farm concubine

Chapter 22
The Li Wanqing siblings are not idle at the village head's house, because the three sons of the village head are all working outside, and there are only the village head and his wife at home.

Li Wanqing helped Aunt Li choose dishes, and Li Muchen helped Aunt Li move the firewood that Aunt Li had dried in the yard into the kitchen.

Seeing that the siblings are so sensible and diligent, Aunt Li laughed and said that it would be great if the siblings were her granddaughter and grandson.

Li Wanqing just smiled and said nothing, Li Muchen saw that Li Wanqing just smiled and didn't answer, so he just smiled too.

After about half an hour, Li Changcai came back with his hands behind his back.

Seeing Li Changcai's return, both Li Wanqing and his brother ran up to him, their little eyes full of expectation.

Thinking of the embarrassing scene in the Li family's courtyard, Li Changcai sighed: "Go back and see your mother, it's really embarrassing for her."

"Thank you, Grandpa Li." The siblings happily went home with their baskets on their backs.

In the near future, Li Wanqing is very fortunate that she went to find Li Changcai to settle this matter today.

Seeing that all the onlookers outside the courtyard had left, and the house was quiet, the siblings glanced at each other and ran home happily: "Mother, we're back..." When seeing the scene in the courtyard, my sister The two brothers were dumbfounded, and forgot to say anything. They stared wide-eyed at the wet ground, and the longevity fruit was scattered all over the ground.

Seeing the pair of children, Lin Shuirou raised her head and gave a stiff smile, then continued to pick up the longevity fruit on the ground.

Seeing her mother's red and swollen eyes, Li Wanqing's heart ached for a while, but thinking of Lin Shuirou's blind forbearance, she felt deeply helpless.

"Mother—" Li Muchen couldn't hold back and shouted out, but he knew how to comfort Lin Shuirou.

Knowing that Lin Shuirou didn't want them to worry, she pretended to be busy, but she didn't know that she made their siblings worry even more.

"Xiaochen, put down the basket first." Li Wanqing took his younger brother to the well, put down the basket on his back, and then helped the three of them pick up the scattered longevity fruits. Today's work progress cannot be delayed because of Deng's visit. Fall, time waits for no one.

After picking up the longevity fruits scattered on the ground, Aunt Fu and Luo Shi cleaned them up diligently, while Li Wanqing and Lin Shuirou cooked. They agreed to take care of the two meals, and they must not break their word.

At lunch time, Li Rulin came back with a basket full of longevity fruits on his back. The yard had been tidied up, but the ground was still wet. Li Rulin thought that the ground was so wet because he washed a lot of fruits today.

Until Li Muchen said: "Father, Grandma and Second Aunt came here today, and Grandma beat Mother."

"Shuirou, is what Xiaochen said true?" Li Rulin looked at his wife in surprise.

Li Wanqing glanced at Lin Shuirou, and saw that her eyes were red, she was silently eating, and continued to eat.

Aunt Fu and Luo Shi glanced at each other, this is someone else's housework, they are only here to help, so it is not easy to open their mouths, and they eat with their heads down.

Seeing that his wife and daughter were just eating in silence without making a sound, Li Rulin became anxious: "Shuirou, can you say something?"

"Let's eat, there is still a lot of work to do today." Lin Shuirou only said this, and there was no more to say.

Looking at the three children who were eating silently, Li Rulin was very anxious, but the three of them refused to say anything, and since Aunt Fu and Luo Shi were here, he couldn't keep asking, for fear that something bad would be known by the two of them. It will be embarrassing to meet later.

This meal, Li Rulin's food was tasteless, like chewing wax.

Helping Lin Shuirou pack up the dishes, Li Wanqing and his brother put on their baskets and prepared to go up the mountain to continue picking longevity fruits. This time, Li Wanqing asked Aunt Fu to borrow a long penny.After obtaining Aunt Fu's consent, two small openings were made at the thin end of the penny.

"Sister, what are you doing with the penny up the mountain?" Li Muchen asked curiously while looking at the long penny in Li Wanqing's hand on the way.

Li Rulin has been thinking why Lin Shuirou didn't tell him about Deng's visit?

"Pick the fruit from the tree."

Li Muchen looked at Li Wanqing with bright eyes: "Sister, you are so smart."

Li Wanqing just smiled, she is not smart, she also learned this method from her previous life.

On the way up the mountain, Li Rulin was silent all the time. Seeing his father like this, Li Wanqing sighed. One was his own mother and the other was his daughter-in-law. It was really difficult for Li Rulin to be caught in the middle. It's good to be separated.

"Father, since mother doesn't want to talk about it, don't think about it anymore. The longevity fruit at home only weighs more than 200 catties, which is far from [-] catties."

"That's right, Dad, with the village chief's grandfather coming forward, grandma should stop coming to our house to make trouble." Li Muchen also comforted him.

Li Rulin turned to look at the siblings eagerly: "Have you gone to the village chief?"

"Father, my grandma beat my mother like that, so my mother didn't dare to say a word, and Xiaochen and I couldn't contradict grandma, so we had to go to the village head's grandpa for help." Li Wanqing said it really aggrieved.

Li Rulin knew Deng's attitude towards Lin Shuirou. After hearing Li Wanqing's words, she almost wanted to open her mouth, but finally said: "When your mother first came in, your grandma still liked her very much."

"Then why don't you like it now?" The siblings asked at the same time.

Li Rulin glanced at Li Wanqing, but did not speak.

Li Wanqing and Li Muchen glanced at each other, becoming more and more puzzled.

I liked it before, so why don't I like it now?
(End of this chapter)