The biggest difference after Li's attitude changed was that while doing various tasks while pressing Hua Shi, he suddenly showed concern for his son Hua Ciyuan and showed all kinds of care.
From food to clothing, there have been earth-shaking changes.
It seemed that after giving up on Hua Shi, Li began to place all her hopes on her son.
Since Hua Ciyuan passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, it seemed that Li saw hope.
Comparing this with Hua Shi, the granddaughter who didn't want to read, was a hopeless case, and was about to get married, Li's attitude naturally changed drastically.
Li's kindness to Hua Shi was originally very purposeful.
Now that Li's attitude has changed, it might not be a bad thing...
After Li entered Hua Ciyuan's room, Hua Yu looked at Hua Shi, who was still standing there without moving, and said in a low voice, "She's gone."
Hua Shi came back to his senses, took the sickle handed over by Hua Yu, and suddenly remembered something and said, "Wait."
He turned and went into the room where he slept. After a while, he came to the well with two bamboo tubes as long as his arms, drew two of them, and then handed one portion to Hua Yu.
Hua Yu's eyelids visibly lifted, and his ink-black eyes looked at her quietly.
"Here you go." Hua Shi saw that he didn't take it for a long time and looked at him strangely.
Hua Yu obviously had no habit of carrying water. After walking a few steps outside, there were several streams flowing down from the mountains. In such a big village, there were more than a dozen lakes of various sizes.
There is no shortage of water, so he never takes water out of the house.
Hua Yu frowned, probably too lazy to argue with Hua Shi, so he took it.
After Hua Shi tidied up and put some miscellaneous things into the basket, hesitating for a long time, Hua Shi finally followed Hua Yu out.
After the two siblings left, Hua Xiao looked up at the gate of the courtyard, with a hint of gloating in her eyes.
These past two days, I've seen grandma always asking Hua Shi to do this and that. Whenever she's not satisfied, she starts scolding her. Although the little girl doesn't show it on her face, she has been feeling proud for two days.
Before, it was Hua Shi who watched them being ordered around by their grandma, and now it was Hua Shi's turn...
On the one hand, the little girl felt happy because Hua Shi had been domineering for so long, always relying on her grandmother's love for her, so she often bullied them.
Now grandma has obviously changed her mind and gone to love her dad, so Hua Shi's status in the family has naturally plummeted.
Moreover, these two days, because grandma was angry, she asked Hua Shi to do all the housework, big and small. It was a rare opportunity for her, Hua Li, and her second brother to have some free time.
Today, grandma asked her to go to the fields with her second brother to work. This had never happened before. Hua Shi had never done farm work in the fields before! According to her, she should let Hua Shi go to the fields to work alone, and let her second brother not go with her...
The happy expression on Hua Xiao's face lingered for a long time. Hua Li, who was in a daze, came to his senses and looked at her with some confusion in his eyes.
He looked around to make sure the milk wasn't coming out that quickly, then lowered his voice and asked, "What are you laughing at? Why have you been so happy these past two days? Did you secretly pick up some silver somewhere?"
Hua Xiao suppressed the expression on his face, nodded seriously, and said mysteriously, "I was unlucky when I saw the flowers. I was happy just watching them. It's because she always bullied us before."
Hua Li nodded in understanding, looking at her still-bandaged wrist. Thinking of Hua Shi's recent changes, she muttered quietly, "I feel like she's become a little different than before..."
Hua Xiao didn't hear what he muttered clearly and gave him a questioning look.
Hua Li looked at her, then lowered his head, squatted down, and drew circles on the ground with one hand.
"You said winter is coming soon, what should we do?"
When Hua Xiao heard these words, her happy mood suddenly became depressed and her eyes dimmed.
"I don't know either……"
Thinking of the experience of almost freezing to death last winter, Hua Xiao shuddered in fear.
There were no thick clothes, no quilts... The thickest piece of clothing was only a thin layer, and the only quilt left at the bottom of the box had very little cotton wool inside...
And grandma definitely wouldn't let them light the charcoal pot. Without charcoal, when it snows and it gets cold, the house will be frozen like ice, so cold that it'll make your teeth chatter...
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On the other side, Hua Shi followed Hua Yu slowly.
Hua Yu was walking in front, but because one of his legs was not working properly, he walked with a limp, dragging his leg along.
The two of them were in a dull mood along the way. Hua Shi couldn't find anything to say, and Hua Yu didn't want to pay any attention to her at all.
Hua Shi had been silently observing Hua Yu's lame leg carefully. It seemed that a large piece of bone at the ankle was protruding, and the whole foot was strangely twisted inward, causing him to limp when walking.
Ever since meeting Hua Yu, he seemed to have always been so gloomy and taciturn, with messy hair draped over his head, covering his eyes. If you didn't look up, you couldn't see his eyes at all.
Plus, he always deliberately hunched over, with his head lowered, his clothes were old and dirty, and every part of them was covered in patches. He looked dull and gloomy...
She doesn't look like a 15 or 16-year-old at all...
Hua Yu in front suddenly stopped and turned around to look at her.
Hua Shi was stunned by his dark eyes and stopped as well.
His expression seemed too calm...
Only then did she realize that she had been so engrossed in her thoughts that they had unknowingly walked onto this remote path in the woods.
"What's wrong?" Hua Shi blinked and asked.
Hua Yu suddenly asked, "How did you know...that she wouldn't take all the food away in anger, but let us eat it, and how did she manage not to flip the table?"
He asked seriously, as if he was really surprised by this...
ah?
Hua Shi was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was asking why Li didn't get angry and start a fight just now.
Hua Shi frowned, thought about it, and replied seriously, "I don't know either."
As she spoke, she shook her head.
Hua Yu's expression remained unchanged, as if he was trying to determine the truth of her words...
Hua Shi really couldn't guess Li's attitude.
Li's mood was always changeable, and she had no idea what Li was thinking...
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