Culinary Specialization through Farming

With their current abilities, even if they get married, they can only hold a simple wedding banquet.

He didn't want to wrong Chen Yan, that's why he planned to postpone it.

Old Li looked at his son's hand covering the brother's back, and sighed softly.

Zhu Yunquan patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Your son has more plans than you, and you should always be comforted. Thinking about my ineffectiveness, you should teach me better, Old Li."

After a meal, Li Maoshan had a conversation with his uncle, and Chen Yan dozed off beside him.The little head flickered, and finally leaned against Li Maoshan's body.

Li Maoshan saw that he was not stable, so he had to hold him in his arms.Chen Yan found a comfortable seat and slept more peacefully.

Seeing the closeness of the two, Zhu Yunquan felt relieved for his younger brother who died young.

"It's getting late, and it's time for me to go back." Zhu Yunquan said to Li Maoshan in a low voice, "You should take him to bed earlier, after all, he won't be able to sleep comfortably this way."

"Uncle, be careful on the road, I won't see you off." Li Maoshan was afraid that standing up would disturb Chen Yan's sleep, so he had to apologize to his uncle.

"Your father's spirit has improved a lot recently." Zhu Yunquan stood up and said, "Although your stepmother is not easy to get along with, let him be on weekdays, so as not to be awkward when the family meets."

Li Maoshan nodded his head to express his understanding, "There will be less trouble after living separately."

"Well, uncle still agrees that you live separately, but he is afraid that brother Shui will be bullied by him." His younger brother only kept such two children, and Zhu Yunquan couldn't help but have to worry about it all the time.

"Uncle, don't worry too much, Ah Shui knows how to handle things." Li Maoshan replied.

"You are sensible, Brother Shui can take care of himself, so uncle and I can be considered worthy of your mother." Zhu Yunquan said comfortingly, "Live a good life, uncle is waiting to drink your glass of wedding wine."

Li Maoshan replied with a smile, "Okay."

"Then I'll go back."

He didn't let anyone see him off, and walked out of the courtyard gate.

Li Maoshui looked at his brother and asked, "Brother, are you going directly to the old house?"

Li Maoshan hugged Chen Yan horizontally, Chen Yan rubbed a little uncomfortable, and found a comfortable seat in his arms to continue sleeping.

"Go directly to the old house, and Dad will be taken care of by you."

"Okay." Li Maoshui nodded, and sent his brother to the door, "Brother, go back, I'll just close the courtyard door."

The two brothers stood at the gate of the courtyard. Li Maoshan looked at his little man and looked at him with reluctance. He wanted to raise his hand to comfort him, but he had to give up because he was hugging him.

So Li Maoshan had no choice but to tell him: "Go to bed early, and come to the old house when you have time, and accompany him as my brother."

"Okay." Li Maoshui replied.

The moon was high, and Li Maoshan returned to the old house with Chen Yan in his arms.

The room was not lit, so it looked a little dark.With the moonlight pouring in, Li Maoshan carefully carried him into the sleeping room.

The bedding was a bit cold, and when Chen Yan was put on the bed, he opened his eyes slightly because of the coldness.

The unconscious man squinted his eyes, but grabbed Li Maoshan's sleeve with his hands, and he murmured, "It's cold."

"I'll go and boil some hot water for you to wipe." Li Maoshan laughed a little when he saw him slipping into his arms, "Go to sleep first, and the bed will be warm after a while."

"No, you lie down too." Chen Yan flatly refused.

"Hey, I have to boil some water, or you won't have any hot water when you're thirsty." Li Maoshan continued to coax.

"Don't drink water." Chen Yan was still sleepy, but felt the urge to pee, so he shook his head while answering, "I want to pee."

"Okay, okay, then I'll take you to the latrine."

Hearing what he said, Li Maoshan couldn't help but chuckled, then picked him up again and went to the hut behind the house.

Chen Yan stood on the ground with half-closed eyes, trying to untie his belt but found that his hands were not in control.Stimulated by the desire to urinate, he became irritable.

