Li Man helped Li Mo back into the house, took off the single clothes he was wearing, and pointed to the kang, "Get down quickly, I'll help you change the medicine."
Li Mo hesitated for a while, then obediently lay down on the kang.
Li Man took the medicine and saw that the wound on his back had formed a blood scab, but the deep tear marks became more obvious. Thinking of the scene of him fighting the wolf yesterday, he couldn't help feeling a little scared.
"Does it hurt?" She poured some medicinal powder onto the wound, and then gently rubbed it evenly with her fingertips.
Li Mo shook his head lightly, but the itching where her fingers passed made him stiffen in discomfort.
After finally waiting for the medicine to be changed, Li Mo wanted to put on the unlined clothes, but was stopped by Li Man, "What if the clothes hurt the wound? Fortunately, it's not cold now, but it's a bit uncomfortable to lie on my stomach like this. No, will you lie on your side?"
"Oh." Li Mo quietly pulled up the thin quilt.
Li Man picked up the changed bandage, which was stained with blood and needed to be washed, "If you are in a hurry, ask Xiao Wu to have a conversation with you, and I will wash it."
After finishing speaking, he turned around and left the gate.
Except for yesterday's accident, she was as normal as usual, Li Moxin relaxed a little, and called Xiao Wu to the bedside, "Did you go to see your fourth brother just now?"
"Yeah." Xiao Wu was very clever, knowing what the elder brother wanted to know, "Is my sister wanting my fourth brother to buy medicine?"
"Buy medicine? What kind of medicine?" Li Mo was curious.
Xiao Wu shook his head, "I don't understand either, but the fourth brother understood, and said he bought it for the third brother to bring back."
"That's all?" If that's all, there's nothing to worry about.
"Yeah." Xiao Wu leaned against the kang, rubbed against elder brother, squinted and smiled, "Don't worry, elder brother, sister said she won't leave."
Looking at Xiao Wu's big eyes, Li Mo blushed, stretched out his big palm and rubbed his head lightly twice, and said with a smile, "As long as you know a lot, go and see if she can help you of?"
"Yeah." Xiao Wu agreed and came out, only to see Li Man squatting beside the oshi well rubbing bandages.
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Li Yan went out early in the morning, and heard from Xiao Wu that he went to help someone's house.
There were only three people at home at noon, and Li Man cooked very simply. He rolled out some noodles, patted two cucumbers, and that was it.
In the afternoon, Li Mo was resting alone in the house, Xiao Wu was playing with Da Hei and Xiao Huang in the yard, Li Man was lying by the window, feeling quite bored, so she walked towards him, "Xiao Wu, let me teach you Literacy, okay?"
Xiao Wu is also bored. Except for his eldest brother Li Mo, Da Hei is indifferent to everyone in the family. Hearing what Li Man said, he got up excitedly, "Yeah."
Li Man looked around. Although it was sunny yesterday, the mud was still mud, but not muddy. "Let's go, let's go this way." In the end, she chose a corner of the house, which was a little dry. Just stick it on the ground and write on it.
"Well, I'll teach you to write your name first." Li Man squatted on the ground, took a branch and wrote the word 'Xiao Wu' stroke by stroke, "Try it?"
Xiao Wu also took the branch and drew a few lines crookedly on the ground, barely looking like the word "three".
Li Man just laughed, "Well, it's a bit similar. If I add another stroke, it will be five characters." As she spoke, she added a vertical line between his distorted three characters.
"How? Is it better now?"
"Yeah." Xiao Wu nodded in surprise, and then practiced the five characters repeatedly. When he first started writing, his hands were still shaking, but Li Man taught him a few times, and finally he got better.
"Your fourth brother can also read, so why don't you teach him?" Li Man asked leisurely, seeing that he would be able to write five or two characters in half an hour.
Xiao Wu was still practicing repeatedly on the ground, wanting to plead for mercy, and casually said, "I used to be often ill, and my elder brother was afraid that I would bother my mind."
"Oh." No wonder this little guy looks much thinner than children of the same age. Li Man couldn't help feeling sorry for him, stretched out her hand to rub his little head, and encouraged, "Don't worry, I'll be free in the future. You recognize a lot of words."
"Yeah." Xiao Wu wrote her name for the last time, and felt that it was almost the same as her sister's, so she said expectantly, "I still want to learn my sister's name."
"Oh, me?" Li Man was grinning, her eyebrows were curved, she was very pretty, and as she spoke, she wrote the word 'Li Man' generously, "Li is Muzi Li, and Man is the beginning of cursive, and the bottom part is more difficult. oh."
It was really difficult. When she finished writing each stroke, Xiao Wu was a little dumbfounded. The sister's name was much more difficult to write than his own. He forgot which stroke to write first.
