The cool breeze, wrapped in the faint fragrance of flowers, passed through the open door and stirred up the dim lights. The flames suddenly jumped twice, and then slowly returned to calm.

Xueya put her daughter to sleep and was about to get up and go to the stove to boil water for a bath.

An An, who was sitting uneasily, held her down and said eagerly: "I'll boil water and bring it in for you later."

Xueya said nothing, brushed his hand away, stood up and walked out.

An An's face looked a little ugly and she followed her silently.

Xueya ignored him and scooped water into the pot when she arrived at the stove.

An An came to the stove, grabbed a handful of dry pine needles and lit them. The fire illuminated his face, and he sat motionless in front of the stove as if he couldn't feel the heat.

Xueya put the lid on the pot and left, without saying a word to An An from beginning to end.

An An's face became increasingly ugly, and she sat alone in the stove for a long time.

Until Xueya walked in with a bathtub, he couldn't bear it and asked: "How long are you going to be so awkward!"

This time Xue Ya did not remain silent. She looked at him and asked, "Isn't this what you should ask yourself? You and I have been close for five years, and I ask myself that I have never treated you badly. I have never ignored any big or small matters in your An family.

No matter what, why are you dissatisfied with me? You used Jiaojiao as a raft at my uncle’s house today to show off to me in public?"

An An recalled everything that happened in the past few years and found that the truth was indeed what his wife said. She couldn't help showing a guilty look on her face: "I'm not dissatisfied with you, nor did I use Jiaojiao as a raft. I just saw Jiaojiao today."

I went to my uncle's house and a big bump appeared on the back of my head. You were too harsh on her, so I couldn't help but lose my temper with you..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xueya sneered and said, "If you are just dissatisfied with me for being too harsh on Jiaojiao, we can close the door and explain the matter clearly instead of scolding me in front of so many people. In the final analysis, it's you who had already

Just because you are dissatisfied with me, Jiaojiao's incident was just a trigger, giving you a chance to have an attack."

An An was stunned and subconsciously wanted to refute, but found that she couldn't refute at all.

It is common for couples to bump into each other, and they may argue over a trivial matter. Anyone with a brain will not embarrass the other person in front of others, and that is in front of relatives and friends, unless he (she)

) is dissatisfied and intentional.

Seeing that he was silent, Xueya didn't want to talk any more, so she opened the lid of the pot and poured hot water into the basin: "I don't know if someone said something in front of you, or if you suddenly felt wronged by being a door-to-door son-in-law.

Myself. No matter what the situation is, it’s not my fault. I don’t have a habit of receiving anger, so I can’t bear to look at your face.”

After that, she put down the water ladle, picked up the bathtub and left.

In the stove room, An An looked at the remaining fire in the stove with a pale face, and asked himself repeatedly in his heart: Is he really dissatisfied with Xue Ya?

Recalling everything from getting to know Xueya to getting married, he suddenly realized that from some point on, he gradually couldn't stand some of her actions.

Sometimes I feel that she does not take her husband seriously and invests most of the family money in Zaoyuan without consulting him; sometimes I feel that she is too strong and has to make her own decisions on all matters in the family; sometimes I feel that

She was unforgiving, and if he said anything that did not go well with her ears, she would make sarcastic remarks, making him very uncomfortable...

It turned out that it was just as Xueya said, he had accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction with her in his heart, and today he expressed it through Jiaojiao's incident.

Thinking of this, An An beat her head in annoyance, regretting that she should not embarrass him in public, and felt a faint uneasiness in her heart.

He thought about it for a long time in the kitchen room, and when he returned to the room, Xueya had already fallen asleep. He originally wanted to apologize, but the words came to his lips but he couldn't say them out.

That night, the couple lay on the bed with their backs to each other, and neither of them slept well.

Early the next morning, Qin Xiaoxiao was woken up by the twins, who pestered her to take a boat ride to collect lotus pods.

"Dad, haven't you gotten up? Let him take you to pick it." Qin Xiao couldn't help but waved away the two cubs without opening his eyes.

