“Then…” Xu Yan hesitated for a moment.
Although the original text mentions Xie Zhuo's family situation, it is vague. He is mainly written about to serve as a control group for Han Xiaoyu. Therefore, if Xu Yan wants to know many things, he has to ask Xie Zhuo himself.
for example……
"Where are Da Bao and Xiao Bao's mother?" Xu Yan thought for a moment and then asked.
Xie Zhuo paused slightly before continuing to weed.
"I don't know," Xie Zhuo said.
He genuinely didn't know.
His two older brothers joined the army when he was young, and in the following ten years, he could count the number of times he came home on one hand.
When my eldest brother got married, he wrote a letter home, but it was busy with farming at the time, and his parents couldn't leave, so they couldn't go. When my second brother got married, it happened to be winter, but because the roads were blocked by heavy snow, the family couldn't go either.
A few years later, the two of them returned home one after the other, each bringing a baby with them.
They said they were all too busy and couldn't take care of the children, so they asked Xie's parents to help take care of them. But they went back home after only a few days.
Therefore, Xie Zhuo never met his two sisters-in-law in person, only saw a few photos of them.
He looked very dashing; he was clearly from the military.
“When I received the news that my eldest brother had sacrificed his life, my father and I went to the military base together,” Xie Zhuo said. “We met his superiors, but we didn’t see my sister-in-law. We heard that she was so heartbroken that she took leave and went back to her hometown. We don’t know where her hometown is.”
Xu Yan listened quietly.
"Second brother is about the same," Xie Zhuo said quickly, his words not hindering his work at all, "I haven't seen second sister-in-law."
The story was short, and Xie Zhuo didn't know it all, so he couldn't tell her in detail.
Xu Yan turned her head and glanced at the two children sitting under the shade of the tree, then sighed softly.
In fact, she knows better than anyone what it's like to be a child without parents.
After all, she had lived alone since she was very young. Later, although she had grandparents, she was still teased by other children for not having parents.
Once, during a parent-teacher meeting at school, she overheard her deskmate's mother asking the teacher to change her seat.
She said she didn't want her child to sit next to a child who doesn't have parents.
It was the first time she had heard such words, and she seemed to have cried.
Later, she didn't care anymore, because from that day on, many of her peers knew that she didn't have parents.
She experienced ridicule, exclusion, and all sorts of things.
Xie Zhuo noticed that Xu Yan hadn't spoken for a while, so he turned to look at her and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xu Yan didn't answer him, and his expression seemed a little off, so Xie Zhuo put down the shovel.
“I’m a little melancholy,” Xu Yan said, looking at him.
"What?" Xie Zhuo asked.
"I want to eat meat," Xu Yan said, then suddenly laughed when she saw Xie Zhuo's brows furrowing. "What's with that expression? You won't let me eat?"
“No,” Xie Zhuo’s brows were still furrowed, clearly Xu Yan hadn’t finished speaking.
But seeing that she didn't want to talk, he didn't force her to.
After staring at Xu Yan for a few seconds, Xie Zhuo turned around and continued weeding, at a much faster pace than before.
A large plot of land was hoeed just as the brigade leader was telling everyone to go and rest.
Xie Zhu carried the straw bag over and placed it next to the cart. He told the brigade leader and then led Xu Yan and the two little ones back.
The dog days of summer started a couple of days ago, and the weather is getting hotter every day.
When we went to work in the fields this morning, the team leader said that for the next month, the workload in the mornings would be heavy, but it would be too hot in the afternoons to cause heatstroke, so we wouldn't have to go to work anymore.
So Xie Zhuo decided to take Xu Yan and the others to a restaurant in the city.
However, when she talked to Xu Yan about it while walking down the street, Xu Yan did not agree.
Although in this day and age it is normal for an adult and two children to ride on a bicycle, and some skilled riders can even carry an adult and three children.
“Da Bao and Xiao Bao can sit on the main beam,” Xie Zhuo said.
"No," Xu Yan felt dangerous just thinking about the scene, "On the road that the brigade takes to the city, I'm afraid you'll be the only one left on the bicycle before we even get there."
Xie Zhuo laughed at her, "How could that be?"
“It’s too dangerous anyway,” Xu Yan refused outright. “I object.”
“Then I’ll go ask Zhao Bin if he’s going into the city today,” Xie Zhuo said. “If he’s going, he can take us with him.”
“No need,” Xu Yan shook his head. “When I say eating meat, I don’t necessarily have to go into the city.”
After she finished speaking, she glanced at Da Bao and Xiao Bao, and the two little ones immediately understood what she meant.
"Third Uncle, let's go fishing," Da Bao said, trying to pull back the straw hat that was covering his eyes. "Xiao Bao and I will dig up earthworms for you."
"Fishing," Xiao Bao said excitedly, "and grilling fish."
“I heard them say this morning that your grilled fish is especially delicious,” Xu Yan smiled, her eyes crinkling. “It’s making me hungry.”
The female educated youth were already pretty, but they looked even better when they smiled.
A few strands of hair were damp with sweat and stuck to her face. Xie Zhuo's fingertips twitched slightly, wanting to brush them away, but he refrained from doing so because he hadn't washed his hands.
Xu Yan didn't notice his gaze and his little movements. Feeling an itch on her face, she simply raised her hand and wiped it on her face.
Then he rubbed all the dirt off his hands onto his face.
Xie Zhuo was stunned.
"Hmm?" Xu Yan looked up at him.
"It's nothing," Xie Zhuo cleared his throat and turned his head away.
"Why are you making that face if nothing's wrong?" Xu Yan didn't believe her. She looked down at her hands and saw that both hands were covered in mud and black grass juice.
Xie Zhuo also looked down at her hand.
That's just how it is when you do farm work; it's normal to have dirty hands, dirty clothes, and be covered in dirt.
But perhaps because the young educated youth was so fair-skinned, the dirt on her hands contrasted sharply with her skin, making Xie Zhu feel that the dirt and grass juice were glaringly irritating.
Da Bao and Xiao Bao were excitedly discussing going fishing when they saw their third uncle frowning as he used a handkerchief to wipe their third aunt's face.
"Is it dirty?" Xu Yan asked.
“No,” Xie Zhuo said.
"You still have this expression even without me," Xu Yan raised an eyebrow. "Xie Baobei, why are you so insincere?"
Xie Zhuo didn't react when she first spoke, but after a few seconds he realized what she had said and immediately stopped.
After a while, Da Bao tilted his head back, his little voice filled with doubt, "Third Aunt, who is Xie Baobei?"
Xie Zhuo was also waiting for her explanation.
He had noticed before that this young educated youth was really disrespectful, even though he was more than six years younger than him, he always tried to take advantage of him in how he addressed him.
They really need to be disciplined.
Xie Zhuo narrowed his eyes and looked at Xu Yan.
“Xie Baobei is,” Xu Yan glanced at Xie Zhuo, “the most powerful person in our family, your third uncle.”
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