"I hope so." Li Changqing took a puff of dry cigarette, his frown soothed in the smoke.
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On the way back, Madam Liu glanced at Li Xi for a while, and then at Li Xi for a while, but every time Li Xi looked over, she hurriedly averted her eyes, as if she was hesitant to speak.
Huzi felt that the atmosphere between his mother and his sister was not right, so he held Li Xi's hand and looked between the two of them.
Li Xi had no intention of hiding his temper from the beginning, but now that he saw her mother's appearance, she must have sensed something was wrong with her.
Alas, Li Xi sighed inwardly. She had imagined this scene a long time ago, so it was not surprising. She just didn't expect that she had traveled through time for several days before her mother discovered it.
It can also be seen from this that her mother is indeed not a smart person. This family would have to fall apart without her——
Li Xi rubbed Huzi's little head that was shaking from side to side and said, "I know what mom wants to say. Dad has already gone. From now on, we, mom, will be the only ones left in the family. I have already died once. I'm not afraid of anything, I just want to protect my mother, my tiger, and our family."
Hearing what Li Xi said, Madam Liu's eyes turned red again. Li Xi couldn't help but sigh in her heart. She is such a mother. She is so convinced that her eyes are red at every turn. Tears are the most useless thing. thing.
Li Xi has grown up strong and wild since she was a child. In fact, she can't stand people crying. But she met such a crying mother in time travel. What can she do? She can only coax her.
"Mom, please stop crying. Huzi will protect you from now on." Huzi said with a tigerish face. He didn't like that Mom was always crying. She was not strong at all.
Li Xi: "Mom, I heard from the old ladies in the village that if this person keeps crying, he will cry away his luck."
"Mom, stop crying." Madam Liu's tears stopped abruptly.
Li Xi:......
This is the first time she has seen someone shed tears back.
"I already have an idea about making money. I'm at home, mother, so don't worry."
Seeing how sensible her daughter was, Madam Liu wanted to cry again, but she subconsciously remembered what Li Xi had said just now that crying would drive away good luck, and her eyes immediately dried up.
"Okay, mother, I will listen to you."
Madam Liu is like a dodder. She used to rely on her husband, but now she relies on her daughter. Madam Liu accepted it quickly.
After returning home, Mrs. Liu went to the kitchen to cook. Huzi followed Li Xi into the main room, squatted next to the basket, and watched Li Xi clean up.
When he saw Li Xi taking out a krait from his backpack, Huzi's eyes widened, his body subconsciously ducked back, he dropped his butt and squatted down, fearfully saying, "Snake!"
"Well, the tiger is not afraid, the snake is already dead." Li Xi said, shaking off the snake in his hand, "I will go to the city tomorrow to exchange it for money and buy candy for the tiger."
Seeing that the snake was really motionless, Hu Zi came over carefully, not daring to breathe even if it wasn't enough, "Dad said that snakes are poisonous, so don't let Hu Zi touch it."
Li Tiezhu was a soldier and was very skilled. When he was alive, he often went hunting in the mountains to pay back his money. Huzi had seen snakes before, and Huzi still remembered what his father said to him at that time.
He said that snakes are poisonous and should not be touched.
"Huzi is right, snakes are poisonous. Huzi cannot touch them because Huzi is a child, but my sister can touch them because my sister is an adult. Dad has touched them too, right?" Li Xi said while packing the medicinal materials in the basket on his back.
Her cheap dad was right, it was better for children to stay away from dangerous creatures like snakes.
"There are snakes on the back mountain. Huzi is not allowed to go up there alone in the future. Do you understand?"
Huzi glanced at the snake that had been placed on the ground by his sister, and swallowed, "Well, Huzi knows, Huzi won't go."
"Well, be good, Hu Zi." Li Xi said nonchalantly.
There were not many things in the backpack, so she packed them up in a few clicks, and then put them back into the basket one by one and leaned them against the wall. This was her first pot of gold, and everything would depend on tomorrow.
After lunch, Li Xi told Madam Liu that she was going to the city tomorrow.
"Going to the city? What are you going to do in the city?" Madam Liu asked puzzledly.
Mrs. Liu has lived for more than twenty years, has two children, and has only been to the city once.
"I picked some herbs and the like in the mountains today. I would like to take them to the city and try them out to see if they can collect them. It would be a bit of an income."
Li Xi didn't go into too much detail. She was worried about scaring her. Ginseng and krait were also medicinal materials.
"Medicinal materials? What medicinal materials?" Madam Liu looked at Li Xi in surprise, "Da Ya, why didn't I know you knew medicinal materials?"
"Dad taught me this when I followed him to the back mountains." Li Xi had already thought of the reason.
Sure enough, after hearing what Li Xi said, Madam Liu said no more. The nearest town to Lijiazhuang was Jiangning City. It was said to be the closest, but it was still twenty miles away, and it would take two hours to walk on just two legs.
The Erqiang master in their village had a donkey at home, and he would take people to the city every ten days for two copper coins each time.
"Mom will go with you." Madam Liu was worried that she would go alone.
"There's nothing valuable. I can go alone. Mom, just watch Hu Zi at home and wait for me to come back."
Madam Liu said a few more words uneasily, but finally compromised and agreed to let Li Xi enter the city alone.
Li Xi got up early the next morning. When she got up, the sun had not yet come out and it was still dark outside.
But although she got up early, Lady Liu got up even earlier. When she saw her getting up, Lady Liu invited her to have breakfast in the kitchen. After breakfast, Li Xi carried a basket on her back and left the house.
In the darkness, Li Xi walked towards the entrance of the village. When she arrived, there were already three or two aunts and ladies from the village sitting on the donkey cart. They all also carried backpacks, and they must have gone to the city to exchange money.
They have a mountain and nothing else, but there is still game.
Li Xi stepped forward and called "Master Erqiang", handed over two copper coins, and got on the donkey cart.
The original owner rarely walked around the village on weekdays, so Li Xi did not find the corresponding memories of the people on the donkey cart. She had to smile shyly at them, and then pretended to be embarrassed to sit on the donkey cart.
However, an aunt wearing a headscarf saw Li Xi and took the initiative to speak, "This is not the eldest daughter of the Tiezhu family. You are entering the city."
"Well, let's go to the city to change some things."
Hearing her say this, an aunt with a big black wrinkle at the corner of her mouth turned her eyes to the backpack Li Xi was holding in her arms, and said with a smile, "Hey, your backpack looks pretty heavy. Let me see, this What are you pretending to be?"
As she spoke, she stretched out towards Li Xi's backpack, trying to lift the homespun cloth covering it.
She placed the ginseng and krait at the bottom, and when she opened the homespun cloth, she could only see a pile of gastrodia elata. Li Xi was naturally not afraid of her opening it, but he really hated people like her who had no sense of propriety.
