pans continued to come out for a while.

The people outside were all tangled up in their hearts at once, and many of the theatergoers quietly asked the people next to them: "How long do you think his things can withstand being smashed?"

The gangsters inside were frightened and cried. He felt that he had fallen into blood and mold these days, and he shouted outside with snot and tears: "Father, mother, everything in our house is going to be smashed!"

The family finally couldn't take it anymore, and his mother cried and begged: "Don't smash it! Don't smash it! We will pay! What do you think, our family will accompany you, and we will pay you everything!"

The voice inside stopped. After a while, Jiang Hunter opened the door, holding a rope tied to the person in his hand: "Isn't it right that you promised so early? How are you going to pay?"

"This..." The woman and her husband looked at each other, and the husband stood up and said, "You also understand the situation in our village, everyone is poor, we can't get you this money, you...you See what you like about this home, just take it."

Hearing this, the mother secretly pinched him anxiously, and whispered, "What if he took our valuables?"

The husband threw her hand away angrily: "Do what you want to do, it's not a good thing for the good son you taught!"

Jiang Orion looked at the village chief: "Village chief, you are a witness, this is voluntary."

The village chief sighed: "You... don't go too far. After all, if you drive their family to a dead end, you won't be able to ask for anything."

Jiang Orion smiled and said, "I'm not the kind of person who has no conscience."

After he said this, he let go of the bastard. His mother immediately took him over and saw from the top, for fear that her precious son had been injured, and when he looked up, he saw Jiang Orion's eyes on him. The only cow in her cowshed, her son didn't want it anymore, and rushed to the cowshed to block her own cow.

"Cow is absolutely not allowed, you don't want to touch my cow, otherwise I won't have this old life, and I will fight with you today!"

Ermazi and his mother were still standing in the crowd watching from a distance. Ermaziniang said, "Isn't what my mother said a few days ago? Did my mother hurt you a lot? Why don't you go to Jiang Liehu's house to grab something?"

"I don't dare, I don't dare." Ermazi waved his hands quickly, and laughed dryly. Seeing that the family inside was beaten so badly, how could he dare to criticize his mother's decision to return the things was wrong, and he couldn't help but feel fortunate in his heart. Fortunately, I listened to my mother at the time.

Jiang Orion didn't give him another look, he took a few steps to the side, bent over to open the door of the chicken coop, stretched out his hand and pulled out two chickens: "Son, kitten, come here."

The two walked over together, lifted the wings of two chickens, let their son carry one in each hand, and then pulled out a large white goose for the cat to hold, and carried the other goose, walked over and handed it to the cat. Hua Zizhou, and then said to Qu Qing, "Brother, I'm going to trouble you to help me get some more things later."

Feeling the murderous gaze from the family, Qu Qing twitched the corners of his mouth stiffly, looked at the eyes of the people around him awkwardly and politely, and whispered to Jiang Orion: "This... is not good."

Jiang Liehu snorted, knowing that he was not so courageous, so he didn't force him to go in and take it with him. He went to the family's kitchen by himself. From the kitchen of this family, I took a pot of soy sauce, a few bags of salt, and all the other dry seasonings that I could see.

The family was distressed to death, but these things were not particularly valuable, so they could only bear it. Then he went to the vegetable garden next to him and pulled out half a basket of various vegetables, which was almost full. .

For the people in the village, a basket of vegetables is really worthless, and some people even wonder why he doesn't look for valuable things.

Seeing that his belongings were taken away, the gangster sat on the ground, crying and grabbing the ground. She didn't dare to scold Jiang Hunter, so she pointed at the prodigal son and the useless husband, and the eighteenth generation of the ancestors scolded in it. .

Qu Qing listened to her folk song-like cry, and unexpectedly felt that it was quite artistic. In her cry, how a good woman with a low marriage was scolded by this family into a yellow-faced woman. She can't keep her home anymore. If the world is not worth it, she might as well die. Forget it, it's really sad for those who hear it and tears for those who hear it.

Just when Qu Qing was trying to persuade Jiang Hunter to forget about it, Hua Zizhou next to him whispered into his ear and said, "What she said was all a lie, and no one in the village knew that when she married, her stomach was full. It's bulging. The village's well-known lascivious woman usually likes to go to other people's homes to steal other people's things. She doesn't admit it when she is caught on the spot. Once she pinched the cat while I was away, and her arms were pinched. blue."

As soon as Qu Qing heard this, the sympathy that only appeared in his heart immediately changed to gloating, and even wanted to give this woman a piece of rap.

He said, why did everyone around him help her and comfort her.

This woman's acting skills are simply at the level of a movie queen!

Jiang Hunter later took an axe and a hoe, and handed them to Qu Qing to hold them, and then took half a bag of potatoes and two new-born puppies from the previous family. So gone.

Others saw that apart from two geese and two chickens, most of the things he took were innocuous and worthless, and they asked, "Jiang Hunter, you can just take such a few things?"

Jiang Orion shrugged: "Isn't it, who told me to have a good heart, but I don't want to do things like some people, and don't even give them a way to survive."

"You are too kind!"

Everyone praised him one after another, and some even suggested that they should take all her cattle away and teach the family a lesson.

Qu Qing was stunned to see how Jiang Hunter smashed other people's homes and robbed them of their belongings, so that the public thought he was a good person.

Cow! brother!

The family that was robbed looked at the crowd in disbelief. One second, the gangster's mother was crying, but the next second, she jumped up immediately, arguing with the man who proposed to let Jiang Orion lead the bull by pointing his nose with a fierce expression.

These Jiang Hunters didn't care, he bowed his hands to everyone and said: "Thank you for your suggestions, but I still decided to leave it like this. Later, everyone remember to go to my place to buy meat, I am in a good mood today, every catty of meat is good. Sell ​​it to everyone for a penny less!"

When the villagers mentioned meat, they immediately became emotional, and even praised him more sincerely.

On the way back, Qu Qing's expression seemed to be in a sleepwalking trance.

Jiang Orion comforted him: "Brother, don't be stressed, we just went out for a walk and took some seasonings and went home to cook the meat."

Qu Qing nodded.

Well, just "take" it that way.

He was not under pressure, not at all, and did not worry about whether he would be sacked on the road in the future, nor did he care that the family stared at him as if his father had been killed before he left, and he was not afraid at all. Woolen cloth.

He didn't understand why that group of people didn't stare at Jiang Hunter or Hua Zizhou, but just stared at him. Did they find out that he was actually the weakest of the group?

"I don't know why, I just want to cry." Qu Qing stared blankly at the distant mountain.

Jiang Zhu jumped beside him, and said with a beaming expression, "Are you so moved that you want to cry?"

"Probably so..."

Chapter 26:

After they got home, it was just time for lunch. After they had a hearty lunch, people from the village came one after another to buy meat.

Meat is a scarce commodity in this era, and ordinary people can only have a meal on special days during the Chinese New Year. Today, because I heard that three days of labor can be exchanged for a pound of meat, many men in the village have come. And only very few people pay for it.

But soon the hunter encountered a very distressing problem. There were too many people who exchanged labor for meat, and he couldn't remember so many people. What if someone took the meat and defaulted on the bill.

Just when a bunch of people were standing and looking at each other, Qu Qing said strangely beside him: "Can you find something to write down the name of?"

Everyone's eyes turned to him immediately, and Jiang Orion asked, "How do you remember?"

Qu Qing was a little strange: "Just find a pen and paper to write the name down, it's not difficult to write the name." After speaking, he suddenly realized that almost all people in this era are illiterate. I can't read, so I don't think of using pen and paper to record anything at all, and it's impossible to use this method in daily life.

Jiang Orion's eyes suddenly lit up: "Brother Qu, are you literate?"

"Get to know some..." Just after saying this, Qu Qing felt that the eyes around him were suddenly different. People were talking so loudly that he suddenly felt that he was now as precious as the giant pandas in the zoo.

"Heaven, Qu Qing is literate!"

"There are actually scholars in our village!"

"I heard that his ancestors were rich, no wonder they can read."

Jiang Orion took a step forward and grabbed Qu Qing's hands affectionately, and said earnestly: "I didn't expect Brother Qu to be literate, and his attitude towards you was a little frivolous before. I hope you don't mind, what should I call you in the future, Mr. Qu? Can you ask Mr. Qu to help me record it, you have to do this, no one else can do it?"

