I stayed in the Li Mansion for three days, except for the fact that I didn't sleep well at night, everything else was fine.

Although she is now sending someone under the fence, the eldest lady is really as amiable as Wu's mother said, and she sends someone to send some food every once in a while.

It's just that Linglong Lingli is not very close to herself, and she met her on the road and said hello and left, Li Yao didn't have any friends when she was a child, so she didn't care.

It's just that in the end, it's their own sister, and they will have to get along for a long time in the future.

Li Yao rummaged in her carry-on luggage for a while and found a jewelry box made of golden silk nanmu, which was her most precious thing.

She picked and picked out a jadeite bracelet with gold, two jade bracelets of a slightly inferior color, and a few simple pieces of jewelry.

I heard my father say that these are all good things, which were rewarded to him by Commander Ding, and he was supposed to give himself a dowry, but now he doesn't need it, so it is better to give them to a few ladies of the Li family, which can be regarded as thanking them for taking care of them.

The maid Yuncui saw such a beautiful bracelet for the first time, her eyes lit up, and her brass bell-like voice sounded: "This is the young lady's dowry, are you willing to give it away?" ”

Li Yao smiled: "Now that we are sending people under the fence, the eldest lady treats me well, this little thing is nothing." ”

A few wives were very happy when they received the bracelet, but the fourth wife held the jade bracelet and looked at it for a long time.

The fourth wife had heard that the third master followed Commander Ding before his death, this Commander Ding was born as a bandit, and he was like a murderer, and he couldn't make any big waves, but a year ago, he found a tomb in the north and dug out a number of treasures.

Use these treasures to recruit troops everywhere, and this is how it grows stronger day by day.

Few people know about this matter, but the fourth wife's own brother is Inspector Liu, who has some friendship with Commander Ding, so he knows a little about it.

The fourth lady looked a little disgusted, and shouted with a bracelet: "This is not something dug up from that tomb, I don't want anything in the tomb, bad luck!" ”

The eldest lady's smile immediately froze on her face, and she glared at the fourth lady viciously, and the fourth lady immediately realized that she had lost her words, and deliberately turned her face away, lowering her eyes and not looking at her.

Li Yao didn't expect her to say that, her face turned red, and she replied in a low voice: "No, these are all picked from the shop." ”

The fourth wife accepted it, and several ladies and aunts got things. Although they usually live a fine life and have a lot of rare objects, it is just that the bracelets given by Li Yao are of the highest quality in terms of color and condition.

It's obviously an ordinary little girl, but it's a little unbelievable that she can come up with such a good thing.

Linglong and Lingli each got a pair of jade earrings, they were very happy, holding her hand and calling a sister very affectionately.

Linglong smiled: "The third sister is usually too angry, and she will walk around with us more in the future." ”

The days that followed were still light, but the ladies treated her much more enthusiastically than when they first met.

The eldest lady gave birth to a daughter, who got married a few years ago, probably because she was not accompanied by her children, and she was a little lonely.

Seeing that the New Year is approaching, the winter in the north should have been full of snow at this moment, and the wind is as loud as thunder.

Li Yao suddenly remembered the days when she and her father were roasting around the stove and peeling peanuts and eating smoked mutton.

The winter in Jiangnan is different, the winter in Jiangnan is getting better, getting up in the morning, there is a thin layer of hoarfrost on the ground, like the fat powder on a woman's face, and when the sun comes out, it will disappear into morning dew after a while.

Even the northwest wind blows, at most it will be cold for a day or two, once the cold wind passes, the leaves will not all wither, plus the evergreen trees in the garden, the plum blossoms that bloom in the cold wind are more vibrant than the desolation of the north.

Li Yao slowly adapted to life here, restrained her temperament, and always locked herself in her room most of the time, reading books and practicing calligraphy, and at most she was active in the yard.

Although I stayed at home until I was bored and panicked, I was even more unfamiliar with life when I got out of the house.

Today's weather was sunny and full of sunshine, and through the window lattice, she was flipping through the "Theory of Heavenly Evolution".

Outside the window, a servant was sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground with a long broom.

Today, the wives of the family have gone out to play cards, and the garden is particularly deserted, so she thinks about going to the pavilion over there to sit and bask in the sun, and by the way, think about what gifts to give to the wives of the family in the New Year.

They are interested in giving gifts, which family is married, or which wife's child has a birthday, they have to give gifts.

