Chapter 316 Tragedy caused by a box of pens

It was not until noon that Li Ye broke free from the temptation of the God of Bed and climbed up lazily.

He really didn't mean to stay in bed, he just slept too comfortably.

The stove was burning brightly all night long. Apparently someone got up in the middle of the night and added more charcoal.

The quilt and mattress both exuded a strong "smell of sunshine", probably because they had just been taken apart and washed a few days ago, and the quilt cover had been changed.

I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night because I had to hold it in. I was thinking it would be inconvenient since it was over ten degrees below zero outside, but then I found that the urinal was placed in the corner.

With this treatment and two palace daughters, wouldn't he really become the little emperor of the family?

As a result, when he opened the door of his room, he found his two sisters standing outside with eager eyes.

"Brother, water for washing your face, a towel."

"Brother, this is your toothpaste, just opened."

Li Ye: “.”

"Is this what you should do? I am not without arms and legs. Don't do this again! What kind of society is this?"

Li Ye couldn't help but laugh and curse out loud. He really didn't want the two little girls to live in fear like those who live under someone else's roof.

Thinking about how the two sisters followed Han Chunmei into the house three years ago, they were so nervous that they didn't dare to leave Han Chunmei's back for a moment just because Li Ye glared at them fiercely, Li Ye felt that he was a little "unloving".

Now, after two years of improvement, although the two little girls have become close to me, I still feel that there is a hidden "barrier" between them.

What does a real sister look like?

"Brother, give me all your pocket money, or I'll tell mom that you're secretly spending money on games and having a premature relationship."

"Brother, I drowned dad's fortune fish, and then I'll say it was you who did it. You say I framed you? Then think about it, do mom and dad believe you? Or do they believe me?"

“.”

So Li Ye was not used to his two younger sisters being like this.

But then Li Ye heard his little sister Li Ying say with a smile: "Hey, brother bought us pens! It's my duty to get him some face-washing water."

"Oh, pen, I remember now."

Li Ye then remembered something.

Because Li Zhongfa took the lead in contacting foreign businessmen in Hong Kong and began to negotiate the introduction of instant noodle production lines, a telephone was finally installed at home so that he could communicate with the outside world at any time.

So Li Ye called home that day. When he answered the phone, he heard his little sister Li Ying crying loudly.

After asking, he found out that her pen fell to the ground and the tip was broken, so Li Ye said proudly: "Don't cry, I will buy you three later, one for you to use and two for you to look at."

I never thought that such a small promise would make Li Ying still care about it today.

Li Ye quickly washed his face and said, "I bought you a fountain pen. It should be in that yellow handbag. See if you can get it from the Volga."

The two sisters shook their heads together.

"No."

"No, my sister didn't take anything down from the car after she came back."

Li Ye understood that the two of them came to ask him for the car keys.

So Li Ye knocked on his sister Li Yue's window, took out the key and handed it to Li Juan: "Go get it yourself! It's in the yellow bag! Note that the two black bags are your sister's, don't touch them!"

"Oh, I see."

The two girls took the keys and ran out excitedly.

"Pah~"

The window that had just been closed opened again, and Li Yue poked his head out and said with a sullen face, "Why did you deliberately say don't touch my bag? Am I a man-eating tiger?"

Li Ye looked at his sister Li Yue for several seconds before saying, "Sister, you always pretend to be so awesome, aren't you tired?"

“.”

Li Yue stared at Li Ye in a daze for a long time, until Li Juan and Li Ying came in carrying a large sack of New Year's goods, and then he closed the window again with a "click".

"Alas~"

Li Ye sighed softly, feeling somewhat helpless.

In fact, sister Li Yue's personality was not that "fierce". Li Ye still remembers how Li Yue took care of him, including carrying him across the river, feeding him at meals, and hugging him to keep him warm.

But later on, the Li family went downhill. Grandfather Li Zhongfa and father Li Kaijian lost their jobs one after another, and there was more and more gossip around them.

In just a few years, sisters Li Yue and Li Ye became tough, competitive, and even a little radical.

But grandpa Li Zhongfa and grandma Wu Juying, who had seen through the world, did not stop this change.

Because in that kind of environment, being submissive may not necessarily win you sympathy from others, but being fierce and aggressive may make some people hesitate and not dare to bully you too much.

Grandpa, grandma, and dad all have no say, Li Yue is too pretty, and she has Li Ye, a weak spot, hanging around below her. If Li Yue doesn't act more aggressively, who knows what will happen?

But Li Zhongfa has been working again for four years, and Li Yue's temperament is slowly changing towards her original nature. But it would be very difficult to return to the way she was ten years ago.

However, Li Ye's transformation was a BUG, ​​so now the two sisters are not afraid of Li Ye anymore, but are still afraid of Li Yue.

Li Juan and Li Ying were like two little groundhogs. They carried down the New Year's goods from the Volga one by one, and then opened the yellow bag that Li Ye mentioned, and then they found two boxes of pens.

"Hey, are all the pens in this box?"

"Wow, it's not one box, it's two boxes! Hahahaha~"

Li Ying looked at the two boxes of twenty pens and was as ecstatic as a poor miner who suddenly dug up a basket of gold.

If you ask children in the early 1980s what gift they most wanted, a fountain pen would definitely be one of the top options, or even the only option.

If a child comes from an average family, it is difficult to get a fountain pen in elementary school, and they basically use pencils.

Even when you reach junior high school, you may receive an old fountain pen with a nearly split tip from your older brothers or sisters.

If the parents of the family work in the workplace, the children at home will always pester and ask: "When will your pen be lost?"

It is difficult for children in later generations to understand the important position of a fountain pen, which is not entertaining at all, in the mind of an elementary or junior high school student.

