Xu Jinyu couldn't help but move when he heard the sound. The ink dots condensed on the tip of the pen fell slowly, staining the white paper, which made Xu Jinyu frown.
The Xu family has always been home to mostly women and children. Although the villagers take care of them, they don't bother them frequently, but... they knock on the door in such a hurry.
Xu Jinyu looked at the words that she was most satisfied with today, pursed her lips, and put the white paper aside to dry, waiting to practice on the back next time.
In ancient times, learning was valuable, not to mention anything else. Only this time, Lu Supervisor and Brother Shuzhen relieved his embarrassment.
Xu Jinyu cherished the paper and then went to open the door.
When he walked out of the room, he saw Zhao Qingyang enjoying the cool air and fishing under the grape trellis in the courtyard, but Xu Jinyu ignored him.
This prince acted so recklessly, and even this time he came to visit rashly, I don't know what he had in mind. It was better to wait until he had enough fun and leave on his own.
"Brother Yu, a guest is here. Open the door quickly."
Zhao Qingyang was nestled under the grape trellis, shaking his cattail leaf fan, which made him feel comfortable and comfortable.
Well, it’s also very easy to summon people.
The first person to flirt is cheap. Xu Jinyu looked at Zhao Qingyang's lazy look and just smiled:
"Well, it looks like Brother Qingyang is finished?"
Zhao Qingyang: "..."
"That donkey at the entrance of the village has to stop and go, why can Brother Yu keep an eye on me?"
"The donkey is not mine."
"Then I..."
Zhao Qingyang was about to retort when he suddenly felt that it was time for him to have a donkey's head on his head.
Why did he compare himself to a donkey? !
"Work, work, you know how to work, young master, I..."
Zhao Qingyang muttered, and reluctantly used his Zhao family's ancestral sword technique to cut the thick bamboo block into a state as thin as cicada wings, and then divided it into bamboo strands.
It's a delicate job.
Zhao Qingyang was in no mood to think about other things while he was working. Otherwise, the bamboo block would be destroyed, and he would have to walk half an hour on the mountain road to carry the bamboo.
However, Zhao Qingyang could also feel that his swordsmanship seemed to have improved slightly, so although he was reluctant in words, his actions were honest.
In this room, Xu Jinyu looked at Zhao Qingyang's busy figure and walked towards the courtyard door with satisfaction. As soon as he opened the door, he didn't expect another familiar face:
"Chief, why are you here? Come in and have a drink of water."
The clan leader did not expect that Xu Jinyu would open the door, so he choked on his original words and said in a rough voice:
"Where's your milk and your mother?"
After Xu Jinyu heard this, he raised his eyebrows slightly. You must know that in this world, men are respected. Since his father left home, whenever anything happened in the family, his mother or mother would accompany him to listen.
After that, when he was ten years old, he was the only one who could enter the hall where the head of the Xu family held talks with the men.
"My grandma has gone to the backyard to pick vegetables, and my mother is doing embroidery. Please sit in the courtyard for a while, and I'll call you."
Xu Jinyu calmly led the clan leader in. The clan leader seemed to be holding a breath in his heart and just waved his hands randomly.
Not long after, Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Xu came to the courtyard together. The water in front of the patriarch didn't move at all. When he saw the Xu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the patriarch's face darkened and he slapped the table fiercely:
"From the Zhiping family, after Zhiping left, you worked hard to raise Yuanshan, and you made a lot of contributions. But you knew that the three generations of the Zhiping family were single generations, so why did you do such a stupid thing?!"
After being scolded by the clan leader, Mrs. Xu was confused at first. Then after she understood the meaning, she put a smile on her face, walked up and sat down, and then looked at Xu's mother and Xu Jinyu:
"Sit down. If you have anything to say, just sit down and say it."
Xu Jinyu sat down with a sullen face. He probably understood why the clan leader came here.
Mrs. Xu's understatement was particularly hateful in the eyes of the patriarch:
"Why are you sitting here?! A child who is not of my Xu family's blood has been raised by you for twelve years! Look what stupid things you have done?!"
"Clan leader..."
