pastoral fragrance

Chapter 226 Not a Brother
Xu Nanyun's rough voice woke Qiulin's family from their sleep.Han Shi was the first to get up from the bed, and staggered over to open the door of the main room.Following the small courtyard, he saw the third child's family standing at the gate of their own yard against the sun. The Han family came to his senses at this moment, and swayed to the gate of the yard to open the door for Xu Nanyun.

"The sun is so hot, why did you go this way?" Seeing Xu Nanyun, who was sweating profusely, Han couldn't help frowning. He was still running outside in the summer, and he could easily suffer from heat stroke. Don't pay attention.Although Han looked at Xu Nanyun, there was still a pimple in his heart that couldn't get rid of, it could be seen that he couldn't bear to bask in the sun like this after all.

Xu Nanyun wiped the sweat from his forehead and face, his whole face was swarthy, with an honest smile. "I only have time to go this way on this hot day. I'm here today to plead guilty. I sincerely came to apologize to my second sister-in-law and second brother. I know that the stupid things I did before made my second sister My elder brother and my second sister-in-law are heartbroken. Now that I know how to repent, I will make up for the sins I have committed in this life even if I am a cow and a horse!"

Xu Nanyun's eyes glowed with determination, and he spoke in a calm tone, with regret and shame beyond words.

Han Shi didn't show any expression when she heard this, but said lightly: "Go into the house quickly, I don't want to bask in the sun with you here!"

It's not that Xu Nanyun didn't feel the second sister-in-law's indifference towards him, but thinking of the foolish things he had done, it wouldn't be too much for the second sister-in-law to chop him with a knife.

At this moment, Qiuyue Qiulin also got up, and the two girls worked together to lift Xu Nanshan to the wheelchair, and everyone was sitting in the main room.

After Xu Nanyun was led into the house by Mrs. Han, he saw his second brother sitting in a wheelchair.Before he could say anything, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to Xu Nanshan.Mrs. Han wanted to come over to help him up, but Xu Nanyun refused.

After stubbornly kowtowing three times, he lowered his head, as if he had no face to raise it again. "Second brother and second sister-in-law, my third son is here to apologize to you. I am... a shallow-sighted thing, and I am not a thing to abandon this brotherhood for such petty profits! I can't hit anyone! Brother's idea! I came to my door today to plead guilty, second brother and second sister-in-law, beat me and scold me, so that you can feel better..." At the end, Xu Nanyun's voice choked up. She shed tears of regret.

"Is it useful to beat you and scold you? If it is useful? You give us your family's field and land, and you will return it to you after two years. When the time comes, we will kneel in front of you and give up." You beat me up and let you scold me? It’s so funny, there is such a cheap thing in the world? Parents, don’t forget the pain after healing your scars, and don’t forget how this group of people treated us before!” Qiuyue brightened His voice exploded like a thunderbolt, setting off a turbulent sea in the hearts of everyone.

These hard days are finally over, but how can those scars be forgotten so easily?The family can only drink glutinous rice paste all day long, and eat corn pancakes. Such bitter cold days are not thanks to this person in front of me!
If it wasn't for selling wild vegetables, baskets and dustpans, herbs and honey-soaked fruits, and later planting lotus root, raising fish and silkworms, I'm afraid that the whole family would not survive that year, right?
It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and a farmer without heaven and earth, so what else can he do?Isn't robbing someone else's field the same as taking someone else's life?It would be fine if this seizing the land was irrelevant, but these cruel thieves like jackals and tigers are clearly their own brothers, are they really gouging out flesh on people's chests?

Xu Nanshan's eyes were red, and his muddy face was tense. He looked at Xu Nanyun who came to plead guilty without saying a word, and his heart was already full of turmoil.This was once like a tiger and a wolf who were fierce brothers, so they had to be forgiven?

Xu Nanyun was also shocked by Qiuyue's words. Now that he put himself in his shoes, he realized how hateful he was back then!The only thing farmers rely on is the fields. If they don't even have these basic living conditions, isn't there a dead word waiting for them?Didn't they drive the second brother's family of six to a dead end?Xu Nanyun's heart ached, his face was pale, he bit his lips tightly, his whole body trembled as if he was terrified.With a trembling voice, he said incoherently: "Second brother...Second sister-in-law, it's me...I'm sorry, I...Damn it!"

Xu Nanyun slapped himself left and right in the face, the loud slap was surprisingly loud in this extremely hot room, the strength he used was real, and after a while, his dark cheeks turned red and swollen , the tears kept flowing out of his eyes, crying like a woman until she was confused.

Seeing Xu Nanyun's self-abuse, Mrs. Han hurriedly went over to dissuade her, "Stop it, what's the use of you doing this, are you trying to embarrass us?" Although after listening to Qiuyue's words, Mrs. Han felt more towards Xu Nanyun Disgusted, but seeing him slap herself so hard, her heart was tugged again.This person came to the door, didn't he intend to cause trouble for them?

