Chapter 41
Chapter 41: Variety
Li Baolu has been at Qin’s house for nearly a month. When she thinks back to Li’s house, what she thinks most is her deceased parents and grandfather, and what worries her most is her grandmother, but she is a child bride. It’s impossible to ask Uncle Qin to go home and have a look.
So when Qin Xinfang proposed to take her back to Li’s house to find her grandfather’s notes, Li Baolu almost jumped up with joy.
She misses her grandmother, and she desperately wants to know how she is doing. The character of the second uncle is really untrustworthy.
The Qin family walked around with the Li family as their in-laws.
Li Baolu said she was a child bride, but it was no different from the general saying that she married a daughter-in-law, except that she was younger.
Tong brides are usually bought with money, but Mr. Wan did not ask for money from the Qin family, but instead prepared a large dowry for Li Baolu.
On this basis, Wan deserves their respect.
What’s more, Qin Xinfang and Li Bo are still year-end friends, so Qin Xinfang went to Li’s house and prepared a lot of gifts, which were completely prepared by his relatives according to the current situation.
He Zipei made some snacks, and then used the money to get the chief to buy two cotton cloths and a chicken. Early the next morning, Qin Xinfang took the two children to Wucun.
The journey from the first village to the fifth village usually takes nearly two and a half hours. They leave before dawn, but arrive in the evening, because Qin Xinfang’s own health is not very good, and it is not as good as Wan’s.
Qin Xinfang was pushing a scooter borrowed from the village. Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu sat in the car with the gifts they brought. They took a rest after walking for almost a quarter of an hour.
In the end, both Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu could not bear to walk on the ground by themselves, but the two children were young and Gu Jingyun was not in good health. Qin Xinfang did not dare to let them walk for too long, and often carried people into the car after only a quarter of an hour. , just stop and go to Wucun.
On seeing the houses in Wucun, Li Baolu jumped off the scooter happily, pointed to one of the houses, and said, “That’s my house.”
Gu Jingyun raised his eyelids and said, “Your home is in a village, this is your parents’ home.”
Li Baolu didn’t mind at all, she nodded and turned her head to educate Qin Xinfang seriously, “Uncle, you should exercise more, you are not as good as my grandmother, last time my grandmother carried me to my in-law’s house for only three hours. .”
Gu Jingyun was happy when he heard the words “my in-law’s house”, and turned his head to teach him a lesson with Li Baolu, “Uncle, why don’t you dance the five animal show twice a day, once in the morning, in the evening, and it will work over time.”
Qin Xinfang’s old face was slightly red, but he also knew that his body was useless, so he nodded reluctantly and said: “Okay, let’s jump twice a day first, and then jump three times a day if it works. Okay, get in the car and sit down, Let’s go to the village.”
The sun was gradually setting, and the people who were working in the fields and the sea just collected their things and went home. When they saw a stranger pushing a scooter to their village, they couldn’t help but take a second glance. It took a long time to recognize Li Baolu and pointed to her and her fellow villagers. Whispered: “Isn’t that the little fool of the Li family?”
“Didn’t you say that you gave it to someone to be a child bride, why did you come back?”
“Don’t be a fool to commit a crime and send it back?”
“Aunt Li is worried again.”
“If you want me to say that Li Hong’s heart is ruthless enough, that’s his eldest brother’s only bloodline…”
There was a lot of discussion, and it was difficult for Li Baolu to pretend not to know. She simply turned her head and waved to them generously, “Hello, uncles and uncles, are you back from work?”
Everyone was stunned, only to know that the little fool of the Li family was cured, but he didn’t expect it to be so well, and he could speak a series of words clearly at the age of three.
“Yeah,” one of them took the lead to recover, looked at Qin Xinfang curiously and joked, “Little lady, is this going back to her mother’s house to save relatives?”
Who knew Li Baolu nodded seriously, pointed at Gu Jingyun seriously and said, “Yes, this is my husband, this is my uncle.”
But Gu Jingyun looked at the adults with a serious look and said, “Hello, uncles and uncles.”
Several adults twitched the corners of their mouths and nodded in agreement, but no one took advantage of the situation to speak to Qin Xinfang.
The people exiled here are criminals, and everyone is very wary of each other.
Everyone walked in silence, and when they were about to part, one of them suddenly took two steps forward and said to Li Baolu, “It’s alright if you come back, look at your grandmother, she’s ill, she’s not sure what to think of you, just think it’s for your father Do your best.”
Li Baolu was startled and looked up, only to see that the man had turned and left quickly.
Qin Xinfang stopped and asked in a low voice, “Would you like to chase the person back and ask for clarity?”
Li Baolu shook her head, “That’s Uncle Chen. He’s not very close to our family, so it’s rare to be able to say this to me.”
Chen Erlang is one of the only two people who survived the trip with Li Bo, but his relationship with the Li family is not very close.
Li Baolu can remember him because his grandmother took her to ask about the shipwreck, when Chen Erlang woke up, his face was full of fear…
Thinking of his words, Li Baolu’s heart sank, and she eagerly wanted to go home and have a look.
Gu Jingyun seemed to know what she was thinking, and knocked on the boardwalk: “Uncle, hurry up.”
Qin Xinfang gave her nephew a funny look and quickened her pace.
The three of them arrived at the door of Li’s house, when Li Hong heard the news and greeted him. Seeing the rosy niece who was living well on the scooter, he winked at me for a moment, then raised a smile and greeted me politely. On Qin Xinfang.
