After Li Shu fixed the thatch with ropes, he spat hard at Ershun's house behind the house, and said angrily, "This bitch is looking for cigarettes early in the morning, her mouth is not clean, these Tianguan ancestral halls It's not enough, I see, brother Ershun is just too weak, if I don't beat her to death, there will be trouble."
"Do your work." Li Mo threw a few hemp ropes to him again, while looking at Er Shun's house, Xingniang had already been dragged into the house by Er Shun, but no curses could be heard.
Li Yan used a fork to fork some thatch and paved the ground. Seeing his elder brother's serious expression, he persuaded him, "Big brother, we can't take care of other people's affairs. Besides, you also persuaded Er Shun brother back then, but he refused to listen and married such a guy." It is his fate to come back."
"Oh." Li Mo snorted softly, looked up to see that Li Yan's face was still a little pale, and then woke up, "What are you doing after you? Go back to the house and rest, such a small job, your third brother and I can do it .Guo"
"Yes." Li Shu slapped his head violently, walked over quickly, and grabbed the fork from Li Yan's hand, "Second brother, you should go back to the house and rest, and then go to the roof to blow air when you feel better."
Li Yan saw how nervous his elder brother and third younger brother were, so he smiled softly, "Where am I so weak? Besides, I've been lying down too much, and I don't feel comfortable on my body. I'd better do my work and relax."
Li Mo saw that he was in good spirits, so he said, "Then lay grass on the side, and if you feel tired, sit and rest."
"Yeah." Knowing his body, Li Yan didn't try to be pushy, he just listened to his elder brother and only did light things.
The three brothers were busy on the roof together. Li Man and Xiao Wu went back to the kitchen, took out the vegetables they bought earlier, and discussed how to grow them.
But, when I was buying vegetable seeds, the shopkeeper had packaged all kinds of vegetables for her. After returning home, she put all the paper bags under the cabinet. Today, I took it out and saw that there were rapeseeds inside. What, she couldn't recognize anything, smelled it, but felt a little spicy, a little choked, and a little smelly, but now it's all right, I don't know what it is, how to plant it
Zheng and Xiao Wu opened each paper bag to identify them carefully, when they heard a noise coming from outside.
in argument? Li Man hurriedly put down the vegetable seeds, and took Xiao Wu out to have a look together. Li Hua also rushed out from the next room. The two looked at each other, and Li Man said, "It seems to be your third brother?"
"It's the second brother." Li Hua hurried to the backyard while talking.
The backyard was really noisy, and I saw a strange young man being hugged by Li Shu, but struggling desperately, and kept waving his fists at Li Yan, "Li Yan, you bastard, what did you do to my sister? Let her cry like that? Tell me, you bastard, I've always regarded you as a friend, but you bullied her? Didn't you know that she was engaged to someone else? She was going to be a young mistress in a rich family soon. Are you still hooking up with her like this? Let me tell you, you toad want to eat swan meat, but it's useless."
"Fuck you, you're just a toad." Hearing this, Li Shu angrily pushed Shen Fulai away.
Shen Fulai staggered, stepped into the mud, his feet slipped, he fell to the ground, and immediately cursed his father and mother angrily.
Li Shu was also furious, and jumped to fight him, "The surname is Shen, you came here to find bad luck today."
"Third brother." Li Mo grabbed him and yelled angrily, "Stay aside for now."
"Big Brother, he scolded Second Brother like that." Li Shu stroked his sleeves, very dissatisfied.
"Third brother." Li Yan also glanced at him lightly, motioning him to step aside.
"Shen Fulai." Li Yan took a deep look at him, and said coldly, "Who am I, Li Yan, did you not know until today? What if I really want to do to your sister? Do you think you will be able to stop me?"
"You?" Shen Fulai struggled to get up, and glared at Li Yan angrily, "Li Yan, I really misjudged you? Do you dare to do it or not? If you didn't do anything to Mudan, how could she be so determined to you? You want to die or live for you? You don’t want to see what your family looks like? There are only two kangs left for the poor? How could my sister fall in love with you?”
"You?" Li Yan's face was livid, "Shen Fulai, don't mess around, I have never provoked Mudan, and if she insists on pestering me, I can't help it."
"Li Yan, you still say such things at this time?" Shen Fulai trembled angrily, "Do you know that just now when Mudan came back from you, she secretly hanged herself with a rope. My mother found out, otherwise, this little life would be gone."
