Fortunate Wife

Li Man pushed open the door of the small room, and saw Li Huaduan sitting at the table, flipping the pages of the book with her slender fingers, Bai Xi didn't even know she opened the door to come in, the bright light reflected from the window lattice, as if there was a hazy The halo enveloped him lightly.

She stood by the door, a little reluctant to be disturbed.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Hua heard Aunt Xu shouting outside, and Li Hua turned her head to look at the door in a daze.

"Oh, the meal is ready." Li Man leaned against the door and smiled at him.

Li Hua closed the book, got up and walked towards her, seeing the fine beads of sweat on her forehead, chuckled, "What did you cook for lunch?"

"Well, Aunt Xu doesn't know how to cook very much." Li Man said.

The two of them went to the small courtyard of the kitchen. Uncle Xu had already sat down and poured himself a drink. Aunt Xu came out with two bowls of rice. Seeing him eating first, she shouted angrily, "Who will you go first?" What to eat? The dishes are made by Man'er, and the couple haven't come yet."

"Didn't you come?" Xu Bo pointed to the hallway with his chopsticks, and casually picked up another piece of braised pork and put it in his mouth, "Girl, who did you learn your cooking skills from? This meat is even better than mine." Do it even stronger."

Li Man sat down with Li Hua, and said with a smile, "Just do that, Uncle Xu, if you like to eat, I will make it for you often in the future."

"That's good, hehe." Xu Boxi took another sip of his wine happily.

Aunt Xu tapped his hand with her chopsticks, "Drink slowly, no one will grab you."

Xu Bo chuckled, didn't say anything, just ate the meat.

"Damn old man, you want to eat all of that bowl of meat?" Aunt Xu hurriedly grabbed two chopsticks and put them in Li Man and Li Hua's bowls.

Uncle Xu rolled his eyes at her, "Whoever ate them all, isn't there still more?"

"For a while, you've eaten four or five yuan." Aunt Xu picked up a chopstick of beans and gave him, "Why don't you eat vegetarian ones at all?"

"I'll eat it, can't I eat it? It's just that the braised pork made by Man'er girl is so delicious." Xu Bo glanced at Li Man resentfully as he spoke. Eat meat*his.

"Then I'll do it next time." Aunt Xu said.

"Oh no, this meat is expensive, you won't spoil it." Uncle Xu said hastily.

Li Man watched the two sing along, and it seemed that there was no business for Li Hua and himself at the dinner table, as long as they were in charge of eating, Li Man would also pick up meat for Li Hua occasionally.

When Uncle Xu saw it, he yelled, "Why don't you pinch me?"

"You've eaten so much." Li Man imitated Aunt Xu's tone, and then put some more for Li Hua. The food at home is poor. She hasn't eaten a meal of braised pork these days, so she must let her man hide. Satisfy your appetite.

"Where is it?" Uncle Xu stared at Li Hua.

Li Hua was embarrassed, "Man'er, that's enough."

"Eat more, you are so tired from studying." Li Man picked up some eggs for him, which was something she had never eaten before. Fortunately, the chickens she raised should be able to lay eggs when they grow up.

Li Hua stretched out his chopsticks to pick up food for her, with a gentle face, "Eat more, too."

"Yeah." Li Man smiled slightly. She knew that the old man had a family background and didn't care about a few meals, so of course she wouldn't treat her badly.

Uncle Xu looked at the two of them, blowing his beard and staring. Aunt Xu snatched the wine glass from him, pointed at Li Hua, and said, "Look at him, you young fellow who is very gentle, look at you again, I will tell you I have been with you for decades, how can there be a meal without drinking? There are people here today, you are not allowed to get drunk and lose your old lady."

Uncle Xu looked at Li Man and Li Hua, and curled his lips helplessly, "It's not an outsider, it's my daughter and son-in-law."

Only then did Aunt Xu smile, and she looked at Li Man and Li Hua lovingly, even if she did it, don't do it badly.

Afterwards, Aunt Xu really acted like a loving mother, she kept adding food to Li Man and Li Hua, causing Xu Bogan to stare and there was nothing he could do.

The meal was very enjoyable. After the meal, Li Man wanted to clean up the dishes, but Aunt Xu refused.

She went to the study with Li Hua to read. During the period, she visited Dayong's room again. She was pleasantly surprised to find that perhaps she had made a mistake in her judgment. What Dayong suffered from was not smallpox, but measles.

Smallpox is caused by the smallpox virus, and it will fester, and even if it heals in the future, it will leave traces, which are so-called pockmarks.

Measles is a respiratory disease, relatively easy to treat, and not easily disfigured.

Li Man was very happy, and discussed the treatment method with Xu Bo again. She felt that for ordinary adult measles, according to Dayong's current situation, the recovery period will be in the next few days.