Li Man pursed her lips and smiled slightly, "Sister's name is difficult to write, right? How about this, I will teach you some strokes today, and writing will not be difficult after you learn it."
"Yeah." Xiao Wu regained his confidence and gave Li Man a big smile.
In this way, one afternoon, Li Man taught Xiao Wu how to write strokes, folding horizontally and vertically, and so on. A horizontal tree is a tree, no longer crooked.
He is very happy.
As it was getting late, Li Man went into the kitchen to work on dinner. He was still drawing on the floor, but was called into the room by Li Mo.
"Brother, what's the matter?" Xiao Wu was still holding a branch in his hand, obviously he hadn't finished writing yet.
Li Mo looked at the crooked words written by himself with a dagger on the wall, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed again.
"It's okay, I'm going to practice calligraphy first, my sister will teach me something else tomorrow." Xiao Wu turned around eagerly and wanted to tang to leave.
"Wait." Li Mo hurriedly grabbed him, and pulled him to the edge of the wall, "Help my brother to see, is your name written correctly?"
Xiao Wu really looked at it seriously, and shook his head, "Brother, the word Li is wrong, my sister said it was Muzi Li, you missed a stroke, and you still have this ink character, it's so strange, it's different from what Brother Fourth wrote last time. "
Although Xiaowu is young and has never learned how to read and write, his memory is as good as Li Hua's. So, when Li Huachu went to school, he returned home to teach his brothers to write their own names. After studying for many days, Xiao Wu remembered it. Although he couldn't write, he could recognize it.
"Oh, isn't that so?" Li Mo had been writing silently in his heart for an entire afternoon before he finally dared to write these two words on the wall, "How can I remember that your fourth brother taught you this last time?"
"No, I'm sure." Xiao Wu only looked at the crooked handwriting than his own, and was not afraid of hitting Big Brother.
Li Mo really looked a little depressed. In the afternoon, Li Man was teaching Xiaowu to read. He had listened to it all afternoon. He even felt that she was more knowledgeable than his fourth brother. I can't even write my name, Xiao Wu has learned it in the afternoon.
Xiao Wu tilted his head and looked at the two words carefully, and finally said, "Brother, I'm sure what you wrote is wrong, why don't I ask my sister to recognize it?"
"Oh, no, no." Li Mo hurriedly waved his hands, scratching off the words with a dagger in a panic.
Xiao Wu looked at his eldest brother, with a cunning flash in his eyes, "Brother, why don't you let my sister teach you how to read?"
Li Mo's heart moved, but he was a little embarrassed, "No, big brother is so old, and, big brother is stupid—"
"Who said that big brother is not stupid." Xiao Wu hurriedly said, "fourth brother often said that big brother is the most powerful."
Li Mo smiled innocently, with a somewhat helpless and bitter smile, "It's the same as Xiao Wu has learned well. From now on, follow my sister to learn hard."
"Oh." Xiao Wu replied, "Brother, I'll ask my sister for a word."
"Go." Li Mo looked at his younger brother's joyful back, and suddenly felt envious.
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Xiao Wu ran to the kitchen, where Li Man was picking vegetables.
Xiao Wu squatted beside her, and while helping to pick vegetables, he said, "Sister, you can also teach elder brother how to read, okay?"
"Ah?" Li Man was really taken aback, but seeing Xiao Wu's seriousness, she asked curiously, "Did your elder brother ask you to ask?"
Xiao Wu shook his head and said, "Brother won't let me tell. He said he's too old and stupid. Just let me learn it well."
What is this? How old is a guy in his early twenties? Moreover, he is not stupid, he can spear a fish with a bamboo branch, so sensitive, "Your elder brother is so humble."
"No." Xiao Wu stared with big eyes, and said solemnly, "I know that elder brother is serious, sister, can you also teach elder brother how to read? Elder brother wants to learn very much."
"How do you know he wants to learn?" Li Man asked with a smile.
Xiao Wu recounted what the eldest brother in the room asked him just now.
Li Man's hand picking vegetables stopped suddenly, which reminded her of her past self, who never dared to exercise vigorously, how envious of those little friends who were having fun on the playground, and Li Mo, He, who has never studied before, must be envious when he hears that Xiao Wu is earnestly learning to write.
Almost instantly, Li Man agreed, "Okay, Xiao Wu, let's learn together tomorrow, but it's better to have a sand table, since the elder brother is injured, it will be much easier to have a sand table on the kang. "
"What is a sand table?" Xiao Wu asked.
"It's just sand. Let's write on the ground now. If there is sand, just erase it after writing. It is convenient and saves money." Li Man knows very well that it is impossible for this family to spend money on paper to practice calligraphy.