Saying that, Shen Fulai beat his head with both angry and painful hands, "That silly girl."
Shen Mudan hanged herself? Everyone was shocked, and Shen Fulai pointed at Li Yan again and scolded, "Li Yan, listen to me, as long as Mudan is fine, I will not let you go. "After finishing speaking, he staggered out.
"Stop." Li Mo stared at his back and shouted in a deep voice.
"What are you doing?" Shen Fulai turned his head and looked at Li Mo coldly, "Boss Li, do you want to intervene? Let me tell you, this matter is endless, even if you beg for mercy, it's useless. If my sister's marriage is in vain, I have to make your whole family pay the price."
"What else do you want? Fighting, afraid of you?" Li Shu angrily raised his fist at him.
Li Mo pressed down his tightly clenched fist, and asked Shen Fulai expressionlessly, "How is Peony?"
Shen Fulai's expression froze slightly, he hummed, "Not dead yet."
Li Mo didn't care about his attitude, and continued, "Fulai, do you know that you came to my house, Peony?"
"That girl kept crying after being rescued, what's the use of telling her." Shen Fulai glared at Li Yan again angrily.
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"That's good." Li Mo said, "You go back first, it's best to wait for Peony to calm down, and then have a good chat with her."
"What do you mean?" Shen Fulai heard the meaning behind the words.
When Li Mo saw that he had asked, he was not polite, his face darkened, and he said, "Fulai, you also played with my second brother since you were young. Don't you know his character? He has always treated Peony as his own." I have never thought of anything wrong with my sister, besides, our Li family already has a wife, so if you say that my second brother hooked up with your sister, isn't it too irresponsible?"
"I..." Shen Fulai's words faltered for a moment, "Then... how about having a wife? My sister is a girl like a fairy, he can't be tempted."
The corners of Li Yan's lips curved into a mocking arc, "Shen Fulai, go back and tell your sister who is like a fairy that I, Li Yan, am just an ordinary person and not worthy of her. Let her not come to me again. Days, don't come to find my bad luck at every turn."
"You? You—" Shen Fulai's face trembled in anger.
Li Mo lightly reprimanded Li Yan, "Second brother, don't talk nonsense." Then, he said to Shen Fu, "Don't mind, my second brother is also a bit straightforward. But, you should have a good talk with Mudan when you go back Talk about it, even if you don't want to marry at home, you can't seek death, and, between me and my second brother, I hope she can think about it, the twisted melon is not sweet."
"You, you, you... You brothers are so good, you work together to bully people." Shen Fulai's voice trembled angrily, and he glanced at everyone fiercely, "Okay, just wait and see, this matter will not happen. That's all."
After finishing speaking, he staggered towards the outside of the courtyard by stepping on the dirt road. Li Man and Xiao Wu automatically moved aside to make way for him.
Shen Fulai's eyes flicked to Li Man's face, he was slightly taken aback, then he snorted coldly, looked away, and continued to walk with a limp.
That's right, Li Man took a closer look. It wasn't that he was walking unsteadily, but that his left leg seemed to be a little short, and he couldn't always walk smoothly.
"Second brother, why is this Shen named like this now? He's becoming more and more unreasonable." Li Shudao after they left.
Li Yan looked a little depressed, "He was not like this before."
"I see, since his leg became lame, he hasn't done any personnel work. Last time, for some reason, he had a fight with Mr. Zhao. How old do you think Mr. Zhao is? He really did it." Take it?" Li Shu shook his head and said disdainfully.
Li Moqing knew the reason, and sighed softly, "Forget it, if something like this hadn't happened to Mudan, he wouldn't have come to make trouble."
"Are you making trouble? The second brother didn't do anything to that girl, she is the one who pesters her every day..."
"Okay, third brother, stop talking." Seeing Li Yan's gloomy face, Li Mo hurriedly stopped Li Shu.
Li Shu pursed his mouth and shrugged helplessly.
"Second brother, don't take it to heart, he is also worried about his sister." Li Mo patted Li Yan's shoulder lightly, comforting him.
"I know." Li Yandao, in fact, Shen Fulai and Shen Mudan brothers and sisters are like this, and he feels uncomfortable. One is the brother he played with since childhood, and the other is the little sister he loves, and one day it turned out like this
"Second brother, you can go back to the house for a rest, the roof is almost ready, I will clean it up with your third brother." Li Mo said.
