Chapter 73 Soft Heart

Because Wu Laosan and Shanzi helped the lotus flower, Xu Laosan insisted on inviting lunch and ordered a few good dishes that he was usually reluctant to eat. He asked for a pot of good wine and must have a few drinks with Wu Laosan.

After Xu Xinger sat down, she turned her head left and right to look for the little girl selling pickles. She finally saw it and quickly raised her hand and said, "Here, here."

Although Xu Laosan felt that he had ordered so many dishes that there was no need to buy any pickles, when he saw that his daughter wanted to eat, he thought that she was also frightened today, so he paid to buy her a plate of dried spicy radish and asked, "Do you want anything else?"

Xu Xinger looked in the basket. At this time, the meal was over. The pickles in the basket were basically sold out, and there were only a few plates of fermented bean curd left in it. She shook her head and said, "This is enough."

Shanzi picked up a chopstick and put it in his mouth and felt that it was far from Xu Xinger's delicious food. Seeing that she looked at herself expectantly, she deliberately didn't say anything and pretended to taste it carefully. Seeing that her look was a little anxious, she smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's not as delicious as you made!"

Xu Xinger suddenly smiled and showed two small dimples on her cheeks. She moved the dried radish aside, pointed to the dishes on the table and said, "Brother Shanzi, eat quickly."

Xu Laosan saw that Shanzi and Xing'er didn't need to take care of themselves, so he held his glass and said to Wu Laosan, "Master, thanks to you and Shanzi today, otherwise I would have been blind when I came to the city with a mud leg... If something happens to Xing'er, her mother will definitely not be able to stand it, and I also... ..." He said and choked his voice.

Xu Xinger was sad when she heard this. She approached Xu Laosan and put her arms around his arm and said, "Dad, I'm not doing well. I'll go there. Don't think about it."

"Third brother, aren't you going to scold me for not waiting?" Wu Laosan also picked up his glass and said, "Let alone talk about my relationship with Lao Si, just say that Xing'er is my apprentice now, and he has been taken from my house. How can I leave it alone?"

Xu Laosan drank all the wine in the glass and raised his hand to fill it up again. "Today, I'm in a hurry. After I go back, I'll take Xing'er to the door to thank him."

"We still need to be so foreign." Wu Laosan took a sip of wine, tilted his head and caught a glimpse of Xu Xinger and Shan Zitou talking in a low voice next to his head. He smiled and said to Xu Laosan, "Maybe we can get closer!"

Xu Laosan was stunned when he heard this, and then waved his hand repeatedly and said, "Don't talk about this kind of joke, not to mention the height of the door. Xing'er is such a yellow-haired girl with a fierce temper. How dare you climb high?"

"Haha!" Wu Laosan drank the wine in the glass. Seeing Shanzi casting a concerned look here, he couldn't help showing a bad smile and then looked up at Xing'er. Although he was a little thin, his facial features could be seen to be very dignified and beautiful. He was very calm at a young age. He had his own ideas and was not stupid. In fact, he was really a good child.

Shanzi still heard the words of the two adults. When he saw the third uncle laughing at himself, he stared at him angrily and quietly looked at Xing'er. He felt that she should not have heard it, so he raised his hand and picked up a piece of ribs for her and said, "Eat more. You rushed to the city early this morning and stayed in the county government again. For a long time, you must have been hungry for a long time. Don't just eat radish strips.

"If you buy it with money, you can't waste it." Xu Xinger said and stretched out her chopsticks to the radish strips.

Shanzi picked up the radish strips and put them in front of Wu Laosan and said, "It won't be wasted. My third uncle likes radish strips the most."

"..." Wu Laosan looked at Shanzi speechlessly. This dead boy was damaged every day and didn't know what was wrong in his heart.

"My father specially invited my master to dinner. How can I let him eat radish strips!" Xu Xinger reached out and patted the mountain and said anxiously.

"It's okay. I just like to eat radish strips." Wu Laosan saw Shanzi staring at him, quickly picked up a chopstick radish strips and stuffed it into his mouth and blurted out, "What's the smell? It's far worse than Xing'er's."

"Master, don't eat this. There are so many dishes!" Xing'er quickly opened the radish strips and changed the plate containing the ribs in front of Wu Laosan.

Seeing this, Shanzi simply put the radish strips aside and said, "Don't you want to show your love later? Just send this together."

t43 Hey, you had this idea..." Xing'er stared at him when she heard this.

"Why don't you eat peacefully?" Xu Laosan picked up a chopsticks of vegetables and put them in the apricot bowl. "I'll drive your master and Shanzi back later, and then we'll go home."

Hearing this, Xu Xinger quickly reached out and stabbed the mountain below.

Shanzi hurriedly said, "Uncle, you're welcome. My third uncle has something to do in the city in the afternoon. I'll go back with you, and then I'll just go to the mountains and go home. Besides, after you have been out for so long, my aunt must be thinking about it at home. It's not easy for her to take care of the two children alone.

