After crossing the wooden bridge, we reached Liujia Village. We walked all the way to the door of the village chief's house. The door was tightly closed. I think the village chief Liu Jisheng and Mr. Wang took their son and daughter-in-law to work at Xia's house.
"Is Liu Lin here?" Xiao Ming knocked on the door.
"Who's here?" Xiao Ming called at the door. Not long after, Liu Lin's voice sounded inside the door, followed by footsteps approaching. Sure enough, Liu Lin was at home.
"It's me, Xiao Ming."
"Sister Ming, come in and sit down. Why are you here? My parents have gone to Xia's house." Liu Lin heard that it was Xiao Ming and opened the door eagerly. He looked at Xiao Ming with a look of joy and surprise on his face. He said hello and explained the whereabouts of his parents, thinking that Xiao Ming was here to see them.
"I'm here to find you. I went to the city today to bring some snacks, and I brought some back for you and Liu Yu."
"Come in and sit down." Liu Lin greeted and directly pulled Xiao Ming into her boudoir. Unexpectedly, there was someone else in the room.
"Look who's coming!"
"Sister Ming." Liu Xiaofang and Liu Yu screamed when they saw it was Xiao Ming. There was a sewing basket in front of them. There were unfinished embroidery in it. They thought they were three little sisters doing needlework together.
The two stood up and made room for Xiao Ming.
"You happen to be here too, so I don't have to look for you one by one." Xiao Ming sat down and put the things she brought on the table.
"I went to the city today and brought a pack of snacks for each of you." Xiao Ming said, and took out three more boxes. "I saw that there were good silver hairpins, so I chose three. You can choose the style you like. .”
What Xiao Ming took out shocked Liu Lin and the others. The three of them looked at it blankly without making a choice.
"What's wrong, you don't like it." Xiao Ming looked at the three people motionless, puzzled.
"Sister Ming, this is too expensive." Liu Yu said. Her mother had a silver bracelet that she was reluctant to take with her. She always polished it again and kept it in the cabinet.
"Yeah, it's too expensive."
"What does this mean? You helped me work for several days and I didn't even pay you any wages. This is used as compensation for your wages."
"Sister Ming, we all voluntarily help you work, how much do we pay for it? Besides, we have to eat and take things away every time. This is enough, how can we still ask for wages?" Liu Lin said, helping When she was picking chrysanthemums with Xiao Ming, not only did she eat well, but Xiao Ming also gave them each a basket of fresh chrysanthemums when they returned home. If she still took Xiao Ming's wages, her parents would beat her to death.
"A basket of chrysanthemums is nothing like wages. Take it as I say, or I won't treat you anymore." Xiao Ming said deliberately angrily.
"How is this good?" Liu and Lin still hesitated to refuse.
"I'm going to be angry if you don't accept me. I won't play with you anymore." Xiao Ming looked at the three of them and her tone increased.
"Then we'll accept it, thank you Sister Ming." Finally, Liu Xiaofang spoke, and she looked at Xiao Ming.
"I want this one." Liu Yu took the lead in taking the pomegranate-patterned hairpin in the middle, and she fell in love with it at first sight.
The workmanship of the three silver hairpins is the same, but the patterns carved on them are not flat. Except for the pomegranate flower selected by Liu Yu, the other two hairpins are made of peony and magnolia. They are hollow and carved, and a round silver pendant hangs from the bottom. Both exquisite and beautiful, Liu Lin chose the magnolia flower, and Liu Xiaolin chose the peony flower. The three of them were very happy and liked it, and thanked Xiao Ming one after another. For this reason, Liu Lin and the other two specially gave Xiao Ming a handkerchief they embroidered. .
Liu Lin brought peanuts, pumpkin seeds, red dates and other snacks from home, and the little sisters ate them together, talking and laughing.
"Sister Ming, you went to Pingcheng. It's fun. I have never been to the city before." Liu Yu asked Xiao Ming while eating dates. Although she was half a year older than Xiao Ming, she had always been My name is Sister Xiao Ming.
"It's not that great. It's just more lively than the town, with more people and more sellers." Xiao Ming said. To her, Pingcheng is just a small city. Compared with the big city in her previous life, everything counts. Not on.
"Really? I want to go to the city to see it if I have the chance." Liu Yu said with envy, and Liu Xiaofang also looked forward to it. They have only been to the town since they were so old. Among the three of them, Liu Lin's house is the only one. The conditions were better and I followed my brother to the city.
"What's the point? Next time my brother goes to the city, I'll ask him to take us with him." Liu Lin said. Her brother would go to the city every once in a while to deliver firewood and take them up on the tower.
"Really, good." Liu Yu and Liu Xiaofang looked at Liu Lin happily, "Then you must remember to take us with you."
"Okay, come and eat the fruit. Sister Ming will eat it too." Liu Lin agreed and enthusiastically greeted Xiao Ming to eat the fruit.
"Auntie, I'm here." As he spoke, Xiao Anzi returned home and entered the house carrying a small schoolbag, followed by Tie Zhu.
"Xiao An is back. You must be tired. Give me your schoolbag." Liu Lin quickly took off his nephew's schoolbag and wiped his sweat.
"Sit down and take a rest. Let's see how sweaty you are."
Tie Zhu saw that his second sister Liu Yu was also here, so he couldn't help but walk to sit next to her, unfasten his schoolbag and put it next to her.
"Sister, hold it for me. I'm very tired today." He and Xiao An were both studying in Lijiacun, a neighboring village, and went to and from school together.
Liu Yu looked at his brother who was sweating all over and his clothes were stained with mud. After all, he still felt distressed. While wiping his sweat, he fanned him and blamed him: "Where have you gone to the wilderness again? Look at this." The mud has stained your clothes, so be careful of my mother beating you."
"It's almost Liu Baogen. When I chased him, he hit me in the mud and threw it on me." Liu Tiezhu said angrily.
"What's wrong? Why are you chasing him? Mom didn't send you to school to fight." Liu Yu said angrily, blaming her brother for not living up to his expectations. It was not good to fight with anyone but Liu Baogen. Isn't this causing trouble for the family? Her family and Mrs. Liu's family have always been at odds with each other. When Mrs. Liu found out about this, she didn't know how to make trouble.
"I didn't chase him. I hit him because he hit Daya. I didn't hit him, so he ran away on his own." Liu Tiezhu defended with a red face.
The room suddenly fell silent. Liu Lin looked at Xiao Ming's face and did not dare to speak. On the contrary, Liu Yu and Liu Xiaofang were very angry.
"This treasure root is really lawless."
"Tell aunt what happened." Xiao Ming pulled Liu Tiezhu and asked. She knew how Yunling fell into the river for no reason.
Liu Tiezhu glanced at his sister and then said: "When Xiao An and I came back today, we saw Liu Baogen beating Daya and pushing her into the river. He dumped the crayfish caught by Daya on the ground and stamped on her with his feet. I Go over and hit him, and he will run away."
"Aunt Xiao, are Yunling okay?" Xiao Anzi asked worriedly.
When they came back, they happened to see Liu Baogen beating her, taking her fishing rod and throwing it into the river. He poured out the crayfish in the bucket and trampled them to death one by one. Then he pushed her into the river. Liu Baogen stood on the bank with a smile. While watching her flopping in the water and not saving her, he even called her a loser and a bitch. If the water at the river hadn't been shallow, Da Ya would have been afraid of drowning.
