Cao Pi is counting peaches against the early summer sun.

The first time, 45.

The second time, 48.

The third time, 46.

Later he finally figured out that there were 49 green peaches on the old peach tree, probably not enough for him to eat for three days.

Xiao Cao Jie hugged a snack box and staggered into the bushes to watch him.She seemed to be very afraid of Cao Pi, as if she wanted to come forward but dared not.She thought she was hiding well, but behind her was a string of nurses and maidservants, like a huge and ostentatious tail.

"Hmph." Cao Pi used his nose to express his disdain for his half-sister's IQ, and his dark eyes slanted towards the place where Cao Jie was hiding.

"what?!"

The little girl was frightened, dropped her things, turned around and ran away. With a "snap", the snack box hit the ground, and the lid was lifted, and two round little buns rolled out. Grass clippings were stained on the white to transparent skin, which was indescribably pitiful.

And Xiao Cao Jie didn't care about the buns she carried all the way at all, the little bright yellow figure ran away amidst the panicked shouts of the maidservants.

Cao Pi... Cao Pi rolled his eyes towards the sky.

"Oh, what a pity, this is Chef Mi's new crystal bag. I tried to steal one from the bamboo bowl at the banquet but I didn't get any, but I want to give it to you... Tsk tsk tsk." Cao Shuo turned out from nowhere, picked up the two small buns with a handkerchief, and carefully blew off the dust.

There were four intact food boxes left in the half-opened wooden box, so Cao Shuo closed the lid, and it was a beautiful and complete food box again.

Cao Pi gritted his teeth: "How old are you? Snatching things from baby dolls? Return bamboo bamboo, that's really affectionate."

"Ah, isn't that a good name?"

Cao Pi stiffened his neck: "She was born by Mrs. Huan, and I was born by my grandmother. We are not born in the same way."

Cao Shuo suppressed the smile on his face: "What about Azhang? He is also from Mrs. Bian."

"He has been raised as the wife's son. You are all raised by her, but I am not. I am the only son of my mother, so she punished me."

"You really think highly of yourself—" Cao Shuo raised his hand high, but did not let it fall for a long time.

Cao Shuo glared at Cao Pi.

Cao Pi stared at Cao Shuo with red eyes.

Staring and staring, Cao Shuo also had red eyes. "In their Bian family, only Mrs. Bian can handle it. Everything else is nothing. What kind of mess do you have to teach me?"

"That's my uncle's house!"

"The Ding family is our serious uncle's family!" Cao Shuo then raised his voice, "And why does mother need to be jealous of the concubine's room? Only the Bian family's full-fledged self scares themselves. Well, our biological brothers and sisters You are not in the same camp, but the one with the surname Bian is in the same camp as you? There are huge differences in class, wealth, knowledge and force, and the other two are talking about the truth? A joke! When will the children of the Bian family be successful? Don’t worry about it Mr. Cao has sucked blood, let’s talk about family affection! I will definitely tell Mrs. Bian about this, just wait, your biological mother will not be the first to spare you!”

After Cao Shuo finished speaking, he picked up the food box and left.Only then did Cao Pi realize that he was afraid, so he rushed forward and hugged Cao Shuo's thigh.Cao Shuo was weak since he was a child, so he couldn't bear the weight of Cao Pi's whole body. He immediately felt a [-]-jin weight hanging on his leg, and he couldn't move after two steps.

"Cao Api—what did you eat... you are dead. You are only five years old..."

"Second brother, don't go, we are brothers who grew up together in Liaodong, you can't harm me."

"Who grew up with you? Just now you said that I am not on the same side as you."

"Second Brother~"

"Two you big-headed ghost!"

Although Cao Shuo has a sharp mouth, he has always been soft-hearted and can't bear the coquetry and cuteness of his younger siblings. He is like this to Cao Jie, and he is also like this to Cao Pi. After all, he helped him to go to Mrs. Ding to beg for love.As far as his determination is concerned, he is inferior to the "very good, very good" Cao Ang Batiao Street.

However, Cao Ang and Cao Zhen are not here at the moment, he is the elder brother of this family, so Mrs. Ding has to take care of Cao Shuo's face.When it was time to tailor the clothes for the children the next day, Cao Pi, whose teeth were sore from eating green peaches, was also taken into the house by the way.

It was already the 28th of April in the lunar calendar, the Dragon Boat Festival was just around the corner, and even the wind blowing in from outside the sliding door was warm.Having just moved into the master's partial house, Mrs. Ding arranged to purchase a large amount of reed leaves and millet.The boxes and cages are still unopened, but making zongzi is the first-this is the first important festival after the Han Dynasty.

"Right now, Erlang is busy treating the sores, and Mr. Lang is away with his troops. The etiquette of Xu County is all on Madam." The butler Cao Xin stood on the porch, talking to the hostess with a smile.

Mrs. Ding personally measured the height of the youngest Cao Zhi and Cao Chong before she straightened up and said with a smile: "Xu County hides dragons and crouching tigers. It is impossible to take care of everyone. Except for those on the list, I have to trouble the big housekeeper." Go there yourself, and distribute the cooked zongzi and weaved herbs at the gate of the school palace for the rest, what do you think?"

