Nanshanxia

Chapter 72

The sales of bean products in the old Zhujia bean food shop are increasing day by day, and the demand for beans is only increasing. In order not to lack beans in the future, Zhu Yan took his family to continue harvesting beans in the village when winter first arrived.

On this day, Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao finished harvesting the beans in Jinsha Village. He helped Yuan Xiao put together the bean bags, looked up at the still bright sky, and smiled at Yuan Xiao: "Yuan Xiao, can we have breakfast today?" Go home, do you want to go home with my brother, or do you want my brother to take you for a stroll somewhere else?"

After being reminded by Zhu Yan, Yuan Xiao remembered what he was going to do today. He smiled and held Zhu Yan's hand in a fawning manner, and said softly, "Brother, I want to go for a walk in the next town. , can you take me there."

Zhu Yan couldn't help shaking when he heard Yuan Xiao's soft and pleasant brother's voice, he touched Yuan Xiao's head with the other hand, and responded decisively: "It's no problem, as long as you speak, even if it's Brother Tianya Haijiao take you."

"Hey, um!" Yuan Xiao printed a kiss on Zhu Yan's handsome side face as if no one was there, and then took the initiative to sit in the donkey cart with a smile, waiting for Zhu Yan to take her away.

Seeing this, Zhu Yan stopped dawdling. He counted the things on the donkey cart, jumped into the donkey cart, and walked towards the next town. On the way to drive the cart, after Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao said a few jokes, Seriously asked Yuan Xiao, "Yuan Xiao, did you go to town to buy something?"

"Hmm..." Yuan Xiao hesitated for a moment, and his fair face flushed a little. Seeing that Zhu Yan was waiting for his answer, he whispered just now: "The butcher's house in our town is closed. I want to go to the town next door. I'll buy you some beef and mutton, and make buns for you to replenish your body."

After Yuan Xiao finished speaking, Zhu Yan's face became warmer and warmer, and the corners of his lips curved into a beautiful arc. He held the rein with one hand, and put the other hand around Yuan Xiao's shoulder, Whispering in Yuan Xiao's ear, "My husband is in good health, don't worry, I will take good care of you tonight."

"..." Yuan Xiao's face was blushing at this time. I don't know if it was blown by the hot air in Zhu Yan's mouth, or because of Zhu Yan's Xiao Huang's embarrassment. Tonight, I will coax Le An and Le Ning of our family to sleep in Grandma's room."

"Success, I'll coax them with you." Zhu Yan replied straightforwardly, waving a small leather whip.

Since Le An and Le Ning were born, they have been hugged and served by the old lady Zhu, so these two children rarely look for Yuan Xiao and Zhu Yan, which also gave Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao enough Makeout time.

With the power, Zhu Yan drove the car much faster than usual. It didn't take long for the two of them to buy some beef and mutton from the next town, and also brought a few small toys for the dolls at home. Only then are we satisfied and leave together.

However, when Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao were driving through Yuanjia Village, they found that the villagers of Yuanjia Village were gathering at the entrance of the village, chattering about something. The village entrance that they passed by was now even more tightly blocked by the villagers of Yuanjia Village. In desperation, Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao had no choice but to get out of the car together.

"Old man, what happened here? Make way for us if it's convenient?" Zhu Yan randomly found an old man with a white beard who had collected beans before.

The old man with white beard came to his senses when Zhu Yan came to his side. He saw that the person who called him was Zhu Yan, a rich man who had harvested beans in their village. Zhu Yan blinked, then pointed to the crowd, and said in a low voice: "Just now a major incident happened in the village. The children of a family left their parents at home to make a living, and now they are leading others to kill themselves. All the things have been taken away, this father and mother will go crazy, you two can only wait, our village is still negotiating, and it should all be separated in a while."

Zhu Yan followed the sight of the white-bearded old man, and found that the people surrounded by everyone in the middle of the crowd were none other than Yuan Laoshuan and Zhou Caifeng, who he and Yuan Xiao hadn't seen for a long time.

That Yuan Laoshuan is even thinner than before, his skin that is not white at all, against his bony figure, looks like an old tree that is on the verge of extinction. Zhou Caifeng uttered dirty and ugly words, "Well, you bastard, which of the two children you raised is better? The older one is a brother, and it's useless for me to keep him. The younger one's wings are hard now. Now, just cut off the father-son relationship with me, and I will ask you, did you deliberately raise these two evil obstacles to scare me!"

