Chapter 115: Curiosity

Li Man's hand trembled, the scoop in his hand fell into the noodle bag, turned around, and looked at him with some sneering, "Li Hua"

"Huh?" Li Hua's white face had an expectant smile, however, she could also see that there was tiredness between his eyebrows, and he wanted to come back in the dust, but when he was tired, she suddenly couldn't harden her heart and say something else, in fact, is it useful to say it? Li Mo and Li Yan are an example, as well as their damn oath, she is now his brother's woman, which is equivalent to acquiescing to his.

Anyway, let it be, if he regrets it in the future, she is willing to give him back a piece of freedom.

"That, I remember, you sit down obediently, I'll roll some noodles for you." Li Man stretched out his hand and gently removed his hand, and said to him gently.

The deeper the smile on the corner of Li Hua's lips, it spread to the bottom of his clear eyes, which seemed to be full of bright and brilliant stars, making people dare not look at them directly.

"Don't be busy, I'm not hungry, I'm just a little tired, you put the pot away. I boiled some water myself and then wanted to take a shower. ”

A bath can help relieve fatigue, but, "You haven't eaten anything." ”

"I've got dry food in my bag." Li Hua took the vegetable pot in her hand and flawed it.

Li Man thought that he probably didn't have much appetite, so he said, "Okay, I'll brush the pot and help you boil the water later." ”

"I'll do it myself." Li Hua said, seeing that Li Man was a little at a loss because he couldn't help much, and added, "Otherwise, you wash the pot and boil the water myself." ”

"Hmm." Li Man hurriedly cleaned up the pot with hot rice, and then scooped up most of the pot of water.

Li Huazi went to the East House to get his own clean clothes.

When he came back, the cauldron was steaming, and Li Man had already taken the initiative to help him burn it.

The corners of his lips couldn't help but smile, he opened the lid of the pot, tried the temperature, and felt that it was almost there, so he asked Li Man not to add firewood.

"Is that okay? Burn hot spots and bubbles, it will be more comfortable. Li Man got up and glanced suspiciously at the pot, where Li Hua was scooping all the hot water into the bathtub.

Li Hua scooped up all the hot water in the pot, and felt that it was still a little hot, so he scooped two scoops of cold water from the water tank with water. "That's just right."

Li Man smiled lightly, raised his feet and walked out, "Okay, you soak for a while, I'll go out first." ”

"Hmm." Li Hua nodded, followed her to the door, and then slowly closed the kitchen door.

Li Man went to the east room and saw Xiao Wu sitting on the kang, facing the window, holding a book in his hand and watching with relish.

"What are you looking at? So obsessed? ”

"Sister?" Xiao Wu immediately shouted happily, handed the page forward, and showed it to Li Man himself.

The three words on the page, traditional Chinese, Li Man really didn't recognize it for a while, so he took out the book from Xiao Wu's hand and flipped through the contents at will.

It turns out to be similar to modern fairy tales and children's stories, so it's no wonder that this little guy is so fascinated.

Flip through a few articles at random, some of the small stories are still good, such as Kong Rong let pears and the like, but some are too edifying and too heavy, Li Man feels that this thing is not good for a child of a childlike age like Xiao Wu to see.

"Sister, it's good-looking, right?" Xiao Wu leaned on her shoulder and asked excitedly, "By the way, I don't recognize a lot of words here, sister, you teach me." ”

"Well, which ones?" Li Man returned the book to him and asked him.

Xiao Wuyi got the book and immediately pointed to it with great interest, "This, and this." ”

"Oh, this is an arrow, an arrow that draws a bow and shoots an arrow, and this one is short, a tall short." Li Man explained to him one by one.

This little story is about a short child who wants to learn archery to be a hero, but is often ridiculed, so he practices hard at home every day, and after reading it, it is a good inspirational story.

Xiao Wu nodded again and again after hearing this, then turned another page, pointing to the words he didn't know and asked.

Li Mandu explained one by one, and after a while, she heard the sound of the kitchen door opening, she hurriedly closed the page of the book, and said, "Xiao Wu, you can see it yourself, your fourth brother has washed it, I'll take a look." ”

"Hmm." Xiao Wu nodded, took the book and looked at it with relish.

Li Man went out of the room, and saw Li Hua coming back from the courtyard gate with a bath bucket, obviously just pouring the bath water.

"Did you teach Xiao Wu to read just now?" He leaned the tub under the eaves, straightened up and smiled at her.

At this moment, he is only wearing a thin white shirt, although he is very old, but the pulp is very clean, and he even looks a kind of strikingly pure in the sun.

