"You kid don't want to live anymore, how dare you fool me!"

Zhang Fangyuan set up his stall until noon and without even having lunch, he went straight to Yunliang Pavilion and dragged An Saner out.

"It's unfair, it's unfair!"

As soon as An Saner came out, he was kicked several times by Zhang Fangyuan and he quickly put his head in his hands and begged for mercy.

"I wrongly accused you. It won't work at all if you give me a black book!" Zhang Fangyuan paused again: "My friend said it won't work!"

An Saner kept saying, "Brother Zhang, calm down, calm down."

"How can it not work? We can ask Brother Zhang to go to the bridgehead today. If we ask those old customers, they will definitely agree."

"Stop talking nonsense to me!"

An Saner quickly slapped his mouth a few more times: "Yes, yes, yes."

It was not pleasant to be questioned in such a stalemate, so An Saner said with a sly look, "May I ask why Brother Zhang is looking for the booklet? If I could meet this brother in person, I would also like to give him some good advice so that he would not go astray, right?"

Zhang Fangyuan glanced at An Saner. This kid really didn't mean to sabotage.

He said impatiently: "My friend just got married, so he is embarrassed to come. Why are you a villain who is here again?"

"Yes, yes. It is so." An Saner said, "Brother Zhang, why didn't you say so earlier?"

An Saner's eyes rolled around and he wanted to lead Zhang Fangyuan into the dark room. Zhang Fangyuan touched the tip of his nose, glanced around, and followed him into the room.

The room was in a mess, just like the tool shed in his home. An Saner rummaged around and took out a box half a person's height and put it on the table.

"Brother Zhang's friend just got married, and he married a boy, which is indeed more troublesome than a girl. Brother didn't say it clearly at first, and just thought he was buying two booklets for entertainment. If he had known that he was coming for this matter, he wouldn't have taken a detour. Of course, if Brother Zhang's friend could come, it would definitely open his eyes to the world."

Zhang Fangyuan listened patiently to An Saner's boasting. He knew that this thief had trained young girls in Yunliang Pavilion before and had some tricks up his sleeve, but later he offended his superiors and was demoted. Now he could only rely on selling some shabby things under the overpass.

"Why is it more troublesome for a young man than a woman?"

An Saner wanted to reply immediately, "You've never slept with a boy or a girl, so you don't know the difference?" However, he swallowed the words back when they were on the tip of his tongue, thinking about when Zhang Fangyuan was guarding Yunliang Pavilion before, other men enjoyed the convenience of having free sex with the girls and boys in the building, but this King of Hell didn't eat any meat or vegetables, and maybe he had never slept with anyone.

In the past, he thought that this man must have great ambitions in his heart and that was why he did not indulge in romantic affairs. Now, he thinks that what Jiu Niang said is probably not right.

"It's not a big deal, it's just that there are more things to do than for girls at the beginning, but there's nothing else."

After saying that, An Saner opened the box, which was actually filled with bottles, jars and various utensils. There were some that Zhang Fangyuan could understand, but there were also many that Zhang Fangyuan could not understand.

An Saner took out a white porcelain bottle and placed it in Zhang Fangyuan's hand: "This is a necessary item for lubrication."

Zhang Fangyuan was pragmatic: "I use it and he uses it?"

"ah?"

"I mean, is it for my friend or for her husband?"

“…”

After a detailed explanation, it seems to be correct, but this way of speaking is difficult for normal people to understand!

"Use both."

An Saner had seen Zhang Fangyuan's speaking skills, and was afraid that if he went back and repeated his words unclearly, he wouldn't know what would happen. So he took out the album and pointed.

Zhang Fangyuan now understood what he meant.

"Look at this black bottle. The person who benefits from it will definitely be obedient to it." An Saner stuffed it into Zhang Fangyuan's hand again.

Zhang Fangyuan knew this and threw it back: "No need." They were just not getting along, and his wife had no intention of refusing.

"As a couple, do you really need this?"

"Ah, yes, yes."

Zhang Fangyuan glanced at the white porcelain bottle in his hand. It was only half the size of a woman's fist. His brows knitted. How many days would this amount of porcelain last? So he took it for granted and directly grabbed three more bottles from An Saner's box: "Knock, knock, search."

I also saw a few smooth objects in the box, and I didn't understand what they meant.

An Saner said: "This is for the little brother to use, but it depends on the man whether to use it or not. Normally, it is not used at all."

