The first thing Ningxiang does when she returns home is to rinse her mouth.

I scooped up a full of gourds and stood under the eaves of the north courtyard to rinse.

As soon as my sister came home, Amu was sticking to her, sitting on the north threshold, staring at her curiously, "Why don't my sister drink?"

Ningxiang turned her head and spit out the last sip of water from her mouth, as if she had spit out all the mouth and memories left by the man and the tree. Then she muddled her younger brother as usual, "When my sister talked to Madam Li, a bug flew in. I felt awkward all the way, so I had to rush it quickly, otherwise I wouldn't be able to eat in a while."

The simple Amu immediately believed his sister's words, and asked with a chuckle what kind of bug it was, completely pretending to be funny.

Xu Qiuer was putting the table inside, and she heard it and believed it. Firstly, Lu Cheng was not like a bad person, and 200, the thirteen-year-old girl would not easily think about that.

I had fried boxes and stuffed cabbage for lunch. The two front and back yards together were very spacious. Li opened four vegetable beds, including cabbage, beans, eggplant and cucumber, which was almost the whole family’s dish for a year. The cabbage is too dense, and some of it is eaten now when the seedlings are intermittent, and some are skewed on the rope and hung under the eaves at the back. They are dried cabbage and kept for use as a dish in spring next year.

The tender cabbage filling tastes very fragrant. Ningxiang also feels that her aunt's cooking skills are better than that of her daughter-in-law. She hasn't eaten at home for a long time. Today, she ate two boxes in one breath and drank a bowl of millet water porridge.

Li was happy to see that his niece had eaten a lot.

After dinner, they cleaned up the kitchen and everyone returned to their respective houses to rest.

There were too many worries outside, so I was lazy to think about anything when I got home. Ningxiang played with her brother for a while, and the siblings fell asleep on the kang side by side.

The sound of cicadas shocked, and Amu was particularly able to sleep. Ningxiang woke up after sleeping for half an hour. After lying down and looking at her younger brother for a while, she easily touched the boy's white and tender face. Ningxiang quietly got up, changed the clothes she wore when she came back, and then took the little clothes that her younger brother had just changed out to the outside, sat in the shade of the front yard to wash.

After she finished washing, Li and others woke up. Xu Shouliang and Xu Huai and his son went out to help others work. Li was sewing new clothes for Amu and sat under the persimmon tree in the west courtyard with a bench. Ningxiang also led his younger brother and sister to sit over and teach Amu to write a few words. She and Xu Qiuer and Li did needlework together.

Amu squatted on the ground, holding a small branch in his hand, looking at the words his sister wrote there, and he followed it and read it again after writing it.

Finally, Amu raised his head and wanted to ask his sister to see if there was anything wrong, but suddenly a boy younger than him appeared at the gate of the East Courtyard. He was wearing a sky-blue sleeveless jacket and loose white cloth crotch pants underneath. The boy was not walking steadily, so he took a step and the big red purse hanging on his chest swayed.

He seemed to be a little recognizable. He looked back and didn't know who he was looking at. Then he continued to walk into the yard. Soon his little head turned to their side, with a white face, a big black eyes, and a small mouth in surprise. He was so beautiful.

"Anan!" Amu shouted excitedly.

Ningxiang and Li's mother and daughter both raised their heads in shock.

He was stared at by so many people all at once, as if a thief was suddenly caught. Anan was stunned, then turned his head and ran back, screaming in his mouth, shaking and running to the door, his two short legs finally couldn't keep up, and he tilted his body and rushed forward.

Ningxiang stood up in a hurry.

But he saw a man outside the door rushing forward quickly and lifted Anan with his big hands.

Ningxiang immediately turned pale and clenched the embroidery frame in her hand.

Li didn't notice his niece's strangeness and walked towards the other side in surprise, "Why are you two coming? Anan seems to have grown up."

