Fortunate Wife

"How did you cut your hand? You child is too careless." Aunt Zhao rushed over in shock. Seeing her daughter's hands covered in blood, her heart ached so badly that she hurriedly took out a half-worn handkerchief to help her stop the bleeding. .

Zhao Yun'er choked with tears, "This knife is too blunt, I'm in a hurry again, just now my sister-in-law said I was hungry, I wanted to prepare the dishes earlier, but I didn't expect to cut it, what should I do? My sister-in-law is still waiting Let's eat."

"You silly boy, no matter how anxious you are, don't rush this moment, look——"

Aunt Zhao didn't finish her comforting words. Li Xiangcao got up, glanced at her, and said coolly, "This knife is blunt for cutting vegetables, but it's very fast for chopping hands. Seeing that Yun'er is bleeding so much , I'm afraid the wound is quite deep."

Aunt Zhao's complexion was ugly for a moment, Zhao Yun'er sniffed her nose twice, feeling aggrieved.

Li Xiangyu glanced at his younger sister, and said to Aunt Zhao, "Sister-in-law, hurry up and bandage Yun'er."

"Yes." Aunt Zhao pushed her daughter outside, trying to wash the wound with water.

But Zhao Yun'er hesitated, "Mother, what should I do with the dish at noon? It doesn't matter much to me, it's fine."

"I've bled so much, and you still say it's okay? Don't touch it, mother will come and do it later." Aunt Zhao said, pulling her outside to the well and getting some water to help her clean the wound.

Here, Li Xiangyu waited for the two of them to go out, and then she yelled at her younger sister, "Xiangcao, why are you talking more and more out of control, girl? The child's hand was cut, and you still say that?"

"Sister, don't you see that she doesn't know how to cook at all? She doesn't even know how to cut a dish, so she pretends to cook lunch?" Li Xiangcao retorted unceremoniously.

Just as Li Xiangyu wanted to refute, she suddenly thought of the way Zhao Yun'er was holding the knife. It seemed that the posture of holding the knife was wrong, but how could it be possible? How can there be a girl who can't even cook, and she is not a rich lady.

"Isn't the knife blunt? Besides, Yun'er is shy. It's her first time cooking at someone else's house, so she is naturally nervous. Just now the little... she was still clamoring for hunger. Yun'er must be in a hurry, so she was not careful." You hurt your hand." She explained for Zhao Yun'er.

"Really?" Li Xiangcao didn't believe it, and she didn't believe that the elder sister would not be able to see it, so she sat down under the stove again, "Then, elder sister, you can get the dishes."

Li Xiangyu had no choice but to get up and come in person, but when she saw the big blood dripping from the tender pumpkin, she still frowned in disgust, but she couldn't just throw away the whole pumpkin because of these few pieces, she couldn't bear it.

So, he threw away the blood-stained pumpkin, rinsed the kitchen knife several times with water, and then re-cut the clean pumpkin into shreds.

Li Xiangyu was surprised when he made the first knife, why is this knife blunt? It's okay to chop bones.

Involuntarily, she glanced out the door, and Aunt Zhao happened to bring Zhao Yun'er back to the house, saw Li Xiangyu chopping vegetables, and hurriedly said, "Aunt Yu, let me do it."

Li Xiangyu looked at Zhao Yun'er with a complicated expression, then shook his head, "Forget it, is Yun'er's wound deep, do you want some medicine? There should be medicine at home, you can ask the boss."

"No need, the bleeding has stopped." Zhao Yun'er said with red eyes, staring at the kitchen knife in Li Xiangyu's hand, feeling guilty.

She said just now that the kitchen knife was blunt, it was an excuse, she doesn't know how to cook, and she would not be afraid to beat her up for lunch with her mother, but Li Man said that she wanted to taste her cooking, and Li Xiangyu also wanted her to stand out , the result is like this.

She thought that her hand was injured, and her mother could cook this dish for herself, but Li Xiangyu did it herself, did she reveal herself? However, looking at Li Xiangyu's expression, she didn't seem to have much reaction, and she gradually felt relieved.

"Let's rest then." Li Xiangyu continued cutting vegetables without looking at her.

Zhao Yun'er was keenly aware of the change in her attitude, and glanced at her mother, and Aunt Zhao signaled her to be calm with her eyes.

The final result was that Zhao Yun'er sat and rested, and Aunt Zhao went over to give Li Xiangyu a hand. It can be said that Li Xiangyu cooked all the dishes at noon.

At noon, everyone gathered for dinner.

Uncle Zhao saw that his daughter's finger was wrapped with a veil, and blood was still oozing from the veil, so he couldn't help asking worriedly, "Yun'er, what's wrong with your hand?"

The eyes of the others all fell on Zhao Yun'er because of his words.

Zhao Yun'er flinched, and hurriedly said, "I accidentally cut it while chopping vegetables, it's okay."

