Chapter 32 The grass is green, waiting for the king
"Fourth brother, the ground under our feet...... Balls, really round? Still going in circles? ”
On the hillside outside the village, the grass blades were still hanging with dew. The little girls, Second Sister Guan and Li Shi, each carried a basket and a sickle, and they were both mowing the grass.
Originally, Second Sister Guan was going to help the widow Wang in the village cut pigweed, but Li Xi was thinking that it was time to resume morning exercises, so she simply followed her to get busy. He was clumsy, but the little girl was like a butterfly fluttering on the tip of the grass, and the sickle was her wing, wielding lightly in the grass. While she was busy, the little girl still had room to think about the homework Li Xi taught last night.
Last night, Li Shi talked about geography, and asked the orphans on the nine mines, including Jia Gouzi, Wu Shishi, and the second sister Guan to "open their eyes to the world" first, and talked about the earth and the sun, the rotation and revolution of the earth, as well as the continents and oceans, and many countries. The biggest doubt of the students about the fact that the earth is round and still spinning, but Li Xi did not allow the students to ask questions on the spot, but went back to come up with the answer by himself.
Second Sister Guan thought about it for half the night, and finally couldn't help it until now, and asked with her privilege, and Li Xi had already waited for her to speak, thinking that it was a question like why people didn't fall.
"But why, we weren't fainted?"
Second Sister Guan's question made Li Shi a little dizzy when he asked it, to explain relative motion and absolute motion, it was really difficult for a country girl who had no concept of classical physics at all.
"I see! It's because we're always moving! Once you are idle, or lie down, you will be sleepy, and sleeping is actually dizzy! ”
Then a little star flashed in the eyes of Second Sister Guan, Li Xian sweated slightly, this Lori's way of thinking is really not on the same plane as ordinary people, and she knew that a random sentence about the earth is too big, or she can be coaxed by turning too slowly. But this is not what he wants, he wants them to open the door to rational thinking, not the door to this dreamy thinking.
Second Sister Guan grinned, and turned away on the grass by herself, her petite and delicate figure and her extremely jumping words seemed to merge into one, making Li Xian let out a throbbing sigh from the bottom of his heart, this is really an unrestrained elf, God can send her to himself, the fare of this trip is at least worth it.
"Wait, I'm really not Lolicon!"
Then Li Xian was alert in his heart, and hurriedly swore an oath, although it was a bit of a taste of three hundred taels of silver here......
His mind was in turmoil, but he saw that the figure like a butterfly wearing flowers suddenly crooked, as if he was stepping on a stone, and the person jumped on the grass at once, and the sickle in his hand was thrown off his hand, and before Li Xi could react, he wiped the little girl's feet and fell to the ground, and at the same time there was a cry of pain.
Li Xian's heart tightened, and he rushed over to take off Second Sister Guan's shoes, and saw a trace of blood seeping out through the wrapper, which seemed to be just a small cut, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's be naughty again, don't call Guan Er Sister in the future, just call Guan Er lame!"
He whispered in pity. Second Sister Guan frowned, but she still grinned, and spat out her little pink tongue at Li Yan.
Remembering that there was still Tian Qiji left by Cai Langzhong in the house, Li Shi went home with Second Sister Guan in his arms. Putting her on the bed, she found the plaster, and turned around, the sunlight was shining through the window, and it was falling on the little feet of Second Sister Guan who had unwrapped the cloth, and the color as white as warm jade slammed into her heart clearly and violently, making Li Xi stunned for a moment.
Although the little girl's body is thin, but this little foot is fleshy, there is not a trace of blood vessels, the crystal pink feet diffuse a breath-taking halo in the sun, the toes are still restlessly twisted, as if they want to support the master to continue dancing.
"I'm not a pervert...... I'm not a pervert......"
Li Xian stared at the little girl's feet, and recited silently in his heart, and he still had a clear spiritual consciousness thinking, he used to despise the people who controlled this and that, but now he understands, that is just that he has not encountered something controllable! Isn't there already a sign of foot control now?
In a trance, the trace of scarlet on his feet condensed his consciousness, and he struggled to suppress the act of wiping his sweat, Li Xi began to clean the wound of Second Sister Guan and apply plaster.
As soon as the visual impact passed, between the hands, the tenderness of the little girl's skin once again violently hit Li Shi's heart embankment, and Li Shi's head read vigorously "I am a beast...... I'm a beast ......" his face was also iron-blue, and his brows were furrowed more like Qin Chuan's, which barely made his movements not deformed.
"Fourth brother, you ...... What's wrong? ”
The hateful thing is that Second Sister Guan still came to make ghosts, she saw Li Xi's expression that looked like a toothache.
"Hmmm! Hum! ”
Li replied in a nasal voice in exasperation, of course irritation at himself.
Second Sister Guan's body shook a little, then her upper body froze, and her little feet began to retract in fear, Li Xian looked up in surprise, but saw that the little girl drooped her head, and there was no blood on her cheeks.
"What's wrong!?"
Li Shi's tone hadn't been twisted for a while, it seemed hard, and Second Sister Guan's little shoulders collapsed even more, and the whole person began to curl up.
"Fourth brother, you dislike me...... feet? ”
Second Sister Guan's voice became quieter and quieter the more she spoke, and when she got to the back, she looked like a mosquito, and tears rolled in the corners of her eyes.
"I'll go back...... When I went back, I asked my mother to wrap my feet, I was afraid of pain, so my mother didn't wrap me down. It's me who is bad, I ...... I shouldn't, shouldn't be afraid......"
What...... Foot binding?
"Not allowed! Whoever pesters me cuts his hand! ”
Li Xi was frightened awake and shouted out irritably.
