Chapter 20 The Book Was Chewed by Rats
She thought for a moment and said, "Xiaolan, Xiaotao, go find some small stones."
"Ai."
After a while, two men came over with stones.
"I'll teach you a game."
When a few children heard the game, they immediately threw away their bugs and ran over.
Li Xiaoyue drew a pattern on the ground, and then told them the rules of the game, saying: "This game is called "Officials Catch Thieves". Play it first, and I will teach you a new game tomorrow."
Puzzle games are always better than playing with bugs.
Several children were eager to try, and immediately formed pairs to play, leaving Li Kang alone.
But he didn't dare to lose his temper in front of Li Wanyue. He snorted coldly and went out to find other children to play with.
Li Wanyue sat on a bench and watched the children play. This game could only be played in groups of two. She thought of some games that could be played by more than one person.
One, two, three, wooden man, what time is it, old wolf, radish squat...
She turned around and went to her room to draw a blueprint. Go, checkers and Chinese chess can exercise the brain.
When the time comes, let Sandong make it for them to play with.
Li Sandong didn't know if he was stimulated or not, but he stayed in the backyard and worked non-stop. In two days, he finished making the tools that Li Wanyue needed.
Seeing Li Wanyue coming, he forced a smile: "Sister, you have done everything you need to do, is there anything else to do?"
Seeing that his clothes were soaked with sweat, Li Wanyue reminded him, "Don't just focus on working, also take care of your health."
After that, he handed him a few drawings and said, "I've marked the dimensions on them. You can do it when you have time."
"What's this?"
"Chess, a toy. Then help me cut some palm-sized wood pieces. Thin ones will do."
Li Sandong stared at Li Wanyue blankly. Has his sister learned so much in the Gao family in the past three years?
It turns out that you can learn a lot from reading.
Just when I was in a daze, I heard Li Wanyue say: "Little brother, study more and make yourself better and better. When you are excellent, you will attract equally excellent people, and you will have more people to choose from."
Li Sandong nodded seriously: "Sister, I remember it."
He didn't blame Yang Lian'er. With the current situation at home, it was really impossible for her to marry into the family with peace of mind. He had to work hard to make money.
The next day, he made the chess pieces. Li Wanyue wrote words on them with a charcoal pencil and asked Li Sandong to carve them accordingly.
He was busy all day and had forgotten about Yang Lianer's matter.
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Kaoshan Village
After the divorce, Gao Zhiyuan returned to the academy, and no one moved into his room since then.
That evening, after dinner, Mrs. Cui passed by the door of a house and heard strange noises coming from inside. She pushed the door open, but could not see anything in the pitch-black room.
She walked in carefully and stepped on something soft, followed by a squeaking sound. Mrs. Cui's heart almost jumped out of her chest with fright.
"Oh my God." She screamed, stepped back in a hurry, lost her balance and fell to the ground.
I suddenly felt like my bones were about to fall apart and I gasped in pain.
Ignoring the pain, he crawled toward the door while shouting, "Da Qiang, from the old house, come out quickly."
Gao Zhiqiang and his wife came out immediately, and Gao Conghui followed them out.
"What's wrong, mother?"
"There are rats in your second brother's house. Quickly take a torch and check if there is anything inside that has been bitten by the rats."
"Yes." Gao Zhiqiang immediately went to get the torch and lit it.
Several people entered the house holding torches, and the mice immediately scattered and fled. With the help of the firelight, they could see the debris on the ground.
Mrs. Cui's heart was beating fast when she thought of something. She immediately looked at the desk and bookshelf.
Gao Zhiqiang walked forward and shone the torch around. There were no books left on the bookshelf. All the books were scattered on the ground and had been gnawed by rats.
He screamed: "Oh my god, the book has been eaten by mice."
When everyone heard this, they felt heartbroken, because that was all money.
"What a damn dead mouse! I bought it with money. It would be worth a lot of money if I sold it, but they just ate it like that."
Ding Hong also felt distressed and thought it would be nice to exchange the money for food.
Gao Conghui snorted coldly: "It's all my second brother's fault. I told him to sell the books he had read and earn some money, but he refused to sell them. Now, the rats have taken all the money."
"Shut up." Mrs. Cui yelled, "These are your second brother's books. Without these books, how can he take the exams for Tongsheng and Xiucai? If he doesn't take the exams for Xiucai, how can you marry into a wealthy family?"
Gao Conghui curled her lips but did not refute.
Gao Zhiqiang yawned and said, "Mom, things have come to this. I think my second son has already learned all these books. Let's put them away for him first. When he comes back, let him tell us what to do with these books."
"That's all we can do. Daqiang, get up early tomorrow morning and check on this house. Fix what needs to be fixed and don't let any more mice in."
"I know, mother. The ground is cold. You should go back to the house and rest."
Only then did Mrs. Cui realize that she was still sitting on the ground.
She glared at Ding Hong and said, "You are such a blind bastard, you saw me fall and you didn't help me up."
Ding Hong cursed the old man in her heart before going forward to help him.
"Ouch." Mrs. Cui screamed.
"What's wrong, mother?"
Mother Cui touched her right leg and said in a trembling voice, "Daqiang, I'm afraid my leg is broken. Go and get a doctor as soon as possible."
"Ah? Broken leg?" Ding Hong was suspicious: "Mom, you must have been frightened by the mouse, and your legs are weak. Besides, it's late at night and the doctor is asleep. Why don't you go and ask the doctor tomorrow? Maybe you can get better after a good night's sleep."
What she was thinking was that if her leg was really broken, she would have to do housework and serve others, and she definitely couldn't rely on her sister-in-law, so she would be exhausted to death.
Besides, how much money would it cost to treat the disease?
If you don't see a doctor, you don't have to spend money.
Mrs. Cui glared at him and said, "Do you have the right to speak here? Don't I know whether my legs hurt or not? I'm not old yet, and you dare not listen to me? I am still the boss of this family."
She turned to look at Gao Zhiqiang: "Why don't you go get a doctor quickly?"
"Okay, I'll go right away." Gao Zhiqiang immediately went to ask for help.
The village barefoot doctor came to Gao's house with an unhappy look on his face. No one would be happy if they were woken up from a sound sleep.
But since they were all from the same village, he couldn't say anything.
After quickly checking Mrs. Cui's injuries, he said, "It's just a minor fracture. Apply some medicine and lie down for half a month and it will be almost healed."
"Thank you, doctor."
Gao Zhiqiang breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was not serious and it shouldn't cost much money.
"Not counting the consultation fee, just the medicine fee, I'll round off the amount and give you 800 coins."
"What the hell? Eight hundred coins? Why don't you just go and rob me? I'm the mother of a student, and I'll be the wife of an official in the future, and you still dare to ask me for money."
The doctor's face suddenly turned darker.
Suppressing her anger, she said, "The official has to pay for treatment. Since you are the mother of a student from the same village, I only gave you good medicine. I didn't even charge for the consultation fee, and only charged for the cost of the medicine. What? Can the mother of a student refuse to pay?"
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