Uncle Zhao frowned, and blurted out, "What are you cutting vegetables for? You don't know how to cook, so what should you do if your hands are injured and have scars? Ah..."

Before he finished speaking, he was suddenly kicked on the leg. Just as Uncle Zhao was about to explode, when he met Aunt Zhao's fierce eyes, he suddenly realized that he had said something wrong.

"Heh." A mocking sneer broke the awkward atmosphere, and Xiao Wu looked at Zhao Yun'er with malicious eyes, "So you don't know how to cook? Then you are still chasing my elder brother for nothing, asking him what he likes to eat?" What, what did you say?"

Zhao Yun'er's face was red when she said something, she naturally knew that it was when Li Mo came back from the field and went upstairs, she rushed up to ask, but where was this kid at that time?

"I..." Zhao Yun'er didn't know what to say, and Aunt Zhao hurriedly helped, "Listen to that ghost's nonsense, he is very picky, and he is used to the taste of my cooking, so he always thinks that Yun'er's cooking is not to his liking. I don't want to, you are quite old, how can you have the same taste as young people?"

Li Man is funny, I really have to admire Aunt Zhao's wit and language talent, and she reversed Uncle Zhao's meaning with a few words.

Uncle Zhao nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes."

"What is Miss Yun'er's specialty dish?" Li Man asked with a smile while eating, with a completely homely tone, "I also like to cook on weekdays, but I'm afraid they will get tired of the ones I cook. God, I will learn from you too, since you are from the city, you must know more than us country folks."

Zhao Yun'er paused, and said awkwardly, "I'm not very good at it, I just know some ordinary home cooking."

"Tell me." Li Man asked casually, holding a vegetable in his mouth.

Zhao Yun'er had an ugly expression, "Just, just..."

"Heh." Xiao Wu sneered mockingly again, "I'll make it up again."

"Xiao Wu, why do you always talk like this? People don't like it." Seeing Zhao Yun'er's embarrassment and unable to get off the stage, Li Xiangyu reprimanded Xiao Wu, but stared at Li Man.

She hated Li Man in her heart, but after last night, she was at a disadvantage. Even Li Mo, who listened to her the most, didn't want to say a word to her until now. She was also afraid that the conflict would escalate, so, No matter how dissatisfied she was, she couldn't bear to vent it to Li Man. Anyway, there are thousands of ways to torture people, and she won't be so blatantly stupid anymore.

Xiao Wu shrugged his eyebrows, but he really didn't refute, but his words just now had achieved the effect.

Li Mo didn't pay attention to these things, whether Zhao Yun'er could cook had nothing to do with him.

And the Zhao family naturally knew what virtue their daughter had.

Then, among those present, Xiao Wu didn't believe it, Li Xiangcao didn't believe it, Li Man didn't believe it, and Li Xiangyu didn't believe it even if he was deceiving himself and others.

Therefore, Aunt Zhao suddenly felt that it was meaningless to explain, but instead she wanted to cover it up, so she secretly decided to teach her two special dishes after her daughter's fingers were healed. Learning how to cook seemed easy to her.

After the meal was finished quickly, Aunt Zhao took Uncle Zhao and his daughter back to the old house.

As soon as she entered the room, Zhao Yun'er threw herself on the bed of the kang, crying loudly.

Sitting on the side, Aunt Zhao hated her for not being able to live up to expectations, "Who can blame this? Usually, I ask you to learn more housework, but you always dislike it. Look, today I can't even cut a dish well——"

"Mother." Zhao Yun'er raised her head aggrieved, "Let's go, I don't want to stay here anymore."

"Go? Where are you going?" Aunt Zhao asked angrily, "Do you still have the guts to go back?"

Zhao Yun'er's face was suffocated, she whimpered, buried her face in the quilt, and cried even more fiercely.

"Crying, what's the use of crying?" Aunt Zhao just patted her on the back twice angrily, "You are also useless, if you took down the young master of the Shen family back then, how did you get to where you are today?"

Zhao Yun'er got up suddenly and yelled at Aunt Zhao, "Can you not mention that?"

Aunt Zhao choked, "Okay, okay, don't mention it, don't mention it, mother, don't cry, look at your swollen eyes, it doesn't look good."

Zhao Yun'er loves beauty very much. When she heard that her eyes were swollen, she immediately choked up and forced her tears back, "Mom, I know I was wrong."

"Hey, okay, don't cry." Aunt Zhao wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve, "Yun'er, listen to what mother said, look at it, the Li family is really popular, there is a shop in the town, The family has a house, and it is said that they will buy land, and look at their life, it is no worse than the people in the city."

"En." Zhao Yun'er nodded.

Aunt Zhao laughed, and said again, "Look at the elder brothers, none of them look worse than the young master of the Shen family."

