Chapter 510

Around five o'clock in the afternoon, Li Kaijian, who had gone to help at Jin Peng's house, returned, carrying a large food box in his hand, which should have been given to Li Kaijian by Jin Peng's family.

The youngest sister Li Ying, who was busy preparing to cook in the kitchen with Li Ye, quickly ran out and nimbly ran to Li Kaijian's side, taking the heavy large food box with both hands.

"Dad, did you bring back dishes? My brother and I were just about to cook!"

Li Kaijian was stunned: "Oh, your brother is back? When did he come back?"

"My brother came back this afternoon," the youngest sister Li Ying nudged her chin toward the kitchen: "Just now my sister said she wanted to eat pickled cabbage fish, and my brother is cleaning it for her in the kitchen!"

Li Kaijian smiled with relief: "What pickled cabbage fish! There's not much oil or fat in it. There's a plate of braised pig's trotters in the food box, hurry up and take it to your sister. She's been exhausted these past few days, she needs to make up for it."

"Oh oh oh~"

Li Ying answered while opening the food box, discovering that the upper and lower layers were actually full of neat, ready-made dishes: braised carp, stewed green beans with meat, cucumber with fried dough sticks...

And the best part was the two large, red, oily pig's trotters, which made one drool at first sight.

If it were forty years later, between a pig's trotter and a basin of crayfish, the latter would definitely be more pleasing to a girl.

But in '85, ninety-nine percent of people wouldn't even glance at crayfish.

Li Ying swallowed her saliva and carried the large pig's trotters into the sisters' room.

Although according to Li Ye's wishes, Li Juan shouldn't be reading or studying tonight, how could Li Juan listen? Even if she had borrowed "divine power" from her brother's head, she still had to work hard herself!

Li Ying put the pig's trotters on Li Juan's desk and sucked her saliva: "Here, Dad brought us back two large pig's trotters. Sluuurp, can you finish them?"

"What do you mean brought them back for us? I heard it just now, Dad brought them for me to eat."

Li Juan tilted her neck, narrowed her eyes, and said with disdain: "Also, it was clearly you who wanted to eat pickled cabbage fish just now, why are you pinning it on me? You still have the nerve to say you're helping brother cook? What food can you cook?"

It turned out that Li Juan had heard every word of the conversation between the youngest sister Li Ying and Li Kaijian just now.

But Li Ying wasn't embarrassed at all and said as a matter of course: "I can kill fish with a rolling pin! I can burn the fire... Are you eating these pig's trotters or not? If not, I'm taking them away!"

"You put them down!"

The older sister Li Juan gave a sharp shout, pressed down on the plate, picked up a pig's trotter, and started eating. Not only was her mouth full of oil, but she also deliberately smacked her lips.

The younger sister Li Ying looked at her older sister and said gloomily: "Looking at you, are you planning to eat both of these pig's trotters all by yourself?"

Li Juan said unclearly: "Mmm, I can't finish three."

Li Ying nodded, turned around, and slowly walked out: "Alright then! Forget it if you're not leaving one for our brother."

Li Juan almost choked, glaring with anger, wishing she could immediately fight her younger sister again.

During the college entrance exam these few days, Li Juan was definitely the object of preferential treatment in the family, but compared to the family's number one brother Li Ye, she was still several grades behind!

If the family knew she was eating alone and not leaving half for Li Ye, what kind of impression would everyone have of her, what kind of view would they have of her?

A greedy girl, a girl who steals food—wouldn't that be shameful?

Looking at her smug younger sister, Li Juan's belly full of anger was helplessly held back.

This time it was her fault; she had only been busy fighting with her younger sister and had forgotten that her brother hadn't eaten yet!

Li Juan swallowed the fatty meat in her mouth hard, picked up the plate, and walked toward the kitchen.

"Hmph, don't think I don't know your little schemes. If I let you take it to brother, you'd steal it yourself later."

"Hmph, I'm not as greedy as you!"

Arriving in the kitchen, Li Ying said to Li Ye: "Brother, Dad brought back two pig's trotters. I can't finish them, I'll give you one."

Li Ye was busy starting the pot and heating the oil, so he said casually: "I'm not eating, you eat first!"

Li Juan said: "I'm full after one. Or how about I cook? Brother, you eat while it's hot, it's so fragrant!"

Li Ye waved his hand and said: "What food are you cooking today? If you can't finish it, give it to Xiao Ying."

"Alright~"

Li Ying, with lightning speed, snatched the large pig's trotter from the plate into her hands.

"Smack smack, mmm mmm mmm~ so fragrant~"

Li Ying had already calculated it:

Older sister doesn't want to give it to me, but brother will definitely let me eat it. You say, whose stomach will this large pig's trotter end up in?

Does that even need asking?

I'm the second smartest person in the whole family! Hehehe~

Han Chunmei came back a bit late today because the parents-in-law and husband in the family had all gone to help at Jin Peng's house, so only the two little ones were eating at home.

So she took a detour and went to buy half a jin of pig's head meat, preparing to make a good dish for her eldest daughter Li Juan: pig's head meat with cucumber.

The child had finally made it to the day of the college entrance exam; she couldn't lack nutrition at the last moment.

Sometimes when Han Chunmei thought about the days over these years, she felt a sense of relief that the bitterness had ended and the sweetness had begun. When she was struggling to raise the two children and lacking food and drink in the previous years, where had she ever thought she could support little Li Juan to take the college entrance exam?

She didn't even dare to think about it, okay?

In this day and age, being able to support a girl to graduate from high school and provide her with an opportunity to take the college entrance exam, the parents would have a lot of face in front of the neighbors.