Li Man pursed his lips and smiled at him, "That, you can go back to the house and rest after you wash it, I washed your clothes." ”

So saying, he walked away from him and went to the kitchen.

Li Hua hurriedly followed, grabbed her hand to take the dirty clothes, and said, "No, there are no two, I'll just rub it myself." ”

Li Man had already taken all the clothes he had changed into in his hands, brushed his hand away, and said with a smile, "Just these two pieces, they can't tire me, anyway, I'm fine, you go back to the house and rest." ”

"But" Li Hua suddenly blushed, his eyes were a little dodgy, with embarrassment, and said in a low voice, "There are my panties in it." ”

Poof, Li Man almost fell to the ground unsteadily, of course she knew that he had changed underwear, but was it necessary to say it?

Usually, when they wash their brothers' clothes, are they all good with underwear?

But when he said this, she suddenly felt that these clothes were a little hot.

"Ahem-" Li Man blushed, but tried to pretend that he didn't care, pushed him away, put the clothes directly into the laundry basket and said, "It's okay, I can wash it clean." ”

Ga? This didn't go through the brain's words, and suddenly, it made her stiff again, and she almost fell into the hole, fortunately, Li Hua was also a simple person, and she didn't think about it, but she felt that she was very embarrassed to wash her close-fitting clothes.

In order to avoid embarrassment, Li Man hurriedly pushed him out, "Look at your tired face, go back to the house and rest." ”

"You're tired." Li Hua obediently left.

As soon as he left, Li Man breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at the clothes in the basket, shook his head, and wanted to laugh, but it was just a few clothes, what were you nervous about? Underwear is not clothing?

She carried the basket and the basin, went to the yard, fetched some water, and washed it with grass ash, but when she washed the panties, she still couldn't help blushing, and in a trance she thought of Li Hua's appearance in this panties

Poof, she shook her head hurriedly, feeling how did she suddenly become a pervert? would be such a clean and beautiful young man, guilty of sin.

I hurriedly washed all the clothes, and while there was still sun, I hung them on the bamboo poles together.

After getting busy, I went to the door of the east house to take a look, Li Hua did not rest, but leaned on the kang, and also held a book in his hand and looked at it seriously.

She wanted to leave, but at this moment, Li Hua had already turned her face to look, "Come in." ”

"I'll see if you're resting?" Li Man stood at the door, with no intention of going in.

"I'm looking for you." Li Hua put down the book and sat up straight.

Li Man had to hesitate to go in, "What's the matter?" ”

Xiao Wu also put down the book in his hand at this time and looked at Li Man excitedly.

Li Hua patted the edge of the kang and said, "Sit down first." ”

"Oh, what's the matter?" Li Man asked suspiciously.

Li Hua tilted his head slightly, stared at her as if looking, and said slowly, "Xiao Wu read me a poem just now, saying that it was better than what I usually read to him." I listened to it, although there was no rhyme, and the content was too white, but after a careful aftertaste, I felt that the meaning was endless, and it was indeed a good poem. So, I would like to ask you, who is the author of this poem? In this dynasty, or even in the previous dynasty, as far as I have learned, there is no such style. ”

"This-" Li Man lowered his head, secretly amused, how could she explain this Xu Zhimo to him?

Li Hua became more and more puzzled, "What? Isn't it convenient to say? ”

"It's not." Li Man looked up, already smiling lightly, "Actually, I don't understand, it's just that when I was a child, I heard a neighbor on the side of my house often talk about it, and I thought it was good at the time, who would have thought that I would remember it." ”

"Oh, that's right," Li Hua nodded, his eyes full of appreciation, "I think your neighbor must be a talented man full of wealth." ”

"Hmm." Li Man nodded, "Yes, he's very powerful, we-" She remembered that when she was in college, there was a time when the dormitory girl was crazy about the poems of this Xu Caizi, and she was the same at that time, in the early morning and dusk, she always liked to hold his poetry collection and wander around the green grass of the campus.

Li Hua was still waiting for her to follow, but saw Li Man suddenly change his words, "People in our village like to listen to him read poems." ”

"Oh." Seeing that when she mentioned the poet, her eyes were full of gentle admiration, and Li Hua's heart suddenly became a little concerned, "That neighbor of yours must be a good person like our master." ”

"Well, it's okay." She and Xu Zhimo are not contemporaries, she is only interested in poetry and not people.

Li Hua suddenly said, "Oh, it's really good, if I have the honor to meet him and ask him for advice in person, how good it would be, but I don't know how to tell him about his old man."

"Old man?" Li Man was surprised, and after that, he thought about it and said, "I'm afraid I don't have that chance, his old man is already old." ”

Li Hua was slightly stunned, a little regretful, and at the same time a little ashamed of eating the vinegar of an old man who was an ancient man.

