Chapter 10: , Ximen Qing

Past events flashed through his mind, Li Heng deliberately shouted in a hoarse voice: "Who is stealing trees?"

"Ah?"

Hearing the sudden voice, Yang Yingwen was startled, her body stiffened a bit, and it took a long time to react.

Looking around, she saw a face that was smiling but not smiling.

She instantly breathed a sigh of relief, patted her full chest, and complained: "It's you, what are you doing pretending to be a ghost? You scared me to death."

Later she asked: "Why did a lazy person like you come into the mountain?"

Li Heng was instantly unhappy, his eyebrows raised: "No, in your eyes, I am such an image? Very lazy?"

"Heaven! You are still not lazy? You are still embarrassed to say it, your skin is whiter than city people, everyone behind your back says you are like an embroidered lady." Yang Yingwen retorted unceremoniously.

Li Heng stretched his head over, curious: "What else do people say about me behind my back?"

Yang Yingwen tilted her head to look at him and said seriously: "It's better not to ask, there's nothing good to say."

Li Heng was stunned, "I seem to treat people sincerely and friendly on weekdays, is my reputation so bad?"

Yang Yingwen heh, attacked ruthlessly: "Are you really stupid or fake stupid?

Just the wicked thing you did by tricking Chen Zijin into bed, go and ask around yourself, who dares to let their daughter contact you now?"

Exposed, Li Heng's face couldn't hold up, and he retorted angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, we are in mutual love."

"What's the use of you blowing your beard and staring at me? It's not me who is chewing the tongue behind my back."

After Yang Yingwen finished a sentence, she still felt unsatisfied and continued to stimulate him: "Besides, you have the face to do such a thing, and you don't allow others to say a few words."

Li Heng pointed at her, very depressed: "So we have been friends for so many years, and you don't trust me?"

Yang Yingwen said: "You are not without a criminal record, you were a rotten boy in the first year of junior high."

Damn it! Exposing shortcomings, this day can't be chatted, Li Heng passed her, ready to drag the tung tree she chopped down home.

Seeing that this girl was still following him, and not speaking.

Then he turned his head: "Hey! Li Heng, don't be like this, I finally found a dry dead tree, ready to take it home to start a fire..."

Before she could finish, Li Heng turned his head: "You just tell me, is this mountain our old Li family's or not?"

Before she finished speaking, Li Heng turned his head: "Just say whether this mountain is our old Li family's or not?"

Hearing this, her mouth opened, knowing she was in the wrong.

Li Heng spent nine oxen and two tigers to drag the tung tree out of the mountain, but saw that this girl was always following him, and not speaking.

So he teased her: "Beg me! Say something nice, and I'll give you this tree."

Yang Yingwen was hard-hearted: "You are flirty, don't even think about it, at most I'll find another one."

"Then you go find it, I'm going home, thank you for helping me chop the tree."

Saying that, he carried the tree on his shoulder and was about to leave.

Didn't expect this girl to be indifferent, looking at him straight in place.

Li Heng turned his head to examine her face for a while, and finally couldn't help but open his mouth: "What are you doing standing there? Go, I'll send you home."

Yang Yingwen didn't appreciate it: "Don't, I can't afford it, I don't want others to gossip about us behind our backs."

Li Heng raised his eyebrows: "What do you mean? Try saying that again? Do you think it's shameful to walk with me?"

Victory is enough, stop when you see it, Yang Yingwen smiled earthily, didn't continue to provoke him, and turned to walk into the mountain.

Knowing her temper after knowing her for so many years, Li Heng knew she wasn't really angry, so he put the tree in a wide place so as not to block the road, and then followed.

After finding two mountains in a row, heaven rewards hard work, and found another dry pine tree, but this boundary was no longer the old Li family's.

But so what.

According to the old saying, stealing firewood is not stealing, stealing it is ability.

As long as you are not caught on the spot, and not too much, everyone tacitly closes one eye and opens one eye. After all, living in the countryside, who hasn't done this kind of dog-shit thing?

Whose bottom is clean?

The dry pine tree was big, chopped into four sections, and bundled into three loads of firewood. Li Heng and Yang Yingwen ran back and forth four times before moving them out of the mountain.

At this time, both of them were sweating like rain, already exhausted, tired like dogs, tired and not like appearance.

