Chapter 121 The adults have many tricks

Chapter 121 The adults have many tricks

Chapter 121 The adults have many tricks

Brother Li was sitting on the edge of the field, looking at Li Xiaoyang who was sitting on the tree, wondering how to coax him down from the tree. He was also worried that the child would fall down while sleeping on the tree.

Li Changle put down a handful of beans, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and looked at the largest winter melon hanging on the rack. "Mother, I haven't had the winter melon candy you made for a long time. Keep the big one and make winter melon candy with it later."

Li Xiaotao, who was helping to pick cucumbers, heard it and ran out with two cucumbers, "Grandma, I want to eat winter melon candy too!"

"Okay, when the weather gets cooler, grandma will go buy some sugar and make winter melon candy." Mother Li thought that the third child had become a capable person now. He and the old man helped people weave nets at home and could earn twenty or thirty yuan a month.

She thought that making winter melon candy didn’t require much sugar and was easy to make. It could also help clear away heat and reduce internal heat, so it would be nice to make some for the children.

"Oh oh oh! Grandma is going to make winter melon candy!" Li Xiaotao jumped three feet high with joy.

Seeing his happy expression and Big Brother Li's increasingly dark face, Li Changle began to admire this foodie.

Mother Li found it funny looking at her heartless grandson, "He has been like this since he was young. No matter how sadly he cries, he will stop crying immediately as long as you tell him there is something delicious to eat."

Brother Li felt ashamed to watch, "They are both debt collectors, neither of them is worry-free."

Li Xiaotao looked at him, afraid of being beaten again, so he pulled Li's mother's sleeve and whispered, "Grandma, I'll go tell my brother to come down and go home."

"Go!" Li Changle took a cucumber from the basket and gave it to him. "Eat a cucumber and go ask your brother if he's thirsty. Tell him your father won't beat him anymore."

Li Xiaotao took the cucumber and rubbed it on his pants twice, then took a big bite with a snap. "I understand, you want to coax my brother down."

"Silly boy," Li's mother patted his butt, "Listen to your uncle and go quickly."

"Oh!" Li Xiaotao looked at Brother Li, "Dad, you really won't beat us anymore?"

Brother Li had a fierce look on his face. "Tell him to behave himself and I won't beat him. Otherwise, wait until I go back to the village and borrow a ladder, and then you'll see how I'll deal with him."

The older this brat gets, the harder it is to teach him. Now he dares to ride on a tree and threaten me. If I don't teach him a lesson, who knows what he will do in the future?
"Oh!"

Li Changping looked at his youngest son chewing a cucumber and walking towards the Castanopsis tree, sighed, and said, "Ah Le, look at these two of my family. The younger one just got beaten up, and his butt is probably still hurting. How can you be so happy?"

He recalled that when he was a child, whenever he saw his parents in a bad mood, he knew not to provoke them to avoid getting beaten. Why are children nowadays so ignorant?

Li Changle thought about her previous life. Xiaoyang and Xiaotao were very filial to their brother and sister-in-law after they grew up and started their own families. The only thing was that they loved beating children, just like them.

The brother and sister-in-law felt distressed when they saw the two people beating the child and they always protected the child. Every time, Li Xiaoyang's brothers would use the example of being beaten when they were children to refute the old couple.

"Brother, Xiaoyang and Xiaotao are relatively obedient compared to other children in the village. You should praise them more from time to time and stop beating and scolding them."

Brother Li said angrily, "You're still praising them? That's how it is. Every time I come back, your sister-in-law complains that she can't control them."

"Xiaoyang often sneaks off to the beach to fish for seafood. As long as Xiaotao gives him something delicious, he will cover for him and praise him. I think they want to build a ladder to the sky."

After hearing this, Li's mother was unhappy, "Big brother, I don't like what you said. Xiaoyang is more sensible than the third brother, but he is a little stubborn. You talk to him nicely, when has he not listened?
Every time I find fish and sell it, I buy food for my younger siblings. I never eat alone. What’s wrong with that?”

Li Changle, who was caught in the crossfire, held his forehead with his hand and said, "Mother, I don't like what you said! No matter how bad I am, I can't be worse than a child, right?"

Li Changping also helped to speak up, "Yes, mother, compared to other hooligans, Ah Le is already good. At least he won't do anything dirty!"

Mother Li patted him and said, "You and Ah Xi, every time Ah Le got into trouble outside, you helped to cover it up. Ah Le is getting more and more out of control because you spoiled him together."

Brother Li: "It's not our fault. If you hadn't always told us that Ah Le was weak and that you, as brothers and sisters, should be more considerate of him, would we have given in to him in everything?"

"I'll go over and see if Xiaoyang has come down."

Seeing that his elder brother and mother were talking about his past dark history, Li Changle felt embarrassed if he stayed any longer, so he quickly found an excuse to slip away.

Li Xiaotao walked under the tree and looked up at Li Xiaoyang, "Brother, are you thirsty? Uncle San asked me to get you a cucumber. Come down quickly, grandma is going to make winter melon candy."

Li Xiaoyang glanced at the cucumber in his hand and said, "Traitor, I don't talk to traitors!"

Li Xiaotao hurriedly said, "Brother, I'm not a traitor. You saw that I got hit on the butt several times, but you didn't hit me once when you were on the tree."