"Sister, are you free now?" Xiao Wu saw that the two of them were chatting, and he couldn't interject at all, so he suddenly asked.

Li Man's attention suddenly turned to this side and nodded, "What's wrong?" ”

"Teach me to do radio gymnastics, I've learned it all in the morning, I'll do it again, you'll see." Xiao Wu threw down the book, got off the kang, and ran out.

"What broadcast gymnastics?" Li Hua was very surprised, it was a word that he had never heard before.

Li Man said casually, "It's just moving your limbs." ”

As he spoke, he walked outside.

Xiao Wu was already standing in the middle of the courtyard, standing upright, seeing Li Man come out, he immediately stretched out his arms and kicked his legs, and began to do it seriously, and still read the beat aloud by himself.

Li Man stood on the side, his eyes were full of smiles, Xiao Wu was really smart, and the rhythm was good.

Li Hua was very curious, put down the book, and came out with shoes on.

"This is radio gymnastics?"

"Hmm." Li Man glanced at him, "Why did you come out?" ”

"Take a look." Li Hua was next to her and smiled slightly, "In ancient times, there was a Huatuo Five Fowl Opera, and I have also seen the master practice, but now I look at it, there are some similarities with yours." ”

"Oh, hehe, I used to practice with people in our village, and I also learned some of them, and it is very good to move my muscles and bones on weekdays." Li Man looked up at Li Hua, but felt that he hadn't seen him for a long time, and he had grown a little taller again, and couldn't help laughing, "Why don't you also practice with Xiao Wu?" ”

"Me?" Li Hua's white face was a little red, and he stretched out his arms and kicked his legs in front of her like a monkey, and he couldn't do it.

Who knows, Li Man felt that Li Hua usually rarely moved in addition to studying, and insisted on pulling him along.

"Come, you stand on the side of Xiao Wu, and learn from me first. Then the first three verses, I will take the time to make up for you. ”

As he spoke, Li Man stood in front of them and began to practice again.

Li Huaben was still embarrassed, but seeing that Li Man was serious, and his younger brother Xiaowu had learned, there was no reason for him to be a shrinking turtle as an elder brother, so he followed suit.

It's just that he is too tall, and his movements are not as flexible as the small Xiao Wu, and his legs are too long, and he is afraid of kicking Li Man in front of him, so he bends halfway.

Li Man turned around and saw his movements, hurriedly corrected him, held his waist, pointed to his legs, and said, "Straighten out, kick relaxed and natural, of course, it must be powerful, the movements are natural, don't swallow slowly like this." ”

It's just that the more she said about Li Hua's body, the stiffer it became, especially when she put one hand on his waist, which was his sensitive area, and it itched when he touched it, but he endured it.

"What's wrong? Sweaty? Li Man looked at his white face with a thin layer of sweat, and was very surprised, this is too empty, right? Sweating after only a few exercises?

Li Hua took a step forward without a trace, avoided her hand, and hurriedly redid a kicking motion, "Is that so?" ”

This time the kick was straight, but the upper body posture was obviously wrong.

Li Man shook his head, "You look, your arms and legs must be well coordinated." You can't just kick your legs, and your hand is stunned. ”

"Fourth brother, like this." At this time, Xiao Wu performed for Li Hua on the side, ha, he was finally able to get a show in front of the smart fourth brother.

"Oh." Being stared at by the two, Li Hua slowly completed the action with a red face.

Li Man shook his head directly, and then saw that his face was full of sweat, came over and stood on tiptoe, and instinctively wiped his sweat with his sleeve, "Li Hua, you usually exercise less, so you will exercise more with me and Xiao Wu in the future." ”

She is not tall, even if she tiptoes to reach his forehead, it is difficult, Li Hua thoughtfully bent down slightly, cooperated with her movements, and said softly, "Okay." ”

"Fourth brother." At this time, Li Shu's surprised voice sounded at the gate of the courtyard.

The three people in the courtyard followed the prestige at the same time, and saw Li Shu being the first to rush in, and hugged Li Hua, "Hey, you kid, I really can't imagine that you are also a person who has been to a big place." ”

"Third brother." Li Hua's embarrassed face suddenly turned even redder, and he almost didn't dare to look at Li Man.

Li Shu put Li Hua down, then patted him on the shoulder, looked at him almost as tall as himself, and was very surprised, "Yo, have you grown taller?" ”

In the face of Li Shu's enthusiasm, Li Hua still felt very warm in his heart, and it felt so good to be home.

Li Mo and Li Yan followed.

