"Thanks to the milk powder, my legs don't hurt as much anymore, and I can even visit my neighbors from time to time."
Li Xu was speechless.
Although you had difficulty walking and couldn't do farm work before, you can still visit your neighbors, right?
Besides, milk powder is not a panacea. How can it really relieve pain?
Do you really treat me like a child?
Thinking of this, he quickly called a few children over and asked, "Tell your cousin if your grandma gave you milk powder. If you answer truthfully, I will give each of you another candy."
As soon as these words came out, a little boy showed a greedy look on his face and couldn't help but said, "Cousin..."
He had only said two words when the other children slapped him and glared at him.
The little boy was also unhappy. He covered his head and shouted, "Why are you hitting me? My cousin said that if I answer truthfully, I can have candy. Grandma didn't give us milk powder, so I can't say it."
The children who had taken action exchanged glances, then all looked at Li Xu, and said expectantly, "Cousin, he is telling the truth, see?"
Li Xu had already gotten the answer he wanted, so he took out a few more candies and handed them over.
After they walked aside, she said helplessly, "Grandma, didn't my mom tell you that the milk powder was specially used to nourish your body? Why didn't you listen?"
Old Mrs. Sun knew that he had seen through her, and immediately showed an embarrassed expression, hesitatingly responding, "Xiao Xu, grandma is so old, to be frank, if I fall asleep tonight, I don't know if I can get up tomorrow. It would be a waste to give me such a good drink, so I thought of giving them some tonic;
If you don't want to part with it, you can take the rest, but can you please not tell your mom...your mom and your uncle?"
Sun Xiu and the others trusted her too much and thought that as long as she made a promise, she would definitely not break it, so Uncle Sun and the others didn't ask too many questions these days.
What's more, even if she was asked, she would not admit that she gave it to others to drink.
As for the children, they were even less willing to speak after receiving her instructions.
But she didn't expect Li Xu to use candy to tempt children, and she didn't expect that one of the children would actually want to cheat for the candy. The other children wanted to stop him before he finished speaking.
So the matter was exposed.
As for not wanting Li Xu to tell Sun Xiu and the others about this, it was because she was afraid that they would get furious and keep blaming her...
Li Xu understood her thoughts and tried to persuade her with a mixture of laughter and tears, "Grandma, you're not even sixty yet. You can live for at least another twenty years. Why are you saying such depressing things? Besides, now that I know about this, if I don't tell my uncle and the others, won't they blame me when they find out?"
"But..."
Old Lady Sun wanted to say something but was interrupted by Li Xu, "Grandma, don't worry, I will plead for them and make sure they don't receive excessive punishment."
Just now, he wanted to slap himself twice and curse that he was so blind.
These kids are so cunning, how can they be educated well?
But then I thought, the oldest among them is not even seven years old, how could he understand so many profound principles?
As a grandmother, Mrs. Sun gave them delicious food. How could they not accept it?
The old lady told them not to tell this to anyone, did they dare to disobey?
These can be considered excusable.
But just now they lied and tried to steal the candy from me, so I need to teach them a lesson.
Hearing him say this, Old Lady Sun knew he had made up his mind, so she swallowed what she wanted to say and sighed, "Okay, but what about the milk powder?"
"Keep drinking. If you finish, I'll get you some more, but you can't give them any."
The old lady wanted to refuse, but she knew she couldn't, so she had no choice but to accept.
The two chatted for a while before Li Xu went to the river to look for Uncle Sun and others.
After walking along the river bank for a distance, I saw a lot of people in the distance riding wooden boats and casting nets to catch fish in the river. There were also a lot of people standing on the shore watching the fun, but most of them were children.
As he got closer, he spotted Captain Sun standing at the front of the crowd, so he squeezed in and called out to him, "Grandpa."
Hearing this address, Captain Sun turned his head and looked over. When he saw Li Xu's face clearly, his eyes lit up instantly and he said happily, "You are at work, so why did you have time to come here today?"
Li Xu smiled and replied, "I came to do something and came to see you guys."
Then he put his head close to Captain Sun's ear and whispered.
After listening to this, Captain Sun patted his chest and assured, "This is not a problem. I will take care of it for you tonight."
"Okay, thank you for your help then."
Captain Sun pretended to blame, "You kid, you already call me uncle, do you still need to be polite to me about such a small matter?"
"Yes, yes, you are right." Li Xu agreed repeatedly, then took out a cigarette box from his pocket, took out a cigarette and handed it over, "Have a smoke."
Captain Sun didn't hesitate and stuffed the food into his mouth.
Li Xu took out a lighter and helped him light it.
After taking two puffs, Captain Sun asked, "Is this the reason you came here today?"
"Um."
"When will you be back?"
"About three or four in the afternoon."
"Then come to my house at noon, and your uncle will treat you to a good meal."
Li Xu scratched his head and said hesitantly, "Granduncle, is this inconvenient?"
In fact, he was worried about the food problem.
To be honest, not to mention that Sunjiatan has not distributed grain yet, even if it has, Li Xu can't bear to eat their food.
It’s nothing else but that it’s so difficult for rural people to obtain food.
Perhaps sensing his thoughts, Captain Sun quickly explained, "At noon we'll only eat vegetables, no rice. This morning they fished five turtles out of the river, and we'll eat that."
Wow, a wild turtle?
If you say so, then I'm interested.
But can you do this?
If it’s not cooked well, the fishy smell will be even more unbearable.
Upon hearing the question, Captain Sun immediately burst into laughter and said, "Don't worry, I guarantee you'll want to swallow your tongue after eating it."
Since he said so, Li Xu naturally would not refuse and agreed directly.
At this moment, a burst of cheers suddenly came from the river.
Looking around, I found that they were doing this because they caught a lot of fish.
Seeing this, Li Xu asked curiously, "Granduncle, are these wooden boats newly built by you?"
"Of course. We didn't eat much fish before, so there was no use for it. Now that you guys are buying a lot of fish in the city, I had these wooden boats built specifically to catch fish and sell them to you."
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