Nanshanxia

"Ah Yan, is that person Zhu Youcai?" Yuan Xiao looked at Zhu Youcai who was standing not far away on the street helping sister Liu sell coarse cloth, afraid that he might have misidentified him, so he took another look to make sure.

Zhu Yan followed Yuan Xiao's line of sight and looked over. In the cold wind, Zhu Youcai was only wearing a single shirt, making him look even thinner. His figure, which was much thinner than before, shivered in the cold wind. If he hadn't had a deep memory of Zhu Youcai , he certainly wouldn't immediately recognize Zhu Youcai as the man with a withered face, dark circles under his eyes and a timid expression.

Zhu Yan looked at it for a long time and then responded, "That's right, it's him, why does he look like that now?"

"It must be because of Sister Liu." Yuan Xiao held Zhu Yan's hand, looked at Sister Liu who had just sold out the rough cloth not far away, and kept pointing at Zhu Youcai's nose and scolding, and continued to say to Zhu Yan: "With Sister Liu's Temperament definitely cannot tolerate Zhu Youcai, but Zhu Youcai is now Yuan Laoliu's only son, she has no choice but to accept Zhu Youcai, so she can only stay by her side and slowly cause harm."

"If I were him, I might as well leave by myself." Zhu Yan shuddered, and took Yuan Xiao's hand to leave, but found that Yuan Xiao was not moving at all. Looking at Yuan Xiao's gaze, he saw a middle-aged woman leading a boy with curly hair who was about the same age as Zhu Youcai, standing in front of sister Liu's booth, talking and laughing, and at the same time looking at Zhu Youcai who had bowed his head and said nothing. Cynicism.

From the expression of the mother and son gloating at Zhu Youcai and Yuan Xiao's expression, Zhu Yan vaguely sensed that the middle-aged woman and the boy with curly hair should be Yuan Xiao's mother and younger brother. Zhu Yan reached out and patted Yuan Xiao's cheek lightly. shoulder, reminded softly: "Yuan Xiao, it's still cold today, don't stand outside, let's go home."

"Yeah!" Yuan Xiao regained his composure, he held Zhu Yan's hand back, stopped looking at those people in the distance, and walked home with Zhu Yan, Yuan Xiao saw that Zhu Yan didn't ask himself just now He pursed his lips and confessed to Zhu Yan: "Ah Yan, in fact, the mother and child just now are Zhou Caifeng who gave birth to me and my younger brother Yuan Jiaxing who was born when I was young."

"Yuan Xiao..." Zhu Yan's voice tightened and he didn't know how to continue. Hearing Yuan Xiao's confession, he was both happy and distressed. He was happy because Yuan Xiao knew what was in his heart.What is distressing is that regarding Yuan Xiao's past, he couldn't turn back time, let himself go back to Yuan Xiao's side, and endure all the pain instead of Yuan Xiao. After thinking about it, he stopped and said: "Yuan Xiao, if you feel uncomfortable, don't said."

"It's not uncomfortable anymore, because now I have you, the unborn baby, and grandma, and everything about the old Yuan's family has nothing to do with me." Yuan Xiao smiled and continued to talk about his past, That irrelevant attitude seems to be telling a story about a stranger, "My father doesn't like my brother. He thinks that my brother is not as strong as a man, nor as handsome as a woman. If he can't work well, he has to be with him when he grows up." A man lives a life, so he beat and scolded Zhou Caifeng after I was born. Zhou Caifeng is also a selfish woman. Once she suffers from my father, she will always come to me to vent her anger. Thinking about what I did wrong, until later I realized that I was not wrong at all, it was them."

Zhu Yan walked beside Yuan Xiao, staring down at Yuan Xiao's handsome side face, feeling a pain in his heart, after he calmed down his emotions, he took Yuan Xiao's hand and said softly: "Yuan Xiao, you are right, You are not wrong, so you have to live well in the future, and don't punish yourself with their mistakes."

"Well, I know it all." Yuan Xiao didn't cling to the pain as he used to. His eyes were full of softness, and he walked forward hand in hand with Zhu Yan, saying at the same time, "After our baby is born, we will Give them the best, and feed them a lot of good food."

Zhu Yan likes Yuan Xiao like this. He stopped and grabbed Yuan Xiao. When Yuan Xiao was about to ask, he lowered his head and kissed Yuan Xiao's lips. He didn't care about the opinions of passersby around him. He continued to kiss Yuan Xiao. , until he found that Yuan Xiao's ears were red, he stopped kissing, and whispered in Yuan Xiao's ear: "Not only for them, but also for you."

"Hey, um!" Yuan Xiao raised his head and gave Zhu Yan a big smile.

