Bandit Reborn

Mouth, went out in despair.

He found his eldest brother who was working hard and his second brother who was practicing martial arts at the gate of the courtyard. Li Huaixi moved his arms and legs, punched him once, and then stopped Liu Quan, who was probing his head, and asked him to practice together. It's a pity that this guy Li Huaixi and Li Hu couldn't see him, so they kicked him away together.

In the twinkling of an eye, it was the third day of August, and his mother changed him into a new set of clothes early in the morning, and hung the lucky bag around his waist, "Come back early today, don't go out and run around, I'll cook something delicious for you at noon .”

Li Huaixi promised to go to school with his two elder brothers. When Liu Quan went out, he mysteriously stuffed him a small bag. Li Huaixi opened it and saw that it was a small figure carved out of wood.Unexpectedly, Liu Quan, who hides his secrets, is very familiar with Picasso. He is also a master of abstract art. One, Li Huaixi didn't feel ashamed to throw it away, so he stuffed it into his schoolbag in front of Liu Quan, but it hurt him all the way.

Now he has fully adapted to the ancient teaching mode. Not only can he understand what the teacher said, but he can also draw inferences. There are not many classmates who can do this, and those who can continue to have their own opinions like him are even rarer. Li Huaixi, the butcher's son, became Mr.'s favorite student. Occasionally, when an old friend came to visit, Mr. would always call him up to take an exam to show off. Over time, Mr. Li Huaixi also got to know most of his friends.

When school was over at noon, another person came to visit Mr., but this person came in a sedan chair. When he got off the sedan chair, he met Li Huaixi who happened to be going out.

Li Huaixi pulled Li Long and Li Hu, and the three saluted the county magistrate respectfully. The county magistrate still remembered them. He didn't wear official uniforms today, and he looked even more immature. , "It turns out that you are my junior juniors, haha, we are from the same school, so there is no need to be polite, you little guy has grown a bit taller, uh, your teeth haven't grown yet? You're still so ugly!"

Li Huaixi shut his mouth tightly when he heard the words, and held back the polite words he was about to say, thinking that the county magistrate who opened his mouth and said "my official" must have been very disliked by him at the beginning, because he was such a serious person.

"Hey, if you keep your mouth shut, people won't know that you are a leaker? I almost suffocated you to death in the lobby that day, and when I went back, I laughed so hard that my stomach hurts. Talk to me, I like to listen to you. "The county magistrate bent over and said to Li Huaixi unscrupulously.

"Yichen, don't mess around, it's not proper to be an official! Huaixi, hurry up and go home with your brothers, isn't it your birthday today, don't make your mother wait." The gentleman walked through the door Come out and save the toothless Li Huaixi.

The county magistrate named Yi Chen put on a serious expression when he saw Mr., just like what he saw at the county government office.

"Come in." The gentleman still had the usual expression, turned around and entered the door first, the county magistrate blinked at Li Huaixi, took a jade pendant from his waist and stuffed it into his hand, "I gave it to you, little birthday boy." After finishing speaking, Without waiting for Li Huaixi to refuse, he stepped into the courtyard.

When Li Huaixi was a bandit in his previous life, he usually only robbed money and didn't rob things, because he was afraid that he would not be able to make a move. However, in order not to treat pretenders as fat sheep, he still knew a little about ordinary jewelry and jade. The jade pendant that the county magistrate gave him The starting point is warm and moist, and the color is emerald green. It is definitely a good thing. It is not cheaper than the 100 taels rewarded by the state government, and I am afraid there will be more.

"This guy can't be a corrupt official, he's so generous." Li Huaixi played with the jade pendant on the road, muttering as he walked, if he was a corrupt official, then his first target after growing up to rob the rich and help the poor would be this unscrupulous county magistrate.

"I don't know. San'er, don't lose the jade pendant. We should go in and return it to him just now. For such a valuable thing, our parents will definitely say about us when we get home." Li Long was a little worried about postponing.

