Seeing that Bai Xia turned around and went in, not at all as obedient as before, Li Xiuyuan's eyes were round, and he thought of the beating he received yesterday, and touched his ear, which was still a little painful, with his hand.

I looked at the sky again, and it should be a while before his mother came back.

In the end, he could only sigh like a little adult: "The master is right, only women and villains are difficult to raise."

After that, he picked up the bookcase at his feet, and walked towards home with a red face.

He is only beginning to enlighten now, and he has learned mostly the three-character scripture and the thousand-character text, where he has learned these, but he occasionally heard the master chanting a sentence, and he remembered it in his heart.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw Bai Xia in the corner with a firewood knife and grinding a wooden stick, Li Xiuyuan was not in a hurry, he carried the bookbox into the house first, put it away in a proper manner, and then went out of the house, came to Bai Xia, and said curiously: "Lady, what are you doing here?" ”

The fist is hard.

Bai Xia took a breath, glared at him, and warned, "Don't call me a lady in the future"

The fact that a big doll called her like that not only made people feel weird, but also made her feel a sense of shame and guilt.

Li Xiuyuan was silent for a while, and said in his heart, everyone says that you are my lady, why don't you let you call?

However, after glancing at Bai Xia's firewood knife, he swallowed silently: "Then what should I call you?" ”

Bai Xia was also silent.

"Call Sister"

Although it is a bit strange for dozens of people to call a five-year-old doll sister, who made her body only nine years old.

In addition, she was adopted by the Lin family, so it is not an exaggeration to let this doll call Sister Sheng.

"Nope"

Li Xiuyuan had a calm face.

He knew that Bai Xia was his daughter-in-law at a very young age, so he learned that the master usually called Shi Niang like a lady, and Bai Xia asked him to call him sister, which was not in line with etiquette.

He has been enlightened for a year, and he knows more than many children, so as soon as Bai Xia said this, he disagreed.

"Why not?"

Bai Xia is surprised, she is older than him, isn't it normal for him to call his sister?

"You're my daughter-in-law"

Li Xiuyuan puffed out his face and glared at Bai Xia.

"How old are you, do you know what a daughter-in-law is?" Bai Xia is funny, how old is the doll.

"I can't call my sister anyway"

Li Xiuyuan has his own insistence and says that he won't call him sister.

Bai Xia shrugged her shoulders, if she doesn't call her sister, she won't call her sister, she doesn't lack a younger brother.

"Okay, then you can call me by my name"

After saying that, he didn't pay attention to him anymore, and began to cut out two grooves at both ends of the polished flat pole to facilitate the tying of ropes.

"Three...... Sanya, what are you doing here? ”

Li Xiuyuan only called the two titles of lady and cheap girl, and at first called Bai Xia's name, he was a little unaccustomed to it.

Bai Xia paused, he didn't want to pay attention to him, but he thought that education should start with the doll, so he asked him to sit down next to him with a low stool, and asked him, "Do you know how everyone usually fetches water?" ”

"Bucket of water"

Li Xiuyuan replied categorically.

Bai Xia choked for a moment, and said patiently: "After the bucket brought the water up, did you bring it back by hand?" ”

Li Xiuyuan nodded, and then looked at her a little strangely, she didn't have to carry it with her hands, so what was it for?

Bai Xia didn't explain, and asked him to help hand the rope, and then put the rope on the flat pole.

She had already thought about it, there was no iron hook, but a rope could be used.

Although it is not convenient to have an iron hook, it can save money, who said that the Li family is short of money now, she can only use this stupid method.

After setting it up, she took two buckets out, tied the rope on the flat shoulder to the bucket, picked it up with her shoulder, and said to Li Xiuyuan, who was sitting on the side: "Let's go, carry water with me."

Li Xiuyuan's eyes lit up, and he instantly understood the role of this flat burden.

Compared to carrying buckets of water, this is obviously a little faster.

If Bai Xia asked him to go to fetch water with him before, he would definitely not go, but as soon as Bai Xia called now, he followed him.

Before arriving at the well, although after a night of backwater, but in the case of someone fetching water, the water level in the well was still lower than yesterday, Bai Xia didn't say a word, silently hit a bucket of water, poured half of it into another bucket, tied it with a rope, and then picked it up.

Well, it's a bit heavy.

It's still bearable, though.

Bai Xia pinched the ropes on both sides of the pole with both hands, stabilized the pole, and walked towards home with a slight sway.

When I got home, the sky was almost dark, and I met Lin who came back from work, Lin saw Bai Xia who was carrying water at a glance, and when she saw the water burden on her shoulder, her eyes couldn't help but light up, and she stepped forward to grab the burden on her shoulder and moved the burden to her shoulder.

After carrying water for a day, my hands were sore, but at this time, the burden was on my shoulders, and the two buckets were not filled, so I only felt very relaxed.

"Sanya, where did you come from?"

Lin carried the water into the kitchen, only tried it, and knew that this thing was good, so he asked Bai Xia busily.

Bai Xia didn't hide it, and said his thoughts, only saying that he felt too tired to carry water, thinking of the basket that usually cuts pigweed, and he didn't feel so tired of carrying so many things on his shoulders, so he wondered if he could carry water on his shoulders.

At first, I thought about carrying it in a basket, but I was afraid of spilling water on my back, so I came up with the idea of carrying water with a burden, so I figured out how to carry a burden of water.

"Mother, what Sanya said is true, I saw her do it"

The Lin family was still a little suspicious, but when they heard Li Xiuyuan testify against Bai Xia, they immediately believed it.

"Well done, Sanya"

Lin patted Bai Xia's head with relief, she was worried that she was too busy to carry water to irrigate a few acres of paddy fields, Bai Xia came up with such a thing, and when she took this water tomorrow, she could carry two buckets at a time, which was much faster than carrying a bucket by bucket.

I didn't expect this Muna's girl to think of such an idea, and Lin felt that she should be rewarded.

"Sanya, I'll cook, you go to the mountains and pick some wild vegetables back"

Lin's heart was horizontal, and she planned to add a meal tonight, not only to reward Bai Xia for carrying water, but also because after a day of farm work, her body was a little unbearable.

There is still a lot of work to be done, and if she falls, leaving these two children behind, she doesn't know what to do!

Lin was worried.

Bai Xia was overjoyed, she was about to starve to death.

If it weren't for the little conscience in her heart, she was afraid that she couldn't help but cook all the food in the Lin family's house and eat it.

"Hey, I'll go."

"Mother, I'm going too" Li Xiuyuan didn't play much except reading every day, and when he heard that Bai Xia was going to pick wild vegetables, he was busy going.

Lin was happy that they had a good relationship, and he hurriedly responded.

This time when she went out, Bai Xia took a basket, because it was getting dark, everyone who worked went home, she took Li Xiuyuan to the mountain and taught him to recognize wild vegetables.

"See? These are all edible wild vegetables, be careful when picking them, don't be hocked" Bai Xia reminded, and Li Xiuyuan nodded again and again.