But the bottom of her pressure box was sent out.

She was thinking a little distracted.

She wore a cherry red cashmere vest today, and her hair was pinned behind her ears with a plain hairpin, which was like two people who had just come to the Li family, so she looked a little young lady when she was dressed up a little.

She was stunned, and suddenly saw the second aunt in the distance holding a feather duster and rushing towards this side angrily, shouting in her mouth: "Little rabbit cub, stop for the old lady, I have to break your leg today!" ”

Li Yao stood up, and suddenly found that a hairy boy appeared behind him at some point, it was the little young master he saw in the courtyard last time.

He was tugging at his clothes in horror, his little head sneaked out to look forward, shrank behind her, and whispered to Li Yao: "Shhh ”

I didn't see the little master last time, this child's red face is like an apple, which is really cute.

The second aunt saw him too far away, and deliberately walked in front of Li Yao without making a sound, and dragged out the little young master who was hiding behind Li Yao, twisted his ears with one hand, and held a feather duster in the other hand to spank him.

scolded and scolded: "I told you to hide, I told you to hide." ”

The little young master's dark eyes immediately covered the tears in his eyes, frowned, grew his mouth, and howled like a pig.

Li Yao's ears hurt a little, and this feather duster cried so miserably before it hit her body.

The second aunt's face is even more unsightly.

"Cry, you know crying, it's noisy!"

The little young master looked at Li Yao pitifully while screaming, thinking about asking her to intercede.

Li Yao was originally a nosy person, and she couldn't bear the child looking at her like this, she put down the book, went over and grabbed the second aunt's hand, and said, "Second aunt, don't fight, the little master should know that it's wrong!" ”

After that, he went to pull the little master's hand again, this kid is also clever, and he will suddenly understand, and nod vigorously: "Mom, I know it's wrong, don't fight anymore, I hurt!" ”

As soon as the child said that it hurt, which mother was not distressed, she stopped, but still felt a little angry, threw a feather duster, and sat on the stool to sulk.

Li Yao poured her a cup of tea, the second aunt took a sip of tea, thinking of the daughters born to several brothers of the Li family, she finally gave birth to a son to the eldest master, and the family held it in the palm of her hand.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that her chest was clogged, and the breath she had just swallowed was up again, and before she finished drinking a cup of tea, she was like carrying a little chicken with the collar of the little young master to leave, and suddenly her sharp eyes saw the book Li Yao was holding in her hand, her eyes lit up, and she asked, "Yaoyao, are you literate?" ”

Li Yao had studied in a girls' school for a few years before, and if it weren't for the accident in her family, she wouldn't have dropped out of school and come here, so she nodded and replied, "Yes." ”

The second aunt seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and a smile immediately appeared on her face, clapped her hands, sat down again, took Li Yao's hand and said: "Taotao, this uncompetitive thing, has been angry for several teachers, and the school refuses to go, can you teach him to read and write in the future?" ”

The little young master felt that this third sister had a good personality, and he also helped himself escape the beating, and he must be lazy if he wanted to be lazy when he studied with her, and he was taken to speak every day: "Third sister, you can teach me to read!" ”

Li Yao was a little embarrassed at first, she didn't know if she would agree to teach the little master to study, but fortunately, the eldest lady was very happy when she heard it.

The little young master Li Guotao is deeply loved by Master Li, so he has been pampered since he was a child, and his temperament is a little more stubborn, he eats soft and not hard, Li Yao touched his temperament, just patiently taught, but found that this little young master is not the second aunt who does not learn and has no skills, but is very smart, ancient poems and Song words can be memorized backwards, and she also knows a lot of words, she couldn't help asking: "Why do you obviously pretend that you don't know anything?" ”

The little young master snorted, and a look that did not match his age appeared on his childish face, and then he sighed like an adult: "Since I was a child, my mother has asked me to fight for my breath, and when I make a mistake, she will beat me and scold me, and the more she tries hard for me, the more I don't want to listen to her." ”

has learned to rebel at a young age, and it is hard to imagine how the second aunt forced him to study on weekdays.

Guo Tao is the only male among the descendants of the Li family, so he is naturally given high hopes, but this high hope is too heavy for a child less than ten years old, she stroked his head lovingly, and said: "I have a way to make your mother never beat you again in the future!" ”

The little young master Guotao opened his eyes: "Really? ”

"Really!"

