Chapter 130 Chapter 130 Very good
On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the weather was clear. After the morning mist dissipated, the warm sunshine shone into every corner of the village.
Li Hongying set up two tables in the yard, Miao Ying and Zheng Caier were busy in the kitchen, and Lingzhi was watching the three children in the room. The three children were sitting quietly on the bed, playing with toys.
Pangpang is the oldest and is the one who is making a lot of noise. However, Xuetuan and Shengsheng are both quiet, so he is forced to calm down and play a game with his two younger brothers that he has played many times before.
"Is Pangpang starting his enlightenment now?" Miao Ying was cutting vegetables while chatting with Zheng Caier.
Zheng Caier looked embarrassed, and then said, "Fatty, you have no talent."
Miao Ying stopped chopping vegetables and said, "That's not the case. We need to send him to an introductory class to see if he has talent."
Zheng Cai'er paused before saying, "Dad and my husband want Pangpang to learn how to butcher pigs in the future."
Miao Ying frowned: "What about Fatty? What does he think?"
Zheng Caier looked at him with some confusion: "Pangpang is still a child, what could he know?"
"Sister-in-law, Pangpang is already five, almost six. He has his own ideas now. You can't treat him like a child anymore," Miao Ying said. "You should ask him what he likes and what he wants to do, not what you think he should do."
After Miao Ying finished speaking, Zheng Caier stood there in a daze. When she was at home, one of Pangpang's friends went to school. Every morning, Pangpang would watch his good friend pass by the door of his house, and then come back in a depressed mood.
She was busy with her own things and seemed not to have cared about Pangpang for a long time. It seemed that as long as he had enough food and clothes, there was no problem. Now it seems that she seemed to have missed a lot.
"It's okay, sister-in-law." Miao Ying comforted her, "If you don't know what to say, I can help you scold them."
Zheng Caier felt a little uncomfortable, and Miao Ying also noticed it. Li Hongying came at this moment, so he asked Zheng Caier to accompany the child and he cooked the rest of the dishes, with Li Hongying helping him.
Preparing two tables of food was no problem for Miao Ying, and he was ready to eat quickly.
When sitting down, Miao Ying saw that Zheng Caier's eyes were a little red, and Miao Dong's face didn't look good either.
Ye Feng's family of three also came. Erniu also came today and is talking with Huo Xiaobao now.
But the two of them seemed to have become somewhat distant. Miao Ying looked at Erniu and always felt that he was a little awkward next to Huo Xiaobao.
"You're so awesome." Erniu has been working in the oil press these days, and he's a lot stronger than Huo Xiaobao. He's the same age as Xiaolin, and three years older than Huo Xiaobao. When he was younger, he could still act like an older brother, but now he doesn't have that aura at all.
"This is just the first step." Huo Xiaobao brought him some dried fruits, "It's just that Brother Ying insisted on treating us to a meal. By the way, Brother Erniu, where are our other friends?" Huo Xiaobao still remembered that when he was a child, it was Erniu and the others who took him out to play and helped him get through those days.
"They all went to their own work. I went to the oil press, Xiao Baicai went out to do business with a distant uncle, and Xiao Shuanzi became an apprentice in a restaurant. Everyone is no longer in the village." Erniu scratched his head. "Only you are the best, and you are still going to school."
Huo Xiaobao smiled, not knowing what to say. Indeed, his brother Ying had indeed created very good conditions for him.
There was silence between the two of them for a while. Huo Xiaobao looked at him again and found that his face had suddenly turned red. Not only his face, but also his neck and ears were all red.
Following his line of sight, Huo Xiaobao saw Xiaolin coming out of the room. He was squatting and talking to Shengsheng. The sunlight fell on his face, casting a gentle glow.
Realizing that Huo Xiaobao was looking at him, Erniu withdrew his gaze and smiled uncomfortably. He then felt that he should build a good relationship with Huo Xiaobao: "My little daddy said that he wants to hire Xiaolin back home."
Huo Xiaobao's face was already very bad. He tried his best to control his emotions and said in a cold voice: "Brother Erniu, don't make public something that hasn't even been decided yet. It's not good for my brother's reputation."
Erniu nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, I'm sorry for being rude." Before he could say anything else, Miao Ying called them to eat.
Although the banquet was held for Xiaobao, he was not in a very good mood at the table and just barely maintained his manners. When Xiaolin passed by him, he kicked him lightly. Huo Xiaobao turned around to look at him, and he glared at Huo Xiaobao as a warning.
After the banquet, Lingzhi and Fu Lingyou were going to stay overnight, so Miao Ying took Xuetuan to send them to the village entrance. Zheng Caier walked in front holding Pangpang's hand, and Miao Ying looked at Miao Dong and Miao Dahai who were walking beside him.
"Did your sister-in-law say anything to you?" Miao Ying saw that Miao Dong's face was not very good, so he asked directly.
"I don't know what she was thinking. Why did she want Pangpang to go to school? We agreed that Pangpang would inherit my and Dad's family business."
Miao Ying rolled his eyes at him: "Your family business is nothing. Pangpang is just a little boy, how can you decide everything for him in his life?"
"How could I not know my son? He doesn't have the talent for school." Miao Dong said unconvincedly, "Not everyone can read as well as your Huo Xiaobao."
"Then why don't you ask your son if he wants to go to school?"
"He's just a kid, what does he know?"
