After dinner, Old Mrs. Shen brought over a bowl of water and used chopsticks to gently dab the water onto the old man's lips.
Lili watched obediently from the side, while Old Mrs. Shen asked her as she worked, "Lili, do you know where this old man came from?"
Lili thought for a moment and said, "Hmm... from the mountains."
"In the mountains?"
Old Mrs. Shen was a little puzzled, but she didn't ask any further questions.
It's good that Lili understands, then she can rest assured.
It seems like he's not a troublesome person. I'll just consider it saving someone and adding some good karma to my family.
Old Mrs. Shen sighed and moistened the old man's entire mouth before stopping.
"Alright, Pear, let's go."
"good."
Lili obediently took Old Lady Shen's hand and followed her out the door.
As she closed the door, Lili glanced at the old man and their eyes met.
Lili was stunned.
The door was closed by Old Lady Shen, and Lili returned to her room, where Madam Yang had already prepared the bedding for her.
The little bed that Shen Lao Er made for Li Li has officially started to be used. With several layers of quilts laid out, it's so soft that Li Li doesn't want to get out of bed.
"Li Bao, come to sleep now."
Yang was packing clothes into a bundle. Lili looked at it and it seemed to be all her cheap old man's thin clothes.
"Mother, are you going to deliver clothes to Father?"
Shen Laosan has been back at the academy for a month now, and during that time there has only been one letter from Zhuifeng to Shen Laoda, written half a month ago.
It's clear that Madam Yang still misses her husband very much.
With Grandpa Yang around, Madam Yang naturally learned to read and write. She would often take out the letter to read, and would laugh as she read.
Madam Yang smiled, folded the clothes one by one, and put them into the bundle: "It's almost July now, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Take some light clothes for your father."
Lili also missed her father a little, so she happily said, "Okay, okay, when are we going? Lili misses her father too!"
Mrs. Yang gently pinched her little nose: "You greedy little devil, I think you want to eat candied hawthorns, don't you?"
"Hehehe." Lili smiled innocently, "No, Lili just wanted to see how Daddy's studies were going. In a little over a month, Daddy will be going to the prefectural city for the exam, right? Of course, Lili wanted to go and encourage Daddy!"
Speaking of exams, Madam Yang suddenly thought of something: "Your father took the exams twice before, but he didn't pass. This year's exams... how about Lili comes with her mother to accompany her to the exams?"
"Why does Mother want to accompany me to the exam?"
"The first two times your father went to take the exam alone, it must be because he's used to being taken care of by your mother that he was so careless. He either fell into a pit or got robbed. This time we'll go with your father, and we'll definitely make sure he passes the exam smoothly!"
"Oh~" Lili suddenly realized, and then grinned and gestured towards Yang Shi, "Actually... it's because Mother misses Father, right? I often see Mother taking letters to the window in the middle of the night, reading them and laughing as she goes!"
Ms. Yang didn't expect that Lili would find out that she deliberately read the letter in the middle of the night. Even though she was already a mother of two, she couldn't help but blush when she was told about these sweet and intimate things.
"Well, you're not going to sleep well tonight, are you? And you dare to make fun of your mother?" Madam Yang grabbed Lili and pretended to spank her little bottom.
Lili giggled, amused, and stuck her bottom out as she crawled further into the bed.
Mrs. Yang laughed too. After the mother and daughter played around for a while, Mrs. Yang covered Lili with the blanket: "Alright, go to sleep now, be careful—"
"They were carried off by the big bad wolf!"
Lili answered quickly.
Madam Yang smiled helplessly, tucked the blanket around her, and kissed her little face: "Goodnight, my little darling."
Goodnight, Mother.
Lili obediently closed her eyes. After a while, Yang extinguished the candle and went to bed as well.
As night falls, countless stars dot the sky above the village, and the moonlight, like water, gently spills over the scattered farmhouses, draping them in a silvery veil, creating a scene of tranquility and peace.
The village paths meandered and twisted, appearing and disappearing in the moonlight. Crickets chirped merrily in the grass on both sides of the road, their songs echoing the occasional bark of a dog in the distance.
Peace and tranquility prevailed everywhere.
Except for Riri, who should have been sleeping.
Lili poked her head out from under the covers and looked at the bed. Yang was already fast asleep.
Lili tiptoed off the crib, stuffed the pillow into the blanket, and then fiddled with it for a while, messing up the shape of the blanket, pretending that the person inside the blanket was not the pillow.
After quickly completing her disguise, Lili tiptoed open the door and then closed it again.
Then, Lili quietly went into the small house in the corner of the yard.
Lili closed the door. The only light coming through the small house was from a small skylight in the wall. She lit the candle she had brought with her, and the faint candlelight instantly illuminated the entire house.
"You've arrived."
A hoarse and weak voice sounded. Lili turned around and saw an old man with a pale face, who looked weak and frail, trying his best to open his eyes and talk to her.
Lili hurriedly went to the table next to her, picked up the water bowl that Old Lady Shen had left there, and, imitating Old Lady Shen, dipped her chopsticks in the water and fed it to the old woman.
"Please don't talk, look how cracked your lips are. Have some water first."
The old man licked the water from the tip of the chopsticks, and only stopped after a long time.
Lili put the bowl down and sat down on the ground next to him.
The old man turned to look at her and chuckled softly, "You... how did you come here?"
Lili tilted her head and asked, "Didn't you send me?"
When she left that night, he clearly gave her a look, hinting that she should come back that night.
The old man let out a barely perceptible chuckle: "You're quite clever."
Lili, without a hint of modesty, nodded proudly: "That's right, Lili is the smartest person in the entire wilderness!"
After saying that, Lili asked again, "Where did you come from? What happened? How did you get so badly injured?"
Finally, Lili asked the most important question: "You're not an ordinary person, are you?"
The old man was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "You really are a smart child."
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