Chapter 165 Chapter 165 This child seems to be
Aunt Qin groaned and stood up. "Xu boy, what do you think? Can this little guy endure it? Why don't I give it a try..."
For a scholar, not being able to pass the imperial examination is the most vicious curse.
Lu Jin's expression changed, and he quickly reached out to stop her. "No, I made a mistake in my words. Please be kind, ma'am."
"Oh, you're already so nervous before I even tell you. If I did, you'd probably hit me." Aunt Qin said loudly, "You're a scholar, but you care about these things. He cares about his reputation. Aren't they the same? You little brat, don't you feel pain until it happens to you?"
"That's right. If my brother is called a nemesis, I don't care if you are my elder or the elder, I will give you a few slaps in the face."
Sun Mu Niang glanced at Lu Jin and said sarcastically, "Some people are so careless that they protect others before they even become family. No wonder, this grandson-in-law naturally has to show off in front of the elders."
Isn't this statement blatantly saying that you only help your relatives and not others?
But this... Lu Jin felt extremely embarrassed. He had never been so embarrassed since he was a child. In order to save face, he could only change the subject, "Why haven't I heard of the law that this brother just mentioned?"
I have never heard of it. In Lu Jin's opinion, it is most likely fake.
The intimidating Xu Yunfan remained calm and composed, speaking in a serious manner: "Do you know all the laws of our dynasty by heart?"
After asking, Xu Yunfan recited a few laws that most students would know, and then recited a few more. In short, the true and false were mixed together, and it was difficult to distinguish between the true and the false, which made Lu Jin a little confused for a while.
This time, not to mention Lu Jin, even Xiao Hengzhi, who appeared in the crowd at some point, almost didn't hear it.
It was Xu Yunfan's fault. He made his lies sound like the truth and actually sounded like they were the real thing. There were more than hundreds of laws, and it was impossible for Lu Jin to memorize them all. He was immediately frightened.
Lu Jin's face turned pale and he couldn't utter a word.
"Why don't you say anything? Aren't you questioning me? Since you question me, then produce evidence to prove that I'm talking nonsense." Xu Yunfan didn't want to bluff, but many principles vary from person to person.
Sun Tiantian's grandmother was immediately frightened. Xu Yunfan stared at her coldly, "I think someone like you should be beaten with a stick to teach you a lesson. Otherwise, you won't know what it means to cause trouble by speaking. As luck would have it, I've been to the government office before, so I might as well take you there directly."
When Xu Yunfan mentioned the government office, the villagers who originally stood on the side of Sun Tiantian's grandmother were frightened.
Yes, how could they forget that Xu Yunfan was the man who helped the Xu family get justice in the government office.
It might be because Xu Yunfan had been kind-hearted recently and had not done anything to the Li and Sun families, so they all thought he was easy to talk to and had no temper.
Lu Jin didn't dare to speak up for Sun Tiantian anymore. He lowered his head and followed the crowd out, but he had remembered this grudge.
The onlookers dispersed, Qin Youwei continued to work for them, and Qin Run lowered his head and remained silent.
Before, Qin Run was in a dilemma. If Xu Yunfan really went to the capital, and he followed him, would he have to come back here in the future? After all, his home was here. This was his roots, the place where he would return to in the future. His grandma, his parents were here, so he didn't want to go too far.
On one side is Xu Yunfan, and on the other side is the place where he has lived for nearly ten years. Qin Run is reluctant to leave, but then he thinks, wherever Xu Yunfan is, that is his home, and he will stay with Xu Yunfan. If one day, they can no longer make it outside, or after decades when they are old and tired of the hustle and bustle outside, they can come back here to spend their twilight years.
Although he had such thoughts, Qin Run was still reluctant to let them go. But now, Qin Run realized that maybe Xu Yunfan was right when he said he would take them away to see the vast world and start a new life.
In Dali Village, it carries his memories of his relatives, but it is also a place that brings him painful memories.
Some rumors cannot be stopped. If Qin An heard about Nemesis, what would he think?
He would wonder if it was because of him that they lost their father, if it was because of him that his father went up the mountain and got into trouble?