Miao Ying picked up Xuetuan and looked at him: "Tell your uncle, what do you want to do when you grow up?"
Xuetuan blinked his eyes and said, "I want to go to a faraway place with my little daddy!"
Miao Ying turned to look at Miao Dong: "Xuetuan is only three years old and already knows what he wants to do. Pangpang is almost seven years old, doesn't he know it yet?"
Xuetuan had something to say now: "Brother, write."
Miao Dong was stunned and looked at Xuetuan: "What writing?"
"Fat brother took me and Shengsheng to write in the mud." Xuetuan had a good memory, "Uncle."
"So, listen to what the child wants to do." Miao Ying didn't want to argue with him. "After all, Chubby is still young, right? What's wrong with letting him experience it for two years?"
Miao Ying patted his shoulder and said, "Don't be so impatient as to argue with your sister-in-law. You should study a little bit. Even if you want to be a butcher in the future, you should at least know a few words."
Miao Dong nodded.
Miao Ying said a few more words to Liu Qiong, asking his brother and sister-in-law to stop arguing and talk things out properly.
When he returned home, Miao Ying saw Xiaolin and Huo Xiaobao talking at the door. Xiaolin was scolding Huo Xiaobao unilaterally, but Huo Xiaobao didn't argue with him, but just listened quietly.
Lingzhi and Fu Lingyou were playing with Shengsheng in the yard. Mantou and Wotou were lying on the left and right of the door. When they saw them come back, they came over and stuck to the snowball.
They are Xuetuan’s good friends and would not hurt him at all. Shengsheng also ran to Xuetuan and started playing with him again.
Miao Ying sat next to Ling Zhi and called Huo Xiaobao over. Although he was not at the same table with Huo Xiaobao today, he also noticed that something was wrong with Huo Xiaobao today: "Tell me, what happened today?"
Huo Xiaobao glanced at Xiaolin, then said, "Brother Erniu speaks without restraint."
"You two were good friends before, so it's no big deal if you said something wrong." Miao Ying said with a straight face, "You need to practice more on how to behave in society in the future."
Huo Xiaobao didn't dare to argue with Miao Ying, so he had to nod.
Miao Ying talked about going to the provincial capital to go to school and asked Huo Xiaobao for his opinion.
Huo Xiaobao looked at Miao Ying steadily: "I want to go."
Miao Ying nodded: "Then go, when the new year comes, our family will send you to the capital city to go to school."
After saying that, he looked at Fu Lingyou and said, "Brother, if we want to buy a small house in the capital city, how much money do we need?"
"The Fu family also has a house in the city," Fu Lingyou said. "I bought it a while ago. It's not big, just two rooms. If Xiaobao wants to go to school, he can live there."
Miao Ying weighed the pros and cons: "Then I'll pay you the rent."
Fu Lingyou smiled and said, "Okay."
After finalizing this matter, there was still a lot to do. Huo Xiaobao had to go back to the academy to ask the teacher to help write a letter of introduction, and he also had to take Shu Xiu to thank all the teachers who had taught him, including Master Song in the village.
At night, Xiaolin pulled Miao Ying into the room and said he had something to tell him.
"Brother, I want to go to the capital with Xiaobao. I can set up a stall on my own now." Xiaolin looked at Miao Ying eagerly, "Brother."
"I didn't say I wouldn't let you go." Miao Ying said with a smile, "We'll go together then. Once you're settled, we'll come back."
Xiao Lin quickly laughed and hugged Miao Ying again: "Brother, thank you."
After he finished speaking, he hesitated again: "Brother, you really won't urge me to get married, right?"
Miao Ying rubbed his head and said, "No, I will wait for you to bring your ideal partner back home and then marry me, okay? If you never meet your ideal partner in your lifetime, then you can stay at home for the rest of your life. When Xuetuan grows up, let Xuetuan raise you."
By chance, Xuetuan walked to the door of Xiaolin's room, heard what they said, and shouted loudly: "I'll support my uncle!"
Huo Xiaobao came out of his room and carried Xuetuan on his shoulders: "I don't need you!"
Xuetuan laughed and hugged Huo Xiaobao's neck.
By the time Huo Xiaobao had prepared everything, it was time for the New Year. Miao Ying looked at Huo Xing standing at the door pasting Spring Festival couplets and felt that time was passing too quickly.
Now the yard is full of traces of their family's life. There is a dilapidated doghouse at the door, and there are still a lot of uncleaned wood chips in the tool shed. The shed behind the house is even more lively, with cows, donkeys, deer and chickens all over the ground, and they never stop for a moment.
The house is different, and the people are different.
The grandmother who always smiled was gone, but she seemed to be still here, looking at their family with her gentle eyes.
When Huo Xiaobao first arrived, he was still a child wearing open-crotch pants and with sparse hair, but in the blink of an eye, he was about to leave home to go to boarding school.
Xiaolin was thin and small back then, but now he has grown into a gentle and handsome boy.
Li Hongying is no longer as young as she was a few years ago. She has a lot of white hair on her temples and laugh lines at the corners of her eyes. Miao Ying still remembers how Li Hongying treated him rudely when he first came.
A snowball running around the yard is the most important child in his life, a child connected to him by blood.
And there is Huo Xing.
This tall, taciturn man would be tied to him for the rest of his life without any surprise.
It's magical and really, really good.
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