"You don't need to call me that!" Qu Qing quickly waved his hand and said sincerely: "We are still friends as before, and I only know a few words. It's nothing special. You make me really panic."

Jiang Orion sincerely exclaimed: "As expected of a scholar, he is so talented in his speech. No wonder he is different from others at first glance. Everyone says yes."

puff!

Everyone started to coax the collective and started to praise Qu Qing, Qu Qing blushed and coughed awkwardly with his hands covering his mouth: "Everyone, stop doing this, let's get down to business, the writing can be done with charcoal, but there is nothing to write about. , even if you can write, it's useless."

One of them said, "Isn't the Spring Festival couplet in front of my house just paper, can I use that?"

Qu Qing said of course, so the person closest to here hurriedly ran home to play the Spring Festival couplets, and everyone present didn't wait. Small village gossip.

The person who took the Spring Festival couplets came back soon. Since the Spring Festival couplets were pasted on the wall before, and some places were very firmly attached, the paper that was peeled off was in tatters. Qu Qing could only use these uneven pieces of paper. Come to write the name.

He took out a blackened branch of the thickness of a little finger from the fire, and after processing it, he picked a large leaf and wrapped it around the charcoal branch, revealing only a small section of the "nib", a simple pen That's how it was made.

The only table in the house was full of pork. Qu Qing looked around and found that only a small bench was more suitable as a place to write, so he simply squatted down, took a pen, laid out the paper, and was ready to start writing. , but after waiting for a while, no one took the initiative to hold his name. When he looked up, a group of big men surrounded him, and some people were holding their hands. Everyone stared at him with relish. They were also crowding Kitten and Jiang Zhu, with the same eyes as everyone else!

For a moment, Qu Qing felt like a monkey being watched.

Grass! Isn't it just a pen to write a word, what about you!

He stood up, raised his hand and shook his hand in front of everyone, waking everyone up, pointing and waving: "Hey, hey, hey! Don't stare at me, aren't you here to buy meat, speed, you need labor for it The meat people come here to line up, come one by one, and think about how many kilograms you want."

Everyone thought it was very interesting, so there was a long queue soon, and the scene was finally under control. From the first one, Qu Qing asked him how many pounds of meat he wanted.

The other party opened his mouth and said, "Give me twenty pounds!"

The people behind suddenly quarreled dissatisfiedly: "You want 20 pounds, what should we do behind us!"

"I only want 20 pounds, and I don't want a whole pig. Why can't I!"

"No, it's not fair!"

Everyone blushed and had a thick neck. Seeing that they were about to fight, Qu Qing felt a pain in his head, and turned his eyes to Jiang Orion, the owner of the meat next to him, only to see Jiang Orion looking at him with the eyes of Liu Bei and Tuogu, with a complete expression of "I'll give it all to you." You, I believe you will not betray my trust".

Qu Qing was helpless, so he could only tentatively look at him and say a random number: "A maximum of three pounds per person?"

Jiang Orion immediately clapped his hands vigorously, and said loudly, "Okay! Brother Qu is really thoughtful, this will solve my troubles and take care of everyone, so even if someone defaults on the bill, I will You won't lose too much!"

When everyone heard it, they also clapped their hands and exclaimed, "Wonderful!"

Qu Qing: "..."

There are many things that are silent, and of course there is more than this one, but in general, I still stumbled and wrote down everyone's names, and to be safe, I also asked everyone to wipe the bottom of the pot and put a handprint behind their name.

Almost everyone asked for three kilograms of meat, and it recorded two-thirds of it. When Qu Qing called for the next one, two small faces appeared in front of him with a smile. It was Jiang Zhu and Kitten. Jiang Zhu was still very special. He said: "The two of us can act as an adult's coolie, I also want three pounds!"

Qu Qing suddenly couldn't help laughing and crying: "Don't be a fool, go and play with the kitten!"

At this time, Jiang Orion also came over, and without any reason, he carried the two children halfway to the side to play with the little milk dog.

Looking at Jiang Zhu and Mao'er, who have become more lively, without the depression and caution of the past few days, Qu Qing's heart is slowly relieved, and at the same time, it is also accompanied by the sense of accomplishment that my family has grown up.

Ever since he found out that Mao'er seemed to be more eloquent than Qu Xin, he simply called Mao'er directly. Anyway, he hadn't grown up yet, so Qu Xin's name was reserved for him to use as his official name when he grew up.

Suddenly, Qu Qing reacted, why did he feel that Hua Zizhou was gone as soon as he came back? He usually doesn't always let the cat follow him, why can't he find anyone now?

The names of dozens of people were quickly settled, and everyone went home contentedly carrying their flesh. Qu Qing raised his head and noticed that there was another person, and hesitantly looked into the room.

"Excuse me, do you have anything else?"

Seeing Qu Qing being so polite, the man seemed a little frightened, and immediately waved his hand: "It's alright, it's alright, I'll leave now."

Qu Qing glanced strangely at the back of the man leaving, got up and moved his stiff back and hands and feet, looked left and right, but still didn't see anyone, so he called out, "Zizhou?"

Qu Qing didn't notice that as soon as the person who left heard him shouting like that, he immediately turned his head to look strangely.

"Hey! It's here!"

Qu Qing heard Hua Zizhou's voice coming out of the house. He obviously got up and came out as soon as he heard his own voice. He still had needles and clothes in his hands, so that people could see what he was doing just now. .

"So you're here. I didn't see you for a long time. I thought you were going somewhere."

Hua Zizhou lowered his head and said softly, "I can't help you much, so I just found some clothes to mend."

In fact, he didn't tell the truth because he saw that everyone was praising Qu Qing, so he took the initiative to avoid everyone and hide in the room before everyone noticed him.

In his heart, Qu Qing was very good, but he didn't want that being Qu Qing's brother would become a stain on everyone's criticism of Qu Qing, and he didn't want Qu Qing to lose face.

Seeing that the clothes in his hand belonged to him, Qu Qing took it and looked at it, and it was much better than what he had done by himself. Just as he was about to thank him, a suspicious voice of a man came from behind him.

"younger brother?"

This voice was all too familiar to Hua Zizhou, he raised his head suddenly, his eyes a little surprised: "Second brother?"

Brother Hua Zizhou did not dare to confirm that his younger brother was really here, so he came over happily: "It's really you, mother let me see if you're doing well..."

Qu Qing was also a little surprised, he took out a stool and invited someone to sit down, but the other party quickly refused: "Don't bother, I'll come to see my brother, and see that you're doing well, I'm leaving, mother still Waiting for me to go home."

Hua Zizhou suddenly heard him talking about mother, thinking of his mother's heartless behavior that day, he said with some anger: "Do people like mother still care about my life and death?"

Qu Qing looked at Hua Zizhou's second brother and looked hesitant, as if he wanted to say something, he said, "It's alright, brother just wants to see you, brother Qu Qing, don't bother you anymore, I'm going home, Mother still doesn't know I'm out."

The other party left without looking back.

Hua Zizhou's mood is very complicated. Facing the relatives he used to be most familiar with, he had quarreled and got along well. When they met again, they found that the atmosphere when the two sides talked became polite and awkward.

As soon as Jiang Orion heard that Hua Zizhou's brother was leaving, he immediately pulled someone and forced him a few spare ribs, but left in a flattering manner.

Qu Qing also felt that their relationship seemed to be a bit delicate, but Bingzhi didn't have a big relationship with him, so he didn't even ask, looked up at the sky, and estimated that it should be around two o'clock in the afternoon, so he was ready to continue Be a hard-working farmer, pick up your **** and prepare to continue your farming career.

Before he shouted, the others saw his movements and started to pick up farming tools and seeds in a tacit understanding, and set off like this.

On the way there, Jiang Liehu took his son, Qu Qing and Zizhou held one person and one hand held the cat, Qu Qing turned his head and glanced at Hua Zizhou, inexplicably felt that he seemed to be a little different. After thinking for a while, he suddenly turned around. He turned his head to Hua Zizhou and said, "Is the acne on your face getting better?"

Hua Zizhou touched his face subconsciously, and suddenly a little excitement surged in his heart: "Really?"

 Chapter 27

Seeing him touching his face, Qu Qing hurriedly stopped him and subconsciously said, "Don't touch it with your hands, there are a lot of bacteria on your hands."

"Bacteria?" Not only was Hua Zizhou confused, but several others looked at him with incomprehensible eyes.

