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"Nothing?" Xu Yan shook his head.

After a few seconds, she turned her gaze to Xie Zhuo again and stared into his eyes, "Do you prefer a daughter or a son?"

Xie Zhuo was stunned.

Xu Yan looked at him.

"I," Xie Zhuo didn't know why the topic suddenly turned to him, but since Xu Yan asked, he still answered sincerely, "As long as they are children, I like them. But I can't say specifically, as long as they are born by you, I like boys and girls."

Xu Yan stared at him for a long time, but couldn't see anything in Xie Zhuo's eyes.

Well, Xie Zhuo can say that it’s okay not to have children, so gender is certainly not that important.

After Xie Zhuo finished his meal, he cleared the table and washed the dishes. Seeing Xu Yan still sitting there in a daze, he walked over, came up to her and picked her up.

Xu Yan almost didn't react and screamed.

"What are you doing?" Xu Yan pushed him on the shoulder.

"Let's go have a baby now," Xie Zhuo looked at her, "after the baby is born, I'll see whether I like a boy or a girl."

"...You're crazy," Xu Yan glared at him.

Xie Zhuo lowered his head and kissed the corner of her lips again, then laughed, "Other people's affairs have nothing to do with our family. No matter what time it is, you are my favorite. If you were my daughter..."

Before he could finish his words, Xu Yan covered his mouth with his hand, "You want to take advantage of everything, don't you?"

"No," Xie Zhuo's lips moved in her palm, "I love you."

Xu Yan: “…”

Xu Yan was really curious about what kind of people Xie Zhuo's parents were to raise a son like Xie Zhuo.

Sometimes, it’s no wonder that she suspected that Xie Zhuo had also traveled through time and space in the book.

In this day and age, there are almost no people who can keep these three words on their lips.

But Xie Zhuo could say it without blushing or getting out of breath.

When Xu Yan was a little distracted again, Xie Zhuo kissed her palm again and again until he carried her into the house and put her on the chair, then he let go.

The excitement at Song Guangming's house was the biggest excitement this year. Li Aihua talked to Xu Yan for a long time with a gossipy look on her face.

He also found out what Yan Yuhong's family's reaction was after they learned about this.

"I thought Yan Yuhong was so arrogant," Li Aihua said, "her parents were even more arrogant than her. They pointed at Song Guangming's nose and scolded him for a long time, and then her brother hired someone to beat up Song Zufeng."

"Ah?" Xu Yan was a little surprised.

"He is now lying in the same ward with Zhang Guiying," said Li Aihua.

"Then her brother was not arrested?" Xu Yan asked.

"No, her brother is very cunning," Li Aihua said, "He didn't do it. He hired a gangster from the city to beat him up. Before Song Zufeng could react, the man had already run away."

Xu Yan didn't know what he was thinking and didn't say anything.

Li Aihua sighed and continued, "Yan Yuhong is quite pitiful. She has been married for three or four years and had two children but lost them. She finally gave birth to this one, and it's a girl."

"Zhang Guiying often made up stories about her in front of others, and the fact that she wanted to have a child was true."

"I heard from my neighbor's aunt that she had been looking for someone the other day, hoping to exchange her girl for a boy from another family."

"Yan Yuhong must have heard it from somewhere, so she started making a scene when she got home, smashing everything in the house. She still couldn't get over it, so she started fighting with Zhang Guiying."

Song Guangming's family affairs were discussed by the team members for several days. When they started working again, Song Guangming still had a gloomy face.

Liang Qian, a member of the educated youth group, was lazy when weeding, so he sent her directly to apply fertilizer.

Nowadays, people in rural areas do not use much chemical fertilizers when growing crops. They all use organic fertilizers, which they need to scoop from a bucket with a long-handled ladle and then pour on the crops in the field.

Liang Qian's face turned green.

She wanted to quit her job, but she became discouraged when she thought about how they didn't go to work as a group last year and didn't get any food, and almost didn't survive the New Year.

He covered his nose and started applying fertilizer with a ladle.

Xie Zhuo was weeding.

Only when Xu Yan came over to bring him water and food did he stand up and slow down.

Seeing that the back of his neck was sunburned red, Xu Yan took out a wet towel from the basket with some heartache and asked him to put it on his neck for a while.

Xie Zhuo smiled and said, "It's okay."

"You're all sunburned," Xu Yan frowned. "I have to go to town later. I'll get you some ointment for sunburn from the commune hospital."

Xie Zhuo didn't know whether the hospital had this kind of ointment, but seeing that Xu Yan cared about him, he wanted to hug the person in front of him.

When Song Guangming looked at him again, he took off the towel from his neck, wiped his hands, and said, "Go back and dry them in the fields."

After Xu Yan left, Tian Fang looked towards Xie Zhuo again.

After a long while, Tian Fang couldn't help it anymore. She mustered up her courage, took a few quick steps forward, then squatted down at the same level as Xie Zhuo and started weeding.

