Otherworldly Days

Standing at the gate of the courtyard far away, Qi Wanfeng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Fulang come back. He was still holding the child in his hand. The child was clinging to him now, and refused to let go for a moment. with.

Fortunately, after sleeping and waking up, the child's fever has subsided, and he is not in good spirits now.

Cao Xiangnan walked over and reached out to touch the child. Now the child doesn't even want him, so he clings to his mother.

Seeing Qi Wanfeng with a worried face, he forced a smile on his face and said, "It's nothing, don't worry, they won't come to us again in the future. If they come again, don't open the door to let them go in, you know?"

"En." Although Qi Wanfeng didn't know what happened in the Cao's compound, he knew that those things must have made his husband sad.

The two entered the house, Cao Gang was watching the two boys in the yard, and Sun Bailian was cooking dinner in the kitchen.Meeting Cao Gang's eyes, Cao Xiangnan only said, "It's nothing, I'll take care of it."

"Wan Feng, you watch the child outside, I'll help inside." After saying that, he entered the kitchen, taking over the work in Sun Bailian's hands.

These few days, their yard has never been quiet here. There is a disturbance once a day. Cao Xiangnan just wants to build a new house quickly. Then the wall will be higher and the gate will be locked to prevent those disturbing people and things. .

After dinner, Cao Gang took Sun Bailian and the two boys to go home.

Cao Xiangnan also went out with a food box in his hand, "Wanfeng, you and the child are at home, I'll go and be back soon." He said to Wanfeng.

"Okay." Qi Wanfeng was followed by a little tail, and behind the little tail were two little milk dogs, after sending Fu Lang out.He fed the dog together with the child, and now Dabai and Xiaohei look the same every day, and the puppy grows very fast.

Just by looking at the name, one can tell who made it from his family. Now there is a big black and a small black in the house, and a small house made of big white mud bricks, the roof is covered with thatch, and the sun has not yet set. , opened the door, and the room was still lit.At the door is a small stove built with mud bricks. The old man cooks a bite here and then takes it back to the house to eat.

"Third Uncle." Cao Gang heard that Cao Xiangnan said he was going to come to Third Uncle, so he came with him.

Hearing a familiar voice, Third Uncle turned his head, saw the person coming, and said, "It's Cao Gang, why do you come to Third Uncle's place when you have time?"

"I came here with Xiangnan. He has something to ask you." Cao Gang also just learned from Cao Xiangnan that there is a piece of land next to him that belongs to his third uncle, so he came with him.There are a few widowed and lonely old people in the village. He usually sends some meat over after hunting, and he will also send some over to the third uncle.

Cao Gang is someone who knows the character of the third uncle, and I am afraid that the whole Cao family village will treat him better, so it is no wonder that Cao Xiangnan came to Lizheng that day, and the third uncle did not buy Lizheng's face and give them to him. chased away.

"Third Uncle^" Cao Xiangnan hurriedly forced a flattering smile on his face, and shouted.

The third uncle obviously recognized who this boy was, maybe it was the boy who came over with Tongli that day and said he wanted to buy another land, he snorted, and when he saw that boy just brought him here, he didn't drive him away.

"I come."

Cao Gang was going to take the pot from the third uncle, but the third uncle didn't give it to him, so he went into the house with the pot, and the two people behind followed him, and he didn't drive them away.

There is only a bed at the end of the room, and some sundries are facing each other. There is an old square table at the corner of the door, which is used for eating.The third uncle put the pot on the table, and there was a pot of green vegetable soup in the pot, without even a little meat. The other pot was opened, and it was boiled rice paste. The old man sat down and asked , "Have you eaten yet?"

"I've eaten." Cao Gang also sat down and said.

There were only two stools in the room, and they were both sitting. Naturally, Cao Xiangnan had no place to sit, and he didn't mind standing.

Cao Xiangnan hurriedly put down the food box he was carrying, opened it, took out a bowl of meat, a bowl of vegetables, a bowl of steamed buns, and a small jug of wine, and put them on the table one by one. Looking into his eyes, he chuckled dryly and said, "Third Uncle, you can try the meat that Xiang Nan has stewed."

The stewed golden meat was still steaming, and he came here just after he brought it out of the pot at home.It's always good to eat it in one bite, Cao Xiangnan doesn't believe that anyone can refuse it. It's delicious.

The old man looked at the delicious food on the table with cloudy eyes, and it smelled delicious, so he didn't move his chopsticks.

Cao Xiangnan maintained a bowed posture and waited patiently. When he saw the old man picked up a piece with the chopsticks in his hand and put it in his mouth, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.He quickly poured it into a small bowl from a small cup and handed it over, asking, "Is the taste okay?"

"Yeah." The third uncle picked up the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp, "Come again."

"Third Uncle, eat something first and drink less." Cao Gang took a steamed bun, tore it open in the middle, put a piece of meat in it, handed the steamed bun to Third Uncle, and said, "This is delicious."

This way of eating was taught to him by Cao Xiangnan. Now he also likes to eat steamed buns with meat. If there is lettuce, he will put two pieces of vegetables. It tastes very good.