For a child, what else can such thoughts bring except the pain of being torn out of the heart and unforgivable self-blame?
"Yunfan, can we take Qin An and Qin Mu with us to live outside from now on?"
"Hmm? Have you figured it out?" Xu Yunfan had never thought of letting Qin An and the others stay in the village for the rest of their lives. His two brothers-in-law were still so young. Before they came of age, he and Qin Run would have to take them with them wherever they went.
However, when I talked about this with Qin Run before, Qin Run seemed a little embarrassed.
In fact, if you think about it, even people in modern times would feel uneasy and confused if they were asked to leave the place where they have lived for several years and start a new life in an unfamiliar place, let alone the ancient people.
It was normal for Qin Run, a boy, to feel scared and uneasy after leaving Dali Village and having no land. Xu Yunfan hadn't pushed him too hard before, but today Qin Run figured it out.
"Tell me, how did you come to your senses and become willing to go out?"
"I don't want An Ge'er to end up like me," the worries that had been suppressed in the past began to leak out bit by bit after hearing the word "nemesis". Qin Run turned around and suddenly hugged Xu Yunfan tightly in his arms. "We brothers are not nemesis. I don't want An Ge'er to hear this. I don't want him to end up like me. I also don't want to hear him ask how my father died. Yunfan, when you pass the exam, we'll leave here. Wherever you go, I'll follow you. Can we take An Ge'er and Mu Ge'er with us?"
Xu Yunfan didn't even think about it, "Okay."
How could it not work?
They are a family of four, so why don’t they go anywhere together?
From the moment he decided to be with Qin Run, his two brothers-in-law became his family. No matter where he went, they had to follow him. Otherwise, he would not be able to feel at ease.
"You won't..."
"No." Before Qin Run could finish, Xu Yunfan spoke up, "They are my brothers-in-law, your brothers. What's the relationship between you and me? Isn't your brother my brother? Besides, you know how powerful your husband is. It's just raising two brothers-in-law. Don't worry, if that old woman dares to talk nonsense behind her back again, I will slap her enough without you having to do anything."
"Yunfan, you are so nice." After being speechless for a thousand times, it finally converged into a simple and unpretentious sincere word.
Feeling that Qin Run's emotions should have calmed down, Xu Yunfan patted Qin Run on the back and said, "Okay, let me go first. If you still want to hug me, we can hug each other to your heart's content when we get home tonight. There's an old man over there who keeps staring at me, not blinking. Is he interested in me?"
Qin Run: "...probably not."
It would be abnormal if I wasn't speechless several times a day when I was with Xu Yunfan.
Just a few more glances means you like her? Qin Run wanted to wipe his face.
Xiao Hengzhi looked at the two people hugging each other and was speechless for a moment, or rather, he felt a little embarrassed to watch.
Just saying that the two of them hugged each other doesn't seem to be accurate enough.
Because no matter how you look at it, it was Xu Yunfan who was hugged unilaterally by Qin Run, and he hugged him very tightly, so tightly that Xu Yunfan couldn't bend his hands without exerting some strength.
Qin Run and Xu Yunfan are of similar height. If you don't know this, it would be hard to tell who is the brother and who is the man between them.
"Cough!" Xiao Hengzhi coughed deliberately to attract the attention of the two.
"Hey, aren't you the Uncle Xiao from the yamen that day? Oh, we meet again." As soon as Xu Yunfan was released by Qin Run, he walked straight towards Xiao Hengzhi. His tone was so familiar that if you didn't know, you would think they had known each other for a long time. "Uncle Xiao, why are you here?"
Xiao Hengzhi smiled: "How did you recognize me?"
He had clearly put rouge on his face, and he no longer looked as handsome as before.
"How could I not recognize you? It's so hot out here, and I'm afraid you're the only one who would wear such thick clothes."
Xiao Hengzhi looked down at his clothes and smiled helplessly, "It was I who forgot."
Even though he was wearing so many clothes, he didn't feel hot and even forgot how inappropriate his clothes were.
"Uncle Xiao, why are you here?"