Several figures flashed in Zhao Yun'er's mind, and she lowered her head with a blushing face.

Seeing her daughter's appearance, Aunt Zhao understood, "And, did you see it? Your Aunt Yu intended to betroth you to the Li family."

"Mother." Zhao Yun'er was very shy, and the moment she lowered her head, Li Man's shadow flashed in her mind, her face turned pale, "But Sister-in-law Man'er..."

Aunt Zhao's face froze slightly, "Her words—" she pursed her lips for the second half of the sentence, but did not say it.

"That little girl looks good." Zhao Shu thought of Li Man's appearance, and there was a little light in his cloudy eyes.

Aunt Zhao stared at him coldly, and Uncle Zhao immediately shut up.

Zhao Yun'er looked sleepy, "That's right, Man'er's sister-in-law is beautiful, big brother and they all love her."

She wanted to enter Li's house, but she was afraid it would not be so easy.

Aunt Zhao frowned, and said afterwards, "She is not bad, but our Yun'er is not bad either."

Zhao Yun'er bit her lip. She didn't know about other aspects, but in terms of appearance and temperament, she lost to Li Man by more than a little bit. If not, why didn't the Li family brothers' eyes fall on her?

She was a little unwilling.

It was the first time seeing her daughter showing such a depressed expression. Aunt Zhao sighed, "Speaking of which, you are also useless. Back then, Young Master Shen also took a fancy to you, but you didn't know how to handle it yourself. Now, brothers of the Li family Five, even if Xiao Wu is a child, except for the four brothers who have tasted women, you, even if you win one, the rest will be easy to deal with. As long as you enter the door of Li's house, this The future life will not be worse than that of the young mistress of a rich family."

Zhao Yun'er pursed his lips, and Uncle Zhao also said, "Your mother's words, do you remember clearly? You can't be so arrogant like last time, you just lost the good marriage you got, and your mother and I have to live in This kind of place."

"I know." Zhao Yun'er took a deep breath, and secretly made up her mind that she was already eighteen, and this time, she must not miss the Li family.

"Mom, I'm going over there."

"What are you doing now?" Aunt Zhao asked.

Zhao Yun'er curled her lips, "Our whole family is here, how can we get close?" Even if you can't get in touch with Li Mo and the others, it's good to be able to get in touch with Li Man. If you want to enter the Li family's door in the future, she has to go through that right?

Aunt Zhao smiled, "That's fine, Mom will go with you."

"Forget it, mother, you'd better dry the quilt or something, it smells good." Zhao Yun'er got up and said.

Aunt Zhao knew her daughter's temperament, she had to use everything well, and last night, although the quilts brought by Li Mo were clean, they were all old, so her daughter was naturally not used to them.

"Okay, okay, I'll go and post it." Aunt Zhao looked at her daughter obsessively, and the more she looked at her, the more she felt that her daughter was good-looking, more blessed than Li Man, and would be destined to be served in the future.

Zhao Yun'er bid farewell to her parents, and immediately hurried to the new house.

As soon as she left, Uncle Zhao immediately approached Aunt Zhao, "Hey, do you have any money?"

"Why?" Aunt Zhao was lifting the quilt, and when she saw him asking this, she glared at him angrily.

Uncle Zhao shyly said, "It's been a while since I've met, I want to go to town tomorrow to try my luck. Let me tell you, I feel great now, and this time I will definitely win back all the losses I lost before."

"Come on, you. If you dare to gamble, I will definitely chop off your paw with a knife." Aunt Zhao threatened angrily, "You have lost all of Yun'er's dowry, and you still want money? Mao Du No, now I have you to eat and drink, so please calm down, now I am at someone else's house, if you embarrass Yun'er again, I will tear you to pieces."

After speaking, he hugged the quilt angrily and went out.

Uncle Zhao touched his nose with resentment on his face, but he didn't dare to say anything.

——

On the Li family's side, in the downstairs kitchen, Li Xiangcao was cleaning up the pots and bowls while listening to her sister Li Xiangyu's scolding.

However, this time it's not about Zhao Yun'er, but about Li Xiangcao and Li.

Li Xiangyu was very dissatisfied with this, and felt very distressed, feeling that her sister had been ruined by the matter of Heli all her life.

"Elder Sister, I've done everything, even if I'm lonely forever, I'll admit it." In the end, Li Xiangcao only used this decisive sentence to stop Li Xiangyu's mouth.

Li Xiangyu was very surprised, that younger sister who used to be sluggish, actually had such courage?

"Aunt Yu." Zhao Yun'er came in when she heard voices in the kitchen.

Only then did Li Xiangyu recover from her surprise, "Yun'er, why didn't you rest?"

"Oh, I can't stop, come and talk to Aunt Yu. Aunt Xiangcao, let me help you." Zhao Yun'er replied to Li Xiangyu, seeing Li Xiangcao was busy cleaning up, she came to help.

