Li Tian held his face in distress with both hands, raising his head and acting coquettishly.
"Mom, I don't want to read anymore. It's too difficult for me to read, and I don't know how to read. My brother is always mean to me."
Children like to play with older children. During this period, Li Tian and Li Huai spend all their time next door except sleeping and eating in the main room.
She thought that instead of letting her child play silly, it would be better to learn something, so she asked Yan Yixin and Li Heng to teach her how to read.
Who would have thought that it would become a burden to the little girl.
"Okay, okay, don't admit it if you don't know it. Let's talk about it when we are older."
Cheng Xue has no temper at all. After all, she is only three years old and still young.
She has always adhered to the principle of "pampering" her daughter.
Just as he was talking, the door of the room opened, and Li Heng entered the room with a smile on his face. Li Tian said "hum" and turned away from looking at him.
Cheng Xue called the person forward with a straight face.
“Calling your little sister a ‘dumb donkey’ and ‘idiot’? She’s a donkey, what are you?”
"I was wrong, mother."
Li Heng admitted his mistake very well, and Cheng Xue didn't hold on to him. She gave him a wink, and the little guy understood it immediately.
He walked up to Li Tian and said sincerely:
"I'm sorry Tiantian, I shouldn't be cruel to you, I won't do it again."
"Then... okay, I forgive you."
The little girl who ignored him one second, jumped up to her brother in the next second, and smiled so hard that she couldn’t even see her teeth.
Li Heng held his sister's hand, offered the treasure and said:
"Tiantian, I found the lost Galaha, shall we go play?"
"Okay, okay. Brother, you have to let me go, I can't play with you." Li Tian took the opportunity to make a request.
Li Heng, who had just coaxed his sister, naturally agreed to her request.
Cheng Xue looked at the brothers and sisters' backs and reminded:
"Tiedan, your brother and I will come over later to help roll out the dumplings. We have a lot of dumplings today."
"I know, mother."
The door was closed, and it was as if the farce just now had not happened.
Children are like this. One moment they are incompatible with each other, and the next moment they are in a fight.
"Mom, the sauerkraut is chopped, do you want some water now?" Li Yue asked.
"Wait a minute, you have a rest first, Mom and Wanmian will be together."
Holding water is a strenuous job, and she is reluctant to let her children do it alone.
After hearing this, Li Yue took out the drawer cloth, wrapped a part of the sauerkraut, and twisted it like clothes.
After making peace with a large basin of noodles, Cheng Xue's arms were sore. The couple went into the house and burned a stick of incense before calling the four children back to work.
Yan Yixin and Li Heng are responsible for rolling out the dumplings, Cheng Xue and Li Yue are making dumplings, and Li Tian is responsible for placing the dumplings.
When there were two doses left, Li Huai woke up.
"Tangtang went into the house to coax his brother. Tiedan took Huzi to the forest farm and told your cousin to come back for dinner in the evening."
Let Huzi follow, mainly because he is afraid that someone will block the child, so he is prepared for a rainy day.
Yu Zhao stayed at Li's house for two nights, and then moved to the forest farm to sleep in a Datong bunk. He could make money, and in his spare time he helped cut trees at the forest farm, earning more money and having a lot of money.
Without the parents-in-law, the days when the sisters-in-law were born, the elder Tian, the second child Cheng Xue, the adults in the family, and the children all obeyed her, it was simply not too beautiful!
"By the way, Brother Xin, I remember your father's birthday is the 100th day of the sixth lunar month in winter, right?"
"Yes." Yan Yixin nodded, "The forest farm is closed on Fridays. My uncle told me to take me there on the morning of the fifth day."
As the saying goes, the anniversary is long and the day is short. Burning one day in advance for a hundred days means that the ninety-nine will return to one, which means perfection.
Cheng Xue counted the days in her mind and shook her head.
"Let's go on the afternoon of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. We'll stay overnight in the county. How can we go to the grave in the afternoon? I'll make some bean buns tomorrow and bring them to Mr. Pan when you go to the county."