Qu Qing remembered that they were ancients, and after a while, he explained: "It's just that your hands are very dirty, if you always touch your face, the bad things on it will be infected on your face, and your face should be carefully protected. ."

Speaking of this topic, he asked curiously, "How long has your face been like this?"

Hua Zizhou turned his face slightly and replied, "It's probably been a year or two. I wasn't like this before, I just don't know why..."

Qu Qing felt that his mood was a little low, so he comforted: "It's okay, but it's just acne, I've had it before, and most people will go through this period, so they have to insist on treatment, take good care of it, and it will be better soon. Yes, it's not a terminal illness."

Jiang Orion also interjected: "I've seen people grow older, isn't this going to get better when they're old?"

"That's too careless, my mother... My mother told me since I was a child that the face is the face of a person, so you must take good care of it."

Hua Zizhou didn't want to be treated, he lowered his head and said: "The doctor said that it can be treated, but it needs a lot of money to drink medicine, so let's forget it..."

"How can this be forgotten?" Qu Qing said to him with a serious face, "You spend money when you spend it, and those unqualified people in the province always attack you with your appearance. Is there a doctor in the village that you can see? ?"

In fact, a few days after I came to this world, I occasionally encountered children who were playing wildly in the mountains and fields. When those children saw Hua Zizhou, they kept pointing at his appearance and calling him ugly. He would keep his head down and follow behind him without saying a word. He didn't have the ferocity of beating people in the middle of the night. He looked quite pitiful. The kitten would always cry because of the popularity. Although Qu Qing would drive those children away. , but in any case, I still feel a little uncomfortable.

Hua Zizhou didn't expect him to be very decisive, and answered uncertainly, "Yes..."

"That's great, I'll go back to the doctor in the evening and ask how much it costs." Qu Qingda had the attitude of going as soon as he said it.

Hua Zizhou was a little unsure, but seeing Qu Qing's appearance, he felt that Qu Qing was really willing to spend money for him.

Jiang Orion on the side heard their conversation and said to Hua Zizhou jokingly: "Brother Qu Qing is so kind to you."

Hua Zizhou was a little shy, and glanced at Qu Qing quietly. When Qu Qing looked back at him, he quickly looked away.

Jiang Orion looked at Hua Zizhou, recalled his terrible appearance that night, and thought complicatedly in his heart: This person usually looks like an ordinary brother who is weak and weak and has no offensive power, but he didn't expect that in private...

It's been a day, and he is still complicated, but in fact, thanks to Hua Zizhou, he knows what he should do.

This afternoon, Hua Zizhou was full of expectations that his face would be completely better, and Qu Qing would also like his appearance, but he was afraid that the money for medicine would be too much, and the family couldn't afford it.

For Qu Qing, this is just a small episode, and the important thing right now is to get the farming done.

After Jiang Orion joined in, the efficiency of work has doubled visibly to the naked eye. If it goes well, one mu of potatoes can be planted today.

Several people sweated for a while, and when they were tired and resting, they saw the village chief pulling a cow not far away, followed by the sound of a young man carrying a plow, greeting them from a distance.

"Qu Qing, I said it's been three days since you were a child. Didn't I ask you to borrow a plow? I saw that you wouldn't come, so I asked my son to bring it to your house."

Qu Qing was flattered and said: "Village Chief, you are too polite. I thought that your house should not be used up, so I plan to ask again tomorrow."

"It's okay, I brought it to you today, you can use it, and by the way, you can plow another mu of land in your family." After talking to him, the village chief said hello to Jiang Hunter, and then pulled Guo Niu tied it to the tree first, and pulled Qu Qing aside by himself.

"Actually, I'm here today, not only to deliver cattle, but also to ask for your help with another matter."

Qu Qing thought to himself, no wonder the village chief is so enthusiastic, but looking at it this way, I am afraid it is not a small job, but he probably cannot refuse, because he really needs a cow: "The village chief, you are really too polite. , what can I do for you, just speak up."

"That's right," the village chief took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Qu Qing, "this is a letter from my eldest son who has served in the military for 20 years. In the past, when he sent a letter, I would always walk on the road. Going to the town all day and night to ask the gentleman to know what is written in the letter, but now there is a literate person in the village, so I came to ask you, saving me a day and a night of effort, and also helping you by the way. Busy, isn't it the best of both worlds."

Qu Qing thought that the village chief was too good at talking. No wonder he was able to stand out as the village chief in this village. After saying yes, he typed the letter and read it. The village chief looked at him eagerly: "What is written in the letter?"

After reading it, Qu Qing said with a smile: "In the letter, he said that the war has completely ended. If everything goes well, he will be able to come back in two months, so don't worry about it."

The village chief took out his pipe, rolled up the dry cigarette, lit a fire stick and took a deep breath, and said three times in a row: "It's good that you can come back safe and sound, thank you, Qu Qing, this is a **** war. It's finally over, it's over."

Qu Qing didn't know that there was a war here. In fact, he felt that the war was very far away from him, but judging from what the village chief said just now and the information he had learned in the letter, it seemed that the country where he was in this world had already started. It was a war that lasted no less than twenty years, and Hua Zizhou's father seemed to have died in the battle, but other than that, he didn't know anything about it.

The village chief looked a little sad, and Qu Qing wanted to know more information, so he said, "Yeah, this battle has been fought for too long, and I don't know how many people died, it's amazing that Ling Lang is still alive. Blessed."

Jiang Orion next to him also said with a bit of emotion: "Yeah, it's almost thirty years, and it's good to be alive."

The village chief exhaled a mouthful of blue smoke, which slowly floated upwards, blocking a thin wisp of smoke in front of his eyes, making the person look a lot older: "Yes, it's a great blessing to be alive, pitiful. Two of my four sons died, and the two dead don't even know where their bones were buried, and I don't even know if they were buried properly, and whether the bones were eaten by wild animals..."

Having said this, he sighed and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve: "Oh, even if I am like this, it is already good, at least I have two more, and some people in the village are dead men. Well, that would be miserable."

Qu Qing did not expect it to be so tragic, and he asked hesitantly, "In our village... did a lot of people die?"

"Of course, at least half of the males are dead, Huagou'er... Ah, now it's time to call Hua Zizhou, Hua Zizhou's father, when he was recruited, their eldest son was only ten years old. , the youngest was still breastfeeding, and Hua Zizhou couldn't even walk as I remembered at the time, so as soon as I left, the people were gone, and three months later, the government sent a piece of clothes back,

Their whole family relies on his mother to pull seven or eight people alone, and they are so tired that they vomit blood and dare not stop working for a day. Not only his family, which other family has not received the clothes of the dead from the government? In fact, the only family in the entire village where no one died on the battlefield is your family, Qu Qing, but your father spent a lot of money to get through the relationship. Now the rest of the village are either old, weak, sick and disabled women like me, or children who were bare-ass back then. "

After listening to Qu Qing, the expression on his face was complicated and surprised. He didn't expect this village to be so miserable, and when he saw Hua Zizhou's mother for the first time, he simply thought she was a very heartless woman. , but I didn't expect her to suffer so much.

When Hua Zizhou heard this, he, who had been silent, asked in surprise, "When did my mother vomit blood? Why didn't I know?"

In fact, according to the customs and rules, when the men are talking, the family members have no right to intervene, but at this time the village chief does not care about anything: "She is hiding, how dare you let the little ones know, I will see it with my own eyes. Once, that was a few years ago."

After listening to it, Hua Zizhou was silent for a long time, and he was originally blamed for being cruel, but at this time, when he heard that her mother was living so hard, the resentment in his heart dissipated five points, and the other five points were still chilling and his mother didn't care whether he lived or died. look.

The village chief continued: "Fortunately, the war ended five years ago. My eldest son and the others just followed to guard the border. Otherwise, if the fight continues, the group of children who have just grown up in our village will probably die. Alas, after chatting for a long time without realizing it, I will go home first and tell my daughter-in-law the good news of the eldest son, and I will leave the younger son here to help you, so that you will not be able to use the plow."

Qu Qing hurriedly sent him away.

After coming back, we got to know each other initially, and then started to work.

The village chief's youngest son looked like he was only fifteen or sixteen years old. When Qu Qing asked his name, he smiled brightly and replied in a voice that was in a period of change: "You can just call me the youngest, my family is like this. Yep, I'm not an adult yet, so I don't have an official name, my father said, after a while, ask a gentleman to give me a name."