If you don’t believe me, watch the movies from the 1980s. When a father who has been away from home for many years returns to his hometown, the gifts he brings to his children are mostly pencils and pens.

Children are also sensible. When you ask you what New Year gift they want, they will not say "I want a doll, I want a flintlock, I want White Rabbit milk candy," but will ask for a pen.

Because the consequences may be... I have a rolling pin here, do you want it?

So now when sisters Li Juan and Li Ying see two full boxes of pens, they are so excited. If they tell their friends about this, won't they be envious to death?

Li Ying looked at the pen in her hand with shining eyes: "Sister, my box is from Yingxiong, what is your box? Is it from Venus?"

Li Juan was quick to snatch it away: "What do you mean your box is from Yingxiong? Is that yours? Give it to me."

“.”

Li Ying was stunned, and it took her a long time to react: "No. There are two boxes of pens in total, one for you and one for me. How can you be more unreasonable than a bandit?"

Li Juan raised her eyebrows and asked sternly, "Who do you say is a bandit?"

“.”

Li Ying was panting heavily, but in the end she didn't dare to reach out to grab it back.

She had not grown up yet and was half a head shorter than her sister Li Juan. Li Juan was "good at wrestling", so she understood the principle of a brave man not to suffer a loss in front of him.

"Hmph~"

Seeing Li Ying giving in, Li Juan took out a pen from the box and handed it to her.

"Why do you have so many pens? Isn't one enough for you? This is a Venus 703, do you know how expensive it is? Didn't someone steal it even though you brought it to school?"

"I always put it in my pocket after class, who could steal it?"

"Look at you, can you carry a whole box in your pocket?"

"Then don't worry about it."

Looking at Li Ying's face which was longer than a donkey's, Li Juan suddenly returned the pen box to her.

"Here you go, it must be well hidden!"

"Hmmmm, hee hee."

Li Ying, who had just hoped to get a few more pens, couldn't understand how she could have found them again. She took them happily and held them tightly in her arms.

Li Ye watched the two sisters fighting from a distance and found it quite interesting.

Li Juan and Li Ying’s situation is actually somewhat similar to that of Li Ye and Li Yue.

Li Ye and his sister were hated and ostracized because of Li Zhongfa's misfortune.

The Li Juan sisters were not liked by their relatives because they followed Han Chunmei.

When others look at you with tinted glasses, you can't reason with them. So you either become "unreasonable", or have a lot of evil ideas, or just lie down and admit defeat.

The older sister Li Juan is actually a bit like Li Yue, while the younger sister Li Ying and Li Ye always seem to be not stupid, but very smart.

For example, when she talked to Li Ye yesterday and today, she was able to explain things more clearly than Li Juan.

Smart Li Ying played with a box of pens for a long time, touching all the pens one by one, then took a break and went back to the house. When she came out again, the box of pens was gone.

Originally Li Ye thought that Li Juan was being "generous" and stopped bullying her sister, but after Han Chunmei came back in the evening, he realized that he was wrong.

After dinner, Han Chunmei yelled at Li Ying, "You are only in what grade, why do you need so many pens? Leave them to me and I will take care of them for you. Don't worry, you won't be left without one. Go get them now."

Li Ying blinked and said, "Mom, I'll give it to you later."

But Han Chunmei was unusually stern: "Right away, right now."

Li Ying was almost crying due to the pressure. She went to the wardrobe with a wronged look on her face, and using all her strength, she moved the wardrobe a little and took out the pen case from inside.

She has to hide them. These ten pens will be used for a long time. Her sister Li Juan is already in high school and her grades are much better than hers. What will happen if she takes one of yours?

Now that it has been handed over to Han Chunmei, it would be good enough if six out of ten can fall into her hands.

In Han Chunmei's words: "You failed the test, so it's a waste to use a dip pen. I'm lucky enough to buy you a new pencil. If you're in the last three, I'll just let you use the pencil stubs."

But in a flash, Li Ying took out the pen and was about to move the wardrobe back, but Han Chunmei stepped forward to block it, and reached out and took out a bag of laundry detergent from the back of the wardrobe.

In the laundry detergent bag, there was a stack of banknotes of varying ages, fifty cents, ten cents, and five cents. They were colorful and looked very pretty.

Li Ying was stunned, really stunned.

Now when I think back to the expression on my sister's face when she returned the pen to her in the afternoon, I suddenly feel that she was so treacherous.

"Why is that all?"

Han Chunmei held the bag of laundry detergent and looked at her two daughters suspiciously.

Li Juan scratched her head, feeling that it was different from what she had expected.

Li Ying suddenly burst into tears: "What are you doing? It's gone, it's all gone."

If children want to save money, they have to be stingy and cry poor. Their pocket money is spent early.

If you say you have saved money, will you get new pocket money?

But Li Ying cried so miserably that Li Kaijian was put in a passive position.

"Forget it, it's not easy for children to save some pocket money"

"I don't hate her for spending money," Han Chunmei said, "I just don't want her to develop the habit of being shrewd about money.

Did you know that the teacher at school said that she was doing business in the school. She used to sell candy, but last month she even sold clothes.

If she gets lost in business, how can she study well? We must cut off her roots!"

“.”

Li Ye carefully looked at the tearful little sister and felt that he had underestimated her. How old was she and she already knew about reselling?

However, precisely because of this careful observation, Li Ye happened to catch a hidden look from Li Ying.

She looked at the big bed where Li Kaijian and Han Chunmei slept. There was a thin wooden board under one of the legs of the bed.

With Li Ye's extraordinary eyesight, he could see that the wooden board had been moved recently.

(End of this chapter)