Chapter 26 Chapter 26 Brothers
The way down the mountain was not easy to walk on. After a night of heavy rain, the road was slippery. Miao Ying felt sorry for himself, but he had to walk carefully. However, he still fell several times. Huo Xing ignored his refusal and carried Miao Ying on his back on the most dangerous and steep road.
When they reached the foot of the mountain, both of them were covered in mud. Li Hongying had boiled water, and her grandmother had prepared ginger soup. Even Huo Xiaobao was holding a pancreas, waiting at the door. When they saw people, they all came over.
"I knew it would rain, and sure enough, they didn't come back. It must be very cold on the mountain, right? Did Xiaoying catch a cold?" Li Hongying looked at them. They seemed to be fine, not in a bad state.
"Xiao Ying is weak, drink the ginger soup quickly. Your previous injuries haven't healed yet." Grandmother quickly handed over the ginger soup, which was no longer too hot, and watched Miao Ying drink the whole bowl. The spiciness made him grimace.
"Brother, take a shower to warm yourself up." Huo Xiaobao was not willing to be outdone and squeezed in as well.
Miao Ying no longer cared about those trivial matters. He felt warm in his heart. This was the life he had always dreamed of. He pulled out a handful of shelled chestnuts from his arms and smiled at Huo Xiaobao, "Eat it."
Huo Xiaobao kept the chestnuts but did not eat them immediately. He put them in his purse. Miao Ying was puzzled.
Li Hongying said: "I made a friend yesterday and we agreed to play together again today. I guess she wanted to share it with her friends."
Miao Ying rubbed Huo Xiaobao's head and said, "Have fun with friends."
Originally, Huo Xiaobao lived in Nankouba Village. Because of Huo San, he didn't have any friends and the children in the village didn't want to play with him. Now that he came to Rongshu Village, he made friends immediately, which was a good thing.
There was a bathtub in the rented house, which was not as big as the one in his original home, so the bathing was not very satisfying, but it was also very good. His body felt warm after the bath. He did not put on his outer clothes after the bath, but went straight to bed in his middle clothes. Anyway, Li Hongying also told them to have a good rest today.
He lay in bed, thinking of his sad things again, so he buried his head in the quilt and looked at it carefully again, but couldn't understand it. It was just a little smaller, but how could it be useless?
When he crawled out of bed, he found Huo Xing taking a bath with the water he had just used for bathing. Perhaps out of consideration for Miao Ying, he was naked from the waist up, with only a pair of underpants covering his lower body. Because he was facing away from Miao Ying, Miao Ying could see his strong back muscles, which still had some bruises from old injuries.
It was a very strong adult male body, the kind that Miao Ying envied the most in his previous life.
He propped up his head and looked for a while. The bath water flowed down his back and finally sank into a place where Miao Ying could not see it. He wanted to whistle, but that was a bit unreserved.
It’s just that Huo Xing had his back to him, so he couldn’t see the scenery in front of him, but he could imagine that there must be chest muscles and abdominal muscles.
Miao Ying withdrew his gaze only after Huo Xing finished bathing, changed his clothes, and started to deal with the bath water. He pulled up the quilt and was about to have a good sleep when he found something was wrong with him.
He buried his head in the quilt again and said, "Brother, you are a beast!"
Miao Ying once felt like the sky was falling, and he stared numbly at the ceiling of the bed with his eyes open.
After cleaning up, Huo Xing also returned to his room. Compared to Miao Ying, he didn't get a good rest. Miao Ying at least had time to close his eyes, but he didn't sleep all night.
Miao Ying saw him come in and made some space for him. The two of them lay down side by side. At this moment, Miao Ying's insignificant reaction disappeared, but he always felt a little sorry for Huo Xing.
My younger brother actually has improper thoughts about his brother.
Huo Xing seemed to be extremely tired and fell asleep almost as soon as he touched the pillow. Miao Ying was warmed by his body temperature and fell asleep again.
However, Miao Ying woke up not long after sleeping. He put on his clothes quietly and climbed off Huo Xing's body, but he still woke Huo Xing up. Huo Xing opened his eyes and looked at him. Miao Ying quickly covered his eyes with his hands and said, "Go on, go on."
He felt Huo Xing's eyelashes moving in his palm, and then he moved his hand away. Huo Xing had already closed his eyes. Miao Ying then put on his shoes and walked out of the room.
It was getting dark. Grandma was picking vegetables, Li Hongying was making a fire and cooking, and Huo Xiaobao had gone out and had not returned yet.
Miao Ying saw that he had no work to do, so he simply said he would go out for a walk and call Huo Xiaobao back for dinner. Li Hongying didn't care about him and let him go to get familiar with the road.
Rongshu Village is not as flat as Nankouba Village. The children are now playing on a small slope with several stone steps. Several children of similar age are lining up to slide down the stone slabs beside the steps.
Because it rained yesterday, the ground was very wet and slippery. There were still some residual water marks on the stone slabs, but they were now wiped dry by their clothes. The stone slabs were clean, but their clothes were extremely dirty.
Huo Xiaobao was among them, laughing loudly as he slid down the stone slab.
"Xiaobao! I want to eat another chestnut." A slightly older child came up to Huo Xiaobao.
Huo Xiaobao opened his empty purse and felt a little helpless. He was afraid that if he had no food, they would stop playing with him. It was like this in the past. If he had no food, those people would stop playing with him.