"Come down quickly. Dad said that as long as you behave yourself, he won't beat you. Otherwise, I'll go back to the village and bring a ladder to catch you and give you a good beating."

"Did he really say that? He wasn't trying to trick me into coming down and beating me, was he?" Li Xiaoyang looked down at him and asked.

Li Xiaotao pointed at Li Changle and said, "Really? If you don't believe me, ask your uncle." Li Changle stepped forward and nodded, "Come down quickly. I promise your father won't beat you."

"If you don't keep your word, you're a puppy!" Li Xiaoyang stared at him and said.

Li Changle felt his hands itching, "When have I ever broken my promise? As long as I didn't fulfill the one I promised you?"

Li Xiaoyang thought about it and said, "Then I will believe you this time."

After saying that, he hugged the tree trunk and slid down slowly. When he was almost reaching the ground, Li Changle grabbed him and pulled him down, and slapped him on the butt several times.

"You little bastard, you still don't keep your word. If I wasn't afraid that you would fall from the tree and become crippled and lie in bed, tiring your parents to take care of you for the rest of their lives, I would have climbed up and taken care of you a long time ago."

"Ah~" Li Xiaoyang quickly twisted his butt to avoid his slap, "You said you wouldn't hit me, Third Uncle, you don't keep your word. I won't trust you anymore."

"I said your father won't beat you, but I didn't say I won't beat you. Use your pig brain to think about it!" Li Changle said and hit him a few more times.

Li Xiaoyang thought about what he had just said and was speechless for a moment, "You adults have so many tricks."

"Well done!" Li's mother pulled his ear. "The older you get, the more disobedient you become. I told you to come down, but you insisted on being stubborn. Look at how high the tree is. What if you fall and get hurt?"

"...I've never fallen from a tree taller than this." Li Xiaoyang said unconvinced.

"Let's go, what are you still standing there for?" Brother Li yelled angrily, turned around, picked up the winter melon and left.

He was thinking about what Li Changle said just now, and felt that it made sense. He decided not to beat him this time to see if he could change. If he was the same as this time, he would beat him every three meals.

Seeing this, Li Xiaotao felt that he had been at a disadvantage. He should have climbed up the tree just now, so that he would not have been hit those times. Thinking of this, he touched his butt which no longer hurt.

Seeing that he really left, Li Xiaoyang was still a little unconvinced, "Grandma, is my dad really not going to beat me anymore? Will he wait until I return to punish me?"

Mother Li recalled that he had just said that he was picked up, "Silly boy, you are the flesh and blood of your mother, don't be stubborn when you go back, admit your mistake to your father, who will be willing to hit you, I am so sorry for you."

Li Xiaoyang didn't believe it, "My mother said she picked me up at the market."

Li Xiaotao added: "I also heard my mother say that we were all adopted. She also said that if she had known we were so disobedient, she would not have taken us home. It would have been much easier for her to worry about her with only my sister."

Mother Li looked at her two grandsons with amusement and anger, "She said those words in anger when you were disobedient. Who would pick up two boys and bring them home for no reason?

I have to provide you with food and clothing, and I have to support you in your education. When you grow up, I have to earn money to build you a new house, and I have to use the money to help you find a wife. Who would be willing to do that if they are not my own children?"

Li Changle tapped Li Xiaoyang on the forehead with his fingers, "As the old saying goes, a young boy will eat his father out of poverty. If you two were not their biological children, why would your parents work so hard to raise you?

The money I used to raise you should be used to buy new clothes. Wouldn't it be delicious to eat braised pork with big pig's trotters? You should use your brain more often. You will be in the fifth grade soon, but you still have no ability to distinguish. Have you read so many books that you have lost your mind?"

"Your third uncle is right. Which family in the village doesn't scold their children like this? Grandma also said that your father and uncle were adopted. Why didn't they say they would go find their biological father when they were beaten?"

The two brothers looked at each other after hearing this and thought that it was true. Some of their classmates picked them up when they were fishing in the sea, and some picked them up when they were fishing at sea...

There are also those who, like them, picked them up at the market.

How could there be so many children picking up trash? How come they never picked up trash once when they went to the market with their mother? They didn't see anyone else picking up trash either.

Li Changle said no more and picked up the vegetable basket. The two brothers also stepped forward tactfully and helped to carry the picked cowpeas.

On the way down the mountain, Li's mother taught them some life lessons earnestly. The two brothers were no longer like they were on the mountain, where you would say one thing and he would have ten more things waiting for you.

When they got home, Mrs. Li sat on the steps wiping her tears. When she saw the two brothers coming back, she cried and went up to Li Xiaoyang, grabbed him and slapped him on the buttocks a few times, crying and cursing: "Debt collector, you heartless little bastard, aren't you going to leave..."

Li's mother stepped forward and tried to persuade them, then took the two children home.

Li Xiaohai held Li Changle's hand and said, "Dad, my mother said that I was not picked up, but was given to our family by the Goddess of Childbirth in the Master's Palace."

Li Xiaozhou said hurriedly, "As for me, my mother said that she had made an agreement with the Goddess of Childbirth, asking her to send my brother to our home first, and then send me back in two years."

"Yes, my mother asked the Goddess of Childbirth to give you to us." Li Changle smiled and touched their heads, and glanced at Brother Li proudly, "Brother, learn from this, and don't say you picked it up on the street in the future."

"Get out!" Brother Li kicked him with a smile.

(End of this chapter)