The wood mage and the native brother

Ji Liao sighed, although he had some complaints about the family's doing this, but he couldn't say much about the elders.

But these are not important, Li frowned and said,

"I just saw Brother Deng's brother and sister talking and laughing with a man who seemed to be from a foreign land, and the man even gave something to Brother Deng."

what? !

Ji Liao frowned,

"really?"

Li scolded him,

"What did I lie to you for?"

Ji Liao frowned even tighter, and walked a few steps in the courtyard with his hands behind his back.

Their Ji family ancestors have been from Xiaohe Village for generations, and even Ji Liao himself only heard of foreign lands a few years ago when Da'an defeated Beidi, and they definitely never met each other. Brother Deng is a little brother, how could it be possible? Have a connection with someone from another land? !

Ji Liao asked,

"Is he really a foreigner?"

Lee is sure,

"Yes, with green eyes and hair, they must be from a foreign land."

"That's weird."

Ji Liao muttered to himself and paced, puzzled.After walking a few steps, suddenly stopped,

"The man gave something to Brother Deng? What? Did Brother Deng take it?"

Mrs. Li hesitated for a while, but said,

"I don't know what, but I took it, and it seems... very happy."

When Ji Liao heard it, he clapped his hands together, hating that iron cannot be made into steel,

"Brother Deng is confused! A person who is about to get married, how can he talk and laugh with other men on the street, so that his future husband will know what to do? What's more, he is a foreigner!"

Mrs. Li nodded in agreement when she heard the previous one, and raised her eyebrows when she heard the last sentence.

"What's wrong with the foreign people? Our Da'an is now friendly with Beidi Xirong. We are lucky that there will be no more wars for decades. More and more foreign people come to our Da'an to study and worship. The court doesn't say anything. You should be anxious first. .”

Ji Liao was embarrassed by what his husband said, and quickly changed the subject.

"Then tell me, what should I do about Brother Deng?"

Mrs. Li is also worried, as cousins, it's not easy for them to intervene in this matter, but...

Li sighed,

"After all, you can't spread gossip, but if you let the family know, I'm afraid Brother Deng will..."

The husband and wife looked at each other and sighed.After a while, Ji Liao made a decision,

"When I rest in two days, I will go back to the village to see the situation, and then make plans when I come back."

.........

Ji Deng was detained at home because of the wedding, but Mrs. Fang didn't let Ji Deng stay in the room. Sister Xie and Brother Yan were sent to mow the grass, and Ji Deng took over the house to chop firewood and sweep the floor. work.

Old Madam Fang was sitting in the main room, holding a bowl of hot water to drink slowly, and staring harshly at Ji Deng who was busy in the courtyard.

Mrs. Fang made the lunch as usual, and Mrs. Xu also hid in the house wearing an embroidered handkerchief as usual to earn traveling expenses for Ji Hai and did not come out.

Mrs. Fang was sweating profusely in and out of the fire room. Looking at the leisurely old lady Fang and the big room with the closed door, she couldn't help but gritted her teeth. Think of Ji Huan who is studying in the county. , I still held back my anger.

Ji Xiaomei is too young to do these tasks, and afraid of getting in the way of Mrs. Fang's eyes in the yard, Ji Deng asked Ji Xiaomei to stay in the room and play with the grass rabbit that Fei Nuo had made for her earlier.

Although these days withered and wilted a lot, Ji Xiaomei still couldn't put it down.

"Mom, dinner is ready."

Fang leaned out from the fire room and called out.

Granny Fang got up slowly.

Hearing this, Ji Deng hurried back to the house and took Ji Xiaomei out, then counted the bowls and chopsticks from the cupboard to help Fang bring out the meal.

The old lady Fang who was sitting at the top looked at her and snorted coldly.

"Just like your servant, father, who died early, he is a selfish thing, and he can't get on the stage."

Ji Deng tightened his hand holding the chopsticks, a trace of anger slipped across his drooping eyebrows, but he finally bit his lips and remained silent.

At the threshold of leaving Ji's house, try not to cause trouble.Otherwise, what would happen after so many years of forbearance and defeat overnight.

Mrs. Xu pushed the door and came out. Hearing Mrs. Fang's words, she smiled and said,

"But Mrs. Qi is a considerate person, isn't it just right to serve dad and you comfortably?"

Mrs. Fang snorted coldly,

"Don't be mad at me. I'm lucky. The big ones left and the small ones came to anger me again. They're all heartless white-eyed wolves. Why don't you go with your dad and dad sooner, so you can save yourself here." Eat mine, live mine, and make me angry!"

Although Ji Xiaomei is small, she can vaguely understand what the two of them mean. Her small head hangs down to her chest, and after a while, tears the size of beans roll down.

Ji Deng encircled Ji Xiaomei's shoulders, stood together silently, tried his best to suppress the redness of the eye sockets, but the fist hidden behind his back could not help but quietly clenched tightly.

When Mrs. Fang came out with a pot of porridge, she saw Mrs. Fang and Mrs. Xu sitting aside, brother and sister Deng stood by and lowered their heads. They immediately understood what had just happened and sighed inwardly. breath,

"Mother, eat quickly, I'll call the third father and son back."

Granny Fang stretched out her chopsticks and responded.