Qin Run walked to the side of the road and looked up at the people on the road. Xiao Hengzhi lowered his eyes and could see Qin Run's straight nose and those familiar narrow eyes.
"I was bored staying in the county, so I went out for a walk, and before I knew it I was here." If I had joined in the fun, it would have been late.
After mid-September, the days were not as long as usual. Qin You had picked corn for them, so he could only ask Sun Wu to deliver it to the canteen tomorrow. As for Xiao Hengzhi, it would probably take him until midnight to walk to the town with only his own two legs.
Qin Run wanted to invite Xiao Hengzhi to his home. After all, this man had helped them last time. Now that he had come to their village, it would not be too much to invite him to his home as a guest.
But no matter how excessive it is, it cannot conceal Xiao Hengzhi's identity as a man.
Even though this man looks to be in his early thirties, it is still not suitable for him as a boy.
Qin Run was in a dilemma. Out of inexplicable emotion, he wanted to speak, but the reality was, if he rashly invited a stranger to his home, what would it look like if it got out?
"Uncle Xiao, it takes half an hour to ride a bullock cart from our village to the town. Your health is not good. If you want to go back, I'm afraid it will take you one or two hours." Xu Yunfan didn't know how to be tactful when he spoke, and he touched people's hearts directly.
"How about you do me a favor and come to my house?"
Xiao Hengzhi glanced at Xu Yunfan, feeling a little angry and a little bit like this boy was a little mean, "That's fine, then I'm sorry to bother you."
"Don't disturb me, don't disturb me." Qin Run was visibly happy, with a smile in his eyes.
Xu Yunfan felt an inexplicable soreness in his teeth. He licked the back of his teeth with the tip of his tongue. His little finger hooked Qin Run's finger at an angle that Xiao Hengzhi didn't notice, and he whispered, "Are you happy?"
"Yeah." Qin Run nodded vigorously and looked very happy. He was happy that his wish was fulfilled, and he was also happy to meet someone who knew and understood him.
Xu Yunfan would not ask him why. As long as he wanted it, he would try his best to help him and satisfy him.
This is what makes Qin Run happiest.
Xiao Hengzhi walked by, his eyes unconsciously falling on the two people who were doing little tricks that they thought were unnoticed. His chest ached and his eyes almost turned red.
This child really looks like him.
Unconcealed joy, eyes filled with red, naked, deep and passionate love. Even a stranger could see that Qin Run loved Xu Yunfan very much.
That was the look in Qin Feiyu's eyes when he looked at me back then, which was why I was deeply shocked. My heart was out of control and I drowned in Qin Feiyu's love without hesitation.
Maybe people are particularly susceptible to being sentimental when they get older. Xiao Hengzhi had to face up to a reality, that is, he was really no longer the age when he was full of vigor and energy and was willing to fight for so-called love and get hurt.
"Xu Yunfan, I heard from the villagers that you are from overseas?" Xiao Hengzhi pretended to be calm and asked out of his curiosity.
Everyone in the village knew about his origins. Xu Yunfan hummed and lied, "I came here with the fleet a few months ago. I changed trains several times along the way, and when I finally got here, I encountered thieves again. Fortunately, my husband was kind enough to take me in, otherwise I would have starved to death in the mountains."
"So, you have no way to repay the favor of saving my life, and you can only repay me with your body?"
This is unacceptable.
Xu Yunfan's scalp tightened. "How could that be? I'm with Runge'er because I like him and he likes me. The love between us is very pure and clean. It has nothing to do with any life-saving grace. Uncle Xiao, please don't say anything nonsense."
Xiao Hengzhi said nothing, just smiled.
"Goff, big brother!"
When we were halfway back, a childish voice came from the foot of the mountain on the side of the road.
Xiao Hengzhi turned his head towards the direction where the voice came from. When he saw the child with a bright smile, a big backpack on his back, and running towards them hand in hand with another child, Xiao Hengzhi thought he was seeing things for a moment. He couldn't help blinking with his mouth slightly open.
He pointed at Qin Mu and asked, "What is this?"