After getting in touch, Qu Qing found that he is a very sunny child, and he is also an expert at work. He is no worse than adults like them. He talks non-stop, and the movements of his hands are not messy at all. Instead, he is well-organized and chatted. After a while, he suddenly asked Hua Zizhou: "His new name sounds very nice, Brother Qu Qing, did you give it to him?"

Not far away, the kitten heard Zizhou's nice name, but didn't hear about himself, he stood up while squatting on the ground playing in the mud, carefully hanging his hands in the air, and said, "Of course, my father made it. The name is the best, Daddy's name is nice, and the name Daddy gave me is even better! My name is Qu Xin! Honest letter!"

The youngest looked at the cat with different eyes in surprise. He had only heard that his eyes were different before, but this was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes. It was really weird, and it was also the first time he heard his voice. , seeing Qu Qing around him and the others treating this child as ordinary, he didn't know whether he should talk to him or not, but looking at Qu Qing, he felt that it would be rude to ignore the child, so he Said: "It's really nice, and I also hope to have such a nice name."

"Well, you have a good eye, but I have to think carefully about asking my father to name him. After all, my father is the only literate person in the village." He raised his chest and said proudly, then turned around. Going to play their cooking game with Jiang Zhu again.

That's right, under the influence of the villagers, the favor of Qu Qing, and the education of Hua Zizhou, Xiao Quqing, although he still doesn't know what literacy is, he can fully understand that his father is a very powerful and He is a respected person, and as his father's only son, he feels that he needs to be respected by others, keep his head high, and be an upright man.

Yes, he swelled up.

Qu Qing and Hua Zizhou were immediately taken aback by his unexpected remarks from the little adults. In front of outsiders, the cat has always been afraid to see people and dare not speak. At first, people thought that was his nature. Thinking that in just a few days, he dared to speak to outsiders confidently, and even said the same words as adults. Now that I think about it, the second time I see him, I think this child is very good at talking. I am afraid this is his real character.

After being surprised, Qu Qing laughed and hugged the cat and kissed his face, and then rubbed his face hard: "Little cat, you are so cute, how can you be so cute!"

The other people also couldn't help laughing a bit, the youngest couldn't understand why, but they also laughed.

Although life is sometimes hard, it always brings happiness to people inadvertently. Qu Qing feels that having such a lovely child can soothe the tiredness of people's bodies and minds, and make people regain courage to welcome a new day.

He wondered if his mother had the same thoughts as he is now when he brought him with him back then.

Chapter 28: stingy & reckoning

After Madam Hua watched Jiang Orion leave, the big stone in her heart had not had time to put down, and she immediately raised it heavily.

Although Jiang Orion didn't find himself in trouble today, but tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, he can't sit still like this all the time.

Thinking of this, she became more and more uneasy. She didn't even have the slightest intention to work. She returned home in a daze, sitting on the small bench in the yard in a daze.

But she didn't want to ask her to return the things back.

Soon, his husband Hua Laohan called a lot of five relatives and six relatives to come back aggressively. When he saw her expression, he thought that he was coming back late, something had happened at home, and his legs suddenly softened and he almost fell to the ground.

"Jiang Hunter has already been here? I told you at the beginning, telling you not to covet that black heart, why didn't you listen at that time, look at our family now, we have been made into a ghost and a ghost. It's like... I knew it earlier..."

The old man Hua was talking, and the other people beside him were about to comfort him. Aunt Hua slowly raised his head and said, "Jiang Orion hasn't come yet."

Her eyes will scrutinize all the people who come here. After finding that these people are not much better than the one invited by the one who was beaten before, she is more than half stunned, but she is unwilling to tell people to leave like this. He thought, why don't you just leave these people here. If Jiang Orion really comes, what can they at least help?

The relatives who followed behind also went to his house curiously, turned their heads and said to him: "Cousin, everything is fine at home, nothing is broken, didn't you say that Jiang Liehu has come to the door, no? You must have heard it wrong. We are the ones who left the field and came from the village. Don't you play tricks on us? How talented can an outsider be? With so many families in our village, you can still be afraid of him. ?"

Madam Hua jumped up: "You don't know, that Jiang Hunter is like a bear, rushing into someone's house and smashing him. If anyone pulls him, he will take a knife and say he will kill anyone. No one in the village can stop him. Forget it, two families have already suffered, you listen, there are still crying now."

When they listened carefully, there was indeed a woman in the village outside who was scolding and crying.

"But for no reason, why did he cut down on your house?"

Speaking of this, the old man Hua's eyes dodged a little, as if he was a little guilty, Aunt Hua said with wide eyes: "Because he is crazy, many people in the village have already suffered, if you don't believe it, go to the two houses in front of the village to see, If I lie to you, I will be struck by the sky and thunder, but he will come right away!"

When everyone saw him like this, they believed it and stayed with them to wait, but when the sun was about to set, they drank a few pots of tea, and there was no half figure of the so-called lunatic.

The few people who came to help his family saw that it was getting late, and their stomachs were starting to get hungry, so they politely said to Aunt Hua: "Sister, I think it's getting late, that lunatic hasn't come yet, I think I shouldn't be here today, and it's time to eat, look at this..."

In fact, he just mentioned it euphemistically that he can start cooking. When Aunt Hua heard this, she went out to have a look, but she didn't see Jiang Orion, so she came back and said, "Ah? So many people in the family were scared and didn't dare to come. I'm really thankful for you today. I'm sure everyone has prepared meals at home, so I won't give them away. My sons are coming back soon. I have to cook for my sons. Please wait. go."

The people who come are all relatives, and they are here to help anyway. If they come, they don't say anything delicious or delicious, but I think there is always a meal. When I heard her say that, I didn't feel embarrassed. Some people have secretly rolled their eyes at her.

Aunt Hua pretended not to see the dissatisfaction of everyone, while the old man Hua was always a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "Or everyone will just eat at my house..."

Before he could finish speaking, Aunt Hua secretly pinched him, and the old man stopped talking.

When everyone saw him like this, some people were embarrassed and some sneered. They got up and left together. After walking 100 meters, they started scolding Aunt Hua for being too stingy.

On the way back, I met people from Huajia Village, all of them from neighboring villages greeted them naturally, and politely asked them why they were here.

"Hey! Don't talk about it, I heard that there is a lunatic in your village who smashed people's houses. I heard that my cousin's house is in danger. Don't we come to help?"

People in Huajia Village are very strange: "What lunatic, why don't we know?"

"Isn't it Jiang Orion? You don't worry when you hear that he goes to where he hits."

Knowing that they were deceived, the villagers said loudly: "What lunatic, they are obviously seeking justice for their own family, Aunt Hua hasn't told you yet, their family was not long ago, and they thought that Jiang Hunter was dead, so He and the gangsters in the village robbed Jiang Liehu's house, and they came to settle the accounts today! I heard that the one who robbed the most was Aunt Hua's house, and there were several sacks of grain and meat!"

"How many sacks?" Several relatives of Aunt Hua exclaimed and looked at each other.

"Yes indeed."

These people were immediately angry. There was no rice at home, and they had robbed so much. As a result, they were asked to help but they were reluctant to invite anyone to eat a meal.

Before leaving Huajia Village, someone spat at Aunt Hua in the direction of his house: "Iron rooster, miser, I should wait for Jiang Hunter to smash her house down, and I'll come back to his house to help me, I'm a dog!"

A bunch of people broke up unhappily.

On the other side, Qu Qing and the others were in the field. Because of the help of the youngest member of the village chief's family, they not only finished planting one mu of potatoes today, but also plowed another mu of land that they were planning to use to grow corn.

When it was done, it was almost time, and several people wanted to invite the youngest to dinner at home, but the youngest did not agree with anything: "My father said that your family's life is not easy now, and everyone's food is in short supply, so I will not go. I've caused trouble for your family, and when the autumn harvest, you can come to my house to help me as a reward."

Seeing that he was so persistent, Qu Qing and others had to help him send the ox and plow back. By the way, they agreed to plant corn two days later and borrow the ox again. Jiang Hunter went back first.

It was a pleasant day. After coming out of the village chief's house, he planned to take Hua Zizhou to see the doctor in the village. Uncle Dong didn't expect Hua Zizhou to come again so soon.

Seeing Qu Qing, his eyes were a little surprised. After a few conversations, he completely changed his mind about Qu Qing. He felt that this young man was really good. When asking about medicine, he also persuaded Qu Qing to spend money This is a bit of a waste, let him save it to live.