Li Xiangcao avoided her with a bowl, "There are not many bowls at home, if you break it, you have to buy it in the town."

"..." Zhao Yun'er's eyes flashed sharply, she smiled awkwardly, and sat down beside Li Xiangyu obediently.

"Aunt Yu, I heard from my mother that your legs were uncomfortable last night. Let me pinch them for you."

As she said that, she squeezed her hands together with moderate strength, which was quite comfortable, but, looking at her injured fingers, Li Xiangyu pushed her away, "My leg is old and sick, and it will be sore after walking a lot. .It will be fine after a few days of rest."

"I'll squeeze it for you, it's comfortable." Zhao Yun'er wanted to go forward.

Li Xiangyu said, "Look at you, your finger is still broken, what if there is blood?"

Only then did Zhao Yun'er realize that her finger was hurt, and said with a dry smile, "Then wait, I'll squeeze it for you every day, maybe it won't be sore in the future."

"You are a filial child." Li Xiangyu nodded with a smile.

Li Xiangcao remained calm, finished her work, and washed her hands, "Sister, I'm going back to the house first."

"Yeah." Li Xiangyu also got up, and Zhao Yun'er got up too, and followed.

Li Xiangyu looked at her, "Don't follow, go back and be with your mother, by the way, the old house has been deserted for some time, you and your mother should clean it up."

"Oh, my sister-in-law took good care of that house, and there is nothing to clean up. My parents are sleeping during the rest. I can't rest, so I came here. Aunt Yu, do you want to sleep during the rest? Then you quickly Go back to the house, I'll go find my sister-in-law." Zhao Yun'er said excitedly.

In front, Li Xiangcao paused, but went straight back to the room without saying anything.

However, Li Xiangyu's face darkened, "Why did you go to her? Besides, what kind of face can she give you?"

Zhao Yun'er bit her lower lip lightly, "No matter what, our family of three lives here now, so I must thank my sister-in-law."

Li Xiangyu glanced at her, "Then you go."

"Aunt Yu." Zhao Yun'er looked embarrassed, as if she knew that the two of them would not deal with each other, so she went by herself, as if Li Xiangyu was unhappy.

"Go." Li Xiangyu laughed, "I don't blame you."

Zhao Yun'er then went up to the second floor.

On the second floor, several people were in Li's painting room, even Xiao Wu was there, and they talked about something interesting, everyone laughed happily, even Li Mo had a smile on his face.

Seeing this picture from the window, Zhao Yun'er couldn't help but smiled knowingly. She couldn't help thinking that if she entered this house in the future, these men would sit around her and listen to her talk with smiles. A happy thing.

"Yeah? Sister Yun'er?" Li Man glanced sharply at the person standing by the window.

Zhao Yun'er came back to her senses and hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, I have nothing to do, I want to talk to sister-in-law."

"Oh, okay." Li Man nodded.

Zhao Yun'er went to the door, opened it and wanted to come in, but Li Man had already got up, and said three times to Brother Li Mo, "I'm going back to the house, you have nothing to rest at noon."

"En." The three nodded and watched Li Man go out.

"Let's go, if you have something to say, come to my room." Li Man directly reached out and pushed Zhao Yun'er out.

Zhao Yun'er showed unwillingness, and finally had the opportunity to get in close contact with them, but was destroyed by Li Man again.

But when she turned around and entered Li Man's room, she was still a little stunned.

Soft bedding and pillows, gauze curtains that swing gently in the wind.

A beautiful dressing table, a complete set of combined wardrobes, and even the stools are carved with exquisite patterns.

The layout of the room is simple, yet elegant, and more spacious than ordinary boudoirs.

* There are a few books scattered on the head cabinet, making the whole room elegant, and the air seems to be filled with the faint fragrance of ink.

"Sit." Li Man sat down first, and then made an inviting gesture.

Zhao Yun'er sat down with a smile, and made no secret of her love for this room, "Sister-in-law, this room is really nice. Where did you buy this table and this cabinet?"

"Li Yan made it himself." Li Man said.

"Second brother did it?" Zhao Yun'er was pleasantly surprised.

However, Li Man frowned subconsciously. Her second elder brother's call was so smooth that she felt uncomfortable.

Zhao Yun'er didn't seem to notice her emotions, she just thought about it and said, "Second brother is so skillful, if I can have such a set of furniture in the future—"

"That's the only way." Li Man hit him mercilessly.

"What?" Zhao Yun'er was taken aback.

Li Man raised her eyebrows, "Except for me, your second brother doesn't have the heart to make it for others, heh, not even for himself. Haven't you seen it? There aren't any in the other rooms."

Zhao Yun'er looked awkward, "Oh."

"If you have anything to say, tell me." After a pause, Li Man asked directly.