"It can't be solved." Chen Yan finally gave up and raised his head to ask Li Maoshan for help.

In desperation, Li Maoshan had no choice but to help him untie his trouser belt. Chen Yan leaned into his arms and grabbed Li Maoshan with both hands. He smiled and called, "Brother Shan."

There was a hint of coquettishness in this soft call, and a delicate nasal voice unique to young people. Li Maoshan instantly understood the meaning behind his call.

Pulling down his pants for him, Li Maoshan lowered his head and whispered in Chen Yan's ear, "Do you need me to say 'shh'?"

The words full of ridicule made Chen Yan sober up a lot in an instant, he pushed back, pouted his mouth and said unhappily: "I will do it myself."

Li Maoshan laughed in a low voice, let him release his hand, and carried him back to the bed again.

Sitting on the bed, Chen Yan saw that he was about to go out, and asked, "What are you going for?" He pulled the quilt over his body while asking.

"I'm going to boil some hot water, and I'll take a shower before going to bed." Li Maoshan turned around and replied, "You go to sleep again, and I'll call you when it's done."

"Oh."

After he finished answering, Li Maoshan also left the room.

Chen Yan sat on the bed with the quilt in his arms, thinking of his behavior just now, he couldn't help but giggled.

It took a lot of time to boil the hot water, and by the time Li Maoshan brought the hot water into the room, Chen Yan had already fallen asleep hugging the quilt.

13. Chapter 13

The morning sun shines into the house, casting a soft spring glow.

On the bed, the two were covered with a quilt, and under the quilt were intertwined limbs.Chen Yan was half lying on Li Maoshan's body with both hands and feet, and the half of his body that had been pressed by him all night had long been numb.

Li Maoshan opened his eyes, and the first thing he felt was the steady breath of the people around him.Turning his head slowly, he happened to meet Chen Yan Anran's sleeping face.

The pale and tender cheeks were dyed with a layer of blush and half pressed on Li Maoshan's shoulders, his small mouth muttered, and a silver trace was still faintly visible.The sleeping man opened his mouth slightly, revealing his bright white teeth.One hand encircled Li Maoshan's arm, and the other hand lay across his chest, with slightly curved fingers grasping the white undershirt.

The left and right feet of the two touched each other, but Chen Yan's other leg was directly placed between Li Maoshan's legs.

The young man sleeping on his side was not in an elegant sleeping position, and even led Li Maoshan to sleep unsteadily all night.

In the middle of the night, he was awakened several times by the teenager's limbs wrapped around him.After finally falling asleep in the middle of the night, I still woke up early in the morning.

Although he woke up early, he was able to calmly feel the breath of the people around him, staring at the other person's sleeping face, and Li Maoshan's heart was also full of tenderness, which is like water that can only be shown to the person in front of him.

"Brother Yan, good morning."

Although the other party was still sleeping soundly, Li Maoshan still leaned over and whispered in his ear.

The hot air in the ear made the sleeping person feel a little itchy, and he rubbed it subconsciously.Li Maoshan looked at his little action, his small mouth was slightly tilted up and looked a little cute, so he couldn't help but leaned over and pecked lightly a couple of times.

The touch from his lips made the boy smack twice, and muttered something, but he still didn't wake up.

Seeing that he was sleeping so soundly, Li Maoshan didn't want to disturb him.Gently removed the person wrapped around him, and just got out of bed, when he turned around, he saw the young man who had lost his warmth, curled up in a ball under the quilt.

Smiling helplessly, Li Maoshan was not in a hurry to get dressed, but leaned over to tuck the quilt for him.Sitting beside the bed for a while, he put on his clothes and opened the door until there was a knock on the door.

Standing outside the unreliable fence was a tall and muscular man. It was still a bit chilly in the morning, but he had rolled up his sleeves, and the muscles on his exposed arms were profuse. You could tell from just his forearms that he was a man. Hands full of strength.

The man's arms are bent at an angle, and a little boy of about six years old sits on the crook of his arm.The little boy followed the man's appearance, with ordinary facial features, but both of them had deep dimples.

