Li Dajun looked at the grasshoppers on the leaves in astonishment. The strong smell made him dare not open his mouth.
"Hurry up and eat it! This stuff is good and nutritious. Da Jun used to catch it and roast it when he was a kid!"
Old Lady Li urged him, and Li Dajun felt bitter. At least it was delicious when he ate it roasted before, but how could he eat it with this smell of feces?
He looked at Chen Miaoyi pitifully, and Chen Miaoyi urged him, "Eat quickly, Mom made this especially for you, don't waste Mom's kindness."
Seeing him dawdling, Mrs. Li's eyes turned somewhat unfriendly.
"You refused to eat even after I tried to persuade you, and you insisted on waiting for me to feed you? Don't be so shameless."
The wounds on his body still hurt slightly. Li Dajun picked up a grasshopper with trembling hands. The grasshopper's eyes and antennae were intact. Manure dripped out a thread between the vegetable leaves and the grasshopper.
"Eat it."
Li Dajun closed his eyes, stuffed the food into his mouth with a look of despair, and swallowed it raw, not even daring to chew it.
Seeing him swallow it, Old Lady Li smiled broadly, looking relieved.
"Just be obedient. This is what a good daughter-in-law should be. Come, these are all yours. Eat them all."
Still want to eat?
Li Dajun had a bitter face. Where on earth did he find so many tricks? Isn't this simply life-threatening?
He could swallow one or two raw, but a whole plate, a whole plate, wouldn't he get choked if he swallowed it raw?
Li Dajun has thoroughly experienced the methods of Old Lady Li in the past few days. If he doesn't eat, he will probably be beaten today. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the strength to resist now.
"Mom, I'll eat it, but can you rinse the grasshopper in water?"
Li Dajun was almost begging. He had no backbone to begin with. He could confess under torture and survive in any environment. Now he begged for mercy without any pressure.
"Swish? This is a folk remedy that can help you give birth to a son. If you swish it around, will it still work?
Eat it quickly, this is the only time you can eat it."
Old Lady Li added to herself that next time she would not eat grasshoppers but something else.
Only with comparison can people have room for acceptance. On the first day, Li Dajun ate a live toad smashed into meat paste right in front of him, which made him feel sick.
He never wanted to touch that smell again, which made his scalp tingle just by thinking about it.
Today I'll feed him raw pickled grasshoppers. After all, grasshoppers are small and smell of wine.
It’s just a pity that he couldn’t drink the wine he bought, so he used it to pickle grasshoppers.
It's not like he hasn't eaten grasshoppers before. Compared to toads, he can just grit his teeth and eat them.
Li Dajun picked up the vegetable leaves, put them to his mouth, and under the expectant gaze of Mrs. Li and Chen Miaoyi, he closed his eyes and poured them into his mouth.
Then he covered his mouth to prevent himself from spitting it out, and chewed it. Without waiting to taste the flavor, he swallowed it immediately after chewing it into pieces.
After swallowing it, Li Dajun ran to the water tank and drank water one bucket at a time.
Mrs. Li was satisfied. "Okay, just eat it. Forget about her. Let's eat ours."
Two days later, before Chen Miaoyi returned home, she heard laughter coming from the yard.
Did Li Dajun and Mrs. Li recognize each other? Did it work?
Li Dajun has returned to normal? But the time hasn't come yet.
Why is she laughing like that? Is Li Dajun pregnant?
With doubts in his mind, he hurried back home. In the yard, Li Dajun was not there. Instead, a young girl was talking to Old Lady Li.
The young girl had a rosy complexion, her skin glowed with a healthy glow, and her long hair was braided, black and thick.
She was wearing a pink dress and was picking beans with Old Lady Li in the yard.
"Mom, where's my wife?"
Chen Miaoyi looked around and saw that there was no one in the kitchen and no sound in the room. The main reason was that Mrs. Li would never let Li Dajun sleep in the room in broad daylight.
"Da Jun is back! Come here quickly, this is your third daughter's niece, she's coming to our house to play for a few days, come and meet people."
The girl glanced at her secretly. These days, Chen Miaoyi washed herself cleanly every day and ran every day. Even through her thin clothes, the outline of her figure could be seen.
The girl took one look and immediately lowered her head shyly, not daring to look a second time.
"Mom, what is this?"
"Her name is Xiu'er, you can just call her sister."
It turned out to be this person. She had appeared before. She was the next wife that Old Lady Li was looking for for Li Dajun.
She lived in the Li family under the name of a relative, pretending to be a white lotus all day long, making the old lady Li very happy, and seducing Li Dajun to stay out all night.
The original body had no words to express her suffering, and no one believed her. At first, Li Dajun was still concerned about the relationship between husband and wife, after all, he was the one who pursued the original body.
But as time went on, he gradually stopped standing on the side of the original body, thinking that the original body was a yellow-faced woman and not as young and beautiful as Xiu'er.
It was not until the two of them had a baby and conceived that the original owner was forced to divorce and reached the end of his life.
Li Dajun was newly married, and she threw herself into the water.
This time, Li Dajun should experience all the hardships.
Mrs. Li was wrong, but Li Dajun was the original sin.
Chen Miaoyi forced out a charming smile, "So it's Sister Xiu'er, stay home and have a good time. I'll go to the mountains to hunt rabbits for you in a couple of days."
Old Mrs. Li understood that her son did have some ideas.
Xiuer looked at him shyly, nodded embarrassedly, and said, "Thank you, Brother Dajun."
She blushed, and Old Lady Li smiled like a loving mother. This was chosen by her personally, so it must be better than the one with the surname Chen!
"Mom, where is my wife?" Chen Miaoyi asked.
"Oh, she went to the river to wash clothes. Don't worry about it. The meal is already cooked. I think she will be back soon."
In order to get her daughter-in-law away, Old Lady Li specifically asked her to go to the river to wash clothes, and she quickly filled a large basin.
"I'll go check and see if anything happens."
Chen Miaoyi left after saying that. What if Li Dajun couldn't stand the abuse from the old lady Li and decided to jump into the river?
She doesn't want to be Li Dajun all her life!
"Aunt Li, Brother Dajun and his wife have such a good relationship." Miss Xiu'er said enviously.
"What's good about her? She can't even give birth to a child. Our Li family doesn't want a daughter-in-law like her.
It’s you, Xiu’er, who is pretty and hardworking. If you can join our army, it will be a blessing from our ancestors.”
Old Mrs. Li spoke blatantly, and Xiu'er blushed and pretended to be shy. She also thought Li Dajun was very good.
He is tall and strong, and such a strong man must be very good at hoeing the fields!
Chen Miaoyi ran all the way to the river and saw Li Dajun's thin body from a distance, staggering and twisting his clothes.
This is a thick winter coat, and he actually washed it? It's not like he would do that.
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