"En." Li Yan nodded, but he didn't go back to the house, but went out of the yard, not knowing where he was going.
"Second brother?" Li Shu was puzzled.
Li Mo watched, frowning slightly, but he didn't stop him after all, "Let him go."
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After arguing for a long time, Li Man only understood some general ideas, and went back to the room to ask Li Hua, but he only said that he didn't know much about it, obviously he didn't want to say more, so he secretly pulled Xiao Wu into the kitchen to ask, Xiao Wu, it's similar to what I reported to myself before, just say that the girl likes the second brother, but she wants to marry someone or something.
Li Man collected all the information and came up with the following answer: Li Yan and Shen Mudan were childhood sweethearts who were in love with each other, but the Shen family disliked the poor and loved the rich, so they insisted on marrying her to a wealthy family to be their young mistress. This incident completely hurt Li Yan's heart. That's why he resisted Shen Mudan, and Shen Mudan was full of grievances and couldn't be relieved, so she couldn't think of hanging herself for a while, and then her family came to the door.
It's really a bloody and tragic love tragedy, but...
Thinking of what Li Yan did to her these days, Li Man felt depressed, feeling that this bad guy couldn't vent his emotions, so he came to her to vent his emotions.
Damn it!
I thought I would never talk to him again, but unexpectedly, during lunch, Li Yan came back, his originally handsome face became bruised and swollen, bloodshot from the corners of his mouth, everyone was surprised by his miserable appearance, Li Man couldn't help but also became worried.
Li Shu was the first to jump, and picked up the hoe in the corner to find someone to settle the score, "Second brother, who hit it? I'll find him."
"Put it down." Li Yan glanced at him, pushed everyone away, rubbed his cheeks and went back to the east room, and lay down on the kang without saying a word.
"Brother?" Li Shu looked at Li Mo.
Li Mo sighed silently, "Put down the hoe."
"Can-"
"Let's eat." Li Mo said, and he entered the kitchen alone.
Li Hua said to Li Shu who was dissatisfied, "Third brother, don't worry about this. If the second brother doesn't want to, no one can beat him."
"You mean, the second brother was beaten voluntarily?" Li Shu couldn't believe it.
Li Man felt that what Li Hua said was quite reasonable. Li Yan was awkward at first, but when he knew that his sweetheart had committed suicide, he couldn't stand it anymore. He went to visit and was beaten up by the woman's family.
Hey, if it's just because of money? Is it too cruel for a couple to be separated alive
Therefore, during the meal, despite the oppressive atmosphere, Li Man still tentatively asked Li Mo, "Brother, Li Yan and the girl in the morning?"
Li Mo's expression was suffocated, and he looked up and replied, "Don't worry, there is nothing between them."
What worries her? Li Man thought to herself, and then said, "I mean, did the woman's family think that our family is poor, so they married the girl to someone else? I see that the girl is not very old, or, brother, go discuss it with her family. Discuss, let's settle the marriage first, dowry or something, we'll make up for it later when we earn money, okay?"
After all, apart from Xiaowu, there are four men in the family, so it is hard to believe that they can't even earn a decent bride price.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she spoke, the rest of the people looked at her in astonishment.
"What's wrong?" Li Man felt that what she had said was too much, and hurriedly added, "Does her family ask for a lot of gifts? Or think our house is not good? Then we can build it again. Or have more brothers? Wait After they get married, you can also let them go alone."
In modern times, especially in some rural areas, it is sometimes quite scary to ask for a bride price when getting married, but in the city, having a house and a car has almost become the most basic requirement, and some even require the other party to have no father, no mother, and no brothers. It is best to be alone and quiet.
Li Man thoughtfully took all these into consideration.
However, after saying this, everyone was even more dumbfounded, including Li Mo, who had a strange expression.
Li Man suddenly felt that there was such a strange idea? Could it be that in a farmhouse, there is also a saying that women are not allowed to interfere with family affairs
"We'll talk about this later." Li Mo tightened his grip on the bowls and chopsticks, paused, and said, "Actually, the second brother really only treats Peony as a younger sister."
"Sister?" Li Man didn't believe it.
But Li Mo had already bowed his head to eat, obviously not wanting to talk anymore.
Li Man had no choice but to shut up, she was powerless, Li Yan, it was up to his own luck.
Li Mo had a hard time eating a meal, because what Li Man said, oh no, to be precise, she still didn't know anything about what Li Man said.