Xu Jinyu was about to speak, but Mrs. Xu raised a bamboo branch and interrupted:
"Jin Yu, you have to tell me this matter. Chief, let me ask first, how did you know about this matter?"
"Don't worry about how I know! I just said Da Lang...Xu..."
The patriarch was so entangled that he almost bit his tongue:
"How come Jin Yu has been so good since he was a child, and why our Xu family has so many good bamboo shoots..."
"What, bad bamboo means bad bamboo, like this..."
Zhao Qingyang picked up a bamboo with crooked melons and cracked dates and made signs.
"What's the matter with you?! You're a boy with bald eyebrows!"
The patriarch squirted back without even looking at it. Zhao Qingyang wanted to be angry, but he also felt that something big was about to explode in the Xu family. His curiosity made him hold back a breath and muttered:
"If you are uneducated, people will tell you..."
The clan leader's ears suddenly choked. Xu Jinyu pursed his lips to suppress a smile, but then felt that something was inappropriate, so he only cleared his throat:
"The water is cold. I'll change the bowl of water for the clan leader."
"What's that? I seem to be suffering from heatstroke. Go get a drink of water!"
Zhao Qingyang also covered his forehead and chased Xu Jinyu towards the kitchen.
The conversation continued behind him, and Mrs. Xu snorted coldly:
"I don't dare to do anything openly and secretly. If I think about it, I'm just a person who hides his head and shows his tail!"
"...Zhiping family, don't be pretentious with me, I just made it clear that you should send Jin Yu away as soon as possible!
When Yuanshan comes back, no matter if he and Xiuniang have another baby, we can't cut off the bloodline of Yuanshan Yifang, right? "
The clan leader had a bad day in the battle today. He first encountered Xu Jinyu and held his breath. Later, he was interrupted by Zhao Qingyang and held his breath again. Now he had to tone down his tone and became more sincere.
"Yuanshan has been away from home for three years and there has been no news. The patriarch asked me to send Jin Yu away at this time because he wanted to cut off the blood of our family!"
"Jin Yu is not related to my Xu family, and he is frail and sick. If he doesn't leave now, it's unclear whether he will be able to grow up in the future.
Your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law worked hard for the past three years to save his life, but the money they spent was enough to raise several children? "
"That's what Yunyun and I earned. How we spend it is our business!"
When Mrs. Xu said this, Mrs. Xu also nodded:
"That's right, it's none of other people's business! I'm happy to raise Dalang!"
"What's your name, Da Lang? He's not a child of my Xu family! If you don't want Zhiping and Yuanshan to have no blood, I think the third boy from the Erniu family would be good!"
Mrs. Xu laughed angrily when she heard this:
"The Xu Erniu family is a family of lazy men. They occupy the fattest field, and the grass in the field is as tall as a man. Chief, do you want us and my mother to raise his three sons, or do you want to raise them as a family?!"
After hearing this, Xu's mother shook her head like a rattle:
"That's right. When his third son was four years old, he was drooling while watching Chunhua bathing next door. Not to mention he is not as handsome as my elder son. It's so disgusting!"
Patriarch: "..."
"But that is my Xu family's bloodline after all. What's the point of you raising a child with no relatives?! With Jin Yu's sick and crooked body, if he closes his eyes in front of you, Zhiping will be scared underground. I can’t close my eyes!”
"...I can't close my eyes!"
Zhao Qingyang rubbed his ears. In just a few steps, the three of them had become a quarrel, but the information inside was really overwhelming.
Xu Jinyu... is not a child of the Xu family? !
When Zhao Qingyang came to the door of the kitchen, he saw that the water bowl placed by Xu Jinyu's hand was not moved at all, and it was cold without any heat.
But Xu Jinyu himself was slowly preparing to light a fire and boil water. He looked unhurried and unhurried, as if he didn't know that his coming and going was being discussed outside.
Only then did Zhao Qingyang suddenly realize that this boy was four years younger than him, but he could hold his breath for forty years better than him.
"cough……"
Zhao Qingyang coughed deliberately, Xu Jinyu raised his eyes and looked over:
"Cocked on your saliva?"
"No, can't you hope for something better from me?"