"Master, how can you blame me for this matter? Our family must have been forced to do this. Don't be angry. I'll beg him in two days. That kid has soft ears. When we figure it out, it's us The child." Zhou Caifeng was dressed in a coarse singlet, and rolled on the ground with her head in her arms regardless of her image, to avoid Yuan Laoshuan's violent beating.

The villagers present, even under Li Zheng's command, asked Yuan Laoshuan not to beat his wife anymore, but Yuan Laoshuan was born with a violent temper. Once he got angry, ten cows would not be able to pull back. He is now as thin as a bone His body was constantly bursting with strength, he took a walking stick and spun around indiscriminately, and the villagers who were responsible for suppressing him were afraid that he would be accidentally injured, so he had no choice but to back down.

Taking advantage of the panic among the villagers, Yuan Laoshuan picked up his walking stick and beat Zhou Caifeng again. The walking stick stuck in Zhou Caifeng's leg, and Zhou Caifeng groaned and jumped up from the ground in pain. There were blood and tears on his face, like a person who had just crawled back from hell.

Zhou Caifeng looked down at the bright red drops of blood on the snow, and recalled the pool of blood in the courtyard of her home. At that time, she put all her hatred on Yuan Xiao, and at the same time she thought that all this was It was Yuan Xiao's fault. She treated Yuan Xiao more and more badly. She even beat him and didn't give him food. That day Yuan Xiao bumped his forehead against the corner of the stone table and bleed more blood than himself. Blood, she didn't feel distressed but felt happy.

Now the pain on her head and all over her body is reminding herself how much pain she gave Yuan Xiao at that time, and how stupid she was to harm her own flesh and blood, she now regrets it very much.

She is a stupid woman, a woman who does not regret her death, she has been wrong all her life, she thought that Yuan Xiao gave her all the pain, but she didn't know that in the end, she was blindly giving Yuan Xiao pain, she was guilty!

What is wrong with the child?Wasn't that self-righteous adult at fault?

Zhou Caifeng, who wanted to understand everything, was supported by other villagers, and looked at Yuan Laoshuan who was still going to hit her with a cane with anger in her eyes. She no longer avoided Yuan Laoshuan's scolding and beating, she straightened Standing in the crowd, he glared at Yuan Laoshuan with his head raised.

When Yuan Laoshuan's crutch hit her head again, she reached out and grabbed the crutch, and threw Yuan Laoshuan to the ground with all her strength. Her eyes were full of hatred and she said: "Yuan Laoshuan, I have always thought that Yuan Xiao was not as good as you wanted, so you beat me to death. I foolishly thought that all this was Yuan Xiao's fault. Now that the family is not as good as you want, you still come Hit me, you blame me for not being able to give birth, if you are capable, you give birth by yourself, I, Zhou Caifeng, are just confused and stupid, because of your fault, I have done so many inhuman things, I regret it! Regret it! Hahaha."

Yuan Laoshuan lay on the ground in a daze because of Zhou Caifeng's wild laughter. He looked at Zhou Caifeng who was full of sneering eyes, and muttered, "This woman is probably crazy, she is crazy!"

"I'm not crazy, I just woke up. Yuan Laoshuan and Zhou Caifeng have been beaten by you for most of my life. I don't dare to pant when I sleep next to you every day. I am afraid that I will be beaten again if I do something wrong. I am afraid of being beaten by you, so Resent Yuan Xiao, you say how stupid I am, the child cannot choose his own parents and family members, what is wrong with him, the fault is you, old man!" Zhou Caifeng picked up the walking stick lying on the ground, and followed Yuan Laoshuan's hand. She was hit on the leg, and then she looked at Yuan Laoshuan who was lying on the ground with vicious eyes, and said with a sneer, "You are a scum, you deserve your children to leave you."

"Zhou Caifeng, are you crazy!" Yuan Laoshuan was so angry that Zhou Caifeng sat up from the ground. With the help of others, he stood up again, and once again rushed towards Zhou Caifeng who was laughing at him. His eyes were round and bloodshot Obviously wanting to grab Zhou Caifeng's hair, she yelled incoherently, "You bitch, you are acting crazy in front of everyone, you are not afraid to go home and I will beat you to death!"

