Bandit Reborn

On the fifth day of February, Lin Yichen came to pick Li Huaixi to eat Jiangyu, but Li Huaixi's mother didn't let Li Huaixi go out, she said her son was sick, and sent the county magistrate away at the gate of the courtyard.Li Huaixi knelt on the bed and practiced calligraphy, he clearly heard the sound of the carriage coming and going, and also heard his mother's not-so-sophisticated lies.Li Huaixi vaguely guessed the reason, but he doesn't care who is disappointed or who is worried. He is only seven years old now, and these have nothing to do with him. .

The next day, Lin Yichen appeared at the school gate, and Li Long and Li Hu avoided the ceremony after seeing the ceremony. The two of them knew very well that no matter what the reason was, the county magistrate did not come to the school to see them.

Lin Yichen smiled at Li Huaixi, and pretended to touch his forehead, "Are you cured?"

"Are you coming to see Mr.? He's inside." Li Huaixi raised his head and looked at Lin Yichen with a smile.

"You know I'm here to see you. I'm afraid that your mother will shirk me when I get to your house. You are not sick at all." Lin Yichen said with a smile.

"Hehe, I knew you heard it. Why did you come here when you knew I was not sick? The county government has been busy recently?"

"Yeah, I was so 'idle' that I almost hanged myself. I rested for more than half a month in the first month, and when I opened the door, all kinds of official documents were higher than yours! The dredging of the river in your town is too slow, and the flood season will soon be over. It's almost here, I'll take a look at the progress, and come over to see you, this 'sick' little thing." Lin Yichen smiled and tapped Li Huaixi's forehead.

"Hehe, I lost another tooth a few days ago. My sister lost it on the full moon day. Isn't it ugly?" Li Huaixi opened his mouth to let Lin Yichen see an extra gap on his lower tooth.

"It's ugly, it's getting uglier, it's good if you're not sick, I'll go in and have a chat with my husband, the county test will start soon, and I have to talk to this stubborn old man. You and your brothers go home early, I won't send you off, lest your mother look at me like a big bad wolf." Lin Yichen thought of the way Cheng looked at him yesterday, and felt very happy.

Li Huaixi chuckled, "My elder brother will also take part in the county examination this year, so don't hang around in front of him in official uniform, he is very nervous." Looking around, Li Huaixi stood on tiptoe and pulled the county magistrate into a hook Xia, whispered into Lin Yichen's ear and smirked, "Actually, my mother thinks you are not like a big bad wolf, but a big pervert!"

"It's too early to worry! You haven't reached my chest yet!" Lin Yichen said in surprise.

"That means my mother's worry is justified." Li Huaixi said with a smile.

"What's the point? I don't think anyone will fall in love with you, a toothless guy. It's okay, you can go quickly. You know everything at a young age, and you have become a genius!" Lin Yichen was a little embarrassed, as if there was something wrong with him. A feeling of being told.

"I am the white fox you saved 500 years ago, and I came to repay your kindness in this life, benefactor, please accept me~" Li Huaixi pulled the money bag on Lin Yichen's waist and said in a toothache-sounding vibrato.

"I don't think you are like the white fox I rescued 500 years ago, but rather like a creditor 500 years ago, let go of my money bag!" Lin Yichen patted his hand, but couldn't help but slapped his face secretly again. Twist a bit.

Li Huaixi glared at him, and called Li Long and Li Hu who were waiting on the side. The pretentious magistrate gave a salute to the magistrate, rubbed his face and walked away arrogantly. He just confirmed one thing, the county magistrate Lin Yichen is not a perverted pedophile , this guy is not interested in his current small body.Li Huaixi is not a naive child prodigy who is only seven years old. He has a 25-year-old soul inside. Although this soul is used to acting like a spoiled child, his basic judgment has not been weakened. He is very clear about these things.

On the way back, Li Huaixi encouraged his elder brother as he walked, "Lin Yichen came to discuss the questions of the county examination with Mr. Brother, you should go to Mr.'s tomorrow to set a trick. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle."

"No, I won't go. A gentleman should act in an upright manner. I would rather fail the exam than do this. Besides, if I go, my husband won't tell me. If I fail, I will take back my recommendation letter. How can you behave like a gentleman?" It's not that I don't know." Li Long beat the weeds on the side of the road with a wooden stick, he was not happy that the county magistrate was always pestering his younger brother.

"Yes, you are the same person as your husband, I didn't say anything." Li Huaixi curled his lips and remained silent, and he didn't let him ask the teacher clearly, didn't he understand it in a roundabout way?He has a lot of eyes, but he is too straightforward, just like Mr. I am afraid that he will become a teacher when he is about to come.