"No, we didn't steal it, he forced it, it's not our fault, let's go, mother said to eat delicious lunch today." Li Huaixi put the jade pendant in his small purse Inside, hung together with the lucky bag.

After the three brothers returned home, the food was ready. In order to celebrate the birthday of the youngest son, Li Chengkui only delivered meat to a few big households in the morning and came back. There was no meat stall selling to individual customers.

After eating a super long birthday noodle rolled by his grandma, Li Huaixi suddenly remembered this, so he took out the jade pendant given by the county magistrate and gave it to his mother.

Neither of the two couples had ever seen such a valuable thing. After asking the reason clearly, some complained that the three brothers did not understand the importance. The grandma took it over and took a look and said, "If the county magistrate wants to give it, they have to accept it. The children understand What, if you accept it, you will accept it, no need to make a fuss."

His mother was about to put away the jade pendant, but grandma stopped him again, "Let him hang it close to his body, people raise jade and jade, if it's not good to leave it alone, the water will be gone."

"He's so small, he'll be lost!" His mother wanted to put it away.

"Can you guarantee that the county magistrate will only go once? Next time I see you and ask, what do you ask Huaixi to say? Don't be petty, hang up the child and it's over." While picking fishbone for Li Huaixi, grandma taught herself some things she hadn't seen before. The youngest daughter of the world.

Li Huaixi held up a big chicken leg that had been stewed to perfection and asked his father, "Father, is this county magistrate a corrupt official? How long has he been in our county?"

Li Chengkui thought for a while, then shook his head and replied, "It shouldn't be a corrupt official. He is the young master of Lin Fu, the largest family in our county. He was a well-known child prodigy in our county. He was awarded Tanhua at the age of 16 last year. He should have stayed in Beijing to do He has been a Beijing official for three years, but the old man of his family is reluctant to give up his property in the capital city to replace his grandson with a county magistrate in front of his house. Their family's business is spread all over the north and south, and it is said that they are also ranked first in the entire Zhou Dynasty , Ordinary small money doesn't look down on him, how many people can bribe him."

"Aren't the sons of merchants not allowed to apply for the exam?" Li Long asked strangely.

"Yes, but his family has three generations of business registration in his generation. He is the fourth generation and can apply for the exam. The third generation of businessmen cannot take the exam. Their family is full." Li Chengkui patiently explained to his sons.

"Their ancestral graves must have good feng shui. If you do business, you will get rich, and if you study, you will become an official. That's right. Grandma, wipe your hands!" Li Huaixi finished eating a chicken leg, and waited for his grandma to wipe him with a damp cloth with two open hands.

"That doesn't have much to do with the ancestral tomb. I think everyone who saw our ancestral tomb at the beginning agreed to it. Mr. Feng Shui invited several people before deciding on the place, but it can't stand the future generations and don't work hard. My grandfather is good at wine. I Dad is a gambler, and he ruined the family business in two generations." While wiping his hands, grandma took the opportunity to educate him, "The county magistrate is your husband's disciple, right? If he doesn't know a word, can he be an official? In the previous dynasty, there were people who bought and sold officials. We haven’t heard of it since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty. You have to study hard and don’t try to be opportunistic. Otherwise, the ancestral graves of your Li family and Meng family will be smoked. Not to you."

Li Huaixi nodded, "Understood, grandma, when I grow up, I will give you and my mother a chance to come back!"

"Good son, what about dad? I have been so kind to you for nothing?" Li Chengkui pinched his little nose with a smile.

"It's not my fault. The imperial court doesn't give orders to men, but you can be an old man at home, and you can beat anyone who disobeys you!" Li Huaixi glanced at Liu Quan with some malicious intentions. He just broke a flower pot in the morning. .

Liu Quan received the warning, and hurriedly sent the chicken wings that he had just put into the bowl to Li Huaixi's bowl, and began to show his loyalty very obsequiously, "When you become an official, I will be the housekeeper, right? Take it easy, don't worry!"

