Min's eyes were red with anger, "You actually want me to raise you and Brother Mu for the rest of your life?"
"I used to raise you for more than ten years, now you can raise me and Brother Mu, can't you?" Ke Chu frowned, with a bit of condemnation in his tone, "Is it possible that what Aniang said before is that we are all a family, and we should not be too careful about everything. Are you just trying to trick me if you care about me?"
Min's lips trembled, but she couldn't say a word.
Ke Chu returned to the thatched house in a happy mood, opened the door, and Brother Mu, who was lying inside the door eavesdropping, quickly ran to the bed and sat down like a puppy doing bad things.
Brother Mu's back was straight and his eyes were evasive, looking like he was a thief with a guilty conscience.
Ke Chu wanted to tease Brother Mu and asked, "How long have you been listening to this?"
Brother Mu responded subconsciously, "I didn't listen for long!"
Ke Chu looked at him and he lowered his head silently, not daring to say anything.
Ke Chu sat next to him and pinched his earlobe as if punishing, "Want some candy?"
When Brother Mu heard this, he knew that Ke Chu was not angry. He looked up at Ke Chu with a somewhat troubled expression, "Husband, if this matter spreads, it will bring bad reputation to you."
Ke Chu said quietly, "My father is more respectable than anyone else. He will not allow my mother to spread this matter."
Brother Mu breathed a sigh of relief, "I want to eat sweets."
He looked at the three kilograms of sugar on the table and licked his lips, as if recalling the taste of sugar, "Husband, I'll just eat a little."
White sugar is valuable, and he had eaten it at home during the Chinese New Year when he was very young.
Brother took the risk and sneaked into the stove to dip his fingers into the sugar for him to eat.
Ke Chu laughed, "I'll give you some candy, but not this candy."
Brother Mu looked at him doubtfully, "We didn't buy any other candies."
All sweet things are expensive, and white sugar is the cheapest.
Ke Chu remained mysterious and only said, "Follow me up the mountain tomorrow."
Brother Mu blinked, "Oh."
He handed the money bag to Ke Chu, who took out sixty coins and handed it to Brother Mu. He hid the remaining two hundred and fifty coins under the bed and covered it with soil.
Brother Mu held sixty coins in his hands and asked doubtfully: "Husband, where do you put these sixty coins?"
Ke Chu raised his hand and touched Brother Mu's forehead, "Leave it here and buy whatever you want."
Brother Mu blushed slightly and whispered, "Then tell me what you want to buy."
He asked again: "Do you want to hide the clothes, cloth and sugar?"
"Yes." Ke Chu hid everything on the beam. As long as the thief didn't look up, he wouldn't find it.
Ke Da came back, and Ke Chu took Brother Mu to the stove to serve brown rice porridge.
Seeing that they dared to come out for dinner, Mrs. Min looked extremely ugly, but for some reason, she didn't say anything offensive.
She brought a plate of vegetarian dishes to the table and sat down. "We don't have any meat at home. I can only eat this today. Let's make do with it."
Hearing this, Ke Da glanced at Brother Mu dissatisfiedly.
"You have a promising future after marrying a husband, yet you dare to cheat and spend the money."
Brother Mu lowered his head and said nothing, while Ke Chu's expression remained unchanged, "The money I have earned for the Ke family over the years is more than just one tael of silver."
Ke Dayi slapped the table, "What? Do you want to separate the family?"
Min was anxious.
This family cannot be divided. If this family is divided, who will do the work?
She opened her mouth, but before the words came out, Ke Chu said: "No, I have to work on my own after we separate."
Min's eyes widened, and she remembered what Ke Chu said today, and her heart became more and more anxious.
Is it possible that Ke Chu really wants to keep them for the rest of his life?
Since Ke Chu doesn't work these days, Ke Da can only do the work in the fields. But how much work can Ke Da do now that he is old?
Ten acres of land, if they can't finish the work, how much less food will their family have to harvest this year?
Ke Da said in a deep voice, "If you don't want to separate the family, you have to work! Your disease can make you lazy for a few days, is it possible that it can make you lazy for a lifetime?"
Min felt relieved.
What Koda said makes sense.
Ke Chu had no reason to go to work in the fields honestly after pretending to be sick.
When the time comes, Brother Mu will stay at home and he will have to let her learn from him.
Ke Chu glanced at Ke Tuo, "My brother can be lazy all his life, why can't I?"
Ke Da pointed at Ke Chu and scolded, "You are the elder brother! Why are you so fussy with that woman?"
Mrs. Min echoed from the side, "Yes, as a brother, I will give you more help."
Ke Chu had been told this before, so he just accepted it in order to maintain harmony in his family.
But now Ke Chu looked like he couldn't get enough of it, "I won't let it go."
He put most of the plate of vegetarian vegetables into Brother Mu's bowl, "Eat some to satisfy your stomach first."
He didn't believe that there was only this bowl of vegetarian food for dinner. Even if Min was willing to starve herself, she couldn't bear to starve Ke Tuo.
Ke Da and Min were reluctant at first, but when they saw that the vegetarian dishes were about to disappear, they quickly stretched out their chopsticks.
They ate food on their lips and stared at Ke Chu, as if to let Ke Chu notice their anger.
Ke Chu turned a blind eye.
After dinner, Ke Chu took Brother Mu back to the house. Not long after, Ke Chu saw Min sneaking out of the kitchen through the crack in the door, seemingly holding something in his hand.
