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    Bad mermaid

    An Xiaoyu has only been in Longyin Village for two months, but when it comes to An Xiaoyu, almost everyone in Longyin Village will praise him.There is no other reason: he is good-looking, capable, and has a good personality. Although he is a bit taciturn, he is polite and has never had any conflicts with others. He has not had a single quarrel. He is highly praised by men, women and children in the village.

    Needless to say, An Xiaoyu is a man who is talented in literature and martial arts, and a strong man. He already likes An Xiaoyu. After returning from hunting, An Xiaoyu challenged the wolf king and saved his wife by himself. After the heroic deeds spread, the men in the village were full of praise for An Xiaoyu.

    There is no need to mention women. Who wouldn’t envy a husband who can chop wood and carry water, wash and cook, be as gentle to his wife as water, be polite and distant to outsiders, be extremely clean and self-sufficient, and never mess around with women? Most importantly, he is extremely handsome and has an extremely good figure.Who doesn’t want that?

    Among children and elders, An Xiaoyu’s reputation has gone up even further.Among the children under the age of ten in the village, thanks to An Susu’s vigorous promotion and praise, An Xiaoyu has become the incarnation of a mermaid. Not only can she know everything, but she can also play house games with An Susu – this is especially enviable by other children in the village.And An Xiaoyu can be said to be responsive to An Susu’s requests. Even if he doesn’t know how to do it, he still has to learn to satisfy An Susu. Therefore, the children in the village are particularly envious of An Susu. They go to the beach in groups every day to try to pick up a mermaid sister-in-law.

    In the eyes of children, An Xiaoyu is perfect, perhaps because An Xiaoyu has some mythical qualities, but in the eyes of elders, An Xiaoyu is a perfect son-in-law and daughter-in-law. Although he is shy and talkative, he is extremely capable and loves his wife. He not only takes care of all the housework at home, but also helps his husband’s family with work.

    In the words of the villagers, An Le has a good life. Before getting married, her parents were in love and they would not let An Le do any work. After marriage, her husband was in love and she would not let An Le do any work.An’s father and An’s mother were better off. They had a son-in-law and a daughter-in-law at the same time.

    An’s father and An’s mother were even more satisfied with this son-in-law. When they met everyone, they would praise their son-in-law for how kind he was to An Le. He just didn’t let An Le do any work at home. Then An Le did what he said, obeyed his advice, never said a word no, never blushed or got angry, and didn’t say anything when he was wronged. Even their father-in-law and mother-in-law couldn’t stand it.In short, he was praising his son-in-law both inside and outside of his words, but he actually meant that his son was doing something wrong.

    Therefore, everyone in Longyin Village, from five-year-old children to century-old men, all praised An Xiaoyu, envied An’s father and mother An Susu, and more importantly, said that An Le’s life was good.

    But only Anle knew that An Xiaoyu was not as good as others said.It is true that he is never allowed to do any work at home, but it is nonsense to obey him and have no temper.

    An Xiaoyu will be angry, but he won’t say it or show it in front of outsiders.As for obeying his advice, he never said anything that An Xiaoyu wouldn’t like to hear!

    But once like now, he said something that An Xiaoyu didn’t like to hear, An Xiaoyu would sulk without saying a word.

    Unless he takes the initiative to break the silence.

    Bad, very bad, especially bad.

    Bad mermaid, Anle cursed silently in his heart, hesitating whether to break the silence and end the cold war.

    But then I thought about it, he always spoke first in every cold war, and I felt resentful again.This time, he will not speak first, he will see how bad this mermaid can be!

    When people plot bad things, they always magically have unlimited energy and enter a state of selflessness.After Anle made up his mind, he was in a good mood, with no distracting thoughts in his mind. His insomnia was cured without treatment, and he fell asleep quickly after closing his eyes.

    I slept until three o’clock in the morning on the second day. After a good sleep, I felt refreshed. I almost didn’t experience the confused state of just waking up. I closed my eyes and stretched, then jumped and pushed away the quilt and sat up in bed. I was about to start a day full of energy. However, when I turned around, I was shocked: Why is An Xiaoyu still in bed!And it seemed that she was still awake, so she was woken up by him.

    What’s going on? Did he wake up early today?After Anle looked at An Xiaoyu, who was lying on his side and rubbing his eyes in a daze, for a while, he looked up at the window again.The sun was shining brightly, and the dazzling sunlight illuminated the bedroom. This brightness was definitely after ten o’clock!Anle made accurate judgments based on his rich experience.

    It wasn’t him who got up wrong, it was An Xiaoyu.

    An Xiaoyu, I got up late today!

