In the scorching hot summer, the horses running on the road were panting, and the people coming back from outside were sweating profusely, their clothes were soaked with sweat. Looking up at the red sun in the sky, surrounded by layers of red circles, Cao Xiangnan shook the sweat off his forehead and said, "I think it's going to be so hot this day."

"Yes, master, it's really hot this year." As soon as the master's carriage came back, Liu Guizhong fetched a bucket of water for the horse to drink without the master.

When the old black man, who had been fed well, saw the bucket of water coming, he didn't put on airs anymore, stretched his horse's head into the bucket, and drank the water with a grunt.

"This beast." Cao Xiangnan looked at the old black man, whose temper had changed due to the hot weather, and laughed.

The two dogs were circling around him, and no one knew where they were going all day. When they were young, they were obedient, but now that they were grown up, they were completely out of control. They were like two wild dogs that had broken free from their reins, and they would run into the mountains and bring back one or two wild animals.

These two dogs originally had the nature of wolves. One black and one white, they were tall and were the most beautiful dogs he had ever seen. "Okay, there's nothing to do here, you can go back to the house and rest." Liu Guizhong's two boys followed him to do chores. Anyway, since they were short of manpower to do the work, Cao Xiangnan took them with him to do the work.

The two boys worked, the older one was more honest, and the younger one was smarter and would take shortcuts. Anyway, they can do the things he ordered them to do well. No matter they are smart or honest, everyone has different temperaments and ways of doing things. The two boys have been with him until now, and nothing has gone wrong.

Liu Guizhong was very happy that the master brought his two boys to work with him. Since coming to the master's house, his sick daughter-in-law has recovered. Now she has stopped taking medicine, and even the doctor said that there is no serious problem. So Liu Guizhong is willing to sell herself as a slave, not to mention that the master does not treat them badly.

They are a family of five working here now, and they have a monthly salary. The master's intention is that when they save enough money, they can redeem the contract of sale with him. Even if he could redeem his indenture now, Liu Guizhong didn't want to leave. If he left such a good master, his family of five didn't know where to go, so it was better to stay here.

"If the master has any instructions, just tell us at any time." Liu Guizhong knew that they didn't need to serve the master's family, and they usually wouldn't go in unless the master called them.

"Well, it's okay." Cao Xiangnan responded.

The two shops in the town are still open. He negotiated with the shop next door. The shop that originally made malatang will continue to make malatang, and the cake shop has now moved to a new store.

In the hot summer, the cake shop launched a cold drink that is suitable for people of all ages, so now the cake shop's business is catching up with that of malatang.

After what happened last time, Cao Xiangnan no longer asked Wanfeng to take the two children to look after the shop every day. Now that the shop has grown bigger, they have hired someone to look after it. There are people doing all the work in the shop. Wanfeng only needs to go there every few days to check on it, and there are some numbers to check before and after the month.

But now the weather is hot and the sun is shining outside. Even without her husband's instructions, Qi Wanfeng has not been to the town for half a month and has been staying at home with the two children.

Their house is close to the foot of the mountain and is cooler than other places. The children are still young and will cry if they feel uncomfortable in the heat. He dare not take the children to the town, not to mention that Xiaobaoer can't leave him at all. They thought that little Baoer would be less shy when he got older, but this has not changed at all. Little Baoer only recognizes people who are familiar to him and doesn't want anyone else.

He heard his husband talking in the house. The two little ones had just fallen asleep, and the older ones went to the academy. They went there in the morning and would come back in the evening after school. Basically, he didn't have to worry about them.

"Husband." Qi Wanfeng came out of the room and saw his husband entering the room. He saw that his forehead was full of sweat. He hurriedly took out his handkerchief and let him wipe the sweat, saying, "You must be thirsty. I'll go get you a glass of water."

Cao Xiangnan took the handkerchief and was still wiping the sweat. He walked behind his wife and took a glass of water from Wanfeng's hand. It was still warm. Seeing Wanfeng taking the hand to wipe his sweat, he grabbed the hand and said, "No need to wipe it, I'm going to take a shower and change clothes."

"You have to wipe your sweat first. It's not good to take a shower right after coming back in this hot weather. You sit here for a while, and then go to eat and wash." Qi Wanfeng held his husband and didn't let him go. Thinking of something, he said, "I heard that the second brother and his friends are back, and Liu Erzi and his friends are with them, but I heard that one of them didn't come back." Speaking of this, Qi Wanfeng's expression was not very good. If their second brother hadn't brought a few thieves in the village to steal in their house, there would be no such thing.

There were four of them when they went, but only the third brother came back. This made people imagine a lot. Anything was possible, but the possibility of something bad was higher. Among the few who came back, only Liu Erzi was thinner and stronger, while the other two brothers came back with skin peeling off.

They had already finished their hard labor and walked all the way back to Caojia Village until now, when they returned to Caojia Village.

When Liu Erzi's blind grandmother saw her son coming back, she and her son hugged each other and cried bitterly. Many people in the village saw them at that time and they all cried.