After the beginning of the Spring Festival, Li Long entered the countdown stage. He had to get up early and go to bed late every day to light the lamp and cook oil. There was only more than a month left. After the Qingming Festival, he would go to the county to take the first level of the county examination up.

The county examination is presided over by the county magistrate, and there are five consecutive examinations. Only those who pass the examination can enter the next level of government examination.Although Li Long didn't dare to formulate the questions, he couldn't stand Li Huaixi's instigation, so he took a few of his own articles to show to his husband. After reading it, the husband said it was okay. This evaluation gave this diligent child a little confidence.

During the Qingming festival, Li Chengkui went to the doctor when he was sick. He begged all the ancestors of the Li family and the Meng family. He burned more paper money than during the New Year. People around him said, "How about you over there?" "Okay" and other words, Li Huaixi knelt on the ground and did not look up. He felt that his father's behavior of nagging and begging the dead to bless his son in the champion exam was embarrassing.

His mother is not idle either, she belongs to the kind of person who uses Bodhisattvas to burn incense. April [-]th is the day to worship temples and burn incense. She left with Li Chengxiao's wife early in the morning. At noon when Li Huaixi came home from school, she returned home. He didn't come back, and the milk he expressed in the morning had already been drunk, and Li Si, who was so hungry that he was about to turn over, was crying.

Liu Quan was not very useful, and grandma was busy in the kitchen and room by herself, and finally gave the children a meal in the afternoon.The old lady didn't care about eating by herself, so she took a small wooden spoon and fed Li Si the crushed egg yolk, which was mixed with rice soup. Li Si ate very fast even when he was very hungry.

After Li Si ate more than half a bowl of egg yolk and rice soup, his mother came back, and the first thing she did was not to breastfeed the child, but to hang an amulet around Li Long's neck devoutly, "Dalong, This is what my mother begged for you from the temple, and it is said to be effective, and those who beg for this today almost kicked the monk's threshold through."

"Mother, you said that there are many people asking for marriage from monks, can you pay attention to your wording?" Li Huaixi reached out to touch the small paper bag around Li Long's neck while eating.

"Don't talk nonsense! Get it out of the way. It took me a long time to grab this. Dalong, you have to wear it all the time these days. Let's hang it at the door after the exam. People say it's good." He said The mother slapped off the younger son's hand, turned around and picked up the younger daughter who had been pounced on her.

Li Long didn't think that his mother was doing too much, and put the amulet into his clothes piously. He didn't know what to do, and he felt a lot more at ease with an extra piece of red paper.

The grandma put down the spoon that was feeding her granddaughter, glared at her daughter, picked up Li Huaixi's little hand and blew it, Li Huaixi squinted her eyes to demonstrate to his mother, grandma still loves him the most.

In the early morning of April [-]th, Li Chengkui took Li Long into the city. I am afraid that there will be no room in the inn if I go late. The county test will start on April [-]. The five tests will take three days. There will be many people like them in the city. Candidates who do not have a place to live must live in a hotel.

During the three days of the county examination, Li Huaixi and Li Hu were not used to it. They were the only two of them going to and from school, and there was one less person to share the fun things they saw, and one less helper when they were fighting. In just three days, they The two realized the importance of the elder brother Li Long.

On the afternoon of the fourth day, Li Chengkui and Li Long came back. Li Chengkui missed farm work for a few days and went down to pull weeds when he got home.

Mrs. Cheng quietly gathered the younger ones together, and asked in a low voice, "Can't you tell me how you did in the exam? It's the end of the exam. It's the same whether you ask or not. Your elder brother is very thoughtful. Don't let him get angry."

"We know, we didn't ask." The three agreed together, they really didn't ask, they just cared about the food in the inn.

Ten days later, the county examination results were released, and Li Long was on the list, but his grades were in the middle and lower. The child's joy was replaced by worry in a blink of an eye, and he was even more hopeless in the government examination.

But regardless of whether he has the bottom line or not, a month later, Li Chengkui hired a carriage, and the father and father took dry food and set out on the road again. It was more than 100 miles from here to Yuchuan, where the government office was located, and the carriage would take two days. It's not peaceful, and we have to stay in a hotel at night.

Li Huaixi is very much looking forward to growing up now. He has only traveled to the county seat as far as he has traveled to the present, and has never been to any other place. Compared with those masters of time travel who went north to the desert and south to the wilderness, he is simply a real frog at the bottom of the well.

These days, the fourth child of the Li family has made a new breakthrough. She can sit. Although she always sways from side to side and always falls down, she can sit around things by herself for a while, and the interval between drinking milk is longer. Slowly, his mother took over the work again. In her spare time, grandma helped the children make clothes. Li Huaixi didn't need to do anything, but grandma also sewed several small clothes for him.