Wu Laosan was drinking. Hearing this, he was about to say that he was fine in the afternoon. He was kicked under the table by Shanzi. He swallowed back what he said, nodded and said, "Yes, I have something else to do in the future. Don't worry about me."

Xu Xinger looked at Wu Laosan with some doubt and asked strangely, "Master, do you have anything else in the afternoon? Why didn't I hear you mention it yesterday?"

"It doesn't matter, but since I've arrived in the city today, I'll deal with it by the way, so as not to run again in the future." Wu Laosan casually found an excuse.

"Oh." Xu Xinger nodded, "Master, how can you go back at night?"

"Oh, after all, the apprentice knows that he feels sorry for people." Wu Laosan listened to Xing'er's words and deliberately glanced at the mountain. "It's not like a nephew or something. It's usually painful for nothing."

Shanzi glanced at him, added a chopsticks and put it in his bowl and said, "Since you are going to do business in the afternoon, Uncle Xu has ordered so many good dishes. Hurry up and eat more."

Xu Xinger pressed Xu Laosan's hand to continue to drink wine, took the wine pot to her side and said, "Dad, you have to drive back to the village in the afternoon. Master has to do something to do. Don't drink too much. When you go back, find a chance to have a good drink."

"Well, what Xing'er said makes sense. Eat more vegetables and drink less wine." Hearing his daughter's words, Xu Laosan nodded in agreement and said to Wu Laosan, "I have a good bottle of medicinal wine. It was given to me by Uncle Xing'er at the beginning. I have never been willing to drink it, and it has been released for several years. Now it must be better. You also know a lot about medicinal materials. At that time, you can tell me what you can taste. Tao.

"Oh, the medicinal wine given by my father-in-law is not suitable for us to drink it together." Wu Laosan joked to Xu Laosan because his two children were still young and certainly couldn't understand.

"You think too much. An old friend gave it to my father-in-law, saying that it is to strengthen my health. My father-in-law seldom drinks and has always been in good health. Knowing that I had two sips and was reluctant to buy good wine, I asked Xing'er Niang to bring it back for me. I smelled good wine and soaked a lot of good things in it, so I have never been willing to drink. Xu Laosan said with a smile, "I'll take it to you to see what kind of medicine it is."

After lunch, several people divided into two routes. Wu Laosan went to the pharmacy in the city to talk about business. Xu Laosan drove the two children home.

After arriving home, Xu Xinger went directly into the room to find Ye. Seeing that she really didn't doubt anything, she heard that the two little ones were also very clever today, so she was relieved and said, "Brother Shanzi wants to go to go to the mountain again before the market. Maybe he will spend the night in the mountain. Do we still have any food to eat? I'll pack some for him."

"Yes, stewed beans with potatoes made at noon, and eggplant. There are also two rolls mixed with noodles in the cupboard. You can fish the pickles by yourself..." Ye said as she wanted to put down the kang. "There are only two rolls left. I don't know if it's enough. What else should I do for him?"

Shanzi heard it in the kitchen and said quickly, "Aunt, don't bother. Uncle Xu invited me lunch at noon and was full. I brought two rolls. It's enough to fish for a piece of mustard head."

When the lock woke up, Ye had to hug the child, and then told Xing'er, "Take all the dishes and eat the rolls."

"Mom, don't worry." Xu Xinger answered, found leftovers and two dough rolls in the cupboard, took out a piece of mustard, cut it into shreds, put them in a basket, covered it with a cover and handed it to Shanzi.

Shanzi looked at Xu Xinger helplessly and said, "How much can a little girl eat?"

"I just think that her child is at home and has just died. She must be very afraid. I don't know if she has to eat and drink. It will be fine when her grandparents come back..." Xu Xinger's voice became lower and lower.

"I know you are good-hearted." Shanzi's expression softened and reached out to take the basket. "You are tired and scared today. Go to rest early. I'll go home after delivering things. Don't go up the mountain tomorrow. I'll come to you to go to the market the day after tomorrow."

After Shanzi came out, he followed the route Xing'er said and came to the door of Hong's house.

The Hong family's yard is not big, and the sticks are a little long and short. The gate is randomly put together by several boards, and some places still show a finger wide gap.

The door of the yard was closed, but it was not locked outside. Shanzi stretched out his hand a little hard but couldn't push it. It should have been locked from the inside and looked inside through the cracks. The yard was messy, and there were some dirty white mantles and paper money on the ground. I think Hongxiang's daughter-in-law had not cleaned it up after the funeral.

The mountain hung the basket on the door ring, raised his hand and knocked on the door, and then left quickly. After turning the intersection, he stopped and paid attention to the movement behind him. First, a little girl's voice came and timidly asked who was outside. After a long time, he heard someone open the courtyard door and made a short surprise sound. Then he listened to the basket into the yard, and he left safely.