Xu Nanshan frowned and made the word "Chuan", and said in a muffled voice: "Stop it, let's go back from bridge to bridge, and we're going to live as we did before, and we won't be tied to each other!" Looking at his younger brother like this Slapping myself hard, it is impossible to say that I don't feel bad.It’s just that Qiuyue is right, they can’t heal their scars and forget the pain. If everyone hadn’t worked together to find a way to survive that year, maybe they would all starve to death now and become a pile of bones!

When Xu Nanyun heard his brother and sister-in-law say such resolute words, his heart felt like a knife.But what can he blame others? It's all his own fault!

Xu Nanshan saw Xu Nanyun's look of distress and despair, he hardened his heart and said: "From the time you robbed my family's land and designed my family's fish pond, you are no longer my brothers, I don't have you black-hearted brothers ! Get out for me, and don't enter our house again!"

"Second brother!" Xu Nanyun called out in a hoarse voice.But before he could speak, he was cut off by the furious Xu Nanshan, "Don't call me that, I can't afford to be your brother, see you off!" After Xu Nanshan finished speaking, he simply turned his face away from looking at Xu Nanyun. With a sad and regretful look on his face, he was afraid that he would regret it if his heart softened!
Qiuyue's words lingered in her mind like a curse. This group of wolves, tigers and leopards only cared about grabbing the fields, so how could they care about their lives?They don't even care about their life or death. How can such relatives recognize them?

"You go back, live your own life, and don't come to our house again." Han also gave Xu Nanyun an order to evict guests with a cold face.It is true that everyone would have forgiven Xu Nanyun if Qiuyue hadn't said that.Qiuyue's words made her feel enlightened, these people want them to die, how can they be forgiven?

Xu Nanyun was crying like a little daughter-in-law, he stumbled up from the ground, and swept across the indifferent and frost-covered faces in the room one by one, his heart ached like someone was gouging out his flesh with a knife.It turns out that some injuries cannot be resolved by a few words of apology.It was Qiuyue's words today that made him fully understand how hateful he was back then.Thinking about it, if someone treated him like this and took away all the fields that the family depended on for survival, he really didn't know how he would survive.

Sighing helplessly, Xu Nanyun knew that his second elder brother and second sister-in-law would never forgive him no matter what.Xu Nanyun wiped off his mottled beard, and said in a hoarse voice: "Second brother and second sister-in-law, I know how hateful and annoying I am, and I have done so many things to hurt my second brother and second sister-in-law, how can I still have the face to come to the door?" Come to ask second elder brother and second sister-in-law for forgiveness, I'm leaving now, I... I'm leaving now!"

Xu Nanyun walked slowly towards the yard, his monotonous figure looked particularly tired under the sunlight, like a plant that had been scorched by the sun, infinite sadness spread around him.Xu Nanshan looked at Xu Nanyun's leaving back, his eyes were red, his face was blue, and he finally returned to calm.

Pushing open the door of his own courtyard with a dejected face, Xu Nanyun staggered into the house, his whole body was like a walking corpse that had been shaken out of shock, expressionless, neither happy nor sad.He sat on the chair blankly, his mouth was so thirsty that his skin was cracked, but he didn't know how to pour water to drink himself.

After taking a nap, Fang came out of the East Wing with melon seeds peeling out of her mouth, and saw her family's lost soul sitting on a chair, wondering what was wrong with her, and her expression was very dull.The black-skinned cheeks were red and swollen, and upon closer inspection there were several slap marks.Thinking about his distraught appearance again, Fang knew where he came back from.

Fang cracked the melon seeds, sat down on the chair next to Xu Nanyun, glanced sideways at Xu Nanyun, and began to make sarcastic remarks, "Oh, I just said don't blame that family, you Why don't you listen? Your virtue was washed away by that family? Congratulations! If you don't listen to your daughter-in-law, you will be at a disadvantage!" Fang felt that what she said was absolutely right, and a huge smile appeared on her face.He twisted a melon seed and put it in his mouth, bit the shell of the melon seed, spit out the melon seed skin with his tongue, and continued to stuff the second one in.

Fortunately, this old fool didn't take himself away. Seeing the appearance of the head of the house, he must have suffered a lot of beatings.If you go to the door by yourself, don't you stick your face out and let others beat you?She is not that stupid!

"Shut up!" Xu Nanyun glared viciously at Fang Shi who was making sarcastic remarks here, and the anger in his heart surged, he ate, ate, ate, he knew how to eat all day long, why didn't he eat her to death!Xu Nanyun looked at Fang Fang's belly that was already full of arms, and could only swallow his anger in his heart.He stood up and walked towards the east wing!
"Shut up, you tell me to shut up?" Fang ignited like a cannon, and now he started arguing with Xu Nanyun again, but Xu Nanyun ignored him at all, and just went to the east wing on his own.Can't help but ask: "What are you going to do?"

Xu Nanyun kicked off his shoes and lay down on the bed without taking off his pants and clothes.

"Sleep." He said calmly, and simply closed his eyes and went to sleep.

(End of this chapter)