Dayong has improved, and she can finally breathe a sigh of relief, and she can be regarded as sorry for the support and protection of the Li family brothers.

In the middle of the afternoon, Li Man read the book for a while, helped Dayong rub the medicine, and talked with Aunt Xu. In the evening, Uncle Xu brought two fish from nowhere and asked her to cook them. And I specified that I want sauerkraut fish, and said that sauerkraut is also available.

Li Man thought it must be someone from the Li family who said it, so he knew it so clearly.

However, she also took the opportunity to make a request, that is, in his study, Li Hua can borrow books at any time, of course, they will not be damaged, and they will be returned on schedule.

Uncle Xu shook his head repeatedly after hearing this, and then, Li Man reported the names of several mouth-watering dishes, which made the old man relax, and said through gritted teeth, that if there is any damage, ten dishes will be compensated.

Li Man readily agreed.

In the evening, Aunt Xu Boxu ate the fish with pickled cabbage made by Li Man. She was full of praise, and finally wished she could even drink the soup.

Li Man was very happy. Li Hua was beside her, looking at her quietly, with a soft look in her eyes.

At sunset and dusk, the afterglow of the setting sun shone gently at the foot of the mountain. After dinner, Aunt Xu Boxu was busy tidying up in the kitchen. Li Man and Li Hua went out of the yard together and sat down on a big rock by the side of the house. Quietly listening to the mountain wind, looking into the distance.

Time passed slowly, and the darkness gradually came over. Aunt Xu's voice came from not far away, as if the hot water had been boiled, calling them to go back and wash up.

Li Hua glanced at Li Man, and reached out to pull her up.

Li Man smiled at him, and naturally put her hand in his palm.

The two returned to the kitchen together. Li Man scooped up some hot water and asked Li Hua to wash first.

Seeing that she was fine, Aunt Xu asked her to follow her to the guest room*.

It is said that it is a guest room, but in fact, it is similar to the ward where Dayong lives, and it is next to Aunt Xu Boxu's bedroom.

Aunt Xu specially took out a clean bedding sheet and spread the bed properly.

"Aunt Xu, I'm sorry to trouble you." Li Man sincerely thanked her.

"Thank you," Aunt Xu also said earnestly and lovingly, "To be honest, I have hit it off with you girl, even though I can't have children, but even if I don't have a baby, I've been lazy to raise one by my side these years. I don't have that feeling, but since you came last time, I like you as soon as I see you. Uncle Xu, don't think he is usually fierce, but he is full of praise for you behind his back, and he really treats you as his own. Where's the girl?"

Li Man's heart was moved, her eyes were red, "Aunt Xu, I know, I am also happy to have relatives like you and Uncle Xu."

Aunt Xu knew about Li Man's background, and when she saw her red eyes, she felt more pity in her heart, "My good boy, you are blessed, and there are still many good days in the future."

"Yeah." Li Man laughed through tears.

After the mother and daughter made up the bed, they went out together.

"Man'er." Li Hua stood at the door after washing up, and yelled when he saw the two of them coming out.

Li Man suddenly thought that he should also arrange a room for him, "Why don't you sleep in this room at night? The beds are all made, and I will go to another room with Aunt Xu later."

Li Hua was slightly stunned, and Aunt Xu pulled Li Man off, and said in surprise, "Girl, what are you doing? This kid is gentle and gentle, and he doesn't look like someone who will make you angry. Why don't you?" Let him sleep with you?"

"Huh?" Li Man really didn't expect this, but, they want to sleep in the same room at night? ?

"No, Li Hua, he..." She glanced at Li Hua, seeing his lowered eyes, not knowing whether it was embarrassment or what, she just said, "That *is too small."

"Oh," Aunt Xu burst out laughing, patted Li Man's shoulder, and said, "Girl, don't you think it's inconvenient for two people? Haha, what should I do? Auntie only has two vacant rooms here. , one is for that child, and this one is the rest. How about you sleep with me at night and let your man sleep with Uncle Xu?"

"Man'er." Li Hua immediately frowned at Li Man.

Li Man also became embarrassed, asking Li Hua to sleep with the sloppy Xu Bo? Well, her petite heart can't take it either.

"Okay, Li Hua, you go back to the room first." Seeing Li Hua and Li Man struggling like children, Aunt Xu smiled.

Li Hua didn't move, she just looked at Li Man with her eyes.

Li Man bit her lip, "You go in first, I'll come after I wash up." Just after she finished speaking, she felt something was wrong, her face flushed red.

However, Li Hua understood, smiled with crooked eyebrows, gave a soft 'huh', and obediently went back to the room.

Li Man lowered her eyes, thinking that she was ashamed to speak up just now.

Seeing her like this, Aunt Xu couldn't help joking, "Girl, you're all men, are you still shy?"

One sentence made Li Man, who was already embarrassed, even more at a loss, "Aunt Xu, it's not..."