"Oh, old Shuan, stop beating women. You said that Caifeng has been with you for many years, but you always beat her. Every time we see it, we feel uncomfortable." Li Zheng was really hurt. Unable to understand Yuan Laoshuan's barbaric behavior, he couldn't help but stepped forward to persuade Yuan Laoshuan.

Yuan Laoshuan still loves face very much, but now that Zhou Caifeng and Yuan Jiaxing made him lose such a big man, he no longer struggles with his own face. Instead of answering Lizheng's words directly, he looked at Zhou Caifeng with a sneer, " As the saying goes, marry a chicken and follow the chicken, marry a dog as the dog, I, Yuan Laoshuan, have been like this all my life, I can't change it, if you have the ability, just make up with me."

"Okay, I'll make peace with you." Perhaps Zhou Caifeng had had enough of Yuan Laoshuan's unbeatable face, and under the exclamation of everyone and Yuan Laoshuan's surprised gaze, she repeated again: "I Zhou Caifeng will make peace with you today in front of everyone and Li Zheng."

"You, you really think it over?" Yuan Laoshuan pretended to be calm and looked at Zhou Caifeng, his heart was beating non-stop. He never thought that the woman who had been bullied by him for most of his life would now have He had the guts to reconcile himself in front of everyone. He thought Zhou Caifeng had forgotten the consequences of reconciliation, so he sneered and continued to remind, "Zhou Caifeng, don't forget our rules. Women take the initiative to find men to reconcile. You don't have any property, without me and this family, you really have nothing, have you thought about it clearly?"

"Of course I've thought about it clearly. What else do you have besides such a dilapidated house and an acre of land that doesn't grow seedlings?" Zhou Caifeng wiped away the blood and tears on her face, she smiled brightly and said: " Ever since you slapped me for the first time, you have frightened me with this matter, and this scare has frightened me for decades. Now that I am old, I don't care about those gossips, and I don't worry about what will happen to me in the future Days, even if I, Zhou Caifeng, freeze to death on the street and starve to death, I will make peace with you. I have had enough of you, and I don’t want to wait for you after I die. I don’t want anything. I cleanse myself Go out."

As Zhou Caifeng said, she limped towards Lizheng, and asked Lizheng to draft a letter of reconciliation and departure on the spot. She signed it on the spot and forced Yuan Laoshuan to draw it. Seeing that Yuan Laoshuan refused to move for a long time like a clay statue, she then Sneered at the side: "Why are you afraid?"

"Zhou Caifeng, you are too deceitful!" Yuan Laoshuan gasped heavily in anger, then spit out a mouthful of old blood, and fell to the ground without moving.

Zhou Caifeng's face was numb. She stepped forward and squatted on the ground, grabbing Yuan Laoshuan's hand, pressed her fingerprints on her and Li Shu, got up and walked out of the crowd calmly. When she saw Yuan Xiao who was watching the excitement in the crowd, When she was with Zhu Yan, her tears flooded again, she didn't dare to look at Yuan Xiao again, she covered her mouth and fled the scene.

After Zhou Caifeng left, Lizheng asked the villagers to help carry Yuan Laoshuan away, and some villagers with broken mouths jokingly said: "Hey, this Yuan Laoshuan is also ridiculous, and his good family members are all offended by him. From now on, he is afraid that he will die alone forever."

The person who usually doesn't like Yuan Laoshuan also picked up the conversation, "He deserves it, he told us before that my brother is useless, and I will live with other men in the future, but now it's good, my eldest son has become someone else's family. The door-to-door son-in-law grew up like a little brother, do you think this is ridiculous?"

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Zhu Yan listened to everyone's glances and words, and looked at Yuan Xiao who had not made a sound from the beginning. He observed Yuan Xiao's delicate side face from the side. Yuan Xiao's side face was very soft, without frowning or anger , Zhu Yan breathed a sigh of relief and gently took Yuan Xiaoweiliang's hand, and said softly, "Yuan Xiao, shall we go home?"