It looks a little cute when it grows up to a child, but it loses its majesty to a grown man.

"Bing boy, if you hold on to it like this again, you won't be able to give it away after a while."

The man's voice is very suitable for his burly appearance, the voice is like a bell but the tone is gentle.He looked at his son holding the rabbit's ears with both hands. Although he is small, he is also very strong.

Along the way, the rabbit struggled endlessly from the very beginning to dying at this moment, being grabbed by two long ears, its limbs drooping, as if it had given up struggling and accepted its fate.

"I can't die." The little boy puffed up his face and said to the man, then shook his hands, and the rabbit swayed its hind legs, "Look, Dad, it's not dead, it's still moving."

"I told you not to scratch your ears like this, just hold it in your arms. If I send you Uncle Shan later, don't cry when your Uncle Shan dislikes you."

"No way." The little boy wrinkled his nose and snorted twice at his father, "Knock on the door quickly, I'm still waiting to see Uncle Shan's brother-in-law."

"What brother, do you want to be called uncle?"

The man corrected his son countless times along the way, but unfortunately his son never got it right once.

"Okay, uncle." The little boy kicked his dangling leg, seeing that he couldn't touch the door, he could only swing the rabbit and urge his father: "Knock the door quickly, Uncle Shan must be awake."

"You brat, your Uncle Shan might still be sleeping soundly with someone in his arms." Although the man said so, he knocked on the door with his other free hand.

When Li Maoshan came out, he saw one big and one small outside the door, with a smile on his face.

"Old Jiang, why did you two father and son come here so early in the morning?"

Opening the door, Li Maoshan saw the little guy Jiang Bing shaking the rabbit in his hand at him. There was a full smile on his chubby face, and the two dimples matched with the big eyes of the child were very dazzling.

When Jiang Hongxing saw him coming out, he grabbed the rabbit that was about to be spoiled by his son, and stuffed it into Li Maoshan's hands.The frightened rabbit struggled in a panic in Li Maoshan's arms, and it didn't calm down until someone stroked its fur.

"Old Jiangtou, that's the rabbit I want to give to Uncle Shan." Seeing that the rabbit was in Li Maoshan's hands, Jiang Bing pinched Jiang Hongxing's cheek angrily, "You ruined my meeting gift."

"Smelly boy, no matter how old or young, your father and I are so old, and you call me Old Jiangtou, you little Jiangtou." Jiang Hongxing also pinched his son's chubby face.

The two father and son stared at each other with wide eyes, both a little bit aggrieved.

Li Maoshan is not surprised, the two father and son like to hate each other.If you don't hate every day, it still doesn't reflect the deep feelings between father and son.

"Didn't you see your father-in-law go and come back so soon?" Li Maoshan asked and checked the rabbit.

The rabbit whose ears were released quickly recovered in Li Maoshan's arms, kicked its hind legs, and started jumping around as soon as it was put down.

"The old man is fine, but he just fell down and made a big fuss, so he yelled to see his little nephew." Jiang Hongxing's answering voice changed because his face was pinched.The strange tone of voice made his son laugh out loud.

"It's good that it's okay. When you have free time, take the soldiers back to visit your father-in-law, so he can feel at ease." Li Maoshan moved two wooden stools over, and saw that the rabbit found a grass in the corner and gnawed it. Get up, and don't care about it anymore.

Jiang Hongxing sat on a wooden stool, and Jiang Bing was sitting on his lap. He was about to speak, but Jiang Bing struggled to get off the ground.

"With this brat around, how can the old man feel at ease, it's enough to make a fuss." His son was just jumping around as long as no one was watching him.

"Uncle Shan, I want to see my brother."

Jiang Bing threw himself into Li Maoshan's arms with one leg, grabbed his clothes, and wanted to hug him.

"I can't even teach you." Jiang Hongxing said with a look of disgust.

"elder brother?"

Li Maoshan picked him up and placed him on his lap, looking at Jiang Hongxing with some doubts.

