Chapter 121 The Lord has many tricks
Brother Li was sitting on the ridge of the field, looking at Li Xiaoyang sitting on the tree, thinking about how to coax him down from the tree. He was also worried that the child would fall asleep on it.
Li Changle put down a handful of beans, wiped his sweat, and looked at the largest winter melon hanging on the rack. "Mom, I haven't eaten the winter melon candy you made for a long time. Keep the big one and make it later."
Eat winter melon candies.”
Li Xiaotao, who was helping to pick cucumbers, heard this and ran out with two cucumbers, "Grandma, I want some winter melon candy too!"
"Okay, when the weather gets cooler, grandma will buy some sugar and come back to make winter melon candies." Mother Li thought that the third child was now a man of sorts. He and the old man would help people weave nets at home, and they could earn two or three dollars in a month.
Ten dollars.
She thought that making winter melon candy didn't require much sugar, it was easy to make, and it could clear away heat and reduce internal heat. She might as well make some for the children.
"Oh oh oh! Grandma is going to make winter melon candies!" Li Xiaotao jumped up to three feet with joy.
Seeing his happy look and Brother Li's increasingly darker face, Li Changle began to admire this foodie.
Mother Li looked at her heartless grandson and found it funny, "I have been like this since I was a child. No matter how sad I cry, as long as I tell him there is something delicious, I will stop immediately."
Brother Li felt shameless, "Both of them are debt collectors, neither of them can worry."
Li Xiaotao looked at him, afraid of being beaten again, and pulled Li's mother's sleeves and whispered: "Grandma, I'm going to tell my brother and let him come down and go home."
"Go!" Li Changle gave him a cucumber from the vegetable basket, "Eat a cucumber and ask your brother if he is thirsty? Tell him that your father won't beat him."
Li Xiaotao took the cucumber and wiped it on his pants twice, then took a big bite and said, "I understand, you want to coax my brother down."
"Silly boy," Mother Li slapped his butt, "Listen to your third uncle and go quickly."
"Oh!" Li Xiaotao looked at Brother Li, "Abba, are you really not going to hit us?"
Brother Li said with a tigerish face, "Tell him to come down and I won't beat him. Otherwise, when I go back to the village and borrow a long ladder, how do I deal with him?"
The older the brat gets, the harder it is to teach him. Now he dares to ride on a tree and threaten himself. If he is not taught a lesson, who knows what he will do in the future?
"oh!"
Li Changping looked at his youngest son who was munching cucumbers and walking towards the oak tree. He sighed and said, "Ale, look at these two in my family. The younger one just got a beating. I'm afraid his buttocks are still hurting. Why?"
Are you happy?"
He remembered that when he was a child, whenever he saw his parents looking bad, he would know not to make them angry so as not to get beaten. Why are children nowadays so expressionless?
Li Changle thought of his previous life, when Xiaoyang and Xiaotao grew up and got married and were very filial to their brothers and sister-in-law. The only thing was that like them, they also loved to spank their children.
The brother and sister-in-law felt distressed when they saw the two beating their children, and protected them every time. Every time, Li Xiaoyang's brother used the example of the beatings they received when they were children to refute the old couple's words.
"Brother, Xiaoyang and Xiaotao are quite obedient compared to other children in the village. Please praise them more sometimes and don't beat or scold them at every turn."
Brother Li said angrily: "You still praise them? Just like this, your sister-in-law will complain every time I come back, saying that she can't control them."
"Xiaoyang often sneaks away to the beach to fish for sea food. As long as Xiaotao gives him delicious food, he will cover for him. If he praises him again, I think they will build a ladder to go to heaven."
After hearing this, Mother Li was not happy, "Boss, I don't like to hear what you are saying. Xiaoyang is more sensible than the third child before, but he is a bit stubborn. Tell him carefully. When did he not listen?"
Every time I catch a fish and sell it for money, I buy something for my younger siblings to eat. I never eat alone. What's wrong with that?"
Li Changle, who was lying on the gun, held his forehead and said, "Auntie, I don't like hearing what you say! No matter how bad I am, I won't be worse than a child, right?"
Li Changping also helped to speak, "Yes, Aniang, compared to other gangsters, Ah Le is already good at it. At least he won't do anything dirty!"
Mother Li patted him and said, "You have Ah Xi and you are there. Every time Ah Le gets into trouble outside, you guys help to cover him up. The older Ah Le gets, the more out of character he is. You guys spoiled him together."
Brother Li: "You can't blame us for this. If you hadn't always told us that Ah Le is weak and you, as brothers, have to let him go a little bit, would we have let him do anything?"
"I'll go over and see if Xiaoyang is down?"
When Li Changle saw that his eldest brother and mother were talking about his past dark history, Li Changle felt that his face was burning if he stayed any longer, so he quickly found an excuse and ran away.
Li Xiaotao walked under the tree and looked up at Li Xiaoyang, "Brother, are you thirsty? Third uncle asked me to bring you a cucumber. Come down quickly. Grandma is going to make winter melon candy."
Li Xiaoyang glanced at the cucumber in his hand and said, "Traitor, I won't talk to traitors!"
Li Xiaotao said hurriedly: "Brother, I'm not a traitor. As you saw, I got hit on the butt several times, but you didn't hit me even once on the tree."