"Fuck off, have you grown a butler's head? You can't tear apart ten counts!" Li Huaixi glared at him, picked up the chicken wings and ate them with peace of mind, and asked his grandma to wipe his hands again in a blink of an eye.

In Li Huaixi's view, this Liu Quan is definitely not a loyal and good servant. This guy is as smart as a ghost, and he only calculates for himself at all times.But every time Li Huaixi scolded him like this, Liu Quan acted very wronged, talking endlessly about the work he did at home, such as washing dishes for grandma, feeding pigs for his father, watering flowers and collecting clothes for his mother, anyway. Every time, he would describe himself as a hardworking and durable first-class loyal servant with first-class eloquence.

Li Chengkui always told Li Huaixi to treat Liu Quan better, but Li Huaixi felt that he was super nice to Liu Quan, and any master would drive this slave out. Now there is almost no reason to keep him, just eat. live.

After finishing the birthday meal, this diabolical slave sat in the courtyard with his master to bask in the sun, Li Long and Li Hu helped grandma clean up in the kitchen, Li Huaixi kicked Liu Quan, "Aren't you going to help?! Be careful, I'll sell you !"

"Grandma said I'm too young to be good at work, so I don't need me." Liu Quan replied lazily and confidently to his master, leaning on the big tree behind him, and suddenly straightened his body as if remembering something, holding Li Huaixi mysteriously She said, "Huaixi, do you know that the place they sold me to last time was scary. They treated men like women!"

"I know, isn't it the Xiaowan Pavilion? You've said it many times." Li Huaixi said impatiently.

"I've even seen their headliner, with painted eyebrows and eyes, like a girl, you must be much prettier than him when you grow up!" Liu Quan said with certainty.

Li Huaixi squinted his eyes and glanced at Liu Quan, raised his hand and punched him, Liu Quan covered his nose and muffled, "Why did you hit me again?!"

"You asked for it!" Li Huaixi squinted his eyes and fell back. Liu Quan covered his nose and went back to the house to ask for cotton. Li Huaixi knew that Liu Quan must have taken the opportunity to file a complaint again, and his mother would definitely call him again in a while. This plot has been played out every day since Liu Quan came, this Diao slave.

21. Murder case

On August [-]th, the Mid-Autumn Festival school holiday, on the night of August [-]th, the three brothers took Liu Quanhui and three "money fans" from Li Chengxiao's family, and several children went to the river to catch crabs with lanterns.

It was dark in the reeds at night, even the moonlight was very bright, and the figure on the opposite side could not be seen clearly. Li Huaixi, the gangster who was reborn and traveled through, became the least courageous one. In fact, he regretted it as soon as he left the house, but he was always embarrassed. explain.

Liu Quan was not very courageous, he followed closely behind Li Huaixi, always feeling chilly on the back of his neck, "Huaixi, do you think there are ghosts in this world? What do ghosts look like?"

"Get out, how do I know if there is one? Don't talk nonsense, be careful that that thing comes out and scares you to death!" Li Huaixi reprimanded Liu Quan sternly, one hand grabbed Li Long who was holding a lantern beside him, and the other Li Hu, who was holding the crab basket in his hand, walked in the middle by himself, and Liu Quan was arranged behind him. He was actually more scared than Liu Quan in his heart, and he didn't even dare to say the word 'ghost'.

But in this world, you often come to whatever you are afraid of. Just when their crab pots were about to be full, a naked male corpse with a pale face lay horizontally in the mud in front of him. Li Cai's lantern was just right. Seeing his face, the ferocious and strange expression made these boys terrified in an instant, and they ran out of the reed marsh screaming together, and Li Li's shoes were lost.

Hearing the screams of several children in the nearby village, they turned on the lights one after another. Several men came out and asked them what happened. Li Long and Li Cai stuttered and told what they saw. Rizheng.Li was an old man in his fifties who had seen some of the world. On the one hand, he sent people to guard the periphery of Weitang, and on the other hand, he sent people to notify the police. Several children were also sent home.

