Chapter 5 Chapter 5 I'm Not Interested in Men
Aunt Qin clapped her hands and smiled, "Hey, hey, hey, it's good that you stay. Xu boy, don't listen to the nonsense people outside say. Our Run brother is clean and innocent, full of strength, and can do any work. He is much better than other brothers."
"Well, he is indeed a good person. I don't believe what others say." Not to mention the words of those gossips. Xu Yunfan smiled and walked to the kitchen, scooped a bucket of water from the water tank, and drank it up.
When he came out, Grandma Qin and the others had already left.
"Are you hungry? I'll go cook some vegetables right away and we'll have dinner soon." Grandma Qin had already cooked the rice and all she needed to do was cook some vegetables.
"No hurry." Xu Yunfan patted the bench under the eaves. "Let's rest first. I'm tired. You carried me back here. I'd be surprised if I wasn't tired. There's no hurry to eat dinner."
It was obviously Qin Run who was greeting him, but Qin An also sat down and next to Xu Yunfan's right hand side. He was very well behaved and didn't say anything or cry out in pain.
Xu Yunfan grabbed Anger's thin wrist and saw that the broken skin on his palm was covered by some white silk like white cotton. Curiosity arose and he asked, "What is this?"
"This is a spider's nest." Qin Run was not surprised. There were more or less spiders in the houses in the village. Most of these spiders were non-venomous. When children at home cut their hands, the elderly would look for these spider nests to stop the bleeding.
Xu Yunfan exclaimed, his eyes widening. "This...this thing doesn't have any bacteria?"
“What are bacteria?”
Xu Yunfan choked, "It's nothing, is that all? No need to see a doctor?"
Qin An had been quiet all this time, but suddenly he shouted, "No need."
He went out yesterday to cut grass for Grandma Qin's pigs. Li Dabao said that their family was extremely poor. If Brother Xu knew that they had no money, he would definitely run away.
He knew that seeing a doctor required money.
Xu Yunfan had lived with Qin Run for a few days, so he naturally knew how poor the Qin family was.
We had brown rice tonight and the boiled cabbage didn't have enough salt, but look at the soup, there wasn't a speck of oil at all.
Xu Yunfan had been to the countryside before and saw the villagers feeding pigs. The pig food was similar to this dish.
Xu Yunfan thought of the wild vegetable balls and wild vegetable soup he had eaten a few days ago, and it seemed that tonight's boiled cabbage could indeed be considered a "big meal".
Qin Run saw Xu Yunfan holding the chopsticks for a long time without putting them down, and he immediately understood, "Can't you eat? Why don't you eat something to fill your stomach first, and I'll go to town to buy you some meat tomorrow morning."
When Qin An, who was standing next to him, heard that there was meat to eat, his eyes widened and seemed to be able to eat the meat right away. He picked up the brown rice in the bowl and started eating it in big mouthfuls.
Qin An didn't go to see a doctor even when he was injured. It wasn't because Qin Run was reluctant to spend money on his brother, but because his family was in real financial difficulty. They had previously hired a doctor to treat Xu Yunfan's leg injury, and the family didn't have a single copper coin left. Where could Qin Run find the money to buy meat?
The Qin family is not rich either. Every household has its own difficulties, so it is not easy to borrow money.
In this poor family, he had free food, free accommodation and free drinks, but he had the nerve to ask for meat. This put Qin Run in a difficult position.
Xu Yunfan thought about this and shook his head, "No need, if you can eat it, I can eat it too."
Although he is the prince of Beijing and his family dotes on him, they will not raise him to be a lazy young master who has everything handed to him.
It can be said that Xu Yunfan is a true prince, but he is also a down-to-earth young man with good character.
Xu Yunfan picked up a piece of brown rice with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, chewing it again and again. If he hadn't seen that the Qin Run brothers were eating from the same pot of rice as him, Xu Yunfan would really have suspected that there was something wrong with his taste buds.
The brown rice didn't taste good. When Xu Yunfan stretched his neck to swallow it, he felt like his throat was scraped. "Fuck~"
After eating half a bowl, Xu Yunfan couldn't eat any more. He had never eaten these things since he was a child.
In modern times, some people say that brown rice has higher nutritional value than polished rice, but Xu Yunfan wants to eat nutritious food, so is it necessary to eat brown rice?
It’s a joke!!
Seeing that Xu Yunfan was having a hard time eating, Qin Run, who was originally very hungry, suddenly found it difficult to swallow. He picked up a few pieces of food for Xu Yunfan with his chopsticks and said, "If you can't eat anymore, don't eat. Eat more vegetables. I'll roast some sweet potatoes for you later, okay?"
Xu Yunfan looked like a young master from a wealthy family. He ate half a bowl of brown rice as if it were his life. Qin Run was even more convinced of his guess.
"Roasted sweet potatoes?" Xu Yunfan nodded immediately. "Delicious, that's delicious."
When he was in college, every winter, the small vendors at the school gate would push carts and sell roasted sweet potatoes. The smell was so delicious that you could smell it from several meters away.
Seeing Xu Yunfan like this, Qin Run finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Then I'll get it for you now."
While the sparks in the kitchen are still there and the temperature is not too high, it is just right for roasting sweet potatoes.
