Mrs. Liu's face turned red from suppressing the pain, and she begged Li Qiu hesitantly: "You... please help my mother back. My old arms and legs can't stand being exposed to the rain."
Li Qiu put on a smile again: "If Mom had spoken like this, wouldn't it have been better already?"
She helped Mrs. Liu into the wing, and Mrs. Liu hurriedly shouted to go back to her room.
"Mom, you must be lying down in my room. I see that my mother fell hard and couldn't move her waist. I will help my mother by pressing her waist. In the evening, my mother needs to drink water and wake up. I can also serve her closely. If you die, dad doesn’t care about mother’s life or death.”
Liu did not refute Li Qiu.
Zhang Laowen really doesn't care about her, Qiu Ju has to help Chen Yunfang look after the little tiger at night, Dani and Erni are still young, and Yu Cuihua, the heartless one, will not serve her.
After thinking about it, Li Qiu was the only one in the family willing to take care of her.
"Why are you so careless!" Mrs. Liu was still cursing, "If you weren't such a little bitch..."
"Mom, what did you say?"
Mrs. Liu raised her head and met Li Qiu's cold eyes.
She shuddered and quickly forced out a smile: "Mom is confused, Li Qiu, thank you for your hard work. Mom knows that you are the most filial in our family, and your two sisters-in-law are not reliable at all. Don't worry, you Serve my mother well for a few days, and when you get married, my mother will give you more dowry."
Li Qiu pretended to smile and agreed: "Then Li Qiu, thank you mother. I will massage your waist. Mom will go to measure the house tomorrow."
Mrs. Liu was stunned: "What kind of room are you measuring?"
"Aren't you going to give me more dowry? I just came back from Brother Chang'an. His house has five large brick and tile houses, two wing rooms and the kitchen half collapsed. There is no money to repair it for the time being, and there are only three rooms left. Mom will take measurements tomorrow, including tables, chairs, benches, cabinets, cages, pots, pans, buckets for children and grandchildren, clothes for the new uncle and me for all seasons, quilts, beds, mattresses, pillows..."
Li Qiu counted the numbers to Mrs. Liu one by one, which made Mrs. Liu's face pale with fright.
"That's all for the time being. I think your mother is so generous. If you give me these dowries, the money for packing them will definitely be indispensable. No matter what, it must be ten taels of silver, isn't it?"
Mrs. Liu almost crushed her back molars before she nodded slowly: "Good boy, don't worry, my mother will give you everything, and she will also buy you rouge, gouache, and jewelry."
Li Qiu smiled with crooked eyebrows: "Thank you so much, mother!"
When it comes to acting, who can't do it?
Last night Mrs. Liu and Zhang You were discussing how to harm her, and Li Qiu could hear them clearly.
Zhang You's plan tonight must be indispensable for Mrs. Liu. Now that Mrs. Liu has fully agreed to her request, she also knows that after tonight, she will fall into the quagmire and never be able to climb out again.
It's a pity that the mother and son's plan is destined to fail. She is no longer the same Li Qiu as before.
Mrs. Liu tasted the sweetness of coaxing people. In just a short while, Li Qiu pressed her waist and poured water for her, making her feel happy again. She started talking nonsense word by word, and all the cows in the village wanted to She was blown away to the sky.
"It's the beginning of autumn. In the next few days, mother will give you a pair of silver bracelets, each weighing one tael. She will also give you some silver hairpins and pairs of silver earrings. Let the villagers see if mother has treated you badly."
"You are good-looking, and you need to dress up brighter in the future. Mom will pull you some good cloth with beautiful colors and patterns. Let's go home and make clothes for the four seasons by ourselves."
"Gu Laizi is poor and doesn't have much at home. When you get married, my mother will give you a bag of white flour, a bag of wheat bran noodles, half a fan of pork and two chickens, which will be enough for you to eat for a while."
Li Qiu agreed one by one, pressing her hands more gently, which made Mrs. Liu snore.
Just as she was squinting her eyes comfortably, a sharp pain hit her waist, and Mrs. Liu suddenly shouted: "My mother! You little bitch! You want to kill me!"
Turning around, I saw that Li Qiu had gotten off the kang at some point, pulled out pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and started writing in a hurry.
"You, you can write?"
Mrs. Liu's eyes almost popped out of her head, and her mouth was so big that she could fit a little chicken inside.
"Yes, I have been with Third Brother for a long time, and I can write."
"Fart! How can you and Sanwazi spend more time together than me? Why can't I write?"
Mrs. Liu bought Liqiu back that year, apparently to buy a child bride for Zhang You, but in fact she just added a free animal to the family.
In the beginning, every time Zhang You came back from the academy, he had to make a bed on the floor in Zhang You's house at the beginning of autumn and wait for Zhang You to study at night. After Zhang You left, he could sleep on the kang at the beginning of autumn.
Later, as the two grew older, Mrs. Liu did not allow them to live in the same room, saying she was afraid that Li Qiu would seduce Zhang You.
When Zhang You comes back from the academy again, Li Qiu will have to move in and sleep with Qiu Ju.
On weekdays, Li Qiu is still asked to live in the wing, mainly to let Li Qiu occupy the name and territory of the third bedroom, so as to prevent the other two bedrooms from sharing all the benefits originally intended for Zhang You.
All in all, Li Qiu and Zhang You did not spend much time alone together. No wonder Liu didn't believe it.
Li Qiu didn't care whether Liu believed it or not.
She finished writing a piece of paper, dried the ink on it, and then smiled and said: "I can learn to write because I am smart. A stupid person like my mother can't learn how to write even if she is tied to her third brother every day. However, no It doesn’t matter if you can write, as long as Mom knows how to press fingerprints.”
She grabbed Mrs. Liu's hand and pressed it hard on the red clay, then pressed it on the paper.
"Yuan Liqiu! You little bitch! What did you ask me to press!"
Ms. Liu's face was full of fear, but unfortunately her waist hurt whenever she moved. All over her body, only her mouth could show off her authority.
"Don't worry, it's not a contract to sell yourself. I'm not as evil as my mother."
Li Qiu raised the paper in his hand and looked at the panicked Liu with satisfaction.
"Didn't Mom just say that she would give me this and that? Mom promised to give me too many things. I was afraid that Mom wouldn't be able to remember them and would forget them later, so I wrote them all down. When the time comes, Mom will face them. This piece of paper is enough to give me a dowry, this is called a dowry list."
Ms. Liu only panicked for a short while and then calmed down: "Good boy, you didn't write anything wrong, did you? Your two sisters-in-law are making trouble about separating the family. If they know that I give you so many things, they will make trouble again."
"I didn't write anything indiscriminately. Everything on this paper is everything my mother promised me. Nothing is too much and nothing is too little. If mother is worried, wait until the third brother comes back and ask the third brother to take a look."
Mrs. Liu laughed dryly: "You kid, you are quite thoughtful."
"Is it possible to live in the Zhang family without being too narrow-minded?"
Li Qiu put away the paper and pressed Liu's waist hard, so painful that Liu almost jumped up.
"You...what are you doing!"
Li Qiu was very innocent: "I'm going to massage my mother's waist. Wasn't she feeling very comfortable just now? Mom, don't move. This massage on your waist won't hurt. I'm going to massage my mother's waist again. The more painful it is now, the more comfortable it will be later."
She aimed at Liu's lower back, punched it with all her strength, and Liu immediately let out a scream like a slaughtered pig.
Someone suddenly said from behind: "Liqiu, what are you doing?"