After dawn the next day, the county magistrate arrived at the scene of the crime with the only foreman in the county.Li Huaixi was so frightened that his three souls lost his soul, and he couldn't lift his strength. His father carried him to see the magistrate, but Li Li was frightened and fell ill, so he didn't come at all. The children of them were the discoverers of the murder scene. , The job needs to compare their footprints one by one for record.

"Our small feet still need to be recorded, and after the shoe prints are checked, we need to print footprints. It's really troublesome." Li Huaixi nestled in a grand chair and wiped the ink stains on his feet with a wet towel, complaining while wiping, I really don't want to stay in such an unlucky place for a long time.

"If you don't bother me like this, how can he deal with me? The fool also knows that this is not the first scene, but he can't speak so straightforwardly, so he can only make up the number of words. From now on, you will understand when you become an official. Eighty-nine out of ten of the things that come up are nonsense." The county magistrate was drinking tea under the temporary awning, and explained to Li Huaixi leisurely.

"It's still Mid-Autumn Festival today, please tell him to hurry up, we have to go home for dinner." Li Huaixi continued to complain impatiently, his father is not here, no one cares whether he is not polite.

Li Chengkui is very busy today. Just now several groups of people came to ask him to kill pigs, but he was hesitant to worry about these terrified children. The county magistrate didn't know if he had carefully inspected the murder scene, and he still had the time to care about them. The fathers, asked the reason, put on the appearance of parents and officials who love the people like their children, and promised to send someone to send the children back in a while and then let Li Chengkui go. As a result, when the father left, the county magistrate showed his true colors.

He abducted Li Huaixi alone by his side, first he laughed at the frightened poor child, and then he forced Kuoyazi to say tongue twisters, and finally Li Huaixi "willing to cut himself to pieces" ruthlessly fought back, the county magistrate, this cheap brat Instead of being annoyed, he was very happy, and still kept him by his side, which made Li Huaixi bored to death now.

"You have great potential to be an official. After seeing such a disgusting corpse, you still want to eat." The county magistrate said while blowing the tea.

"That's not as good as you. You can still drink tea without changing your face in front of such a disgusting corpse." Li Huaixi retorted, the place where the autopsy was performed was not 100 meters away from the arbor.

"Hey, little guy, you have sharp teeth, but you're right. To be a parent officer like this, you have to be able to do this, otherwise you won't be able to do it for a day." As a parent officer of Sesame Mung Bean, Lin Yichen was still very complacent. .

"Looking at you like this, you should know this case well." Li Huaixi became more and more indifferent, and didn't even use honorifics, anyway, the county magistrate was only 17 years old.

"Love murder, there are at least two murderers, and they can't get out of the surrounding villages. The case will be closed tomorrow." Lin Yichen didn't care whether he used honorific words, and answered him with confidence.

"No way, you can see that he said love to kill when he was naked, what if the murderer made such a scene on purpose?!" Li Huaixi asked in surprise.

"Hehe, boy, you're really smart, but you can only use this trick after you become a high-ranking official. It's not easy for criminals here to think of throwing corpses. You still expect them to create a ecstasy array? You Look at that unlucky ghost, that thing is swollen like that, obviously it was murdered by someone when it was happy, if it is not a love murder, I will kick your head as a ball!" The county magistrate pointed to the corpse in the distance, the thing kept The original state before death was stunned under the white cloth.

Li Huaixi took a follow-up glance, and after agreeing with the county magistrate, he made up his mind to stay away from this guy. What an out-of-the-ordinary person he must be to tell a six-year-old child about these evidences of love murder.

It's a pity that the county magistrate didn't intend to stay away from him, and said sharply while holding the tea, "You don't need to stare so wide, I can see at a glance that you, a bad bag, know everything, so you don't need to pretend."

Li Huaixi didn't deny it either. He turned to the county magistrate and said with a smile, "Knowing and speaking are not the same thing. The sage also said that a gentleman can do something and not do it. How did you teach you before?"