Anan leaned in her father's arms, holding the purse on her chest with her little hands, and looked at Li's big eyes, thinking that this was not the mother who was giving him his purse, the father was going to bring him to see. She tilted her head slightly and looked behind Li's side. Then she stared at Ningxiang and couldn't move her eyes away. The more she looked, the more she felt that she was her mother.

"Mom..." The little guy shouted softly, looked up at his father, and confirmed with him.

Before Li approached, Lu Cheng whispered to his son again, "It's her, but he can only call her mother secretly, and not let others hear it. Mother is shy, so that others will get angry when she hears her. If she gets angry, she won't like Anan."

Anan has not grown up in vain this month, so it is easier for her to understand what her father means. She nodded her head obediently and looked at her mother expectantly.

Lu Cheng walked out with Anan in his arms, and soon came in again with a basket of cherries. He explained to Li with a smile: "Auntie, our family has planted a few cherry trees. They have been ripe these days. I took them to the city to buy them a few times. When I came back to send the girl back in the morning, there was only a little left. I didn't have the nerve to send them, so I picked some again when I went home because it was almost sold out. The color was not as good as selling. Don't dislike it."

Li looked at the basket in his hand, and some of the cherries inside were indeed white.

But no matter how white it is, it is a good thing. There are more than twenty cents per pound of cherries in the town, and at least ten pounds of cherries sent by Lu Cheng.

Ten kilograms, almost three cents of silver.

Li immediately refused and stared at Lu Cheng and said, "No, I'll just need such a valuable thing if you give me one or two pounds. Why do you pick so much at once? Take it back quickly and sell more money to save for us Anan to marry a wife. Anan said no?"

He smiled and touched Anan's little face.

Anan turned his head and hid on his father's shoulder.

The brat still disliked her, and Li was so angry that he slapped his little butt.

Lu Cheng felt funny when he heard Li's words. His wife hadn't been married yet, so why was Anan anxious?

At this time, Amu had already come over. Lu Cheng put Anan down and let the two children play. He walked directly to the Xu family's kitchen with a basket. Li couldn't stop him and said helplessly: "Okay, okay, it's rare that you can deliver it from afar, so we will accept it. But if you don't send such good things in the future, we are not allowed to send them like this. We are not the master's wife in the city, so it's useless to eat this."

Alas, if my niece didn't meet Lu Cheng selling cherries in the morning, maybe Lu Cheng wouldn't have given it either. When she saw her niece, Lu Cheng gave it out of politeness, right? She really knows how to do things. Otherwise, she would have wanted to go to Wu's orchard to do things, but in the end, Lu Cheng stayed alone and became the second manager.

I went to the backyard to find an empty basket and asked Lu Cheng to bring cherries here.

In the yard, Anan was led by "Uncle Amu" and walked towards Ningxiang with his eyes.

Ningxiang looked at the boy doll that was gradually walking in, how could she not understand Lu Cheng’s trick?

He never bothered her again, so why did he come to deliver cherries again after noon?

He also brought Anan!

He felt angry, Ningxiang turned around cruelly, bent down and picked up the sewing basket while saying to Xu Qiuer: "Qiuer will play with Anan for a while. I feel a little uncomfortable in my stomach, so I will go to the house first."

After saying that, he walked straight to his house, not wanting to go to the east courtyard.

The mother she was about to meet was leaving. Anan opened her mouth anxiously before she called her mother. Remembering what her father had just told her, Anan pursed her lips again, and then shouted Ningxiang with anger, "Aunt!"

Before, Amu led him away, but now he pulled Amu to Ningxiang.

When Ningxiang heard the strange "aunt" in the boy's mouth, she softened her heart and slowly turned around.

"Hug!" Anan saw hope and raised his other arm to her.

The boy's black eyes were clean and clear. Ningxiang thought of his life experience and could no longer move his feet and squatted down.

Anan immediately broke away from Amu, ran a few steps quickly, and threw himself into Ningxiang's arms.

"Anan still remembers my aunt?" Ningxiang wiped her eyes quietly and asked the little guy with a smile.

Anan looked at her in a flash, as if she was very satisfied with this mother. She raised her small purse like a secret code, "Money!"

