Li Man helped Li Mo back to the house, took off the single clothes he was wearing, and pointed to the kang, "You lie down quickly, I'll help you change the dressing." ”

Li Mo hesitated slightly, and then obediently lay on the kang head.

Li Man took the medicine and saw that the wound on his back had formed a bloody scab, but the deep tearing mark was more obvious, thinking of the scene of him fighting with the wolf yesterday, he couldn't help but be a little afraid.

"Does it hurt?" She poured some powder into the wound and gently smoothed it with her fingertips.

Li Mo shook his head slightly, but the itching where her fingers passed made him stiffen a little uncomfortably.

Finally got through until the medicine was changed, Li Mo wanted to put on a single coat, but was stopped by Li Man, "What if the clothes pull the wound?" Fortunately, it's not cold now, it's just that it's a little uncomfortable to lie on your stomach like this, or will you lie on your side? ”

"Oh." Li Mo quietly pulled the thin quilt up.

Li Man picked up the bandage he had changed, it was stained with blood, and he had to wash it, "If you are in a hurry, let Xiao Wu accompany you to talk, and I will wash it." Yu"

After saying that, he turned around and went out the door.

Except for yesterday's accident, she was no different from usual, Li Moxin let go a little, and called Xiao Wu to the bedside, "You went to look for your fourth brother just now?" ”

"Hmm." Xiao Wu is very clever, and the eldest brother wants to know what Lu Dao wants, "Does my sister want the fourth brother to buy medicine?" ”

"Buying medicine? What medicine? Li Mo was curious.

Xiao Wu shook his head, "I don't understand it either, but the fourth brother understands it, and says that he bought it and asked the third brother to bring it back." ”

"That's it?" If that's it, there's nothing to worry about.

"Hmm." Xiao Wu rubbed next to the kang head, rubbed on the side of the eldest brother, squinted and smiled, "Don't worry, eldest brother, my sister said that she won't leave." ”

Looking at Xiao Wugu's big eyes, Li Mo's face turned red, his big palm stretched out on his head and rubbed it lightly twice, and said with a smile, "As far as you know, go ahead, see if she has anything to help?" ”

"Hmm." Xiao Wu came out after agreeing, and saw Li Man squatting by the well and rubbing bandages.

——

Li Yan went out early in the morning, and heard Xiao Wu say that he went to someone's house to help.

There were only three people at home at noon, and Li Man's cooking was very simple, rolling out some noodles, patting two cucumbers, and that's 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 very bored, so he walked to him, "Xiao Wu, I'll teach you to read, okay?" ”

Xiao Wu is also bored, except for the eldest brother Li Mo in the family, Da Hei loves to ignore everyone, hearing Li Man say this, he got up excitedly, "Hmm." ”

Li Man looked around, although it was a sunny day yesterday, the mud was still mud, but it was not muddy, "Let's go, let's go here." Eventually, she chose the corner of the house, where it was a little drier, and she just took a branch and wrote on the ground.

"So, I'll teach you to write your name first." Li Man squatted on the ground, took a branch and wrote the word 'Xiao Wu' one stroke at a time, "You try it?" ”

Xiao Wu also held the branch and drew a few bars crookedly on the ground, barely looking like the word 'three'.

Li Man smiled, "Well, it's a bit similar, if you add another stroke, it's five words." As she spoke, she added a vertical to his twisted three words.

"How? It's a lot better now, right? ”

"Hmm." Xiao Wu nodded in surprise, and then practiced the five characters repeatedly, his hands were still a little shaky when he first wrote, Li Man taught him a few times, and finally got better.

"Your fourth brother is also literate, why don't you usually teach you?" Seeing that he will be able to write in half an hour, Li Man asked idly.

Xiao Wu was still practicing repeatedly on the ground, wanting to intercede, and said casually, "I used to be sick, and my eldest brother was afraid that I would be tired." ”

"Oh." No wonder this little guy looked much thinner than children of the same age, and couldn't help but feel sorry for him, Li Man reached out and rubbed his little head, and encouraged, "Don't worry, when you are free in the future, my sister will teach you to recognize a lot of words." ”

"Hmm." Xiao Wu wrote his name for the last time, and felt that it was almost the same as what his sister wrote, so he said expectantly, "I still want to learn my sister's name." ”

"Oh, me?" Li Man smiled, his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, very good-looking, and he generously wrote the word 'Li Man', "Li is Muzi Li, and the vine is a grass prefix, and it is more difficult to do it underneath." ”

It's really difficult, and when she finished writing one stroke at a time, Xiao Wu was a little dumbfounded, his sister's name was much more difficult to write than his own, and he forgot which one to write first.

