Chapter 1024 Birds and Beasts (22)
Liu Feiyan turned her back to her father and cleaned up the dishes on the table. She listened to her father's malicious scolding, tears running down her cheeks and dripping onto the table.
At this time, several villagers came from a distance. Liu's father, who was scolding his daughter, saw several villagers coming over from a distance, and immediately stopped talking. He lowered his voice and warned Liu Feiyan: "Wait until you get home, and then ask your mother to deal with you!"
Then, Liu's father returned to his seat.
The villagers who came from a distance just stopped in front of the cloth shed for a while, talked with Liu's father for a few words, and then went to work in the fields. Liu's daughter stacked the dishes and chopsticks into a pile, picked up the cake basket she had put on the table later, and found a piece of metal with a silver glow under the cake basket - there was a clear fingerprint on the metal piece, like a small piece of silver, which was forcibly pinched into a silver cake by someone's fingers.
Liu Feiyan took the silver cake into her palm while her father was talking to the passing villagers.
She thought of the time when the Li family members were leaving, the handsome boy smiled and pointed at the cake basket on the table. She thought he was asking her to clean up the table. Now it seemed that the boy must have put the silver cake under the cake basket in advance, indicating that she should not forget to pick it up.
But how could this be possible?
Others had already paid enough for the meal, even if Dad insisted on sending a few cakes later. Since they were sent cakes, how could he ask others to pay for them?
In just a few breaths, Liu Feiyan had made a decision. When she found an opportunity in the future, she would return the silver cake to the Li family boy.
She carried the bowls and chopsticks to the bucket, scooped a bucket of water, squatted on the ground and started to wash the dishes.
Several villagers who were talking to Liu's father looked at Liu Feiyan's busy figure and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Old Liu, your daughter is really good!
She deserves a good in-law family!"
Liu's father glanced at his daughter who was washing dishes and said indifferently: "She? Ha!
She's still far away!
Let's talk about it later!"
Several villagers walked away from the cloth shed with hoes on their backs.
The sky was getting brighter and brighter, and the sun was rising higher and higher. There were also some wealthy villagers from nearby who came to eat noodles in front of Liu's noodle stall. Liu's father finally couldn't find a chance to scold his daughter, so he sat in front of the stall with his son, crossed his legs, talked with the guests, settled the bills for the guests, and occasionally said a few harsh words to Liu Feiyan.
The day was finally over.
At dusk, Liu's father, Liu Feizhou, and Liu's mother who came later first moved the noodles, cakes, steamed buns, and the whole day's copper coins back home.
Liu Feiyan was slowly packing up in the back, stacking the tables, chairs, benches, steamers, and iron stoves on the cart, and pulling the cart back home.
In early spring, it gets dark early, but Liu Feiyan had packed everything at dusk and was pulling the cart back home. As a result, it was completely dark when she was halfway there - large groups of clouds like silk and cotton were wandering on the zenith, spreading continuously to the southwest, across a large area of the sky.
The clouds, like thick hair, blocked the sun in the west and gathered in an unknown direction in the southwest.
Green mist suddenly rose in all parts of Jinliu Village. Some villagers who had been on the same road with Liu Feiyan and greeted her before walked into the mist and suddenly disappeared.
She felt that the current situation was particularly strange, and she was a little scared, so she quickened her pace to go home.
The cart rolled over the dirt road and finally approached Liu Feiyan's door.
Her door was open. Seeing the familiar gatehouse, Liu Feiyan breathed a sigh of relief, but she felt heavy in her heart when she thought that she would inevitably be scolded by her parents and brothers after returning home, and even her mother would beat her. Pulling the cart through the aisle behind the gatehouse, turning around the wall with the picture of bamboo announcing peace, Liu Feiyan set up the cart in the yard.
While unloading tables, chairs, benches and other things from the cart, she called into the hall: "Dad! Mom!
I'm back!"
At this time, Dad and Mom should be having dinner?
I wonder if they have left a meal for me?
Liu Feiyan's mind was full of thoughts. She called into the hall a few times, but no one answered. She didn't care too much. Instead, she felt a little lucky that no one responded to her - they didn't have time to pay attention to her, and what happened this morning should be over.
After putting all the things in the room where the sundries were stored, Liu Feiyan walked to the door of the main hall and called a few times in a low voice - still no one responded to her. The yard was quiet, and there seemed to be no movement in the main hall.
Liu Feiyan was a little nervous, pulled open the door curtain, and walked into the main hall with small steps.
In the main hall.
Liu's father, Liu's mother, and Liu Feizhou sat upright.
As if they heard the sound of Liu Feiyan stepping in, Liu's father, Liu's mother, and Liu Feizhou slowly turned their heads, and their pale faces without blood turned ninety degrees, and some turned one hundred and eighty degrees, all facing her, their mouths opened and closed -
On their necks, there was thick black hair wrapped around.
