Qiu Yu covered up part of the sound. Xia Qingmai thought she heard wrongly at first, but when she saw Sun Fugui coming back from covering the book and inkstone by the crib, she paused for a moment. Then she asked uncertainly: "You Did you hear anyone talking outside?"
As he spoke, Xia Qingmai was about to walk to the outhouse.
After taking just two steps, Xia Qingmai suddenly stopped, took Sun Fugui's hand beside him, and walked out together.
"Let's go take a look together."
Seeing that Xia Qingmai still knew how to hold him back, Sun Fugui couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"In the future, when I'm not at home, if you hear noises outside, don't rush out first. You must confirm your arrival."
Xia Qingmai understood what Sun Fugui meant and naturally would not refuse his concern in kind.
Nodding, Xia Qingmai also pulled Sun Fugui to the door of the outhouse.
As soon as he walked to the door of the outhouse, the voices coming from outside suddenly became clear again.
"Second sister, it's me."
Almost as soon as the voice outside fell, Xia Qingmai raised her hand and opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, Xia Qingmai vaguely saw the person standing outside the fence of his house.
"Qingyuan? Why are you here at this time?"
When Xia Qingmai's voice sounded, Sun Fugui also trotted to open the door of his house.
A few breaths later, Xia Qingmai first heard Sun Fugui say, "Qingyuan, why don't you hold an umbrella?" Then after she quickly went back to the room to get a dry towel, she looked up and saw Xia Qingyuan's red eyes.
The young man who was usually very energetic and loved to laugh was now soaked to the skin. After touching Xia Qingmai's eyes, he even shrank back.
Waiting for Xia Qingmai to throw the dry towel directly into his arms, he subconsciously took the towel and muttered, "Second sister, I know I was wrong."
After saying this, it seemed that he suddenly thought of the purpose of coming today. The veins on Xia Qingyuan's hand holding the dry towel bulged. He raised his head, looked directly into Xia Qingmai's eyes and said: "Second sister, you will still be here in the future. My sister?"
Xia Qingmai felt that his younger brother, who used to be very shrewd, might have been exposed to too much rain and had water in his head.
She rolled her eyes at him, and then walked to the stove to light a fire and cook ginger soup while saying, "I am not your sister. How can I become your sister?"
After saying that, Xia Qingmai paused and continued: "Even if I adopt you, I will only change from your biological sister to your cousin. Why is she not your sister anymore?"
Hearing Xia Qingmai's words, Xia Qingyuan felt his eyes sore. He quickly covered his head with the dry towel in his hand and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes by wiping the rain on his face.
But Xia Qingyuan, who acted quickly, didn't know that from the moment he entered the house, his sister and brother-in-law had already seen his eyes that were obviously crying.
At this moment, out of sight, his sister and brother-in-law looked at each other and communicated silently.
Xia Qingmai picked up the kitchen knife, rinsed the surface with water, and then peeled a dozen pieces of ginger and put them into the pot.
After waiting for the ginger slices to enter the pot with water, Xia Qingmai turned around and went to the cupboard to get brown sugar and a bowl.
After taking two steps, Xia Qingmai said: "Why did you come to me at this time? Does your family know? Why don't you hold an umbrella?"
Xia Qingmai had many problems, but Xia Qingyuan didn't feel annoyed at all.
He took the dry towel off his head and replied with a loud voice: "I had a quarrel with my family. You should know that I came out to find you and didn't have time to hold an umbrella."
Seeing that Xia Qingyuan became normal, Sun Fugui also interjected: "You two brothers and sisters chat, I will find some clothes for Qingyuan to change into."
While Sun Fugui walked into the back room to look for clothes, Xia Qingmai also picked up her things and returned to the stove.
"Why are you arguing with them? Isn't my adoption settled long ago?"
"Before, it was difficult to arrange the money. They were not convinced if I gave it to them. I felt uncomfortable if I gave it to them. Grandpa was also concerned about the second uncle's wish and was unwilling to force the arrangement."
"Now, it's just about actual execution."
Seeing Xia Qingmai's relaxed tone, Xia Qingyuan felt unhappy again.
"Second sister, I just don't like to see them finally relieved. And eldest brother, he, he..."
Sixteen-year-old Xia Qingyuan was embarrassed to say some words, but Xia Qingmai, who knew the family's character well, said directly: "He scolded me? Did he blame me for arranging all the money directly? Let me think about it, maybe he , and my parents still think I should take the money back and leave it to them to make arrangements, right?"
The more Xia Qingmai talked, the redder Xia Qingyuan's cheeks became.
Seeing his reaction, Xia Qingmai still didn't understand.
"Looking at you like this, I must have guessed everything correctly."
Listening to the second sister's determined words, Xia Qingyuan really couldn't say 'no'.
As the beneficiary of what his parents said, "If your second sister gets the money back, she will definitely share half of it with you because of her love for you." Xia Qingyuan really didn't know how to respond to this.
Xia Qingmai didn't think it was anything.
Based on her knowledge of that family, they probably said a lot of nasty things.
But what surprised her was that Xia Qingyuan would come to her at this time.
The ginger soup in the pot gradually thickened under the action of the tongue of fire. Xia Qingmai scooped the ginger soup into the bowl. The hot ginger soup quickly melted the brown sugar cubes.
The sweet brown sugar meets the hot ginger soup, and a bowl of ginger tea will ward off the cold.
"Drink. After drinking the ginger tea, change your clothes. I've left a fire on the stove. You can sit here and warm yourself up later."
Xia Qingyuan did not dare to refute his second sister. Even though he had been most afraid of the taste of ginger since he was a child, he did not dare to say "I won't drink it" now.
Seeing the second brother-in-law coming out with clothes and the second sister entering the back room, Xia Qingyuan looked at Sun Fugui and said, "Second brother-in-law, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to come at this time."
Sun Fugui raised his chin to the ginger tea on the pot table and motioned to Xia Qingyuan, his brother-in-law, to drink the tea first. After he picked up the bowl of ginger tea, he said, "Brother-in-law, when he comes to my sister's and brother-in-law's house, I still have to pick the tea." Time? That doesn’t mean I can come whenever I want.”
After saying this, seeing Xia Qingyuan's brows relax after taking two sips of ginger tea, Sun Fugui continued to speak: "But you came here in the rain at night, I still have to say something to you."
"I didn't see any bicycles when I went out just now. Your trouser legs are still covered in mud. You must have walked all the way. Hmm... maybe you even ran away, right?"
Seeing that his second brother-in-law had already guessed it, Xia Qingyuan smiled sheepishly, then quickly lowered his head to drink ginger tea.
Sun Fugui knew that a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old was very face-conscious, and as a brother-in-law, it was not easy for him to be too lenient.
He looked at Xia Qingyuan who drank the ginger tea in one gulp, and finally said: "Before you do anything in the future, think about the people who care about you. Think about it, if something happens to you on the road today, your second sister will be much better." sad."
Hearing what the second brother-in-law said, Xia Qingyuan, who had just finished drinking the ginger tea and had a smile on his lips, immediately stopped smiling.
He nodded carefully, looked at Sun Fugui and said, "Second brother-in-law, I have remembered everything you said, and I will pay attention to it in the future."
Xia Qingmai, who had been standing at the door of the back room, heard a smile on his lips.
Although she was a little surprised by her brother's arrival, she also knew that there were people who cared about her in the Xia family's big house and were reluctant to give up.