Qu Qing said: "Although money is important, it must always be spent."

Although the words were firm, he still tentatively asked the medicine and the price.

Dr. Dong said that it is uncertain how many courses of treatment he will take, but just for the first course of treatment, a month's worth of medicine will cost a hundred cents. This is because the medicine is collected from the mountains and made by himself. Going to the pharmacy would be many times more expensive.

When Qu Qing heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Just please give us a course of medicine first. I'll go back and get the money. You have to wait a while."

"You wait!" Uncle Dong told him to stop, went straight to find the medicine, began to sort and pack it in paper, and then instructed how to prepare and eat the medicine, and finally gave them ten packets of medicine: "Today, It's too late, send the money tomorrow, I believe in Hua Wazi's character."

Qu Qing thanked him in surprise, took Hua Zizhou to the door, turned his head and glanced at the uncle who was serious about making medicine, thinking that there are still many good people in the world.

On the way back, the kitten asked strangely, "Why does our family buy medicine?"

Qu Qing replied: "Because Dad's face is sick and uncomfortable, so he needs to take medicine."

Kitten asked, "Is it because everyone says that Daddy is not good-looking... that's why you need to take medicine?"

Qu Qing felt that the logic was wrong, so he corrected: "It's because of illness, because it doesn't look good, so I need to take medicine."

Kitten raised his head, looked at Qu Qing with wide eyes and said, "But I think Daddy is beautiful just like that. People who say they are not good-looking are because they are bad people."

Qu Qing was a little surprised that he would say Hanazi Zhoumei.

Hearing what he said, Hua Zizhou was both surprised and moved, and he squeezed the palm of the cat's palm: "Thank you cat, but Daddy takes the medicine because he hopes not only to be beautiful in the cat's heart, but also to be able to In everyone's eyes, it is also beautiful." In fact, there was a more important sentence that he did not say, and he hoped that it would also be beautiful in Qu Qing's eyes.

Qu Qing felt that the emotions of Xiao Xiaoer and Hua Zizhou were very simple and pure, and sometimes he felt that he could learn something from them.

After returning home, he found that there were a lot of things in the house. The yard was almost full. Compared with the empty days a few days ago, it was a big change.

He asked Jiang Orion: "What's going on here, where would you go for a walk?"

Jiang Hunter said while weaving the chicken coop, "I really didn't rob it this time, it was someone else who sent it back on their own initiative. Why don't I go and make trouble with you during the day? I took the initiative to come, not only apologized, but also took the initiative to return everything, I will start building the house tomorrow, and I have disturbed you at your house these two days."

When this person is smooth, everything is really smooth.

Qu Qing was amazed at his speed, and offered to say anything if he needed help.

Sometimes a friendship is often like this, and it gradually builds up. For Qu Qing, this is definitely a big help for him to gain a firm foothold in this world. They help each other and can live better. And he is also happy to be friends with such a hunter.

On the other hand, the family who came to deliver things today to apologize, went back and found out that Aunt Hua's family had not made any move, plus they hadn't heard anything from Jiang Orion before, they were worried that Jiang Orion would not be attracted to him because of his former neighbor's affection. , I don't have to look for trouble with the aunt's family.

Thinking of this, the family recalled that they had been living and dead during the day, and their hearts suddenly became unbalanced. They deliberately went to the door of Aunt Hua's house and said loudly: "When I went today, Jiang Orion said that he will not let anyone go. , our family finally escaped the disaster, but some people don't know it."

When Aunt Hua heard this, she still had a fluke mentality.

But he was still reluctant to return the things, but then he lay down and went to sleep. Thinking of Jiang Orion's terrible appearance, he didn't fall asleep all night. Finally, under the fear, the next morning, the family had red eyes, carrying Thing went to Qu Qing's house to apologize to Jiang Orion.

 Chapter 29:

Qu Qing planned to put the fields except the grass for two days before planting corn, so after today, there is generally nothing to do. After getting up in the morning and having breakfast together, when Hua Zizhou finished drinking the medicine, he called him and Go to the paddy field together to see if the seeds in the field have sprouted, whether you need to release water or store water to soak the seeds and take care of the crops.

Although he had heard the theory of these things and kept them in mind, but if he was allowed to operate it himself, he was still not 100% sure, and he was worried that he would not take good care of the crops, so he pulled Hanako up. With Zhou watching by his side, he will feel more at ease.

Hua Zizhou only regarded him as unfamiliar with farming, and never thought that he was from another world. He felt very happy about Qu Qing's trust and attention to him. But now, he is very grateful to himself who has learned all the farm work well.

Kitten went to play with Jiang Zhu by himself, but didn't follow, so for Hua Zizhou, it was a rare opportunity for him and Qu Qing to be alone.

He was still very excited about this, and quietly glanced at Qu Qing's normal face, and immediately moved away nervously, he didn't even know where to put his hands and feet.

When he went to the field, Qu Qing was pleasantly surprised to find that the seeds sown a few days ago had begun to germinate, and the tender green leaves grew very gratifyingly. In particular, he hadn't even seen a **** not long ago, and he didn't expect that he would now become a farmer who makes a living by farming.

According to the sequence Hua Zizhou once said, he took a **** to dig up the mud that blocked the water on the ridge, let the water out, then squatted down and looked at the seeds in the field that were sprouting a little bit and said: "Zizhou, look Look, isn't this seedling growing well?"

In this quiet atmosphere, there was no one around, Hua Zizhou suddenly heard him call his name, his heart jumped, and he turned to look at the seedlings in the field, and he didn't recover for a long time.

Qu Qing didn't hear a response, so he called out a few more times and repeated what he just said before Hua Zizhou came back to his senses, stood beside Qu Qing, bent down slightly, looked at the tender seedlings in the field and said, "Yes, long It's so good, I believe that after a few months, you will be able to harvest full rice grains."

"If you are planting rice seedlings, it is estimated that you will be busy for a few more days." Qu Qing stretched out his fingertips and lightly touched the tender seedlings under his feet, stood up and said to Hua Zizhou: "Let's go, Jiang Orion said today that he is going to build a house. materials, we also went to help, he has really helped us a lot recently, we should help him more."

"Okay." Hua Zizhou hurriedly followed half a step behind him, his head was slightly lowered, his eyes looked at Qu Qing's waving hand in front of him, and he suddenly imagined in his mind what it would be like for Qu Qing to hold his hand, his heart He started jumping wildly.

He wanted to hold Qu Qing's hand, so he couldn't help reaching out, but he raised his hand in the air, wondering if it would be too abrupt, and worried that he would be thrown away by Qu Qing, besides, he is still ugly now , although he thought that since Qu Qing was willing to let him stay and tacitly slept with him, then he must be willing to take his own, but he was still worried in his heart...

After a few months, he has already started taking medicine, and his face will be fine by then. When he is normal, even if he is not beautiful, at least he can be like an ordinary person and have the courage to stand by his side. Maybe at that time, if you go to hold his hand yourself, you don't have to worry about being rejected.

Thinking of this, the hand he stretched out turned around again, and he tried to touch his face, but before he touched it, he remembered what Qu Qing had said that there were "bacteria" on his hand, so he quickly stopped.

It was not far on the way back, but there seemed to be some silence between the two. Perhaps Qu Qing also realized it, so he found a topic to talk about. He asked Hua Zizhou: "The person who came that day was your brother?"

"Yeah." Hua Zizhou was stunned for a moment, not expecting that he would suddenly mention this topic.

Qu Qing pondered the language and said, "He doesn't look like he has no feelings for you. It sounds like your relationship isn't too bad. How was your life when you were at home?"

"Although there have been many conflicts, which brothers and sisters will not have conflicts, my second brother, except for throwing away the cat, I remember that it is not particularly bad, and my mother, In fact, if I were really ruthless, I would have been kicked out of the house long ago. Where can I pick up another child and bring it back? My mother is also very hard, and the family is also very hard. Everyone worked hard, but I still can't get enough to eat, and my mother is already very tired in order to marry the second brother and save the dowry for the younger sisters."

He had some resentment in his heart, but for some reason, as he spoke, he incoherently turned into saying good things about his family.

"Your mother...have you saved a dowry for you?" Qu Qing thought, since my brother is also going to marry, he should pretend like a woman.

After saying this, Hua Zizhou's face suddenly darkened: "Unless it is a very rich family, my brother will rarely have a dowry, because everyone thinks that it is better to marry a brother than a woman, and I... It's good-looking, that's why my mother wants to find someone so urgently."

