two ears pricked up

Huo Zheng was more cautious about Bai Xi being coveted by the villagers. Since the day after paying homage to Huo Qianjun, no matter how much Bai Xi pleaded, Huo Zheng didn't agree to take him out, but let him stay in the house. If it's really boring in the house, he is only allowed to stay in the courtyard to enjoy the wind to relieve fatigue, as long as he doesn't step out of the Huo family's gate, he can do whatever he wants at home.

Days passed, and Huo Zheng had no money left. After being stretched, he began to think about earning money.

Huo Zheng learned that during the years he was away, the Huo family only had a farm and a horse farm left.

Due to poor management over the years, the two venues of Huo's family not only did not make much money, but also had to subsidize money to maintain their operations every year.Not long ago, the farm had been sold by Huo Qianjun to make up for the dowry gift for marrying Bai Xi'er, and the rest was only the horse farm.

Huo's horse farm is located at the intersection of the river and the mountain in Changyue Village. He went out to ask the villagers for the location and searched all the way there.

According to the villagers, Huo Qianjun handed over the management of the racecourse to a man named Hong Jin. This Jin Hong and Huo Zheng knew each other. He chose to leave Changyue Village at first because of Hong Jin's wind blowing in Huo Qianjun's ears.

Huo Zheng went out to the racecourse to find Hong Jin to get back the title deed, but Bai Xi could only stay at home alone.

He slept until the sun shone through the window into the inner room, and the room was brightly lit. Then he put on his shoes and got out of bed drowsily, and his clothes were loosely arranged. He couldn't lift his spirits without Huo Zheng's absence. Recently, lethargy symptoms were frequent, and he slept less than half a day. .

The food that Huo Zheng had prepared before going out was simmering in the pot on a low fire. The porridge was soft and fragrant, and Bai Xi swallowed to take out the food. The weather was so hot that even with the door open, the wind could not enter the room.

He had no choice but to bring the food outside the yard under the shade of a tree, and then went inside to get out the herbal tea that he had cooked in the morning.

In the past two days, Huo Zheng planted two more trees in the yard. The branches and leaves are lush and dense. Bai Xi enjoys the cool summer under the trees. gentle.

While eating alone, Bai Xi vaguely heard a rustling sound, he looked around the yard suspiciously, his eyes turned and fell on the wall.

The trees planted by the wall are old, with thick branches, lush branches, and swaying leaves.However, the wind at this time is all hot wind, how can it blow such a big movement.

"who is it?"

Bai Xi stood up from the stone bench and went straight to the top of the wall. The leaves were shaking violently. He picked up the leaves that fell on top of his head, stood under the shade and raised his head, a pair of eyes appeared on top of his head.

Not just a pair of eyes, counting to the left, two pairs, three pairs, and two heads popping out of the right corner of the wall.

The villagers who climbed up the wall to peek at the beauties showed no timidity when they were discovered. They even grinned at Bai Xi, and said in a thick and rough voice, "Little lady, I am Wang Zhu, the second mouth of the village."

As soon as Wang Zhu opened his mouth, it was as if he was taking advantage of it, causing dissatisfaction with the other people who were peeping on the corner of the wall, and they scrambled to introduce themselves to Bai Xi.

Bai Xi didn't know what these villagers thought about him, but he didn't like their naked eyes for no reason.

Except for Huo Zheng, he didn't like people staring at him all the time. He pursed his lips and turned around to ignore people, but in the eyes of the villagers, he was extremely precious. His appearance of ignoring people was very likable.

Things that can't be obtained are always easy to be remembered, and the more you scratch, the more itchy.

The villager spat, "Hey, motherfucker, this little widow is quite proud and delicious!"

Bai Xi was still sitting in the yard eating, with his back to the villagers lying on the wall, the quieter he was, the more unwilling and restless the people on the wall became.

Once people have bad intentions, they do not hesitate to do things.A few villagers whistled excitedly at Bai Xi, a little lady and a widow, in broad daylight, very lightly.

Bai Xi packed up her things, closed the door after returning to the house, continued to hide in the room, lay on the bed thinking about Huo Zheng, and soon fell asleep again.

Huo Zheng came home at dusk when the sun was setting to the west, carrying a basket of eggs bought from the woman at the entrance of the village

The yard returned to its former calm, and there was no trace of other people coming. Bai Xi dreamed that Huo Zheng was awake, and heard the sound of chopping firewood from outside the house. He didn't care to put on his shoes, and ran to the door to look down at his feet. Then I went back and put on my shoes again, shouting clank while running.

He slept for a whole day, his complexion was ruddy, and his cheeks to his toes were so cutely red. Seeing Huo Zheng chopping firewood, he took the initiative to move the chopped firewood to the stove. Huo Zheng turned around and told him to be careful. walk.

Huo Zheng didn't know that other villagers came to spy on Bai Xi during the day, and Bai Xi didn't tell Huo Zheng about it.