And now, the eldest daughter was not only about to be admitted to university, but the youngest daughter, under the family's connections, also had a high probability of stumbling into high school. She should be content.

As for the other money and wealth of the Li family, Han Chunmei didn't think about it at all.

Being able to help you raise the two girls is already not bad. What, you still want to divide the family property? Everything in the family belongs to Li Ye.

Han Chunmei was returning home with this mood. As soon as she stepped into the courtyard, she saw her husband sitting under the electric fan in the room drinking soda, one daughter glaring in the kitchen, and the other eating pig's trotters in the kitchen.

And the sole heir to the family property, the little emperor Li Ye, was cooking in the kitchen under the high temperature of July.

"Xiao Ye, why are you cooking? Hurry up and put it down, hurry up and put it down, I'll do it, I'll do it..."

Han Chunmei hurriedly put down the things in her hand and drove Li Ye away from the stove, then turned her head and scolded her own daughter: "Eat eat eat, what time is it and you're already eating? Didn't you see your brother cooking? Are you blind?"

Han Chunmei didn't dare to scold her husband. Li Juan couldn't be scolded during the college entrance exam these two days, so the youngest daughter had to be the unlucky one!

The youngest sister Li Ying looked at her angry mother, blinked her big eyes, and understood the crux of the matter.

She quickly ate the last bit of the pig's trotter in two or three bites and obediently went over to help her mother.

It doesn't matter if I get scolded, as long as it doesn't delay me from eating pig's trotters.

Twenty minutes later, a large basin of pickled cabbage fish was placed on the table, paired with cucumber and pig's head meat, and braised large carp—what a sumptuous dinner.

Li Kaijian was very happy and even opened a bottle of wine, preparing to drink a few cups with Li Ye.

But Li Ye said: "I'm not drinking, Dad. I still have to go to Jin Peng's house to take a look later. You drink a little less too. You snore when you drink too much, which affects Yang Xiaojuan's rest."

"Oh, right right right, then I won't drink. Oh my, I drank seven or eight liang at noon today! Forget it, I'll go sleep in the factory duty room tonight!"

Li Kaijian hurriedly put down the wine bottle and didn't drink a drop more.

The college entrance exam is a big deal. In Li Kaijian's eyes, Li Ye's achievements today were all because he was admitted to university, so no amount of importance attached to it would be excessive.

Then Li Ye said again: "By the way, I promised Xiao Ying one thing before the Spring Festival. If her academic performance improved, I would give her a bicycle so she could go experience life with Aunt Chunlan.

Do you think we should temporarily let her use Yang Xiaojuan's bike, or buy her a new one?"

The Li family had originally thought that since Li Juan was about to go to university, that 26 Phoenix bike should be given to the younger sister, but seeing the posture of the two little girls fighting today, buying another one seemed better.

However, just as Li Kaijian wanted to speak, Han Chunmei vetoed it: "Still buy her a new car? I haven't beaten her yet!

I used to think her poor academic performance was because she was too stupid, but it turned out she had dived into the money pit. As soon as she heard you say that if her academic performance improved she could go make money, she immediately became smart... she just needs a beating."

The youngest sister Li Ying, who was eating fish, instantly raised her head with grievance, looked at her mother, looked at Li Ye, and almost shouted at the top of her lungs, "You lied... how can you not keep your word?"

Li Ye said with a smile: "Xiao Ying is not afraid of being beaten, otherwise her academic performance would have gone up years ago. Since she has made progress now, the family should support her. Anyway, going to the market with Aunt Chunlan isn't very dangerous."

Han Chunmei didn't make a sound and could only look at her husband.

She was strongly opposed to the youngest daughter going out to sell clothes. Being able to study hard like her older sister and find an office job later—wouldn't that be eight times better than being exposed to the wind and sun with Han Chunlan?

"Tsk~"

Li Kaijian thought for a while and finally said: "How about we do as Xiao Ye says! Our culture isn't as high as his. Whether our family can produce another university student still depends on Xiao Ye!"

Han Chunmei had no choice. To tell the truth, Li Juan's achievements today were definitely inseparable from Li Ye. Just the study materials sent back by older brothers and sisters like Li Ye, Li Yue, and Wen Leyu amounted to several large boxes.

【Sigh, let her be! At least there's one promising one among the two girls.】

Han Chunmei sighed and asked about Li Juan's situation in the college entrance exam today.

"Mom, I did very smoothly today... I touched my brother's head at the time, it was truly miraculous..."

The family of five was stunned. Li Ye touched his nose, wondering how many lies he would have to use to cover this up if it turned out to be a lie later?

Han Chunmei was the first to react and hurriedly said to Li Kaijian: "You have to let Mingxiang bring that child Meiwen over once, otherwise if people find out later, won't they hate us to death?"

"Meiwen... I'd better call Mom back!"

The big boss Jin Peng was not only wealthy but also a filial son. Last year, he pulled strings to have a phone installed at home just for the convenience of contacting them far away in the capital.

At this moment, Li Kaijian called over, and soon called back Wu Juying, who was staying for a meal over there.

After Wu Juying returned, she called over her youngest daughter Li Mingxiang.

"Clang~"

A chair was placed in the courtyard, and Li Ye, with a speechless face, was pressed onto it.

Wu Juying, with a serious face, strictly began to command.

"Meiwen, you come first, Yang Xiaojuan, you come next, Xiao Ying, you last... Each person massages for an hour. You are not allowed to tell anyone else! The literary aura gets less the more it's shared, it's not enough even for our own family."

Li Ye: "..."

With this three-hour head massage, even if the fingers of a young girl were incomparably delicate, wouldn't it still press out a high blood pressure?

And Han Chunmei, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but shed tears.

Although her two daughters weren't born to her, they were surnamed Li!