"Master, this old slave should have stopped you back then!"
Beside a solitary grave at the end of Lijia Village, more than a dozen figures stood awe-inspiring. The old man surnamed Li stroked the cold and rough tombstone with a sad expression, full of self-blame.
Not far behind the crowd, the villagers of Lijia Village gathered together in twos and threes, discussing in low voices.
"These noble people really came to look for Li Xiucai?"
"That old man calls himself an 'old slave'. Could it be that Li Xiucai also came from a wealthy family?"
"Then you don't have to ask, it's not a big family, how can there be so many followers on horseback and swords? When I first met Li Xiucai, I knew he was not an ordinary person."
"Nonsense, my second boy was working in a tailor shop at that time, and he said that the clothes on Li Xiucai were enough for our rations for several years."
"And that lady of the Li family, she looks like a water spirit, she's well-educated, it's just... what a pity!"
The villagers fully developed their imaginations by talking to each other.
Gossip is human nature, especially for these uneducated villagers who like to squat under the locust tree at the entrance of the village and gossip.
In just a short period of time, several versions of the story about Li Xiucai have been circulated.
Some time ago, a Goulan was built in an open space not far from the village. The idle villagers would sometimes go to listen to it. At this time, they mixed together the jokes commonly used by storytellers, and a touching story was fresh. out of the oven.
The wife of the Li family was the daughter of a wealthy family. In order to resist the marriage arranged by the family, she eloped with her lover for thousands of miles to avoid the family's search and lived in seclusion in such a remote mountain village. Days, one hides for ten years, until both husband and wife pass away.
Twenty years have passed, the young lady's family has declined, but the lover's family has risen day by day. Now, the man's family has finally found the trace of the two of them, and happily wants to take them back, but they can only lament at this lonely grave—— What a sad story!
Of course, the story doesn't end here.
The woman's family, who suppressed the couple a lot before, never imagined that twenty years later, the young lady's child has become a great weapon, and was rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor himself. He was appointed an official and gave him land. In just a few years, he will rise to the top In the court class, after learning about her parents' past, she was furious and vowed to justify her parents' names...
Well, just write it like this, if it is sold to the theater, I am afraid it will get a lot of money...
"The world is impermanent, old brother must mourn." Li Jiacunzheng sighed, patted the old man's shoulder and said.
Suppressing the images emerging from his memory again, the old man wiped away his tears with his sleeves, looked at Muramasa, and said with a smile, "Old brother, can you tell me about him over the years."
"Of course it's no problem." Muramasa nodded, stroked the beard on his chin, his old face revealed a look of reminiscence, and said slowly: "Things, we still have to start from twenty years ago..."
"When I saw them for the first time, the old man knew they were not ordinary people. I was afraid that they came from some terrible place. At first they didn't know how to do farm work. In the end, my kid couldn't stand it and went to help..."
As Muramasa talked eloquently, the bitterness on the old man's face became even stronger.
Although the Li family can't be called a wealthy family, but twenty years ago, when the old man was still there, the young master, as the eldest grandson of the direct line, had never suffered such hardship since he was a child.
One can imagine what kind of life he has lived for so many years...
"The lady of the Li family left early, and Li Xiucai dragged the child to the early ten-year-old by herself and let go. That child is promising..."
"child?"
The old man grabbed Muramasa's arm and asked excitedly, "Young master has any heirs?"
Village Zheng nodded, and said: "If there is no child, Li Xiucai will follow when Li's wife leaves..."
The old man surnamed Li didn't care about why he didn't find out about the young master's offspring in the house yesterday, so he hurriedly asked, "Where is the child now?"
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Li Yi was busy in the kitchen.
Ever since Xiaohuan inherited some of his cooking skills, Li Yi actually seldom came to the kitchen.
"egg."
"sugar."
"milk… "
Li Yi used chopsticks to stir in a large bowl, and Xiaohuan was helping. The ingredients and steps to make cream were very simple, but milk was hard to find. People in this era don’t often drink it. A small can of milk took Liu’s hand. What a great effort.
There is no whipped cream, so I can only settle for the next best thing. After tasting it with chopsticks, it is sweet. Of course, the taste cannot be compared with real cream, but it is still okay.
"Uncle..., is it delicious?" The little maid blinked at him.
"If you want to eat, go get a spoon yourself. Remember not to eat too much, or you will get fat." Li Yi waved his hand and said, seeing her thoughts at a glance.
I got some cream on my hands, and I planned to go out and get some water to wash it off.
Ruyi's birthday is approaching, and she originally planned to make a cream cake, but the materials and tools are too incomplete, and if it is too ugly, it will have the opposite effect. Li Yi decided to make a new plan.
After wiping her hands, when she returned to the kitchen again, she saw that Miss Liu was digging butter with a spoon to eat. She walked over, shook her head and said, "That's not how butter is eaten."
Xiaohuan raised her head and looked at him suspiciously—my uncle asked him to eat with a spoon just now
"First, wash your hands." Li Yi raised his hands, dug out a spoonful of cream and put it in the palm of his hand, shook it in front of Miss Liu Er, and in her puzzled and curious eyes - quickly spread the cream on her pretty face.
Because the distance was too close, Miss Liu Er, who was waiting for Li Yi to tell her how to eat this food, had no time to react, and Li Yi's figure had disappeared into the kitchen.
"Haha, this is the correct way to use cream!"
"Crack!" There was an arrogant laugh from outside the door, Second Miss Liu's beautiful eyes burst into flames, her two fingers bent slightly, and the wooden spoon broke in two in her hand.
"Haha, Second Miss, your face..." Xiaohuan smiled straight at her, and after Liu Ruyi glared at her, she immediately covered her mouth, and a smile burst out of her eyes.
Li Yi walked out of the yard in a happy mood. Miss Liu Er, who cared about face, would definitely come out after washing her face. At that time, he might have already reached the county government office.
This is how life can be fun, and it's a good thing to let Miss Liu Er, who only knows how to make trouble for herself, suffer.
Humming a light tune, when he walked out the gate, he couldn't help being taken aback.
"Uncle Li, why are you here?"
Li Yi looked at Lijiacun Village Zheng standing at the door, and asked with some doubts.
"My lord, why did you move here? If it weren't for Catcher Liu, I wouldn't be able to find it." Muramasa said with a smile.
There were still two people standing beside the old man in the village. Before Li Yi came to remember to speak, the old man on the right suddenly became very excited, and murmured: "Yes, yes, it must be, and he looks similar to the young master when he was young." They are 70% similar, and the eyes are so spiritual, they followed the He family girl... "
The old man took a sudden step forward, grabbed Li Yi's arm, and looked him up and down. Because he was so excited, even his voice was trembling.
"What are you doing!"
From a distance, he saw a person holding his uncle at the door, and Lao Fang strode over and shouted sharply.