The sky was dark, and the last trace of light on the horizon disappeared on the other side of the mountain, and Li Xiaotao dragged her tired body back.

Mu Hongli and Mu Jiu boiled a pot of hot water and waited for her, "Mother, you go to take a bath first, and I'll cook the dishes immediately." ”

Mu Jiu told Aunt Mu Jiu that she could go to her to borrow a place for a while when she took a bath in the future.

Li Xiaotao brought a bucket of water over, and Mu Jiu began to cook.

Mu Hongli squatted on the edge of the stove very sensibly, helping Mu Jiu to light the fire, while burning the fire, he looked at the meat in the pot and swallowed saliva.

Mu Jiu smiled, no matter how sensible he was, he was just a child, and he also had his childish side.

"Don't be greedy, my sister will buy you meat every day in the future."

Mu Hongli's eyes lit up, and his little hands were raised happily.

But soon the high mood fell, "I thought about it, I still don't need it, it's not easy for my sister to make money." ”

Mu Jiu loved the little expression on Mu Hongli's tangled face, and pinched his uninjured cheek, "Little guy, why are you so cute, I love you to death." ”

Mu Hongli, who was praised, lowered his head shyly, and his little face suddenly turned red to the root of his ears, "Sister......"

"Hand me a bowl."

Mu Hongli got up and took a big bowl for Mu Jiu.

Mu Jiu put the fried pork and vegetables into a bowl, which was steaming, exuding the unique aroma of pork, which was appetizing.

It happened that Li Xiaotao came back from taking a bath, and Mu Jiu brought a grass dun to Li Xiaotao, "Mother, come over for dinner!" ”

Li Xiaotao put the bucket away, "Jiu'er, I seem to smell pork?" ”

"Yes, mother, you come over to eat first, and we will talk while eating."

"What did you say!" Li Xiaotao was so frightened that her voice broke, "Say it again!" ”

"Mother, I bought pork today, come and taste it!"

Suddenly, I bought a lot of polished rice, and suddenly I bought pork that I could only eat in one bite during the Chinese New Year!

Li Xiaotao was extremely uneasy, and asked Mu Jiu seriously, "Jiu'er, where did you get the money?" ”

She didn't know how much money Mu Jiu made selling medicinal herbs.

Before Mu Jiu could say anything, Mu Hongli explained first, "Mother, my sister's money is very hard, you don't want to be like this, it is the Bodhisattva who is blessing my sister to make money, we learned to distinguish medicinal materials, so we took them and sold them for a lot of money." ”

Li Xiaotao breathed a sigh of relief, but she still looked very uneasy, "It's good to come in the right way, my mother is worried that you are too young and easy to be deceived." ”

Mu Jiu could somewhat understand Li Xiaotao's psychology and nodded, "I know, don't worry, every penny is earned by my very hard work to collect medicinal materials, Jiu'er is measured, and will not do anything bad and harmful, nor will he be deceived." ”

Mu Hongli also agreed, "Mother, don't worry, my sister is a child blessed by the Bodhisattva and a blessed person." ”

"You are the same, you must not do harmful things, you know?"

"Got it! Mother, eat quickly, if you don't eat cold, it won't taste good. ”

Mu Hongli sandwiched a piece of fragrant meat and put it in Li Xiaotao's bowl, "Taste it, my sister's craftsmanship is very good!" ”

Li Xiaotao stared at the meat piece for a long time, and her hands holding chopsticks were trembling with excitement.

Mu Jiu understands, after many years of not being like a human being, suddenly the environment is better, I can't believe the present, I am afraid to go back to the past, and I can't help myself for a while.

"Mother, our days will be so good in the future, you don't have to worry, there are things that the Bodhisattva taught me, I can earn a lot of money to honor you!"

"Good boy." Li Xiaotao took a small bite carefully, still too excited.

"I haven't eaten meat for a long time in my memory, and I don't know if it was ......a few years ago."

The two children listened quietly to Li Xiaotao's recounting of the hard days in the past, and secretly made up their minds that they must change this predicament in the future.

After eating a few pieces of meat, Li Xiaotao suddenly stood up as if he remembered something.

"What's wrong?" Mu Jiu also stood up.

Li Xiaotao was a little cramped, "That...... We're eating meat here, do you want your grandparents to send some of it? ”

Mu Hongli turned half of his face in disappointment, although Mu Jiu rubbed the medicine on him and reduced the swelling, there were still very conspicuous red marks.

"Mother, grandpa beat me when you weren't there!"

Originally, it was almost dark when Li Xiaotao came back, and the light in the kitchen was not good, so she didn't pay attention, but now when she looked closely, her heart hurt, "Why did he come to beat you." ”

"I want to come and grab our household registration papers, but my sister won't give it." Mu Hongli ignored Mrs. Mu's part.

"Why do we need household registration documents, we have already divided the households." Li Xiaotao was puzzled.

Mu Jiu lowered the loss in his eyes and patiently explained, "Mother, to put it bluntly, grandpa wants to control the household registration documents in his hands and control us in his hands.

