Qi Yu stood ramrod straight, his eyes fixed straight ahead, still silent. Li Xiaoxiao knew that this man was going to throw another tantrum.
“My husband, I have come to my senses with deep remorse and regret. The pen and ink were originally meant for you. Here are two taels of silver and six hundred coins. Would you please take them to pay your teacher’s tuition?”
The man was initially very angry, but with a tuition fee of two taels of silver, a teacher was willing to accept him as a student, and his path to the imperial examinations proceeded naturally.
They just gave way too much.
Since that's the case, let's not return the writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone for now.
Seeing that the man's expression softened a bit, Li Xiaoxiao pressed her advantage, "I'll help you with planting crops in the future. If we work together as husband and wife, you can go to school during the day and I can work at home. When you become the county magistrate, I'll have a good life too."
Li Xiaoxiao rambled on and on for a while before the man finally parted his thin lips and said, "Okay."
Hopefully, Li Xiaoxiao is a woman of her word. Although she has committed many evils and is treacherous and cunning, she has recently shown signs of reforming herself.
Several women following behind pointed at the two of them and spoke quite loudly.
"That woman from the Li family is really fierce. This man is unlucky. He was humiliated in the street while helping a woman with her laundry, and some random guy from outside even came looking for him. He didn't dare to say anything."
"Absolutely! She's shrewish, despicable, and vicious."
"......."
Seeing that things had gone smoothly, Li Xiaoxiao's face was full of smiles. Qi Yu frowned when he saw the woman being so playful again. "You must never act so ostentatiously in the future." Today, they were the talk of the town, surrounded by a group of people.
Li Xiaoxiao remained unruly and irritable, which was hardly the behavior expected of a wife from an ordinary family. "Wife, when you're out in the world, you should cherish your reputation more." After saying that, he felt it was superfluous.
Li Xiaoxiao moved closer to the man and took his hand. "Husband, the oxcart has arrived."
“Li Xiaoxiao,” the man hesitated, then gave up. Old habits die hard. In the end, the two of them got on the oxcart together, which began to sway and rock again. There was a wild plum tree in bloom by the roadside, which stood out among a bunch of dark, dry tree trunks. Li Xiaoxiao looked at it again and again.
Red plum blossoms, like snowflakes, are frozen in the icy world, blooming stunningly, proud and aloof. In her past life, she was also in the icy world, walking alone for a very long time, unable to find many living people, wandering aimlessly.
Occasionally, a few hungry zombies would try to pounce on her, but she would quickly dispatch them with a few sword strikes, leaving only black and green dots.
Unknowingly, I've arrived in this strange world and lived like a human for a few days. I've been here for so long, but I haven't caught a couple of lucky people to play with yet.
Upon reaching the village entrance, Li Xiaoxiao alighted from the oxcart. The large basket on her back stood out starkly against her small frame, almost half her height. This woman was only sixteen years old this year, and although it was the age for marriage, she was only a little over six feet tall. The basket almost swallowed her figure.
Upon reaching the back of the house, Xiao Xiao put down her basket, took out her belongings, put the basket back on, and prepared to walk outside. Qi Yu called out from behind, "Wife, the river fish have probably already been caught, there's no point in going again." Li Xiao Xiao ignored him and continued walking, leaving Qi Yu with no choice but to follow.
Upon reaching the river, she found the surface riddled with ice holes, and not a single fish to be seen. Her attempt to sell fish had caused a stir. Qi Yu, seeing her with an axe, shook his head. "Foolish woman," he said, "I warned you before, but you wouldn't listen. You wouldn't give up until you were faced with a desperate situation. Now you finally understand what your husband meant..."
Suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted as he saw Li Xiaoxiao wielding an axe, launching a rapid and powerful attack on the trees with the force of lightning. The axe sank deep into the trees with each swing. If Li Xiaoxiao's splitting of the ice on the river had surprised him before, now he was only shocked.
Fortunately, Li Xiaoxiao didn't slap him away back then.
Li Xiaoxiao didn't care about any of that, swinging her axe again and again. Qi Yu slowly approached, wanting to confirm if he was seeing things. Snowflakes fell from the trees, soaking Qi Yu. The man approached step by step. Li Xiaoxiao had already swung more than a dozen axes. The tree was already swaying precariously. As the man drew near, the tree crashed down in front of him with a loud thud.
Li Xiaoxiao laughed loudly, "It's just a tree, it's a piece of cake." After saying that, Li Xiaoxiao picked up her axe and went to find the next tree. Qi Yu followed closely behind, also holding an axe. He stood by the tree for a while and started chopping, but the axe didn't cut very deep, only shallowly. The man's damn competitive spirit was ignited at this moment, and he chopped the tree frantically.
After chopping for a while, Li Xiaoxiao felt that five trees were enough. She found some vines to tie all the trees together. Just then, a hunter happened to pass by and saw Li Xiaoxiao sitting by the trees, while Qi Yu frantically chopped at the trees. Shaking his head again, the hunter clenched his fists, slowly approached Li Xiaoxiao, and shouted, "Madam Li, aren't you going too far?" Qi Yu stopped abruptly at the hunter's shout. "Brother Li, what's wrong?"
Seeing his nonchalant expression, the hunter was even more heartbroken. "Qi Yu, where is your dignity as a man?" He actually obeyed the woman's harsh orders without complaint, working like a slave. When he asked this question, Qi Yu's face had already begun to turn red. Did the hunter see that he hadn't cut as many as Li Xiaoxiao? This was indeed shameful, and he was so embarrassed that he couldn't say a word.
Seeing his face turn red from being scolded, the hunter shook his head even more, approached Qi Yu, and whispered, "Qi Yu, you need to discipline your wife properly."
Qi Yu was at a loss for words and how to discipline him. One punch and the man was gone. "Hmm." Li Dazhuang shook his head. Qi Yu was the type who liked to be beaten. What could he do? Forget it. The hunter had made a fool of himself. He carried his basket and went into the deep mountains.
Qi Yu picked up the axe and continued chopping down the tree, but Li Xiaoxiao came over and said, "Husband, I'm going to the mountains too, to hunt some game." Qi Yu silently picked up the axe and continued chopping. He was no match for Li Xiaoxiao, and the more he thought about it, the more disheartened he became. He, a dignified man, was inferior to his own wife, who was even trying to cheat on him. How pathetic and humiliating was this? Qi Yu's long-suppressed anger was all concentrated in the axe. After chopping for an hour, he finally finished the tree. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, panting heavily, feeling quite accomplished. He could chop down trees by himself; he would definitely surpass Li Xiaoxiao in the future. There was no reason why he couldn't be better than a woman.
Now is the perfect opportunity to hone his skills. While Li Xiaoxiao hunts for prey in the deep mountains, Qi Yu drags the trees back one by one. The trees are very heavy. Even though it's only a hundred steps from here to home, he insists on going home to find a rope and dragging these four or five hundred-pound trees back home.
Li Xiaoxiao tied the prepared small iron awl to a tree, and when she saw a rabbit appear, she would throw the iron awl to stab it.
It was past noon and late afternoon, and the harvest was plentiful; they had caught two rabbits and three extra pheasants. Just as the sun was setting, Li Xiaoxiao, carrying her basket, was about to head back when a wild boar suddenly appeared and ran towards her...
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