Zhu Yan's words made Yuan Xiao stop watching the farce in front of him. He turned his head and smiled at Zhu Yan, then nodded and said, "Well, let's go home."

Unknowingly, Yuan Xiao has come out of the hatred, everything in front of him is not important to Yuan Xiao, what is important is the future of him and Zhu Yan, their old Zhu family's future.

On the way, Zhu Yan didn't say a word, Yuan Xiao just leaned on Zhu Yan, looking at the setting winter sun in the distance, after a while he hugged Zhu Yan's arm tightly, and said calmly, "Ah Yan, thank you!"

Zhu Yan's hand holding the rein paused, and a soft smile appeared on his face. He knew the meaning of Yuan Xiao's words, and was very happy that Yuan Xiao could come out completely. He curled the corners of his lips, and did not answer Yuan Xiao immediately. , but turned his head and kissed Yuan Xiao's forehead, his voice was low and gentle, "Thank me again, and I'll kiss you."

"Hey, thank you, Yan." A sly smile suddenly flashed in Yuan Xiao's eyes. Seeing that Zhu Yan really kissed him again, he smiled again and said, "Thank you, Yan."

"Let me go." Zhu Yan was teased by Yuan Xiao and immediately stopped the donkey cart, held Yuan Xiao's face and kissed him. The shadows of the two of them were gradually elongated by the sun at sunset, forming a soft and beautiful line.

**

Time flies, and five years have passed in the blink of an eye. The bean food shop of Lao Zhu's family has become more and more popular, and it has gained a reputation in the distant imperial capital. Many people came here and returned satisfied.

In addition to Dou Shifang, Zhu Yan and Tian Luo also jointly opened a hot pot restaurant. The old Zhu's life is getting better and better, and it is getting more and more lively.

On this day, Yuan Xiao gave birth to his and Zhu Yan's third child. With the previous experience and the help of Zhu Yan's spring water, Yuan Xiao didn't have any trouble giving birth to this little man.

Zhu Yan took care of Yuan Xiao carefully by Yuan Xiao's side, and talked to Yuan Xiao from time to time, "Yuan Xiao, you see, our third child has a small nose very similar to yours, but his face is the same as mine. He is a handsome gentleman."

After hearing this, Yuan Xiao couldn't help laughing, "Our baby is only so old, you can think so much, but this appearance must be the prettiest."

"Come, come, let me see my little great-grandson." After the old lady Zhu arranged for the midwife doctor, she entered the room with Bai Zhen. Her face became softer, and she said to Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao: "It's no wonder you two said Sanba is good-looking, this appearance has inherited the advantages of both of you, it must be rare when you grow up, ouch, this white and fat The white and fat ones are so pretty!"

Zhu Yan held back a smile from the sidelines, his grandma's characteristics of being an intergenerational relative became more and more obvious, and the older he got, the more he showed it. And Le Ning's voice, he said to Yuan Xiao and his grandmother: "I'll let Le An take Le Ning and Huanhuan to play elsewhere, so as not to disturb you."

"Ah Yan, grandma, let's go. I just happened to see little brother Huanhuan from your Tiedan cousin's family. Huanhuan just said that he wanted to drink water. I was anxious to see our third baby and forgot." Although wishing the old lady She was getting older and older, but because of the Zhu Yan spring water, she and Old Man Zhu were much younger and energetic than the old man and old lady of the same age group, and now they walked away with a breeze.

After the old lady Zhu left, Bai Zhen brought Zhu Chunya and Sun Yuzhu to the house to help take care of Yuan Xiao and the children. Zhu Chunya married the son of the old man next door three years ago, and Zhang Quanyou, the son of the old man He used to pick up jobs in blacksmithing in other places, and when he came home by chance, he bumped into Zhu Chunya, and the two fell in love with each other.

After everyone left, it was late at night. In the middle of the night, Zhu Yan stretched out his arm to let Yuan Xiao rest on his pillow. He touched Yuan Xiao's cheek from time to time, his eyes shone softly, and his voice was so gentle that it made people addicted, "Yuan Xiao Xiao, thank you."

Yuan Xiao smiled like a crescent moon when he heard that, he rubbed his cheek against Zhu Yan's arm, and didn't reply immediately. After an unknown amount of time, he responded softly: "I should be the one thanking you."