Ma'am, is there someone out there?

If it weren't for the sudden heavy snowfall, October would be the time of high autumn harvest, when farmers harvest in the fields, and children catch crickets in the haystacks, but now most people are busy making up for the losses caused by the snowstorm, rushing to save a year before the year Winter food, prepare the most sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.

As a result, the wild chestnut trees on Dongshan Mountain lost many children to "harm", and no one came to pick them up when they fell to the ground. Unfortunately, many of them were broken.

Shen Qing looked at the chestnut trees in the forest, feeling a little pity, but this made him, a person who loves chestnuts, take advantage of it, usually there are children going back and forth under the trees here.Today these children were all called to go home to work, when Shen Qing was in the field, he saw a lot of families bringing their children to work together.Those who can earn an extra dollar will not let children waste time picking these chestnuts.

Snacks and sweets such as chestnuts are only icing on the cake in the end, but they can't help.

Shen Qing brought a basket over, and there was a little doll sitting in the basket, bouncing all the way, almost falling asleep while rocking.This look is very out of the ordinary for the wife of a rich family, and the look is also very weird. Even though Shen Qing is a man and is dressed in plain clothes, the fabric is still a good dress, and it is woven with bamboo pieces and hemp rope on the back. Baskets don't look right, either.When Shen Qing went out with a basket on his back from Zhuangzi, the stewards he met along the way all had ghostly expressions on their faces.

Fortunately, Shen Qing's clothes today are short jackets suitable for working, and it doesn't look particularly awkward.

Shen Qing carefully unloaded the basket, and carried Xiao Bao out of the basket who had been shaking and almost fell asleep.

"I'll find something delicious for you." Shen Qing said, looking up at the chestnut trees beside him. The chestnut trees that haven't been grafted are usually very tall. When Shen Qing looked up, the top of the tree was indistinguishable from the flickering light and shadow.

Shen Qing looked around and found in the haystack the long bamboo pole that he had asked someone to put here earlier. He propped the bamboo pole up on the tree trunk, and then he climbed up the tree first, and then reached out to reach the bamboo pole supported by the tree trunk.

"Xiaobao, go over there, don't come here!" Shen Qing held up the bamboo pole and shouted to Xiaobao who was under the tree, Xiaobao shook his head to look around, and obediently ran to the bottom of the tree far away.

These chestnuts are so ripe that the yellow-green burrs are cracked, revealing the reddish-brown chestnuts inside.Shen Qing held up the pole and beat it for a while, and there were chestnut balls under the tree, some burrs and shells were cracked, and the fruit inside splashed all over the ground.

Shen Qing climbed down from the tree, and Xiao Bao ran over with his short legs.

"Can this be eaten?" Xiao Bao picked up a round chestnut ball covered in thorns from the ground with both hands, and asked innocently.Why does this look unpalatable? It's full of thorns and pricks people. Is it really edible?

Shen Qing put the chestnut ball in Xiaobao's hand on the ground, picked up a few chestnuts split from the burr ball, and said to Xiaobao: "This is the one that is edible."

Shen Qing peeled off a tender chestnut with a yellow-green skin, took out the beige flesh inside, and stuffed it into Xiaobao's mouth.

"Is it sweet?"

Xiao Bao narrowed his eyes, chewed and licked, and answered loudly: "Sweet!"

While peeling, Shen Qing asked: "Hasn't Xiaobao eaten it before?"

Xiao Bao shook his head, Shen Qing was puzzled, how could Xiao Bao have never eaten such common things that can be seen from south to north. "Xiao Bao, do you remember where you used to live?"

Xiao Bao tilted his head and thought hard. After all, he was only four years old and didn't have many childhood memories.

"There are a lot of cattle and sheep, and there are places for horses! Daddy can ride a horse, and there is Dahei!" Xiaobao happily counted, and after thinking for a while, he said in frustration: "There is no such tree!"

Cattle, sheep and horses, it sounds like they are near the northern desert grassland?But Xuanshen and Xiaobao didn't look like they came from Beimo, but more like people from Jiangnan water town, clear and white.

Maybe they moved to the border of the grassland later.Shen Qing didn't delve into Xiaobao's vague memory, he asked Xiaobao to pick up the chestnuts that popped out of the chestnut balls, picked up the burr balls himself, and quickly picked up a big basket.

"Okay, that's enough. I can cook something delicious for Xiaobao when I go back tonight. Is Xiaobao happy?"

"Happy!" Xiao Bao replied loudly, he likes eating the most! "But Uncle Shen, Grandpa will definitely not let you do it."

"It's okay, let's hide from the old man and do it quietly tonight."

Shen Qing didn't go back to the residence today, he planned to stay at Zhuangzi in another courtyard at the foot of Lidong Mountain.

Carrying a basket of chestnuts on his back to the field is always weird and arouses gossip, Shen Qing unloaded the basket in the thatched shed before entering the field, asked the guards to help watch, and walked forward lightly.

