Sun Taotao was immersed in drinking soup. When she heard this, she quickly looked up and said, "Auntie is very good."

Liu Dabao listened to the conversation between Xiaobao and Xiaoguai. He is the eldest brother and he has to be responsible for the future lives of himself and his younger brother.

Naturally, he couldn't be as simple as his younger brother. He got down from the chair and walked towards the kitchen.

Entering the kitchen, I saw Du Xuan cutting meat. Cut the good pork belly into one-inch square pieces and put it in the pot for frying.

I don’t mean to be stingy at all just because outsiders are eating at home.

Dabao took a deep breath and walked in, "Aunt Xuan, is there anything... I can do to help?"

"Didn't I make you wait to eat? If you don't want to drink soup, why are you here?" Du Xuan turned around and saw him, so she continued cooking and said casually.

"I, I..." Liu Dabao opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Du Xuan curved her lips and smiled lightly, "Excuse me?"

"...Hmm." Liu Dabao nodded, "Meat is so expensive. I, I just did so much work, but you gave me and Xiaoguai such good food, I..."

The smile on Du Xuan's lips did not fade away, "Someone came to my house before and robbed the meat and vegetables I left for Xiaobao to eat. They also scolded me for not giving it to her even though I had meat, saying I had no conscience."

Liu Dabao also heard about these things in the village, so he could guess who she was talking about.

If he had to say that he didn't know before, he could only say that he didn't know.

And now, whoever wants to say that Du Xuan has no conscience, he is the first to refuse.

"She's talking nonsense, don't listen to her." Liu Dabao said, still a little angry.

Du Xuan smiled and said, "Of course I know she is talking nonsense, but what I meant was that I felt embarrassed when you just said that you ate my food without doing much work. I didn't help you and Xiao Xiao in vain.

good."

"Aunt Xuan..." Liu Dabao's eyes were a little hot. He sniffed gently and tried to hold back the nasal sound in his voice. "As long as there is a job that I can do, you just say it."

"Okay." Du Xuan looked at him, "You and your brother are both orphans. You are the elder brother, so you have to bear more burdens, but you are still young, and what you can see is very short."

"Very, very short?" Liu Dabao didn't understand what he said. He felt that his eyes were fine. Although he couldn't see much at night, it wasn't a big problem and his vision wasn't short.

But he did not dare to speak rashly and continued to listen to Du Xuan quietly and carefully.

"What I see is what kind of life we ​​will live in the future. But you are still young and life is too hard. What you can see is just in front of you. What are you and Xiaoguai going to eat tomorrow? Where are you going to get food?

How to survive?" Du Xuan said again.

Liu Dabao understood something now. He said softly, "I, I have no choice..."

"I know, but I can see that you are a smart kid, so you have to learn." Du Xuan said.

Liu Dabao was stunned for a moment, his eyes widened, "Study... study? Study?"

What kind of fantasy is this? Ordinary people, let alone studying, would be pretty good if they can recognize and write their own names in the future!

He is an orphan...

Du Xuan also knows that in this environment, studying is not realistic.

"It doesn't have to be study. You have to learn crafts that can be used for eating in the future. But now because I don't know what you are suitable for, you should learn a little bit of everything. When you have time, go hunting in the mountains with Qi Yan.

Learn to hunt. If you have time, go up to the mountains with me and learn to collect. Climbing mountains like this is also a form of exercise."

duty

If there's a leak, you don't have to pay someone to do it. Do you understand what I mean?"

Liu Dabao nodded.

In fact, he didn't really understand that, no matter how smart he was, he was just a child, and no one had ever told him so much.

What he has always done is to exchange the simplest and most ordinary labor for some food.

But even though he didn't particularly understand it, he could feel it vaguely.

It seemed that... no matter how others said the two brothers were pitiful, the woman in front of them had never said a word of pity to them, but she had indeed seriously considered their future.

She is a truly kind-hearted person!

But my feeling that Du Xuan is a pure and kind person will be shattered tonight.

"Okay." Du Xuan took out the fried braised pork with beautiful sugar color and fragrant aroma from the pot, and used the residual oil left from the fried meat in the pot to stir-fry vegetables and brought them out together.

The children found it novel and wanted to eat in the yard. Du Xuan was happy to satisfy them, so she divided the dishes and put them on the table in the yard for them to eat.

Chen Jinniang was also afraid that she would feel uncomfortable sitting at the same table as Qi Yan, so she offered to go outside to take care of the children while they ate.

Good guys, Du Xuan and Qi Yan are the only two people left in the room, sitting at the table.

In the past, Du Xuan might not have thought anything of it, because she had a very clear position on the relationship and distance between herself and Qi Yan.

To put it more bluntly, she is very confident.

But people are like this. The words of others will always make you think deeply, especially if the person who said these words is someone you usually trust.

That's even more so.

So ever since she heard Chen Jinniang say that Qi Yan had a bad taste, Du Xuan always felt that something was not right.

It seems like something is wrong.

Sitting at the table and eating with Qi Yan, quietly.

Obviously we didn't talk much when we had dinner together before? But why do we feel so silent now?

And why do I always feel that...Qi Yan seems to have a bad appetite and eats less than before?

Could it be that what Jin Niang said was true? Du Xuan couldn't help but think in her heart, no? Definitely not. How could he have so many thoughts when his mind is so weak?

However, if what Jin Niang said is true, then Qi Yan is too wronged, right? He finally hunted a big fish today just to make their family feel more comfortable during the New Year.

Du Xuan was thinking about all kinds of things in her mind, so much so that she didn't know how to taste them. Even though the dishes were obviously very delicious, neither of them seemed to eat as much as before.

And in Qi Yan's eyes, her incomprehensible appearance meant that she was obsessed with that Xue Liangjun, and she didn't even have the heart to eat.

Du Xuan suddenly raised her head and said, "Qi Yan."

Qi Yan put down his chopsticks and raised his eyes to look at her coldly, as if he expected what she would say, it must be about Xue Liangjun. He waited quietly.

As a result, who knows...

She frowned slightly, her pupils filled with tangled emotions, staring at him.

It took a long time before I managed to choke out one sentence:

"Qi Yan, are you feeling bad? Xue Liangjun left me to eat, are you feeling bad?"

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