Li Si actually has his own name, Li Sisi, which was given to him by his father when Li Si was on his [-]th day. Originally, Li Chengkui wanted to be called Li Si, but the three sons, who had a few drops of ink in their stomachs, all disagreed and felt ashamed. , so Li Chengkui added another thought at the end and became Li Sisi, which sounds more elegant.

My uncle came in a donkey cart one afternoon, and he came to pick up my grandmother. My old man always lives in his daughter’s house, and as a son, he would be gossiped about. Filial piety, my younger sister is also confinement at this time, and her body has recovered, and Liu Quan usually takes care of her, so my uncle came here in time for a slack day.

Li Huaixi watched his grandma pack up her things with tears in her eyes, and followed her when she came out and went in, which made her feel very uncomfortable, "My dear grandson, if you miss grandma, you can go to see grandma by yourself, can't you just turn a corner after school? Don't be so lazy." promising."

The worthless Li Huaixi nodded, tears began to fall, he was just a seven-year-old child, it didn't matter whether he was promising or not, he was just reluctant to let his grandma go.

Grandma couldn't move her legs because of his crying, she put down her burden and hugged him and shed tears, "My dear grandson, don't cry, you cry so much that grandma is so distressed, grandma has to leave, I have lived in your house for more than a year Oh, look, your little arms and legs have grown too, your bed is so small, grandma can’t sleep comfortably. My good grandson studies hard, comes back from the exam early, and lives in the official house like our county magistrate Grandma will live with you at that time, okay? Then my good grandson will take care of grandma, okay?"

"Okay," Li Huaixi cried until his nose was breathless, and promised his grandma in a low voice, "Grandma, please go back and wait carefully, I will grow up soon, and I will be able to take the exam for scholar in the next year. Six years of these things will be done, and you must wait."

"Grandma is waiting, grandma is in good health, you little fool, your mind has grown a lot, I am worried that your grandma will not live for so long?!" Grandma was laughed at by Li Huaixi, took a handkerchief for him to pick up his nose, turned around I got into the donkey cart hired by my uncle, and after I was seated, I told my little daughter who came out with the baby to see him off, "My dear grandson, you have to watch out for me, be careful that he's been on fire these days, recently your eyes are so swollen." It's hanging on the little one, you don't even know if Huaixi has had enough for lunch!"

"Mother, I don't. Look at what you told me." Li Huaixi's mother was very unconvinced. The youngest son was very strong when he was mischievous all day long, so there was no need to keep watching.

"What's there?! I'm watching all of this! Look at your four girls, you are so fat, and then look at Huaixi, are you ashamed to say you are your own mother?"

"Didn't Huaixi start to draw? I think Cheng An was thinner than this, isn't he big brother?" His mother couldn't resist and started looking for reinforcements.

"Yes, isn't it? At that time, Cheng An was much thinner than Huaixi. Mother, don't worry, let's go, the child's mother is still waiting at home." Uncle Li Huaixi hurried to help, he has been doing it all the time It is the work of firefighters and plasterers. He puts out fires and wipes mud everywhere.

Grandma ordered a few more words, then wiped her tears and left in the donkey cart. Li Huaixi sat on the threshold and continued to shed tears. His mother went back to nurse Li Si and had no time to talk to him. Li Hu and Liu Quan comforted him together. After a while, his mother suddenly yelled in surprise in the house. The family forgot to feed the pigs, and the two of them hurriedly got up to feed the pigs.

Li Huaixi sat on the threshold and looked at the direction of his grandmother leaving the village. In his previous life, when he was three or four years old, he often sat on the threshold like this, imagining that his mother would appear from the other side of the road and take him away. It's a pity He hasn't seen it for more than a year. Although he knows that his grandma lives in his uncle's house more than four miles away, he is still very sad and can't stop it.

in the evening.His mother carried him back to the house from the door, and Li Huaixi fell asleep crying and didn't eat dinner.

The next day, before Li Huaixi's mother could spare time to care about her sad little son, Li Chengkui and Li Long came back in a carriage. Li Long's face could not be described as "ashes ashes", it was quite strong A young boy in my family, after more than two months of county and government examinations, became thin and thin. No one in the family dared to ask how Li Long did in the exam. The boy looked worse than the county exam, and he started coughing that night. , and also developed a high fever, Li Chengkui and his wife immediately got busy, asking the doctor, grabbing medicine, boiling medicine, making soup... Li Huaixi, who was silent, was completely ignored.

The author has something to say: Dear friends, don’t blame Li Huaixi for being a mother. Don’t forget that she is just a country woman who can’t read a single word. She hasn’t read so many parenting books. She pays attention to children’s mental health. From her point of view, it is enough for the children to have enough food, clothing and warmth, to grow up safely, and not fall into the ice hole in winter. She can think of praying for the eldest son, and it is very rare to prevent the eldest son from getting angry.