Huo Zheng ran into some situations when he was looking for Hong Jin at the racecourse. After he forced his way in, he learned from the boy guarding the racecourse that Hong Jin had gone out and had left the village for some time.

He wanted to take back the title deed of the racecourse, but he didn't know where the things were kept, so Huo Zheng went to the racecourse to wait for someone for several days.

Without Huo Zheng's knowledge, more and more villagers climbed on the wall to peep at Bai Xi every day, and their frivolous behavior intensified, taking advantage of Bai Xi verbally.

Bai Xi couldn't understand those obscenities. There were many people in the corner. He didn't like it, so he had to stay at home and sleep every day. The weather was hot, but he fell asleep more and more. Not angry at all.

Six or seven days after the incident happened, one day it rained heavily, Bai Xi slept in the house for a whole day as usual, and woke up before Huo Zheng came back.

When I opened the door, I found that the ground was wet, and there were some small puddles in the yard. The air was filled with the smell of leaves mixed with soil.

Bai Xi smiled, and stepped on the puddle, the water splashed everywhere, and there were still thin drizzles in the air, which fell on the forehead to cool off, it had rained.

A lot of leaves fell in the yard, Bai Xi found the broom and imitated Huo Zheng's action to clean it, when Huo Zheng came back from outside, when Bai Xi saw him, he motioned him to look at the pile of leaves he had swept, and wanted to wait for the other party to praise him, but He found that Huo Zheng's face was ugly, compared to when he was angry before, today's Huo Zheng's expression is extremely gloomy and terrifying from the eyes.

Bai Xi hurriedly threw the broom away, ran to him and asked anxiously, "Zhengzheng, are you unhappy that I swept the yard?"

Huo Zheng's lips moved, as if trying to endure, "Sister-in-law, come out with me for a while."

Huo Zheng led him around the entire Huo family's courtyard. He pointed to the mud shoe prints left on the wall. It's just a man, footprints one by one from the corner of the wall to the top of the wall in the yard,

Huo Zheng thought of the way those villagers looked at Bai Xi in the past few days, the anger accumulated in their chests, and the tone of their mouths could freeze people, "Sister-in-law, did someone climb up the wall while I was away?"

Bai Xi nodded, "There are several people climbing on the wall."

Huo Zheng asked again: "Who is it?!"

Bai Xi scratched her hair and thought for a moment, "I don't remember their names."

Huo Zheng closed his eyes, opened them and continued to ask, "How long have they been here?"

Bai Xi replied: "The day you went out without me, they came."

"Sister-in-law!" Huo Zheng roared in a low voice, his neck was red, and his hands were clenched into fists, "Why didn't you tell me about this?"

Bai Xi blinked innocently, and Huo Zheng realized that his tone was too harsh, and Bai Xi didn't understand those things, so he tried his best to calm down the sudden rage, and then said: "Those people have no good intentions for you, they will come back in the future, you see Be sure to let me know when you arrive.”

Huo Zheng blamed himself in his heart. His sister-in-law didn't understand anything, and he didn't protect her well. He didn't know until a few days after the incident happened. If it wasn't for the rain today that left the footprints of those people, Huo Zheng didn't dare to think about it.

It was all caused by his negligence. He was sorry for his sister-in-law and his elder brother.

From this day on, Huo Zheng deliberately stayed at home to guard the yard, in case those with evil intentions would come and squat in the corner.After Cheng Hongjin failed to get back the title deed of Huo's racecourse, Huo Zheng thought of other ways to earn money temporarily, weaving some fish and bamboo baskets, and seeing if he could bring them to the city and sell them for some money.

Bai Xi and Huo Zheng went into the mountains to cut rattan, bamboo and wood, and the two stayed at home every day to organize these things. Huo Zheng looked like a rough martial artist, but he did some manual work delicately.He weaved some small and cute animals for Bai Xi with finely chopped bamboo strips. Bai Xi held the lifelike rabbits one by one, and he was reluctant to let go of them. He would put them on the bedside when he was sleeping, watching Huo Zheng give them to him. bunny falling asleep happily.

For several days in a row, some villagers couldn't bear it and were unwilling to reconcile. Gradually, another kind of dirty rumors started to spread about the Huo family.

In addition to working, people in the village like to get together and talk nonsense in their spare time, especially for the Huo family. Although their identities are different, they are lonely men and widows living in the same house. Said that the little widow was indiscreet, hooked up with her husband's younger brother, indulged in the nest of ecstasy all day long, and never took a step out of the door.

The two who were doing handicrafts at home didn't know the malicious speculation about them outside, so Huo Zheng speeded up and weaved the remaining rattan into baskets, intending to send these things over on the day when the market opened in the city.

Bai Xi gave Huo Zheng a rabbit that she had made herself. After several days of clumsy weaving, Huo Zheng was entangled for a long time before the other party reluctantly accepted it and hung it on her waist.

He took the rabbit given to him by Huo Zheng off the bed and hung it on his waist, and it happened to be a pair with the one he gave Huo Zheng.