"Oh dear! My plum tree!"

As soon as Liu Yuxiu entered the passageway room, she saw the plum tree that had been cut down into pieces.

Who the hell did this?!

However, she soon found out that Li Xiangdong appeared in her line of sight with a gloomy face.

Next to them were Li Weijun and Douzai, huddled together. Liu Yuxiu cautiously moved closer to Li Weijun, pressing herself against the side room.

As she moved, she kept her eyes fixed on Li Xiangdong, afraid that he would suddenly go crazy and come at her with the axe in his hand.

This is really something! I didn't do anything!

It's like snow falling in June, even more wronged than Dou E!

After finally moving to Li Weijun's place, the three of them were finally able to huddle together. Li Xiangdong then came over carrying his axe.

"Ah—don't come any closer!"

Liu Yuxiu was so frightened that her face turned pale and her voice cracked.

It was lunchtime, and the women were cooking while the men chatted amongst themselves.

Upon hearing Liu Yuxiu's scream, people were already peeking in from the gate to watch the commotion.

Li Xiangdong threw the axe at Li Weijun's feet with a clatter. "Keep an eye on your wife and son. If they dare to cause trouble again, hmph!"

Li Xiangdong let out two cold snorts, and Li Weijun felt a chill run down his spine; his second brother was getting crazier and crazier.

Li Xiangdong clapped his hands and left leisurely. It took Li Weijun a while to get up from the ground. He put his son aside and reached out to pull his wife, who was slumped on the ground, up.

Liu Yuxiu felt her legs go weak, as if Li Xiangdong had cut down not a plum tree, but her legs.

"Wow--"

Liu Yuxiu suddenly burst into tears, hugging Li Weijun's leg and wailing, "What kind of life is this! Every family treats their eldest grandson like a treasure! Why is my Douzai so unlucky! He goes to his own grandparents' house and they kick him out!"

"Ouch—"

"My life is so miserable!"

Li Weijun felt a pang of sadness when his wife cried. Today was his parents' housewarming day, and he had deliberately not gone to work, thinking that his parents would surely send his younger siblings over to call him!

Once my younger siblings arrive, it will give me a way out, and I can continue to visit them in the future.

But after waiting and waiting, he was met with a crazy Li Xiangdong!

Li Weijun grew angrier the more he thought about it. He pushed Liu Yuxiu away from clinging to his leg, picked up his son, and walked out.

He was going to ask his parents if Li Weijun was their biological son, and if Douzai was their eldest grandson!

Li Weijun stormed out, walking all the way to Li Jinxin's house. Listening to the cheerful conversation and laughter inside, he suddenly remembered the gleaming axe he'd just seen…

If I were to rush in and cause a ruckus right now, that axe would probably be chopping down more than just plum trees...

The incident with Douzai was just a minor episode and didn't significantly affect today's housewarming banquet.

After seeing off the last group of guests, it was already past 3 p.m.

Aunt Li was going to stay for two days. Since the wheat harvest was over, she sat comfortably on the kang (a heated brick bed), with her large tabby cat curled up in a fluffy ball at her feet, snoring away.

"You know what, there are windows at the front and back, and the cross breeze is really cool!"

Aunt Li, fanning herself with a palm-leaf fan, said to Li Jin.

Li Jin had drunk some wine at noon, and his face was flushed. He took the cigarette box, tore off a piece of white cotton paper, folded it in the middle, and evenly sprinkled the golden tobacco shreds on the white cotton paper. Then he started rolling it from one corner. When he got to the last corner, he licked the white cotton paper on his tongue, and it stuck to the cigarette.

In no time, a cigarette, thick at the top and narrow at the bottom, shaped like a barrel, was rolled. He lit it with a match and took a satisfying puff.

"Sister, this was also designed with the east side in mind. Who builds houses around here with back windows? Aren't they afraid of thieves getting in?"

"That's right! I've lived this long and I've never seen a window with only a back window."

“Right!” Li Jin slapped his thigh. “But this brat said that houses should be built with a north-south orientation. He even said that the houses where the emperors used to live in Yanjing were all like that.”

Li Jin appeared to be complaining, but his actual smugness was beyond words.

Seeing her younger brother's barely concealed smugness, Aunt Li wasn't going to indulge him at all. "Alright, laugh if you want to. Why are you pretending in front of me?"

Li Jin laughed heartily, tears streaming down his face. It took him a while to stop laughing. "Big sister, in my life, to have such a son, God has been very kind to me!"

The two sisters were inside the house, laughing and crying as they talked about their innermost thoughts, while outside, Li Lan was helping Zhao Sufang and Qi Yuexian tidy up the folded vegetables.

Folding leftovers together means folding up all the leftover dishes on the table, such as chicken, duck, fish, meat, stir-fries, sausages, and shrimp, and mixing them together. When you want to eat them, you can reheat them. They have a unique flavor that is different from individual dishes and has a particularly rich and fragrant taste.

Today, there were three tables of food served, and because the amount of food was quite large, there was still a porcelain basin of leftover vegetables.

"Second Aunt, take one bowl with you, and also take one to Chunhua."

Zhao Sufang took out two red flower bowls and used a rice ladle to scoop out two large bowls of pickled vegetables and placed them on the table.

Qi Yuexian wasn't going to stand on ceremony with Zhao Sufang anymore; she was just worried about one thing: "Sister-in-law, shouldn't we send some over there? Otherwise, people will gossip!"

That area refers to the home of Li Qingshan and Li Wanshi.

Zhao Sufang didn't really care about that side anymore, but she couldn't go too far in terms of appearances, so she offered a bowl of pickled vegetables. "Okay, I'll have your older brother deliver it later."

Inside the house.

Aunt Li petted the cat and asked Li Jin, "Why didn't Wei Jun come?"

Li Jin was stunned for a moment, then gave a wry smile, "Big sister, he hasn't come to my door since that incident."

"When Douzai turned 100, did you and your sister-in-law give the child money during the first birthday celebration?"

"It was given."

"You accepted it?"

"I've accepted it."

Aunt Li was speechless. Children are all debts from past lives!

However, Li Jin doesn't only have this one son, nor does she only have one nephew. Whatever!

The two sisters were speechless, and the atmosphere in the room became somewhat stagnant for a moment.

Just then, Li Xiangdong and He Chaochao lifted the curtain made of grass beads and entered the room.

"Father, Aunt!"

"Uncle, Mother!"

After exchanging greetings, the two brothers sat down in chairs.

Aunt Li now loves Li Xiangdong, her eldest nephew, more and more. She said with a smile, "Xiangdong, your brother Chaochao has made a lot of money with you. Auntie has to thank you!"

Li Xiangdong said, "Hey, Auntie, the real money is yet to come, this is just the beginning!"

Aunt Li choked, thinking to herself, "This child is good in every way, so why is he so arrogant!"

Li Xiangdong continued, "Auntie, it's July now, and there are lots of mushrooms and medicinal herbs on the mountain. I'd like to ask Chaochao to come with me to the mountains again."

"Go ahead! Do you think I'd stop you from making money? Your aunt isn't stupid!"

Li Xiangdong and the others were amused and burst into laughter.

Door curtain made of grass beads

Grass beads