Qin Run and Xu Yunfan each caught a little kid. Qin Run took the heavy backpack from Qin Mu. The backpack was half filled with black-seeded fruits. No wonder Qin Mu's nostrils were thickened from exhaustion. He wiped the sweat from Qin Mu's forehead and said, "This is my third brother Qin Mu. That one over there is my second brother Qin An. Brother An, Brother Mu. This is Uncle Xiao. He helped my eldest brother before. Call for help."
Ever since being assigned by Xu Yunfan to attend classes, Qin An and Qin Mu have become much braver and are not as scared as before when meeting strangers. The two little guys looked at Xiao Hengzhi curiously and called out obediently, "Hello, Uncle Xiao."
The childish voice struck Xiao Hengzhi's heart.
This voice is like the sound of nature.
It was really strange. It wasn't like their Xiao family didn't have children of Qin An's age, but every time those children called him, Xiao Hengzhi's inner peace disappeared without a ripple. But now, Qin An just called him uncle, and Xiao Hengzhi happily patted Qin An's head, "So good."
Xiao Hengzhi was a man who treated everyone equally. After touching Qin An, he raised his hand to touch Qin Mu. When his eyes met Qin Mu's, Xiao Hengzhi couldn't help but carefully look at the little guy in front of him.
Qin Mu?
Xiao Hengzhi looked back and forth between the two children, "Is he really your brother?"
To be honest, Qin An looks about 60% similar to Qin Run. Just like Qin Run, when Xiao Hengzhi saw Qin An, he liked this child for no reason. He liked him so much that just by looking at him, the dull pain in his body seemed to disappear, and instead, another familiar yet unfamiliar suffocating feeling slowly spread throughout his body.
picture.
They really look alike.
This child looks more like Qin Feiyu than Qin Run.
After being with Qin Feiyu, Xiao Hengzhi saw the portrait of Qin Feiyu when he was a child. Because General Qin guarded the border in his early years, Mrs. Qin ordered the painter to draw many portraits of Qin Feiyu, saying that she wanted to keep a remembrance so that General Qin could also watch how the only brother of their family grew up little by little.
Xiao Hengzhi had a good memory. He remembered what Qin Feiyu looked like when he was seven or eight years old. He wasn't exactly the same as Qin An, but he was definitely 90% similar.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have found it hard to believe that there could be two people in the world who were so similar.
Xiao Hengzhi still has a grudge against Qin Feiyu's original indifference, but this does not prevent the invisible feelings in his heart, which are unknown to outsiders, from remaining the same as before.
The more Xiao Hengzhi looked at Qin An, the more he liked him. No matter how he looked at him, he felt that this child was good. Qin Mu was different. Although this child was also good-looking, it was not difficult to see that he had no similarities with the Qin Run brothers.
Xu Yunfan reached out and took a wild guava from the basket on Qin An's back. He wiped it clean and was about to put it in his mouth when he heard Xiao Hengzhi's words. The fruit that was about to be eaten turned around and was forced into Xiao Hengzhi's hand: "Oh, Uncle Xiao, look at the way you ask. He is not my brother, could he be from someone else's family? Come on, this is a wild fruit picked by my brother-in-law. It's delicious. Try it."
Some wild guavas are big, some are small. I don’t know where Qin An picked this half basket of wild guavas, but they are unusually large and emit a unique fruity fragrance. Xu Yunfan likes to eat them very much. After stuffing the ripe yellow fruit in his hand to Xiao Heng, he grabbed a greener one for himself, turned it around a few times with his hands perfunctorily, and put it into his mouth.
After taking a bite, Xu Yunfan was so satisfied that he reached out to get another one for Qin Run.
Xiao Hengzhi withdrew his gaze. He realized that Xu Yunfan did it on purpose. He didn't want to continue talking about Qin Mu.
In this case, Xiao Hengzhi would not be so stupid as to make himself unhappy. The wild fruits in his hand were indeed very fragrant. With Xiao Hengzhi's status, it was rare for him to eat these wild fruits. He originally thought that they were not delicious, but after taking a bite, his eyes lit up.
Xu Yunfan was satisfied with this. He liked people like Xiao Hengzhi who had good judgment.
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