Lin Yichen laughed when he heard it, and said in a low voice, "A gentleman can't do anything. Mr. is a gentleman. He doesn't even want to talk to others. He is more noble than anyone else. Such a good knowledge, but I couldn't even stay in the academy, I wasn't kicked out of the academy when I was like this, but he came out first."

"I'll tell my husband tomorrow that he won't let you in next time." Li Huaixi glanced at Lin Yichen, surprised that he knew that he was not a gentleman.

"Hmph, I said the same in front of him, so you still need to tell me?" The county magistrate disagreed.

"I don't believe it, you're bragging." Li Huaixi hasn't found Mr. Not Afraid's disciple yet.

"I'm bragging that I can solve the case tomorrow."

Li Huaixi was deeply shocked by his senior brother's thick skin, and it took him a long time to say, "It's a great honor for Xiaomin to live in the geomantic land under your rule!"

"You're welcome, it's my honor to be able to benefit the common people." County magistrate Lin Yichen took a sip of tea and accepted it happily.Li Huaixi learned a lesson from this, that you can't use irony when talking to people who are not gentlemen, otherwise they will listen right away.

After a while, Wu Zuo finished the autopsy and submitted a "post-mortem report". Lin Yichen glanced at it and put it aside, then turned to ask the yamen servant beside him, "Is anyone coming to identify the body?"

"Returning to my lord, a woman came to identify the body in the morning. She said it was the man of their family. The deceased was Meng Huairen from Mengjiazhuang, 42 years old. The person who identified the body is outside now. Do you want to pass it on?"

"Are you crying hard?" the county magistrate asked with a cup of tea.

"It's very fierce, it's passed." The yamen servant replied.

"Pass farts if you smoke it! Let's ask later, take the body to Yizhuang, let the family members claim it after the case is over, and leave a few people around to ask, why don't I tell you? "The county magistrate stood up and gave instructions to the yamen servants, and several yamen servants quickly agreed obediently.

After finishing the arrangement, the county magistrate walked up to Li Huaixi, knelt down and helped him put on his shoes, and then led Li Huaixi to the sedan chair, "Little rascal, let's take the sedan chair home with the county magistrate today."

"Go back to your house or go back to my house, I think you look like a human trafficker." Li Huaixi said with her head up.

"Hehe, clever, you saw through it. You didn't bring that iron rod with you, did you? Then let's send you home. There are many interesting things in my house. It would be a pity if you didn't go."

"You look more like a human trafficker." Li Huaixi shook his head and said old-fashioned.

The magistrate laughed and pulled him into the sedan chair. Li Huaixi's first sedan chair was very fresh, but Lin Yichen bickered with him all the way, which greatly reduced his comfort during the journey. He really wanted to kick this annoying county magistrate. Get out of the official sedan chair.

At the gate of Li's house, Li Huaixi was put back beside his brothers. The county magistrate opened the sedan chair and asked him with a smile, "Where's the jade pendant I gave you? That's a good thing."

"Are you planning to go back? I didn't wear it on my body." Li Huaixi replied brazenly with his sleeve covering his purse.

"You think I'm as stingy as you, so keep it for yourself. Later, I'll send someone to bring some shock medicine. You little devils can drink a little each. Don't go out when it's dark, so as not to run into it again." Dirty stuff."

"You forced me with a knife, and I won't go out anymore!" Once he almost peed his pants in fright, if he did it again, he would go through directly.

The county magistrate smiled like a fox, put down the car curtain and left in a happy mood. Li Huaixi also felt better, his legs were not as weak as in the morning, so he ran to the main room to find his mother, and gossip about what he heard just now .

"Mother, Meng Huairen of Mengjiazhuang, the guy who was a meal that his son had been beaten by us.

"Really?!" His mother was taken aback.

"Really, his wife went over to identify the corpse in the morning, and she was sobbing." Li Huaixi picked up a candied fruit and stuffed it into his mouth, and continued muttering.