**

When Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao returned home, they happened to see the Zhang brothers whom they hadn't seen for a long time sitting in their shop.

The Zhang family brothers were chatting with the old lady Zhu about the trivial matters of life. When they saw Zhu Yan, they immediately greeted Zhu Yan with a smile, "I wish the boss a happy new year!"

"Boss Zhang, you are also auspicious!" After Zhu Yan said with a smile, he led Yuan Xiao to sit opposite the Zhang family brothers. And Qian Zhang, and from the gift box placed on the table, Zhu Yan knew that they should come here for other things. As for what it was, Zhu Yan still couldn't figure it out, so he asked: "I don't know. Why are the two big brothers coming to our town?"

Zhang Dafu knew Zhu Yan's straightforward temperament, he and his brother looked at each other, smiled and said directly: "The restaurant opened by our brothers has made a lot of money since the restaurant opened by the boss has Zhu Yan's yuba and Qianzhang. Our two brothers last night After some research, I plan to buy ten catties of bean curd sticks and a thousand sheets every day from now on, I wonder if Boss Zhu agrees."

There is no reason for Zhu Yan to refuse this good thing of giving money. He looked at the old lady Zhu and Yuan Xiao, and when he saw them nodding, he agreed heartily: "This is naturally possible. Let's void the previous contract and re-apply directly." Make a copy."

After hearing this, the Zhang family brothers immediately drew up a new contract with Zhu Yan, talked a lot about the family affairs with Zhu Yan's family, and saw that it was getting late before preparing to leave. Zhu Yan saw the gift box left by the Zhang family brothers on the table, Then when the Zhang family brothers left, he stopped them both, and he took the gift box handed over by his grandma, and said with a smile: "Two brothers, stay here, as the saying goes, come and don't be indecent, in this box It's wild game from the mountains in our village, I hope the brothers will accept it."

The purpose of giving gifts to each other during the Chinese New Year was to make them happy and auspicious. Naturally, the Zhang family brothers had no reason to refuse. The two of them took the gift box and left Lao Zhu's house with a smile.

After seeing off the Zhang family brothers, the old lady Zhu walked up to Zhu Yan with the abacus, and said to Zhu Yan, "Weimeixuan and other restaurants in the town came to see us on the third day of junior high school. The family ordered Yuzhu and Qianzhang, and now the old Zhang’s in the next town is here, and I think other restaurants in the next town may also come, so I’m afraid our beans will not be enough.”

The words of the old lady Zhu reached Zhu Yan's heart, and Zhu Yan let out a long breath, his tone mixed with worry, "Grandma is right, we are afraid that we will continue to collect beans again, and I think our family's There doesn't seem to be enough land to plant."

"Well, do we want to buy land?" The old lady Zhu thought for a while, and then sighed, "All these peasants regard their land as their lifeline, how many are willing to sell?"

Zhu Yan knew the old lady Zhu's worries, so he also began to think hard, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he said to the old lady Zhu suddenly: "Grandma, we can buy the land of Zhu's second family."

"Zhu Laoer's land?" The old lady Zhu repeated in doubt, then thought for a while, and suddenly realized like Zhu Yan: "That's okay, Zhu Laoer and Li Lanhua have already been banned because of banned drugs. Allotted to the imperial capital, his house and land will be confiscated, we just need to find the government to buy it!"

"Hmm! And Zhu Yan's family's land is far away from all over the country, and no one is willing to spend money to buy it. Let's go buy it and the government will definitely be willing to sell it!" After Zhu Yan finished speaking, he began to prepare the money for buying the land.

The government's land sale is much more formal than that of ordinary people, and there are many procedures to go through at the same time. Zhu Yan and his family ran back and forth for three days before completing the procedures.

After finishing the work on the land, the family began to get busy collecting beans again. On this day, Zhu Yan led Yuan Xiao and Zhu Boss and his son to Jinsha Village, and collected the beans again.

Everything is cooked once and cooked twice. With the experience of last time, Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao are very handy in putting away beans, and the folks in the village, under the leadership of Ning Lizheng, sell all the beans that are full and fresh. The round and good beans really helped Lao Zhu's family a lot.

"Zhu Yan, what do you think of these beans?" Ning Lizheng brought another bag of beans to Zhu Yan, and imitating Zhu Yan's appearance, he put his hand into the bag of beans and turned them upside down. The beans were plump and round before they were placed in front of Zhu Yan. Seeing that Zhu Yan had received them, he said to Zhu Yan: "The beans in our village are almost sold out. The Yuanjia Village next door asked me to ask. I can't sell you beans."

Zhu Yan raised his eyes and looked at the villagers of Yuanjia Village who were standing in the cold wind not far away, each carrying beans, he said to Ning Lizheng with a slightly embarrassed expression: "Uncle Lizheng, we don't care about it, you wait for us and your husband Lang discuss it and call you back."

