Huo Duan smiled, "You are finally willing to talk to me!"

"Uh..." Gu Fengyan twitched the corner of his mouth, but his heart relaxed, "Take these back."

He forgot that Erdan was born stupid and could not imagine so much, but the eyes he looked at just now had a shrewd and sharp look, and the aura around him was different.

It's like, like he's not a fool, but one of those businessmen who could talk business with him on an equal footing before time travel.

It's an illusion, Gu Fengyan shook his head secretly.

…

It took half an hour to enter the mountain. No one lived here, and a few pieces of land owned by unknown people were abandoned because they were far away.

There was a thick layer of fallen leaves on the ground, and in March, there were tender wild vegetables everywhere.

"Dad said, don't go deep. Just wait for me here and don't run around." Gu Fengyan panted tiredly and sat on a large clean bluestone to rest. Huo Duan warned him carefully.

"Um."

This place is full of rotten leaves, mud, insects and ants. He has lived in a clean and open place since he was a child... and he doesn't really want to explore.

Huo Duan disappeared into the shade of the trees as he searched for wild vegetables in a familiar way...

It was quiet all around. Gu Fengyan was still a little scared to be alone, so he walked around.

He found that in addition to many wild vegetables, there were many wild medicinal herbs growing in this place. Clumps of Centella asiatica grew bright green, and marigolds just bloomed under the wild roses... The Gu Group's main business is pharmaceuticals, and it also has many cosmetics brands. Gu Fengyan majored in a related major at university and was naturally sensitive to medicinal materials.

The villagers probably didn't know them and left them alone.

What a waste of natural resources. Gu Fengyan supported the tree trunk and thought about how to use these things.

Suddenly there was a noise among the surrounding trees, approaching.

Snapped--

A chicken hit the tree trunk next to Gu Fengyan, startling him.

Terrified, he poked it with a stick—and died.

But it's quite fat and edible. Gu Fengyan pulled a vine, tied the chicken and hung it on the tree.

After walking around, I found several nests of wild gastrodia elata and dug them out with a small stick. Gastrodia chicken soup, nourishing medicinal diet, Huo Adi is not in good health, so it is just a good supplement.

Well, he's quite lucky, as expected of him. Gu Fengyan thought to himself.

…

Huo Duan frowned and carefully avoided the wet soil on the ground.

Bosses all have a bit of mysophobia, and of course he does too.

If it wasn't for Gu Fengyan to notice anything unusual, he wouldn't have come to such a place full of earthy smell.

The system scanned the surrounding plants and found only a few thin wild onions for a long time...very strange.

He always felt like he was unlucky today.

Illusion. Huo Duan shook his head and walked back. The brother was still waiting and did not dare to leave for too long.

What a drag. Huo Duan cursed coldly.

However, when he saw the oil bottle guy, his jaw almost dropped to the ground in shock - Gu Fengyan was coming out of the bushes, carrying a plump pheasant in his right hand, and the big leaves in his left hand were piled with taro-like things.

"I didn't go far, I just walked around the area." Gu Fengyan was caught and had no intention of hiding it.

However, Huo Duan didn't care about this, "Where did you get these things?"

"Oh..." Gu Fengyan looked at his hand, "I don't know why this chicken killed itself. I dug up the gastrodia elata casually."

Killed.

Just dig it.

Is this a koi? right?

Huo Duan looked at the sparse wild vegetables in his rattan basket and fell silent.

"You know the medicinal materials?" He soon realized that something was wrong. This spoiled boy had never even walked on the ground, so how could he identify the medicinal materials.

That sharp feeling came to Gu Fengyan's heart again. He touched his nose and said, "My grandma's family opened a pharmacy, and I learned a lot from my father."

This was true, but he didn't know whether the original owner knew the medicinal materials. The original owner lost all his relatives in the flood. Huo Duan had been told by his father not to mention his sadness, and he would never dare to ask again.

Huo Duan stopped asking, but he still felt that something was wrong.

"It's time for lunch, let's go back."

Gu Fengyan breathed a sigh of relief;

…

Go back the same way.

Walking down from the slightly open hilltop, Gu Fengyan saw a young man with dark skin and patched clothes hurriedly walking up in the ditch.

Wipe the sweat from your forehead from time to time.

This person looks familiar, but I can't remember who it is.

"Brother Erdan, Brother Yan... I finally found you!" The young man rushed up and pulled Huo Duan's sleeve like a calf, "My dad asked me to come look for you. Something big happened at home!"

Gu Fengyan remembered that this boy's name was Ye Bao, the youngest son of Huo Duan's aunt's family, and Huo Duan's cousin.

Staggered by being pulled, Huo Duan frowned subconsciously, "What happened? It's so urgent..."

