The story of the rich and the young being tricked into farming

The two walked for several hours before arriving home.

The old lady was already sitting in the yard waiting, Jing Min went up with a bag of snacks and put it on the table for the old lady: "Mother, this is the horseshoe cake from Fu'anzhai. My son thought you liked it before, so I bought it." Ordered one."

"You have a heart," the old lady accepted the bag of pastries, and then her eyes fell on Ye Xiaozhou, "I went to the town and ate a lot of good things, didn't you? When you first arrived at our house, I didn't see you bringing any greetings. Excuse me, you are a newcomer, you went to the town today, don't you know what to bring back to honor your elders?"

Ye Xiaozhou pointed to the bag of snacks: "Didn't Tianzhu give it away? I also have my thoughts in it."

The old lady was dissatisfied: "It was given by Tianzhu, can this thing be considered as a gift for two people? Please coax me, a toothless old lady."

"I have no teeth," Ye Xiaozhou whispered, "Do you still want to eat chicken legs?"

The old lady still seemed very displeased with his appearance, her wrinkled and thin lips twitched: "You are a junior, how dare you contradict me like this? You must go to town with my son, you must have a good meal." It’s all right if you don’t bring me a copy for an old man, and it’s so rude.”

Jing Min suddenly opened his mouth to persuade: "Mother, after all, it was bought with Xiao Zhou's clothes."

Ye Xiaozhou immediately said, "That's right, that's the money I got in exchange for my clothes! I even bought you such expensive snacks, and I didn't say anything."

"Now that you have passed the gate of our Jing family, you are already a member of our Jing family." The old lady raised her head confidently, not to be outdone, "But those few clothes can only be regarded as shabby dowry. It is already the property of my Jing family."

Ye Xiaozhou was so angry, if it wasn't for Jing Min's mother, he would have already started beating someone, so he didn't care about respecting the old and caring for the young, and being polite.

"You are so unreasonable. Even if the clothes are said to be my dowry, they are still my property. How can you have the final say?"

Jing Min stepped forward and pulled Ye Xiaozhou back a few steps, then patted him on the back, and coaxed him in a low voice: "Okay, we don't care about mother, she is old and has a bad temper. "

"You always look at her like this," Ye Xiaozhou yelled angrily, "Obviously I'm not wrong, why should I endure it?"

Seeing that Jing Min responded silently, Ye Xiaozhou turned around and went back to the house angrily.

It was midsummer at this time, and the scorching sun made it seem like a layer of white ash was always floating in the courtyard.

But after a while, Jing Min came in with a big straw hat and a pair of newly bought coarse clothes. He sat down beside the bed, and gently touched Ye Xiaozhou's chin: "Open your mouth."

Although Ye Xiaozhou was still angry, he subconsciously followed suit.

Jing Min picked up the bag of sugar snowballs hidden in his bosom, took out one from inside, fed it into Ye Xiaozhou's mouth, and asked with a smile, "Is it sweet?"

"If it's sweet, don't lose your temper with me, okay?"

"Well... this hawthorn is a bit sour," Ye Xiaozhou bulged his cheeks, biting the hawthorn ball, and said vaguely, "I need to regenerate your anger for a while."

"Okay then," Jing Min put the big straw hat and clothes beside the bed, "We will go to the field to sow seeds in the evening, and the time is not up yet, we can go to the yard to build a chicken coop first, Just settle the hen you just bought."

Ye Xiaozhou turned over lazily, and asked in a muffled voice: "Does it have to be today? Can't tomorrow? I'm so tired."

Jing Min stared at him for a while, and then said softly: "If you are really tired, you can go to sleep first, and I can build a chicken coop by myself."

Although Ye Xiaozhou was tired after walking all morning, he couldn't see Jing Min suffering outside in the sun alone, so he had no choice but to hold Jing Min's hand and slowly got up from the bed.

Then he stood by the bed and waited for Jing Min to change his clothes.

Jing Min sighed: "When will you grow up?"

"Isn't there still you?" Ye Xiaozhou smiled, and ordered in a very brisk tone, "I will trouble you for the rest of my life, young master."

Jing Min put on the straw hat for him, with a smile on his lips, but he didn't say anything.

Ever since, the two ran to the backyard to choose a corner under the sun, and they were about to start building a chicken coop.

But Young Master Ye really doesn't like mud, so I don't blame him, it's just that he has been Ye Mansion's baby since he was a child, and everyone in Ye Mansion didn't dare to let this baby play with mud, so Ye Xiaozhou didn't know anything about these things, and this The mud, which is very dirty at first glance, made him, who loves to clean, unable to do it at all.

Jing Min saw that he was about to move and stopped, and saw his embarrassment, so he drove him aside to look at the chicken in the sack.

Ye Xiaozhou sat on a big rock and stared at those bags, suddenly remembered the smell of roast chicken in his dream that night, and his mouth became very greedy.

He endured it for a long time before he finally couldn't help asking: "Is this chicken edible? Can I eat one first today?"

Jing Min glanced at him helplessly: "These chickens are bought for laying eggs and selling them for money, and if you eat one, you will lose one."

Ye Xiaozhou swallowed, and asked again: "Then can I eat an egg? With so many chickens, there must be a lot of eggs every day, so I'll just eat one, okay?"

