Seeing the little girl standing on tiptoe to look at the table, Li Wenyi smiled and half-squatted down beside her: "Want to see? Say 'Brother is so nice,' and I'll carry you up."
Ye Shuang forced a smile and wanted to shout outside: "Father, Mother, my brother is bullying me again!"
Li Wenyi knew exactly what the girl was thinking, and quickly covered her mouth, saying, "I was wrong, I'll hug you right now, okay?"
After saying that, he sat down at the desk with Ye Shuang in his arms and chose a copy of the Thousand Character Classic, which was the copy he had promised the bookstore owner: "How about I teach you to read?"
Ye Shuang stared blankly at the Thousand Character Classic. What kind of characters were these? They were completely different from what she knew, and some were even missing left or right sides. Was this correct? Could her adopted brother have copied the book incorrectly?
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Li Mantian, who was tidying up his things in the yard, got up to open the door.
"Isn't this me? Li Mantian, didn't we agree the day before yesterday to go up the mountain together today?"
Li Wenyi closed the window, which had been slightly ajar, then covered Ye Shuang's ears and read to her, "Heaven and earth were dark and yellow, the universe was vast and boundless..."
For most people, this would indeed be the most effective way to block out outside noise, but unfortunately, even so, Ye Shuang could still hear the conversations outside clearly.
"Oh, what a coincidence! My Shuang'er wants to go to the market today. I'll take her for a stroll and sell some things. As you know, the harvest wasn't good this year, sister-in-law." Li Mantian patiently declined.
The woman addressed as "sister-in-law" had no intention of letting Li Mantian off the hook. He was the only strong and tall man in the entire village, and only by going into the mountains with him could they expect a harvest: "You mean that kid by the stream yesterday? You really adopted him? Oh, I'm not saying this to be mean, but what's the point of having that kid? He's just a money-losing burden, and he might even cause trouble! Besides, the harvest wasn't good, shouldn't you have gone into the mountains earlier? Why did you delay by another day!"
Li Mantian glanced at his son's room, hoping his son would be smart enough not to let his daughter hear these words. He then turned and said sternly, "Sister-in-law, you can't say such things again. Shuang'er is my own daughter from now on. My family loves daughters. We're not going into the mountains today. I already told Brother Wang yesterday. Sister-in-law, you should go back quickly!"
Aunt Wang glanced angrily at the yard and said, "Fine, your family is something else, treating their daughter like a treasure."
Having said that, he didn't dare to be too arrogant and turned to leave.
Only after hearing the door close did Li Wenyi lower his hand from his hand, looking at Ye Shuang with hurt in his eyes and accusing her, "I was just reading to you, why didn't you read along with me?"
Looking at her older brother who was always trying to be a teacher, Ye Shuang retorted in her childish voice, "You just covered my ears, so I couldn't hear what you were saying. How could I repeat after you?"
"Really? Did brother cover her up too tightly? Then brother will read it to you again." Li Wenyi suddenly realized from this childish voice why his parents suddenly loved her so much. With such a cute baby, he wanted to coax her too.
"I don't want to!" Ye Shuang shook her head, and before Li Wenyi could react, she shouted outside, "Daddy, my brother is bullying me!"
Li Wenyi looked at Li Mantian who was walking over in a few steps, and tugged at the corner of his mouth: "Dad, if I say I didn't do it, will you believe me?"
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