"It's okay, they can come back if they want to... I'll go ask what's going on later." Cao Xiangnan knew what Wanfeng was thinking and what he was worried about. He said, "They deserved it if they went, and it has nothing to do with us. Cao Laoer can come back if he wants to, and it has nothing to do with us. I can't call him second brother anymore. When you see him in the future, just pretend you don't know him. People like him are so annoying that they want to never have anything to do with him again." However,

just because he wants to never have anything to do with others, it doesn't mean that others will want to cut off their relationship with him, especially since Cao Jia Silang is so famous in the village now, and he is the richest family in the village.

"As long as he doesn't do anything to us, we don't have to care about him." Cao Xiangnan said. "Well, I heard that the second brother's leg is broken..." Qi Wanfeng had a worried look on his face. With their second brother's kind of person, he might blame him for the broken leg.

"It's broken, so it's better if it's broken. That way, he won't be able to climb over our wall in the future." If he still doesn't behave after breaking one leg, Cao Xiangnan doesn't mind breaking both of Cao Laoer's legs! "

Puchi..." Qi Wanfeng was amused when she heard her husband's words. She glared at him with a gentle smile in her eyes and said, "How can anyone talk like you!" The

wind from the south blew in through the window, which made people feel very comfortable. She sat in the living room for a while and chatted with Wanfeng about the things in the Cao family compound. Cao Xiangnan now has a headache when he thinks of them. In the town, his third brother asked servants to visit him several times. He went there twice, but he declined the next time because he really didn't have time.

His good third brother wanted him to help him become the legal wife. His fourth brother was capable, and his third brother meant that he could hold his head high in the mansion and should also sit in the position of the legal wife. When he went to his third brother's place, he didn't see his husband's family neglecting him at all, because he had two boys, and he was spoiled in the mansion for so many years. He always suppressed the legal wife and lived a better life than the legal wife in the mansion.

People have their own ways and their own ways. Cao Xiangnan couldn't do such a thing as helping the concubine to suppress the main wife and even trying to take the main wife's position. So it was no wonder that his third brother was so enthusiastic about him. It turned out that he was waiting for him here.

He said that a person who had been married for so many years and had never set foot in Caojia Village, who even didn't want her father, mother and brothers, would actually try to establish that pitiful brotherhood with him. Maybe they were really easy at the beginning, but people will change.

He had seen this in his good third brother.

After his wife approved, he went to the bathroom to take a cool bath, went back to the room and went to bed for a sleep. When he woke up, he still heard the child's voice, and Cao Xiangnan woke up.

"Husband, did we wake you up?" Seeing that husband woke up, Qi Wanfeng knew that it was the two little ones who woke him up. Thinking of this, he inexplicably felt guilty. The room next door had been empty all the time. Originally, that room was reserved for Lele, and it was just right for the two children to live there. It was just because Xiaobao would cry when he left, and even though the children were several months old, he couldn't bear to send the children there.

It was inconvenient for the children to stay in their room, but he just couldn't bear to do it.

"I'm almost awake at this time, and it's just right for me to wake up." Seeing Wanfeng pick up Xiaobao, he also got up and reached out to pick up the little fat boy. Their little guy really grew up to be a little fat boy.

When he was little, he loved to eat. He would sleep after eating. Now that he is several months old, he would lie there and refuse to move after eating.

He really dislikes the weight of the baby in his arms.

When the father and son looked at each other, Cao Ruile saw that his father was full of dislike for him. "..." Please don't discriminate against fat people, okay? I have baby fat!

Little Cao Ruile rolled his eyes and waved his chubby hand towards his father's face.

"Pa!" I told you not to dislike me!

"...Cao Ruile, you are looking for death!" He beat the little fat boy and slapped him on the butt. Sometimes Cao Xiangnan suspected that his fat boy knew everything since he was a child. He was so small, but he seemed to be a spirit.

So this is a little fat boy who has become a spirit? No matter how you think about it, you feel so disgusted?

"..." Cao Ruile!

If you pinch my butt again, I will really cry!

After slapping his kid's butt, he felt that it was fleshy. He didn't want to use force when he slapped it, but when he touched it, he felt that it felt good, so Cao Xiangnan pinched it, and then pinched it again, and pinched it again...

"Wow wow wow..." Little Cao Ruile was abused by his father, and finally he couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Uh uh..." Cao Xiangnan.

"What's wrong, why is Lele crying?" Qi Wanfeng, who was holding Xiaobao and changing the baby's diaper, heard his Lele crying, so he turned around and looked at his husband holding the child. Why did he make the child cry?

"It's okay, this kid is just thundering without rain." There was not a tear in his eye. It would be strange if Cao Xiangnan really believed that his kid was crying.

"Waaaa..." His father still suspected that he was crying fake tears? Is this really his biological father? Cao Ruile was so upset.

Qi Wanfeng heard the child crying, and came over with Xiao Baoer in his arms. Facing his little Lele's aggrieved face, he coaxed the child. Cao Xiangnan held the fat boy and wanted to throw him on the ground. After all, he was his little kid, so he couldn't bear to throw him away.