"Actually, you also care about your mother very much."

"Of course, who doesn't care about his own mother, it's just..." On that day, if Qu Qing didn't know why he suddenly changed and let him in, he thought that he and the cat might really die in the barren mountains. Thinking of this, he felt a little chilled.

Qu Qing said: "You also said that your mother is not that cruel, so if you have a chance, you should go back and have a look. Even if she is really cruel, it will not change the fact that he has raised you for more than ten years. If you are stubborn now, and if you regret it one day, you may not have a chance. Isn't there a saying like this, a tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop, a child wants to be raised but a kiss doesn't wait...

After listening to the village chief's words that day, Qu Qing pondered over the seemingly vicious woman that day. In the end, no matter from any point of view, he couldn't think of her as a person who was so heartless that he could kill his own child. After persuading Hua Zizhou like this, maybe there really was a misunderstanding that he didn't see during the period.

When Hua Zizhou was told this, the charming thoughts in his heart suddenly disappeared. He responded sullenly. After a while, he realized that when Qu Qing said that sentence just now, there was a strong voice in his voice. of sadness.

Later, he remembered that Qu Qing's parents had already died, so he was so sad.

Thinking of this, he comforted Qu Qing and said, "Don't be sad, if your parents see your current state, they will be very pleased."

Qu Qing wanted to say that he didn't have a father, but when the words came to his lips, he thought that he was not the original owner, so forget it, and in the end he just answered.

As soon as Qu Qing and Hua Zizhou got home, they saw Jiang Orion carrying a hoe, digging mud and moving soil five or six meters away from Pangban outside their house. It seemed that the foundation of the house had been planned. , found that it was about the same size as his current home, with a few rooms and a yard.

It looks like he is really going to have a neighbor soon.

Qu Qing went up to help, but Jiang Orion hurriedly told him to stay still: "Hey, you are a student, don't do these hard work, I can handle it myself."

Qu Qing suddenly felt dumbfounded. Since he said he knew how to read, he found that the people here spoke to him with a three-pointed politeness and respect, which made people feel uncomfortable. He didn't listen. , while saying: "What are you studying? I'm not a farmer now. What's wrong with doing some work? Do you dislike me for doing a good job?"

Jiang Orion repeatedly refused, but Qu Qing didn't listen, so he had to follow him in the end. A few people worked together to quickly deal with the foundation, and then went to start preparing materials, bamboo, thatch, and tree cutting. I found that here, every day is full of fulfillment.

While they were busy, on the side of the village,

After the village chief asked Qu Qing to read the letter that day, the family began to happily invite their eldest son back, and their views on Qu Qing changed completely.

Today, Dahu Zhao just happened to come to the village head to ask a question. After the village head answered, Dahu Zhao was about to leave, and the village head suddenly remembered Qu Qing, so he immediately stopped him and asked him to sit down again:

"Brother Zhao, let me ask you something. You originally planned to set up a school for us in a few villages. What else do you plan to do?"

When Zhao Dahu heard about this, he sighed and said, "Hey, the village chief, I really want to do a good thing for the village. The address of the original school has been selected, and I will wait for the construction to start, but I can't help it, the only literate scholar in the 10 miles and 8 townships costs 50 taels of silver a month. Do you think I'll give him my life? Even if I make some money outside, this month, I also earn Not so much money, it only takes a hundred or so taels to build a school, and he doesn't want to lose one, so what else can I do, I can only say forget it."

The village chief also bought a pass: "Then let me ask you, if I can find you a cheap gentleman, would you still be willing to build a school? You have to answer me solemnly, after all, if you build a free school, but Great things that benefit the five or six villages nearby."

"Really?" Zhao Dahu's eyes lit up and he asked with great interest, "Can you really find something that is not expensive? Who is willing to continue teaching? Who is it? How much does he cost a month? To be honest, building a school and what you need I have all the books, so I really don't have much to pay for tuition fees. You know, the village chief, how expensive books are, and my money is not from the wind. Whoever goes to school will prepare it by himself."

After going out for many years, Zhao Dahu made money and came back. When he came back, he still felt that scholars were more respected. He hoped that the people in his family could be promising and respected. He wanted to send his son to the school in the county. Said he was in business, but he didn't even let him in.

Angrily, Zhao Dahu decided to raise funds to build a school when he came back, so that not only his son could study, but also the children in several nearby villages could study. Looking forward to who will mention him in the future, not sourly saying that he is a nouveau riche, but giving him a thumbs up to praise him.

Although the idea is good, but the material things are easy to handle, but the husband is hard to find. As soon as most scholars hear that he is in business, they will look down on others and look down on others. Fifty taels of silver a month, you must know that in this era, ordinary people only need seven or eight taels of silver a year. If he wants to give it like this, one day he will go bankrupt.

Zhao Dahu, who was running into walls everywhere, had no choice but to give up his plan.

I didn't expect to come to the village chief today, but when I heard the village chief say this, there was a glimmer of light in my heart, but I suddenly thought of the arrogant faces of those scholars, and I suddenly gave up hope.

The village chief said confidently: "You don't have to worry about money, you just say how much you are willing to pay for a month, and then I will help you as a lobbyist and keep him willing."

Zhao Dahu didn't quite believe it. After all, he had searched all the scholars he could find in Shili Baxiang, and none of them agreed. The village chief was just a peasant. He really couldn't imagine who the village chief could find a scholar.

He was heartbroken by those scholars, so he deliberately said a very low number: "One tael, at most one tael a month, I won't go out again."

When the village chief heard this, he slapped his thigh: "It's okay, you can't go back on it. I'll go and tell someone today, you can go back and wait for my good news."

The excited look of the village chief made Zhao Dahu not convinced. He wondered, could he really find a teacher who is willing to pay such a low price?

The village chief was so happy that he couldn't sit still. His wife asked him if he had found a lot of money on the road, and he said, "That's better than picking up a lot of money. You said, if our village can build a school, What a good thing that would be,

Maybe we will get a champion from our village in the future. That's really amazing. Even if we don't get the champion, but those from ten miles and eight townships can put together money to build a school, it will definitely be the only one. If the village is good, Do you think I will have a credit when that time comes? Maybe the county magistrate will reward us at that time! "

The village chief's daughter-in-law was inexplicable, but the youngest next to him understood at once: "Father, you are not planning to ask Brother Qu Qing to be the teacher of the school, will it be a little unreliable? He has a bad reputation. Do you think Zhao Dahu would agree?"

"You don't know, how much effort Zhao Dahu has spent in order to get his children to study, and how many people have looked down upon him, do you think he will not? But I'm going to talk about Qu Qing, wait for me. Change clothes and go now, I don't know if he is at home or in the field today."

The youngest said, "It should be at home. We only removed the grass yesterday, and said that we will wait two days before planting corn."

The village chief immediately changed into new clothes that he would only wear during the Chinese New Year.

Qu Qing was at home and Jiang Hunter was cutting bamboo and moving back when he saw the village chief walking towards his house. Several people quickly stopped to entertain him. The village chief waved his hand and said, "This is going to build a house, Jiang Hunter. , you're busy first, I'm here to talk to Qu Qing about something important."

So Qu Qing asked him to go in and sit down. Although Jiang Liehu was a little curious, he continued to do his own work. Hua Zizhou poured them two bowls of hot white water. Qu Qing glanced at him and said to the village chief: " The family is poor and there is nothing to entertain, I hope you don't mind."

Hua Zizhou went out quietly, Qu Qing glanced at his back again, thinking a little strangely in his heart, at that moment, it was too similar, his cooperation with Hua Zizhou looked like a real couple .

Seeing his appearance, the village chief also said: "This brother of the Hua family is really sensible now, although he doesn't look good, but he works neatly, is sensible and obedient, and takes care of the inside and outside of the family. Not bad, so I think Qu Qing, you still made money, picking up a daughter-in-law for nothing, and your mother-in-law hasn't asked you for a betrothal gift."

Qu Qing smiled and didn't answer, and directly asked the village chief what was going on here.

As soon as this was mentioned, the village chief's face became serious, and he approached Qu Qing mysteriously: "I found you a job for a minute and a month and a tael of silver, and you can say whether you are willing to take it. "

Qu Qing was a little surprised: "Village chief, don't be joking, you know how much money my family is short of right now, but even if it is short of money, I won't do anything illegal or criminal."

