"Li Chuan'er, come here!" Several of the big boys in the school blocked Li Chu'er's way and shouted at her.

Li Chu'er pinched the strap of her schoolbag and looked at them timidly, the beads of sweat on her face became more and more.

"My mother said you were picked! And said that your mother is a big girl and has never married someone to raise you? Isn't it? The kid of the Wang family tied Li Chu'er's pigtail with the wicker in his hand and asked her with a smile.

Li Chu'er pouted, looking like she was about to cry, her feet stomped around on the mud, wanting to run, but she didn't have the courage.

"You say, are you born secretly from your mother? She got along with a wild man, gave birth to you, and lied to the village chief that she was selected? The little fat man of the Song family picked up the stones on the ground and threw them at Li Chu'er.

Li Chu'er tilted her head, and the stone flew past her eyebrows, and the sharp corners slashed at her temples, and a bloody mark immediately appeared on her snow-white skin.

"Wow......" Li Chu'er finally cried loudly.

"Who is bullying Li Chu'er here!" Mr. Su in the school heard the cry, walked out of it with a cane, and drank at the group of bad boys.

The bad boys dispersed in a hurry, Mr. Su "spitted" at their backs, walked to Li Chu'er, who was still crying, pinched his sleeves and wiped her little face, while comforting: "Don't cry, don't cry, go home quickly!" Your mother is waiting for you at home......"

The sensible Li Chu'er sobbed and nodded, but when she turned to leave, she was pulled by Mr. Su, stuffed a bag of mung bean cake into her hand, then waved her hand, and slowly walked back to the school with a cane.

Li Chu'er snorted, opened the package of mung bean cake as she walked, and put the crumbs from the oily skin into her mouth with her fingers, and took two bites, with a smile on her face.

When she arrived at the door, Li Chu'er hurriedly wrapped the mung bean cake again, wiped it on her face twice with her sleeve, and then jumped into the house.

"Coming back from school? Hungry, right? Li Chu'er's mother, Li Wenqing, stood up from behind the embroidery frame and greeted her daughter with a smile.

"Whoa!" Li Chu'er raised the mung bean cake in her hand and handed it to her mother as if offering a treasure.

"Where did it come from?" Li Wenqing took the mung bean cake, put it on the table, walked to the jar and poured the ladle of water into the wooden basin, and pulled her daughter to wash her face and hands.

"Mr. Su gave it." Li Chu'er responded.

"You want Mr. Su's stuff again!" Li Wenqing was disgusted, asked her daughter to raise her little face, and wiped her with a handkerchief.

Seeing a scar on Li Chu'er's temple, Li Wenqing's hand stopped, stared at her eyes and asked, "How did you get it on your face?" Is it the kid of the Wang family bullying you again? ”

"Mother's ......" Li Chu'er hugged her mother's waist and put her face on her chest.

"Look at our orphans and widows are easy to bully, aren't they? No, I'm going to have to make it clear to them today! Li Wenqing pushed Li Chu'er away, threw the handkerchief in the basin, and walked out the door.

"Mother...... Don't go! Li Chu'er ran over and grabbed her mother's sleeve.

Li Wenqing was pulled by her daughter, and the tears on her face flowed down, wetting the placket on her chest.

"Wenqing, what's going on?" The chubby head of the neighbor next door, Sister-in-law Wu, stretched out from the side of the low courtyard wall, and she saw Li Wenqing standing in the courtyard crying, frowning and asking.

"Mother Wu, I was bullied by Wang Xiaobao......" Li Chu'er replied to Sister-in-law Wu softly, while holding her mother's hand and pulling her into the house.

"Mother, go back to the house and eat mung bean cake. Don't cry, when I grow up, I'll go learn kung fu, and I'll beat them! Avenge! Li Chu'er waved her little fist angrily.

Li Wenqing looked at the serious expression on her daughter's immature face, and burst into laughter.

She looked at Sister-in-law Wu with a worried face, "Sister-in-law Wu, it's okay, it's ...... me who couldn't hold back my anger for a while."

She smiled at Sister-in-law Wu and pulled her daughter into the house.

The meal was already ready when she estimated that it was time for her daughter to get out of school, and it was always hot in the pot.

She washed her hands, asked Li Chu'er to sit at the table and eat mung bean cake first, and went to the kitchen to put the two bowls of gruel and side dishes that were hot in the pot into the dustpan and brought them into the house.

As soon as Li Chu'er saw that the meal was coming, she put down the mung bean cake, and ran towards her mother, and when she saw that it was just a plate of fried shredded white radish and a plate of pickled vegetables, she pouted and sat on the side to sulk.

Li Wenqing set the meal and teased her daughter, "Chu'er, what's wrong, why are you angry?" ”

Li Chu'er said angrily: "It's radish shreds again, pickles again!" Gruel again...... Eat these every day! ”

Li Wenqing accompanied the smiling face, "Chu'er, when my mother finishes this embroidery work, sells it to the embroidery workshop in the town, and comes back with the silver, my mother will buy you delicious food, okay?" And take you to the town for a walk and buy you sugar gourds to eat? ”

When Li Chu'er heard this, a smile appeared on her face, she thought about it, and deliberately kept a straight face, "Mother, you lied to me again, you said that last time, but you took the silver back, but gave it to Aunt Wu, and you didn't buy me a sugar gourd?" ”

Li Wenqing was sad when she heard this, "Didn't you get sick last time, let's ask for a doctor?" I borrowed money from Aunt Wu's family, of course, if we have the money, we have to pay it back first? ”

Li Chu'er tilted her head slightly, as if she was thinking, thought for a while, and nodded, "Well, Mr. Su has taught, and if you owe a debt to others, you must pay it back!" ”

Then she raised her little finger to her mother, "You have to hook up with me, don't lie to me again this time, when you get the silver back, you must take me to the town to eat sugar gourds, and buy me delicious food!" ”

Li Wenqing smiled and hooked her daughter, one older and one younger, and then sat down to eat.