Jiang Hongxing shrugged his shoulders: "Weiping told me about the past few days. After hearing this, the stinky boy murmured that he wanted to see your husband. It's not early in the morning and he was clamoring to come over. I had no choice but to bring him Let someone come to see you." Then he pointed to the rabbit gnawing on grass, "He also knows how to bring a meeting gift."

Li Maoshan smiled and said: "The meeting gift is good, I will accept it." He raised his hand to touch Jiang Bing's small head, "But he is still sleeping, so I can't let you see him at this meeting."

"Oh." Jiang Bing sighed in a low voice, and crawled back onto his father's lap with his little head down and disappointment on his face.

Jiang Hongxing flicked his forehead, "Whoever told you to come here early in the morning, I don't even think about disturbing people's sleep."

"It's past Maoshi, and it's not too early." Jiang Bing muttered, grabbing his father's big hand.

This brother likes to sleep late, this is not a good boy.

Voices outside the door came into the room, Chen Yan woke up unsteadily, and shook his head unconsciously.

He didn't sleep well all night.

When he just fell asleep, he thought he was dreaming, but he was pulled into that empty space again.

There is a long bamboo table outside the bamboo house, which is full of all kinds of knives.Some he has seen, and some he is not familiar with.

He listened to that voice all night talking about knowledge of knives, from the function of the tip of the knife to the position of the head, the upper part of the back of the knife is called the beam, and the middle part of the knife is called the blade... There were a lot of chatter, but he heard it I don't understand.

His mind was full of knives of various sizes, and the gleaming silver blades shook his heart with a chill.After finally waking up, he was the only one holding the quilt on the bed.

Blinking and scanning the room, the clothes on his body drooped, revealing half of his shoulders.Sitting on the bed, he slowly remembered that he fell asleep without taking off his clothes last night in a daze. At this moment, he was only wearing an undershirt. It must be Brother Shan who took off his clothes for him.

The outer shirt was placed on the edge of the bed, Chen Yan reached out to fetch the clothes, shook off the skirt, and put the clothes on.The hair behind him was too long, but because of the particularity of this era, he could only gather his hair and let it hang loose.

Voices came from outside the door, and Chen Yan vaguely recognized one of them as Li Maoshan, while the other two voices were completely unfamiliar, especially one was a child's voice.

Thinking that there were two strangers outside the door, Chen Yan finally took back the steps he took.

He didn't care about going out with disheveled clothes and disheveled hair, but he didn't want to lose Brother Shan's face.I found a wooden comb in the house, and looked in the mirror to prepare for self-reliance.However, the boy in the mirror frowned at the black hair on his head, he was helpless. After combing for a long time, he just combed his hair smoothly, but failed to shape it.

A little discouraged, Chen Yan put down the wooden comb. Chen Yan looked down and saw a gray object at his feet biting his trouser leg.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a half-sized bunny.

Grabbing the rabbit's ears, the little rabbit thrashed its limbs in fright, and the tip of its small nose twitched.

Chen Yan tugged at the short tail, and a list of dishes flashed in his mind: braised rabbit meat, spiced rabbit meat, spicy rabbit meat, dried pot rabbit meat, shredded roast rabbit...

14. Chapter 14

The feeling of being swiped by a bunch of dish names is nothing more than being able to see but not eat, it just makes your mouth hungry.

Especially for a person who just woke up with an empty stomach, Chen Yan tightly held the rabbit's hand, the little rabbit was thrashing and struggling, and the squeaking sound showed the rabbit's panic.

Chen Yan held back his anger, and put the rabbit on the ground, and the freed little rabbit jumped and ran away in a hurry.

Chen Yan was the only one left in the room, and he complained to the void with a little dissatisfaction: "Don't you keep reading recipes in my mind, I don't know how to do it."

[If you don’t know it, you have to learn it. 】

"Can't learn what to do?"

Chen Yan continued to complain and sat back, facing the mirror and smoothing the hair on his forehead, poking his eyes a little.

[According to what I taught you, it is impossible not to learn. 】

"Hehe, you're really confident." The boy in the mirror rolled his eyes, with a mocking look on his lips, "You're telling me a bunch of theories, and I'm not stupid enough to make a theory just by looking at theories." All kinds of dishes."