"What's unusual then?"

An Saner naturally explained it in detail again.

Zhang Fangyuan thought about himself and thought that maybe it was because of his natural talent, otherwise he wouldn't have ended up in failure every time. Just imagine, if you want to open a lock, the key and the keyhole must fit. If the keyhole is so small and the key is too big, how can you do it? Either make the hole bigger, or just sharpen the key.

Obviously, the key cannot be cut, so the only way is to find a way through the keyhole.

Zhang Fangyuan took two more and asked, "Has anyone else used them?"

"These are all new! But Brother Zhang's friend..." Can they really be used?

Zhang Fangyuan responded with a natural look, and then saw An Saner's eyes widened. How did you know this?

Zhang Fangyuan's ears felt hot. It was because the room was dark and he couldn't see clearly. He shouted, "We are all brothers, how could I not know!"

An Saner shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's a blessing to have a brother like Brother Zhang." He also tried his best. Seeing him inquiring about every detail and coming here twice, it seems like they are just like a family.

Zhang Fangyuan collected a lot of things and gained a lot. He returned with regained confidence.

An Saner walked the person to the back door, watched the handsome and strong figure disappear at the entrance of the alley, and shook his head.

I didn't expect Zhang Fangyuan to be so innocent. It can be said that I have seen a miracle happen. I just don't know which kid is so unlucky to fall into his hands.

Zhang Fangyuan returned early in the afternoon and drove the carriage to the gate of his yard. He saw that the gate was wide open. He thought that Xu He heard the sound of horse hooves and opened the gate to greet him. When the horse drove back to the yard, he saw Xiaomao squatting in the yard playing.

At this moment, I was feeding the chicks and ducklings with the small caterpillars I caught in the cabbage field.

"Cousin, you're back!"

When Xiaomao saw people, he quickly poured the caterpillars in the leaf bags to the chickens and ducks, causing the chickens and ducks to chirp happily.

"Are you coming here to accompany your cousin today?"

Zhang Fangyuan jumped off the carriage and threw the two fish he had said he would bring back in the morning into the water tank in the yard.

Zhang Xiaomao lay on the side of the water tank and looked at the two herrings swimming happily in the water tank: "My cousin's wife brought me and my parents some steamed buns this morning, so I went with her to dig wild vegetables."

Zhang Fangyuan rubbed Zhang Xiaomao's head and looked into the room with his neck raised: "Where is your cousin's wife?" Why didn't she come out to greet him when she heard the voice?

"My cousin's wife is out cutting grass for the horses. She should be back in a while."

"Oh... so you guys dug up a lot of wild vegetables today?"

"My cousin's wife was really good. She picked half a basket's worth of fruits while I only picked one basketful. When I brought it back, my mother praised me."

Zhang Fangyuan laughed: "Really? Then you have become more capable following your cousin's wife."

At this point, Zhang Xiaomao was about to complain to his cousin's wife.

His cousin's wife is so capable, but Madam Xu still scolds him so harshly. She is just taking advantage of her cousin's wife's ability and wants her to help her in the house. He had been brought up in a caring environment, and had never heard such harsh words from him before. Although he later saw Xu He had a calm face and didn't take it to heart at all, he felt even more distressed.

You must be used to being scolded like this so often.

He glanced outside the yard and saw that Xu He had not returned yet. He whispered, "Today we went out to pick wild vegetables and ran into Madam Xu. She asked my cousin's wife to help her with the work, but she refused, so she scolded her. She scolded her so harshly that she even scolded me!"

Zhang Fangyuan frowned: "She is a rebel, and she dares to scold me!"

"Xiao Mao, take this piece of meat home and let mom cook it for you. Your cousin won't let you stay at home for dinner today. I'll go to Xu's house to deal with them later."

Zhang Fangyuan took out a half-pound piece of leftover meat from the basket and gave it to Xiaomao. It was considered a scrap. It was not that he was reluctant to give away the good meat. He took the big piece to his fourth uncle for safekeeping and asked Xiaomao to take it back. They would only take the meat that seemed difficult to sell.

Seeing that there was meat to eat, Xiaomao happily thanked Zhang Fangyuan, then went home with the meat.

"Cousin, I will come over in two days to dig wild vegetables with my cousin's wife. He said he would dig one day and rest one day."