"Just such a man is worth her crying over?!" His mother snorted at this, and went down to the ground to take some boiled peanuts for the two stepson and Liu Quan in the other room, and filled a small plate with the rest Bring it to the kang table to eat with the youngest son.

"The man in their family eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and does all kinds of bad things. Since the old man was the patriarch of the Meng family back then, he has done bad things all these years. There is no one in the village who doesn't scold him. It would be better if he died. If my man is like that, I won't shed a single tear."

"I think his wife is crying for me. At the beginning, she called me an idiot. Huh, there are more idiots in their family. I don't look good. It will be more difficult to remarry." Li Huaixi said while peeling peanuts.

"Little bastard, you know everything!" His mother knocked on her little son, and laughed, "Then wait for the establishment of the chastity archway. Back then, she often spoke ill of me behind my back. Now I can't help it." knew."

"This is called feng shui rotation. Mom, what are we going to eat today? My father was invited to butcher pigs, and he won't be back until afternoon. May I help you kill chickens?" It will take a few days to come back, and this Mid-Autumn Festival has to be on their own.

"Didn't your father send you back? Then who sent you back?" His mother thought Li Chengkui was in the courtyard.

"I came back in the official sedan chair of the county magistrate. Don't tell me, it's really comfortable."

"It's very comfortable, so let's get one back by ourselves. You don't matter, you dare to sit in the official sedan chair of the county magistrate. Your father gets busier as the New Year comes, so let's stop pointing at him and tell your brothers to go." , let’s kill the chicken ourselves.”

After the first trimester of pregnancy, his mother was able to do normal work after the fetus was firmly seated, so she went to the ground with four boys to block the door of the chicken coop and started catching chickens.Their family didn't feel bad about killing chickens, because out of the fifteen chickens caught at the beginning of the year, there were only two females, and these two females died heroically in a weasel attack, leaving nothing but chicken feathers. So now their chicken coop is full of roosters, each of which weighs seven or eight catties, eating only food and not laying eggs!

His mother picked the two biggest ones and tied them up. After plucking the hair from the necks, she sent the two roosters to heaven with a swipe of the kitchen knife.The chicken feathers were kept up as usual, and a small feather duster was actually enough, but his mother had great ambitions and planned to make a large feather duster with a length of [-] to [-] centimeters. At that time, his mother gestured the length with her arm, and Li Huaixi was very suspicious Can she make it.

The crabs caught the night before were still bubbling at the bottom of the tank. As expected of a real foodie, Li Hu was so frightened that he peed his pants and didn't throw away the crab basket. He caught not a single crab.

In the afternoon, Li Chengkui came back with moon cakes, which were an extra gift from a rich family. He also brought back the anti-shock medicine promised by the county magistrate, saying that he happened to meet the yamen servant who delivered the medicine on the way.

In the evening, when a bright moon shines in the sky, Li Chengkui's family sits in the courtyard to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. A pair of taels of silver, a strange and incomparably delicious medicinal soup.

22. cat

The bitter-sweet traditional Chinese medicine produced by the Lin Family Pharmacy was very effective. Li Huaixi slept well on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival and did not have any nightmares. The next day, the three brothers went to school in good spirits.

The murder case spread throughout the surrounding villages within one day. As direct witnesses, the three brothers were surrounded by enthusiastic crowds before their husband arrived. He asked for all kinds of details, and asked more clearly than the county magistrate.

Li Huaixi felt a little hypoxic, and his head was a little big, and he managed to squeeze out of the crowd, just in time to meet his husband walking in, and hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Morning, sir".

Mr. Rarely expressed some concern, stepped forward to touch his forehead, nodded and said, "Be careful these days, don't catch cold, otherwise you will easily get sick from internal deficiency and external infection, drink more of the medicine Yi Chen sent over A few pairs, they have a lot of yellow and white things, tell me after you finish drinking, I will go to him and ask for more.”

Mr.'s words are very interesting under careful scrutiny, and the words make people feel that he is robbing the rich and helping the poor to eat the rich.