"Of course, it's okay to follow the example." Seeing that the other party didn't respond, Chen Yan added a sentence.

The system ignored him and sent him a message directly.

Chen Yan closed his eyes fiercely, and when he opened them again, the flash of anger in his eyes was finally suppressed by him.A little angry and helpless, he looked at his immature appearance in the mirror, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I will learn. You'd better not lie to me, otherwise..."

【…】

Chen Yan, who was a little depressed, didn't care about cleaning himself up, and instead went to the kitchen to look around.I found that the kitchen was empty, let alone vegetables, not even a grain of rice.

They just tidied up this room yesterday, and they went back to Li's house for dinner.It is normal for the kitchen to be empty, after all, there is not enough time to arrange the new home properly.

Not even a pot and pan, Chen Yan was discouraged, but also shocked to realize that there were so many things lacking in this house.

When Li Maoshan went back to the room, he didn't see anyone on the bed, he went to the kitchen anxiously, only to find Chen Yanzheng squatting on the ground with a gloomy face.

The hem of the clothes rubbed against the ground, stained with a little dust.The loose long hair was gathered to one side, but it didn't look messy.

It's just that the young man's face was frowning and he was thinking about something, which made Li Maoshan a little surprised, but he couldn't help worrying about it.

"What's the matter?" Walking over to pull him up, Li Maoshan patted the dust on his clothes for him.

Chen Yan got up with his hand, and before his eyebrows were stretched, he saw a worried look on his face.The person who looked down at him cared about him all the time, and Chen Yan suddenly felt sweet in his heart.

Shaking his head to show that he was fine, Chen Yan turned to ask: "Is there any guest outside the door? Why don't you invite someone in?"

"I'm afraid they'll make you sleep, so let me go back first." Li Maoshan replied, pulling him back to the sleeping room.

"Oh." Chen Yan obediently sat down in front of the mirror, watching him pick up the wooden comb to comb his hair, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "I heard a child's voice, who is it?"

"My good brother and his son." Li Maoshan introduced while combing his hair, "You have met Ye Weiping and Cheng Cong, and there is another named Jiang Hongxing, who is two years older than me. Old Jiang is a hunter, and his father-in-law Something happened and the family is not here. I just came back yesterday and came to visit us this morning."

Hearing this, Chen Yan wanted to nod his head, but he was afraid of disturbing his combing action, so he could only say, "Then you can call me, it's embarrassing to let people go back like this."

Others came to visit specially, talked outside the house and then went back, which seemed a bit too impolite.

"It's okay, Lao Jiang won't mind." Li Maoshan said with a smile, "It's his son who insisted on seeing you, and even brought you a rabbit. But that rabbit is too thin and has little meat , I guess it will take a while to eat."

Chen Yan was a little embarrassed when he heard his words, this was another rabbit-hacking idea.

Li Maoshan pulled up his long hair and put it into a simple bun.Chen Yan looked at the young boy in the mirror looking clean and refreshed, and smiled with satisfaction.

Turning around, he asked again: "What are you going to do today?"

"Go have breakfast first, and I'll go to the county seat later to buy some things." Li Maoshan replied, tidied up the messy bedding on the bed, and then put the bunny that hid in a corner into a ball Locked in the house.

The two stood outside the house, and Li Maoshan closed the courtyard door.

"I'm going with you."

At present, Chen Yan, who only travels between Li's house and the old house at two o'clock and one line, immediately regained his energy when he heard that he was going to the county town.

Li Maoshan touched the back of his head. Although the wound had healed, he was still a little worried, "I'm afraid you will be tired if you go."

"Take a rest when you're tired. I don't want to stay at home alone. It's too boring." In fact, the injury on the back of his head recovered very quickly. Except for some pain on the first day, it was unaffected from the second day onwards.

Chen Yan grabbed his hand, and the two walked side by side.

On the way, I ran into a few acquaintances and said hello to each other.Although some people couldn't help being curious about Chen Yan, the villagers didn't dislike Chen Yan's generous and unfeminine appearance.

