Flowers are expensive

Chapter 33 The Lion's Roar

"Remember, ten days. If you're still here after ten days, you won't be able to leave." Man Ting let go of Li Hua's hand after speaking, fell back on the pillow and continued to close his eyes and meditate.

Lihua really wanted to take her own pillow and pounce on this guy to suffocate him to death!How can you go back on your word?He obviously agreed to let her go, but he changed his mind and made a ten-day agreement!She was so angry that she blew her bangs and shouted at Man Ting: "Xie Man Ting, get up!"

"Ok?"

"Why ten days? We agreed before!"

"Didn't I just say that? I've never been kind."

"What?" Lihua was so angry that she couldn't laugh or cry, "Then why is it ten days? Can't you give me more time? Half a month, or...or a month or two?" "If you keep arguing, I will change my mind again." Yes, maybe..."

"Impossible!" Lihua hurriedly interrupted him and said, "Ten days is ten days! Hmph, Xie Manting, if you change your mind again, I will strangle you first!"

"Okay, I'm going to bed," Man Ting opened his eyes and smiled at her, "Go and draw slowly."

"Don't think that no one knows the way out of the mountain except you, I'll get the map!" Lihua rubbed her map after speaking, blew out the lamp, got into bed and didn't speak.

Man Ting lay on his side, looked at the pile of black shadows on the ground and asked with a smile: "Steam yourself in the bed, don't be stewed to death before you escape from the mountain."

Lihua lifted the quilt covering her face with a clatter, took a breath of fresh air, then picked up her pillow and threw it towards Manting, and said angrily: "Don't talk to me, Xie Manting, I hate to die You are disgusting, very annoying, hum!" After speaking, she covered herself with the quilt again.

"No more pillows?"

"do not want!"

"The buds on the head disappeared?"

"Nothing!"

"Doesn't it hurt?"

"pain!"

"Okay then, thanks for the pillow."

"you are welcome!"

Man Ting almost laughed out loud, squeezed the pillow, put it beside him, and said: "When you want a pillow, get it yourself, don't cry about your headache tomorrow."

Lihua didn't answer, hid in the bed, puffed her cheeks, scratched the quilt randomly with both hands, muttered unconvinced: Xie Manting, just look at me, you underestimated me, sister!It doesn't take ten days, but it can disappear without a trace in front of your eyes in five days, hum!
Lihua sulked under the quilt for a while, then lifted the quilt to reveal her face, and gradually fell asleep.When she woke up at dawn, she hugged the quilt and turned around, suddenly felt soft under her head, and suddenly opened her eyes to take a look, huh?When did the pillow run back by itself?Could it be that Xie Manting sent it back?

At this time Man Ting opened the door and came in, with a faint smile on his face and glanced at her.She immediately sat up and asked, "Xie Manting, when did my pillow come back? What did you do last night?" "Nothing, just put the pillow under your head."

"Then why don't I know?"

"You slept so soundly, how would you know?"

"But how did you put the pillow under my head?"

"Think for yourself!"

After Manting finished speaking, he went out, leaving Lihua there in a daze.She involuntarily touched the bud on the back of her head, and it seemed that the swelling had subsided. It seemed that Grandma Manting's ointment was still effective.She rolled her eyes twice, and muttered with doubts on her face: "Xie Manting, don't tell me you fell in love with... It's over, sister, I'm not that attractive, right? In my previous life, I didn't wear pink clothes every day to worship the Peach Blossom God." Seeing that the peach blossoms have bloomed before, this time it is actually lucky? No, no, I have to leave, leave quickly!"

After breakfast, the men all went to work in the field, and the women sat in the hall doing needlework, chatting about the quality of the fabric in their hands, the size of the cut, and so on.

Lihua waved to Hong Ling who was sewing clothes at the entrance of the hall.Hong Ling rested her hands, got up and went out and asked, "What's the matter?" Li Hua took her to Huang Ying's room, and said, "I can tell you in advance, I plan to leave in five days!"

Hong Ling asked in surprise: "Five days? Is it too fast? Are you asking for the way?"

"It's too difficult to ask for directions! There are only a few men in this village who have been to the town. You can't go to them and ask for directions, right? I figured it out, and asked as I walked. Anyway, I will look at the tree stumps to identify the direction. Keep heading south, you can't go wrong!" Huang Ying also felt that it was too hasty, and said: "But you must prepare some dry food or something? Otherwise, you will starve to death if you are not exhausted on the road!"

Lihua said: "That's easy to say. I'll bring out a silver hairpin and ask Qigu and Yutong to help us make some cakes, steamed buns, etc. They will definitely agree!"

"But..." Hong Ling hesitated to speak.

"What's wrong? Are you reluctant to part with Cao Haitang?" Lihua asked her.

"No..." Hong Ling lowered her eyes and said sadly, "What can we do if we are reluctant? We are not the same people anyway, and we have to separate sooner or later." Huang Ying raised her mouth and said, "What else is there to be reluctant about?" Then Cao Haitang is kind to you, but think about it, is he treating you sincerely? Yesterday he said he figured it out, but today he was confused again? Did Cao Haitang blow you up again last night? What pillow wind?"

"Where is it..."

"Since not, then you should be more sober!"

"Then you've made up your mind?" Hong Ling asked Huang Ying.

Huang Ying nodded and said: "Think about it, five days later, five days later, I will leave sooner or later. I just want to live, but you can see, can we survive here? People don't take it seriously at all. Look at us!"

Lihua took the words and said: "Hongling, I won't force you, you should think it through yourself. If you think Cao Haitang can be relied on for the rest of your life, there is nothing wrong with staying."