Ning Li followed Zhu Yan's line of sight, glanced at Yuan Xiao who was weighing the villagers, and said with a face that I understood, "Success, go and ask."

Zhu Yan smiled at Ning Lizheng, walked to Yuan Xiao, told the story again, and finally asked: "I will listen to you about Yuan Xiao. I won’t collect the beans, and we can go to other villages to collect them.”

Yuan Xiao was very moved by Zhu Yan's thoughtfulness, he looked up at the villagers of Yuanjia Village not far away, and whispered to Zhu Yan: "There are no relatives of my family there, so you can accept it, Ah Yan, it's going to be dark soon Alright, let's take this one last time."

"Success!" Zhu Yan nodded, and he and Ning Lizheng continued to collect the beans from the villagers of Yuanjia Village, but Zhou Mei'e was recruited because the beans were collected.

The weather just after the new year was still so cold that people were shivering, but Zhou Mei'e took the lead in wearing single clothes when everyone was wearing jackets. When he came, he twisted quite frequently, and he stared straight at the man who came to deliver the beans.

Of course, this does not include the men of the old Zhu's family. The boss Zhu did not have a good impression of Zhou Mei'e because of the previous incident, and Zhu Yan only had Yuan Xiao in his eyes. Beans on donkey cart.

This week, Mei'e took a lot of effort to gracefully carry the beans to the old Zhu's donkey cart. She looked at Zhu Tie Dan pitifully, and saw that Wang Tian'er, who was holding Zhu Tie Dan's hands in her sleeves, was motionless. Looking at Zhu Yan in a tone, she had no choice but to cough lightly when no one was paying attention, "Well, our family heard that you were collecting beans, so we brought the best beans in the house. Look at all of them. Big, plump, good beans."

Yuan Xiao took the lead in refusing when the family members were silent: "We don't accept beans from the old Yuan's family and the old Zhou's family."

"This..." Zhou Mei'e coughed a few times pretending to be weak, "Yuan Xiao, why are you so careless about affection? How can mother and son have an overnight feud? You don't know how hard our aunt is when our uncle is sick. We I don’t ask you to take money to subsidize your family, but you should at least go back and have a look.”

These words pointed all the blame at Yuan Xiao. Anyone who heard these words would think that Yuan Xiao was unfilial and didn't know how to repay his parents. Make a fool of yourself in front of Zhu Yan.

It's just that Zhou Mei'e thought all of this beautifully, Yuan Xiao smiled indifferently, and then retorted: "I was going to be sold to Hualiu Street by them at the beginning, and what did they do to me back then, selling beans on the spot? The folks in Yuanjia Village should be clear about it, they didn't pay attention to affection at that time, why should I pay attention to affection at this time?"

"My husband is right. The eyes of these people are discerning. Everyone can see what life my Yuan Xiao lived in the past. It's their old Yuan's family who don't pay attention to it. Why should we pay attention to it at this time?" Zhu Yan helped Yuan Xiao talk at the right time, and just took this opportunity to seal the old Yuan's family's future opportunities.

The villagers of Yuanjia Village who were present at the scene now accepted Zhu Yan's bean money, and it was impossible for them to speak nonsense without conscience, and everyone in the village knew that the old Yuan's family had always abused Yuan Xiao. What Zhou Mei'e said this week The words really don't hold water.

Some well-meaning folks scolded Zhou Mei'e, "Daughter of the Zhou family, what's the matter, you can't catch it and say it. Our village knows what the old Yuan's family did before. You say that, Yuan Xiao is not authentic. .”

"That's right, there's no such thing as a cousin. I think you're just a shame."

Zhou Mei'e, who has always had a good image in the village, was scolded by everyone for this matter, and she was out of breath for a while, and left crying.

Seeing this, Zhu Yan thanked the villagers, and took Yuan Xiao and his family to the house. It was a bit cold in the winter evening, and the boss offered to help drive the car. Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao leaned together to watch the sinking gradually. It's just that the sunset didn't last long, they heard a group of women's playfulness, followed the sound, and found that the owner of this harmonious sound was a group of women who had just returned from selling cloth in the town, and a hand A middle-aged man with a face full of wine gourds.

Zhu Yan had no impression of the prodigal man who kept pestering women, so he said casually, "Uncle, is that man from our village? Why don't I know him?"

"That man's name is Li Dashan. He left our village when you were young. He told others to look for a wife. He has been looking for a wife for so many years, but I haven't seen him looking for it." Boss Zhu looked not far away and was still surrounded there Li Dashan behind the group of women sneered and didn't speak any more.

On the other end, Yuan Xiao also laughed.