She was quite lucky today, as the land allocated by Song Guangming happened to be right next to Xie Zhuo.

But Xie Zhuo was very fast, and before she had stayed by his side for ten minutes, a large gap had already opened up between the two of them.

"Thank you, thank you Third Brother," Tian Fang called out to Xie Zhuo in a low voice.

Xie Zhuo was planning to finish his work early and then go to the city to buy some meat.

He always felt that Xu Yan seemed to have lost some weight recently, and the two boys had grown taller. Their faces didn't look as round and plump as before, and they were hard to pinch. He had to buy some meat to replenish their fat.

Just as he finished thinking about it, he heard someone calling him.

Xie Zhuo turned his head.

Tian Fang often looked at Xie Zhuo, but it was rare for her to look at him face to face at such a close distance, and her face turned red all of a sudden.

But because the sun has been quite strong recently and she was not wearing a straw hat and was exposed to the sun for a long time, her skin became dark, and you couldn't tell unless you looked closely.

When Xie Zhuo was called, he turned around instinctively. After glancing at the person who called him, he casually said "hmm" and turned back to continue weeding.

Tian Fang stared at his profile for a while.

Then he said, "Third Brother Xie, did you marry Xiao Xu Zhiqing... for her money?"

Xie Zhuo: “?”

Where did this idiot come from?

He cursed in his heart, then looked at Tian Fang with a frown.

Tian Fang was also surprised. She, she didn't want to say this originally, but somehow she blurted out what was in her heart.

"No, that's not what I meant." Tian Fang met Xie Zhuo's gaze and began to stutter with excitement. "I, I mean, girls in the city are not very good at taking care of people, nor can they do farm work. Why did you marry her?"

Xie Zhuo said nothing.

"You also know what happened in the captain's family some time ago. Song Zufeng and Aunt Zhang are still lying in the hospital," Tian Fang said in her heart, and she became much braver.

"Girls in the city are all spoiled."

"Xiao Xu Zhiqing's parents are not easy to mess with. You, I mean, she dresses up all day and stays at home, leaving you to support the whole family by yourself, and she doesn't help at all."

"We've been married for such a long time, but she's still not pregnant. My mom said, she said..."

Tian Fang couldn't continue her words because Xie Zhuo's face had become so dark that it was a little scary.

Her lips trembled. "I, I just can't bear to watch it..."

"none of your business!"

Xie Zhuo's voice was not controlled, and his expression was very tense, with anger and a little malice, "Hearing what you said, I don't know. I have to think about which cemetery you crawled out of, and where are your relatives in the Xie family."

"But judging from your appearance, you can't possibly have any connection with our Xie family," Xie Zhuo said coldly, "even a needle and awl may not be able to pierce your thick skin."

The people around looked over here.

Tian Fang's face turned pale.

In her heart, she begged Xie Zhuo to stop talking, but Xie Zhuo couldn't read her mind, and even if he could, he wouldn't try to find out what she was thinking.

Xie Zhuo stood up, the anger still on his face, his voice even higher than before, "I said a long time ago that my wife married me to enjoy life. With me around, she will never have to do dirty and tiring work, and she doesn't need some inexplicable people gossiping about her behind her back!"

"I don't fight with women, but if I hear it again, I won't be so good-tempered."

Xu Yan had given Tian Fang some face because she was still unmarried, and had not said anything outrageous in front of others.

Xie Zhuo couldn't bear it.

When he said this, while others were still figuring it out, Li Aihua was the first to react.

He immediately spat at Tian Fang.

"You shameless bastard, why did you suddenly run to the front? Are you trying to seduce a married woman with your butt sticking out?"

"Don't you care about your face anymore?"

"Why don't you just piss yourself in the mirror?" Li Aihua scolded unpleasantly, "You look like this, you're not even as good as a hair of Xu Yan!"

Tian Fang staggered to her feet, and before Li Aihua could utter another curse, her tears fell a few times, and she suddenly turned and ran away.

Mrs. Tian was far away from here, and only when she heard the reminder from people around her did she realize that Tian Fang had run away.

She gritted her teeth, cursed a few words, and ran after him.

When Song Guangming walked up to Xie Zhuo, Xie Zhuo's expression was not pretty.

Seeing that he was concentrating on his work and didn't seem to want to talk, Song Guangming stood there for a while and then left.

Several people around were still asking why Xie Zhuo suddenly lost his temper just now. Li Aihua glanced at Xie Zhuo and didn't say anything else.

When Xu Yan found out about this, it was already afternoon when work in the fields was over.

Li Aihua talked to her for a few words and went home, asking her to ask Xie Zhuo for details.

Xu Yan was waiting for Xie Zhuo to come back, but when Xie Zhuo came back, the two kids also came back, so there was no good opportunity to ask.

When they were lying on the kang at night, Xu Yan pinched Xie Zhuo's chin and said, "What's wrong? I haven't seen you smile all night."