Most parents hope that their son will become a dragon, but the more they look forward to, the more they demand, the more it is easy to backfire, it is better to let the second aunt learn to let go and trust Taotao.

The New Year is approaching, the Li Mansion has begun to buy all kinds of New Year's goods, and several masters of the Li Mansion will also return to the house in a few days.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the old men of the Li family returned as scheduled, and Li Yao saw her uncles for the first time, and they were extremely restrained, and his father once told her that his uncles were very powerful.

Therefore, she thinks that it is enough to be a respectful junior in front of them.

The old men of the Li family didn't seem to be very interested in the third daughter, but just politely said a few words to her air.

The Li family is engaged in the medicinal herb business, and there are several large and small pharmacies in this small city in the south of the Yangtze River, but since the war, it has been good and bad, and in order to maintain the family business, they often have to go to the north to buy goods, and at the end of the year, they have to go to various places to collect accounts, which must be a dusty journey.

The eldest wife, the fourth wife was busy happily, only the fifth wife looked gloomy, the fifth master Li Binghai didn't look at her since she came back, and when it was time to eat, the people were gone, and the fifth wife had a calm face, and Li Yao saw it in her eyes.

It seems that the rumors of the next person are true, this fifth master has raised a little daughter-in-law outside, and she is almost not at home, Lingli only cares about looking at the gift with Linglong, and she can't see the unhappiness on her mother's face, she has some sympathy for this woman.

There was a murmur of footsteps in the corridor, and several subordinates led two men in, led by a straight police uniform, with sharp eyes, a very handsome face, and a chilling air between the eyebrows.

The man who followed behind was full of loose energy, and he was really a little imposing under the backdrop of the man in the police uniform, and his hippie smiling face was a little unbearable.

"Cousin!" Linglong shouted, then happily ran over to hold the man's hand, he immediately smiled, put her hand away with some discomfort, and whispered: "Girls should be reserved!" ”

Master Li Bingcheng stood up and greeted him: "Zichuan and Shao Hua, why did you come over, just at home to eat!" ”

As he spoke, he ordered his subordinates to add two pairs of chopsticks.

Shao Hua was also not polite, took a box from his subordinates, sent it to Li Bingcheng, and said, "Uncle Li is polite, I heard that you are back, so I came to see you, this is a gift from my father to you." ”

Li Bingcheng opened the box, his eyes lit up, a good thousand-year-old ginseng, he was used to the medicinal herb business, and he could see at a glance that this ginseng was much better than his inventory, and he asked him to sit down with a smile on his face.

Lin Zichuan took out two boxes of tea and said, "This is the Yuhua tea I brought to you, my father said that the taste is fragrant, so I must bring it over for you to taste." ”

"You're polite, you're polite, I'm going to be home later, the gifts will be free, and I'm embarrassed to bring me a gift when I come back." Master Li said with a smile.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was very delicate, Linglong only cared about picking up vegetables for Shao Hua, the fifth wife still had a gloomy face, the eldest lady was busy beckoning everyone to eat more vegetables, and Lingli looked at Lin Zichuan in a daze, and only moved her chopsticks once in half a day, but Taotao didn't pay attention to all this at all and just buried her head in eating.

After the meal, Shao Hua wanted to take Linglong Lingli to the movies, Taotao shouted that she was going to go, the eldest lady made an appointment, and suddenly thought that Li Yao and several younger sisters were not very familiar with each other and intended to let them have more contact, so she asked her to go with her, and she couldn't refuse, so she went hard.

Shao Hua's car couldn't accommodate so many people, and Lin Zichuan happened to drive over in a car, so Li Yao naturally sat in her car. Originally, Lingli also wanted to take her car, but Linglong kept pulling herself, and could only watch Li Yao get into Lin Zichuan's car unhappily.

The car drove all the way down the long street, from the small street to the south, there were many small restaurants and stalls along the way, and there were many people buying New Year's goods on both sides of the street, which was particularly lively, Li Yao sat quietly in the back, staring blankly at the people coming and going outside, Suddenly, Lin Zichuan's voice came from the front.

"You're the third lady?"

Maybe it was because of the soldiers, and the tone was stiff, this question also made her feel a little uncomfortable, and it took a long time to reply: "Yes, my name is Li Yao, hello." ”

Lin Zichuan is actually a person who doesn't like to talk much, so he replied with two words: "Hello." ”