The little ancestor of the family

"Today, Auntie will make scallion pancakes for you."

"It smells so good. The cakes made by Auntie must be delicious."

Changan started to flatter again.

Fortunately, Ye Xinran has developed antibodies and will not get carried away by being praised.

"I just made an agreement with your second uncle. After dinner, we will go to the market together. Changan will go with us to see the doctor. Changsheng and Changping will stay at home. If they are hungry at noon, they can eat cakes."

"Okay aunt!"

After hearing that Ye Xinran had made clear arrangements for them, the three children all nodded in agreement.

After Ye Xinran had baked a dozen pancakes, fried a plate of shredded yam, and made a simple soup with cabbage, she called the children over for dinner.

Chang'an also ran to the front yard and pulled his second uncle over.

The scallion pancakes were steaming just out of the pan. Ye Xinran took a bite first, and then the children started to eat them.

"Hmm! So delicious! Auntie's cooking skills are really good!" Changan took a bite and couldn't stop praising her.

Seeing that his second uncle was sitting aside and hadn't started yet, he grabbed a cake from the plate and stuffed it into Xiao Huaian's hand: "Second uncle, come and have this, it's delicious."

This was the first time Xiao Huaian had eaten at the same table with someone other than his three children since he came to Yunbian Village, and he always felt a little awkward.

He took the cake handed to him by Chang'an and finished it in two or three bites.

Changan quickly asked: "How is it? Is it delicious?"

Xiao Huaian nodded: "Yeah, very easy to swallow!"

Upon hearing this, Changsheng Changping also picked up a piece of pancake for his second uncle.

Xiao Huaian silently finished three pancakes and drank a bowl of soup before putting down his chopsticks. The expression on his face seemed to have been melted a little by the warm food and was no longer so cold.

"I'm done! We'll go to the county town later, Chang'an, come find me after you finish eating."

After saying that, he was the first to leave the table.

The three children looked at their uncle's back and looked at Ye Xinran in unison: "Aunt, did you hear that? Uncle praised your cooking for being delicious!"

Ye Xinran: I'm not deaf, he clearly said it was easy to swallow. Can this be called praise?

"Your second uncle commented that the food was delicious and easy to swallow?" Ye Xinran looked at the three children with a puzzled look.

"no!"

Changsheng shook his head repeatedly, "Second Uncle never comments on the quality of food."

Changan immediately nodded in agreement after hearing what his elder brother said: "Yes, yes!"

Chang Ping saw the atmosphere was getting like this and said, "Second Uncle is never picky about food. He can eat even pig food, but he never says whether it tastes good or not."

As soon as these words came out, the other two brothers all looked at Changping and said, "Keep your voice down, don't let your second uncle hear it!"

Changping immediately covered his mouth with both hands and looked outside guiltily.

Changsheng concluded: "Anyway, Second Uncle doesn't care much about food. In the past, the porridge he cooked was so mushy that it tasted terrible, but Second Uncle could still eat it without changing his expression. We can only eat with him."

After listening to these descriptions, Ye Xinran roughly knew what kind of life the three children had lived in the past.

No wonder they were won over by simple food.

Ye Xinran immediately decided to make the food taste better next time.

"Today, Auntie is going to the city to buy meat and will come back to make something even more delicious for you."

"Great!" After hearing this, the three children began to guess what they would have for dinner.

After dinner, Ye Xinran went to her room to pack her small bag. When she came out, Xiao Huaian and Changan were already waiting for her at the door.

The three of them walked to the entrance of the village together and found that the oxcart that was supposed to be waiting there was not there.

"I asked around before, there should be an ox cart today?" Ye Xinran said to herself.

The village head happened to pass by and saw the three people and asked, "Are you going to the city by bus?"

"Yes!" Ye Xinran replied.

The head of the village waved his hand and said, "Don't wait any longer. We still have to go to the mountains to dig kudzu roots today. I just saw Niu Er and his family go there too. There are no ox carts today."

Ye Xinran then remembered that the Pueraria roots had not been completely dug out yesterday, and everyone wanted to look for the remaining ones today.

Xiao Huaian didn't say anything.

He was somewhat surprised at Ye Xinran's ability to adapt. In just a few days, she had become so familiar with the village head.

But Li Zheng's enthusiasm obviously goes far beyond that.

Seeing Ye Xinran's regretful expression, he took the initiative to say, "Do you have any urgent business in the county town? If you are in a hurry, I have a cart at home, and I can let Xiao Huaian take you two there."

"That's too troublesome!" Ye Xinran was also a little embarrassed.

"What's the problem? They are all our own things."

After the head of the village finished speaking, he led the three people to his home to get the cart.

The cart was very heavy, and its wooden wheels were as big as millstones, but there was plenty of room on the cart.

After putting Xiao Huaian's backpack in the car and taking in Ye Xinran and Chang'an, there was still a lot of space left in the car.

Looking at the body of the car made of solid wood, Ye Xinran was a little worried: "Isn't this thing too heavy? Can it be used for a round trip of more than ten miles?"

"Okay!" Xiao Huaian said concisely, lifted the handlebars and walked forward.

He walked quite fast, but his steps were so limping that it was hard to believe that he was really fine.

"Why not just forget it? We can go tomorrow when there's a bullock cart."

Ye Xinran advised.

"It doesn't matter. When I went to the mountains in the past, the roads I took were much more difficult than this. The prey will lose its value if it is left for one day. We must go to the city today."

Chang'an felt a little sad when he looked at his second uncle.

"Uncle, Chang'an doesn't want to take medicine anymore. Leave the money to your uncle to treat his leg."

Xiao Huaian turned his head and glanced at Changan: "When will it be your turn to decide whether to treat your illness or not?"

Chang'an lowered his head again and refused to speak. Ye Xinran patted his hands and prepared to get out of the car.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Huaian said, "You are so thin, not even as heavy as my prey, what effect will it have on you if you move up and down?"

Ye Xinran had no choice but to sit in the car.

While talking to Chang'an, he admired Xiao Huaian's back.

He has broad shoulders, a narrow waist, a perky butt, and long legs, a perfect body. His fingers holding the handlebars are slender, and when he goes uphill, blue veins appear on the back of his hands.

With such a good figure, what did he do before he was exiled? Was he also a hunter?

Ye Xinran suddenly became interested in this man's past.

It took Xiao Huaian almost an hour to walk the distance of seven or eight miles.

Arriving at the county town, he first went to a familiar shop to sell his hunted prey. Ye Xinran also happened to be selling something, so she made an appointment with Xiao Huaian: after finishing their business, they would meet at the Yongletang Clinic on the street.

In Ye Xinran's package were the clothes, hairpins and jade pendants that she got from the scholar yesterday.

You can pawn these things together at a pawn shop.

She walked along the main street, looked at the big red flag with the word "Quality" written on it at the door, and walked in.