Li Huaixi and her husband have been together for a long time, and I feel more and more that this old man is cute, stubborn, and noble. He has his own set of criteria for judging people and things. In the eyes of the old man, Li Chengkui's career is barbaric and dirty, and his mother remarried. His behavior is also despised by the old man, but Mr. Li Long, who is hardworking and hardworking, is his favorite. Li Huaixi, who is talented and intelligent, is even more favorite of the old man. Although Li Hu is often beaten, Mr. Li will not deny him because of this, but he will often say , Li Hu is not material for reading.

In the eyes of others, Lin Yichen's background as a wealthy businessman may be enviable, but judging from the attitude of the gentleman, I am afraid that Brother Lin suffered no less stares than Li Huaixi at the beginning.

The master will make the best use of the situation. He did not talk about some subsets of scriptures and history as usual that day, but talked about the law.Stealing, robbing, killing and stealing goods, the sentencing standards and the severity of the punishment, these are obviously more attractive to these boys than romantic poems. After class, they gather together in twos and threes to discuss how the county magistrate will sentence the murderer. The conclusions of the children The death penalty is without exception, but each has its own advantages and disadvantages in the way of death. The wooden donkeys and nooses go into battle together, and everyone seems to be holding the seal of the official.

The three brothers of the Li family did not participate in their discussion. They knew the son of the deceased Meng Huairen, and they knew Meng Huairen's character. They instinctively believed that the person who killed the bad guy would not be a big treacherous person.

In the afternoon, the policemen who went to visit the countryside came to their village. First, they found Li Zheng and asked if there was anyone who had been away for the past two days, and then asked anyone who knew the dead Meng Huairen.Li Huaixi's mother was remarried from Mengjiazhuang, so she naturally knew Meng Huairen, so the police first came to Li Chengkui's house, and left after a routine inquiry.

After the arrester left, Cheng continued to make small clothes. Li Huaixi thought his mother was smiling, "Mother, what are you laughing at?"

"I didn't laugh." He said without raising his mother's head.

"You laughed." Li Huaixi became even more curious.

"Hehe, little bastard, your eyes are as sharp as a monkey's spirit." After being seen through, his mother simply laughed out loud, raised her head and said briskly, "Mother is laughing at the time when mother remarries, think about it, if mother still lives now In Mengjiazhuang, how can a young widow like mother leave so quickly? Why not turn everything upside down in our house? But just now, when the policeman saw mother's big belly, he lost his mind and asked so many times Just leave."

Li Huaixi thought about it according to this line of thought, and he was deeply convinced. The two mothers laughed heartily together for a while.Li Huaixi stopped laughing suddenly, he was surprised to find a big bump on his mother's stomach, and another bump on the side in a blink of an eye.

"Mother! Mother! You, you have bags on your stomach!" Li Huaixi was terrified. In his opinion, this situation was terrifying.

"Silly boy, that's the baby moving in the belly, do you want it to be a younger brother or a younger sister?" His mother asked him, rubbing her belly.

"I prefer it to be a cat." Neither Li Huaixi's siblings like it, he hopes that he will always be the youngest and most favored one.

"Then I can't give birth. You can go to Aunt Wu's next door and ask for one. Their cats just laid out a litter last month, and they are now dividing their litters." His mother understood the little son's thoughts, I don't mind, after finishing talking, I picked up the needle and thread and got busy.

Aunt Wu's house is the one next door that sells tofu. Li Huaixi lingered at the gate of the courtyard for three times but didn't go in. He didn't know how to open his mouth to ask people for things under normal circumstances. In his previous life, he was more used to saying, "Take out your wallet, Or stab you to death!"

At this time, a young man walked out of the yard. It was Aunt Wu's eldest son, the elder brother who had given him dried salted tofu during the Chinese New Year.

Wu Yusheng went straight to Li Huaixi, and asked him with a smile, "I saw you dangling at the door when I was collecting tofu bags inside. Do you want to buy tofu for your mother or drink soy milk? There is no soy milk now. You can drink it tomorrow morning."

