Chapter 577: The exiled female prisoner with two bodies (12)
"Why did mother take your clothes? Why don't you explain it yourself?" Lan Shichu snorted and asked Xiao Congyun.
He pretended not to understand what Lan Shichu said. He looked around but didn't answer. He was playing dumb. Obviously he knew that it was his own fault that he had no clothes to wear.
"Is it because you made it dirty?" Lan Shichu continued to ask.
"No!" the little thing retorted confidently.
"Hey, you actually learned to lie. Do you want to get beaten? Is your little butt itchy again?" Lan Shichu was so angry that he laughed. He put him on the ground and asked while staring at him.
The little guy obviously realized the danger and immediately admitted his mistake. He spoke very fluently: "Yunyun got my clothes dirty. Mom, please don't beat me."
After saying this, he smiled ingratiatingly at Lan Shichu, and his smile looked so well-behaved and sweet, and you couldn't tell at all that he was actually naughty and mischievous.
The mother-in-law was obviously deceived by his hypocritical appearance. She immediately picked him up lovingly and began to excuse him without waiting for Lan Shichu to speak: "Such a young child, how can he know what a lie is? You should teach him well in the future. How can you beat him at every turn? It will scare the child."
Lan Shichu laughed angrily and said, "Mom, don't spoil him. He is too naughty. If he does something wrong, he must bear the consequences. You can't let him do whatever he wants. This time he soiled his clothes, so he has to stand for 25 minutes as punishment."
Liu glared at her and said, "He's only a year old. Even if he did something wrong, just educate him. Why punish him by making him stand? Why are you acting like a stepmother?"
"Stepmother!" the little fat boy suddenly shouted with a smile.
Lan Shichu narrowed his eyes, snatched him from Liu's arms, and then slapped him on the butt. Before he could react, he slapped him several times and said, "Since you call me stepmother, I might as well do some stepmother's work."
The little thing was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting this development. His grandmother couldn't protect him at all. His little butt started to hurt again, and he burst into tears. He hugged Lan Shichu's arm, crying and saying pitifully: "Mom, don't hit me! Dear mom, don't hit me..."
Lan Shichu asked him with a half-smile: "Are you still naughty?"
He immediately shook his head like a broken drum: "No more naughtiness, no more naughtiness."
Liu quickly took the little guy away: "Go, go, your mother is a cruel person."
At this time, Gong Liangjian, who had finished his homework for the day, walked out of his room. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but smile and said to Lan Shichu: "Aunt, my brother is still young, it's normal for him to be a little naughty."
"They say you can tell a child's future by looking at him when he's three years old. Although he's less than three years old, I can already tell his true character. He's obviously someone who can't sit still. If he grows up a few more years, he'll definitely be an annoying guy who teases cats and dogs. I'll teach him now while he's still young." Lan Shichu retorted.
Gong Liang Congyun didn't know if it was because he was raised so well by Lan Shichu when he was a baby, he was full of energy. Even in this desolate and barren exile place, he lived a happy life. He didn't care about the bad environment at all, and he could find fun on his own. For example, when he followed his brothers and sisters to dig wild vegetables, he was very enthusiastic in digging grass; when he was taken by his grandfather and uncle to the nearest market to exchange things, he was very interested in just watching people. Who made the village so desolate that there were so few people? When he went to the market and saw so many people, he naturally felt it was very novel and interesting.
"It would be great if he was as gentle and quiet as you. I wonder who he inherited his mischievous character from?" Lan Shichu couldn't help but sigh.
Gong Liangjian thought for a while. He thought that he inherited his quietness from his father, and his brother's playfulness from his second uncle. He was almost twelve years old now, and he still remembered that his second uncle was a lively and playful person when he was young. He had friends all over the capital. It was only after his family was confiscated and he was exiled that his second uncle became steady and mature. His younger brother was probably like his second uncle before.
The twelve-year-old boy was already half an adult in this era, and he knew that some things could not be mentioned casually, so he changed the subject: "Aunt, shall we go hunting in the mountains this afternoon?"
"Okay, we haven't had meat at home for a few days." Lan Shichu agreed immediately.
So after the afternoon, Lan Shichu took his family's three children up the mountain. Yes, three children. When the little guy Gong Liang Congyun learned that his older brothers and sisters were going out with their mother and he had to stay alone, he became unhappy and cried and insisted on coming along. Lan Shichu was given a headache by his loud crying, so he had to take him along.
"Brother! Look, a bow and an arrow!" The little fat boy proudly held up his little slingshot and showed off to Gong Liangjian.
Gong Liangjian couldn't help laughing: "Brother, that's not a bow and arrow, it's a slingshot."
The little fat boy suddenly exclaimed in confusion and aimed at his slingshot.
"You little fool, you can't even tell the difference between a bow and a slingshot. The one your aunt has is a bow! It also has arrows!" Gong Liang Yuzhu laughed.
"Okay, he is so young, it's normal that he can't recognize it. As his sister, don't laugh at him." Gong Liangjian glared at his sister.
"Just smile at him, and he will be impressed. He won't make the same mistake again!" Gong Liang Yuzhu said unconvinced. Seeing that her elder brother was still trying to teach her a lesson, she quickly slipped away and ran to the front and said to Lan Shichu, "Aunt, what kind of prey are we going to hunt today?"
"We just hunt whatever we encounter," Lan Shichu said. "It's good enough to encounter prey. How can we be so picky?"
"With your ability, aunt, you have the capital to be picky." Yuzhu has great confidence in Lan Shichu. Over the past year or so, Lan Shichu has slowly demonstrated her skills in hunting, and everyone has gradually accepted the fact that she is good at hunting. Yuzhu admires her even more and often pesters Lan Shichu to teach her.
Seeing that she was so interested, Lan Shichu specially made a small bow and arrow for her to practice archery. When Gong Liangjian knew about it, he also asked Lan Shichu to make one for him. He felt that as the eldest son and grandson of the Gong Liang family, he should work harder than his sister, both in literature and martial arts.
Although Gong Liangxian and Gong Liangqin were exiled, they did not think that their family would fall into ruin, so they still attached great importance to Gong Liangjian's studies. Otherwise, they would not have worked so hard to squeeze out money to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstone for Gong Liangjian to continue his studies under such difficult conditions.
Lan Shichu suddenly felt sorry for Gong Liangjian in his previous life. In his previous life, Gong Liangqin died, and Gong Liangxian had to work alone to support four people. He was exhausted. Even with the help from Gong Liang Sibai, it was not easy for him to live. What's more, his face was disfigured and his hand was broken. He was heartbroken and naturally had no intention of letting his son continue studying.
Gong Liangjian had to work hard with his father to support the family at a very young age, so it was impossible for him to have the energy to study. Therefore, even if they returned to Beijing later, they were delayed forever.
(End of this chapter)
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