Passing by a mountain spring, they happily lay on the ground and drank their fill, washed their hands, washed their faces, and then had time to sit and rest for a while.

She asked: "Grandma Chun passed away, Zijin actually didn't come back, do you still have contact?"

Li Heng shook his head: "No, but her sister sent a bag of study materials to me yesterday afternoon."

Yang Yingwen was surprised: "Chen Zitong sent it to you? Lie to ghosts, you have already done that to her sister, didn't she hate you to death?"

Li Heng said angrily: "Okay, okay, is this matter finished? Can it be turned over?"

Yang Yingwen said that she really didn't mention it again, and after the two chatted for a while, they went back to their homes and found their mothers.

The tung tree is the best material for starting a fire. Li Heng left it to her, and then only wanted to carry a piece of dry pine tree away.

But she didn't let him, firmly split it equally. Also said that she had already taken a big advantage.

Li Heng pushed her several times, but couldn't beat her, so he had to follow her.

Before parting, he asked again: "Really don't let me help you send you home?"

Yang Yingwen refused very simply, "Spare me, just pretend you don't know me in the village in the future, I still have to marry in the future."

Damn it!

White-eyed wolf who turns his face faster than turning a book, Li Heng cursed secretly, carrying the wood on his right shoulder, rabbit in his left hand, and rushed to the crossroads.

Li Yan never knew what it meant to be polite when returning to her maiden home. Before she even entered the door, she shouted into the house in a flurry:

"Little brother, I heard people say you got lucky and hit a wild rabbit. Is it true?"

Li Heng had just finished killing the rabbit and was preparing to skin it. Seeing her run so fast, he immediately reminded her nervously:

"Big sister, walk slower. Be careful not to trip."

"It's nothing, I'm being careful."

Seeing such a large rabbit, Li Yan was especially happy. Her eyes lit up as she touched it and said:

"So much meat, I'm afraid it must be over four jin. This is a good dish. Little brother, add more rice when you cook. I'm eating here tonight."

"……"

These words were entirely within Li Heng's expectations, so he nodded and agreed.

Next, the two siblings squatted at the back door to pluck the rabbit, one on each side, and soon it was cleaned.

Behind them, the second sister returned from cutting pig grass, carrying four large baskets in one go. Two baskets of grass were for the cow, and two were to be chopped up to cook as pig feed.

In the middle, Li Lan asked him: "Was it you who chopped the dry pine tree on the ridge outside?"

Li Heng took a kitchen knife to gut the rabbit, not even lifting his head, and said yes.

Li Lan asked again: "There's only half left, where did the other half go? Why didn't you bring it all back?"

At this moment, the big sister suddenly interjected: "I know, I know, it's at Yang Yingwen's house. I saw it when I passed by their door on the way down."

Speaking of this, Li Yan asked him foolishly: "Little brother, that's not right. How come Yang Yingwen has one more tung tree than you?

You took a big loss here. How about I go find her and get half of the tung tree back?"

Li Heng: "……"

Li Lan: "……"

Oh my! What on earth is inside this big sister's head?

Could it be all bean dregs?

She really brings up whatever shouldn't be brought up; she has absolutely no sense of the situation.

Li Heng hurriedly spoke up: "Big sister, no need. It was me who went to catch the wild rabbit, which delayed the work."

Li Lan was not so easily fooled. Hearing about the tung tree, she immediately remembered something. She stopped chopping the pig grass, got up, and went to the back mountain.

Not long after, she found the tung tree based on her memory, but by now the tree was gone, leaving only a tree stump as thick as a rice bowl in its place.

Li Lan bent down to examine the cut; it was quite fresh, and she immediately knew what was going on.

Yesterday, while pulling pig grass, she had seen from far away that this tree was dead, but she hadn't been free at the time and couldn't get away. She didn't expect that as soon as she turned her back, it would be given to a woman by that spendthrift.

Returning home, Li Lan didn't mention the tung tree at all, only waiting until the big sister wasn't around to suddenly say:

"I can understand Chen Zijin, after all, she is quite a beautiful person. But how could you bring yourself to do it with that Yang Yingwen?"

It wasn't that she thought Yang Yingwen was ugly, but her appearance and temperament were not in the same realm as Chen Zijin's; there was no comparison.

Among the neighboring villages, as a beauty herself, she only recognized Chen Zijin as her peer.

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