He knew Qin Xinfang, long before the Li family was convicted, and he knew him when he was still living in the capital.
But at that time Qin Xinfang was the unattainable young master of the crown prince, the deputy minister of the household and the youngest patriarch to be admitted to the pavilion.
The teacher who taught him liked to mention that Qin Xinfang had studied in the academy for a year, as if he was the champion in the academy when he was only twenty years old because he had read in the academy for that year.
This man used to be a star in the sky and was looked up to, but now, like him, he was reduced to an exiled criminal.
However, even a criminal, he was much better off than the average criminal.
He knew that his father had been treating people in his family, and even the two accidentally became friends because of their close relationship, but he never took this friendship to heart.
In the exiled land, how can there be any friendship?
Everyone is not only on guard against each other, but also can’t protect themselves, so how can they care about other people’s business?
For example, the so-called friends and good brothers of the eldest brother, who has mentioned helping to take care of his only bloodline after the death of the eldest brother?
Knowing that he wanted to send her to be a child bride, who would dare to say a word?
But he didn’t expect that his mother would send Baolu to the Qin family as a child bride, and the Qin family really accepted her.
Li Hong glanced at Gu Jingyun who was sitting next to Li Baolu. Seeing that he was short of stature and blood, he knew that he was the child who was sick every three days and went to the doctor from time to time. He couldn’t help sneering in his heart. Accept Baolu as a child bride?
Li Hong’s face was still, he greeted Qin Xinfang with a smile on his face, and invited people into the room. He thought he was doing it calmly, but he didn’t know that Qin Xinfang could tell what he was thinking by just a glance.
Qin Xinfang sighed in his heart, no wonder brother Li always sighed that his descendants were unworthy, and only the eldest son could rely on in his later years.
Qin Xinfang carried the two children off the scooter and asked Gu Jingyun to meet Li Hong.
Gu Jingyun saluted Li Hong with a sullen face, “My nephew-in-law has seen my second uncle.”
Li Hong was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses and hurriedly supported him and said, “You’re welcome, nephew,” and then turned to Qin Xinfang and said, “Mr. Qin is a rare visit, please come in quickly.”
“Where’s my grandmother? We heard that she was unwell on the way. I wonder if she is better?”
Li Hong’s smile froze, and then he said with a smile: “Mother is in the room. She was a little dizzy because of the cold wind a few days ago, so she rested in the room. Mr. Qin will wait, and I will ask my wife to invite my mother out.”
Mrs. Mei and the three children were hiding in the room, looking at the gift Qin Xinfang brought with bright eyes. When she heard Li Hong’s call, she hurriedly pushed the three children and greeted them with a smile on her face, “I’m here. Just go and ask my mother, you wait.”
Wan was still living in her previous room. She was groggy and groggy. When she saw her daughter-in-law entering, she only opened the door and then closed it.
Mrs. Mei stepped forward lightly to help him up, and said in a low voice, “Mother, Baolu is back…”
Wan opened his eyes “hoo”, and his hand couldn’t help pinching Mei’s hand tightly.
Mrs. Mei hurriedly said in a low voice: “Don’t worry, mother, it was someone from her in-law’s family who came back with her and brought a gift. I don’t look like resigning from relatives, but rather like saving relatives.”
Shi Wan breathed a sigh of relief and said in a hoarse voice, “Help me out.”
Mrs. Mei hurriedly fed her a mouthful of water, looked at her for a moment, and then helped her out the door.
Li Baolu burst into tears when she saw her grandmother who was helped by Mrs. Mei. She hadn’t seen her for a month. Mrs. Wan was much thinner and haggard than before.
Li Baolu threw herself into Wan’s arms and looked at her with tears in her eyes, “Grandma!”
Wan rubbed Li Baolu’s chubby little face lovingly. After only a month, her granddaughter gained weight. Obviously, she had a good life in the Qin family.
“Silly child, it’s a good thing for your uncle and Xiao Xianggong to bring you back to your mother’s house, why are you crying?” She looked up at Qin Xinfang and said with a smile, “Don’t blame my family, this child is still young.”
Qin Xinfang smiled and said: “This is her filial piety, how can I blame her?” He glanced at Li Hong, who was looking at them seriously, and said straight to the point: “Actually, I brought Baolu back to save relatives this time. I have something to ask for.”
Mrs. Wan supported Mrs. Mei’s hand and sat down in the upper seat, and asked with a smile, “I don’t know what it is, as long as we can do it, we will try our best to do it for our in-laws.”
Qin Xinfang glanced at Gu Jingyun and said, “As you know, my child’s health is not very good. In the past, it was Mr. Li who treated him, but now it’s hard to find a good doctor, so I want to learn some medical skills by myself, and Mr. Li will give me some medical skills. The formula left behind can be used to prescribe some medicine for the child. It’s just that medical books are hard to find. I don’t know if Mr. Li has any notes left, so I want to borrow it for a look.”
Ms. Wan’s eyes flashed brightly, and after looking at Baolu, he said, “What’s so difficult, he did keep some notes, it’s useless for us to keep those things, I’ll pack them up for you later…”
“Mother,” Li Hong hurriedly interrupted her and said, “Father’s belongings are all put aside. It rained heavily a while ago, the house leaked, and many things were damaged, so the notes may not be still there…”
Wan said lightly: “Don’t worry, I have kept all your father’s things, and it’s not a big problem.”
Li Hong’s face turned blue, and he looked at Wan’s displeasedly.