Chapter 161: Comparison
Under the willow tree by the river, Lv Songli and Qin Sheng sat side by side.
Qin Sheng took out a bunch of raspberries from somewhere and stuffed them into her hand, asking her to eat them.
Lv Songli asked him with a smile, "Am I the only one who has them?"
The raspberries were big and plump. Lv Songli recognized that they were palm leaf raspberries, which were also the best tasting variety among raspberries, and the taste was the sweetest.
The thing that Lv Songli was most dissatisfied with during this exile was that there was no fruit to eat. In fact, even if there was no exile, there was no fruit to eat in the winter in this era.
"Eat it quickly." Qin Sheng refused to answer, and directly picked up one and fed it to her mouth.
Lv Songli ate it from his hand, "Leave some for the children?" This kind of raspberry is also very attractive to children.
Qin Sheng said seriously, "This is too sour, it's not good for the children's teeth." So he didn't leave it.
"Then aren't you afraid that it will be bad for my teeth?"
Qin Sheng looked at her resentfully. She was so smart that she must have heard it. He searched for a long time on the mountain and found this handful. If they shared them, each person would not get two. Bad guys like to tease him.
This was obviously sweet and sour, and Lv Songli leaned on his shoulder and laughed non-stop.
Qin Sheng put his arm around her shoulders, and his ears turned red.
Lv Songli ate one herself, and then she would feed him one.
Qin Sheng only ate one, and then fed him again, and shook his head. He searched for a long time to find such a small handful, and he was reluctant to eat more.
Lv Songli ignored his refusal, ate two herself, and then fed him one, the kind that refused. In the end, the two of them shared a handful of raspberries.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Lv Songli pulled him up, and the two walked back hand in hand. In order to avoid that Qin's mother would worry and ask someone to look for them.
Back to the shabby house where they stayed, Qin's mother was standing in the yard, smiling at the two people holding hands, "Are you back?"
Qin Sheng struggled, but Lv Songli did not let go. He stopped moving, fearing that he might hurt her if he exerted too much force.
Lu Songli replied nonchalantly, "Yes, mother--"
Qin Sheng's face turned red, and he forced himself to calm down.
"Mother, let's go in first." Lu Songli pulled her away to avoid getting burned later, and she let go of her hand after entering.
It was another good night's sleep.
In the early morning, when it was still dark, Qin Sheng felt his right shoulder being oppressed, and there was hot air coming out of the side of his neck. His right hand was on a certain soft waist.
Now Qin Sheng was familiar with this situation. He had personally experienced that his wife had a bad sleeping posture since the wedding night. During the exile period, as long as the two slept side by side before going to bed, no matter what happened the next day, most of her body would definitely roll into his arms in the morning.
The room was quiet, Qin Sheng was confused, and didn't want to move. But the accident soon made him unable to sleep.
In the morning, his brother was always very energetic. Then it probably hurt her, and she pushed it away with one hand while she was still immersed in her sleep, and it reset like a tumbler, and the two sides had a tug-of-war.
Qin Sheng was woken up by her like this, and was at a loss.
Finally, the troublemaker was annoyed by her...
He stared at the person in his arms with wide eyes, and the person in his arms, who was also annoyed, was quiet for a while, and then slowly opened his eyes.
The two looked at each other, and the other's hand was still...
At that moment, both of them breathed lightly.
Fortunately, the two were covered with quilts, and this broken Taoist temple was big enough, and everyone's quilts were far enough apart, otherwise, with the two people's behavior, people who had experienced it would be able to guess what happened.
"Good morning, hehe——" Lu Songli slowly let go of her hand.
Qin Sheng felt it, and while he was relieved in his heart, he was a little disappointed?
Unexpectedly, after she let go of her hand, she came back and patted it with her backhand?
Qin Sheng's eyes widened after being attacked, and then his handsome face flushed, "You..."
"What about me?" Lu Songli looked at him righteously, thinking that her big baby's big baby was quite important.
"How could you do this?" Qin Sheng's face was red enough to drip blood.
"What's wrong with me?" Lu Songli teased him. Is it wrong for her to take pictures of her things? "Otherwise, you touch it back?"
Touch, touch it back? Qin Sheng was defeated, who made him not as thick-skinned as her.