Jingheng was drunk last night, and she spent much of the night feeding him hangover soup and wiping his body. By the time she finished cleaning herself and went to bed, it was already almost midnight. There weren't many things for her to do in her parents' house.

I'm tired and just want to lie down and sleep in.

"No, no, let's go together." Silently, he lay on the bed and grabbed her hand with all his strength: "Mom, I lost a lot of blood last night, so I have to eat a lot of lotus pods to replenish my blood."

"Pfft~" Qin Xiaoxiao was amused and had to open her eyelids and pinch his little face: "The bit of blood I lost has been made up by the meat I ate last night. This is not a good excuse.

OK."

Seeing that it was useless to be miserable, he silently resorted to the trick: "I don't care, I don't care. On the road yesterday, my mother said that I wanted to pick lotus pods. You can't keep your words."

Qin Xiaoxiao was speechless: "I did say that I wanted to pick lotus pods, but I didn't say that I would accompany you and your brother to pick them. Isn't it the same as asking your father to do it?"

Momo was no match for her, and she didn't know how to refute her for a while.

Lin Qiuniang, who had been listening at the door, couldn't stand it anymore. She opened the door and walked in. She touched her daughter's butt and said, "The child is already up, but you still have the nerve to fall asleep."

Qin Xiaoxiao was thick-skinned and did not feel embarrassed: "They slept, ate, played, and slept. How can they not work so hard like me!"

Lin Qiuniang didn't know what she was busy with in the house every day. She thought she was making excuses for sleeping in. She shook her head helplessly: "How can there be such a lazy girl like you? It's a good thing that you married into a wealthy family who has no shortage of everything.

Don’t worry about your livelihood. If you were from a small family, your husband’s family would drown you in their saliva!”

Qin Xiaoxiao touched the twins' slippery little faces and sighed, "That's not necessarily the case."

Lin Qiuniang didn't want to hear her talk, so she said to her grandson: "Let's go, grandma knows that the lotus pods there are big and sweet, so she will take you to pick them, and ignore you lazy mother."

The twins took one step at a time and turned back three times. Finally, Qin Xiaoxiao realized her conscience and got up quickly: "Mom, don't bother with your old arms and legs. Brother Li and I will take them there. If you don't make it in time for breakfast, you guys will

Eat first and don’t wait for us.”

Lin Qiuniang was too lazy to argue with her and warned: "The water is cold in the morning, so don't let the two children play in the water. There are caterpillars on some lotus leaves. You should pay attention to them and be sure not to get them."

Qin Xiaoxiao nodded: "Caterpillars are nothing. When I was young, my eldest brother and I had encountered hornets' nests when picking lotus pods."

That group of wasps was so careless that they built a nest casually just because the group was small. They made a small nest no bigger than the palm of a hand under a lotus leaf, and there were about twenty wasps living in it. If everyone hadn't been clever enough to hide in time that time,

In the water, I'm afraid it will make the wasps miserable.

"Bah, bah, you two have taken good care of the child. If a hair is missing, you won't be able to eat not only breakfast, but also lunch and dinner!" Lin Qiuniang always felt that her daughter was not stable enough.

, she simply can’t take care of the child by herself.

During the quarrel between the mother and daughter, Jing Heng, who had finished walking with Mr. Qin, came back. He was in high spirits and did not show any trace of his drunken state last night. When he saw Qin Xiao laughing, his face showed a bit of surprise: "Why not?

Sleep a little longer?”

Qin Xiaoxiao raised her chin towards the twins: "Here, I'm going to pick lotus pods from the lake."

Jing Heng rubbed their little heads: "Your mother will have a bad temper if she doesn't sleep well. Don't do this next time."

Qin Xiaoxiao knew that he said this on purpose, and pinched his arm on purpose: "Look how smart your father is, he has figured out your mother's temper."

The twins looked at their father's red arm, and they all shrank their necks. They looked at their mother with awe in their eyes: It turns out that mother is still a tigress!

