Little Tie cried for a long ti, talking about what happened with his brother as he cried.
Xiao Feng listened from the side, feeling a bit sorrowful... feeling sorry for Little Tie.
There was sothing he wanted to say, but in the end, he didn't speak out.
Which was, he felt sad about his brother's death, but ultimately, wasn't the cause of this outco greed?
If it wasn't for happening to travel the sa road, would the old donkey have deserved to be robbed?
As he was thinking this, he saw the old donkey walking from a distance, sporting two black eyes, and yawning continuously, clearly not having slept well last night.
Upon seeing Xiao Feng, he waved from afar and said, "You got up really early."
"The roosters in your village crow so loudly, you can't stay in bed even if you want to."
"That's true, I heard from the people in Fengyu Village that they can hear the roosters crowing from our village."
"Are you out for an early morning stroll?" Xiao Feng asked.
The old donkey yawned deeply again and replied, "Not really, just watering the trees for my cousin, and also need to..."
Before finishing, both his words and steps ca to a halt.
The old donkey took two steps back, looking at Little Tie sitting on the ground, with fear in his eyes.
Little Tie glanced at the old donkey, smiled awkwardly, and stood up, "Uncle Jin, I'm sorry about last night."
"It's all right, it's all right. It's all a misunderstanding that's been resolved." The old donkey said, looking flattered, "How's your dad doing?"
"He's still lying in bed," Little Tie replied, bowing to the old donkey as a formal apology.
The old donkey, seeing no intention on Little Tie's part to start anything, cautiously stepped forward two steps, then sped up his pace and walked into the small courtyard of Tiebushan.
Outside the gate, Xiao Feng and Little Tie remained.
"What do you plan to do about your brother?" Xiao Feng asked.
Without much thought, Little Tie replied, "I'll wait for the police to give my brother justice, if not, I'll seek it myself!"
Xiao Feng nodded, this result wasn't entirely unexpected.
After a mont of silence, he tentatively asked, "Little Tie, have you ever thought about... leaving Iron Village?"
"Of course I have!" Little Tie said without hesitation, "Not only do I want to leave the village, everyone else does too, only the people from Grandpa Tiebushan's generation wish to stay."
Xiao Feng was imdiately taken aback, he had been ready to persuade him to change his mind, who knew there was no need to change?
However, this is a good thing overall.
Being willing to leave is definitely better than stubbornly staying in the village.
Only to hear Little Tie continue, "Chen Li and I have already planned that when we have kids in the future, we'll let them go to school in the city.
Although there's a school in the village, compared to the city, it's still far behind. What's that saying, no matter how poor, you can't skimp on education."
"You're married?" Xiao Feng asked in surprise.
Little Tie shook his head, "Not yet, I'm only eighteen this year, planning to propose next year."
"Ten... eighteen?!" Xiao Feng looked at Little Tie in disbelief; neither his appearance nor his clothing looked like eighteen.
Just then, a woman's voice ca from a distance, "Brother Little Tie!"
Little Tie looked towards the sound and smiled, "That's my sweetheart, Chen Li. We've been desk mates since childhood, she's very pretty. Lots of people in our village like her, but she only likes ."
Xiao Feng glanced at the girl running over, sizing her up for a mont.
She was wearing a floral quilted jacket, with two braided pigtails. Her skin was fairer than Little Tie's, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, certainly not a classic beauty, but still quite pleasant-looking.
Reaching the front, Chen Li stopped, panting, "Brother Little Tie, I went to your house to find you. Uncle told you'd gone out, I was worried sothing happened to you, so I ca to check."
"I'm fine, you can go back," Little Tie waved dismissively.
Chen Li nodded, "Then... all right, I'll go help out at your house."
She said, running back in the direction she ca from.
Xiao Feng frowned slightly, "She was worried sothing happened to you, ran over to check on you, and you just send her away like that?"
"We country folks aren't into all that beating around the bush, I'm leaving now, thanks for telling about my brother." Little Tie said his goodbye.
"Wait a minute!"
"What's up?"
"You ntioned wanting to leave before, have you thought about what to do after you leave?"
Little Tie nodded, "The two of us plan to open a small restaurant, first save up and strive to buy a house in the city. Then when we have kids and they have their own families, we'll return to the village and farm, which is fine too."
"You've thought far ahead." Xiao Feng laughed.
"It's actually all my sweetheart's planning." Little Tie chuckled, "I'm not very smart, where can I figure out such plans."
As they spoke, a group of children ran over, shouting while they ran, "Big fool, heard your brother died? Hahahaha!"
Little Tie wasn't angry, cursing with a smile, "Get lost! I don't have ti for you."
Without suspense, the kids shouted even harder, with mischievous grins, as if Little Five was so heinous villain, whose death couldn't appease public anger.
"You punks are asking for a beating!" Little Tie took off his shoe and started chasing one of the kids.
The rest scattered around him, yelling, "Big fool, big fool, your brother's dead!"
It was obvious that Little Tie didn't really intend to hit them, instead just trying to scare them off.
After all, a grown-up dealing with a group of ten-year-olds, isn't it supposed to be easy?
Xiao Feng could hardly watch, he picked up a few rocks from nearby and threw them at the butts of the most boisterous kids.
"Ouch!" a kid scread, crying and cursing, "Who the hell ambushed ? I'll tell my mom when I get ho!"
Soon, the rest also suffered the sa fate.
They ca laughing, and left crying.
Little Tie turned to Xiao Feng, he might be slow, but he wasn't a fool.
There were only two of them present, so it must be him.
Thanking him again, Little Tie was about to head ho.
But Xiao Feng said, "If I told you, you could buy a house in full within a year, would you be willing to co with ?"
"Buy a house in full in a year?" Little Tie asked skeptically, "Is there really such a good deal?"
Xiao Feng replied seriously, "Of course there is, but hard work and toil are inevitable."
Little Tie thought for a while and replied, "I need to discuss this with my sweetheart and my dad. If they agree, then I agree."
"I'll wait for your news," Xiao Feng replied, also thinking he should have a proper talk with Chen Li and Tie Yidao.
Returning to the courtyard, he saw the old donkey coming out from the vegetable garden, holding a wooden cup and heading into the kitchen.
The matter on Tiebushan's side was half resolved; the rest was on Little Tie's side.
These two matters need to progress simultaneously; otherwise, it's too much of a waste of ti.
With the idea of striking while the iron is hot, Xiao Feng said a few words to Sun Shijie, and then went out again, heading to Little Tie's ho.
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