Chapter 97: If you come close to me, you will be in trouble

The boy looked at Xingxing for a while, then turned away in silence.

Xing Xing was stunned: "Where are you going?"

But before he could finish his words, the boy missed his step and fell down.

Xing Xing was startled.

The last time I met this little brother, he fell off the wall.

This time when I met this little brother, he suddenly fell down again!

She ran over quickly and tried to help him.

The boy frowned slightly, got up from the ground, and stretched out his hand to stop Xingxing from getting closer: "Don't come over!"

Xingxing stopped less than three feet away from the boy and looked at him in confusion.

Why?

Xing Xing asked in a low voice: "Xing Xing is not going. Are you...are you okay? Are you injured?"

The boy was also very confused at this moment.

He looked at the palm of his hand and found that there was no breakage.

My knees didn't feel any hurt.

This... doesn't feel right.

He was unlucky. Whether it was falling from a tree, falling off a bed, tripping while walking, or even being hit by a rock falling from the roof... From childhood to adulthood, he had become accustomed to all kinds of accidental injuries.

His whole body was covered with bruises and old wounds, and he had long been accustomed to keeping silent.

But, it's strange.

I didn't seem to be seriously injured when I fell from the wall last time.

This time when I fell, my hands didn't even get a scratch.

This is not right...

The boy suddenly looked up at Xingxing.

This little girl was responsible for both of the times something went wrong.

"Your...name is Xingxing?" the boy asked.

Xingxing saw this weird, quiet and unsociable little brother asking her name, and she nodded happily: "Yes, it's Xingxing! Yu Xingxing!"

The boy was silent for a moment: "My name is Wei... My name is Shi Yan."

"Brother Yan!" Xing Xing called out crisply, and then asked with concern, "Are you okay?"

Shi Yan shook his head: "No."

Xing Xing became happy and followed Shi Yan: "Brother Yan, you are so tall!"

She vaguely felt that the handsome boy in front of her didn't seem to like her getting close to him, so she automatically kept a distance from him, but her voice was still full of enthusiasm.

Shi Yan glanced at Xing Xing and said, "You are too short."

The little kid not far away seemed to be only as tall as his waist.

Xingxing's shoulders slumped and she muttered, "Hasn't Xingxing grown a little taller?...Xingxing is trying really hard to eat!"

Shi Yan fell silent, not knowing how to respond.

Fortunately, Xing Xing was already used to this strange little brother's sudden silence, so she didn't care about him. Suddenly, she realized something, ran over to pick a few irises from the roadside, and held them in her hands and presented them to Shi Yan: "...Brother Yan, this seems to be useful for injuries. Look at your knees, if they are broken, will it feel better if you apply it here?"

Shi Yan took two steps back.

Xing Xing was stunned.

Shi Yan took a quick glance at the slightly hurt and puzzled look in the little girl's eyes and quickly looked away.

He hesitated for a moment, but still tried to explain to Xing Xing: "...If you get close to me, you will be in trouble."

"How could that be!" Xing Xing retorted loudly, "Xing Xing is not unlucky!"

Shi Yan didn't know how to explain it.

"Xingxing——"

It was Li Chunhua calling Xingxing to go back.

Xing Xing didn't care about anything else. She stuffed the Phoenix Flower into Shi Yan's hand and quickly instructed: "Crush it and apply it to the painful area!"

Xingxing runs very fast.

Shi Yan held the iris flower in his hand and looked nervously at Xing Xing's back - no, she didn't fall.

She ran into the Taoist temple safely.

Shi Yan looked down at the phoenix flower in his hand.

Xiao Douding's hand just touched his...

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Li Chunhua took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat off Xingxing's head: "Look at how fast you've run. Take a break and then we can continue walking." She then took out the water bag she brought with her and fed Xingxing some water.

Xingxing smiled sweetly at Li Chunhua and gulped down a few mouthfuls of the drink.

"Where did Xing Xing go to play?"

"She's outside, talking to a little brother."

Xingxing pointed outside the Taoist temple.

"Little brother?"

Li Chunhua wondered.

"Yes, yes." Xing Xing gestured, "He is this tall, and he is very handsome."

Li Chunhua burst out laughing.

The little girl, who looked like a tiny child, was gesticulating and talking seriously, which made people smile no matter how they looked at her.

Li Chunhua touched her belly.

I hope the gods can hear her wish and let her have a baby girl too!

When Li Chunhua and Su Rouer brought Xingxing to Yu's house, Old Man Yu and Yu Sanbao had not returned yet.

It was not until the evening that Old Man Yu and Yu Sanbao came back in the twilight, looking excited.

This is a harvest at first glance.

"There is still half a year left this year, and we have four brothers. The teacher said that there are not many farmers like us who support their children to study," Yu Sanbao said with a beaming face. "He only asked each of us to pay eight silver coins as tuition. He said that the summer heat will be over in a few days, and then he will let the brothers go to study with the teacher."

This is indeed good news.

Both Li Chunhua and Bai Xiaofeng were smiling happily.

Su Rouer couldn't hold back her temper: "What about the shop?"

Yu Sanbao smiled and said, "I've also found a shop! My father and I went to several places today, and by chance, we ran into a family whose previous tenants were moving out, so the shop was vacant and they were looking for a place to rent these days... My father and I went inside to see the layout of the shop and the backyard. Although it's a little old inside, it's okay. The location is not bad!"

"There are four rooms in the yard. When the time comes, clean up one and use it as a warehouse to store some goods. One is originally a stove room. Clean it up so that it will be convenient for the brothers to come back for dinner in the evening. There are two more rooms. Four brothers can have two rooms each!"

Yu Sanbao arranged everything perfectly, and the Yu family nodded repeatedly.

"That's great! How much money does it cost?" Li Chunhua couldn't help asking.

Yu Sanbao laughed and said, "They asked for 30 taels of silver a year for rent, saying that it would be higher than other places because it has a yard. I negotiated with them and got it down to 28 taels a year!"

Twenty-eight taels!

If this had been in the past, it would have been a price that would have made the Yu family members shudder with fear.

But right now, thanks to Xingxing, the Yu family now has a surplus of 150 taels of silver, and the annual rent of 28 taels is really nothing!

Mrs. Wei couldn't hide her excitement: "Okay, twenty-eight taels is twenty-eight taels! Have you signed the deed? When can we go over?"

Yu Sanbao smiled and said, "Mom, are you still worried about me doing the job? The deeds and other things have been signed, but we still have to go to the government office to go through the formalities. If nothing goes wrong, we can go there within three days and clean up the shop and the yard!"