Seeing him looking at him expectantly, Li Maoshan agreed after thinking about it: "Then I'll borrow a donkey cart later."

"Okay, I haven't been in a donkey cart yet." Chen Yan nodded with a smile, and he was willing to walk even if he could go to the county seat.

After breakfast, Li Maoshan went out to borrow a donkey cart.

Chen Yan stayed at home, and he still had doubts in his heart, so he pulled Li Maoshui and asked, "Ah Shui, let me ask you, can your brother know how to cook?"

Li Maoshui looked at him suspiciously, and stammered, "Normally men don't enter the kitchen."

"That means your brother doesn't know how to cook." Chen Yan frowned, bit his lower lip lightly, and still asked persistently: "Has he never cooked?"

"...Yes." Li Maoshui turned his face away.

Chen Yan asked, "How did you do?"

"Ah...it's very tasty." After hesitating for a while, Li Maoshui still spoke the truth.

"How unpalatable?"

"I can't swallow it at all."

Li Maoshui chose a fairly appropriate description after deliberation.He was ashamed to say that his brother cooked a meal once and almost killed him and his father.

That time of vomiting and diarrhea left an indelible shadow on Li Maoshui's heart.But he was afraid that what he said was too sincere, and his brother Fulang would dislike his brother.

"Is it so unpalatable?" Chen Yan couldn't imagine how unpalatable the unpalatable food was, and he himself was only able to cook instant noodles.

Li Maoshui nodded heavily, and wanted to restore his brother's image, so he said, "It's normal for men not to cook. They have to work, so they don't have the energy to cook. Fu Lang cooks on weekdays."

Chen Yan hummed lightly, stared at a certain point on the ground with slightly dazed eyes, sighed softly after a long time, and said, "It seems that I can only do it."

Not only did his brother Shan lose his past memories, but he also lost his culinary skills, which made him feel very sad.

"Brother, do you know how to cook?" Li Maoshui asked in surprise, no wonder he didn't believe it, it was because Chen Yan didn't look like a person who had done rough work at all.

Hearing his skeptical tone, Chen Yan raised his eyebrows, and said, "It must be done, otherwise how can I take care of your brother?" The words were brazen, but Li Maoshui looked at him with admiration.

"I'll show you one hand next time." Having said that, Chen Yan laughed and patted Li Maoshui on the shoulder, "By the way, I'll teach you two hands."

Li Maoshui nodded heavily upon hearing this, and said, "Okay."

Chen Yan suddenly felt that he was quite good at bragging, so he continued to ask in a serious manner: "Do you like vegetables or meat, fish and shrimp..."

When Li Maoshan borrowed the donkey cart and came back, he found that his younger brother looked at Chen Yan with a strange color in his eyes, which made him full of doubts.

"What are you two talking about, so happy?"

"Brother, Brother Fulang said he can cook a lot of dishes, and he is teaching me."

Before Chen Yan opened his mouth, Li Maoshui said bluntly to his brother, his face was filled with a young man's innocent smile and a look of admiration that couldn't be concealed.

Li Maoshan looked at Chen Yan in surprise, "Do you know how to cook?"

The questioning words made Chen Yan a little dissatisfied, and he raised his chin with a haughty look on his face, "Don't believe it, I'll make you a delicious meal when you come back from shopping."

He didn't believe it anymore, he had a hacker, and he just cooked a meal according to the recipe, and it still stumped him.

Seeing that he was like a proud little rooster showing off his bright feathers, Li Maoshan smiled and touched his head, "Then I'll wait."

"Don't touch it, it won't grow tall." Chen Yan muttered to avoid it, and snorted twice.

This body has not yet fully grown, Chen Yan can count on growing taller, so he is very dissatisfied with being so short and weak.

Li Maoshui stared at him and asked, "Will touching your head make you grow taller?" He really liked his brother touching his head.

Seeing him holding his head in frustration, Li Maoshan paused as he wanted to touch his head to appease him, and said with a broken smile, "I've touched your head so many times since I was a child, you still look good."