    An Le was amazed. This was the first time that An Xiaoyu was still lying next to him when he woke up.

    It was rare for An Xiaoyu to sleep in. An Le was about to say something joking, but when he opened his mouth, he suddenly thought of last night’s plan and bit his tongue to hold back the words.

    He must not take the initiative to speak!

    Anle bit her lips and stared at An Xiaoyu with raised eyebrows, like a vindictive rooster.

    At this time, An Xiaoyu slowly sat up, glanced at Anle, glanced at the bright sky, and said, “I’m going to cook.”

    An Xiaoyu spoke first, but Anle frowned and her heart sank.

    He had never heard An Xiaoyu use such a cold tone towards him. This was the tone he used when he rejected An Linmian.

    I’m so unhappy, my good mood early in the morning was ruined.If last night he just wanted to see how bad this bad mermaid could be and deliberately ignored An Xiaoyu all night, then now, he was really angry and really didn’t want to talk to An Xiaoyu.

    This mermaid is not just bad, she is simply abominable, extremely abominable.All morning, Anle scolded An Xiaoyu in his heart without saying a word to An Xiaoyu.

    Anle silently made up his mind: he would never say a word to An Xiaoyu before he apologized to him!

    And An Xiaoyu only communicated the necessary things, such as: “What do you want to eat?” “What clothes need to be washed?””It’s time to come for dinner”, “I’ve made milk tea…” and so on. Although they looked the same as usual, the tone became more and more annoying to Anle.

    Therefore, Anle didn’t answer a word, ate whatever he wanted, left after eating, and refused to admit it after drinking.After being upset all morning, Anle noticed that An Xiaoyu’s tone softened a little in the afternoon.

    But this was not enough. An Xiaoyu’s current tone was the tone he used when talking to An Tu. It was still completely different from the tone he used when talking to himself. He couldn’t accept it.

    What’s more important is that An Xiaoyu hasn’t apologized to him yet!An Xiaoyu started the Cold War first, and this is definitely An Xiaoyu’s fault!He must not surrender and admit defeat first!

    So, after lunch, Anle touched An Xiaojin’s wolf’s head and said, “I went to the village chief to learn skills” and quickly fled the battlefield.It’s not that Anle is eager to learn skills. After all, it is busy in autumn and the village chief is also busy. If Anle wants to learn skills, he has to wait until the harvest season.

    He just found an excuse to leave home to avoid staying in the same space as An Xiaoyu.

    He talks a lot, especially after An Xiaoyu arrives, he has to talk to An Xiaoyu about everything he thinks of.Suddenly, it was really difficult for him to not talk to An Xiaoyu for a whole day.

    Therefore, he could only escape first to avoid contact with An Xiaoyu.

    “Did you quarrel with Xiaoyu?”In the grain warehouse of Longyin Village, Anmu glanced at the absent-minded Anle and asked with a smile.

    Anle was holding an account book in one hand and a writing brush in the other hand to write and draw on the account book.He found Grandpa An at the drying ground in the village who was arranging for people to harvest wheat and weigh it for storage. He told him that he wanted to learn how to make clay sculptures. Of course, he didn’t say he wanted to make a statue of the Dragon King. He only said he wanted to make a big mermaid for Su Su to play with.

    Anmu naturally agreed, but the condition was that he would come over to help him keep accounts in the past few days, that is, he would keep track of the accounts that went out and into the warehouse, and help distribute grain and other materials to the villagers.A villager who was good at accounting was supposed to do the accounting and bookkeeping, but unfortunately he was ill these past few days and was recuperating at home.There are not many people in the village who can read and numerate. They are very busy recently and cannot spare any spare hands.

    After hearing this, Anle naturally agreed. He had occasionally helped Grandpa An keep accounts before, so he was quite familiar with it.Today’s main task is to put the dried wheat into the warehouse. He only needs to record how much wheat was harvested this year, which warehouse it was put into, which land it came from, etc. There is not much to do.

    Now he was waiting for several villagers to weigh out the wheat harvest in the fields to the west. He had nothing to do for a while and lost his mind again. After hearing Anmu’s question, he absentmindedly replied in a muffled voice, “No.””

    “Without you drawing mermaids and turtles on the ledger.”Anmu exposed Anle’s clumsy lies without mercy.

    An Le was startled. When he focused his eyes on the account book in his hand, he saw two more ink drawings on the account book: a mermaid being grilled on a living thing and a turtle with a big cross drawn on it.

    Fortunately, this page has not been recorded yet.

    “Ah… this…” Anle was so embarrassed that he quickly tore up the page with the turtle and mermaid, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it behind him, as if he was destroying fatal evidence.

