Early the next morning, Yang Yongjin called Yang Yongzhi, Yang Yongqing's third brother, and Yang Huazhong, the elder, to take charge. Then he drove a carriage and a group of people went to Lijia Village in a mighty manner.
At home, because Yang Huaming was still recovering from his injuries, it was inconvenient to go over to cheer, so Mr. Liu volunteered and followed him to Lijiacun.
But everyone who knows it knows that this woman used to go there just to watch the fun.
In Yang Ruoqing's words, the fourth aunt is a pure melon-eater. As long as there is melon to eat, whether it is watermelon, melon or cantaloupe, she will take a bite!
Lijiacun.
It was a morning similar to the one before, seemingly calm.
Li Qiaoer got up and took the dirty clothes the family had changed to the river behind the village to wash them.
Some people may say, isn't there a pond at the entrance of Lijia Village? Why do we have to take our clothes to the river behind the village to wash them?
Ha, this is a good question.
Yes, there is indeed a pond at the entrance of the village, and there are many women bathing there every day, making it very lively.
Lijia Village is a large village no less than Changping Village. It has a large population. Every morning, there are almost a line of women bathing at the pond at the entrance of the village.
Various gossips are flying all over the place. Some women actually have nothing to wash at home. In the cold weather, they can't change their clothes for ten days and a half. Sometimes they just take a few cabbages to the pond to listen to the excitement.
Li Qiaoer didn't want to go to the pond to wash, because the Li family's affairs were always a topic of idle chatter among the women in the village.
Whether it was things like her father Li Yi in the first half of the year, or the hasty marriage of her brother and sister-in-law in the middle of the year, or the sister-in-law's illness at the end of the year, the sister-in-law's family came to the house again and again to inquire, and there were even quarrels...
Among the long-tongued women in Lijia Village, these topics are firmly at the top of the list.
If Li Qiaoer went to wash clothes with those women, I don't know how she would be questioned!
Therefore, she would rather walk a little longer and come to the less crowded place by the river behind the village to wash herself.
Fortunately, she came to the river to wash herself and missed what happened on the other side of the pond.
At this moment, on the other side of the pond, everyone from the old Yang family drove a carriage aggressively towards Li Wei's house.
In the yard of Li Wei's house.
Li Weiniang was feeding chickens in the yard. A group of chickens and ducks gathered around her feet, squawking and fighting for the grains and rice husks on the ground.
While Li Weiniang was feeding the chickens, she was cooing at the window of Li Wei and Xiu Xiu in the west room.
"What are you doing? A woman is sleeping in, she's not a man!"
"Women sleep in, and the more they sleep, the poorer they become."
"I have to carry sickness on my body every day, and I just sleep out of it... As long as I work harder, do more work, and move around, I won't be like a porcelain man who will break at the touch..."
In the west room, Li Wei snored all day long, sleeping with his arms stretched out and his mouth wide open.
Xiu Xiu was lying on her side, her throat burning because of coughing, as if she had drank a large bowl of chili pepper water.
She didn't sleep well that night, and when she woke up early in the morning, her throat was clogged with thick phlegm.
As a result, as soon as I coughed up the thick phlegm and got out of bed to drink some water, I heard my mother-in-law talking to the neighbor next door in the yard.
There is a gun and a stick in the words.
After the neighbor left, the mother-in-law pointed at the mulberry trees and scolded the sophora trees while feeding the chickens.
Xiu Xiu felt unhappy, and she opened her mouth and tried to speak out in reply. However, her forehead sweated with all her strength, and her voice was extremely weak.
You probably have to put your ear next to her mouth... you may not even be able to hear it!
Angry, she turned back to the bed and pushed Li Wei several times.
Li Wei, however, slept soundly. In his sleep, he even lifted his embroidered hand and muttered: "Don't make trouble!"
She was told to stop making trouble, but outside the house, her mother-in-law's scolding continued and had moved from the middle of the yard to under the window.
This is as close as pointing at her nose and scolding her!
Xiu Xiu was so angry that she was speechless, so she walked to the table, grabbed a tea bowl and threw it on the ground.
With this smash, the scolding outside stopped.
Li Wei, who was on the bed, also suddenly sat up, looked around sleepily, and asked unclearly: "What's going on?"
Xiuxiu stood beside the bed with her hands on her hips. She was wearing her sleeping clothes, which were very thin and she was shivering from the cold.
Her feet were bare and she was wearing sleeping slippers, her heels were exposed, and the ground around her feet was surrounded by broken pieces of a tea bowl.
She put her hands on her hips and glared at Li Wei.
My mouth moved a few times, but no sound came out. I felt angry, anxious and aggrieved, and tears fell down.
"What's wrong Xiu Xiu? I slept well, why don't you go to bed and sleep? No one will mess with you in the morning!" Li Wei rubbed the back of his head, his tone full of complaints and dissatisfaction.
Then, he fell down again, closed his eyes, and prepared to sleep again.
Xiu Xiu pounced on him, pulled him up, pointed at the window outside, and gestured several times like a mute.
Li Wei pushed Xiuxiu away impatiently, "There's nothing outside. Stop tossing me. Can you sleep?"
Listening to her coughing last night, he didn't sleep well either.
Xiuxiu stamped her feet in anger, went over and pulled Li Wei up, pointed out the window, opened her mouth wide and spoke into Li Wei's ear.
Li Wei may not have heard it.
Maybe I didn't hear it on purpose.
Anyway, he was deliberately pretending to be careless and impatiently pulled his arm away from Xiuxiu's hand.
"Okay, okay, don't torment me. If you can't sleep, just get up. I want to sleep!"
However, at this moment, someone knocked on the door of the west room several times, and Mother Li's voice came into the room.
"Xiaowei, Xiuxiu, what was the noise just now? Why did I hear the sound of the teacup breaking?"
Xiuxiu pointed at the door and gestured at Li Wei, her face turning red with anxiety.
Li Wei didn't even look at Xiuxiu's gestures, and just shouted to Mother Li at the top of his lungs: "It's nothing, you heard wrong."
Mother Li at the door paused for a moment, then continued: "It's okay if it doesn't matter. When you take the bowl, you have to handle it with care. Everything in the house is not made of white water. If you smash it, it will be money!"
Xiu Xiu stamped her feet and turned around to open the door.
Li Wei moved at this time, got off the bed, grabbed Xiuxiu's arm and pulled her back.
"What are you doing? Opening the door so fiercely will scare my mother!" Li Wei's eyes flashed with a trace of cruelty.
Xiu Xiu was stunned for a moment and looked straight at Li Wei in front of her.
Li Wei seemed to realize something, and then his expression softened. The fierceness was gone, and he returned to the normal state of never waking up.
Patting Xiuxiu's arm, she said with a coaxing tone, "Okay, okay, Mom said those things because she was afraid that we were young and ignorant and would ruin the things in the house. After all, Mom is a person who has been soaked in bitter water. She has good intentions. , we as children should be more considerate of her!"
Xiuxiu was so angry that her lips trembled, and she raised her hand and slapped Li Wei on the face.