Li Maoshui looked at him suspiciously, then turned to look at Chen Yan.Chen Yan said with a smile: "If you don't touch your head, you might grow taller."

This cut made Li Maoshui almost cry.

Li Maoshan sighed, "You, stop teasing him." He raised his hand and tapped Chen Yan's forehead.

"Okay, just treat me as nonsense." Chen Yanlou lived in Li Maoshui, and comforted him: "Don't listen to my nonsense, Ah Shui, there are countless things to do."

"Really?" Li Maoshui asked.

Chen Yan nodded and said, "Of course it's true."

Li Maoshan was afraid that the two of them would be endlessly entangled with this meaningless question, so he said directly: "Okay, it's getting late, let's go to the county seat earlier, so we can come back sooner."

It also takes a lot of time to drive a donkey cart from the village to the county seat.

The road was uneven, Chen Yan sat on the donkey cart, and as the cart swayed and jolted, he finally saw the county town after bumping all the way.

Looking at the flow of people coming in and out of the county town with a look of surprise, it was the first time for Chen Yan to feel the breath of the people's life in ancient times.As the flow of people and cars entered the gate of the county seat, Li Maoshan took the road with few people and turned into a small alley.

With seven turns and eight turns, Chen Yan had already lost his direction.It wasn't until the donkey cart stopped at a place that he realized that there were many vehicles parked in front of him.

15. Chapter 15

Li Maoshan found an empty seat and parked the donkey cart. Not long after, a middle-aged man ran over beside him.

The man had a mustache and a polite smile on his wrinkled face.

"Dashan, I haven't seen you for a while, I'm free to go to the market today."

The middle-aged man took the rein from Li Maoshan's hand, tied the rope to the wooden fence ahead, and stared at Chen Yan with smiling eyes.

Chen Yan felt uncomfortable when he felt the other party's deliberate sizing up.Li Maoshan raised his hand and carefully helped him get off the donkey cart, and turned sideways to block the man's probing gaze.

"Uncle Lin, I'm here to buy some things, I'll take care of this car."

Li Maoshan replied politely, and took out two copper coins from the money bag and handed them to the other party.

"You're welcome." The middle-aged man called Uncle Lin took the copper coins with a smile, and carefully put the copper coins into his purse. He looked at Li Maoshan's protective posture, changed his mind, and smiled. He asked: "Dashan, I haven't seen you for so long, you are married to your husband, right?"

Li Maoshan nodded, "This is my husband, his name is Chen Yan. There is something missing at home, so I will take him to the county town for a walk. It's not good to leave him at home all the time."

"Oh, look at this little face, Dashan, you are very lucky. Uncle Lin, I have lived half my life, but I have never seen a man who can marry such a good-looking brother." Uncle Lin immediately laughed when he heard that his guess was right. He praised, with a hint of envy in his tone.

Seeing that this man was still staring at him, Chen Yan felt a little upset.But because Li Maoshan was somewhat familiar with this person, he couldn't express his dissatisfaction, so he tugged at Li Maoshan's sleeve.

Li Maoshan reached out to hold his hand, and squeezed Chen Yan's palm in a comforting manner.

"Uncle Lin, let's go shopping in a hurry, we will talk next time when we have time."

"Okay, okay, go quickly."

It happened that another person came over and stopped the ox cart, and Uncle Lin hurried over to collect the money.

Chen Yan looked aside for a while, and finally understood why there were so many vehicles parked in this place.

"Brother Shan, is that person specially helping to take care of the car?"

"Yes." Li Maoshan thought he didn't know, so he explained: "Uncle Lin is here to take care of the vehicles for others. If we leave for a long time, he will help feed the donkeys, so we don't have to worry about being hungry. with a donkey."

"Oh." Chen Yan nodded clearly, "Then the two copper coins you gave him are worth it."

"If we buy things and go back soon, the two copper coins will be a bit of a loss." Li Maoshan led him and said as he walked, "Let's go to the market next door."

"Okay." He didn't know the place either, so he just followed Li Maoshan.

