Descendants of Pangu in the Great Desolation

Chapter 73 Leaving Li's House

"How did it take you so long to come back?"

As soon as Xiaoyou and I stepped into the courtyard gate, we heard Situ Jing who was sitting in the courtyard yelling at us. His shout called out all the people in the courtyard and the house.Grandma Li came to me, grabbed my hand and said to me: "Brother, thank you so much. The pill you gave my old man this morning is really effective. After you left for a long time, my old man can walk around in the field. Right now, he and his son are digging in the vegetable garden behind the house. Niu’er, hurry up and call your father and brother back, and say that brother is back.” Niu’er responded and ran to the back of the house.

Just as Granny Li let go of my hand, Ajuan grabbed my hand again and said, "Brother Hai, after taking half of the pill you gave me, I haven't felt sick for half a day." As Ajuan was talking, Li Gonghe Shengzi came out from the back of the house with his iron plow on his shoulders. When he saw me, he said, "My little brother is really skilled in medicine. You see, I am completely different from yesterday. It is really thanks to my little brother. Shengzi went to town. Get some wine at the table, the old lady will cook some good food for lunch today, let’s treat my brother well.” Seeing Li Gong being so polite and embarrassed, I said: “You don’t need to be like this, Li Gong, I’m also very happy that your illness has recovered, but Let’s forget about eating. We ate a lot of crabs yesterday, besides, we’ve been out for two days and we should go back to the inn to have a look, so that we don’t know if the luggage and carriage are gone.”

Li Gong pulled me and said: "How can I do that? I heard from the old lady that yesterday you spent money eating crabs at my house. Today I invite you to dinner, old man, to thank you, brother, for curing my illness." , These are two different things. If my brother refuses to agree, you will look down on me, a countryman who lives by the lake." I shook my head helplessly and said, "How is this possible? How can I look down on you old man. It's just..." Seeing that I was still hesitating, Mr. Li hurriedly grabbed the words and said: "It's just something, if you don't look down on me, the old man, then stay. Don't worry about the inn. Although the old man is a fisherman, I still have a bit of face in the town. You buy wine when you have a baby. When I go to the shopkeeper Li at the Light Source Inn, I’d like to take care of my little brother’s things and the carriage, or else my old man will cut off his family’s aquatic products from now on.” run up.

I saw that it was really hard to refuse, and when I looked around, I saw that the others had no intention of leaving, so I agreed.Said to Li Gong: "Well, Li Gong, I promise you to stay. But you have just recovered, so you should not do heavy work, so as not to hurt your body." Li Gong said: "Little brother, don't call me Li Gong It seems too outlandish. If you don’t mind it, you can call me Daddy Li by our local name.” Seeing that Li Gong really didn’t treat us as outsiders, he nodded and said, “Okay, I’ll call you Father Li. But you don’t want to call me little brother anymore, just call me Huang Hai.” Father Li smiled and said, “Okay, Huang Hai, sit down first, and I’ll go to the lake to get you some Eat a piece of fish, yesterday we ate a lot of crabs, let’s change the taste today, try the fish from Qingze Lake, and the girl will go out on the boat with me.”

"Okay, Dad." Niu'er took out a bamboo basket from behind the door, and followed Dad Li to the lake.

Father Li and Niuer had just walked out of the small courtyard, Xu Lu, who had been staring at Niuer without blinking, walked up to me and said softly: "Master, it's not good for us to eat other people's things for nothing, I'll help Li Daddy is going fishing, do you think so?" I thumped his chest and said, "Not bad, you know how to make excuses to get close to the girl after not seeing you for a long time, right?" Seeing me saying that, Xu Lu scratched his head embarrassed Scratching his head, he said to me with reddened cheeks: "Master, where are you going? I want to help Father Li. Where are you talking?" I rolled my eyes at him and said: "Come on, I'm not Know you? You go to help Li Daddy, I think you are going to help Niuer." As soon as I finished speaking, Lu Lu's slightly red cheeks became even redder, and he looked at me and didn't know what to say.

Seeing his behavior, I stopped teasing him, and patted his arm and said, "If you stay here, the girl will get on a boat and go out of the lake, and you won't be able to help if you want to. Don’t forget about my ink marks, hurry up and follow me.” Seeing that I agreed, Xu Lu grinned at me, and was about to run out excitedly.I grabbed Xu Lu who was about to run out and said to him: "Wait a minute and listen to me. If you run like this, the girl will definitely misunderstand you. You can go to Qi Shun and ask him to go with you. In this way Even if Niu'er disagrees, it's hard to say anything. Besides, with Qi Shun helping Father Li, don't you have more opportunities to get close to Niu'er and talk to her?" Xu Lu made sense when he heard what I said , hurriedly walked towards Qi Shun who was sitting beside him, not knowing how he was able to win over Qi Shun, Qi Shun immediately nodded in agreement, and the two of them ran towards the boat of Li's family by the lake together.