Li Mo looked Li Hua up and down lovingly, felt that his complexion was good, and he seemed to have really grown taller, so he nodded with satisfaction.

Li Yan smiled and said, "Fourth brother, I didn't expect it to be you, I just heard that when we saw you come back, we still thought it was a joke, why did you come back so quickly?" Didn't you say at least half a month? ”

"We happened to meet a caravan on the way, and we were about to follow, and we were on the main road, much faster." Li Hua looked at the two elder brothers and said.

"Hmm." Li Mo said, "You didn't encounter anything along the way, did you?" ”

"No, it's all good. The people in the caravan took good care of us and saved us a lot of trouble. Li said.

Li Shu suddenly became interested, and put one hand on Li Hua's shoulder, "What caravan?" What for? Fourth brother, go back and tell the third brother that the third brother is so big and has not been to such a far place. ”

"Okay." Li Hua responded with a smile.

Li Man saw his brothers standing in the courtyard and suggested, "Let's all go back to the house and talk." ”

"Hmm." Li Mo glanced at her gently, and then walked towards the east house, "Fourth brother, come into the house and talk." ”

"Okay." Li Hua instinctively glanced at Li Man.

Li Man saw that the family had finally gathered together, and naturally felt happy in his heart, looking at Li Hua and looking at himself, he said, "You talk to the eldest brother and they have a good conversation, I'll go cook, it just so happens that there are fish at home, or I'm braised it?" ”

"Whatever you want." Li Hua said.

Li Shu pulled his younger brother and said to Li Man, "Braised it, the braised fish made by my daughter-in-law is also delicious, it just so happens that I ate sauerkraut fish at noon, and I just want to eat braised fish." ”

As far as he was talking, Li Yan glanced at Li Shu unconsciously, but he didn't mean to enter the house with them.

Li Man saw that his old god was standing next to him without moving, and he could think of what he wanted to do with his toes, so he hurriedly called out to Xiao Wu, "Xiao Wu, you help my sister light the fire." ”

"Oh." As soon as Xiao Wu turned around, he gave Li Yan a look, "That's it, you can play with your fourth brother and them, I'll burn it." ”

"Hmm." When Xiao Wuyi heard this, he immediately smiled at Li Yan gratefully, "Second brother Xie Lu." ”

Turned around and ran into the house.

Li Man stared at Li Yan, "Li Hua has just come back, you guys don't talk well." ”

"Don't worry, you have a lot of time at night, let's go, I'll help you light the fire." As he spoke, Li Yan took her hand and took her into the kitchen with her.

"You pick up the fish at noon, and I'll pick some vegetables, but the fish is not good at night." Li Man thought that Li Hua had been sleeping in the open all the way, and he had to give him a good meal when he came back.

Fortunately, Li Yan was more obedient this time, and she didn't feel jealous or embarrassed her, so she took the fish and went outside the hospital to pick it up.

Li Man took the basket of vegetables, went to the backyard to pick some peppers, beans, greens, and cucumbers, and then went to the yard, fetched a large basin of water, and washed it slowly.

It was almost washed, and the fish that Li Yan picked up was also delivered.

"Put it down." Li Man put the cleaned dishes aside and handed them to Li Yan, "You go to the kitchen first." ”

"You send it, I'll wash this fish, and you will get a fishy hand again." Li Yan said.

Li Man glanced at him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, "Okay, you have to wash it, especially the black thing in the belly of the fish, scrape it clean with a knife, otherwise it will be poisonous." ”

"Zhilu Dao." Li Yan raised his eyebrows at her and smiled, "Go back and take it to you for inspection, if you are not satisfied, I will wash it again." ”

Li Man's heart moved, pursed his lips and smiled, without saying a word, he turned around and went back to the kitchen.

When she arrived at the kitchen, she put down the basket, turned around and measured the rice first, washed it and put it in the cauldron, and after a while, Li Yan came back to light the fire, and the two cauldrons could be burned together.

She cooks quickly, as long as the heat is enough, these dishes can be burned in less than an hour, and the rice will be fragrant by then.

Remembering that Li Hua almost didn't eat at noon, her hands and feet were even more neat, and after the rice was ready, she walked to the kitchen door and called Li Yan, "Have you washed it?" ”

"Well, douse it with water again." Li Yan said, took the washed fish directly in his hand, and quickly walked towards the kitchen.

Li Man waited at the door of the kitchen, and really reached out to take the fish, "Let me see, have you washed it?" ”

"Dead girl, that's all there is to it." Li Yan used the hand holding the kitchen knife to poke lightly on her forehead, "As soon as the fourth brother comes back, you will be like this?" ”

- How do you feel that the Li family is now full of vinegar (⊙o⊙)