When the pears are green

Li Yun'an finally returned home. He knocked on the door weakly. After Lingling opened the door, Li Yun'an sat down on the doorstep. Lingling hurriedly helped Li Yun'an up.

Li Yun'an didn't want to talk at this time. He pointed to the bamboo basket beside him, walked quickly into the yard, and slumped down on the bamboo chair.

Li Yun'an's mother, Li Liu, saw Li Yun'an sitting on a bamboo chair and breathing heavily. She hurriedly poured a bowl of water and brought it to him. Li Yun'an took the water and drank it in one gulp, coughing a few times due to choking.

Li Anshi hurriedly patted his back, while Li Liushi patted him and said, "You are so old, but you can choke when drinking water. When your father was this old, you were already born."

After hearing what Li Liu said, Li Yun'an coughed even more violently.

When Lingling came in with the bamboo basket, she happened to hear what Li Liu said. Looking at Li Yun'an who was coughing non-stop, Lingling hurriedly said, "Mom, don't say anything more. Brother is frightened by you."

Li Liu glared at Lingling and said, "Why did I scare him? You are just talking nonsense."

After hearing this, Lingling pouted and said, "Mom, don't you just want my brother to get married? My brother said that we can talk about it after he passes the imperial examination."

Mrs. Li Liu became a little annoyed after hearing this. She said loudly, "I'm afraid the daylily will be cold by then."

Li Yun'an covered his chest and said to Li Liu: "Mother, you just stab me with a knife. My heart hurts so much. Do you think so little of me?"

Li Liu glanced at Li Yun'an and said, "It's not that I don't believe you, I just don't believe that smoke will come out of your Li family's ancestral grave."

Lingling took a peach from the basket and asked Li Yun'an, "Brother, didn't you go to your classmate's house? Where did you get the peach?"

Li Yun'an felt his arm hurt when he saw the peach. He rubbed his arm and said, "I bought it at the market from the fiancé of your favorite sister Song. This is a sandbag given to you by your little sister Song."

After Li Yun'an finished speaking, he took out the sandbag that Song Yue asked him to pass to Lingling from his bag. Lingling took it hurriedly and asked as she looked at it, "Where did you meet them?"

Li Yun'an said, "They are from the same village as the classmate who invited me. I just happened to meet them. Your sister Xiao Song asked me to bring them to you."

After hearing this, Lingling said excitedly: "I will like Xiaoyue more in the future."

After listening to the conversation between the two siblings, Li Liu asked quietly, "Lingling, how old is your friend? Is he married?"

Lingling felt that Li Liu was obsessed with Li Yun'an's marriage. She said to Li Liu: "Mother, Xiaoyue is still young. She is four years younger than her brother! Don't let your imagination run wild."

After hearing this, Li Liushi muttered, "I just asked. Doesn't he want to pass the imperial examination before getting married? It's a good opportunity to wait."

After listening to what Li Liu said, Li Yun'an thought of Song Yue's kitten and felt goose bumps all over his body.

Zhang invited Jiang Qingzhou to have lunch at her home, and she specially asked Song Li to catch a chicken and stew it for lunch.

Song Li had experience in killing fish before, but had never killed a chicken.

Jiang Qingzhou saw Song Li trembling with the knife, so he took the knife from Song Li's hand. While wiping the chicken's neck, he said, "Xiao Li, if you are afraid, just close your eyes."

Song Li shook her head to show that she was not afraid. Then, she squatted beside Jiang Qingzhou and watched him deal with the chicken.

Jiang Qingzhou poured boiling water on the chicken and said to Song Li who was watching attentively, "Xiao Li, the chicken feathers are very smelly. Go aside."

Song Li shook her head, then pointed at the colorful feathers on the rooster's tail, and then pointed at herself.

Jiang Qingzhou smiled and carefully plucked all the feathers from the chicken's tail and handed it to Song Li.

After Song Li got the feathers, she rinsed them clean and put them on the small bed to dry.