He suddenly felt that it was too unreasonable to hide such a girl who wholeheartedly cared for his family. He had to find an opportunity to tell her the truth.
No matter what the result is, even if she wants to leave the Li family, he will admit it.
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However, after dinner, he just went back to the room to look at Li Yan. After a while, he went back to the kitchen and found that Li Hua was washing the dishes, and Li Man was gone. I also looked for it, but there was no one. I asked Xiao Wu, and Xiao Wu also said that he didn't see it.
Li Mo was a little anxious, and hurried out of the yard to look for it.
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And Li Man, at this moment, was in a corner outside the mud wall of Li's house, and Peony was holding her hand, crying non-stop.
Li Man had just put down the bowls and chopsticks, and when she was about to go back to the house, she saw Peony looking furtively at the gate of the courtyard, and when she saw her, she waved to her, and then she went over.
As if she saw a savior, Peony grabbed her hand and led her to hide in a corner outside the wall where no one would notice. Tears fell down.
Li Man couldn't bear it, and advised softly, "Stop crying, look at your eyes are swollen like this? What do you want from me? Tell me, I will help you if I can."
"Thank you." Mudan wiped her tears with the back of her hand, and said with a choked voice, "I knew you were a good person, otherwise Li Yan wouldn't have..." As she spoke, she raised her eyebrows and glanced at Li Man again. Suddenly, He grasped her hands tightly again, and became a little emotional in an instant, "Sister, I really like Li Yan, please give him to me if you are kind? I... I have liked him since I was a child, and I will live without him." No way."
"Wait—" Li Man was confused by her words, "Did I hear wrong? You asked me to give Li Yan to you?"
When Mudan saw her like this, she thought she was unwilling, so she hurriedly cried, "I beg you, can't you? Except Li Yan, Brother Li, Li Shu, and Li Hua are all so good in the Li family. You have so many people who love you." So, I beg you, just give Li Yan to me? I..." As she spoke, she seemed to think of something, and hurriedly took out something from her bosom, which was wrapped in a handkerchief, and in front of Li Man Open it, and there are bracelets, earrings, rings and other jewelry inside, "These are all I have saved up from time to time, and I will give them all to you. you."
Is this fortress money for yourself? It was difficult for Li Man to accept the information for a moment, and she just rejected the jewelry, "Girl, don't be like this, if you have something to say, please tell me clearly, you and Li Yan, oh, no, it's not your family." object?"
"Yes, my parents and elder brothers are against it." Mudan looked at her with a depressed expression, looking at her with blank eyes, and said, "But, my parents also said that as long as Li Yan pays twenty taels of silver, he will agree with me. married him."
"Twenty taels of silver?" Li Man didn't have much idea about this number, but things that can be solved with silver are not big things, and hurriedly persuaded, "Then don't worry, even if Li Yan doesn't have it, our whole family will make it together. "
"Eh?" Peony was stunned for a moment, "What did you say?"
"I mean." Li Man clasped her thin shoulders with both hands, and encouraged, "Don't worry, isn't it only twenty taels of silver? As long as you really love each other, our family will make up even if we sell everything."
"You? You—" Mudan was stunned, she couldn't believe her ears, "You mean what you said?"
"Of course." Li Man nodded solemnly.
"But, but..." Seeing her being so sincere, Mudan suddenly felt guilty, "He, he is still your man after all, you, you just—"
"Wait?" Li Man interrupted her suddenly, but her confused brain still felt something was wrong, "You said he was my man?"
"Yeah." Peony nodded numbly, "You—you don't know?" Didn't they get married a long time ago? Could it be that the rumors in the village that they haven't consummated their marriage is true
"Me?" How could she know? "You mean, Li Yan and I are husband and wife? Is he my husband-in-law? I'm his wife?" She reconfirmed in disbelief.
Mudan really wants to say no, but the facts cannot allow her to lie, "Yes."
"This?" Li Man was so shocked that she couldn't speak. She thought that she was Li Mo's fiancée, and that her man was Li Shu, but she didn't dare to think that it was Li Yan. The apprentice who molested himself, who knows, he is treating his wife
Um, or not
Li Man suddenly clenched her shoulders, staring at her tightly, "Peony, tell me clearly, when did I marry into their family? Why hasn't Li Mo married yet? Li Shu—, you Do you know? Except for Li Yan, Li Shu and Li Hua all call me daughter-in-law. At first, I thought it was just a joke, but obviously not, right?"
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