"I, I want a kitten, any color is fine, can you give me one? My mother said that your kittens are about to separate their litters." Li Huaixi felt a little embarrassed staring at his toes, The voice is getting lower and lower.

"If you want a cat, there's nothing wrong with that. Come in with me and pick whatever you want. I'm worried that I won't be able to give it away. You can take it all away." Yusheng smiled lightly and patted his little head. This made Li Huaixi feel much better.

Li Huaixi was dragged into the yard. Yusheng gathered the six kittens together and talked to him with a smile, "The mother cat was suffocated a while ago, and this litter will go wild. You don't have to be afraid at home." , you can pick these puppies as you like, and it promises not to scratch you, I think it would like to send these kittens away as soon as possible."

Li Huaixi followed suit with a smile, squatting down to look carefully at these little milk cats, all of them are purebred raccoon cats, if they were very valuable in the era before he traveled through time, they were upstarts in the pet world, but now they are the most common house cats , meowing, very cute.

Li Huaixi picked the fattest one among them, with a standard face and distinct fur color, it was a male cat.Li Huaixi picked it up, the kitten was very naughty, twisting left and right to bite his hand, Li Huaixi purposely extended a finger to it, the kitten caught it immediately, half-closed its eyes very proudly.

"Do you want one?" Yusheng asked him in a good-tempered manner, teasing the remaining kittens.

"One is enough. I agreed with my mother that she only allows me to raise one." Li Huaixi replied holding the kitten, ready to leave.

"Treat it well, you can come to play often in the future, don't be restrained. By the way, our family marinated some dried tofu yesterday, you take it home to eat with your brother." Yusheng stood up and wrapped some marinated tofu in oiled paper Wu Yusheng handed it to him. Wu Yusheng's fingers were slender, and because they had been soaked in water all year round, they were still a little strangely white.

At this time, a young man walked in from outside the courtyard, dressed in silk and satin clothes, dressed richly, standing in the courtyard without speaking, with a smile on his face, he looked a bit naughty.

Wu Yusheng seemed taken aback, and shouted in a low voice, 'Why are you here? ', and then rushed out to greet him, instead of leading him to the door, they grabbed his arm and walked out of the yard together.

Li Huaixi was left in the middle of a group of kittens. At this time, Aunt Wu came back from the backyard with a basket of vegetables. She was a little surprised when she saw Li Huaixi, "Yo? Isn't this the little scholar of the Li family? Why are you here? Stay at Aunt Wu's house for dinner, okay, I'll cook eggs for you."

"Thank you, auntie. My mother is waiting for me at home. My grandma's meal is almost ready. I came to your house to ask for a cat, and I am about to leave." Li Huaixi replied holding his kitten.

"Oh, it was raised by your brother Yusheng. He said he would give it to you. What about others?" Aunt Wu asked while choosing vegetables.

"Someone came just now, and he went out with him." Li Huaixi replied realistically.

Aunt Wu paused her hand for choosing vegetables, then raised her head and asked, "Really? What kind of person is here?"

"I don't know, he looks like a rich man, about the same age as brother Yusheng." Li Huaixi didn't pay attention to the person just now, his attention was all on the kitten in his arms.

"Oh, that's right." Aunt Wu answered and lowered her head to continue choosing dishes, but Li Huaixi felt that Aunt Wu suddenly seemed a little unhappy, so he got up and left with a wink.His kitten stretched out its paws to reach for his dried tofu. Li Huaixi bit a small piece and stuffed it into its mouth as he walked. The greedy cat raised its head and meowed at him, looking distressed, Li Huaixi quickly gave another piece.

While eating dinner, there was a sudden quarrel from the neighbor’s house. Sitting in the room, Li Huaixi couldn’t hear what was going on there. The kitten he was about to arrive just now was eating his own fish soup and rice. He was a little worried about the neighbors. The family regrets that they will take this future fat cat back.

After two days passed, Li Huaixi was relieved, the neighbor