"Haha." Aunt Xu pulled her and laughed, "Let's go, wash up and go to accompany your man. I need to boil some more hot water, and you, Uncle Xu, have to take a bath later, otherwise the sweat all over your body It smells like wine, and people who smoke it can't sleep at night."

"Yeah." Li Man pursed her lips and smiled, followed to the kitchen, fetched water and went to wash herself.

After washing, I sent the bucket and basin to the kitchen, but when I arrived at the door of the kitchen, I heard Aunt Xu Boxu talking and laughing inside. At the door, she shouted, "Aunt Xu, I've finished washing and the basin is placed at the door. I'm going back to the room first."

"Well, let's go." Aunt Xu agreed in the room, and then seemed to scold Uncle Xu for being 'old and not serious'.

Li Man blushed, and hurriedly left the kitchen, but are she going back to the house?

Thinking that Li Hua was still waiting in that room, Li Man's heart thumped wildly, and she walked to the door hesitantly, trying to push the door in, but she retracted nervously when her hands touched the door panel.

The night was filled with darkness, and the night wind in the mountains brought a moist coolness. Li Man rubbed her hands, amused at her nervousness, but she couldn't just go in like this.

Tightening her clothes tightly, she simply leaned against the door, looking at the dark blue sky, thinking that if she went in later, Li Hua would probably fall asleep.

With the wind blowing, the clouds seemed to be lighter, a crescent moon slowly climbed up the treetops, and the faint moonlight fell gently.

"Damn thing, telling you to take a bath is like fighting a war, look at the water you got all over me—"

Suddenly, Aunt Xu's voice came, and Li Man was shocked to see her slim figure coming from the hallway. She was so frightened that she wanted to hide, but there were still small lights hanging under the eaves of the three rooms in this row. It was dim, but she was such a big living person standing here, it was impossible not to see it.

"Yeah, Man'er, what are you doing standing at the door?"

Sure enough, when Li Man was debating whether to enter or not, Aunt Xu had already walked over.

Li Man looked back in a daze, and said with a dry smile, "No, I'm just about to enter the house."

"Didn't you wash it long ago?" Aunt Xu looked at her with a smile while brushing the water from her hair, "Is it because your little man is in the room, you are too scared to enter the room?"

"No, no." Li Man felt guilty after being looked at, "I was a little hot just now."

"hot?"

"It's all right now, I'm going back to the house." Knowing that the reason was ridiculous, Li Man hurriedly opened the door and went in, "Aunt Xu, good night." She said eagerly, and then closed the door.

Inside the house, a small oil lamp was lit, and the hazy yellow light warmly illuminated every corner of the house.

Li Hua was sitting on the bedside reading a book, when she saw her come in, she closed the book, looked at her with a smile, "Is it not hot?"

"Ah? Oh——" Li Man's hair was full of black lines, and she said vaguely, "I was helping Aunt Xu to light the fire in the kitchen just now, and it was a bit hot, so just now... it cooled off."

Feeling that his eyes are getting more and more wrong, Li Man's voice is getting smaller and smaller, and finally can't hear, well, she is lying, a person who is not good at lying by nature, when others stare at her, she gets nervous.

Thinking of the tangled little woman he saw in the small window just now, Li Hua smiled even deeper, patted the side beside him, and said, "Do you want to sleep?"

"Ah?" Li Man stood by the door, looked at him in astonishment, then shook her head hastily, "I'm not that sleepy yet, are you sleepy? Go to bed first."

She hurriedly found a small stool and sat down, looking at the house with great interest, looking for nothing to say, "Aunt Xu said, this house has been built for almost thirty years, but it doesn't look old at all.. ...."

"The beam of the house collapsed last year, and this is a new one."

Li Hua's voice suddenly rang beside her, and Li Man jumped up in fright, and stood up from the stool, "You, what are you doing up?"

Li Hua glanced at her, took her hand, and squeezed it in his palm, "Is the wind blowing too much? It's so cold."

Li Man shrugged, withdrew his hand, walked to the side of the bed, and took the book he put on the bed in his hand, "Is it good? I can't sleep right now, I'll read it too."

"This lamp is almost out of oil, the light is dim, and it hurts the eyes." Li Hua followed, took the book from her hand, and put it on the window sill.

Li Man stared at the book, then turned to look at Li Hua.

With a handsome face, a clean smile, and gentle eyebrows, she became more and more flustered.

"I, I'll ask Aunt Xu for some lamp oil." She lowered her head, walked away from him, and walked towards the door.

"Man'er." Li Hua looked at her helplessly, and walked towards her slowly, "Stop reading, okay?"

"Eh?" Li Man looked up at him, her mind was in a mess.

Li Hua reached out and rubbed her hair, "I've read it all, or I'll tell you about it."

"Tell me?" Li Man was wondering, but his hand slid down, directly onto her waist, and hugged her horizontally into his arms.