Zhang Fangyuan nodded to Xiaomao, who had run a distance out of the yard.

Xu He came back not long after. When he saw Xiao Hei in the yard, he knew that Zhang Fangyuan had finished his work. The sun was still hanging over the western hills, and he thought it was really early for him to come back today.

"How's business today?"

"It's OK. The mountain products have been sold out, and some people are still asking for more. The pork should be fine for another day. Even if it can't be sold out tomorrow, it must be sold out at a low price. The meat will go bad if it is not fresh for a long time. I have stored the rest in the well."

Xu He nodded: "If it doesn't work, just rub some salt on it and hang it on the stove to make bacon. You must be hungry, I'll go cook. Why is Xiaomao back?"

"I asked him to come back."

"I saw there were fish in the water tank, why didn't you leave any fish for him to eat?"

Zhang Fangyuan stepped forward and patted the grass debris off Xu He's body: "We're not eating at home today. Let's go to Xu's house."

Xu He's eyebrows moved: "Why do you want to go home?"

Zhang Fangyuan said, "Calculate the date. Isn't it time to go back home today?"

In fact, Zhang Fangyuan felt that the relationship between the two families was not deep, and it didn't matter whether she returned or not. For example, those who married far away had been married for ten years or half a year, and they would not come back unless their relatives passed away. So why would they care whether she returned or not? However, given the Xu family's character, he just wanted to go there empty-handed to disgust them, hoping that the Xu family would also know what annoying is.

Xu He vaguely felt that it was Xiaomao who really complained. He hesitated whether to go back, but Zhang Fangyuan went to close the door and pulled him out: "Don't worry, I know my limits. Your father doesn't care about any family affairs, and he only picks on the weak. If I don't go to my house and teach her a lesson, she will definitely come back to nag me next time, and I won't have a peaceful life."

"Why are you here?"

Xu Shaochun was cursing as he was cleaning up the chicken and duck excrement in the yard. The poultry were big in size, so they would have to eat a large bowl of bran flour and chopped vegetable leaves for one meal. After eating, they would poop, and they would poop a lot. If they were not cleaned up for a day, the yard would be so dirty that one could not even step in.

In the past, these tasks were all done by Xu He, but now that her husband got married before her, the tasks have fallen on her shoulders.

She was extremely reluctant to do it at first, but there was really no one to spare at home, so she had to suppress her temper and take care of the poultry, thinking that she could just wait until she got married. Gradually, she got used to it. Today, when she saw Xu He coming back after not appearing at home for several days, she immediately became angry.

"Look at what the second girl said. Not to mention that today is the day to return to her parents' home, my mother-in-law also took advantage of my absence to invite our He'er to come home and help. How can I not come?"

Liu Xianglan, who was cooking in the room, knew that it was not someone good when she heard the voice.

I didn't expect that he would actually complain!

When she went out, she saw the empty-handed couple coming over, and she knew that Zhang Fangyuan was not just bringing someone home. She forced a smile on her face and greeted them, "It's Zhang the butcher and his brother who are back. Why didn't they come earlier? Look, it's almost time for dinner."

Zhang Fangyuan sat down in the yard without any hesitation: "I am busy with that useless business. I thought my mother-in-law would be reasonable and would not care."

"What are you talking about, butcher Zhang? For a man, business is the most important thing." Liu Xianglan said, "Has our He'er caused you any trouble recently?"

Zhang Fangyuan looked at Liu Xianglan's face of bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and said, "Mother-in-law, now that you are concerned about me, I really have something that is bothering me. I hope you can help me solve it, otherwise my life will be difficult."

Liu Xianglan laughed dryly. The last time Zhang Fangyuan said this was when he proposed marriage: "I wonder what it is?"

"He'er, that's great, but his parents' family has a lot of things going on. He's been married for just a few days and they're dragging him back to work. They scolded him for being too busy and not going. It's not enough to just ask him politely, but they still treat him like a slave? Does he think he's an elder and has a lot of power, or does he think his husband's family is useless and easy to manipulate?"

Zhang Fangyuan spoke bluntly and pretended to be deaf and dumb, which made Liu Xianglan blush. Seeing the man's expression like a gangster asking for debt, she didn't dare to scold him. Instead, she winked at Xu He, asking him to persuade Zhang Fangyuan.