Zhao Qingyang wanted to squeeze into the wooden block in front of the stove with Xu Jinyu, but the two young and energetic teenagers squeezed together and it was extremely hot, so Zhao Qingyang stood up and wandered around again.
Xu Jinyu glanced:
"If you want a drink of water, just wait. It makes me dizzy to look around!"
"...No, aren't you curious?"
Zhao Qingyang looked at Xu Jinyu's calm look with big eyes and felt that it was not unfair for him to lose to this guy.
"What are you curious about?"
Xu Jinyu didn't look at Zhao Qingyang. But Zhao Qingyang was so happy eating melon that he suppressed his excitement:
"I'm curious about your life experience! You are definitely not an ordinary person with such grace. Do you want me to help you find your biological parents? After you find them, how about you let me take care of you for a while?"
Xu Jinyu: "...I'm not looking for it."
"Why don't you look for it? You have a photographic memory. If you can find your biological parents, you might be able to fly ninety thousand miles away!"
Zhao Qingyang was so excited that he seemed to wish he was the person involved. Xu Jinyu knocked on the flint twice:
"Not looking for it."
"Why why!!"
"I know who they are."
Xu Jinyu still had a calm tone, but Zhao Qingyang almost made his eyes pop out:
"What?!"
"Lin'an Marquis."
After Xu Jinyu uttered four words, he started to knock the flint again. Normally, he would get angry after watching Nai and Niang knock it out, so why couldn't he?
Zhao Qingyang ate until he was full, and then his mind was spinning rapidly:
"If I remember correctly, the only eldest son of his family in the Lin'an Marquis Mansion is the same age as you?"
Xu Jinyu said nothing, but could not stop Zhao Qingyang's divergent thinking:
"This situation in your family can help you know your life experience... So the Lin'an Marquis' Mansion is looking for you? However, during this time, I haven't heard that the Lin'an Marquis' Mansion is looking for a child."
Xu Jinyu raised her head and glanced at Zhao Qingyang with a half-smile:
"You are so smart, do you want to guess what the Hou Mansion is going to do with me?"
"Hai, you are a serious legitimate son, how can you deal with... Well, those two weirdos, it seems, maybe, maybe, it seems that they are really unreliable."
Xu Jinyu: "..."
It seems that the IQ level of my parents has also become "famous" in the capital.
When Zhao Qingyang said this, he squatted next to Xu Jinyu and began to worry about Xu Jinyu with a sense of reality:
"So, you don't want to go back to the Hou Mansion? Then this clan leader is forcing your family to drive you away.
I just heard that he thinks it costs too much to raise you, but he doesn’t raise you. It’s really bullying... Hey, why aren’t you worried at all? "
Zhao Qingyang's young mind is now filled with passion:
"How about you come with me? My family can definitely support you!"
After hearing this, Xu Jinyu couldn’t laugh or cry:
"Thank you for your kindness. Don't worry, my grandma and mother will deal with him."
When Xu Jinyu said this, his expression was unexpectedly gentle, which Zhao Qingyang had never seen before.
He has seen the young man's flamboyant and wanton expression, and he has also seen the young man's seriousness in practicing calligraphy by the window in the early morning, but he has never seen the young man as delicate and gentle as a frightened butterfly.
That is, a kind of softness that bathes in happiness.
"you……"
Zhao Qingyang wanted to say that if he were a young man, he would be frightened, angry, and unjust, but he would not be so peaceful.
But Zhao Qingyang didn't know that the reason why Xu Jinyu was like this was that he couldn't help but indulge in the pure warmth that he had never experienced before he woke up, which made him willing to deal with all difficulties calmly.
After a long silence, Zhao Qingyang suddenly said:
"Did you light a fire?"
Xu Jinyu glanced:
"not yet."
Zhao Qingyang: "How about I..."
Xu Jinyu placed his eyes on Zhao Qingyang's forehead, and Zhao Qingyang felt his eyebrows go cold:
"Looking at how angry the clan leader is, why don't you drink something cold to cool down?"
"Of course."
Xu Jinyu stood up and walked out with the water bowl as is. At this time, the patriarch was speaking generously and fiercely:
"This doesn't work and that doesn't work, but what hope does your Jin Yu have?!"