Li Man's whole body tensed up, "Li Hua..."

"Let me tell you, this book is mainly about..." He hugged her to the side and helped her take off her shoes and socks, revealing a pair of Bai Xi's delicate feet.

Li Man pulled the quilt in a panic, covered her feet, and looked at him awkwardly, "Li Hua, I'll do it myself."

"Do you sleep in or outside?" Li Hua asked standing on the bed.

Li Man hesitated for a while, sleeping in bed, sleeping at night was troublesome, sleeping outside, Li Hua* would have to step over her later.

"Huh?" Li Hua asked again, took off his coat casually, shook it out and put it neatly on the closet.

"In the bed." Li Man immediately shrank into the bed, anyway, she didn't get up very much at night.

"Oh." Li Hua smiled slightly, saw her hugging the quilt, and said, "Don't you take off your clothes? It will be uncomfortable to sleep."

Li Man glanced at him, and took off his coat and trousers, leaving only his jacket and shorts, which made his figure even more handsome and straight.

However, men walk like this.

How could she sleep with him if she took off her coat and only had underwear in her bellyband?

"Hehe, I'm fine." As if afraid that he would force her to take off, Li Man swished into the quilt.

Li Hua smiled helplessly, and was about to twist the wick, Li Man panicked, and hurriedly said, "Don't extinguish it."

"Want to light the lamp?" Li Hua looked at her suspiciously.

Li Man nodded, "Just light it up." After the lamp was blown out, the room was pitch black, and it would make people nervous if there was him next to her.

"Okay." Li Hua smiled lightly, turned around and walked to the side of the bed. Seeing that most of the quilt was wrapped around her body, she shook her head helplessly.

A strong masculine breath came, and Li Man squeezed into the bed uncomfortably, but touched the cold wall.

Sure enough, this * is too small.

She felt very big lying alone, but when he came, she felt like she could only sleep against the wall.

"There's still time here, you don't need to sleep in that corner." Li Hua looked at her sideways.

"Oh, it's okay, this is fine." Not daring to look into his too dazzling eyes, Li Man simply turned over, facing the wall, with her back to him.

But after a while, I heard Li Hua's soft calling behind me.

"Man'er."

"Huh? Go to sleep." Li Man wrapped the quilt even tighter.

"Man'er..."

"Well, I'm so sleepy all of a sudden, Li Hua, what can I say tomorrow."

"Man'er."

His hand suddenly hit her back, Li Man almost jumped up in shock, "What?"

Li Hua opened her pure and innocent eyes and pointed at her, "You are covered in blankets."

Poor him, he didn't even catch that small piece of quilt.

Li Man blinked her eyes hard twice, her face was blushing, she quickly loosened the quilt, not forgetting to excuse herself, "This quilt is a bit small."

Li Hua bent her lips slightly, lay down again, and pulled the quilt over her body.

All of a sudden it was quiet again, Li Man closed her eyes, but still felt the atmosphere was oppressive and dull, she even felt a little hot, she thought maybe too much sauerkraut, fish and chili were put in at night, heartburn, her body was hot and uncomfortable.

She wanted to kick the quilt, but felt it was wrong, so she had to bear it like a corpse.

On the side, Li Hua didn't seem to be doing much better, and the quilt that was about to come back was lifted quietly again, she turned her head slightly, and took a peek at Li Man, seeing that her face was tense, her cheeks were flushed, and her eyelashes were long. Trembling slightly, his lips were tightly pressed together, as if he was deliberately suppressing his breathing.

Involuntarily, his eyes were full of smiles, and he couldn't help turning his body towards her. Unexpectedly, with his slight movement, Li Man's brows were slightly frowned, and her body tensed even more.

she is nervous? Li Hua was both distressed and moved.

"Man'er." His clear voice was actually a little hoarse at this moment, but it was even more magnetic and sexy in such a quiet night.

Li Man's heart skipped a beat, why hasn't he fallen asleep yet? So, she didn't move, pretending to be asleep.

Li Hua sighed softly, crossed his hands on his chest, and quietly closed his eyes, just...

"Man'er." The hands hanging by her sides cautiously reached into the quilt.

"Hmm." Li Man's waist went numb, and she quickly wrapped herself in the quilt and turned inside.

Li Hua stared at her who was almost wrapped in a ball, and bit her lower lip in confusion, "Man'er, I can't sleep with the lights on."

So this is it? "Then go away." As soon as the words came out, she regretted it.

"You're not asleep." Li Hua's low voice that seemed to be laughing came from behind.

Li Man snorted muffledly, "Ah, I was about to fall asleep, and I was woken up by you. Then blow on the light and go to sleep."

She tightened the quilt again and leaned into the bed.

Li Hua had no choice but to get off the gun again, blow out the lamp, and get out of the gun in the dark.