“No,” Zhao Jisheng immediately shook his head, “With the chaos and disorder in my house, I don’t even want to go back. Why would I take them with me?”
"Damn, of course not, I don't know how to take care of children," Liu Mancang said at almost the same time as Zhao Jisheng.
Hearing them say that, Xie Zhuo turned his gaze back to Da Bao's face, "Tell your third uncle, who wants to take you away?"
Da Bao kept his eyes down and didn't speak. After a long while, he looked up at Xie Zhuo and said, "We just heard that you gave everything in the house to your third aunt. We are also part of the family, but we don't want to leave."
As soon as she finished speaking, a large tear immediately slid down her cheek.
"Oh dear, poor child!"
Yang Shulan couldn't bear to see children cry, especially her eldest child, who was tightly pursing his lips and trying not to make a sound, but tears were still dripping down his face, which broke her heart.
Xie Zhuo finally understood what Da Bao meant.
Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng understood as well.
After all that, it turns out that Da Bao included him and Xiao Bao in the Xie family's "family fortune," thinking that they had also been sent away by Xie Zhuo.
"The little guy thinks quite a lot," Liu Mancang glanced at Da Bao, then touched Xiao Bao's face.
"I won't send you away," Xie Zhuo said earnestly, looking at Da Bao.
“Then…” Da Bao looked up at him with her big, watery eyes.
“It’s because Xiao Xu, the educated youth, is going to live with us in the future,” Xie Zhuo explained. “Besides, I meant to give her all our savings, but neither of you have any savings.”
"Then what are we, Uncle?" Da Bao asked.
“You are the treasures of the Xie family,” Xie Zhuo said.
Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng, who were standing next to Xie Zhuo, immediately looked at him with strange expressions.
What the heck?
Is this still his third brother?
How could someone say something so cheesy!
People of this generation generally don't say such things. Everyone is very reserved, especially in rural areas. No matter how much parents love their children, they won't easily say "I love you." They often express it directly through their actions.
Xie Zhuo in his previous life never mentioned it either.
He didn't have many opportunities to tell people these things.
Seeing his little nephew nestled obediently in his arms now, he couldn't help but think of his two older brothers who died young.
If they were still here... Da Bao and Xiao Bao probably wouldn't be so sensitive and insecure.
Da Bao didn't expect his third uncle to say that. He blinked quickly and shyly before burying his face in Xie Zhuo's neck.
"Really?"
“Of course it’s true,” Xie Zhuo patted his bottom, then bent down and picked up Xiao Bao, who was clinging to his legs and trying to climb up, as well. “So Uncle will never send you away.”
Da Bao and Xiao Bao each perched on Xie Zhuo's shoulders, craned their necks to look at each other, and then started giggling again.
Yang Shulan didn't know why, but seeing this scene, she suddenly felt like crying, and she rubbed her eyes with her hand.
Everyone used to say that Xie Zhuo was a good-for-nothing, always idling around and never helping his family with chores.
When his parents first left, some people in the village made bets that Xie Zhuo would eventually sell the two children.
Yang Shulan was furious when she heard this, but Qingshan Production Brigade was a large place, and she couldn't go around covering everyone's mouths to stop them from talking, and besides...
She also felt that if Xie Zhuo really got married, he might actually send the child away.
After all, the Sun family wouldn't be a stepmother.
She had been worried about her two children for a long time, but no matter what, she was just an outsider and couldn't concern herself with other people's affairs.
All I can do is worry.
Hearing Xie Zhuo say these words now, she felt a bittersweet feeling in her heart, partly because she was certain that the two children would not be sent away, and partly because of Xie Zhuo.
She had to shoulder the responsibility of the whole family at such a young age.
Thinking of this, she reached out and patted Xie Zhuo's arm.
Xie Zhuo turned to look at her.
“From now on, live a good life with Xiao Xu, the educated youth,” Yang Shulan said. “Treat her well; she’s a good person.”
"Mom, didn't you hear about the demands that young Xu, the educated youth, made before?" Liu Mancang interjected.
"I heard they took all of Third Brother's money, and they even made him drink only porridge every day."
Liu Mancang extracted the "essence" of what Xu Yan had said earlier.
Then he asked, "If my future wife also wants this much, would you and my dad give it to her?"
The moment he uttered those words, Yang Shulan slapped him hard across the back. "If you dare to marry such a troublemaker into my family, I'll break your legs!"
Liu Mancang let out a loud "howl" from the slap and jumped around to dodge his mother's second attack.
"You were just saying how great Little Xu, the educated youth, was!"
"You know I'm talking about Xiao Xu, the educated youth?" Yang Shulan glared at him. "Just because Xiao Xu didn't look down on your third brother's family background, she's better than most girls."
That's true.
Liu Mancang muttered to himself, but still hid behind Zhao Jisheng to guard against his mother, afraid that she might hit him again.
Da Bao and Xiao Bao watched Uncle Liu and Grandma Yang, who were already adults, "playing games," and their faces turned red with laughter.
Hearing the two little brats laugh, Liu Mancang rubbed his nose and looked at Yang Shulan with some resentment, "Mom, I'm a grown man, how can you still hit me like that?"
Yang Shulan snorted and ignored him. She went over and teased the two little ones a bit more before heading home.
Liu Mancang and Zhao Jisheng originally wanted to ask Xie Zhuo about the details of his marriage proposal, but before they could even open their mouths, Xie Zhuo kindly and amicably saw them off.
"Third Brother."
"roll."
When everything came to an end, everyone on the street had gone home, and the surroundings were quiet.
Children need a lot of sleep, and by the time Xie Zhuo carried the two little ones back into the house, they were already asleep.
Xie Zhuo carefully placed the two children on the kang (a heated brick bed), then pulled a sheet from under the kang, folded it twice, and covered them with it.
Although it's very hot in Qingshan Brigade in the summer, the temperature drops at night, and it's easy to catch a cold if you don't cover yourself with something.
After settling his two nephews in, he went out again, closed the gate to the courtyard, and returned to his own room.
He didn't rush to go to bed, but instead took out a key from his pants pocket, turned around and opened a red camphor wood chest against the wall, and took out two tape recorders and two watches.
They were all brought back from the city that day.
Xie Zhuo had already checked the two watches when he got up this morning. The problem was similar to the previous ones, so he planned to get up a little earlier tomorrow to fix them.
As for these two radios...
If he were this age in his previous life, he would have only seen or heard of it in other people's homes, but never actually touched it.
But he was reborn after all.
He had bought it himself before he was reborn.
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