When the sky darkened, Li Wenqing lit the oil lamp on the table, and watched Li Chu'er snoring and picking up the gruel in the bowl, beads of sweat oozing from the tip of her nose.

She picked up the fan to help her daughter fan, the gown on her daughter's body was small again, and the shoes made last year were also on the foot, in a blink of an eye, she was eight years old, and the child grew up too fast, and the clothes were too late to make new ones.

When she remembered that snowy night eight years ago, when she picked up a silk parcel on the side of the road, she didn't know it was a little baby.

The wind and snow were too strong, and she was in a hurry to leave, and when she carried her home and opened it, she was startled.

The little baby was dressed in pink, with two big eyes looking at her, sucking her fingers, but not crying. She couldn't let go of the child right away......

The package contained a pair of gold bracelets and a brocade handkerchief embroidered with letters. Li Wenqing was born as an embroiderer, and when she looked at the embroiderer, she knew that it was not ordinary.

But she grew up in a poor family and didn't read much, so she didn't know what the words embroidered on it were. Later, Li Chu'er grew up day by day, and she also showed it to Mr. Su, who said that the handkerchief was embroidered with the word thank you.

Thank? Is it the child's last name? But who could bear to abandon such a beautiful child on a snowy night? Aren't you worried that she will freeze to death and starve to death?

"Wenqing." Just thinking about it, the wooden door of her house was pushed open, and Sister-in-law Wu walked in with a bowl.

"Sister-in-law?" Li Wenqing hurriedly stood up to greet him.

"Your eldest brother went to help someone kill pigs today, and they gave him a pound of pork and some pig skins, I have already cooked the pig skins, and tomorrow I will make some meat jelly for us, today we have refined some lard, and you usually put some in it when you stir-fry vegetables, the child is growing his body, so there is some meat in the dishes." Sister-in-law Wu took out two bowls from the dustpan she was holding and put them on the table.

One bowl contains the lard that has already solidified, and the other bowl contains fried shredded pork with pickled cabbage.

Although there were only a few thin shredded pork in the fried pork with snow cabbage, Li Chu'er had already stood up straight and held her toes, tentatively dancing with chopsticks in the air, and couldn't stop swallowing her saliva.

Li Wenqing taught her very well, in front of outsiders, her mother didn't speak, she didn't dare to act rashly.

"Look at the gluttony, good boy, eat it quickly!" Sister-in-law Wu pushed the bowl in front of Li Chu'er.

Li Chu'er looked at her mother-in-law, Li Wen smiled at her, "Thank you Aunt Wu soon!" ”

"Thank you, Aunt Wu......" Li Chu'er hurriedly spit out this sentence, so she put a chopstick of fried shredded pork with pickled cabbage into her mouth and chewed it.

"......Eat slowly" Li Wenqing blamed her daughter, turned her head to Sister-in-law Wu and said: "Sister-in-law, thank you for helping me, eldest brother, all these years, thanks to your family for taking care of our mother and daughter, if it weren't for you, we really don't know what our life would be!" ”

"What are you talking about?" Sister-in-law Wu said with a smile: "The feet on my eldest and second child's feet and clothes are not all done by you, I am fat and stupid, I can't do these fine work, isn't it thanks to your help?" Besides, this neighborhood folk, it should be taken care of more. ”

Sister-in-law Wu said as she walked towards the door, Li Wenqing sent her to the door, and Sister-in-law Wu turned her head to look at Li Chu'er who was bowing her head and chewing, and patted the back of Li Wenqing's hand: "The person your eldest brother said last time, did you fall in love?" ”

When Li Wenqing heard this, she immediately blushed, lowered her head and said nothing.

"Hey, although that man is rough, he is honest and responsible. He killed pigs in our neighboring village, and opened a shop in the town, and he also had some savings in his hands. Your eldest brother told people everything about you, and they didn't dislike us, aren't we ......," Sister-in-law Wu said earnestly.

Li Wenqing's head was lowered, her mouth was pursed, and she didn't speak.

"Chu'er looks like a year old, this girl, she knows a few words, she can write her own name, what's the use of you letting her go to school? She can't be nominated for a top spot in the gold list! You just listened to me and agreed to this family business, and you and Chu'er will have a good life to rely on in the future! Sister-in-law Wu observed Li Wenqing's expression, and slapped the back of her hand twice.

"Hmm...... I know that my sister-in-law is for my good, let me think about it again, I will reply to you in the past two days, do you think it will be successful? Li Wenqing raised her head and said to Sister-in-law Wu.

Her eyes were clear, and she stood out in the moonlight, like two stars.

Sister-in-law Wu sighed, if Wen Qing really promised the rough man who killed the pig, it was really a sin! It's a pity that her life is not good, she died when she was born, and her father dragged her to the age of sixteen, and then she also died of illness.

She worked as an embroiderer herself, barely supporting herself until she was twenty years old, but she chose a Li Chu'er to go home. A big girl with yellow flowers, holding a milk doll, in a blink of an eye, it has been eight years!

With such a family background, you can only respond to that rough man......