The village chief's teeth almost didn't fall out of laughter: "Why do you think so, can I be the kind of person who asks you to do illegal and criminal things? It's a good thing, not only is it not illegal, but it can also make you famous for generations, but only if you Willing to do it, of course, you can do this alone."

Qu Qing didn't quite understand: "What is the good thing?"

The village chief deliberately made a fool of himself, stood up, walked to the shredded paper where Qu Qingfang had written the list of meat swaps that day, picked up the piece of paper, and kept complimenting: "Qu Qing, what you wrote It's really good, even if I'm illiterate, I think he writes well."

Qu Qing stood beside him and looked at his charcoal pen, which was really not good-looking. There were also reasons for the pen, and it was also because he hadn't written well for many years.

"The village chief has won the prize, that is, I learned calligraphy for two years when I was a child, but now I am a lot unfamiliar, and I can barely understand what I have learned."

"I have also learned calligraphy, which is really amazing." The village chief became more and more satisfied with Qu Qing's current appearance. He asked Qu Qing, "Would you like to let you be the teacher of our Huajia Village School?"

After speaking, he was afraid that Qu Qing would be under pressure, so he said again: "Actually, you don't need how much real talent you need to learn, it is enough to be able to teach children to read. In this day and age, being able to read is a great thing, and this is also a matter of fact. It's not difficult, the book will be prepared for you when the time comes. You can teach the children whatever is on it. Don't be afraid that you can't do it yourself. It's not asking you to teach a champion. Of course, if you can teach one or two It would be better to be the champion."

After the village chief finished speaking, Qu Qing laughed together.

Qu Qing didn't expect that someone would hand him a pillow when he wanted to fall asleep. He took a sip of boiled water and asked, "Is it the school that Zhao Dahu wants to set up to find a teacher?"

"Yes, so you know?" The village chief was a little surprised.

Hua Zizhou put the bowl of boiled water on the table, touched the edge of the bowl with his fingertips, and vaccinated the village chief in advance: "I heard Zizhou say before that this opportunity can really fall on my head, of course I Yes, it's just my ability. I can only teach children reading, literacy, arithmetic, etc. It's really not good to take the top-ranking imperial examinations. I don't have such a great ability. of."

He still has a very clear understanding of the difference between his knowledge and the ancient Eastern Imperial Examination.

"Don't worry about this, as long as you can teach reading and literacy, it will be enough, then you agree, this matter is settled, when the school is completed, you will be the only gentleman in our ten miles and eight townships. , a tael of silver a month, you also accept it, right?"

"Of course I accept it. It's already very good." A tael of silver is really a lot. In this era, he can earn a calf's money in three months. He can't think of any reason for him to refuse. Make money and do good deeds to literate people here.

The village chief just left happily. Before leaving, he borrowed a few pieces of paper that Qu Qing had written on, saying that he would show it to Dahu Zhao and return it to him tomorrow.

Of course Qu Qing agreed.

He originally thought that he would go to Zhao Dahu to recommend himself after the farming work was over, but he did not expect the village chief to help him and take the initiative to help him match up.

Qu Qing sent the village chief away, and the others looked at him with joy and asked curiously. After Qu Qing said that he might want to be a husband, both Hua Zizhou and Jiang Orion were shocked for a moment.

The last group of people were very happy for him. Jiang Hunter was so happy as if someone in his family had been admitted to the top spot. That night, he went to the wine seller in the village to make a pound of bayberry wine and kill the chicken. To celebrate, Qu Qing disagreed. Jiang Hunter took advantage of Qu Qing's time to go out to fetch water. He killed the chickens and plucked them. Qu Qing couldn't help laughing and crying, but all the chickens were killed, so he had no choice but to ate.

That night, we ate like a New Year's Eve, and we were about to set off a cannonball battle to celebrate. Except for the two little ones who ate vegetables, the three adults drank half a bowl of wine each.

Even Qu Qing, a modern person, felt that this was a bit extravagant, but seeing that everyone was sincerely happy for him, he felt happy from the bottom of his heart.

Jiang Orion slapped his forehead when he heard the mention of the gun battle: "Hey, why did I forget, I'll go buy it now."

Qu Qing quickly grabbed the man and pressed him down and sat down: "This matter has not been settled yet, let's see first, you really don't know what to say about you, come here, have a toast, whether it's successful or not. If it doesn't work, I'm happy today, if it doesn't work, then I'll still be a teacher, and Jiang Zhu and Mao'er will learn something no matter what, right? I'll teach them everything I know."

Jiang Orion hugged him hard, almost not squeezing Qu Qing's lungs out, Jiang Orion quickly let go and smiled embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, my ancestors counted eighteen generations, and there is no such thing as Literacy, now you say you want to teach my son to read and write, I'm so excited..."

Qu Qing patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and continued to eat meat. Seeing how the people here knew that knowledge was important, but had no way to get in touch with it, he had a vague idea in his heart that maybe he could try it. Do you want to engage in basic education here and pass on knowledge to the villagers here?

It was only ten years anyway, and then he went home by himself, which was considered a good deed that was beneficial to the people.

Suddenly, pieces of chicken legs were placed in front of him and placed in his bowl. Qu Qing raised his head and saw that the person who put the chicken legs had buried his head and whispered to him to eat more.

Seeing this, the kitten on the side also imitated his father, put a piece of meat in his bowl, ran to him suddenly, and then pulled the meat chop into Qu Qing's bowl with difficulty, and at the end still seriously. He instructed: "Father, you are the backbone of our family, so you have to eat more, you can't go hungry, our family depends on you."

Qu Qing didn't know where he learned it from, but at the same time he was moved, he realized an extremely important issue for the first time in his heart.

What is the relationship between him and Hua Zizhou, and what will happen to the two of them after he leaves.

Chapter 30:

The next day, the village chief went to Zhao Dahu, mysteriously took out the name that Qu Qing had written from his pocket, and showed it to Zhao Dahu, so that he could judge how it was.

Zhao Dahu glanced at it and said, "Village chief, I don't know how to read. Why do you show me this? Let's be honest. Was this written by the gentleman you asked for? Why, they really agreed?"

"Of course, it doesn't matter who is going out, he agrees as soon as I say it, so I'll come over to discuss it with you now, but he also said it in advance, at most it is to teach children to read You can read, but if you want to take the imperial examinations, you can't say it."

Zhao Dahu said with a smile on his face: "It's good to be able to read and write. He really agrees to one or two silver a month? Isn't it too little?"

"Not too little."

"Who is that person, I'm very curious now, village chief, please tell me quickly, don't give a shit." Zhao Dahu was completely excited at this time, and he seemed to have seen in his mind that his school was established and his son was studying in it. Scenes.

The village chief smiled and said: "You actually know that person, it's Qu Qing, hey hey, don't roll your eyes in a hurry, although Qu Qing is a prodigal, but his ancestors were rich and rich, before he came, I heard that his family specially hired a teacher for him. He not only learned to read and read, but also learned calligraphy. Do you think that based on these, he is not enough to be a teacher?"

At first, Dahu Zhao felt that the village chief was fooling him, but after listening carefully to what the village chief said, he hesitated again. Obviously, he was not willing to believe that a person who was famous for his prodigal family could have any real talents and practical knowledge, but The village chief said it again and again.

Seeing his appearance, the village chief put all the notes he brought in front of Zhao Dahu and showed him: "Look at these words, if they are well written, they are just written with charcoal and Spring Festival couplet paper. Yes, they can write so beautifully, you said that if you get him a real pen, ink, paper and inkstone for writing, his writing will definitely look a thousand times better than this!"

Dahu Zhao also stared at the papers carefully. Although he was illiterate, he could tell how well people wrote. After reading it, he said, "It's alright."

The village chief felt a bit of disgust in his tone, and pouted, "Then do you want this gentleman or not? After this village, there will be no such shop."

Reading is about to become Zhao Dahu's inner demon, and he immediately said: "Yes, but I have to test him first to see if he really has real talents and real learning."

Qu Qing looked at the village chief and the strange middle-aged man next to him.

The other party is also looking at Qu Qing, especially his weird hair.

After introducing each other, Qu Qing, who understood the situation, invited them to sit down and asked, "Then, I don't know what aspects of Uncle Zhao you want to assess me?"

Dahu Zhao glanced at the village chief, then stretched out his hand and took out a book from his jacket.

