"Anyway, it's just different. Stepmother can just take me there alone. Second brother, what are you going to do?"
Erbao is a person who accepts death. Seeing that his sister couldn't come up with a reason for a long time, he asked again: "Why can I just take you alone? Why don't you want me to go to town with my stepmother!"
"You are so heartless, if you ask again, I will never buy you pancakes again!" Sanya was furious.
"The oil cake was bought by the stepmother." After Erbao finished speaking, his voice changed and he became more and more dissatisfied, "I am your second brother, don't call me mean-spirited!"
"You are so heartless, you are so heartless!"
"Don't call me heartless. I'll say it one last time. Don't call me heartless again!"
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Lu Dabao looked at the brother and sister fighting with their faces red, and then looked at the pancake in his hand, his eyes getting darker and darker.
The quarrel between Erbao and Sanya became more and more fierce. In the end, the brother and sister directly entered a cold war. You ignored me and I ignored you.
Li Tannian was busy with his own affairs and did not notice anything unusual about the brother and sister.
She stewed the lamb scorpion and large intestine together, and asked Sanya to watch the lighting of the fire. Then she put the dirty mattress and clothes she had changed out of the previous two days into a wooden bucket and headed to the river.
There is a river in Lujia Village that runs through the entire village, and villagers wash their clothes in that river.
She planned to take advantage of the nice weather today to wash all these dirty clothes.
However, when she was halfway there, she remembered that she hadn't picked up the saponins yet. In this era, there were no washing powders, laundry detergents and the like, only saponins.
Although it is not convenient, it is essential.
When Li Tannian returned to the entrance of the hospital, he heard Lu Dabao's deliberately low voice.
"Although the stepmother has been nice to you recently, who knows how long she will be better? You can't let the stepmother know about us secretly making mats to sell. If the stepmother knows, we won't be able to make money from this in the future.
Already."
Li Tannian's steps froze.
The little beans in the room didn't pay attention to her, and they continued to whisper to each other.
"I, I listen to big brother." Erbao said hesitantly.
"You are so heartless!" Sanya glared at Erbao and said disapprovingly: "I don't think the stepmother would care about this little mat money."
Lu Dabao and Erbao looked at her at the same time, Sanya shrugged with a calm look on his face.
"That day, when my stepmother and I went to town, someone gave me two silver coins, but my stepmother didn't let me part with them. Later, she sold her eels and gave some to me. And
Today, I had about ten copper coins left from buying fried cakes, and my stepmother also gave them to me."
Er Bao was stunned and Lu Dabao frowned.
It was strange that she handed him two hundred copper coins that day. Today, she actually gave him three more coins?
Is it possible that she has really changed for the better?
But how could a person change so quickly? No one knew better than him how much that woman loved money.
Yes, you must be on guard against others!
He had to remain vigilant until he figured out what the woman was planning.
Lu Dabao thought about this, and there was a bit of coldness in his voice: "Don't forget what kind of person she was before? Didn't she lose all the money that daddy earned in the past?"
Erbao was silent, and Sanya was a little confused. She didn't know why, but she just believed that the stepmother was sincerely treating her well!
Li Tannian returned to the house with an almost expressionless face, and the three little beans were all shocked when they saw her coming back.
"Do you think your little straw mat money is enough to defeat me?" Looking at Lu Dabao, Li Tannian raised the corner of his mouth sarcastically.
"Stepmother, why are you back?" Lu Dabao's guilty conscience quickly disappeared, and soon he showed a natural smile, "Stepmother, I didn't mean that."
Li Tannian expressionlessly took the soap locust from the house and went out again.
There was no one at the river today. Li Tannian was happy to be at peace and walked to the river on the bluestone slabs.
The spring cold is steep, and the river water is still a bit cool.
Li Tannian put all the clothes on the bluestone board and washed them one by one.
It was not easy to lather the soap locust. Li Tannian rubbed it carefully and saw Lu Dabao walking towards this way out of the corner of his eye.
"Stepmother..." Seeing that she ignored him, Lu Dabao hurriedly moved over, took a piece of dirty clothes and helped to rub it: "Stepmother, I didn't know you gave Sanya money, I
······sorry."
Li Tannian was not surprised at all by Lu Dabao's arrival. He was a sinister and scheming villain. Now that he was apologizing, he might not know what he was thinking in his heart.
Rather than letting her believe that he felt guilty, she preferred to believe that Lu Dabao was just afraid that she would leave them alone.
"Stepmother, I will never dare to do it again. I will give you all the money from selling the straw mats, okay?" Lu Dabao spoke again, and Li Tannian's mouth twitched: "Who cares about your little money?"
Lu Dabao's little face stiffened: "Then don't be angry, okay? I will go to the reed field to cut reeds in the afternoon. I won't light the oil lamp. I will sit in the courtyard and help you weave mats day and night. There are many
If you do, you’ll have more money.”
Li Tannian's hands rubbing her clothes paused for a moment. Although she knew that this person had many bad ideas, after hearing these words, she felt less depressed in her heart.
After a silence, she asked instead: "Is your leg healed?"
Lu Dabao nodded repeatedly: "I still have some mats at home, and I am planning to bring them to my second wife this afternoon. She knows a mat seller, and each bed can be sold for five copper coins."
Li Tannian frowned. Although she didn't know the price of the mat, five copper coins was indeed too low!
Not in the mood to guess whether he deliberately lowered the price, Li Tannian said directly: "You can take it to the town to sell it yourself. No one else will believe it. However, if you don't want to become a cripple, it's best to wait until your leg heals before going to the town."
superior."
Lu Dabao's eyes flashed, he said softly, "Oh", then lowered his head and continued to wash the clothes.
The two girls were very fast and quickly washed out a basin of clothes.
Li Tannian looked at his little hands that were red from rubbing, and thought about how to improve the soap in the future, so as not to rub it like this every time, which is very laborious.
Lu Dabao wanted to help carry it, but Li Tannian didn't give in. He simply followed Li Tannian, walking step by step.
"Hey, Ziyan, look who that is? Isn't that your sister Nian?"
"Isn't that right? Sister Nian must have known that you were off from bathing today, so she made a special trip to block you in the middle of the road!"
A teasing voice sounded, and Li Tannian followed the sound and saw three young men dressed as scholars standing there on the wooden bridge in front of them.
Li Tannian recognized Lin Ziyan walking in the middle at a glance.
Lin Ziyan looks elegant and fair, but lacks masculinity and is more than weak in writing.
Especially after he caught her gaze, his face turned a little pale, as if he had seen a ghost, and he turned around and ran away in a panic.
Li Tannian frowned. She really didn't see what was good about Lin Ziyan. He couldn't lift it with his hands or carry it on his shoulders. He looked like a pretty boy. As for the original owner's love for him?
"You're still watching!" Lu Dabao saw her looking at Lin Ziyan with a good look, and glared at her dissatisfied.