When the pears are green

"Boring, boring, so boring, really boring. My mother won't let me move, and there's nothing I can do, no way, no way!" Song Li hummed under the shade of a tree while secretly looking at Zhang who was sitting not far from her.

Zhang frowned and glared at Song Li, who was patting the locust tree and humming, "Thump, thump, thump. There's nothing I can do." Zhang couldn't remember how many times she had heard Song Li humming here today. Zhang sighed, stood up and walked towards Song Li.

After seeing this, Song Li quickly swallowed the unfinished words "There's no way" and looked at Zhang with pleading eyes.

Song Li grabbed Zhang's clothes and said, "Mom, I've been lying down for three days. Let me move. What if I forget how to walk?"

Zhang looked at the scar on Song Li's back and asked, "Xiao Li, does it still hurt?"

Song Li smiled and said to Zhang: "Mom, I don't feel any pain anymore, I should be well soon."

Zhang looked at Song Li's expression, raised her right index finger and pressed it on Song Li's back, causing Song Li to almost cry out in pain.

Song Li squeezed her distorted facial features together, forced out a smile, gritted her teeth and said to Zhang: "Wow..., Mom, it really doesn't hurt anymore, you see I didn't feel anything. Ah... haha... I didn't feel anything at all, you see I'm so happy that tears are coming out." Before she finished speaking, Song Li hurriedly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve.

Zhang looked at Song Li's clumsy performance, sighed and said to Song Li: "In this case, just do some simple activities!"

Song Li looked at Zhang in disbelief, and Zhang nodded to Song Li. Song Li hurriedly got off the bed, and when her feet touched the ground, she felt really good to be on solid ground.

During these three days, Lianlian came to see Song Li. Lianlian told Song Li that Song Li's reputation in the village was now more famous than that of the famous fierce woman Sun Li, and Song Li had become famous in one battle.

Song Tianshi brought Xing'er here once. The purpose of Song Tianshi's coming was, firstly, to thank Song Li for saving Xing'er, and secondly, to hope that Song Li could keep Xing'er's secret and not tell anyone else about Xing'er. After all, Xing'er had just started discussing marriage.

Song Li agreed to Song Tian's request and accepted the basket of eggs that Song Tian brought with peace of mind.

Song Li returned to her room and took out her satchel. When she saw the fragments of cicada shells falling out of her satchel, she felt as if her only ten cents had been stolen.

Song Li collected the cicada shells with a sigh, and she remembered what Song Yue had said to her. Song Yue said that every year around the beginning of autumn, people would walk around the streets to collect cicada shells. If the cicada shells were not damaged, one or two taels could be sold for fifty coins.

Therefore, in this hot summer, whenever Song Li had free time, she would take Song Yue and Song Xing to the village woods with bamboo poles to collect cicada shells. After the efforts of the three of them, they already had half a basket of cicada shells. Song Li weighed them a few days ago and found that there were about one or two catties.

Song Li turned over the dried eggplants and beans that Zhang had dried, then went out with a bamboo pole.

Before going out, Song Yue told Song Li that she and Song Xing were going to the big pit behind the house to dig grass for the chickens.

The big pit that Song Yue mentioned is just 50 meters away from the Song family, and it only takes two or three minutes to walk there.

Song Xing saw Song Li coming with a bamboo pole and quickly called out, "Big sister, did mother let you out?"

After hearing this, Song Li smiled and said to Song Xing: "Of course, how could I have sneaked out?"

Song Yue heard the sound, looked up and smiled at Song Li, then asked, "Sister, what are you doing with the bamboo pole?"

Song Li smiled and replied to Song Yue: "I want to get some more cicada shells. It's almost the beginning of autumn, and there should be fewer crickets. If there are fewer crickets, there will be fewer cicada shells."

When the girls around saw Song Li, they all started talking about it, but Song Li ignored them. Most of what they talked about was what happened in the woods on the Heihe River embankment a few days ago.

One of the brave girls walked up to Song Li and said, "Sister Song Li, I'm Li Xiaotao who lives in the west of the village. I heard a few days ago that you fought Li Chun alone at the Black River embankment and broke both of his legs. You are so awesome!"

After hearing this, Song Li touched her nose and said, "Well, I didn't break his legs, I just stabbed him. Maybe he has recovered now. Little girl, don't listen to what others say."

At this time, another girl came up and said, "They said that Li Chun fell in love with Sister Song Li, but Sister Song Li was already engaged, so Li Chun wanted Sister Song Li to break off the engagement, but Sister Song Li didn't want to, so they started fighting."

“不对，不对，我听说的是宋梨姐看上了李春，李春喜欢王娟，宋梨姐感觉王娟不如自己，就把李春和王娟揍了一顿。”又一个声音说道。

Then another voice came: "Neither is right. I heard that Wang Juan and Li Chun were having a secret meeting and were caught by Sister Song Li. Wang Juan was afraid that Sister Song Li would tell others, so she asked Li Chun to beat Sister Song Li. But Sister Song Li fought two people at once and beat them both. Sister Song Li, do you think I am right?"

Song Li looked at the little girl in front of her who was smiling happily. She was about to correct the misunderstanding when another boy about the same age as Song Xing ran over and interrupted.

The boy said to everyone with a mysterious look on his face: "What you said is wrong. I asked Li Chun in person. I met Li Chun at the entrance of the village three days ago. Li Chun came back with a few leaves covering his face. It was almost dark at that time. Li Chun saw me and said to me, hey, guess what?"

Seeing that the boy was keeping it a secret, everyone said, "Hurry up and tell me, or I'll leave." Although everyone said they wanted to leave, no one actually left.

Under everyone's gaze, the boy continued to speak smugly: "Li Chun said that it was Sister Song Li and Sister Wang Juan who were together and he found out, so Sister Song Li and Sister Wang Juan beat him up together."

After hearing this, everyone looked at Song Li in disbelief. When they noticed the bamboo pole in Song Li's hand, someone said to the boy, "What are you talking about? Be careful or Sister Song Li will beat you up. Sister Song Li can fight three people at once!"

The boy glanced at Song Li and quickly ran away.

Song Li almost choked on her own saliva. There were so many rumors flying around!

At this time, someone asked, "Sister Song Li, wasn't it one against two? How did it become one against three?"

A girl whispered to the person who asked the question, "Isn't there Xing'er from Second Grandpa Song's family? People say that all three of them wanted to marry Li Chun, so Li Chun made them fight and married the winner. Sister Song Li was the most powerful, but Li Chun didn't want to marry her, so she cut Li Chun's clothes."

After listening to it, Song Li walked away silently. She wanted to explain at first, but now she just felt tired. Song Li thought it would be better for her not to explain, maybe there would be fewer versions of the rumor.

After hearing these words, Song Yue and Song Xing angrily dispersed the crowd. Someone whispered, "If you dare to do it yourself, you don't dare to let others say it."

Song Yue wanted to go forward and beat the person, but was stopped by Song Li. Song Li pulled her arm and said, "Yueyue, just let her talk. The more you care, the more people will talk. Just ignore it, and slowly no one will talk anymore."