Qin Sheng wanted to say something, but suddenly he saw Qin Jia rubbing her eyes and getting up.
"Get up." Qin Sheng motioned her to get up.
"Don't get up!" Lu Songli was playing tricks.
Qin Sheng motioned her to look at Qin Jia's side, and when Lu Songli looked over, she met Qin Jia's curious eyes looking at her from afar.
Finally, Lu Songli stopped teasing, and the two got up smoothly.
This morning, their breakfast was wild vegetable and lean meat porridge, white flour buns, small pickles, and salted duck eggs.
There were both dry and rare side dishes, and everyone was very satisfied with the meal.
Liu Erxi bought these pickles from Yuqianzhuang, the village where his cousin lived. There was a family in their village that made very delicious pickles, which were famous far and wide. When he went there, he bought all the pickles that their family had made this year. Because he was generous, the other party didn't keep any jars, and sold them all to him.
At that time, the nou za candy and rice cakes were also made by his cousin's aunt, who asked the skillful women in the village to help make them.
He gave the method to his cousin's aunt, and after the cousin's aunt learned it, she led the women to start working. Knowing that he was in a hurry, they worked overtime to make it for him.
Of course, it was also related to the generous wages he paid. Later, he not only paid them their wages, but also left them 20 kilograms of nou za candy and 20 kilograms of rice cakes, asking them to share. 20 kilograms is not a lot, and each person can get about half a kilogram of each item.
For his cousin's aunt, he also gave a generous thank-you gift.
So when he was about to leave later, many people came out to see him off, and they were very reluctant to let him go as a generous person.
Finally, the head of Yuqianzhuang told him that if there was such a job in the future, he should come directly to their Yuqianzhuang, and they would appoint him to do it.
Liu Erxi himself did not expect this to happen.
Unlike Lu Songli and his group, who lived a peaceful life, the Xie and Zhao families had a very difficult life.
Xie Nan handed the small half basin of hot water in her hand to Zhao Yutan, "Sister-in-law, can you wipe my cousin's body?"
This small half basin of hot water was boiled by them with a broken pottery jar.
Xie Nan knew that his eldest cousin Xie Zhan had always been a clean person, but after they came out of the prison, they had been exiled all the way and had not taken a bath.
At first, his eldest cousin was tortured and his health had not been good. In addition, the relationship between the bailiffs and the police and the prisoners of the Xie and Zhao families was tense, so there was no condition for a hot bath.
After his eldest cousin got better, he was found to take a piece of cloth soaked in snow water to wipe his body slightly.
Now that the weather is getting hot, Xie Nan knows that his eldest cousin Xie Zhan is not feeling well. Now that he has the conditions, he will boil some hot water for his eldest cousin.
In fact, it is not that he cannot personally deliver this water to his eldest cousin, or even serve him, but he just can't stand Zhao Yutan and deliberately orders her to do things. Besides, his eldest cousin is her husband, isn't it her duty to serve her husband?
Xie Nan is dissatisfied with Zhao Yutan, the eldest cousin's wife, and feels that she is not worthy of his eldest cousin.
Since the Xie family fell into trouble, she has been muddleheaded and has no resilience at all. The clan members were defeated, and she was also defeated. In addition, as a wife, her eldest cousin suffered so much, and her care was also sloppy. In short, she was not good at anything.
The most important thing is that he felt that if it were not for her, if the eldest cousin's wife had always been Lu Songli, then this disaster would have been very likely to be avoided by their Xie family, or in other words, not only would their Xie family not have this disaster, but it would also be very likely to go further.
Because it was Lu Songli who dragged their Xie family from the high and mighty into the quagmire. If the other party was the young mistress of their Xie family, would she still do this?
Zhao Yutan took the wooden basin slowly. She knew that she was not recognized by the Xie family. Xie Nan's dissatisfaction was relatively mild, and others were more obvious.
She knew that the people of the Xie family looked down on her. First, she was imprisoned just after getting married, and she had no time to show her ability; second, these people were cheap. They knew that it was Lu Songli who harmed them in front of the prison door, and they still cherished her in their hearts.
But why don’t they think about it, since Lu Songli is so capable, why was the Qin family still exiled?