In the future, Manulife will have to ask him for the exam if he wants to study, and then he will mention the conditions, whether to sell me or what, it is up to him to decide, and even so serious that he can't study if he sells me to Manulife, you won't think he will really love Manulife now. ”

Mu Jiu was angry in his heart, and he didn't even need honorifics.

"This ......," Li Xiaotao believed Mu Jiu's words, "then what should we do next?" ”

"Mother, do you believe in Jiu'er?" Mu Jiu stared at Li Xiaotao's eyes.

Li Xiaotao is unassertive, she must cut off her last hesitation, and can't let the Mu family have a chance to take advantage of her!

Li Xiaotao did not hesitate, "Believe!" ”

"That's done, no matter what we have in the future, we can't let our grandparents know, we just give ten cents in alimony every month according to what the clan elder said."

"But what the hell are your grandparents......"

"Mother! You think of them as our grandparents, but when he was going to sell me, did he ever think that I was his granddaughter?

When we split up, they didn't give us a grain of rice, and when they wanted to starve us to death, did they think that we were granddaughters and grandchildren, and it was understandable that I was not valued as granddaughters, so what about Manulife? He's a grandson!

Mother, it's good that you're kind, but if you're too kind, you'll kill us, to put it bluntly, do you choose them or me and Manulife, you know, if you give them something, Manulife and I will die. ”

Li Xiaotao was shocked, "No...... It's not that serious. ”

It was Mu Hongli who answered her this time, "My sister is right, it's so serious, think about it, if they know that my sister can make money, and they don't desperately enslave my sister to make money, they will tire my sister to death!"

If my sister doesn't comply, they will keep me under control and lock me up in a place where you can't find me, so that you will never see me, and use them to threaten my sister! ”

Li Xiaotao felt chills all over her body when she thought of not seeing her son, "He...... They ......"

Mu Jiu lost his patience, "Mother, even you can't be sure that they won't dare to do this." ”

Li Xiaotao's bottom line is their sister and brother, and only by repeatedly using the safety of their sister and brother can Li Xiaotao's heart be firm.

The sisters and brothers exchanged a look with each other, and Mu Hongli said with added fuel and vinegar, "Mother, this is still light, once the household registration documents are in his hands, maybe one day our names will appear on the slave documents of the kiln, your daughter will become a kiln sister who rides thousands of people to sleep, and your son will become a little girl who is enslaved by an old woman!" ”

"No......" Li Xiaotao looked frightened.

"Mother, as soon as the household registration was changed, some thugs snatched me and my sister away from the kiln, when the time comes, how will you save us?

Go to the yamen to complain? With grandpa's signature, not only will you not be able to save us, but you will also be beaten, you can bear that I am forced to become a small restaurant? Sister forced to become a kiln sister? ”

Li Xiaotao's eyes changed several times, and she was frightened.

Mu Jiu added another dose of fierce medicine, "Mother, don't say you haven't found out yet, when it happens, it's too late." ”

Mu Hongli sang and harmonized, "My sister is right, if you really love us, remember that no matter what happens, you can't be soft-hearted and listen to your grandparents, you have to listen to us, and don't think about them for anything, you just need to think about me and my sister!" ”

"I can't even listen to what Daddy says!"

"You can't sway again and again, maybe if you sway, my sister and I will have to go to hell."

Li Xiaotao's pupils gradually expanded, and then slowly gathered, and the last hesitation in her heart finally peeled off and became firm, "Mother knows." ”

Seeing that Li Xiaotao was frightened, the sister and brother accepted it when they saw it, and began to say some soothing words to reassure Li Xiaotao.

"Mother should be like this, the Mu family is bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, if they dare to sue you with unfilial piety, there are also villagers and Grandpa Lizheng to bear it, and the yamen is not up to them."

Mu Jiu took the trouble to analyze the current situation for Li Xiaotao and gave Li Xiaotao a reassurance, lest she have such a hesitant situation when she encounters something.

Filial piety or something, it also depends on the object, the old man does not have the appearance of the elderly, so don't blame them for being juniors in order to survive, choose to be indifferent!

"Mother, you have time to go to the aunt's house where the old people in the village are alive and ask at the house, they support the elderly is also ten cents a month, we can't set a precedent to give more, in case the old man's requirements are increased in the future, some people can't take it, they will hate us, we still have to survive in this village, we can not offend people as much as possible."

Li Xiaotao nodded, what Mu Jiu said was reasonable.

Mu Hongli said, "Mother, I know that there are a few families in the village who think that the girl is married outside, so they sell the girl, thinking that they have made money, but do you see that they have improved their lives?" In the end, they get poorer and poorer, and this is retribution! We must not do things that go against the will of God and harm my sister. ”

"No, how can my mother sell my sister, and I won't kill my mother." Otherwise, she wouldn't have contradicted the old man for the first time.

Mu Hongli, "Even if my father says something one day, you start to sway again, believe him or not, stupidly wait for my sister to be sold and think that my father is not like that!" ”

Mu Jiu smiled at Mu Hongli gratefully, in order to protect her, Mu Hongli did a lot!

Li Xiaotao finally said decisively, "No, never again, it's a big deal to invite yourself to the court, you are the most important person in my mother!" ”