Second Sister Guan was also so frightened that her small body stepped back, her thin arms propped up on the bed, and she looked at Li Shi with a frightened face, like a pitiful lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
"Uh-huh...... That one...... I mean, it's not good to bind your feet. ”
Li Xi calmed his face, and at the same time tried to prevent his face and flesh from exuding strange Shu lines.
"Not good? But my father and mother said that a girl who doesn't bind her feet can't get married, and everyone will laugh at her. ”
Second Sister Guan secretly looked at Li Shi, with tears on her face, and she didn't quite understand the thoughts of the four brothers.
Bullshit!
Li Xian scolded angrily in his heart, he really didn't expect this bad custom of foot binding to be so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and even the grass people in the fields felt that if they didn't bind their feet, they were not serious women.
Forced to suppress the surging tide of his heart, Li Xi changed his joking tone, "I'm thinking about marrying someone now, who is the second sister going to marry?" ”
The little girl's answer was subconscious at all, "This is up to my father and mother, but ...... It's best not to marry, and keep guarding the fourth brother! ”
Li Xian smiled, half serious and half teasingly asked: "Then why don't you marry the fourth brother directly?" ”
The little girl shook her head seriously: "Then how can it be done?" The fourth brother is the elder brother......"
Then she felt that it was wrong: "That, it's the eldest sister who wants to marry the fourth brother, not me." ”
Speaking of this, a little strange thought that Li Xian had just risen dissipated, that small-footed woman? I feel a little cautious, how can I marry her? No, we'll have to find a way to solve it.
He "confessed" softly: "What if the fourth brother I want to marry is the second sister?" ”
Second Sister Guan's pigtails swayed from side to side: "How can I rob the eldest sister's man?" ”
Li Xian laughed and laughed, the word "man" was used well, but when Second Sister Guan said this word, her accent was the same as that of Cai Langzhong, with a bit of northern flavor.
He was distracted, and Second Sister Guan found a workaround, "I'll be a maid for the fourth brother, so that I can always guard the fourth brother." ”
The fresh grass fragrance wrapped Li Shi, and the feeling of being light as a feather when he picked up the little girl before suddenly made Li Shi's messy heart clear. Rubbing the little girl's head, Li Xianxin said, such a pure and flawless herb really needs to be guarded by himself all the time.
Wrapping the wound of Second Sister Guan and wrapping it with a cloth, Second Sister Guan was about to put back her shoes when Li Shi stopped her. Pulling out a piece of grass from the back basket outside the house, Li Xi tied a grass ring on Second Sister Guan's feet like tying a bow.
"Since I want to be my maid, then this foot is my fourth brother, if I can't wrap my feet, I will definitely not be allowed!"
Second Sister Guan didn't understand why Li Shi said this, so her tone became very stern, she just sighed blankly, and then nodded very seriously, saying in her heart that since it was the fourth brother's order, then do it.
After cleaning up, Li Xi picked up Second Sister Guan on her back, carrying a basket in her hand, and Second Sister Guan carried a basket on her back, and the two of them carried the basket on their backs, and walked towards the widow Wang's house in the village so funny.
The widow was less than thirty years old, and her family had lost their land, so she raised pigs for a living. There was a son named Wang Jiu, who was twelve or thirteen years old and was studying in Mengxue. Today, I became a "duty", responsible for the sorting of the classroom and the attendance records of the students, and I went to the classroom to stand guard early, so the second sister Guan would help cut the pigweed. Because she is an orphan and widow, the villagers usually take turns to help mow the grass for her family, and the water accumulated in the house is often delivered, and every time she sells pigs, she will also leave some bits and pieces to distribute to the villagers.
Seeing Li Xi and Second Sister Guan coming over in a strange way, Widow Wang, who was cleaning up the pigsty, was grateful and amused.
"Fourth brother, did you start learning to carry your little daughter-in-law so early?"
She made fun of Li Shi, Li Shi and Guan Yunniang's relatives are well known to the village, but the villagers see more of the intimacy between Li Shi and Guan Erjie, so they basically regard the Guan sisters as Li Shi's daughter-in-law.
"This pig...... Just eat grass? ”
Being pointed at his heart, Li Xi was a little embarrassed, and quickly changed the topic, the skinny piglets in the pigsty made Li Xi very suspicious, whether this was a pig or a sheep.
"Of course, I didn't eat it directly, I had to crush the mixture. Where did the farmer get so much water, except for pigweed, it was the sweet potato bud and vegetable leaves saved in people's mouths, and they could still live with the blessing of the villagers before. The fourth brother has done such a big good thing this time, without the imperial grain, he should be able to raise two or three strong pigs this year, and then the aunt will take a hoof, and the fourth brother should not accept it. ”
Widow Wang took the back basket of Li Xi and Second Sister Guan, and chattered enthusiastically with her face. Li Xian smiled bitterly and nodded, but his eyes stopped on the green and straight grass blades in the back basket, and he wondered in his heart, can he really raise pigs with this grass? But if you look closely, it doesn't seem to be an ordinary weed, what family and genus is it, and what is the scientific name?
This question is too profound, no matter what kind of grass it is, as long as the pig can eat it, it is called pigweed...... Even in years of famine, people have to eat.
Speaking of famine, Li Xi suddenly had an impression, this grass is famous in later generations, and that word seems to be very elegant, what is it called......
was in a daze, Tian Dayou suddenly appeared, as if he had been looking around the village, panting for breath and sweating. When he saw Li Shi, he immediately shouted.
"Mrs. Liu came, saying that she came on behalf of Master Zhong, and said...... He also said that he wanted to ......"
He didn't catch his breath, and Li Shi choked when he heard it.
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