Li Ping'an quickened his pace and returned home, quickly took off his coat under the eaves and hung it on the wall, and as soon as he entered the hall, he saw Ruyi sitting on a small bench with a small face and an open mouth crying.

I cried so badly, after crying for a while, I shook my little shoulders and took a breath before continuing to cry, and the tears were like raindrops outside.

"What's the matter, who bullied our little Ruyi?" Li Ping'an said as he walked over and picked up the little girl.

Xiao Ru saw the eldest brother who loved her the most, and immediately stopped crying, hugged the eldest brother's neck tightly, breathed and twitched, and the little body trembled when she twitched.

Li Ping'an was very distressed, and felt funny, she was crying so hard one second, and the crying stopped abruptly the next second, and sure enough, the child's face changed when she said it. He looked at his hands, which had been dirty on the mountain before, and had been washed away by the rain just now, but he thought about it for a while and still didn't wipe his tears for his little sister, but looked at the wealth on the side.

"Fugui, what the hell is going on, why is my little sister crying so badly?"

"I'll tell you!" It was auspicious who spoke, and she grinned and pointed to the southeast corner of the house, "The little sister was kicked from behind by the big rooster, and when she fell, she cried." ”

Fugui and Xinglong also nodded in agreement, indicating that what Jixiang said was true.

Li Ping'an found out that there were chickens in the house, and after a cursory look, almost all the chickens raised at home were here, they were crowded together and surrounded by bamboo fences.

He wondered, "How did you keep the chickens in the house?" ”

"The chicken pen leaked, so my mother caught all the chickens in the house." Fugui replied.

Xinglong continued: "The rooster kicked the little sister and wrestled it, so the mother surrounded the chicken with a fence. ”

Li Ping'an understood, it must be his mother who was worried that the chickens would get sick when they were drenched in the rain, so she didn't dare to keep them in the chicken pen, and she didn't even dare to put them in the stone grinding shed outside, so she could only put them in the house.

"Mother? Where's Daddy? Li Ping'an asked again.

Fugui said: "My father went to my uncle's house, and my mother went to my grandfather's house." ”

"Okay." Li Ping'an looked at the little Ruyi in his arms, the little girl's eyes were red, and her eyelashes were moist, "Little sister, which rooster kicked you, you tell the eldest brother, and the eldest brother will help you take revenge." ”

Xiao Ruyi pouted and turned her head to look at the corner, looked and looked between the three big roosters, then pointed to one of them, turned her head back and looked directly at Li Ping'an.

Fugui, auspicious and prosperous also stared at Li Ping'an, their eyes were full of curiosity, and they wanted to know how the eldest brother would help the younger sister avenge.

"That's it, come on, Fugui, you go boil water, let's eat chicken today!"

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Fugui, auspicious and prosperous reacted surprisingly unanimously, and when he heard the words, he suddenly brushed his eyes wide, and Li Ping'an almost laughed when he looked at it.

Although Xiao Ruyi didn't see the antics of her brothers and sisters, she was also very happy, clapping her palms and giggling crisply, "Okay, yes, eat chicken, eat big chicken legs!" ”

"Okay, the big chicken leg will be eaten by Xiao Ruyi, and the rooster will eat which chicken leg Xiao Ruyi uses to kick the little Ruyi." Hearing the innocent and pure laughter of the little sister, Li Ping'an's tone also brought a smile in his tone, and then urged Fugui, "Fugui, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and boil water." ”

"No, big brother, are we really going to kill chickens?" Fugui glanced at the door with a worried face, "Why don't you wait for your father and mother to come back and ask your father and mother if you want to kill him?" ”

Li Ping'an rolled his eyes, according to the current price of the Dajing Dynasty, a rooster can be sold for 70 yuan, and a hen that can lay eggs can be sold for 90 to 100 yuan, and there are three roosters and eight hens at home, which add up to almost the same money.

When my father and mother come back, I will ask them if they can kill chickens, I am afraid that they will not even be able to tear off a single chicken feather.

Forget it, this brother is a listener to his father's words, and he can't count on him if he wants to eat chicken, Li Ping'an didn't force him anymore, put down Ruyi and went to the kitchen by himself.

Jixiang's eyes flickered, he glanced at the third brother, then at the door, and hurriedly ran out to catch up with Li Ping'an, "Big brother, I'll help you burn the fire!" ”

Li Ping'an said without thinking, "Another chicken leg will be eaten for you!" ”

"Big brother, I don't want to eat chicken legs, leave it for my younger brother to eat." Ji Xiang hehe smiled and rubbed his hands, "Big brother, I want to eat candy!" ”

"Then I'll give it to you later!" Li Ping'an touched Jixiang's head, he was proactive, he didn't wait or rely on it, and in his spare time, he would also think about finding something from nature to sell in the county, he couldn't make a lot of money, but he still had a little money. He didn't tell and hand over the money to his parents, but secretly kept it himself.

He used his private money to buy some candy, snacks and the like and came back for his younger brothers and sisters to eat. Don't expect your parents to spend money to satisfy the children's appetites, even if the family has been selling tofu and bean cakes for a few years, and there are eleven or twelve dollars a year, but they still can't wait to break the penny in half.

Li Ping'an told his father more than once that he would buy a donkey and come back to grind, and buy a cow to come back to plough the land, but his father and mother just didn't agree.

In such a situation, Li Ping'an really can't save some private money by himself.

But fortunately, the father and mother are not harsh to the children, after having money, the family can occasionally eat meat, and the New Year will buy cloth to make a new dress for the children, with their five brothers and sisters, especially Xinglong and Ruyi, who were born later, have not worn patches and patches of clothes in recent years.

Of course, there are still patched clothes, and the conditions of their home are not so good that they change into new ones when their clothes are torn.

After adding water to the iron pot, Li Ping'an burned the fire, told Jixiang to be careful not to be burned, and hurriedly returned to the hall to grab a rooster casually, as for whether it was the one that attacked Xiao Ruyi, this problem is not big, it is estimated that Xiao Ruyi did not admit it right just now, in case he was wrong, the one he caught just happened to be right.

As his hand got up and down, the big rooster paid the price of his life for its wrong behavior, Li Fugui also accepted the facts, and when the water boiled, he squatted under the eaves at the kitchen door, looking at the door of the yard with anxiety, while constantly swallowing saliva and plucking chicken feathers diligently.

"Big brother, will my father and mother scold us when they come back and see it?" Fugui asked worriedly.

"I was the one who said I wanted to kill the chicken, and I was the one who killed the chicken with a knife, and my father and mother wanted to scold me, what is your business, you just put your heart back in your stomach." Li Ping'an stood up and stretched out his hand to catch the rainwater flowing down the eaves, and washed the chicken feathers on his hands, "You can pull out the rest yourself, and I'll get you candy." ”

Ji Xiang Xinglong and Xiao Ruyi, who were squatting on the side, heard that there was candy to eat, and they stood up and yelled one after another, Li Ping'an shook his head with a smile and returned to the room.

The lighting of the room itself is not good, not to mention that it is still a rainy day, the room is very dim, he fumbled to light the oil lamp, took out a key from under the bed, and opened a wooden box at the end of the bed.

This wooden box was bought by him with his private money, it is not very big, 50 cm long, 40 cm wide, and 30 cm high, and there are not many things in it, except for his private money and some snacks, it is a pile of paper that has been written and drawn with charcoal.

And the main function of this small box is to lock the paper.