"Hurry up and come down. Dad said that as long as you come down honestly, I won't beat you. Otherwise, I'll go back to the village and bring a ladder to catch you, and I'll give you a good beating."
"Did he really say that? He didn't want to trick me into coming down and hit me, right?" Li Xiaoyang looked down at him and asked.
Li Xiaotao pointed at Li Changle, "Really, if you don't believe me, just ask Third Uncle."
Li Changle stepped forward and nodded: "Come down quickly, I promise your father won't beat you."
"You are a puppy if you don't keep your words!" Li Xiaoyang stared at him and said.
Li Changle felt his hand was itching, "When do I never keep my word? As long as I didn't fulfill my promise to you that time?"
Li Xiaoyang thought about it and said, "Then I will believe you just once."
After saying that, he hugged the tree trunk and slowly slid down. When he was about to reach the ground, he was grabbed by Li Changle and lifted down. He slapped him on the butt several times.
"You little bastard, you are still a puppy when you keep talking. If I hadn't been afraid that you would fall out of the tree and be crippled in bed, and your parents would be tired from having to serve you all your life, I would have climbed up to take care of you."
"Ouch~" Li Xiaoyang hurriedly twisted his buttocks to avoid his slap, "You said you wouldn't hit me. Third uncle, you don't mean what you say. I won't believe you in the future."
"I said your father won't hit you, but I didn't say I won't hit you. Think about it with your pig brain!" Li Changle said and gave him a few more blows.
Li Xiaoyang thought about what he really said just now, and was speechless for a moment, "You adults have so many tricks."
"Good fight!" Mother Li tugged his ear. "The bigger the tree is, the more disobedient it is. If I tell you to come down, come down, but you have to be stubborn. Look at such a tall tree. What if it falls down?
?”
"...I have never fallen from a tree taller than this." Li Xiaoyang said unconvinced.
"You're gone, why are you standing there?" Brother Li yelled angrily, turned back, picked up the winter melon, and left.
He was thinking about what Li Changle said just now, and felt that it made sense, so he decided not to beat him this time and see if he could change. If it was still the same as this time, he would beat him three times together.
When Li Xiaotao saw this, he felt that he was at a loss. He should have climbed up the tree just now, so that he would not have received those few blows. Thinking of this, he even touched his butt, which had long since stopped hurting.
When Li Xiaoyang saw that he had really left, he still didn't believe it, "Grandma, my dad really doesn't beat me anymore? Will he wait until I get back to deal with me?"
Mother Li remembered that he had just said that she had picked it up, "Silly boy, you are the flesh that fell from your mother's body. Stop being so stubborn when you go back and admit your mistake to your father. Who would be willing to beat you? I feel sorry for you."
It’s too late.”
Li Xiaoyang didn't believe it, "Then my mother-in-law said she picked me up when she went to the market."
Li Xiaotao added: "I also heard my grandma say that we were all picked up. She also said that if she had known we were so disobedient, she would not have picked us up and brought us home. She is the only one who has trouble."
Mother Li looked at her two grandsons in a funny and angry way, "Those are the angry words she said because you disobeyed me. Who would pick up these two boys and take them home?"
I have to provide you with food and clothing, provide you with education, earn money to build you a new house when you grow up, and use money to buy you a wife. Who would be willing to give it to someone who is not my own child?"
Li Changle knocked on Li Xiaoyang's forehead with his finger, "As the old saying goes, a young man will live in poverty. If you two were not their biological children, why would your parents have worked so hard to support you?
The money used to support you will be used to buy new clothes. Isn’t it delicious to eat braised pork with big pig’s trotters? Use your brain too much when something happens, and you will soon be in the fifth grade. You still have no ability to distinguish, and you have read all the books in the dog’s belly?”
"Your third uncle is right. Which family in the village doesn't scold their children like this? Grandma also said that your father was picked up by uncle. Why didn't they say to go find their father when they were beaten?"
The two brothers looked at each other after hearing this. Thinking about it, it was true that some of the classmates in the class had picked them up while going out to sea, and some had picked them up while going out to sea for fishing...
And just like them, I picked it up when going to the market.
How could there be so many children picking it up? When they went to the market with their mother-in-law, why didn't they pick it up once? They didn't see anyone else picking it up either.
Li Changle said no more, and when he raised the vegetable basket, the two brothers stepped forward with a look and helped pick the cowpeas.
On the way down the mountain, Mother Li carefully taught them some principles of life. The two brothers were not like when they were on the mountain. If you say one thing to him, he will have ten words waiting for you.
When she got home, Sister-in-law Li sat on the eaves and wiped her tears. When she saw the two brothers coming back, she cried and grabbed Li Xiaoyang and slapped his butt several times. She cried and cursed: "Debt collectors, heartless little bastards, you
Don’t you want to leave?”
Mother Li stepped forward to persuade her and took the two children home.
Li Xiaohai took Li Changle's hand and said, "Abba, my mother-in-law said I didn't pick it up. It was given to our family by the concubine from the Lord's Palace."
Li Xiaozhou hurriedly said: "There is also me. Grandma said that she had made an agreement with the Concubine, and asked her to send my brother to our home first, and then send me back in two years."
"Yes, I begged the Mother-in-law to give you to us." Li Changle smiled and touched their heads, and glanced at Brother Li proudly, "Brother, learn from this, and don't talk about picking up things on the street in the future.
That’s it.”
Chapter completed!