When Bai Ze led the old scalper and approached the thatched house on the outskirts of the town, the sky had completely darkened. From a distance, Jian Xi, who was riding on the back of an ox, saw the bright thatched cottage and knew that it was the fire lit by her mother.
It's late autumn in the north, and the nights are already very cold. My mother has always been in poor health. Without a fire to keep warm, she couldn't keep the bed warm all night.
But then, the little girl riding the ox frowned, as if she heard someone arguing in the thatched hut, and immediately became anxious. Regardless of what Bai Ze told him, she slipped off the back of the ox and ran home. .
"Jian Xi?" Bai Ze called her, but the little girl didn't care and ran away in a few seconds.
The young man sighed, and he led the old scalper from side to side. He definitely couldn't catch up, so he simply tied the cow rope to a nearby tree and walked towards the thatched house.
There is no doubt that the troublemakers are the Zeng brothers. My younger brother had his head smashed in the school hall. How can an elder brother endure it?
He immediately took Zeng Bao, who still had a bandage around his head, to the thatched cottage in the suburbs. He asked Mrs. Jian for an explanation, forcing her to hand over the little black charcoal she had hidden and kowtow to Zeng Bao in person to admit his mistake. If he did not kowtow to bleed, today This matter is not over yet!
Mrs. Jian was so forced by Zeng Ying and Zeng Xiong that she couldn't stop coughing and could hardly lift her breath.
"Third brother, fourth brother, you have to make the decision for me! Leopard hurts, it hurts me to death!" Zeng Bao fanned the flames. Zeng Xiong had a bad temper and couldn't stand people crying. He lifted the table of the thatched house and shouted There was a clang, and she said in a loud voice: "Mrs. Jian, I think you are an orphan and a widower. You are pitiful! But everything has a right and a wrong. Your daughter beat my brother's head like this. There is no explanation. I'm afraid it won't work. !”
"Yes, hand over Xiao Heitan quickly, or I will burn your house down!" Zeng Bao yelled viciously, relying on the support of his two brothers.
"You dare!?" Jian Xi quickly rushed into the yard, pointed at Zeng Bao, and shouted: "Try to burn one of them! Look, aunt, I won't burn your Zeng family too!" Zeng Bao heard the sound, Looking back, his eyes widened, he pointed at Jian Xi and gritted his teeth.
"Well, you little black charcoal, I thought you didn't want your mother, a consumptive ghost, and you still dare to come back! Today you kneel down and kowtow to admit your mistake, and keep kowtowing your head until it bleeds. Let's forget about it!" Mrs. Jian was Sitting in the thatched cottage, I heard Jian Xi's voice, but my sight was blocked by the tall and strong bodies of the Zeng brothers. I couldn't see clearly what was going on outside. I became anxious and coughed again.
The Zeng brothers heard the scary cough and hurriedly left the thatched hut for fear of contracting bad luck.
"You... you are a naughty girl, you still haven't... cough cough... you haven't apologized yet!... cough cough cough..." Mrs. Jian said intermittently while holding on to the beams of the thatched house, looking hard at the little girl in the yard,
"What do I teach you on a daily basis? Don't...ahem...show off your strength and try to win..."
"Mom!" Jian Xi's eyes immediately turned red. She wanted to rush into the thatched house, but was stopped by the Que Zeng brothers, who cursed: "Go away! If anything happens to my mother, I want your whole family to be buried with her!!"
"You are so young and you have such a vicious heart. No wonder you are so cruel to my brother!" Zeng Ying was furious when he heard this and reached out to grab Jian Xi's hair and push her to the ground.
"Jian Xi!...cough cough cough...apologise..." Mrs. Jian shouted with all her strength.
"Mother..." Jian Xi could no longer hold back the heat in her eyes. She looked at the woman in the thatched house, her eyes blurred by tears, she clenched her fists and said stubbornly: "It's not my fault, why should I apologize?" ...Is it because we orphans and widowed mothers are easy to bully? Why?!" Jian Xi gritted her teeth, raised her head, and stared at the Zeng brothers angrily.
Zeng Ying was struck by the vicious eyes, and Zeng Bao was startled by Jian Xi's roar, but he still refused to admit defeat, and was determined to make Xiao Heitan kowtow and admit his mistake.
Zeng Xiong was too lazy to say anything, so he took action.
"You two, those who bully orphans and widowed mothers are not afraid of making others laugh?" At this moment, Bai Ze came outside Chaimen and said,
"Come to me if you have any problem. How about this, I kowtow for Jian Xi?" As soon as he said this, Zeng Ying frowned, looked up and down at the young man outside the door, feeling a little taboo in his heart, and said: "A foreigner Man, I advise you not to meddle in other people’s business.”
