Zhou Quan said, "These few are people who used to work with me."
"Oh!" Li Mai glanced at the group and realized that she could also see the life souls of these four people, which were the almost transparent color of ordinary people's life souls.
People with this color of soul are the kind of people who neither do good nor bad. They have neither helped nor harmed anyone. Most people in the world have this kind of soul.
Looking back now, Li Mai realized that Zhou the matchmaker must have been a very virtuous person, especially for a woman living in such a village.
Thinking of Matchmaker Zhou, she looked around but didn't see her.
"Are you tired? Do you want to sit down for a while?" Li Mai asked Zhou Quan, turning her gaze away from him.
Zhou Quan nodded, and Zhou Lei quickly put a chair behind his older brother. Li Mai helped Zhou Quan sit down.
"Don't go through my things!" Suddenly, a scream came from the tent.
Li Mai quickly turned her head and saw Zhu Zhu call out as soon as she entered the tent with Zhou Tao.
Zhou Quan was about to stand up when he heard the sound, but Li Mai pressed his shoulder down and said, "You guys stay with him for a while, I'll go check on him."
After saying that, Li Mai quickly turned around and ran towards the tent.
After Li Mai went inside, she saw Zhu Zhu standing with her hands on her hips, glaring fiercely at Dou Dou, who had been pulled away from her basket. "Are you trying to steal my eggs?"
DouDou looked like she was about to cry, "I... I still want to eat boiled eggs."
"No, the rest are for Zhuzhu." Zhuzhu refused to give him any more. After exchanging the vegetable pancake with him that morning, Zhuzhu regretted it very much, as the vegetable pancake was really too awful.
"I'll trade you my vegetable pancake!" Dou Dou was filled with regret for not being able to steal the eggs earlier, so now she could only offer to trade with her.
"I won't change it, your vegetable pancakes aren't good." Li Mai originally came in to protect Zhu Zhu because she was afraid that Zhu Zhu would be taken advantage of, but she didn't expect her daughter to be so fierce. So she and Zhou Tao stood aside to see how the two children would resolve the matter.
"Sister-in-law, our Zhuzhu is quite capable, isn't she?" Zhou Tao whispered with a smile as she leaned close to Li Mai's ear.
Li Mai nodded and hummed in agreement.
DouDou was thinking of a solution: "I'll trade you two vegetable pancakes for one boiled egg."
DouDou is a year older than ZhuZhu, and she thinks more deeply than ZhuZhu does.
However, Zhuzhu still shook her head, "I won't change it. One isn't tasty, and two are even less tasty."
Pfft, several people came into the tent to watch the fun, and when they heard what Zhuzhu said, they couldn't help but laugh.
To be honest, the two kids cheered me up a bit and eased my sadness a little.
"DouDou, what are you doing?"
When DouDou's mother, Zhao, ran in carrying her daughter, she saw a group of people surrounding DouDou and assumed they were bullying her son. She rushed over to block DouDou and glared at LiMai and Zhou Tao.
"We're all from the same village, how can you two adults bully my son, a little kid?" Zhao said angrily to Li Mai.
Li Mai looked at Zhao Shi in surprise. "Sister-in-law, which ear did you hear me speak with?"
"It's more like your son taking advantage of his age to bully my daughter, stealing our boiled eggs when we weren't looking," Li Mai said calmly.
“Nonsense! My son would never steal anything! You’re slandering a child! You’re shameless!” Zhao raised her voice.
Li Mai laughed in anger, left Zhou Tao's side, and walked towards Zhao Shi, rolling up her sleeves as she went.
Zhao instantly recalled the rumors circulating in the village about this Li Mai, and her face paled with fright. She hugged her daughter tightly and backed away, saying, "What are you doing? If you can't win an argument, you have to resort to violence?"
"Hit you? I'd be afraid of getting my hands dirty!"
Li Mai walked past her, turned around, and picked up Zhu Zhu as well, comforting her, "Zhu Zhu, don't be afraid. The remaining two eggs are yours. We won't give them to anyone else."
After saying that, the mother and daughter squatted down by the basket. Li Mai took out two eggs from it, and then used her mind to store the rest into her spatial storage.
Twenty-two were cooked in total. This morning, the family ate five, one was given to DouDou, and sixteen were left. Two were kept, and the remaining fourteen were put away.
If this woman, Zhao, had been more polite, she could have exchanged the vegetable pancakes with them, even if they were a bit unpalatable, just to satisfy her child's cravings. The problem was, for some reason, this woman harbored a great deal of hostility towards her.
Li Mai was certain of this, so how could she possibly indulge her? She simply wouldn't give her the eggs.
Zhuzhu grabbed the two eggs and ran out without even glancing at Doudou.
Li Mai stood up, shrugged at Zhao Shi, and went outside.
DouDou and her mother were left standing there, stunned!
Zhou Tao didn't go out anymore; she simply lay down on her wooden bed to rest and watch over her belongings.
People glanced at Zhao Shi and Dou Dou, who were stunned for a moment, then quietly shook their heads and left.
Sigh, I never expected that you can only see whether a person's nature is good or bad when you encounter problems.
Zhou Shu's wife used to seem like a good person, but now, compared to Zhou Quan's wife, it's clear who's better.
After Zhuzhu went outside, she gave one of the eggs in her hand to a little girl led by an old woman. The two smiled at each other and squatted down to peel the eggshells.
Just now, this little girl was holding a few dates. She really liked Zhuzhu's little dress and liked playing with Zhuzhu. She even gave Zhuzhu two dates, so Zhuzhu remembered her kindness and gave her a boiled egg in return.
Li Mai came out and saw this scene. She raised her eyebrows and walked over.
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