They are all things produced in my own land, just to express my feelings. I don’t ask Pan Yongzhang for help, it’s just to maintain this relationship.
Yan Yixin thought about it and thought it was okay. When she opened her mouth to speak, Cheng Xue shook her head.
"Don't touch those things of yours. There's a lot at home for you to eat and a lot for you to drink. Just keep it for now. We'll go there together in the spring next year and I'll help you make plans then."
When Yan Yixin saw through his thoughts, he subconsciously scratched his head, his hands covered with dough, and Li Tian burst out laughing "Pfft--".
"What's wrong?"
Li Tian pointed with his little finger to the position of his head——
"It's white."
Yan Yixin smiled and rubbed it with his sleeve and continued to roll out the dough.
Li Yue came out, put Li Huai into a big basin, and poured water out. The dumplings that were frozen at the beginning were already firm. They had to be soaked in cold water several times before being frozen, so that they would not crack.
Seeing that there were not many left, Cheng Xue took away Yan Yixin's rolling pin and said:
"Okay, I don't need you, I can do it by myself. Tiantian, let's play with my brother. Mom will ask you to make dumplings when the dumplings are almost done."
It’s not easy for a three-year-old girl to survive until now.
Yan Yixin went to the courtyard upon hearing this——
"Tangtang, let me help you."
"Oh, okay. Brother Yixin put the dumplings that have been soaked in water over there. I didn't have time to put them there." Li Yue said while putting the dumplings in the water without looking up the whole time.
After all, he is not a biological brother, so he has to avoid any suspicion when getting along, especially since she has been reading books about etiquette recently.
There was a clear division of labor between the two, and there was no communication throughout the process.
Xu Geng, who listened next door for a long time to no avail, returned home bored.
Seeing his wife, Xu Daguo shook his head and asked in confusion:
"What's going on with you?"
"Nothing." Mrs. Xu Geng leaned against the fire wall for a while and said, "Tangtang and the adopted son next door were boiling frozen dumplings in the yard. They didn't say a word. Do you think they were right?
It doesn’t fit.”
"What do you care about when I'm free?" Xu Daguo looked down on his wife's behavior.
But I didn't like him and I didn't recruit him. I had a lot of sons, daughters, grandchildren, and granddaughters, so I had to deal with them.
Geng lowered his lips and said with a "hum":
"What do you know? It's no good that the couple can adopt him? I think this kid..."
"Aunt Huizi is not well—Aunt Huizi——"
Dong Shuanzi's voice was so loud that both Xu Daguo and his wife heard it. Just when Xu Daguo was about to grab his wife and keep her away, Xu Geng had already disappeared.
Alas, this prodigal bitch!
Xu Daguo put on his dog-skin hat and came out of the house.
"What happened to the bolt? What happened?" Li Yue was in the yard and opened the door immediately.
Dong Shuanzi ran out of breath, leaning on his legs with both hands, wheezing and saying:
"Sister Tangtang, hurry up, Tiedan is having a quarrel with Li Wanshan, Huzi, Huzi..."
Before the child could finish speaking, Cheng Xue jumped up and ran out.
It’s bad, it’s bad, the tiger protects the Lord.
If Li Wanshan was really stolen, he would be dead.
Li Yue saw this and wanted to chase him, but Yan Yixin grabbed him.
"You go back to the house and watch Tiantian and Sidan. I'll go after Aunt Shuanzi. Why did they quarrel?"
At this moment, Dong Shuanzi had already taken a deep breath and said as he walked:
"Li Wanshan was arrogant and called Uncle Hui Zi a 'coward'. He also said that Uncle Hui Zi's family were all iron roosters with sharp hearts. They would not go to foreign affairs if they had food, but would keep it...keep it..."
Dong Shuanzi hesitated and said nothing. Although Yan Yixin couldn't guess "what to keep", it was definitely not a good thing.
From far away, they saw Hu Zi running towards them. Then Cheng Xue and Li Xiang didn't know what to say, and Li Heng was hanging his head aside...