Chapter 167 Ah! This is still my little daughter!
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Watching the Zhao brothers help each other leave their courtyard, Li Shiyue turned around and smiled at Li Qiutian face to face.
"Look how scared those two brothers are!"
"I knew it! How could it all happen so suddenly? She was kneeling, crying, threatening to slap us, and telling us about her tragic past?"
They heard about my bad reputation in the village, knew I wouldn't even tolerate my own clansmen, and were afraid, so they came to me to seek redemption.
Li Qiutian took a sip of water before replying to Li Shiyue: "From what I can see, it's not that there's absolutely no sincerity in him."
The way she acted at the beginning was probably an act, but later she must have genuinely cried because she was thinking of her family.
Li Shiyue smiled at Li Qiutian again: "Sister, it doesn't matter. As long as they are obedient and do their jobs well, I won't mistreat them, just like I won't mistreat Uncle Wangshui, Erdan's mother, and Third Brother."
If they do something wrong, I won't let them get away with it, no matter who they are.
Over the next month or so, Li Shiyue really spent money like water.
Her way of spending money terrified Li's mother and the others.
Even though she had acquired many good things from the barbarians, no amount of gold plates and bowls could withstand Li Shiyue's extravagant spending.
When Li's mother saw that Li Shiyue and Shitou had returned with another cartload of grain, she called Li Shiyue into the house alone.
"Tell your mother the truth, do you still have any money left?"
"Mother, of course we have it, how could we not?"
"Don't give me that silly grin. You're my child. You always blink when you lie."
Li Shiyue smiled helplessly at her mother: "Mother, the money is real!"
Have you forgotten the reward the general gave me for the blueprint last time?
The money hasn't been touched yet.
However, with the paper mill, the school, and our family's houses all built together, the money we got from the barbarians is almost all gone.
Li Shiyue stepped forward and rested her head on her mother's shoulder. "Mother, don't worry. I went to the paper mill the other day and the material in the composting pool is almost ready. It will only take two or three days before we can start making paper properly."
Once this paper is made, won't the money just come pouring in?
Li's mother glared at Li Shiyue reproachfully, then turned around and took a box out of the kang cabinet. When she opened it, there were cute silver ingots inside.
"This is the money your brother got from the things he brought back from the barbarians. I exchanged it for silver in several trips to the county town."
I was planning to save this for your brother so he could have some money to live on in the future.
"Right now, if you don't have any money, take this and use it. You can pay your brother back when you've earned some."
Seeing that Li Shiyue was about to speak, Li's mother quickly raised her hand to stop her: "I know you don't want to take your brother's money."
But Stone is the closest person to you in this world. When Mother was alive, she could take care of him, but now that Mother is gone, only you can take care of him.
"Your mother doesn't ask you to watch over him every single moment. Just look after him when he's sick or in pain, that's enough."
After letting out a long sigh, Li's mother lowered her head and continued speaking to Li Shiyue in a low voice, "Your brother is not fit to get married either."
Even if someone marries their daughter to your brother because our family is rich, and your brother has another child like that, wouldn't that be a sin?
Your brother can only rely on the two of us!
In October, your mother knew you had changed; you were no longer the little girl who used to snuggle in her arms.
"Your mother doesn't want anything else, your mother doesn't ask anything else. Your mother just wants you and your brother to live well and get through this life well, that's enough."
Li Shiyue and her mother looked at each other face to face. At such close range, Li Shiyue's superb five senses were able to clearly see her mother's facial expressions, and she could even see every muscle moving on her face.
She could hear the sound of her mother's heart beating and pumping blood out of her chest.
In an instant, Li Shiyue realized why her mother had asked her that strange question while she was half asleep a few nights ago.
A few days ago, it happened to be Li Shiyue's period. After a busy day, Li Shiyue ate a meal and soon went to bed on the kang (a heated brick bed).
In her half-awake state, she heard Li's mother push open the door and enter. Because of the familiar smell and voice, she did not sense any malice. So, she simply covered herself with the quilt without opening her eyes or moving.
In a daze, she heard her mother whisper in her ear, "In October, the year you turned eight, your mother took you to the county town to see your uncle. What did your uncle give you as a birthday gift?"
Having already absorbed the memories of the original Li Shiyue, the transmigrated Li Shiyue only needed a moment to think before answering the question: "My uncle made a sauce for me to eat, and he only gave it to me!"
At this point, Li Shiyue smacked her lips, as if she were recalling the aroma of braised pig's tail.
Upon hearing Li Shiyue's answer, Li's mother covered her mouth and burst into tears.
She raised her other hand and stroked Li Shiyue's cheek. Looking at her little girl, she finally felt that "this is my little girl".
Li's mother was not unaware of the series of changes in Li Shiyue, but at that time, she was struggling to survive on the road to escape famine and had no time to think about it in detail.
But after settling down in Liujiatun, the things Li Shiyue did made her feel more and more that this was no longer her little girl.
But she didn't dare say anything.
Li Shiyue was born to her, and she raised her for more than ten years, spending every day and year with her. How could she not notice such a big change in Li Shiyue?
It wasn't until Li Shiyue tried to get close to Liu Tan by offering the seed drill and curved plow produced by the system as valuable items that her mother had acquired in her early years that Li's mother had a guess: "Could it be that the gods in heaven took away my Shiyue and sent an immortal down to earth to undergo tribulation?"
Otherwise, how can you explain how October learned things she shouldn't have known?
Therefore, Li's mother did not believe the lame reason Li Shiyue had given her: "I just knew, I just found out for no reason after I got stronger."
Only then did Li's mother dare to test her in the middle of the night when Li Shiyue was in a vulnerable state of mind.
Hearing Li Shiyue's answer, Li's mother's heart finally began to beat again.
"Ah! This is still my little girl, but it was a blessing from the immortals that made her so strong and intelligent!"
"Good! Good! He's still my child!"
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