When he went to the field, he found that Xuanshen was surrounded by a few peasant men. Those men were very strong, and they looked like they were not slaves of the mansion. Looking at Xuan Shen, this situation looks like a few big men besieging a thin young man.

And Xuan Shen's slightly thin figure faced them alone, and his lonely figure seemed to be at a disadvantage.Is this being bullied?It's not that Shen Qing doesn't know that even farmers who seem to be honest, honest and hard-working sometimes can bully the weak, but the servants in Shen Qing's mansion have never met them.

Shen Qing was startled, stepped forward quickly, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing?"

Seeing Shen Qing approaching, the few men showed fear on their faces, and they kept saying that it was nothing, but their expressions were always somewhat dissatisfied.

Shen Qing had no choice but to turn his head to ask Xuan Shen, Xuan Shen's face was dull, and he seemed particularly aggrieved.

Shen Qing wondered in his heart, could it be that these guys jointly bullied Xuan Shen, but Xuan Shen didn't dare to speak, so he comforted Xuan Shen: "Don't be afraid, I will protect you."

Upon hearing this, although those men tried their best to conceal it, the expressions on their faces became even more ferocious. If the girls in the mansion would have been scared to tears by this scene.

But Xuan Shen is not a little girl after all, he looked very calm, blinked and said to Shen Qing: "I'm fine."

Shen Qing didn't believe it: "Really?"

Xuan Shen nodded again, Shen Qing just gave up, and turned to look at the men, "There will be a next time, you don't need to come again, the General's Mansion doesn't need troublemakers."

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When the strong men heard this, they wanted to refute a few more words, and they were worried about what to do if they didn't get their wages. Besides, they didn't make sense, so they had to leave bitterly.

Naturally, Shen Qing didn't know what was going on in Xuanshen's heart, he was completely towards Xuanshen, which made Xuanshen very happy.He also wouldn't tell Shen Qing that those four people faced him, but they lost miserably.

The ferocious expressions shown by the men of the farmer are also painful, and they are not threatening.He Xuanshen was never afraid of threats from others.

Speaking of things, it was indeed a few strong men who came to the door first.

It turned out that those strong men had already noticed Xuan Shen who was working alone, and saw that he and the general's wife seemed to have a good relationship, so they thought about it. Say a few words and give them a wage.

The bearded leader came to strike up a conversation first: "Brother is doing work."

Xuan Shen buried his head in disregard.

The bearded man frowned, the boy was so proud that he didn't pay attention to them, the bearded man was unwilling to reconcile, and said smugly: "Brother, seeing that you and your wife have a good relationship, can you tell me that the salary will go up further. "As he spoke, he rubbed his fingers, with a clear motive.

Xuan Shen's ears moved only when he heard Shen Qing's name, and he raised his head and looked at the bearded beard coldly.

The bearded man was taken aback, and shivered in a trance. The boy's eyes were quite cold, but this must be an illusion. He looked thin and weak, like a weak chicken, but he was just a boy with a white face. The little boy kicked over.Thinking of this, the bearded man showed off his chest muscles confidently.

"What are you looking at!" The bearded man kicked the hoe off Xuan Shen's hand, and the handle of the hoe, which was repaired by Shen Qing before, fell out again, and Xuan Shen quietly looked at the handle of the hoe on the ground.

The bearded man suddenly became a little bit cowardly, but the other party really didn't seem capable, even if he bullied him, he was probably holding back and admitting cowardly, not daring to retaliate.Boyfriends are like this, but beards are experienced.A few strong men behind him also shouted to get rid of this ignorant boy, and the bearded man became more confident.

"Okay, I'll let you see how great your grandfather is!"

It's a pity that the other party is not as weak as he imagined.

The bearded man couldn't even see Xuan Shen's movements clearly, and was suddenly swept away by the opponent's sweeping legs, fell forward, and fell into a messy dog ​​gnawing shit, which made everyone behind him laugh out loud. Getting up in embarrassment, becoming angry from embarrassment, he grinned: "This time I will definitely show you."

"Still laughing, what a fart, beat him up together, and give this little boy some color." The bearded man cursed.

The others just laughed at the fact that the bearded guy was kicked to the ground by a mere boy. , specifically picking the places that you can't see and make you hurt.

After a while, one by one howled ouch, that is to say, in Shen Qing's eyes, the expressions were ferocious and fierce, but in fact they were in such pain.

Xuan Shen, who beat the man to the ground at that time, was also a little surprised. He didn't expect his fists to be so powerful. He squeezed his fists and stared carefully for a while, then rubbed his hands together in amazement.

And when Shen Qing saw it, Xuan Shen had already returned to his silent appearance. At first glance, the scene looked like a street bully beating up a weak and weak scholar.

"Are you okay, are you injured?" Shen Qing asked with concern.

"It doesn't hurt." Xuan Shen shook his head, but didn't tell Shen Qing that he had martial arts.

As for the truth of the matter, Xuan Shen didn't want to say it from the bottom of his heart.