Jing Min thought for a moment, and finally nodded: "Okay, only one."

Ye Xiaozhou nodded cheerfully.

Soon Ye Xiaozhou discovered that these chickens were all tied up in sacks, and they couldn't run away even if they wanted to. In fact, he didn't need to watch them very much.So Ye Xiaozhou wandered to the front yard wearing the big straw hat while Jing Min was busy and didn't pay attention.

Then he found a child lying on the wall looking at his yard.

Ye Xiaozhou asked vigilantly, "Who are you?"

The child blinked and replied, "My name is Mazi, but you can also call me Ma Xiao."

Ye Xiaozhou saw that there were freckles on both sides of his cheeks connecting to the bridge of his nose, he suddenly remembered, and asked: "That bearded man next door is your father?"

Ma Xiao nodded, and said honestly: "Yes, I just heard my father talking about you. He said you were beautiful, so I wanted to come and see you."

Ye Xiaozhou walked slowly to the wall, stretched out his hand and raised the brim of his hat slightly, Ma Xiaoxiao saw his bright and beautiful round eyes, with long and curly eyelashes flickering.

The moment they looked at him, Ma Xiao was in a daze, and almost slipped down.

He hugged the edge of the wall tightly, smiled a little embarrassedly, and blurted out: "My father is right, you really look good."

He had never seen such a delicate and beautiful person, even if he was dressed in coarse brown clothes, he couldn't hide the brilliance of this person.

Then Ma Xiao asked again: "What's your name?"

Ye Xiaozhou replied: "My name is Ye Xiaozhou."

Ma Xiao's eyes were glued to him and refused to let go: "You are not from our local area, are you?"

"Well, I grew up in Pingjiang."

Ma Xiao said with emotion: "Ah, is it in the Jiangnan area? I heard that area is a good place, with talented scholars and beautiful ladies. There are as many rice in the rice jar."

Then he asked again: "Little Yezi, Brother Ah Jing's mother is very beautiful, isn't she?"

Ye Xiaozhou:? ? ?

He didn't care about his indifferent address, but was shocked by his last sentence. To be honest, he really couldn't read any information related to the word "beautiful" from the creases on the old lady's face.

So Ye Xiaozhou could only say awkwardly: "It's...is it?"

Ma Xiao saw that his reaction was a bit strange, so she asked again: "Have you never seen her? By the way, Brother Ajing is back, why didn't you see Aunt Liu?"

Only then did Ye Xiaozhou realize that Jing Min's mother's name had the word Liu in it, and that she had such a predestined relationship with his stepmother.Jing Min didn't take the initiative to tell him, presumably because he was afraid that he would be more hostile to his mother.

At the same time, Jing Min suddenly came over from the backyard. He glanced at Ma Xiao who was leaning against the wall, and said coldly: "My mother is sick in bed recently, and it is not suitable to see people."

A worried look appeared on Ma Xiao's face, and she asked, "Really? What's wrong with Aunt Liu? Can I go and see her?"

Jing Min refused straight away: "No."

Ma Xiaoda was disappointed.

"The chicken coop has been set up," Jing Min turned and said to Ye Xiaozhou, "Go to the kitchen to scoop up some rice bran, and follow me to feed the chickens in the backyard."

Ye Xiaozhou obediently turned around and went to the kitchen. When he came back, Ma Xiao had disappeared.

He didn't ask much, and went to the backyard with the rice bran.

Ye Xiaozhou imitated Jing Min's appearance and sprinkled rice bran on the ground, and asked Jing Min: "Why don't you let Ma Xiao see your mother? I see that your mother is very lively on weekdays, and she doesn't seem to be sick. look."

Jing Min acted like you don't want to ask too much: "I don't like that child."

"Okay," Ye Xiaozhou always trusts Jing Min, "By the way, Ma Xiaoshu, your mother is very good-looking, why can't I see it at all? Are all of you people with such poor eyesight?"

He paused at this point, and then said: "That's not true, Ma Xiaofang clearly said that I'm good-looking..."

"Could it be... I was born similar to your mother?"

Ye Xiaozhou was quickly frightened by his terrifying thought.

Jing Min couldn't help laughing, and said, "My mother was really pretty when she was young."

After he explained this, Ye Xiaozhou panicked even more: "Do people change so much when they get old?"

Seeing him like this, Jing Min couldn't laugh or cry for a while, and it made people want to bully him even more.

"Yeah," he said.

Ye Xiaozhou had a bitter face, but his voice was very tragic: "Then I don't want to grow old. When I live to the age when your mother becomes ugly, I will throw myself into the river!"

Jing Min said: "The bodies of those who die in the river will swell several times, and their lips will turn outward..."

"Then I'll hang myself!"

"The tongue of a hanged person may slip out, and he may lose control, which is very disgraceful..."

"Then..." Ye Xiaozhou paused, thought for a while and said, "Then I'll drink poisonous wine!"

Jing Min replied honestly: "Unless the dosage is precise, you may not die for a while, and you will have to endure the pain of visceral colic before you die."

Ye Xiaozhou's voice gradually weakened, and finally he had to compromise: "Then I...then I'll die of old age."