Looking around, Chen Yan continued, "Then we'll have lunch in the county seat before going back, and we can still feed the donkey."

Li Maoshan looked at him sideways, with tenderness in his eyes, "Okay, go shopping first, and find a place to eat later. It's your first time to come to the county. Although the county is not big, there are all kinds of things for you to see." Quite a few hours."

"Okay, then what shall we go to see first?" Chen Yan asked excitedly.

"Let's go to the tailor shop to pick out two clothes for you." Li Maoshan looked at the suit that Chen Yan had worn for three days, and said to him apologetically.

Chen Yan glanced at his clothes indifferently, the clothes were a little dirty, it was the dust that he picked up when he wasn't paying attention.Some unknown smudges couldn't be cleaned off, so he just let the smudges exist.

Although his clothes were dirty, they were new clothes.But Li Maoshan's clothes were patched.

"Then Brother Shan should also buy some clothes."

Li Maoshan just smiled when he heard his words, but did not respond.

Chen Yan followed him for a while, when the two stood in front of a shop together, he looked up at the plaque on it, and looked at Li Maoshan with some doubts: "Brother Shan, what are we doing here at the pawnshop?"

"I'll change some money, you sit in the lobby and wait."

Li Maoshan asked him to sit on a chair, and turned to find a buddy.

Sitting quietly, Chen Yan saw Li Maoshan take out something wrapped in a white cloth from his arms from a distance.The guy opened it and took a look, then quoted a price with some disgust.

Li Maoshan frowned, "Can't you have more?"

"The quality of your item is average, and the workmanship is not fine, so the price is not bad." The clerk put the item back into Li Maoshan's hands, "Even if we call our shopkeeper, it might not be worth the price. "

Looking at the longevity lock and jade piece in his hand, Li Maoshan turned his head to look at the person who was sitting quietly, and Chen Yan showed him a shallow smile.

"If I die, how much more money can I have?" Li Maoshan asked after thinking about it.

That guy was also an honest person, seeing that he wanted to pawn this kind of bodyguard gifted by his elders, so he gave him an appropriate price, "It's worth two taels at most."

He learned a lot from the shopkeeper, and the master can still do this.If it weren't for the unique style, he would not give this price.

Li Maoshan looked down at the Changshou Lock, rubbed the jade piece lightly with his fingers, thought for a while, and finally nodded and said: "Okay, just two taels."

Seeing that he agreed, the clerk went to the counter to prepare a pawn ticket and asked Li Maoshan to sign it.

Taking a last look at the longevity lock and the protective jade piece, Li Maoshan took the money handed over by the other party, feeling a little lonely in his heart.However, the real money he got made him feel a little more at ease.

"Brother Shan."

When Li Maoshan turned around holding the silver, he happened to meet Chen Yan standing behind him.

At some point, the person behind him was frowning and looking at him, Li Maoshan subconsciously hid the hand holding the money behind him.Chen Yan stared at his hand that was behind him, and frowned.

"Brother Shan, I don't want to buy clothes anymore."

He saw the thing taken away by the clerk, thinking that Li Maoshan had to buy clothes for himself first, Chen Yan felt a little depressed.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Li Maoshan rubbed his head, and said softly: "You can't keep wearing this outfit without buying clothes. Be good, let's pick out two sets to replace, and then go buy some daily necessities .”

Shaking the money at Chen Yan, Li Maoshan smiled and comforted him: "You can earn money after spending it, you don't need to be so frugal."

Chen Yan bit his lower lip, with an unhappy expression on his face, Li Maoshan rubbed his bitten red lips with some distress.

"Be obedient, don't do this." Li Maoshan scowled in a low voice, took his hand and left the pawnshop directly.

"You can still force me to buy clothes." Chen Yan stared at a pair of big bright eyes, with obvious unhappiness on his face.

The boy's sudden obstinacy made Li Maoshan feel helpless, and he dragged him into the clothing store diagonally opposite.A young guy came up to meet him, and before he could speak, Chen Yan shook off Li Maoshan's hand.

Seeing that he was silent, Li Maoshan