Chapter 73 072. Do I need to please him?
Sanlihe Village to the county seat.
It took nearly four hours to go back and forth.
Liu Xiaocao and Niu Ershu arrived at around nine o'clock in the afternoon and had to go home before four o'clock in the afternoon, otherwise it would be difficult to walk on the mountain road after sunset and they would not be able to make it in time for dinner.
There were more than seven hours of free time in between, and Liu Xiaocao didn't go anywhere. She ate and chatted slowly, "Is your store open for lunch and dinner?"
"almost."
"Aren't you going to make breakfast?"
Liu Xiaocao said regretfully, "Breakfast is both convenient and profitable. I have a cousin who works in the market town. She makes ten taels of silver a month making steamed buns!"
"That's not necessary."
Lei Li shook his head. "To make breakfast, you need to get up earlier and do more preparation. There are several bun and noodle shops in the harbor. There's no need to get involved."
Lunch and dinner were enough to make Zhou Yi tired, and if he had to have breakfast too, he was afraid that Zhou Yi would be exhausted to death.
And to open at 6 o'clock, I have to get up at least 4 or 5 o'clock to mix the dough and steam the buns, and then I have to be busy with lunch and dinner, and I work non-stop until 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening -
Not to mention that he might not even have the energy to suppress Zhou Yi, it's not even known whether Zhou Yi still has the strength to do so.
You can't really treat people like animals.
“But it makes money.”
Liu Xiaocao sighed and said, "There are so many people here, so I'm sure my cousin aunt will earn more than in the town market. If Ershu and I had the money to open a shop here, we could cook all three meals a day. How can we complain about the hard work when we can earn money?"
"But Ershu and I have money but no such skills. Our eldest sister-in-law is the best cook in the village, but she can't compare to your husband. Even the food in the big restaurants may not taste as good as this."
"good."
Lei Li was actually quite happy that others were praising Zhou Yi, but he pretended to be nonchalant and said, "He's just lucky enough to have read a few miscellaneous books and learned some skills on his own."
"Has your husband ever been to school?"
Liu Xiaocao glanced at Zhou Yi in surprise. "He doesn't look like a scholar at all. He looks more like a bandit from the mountains or a pirate from the river... If he's educated, why doesn't he take the civil service exam?"
As he said that, he turned his head and looked at Niu Ershu strangely, "Why are you pulling my sleeve?"
"...If you don't eat now, it will get cold."
"Oh, you were so busy talking that I almost forgot to eat!"
Seeing him happily eat two mouthfuls of food, Niu Ershu sighed inwardly.
His husband was too straightforward. Not only did he say bad things about others to Lei Li, he even criticized their appearance in front of him and her...
Liu Xiaocao didn't notice her husband's discomfort and continued, "To be honest, I felt strange when I knew he was the one cooking. Wouldn't it be crowded for such a big guy to cook in the kitchen? Isn't cooking a job for women?"
Then he looked at Zhou Yi and said, "You can afford to go to school, so your family should have some money. Why do you cook for yourself and then pick up things for Lei Li in the mountains?"
Liu Xiaocao was very curious, but he never found a chance to ask. It was busy with farming before, and he had some free time. Lei Li either went into the mountains or went to the county town again.
Thinking of this, Liu Xiaocao couldn't help but feel a little resentful. He felt that Lei Li had time to go to Miao Fulang's house, but didn't come to see him. Instead, he came to see the village chief and asked for something.
Even the big thing like Lei Li buying a house and a field was something he only found out about because the village chief's father told him, not because Lei Li told him.
He thought Lei Li was too busy and forgot, and would talk to him in a couple of days, but when Lei Li went out to open a shop to make a lot of money, and when Lei Li returned to the village after harvesting rice, he went out to pick plums with his husband and Qing Ge'er.
Although I gave him some plums... I could have asked him to go into the mountains and pick them together.
"There was a little accident."
Zhou Yi didn't say much. Being hit by a car and traveling through time wasn't something he could talk about...
Lei Li noticed Liu Xiaocao's mood change, thought for a moment, and then took him into the small room. He said bluntly, "Tell me everything you're unhappy about. I'll have to torment your Niu Ershu again when we get back later."
"How can you call it a hassle..."
Liu Xiaocao pouted and brought up how she felt neglected recently. Then she said, "I didn't say you have to take me with you wherever you go, but I always take you with me wherever I go. I even remember you when I buy you a hairband..."
Suddenly there was a pause.
Liu Xiaocao glanced at the dark blue on Lei Li's head and knew at a glance that it was silk. If he put it in a cloth shop, he would be afraid that it would be damaged if he touched it and would have to pay a high price for it.
The lowest quality silk cloth costs one or two taels of silver per piece!
A headband would cost at least twenty or thirty cents, right? It was embroidered with patterns, a style he had never seen before. It had to be the latest, and newer ones were even more expensive.
Liu Xiaocao's expression suddenly became complicated. "Didn't you say you don't like dressing up, wearing colorful headbands, or embroidering?"
“I don’t really like it…”
Lei Li's eyes suddenly became vague. He felt embarrassed as if he was secretly showing off his love, but was discovered by an acquaintance and his image collapsed.
He wanted to put the blame on Zhou Yi, saying that Zhou Yi forced him to use it, but then he saw Liu Xiaocao said with a sullen look on her face, almost crying.
