Lu Shaoyu accepted the money, but did not leave in a hurry. Apparently he also wanted to know what happened between Lu Yi and Fang Zhuoyu.
Mu Siyu didn't show off and kept talking about her thoughts.
"Lu Yi has always been known as a child prodigy. He must have been loved by thousands of people in the academy. How could other students not be jealous? As time goes by, those jealous people will hate him more and more. This Fang Zhuoyu often interacts with him
He must be a petty and jealous person. Now that he has passed the exam, he will definitely want to slap Lu Yi in the face and trample him under his feet."
"He is holding a banquet tomorrow, does he want you to go too? A wild boar can't be sold for twenty taels of silver. In order for you to go, he is willing to spend a lot of money. It seems that tomorrow is the Hongmen Banquet!"
The more Mu Siyu talked, the more proud she became. She said, "Please call me Sherlock Holmes." She obviously didn't pay attention to the fact that her "personality" had collapsed a long time ago.
Before Lu Yi came back, she was worried all day about losing her reputation in front of Lu Shaoyu and Lu Zhiyun. Now that Lu Yi and Lu Xuan brothers came back, everything she said and did was full of flaws, and she was the only one who didn't realize this.
Lu Yi glanced at her and did not refute what she said.
Lu Xuan rarely quarreled with her, and now his thoughts were filled with heartache and worry for Lu Yi.
"Why don't you go tomorrow? If you go even though you know the other party has bad intentions, wouldn't that be stupid?" Lu Xuan looked at Lu Yi guiltily. "If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been humiliated by such a villain.
"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Lu Yi interrupted him. "Don't take everything on yourself."
"Isn't it? My elder brother is so good at reading books. The mountain chief and the masters have high hopes for you. If it weren't for my drag, you would have been admitted to the Juren Examination a few years ago."
"Stop talking about this. Your body is the most important thing to me right now."
"What is the use of my crippled body?" Lu Xuan beat himself, his face full of resentment.
Lu Yi grabbed Lu Xuan's arm and looked at him sharply: "I spent a lot of money to raise your body, it's not your turn to ruin it."
"Brother..." Lu Xuan lowered his eyes. "Why are you so nice to me?"
Lu Yi patted Lu Xuan on the shoulder: "Once a brother, a lifelong brother, there is no need to say this between you and me."
Mu Siyu looked at the brothers in front of her.
What a good man! It would be nice if he could keep up like this.
"Is my dad good-looking?" Lu Shaoyu's cool voice sounded.
"It looks good..." Mu Siyu blurted out, but shut up when she saw everyone's looks. "If you are going to attend the banquet tomorrow, you will have to buy some clothes if your clothes are not enough."
"No need." Lu Yi frowned.
There is no extra money in the family to "waste". He hopes that every penny is used wisely, rather than spent on such unnecessary things.
"You can't leave empty-handed tomorrow, right? No matter what you do, you will be ridiculed by that person, but we can't be passive. If he slaps you in the face, how about you slap him in the face too?"
"Why do you care about people who don't matter?" Lu Yi disagreed. "Okay, I have something else to do, so I'm going out first."
Lu Xuan looked at Lu Yi and said, "I'm going to meet the mountain chief and the masters tomorrow. My eldest brother must have gone hunting in the mountains. Don't worry about a villain like Fang Zhuoyu, but you can't meet the mountain chief and the masters empty-handed."
Mu Siyu was thoughtful.
Lu Xuan looked back at Mu Siyu: "What are you having for dinner?"
"I'm injured, I can just eat something tonight."
She is still busy doing other things!
Lu Xuan curled his lips: "It's easy to change a country, but it's hard to change one's nature. It's only been a few days, and the old habit has happened again."
When Lu Yi came back with the rabbit, he saw Mu Siyu doing something in the yard.
There were a lot of sawdust on the ground. She took the carpentry tools and made out many small pieces of wood, so small that there was no obvious meaning.
Lu Xuan had just gone to the vegetable garden to pour manure on the vegetables. When he saw Lu Yi standing in the yard watching Mu Siyu work, he muttered, "She has been tinkering with things since you left. I don't know what she was tinkering with."
"Has dinner been made?"
"No!" Lu Xuan said angrily: "I was wondering if there was a different person before, but you see, her true nature has been exposed in just a few days, and she is still the same lazy woman."
Lu Yi harnessed the rabbit, washed his hands, and prepared dinner.
Mu Zhenghan came back carrying water.
Seeing this, Lu Yi raised his hand and poured the water from the bucket into the jar.
"Okay, don't choose."
"It's not full yet." Mu Zhenghan wiped the sweat from his face. "It's still early, so I'll fill it up with water."
"Go and take care of mother. If she is thirsty and is too embarrassed to ask us to pour water, go and ask her if she needs to drink water or go to the toilet. If she needs to go to the toilet, ask your sister to take her there."
When Mu Zhenghan heard this, he quickly went to the bedroom next door to find Mr. Tong.
Mrs. Tong is mending clothes.
Although she couldn't get out of bed, she would feel uncomfortable lying down all the time, so Mu Siyu took out the rags at home and gave them to her to pass the time.
"I've been there, your sister took me there." Tong was embarrassed. "Han'er, your father..."
"Mother, what are you asking him for?" Mu Zhenghan frowned and said unhappily: "I saw him when I was carrying water. He pretended not to see me, and his life was going well!"
"Really?" Tong said sadly.
"If you don't drink water, I will go to work. Life is not easy for my sister and brother-in-law. In order to help us, they spent several taels of money on medicine."
"Then go quickly, and when my mother gets better, do more work to repay them," Ms. Tong urged.
Coming out of Tong's room, Mu Zhenghan let out a breath.
In fact, he lied.
I met Mu Dashan when I was carrying water just now. He called him, but he was the one who really ignored me.
"It's time to eat." Lu Yi prepared dinner and came to the yard to call Mu Siyu.
Mu Siyu said without looking back: "You guys eat first! I'll take a few bites later."
She is losing weight anyway.
"What are you doing?" Lu Yi asked.
"You'll know later." Mu Siyu held up a small part and compared it. "After you finish eating, kill the rabbit. I'll make it into a dish later, and you can bring it to your wife and the others tomorrow.
Make something to go with wine.”
"good."
While the others were eating, Mu Siyu was still busy working in the yard.
Lu Zhiyun pulled the dishes, looked at Mu Siyu outside, and whispered, "What are you doing, mother?"
"I don't know." Lu Shaoyu said, "Eat well."
"You're just pretending." Lu Xuan muttered. "It would be a shame if nothing good can come out of such a big battle."
After Lu Yi finished his meal, Mu Zhenghan took over the task of cleaning up the dishes. He did not refuse and took the rabbit to the river, and then came back after cleaning up.
It was getting dark, and the Lu family lit oil lamps.
Mu Siyu just finished finishing the things and walked in with a square box.