"Yes, yes..." Ye Bao looked at the two of them and peeked at Gu Fengyan with his eyes. Gu Fengyan was confused.

Ye Bao was anxious and panicked, "Oh! It's the second son of the grand master of Linchuan County who's here! He's at the door of your house!"

"What?!" Gu Fengyan and Huo Duan blurted out at the same time.

Nothing major happens in Heqing Village, but when something big happens, the news will spread all over the village in a few clicks, like wings.

At lunchtime, a sedan stopped at the door of Huo's courtyard, with tassels hanging from the four corners and sachets hanging from it. Even the sedan curtains were made of fine silk embroidered with orchids.

The villagers were so crowded that the people holding the bowls took a bite of rice from time to time, and the people gnawing sunflower seeds spat out a mouthful of food from time to time. They were whispering, and the center of the conversation was the man on the spring stool next to the sedan chair.

"I think I won't be able to keep this brother Yan. He looks handsome, and this one looks like he's rich..."

"Oh, isn't it? I advised Uncle Huo not to keep him in the first place. Although the kid Erdan looks good, he is a fool and his family is poor... Brother Yan is also thoughtful, so how can he really be willing to keep him? In our poor mountainous area."

"I heard that Brother Yan is still engaged to this person..."

Father Huo stood at the entrance of the courtyard on crutches, followed by his sister, brother-in-law, and his eldest nephew Ye Shan. The expressions of the four people were surprisingly the same - embarrassed, frightened, and worried.

The man on the spring stool has a fat head, big ears, and a fat head. Together with the thin orchids on the sedan curtain, it looks like a picture of a wild boar crouching over his head.

He stood up, shook out the bamboo fan, but his words were vulgar, "Oh, people who don't know this place would think it was a doghouse of a wealthy family! It's small and shabby..."

"You..." Ye Shan was full of blood and took an angry step forward.

Father Huo quickly blocked him and shook his head, "Xiao Shan!"

The man looked at Ye Shan contemptuously and picked his teeth, "Tsk, tsk, that little brother of the Gu family is more or less a pampered person, why did he follow such a fool..."

"No matter how stupid you are," he showed a lewd and obscene smile, "The Gu family wanted to get married to me in the first place. If it weren't for the fact that the little brother looked so coquettish and made people's hearts warm, where would the Gu family be? Climb high..."

He fanned twice and ignored the white eyes around him, "But it wouldn't be interesting if you weren't a youngster."

The words were so obscene that even Widow Li, the most romantic woman in the village, frowned.

Father Huo's face was visibly darkened, and the hand holding the cane turned white.

"That's too much! In Heqing Village, it's not your turn for an outsider to act wildly!" Ye Bixian, Huo's father's brother-in-law, couldn't stand hearing it anymore and his face turned red.

Father Huo didn't stop him this time.

The man sneered, "Fool, do you know who I am? If you have any sense, you can hand over Gu Fengyan. If you steal other people's things, you still have to urinate to show whether you are qualified!"

Ye Bixian's temples had veins popping out, "You——"

"Rimasa is here!" Someone shouted at this time...

The crowd automatically separated into a lane, and Gu Fengyan followed Ye Baohuoduan and Li Zhengliu Zhengshan of Heqing Village into the crowd.

At first glance, Wang Jin looked like a nouveau riche.

He even looked at himself with squinting eyes without concealing his lust, almost drooling.

Gu Fengyan's goosebumps fell straight down. Wang Jin was the second son of the grandpa's family in the next county. He was engaged to the original owner, but before the marriage could be consummated, the flood washed away everything. His home was gone, and his people were lost.

The original owner had no choice but to live in the Huo family, but he still missed Wang Jin... Even though Huo Duan was prettier than Wang Jin, he couldn't afford to eat.

Even the reason why he really didn't like Huo Duan was because of this.

However, he is not the original owner...

Huo Duan also saw Wang Jin early in the morning and automatically ignored him. He walked towards the Huo family with concern, "Dad, aunt, are you okay?"

To him, it didn't matter whether there was Gu Fengyan or not.

Father Huo shook his head and said solemnly, "Li Zheng..."

As soon as the incident happened, Father Huo first sent his nephew to find Li Zheng. In his eyes, only officials could deal with officials.

Liu Zhengshan went to school in his early years and was a bit bookish, but he was actually a powerful character, and everyone in the village was dissatisfied with him.

"Erdan's father, I heard what Xiaobao said," he interrupted Huo's father and took a puff of dry cigarette, "Brother Yan's parents promised him to the Wang family when they were still alive. Now, although his parents have not Yes, but the engagement is still final. It makes sense for him to go back with the Wang family today if he wishes."

