Chapter 200: It's not a good time to kill anyone.
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Inside the Prince's mansion, in order to ensure that Li Chunli and Mao'er received better care, Qin Tao bribed the man who worked as a stable boy in the mansion's stables. The man gave Qin Tao a specific time to ambush Liu Shu at the corner of the stables.
The result was not too bad; at least Liu Shu agreed to Qin Tao's request.
Whether Liu Shu can actually get the princess to send a wet nurse to cats and allocate money to Li Chunli's courtyard in the future remains to be seen.
Li Shiyue, who had already returned to Liujiatun, overheard the pageboy telling Liu Shu that Li Chunli was about to give birth, thanks to her heightened senses. As for whether Li Chunli gave birth to a boy or a girl...
Li Shiyue turned her head away, having long forgotten about the original male and female protagonists.
She truly had no idea what had happened to Li Chunli in the Prince's mansion.
After returning to Liujiatun, Li Shiyue first handed over the letter that Liu Tan had written to Yan Jiuniang. Then she heard Li Xiatian and Shitou chattering in her ear about what had happened in the village while she was away.
Actually, the main focus was on Li Xiatian; Shi Tou was just making a couple of "uh-huh" sounds from the side.
At this moment, Li Xiatian was saying that Li Shiyang had led a lot of people back to the village.
Isn't the trade fair supposed to start after the autumn harvest?
Liujiatun is a place with a unique advantage, as there is a road leading from the riverbank to the grassland, which is the most suitable trade route.
Li Shiyang took the "Xuan" character plaque that Li Shiyue had obtained from Liu Tan, found Mr. Chen in Sanshan County, and then got a job as a clerk in Sanshan County.
Although it's called a document office, it's more like an accounting office.
Because Li Shiyang came from the Li family, and the Li surname is now a common surname in Liujiatun, Mr. Chen directly sent Li Shiyang to Liujiatun for the purpose of building roads and bridges for the trade.
The intention was to have Li Shiyang, a member of the Li clan, lead his people to properly repair the road so as not to delay the trade market after the autumn harvest.
As for the people Li Shiyang brought back, most of them were from Qingsong Town, and the remaining small group were from Sanshan County. They came to Liujiatun to repair roads as this year's corvée labor after being summoned by the Sanshan County government.
The weather is hot now, so those who came with Li Shiyang just laid out grass on the roadside and slept there.
It's just that it hasn't rained these past few days, otherwise I wouldn't dare to sleep in the open like this.
This wouldn't have been a big deal. Those who were performing corvée labor could repair the roads, and those in Liujiatun who needed to build houses could build theirs.
However, with so many people and poor management, conflicts are bound to arise.
Because that's human nature.
With so many people in the world, there will always be all sorts of people.
At this moment, Li Xiatian was pouting and complaining to Li Shiyue: "When they were drawing water, they saw the women from our village washing clothes downstream, and they started making suggestive remarks."
Once or twice, no one paid any attention.
Last time, when my mother and Aunt Lanhua went to do laundry together, they encountered a shirtless man who said a lot of nasty things. My mother ignored him the first time, but the man became even more aggressive and came up to attack her.
The mother immediately slapped the man twice!
As a result, seeing that the man had been taken advantage of, those people actually called for reinforcements who carried hoes and surrounded Mother and Aunt Orchid!
Upon hearing this, Li Shiyue clenched her fists and quickly looked at Zheng Meiniang sitting to the side.
Zheng Meiniang sat to one side picking up beans with a winnowing basket. She looked up and smiled at Li Shiyue, who was looking over. After glaring at Li Xiatian, she said to Li Shiyue, "Your older sister is so long-winded. She can talk even more than I, her mother."
Sigh, October, look at her, is your aunt the kind of person who would let herself be taken advantage of?
I had a knife tucked into my waistband that day, so what were five or six men to me?
"The moment I draw my sword, they all cower in fear, don't they?"
"What if Mother doesn't bring her knife that day?"
If they hit my mother too hard when we get there, I'll regret it to death!
When my older sister comes back...
Li Xiatian frowned as she spoke to Zheng Meiniang, who looked indifferent. Then she looked at Li Qiutian, who was sitting next to Li Shiyue, and asked, "How am I supposed to explain this to my elder sister back then?"
"Are you saying I didn't watch over Mother properly and that she got beaten up?"
"Alright, alright, I'll definitely be careful from now on and carry a knife with me every day."
Besides, according to my nephew Shiyang, the road repair should only take a month or two. Several days have already passed, so let's just be patient and wait until they finish repairing the road before leaving.
We're new here, so they didn't assign us any corvée labor. Otherwise, we would be the ones building the road.
Just bear with them.
Did Li Shiyang say anything?
Li Shiyue asked Li Xiatian with a stern face. Li Xiatian realized that Li Shiyue was unhappy. She looked at Zheng Meiniang, then at Li Qiutian, and finally looked back at Li Shiyue and honestly said, "He didn't come over to say anything. But the next day, those people didn't go to the place where the women washed their clothes anymore. They must have gone to another place to fetch water."
After thinking for a moment or two, Li Shiyue lowered her head and then raised it again, saying to the others, "I'm going to visit Aunt Lanhua."
Upon arriving at Li Wangshui and Zhou Lanhua's house, Zhou Lanhua quickly wiped her hands and welcomed Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian inside.
Li Shiyue thanked Zhou Lanhua for the water she poured for them, and then went straight to the point, asking about the incident that day when she and Zheng Meiniang went to the river to wash clothes and had a conflict with the men who were performing corvée labor.
Zhou Lanhua was a talkative person, and she went into more detail than Li Xiatian, even repeating every dirty word the men had said to Li Shiyue.
Hearing Zhou Lanhua's words, Li Shiyue's face became increasingly expressionless. Li Qiutian, who knew Li Shiyue well, watched from the side and knew that this was Li Shiyue's way of being angry.
Of course, Li Shiyue was also expressionless when he killed people.
After listening to what Zhou Lanhua had to say, Li Shiyue nodded and said to Zhou Lanhua, "Auntie, I'm sorry you've been wronged by this. It's my fault."
"It's my fault for making you suffer like this while Uncle Wangshui isn't home."
Li Shiyue stood up and gave Zhou Lanhua a proper bow.
"Auntie, don't worry, I'll definitely give you an explanation for this!"
"Huh? Ah! October, I didn't suffer any injustice. As soon as your aunt drew her knife, they didn't dare to move."
Later, they changed their water source and never met them again at the place where we washed our clothes.
In October, Auntie really didn't feel wronged.
you......"
Li Shiyue waved to Zhou Lanhua, said nothing more, just nodded, and walked out with Li Qiutian.
It was midday, the time when the sun was at its strongest, and no one was working in the fields, at the village entrance, or on the riverbank in Liujiatun.
The main problem is that it's too hot. If you have to work for this long hour, you're likely to get heatstroke.
People usually don't work during the midday hour; they wait until the sun goes down and then continue working until sunset.
So, whether they were members of the Li clan working in the paper mill, people from Sunjiayao and Zhaoyou who came to Liujiatun to work and build houses, or people brought back by Li Shiyang to repair roads and perform corvée labor, they were all lying in shady places.
As soon as Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian returned, they called Li Xiatian and Shitou, and even made Li Xiatian carry the longbow they had obtained from Agulang.
With knives tucked into their waistbands, Li's mother and Zheng Meiniang knew something was wrong when they saw this; Li Shiyue was about to start a fight.
"October, we're no longer fleeing famine, so we can't kill anyone anymore."
Li's mother anxiously grabbed Li Shiyue's sleeve, pleading with her not to kill anyone anymore.
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