Behind the window, Li Man leaned against the wall and let out a long breath.
She heard almost all the brothers' conversation just now, and she never expected that they would make such an oath.
God, is it because they don't want to, so they have to be single for the rest of their lives
Thinking about it, her heart was pounding, like a thief, she peeked out through the crack of the window again, but the three brothers were no longer in the yard.
"You have to be responsible." Suddenly, a clear male voice rang out from the window, Li Man dodged in fright and hid in the corner of the room.
However, Li Yan pushed open the window, leaned in half of his body, looked at her in the corner of the room, squinted his eyes and smiled, "The room is only so big, where can I hide?"
"Who hid it? I'm cleaning the cobwebs here." As she spoke, Li Man stretched out her hand and grabbed Guo twice in mid-air.
"Oh." Li Yan stretched out his hand and pointed to the beam, "Here, there are spider webs on it."
Li Man's head is full of black lines, so tall, she should be enough, okay
"Come here." Seeing her bowing her head and biting her lip, Li Yan smiled and beckoned to her.
"What's the matter?" Li Man didn't look at him, went straight to the big cabinet, and took a rag to wipe it up.
Li Yan twitched his lips, "You want me to go in?"
"Why?" Sure enough, Li Man turned her head and glared at him, then glanced at the door, which was tightly fastened by the bolt, so she didn't care, she just refused to go through.
Li Yan smiled evilly, put his hands on the window sill, and made a gesture to go through the window.
"Don't move." Li Man ran over in a panic, and pushed him with her hand.
"Don't you want to come?" Li Yan grabbed her hand and held it tightly.
Li Man blushed and glared at him, "Let go quickly." The whole family is here, what should I do if someone sees me
"Did you hear what was said just now?" Li Yan raised his eyebrows and stared at her, but still did not let go of his hand.
Li Man lowered her eyes, pretending to be confused, "What are you talking about?"
"Didn't you hear?" Li Yan suddenly moved closer to her face and stared at her carefully, "Didn't hear, why are you blushing?"
"I didn't—" He obviously lacked the confidence to say this, his face was so hot that he couldn't even lie to himself, "I'm hot."
"Okay." Li Yan smiled lightly, and continued, "Whether you heard it or not, anyway, you are responsible to us brothers."
"What are you responsible for?" Li Man looked up at him in surprise, what kind of moth did he want to blackmail herself
Li Yan pursed his lips and sighed, "We rejected a good marriage because of you, you have to be our daughter-in-law in the future, otherwise, hehe—"
The threat was not uttered, but the word "hum" was obviously more deterrent.
Li Man's heart skipped a beat, and she replied instinctively, "I didn't ask you to refuse, it was you..."
"How dare you say such unconscionable things." Li Yan freed up a hand and lightly squeezed her red cheek.
Li Man hurriedly looked away, and said angrily, "Don't make trouble."
"Do you dare to say such hurtful words next time?" Li Yan threatened with a smile, but Li Man couldn't say anything tough.
"Okay, I should go, or the third brother will definitely come here." Li Yan let go of her hand, but when she just let go of her vigilance, he suddenly kissed the corner of her mouth, smiled happily, and left.
"You—" Li Man glared at him angrily, turned her back, and vigorously rubbed the place he kissed, but there was a warm sweetness flowing through her heart.
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When Li Yan returned to the east room, he saw Li Xiangyu was still leaning on the kang, wiping away tears, Li Xiangcao sat on the side and tried to persuade him.
At the end of the kang, the lotus was lying there crying loudly.
Li Mo and Li Shu were sitting on small stools, silent, but judging from Li Shu's face, they were probably also stabbed.
Seeing Li Yan coming in, Li Mo quickly winked at him and asked him to apologize to Li Xiangyu.
Li Yan understood and cooperated very well. He walked to the side of the kang and bowed to Li Xiangyu, "Auntie, I made a mistake and I made you unhappy. Otherwise, you can beat me up."
Li Xiangyu looked away with a cold face.
Li Yan then told Xiao Wu who was standing against the corner, "Xiao Wu, go and find a feather duster."
"Oh." Xiao Wu went out obediently, and came back after a while, but what he held was not a feather duster, but a thin bamboo branch that he broke from the chicken fence, "Second brother, here. "
"I want a feather duster, what are you doing with this?" Li Yan glanced at him lightly, and reluctantly took it.
Xiao Wu said, "Our family doesn't have a feather duster, so this second brother can make do with it."