The two of them were here to accompany the old man to eat. Both of them had eaten, but they didn't speak while waiting for the old man to eat.The old man's appetite is still good. While drinking a small wine, he ate meat in big mouthfuls. He ate up all the meat and vegetables on the table, and the rice paste in the pot. I am afraid that the remaining few big white steamed buns are not willing to eat , I think I want to eat it tomorrow.

After the third uncle finished eating, he got up from the stool, rummaged through it, found a bag, rummaged through it with the faint light, found a piece of paper, put it on the table, and said, "Take go."

"Thank you third uncle." Cao Xiangnan's face showed joy, he didn't think it would be so easy.

He knew that he had borrowed Cao Gang's light today, seeing that the old man was no stranger to Cao Gang, and his tone was very good. He thought that the relationship between the two of them should be good on weekdays. Said to come with him.

It turned out to be here.

Hey Hey……

Cao Xiangnan took the piece of paper with a smirk on his face, took out the money from his pocket and wanted to give it to third uncle, it was money for him to buy the land.

"Take it back. I'll just send you two more bowls of meat and wine in the future. You can take this money back too." The old man waved his hand, impatient with his wrinkled face, and issued an order to chase away the guests, "It's too late Now, you guys go back too, I'm going to rest."

The sun was setting, and it was getting late.

"This..." Cao Xiangnan didn't know what to do, he had to give money to buy things, how could he do without money.The old man has such a weird temper, he was afraid that he would rob him of his land a few days ago, but now he is giving it to him for nothing.

"Well, we're going back, Third Uncle, you should rest earlier." Cao Gang gave Cao Xiangnan a hand and shook his head at him.

The two of them came out from the third uncle, and the chai gate closed behind them.

"Just hold it for you, and send two more bowls of meat over in the future." Cao Gang understands the old man's temper best. Two silver coins, it is better to send a bowl of meat from time to time.

"Well, that's fine, that's it." Cao Xiangnan nodded, "Thank you Brother Cao Gang today." He said.

"Need not."

The two returned to their respective homes.

As night fell, every household in Caojia Village closed their doors. There was no moon tonight, and there was not even a single star in the sky.

At this time, everyone fell asleep at night, and they were in deep sleep.

In a certain corner of the village, several people gathered from all around whispered to each other, whispering something.The night is dark and the wind is high, it is the time to sneak around.A group of people came out from the end of the village, where the only family lived, and they came to the yard.

"You squat down, I'll go up."

One of them squatted down, and the other stepped on the crouching person, climbed up the wall and turned over into the yard, pulled the latch from the inside, and opened the door of other people's yard.

"Woooooooo..." The little milk dog in the nest was awakened, and whimpered there with its head up, anxiously trying to turn over and get out of the nest.The horse in the stable stood up, snorted constantly, flicked its tail, was woken up at night, and the bad-tempered horse stretched its face longer, and looked at the approaching horse with triangular eyes. It's a thief.

"This horse can sell for a lot of silver. Let's take this horse."

"be careful."

"understood."

One person carefully untied the rein tied to the post, while the three people at the side watched, the two kept watch vigilantly, and one went to help.

"Silulu—" the horse kicked its front legs and neighed.

"Ouch!" The kicked person fell to the ground and cursed, "This damn beast."

"Wow, woof, woof, woof, woof..." the little milk dog barked heart-piercingly.

The people in the room also woke up now, Cao Xiangnan held Qi Wanfeng who was about to get up, and said, "You watch the child in the room, don't come out, I'll go out and have a look." He didn't go out immediately, but He lit the lamp in the room, and asked loudly in the room, "Who is outside?"

"The people inside are awake."

"hurry up."

"This horse..."

"Come back another day."

Cao Xiangnan took out a stick in the house, opened the door of the house, and when he came out, he saw several black figures running out of his yard. He picked up the stick and pretended to chase after him, shouting loudly, "Steal, thief!" Don't run."

"Hiss—" "Wow, woof—" "Run, I'm chasing you."

The last one fell and ran away.

Cao Xiangnan stood at the gate of the yard and did not chase after him. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the figure going there.He was sure that those people were ruthless and not daring, just doing some sneaky things, they wouldn't break into the house, murder and set fire to it, and there was still Qi Wanfeng and the child in the house, so he didn't have to chase them desperately.

The big black that had been unbridled was free, came from behind, and bumped its master with the horse's nose.

"Fulang, are you okay?" Qi Wanfeng also got up from the bed, went out of the room, saw Fulang standing there, walked over, and asked with concern.

"It's nothing, those people are gone." Cao Xiangnan turned around and grabbed the horse's reins, pulled the horse back to the stable, tied the horse back inside, patted Dahei's head, and said, "Thank you tonight, tomorrow I'll cut some young grass for you to eat."

Dahei snorted twice, barely agreeing.

"Go back to the house and sleep. Those people are probably here to steal the horse." The horse was still here, so they probably didn't steal anything. Cao Xiangnan reached out and patted the little milk dog's head, telling them to sleep well.

The two went back to the house, and when they lay down on the bed again, both of them couldn't sleep.

"Wanfeng, I have some time, let's sleep for a while." Cao Xiangnan hugged Qi Wanfeng, patted his back lightly, and waited for the person in his arms to breathe evenly. Didn't sleep well.