Xu He was speechless, as if he was terribly afraid of Zhang Fangyuan. Liu Xianglan was so angry that she had no choice but to say shamelessly: "Shaochun is getting married. There are only a few people in the family, and his father is injured. It's really too busy."

"Our two families are related now, and we will certainly help out when there are things to do during the busy farming season. But this second girl is getting married, not marrying a live-in son-in-law, so how can she be busier than the Fei family? He'er should have planted crops on the family's land before she got married. What's the matter? The family can't live without He'er? Do we need He'er to do all the trivial things?"

Zhang Fangyuan's face fell. "I'm going to make it clear here today that He Ge'er can't do the work of two families! Otherwise, every time my mother-in-law goes to look for He Ge'er, I'll come here once. Anyway, I have no shame. You can say outside that I'm fierce or unreasonable, but it's just those excuses anyway."

Zhang Fangyuan sneered and said, "I've gotten used to hearing this over the years."

Liu Xianglan was so blocked by the traffic that she couldn't open her mouth. Xu Changren, who used to be able to walk around the room, couldn't get out of bed either. He could only cough a few times in the room.

Seeing that she couldn't control her own man, Liu Xianglan felt angry and wronged, so she could only smile and say, "That makes sense, that makes sense. I'll go cook and make two delicious dishes tonight."

He turned around and opened his mouth to call Xu He, but when he looked up and saw the huge statue of Yama, he had to swallow his words and called Xu Shaochun instead.

When Liu Xianglan entered the room, Zhang Fangyuan's expression suddenly changed. He approached Xu He and raised his eyebrows: "How is it? Is she more fierce than your mother?"

Xu He wanted to say that he was much more arrogant than her, but he didn't have the courage to open his mouth.

The couple just sat in Xu's house like an old man waiting for the food to come out. They didn't even help with serving the dishes. Xu He was not used to the sudden change of roles, but he endured it and didn't move. Zhang Fangyuan came to stand up for him, and if he went to help, it would be embarrassing for him. And given his mother's temper, she would definitely scold him harshly in the house.

In fact, he didn't care how much work he did, but now he and Zhang Fangyuan have a new home, so naturally he puts the Zhang family first in everything. It is definitely impossible for him to work like a slave in the Xu family like before. I hope that after this time, his mother can stop her bad behavior.

During the meal, no one at the table spoke much, but Xu Shaochun didn't even eat two bites of his dinner when he saw the big silver bracelet on Xu He's wrist when he picked up some food.

After finishing their meal, the couple just got up and left.

Liu Xianglan threw the chopsticks she was preparing on the table and said, "This Zhang Fangyuan, he acted like a grandson before he got her, but now that he got her, he showed his rogue temper again. It's a pie in the sky that your aunt said it was a good marriage. I think she just can't stand our family doing well, so she insisted that this bastard is a good son-in-law. You'll see, you can't count on He Ge'er anymore in the future."

"Look at how timid he is. He used to be able to talk back at home, but now he dares not even utter a word in front of Zhang Fangyuan. He will have a lot of bad luck in the future."

Xu Shaochun stood at one end arranging the dishes. She didn't think that Xu He had suffered after marrying into the Zhang family. The bracelet on her hand was worth a very generous betrothal gift. However, she didn't say anything. If she said it, it would seem that she regretted choosing the Fei family and envied Xu He for marrying a butcher.

Sure enough, that day Xu He and Zhang Fangyuan went to the city to set up a stall again. When Liu Xianglan went to the fields, she told everyone how Zhang Fangyuan bullied people. Just as Zhang Fangyuan said, the villagers had never said anything bad to him. When they heard Liu Xianglan's complaints, they just smiled and said a few words that were not very serious.

After all, the sparks didn't fall on your own feet, but instead you got to watch other people's fun. Why not do it? Besides, one of Liu Xianglan's children followed a butcher, and the other followed the Fei family. The villagers have long been jealous of them. Now seeing the chaos in the Xu family, they are secretly happy. Who cares whether Zhang Fangyuan is filial to the Xu family or not.

Being disrespectful is actually the best, because people can complain to each other. But when a family is doing well and you don't get any benefits from it, trouble will arise.

Liu Xianglan probably also saw that the villagers were just watching the fun, so she was like a dumb person eating bitter herbs. No matter how bitter it was, she didn't want to say anything and had to swallow it.

In this way, life became more peaceful, and soon it was the day of the Fei family's affairs in April. The Fei family was also very lively that day, and the villagers all wanted to go to the Fei family to take advantage of the scholar.