The last time the three mothers came to Qin's house for a stay, Qin Chuan and Zhao Cao'er had a quarrel over a trivial matter. Zhao Cao'er couldn't handle the argument, so he pinched Qin Chuan's arm until it turned purple, so Qin Chuan called Zhao Cao'er a mother.

Tiger, the twins listened attentively.

Now that they saw their mother using the "tiger" trick on their father, they subconsciously put these three words on their mother's head.

Qin Xiaoxiao didn't know that her move would cause the two cubs to diverge to such an extent. But she wouldn't care if she knew it. There were too many things to worry about in the past year, and her temper was indeed getting louder.

The family of four packed up, took the basins used to hold the lotus pods, and set off. When they went out, they met Dabao who came to deliver the buns. Knowing that they were going to collect lotus pods in the lake, they immediately became interested, handed the buns to Lin Qiuniang, and ran back.

My family called Chen Lili.

Yan Yu is a foodie. When he heard that his eldest brother and sister-in-law were going to pick lotus pods, he immediately grabbed Erbao, who was reading a book early in the morning, and excitedly expressed his willingness to go with him.

In the end, the two young couples secretly took the pots and ran out of the yard secretly, without disturbing the old couple who were still waiting in the house for their daughter-in-law to cook and eat.

There is a piece of lotus in Qinghu. It is an ownerless thing. People in the village pick lotus flowers, lotus pods and lotus roots at will. Anyway, it is such a big piece that even the whole village can’t pick it all.

Adults don't bother to pick things like lotus pods, which are neither filling nor valuable, but half-grown children like to pick them as snacks.

The water level in this water area is not high, but the mud under the water is very deep. It is best to row a boat to collect lotus pods, otherwise it will be very dangerous to fall into the deep mud.

The Qin family did not have a boat, but there were several families in the village who fished and sold fish. The group went to borrow two boats first, and then a family of four took one boat, and two young couples shared the same boat.

Jingheng had never rowed a boat, and he did not let Qin Xiaoxiao row for fear of tiring her. Under Dabao's guidance, he picked up the boat and tried it a few times, and quickly mastered the key points, and rowed well.

That's it. But I'm not very proficient and lag far behind the four Dabao people.

"Look, brother, there is a big fish swimming by, so big!"

This wasn't Momo's first time on a boat, but it was the first time he was so excited. He saw a big fish slowly swimming by in the water, causing ripples on the lake, and he rushed to let Nao Nao take a look.

Nao Nao was so noisy by his brother that he said coldly: "How about you go down and play with it?"

Mo Mo took his brother's words seriously and waved his hands in fear: "No, there are leeches in the water. They will eat me. Then you won't have a brother. It's very pitiful!"

Qin Xiao smiled because his stomach hurt, and he held the little guy in his arms: "I don't know if my brother is pitiful. Being bitten by a leech must be the most pitiful thing."

The reptiles she hates most are definitely leeches, followed by centipedes, and finally slugs. Every time she sees them, she gets goosebumps all over her body and wants to crush them to death.

"Leechels are so annoying, they are ugly and suck blood." Momo Mo carefully leaned forward and looked into the water, for fear that the leech would crawl in along the boat and bite them.

Qin Xiaoxiao saw his fear and comforted him: "Don't be afraid. It has no eyes. It can't find us across the boat."

Momo was relieved, stretched out his little paw and patted his brother's head gently: "Don't be afraid, the leech can't bite me, you won't be without a brother!"

Now Jingheng couldn't help it anymore. He looked back at his eldest son who had a serious expression on his face. He wanted to laugh a little, but he was also very touched.

"You talk so much!" Nao Nao was disgusted and shook his head to get rid of his brother's hand: "If a leech dares to bite you, I will burn it to death."

Momo was so moved that she hugged him and kissed him: "My younger brother likes me the most, and I also like my younger brother the most!"

I don't know how many times I have heard these words, but Nao Nao has no fluctuation in my heart: You are not annoying, that's why I like you the most.

Silently unable to hear his brother's thoughts, he continued to hug him and chatter nonsensically. He probably picked the lotus pods at once, and he must have given the biggest and sweetest ones to his brother.
To be continued...