The next day, when Xu Yan got up, there was no one on the kang.

If she hadn't vaguely felt that Xie Zhuo had also gotten on the kang before she fell asleep, she would have suspected that he hadn't slept all night.

It is hot in the summer, and although the temperature is lower at night, it is still hot, so when people sleep, they basically just cover themselves with a sheet or cloth or something.

The bed sheet that Xie Zhuo had covered himself with was folded neatly by him and placed at the bottom of the kang.

Xu Yan sat up and stared at it for a while before getting off the kang, putting on his shoes and washing up.

As soon as I walked into the yard, I heard some noise coming from the kitchen.

No need to guess, you know it’s Xie Zhuo.

It's really a stroke of luck.

Xu Yan sighed in her heart, then scooped up some water to wash her face. After a night, she had already digested most of what happened last night.

Even when Xie Zhuo asked her to have breakfast, she smiled at Xie Zhuo with a normal expression, "Thank you for your hard work."

Xie Zhuo glanced at her, then turned around and went out to call Dabao and Xiaobao to get up and eat.

Breakfast was simple.

Each person had a boiled egg, a soft, sweet and fragrant sweet potato, a bowl of multi-grain porridge, and some pickled vegetables that Xie Zhuo had pickled himself.

Xu Yan ate a lot.

Dabao and Xiaobao usually just eat with their uncle. Occasionally, when their uncle gets up late, either it's just the two of them eating, or they simply don't have breakfast. They'll just eat some biscuits or peach cakes.

One time when they were playing with Heiya, they couldn't help but tell her.

When other people found out, they laughed at them and said they must have been eating them in a dream, because how could there be so many peach cakes in someone's kitchen.

It is even more impossible to eat sugar whenever you want!

After hearing this, Dabao refuted it and said, "You can't eat it whenever you want. Uncle San said that you can only eat one a day, and you have to brush your teeth after eating it."

After he said this, the other children laughed even harder.

"You can't even make up a lie," said Wu Yuzhen's chubby son. "Why would you brush your teeth after finally eating candy? Wouldn't brushing your teeth just wash away the sweet taste in your mouth?"

Hearing him say this, the other children also shouted.

"That's right, only fools brush their teeth!"

"Besides, my mom said that brushing your teeth will make your mouth bleed. Only those who want to suffer would brush their teeth every day!"

There were so many of them and they were talking so much that Dabao and Xiaobao couldn't win the argument and they didn't bother to argue with them.

Although the two children are not mysophobic, they are still very careful about hygiene as they have been taken care of by their uncle for such a long time.

I have to wash my feet every day before going to bed. After playing in the dirt outside, I have to wash my hair and change into clean clothes when I get home.

Uncle San would also remind them to put a clean handkerchief in their pockets and use it to wipe their runny noses instead of just using their sleeves.

Song Jiabao and Zhang Gousheng often wipe their noses with their sleeves.

Both sleeves were rubbed black by them.

They don't play with Dabao and Xiaobao, and Dabao and Xiaobao also hate playing with them.

This was the first time that four of us had breakfast together, chatting and laughing.

Third Aunt was laughing the whole time. Although Third Uncle didn't laugh, he obviously liked to see Third Aunt laugh and had secretly looked at her many times.

"Hurry up and eat. What are you thinking about at such a young age?"

Xu Yan swallowed the food in his mouth and reached out to pinch Xie Dabao's face.

Dabao didn't answer her question, but smiled with eyes curved, "I like Third Aunt."

Xu Yan suddenly laughed.

Ever since she first came to Xie Zhuo's house, these two little guys have shown her endless kindness.

She had thought about what to do if Xie Zhuo’s two nephews didn’t like her after marriage, but she didn’t expect that she was worrying too much.

Three of the four people were eating, talking and laughing the whole time. Only Xie Zhuo barely spoke a word from beginning to end and quickly finished his portion.

Then I heard the sound of the captain breaking a porcelain basin outside.

"Are you going to work in the fields this morning?" Xu Yan turned and looked at Xie Zhuo.

"Yeah," Xie Zhuo nodded and stood up to go into the house to change clothes.

Xu Yan had never seen people of this era being so particular.

One set of clothes at home, another set of clothes when going to the field.

If she hadn't known in detail that Xie Zhuo's family was not landlords in the past, and were even poor peasants, she would have doubted which family this young master was raised in.

When he came out changed into even more worn clothes, Xu Yan glanced in his direction.

Then he looked up at the sky again.

The sky is clear and cloudless.

It's another tanning day.

"Do we have to go?" Xu Yan walked over, took down the straw hat hanging on the wall and handed it to him, then lowered his voice a little, "We don't lack those work points, do we?"

Not to mention other things, that ginseng alone sold for tens of thousands.

With the current prices, they can stay on the kang for several years just by eating every day.

Xie Zhuo stared at the straw hat in Xu Yan's hand, reached out to take it, and suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Xu Yan said with a sigh.

Xie Zhuo didn't expect Xu Yan to say this, and he felt a little bit overwhelmed.

Flattered?

Not so exaggerated.

At least a part of my heart was touched, as if a small ant was crawling across it.

A little itchy.

If Xu Yan knew that Xie Zhuo was so moved by just these words, he would have to complain.

Love brain!

Pure love brain!

It’s a disease and it needs to be cured!

"No," Xie Zhuo suppressed his smile and shook his head slightly, "I still have to go, otherwise the captain will definitely run home eight times a day."

Xu Yan thought about it and realized it was true.

After Xie Zhuo went out, he was surrounded by several people and kept making noises.

"Get lost," Liu Mancang pulled the young man who was squeezed next to Xie Zhuo away, "You are such a person, and you still want to marry someone like my third sister-in-law? Wait for the next life!"

The young man was still a little dissatisfied.

"If you have the guts, you can also take out 600 yuan and buy a bicycle," Liu Mancang glanced at him, "As long as you can really take it out, I'll even call you grandpa!"

I’m afraid I can’t call him grandpa anymore.

After all, no one has the wealth of Xie Zhuo's family.

The captain walked forward, banging the basin all the way, while Xie Zhuo looked lazy as usual, hanging at the back of the crowd.

Occasionally, when Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng were talking, he would say a few words. The rest of the time, he would lower the brim of his straw hat, keep silent, and walk along.

He was the same as always, but everyone else was different.

Several young girls and sisters-in-law walking in front were talking about something, and from time to time they turned their heads to look at the tall figure standing in the crowd.

"I really feel that Xie Laosan seems to have changed," said a sister-in-law.

"Hey, now that you mention it, I think I've discovered something as well," the other one continued, "It looks a little better than before."

A man walking beside them couldn't stand it anymore and muttered, "What's the point of changing? It's still the same. There are two more patches on the clothes. She's so rich, but she gave it all to her ancestors. Now she dresses like a beggar."

"You know nothing," Li Aihua came over at some point and just happened to hear him, "This is called loving your wife."

"That's right," a sister-in-law who was close to Li Aihua echoed, "He's a good man. Unlike you, you eat all the meals at home by yourself. Yang Ying has become so thin!"

After saying that, he glanced at the woman who was carrying a large backpack.

The man was questioned repeatedly by the two women with the loudest voices in the village. He stopped talking immediately and hid behind someone.

"Hey, Sister Aihua," the woman who said Xie Zhuo had changed before walked a few steps towards Li Aihua, "Have you noticed that Third Xie seems to have become a little better looking?"

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