Cao Xin bent over: "What do you think, Second Young Master?"

Cao Shuo was being pulled by a tall and thin old woman in her 50s to measure her arm length. She was caught off guard and called out, and her neck almost sprained: "Me? Is it okay for these mothers to decide?"

Madam Ding sat on a seat facing the yard outside the door, making and distributing tea gracefully. "Your marriage should look good next year, why are you still thinking like glass?"

Cao Shuo blushed so much that he had to deliberately avoid the topic of marriage and said, "When you were young, you always praised me for being good-natured, but now you dislike me instead? Sure enough, you have younger siblings, so you don't love me anymore. This Things in the world are impermanent like a sad wind and a moon, the vicissitudes of life, the warmth and coldness of people..."

"Eat tea! Even tea can't stop your mouth!"

The younger brothers and sisters in the room roared with laughter, and even the two who were not sensible joined in the fun, clapping their little hands red.

Cao Shuo stared, pretending to be aggressive towards them: "Eat tea! You can't stop your mouths with tea!"

Little Cao Zhi was drooling: "Mouth! Mouth! Mouth Mouth Mouth Mouth Mouth..."

Cao Shuo: ...

Come on, the laughter got louder, even the maids and maids secretly covered their mouths, let alone the master.Among the laughter and laughter in the room, the voices of Cao Pi and Sun Quan stood out the most.

"Shouldn't we still build a porridge shed at the gate of the city?" Cao Pi yelled, "Students eat zongzi, and farmers and refugees must have a mouthful of lotus leaf porridge. That's what my grandfather said when I was in Liaodong for the festival last year. Second brother, you are so stupid .”

Sun Quan: Although it is difficult to say it directly, Cao Shuo is really stupid.

Madam Ding comforted her second son with a bowl of herbal tea. "Api is smarter than you, but he is stubborn and refuses to be disciplined."

Cao Shuo accepted it aggrievedly: "Mother..." I have suffered from him not once or twice.

Looking at the pitiful look made Mrs. Ding feel sad again.With Cao Shuo's temperament, his wife is really hard to pick.If you choose softly, you are afraid that the young couple will be bullied by outsiders in the future; if you choose hard, you may be afraid that Cao Shuo will be bullied by his wife.

In the blink of an eye, it was the Dragon Boat Festival, and Xu County seemed to be paved with calamus and mugwort into a big forest.Every household smokes realgar to make sake, not to mention, the streets are lined with herb potted plants and artificial small water channels, and water cups made of bamboo joints float on the running water, containing all kinds of gadgets: crickets woven from grass leaves, incense sticks the size of index fingers Clay dolls, even last year's sun-dried hawthorn berries, almond kernels and cassia seeds.There are many allusions that even Ah Sheng can't tell. This city has accepted people from all over the world, and has also brought countless customs.

Cao Pi took the hand of the silly second brother, and walked up and down the Xuegong Road, looking around and feeling here and there.After leaving the mansion, he showed a bit of innocence and cuteness at his age: "Second brother, hurry up, hurry up. Yan's shop is still in front, you promised me, you will buy me Yan's brush."

Cao Shuo gripped the purse distressedly. "Here you come—you little magic star."

Sun Quan also urged: "The lecture hall is about to open at the end of the school, let's buy it quickly and go to listen quickly."

The two children were alive and kicking, and Cao Shuo gasped after them: "There is also a forum in the afternoon, so why—"

"In the afternoon, I'm going to see Mrs. Yan's Dragon Boat Festival painting exhibition." Xiao Moxing replied, ""A Thousand Miles of Frozen Picture", second brother, have you heard of it?"

Cao Shuo: "No..."

Cao Pi put his hands on his hips and cast a look of why are you so stupid. "That was painted by Mrs. Yan and her nine disciples for two years. Inspired by the rime forest and glaciers in Liaodong, she drew the wonders of the frozen desert, the capital, the ocean, and even millions of creatures——Second Uncle How do you say that? Oh yes, this is Madam Yan's breakthrough work from realism to fantasy art."

He shook his head and said something in a decent way. Every time he encounters this kind of literary and artistic reciting content, Cao Pi is very talented.He hasn't officially started enlightenment yet. Apart from reciting a few "Zuo Zhuan" and "Book of Songs", he just likes to draw.

It's a pity that he talked so much, it was like playing the piano to Cao Shuo.The silly second brother was expressionless and indifferent: "Oh."

"Second brother, besides being in a daze, can't you develop some valuable hobbies?"

"Little kid, do you know what value is?"

"Hiss—anyway, I know better than you." Cao Pi jumped twice on the ground paved with blue bricks, "I can draw and recite poems, what do you know? When it comes to food, your appetite is not as good as that of Azhang; Sleep, you can't sleep well with Ah Quan, I'm really worried, little brother... Ah——Sun Quan, what are you doing?"

"Who do you say loves to sleep?! Who do you say?! Cao Xiaopi, it's a waste of my good holiday to accompany you to see the art exhibition. Is that how you treat me?"

"Second brother, save me...help me~"

The sounds of children playing and fighting gradually faded away along the long street, blending into the back and forth flow of people and disappearing.What they don't know is that just a few hours later, they will meet a character who is in an alternate timeline with them - Liu Bei.

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