"You said you couldn't embroider, so I offered to help you, but you refused, saying you were afraid the hook would get damaged. Actually, you thought the material I bought was cheap, and the pattern I embroidered wasn't fashionable or pretty, right?"
“???”
Lei Li suddenly understood the confused and bewildered feeling Zhou Yi had when facing him, mixed with a bit of self-righteousness.
"This is the headband Zhou Yi bought. He embroidered the flowers. He bought it and embroidered it for me. He's my husband after all. I can't deny him face, right?"
Liu Xiaocao snorted after hearing this, "But we are good friends, and you don't even give me face..."
Lei Li had a complicated expression. "The things you said you wanted to give me before weren't bad, but they were all lake blue, peach red, and apricot yellow, with small flowers and grass embroidered on them."
"It looks good when embroidered, it looks good when you use it, it looks good when Qing Ge'er uses it, it looks good when every boy and girl in the village uses it, but it doesn't look good on me."
"You also said that dressing up would make your husband like you more, but you and I are not the same, and I don't think Zhou Yi would like this."
Lei Li rolled his eyes as he spoke, "Besides, Zhou Yi has to like me no matter who he likes. Why should I try to please him?"
Liu Xiaocao was stunned by this. After hearing the last sentence, she nodded subconsciously and said, "You don't need to please him..."
Then Liu Xiaocao realized what she had done was not good, and at the same time she felt a little resentful, "Then tell me, how would I know that you don't like bright colors if you don't tell me? It's so beautiful like flowers..."
"Because you'd say it's as beautiful as a flower."
The two people said almost in unison.
Liu Xiaocao was a little embarrassed.
Lei Li looked at him expressionlessly, "You always have your own way of persuading others, and you're a big talker. You can't help but tell others about me, just like you can't help but tell me about others."
"If Niu Ershu wasn't a talkative person, I don't know how many times you two would have argued."
"Ershu and I won't quarrel. He's not as annoying as Guifulang..."
"So you're arguing with me now because I'm also as annoying as Gui Fulang?"
"...You're a bit annoying now."
Willow grass murmured like a quail.
Lei Li chuckled and said coldly, "You probably don't remember, but two years ago, for Tao Ge'er's full moon celebration, I brought him a stuffed tiger."
"If Gui Fulang saw it, he would deliberately say that Tao Ge'er took my cloth tiger and that he might look like a tiger like me in the future and wouldn't be able to get married even when he's eighteen or nineteen."
"You got so angry that you accused Mr. Gui of talking nonsense and said that your daughter Tao Ge'er would never be unmarried."
"After that, I never saw Tao Ge'er play with that cloth tiger again. I specially asked Zhu Zhu'er to embroider it for me. This year, Zhu Zhu'er embroidered too many, so I asked for one for Xiaobao. Xiaobao holds it in his arms while sleeping every day."
Lei Li's face was full of condemnation.
Liu Xiaocao laughed awkwardly, "Really? I don't even remember..."
"Then you still have the nerve to blame me."
"I'm sorry..."
Seeing Liu Xiaocao shaking his hand and apologizing coquettishly again, Lei Li was not really angry with him, otherwise he would have distanced himself from Liu Xiaocao long ago.
"You're impatient, outspoken, and don't hold grudges, but you're not very careful with your mouth. You always offend people with your words, and you don't even realize it."
Lei Li squinted his eyes and said, "You didn't come here just to see me, did you? You're so unhappy because you feel unbalanced because I introduced business to Mr. Miao but didn't do it with you."
"I thought I was hiding well..."
Liu Xiaocao puffed up her cheeks in frustration, "Then why don't you take me with you to earn money and take care of Miao Fulang? Our relationship is definitely better than yours and him, although not as good as you and Zhu Zhuer..."
Seeing that Liu Xiaocao was already a father at the age of twenty, but still had such a childish temper, Lei Li couldn't help but sigh, "Can't you use your brain more and your mouth less... The only business I can do is meat, vegetables, and herbs."
"First, Sanlihe Village is far from the county seat. Not only will the vegetables not be fresh if they're delivered here, but if you were really asked to deliver them, you'd definitely say your butt hurts from the ride and refuse to do it."
"Secondly, you rarely go into the mountains a year. I wanted to take you to identify medicinal herbs before, but you refused, saying there were too many to remember and you were afraid you might dig the wrong one and kill someone. You also said you were busy taking care of Tao Ge'er and didn't have time."
"Niu Ershu doesn't know pharmacology, but he has his own job. You're quite satisfied with his wages, but you don't want him to be too tired, and you're also worried about him getting bit by venomous snakes and centipedes."
Lei Li couldn't help but sneer twice, "Now you ask me why I don't help you make money?"
“I think so…”
Liu Xiaocao smiled faintly, "I was wrong about you, Li Ge'er..."
"You're just talking big, but you can't leave Tao Ge'er and you want to open a shop in the county town. Where will you live then? Who will take care of Tao Ge'er?"
"Even running a bun shop isn't as easy as you think. Ask your aunt what time she gets up, what time she goes to bed, and how long she works each day. She can't earn ten taels every month. She still has to deduct costs from the ten taels."
"And didn't I tell the village chief as soon as I found out about the rice-fish-duck method?"
Lei Li really doubted Liu Xiaocao's thinking. "Your family has the most fields, so you must have a lot of ducks. Can't you make money selling ducks and fish?"
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