"It's easy to handle, I know where it is." Xiao Wu excitedly put down the dishes, got up and ran outside, and when he ran to the door, he turned back and smiled at Li Man, "Sister, leave this to me."
"Slow down." Li Man hurriedly urged, "It's getting dark, don't run too far."
"Yeah." Xiao Wu ran away in a hurry.
As soon as he ran away, Li Shu came back, parked the cart under the eaves, turned around and entered the house, and excitedly stuffed a big paper bag to Li Man, "Daughter-in-law, I've bought everything, look."
"Oh, let me see." Li Man rubbed her hands, opened the paper bag, and there were a few small paper bags inside, which were the medicine she wanted, but besides these, there was a wooden comb and a scented tea bag. soap.
"Daughter-in-law, do you like it?" Seeing her staring at the piece of soap, Li Shu squatted down, squinting and smiling at her.
Li Man was a little embarrassed, "Why do you buy these? It's a waste of money."
"The fourth brother bought it, and he said you can use it." Li Shu said.
Li Man blushed, "This must cost a lot of money."
"Here." Li Shu took out the rest of the silver from his pocket and gave it to her, "It's all here, the shopkeeper who accepts fur goods has a good relationship with my elder brother, and every time the price is higher than others Some, moreover, this time the wolf fur was not damaged at all, so I gave us a full three taels of silver. The fourth brother bought some of the medicines you asked for according to the amount, and wrapped them here. Two silver coins, a comb and soap for fifty renminbi, and I bought a few steamed buns at noon, which cost 30 renminbi. By the way, daughter-in-law, the buns are still in the car.”
As he said that, he hurriedly turned around and went out, took the paper-wrapped buns from the shelf, and handed them to Li Man, "Daughter-in-law, I left them for you."
After smelling it, she knew it was a steamed stuffed bun filled with fat meat. Li Man hurriedly said, "Put it on the pot, and eat it after it's warmed up at night."
"Hey." Li Shu responded, put the buns away, and said, "I'll go and see Big Brother, I'll cook for you later."
"No—" Li Man just finished speaking, and the boy quickly jumped out of the room, but just as Li Man rewrapped the big paper bag and put it in the bottom compartment of the cupboard, he came back again, "Daughter-in-law, are the vegetables ready? I'll wash them for you."
Seeing his rough hands and feet, he was afraid that the basket of green vegetables would be rubbed away, so Li Man hurriedly stopped him, "No, you've been tired for a day, take a rest."
"Not tired." Li Shu had been outside for a day, and he had missed her for a long time. At this moment, he wished to stay by her side more.
"Then I'll wash the rice for you." Li Shu circled around the pot table, looking for a pot again.
Li Man glanced at him lightly, "There are vegetables in the basin. If you're fine, go and have a conversation with your elder brother. He's been lying on the kang all day, and he's probably too bored to panic."
"Hee hee, then I'll light the fire for you." Li Shu grinned and slipped under the stove. In fact, he wanted to accompany his wife more.
Li Man was helpless, "Okay, but we have to wait a while, the rice hasn't been cooked yet."
"Yes." Li Shu agreed very well.
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Dinner is also very simple, a plate of fried vegetables, a plate of tender pumpkin, and four large steamed stuffed buns with meat.
Li Shu said that he had already eaten in the town, and these four were reserved for Li Man and the others, exactly one for each of them.
"Eat it, I really don't like steamed stuffed buns." Li Man happened to stuff her own one to Li Shu.
But Li Shu still thought that she gave it to him on purpose, both moved and distressed, "Daughter-in-law, I really ate it. This is for you, you eat it. Just wait, wait until the day I earn money , I promise to let you eat meat buns every day."
Pfft, can you stop scaring her like that
"I really don't—"
"Third Brother, this is for you." At this moment, Li Mo put his steamed stuffed bun into the Li Shu bowl, "I don't have much appetite, just eat some vegetables."
"Brother—" Li Shu is not willing to ask for it. The elder brother is still injured, so he should eat something meaty.
Seeing the buns being put back into Li Mo's bowl, the corners of Li Man's mouth twitched slightly. Every time she ate the buns, there would be such a scene of picking them back and forth, "Brother, eat it. Here, Li Shu, I'll give you half , if you dare to return it to me, I'll—"
Although his eyes were wide open, he didn't say the harsh words behind him.
Seeing her blushing, Li Mo lowered his head and gnawed on the steamed stuffed bun fiercely, and smiled slightly, "Okay, third brother, you can eat it. Xiao Wu, eat it quickly too, don't let it get cold."
"Yeah." Xiao Wu and Li Shu agreed in unison, and Li Shu smiled even more, and ate half of the bun in two bites.
