Xu Yan himself was surprised at how he suddenly said that.
Your brain must have been damaged by the smoke!
They've got some nerve!
She abruptly turned her head, then scooped up a handful of water and splashed it on her face. Afraid that Xie Zhuo might actually do or say something she couldn't accept at the moment, she quickly added a sentence.
"Not only are Da Bao and Xiao Bao hungry, but I'm hungry too. I want to eat noodles tonight."
After saying that, he didn't care about Xie Zhuo's reaction and simply stopped looking up.
Xie Zhuo looked at her, his fingers trembling slightly.
Finally, as Xu Yan wished, he said nothing, put on his shoes, and went out.
Da Bao and Xiao Bao didn't come into the house with me.
The two of them ran around the yard like crazy for a few laps. When their third uncle told them that he would take them to pick vegetables from the private plot and make noodles for them, they were incredibly excited.
Ever since their third aunt came to their house, they have been able to eat delicious food every day!
Third Aunt is still living in their house!
Da Bao and Xiao Bao were initially afraid that their third aunt would really hit people like Grandma Tian, but to their surprise, she didn't. Not only did she not hit them, she also told them stories every day.
They even taught them to read!
Xie Zhuo's family's private plot wasn't far from home, only about four or five hundred meters away as the crow flies, but you had to go around the threshing ground first, and then walk across a piece of land to get there.
He told Xu Yan, then took Da Bao and Xiao Bao out.
Da Bao and Xiao Bao are happy as long as someone accompanies them when they go out. They hold Xie Zhuo's hand and tell him the stories that Xu Yan told them during the day.
Xie Zhuo listened quite attentively.
“My brother and I are both clever little pigs,” Da Bao said to Xie Zhuo with a serious expression, “We’re not afraid of the big bad wolf at all.”
Xiao Bao nodded in agreement.
Xie Zhuo was amused by their expressions.
Since Xu Yan came to our house, the two little ones have indeed become much more lively and cheerful than before. They were even scared to tears when he caught them playing in the mud.
I usually talk to him, but I always feel very cautious. I've been much better these past couple of days.
“I can sing too,” Xiao Bao said, and then began humming a song that Xu Yan had taught him.
The humming was so soft that it was impossible to make out what it was.
Xie Zhuo had never heard of him, neither in this life nor in the past.
The three of them quickly arrived at their private plot.
In the next field, an old woman was also picking vegetables, followed by her daughter-in-law.
Seeing Xie Zhuo arrive with his two children, he glanced behind him and asked curiously, "Where's your wife? Why didn't she come with you to meet her?"
Xie Zhuo glanced at her.
This auntie's surname is Xu. She lives at the east end of the village. He doesn't know her very well, and they wouldn't greet each other if they met on the street.
But since the person was asking so politely, he couldn't pretend not to hear and not answer, so he forced a smile and said, "At home."
After saying that, he went down to the ground and started picking vegetables.
Da Bao and Xiao Bao followed behind, putting the chili peppers, eggplants, and other vegetables that Xie Zhuo had picked into clean cloth bags.
Xie Zhuo didn't actually let the two of them take them; he only handed over four or five before putting the rest into the basket on his back.
"Hey, Xie Laosan," Granny Zhang called out to Xie Zhuo again.
Xie Zhuo turned around.
“Picking vegetables is a woman’s job. You men should earn work points to support your families,” Granny Zhang said. “It’s only natural that men should be in charge of external affairs and women should be in charge of internal affairs.”
"You're already married. If you spoil her now, she'll start to climb all over you later!"
"Look at you, still circling around the stove? Do you really think you're some kind of ancestor?"
Granny Zhang talks very quickly. Many older people in the countryside speak in dialects with accents and speak very fast.
When she assumed Xie Zhuo's parents were gone and that she had kindly taught Xie Zhuo a set of housekeeping techniques, waiting for Xie Zhuo to thank her, she saw Xie Zhuo with a "Who are you?" expression, followed by a cold laugh.
"None of your business!" he said.
"you!"
With her daughter-in-law still around, Granny Zhang felt she had lost face and exploded.
"You really don't know what's good for you. I only did this because of you..."
However, before she could finish speaking, Xie Zhuo interrupted her directly, "Who do you think you are? Your own family isn't enough for you to manage, yet you want to manage other people's? Do you even deserve it?"
"Have I been too agreeable lately, so you think you can say whatever you want to me?"
"Besides, as I said that day, I married my wife so she could enjoy a life of luxury, not to be my slave. But speaking of slaves..."
He glanced at the woman behind Granny Zhang and said, "You're quite good at disciplining!"
After saying that, without caring that Granny Zhang was red-faced with anger, she quickly picked the vegetables with Da Bao and Xiao Bao and headed home.
Xu Yan was a little worried about being home alone.
Afraid she wouldn't be able to wait, she went to the kitchen to make herself something to eat. It's a small matter if the house burns down, but we don't want her to get burned.
That incident just now almost gave him psychological trauma.
When Xie Zhuo and the two little ones returned home, Xu Yan didn't go to the kitchen to fuss. She rubbed her face with soap for a long time before she could remove all the dark marks.
Then they tidied up their things and took out the radio that Xie Zhuo had bought from Lao He the day before yesterday, just as they came inside.
"Third Aunt!"
"Third Aunt!"
"We're back from picking vegetables!"
Da Bao and Xiao Bao have recently taken to shouting out whatever they say, laughing as they do so.
"Hey," Xu Yan echoed loudly, "I heard you, I heard you! If you keep shouting, Auntie San will go deaf!"
When Da Bao and Xiao Bao heard what she said, they laughed again and then obediently lowered their voices.
“We picked a lot of vegetables,” Da Bao said, opening the cloth bag to show Xu Yan as if it were a treasure.
"You guys are awesome!" Xu Yan reached out and took the bag, then said with a smile, "You'll get to listen to the radio as a reward later."
After Da Bao and Xiao Bao ran off to examine the radio on the table under the tree, Xu Yan finally looked up at Xie Zhuo.
Xie Zhuo took the basket off his back.
"I also picked some green beans, cucumbers, and carrots..."
"Our eldest child is also amazing," Xie Zhuo hadn't finished speaking when Xu Yan interrupted him, repeating the same template she had used to praise Da Bao and Xiao Bao.
After saying that, she looked at Xie Zhuo with a smile.
Last time she praised Xie Zhuo like that, he changed his expression and "threatened" her. This time, she wanted to see his helpless expression again.
Unexpectedly, after a few seconds, Xie Zhuo's expression didn't change much.
"?"
Just as Xu Yan was about to say something more to him, she saw the man opposite her suddenly bend down slightly, staring at her intently, and say, "Then... what about my reward?"
Xu Yan felt like a balloon.
His face flushed bright red instantly.
What's wrong with this man?
At noon, she looked so innocent that her ears and Adam's apple would turn red at the slightest flirtation, but now she's actually asking for a reward!
Where Xu Yan couldn't see, Xie Zhuo's fingertips were clenched so tightly they almost turned white before he managed to stop himself from turning away with his ears burning red.
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