The black hair suddenly pulled up, lifted the three people up, and shook their limbs and pounced on Liu Feiyan!
The three ‘people’ kept shouting coldly: “Girl! Girl! Girl!”
“Sister! Sister!”
Liu Feiyan looked at the three relatives who had turned into horrible ghosts, and her mind suddenly went blank!
At this time, a green mist passed through the door curtain and floated into the house.
In the mist, a figure was looming.
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When Su Wu and his party arrived at the Family Tree Hall, Li Bojiang had just opened the door of the Family Tree Hall, lit the wood stove in the wood room, and was adding water to the stove pot to prepare a pot of porridge.
He saw Su Wu, Li Heihu, and Xiong Biao brothers squeeze into the gatehouse, and his face was quite relieved: "I knew you would come here to practice boxing, so I made a pot of porridge first. After practicing for a while, each of you can eat a bowl of porridge to fill your stomach-"
Before the old man finished speaking, he saw Li Xiongbiao and his brother, and then a few half-grown boys and children flashed in, and finally an old man who was a little younger than him walked in.
The grandfather didn't know what was going on at the moment, his eyes were a little confused, and he looked at Su Wu who was walking in front and asked: "Feixiong, this is..."
"Let Uncle Biao and Uncle Xiong talk to you.
They can explain it more clearly." Su Wu smiled and stepped aside, inviting Li Xiongbiao and his brother out.
Li Xiongbiao winked at the great grandfather: "Uncle, let's go inside and talk about it. Let's go inside and talk about it. It's a good thing. You will be happy to hear it!"
While talking, the two brothers embraced Li Bojiang and entered the main hall.
After a while, the other grandfathers also entered the genealogy hall. After greeting Su Wu and Hei Hu, they were also quite curious about the origins of those half-grown boys, children, and Wu Wenyuan. These people looked unfamiliar. They should not be from their own Jinliu Village. They asked Su Wu a few questions and were also invited to the main hall by Su Wu.
After about half an hour, Li Bojiang's brothers and Li Xiongbiao walked out of the main hall.
Su Wu saw Xiongbiao and Xiongpi smiling, and knew that they had almost discussed the matter. There should be no obstacles in the middle. The faces of several old men were also excited. They looked at the children in the yard, and there was already a little more love in their eyes.
Li Bojiang suppressed his emotions, walked up to the five orphans, and asked calmly: "You have lost your parents' love since childhood, and it is not easy for you to grow up to now. I heard Xiong Biao and the others say that the foreign devil's den has been destroyed and you have nowhere to go. Do you want to settle down in our Li family?"
Among the five orphans, there are three teenagers and two girls.
When the three teenagers heard the old man's words, they looked shy. Before they knew how to answer, the two girls nodded repeatedly and said crisply: "Yes!
Will grandpa take us in?"
"Yes, yes!
Why not!" Li Bojiang couldn't hold back his expression when he heard the two girls' words, and his wrinkles on his face laughed.
When the three teenagers saw that the old man's expression became less serious, they felt that the old man was more approachable, and they all nodded.
Li Bojiang grinned, touched the heads of the two girls, looked at the three young men, and said: "In our Li family, I can't say how good you are, but you will never go hungry!
Are you willing to settle in our Li family? Are you willing to take our Jingyang Li surname and enter our family tree?"
After the psychological barrier was passed, the orphans no longer had any psychological burden, and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, we are willing!"
"We have no parents to raise us since we were young, and we don't have our own surnames. When we die, we will be lonely ghosts. It is a good thing for us to be able to enter the family tree of grandpa's family."
"Right!"
"Grandpa, I am willing!"
Li Bojiang and his brothers listened to the consent of these teenagers and children, and they all laughed so hard that they couldn't close their mouths.
They nodded repeatedly and were happy for a long time before they gradually calmed down.
After that, after discussion by Li Bojiang and other elders, the five young children were assigned to the branches of Li Xiongpi, Li Xiongbiao, Li Wenjuan, and Li Mengxi's prematurely deceased son 'Li Tietou'. The three young men were named 'Iron Ox', 'Golden Leopard', and 'Green Elephant'.
Of the two girls, one was assigned to Li Xiongpi's family and became Li Xiongpi's daughter. Li Xiongpi named her 'Colorful Phoenix', so the girl who was assigned to Li Wenjuan's branch and was disliked by her parents was named 'Linghe'.
These names are actually quite good when taken individually, but when they are gathered in a clan and spread outside, they are inevitably ridiculed as a gathering of 'birds and beasts', but Li Bojiang doesn't care. After all, the ridiculers only dare to laugh in the dark. When they see a group of 'birds and beasts' coming over from other families, they have long avoided them.
"Let's worship our ancestors!
Tomorrow morning, we will all go to the ancestral graves. This is a great event, and we should let our ancestors know about it and recognize our family members!" Li Bojiang waved his hand and made the decision to worship our ancestors tomorrow.