The villagers don’t have to go through so many troubles when roasting sweet potatoes. They just throw the sweet potatoes into the fire pit on the stove, cover them with the ashes with sparks, and wait for about half an hour, and the sweet potatoes will be roasted.
Xu Yunfan didn't know this method. He just thought roasting sweet potatoes meant roasting them on charcoal and turning them over. If he did that, wouldn't it delay other people's meals? "No hurry, finish your meal first and then roast them for me."
"It's okay, I'll go now. It's just right." Qin Run hurriedly put down the bowl, went to the storage room to find some sweet potatoes, and then ran to the kitchen.
Xu Yunfan had difficulty walking, so he didn't follow them. He watched Qin Run leave the living room and then turned his head to look around the living room.
Xiao Qin's house is not small, with four rooms. The main room is facing the gate and is usually used to entertain guests and have meals.
On the left side of the main hall are the rooms of Qin An, Qin Run, and Qin's father and mother, and on the right is Qin's grandmother's room, which has now become a woodshed, and further on is the kitchen.
At that time, almost every household had a yard, which was used to grow seasonal vegetables.
Xiao Qin's family was no exception. The bok choy they ate tonight was grown in their own yard. Unfortunately, it didn't grow well enough. There were only a dozen or so sparse and small plants, and they were gone after a few meals.
It's not that Qin Run is not diligent and doesn't know how to grow vegetables, but these vegetable seeds were saved by him in previous years. After his house was robbed, Qin Run found that the vegetable seeds had been stepped on several times. Some of the seeds were rotten, and some were not rotten. Qin Run was reluctant to throw them away, and he didn't have much money, so he had to make do with the seeds. As a result, how many vegetables would grow after sowing the seeds depended entirely on luck.
Xu Yunfan sighed. During the few days he stayed at Qin Run's house, the thing he ate most was wild vegetable porridge. He thought that was the worst food. However, when he went to the kitchen to eat sweet potatoes, he saw the empty brown rice in the rice jar and the oil tank that even mice didn't want to touch. Only then did he realize how poor this family was.
Qin Run came back soon.
"Um, the sweet potatoes were on fire?"
Qin Run nodded and said to Qin An, "Second brother, I roasted some extra sweet potatoes, you don't need to eat so much."
At this time, sugar is a precious commodity. The sweet potatoes are kept for a long time, and the moisture is lost, so the sweetness naturally rises. Qin An, at his age, naturally has a sweet tooth. When he heard that there were sweet potatoes to eat, his eyes curved with a smile, and he said sweetly, "Thank you, big brother."
Xu Yunfan glanced at Qin An and thought that this silly little guy was quite cute.
Her eyes are round, big and round, and her eyelashes are like palm-leaf fans, casting a shadow.
"Angel likes sweets?"
When Qin An heard Xu Yunfan talking to him, he quickly turned around. Because his mouth was stuffed with a big mouthful of rice, he didn't have time to swallow it, so his cheeks were bulging like a little hamster. He was afraid that if he answered slowly, Xu Yunfan would be unhappy and leave, so he had to nod desperately and make unclear "hmm" sounds.
Xu Yunfan smiled and looked at Qin Run who was eating quietly. "What about you? What do you like?"
Since they will live together in the future, Xu Yunfan thinks that since he is older than them, it is his responsibility to take care of them and understand the tastes of his two younger brothers.
Qin Run looked up and said, "I like everything." As long as I can fill my stomach, I don't care whether it is sweet, spicy or bitter.
Xiao Qin's family doesn't have much land, only more than ten acres. It's already difficult for him to support himself during the busy farming season, and he doesn't have much time to find work in town.
In addition, after paying the grain tax at the end of autumn, the remaining grain in the house was only enough for the two brothers to sell some to buy daily necessities and maintain their daily food and clothing, and there was not much left. With his conditions, he had no choice.
Therefore, for Qin Run, it was good enough to fill his stomach.
Xu Yunfan was a little distressed. "I like everything" seemed to be the same as "whatever". Saying it was the same as not saying it.
"Do you want to eat your meal?" Qin Run asked, looking at the half bowl of rice left in front of Xu Yunfan.
Xu Yunfan lowered his eyes and glanced at the remaining food: "No, I want to save some space for roasted sweet potatoes."
Qin Run nodded, then scooped the remaining half bowl of rice into his own bowl and began to eat it in big mouthfuls.
Xu Yunfan was very surprised: "...You're eating the food I left over?"
Because Qin Run picked some vegetables for him, some of the soup soaked into the half bowl of rice, making it look a bit unappetizing.
But Qin Run remained calm and started eating with big mouthfuls, "Well, can't I? Don't you want to stop eating?"
Qin Run thought that his behavior of eating leftovers would make Xu Yunfan unhappy, and he couldn't help but panic, "I'm sorry... I just don't want to waste it. If you don't like it, next time I will..."
"No." Xu Yunfan knew that people who were afraid of being poor and couldn't eat enough hated waste the most.
Just like farmers who make a living by farming, they hate to see others waste the land and food.
Seeing Qin Run like this, Xu Yunfan couldn't help but think of what he had heard someone say before: drinking a bottle of water together is like an indirect kiss.
So, Qin Run is like this, isn't he...
Xu Yunfan couldn't help but blush just thinking about it.
Does Qin Run not want to waste food or does he want to have some indirect relationship with himself?
Xu Yunfan hoped it was the former, after all, he was really not interested in men.
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