Li Man pursed her lips and smiled, "Sister's name is hard to write, right?" In this way, I will teach you some strokes today, and it will not be difficult to write after learning to write. ”

"Hmm." Xiao Wu regained his confidence and raised a big smile at Li Man.

That's it, in the afternoon, Li Man taught Xiao Wu to write strokes, horizontal folding and vertical hooks and skimming or something, Xiao Wu also learned extremely seriously, after an afternoon of practice, at least the writing posture is correct, the hands are not shaking, the strokes are also standard, the horizontal is a horizontal tree is a tree, and it is no longer crooked.

He was delighted.

It was getting late, Li Man went into the kitchen to work on dinner, he was still drawing on the ground, and was called into the house by Li Mo.

"Big brother, what's the matter?" Xiao Wu is still holding a branch in his hand, obviously he hasn't written yet.

Li Mo looked at the two crooked words he had written with a dagger on the wall, and suddenly became a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, I'll go to practice calligraphy first, and my sister will teach me something else tomorrow." Xiao Wu eagerly turned around to leave.

"Wait." Li Mo hurriedly grabbed him and pulled him to the wall, "You help the eldest brother take a look, is the eldest brother's name written correctly?" ”

Xiao Wu really looked at it seriously and shook his head, "Big brother, the word Li is wrong, my sister said that it was Muzi Li, you are missing a horizontal, and this ink word, it's so strange, it's different from what the fourth brother wrote last time." ”

Although Xiao Wu is young, he has not learned to read and write, but his memory is the same as Li Hua, and he is super good, so back then, after Li Hua first went to school, he returned to his home to teach his brothers to write their names, and they all followed the study for many days without learning, but Xiao Wu remembered, although he couldn't write, but he could recognize.

"Oh, isn't that so?" Li Mo had been writing silently in his heart for an afternoon, and finally dared to write these two words on the wall, "How do I remember that your fourth brother taught this last time." ”

"No, I'm sure." Xiao Wu only looked at the words that were even more crooked than what he wrote, and he was not afraid of hitting the eldest brother.

Li Mo really looked a little depressed, in the afternoon Li Man was teaching Xiao Wu to read outside, he listened to it all afternoon, he even felt that she was more knowledgeable than the fourth brother, but he, he had not been to school for a day, and he couldn't even write his own name, Xiao Wu learned it in the afternoon.

Xiao Wu tilted his head and looked at the two words carefully, and finally said, "Big brother, I'm sure what you wrote is wrong, or I'll call my sister to recognize it?" ”

"Oh, no, no." Li Mo hurriedly waved his hand, and scraped off the words with a dagger in a panic.

Xiao Wu looked at the eldest brother, and a trace of cunning flashed in his eyes, "Big brother, why don't you let your sister teach you to read and write?" ”

Li Mo's heart moved, but he was a little embarrassed, "No, the eldest brother is so old, and besides, the eldest brother is stupid—"

"Who said that big brother is not stupid." Xiao Wu hurriedly said, "The fourth brother often says that the eldest brother is the most powerful. ”

Li Mohan smiled, his smile was somewhat helpless and bitter, "Xiao Wu has learned the same." In the future, I will follow my sister to study hard. ”

"Oh." Xiao Wu responded, "Big brother, I'll go to my sister and ask for a word." ”

"Go ahead." Li Mo looked at the back of his little brother with joy, and suddenly felt envious.

——

Xiao Wu ran to the kitchen, and Li Man was picking vegetables.

Xiao Wu squatted next to her, and while helping to pick vegetables, he said, "Sister, you also teach your eldest brother to read, okay?" ”

"Huh?" Li Man was really stunned, but seeing that Xiao Wu was very serious, he asked curiously, "Did your eldest brother ask you to ask?" ”

Xiao Wu shook his head and said, "Big brother won't let me say it, he said that he is old and too stupid, let me learn it well." ”

What are these words? How old is a young man in his early twenties? Moreover, he is not stupid, he can fork fish with a bamboo branch, how sensitive, "Your eldest brother is modest." ”

"No, it's not." Xiao Wu stared at the big eyes and said seriously, "I know that the eldest brother is serious, sister, can you also teach the eldest brother to read and write?" Big brother, he really wants to learn. ”

"How do you know that he wants to learn?" Li Man asked with a smile.

Xiao Wu told him what the eldest brother in the room asked him just now.

Li Man's hand picking vegetables suddenly stopped, which reminded her of her former self, she never dared to exercise vigorously, how she envied those friends who played and had fun on the playground, and Li Mo, who had never studied, heard that Xiao Wu was learning to write seriously, and he was also envious in his heart.

Almost instantly, Li Man agreed, "Okay, Xiao Wu, let's study together tomorrow, but it's better to have a sand table, the eldest brother is injured, and it will be much easier to have a sand table on the kang." ”

"What is a sand table?" Xiao Wu asked.