    “I’m…bored, just painting for fun.”Anle Sansan defended herself.

    Of course, the guilty tone could not deceive Anmu. Anmu looked at Anle and said with a smile: “What’s wrong?Did you bully Xiaoyu again?”

    “I am bullying him!” An Le became angry when he heard this. Regarding the importance of reputation, it is obvious that he has always had a good reputation in the village. Usually when anyone sees him, they should not praise “Lele is so good”, but now, when An Xiaoyu is involved, he has become the unreasonable bad guy. In the eyes of others, he will only bully An Xiaoyu, and An Xiaoyu will never bully him.

    “He bullied me!I’m not bullying him!”Anle shouted angrily.

    Anmu glanced at Anle again, smiled and said: “Oh?Why did he bully you?”

    “he!An Le raised her head and raised her chest with an angry expression. She was about to accuse An Xiaoyu of all kinds of bad behavior, but as soon as she said a word, she lowered her head sadly, puffed her cheeks, and muttered: “Forget it, I can’t explain it. Anyway, he bullied me.””

    Anle wanted to draw a turtle in the notebook again, but fortunately he restrained himself as soon as the pen landed on the paper.”Grandpa An,” Anle lowered his head and said dullly, “Why is he so annoying?”

    Anmu looked at Anle with a loving smile and said, “Why do you hate me?”

    Anle puffed up her cheeks and said nothing, looking at the pen tip making a mass of ink on the paper.

    “Hate everywhere.”After a while, Anle muttered.

    “I hate him everywhere,” Anmu repeated with a smile, “Then it seems that we Lele really hate him.Since you hate him so much, why not divorce him?How about Grandpa An finding someone you don’t hate?”

    Anle lowered his head and said nothing. He was just dazed when he suddenly saw a fluffy head at his feet breaking into his sight.

    “An Xiaojin, why are you here?” When An Le saw that it was An Xiaojin, he knelt down and rubbed An Xiaojin’s head. An Xiaojin kept rubbing his head against An Le’s hand, whimpering, as if he couldn’t open his mouth.

    Anle lifted An Xiaojin’s chin and saw that An Xiaojin had a short and thick bamboo tube folded horizontally in his mouth, about one finger long.Anle curiously took out the bamboo tube and looked at it. When he saw half of the paper roll leaking out of the bamboo tube, he took out the paper roll and opened it to see a note. He was startled when he saw the handwriting and content, and then said angrily: “You can guess.”As he said that, he stuffed the note back, raised his hand, and the bamboo tube flew out behind him with the note.

    Seeing the bamboo tube fly away, An Xiaojin waggled his tail and chased after it.Anle stood up and didn’t look where An Xiaojin went. He lowered his head to the account book and sketched the ink stain in the center of the drawing book.

    “Let’s forget it and make do with it.Anle hooked the little ink dot into a small fish and muttered, “If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken, if you marry a dog, follow the dog, if you marry a fish, follow the fish.””

    The wheat rustled, and a man’s high-pitched shout came from the front: “Lele, land No. 20 to the west produces three hundred shi of wheat.”

    Anle responded after hearing the sound, and took up a pen to make a note in the account book.Just as he finished memorizing, several more voices sounded one after another, reporting the weighing results. Anle became busy, listening attentively to the reports one after another, and recorded them one by one.

    A good harvest year, thousands of warehouses, and thousands of crops are undoubtedly a good harvest.

    As the sun sets in the west, all the wheat is harvested.The drying ground was clean. The villagers who had finished their work shouted, waved and said hello to Anmu and Anle before going home for dinner.

    Anle handed the account book to Anmu and looked up at the western sky. A red sun hung low in the sky, and the orange-pink clouds were as beautiful as an oil painting.

    Anle was fascinated, and suddenly heard Anmu say with a smile: “Go home quickly, Xiaojin is here to pick you up.”

    As soon as he finished speaking, Anle heard a wailing sound behind him, and turned around to see An Xiaojin running over, happily rubbing his head against Anle’s leg.

    “It must have been Xiaoyu who sent Xiaojin to call you home for dinner.Anmu smiled and rubbed Anle’s head, and said, “Lele, you can explain some things to others that you can’t understand, but you have to understand it yourself.””

    Anle lowered her eyes and asked in a low voice: “But what if I can’t figure it out?”

    “Then ask more questions,” An Mu said lovingly, “Ask more questions to yourself and the other person.There are always answers to questions.Okay, let’s go home quickly. Xiaoyu will be anxious if he doesn’t go back all afternoon.”

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