Huo Xi didn't know that she was being followed, and even her bottom was dug out. She gathered her emotions and returned to the ship.
Huo Erhuai had already gone to the city and bought a large strip of fat and thin pork, and asked Yang to cook it all, hoping that his two children would enjoy eating it.
Huo Xi and Yang Fu just returned to the boat and smelled the aroma of meat. The aroma was so fragrant that she forgot about the scene she saw in front of the Hou Mansion.
After lunch, Huo Xi played with Nian'er for a long time until Huo Nian fell asleep.
Huo Xi looked at Huo Nian intently for a while, then suddenly said to Huo Erhuai and Yang: "Father, mother, can you register the household registration for me and Nian'er? I don't want to be a gangster."
Yang and Huo Erhuai were extremely surprised when they heard this: "Xi'er, are you saying that you and Nian'er want to be included in our household register?"
The couple looked at each other in disbelief.
Although they adopted her brother and sister, it is obvious that these two children have a background. The couple never thought of taking any other measures. Now, they heard the children themselves say that they want to settle in their own household registration.
Yang clasped her hands nervously: "Xi'er, please think clearly. Once you settle down, you and Nian'er will truly be the children of our Huo family."
Huo Erhuai also stared at her nervously and swallowed.
Huo Xi looked at them intently: "Father, mother, don't you like me and Nian'er?"
Yang and Huo Erhuai waved their hands anxiously: "No, no, I like it! My parents like you and Nian'er, and wish you could be our biological children. But our status is low..."
Huo Xi shook her head with sobs in her throat: "My parents treat me and Nian'er as if they were their own children. They are willing to take me and Nian'er in and give us a home. Nian'er and I are grateful in our hearts and are willing to serve you and be filial to you throughout our lives."
After saying that, he knelt down and kowtowed to him and his wife.
Yang covered her mouth, tears immediately fell from her face, and she cried with joy.
He and Huo Erhuai lifted her up and held her tightly in their arms. They said that God had mercy on them and sent her and Nian'er to them.
Huo Xi cried silently in Yang's arms.
From then on, her surname was only Huo. Her name was not Zhang Yuning, but Huo Xi. She was just an ordinary fisherman's daughter who made a living on the Qinhuai River.
At night, Huo Erhuai and Yang lay awake all night.
Tossing and turning, the couple looked at each other from time to time, having a silly laugh. From time to time they stood up and looked at Huo Nian, who was lying next to them. Then they listened to Huo Xi's gentle breathing in the cabin.
I just feel that life is complete.
The couple got up early the next day and rowed the boat to Jiangning County near the capital before docking. Huo Erhuai hurried to the county government office with his family registration book in his arms.
After running around for two days and stuffing about ten taels of silver in benefits, I finally recorded the names of Huo Xi and Huo Nian in the Huo family's household registration book.
It was easy for Huo Nian, a young boy who was still breastfeeding, to settle down. But it was not easy to register Huo Xi, who was nearly seven years old.
What were you doing in those early years? Did you stop working when you were seven years old?
Huo Erhuai bowed to others and offered benefits. He only said that he had not kept the first few children and planned to wait until the children turned ten years old and then register them if they were raised.
With enough money, a seven-year-old girl couldn't threaten anyone. She ran for two days without being too embarrassed, and was finally left behind.
Huo Xi looked at her and Huo Nian's names in the household registration book seriously. The emotions in her heart were complicated and unspeakable, and she felt lost.
Huo Erhuai and Yang also knew that the child had hidden something, but she didn't tell her and it was hard to poke her wounds. Now that they saw that she was willing to remember her as their child, they were extremely happy.
She just felt that this child was very knowledgeable. Three people in the family could not read, so she took the household registration book and read it again and again.
Yang asked: "Xi'er, what do you think about the arrangement of the money at home?" Huo Xi earned all the money at home, and both husband and wife were willing to listen to her opinion.
Huo Xi asked Yang to put away the household registration book. Seeing Yang touching the household registration book with a cherished expression, she felt warm in her heart and said, "Father and mother, just look at the arrangement. I have no objection."
Huo Erhuai thought for a while and said: "Your mother and I want to go back to our hometown to buy one or two acres of land and build a few houses. Now that Nian'er is still young, I'm afraid he won't be able to stand being on the water. Besides, this time you
After recording the file with Nian'er, we have to go back to the village and report it to the village chief."
Huo Xi remembered the address she had just seen in the household registration book, and originally thought that this family had no roots.
"Dad is from Yangjia Village, Jiangning County?" Then why is the surname Huo? A foreigner?
Huo Erhuai pursed his lips.
Yang glanced at him and sighed: "Mother is from Yangjia Village. Your father married into the Yang family."
Ah? My father married into the Yang family? Huo Xi was a little surprised.
No wonder she always felt that something was strange. Huo Erhuai didn't look like a person without his own opinion, but at home, Yang had to make the decision for everything.
"Where is dad from?"
Huo Erhuai has thought about it for so many years. If the child hadn't asked him just now, he would have almost forgotten that he was his wife's wife.
"Dad is also from Jiangning County, half a day's journey from your mother's village, which is called Huojiaba. There are many brothers and sisters in my father's family, and life is difficult. Back then, your maternal grandfather's family only had one child, and they were about to become extinct.
, your maternal grandfather’s family used to have some surplus wealth, and Yangjia Village is close to the Qinhuai River and is richer than our village that is not close to the river."
Seeing Huo Xi's interest, Yang also told her about old things.
"The rules of Yangjia Village are that if a family is extinct, the property and house they have purchased will be taken back by the clan, and even private property is not allowed to be taken away by a married woman. My father originally thought of recruiting me a bride, and he took a year to do so.
, pick your father."
After hearing this, Huo Xi looked at Yang Fu: "Uncle picked it up too?"
Yang Fu's eyes widened: "Dear! I didn't pick it up!"
Yang slapped him hard and looked at Huo Xi again, fearing that she would be too worried. Huo Xi smiled at her.
Yang Fu reacted and moved his buttocks, next to Huo Xi: "Xi'er, I have no other intentions."
Huo Xi nodded: "I know."
Yang Fu let out a sigh of relief: "My brother-in-law came home and my mother found out she was pregnant with me."
Yang nodded: "My father and mother were very happy at that time. They said that if it is a boy, your father and I can do whatever we want. We can stay in Yangjiacun or go back to Huojiaba. But we haven't waited for Yang Fu to be born.
, your grandfather went away."
Huo Xi nodded to express understanding.
The mainstay of the family was gone, and her grandmother left shortly after giving birth to Yang Fu. Huo Erhuai stayed in Yangjia Village.
"Then your family should have a house and a field, so why don't you live in the village?"
Yang sighed: "Your grandfather saw that the waterway was developed, and he and several families in the village wanted to do some north-south barter business. Unexpectedly, the boat encountered strong winds and capsized. Not only the goods on the boat, but also the people who went there were gone.
When I came back, I sold everything I could sell at home, and then I lost the money from outside."
Yang Fu said: "The big blue brick house I lived in was also sold, leaving only a broken boat. After my mother left, my sister and brother-in-law took me out to make a living on the water."
I see.
I thought they were descendants of the Dan people, but I didn't expect that they were also people with roots.