After the meal, Li Man cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, and Li Shu told about what happened in the town today, and said that the old shopkeeper gave him three taels of silver to let him recover from his injuries.
Li Mo nodded, then remembered something, and told him, "The one tael the doctor gave you yesterday, you can pay it back tomorrow." He never thought of reneging on the debt, but it was really difficult for the family to get together a tael yesterday.
"Yes." Li Shu nodded.
Li Man was just about to leave with the bowls and chopsticks, when suddenly she thought that Li Shu had given her the money and she still had it in her pocket, so she quickly put the bowls and chopsticks back on the tea table, and took out the rest of the money to Li Mo, "Brother , the money is here, you keep it."
Li Mo didn't reach out to take it, but said, "Take it."
"Me?" Li Man was taken aback, what was going on with her? What's more, apart from being able to count copper coins, she doesn't know money at all, "I don't know anything, so take care of it, brother."
With that said, she put all the money on the table, picked up the bowl and left again.
Li Mo opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything after all.
Li Shu felt nothing,|"Brother, you collect it, and pay back the doctor's money tomorrow, let's talk about it."
"Oh, you can put it away in the cabinet." Li Mo said.
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Li Man returned to the kitchen, put all the dishes and chopsticks into the cauldron, scooped up a few scoops of water, and slowly washed them.
There was a small oil lamp next to the pot table. Maybe there was not much tung oil left, so the light was a bit weak. She tried to pick out the wick, but the effect was not great, so she had to give up.
After washing the dishes and chopsticks, they were put into the cupboard, and she was tidying up the pot table. At this time, someone came in.
She thought it was Li Shu, because he was the most clingy, so she didn't raise her head, but said, "This lamp is out of oil, add some oil, it will almost disappear."
"Okay." It was Li Yan who spoke, and Li Man was so frightened that the rag in his hand fell to the ground.
"You, you're back?" She hurriedly picked up the rag to hide her panic.
"Who do you think it is?" Li Yan raised his eyebrows slightly at her, took out a small earthen pot from under the cupboard, walked to the pot table, opened it, picked some from it with a small piece of bamboo and put it into the small oil lamp, the light instantly lit up Quite a lot.
Li Man saw that the injury on his face had healed a lot, "I, I thought it was Li Shu." She answered honestly, and continued to tidy up the pot.
"The third child said that there is still a bun for me." Li Yan leaned towards her.
Li Man hurriedly bowed and walked away, "It's in the cupboard bowl."
Li Yan went over to take it out by himself, and asked while eating, "Have you eaten?"
"Yeah." Li Man responded casually, and her hands moved a lot faster. With him around, she would always be on the alert.
Li Yan leaned against the pot and finished the buns in a few mouthfuls, "It tastes pretty good."
Li Man didn't answer, the pot was cleaned up, the rag was scrubbed in the basin several times, wrung out and spread out on the edge of the pot, and she was about to pour water when she turned around.
Li Yan tilted his head slightly to see her come back after pouring the water.
Li Man deliberately ignored the eyes that had been closely surrounding her all the time, put the basin away pretending to be calm, turned around, and was about to go out without saying a word.
However, her stiff walking posture betrayed everything.
As soon as she stepped out of the threshold, someone grabbed her arm, and a force dragged her back.
"What are you doing?" Li Man's trembling voice finally raised her heart that had been anxious all this time.
Li Yan surrounded her between the wall and himself, his eyes full of helplessness, "I should ask you this question."
"..." Li Man gritted her teeth and stared at him fiercely.
Li Yan shook his head lightly, "You've fallen to the point of being betrayed, what are you expecting? Although my Li family is poor, at least we won't beat you, scold you, or bully you—"
So what is he doing now? Li Man really wanted to ask this question, but under his domineering eyes, she didn't have much confidence.
"I don't like how you hide from me when you see me like this. You are not like this in front of them, even the third brother, you treat him very well." Li Yan couldn't help wondering if he was really old enough to be attractive in front of women Gone
"This, makes me very angry, you know?"
Li Man was amused by his arrogant and arrogant tone, "You can stay away from me if you are angry."
"How is that possible?" Li Yan leaned forward, leaned closer to her face, and smiled with narrowed eyes, "You are my daughter-in-law, and we will have to sleep together in the future. If I stay away from you, when will you give me the money?" I have a son?"
"Dirty!" Apart from these two words, Li Man couldn't think of anything else to describe her.
"Heh." Li Yan smiled like a ruffian, pinched her chin with two fingers, raised her face, and said in a low voice, "Your scolding reminds me of that day. It tasted good that day."
After the words fell, the fiery kiss fell heavily again, swallowing all the voices she wanted to shout.
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