"Auntie has to make it easy for me." Li Yan held the bamboo branch to Li Xiangyu with both hands, "Auntie, I don't have a feather duster, so you can just make do with this. Don't worry, you can beat it however you like. Although my nephew is earlier I have been ill for a while, but my body has always been strong and I should be able to hold on."
Before he could finish his words, Li Xiangyu laughed amusedly, stretched out his hand and thumped his arm twice, "You bastard, you know your aunt is reluctant to beat you, but you still take it This is to piss people off." Then, as if angry, he threw the bamboo branch in his hand out of the window.
Li Yan immediately apologized, "I know my aunt loves me, otherwise I wouldn't dare to use it for you to beat me."
"You." Li Xiangyu glanced at him, tears fell again, "Do you know what you said today, it's like stabbing your aunt's heart with a knife, tang you know I'm not getting along with your mother, you Knowing that your mother was still cursing me before she died, I—”
"Auntie, the second brother already knows his mistake." Li Mo hurried forward to persuade him.
Li Xiangcao persuaded her while wiping her tears, "Sister, after all these years, stop talking to the children. They were young at that time, so what do you know?"
"I just don't know, that's why I'm going to say it. It's not that I'm a ruthless aunt, it's their unscrupulous mother. She has that fate because she did it herself. I didn't expect that. It's not that I don't regret it." Li Xiangyu couldn't stop crying when she said the sad part.
Li Yan also said, "Okay, let's talk about what to do again, we have long forgotten."
"Auntie, don't cry." Xiao Wu also leaned over and thoughtfully wiped Li Xiangyu's tears with her little hands.
Li Xiangyu immediately hugged him into his arms, wiped his tears twice, and then continued, "Erlang, Sanlang, I know you have hated me all these years, thinking that I killed your mother."
"Auntie—" Li Yan didn't want to hear her cliché, so he interrupted.
"Okay, okay, I won't mention it anymore, who is right and who is wrong, God is watching." Li Xiangyu turned her nose and said slowly, "This time, I brought the girl Hehua here to propose marriage, and I really did it for you. This is a consideration. Is there anything good in this ravine? Apart from these two dilapidated houses, what else do you brothers not want to part with? In fact, even if you become a married couple, you can’t lose you—"
"Auntie, let's not talk about this, we already have a daughter-in-law." Li Yan was a little annoyed hearing her rambling.
Li Xiangyu stared at him coldly, "I know you, you have very high eyesight, and you think the lotus grows shabby, but every woman will grow old one day, don't look at the woman in that house who is like a flower now, you can't live in this ravine for two years , it’s not decent, you can still guard her for the rest of your life? In addition, He Hua’s uncle is working in Wang Yuan’s family. As long as he says a word, at that time, Erlang or Sanlang, one of you will definitely follow her. Going to work. Others go out of the mountains first and make a living outside, isn’t it better than you hunting in the mountains and doing short-term labor?”
"That's right." He Hua also raised her head at this time, and looked at these men with grievances, "As long as I tell my uncle, maybe both Erlang and Sanlang can work as errands. If they work in a rich family, the wind will not blow." It doesn’t rain, and you can still earn monthly money, no matter how many people ask for it.”
"Then you can find those who want to ask for it." Li Shu couldn't understand Hehua's face of high-class people looking down on low-class people. She just opened a grocery store outside the mountain at home.
Li Xiangyu glanced at the lotus, "Lotus, if you don't know how to talk, don't talk too much." To be honest, this girl is too honest, and it is really not pleasing to see people with upside-down eyes, but her family is really good. Once the nephews enter the Hehua family, even if they are married, they will not be suppressed by the Hehua family in the future, and they may be able to live a good life with the help of others.
"Auntie, don't talk about it." Li Mo finally made up his mind and stopped giving Li Xiangyu any more illusions, "Our brothers have hands and feet, so we don't need to rely on others. Lotus, you are a good girl, and you will find the right girl in the future." For those of you who are good, don’t waste time on us brothers.”
"I-"
"Yeah, don't think about it, our brothers all have wives. If you do this again, my wife will be angry. I will beat you." Li Shu said, raising his fist at Hehua again.
Seeing that the game was over again, the lotus wailed again, lying on the kang and crying.
Li Xiangyu glanced at the brothers and saw that their expressions were determined, and he couldn't get in even if he saw a needle, so he couldn't help but sighed heavily, "You guys, what's so good about that woman, she's just born to be outstanding. What kind of sons seem to have never seen a woman. Well, I don't care, you just live with that woman. "
"Thank you, aunt, for your success." Li Yan took the opportunity to tease, and Li Xiangyu's face turned purple when he choked, and he couldn't repent, so he snorted coldly and stopped mentioning it, which was considered really dead.