Li Zheng spoke sincerely, facing the Wang family on the face, but secretly reminding Father Huo not to give away the eggs for nothing.

Father Huo has a clear conscience, and he is willing to make a choice based on Brother Yan. If he goes with the Wang family, he has no objection. If he stays, he will definitely treat him a hundred times a thousand times better... His stupid son also likes Brother Yan. Son.

But seeing that Wang Er looked like a vulgar gangster, how could he treat Brother Yan well?

Father Huo's heart was filled with sorrow.

"Dad, don't be sad, there is still me." Huo Duan quickly comforted Huo's father.

"Hey," Father Huo looked at his silly son and sighed heavily, "What do you know?"

Huo Duan twitched the corner of his mouth... Why did he feel that Uncle Huo seemed to like that duplicitous brother more than his own son?

At this time, Gu Fengyan, who had been silent all this time, said, "Dad, Uncle Li Zheng, and..." He looked at Huo Duan and didn't know what to call him for a moment.

After thinking for a while, he continued, "Brother Duan, don't worry, I won't leave."

The three people stared at Gu Fengyan, all a little surprised.

"Brother Yan, are you telling the truth?" Father Huo looked excited.

Gu Fengyan nodded, "I have an engagement with the Wang family, but now that my parents are gone, I don't dare to reach out. I want to stay in the Huo family. It's just..."

He looked at the surrounding villagers watching the excitement, "This matter has spread throughout the village, and my reputation has become bad. I beg the Huo family not to dislike it."

The business district is like a battlefield. After hanging out for a long time, you will get to know people. The original owner is obsessed with money and can't figure it out, but he is very sober... Then Wang Er is not a good person at first glance.

Um. Mainly, he's too ugly.

"Okay, okay..." Father Huo was moved to tears, "Good boy, don't worry, no one in the Huo family will dare to disrespect you as long as Father is here!"

Wang Jin crossed his legs and clicked his fan, "Oh, why are you still singing?" He picked his teeth with his little finger, "Come on, it's not his decision whether to leave! With the Gu family I gave you ten guan as a betrothal gift when I got engaged. If you want to keep someone else... you just need to return the betrothal gift."

"Otherwise, you have to leave today whether you want to or not!"

Gu Fengyan was speechless for a moment... He didn't even have half a copper coin on him, let alone the Huo family.

There were sounds of gasps from the villagers all around... The eldest brother of the Huo family couldn't even get out ten coins, let alone ten coins.

Brother Yan may have no choice but to follow him this time.

Wang Jin gave a lewd smile, "It seems that there is no such thing. How can we get married if we can't come up with ten ounces of money... Can't you even carry a few pounds?"

Several bearers around burst into laughter.

The Huo family looked ugly.

Heqing Village was originally not poor. At the very least, they could have enough food and clothing, but they didn't have much spare money.

The Huo family's main house only had a sick old widower and a stupid son, and the situation was even worse.

At this time, Father Huo's brother-in-law Ye Bi gritted his teeth and said harshly: "Damn it! How much money do we still have at home? We can't let others look down upon us!"

Huo Xiuling hurriedly went home to get it, but only took out two sticks, and the rest was in trouble.

"I'll give away the rest! It won't be too late when Erdan has money to pay me back later." Li Zheng expected that the money would be insufficient, so he had already asked his family to go back and get it, and he just happened to bring it at this time.

Gu Fengyan looked at the Huo family and Li Zheng and was suddenly moved, "Uncle Li Zheng, I will definitely pay back the money!"

It was so dangerous, he almost thought he was going to sell himself.

Liu Zhengshan also developed some affection for this child, "Don't worry, I will live happily with Erdan from now on."

Wang Jin gave the ten coins to Wang Jin. He weighed it in his hand and chuckled, "The weight of this silver is wrong. You are not lying to me, right?"

He looked like he was cheating.

Liu Zhengshan took a puff of dry cigarette and exhaled slowly, "I heard that the county magistrate is being investigated by the superiors because of the flood. I wonder if he is still strong... The second master doesn't want anything to go wrong at this time, right?"

Wang Jin's face darkened visibly... He was a small person in this mountain col, and he knew a lot.

"We'll see!" He glanced at Gu Fengyan fiercely, and with some reluctance, he got on the sedan and led the people away.

The farce came to an end, and the surrounding villagers gradually dispersed. Li Zheng warned the Huo family and wandered back home.

Huo Duan, who had been watching, then looked at Gu Fengyan calmly... He always felt that there was something strange about him.

It's like he's changed his temper.

According to Gu Fengyan's past performance, even if Wang Er is a piece of shit, he is still a piece of rich shit, and he will always go up and lick it.

Today when he arrived at the door of his house, he changed his attitude.

Very strange!

Something is wrong!