Qu Qing took a closer look, isn't it a coincidence, the other party took out a book that even he was very familiar with - "Three Character Classic".

"If you can read the above, I will hire you as a gentleman." Zhao Dahu said.

This was not difficult for Qu Qing. He took the book, glanced at the two, and began to read it from the beginning.

Zhao Dahu is actually illiterate. He specially bought this book to make decorations in his home, but even so, he has heard the first few sentences of this book and memorized a few sentences, so he wanted to try it out. When he looked at Qu Qing, he didn't expect that Qu Qing was not afraid at all, and read it fluently when he picked it up. Originally, he still had some dissatisfaction with Qu Qing in his heart, but soon only full admiration remained.

Qu Qing hadn't finished reading it yet, but he didn't know what the next thing was, so he said, "Alright, alright, I know brother Qu Qing, you are really knowledgeable. It's settled."

Zhao Dahu seems to be very satisfied with this meeting. Before leaving, he said to Qu Qing that there is nothing to worry about Qu Qing, he will prepare everything, just trouble him, and he needs to go to the town bookstore in person Let's see what books are needed for teaching. Zhao Dahu said that he has covered all of them. Now he just needs to wait for the school to be built and recruit students to start recording teaching. As for what to teach and how to teach, these are all Qu Qing himself. responsible things.

From this day on, the school in Huajia Village began to work vigorously, and Qu Qing also became a figure of concern in the village because he was hired as a husband.

However, Qu Qing still lived a quiet life, planted various fields, helped Jiang Hunter build a house, mined a vegetable field next to the house, sprinkled vegetable seeds, took care of his own yard, and lived a secluded life. life.

The two new little milk dogs in the family also got their names, one named Da Huang and the other named Er Hei, and officially became part of the family, and the hens in the family began to lay eggs after adapting to the environment.

Everything was in order, and the house was very lively and looked alive.

It's just that Qu Qing discovered that since that day he realized that he would leave one day, he began to deliberately avoid getting along with Hua Zizhou alone, and at the same time began to think about how to deal with his relationship with him.

It's definitely not acceptable to let Hua Zizhou leave. He knows that Hua Zizhou has nowhere to go, and his family probably won't accept him back. As for sleeping in separate beds, it is more realistic, but the bed can be made, but there is no extra quilt at home. , but when the school is built and he receives his own salary, it will be realistic for many to sleep in separate beds.

Anyway, I can't stay in the same bed for such a long time. Qu Qing is very firm on this point, not because he dislikes Hua Zizhou, but because he finds that Hua Zizhou seems to like him.

In fact, he didn't think about this direction at all at first, but Qu Qing knew what it was like to fall in love. In the past, there were too many people around him who were in love, and even many little girls came to him to confess. He remembered what they were like, their performance and Hanako boat can match too much.

He didn't want Hana Zizhou to like him, just like he didn't want the girls who came to confess to him to like him.

Once he knew that he was GAY, so he would not give any girl even the slightest hope. He also knew that it was impossible for him and Hua Zizhou, so he would never give Hua Zizhou any hope, and of course he did not dare to cheat.

Now getting along with Hua Zizhou, he pursues a few principles, not to be alone with him, not to call his name intimately, and rarely to smile at him, in short, to prevent everything that may make Hua Zizhou continue to have him Fantasy things happen.

Since he didn't do it very deliberately, it wasn't until several days passed that Hua Zizhou suddenly realized that Qu Qing seemed to have some subtleties about him that he couldn't tell.

Qu Qing would call Jiang Orion a brother, and would drag Jiang Zhu to play with the cat intimately. Usually, getting along with him was the same as before, but it seemed to be different.

Hua Zizhou began to observe carefully, until one time, he took the cat and Jiang Zhu back from the bamboo forest, and the two children jumped and greeted him, while Qu Qing just lowered his eyes slightly and pursed his lips, as if he didn't see it. He is the same.

A guess suddenly flashed in Hua Zizhou's mind, whether Qu Qing was ignoring him.

He didn't believe it at first, until after two full days of observation, he finally determined that he was indeed being ignored.

The first thing that appeared in his heart was panic. He didn't know if he had done something wrong, or what made him unhappy, but Qu Qing behaved as usual to the outside world, except to avoid everything and his alone time.

Sometimes, seeing Mao'er and Qu Qing get along so closely, Hua Zizhou even felt the uncomfortable feeling of being isolated.

Early this morning, before dawn, Qu Qing got up to dig up bamboo shoots.

Bamboo shoots were negotiated yesterday. Qu Qing said that he would go by himself. The others were responsible for firewood and hot water.

Qu Qing heard the footsteps behind him, and turned around to see Hua Zizhou, a little surprised: "Why don't you sleep for a while?"

"I have something I want to ask you, so I can't sleep, the boss..."

Before he finished speaking, Qu Qing frowned and interrupted him: "Don't call me that, it sounds weird, you can call me by my name in the future, Qu Qing Ji, you know."

The word "head of the family" is too similar to a husband and wife, so Qu Qing naturally won't let him call it that again.

Don't even let him call this?

Hua Zizhou took another two steps, and Qu Qing stood there with a cold expression, as if revealing a bit of impatience with him.

"Did I do something wrong?" His voice revealed a few cautious looks on his face, and finally his footsteps stopped three meters away.

Qu Qing's indifferent expression is like a moat, he can't walk, and he doesn't dare to walk.

"Why do you ask?"

"You seem to be ignoring me and avoiding me, but you are as good to cats as ever."

Qu Qing did not speak, but for Hua Zizhou, this was tantamount to acquiescence. He enlarged his eyes, became emotional, looked at Qu Qing in confusion, and asked in a low voice, "Why?"

Qu Qing was silent for two seconds, the morning dew was white on the bamboo leaves, and the crisp birdsong echoed in the bamboo forest.

"Hua Zizhou," Qu Qing called to him, and suddenly walked towards him, Hua Zizhou subconsciously stepped back, and was finally blocked by a bamboo, "Do you like me?"

The tone of the statement.

With a bang, Hua Zizhou's brain exploded: "I didn't!"

He subconsciously retorted.

"Dare you look at me and say it again you haven't?"

Hua Zizhou only felt that Qu Qing's voice had never been so cold.

He wanted to raise his head, but he forced himself to raise his head too.

"I..." His chest heaved violently, desperately suppressing the eyes that he wanted to avoid, and his breathing became rapid. The denial that had come to his mouth changed immediately when he saw Qu Qing's eyes without a trace of turbulence. "Yes, I like you. I'm your brother. I sleep in the same bed with you. Can I still like others if I don't like you?"

Qu Qing's eyes seemed to be saying, you can't like me.

He was not reconciled.

Qu Qing said: "You are not my brother, you are just yourself, Hua Zizhou, if you like others, I will not stop you, you are welcome to remarry, but the only thing is, you can't like me, otherwise we will even be friends You don't have to do it, you know?"

"Why?" Hua Zizhou felt extremely aggrieved, he choked and said, "Is it because I'm not good-looking, so I'm not qualified to like you? I just like you, and I didn't ask you to like me, neither would I Affect you, it won't hurt you, so I like you, what's wrong with you?"

Qu Qing tugged at the collar, ignoring the unreasonable irritability in his heart and said to him: "I'm not discussing with you, Hua Zizhou, you can't like me in the future, this is an order, I want you to make a promise with me."

Hua Zizhou's lower lip trembled a little, he shook his head, wanting to fight against the prisoner who was reluctant to die, hugged his arms tightly, and let out a weak and weak resistance from his throat: "I don't... I want to like you, You can't stop me."

"From then on, I won't say a word to you anymore. You can like me, but I will completely ignore your existence."

Qu Qing is not a resolute style of doing things, and it can even be said that he is indecisive, but when facing emotions, he can be decisive and decisive, because he understands how hurtful things can be, so he will do it so absolutely.

Stop the loss in time, he doesn't want Hua Zizhou to suffer for a lifetime because of him. Since there is no hope, then cut off all possibilities from the beginning, which is a good thing for both parties.

Hua Zizhou looked at Qu Qing, his heart aching like a tear, but the expression on his face became strangely quiet.

Qu Qing stopped talking and looked at him with scrutiny eyes, waiting for his response.

For a long time, the sun began to rise in the sky, and the dazzling light shone into his eyes.

Hua Zizhou finally spoke.

"Okay, I promise...I don't like you."

His voice was as dry as a sun-dried fish lying in the desert.