After seeing this, Jiang Qingzhou asked Song Li, "Xiao Li, what do you want the feathers for? Do you want to make a feather duster?"

Song Li shook her head, cleared her throat, and uttered with difficulty: "Shuttlecock."

Jiang Qingzhou said after hearing this: "Paper cutting? Can feathers be used to make paper cutting?" Song Li knew that Jiang Qingzhou had heard it wrong, so she repeated it again. Unexpectedly, this time Jiang Qingzhou heard it as scissors again.

Song Li looked at Jiang Qingzhou helplessly, her throat hurt again. Under Jiang Qingzhou's gaze, Song Li wrote "Shuttlecock" on the ground with her finger. Song Li was about to point it out to Jiang Qingzhou, but when she saw Jiang Qingzhou's shocked eyes, she realized belatedly that she had done something stupid.

Song Li started to explain: "I, I..." She didn't know how to tell Jiang Qingzhou about this. She couldn't tell him since they were at home.

At this moment, Jiang Qingzhou thought of the first time he saw Song Li, he felt that Song Li was quite different from what his aunt described. At that time, he thought that it might be because his aunt hadn't seen Song Li for a long time, and Song Li had changed, but his aunt didn't know it. Now it seems that the Song Li in his aunt's mouth and the Song Li in front of him are not the same person. Then who is this person who looks exactly like Song Li if not Song Li? How did she come to the Song family? Didn't the Song family find out?

Jiang Qingzhou saw the words written by Song Li. The handwriting was neat and beautiful. It was not something that could be written overnight, let alone by an illiterate girl like Song Li.

Song Li rubbed her hands nervously. She was going to die of her own stupidity. She was too relaxed next to Jiang Qingzhou, so relaxed that she forgot that she didn't belong here.

Jiang Qingzhou heard footsteps coming from behind him. Although he was a little frightened at the moment, he still involuntarily put his feet on the words written by Song Li and rubbed the ground hard.

Jiang Qingzhou quickened his pace and quickly finished a chicken. He handed the chicken to Song Yue who was not far away. Song Yue looked at Song Li strangely and asked him: "Brother Dahu, did you quarrel with my sister? Why does my sister look so strange?"

Jiang Qingzhou smiled and said, "No, I just taught Xiaoli how to write her name, but she couldn't learn it, so she got angry and didn't dare to look at me."

After Song Yue said "Oh", she carried the chicken to the kitchen.

Jiang Qingzhou looked at Song Li, who was still squatting there with her head in her arms. She had a shadow, and she was still wearing the peach wood hairpin he had given her. Jiang Qingzhou breathed a sigh of relief. No matter who she was, she could only be Song Li, the girl he cared about day and night.

Jiang Qingzhou finally succumbed to his own selfishness. He couldn't bear to leave Song Li, and he was even more reluctant to let Song Li bear the unknown consequences. He wanted to protect Song Li.

Song Li also secretly looked at Jiang Qingzhou, and then she looked at the handwriting that Jiang Qingzhou had erased. Would Jiang Qingzhou keep the secret for her? What should she do if he reported it to Zhang? Would he be afraid of her?

Song Li was suddenly confused. Why did it turn out like this? She felt like she was about to cry. She pinched her right hand in annoyance. Why did she do this? She wanted to escape from here.

At this time, Zhang ordered Song Xing to go to the vegetable garden to pick onions. Song Li endured the pain in her throat and said to Zhang with difficulty: "Mom, I'll go. I haven't been out for several days. I want to go out for a walk."

Zhang said to Song Li worriedly, "Can you do it by yourself? Otherwise, you can go with Xiaoxing."

Song Li hurriedly said, "Mom, I'm an adult now, of course I can do it."

Listening to Song Li's voice, Zhang didn't dare let Song Li speak any more, so she had to agree.

After seeing Song Li go out alone, Jiang Qingzhou hurriedly said to Zhang: "Aunt, Xiao Li and I are together."

Without waiting for Zhang to speak, Jiang Qingzhou followed her out.