Ke Chu gently opened the door and followed Min. He saw Min stuffing the egg into Ke Tuo's hand, "Eat quickly, don't let those two starving ghosts see it."
Ke Tuo took the eggs and said dissatisfied: "Mom, is it possible that we will have to eat like this in the future?"
Mrs. Min was helpless and aggrieved, "Mother doesn't want to either."
Ke Tuo complained, "I wonder why brother has been so crazy these days?"
As soon as he finished speaking, his hand was empty, and the egg that was originally in his hand disappeared.
He looked up and saw Ke Chu looking at the eggs in his hand with a half-smile, "Aniang is so considerate. She knew Brother Mu didn't have enough to eat, so she even cooked eggs for him."
Min grabbed the egg and said angrily: "Isn't that for Brother Mu?"
Ke Chu stepped back to avoid her hand, and his smile was a little colder, "In this home, as long as I see food being eaten, it is for Brother Mu."
Mrs. Min was chilled by the sight of him. When she realized what she was doing, Ke Chu had already walked away with the egg.
She stamped her feet angrily, "What evil have I done!"
"Mom, I'm hungry!" Ke Tuo ordered angrily, "Go and cook me another one."
When Ke Chu returned to the house with the eggs, Brother Mu was wiping himself. Seeing that he came back so quickly, Brother Mu was so frightened that he curled up, turned his back and hid himself in the shadows.
Ke Chu reacted after a moment. He quickly closed the door and was about to turn his head away, but he noticed the scars all over Brother Mu's back.
His pupils shrank and he clenched his fists.
Brother Mu's knuckled back was covered with bruises, some of which seemed to have been hit by heavy objects, some to have been scratched by some sharp object, and some to have been ferocious burns.
The oldest of these wounds was only half a year old, and the latest was about three months ago.
These injuries were all from the beatings Brother Mu received when he was in the Liang family.
Brother Mu realized what he was thinking, and quickly put his hands behind his back to block the wound, and then tried his best to shrink into the corner.
Ke Chu's voice was hard, "When did they start beating you?"
Brother Mu shrank his body tighter, "I don't know."
In my impression, there was never a day in the Liang family without being beaten.
Ke Chu's heart was blocked and painful.
He walked towards Brother Mu step by step, his steps as heavy as if two big stones had fallen.
"Your injury won't leave a scar, will it?"
In his previous life, Brother Mu refused to get close to him because Brother Mu had injuries on his body. Then Brother Mu took the initiative to get close to him because the scars on his body had faded away.
Brother Mu nodded, maybe because he heard his footsteps, Brother Mu was a little nervous, "Can you not come here?"
His voice sounded like he was crying, "It's too ugly, it doesn't look good."
"Not ugly." By the candlelight, Ke Chu saw the wounds on Brother Mu's body bit by bit as if he was masochistic. His eyes were filled with blood, and his voice was low and low, "Brother Mu is the most beautiful."
"You lied to me." Brother Mu was ashamed and scared.
Ke Chu held Brother Mu in his arms. He took the wet cloth from Brother Mu's hand and said in a strong yet gentle tone, "I'll wipe it for you."
Brother Mu couldn't resist, he could only lower his head and not look at Ke Chu, letting himself be so embarrassed that his ears turned red.
Ke Chu's hands gently touched every wound on Brother Mu's body. His heart was filled with anger, but his movements were extremely gentle.
He carried Brother Mu to the bed and covered him with a quilt. Seeing that Brother Mu was hiding under the quilt and afraid to see anyone, he was finally willing to let Brother Mu go for the time being.
He walked out with the basin, poured the water away and took a cold shower. He suppressed the impulse in his heart before walking back to the house.
In the room, Brother Mu had already put on his underwear. Hearing the sound of the door opening, he poked half of his face out of the quilt and looked at him cautiously with a pair of round, almond-shaped eyes.
He blew out the candles, lay on the bed, held Brother Mu in his arms, kissed Brother Mu's earlobe gently, and said as if sighing: "Go to sleep, I won't bother you anymore."
Brother Mu breathed a sigh of relief and fell asleep soon.
In the darkness, Ke Chu stroked Brother Mu's hair, his eyes flashed with cold light, which was very scary.
Early the next morning, before dawn, Ke Chu boiled five eggs, put them in his arms, and took Brother Mu up the mountain.
The road up the mountain was difficult and they walked slowly. Ke Chu stopped after walking for about an hour.
Brother Mu looked at the grapefruit forest and asked doubtfully: "Husband, do you want to pick grapefruits to sell?"
Ke Chu took out the eggs and water from his backpack and handed them to Brother Mu, "Sit down and eat the eggs. You'll be fine in a while."
As soon as Brother Mu finished eating an egg, Ke Chu came back.
Brother Mu looked into the basket on his back and saw that there were only three big grapefruits in it, "Is three enough?"
Ke Chu sat next to Brother Mu, wiped his hands, and peeled the eggs while saying, "That's enough, I'll bring one to the Liang family later."
Juyou County is rich in grapefruit, and almost every household in Xiaoyou Village has a grapefruit forest, so grapefruit is considered the least valuable thing here.
If it weren't for the fact that going to Liang's house empty-handed would cause people to gossip, he wouldn't want to bring anything.
Only then did Brother Mu remember his promise yesterday to Liang Tingyu to return to the Liang family today, and his mood dropped visibly.
Ke Chu handed the peeled egg to Brother Mu's mouth, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