The Xu family is marrying off their daughter today, and there are many more people coming than when Xu He got married. It is obvious that they have to set up three or two tables at home.

Xu He and Zhang Fangyuan did not go to Xu's house to help in the morning. They went straight to the city to set up a stall and did not come back until the afternoon. When they returned to the village, the auspicious time had not yet arrived and Xu Shaochun was still at home, so Zhang Fangyuan still went back with Xu He.

Because of the loss she had suffered before, Liu Xianglan did not welcome the couple to come to her house to send off the bride, and did not greet them much when they came. However, the relatives of the Xu family saw that Zhang Fangyuan had set up a stall in the city and had recently bought livestock in the village, so they all wanted to go and say a few polite words to him. This would make it easier for them to find someone to sell their own livestock, and it would also be more convenient to buy and sell meat with someone they knew.

Seeing how warmly relatives and friends treated Zhang Fangyuan, Liu Xianglan, who had originally wanted to make the couple feel ignored, became angry again.

Soon the Fei family's people came and everyone dispersed from Zhang Fangyuan's presence. When Xu Shaochun was led out by Liu Xianglan, she was covered with a handkerchief embroidered with mandarin ducks, and her wedding dress also had embroidered patterns.

The Fei family had no horses, so they borrowed one from somewhere. Fei Lian was obviously too well-educated to ride a horse. He came over with a dazed look on his face. His already pale face looked even paler now due to the sweat from the cold.

But no matter what, the two of them were wearing wedding clothes, and even if you couldn't see their faces, you could still feel that they were a good match.

The sound of gongs and drums began, and then the wedding went back. Zhang Fangyuan saw that Xu Shaochun had quite a lot of dowry. There were seven or eight boxes being carried to the Fei family, and each one was as big as when Xu He got married.

Zhang Fangyuan saw this, took Xu He with him, had dinner and left.

"We are all your biological children. How could your parents be so partial to one another? Although it is difficult to treat all children equally in a family with many children, let's take my father's generation as an example. There were six brothers and sisters. When my grandparents were alive, they loved my sixth uncle the most, but they never treated anyone unfairly."

The weather in April is getting warmer, and the seedlings planted in the fields are swaying in the night breeze, giving off a hint of spring. Xu He walked in front of Zhang Fangyuan. He lowered his head and glanced at his toes. There was a faint shadow under the moonlight. Even without a torch, the two of them could vaguely see the way home.

"Who said they are all biological children?"

Zhang Fangyuan saw Xu He suddenly turned around with his hands behind his back and responded to him. He thought he was joking and stepped forward to hold his hand: "Don't be angry. I didn't mean anything else."

"I'm telling the truth. Some of my relatives know about this, but most of the villagers don't know. My father brought me back from the snow when I was a child. The year I listened to the story, there was a war at the border, and there was chaos and famine in the Central Plains. Many people starved to death, and families were selling their children everywhere."

Zhang Fangyuan was puzzled: "If he was brought back, how could the villagers not know about it?"

"More than ten years ago, my parents worked as peddlers, traveling all over the country. They were away for several years. At that time, my second sister was already born. I heard that my father was injured by a gangster while peddling goods outside, and he could no longer have children. Later, the couple decided to return to the village to settle down. Maybe they met me who was abandoned on the way back, and thought that they could no longer have children, so they took me home to raise. The villagers naturally thought that I was my parents' biological child."

No wonder!

Zhang Fangyuan suddenly realized, and seeing that Xu He spoke calmly, as if he had known all this for a long time, he couldn't help feeling distressed.

On the one hand, he was picked up and brought home and given a life, but on the other hand, he was beaten and scolded and treated as a slave. He wanted to be cruel but couldn't, and he wanted to treat her with all his heart but was repeatedly disappointed. He must have lived in struggle for the past ten years.

No wonder Xu He never compares himself with his second sister. He always puts himself in a low position.

He rubbed Xu He's hand: "I don't care whether you are Xu's biological child or not, but now you are my biological daughter-in-law."

"If the Xu family treats you as their own child, then you should respond with the respect of a real parent. If they want to treat you as a slave, don't indulge them. In the future, if they ask for help politely, you can help them with big things, but don't help with small things. We all have to make a living, so we can't all revolve around them."

Xu He nodded: "Got it."