"Mrs. Jian's family saved my life, but they only saved a few heads. We should repay the favor. Why should we meddle in other people's business?" Bai Ze said with a smile.
"Are you determined to do this?" Zeng Ying asked.
"I insist on that." Bai Ze said.
"Aze, no!" Jian Xi shouted at Bai Ze,
"They are bad people, you can't kowtow to them!" The Zeng brothers looked at each other. Just when Zeng Ying was about to make a decision, Zeng Bao suddenly jumped out and shouted: "No! It must be Xiao Heitan who kowtows to me and admits his mistake. I I don't want you to take her place!" The smile on Bai Ze's lips was icy cold, and he said: "That's okay, since it doesn't make sense, I won't make things difficult for you. Get out now, and this matter will be over, otherwise..." Bai Ze said again. Before he finished speaking, Zeng Xiong became furious and said in a deep voice: "You are a yellow-tongued brat. You utter arrogant words and beg to be beaten!" After that, he rushed out of Chaimen and punched Bai Ze in the face!
That Zeng had a strong back and a strong waist, and was more than two times bigger than Bai Ze. When Jian Xifu saw Zeng Xiong punch Bai Ze in the face, he couldn't help but cover his eyes and only dared to look through the gap between his fingers.
Zeng Xiong expected that punch to knock Bai Ze down, but strangely, just when his fist was about to hit the young man's face, it failed!
Such a big living person disappeared in front of his eyes and suddenly ran behind him! ! Zeng Xiong failed to close his momentum, stumbled, and fell to the ground, feeling extremely embarrassed.
Bai Ze gently raised his foot and left a one-foot-deep footprint on the land outside Chaimen. He made a fist with his right hand and placed it across his chest. He said: "This punch I gave you has about a year's worth of skills. Although it is not enough to open mountains and seas." It's a little bit tough, but it's easy to kill a cow with just one punch. I want to ask you three, who is willing to try my punch?" Zeng Ying and Zeng Bao watched as Bai Ze lightly kicked and hit the hard... A foot-deep footprint was left on the ground, and his expression changed as if he had seen a ghost.
"Good boy, you are very fast, come again!" Zeng Xiong got up and wanted to fight again. As soon as these words came out, Zeng Ying and Zeng Bao were so frightened that their faces turned pale!
"Young hero, Grandmaster!! My fourth brother is a reckless fool, Grandmaster, please don't be the same as him!" Zeng Ying shouted, pointing at Zeng Xiong's nose and scolding,
"You idiot! It's all your fault for pampering this worthless thing, not studying well in the library, causing trouble, and you deserve to be beaten!"
"Third brother, I..." Zeng Xiong was scolded inexplicably.
"What am I!?" Zeng Ying grabbed Zeng Bao and rushed out of the door. He went up and gave Zeng Xiong a kick until he staggered.
"Go away yet!" Bai Ze looked at the farce in front of him leisurely without saying a word. Jian Xi, on the other hand, saw the Zeng brothers running away, laughed out of tears, blew a snot bubble, stared at Bai Ze with flashing eyes, and said without thinking: "A Ze, please teach me how to box, I don't want to Ready to study." Mrs. Jian coughed again.
Jian Xi's expression changed, and she quickly ran over to support the woman and give her some relief. Bai Ze took out a jade bottle from the chess piece, poured out the elixir inside, crushed it into powder, and asked Jian Xi to bring a bowl of water. He poured a fingernail's worth of powder into the bowl of water and fed it to Mrs. Jian. .
After drinking a bowl of water, Mrs. Jian's complexion immediately improved and she stopped coughing.
"Aze, are you a miracle doctor?!" Jian Xi's round eyes widened,
"It's really amazing. It's much better than that old guy in town! That old man said that my mother is already terminally ill, and the days... Bah, bah, bah! I'm such a crow's mouth."
"You can help my mother to rest. You can keep this jade bottle. Every seven days, take a fingernail's worth of powdered water and feed it to your mother. When the powder in the bottle is gone, my mother's illness should be cured. "Bai Ze thrust the jade bottle into Jian Xi's hand.
"This is too valuable, I can't accept it..." Mrs. Jian resisted.
"Compared with Jian Xi saving my life, it's nothing." Bai Ze said with a smile.
"Take it." If Mrs. Jian wanted to say anything else, Jian Xi neatly put the jade bottle into her arms and pushed Mrs. Jian into the room to rest.
Bai Ze then went out and sent the old scalper from next door over. Thinking that Jian Xi hadn't had dinner yet, he carried half of the hare into the kitchen and made a fire to cook.
The mother and daughter whispered in the room, and it wasn't until Bai Ze cooked a pot of rabbit meat that Jian Xi came out of Mrs. Jian's room.
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