Li Mingxi took the needle and thread from Niu Cuihua, his hands moving constantly as he comforted her, "Grandma, how are you old? You're still young!"
Niu Cuihua laughed and scolded, "You're the only one who can talk, right?"
Li Mingxi quipped, "That's right, I even heard Second Grandma praising you the other day, saying you looked only in your early forties!"
As Li Mingxi spoke, he handed the needle and thread in his hand to Niu Cuihua.
Niu Cuihua laughed out loud at Li Mingxi's words. Although she knew that her granddaughter was praising her, she was still very happy.
Which woman doesn't want to be praised for her youth, even if she is an old woman? Look, Niu Cuihua was very happy when she heard Li Mingxi's praise.
In the evening, the two brothers returned from the commune on the brigade's ox cart, and Yu Xiaowei also came back with them.
Li Mingxi looked at his cousin who had come with him and asked in confusion, "Brother Xiaowei, why are you here?"
When Yu Xiaowei heard Li Mingxi say this, he teased, "What? You're not welcoming?"
Li Mingxi quickly denied it, "No, no, I'm just curious!"
Yu Xiaowei knew that his little cousin didn't mean to unwelcome him, he just said that on purpose!
Niu Cuihua came out of the kitchen and saw a few people still talking in the yard. She shouted, "Stop talking, everyone, come inside and eat. What is there to talk about?"
When they heard what Niu Cuihua said, they stopped talking and hurried into the house.
Because Niu Cuihua and Zhang Huilan cooked meat dishes, the children ate with relish.
After dinner, Li Mingyi didn't want to go back to sleep, so he suggested, "Let's play Gomoku!"
Li Mingde was helpless about Li Mingyi's proposal. Since childhood, his younger brother always suggested playing Gomoku whenever they talked about playing chess, because that was the only game he knew.
Li Mingxi felt helpless when she saw her younger brother like this. She still remembered teaching her two younger brothers how to play chess when she was a child.
Xiaoyi only knows how to play Gobang and hasn't learned anything else.
Yu Xiaowei agreed, "Okay, let's play Gobang!"
Li Mingxi didn't want to get involved, so he just watched from the side without participating.
Li Mingde didn't want to play such a simple game, so the game was between Yu Xiaowei and Li Mingyi.
Li Mingxi and Li Mingde, brother and sister, watched the game from the side.
"Oops, I made a wrong move!" Li Mingyi sighed.
Li Mingxi was distracted at first, but upon hearing this, he immediately looked at the chess game. Then, he found that Xiaoyi's winning game had been messed up by him.
Then, Yu Xiaowei won the first game.
Li Mingyi was very unconvinced, so the two of them played a few more games. Unexpectedly, Xiaoyi was like a black hole in the game and didn't win a single game.
"I'm so annoyed. I don't want to play anymore!" With Li Mingyi's complaint, the chess game was disrupted by him.
Yu Xiaowei was not angry at Li Mingyi's cheating. He smiled and said, "If we don't play this, what do you want to do?"
Li Mingyi's eyes rolled around, and I don't know what he was thinking about, but a dazzling light burst out of his eyes.
When Li Mingxi saw him like this, he thought something was wrong. Every time Xiaoyi acted like this, something bad was bound to happen.
Sure enough, I heard him suggest, "Let's go fishing!"
"No, it's dark now. How can we go fishing? What if we fall into the river?" Before Xiaowei and the others could speak, Li Mingxi was the first to object.
Hearing his sister's objection, Li Mingyi pleaded directly, "Then why don't we just take the electric light? Besides, we can all swim, so what's the danger? Sister, we haven't caught fish at night yet!"
"That won't work either. What if someone reports us?" Niu Cuihua objected directly to the suggestion of the naughty boy Li Mingyi.
Niu Cuihua knew that Xiaoyi, this naughty boy, had a head full of ideas all day long when it came to playing.
Besides, how can you go fishing if you don’t even know what time it is?
Li Mingxi echoed, "Exactly. You forgot, a few days ago, someone from the neighboring brigade went fishing in the river, and was reported. Then they were made an example of him, and now they're being dragged out every day!"
When Li Mingyi heard this, he agreed and decided not to talk about going fishing anymore!
In the end, the few of them didn't go anywhere and were asked by Niu Cuihua to go into the house and sleep.
Niu Cuihua's original words were, none of them study, it's just a waste of time just sitting in the main hall.
At that time, most people used kerosene lamps. At Li Mingxi's home, Li Aiguo disliked the kerosene lamps as they were harmful to his eyes, so in recent years he replaced the kerosene lamps at home with candles.
Look, when Niu Cuihua saw them playing games with candles lit, she felt so distressed.
As soon as Li Mingxi entered the room, she went straight into the space. She wanted to see the thing she picked up on the road today and the thing that Old Man Wang gave her.
The things that Old Man Wang gave me were lying neatly on the ground, but the thing I picked up on the road today was nowhere to be seen.
Li Mingxi thought he had thrown it too far away, so he looked around for it.
As a result, after searching around, I still couldn't find it.
Li Mingxi wondered if Yueze had taken the things away.
But why were Old Man Wang's things still lying there? Could it be that the thing he had found was actually more valuable?
As she was thinking this, she saw Yue Ze walking towards her.
Li Mingxi asked directly, "Yuezhe, did you take that thing?"
"Yes, this thing was given to me in the afternoon. As soon as you put it in this afternoon, I took it away directly. What's wrong?" Yue Ze said and stared at Li Mingxi in confusion.
Li Mingxi: "Nothing! I threw it in here before I even saw what it was. So, I just wanted to take a look!"
Yue Ze thought that since he had already absorbed all the spiritual energy, there was no point in keeping it, so he might as well take the thing back and return it to her.
Li Mingxi saw Yue Ze running away again. After a while, he appeared in front of him again with something in his mouth.
Li Mingxi took the thing from Yue Ze's mouth, opened the cloth wrapped around it, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully.
"Hey, this is a sword!"
Li Mingxi sighed, carefully stroking the sword in his hand and looking at it carefully.
Because of the triangular cup he saw before, Li Mingxi quickly realized that this was a bronze sword!
Li Mingxi clearly remembered that very few bronze swords could be preserved, let alone the one in his hand.
This sword is not only well preserved, but also has faint dragon patterns carved on it.
In ancient times, only royal nobles could be associated with dragons. Li Mingxi guessed that the sword he picked up might belong to a royal noble!
"Yuezhe, I've found a treasure!" After Li Mingxi finished speaking, he took the sword-wrapping cloth, wrapped the sword in his hand, and then put it in an old wooden box.
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