"It's sand, let's write it on the ground now, if there is sand, we can erase it when we write it, which is convenient and saves money." Li Man knew very well that it was impossible for this family to spend money to buy paper and practice calligraphy.

"It's easy to do, I know where to find it." Xiao Wu put down the dishes excitedly, got up and ran out, 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 advised, "It's getting dark, don't run far." ”

"Hmm." Xiao Wuyi ran away.

Before he ran, Li Shu came back, parked the small cart under the eaves, turned around and entered the house, and excitedly stuffed a large paper bag to Li Man, "Daughter-in-law, I have bought everything, look." ”

"Oh, I'll see." Li Man rubbed her hands and opened the paper bag, there were several small paper packets inside, which were the medicine she wanted, but in addition to these, there was also a wooden comb and a piece of fragrant pancreas.

"Daughter-in-law, do you like it?" Seeing her staring at the pancreas, Li Shu squatted down and looked at her with squinting eyes.

Li Man was a little embarrassed, "What are you doing with these?" It's a waste of money. ”

"The fourth brother bought it, and he said you used it." Li Shu said.

Li Man's face flushed, "This will cost a lot of silver." ”

"Whoa." Li Shu took out the remaining silver taels from his pocket and gave it to her, "It's all here, the shopkeeper who collects leather goods has a good relationship with my eldest brother, and the price is higher than others every time, and the wolf skin is not bad at all this time, so I gave us three taels of silver, and the medicine you wanted, the fourth brother bought some of them according to the amount, and they were all wrapped here, a total of one or two silver, combs and pancreas fifty wen, and I also bought a few buns at noon, which cost thirty wen." By the way, daughter-in-law, the bun is still in the car. ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly turned around and went out, took the paper-wrapped bun from the car frame, and handed it to Li Man, "Daughter-in-law, I left it for you." ”

Smelling the smell, he knew that it was a bun stuffed with big fat meat, Li Man hurriedly said, "Put it on the pot, and eat it when it's hot in the evening." ”

"Whoa." Li Shu responded, put the buns away, and said, "I'll go and see the eldest brother, and I'll help you cook in a while." ”

"No-" Before Li Man spoke, the kid had already jumped out of the house quickly, but just as Li Man re-wrapped the big paper bag and put it in the compartment under the cabinet, he turned around and came back, "Daughter-in-law, have you picked the vegetables?" I'll wash it for you. ”

Seeing that he was rough, he was afraid that the basket of small greens would be rubbed away, Li Man hurriedly stopped, "No, you are also tired for a day, so rest quickly." ”

"Not tired." Li Shu stayed outside for a day, thinking about her for a long time, and at this moment, I wish I could stay next to her more.

"Then I'll help you wash the rice." 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 don't have anything to do, go and talk to your eldest brother, he has been lying on the kang all day, and he is probably flustered. ”

"Hee-hee, then I'll light a fire for you." Li Shu grinned and slipped under the stove, he actually wanted to accompany his daughter-in-law more.

Li Man was helpless, "Okay, but we have to wait, the rice hasn't been cooked yet." ”

"Hmm." Li Shu agreed very well.

——

Dinner is also very simple, a plate of fried vegetables, a plate of tender pumpkin, and four large buns with meat filling.

Li Shu said that he had already eaten them in the town, and these four were left for Li Man, just one for each person.

"You can eat it, I really don't like steamed buns." Li Man happened to stuff his own one to Li Shu.

But Li Shu also thought that she was deliberately letting herself eat, and she was both moved and distressed, "Daughter-in-law, I really ate it." This one is reserved for you, you eat. You wait, wait for the day when I make money, I promise to let you eat meat buns every day. ”

Poof——, can you stop scaring her like that?

"I'm not—"

"Third brother, this is for you." At this time, Li Mo sandwiched his bun into Li Shuwan, "I don't have much appetite, just eat some vegetables." ”

"Big brother-" Where is Li Shu willing to ask, the eldest brother is still injured, and he should eat some meat.

Seeing that the buns were sandwiched back into Li Mo's bowl, the corners of Li Man's mouth twitched slightly, and every time he ate the buns, he had to make such a scene of sandwiching and sandwiching, "Big brother, you can eat." Well, Li Shu, give you half of it, if you dare to give it back to me, I'll-"

Although his eyes were wide, he didn't say the cruel words in the end.

Li Mo blushed when he saw her, lowered his head and nibbled on the bun fiercely, and smiled slightly, "Okay, third brother, you can eat it." Xiao Wu, you eat quickly, don't be cold. ”

"Hmm." Xiao Wu and Li Shu agreed in unison, and Li Shu smiled even more, and ate half a bun in two bites.