When the family eats, the brothers and sisters of Ji Deng will always sit in the corners.Everyone moved their chopsticks, but Ji Deng and Ji Xiaomei were just chewing on a dumpling.Ji Jiang wanted to give them a steamed bun, but he gave up under Fang's gaze.

It would have been better if Ji Huan was around, but if Ji Huan wasn't around, even if Brother Deng was given steamed buns, the two brothers and sisters couldn't keep it.

Lunch at Ji's family was a depressing silence, only the sound of bowls and chopsticks colliding.A gust of wind blew, and the tall trees in the yard rattled, and a thin vine wrapped around the trunk gradually slid down the branches with the wind, quietly got out of the yard, and hung on the grass beside the dirt road.

Lizheng in Xiaohe Village is over forty this year. He usually mediates between the parents and the west, acts as a witness, and helps with some formalities.

The Lizheng family had a lot of offspring, especially males, and there was still a lot left over from the crops in the fields, so although it wasn't a word of wealth, it was more than enough to live on.

During the day, all the men in the family have gone to the field, and the women and brothers will clean up the house inside and out.Li was sitting in the main room with a cup in his hand, looking after the grandchildren who were running and dancing, and was very happy.

Just sitting there, I heard a few knocks on the courtyard door, and a male voice sounded,

"I'm here to visit Li Zheng."

Li Zheng just pretended that it was someone who invited him over because of trivial matters, and replied lazily,

"I'm in the house, come in."

Hearing the sound, a man with a strange appearance came in from the entrance of the main room.

Lizheng was startled immediately, and he took a closer look, and saw that this man had a high nose and deep eyes, not at all like Daan's gentle brows and eyes, and his eyeballs were green like fruit. When he looked carefully under the sun, even his hair color seemed to be the same. Faintly glowing cyan.

Li Zheng was startled, could this be a fox demon that came out of nowhere?

Mrs. Lizheng, who had checked her daughter-in-law's work, happened to come out and ran into this man, and exclaimed "Hi!"

"This this this..."

The man spoke in fluent Da'an dialect,

"My name is Fino, and I'm here to ask you to do something."

After Li Zheng was taken aback, he first let the eldest grandson take the younger grandchildren down, and then he sat on the chair and slowly regained his senses. After all, the sky is bright and bright, so how dare he come down the mountain even if there are evildoers.Settle your mind and hear the words,

"Okay, okay, what are you going to do?"

Fei Nuo handed the things in his hands to Mrs. Lizheng, gentle and polite,

"This is my visiting gift, please accept it."

Mrs. Lizheng stared blankly at Fei Nuo stuffing the thing into her hand, but she was distracted by the weight of the hand in an instant. Mrs. Lizheng looked down and clicked her tongue.

Good guy!A string of five catties of good five flowers, a bag of seasonal fruits, and a palm-sized oiled paper bag. Just smelling it, you can smell a sweet smell, as long as it is a freshly baked pastry and shortbread.

What a great handwriting!

Mrs. Lizheng was talking nonsense, even if their family was richer than the people in the village, they still couldn't come up with so many gifts at once.

After taking so many good things from people, Mrs. Lizheng immediately put the fear in her mind behind her, and she squeezed the hand holding the rope tightly with a smile, but said politely,

"Come on, come on, what are you doing with all these things, sit down first, I'll pour tea for you, sit down and chat with your uncle slowly."

As he said that, he happily carried his things and went to the fire room again, before leaving, he gave his man a wink without any trace.

Li Zheng, who received the wink, naturally understood, but he was not a woman who could only see money, and he still felt a little apprehensive looking at this strange-looking man.Fortunately, I still remember my identity as Lizheng, so I held back the Tao,

"Sit down, what do you need to find me? From the looks of it, you don't seem to be a villager from our Xiaohe Village."

Fei Nuo did not take his seat, but cupped his hands in a humble and polite manner,

"My name is Fei Nuo. I came to Xiaohe Village to find relatives."

Looking for relatives?

Li was frowning and thinking about it carefully, and he didn't think there was any family in the village with such a strange head.

Fino said again,

"I was lonely and wandering since I was a child. I was in danger one day and was rescued by Aunt Qi, but Aunt Qi died of a serious illness...Aunt Qi was young and widowed, and there was no relative at her husband's side, but Aunt Qi had a younger brother on her side. Before my aunt passed away, I was most worried and asked me to find it. I asked someone, and I heard that she was married here, so I want to ask you to find it for me."

Rizheng wiped his face,

"Do you know who's name is?"

Fino's face darkened, and he smiled wryly,

"The surname is Qi, as for the name... I don't know, but Aunt Qi mentioned that she was a slave in the family, and then she lost contact with her until today. I came back and asked many times. I heard that I came here, so I came to look for her You look for it."

Li Zheng suddenly had a bitter face, this person came to look for relatives, but no one even knew his name, how could he find them.If it were an ordinary person, he would still be able to see if his eyebrows and eyes looked the same. This guy looks so weird.

But the mother-in-law has already taken so many things from others, and in this matter, she has to take it if she doesn't want to.

After thinking hard for a long time, Lizheng didn't feel that any family in the village seemed to be related to this man surnamed Fei.

His surname is Qi...he is a brother who also worked as a slave...

Why is it so familiar...

Li was frowning and thinking hard, one family after another ruled out the past.When thinking of Ji's house, he suddenly felt blessed, and Lizheng slapped his thigh,

"Have it!"