Seeing Xu Lu and Qi Shun running away, I sent Xiaoyou to accompany Situ Jie, pulled Situ Jing to play with Situ Jie, and then went out.Sitting on the grass not far from the courtyard, I asked Situ Jing who was lying beside him: "Brother Jing, have you finished what I told you?" Situ Jing looked at the blue sky and said, "Of course it's done. Brother, who am I? This trivial matter can still trouble me. But Hai, since you asked Qi Shun to send the room money to the shopkeeper Li of the Light Source Inn, and told them to take care of our luggage and carriage, why did you treat Mr. Li again? Dad said he was worried that shopkeeper Li would lose our luggage and carriage. Are you too weird?"

I turned my head and looked at Situ Jing and said: "What's so strange about this, I originally wanted to leave Li's house for this reason, what does it look like with such a large group of us always eating and drinking at other people's houses, and Li's daughter-in-law is pregnant There are many secrets in Qingze Lake and Qingze Lake. If we leave here earlier, the Li family will be a little safer. But I really couldn’t refuse Li’s request, so I had to agree to have lunch here, but after lunch we But you have to leave, then you can’t be as lonely and silent as before, pretending to be a disabled person. Do you hear me?” Seeing me say another new word, Situ Jing turned sideways and put his left hand on my shoulder and asked : "Hai, what do you mean by disabled people? It's the language of your world, right?"

I shook off his hand and said, "Disabled people are just a general term. Many people can be called disabled people. It seems that people who are blind, deaf, or mentally retarded can all be called disabled people." Situ Jing shook his head. He shook his head and said to me: "I still don't understand, what is blindness and deafness?" Seeing that he didn't even understand this, I could only put it in a more general way, "Let's put it bluntly, blindness, deafness, and fools all belong to this category." Handicapped people. You should understand this time. If you still don’t understand, you’re a fool.” After I explained to him, I smiled at him and got up and ran away.Situ Jing ignored me at all and was just thinking about what I said just now. After a while, Situ Jing yelled, got up from the grass and ran towards me. : "You almost stabbed my eyes in the morning, and now you're going to tell me what kind of disabled person I am. Situ Hai will see how I deal with you today. Let's settle the old and new debts together." Situ Jing pinched my cheeks with both hands, shaking left Pulling right, the pain was so painful that I couldn't speak, so I had to take out my trump card, which I haven't shown for a long time, and greet him.

I squeezed my eyes hard, probably because I haven’t cried for a long time, I didn’t squeeze my eyes hard enough, and I felt that my eyes were sore and the eye sockets became moist, and after a while, tears flowed down the corners of my eyes, and tears flowed down my face instantly of.Seeing that I was crying so hard, Situ Jing hurriedly let go of his hands, raised his hands to wipe away the tears from the corners of my eyes, gently rubbed the reddish cheeks that had been pinched, and said to me: "Hai, I hurt you when I pinched you!" Is it? It's all my fault, I really deserve to die. I..." I raised my hand to wipe away the tears sticking to my eyes, and saw that Situ Jing's eyes were streaming out of tears for some reason.I thought to myself: "Why did he cry? It's not because he saw me shed so many tears and felt guilty. Since the night I told him the truth, I haven't seen him cry again. He cried I’m so sad, what if I tell you that I’m fake crying just now.” I was thinking about how to admit my mistake to him, so as not to let him down with the tears he shed for me, when my eyes, which were already dry, couldn’t help but I shed tears.I hurriedly wiped it with my hands, but the more I wiped, the more painful my eyes were, and the more tears flowed, so I didn't know what to do.When I was at my wit's end, I heard Ashina's mocking voice behind me.

"You guys are so excited, playing in tears on this beautiful lakeside grassland." I turned my head and saw that Axiu was holding a knife in one hand and a porcelain bowl in the other, which contained chopped onions. , looking at us gloatingly.

Only then did I understand what happened to Situ Jing’s unreasonable tears and my unstoppable tears. I yelled at Axiu: “Sister Axiu, there is no one who tortures people like you, cutting onions behind people’s backs.” , this is a bit too cruel," Axiu said to me: "We are all busy for lunch, and even Master Jie and Xiaoyou also helped, you two are good, come here to relax. Hurry up Go back and help me chop the firewood, you have taken away the two heavy laborers, do you want Ajuan, who is pregnant, to chop the firewood, or let Granny Li, who is old, do the firewood chopping?" I saw Axiu He talked endlessly, and read in a low voice: "They can't do it, don't you still have you?" A Xiumeng stopped the topic and stared at me and said: "Master, what did you just say, Axiu Er No, I didn’t hear you clearly, let’s talk about it, okay?” I knew something bad was going to happen when I heard her voice become so soft, so I smiled at her and said, “I didn’t say anything, I’ll go back with Brother Jing to help you chop firewood. Let’s go Ah, brother Jing." I hurriedly dragged Situ Jing to the yard, thinking: I almost escaped.

(End of this chapter)