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That night, Li Xiangyu and others made do on the kang in Li Man's house all night, and the next morning, they shouted to leave after breakfast.
Li Moxu stayed several times, and finally sent them off in person, and sent them all the way to the foot of the back mountain. When he met two people from the same village who were going to work outside the ditch, he asked them to go with them, and then he returned home.
After returning home, seeing Li Man drying the quilt, she came over to help hold the quilt corner together.
"Come back so early? Didn't you send them out of the mountain?" Li Man asked curiously. After all, it was quite dangerous for just a few women to walk the mountain road.
Li Mo replied, "I happened to meet an acquaintance, and they will be fine together."
"Oh." Li Man didn't ask any more questions, turned around and went into the room to get the quilt.
Li Mo followed into the east room, took the quilt from her hand, "I'll come."
Li Man took out all the removed sheets and stuffed them into the basket, and then said to Li Mo who was drying the sheets, "The sheets are not clean in the basin, Xiao Wu and I will wash them in the pond behind. "
"Let me carry it." Li Mo quickly spread the quilt on the bamboo pole, turned around and walked over, taking the basket from her hand.
Li Man looked at him, a little confused, "Are you going with me?"
"Yeah." Li Mo stared at a basket full of sheets and clothes, "There are so many, I'm afraid you won't be able to carry them when you come back."
"There's Xiao Wu."
"Xiao Wu still needs to practice calligraphy, don't you see how serious he is?" Li Mo pointed to the eaves, Xiao Wu sat on a small stool, lowered his head, and as expected he was writing on the sand table with a branch.
Seeing his seriousness, Li Man couldn't bear to interrupt, so she nodded and said, "Okay, but, is the injury on your back okay?"
"It doesn't hurt anymore." Li Mo said, holding the basket in his hands as if afraid that she would not believe it.
Li Man quickly grabbed his arm and stopped him, "Don't move around, be careful not to jump on the wound again."
"It's okay." Li Mo stopped being obedient, with a gentle and warm smile on his face.
Li Man blushed, let go of his arm as if it was hot, turned her head and walked in front.
Li Mo smiled lightly, stepped forward a few steps, and followed her, looking at her flushed cheeks, which became more and more beautiful, and felt a little crazy.
"What are you looking at?" Li Man put her hand on her cheek and glanced at him.
Li Mo looked away in embarrassment, focused on the front, but forgot to look at his feet, accidentally stepped on a rock, and almost sprained his feet.
"Be careful." Li Man instinctively reached out to support him.
Li Mo stabilized his body, kicked the stone under his feet to the side of the road, turned around and said, "It's okay, I slipped just now."
Is it a slippery step or is it simply not concentrating on walking? Li Man didn't point it out, but he just saw that he was really looking a little too far, so stupid, she called him twice and there was no response.
Thinking about it, Li Man unconsciously pursed her lips and laughed.
"Hey, Dalang, are you going to wash clothes with your wife?" Suddenly, a middle-aged woman came from the front with a basket on her shoulders, and greeted them with a smile when she saw them.
Li Man's delicate cheeks were covered with a layer of light pink, probably except for herself, everyone thought she was the daughter-in-law of the Li family.
Li Mo gave an 'hmm', then looked at Li Man and smiled naively.
The woman saw so many sheets and clothes in the basket, so she praised Li Man, "Dalang, your daughter-in-law is married. She is beautiful and capable. Last time I saw her and Xiaowu go to the daughter-in-law, and you have washed so much today." ,capable."
Li Man recognized that this was the woman who was waiting for her to take a seat to do laundry last time, and smiled politely at her, "Aunt Li, you can also do laundry."
"Yeah." Aunt Li liked her smile even more, "It's really pretty, this smile looks like a fairy in the sky, we Dalang brothers are lucky."
Praising herself like this in front of Li Mo, Li Man looked down at the tip of her shoe, feeling extremely embarrassed.
"Auntie, don't you want to go home and do some work?" Li Mo meant Aunt Li, but smiled at Li Man.
Aunt Li smiled knowingly, knowing that the new daughter-in-law was shy, so she stopped joking, "Auntie has to go home to make arrangements, you go, there are not many people now."
"Okay." Li Mo carried the basket in one hand and Li Man in the other, and headed for the pond at the foot of the back mountain.
Sure enough, there were not many people in the laundry pond, and most of them washed their clothes back early in the morning.
