The next day, Li Nanshan called his eldest brother over to help build the medicine shed. Tao Xiaoxi brought them lunch at noon, and Beibei went with them.
On the way, they had to pass by Old Sun's house. When they got there, Tao Xiaoxi faintly heard a burst of crying.
"Beibei, did you hear the crying?" Tao Xiaoxi asked Beibei.
"I heard it, mother. It sounded like grandma's voice."
Tao Xiaoxi was stunned. Could it be that this bastard Sun Wangcai had done something so outrageous that he even beat his own mother?
The crying was getting louder and louder, and Tao Xiaoxi couldn't just turn a deaf ear to it, so she picked up a stick from the ground and went forward with Beibei to find out what was going on.
The door was open, and Mrs. Sun was lying on the ground crying heartbreakingly, her hair disheveled and her body in a mess.
Beibei was a little scared and called out, "Grandma!"
When Grandma Sun heard this, she immediately stopped crying, sat on the ground, and smiled at Beibei and her mother. Sun Wangcai came out of the kitchen with a bowl of something in his hand. When he saw them, he was also surprised, "What are you doing here?"
"Sun Wangcai, you are such a bad person. You even beat your own mother?" Tao Xiaoxi couldn't help it and pointed at Sun Wangcai with a stick.
Unexpectedly, Sun Wangcai pointed to the sky and the ground, slapped his thigh and cried out, "God and God, did I hit her? It was clearly her who hit me. Look at the bite on my hand. I even doubt if it was my biological mother."
Tao Xiaoxi saw that there were indeed several tooth marks on Sun Wangcai's arm, and they were all black and purple, which seemed to indicate that he had been bitten quite hard.
"Then why is your mother crying like this?"
"Ask me, I also want to ask you, what did you give her to eat before? She asked me to make dumplings for her every day. After I finally made the dumplings, she refused to eat them, saying that they didn't taste right. What did you give her to eat?" Sun Wangcai said angrily and dejectedly.
Tao Xiaoxi smiled unkindly when she heard this. It wasn't too late for God to punish her. Sun Wangcai would have a hard time for the rest of his life with this mother. "Then you can continue to support her. Your mother has become like this for you. What else do you have to complain about?"
After she finished speaking, she was about to leave, but unexpectedly, Grandma Sun got up from the ground, picked up one of her shoes and started beating Sun Wangcai, muttering, "Give me back my daughter-in-law, give me back my Beibei..." The beating was so solid that Sun Wangcai covered his head and dodged, but he was still hit several times by his mother's shoe horn, leaving marks on his hands.
Beibei backed away in terror, and Tao Xiaoxi hurriedly escorted her away from the scene. Thinking of Grandma Sun's words, Tao Xiaoxi felt a mixture of emotions. "If I had known this would happen, why did I do it in the first place?" There's no medicine for regret in the world, and thankfully there isn't, otherwise the bad guys would only be emboldened and do even worse.
At noon, Tao Xiaoxi served Li Nanshan and his elder brother dumpling soup. There were few dumplings and more soup. Tao Xiaoxi felt a little embarrassed, after all, his elder brother was there. So he made two egg pancakes and put some cornmeal in them. They were golden in color and tasted tempting.
"Have you and Beibei eaten?" Li Nanshan handed his eldest brother's portion to him and asked his wife.
"We have eaten. We have eaten at home." Tao Xiaoxi replied easily.
Li Nanshan didn't ask any more questions, drank the dumpling soup and didn't touch the egg pancake.
"And you ate this cake too. Beibei and I both ate it." Tao Xiaoxi emphasized again.
"Put it aside for now. It's a bit tough to eat now." Li Nanshan said.
"Then remember to eat it." Tao Xiaoxi packed up the lunch box, left the egg pancake behind, and took Beibei back home.
In the afternoon, while Beibei was out playing, Tao Xiaoxi entered her space to take inventory of the herbs she was going to give Shang Qingyan. Because of the Tianshan Snow Lotus, Shang Qingyan had placed a large order for over fifty varieties. This time, she and Zhao Bin split the stock, each taking half.
Tao Xiaoxi looked around the space. All the herbs were there, but the ones in her space were fresh. So she had a bold idea: to see if she could dry the herbs in the space. After trying for a long time, she failed. It seemed like it wouldn't work, so she had to take them out and air them. While no one was around, Tao Xiaoxi moved the herbs out of the space. The next tricky question was how to explain this to Li Nanshan.
There were suddenly so many medicines at home, and she hadn't been up the mountain recently, so no explanation made sense.
An idea struck her, and she thought of Zhao Bin. She could take the herbs to Zhao Bin to dry them in the sun. It would be both reasonable and convenient, as he had a complete set of drying equipment. They immediately took action, and that evening, Tao Xiaoxi told Li Nanshan about her trip to the county town the next day.
"I'll take you there by bike." Li Nanshan said.
"No, no, just build the shed at home." Tao Xiaoxi waved her hands.
"Really?" Li Nanshan was a little worried.
"Really, no need. Let's split up and speed things up."
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Li Nanshan nodded.
Tao Xiaoxi finally breathed a sigh of relief, but when she thought about having to fight guerrilla warfare with Li Nanshan like this in the future, she felt very stressed and very annoying!
Li Nanshan saw that his wife had gone to cook, and when he looked around, he saw Beibei picking foxtail grass in the grass in front of the house.
"Beibei, come here." Li Nanshan waved.
Beibei walked over and Li Nanshan stuffed a cake into her hand. "Beibei, eat it. Don't tell mom. This is a secret between us."
"Secret?" Beibei was a little uncertain. She only had secrets with her mother and had never had secrets with anyone else.
"We don't let Mother know. If she knew, Beibei wouldn't be able to eat the cake." Li Nanshan squatted down and explained.
"Then Beibei won't eat it." Beibei is her mother's good daughter and has backbone.
"Beibei, don't you want to eat it? Just smell it, it smells delicious." Li Nanshan was determined to offer this attentively.
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