A pleasant life in a courtyard

Chapter 136 The Unexpected Person
On weekdays, there is another person missing from the Li family’s dinner table.

This made Li's mother and Li Xiaodi very uncomfortable at first.

The matter of cooking also started to get messed up in Mother Li's hands.

On this day, after Li Xiaodi had eaten beans for three days in a row, he finally couldn't stand it anymore and protested to Li's mother:

"Mom, if my brother and sister are not here, you can't just care about my life and death. I'm so busy every day that I'm almost turning green."

Mother Li didn't take her youngest son's complaint seriously at all. She glanced at him casually and said, "There are only a few seasonal vegetables now, either beans or tomatoes. Last time you said you had enough tomatoes, and now here we are again." Picky, I think your skin is itchy."

Little Brother Li frowned, unable to refute Mother Li's words.

He said this a few days ago, but he really couldn't stand his mother cooking this dish for more than ten days in a row.

He used to like tomatoes, but he couldn't eat them every day.

Even if it is served in different ways, dressed up, stir-fried or boiled, it still has the same taste.

It can only be said that Li Xiaodi's mouth was spoiled by the food and food that Li Xiang brought back.

Every household eats this way, switching back and forth with seasonal dishes.

If it had been like previous years, there might not have been fresh dishes on the table, so I would be very grateful if the staple food could fill my stomach.

Speaking of which, it was still a problem with Li Xiang's sign-in system.

Last year, most of the types signed out were all kinds of food.

This year, I have much less food than last year, and sometimes I can’t even sign in for half a month.

Therefore, the Li family's food is no longer as varied as before. What we eat now depends on what is available in the vegetable market.

The categories he signed in have shifted to other daily necessities, such as cloth. He has signed in six or seven times in just over half a year, and they are all of the same kind of fabric.

This number is almost the same as the total number of previous years.

The new white shirt he made this year is made of this fabric.

One time, he actually signed out a book called "Very Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Knowledge."

The various little knowledge pieces inside are all-encompassing and strange.

When Li Xiang used the knowledge he read in the book to discuss with Sun Guoqing why his daughter liked to drool.

Sun Guoqing was stunned for a moment when he heard the so-called reason why his digestive system was not in good condition.

He told Li Xiang that he was talking nonsense, saying that he would rather wait for his eldest sister to come back and ask her, rather than believe the reasons Li Xiang made up.

Yep, ignorant humans.

Li Xiang complained about his distrust of his friends.

I have knowledge of modern civilization. Let alone asking my eldest sister, even if I ask her teacher, he may not know.

. . . . . .

This Saturday, Li Xiaodi finally got his brother back.

The food at home was as he wished, much richer than usual.

Mother Li used the non-staple food stamps she saved to buy half a roast chicken.

Pair it with a plate of cold cucumbers, fried dried beans with green peppers, and loofah and egg soup.

Three dishes and one soup are the most luxurious treatment.

However, there was someone sitting at the dinner table who surprised the brothers and sisters.

Lou Xiao'e, after the last incident, she has been staying at her parents' house and has not appeared in the courtyard for seven or eight months.

No one in the courtyard mentioned her for a long time, and almost forgot that there was such a person.

Mother Li explained to the children: "Xiao'e came back today. She has nothing to eat, so I asked her to come to our house to have a meal first." There is nothing, that is impossible, Xu Damao I never come back empty-handed,
Mother Li said this simply because Lou Xiao'e didn't know how to cook and found a way out for her.

Li Xiang nodded to his eldest sister, greeted her politely a few times, then took off his bag and went to the kitchen to find water to wash his hands.

Lou Xiao'e sat there, a little embarrassed.

I hesitated in my heart whether to go home or not, but when I thought about the coal stove that had not been set up for more than an hour, I rubbed my stomach after being hungry all day.

Finally, I decided to eat and then go home.

In the kitchen, in the name of washing their hands and gossiping, the brother and sister asked Mother Li about Lou Xiao'e's situation.

Mother Li carefully glanced outside the door, and then whispered back: "I'm too embarrassed to ask carefully. I listen to her wishes. I will live here temporarily and will not go back to my parents' house."

Li wanted to bring the basin with water in front of his eldest sister, motioning for her to wash it first, and then muttered to Mother Li:

"Brother Damao invited her so many times before, but she didn't want to come back. Now why does she come back?"

Mother Li shook her head in confusion, saying that she didn't understand either.

While washing her hands, the eldest sister said, "Brother Damao probably didn't go to his place in the next few months. He didn't even come back home a few times."

Mother Li asked suspiciously: "Then she couldn't bear it anymore and came back to see?"

The mother and son looked at each other, saying nothing.

That's probably what happened. I took Qiao before and didn't want to come back.

After a few times, Xu Damao lost his patience and stopped going.

Putting aside the attitude of the Lou family, Lou Xiao'e must be anxious.

Didn't she just run back and follow Xu Damao's rest schedule in the past, but she didn't know that Xu Damao would not come back for less than half a month and 20 days once he went out.

"I don't know what the couple is thinking. Do they want to live this life together?" Mother Li has never seen anything like this. They have been separated for more than half a year and still have no clear explanation.

It’s also thanks to the fact that the Lou family has a big business. If it were an ordinary family, who would be able to bear the married daughter staying in her parents’ family all the time.

After such a long time, either we reconcile or we divorce and find another one.

There is no such thing as ignoring each other and not giving an explanation.

Although the couple tried to reconcile but not divorce, Li Xiang felt that Lou Xiao'e's coming back this time was not a good sign.

It was clear that he still had to live with Xu Damao.

If you had such thoughts, when Xu Damao went to beg for help, you could get off the donkey along the slope and catch him while he was still feeling guilty.

Now that the person's guilt and patience have been worn away, and he comes back on his own initiative, doesn't it mean that you have given in first?

After losing a child, he can still take the initiative to submit. Then the relationship between husband and wife will definitely not have the final say in the future.

Coupled with the fact that Xu Damao is acting strange now, there must be something going on outside.

Xu Damao will probably never accommodate Lou Xiao'e as before. Whether this person's thoughts are on him or not, as time goes by, even the fool will know.

The reason why Lou Xiao'e is still willing to come back is that she can't forget how kind Xu Damao was to her in the past.

He was just too good to her, so he couldn't let her go.

She thought that if she gave in, the two of them could return to their old lives.

But what if we can't go back to the past?
Is Xu Damao willing to settle down and live with Lou Xiao'e?

Can Lou Xiao'e put aside her status as a young lady and be a good wife?

Hey~
The three members of the Li family are not very optimistic about the direction of the couple.

(End of this chapter)