After the meal, Li Man cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and Li Shu told him about today's events in the town, and said that the old shopkeeper gave three taels of silver to let him take care of his injuries or something.

Li Mo nodded, then remembered something, and advised, "Yesterday's doctor's one or two pieces of silver, you can pay it back tomorrow." "He never thought about repaying the bills, but it was really difficult for the family to scrape together a tael of silver yesterday.

"Hmm." Li Shu nodded.

Li Man was just about to leave with the chopsticks, but suddenly, thinking that Li Shu had given the money to himself, and he still had it in his pocket, he hurriedly put the chopsticks on the coffee table again, and took out the remaining silver taels to Li Mo, "Big brother, the money is here, you take it." ”

Li Mo didn't stretch out his hand to take it, but said, "You can take it." ”

"Me?" Li Man was stunned, what happened to her? What's more, except for the copper plate, she doesn't know the silver money at all, "I don't understand anything, it's good for the eldest brother to keep it." ”

With that, she put all the money on the table, picked up the bowl and was about to leave.

Li Mo opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything after all.

Li Shu didn't think it was anything, | Big brother, you have taken it, and Ming'er will pay back the doctor's money, and then talk about it. ”

"Oh, you put it away in the cupboard." Li Mo said.

——

Li Man returned to the kitchen, put the dishes and chopsticks into the cauldron, scooped a few scoops of water, and washed slowly.

There was a small oil lamp by the pot, Xu was not much tung oil, and the light was a little weak, she tried to pick the wick, but the effect was not very big, so she had to give up.

After washing the dishes and chopsticks and putting them in the cupboard, she cleaned up the pot and table again, when someone came in.

She still thought it was Li Shu, because he was the only one who was the most clingy, so she didn't raise her head, but said, "This lamp is out of oil, if you add some oil, it's almost gone." ”

"Okay." It was Li Yan who made a sound, and Li Man was frightened, and the rag in his hand fell to the ground.

"You, you're back?" She hurriedly picked up the rag to hide her inner turmoil.

"Who do you think it is?" Li Yan raised his eyebrows slightly at her, took out a small crockpot from under the cupboard, walked to the pot, opened it, and used a small bamboo piece to pick some from it and put it into the small oil lamp, and the light instantly brightened a lot.

Li Man saw that the injury on his face had improved a lot, "I, I thought it was Li Shu." She replied honestly and continued to clean up the pot.

"The third said there was still a bun left for me." Li Yan leaned over to her.

Li Man hurriedly walked away, "In the cupboard and bowl." ”

Li Yan went over and took it out by himself, and asked while eating, "Have you eaten it?" ”

"Hmm." Li Man responded casually, her movements in her hands were much faster, and with him, she had to be mindful at all times.

Li Yan leaned on the side of the pot and ate the buns in a few bites, "It tastes good." ”

Li Man didn't answer, the pot was cleaned up, the rag was scrubbed in the basin a few times, wrung out and spread out on the edge of the pot, and turned around to pour water.

Li Yan tilted her head slightly to see her come back after pouring water.

Li Man deliberately ignored the eyes that he had been closely surrounding him, pretended to be calm and put the basin away, turned around, and was about to leave without saying a word.

It's just that her stiff walking posture betrays everything.

As soon as she stepped out of the threshold, her arm was grabbed violently, and a force dragged her back.

"What are you doing?" The heart that had been worried finally mentioned in his throat, and Li Man asked in a trembling voice.

Li Yan encircled her between the wall and himself, his eyes full of helplessness, "I should ask you this sentence." ”

Li Man gritted his teeth and glared at him fiercely.

Li Yan shook his head lightly, "It's all reduced to being sold, what are you hoping for?" Although my Li family is poor, at least we won't beat you, scold you, or bully you—"

So what is he doing at the moment? Li Man wanted to ask this, but under his domineering eyes, he didn't have much confidence.

"I don't like you to hide from me when you see me. You don't do this in front of them, even the third brother, you are very kind to him. Li Yan couldn't help but wonder, is he really old and has lost his charm in front of women?

"This makes me very angry, do you know the way?"

Li Man was amused by his arrogant and arrogant tone, "If you are angry, you can stay away from me." ”

"How?" Li Yan leaned over, suddenly approached her face, squinted and smiled, "You are my daughter-in-law, we will have to sleep on a kang in the future, if I am far away from you, when will you give birth to a son for me?" ”

"Indecent!" Except for these two words, Li Man couldn't think of anything else to describe.

"Huh." Li Yan hooked her lips and smiled, pinched her chin with two fingers, lifted her face, and said in a low voice, "Your scolding reminds me again, it tasted good that day." ”

As the words fell, the fiery kiss fell again, swallowing all the sounds she wanted to scream in her mouth.

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