Finding a place where the water was clean and easy to wash, Li Man squatted down and took out the clothes and quilts one by one. Then, she washed the empty basket in the water first, and then put it on a big rock nearby. .
"Let me wash the quilt." Seeing her pair of small hands, rubbing such a big quilt, Li Mo couldn't stand beside her, so he offered to help.
Li Man shook her head, "No, I'll just wash it slowly, are you in a hurry? Why don't you go back first, I know the way myself."
"Bring it." Seeing that she put the quilt in the water a few times, then rubbed it vigorously on the stone, and after rubbing it twice, her little face turned red, and Li Mo finally couldn't help it from her hand. Li snatched it.
Li Man was taken aback, "How do you wash it?"
Li Mo took off his shoes, went directly into the water, moved the basket on the big rock down a bit, and then, just like Li Man rubbing just now, rubbed the sheet on the big rock.
After rubbing it a few times, the dirty water was squeezed out, and like casting a fishing net again, I spread the sheet in the water a few times, and rubbed it again.
Li Man stood up, just now when she was washing, she used all her energy to eat milk, but in Li Mo's hands, it was like playing, and she was washing well, so she couldn't help laughing, "Then Thank you for your hard work, but please slow down, the water is slippery, don't fall again."
"Well, don't worry." Li Mo turned back and smiled at her, and then said, "You bring all those beds here, and I'll wash my hands in a while."
"Okay." Li Man did not refuse. It is indeed a laborious job to wash the sheets in the water.
Putting all the sheets to the side of the big rock, Li Man only picked up a few changes of clothes, and slowly and carefully scrubbed them on the small rock, while looking at Li Mo from time to time to see that he was washing very seriously , also did not speak again.
Time passed slowly, and after a while, the sun also rose. After Li Man finished washing a few clothes, she was sweating. She wiped the sweat from her forehead. Looking at Li Mo, the last bed sheet was twisted by his big hands The charred ones were put into the basket.
"Wipe your feet dry and put on your shoes." Li Man purposely left the foot cloth behind, and handed it to him when he landed.
Li Mo supported Li Man's shoulder with one hand, and wiped his feet with a foot cloth in the other.
After he put on his shoes, Li Man washed the foot cloth in water several times before wringing it dry and putting it in the basket.
"There is no place to dry at home, let's go over there." Li Mo pointed to the green grassy hillside on the back of the mountain. There are a few big rocks on it. Usually, people often go there to dry things. .
"Yeah." Once the sheets got wet, the weight increased a lot, and Li Man didn't even pick them up.
Li Mo looked at it and smiled, "Take it seriously, I'll do it."
"Well, slow down." Li Man took the initiative to get out of the way, and waited for him to step forward, and followed behind him.
The road up the hill was narrow, and Li Man walked very carefully. Fortunately, it was not far, and it took only two minutes to get there.
Li Man walked up to a big rock, looked around, the village became smaller, and the farmland and vegetable fields were so green, it was really eye-catching, the breeze blowing, wrapped in the fragrance of flowers, made people feel relaxed and happy.
Li Mo put down the basket and saw that she was enjoying playing alone, so he didn't call her. He picked up the bed sheet by himself, and slowly spread it on a big rock. Fearing that the wind would blow it away, he picked up a few more pebbles, Press the four corners separately.
Li Man turned her head and saw that he had already dried two beds, so she hurriedly jumped off the rock and came over to help.
The two of them dried the rest of the sheets in a while, and Li Mo looked at her, "Do you want to play again?"
"Huh?" Li Man was puzzled, "Playing?"
Li Mo smiled slightly, under the backlight, a warm smile almost overflowed from his deep eyes, "I see you were very happy just now, do you want to go inside again?"
"Inside?" Li Man followed the direction of his finger and looked at the mountain covered by trees, always feeling that there was a special magical power, as if it was attracting her, "Is it possible?" She blinked her big eyes, as if surprised by a child. Looking at him.
Li Mo nodded, "Go, I'll take you in to have a look."
"Okay." Li Man happily agreed, and followed him with cheerful small steps. She had lived in a city made of steel and concrete since she was a child, and she was so curious about what it was like in this big mountain.
"Slow down, there are thorns on this tree, don't get stuck." Li Mo walked ahead with a basket in his hand, and kept breaking off the overgrown branches so that Li Man could pass.
Li Man agreed, and followed closely behind, both excited and a little scared, "Well, there are no wolves during the day, right?"
Li Mo paused, turned his head and gave her a consoling smile, "Don't worry, wolves won't come here." After speaking, he stretched out his long arm and took her hand, "So, aren't you afraid?"
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