When the child heard that it was gone, he shrugged regretfully: "Okay, I'll bring some peanuts from my house tomorrow! Have you ever eaten fried peanuts? They're delicious."
Seeing Huo Xiaobao still standing there in a daze, he called out to him, "Aren't you going to skate anymore? It's your turn."
Huo Xiaobao quickly put away his purse and slid down the stone slab behind him.
Another child also spoke to Huo Xiaobao: "My family used to have chestnuts. We picked them up a long time ago, but we ate them all. Where did your chestnuts come from?"
Huo Xiaobao said seriously, "My eldest brother and my older brother brought it back from the mountain yesterday."
The remaining children stopped playing and came over all at once: "You have two brothers, how great! I don't have any brothers, I only have a sister at home who beats me up every day."
"I'm the eldest brother in the family, so I have to give all the food to my younger brothers and sisters first."
"How old is your eldest brother? He can even go up the mountain. That's amazing."
Huo Xiaobao's eyes sparkled with praise. "My eldest brother is so grown up! He can even hunt. He's also very good. He can do everything. He can make shuttlecocks, sing the radish song, and cook delicious food."
"You're so lucky!" the children exclaimed in admiration. "Your eldest brother can hunt! So your family must eat meat often."
It was the first time that Huo Xiaobao felt so happy among children. In the past, those children would only say that his eldest brother was a big fool, his brother was vicious, and he was a bastard, so he didn't like his original village. Now that he could leave there, he was really happy.
"Xiaobao, go home for dinner."
After listening to their childish chatter, Miao Ying finally called out to Huo Xiaobao.
At this moment, a group of children gathered around. They looked at Miao Ying curiously like mud monkeys. The oldest of these children was probably six or seven years old, and the youngest was only about three years old. They could not even speak clearly.
"Are you Xiaobao's brother? But you're not very tall." said a child slightly older than Huo Xiaobao.
Miao Ying was always very patient with children: "I'm his other brother. What are your names?"
"Little Tiger."
"Erniu."
"Little Cabbage."
"Little Shut."
Miao Ying looked at the children one by one. Every child had a patch of high altitude red on his face, but they were all in good spirits and looked like very childish children.
"Are you all going to school?" Miao Ying had heard that there was a primary school in Rongshu Village.
"Xiao Hu and I are in school. Shuan Zi and Xiao Bai Cai are not old enough yet." Er Niu is the oldest among them. "Is Xiao Bao going to school too?"
Miao Ying nodded: "But we just moved to the village, and we don't know if there are any requirements for attending school."
Erniu raised his head and said, "I know everything. All I need is a piece of pickled meat and I can go to school!"
Miao Ying's eyes lit up. Just a piece of meat was enough to allow Huo Xiaobao to go to school?
He was about to ask more when he heard a noise behind him. A man rushed over, grabbed Erniu, and beat him on the butt: "You bastard, it's not you who's supposed to wash the clothes, is it?"
Erniu broke free from his father's hand and ran away, calling to the other children to play together tomorrow.
The other children were not surprised at all and just called out, "Nice wind!"
This man was very gentle with the other children, patting their heads one by one. Then he looked at Miao Ying and said in a very familiar way: "You are the one who just moved in, right?"
Miao Ying nodded: "Hello."
Ye Feng smiled at him and said, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, but I have to beat up this naughty kid."
Miao Ying then realized that he was also a boy like herself, and he seemed to have already had a child. Miao Ying opened her eyes wide. A real man who had had a child!
He said seriously, "It's okay, it's okay. It's good for children to be naughty. Our little treasure just came and needs a big brother to play with him."
"This child looks like his father, not like you at all. You seem to be very young too." Ye Feng wanted to talk to him for a while.
Miao Ying was horrified and quickly shook his head: "No, no, no, Xiaobao is our brother, not my son."
"Oh, I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding." Ye Feng said without hesitation, "It's getting late. I have to go back and cook. Let's talk next time."
Miao Ying nodded, and saw Ye Feng taking the children away. As he walked, he said that these children's families were neighbors with his family, and it would be convenient to take them back now.
Huo Xiaobao also followed Miao Ying, and the two of them walked slowly home: "Did you have fun?"
"Happy." Huo Xiaobao said with a smile, "Lots of games. They said they'll take me to play mud rice tomorrow."
"Just have fun." Miao Ying held his hand and walked back home one after the other.
Li Hongying saw Huo Xiaobao covered in mud and wanted to say something, but then she remembered how he used to be in the village, so she gave up and sent the child to wash his hands and prepare for dinner.
Miao Ying turned around and saw that Huo Xing had also gotten up. It seemed that the cold wind that blew all night last night had no effect on him. He had a strong body. Huo Xing was chopping firewood at the moment. The firewood was bought when Li Hongying was settled. The quality was not very good and it was a bit damp, but it was cheap.
Huo Xing changed into a set of short clothes, with his calves bound with leggings, showing the outline of his muscles. Miao Ying had stepped on these calves before, so he naturally knew how powerful they were; the same was true for his arms, as Miao Ying had touched them before, and he knew that his biceps and triceps were very well developed.
He looked for a while, felt a little thirsty, and turned to find some water to drink. Huo Xing didn't know why he suddenly felt like his foot was stepped on, so he just swung the axe to chop wood to burn off his excess energy.
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