A month and a half later, the weather had turned completely cooler, and Tao Xiaoxi's new kiln was completed. According to tradition, the whole village was invited to a meal. Li Nanshan mentioned his eldest brother Tao Yingsheng and asked, "How about asking your eldest brother and his wife to come for dinner too?"
Tao Xiaoxi was startled when she heard the name, but then she realized, "If you're not afraid of them borrowing money from you, then go."
Li Nanshan didn't quite believe it. After all, he was his biological brother, so there was always some affection between them.
Tao Xiaoxi didn't care and let him shout.
When he called, they really came. Naturally, they were the distinguished guests of the Li family. However, apart from Li Nanshan who sincerely treated his eldest brother and sister-in-law as distinguished guests, Li Nanlin and other people in the Li family were a little more polite, but they did not really recognize this relationship in their hearts.
Although they sat at the same table, they ate their own food.
Tao Xiaoxi felt that Li Maogen and her eldest brother's family were quite similar. They didn't like her very much, but they all came to her house to eat. What was that?
It’s hard to say.
It would have been fine if they were just having a meal, but the reality was far more than that. After the meal, sister-in-law Guo Lianying called Li Nanshan aside to talk while Tao Xiaoxi was greeting others.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he really wanted to borrow money. Li Nanshan suddenly found it funny, and a smile really appeared on his face.
"What are you laughing at?" The sister-in-law acted arrogantly, probably feeling that she was embarrassed.
"Sister-in-law, to be honest, before I asked you to come here, Xiaoxi told me that you were going to ask for money. I said, how could that be possible? We didn't ask you when we were in such a difficult time before. Now that we have just built a new house, how can you have the nerve to ask us for money? I just didn't expect that Xiaoxi's prediction would be right."
The eldest brother Tao Yingsheng, who was standing by, blushed when he heard this. He stomped the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground and took his wife and son back home.
"Brother, come and sit with me when you have time." Li Nanshan called out.
It seems that this elder brother is not completely useless, Li Nanshan thought.
"Brother Nanshan? It's really you." A surprised woman's voice interrupted Li Nanshan's thoughts.
Li Nanshan turned around and saw that it was Yao Youhua.
"Let's eat now that we're here." Li Nanshan said expressionlessly.
Yao Youhua slowly moved forward, but did not go to the table. Instead, she approached Li Nanshan and pressed him, "Why didn't you come to save me when I called you?"
Li Nanshan shouted, "Xiao Xi, is there any steamed bun left? Yao Youhua is here to eat," and went to find his wife.
Tao Xiaoxi came over and saw that Yao Youhua was nowhere to be found, so she asked, "Where is she?"
"Let's go." Li Nanshan guessed.
"What does she want from you?" Tao Xiaoxi asked.
Li Nanshan smiled and said, "What else could it be? Otherwise, why would I ask you to come here?"
Tao Xiaoxi put her hands on her hips, pouted, and pretended to be angry. "Don't use me as a shield next time."
"That can't be helped. Who asked you to marry me?"
Tao Xiaoxi left without waiting for him to finish, but ran into Sun Wangcai.
"What are you doing here?" Tao Xiaoxi asked unhappily.
"I'm here to eat. Why, your Li family is inviting the whole village to a banquet, and I'm not included?" Sun Wangcai said as he moved closer.
"Li Nanshan!" Tao Xiaoxi shouted loudly, scaring Sun Wangcai so much that he ran away. While running, he did not forget to take a big steamed bun from the table.
Li Nanshan came over and looked at her with a smirk, "How can I help you, ma'am?"
"You saw it all, and you don't care?" Tao Xiaoxi asked.
"He doesn't dare." Li Nanshan said this with full confidence.
"I really don't know where this inexplicable confidence of yours comes from." Tao Xiaoxi said with disgust, but her face looked quite satisfied.
However, what they didn't know was that Yao Youhua and Sun Wangcai, who had run away, met at the village entrance. The former lovers met again and were extremely jealous of each other. They each had resentment and unwillingness in their hearts.
"It seems that you have adapted well in there and behave like a human being." Yao Youhua said sarcastically.
Sun Wangcai smiled, changing his usual servile attitude in front of her. Holding a piece of grass in his mouth, he said, "Of course, it's a decent place after all. You look like a nobody. Why can't you live without a man?"
"You!" Yao Youhua was enraged by his words, "Have you forgotten how you begged me back then?"
"Times have changed. Back then, you were a virgin and it wasn't shameful for me to beg you. But look at you now. Is there anyone who would beg you? Even Jiang Yazai despises you. What else do you have to show off in front of me?" Sun Wangcai is indeed a bastard. He only says things that poke people's hearts.
Seeing Yao Youhua's face covered in tears, he cried out, "Wangcai, are you really so cruel?"
I've heard that Sun Wangcai is a bastard, even worse than a dog. When I heard a woman call him like that, my heart softened and my legs went weak.
In this way, the two of them rekindled their old relationship and got together again.
But this time, Yao Youhua's target wasn't Liang Hengsheng, since he was gone. Nor was it Li Nanshan, whom she didn't dare to offend. She was determined to marry Sun Wangcai. Her reputation was already tarnished, and no one else would marry her. But Sun Wangcai, whom she knew well, knew his true nature. Even if it meant death, she would marry him again. This wasn't just because her family wouldn't tolerate her much longer, but also because she wanted to fight for her last breath. According to Mantou Village custom, unmarried women were buried in a mass grave after death. To this day, only a woman fleeing famine from another place had been buried there, and she didn't want to be with her there.
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Finally they moved into their new home and had their own place. Beibei also had her own house. Tao Xiaoxi discussed with Li Nanshan that they could have a child.
Li Nanshan was delighted by the exciting news, but he still had some concerns. "Should we ask Beibei for her opinion?"
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