"He's nice, but..." Hong Ling shook her head lightly and said, "He's so unknown, he's even worse than my sister. Who wants to live like this? I'll go with you and find a living elsewhere." !"

Just as she was talking, Mrs. Gong suddenly ran over and knocked on the door.Lihua opened the door and asked, "Is there anything for the housekeeper?" Gong took a breath, pointed outside and said, "The housekeeper's mother is here! You three should hide! Especially Hong Ling , let the third aunt Gao meet, I don’t know what to say! "

Huang Ying snorted and said: "The young one just came to make trouble yesterday, and the old one came to the door today. These are really two shrews coming out of the same door!" Gong said anxiously: "Don't worry about whether the shrew is a shrew or not." Yes, you go to the backyard door for a while. After she leaves, I'll call you again, so you don't have to listen to those nonsensical gossips and get flustered in your heart! Aunt Gao San has a worse mouth than that Cao Meixiang..."

Before he finished speaking, Gao's excited and high-pitched voice rang in his ears.I saw a round-faced woman who was half a head taller than Cao Shi, surrounded by Cao Shi and Mrs. Xiao, walked into the backyard, and said as she walked, "I have to tidy up the house for our Haitang. I haven't been here for a long time. I don't know what kind of mess that kid's nest has become!"

While speaking, Gao raised his eyes and saw the three people in Huangying's room, and glanced over them coldly, without any intention of responding, he went straight to the door of Haitang's room, and pushed them away with his palm.

"Hey, why is there such a smell in this room?" Gao covered her nose and yelled strangely as soon as she entered, and then turned around and complained to Cao, "You don't take care of your little brother as a big sister. This smell, at least you should give him two sticks of incense to smoke the smell of foxes in the room, so as not to make my son faint!"

Mrs. Cao replied: "Understood, I will use incense to smoke him when I turn back." After she finished speaking, she turned her head and whispered to Mrs. Xiao: "Go and call Hong Ling, the elders are here, where else can she hide?" Woolen cloth?"

"It's at Huang Ying's house, I'll call."

Sister-in-law Xiao hurried to the door of Huangying's house and said, "Hongling, the housekeeper told you to go! You see, all the mothers in Haitang are here, and this is a good opportunity to come in! If San Gu is happy, maybe she will let her in." You came in." "There will be such a good thing?" Huang Ying sneered coldly, "Is she here today because of yesterday's unhappiness? Let Hong Ling go to coax her, I'm afraid she will suffer before she arrives." It's a slap!"

As soon as the words fell, the sound of ping-pong-pong came from the Haitang room.Hong Ling hurried over to take a look, only to see that the cosmetic powder boxes she put on the dressing table all fell to the ground, red and white scattered all over the floor.

Gao opened the suitcase again, grabbed a few Hongling clothes from inside, threw them on the ground and cursed: "Where did you get the fox fur? How could our Haitang's clean body be stained with such things?" ? Plum branches, throw them all out!"

Then, she walked to the bed, pulled the two quilts to the ground, and said to Mrs. Cao: "The quilts should be changed later, the smell is too strong, and they are so dirty! No one is afraid to wash them with water." It's not clean! Our family's Haitang is really wronged, sleeping with a pig is cleaner than mixing with that broken shoe! And this pillow, I took it out and threw it away, and I will buy a new one for Haitang!"

The women all gathered in the backyard, seeing Gao throwing things like this, knowing that today is to vent their anger, they all broke into a cold sweat for Hong Ling.

Hong Ling stood at the door, her face turned blue with anger, her hands clenched tightly into fists.Mrs. Cao persuaded Mrs. Gao, then turned around and said to Hongling: "What are you doing there? Mother said that you will change the mattress, but you still don't take it out? You don't come in when you see the elders Li'er said hello, I really don't understand etiquette at all! Hurry up!"

"Don't let her salute me!" Gao turned around and pointed at Hongling, "I don't even know what she is! Who is her elder? I have never acknowledged her. Where did she recognize her elders when she fell in love with her?" Where are you going!" As she spoke, she saw a black and yellow bamboo flute hanging on the wall, and reached out to take it down.

Hong Ling hurriedly said: "That's mine..." But before she finished speaking, there was a click, and the bamboo flute broke in two on Gao's fat thigh, and was thrown to the ground!

Gao said disdainfully: "Our family's Haitang doesn't know how to use this thing. What do you use it for? It's almost as good as firewood!" Hong Ling hurriedly rushed over, picked up the two truncated flutes from the ground with trembling hands, and cried. It fell down with a puff, and sobbed softly.

"Howling, you?" Gao yelled at Hongling very impolitely, "Go out and cry! Others think something happened to Haitang! You still have the face to cry here? If I were you, I would have done it earlier Fell to death in the weir pond outside, what are you doing here with a shameless face? You unlucky bastard, if you cry again, I will slap you to death!"

The women standing outside the house, except Mrs. Xiao, all looked at Gao with disgust, their teeth itching with anger.Not only because she humiliated Hongling like this today, but also because the Gao family always relied on being the housekeeper's mother, so she never gave them less anger and assigned them less work.

"Mother, why are you angry with her?" Mrs. Cao persuaded Mrs. Gao, and then said to Hongling, "Are you still crying? Kowtow to your mother quickly to calm her down!"

"Hmph, I won't admit it even if I'm crushed to death!" Gao cursed.

"Then you don't need to kowtow!" Lihua walked into the room, pulled up the tear-stained Hongling and said to Gao Shi, "I'm not a fool, why should I kowtow to you?" "Where did you get it?" Gao said When Lihua said such a sentence, Shi immediately became angry.

(End of this chapter)