Ningxiang laughed and pinched it inside, and there were indeed two copper plates.

Yu Guangli caught a glimpse of Lu Cheng coming to this side. Ningxiang immediately picked up Anan and pointed to the house and said, "It's hot outside, my aunt takes Anan to the house to play."

She likes Anan, but she will no longer give Lu Cheng the opportunity to get close to her.

Unexpectedly, she only took two steps, and Lu Cheng suddenly called her, "Girl, we're leaving now. You like Anan, I'll take him to see you someday."

Ningxiang froze and her face turned red.

Sorry.

He thought Lu Cheng brought Anan here to play the same trick as before, and relied on Anan that he couldn't leave her at her house, but Lu Cheng said just now that they were leaving? Then she was anxious to carry Anan into the house. Wouldn't she seem to want to use Anan to keep him?

"Hot!" A cool little hand pressed on her face without warning and touched it gently.

Ningxiang turned her head and met Anan's serious eyes. Behind her was Lu Cheng who had approached at some point. He looked at her. Taohua's eyes were too calm and there was no tangle. There was no sarcasm.

But Ningxiang felt very embarrassing herself.

Maybe he just came to deliver cherries. He had cut off his thoughts about her, which did not mean he would break with his uncle and aunt. And he did have reason to deliver this trip because Qiu'er also saw the cherries in his car.

He has always been so thoughtful to treat people and things.

His face turned red and white. Ningxiang bent down and put Anan down, touched his head and said, "Then Anan will go home."

Seeing the boy's reluctance, in front of Lu Cheng, she couldn't say anything to let Anan come and play again another day.

Anan just saw her mother and didn't want to leave, but she wanted to pounce on her.

Lu Cheng picked up his son first and whispered: "If Anan doesn't go home, the general is about to run away."

Anan was anxious, turned his head and tried hard toward the door.

Ningxiang didn't look at it, but she could hear it clearly, and her heart felt even more bitter and self-deprecating.

Even Anan, who is so sticky, doesn't care about her anymore. Why does she think that Lu Cheng is looking for her?

He still dodged himself, but Lu Cheng must be laughing at her in his heart?

Unable to stay, Ningxiang picked up the needle and thread basket and continued walking in.

"Miss Xu." Lu Cheng hugged Anan and stopped her, looking at Xu Qiuer standing under the persimmon tree, looking at them with a tentative look on his face. Lu Cheng lowered his voice and said quickly: "I have thought about it. I will send you back several times. Some people waiting for the car outside the city gate should recognize you and me, and know that you often take my donkey cart home. That morning was by the forest... Maybe someone could guess."

Ningxiang's heart was shocked, and the needle and thread basket in her hand fell down, and was quickly caught by Lu Cheng's quick eyes.

There is only one thing left in Ningxiang's mind.

Why did she get back in Guo Laosan’s car in the afternoon?

Most of the men in the car have always been there. Even if it’s just speculation, what kind of eyes will they look at her?

Unless she doesn't take Guo Laosan's car, where can she find a car to go back to the city? She can walk back even if she walks for about 40 miles. She is not afraid of being tired, but she is afraid of meeting bad people. There are few times when passing through the village, and most of them are left uninhabited in the wild.

"We have a few baskets of cherries to sell tomorrow. I know you don't want to see me. I will let my third brother go. He is only thirteen, he is dull and honest. If you ask A Tao to accompany you, you don't have to worry." Lu Cheng lowered his head and pinched his son's hand, saying self-deprecatingly, "Just just to sell cherries early, I will set off tomorrow morning and Yinchu. If you agree, I will let my third brother pick you up."

Ningxiang hesitated.

Li walked over there curiously, "What are you talking about?"

Lu Cheng generously told him that he asked Ningxiang if he wanted to take a ride.

Li agreed to the niece after thinking about it for a moment, "Then let's go together to avoid the hot afternoon travel."

Not only can I save money on the car without sun exposure, but I can save a few dollars.
Chapter completed!