Chapter 25: The Honest Man

When Li Yi woke up, it was already bright. He estimated the time and found that it was almost ten o'clock in the future. Sound of nature novel

In the past, Xiaohuan would always wake him up early. After washing, it was time to go to school to teach the naughty children.

Today is the first day after Chinese Valentine's Day. Logically speaking, Li Yi should be telling the naughty children in the school about Sun Monkey vs. Yellow Wind Monster at this time. But according to his wake-up time today, if he goes to school now, he will wait until he arrives at school. Class is almost over.

After getting dressed, I just got out of bed when I saw Xiao Huan coming in from outside with a basin. He looked up and saw Li Yi and said, "Uncle, you're awake!"

"Why didn't you wake me up this morning?" After sleeping for a long time, he was still a little dizzy when he got up. Li Yi asked, rubbing his swollen head.

"I saw that my uncle was sleeping soundly in the morning, so I didn't wake him up." Xiaohuan put the copper basin on the shelf beside him and said, "My uncle, please wash up first. I went to the school just now and told the children to come back to class tomorrow."

In fact, Li Yi had no intention of giving lectures to the naughty children today. He just washed his face with the water in the copper basin and symbolically wiped it with a dry cloth.

In this era, there was something called soap, which was equivalent to soap in later generations, but it was used by dignitaries to wash their faces or take a bath, and ordinary people could not afford it.

Li Yi has long been thinking about how to make soap. As an Aquarius with a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is unbearable to not be able to wash his face clean every day.

After washing my face, I dipped a willow branch in a little salt and brushed my teeth briefly. Salt is still very expensive in this world, and few poor people use salt to brush their teeth. However, he doesn't want to imitate Xiao Huan, chewing willow branches to clean his teeth... The taste of the stuff is too bitter, which is not a bad sin.

When he walked out of the door, he happened to see Liu Ruyi coming back from the outside. There was a slight sweat on her forehead. She must have just returned from practicing.

She just glanced at Li Yi without saying anything, and went back to her room to take a shower.

The room Li Yi lived in was in the front yard, and the backyard was where sisters Xiao Huan and Liu Ruyi lived. He had never gone in.

Seeing Liu Ruyi's back disappear, Li Yi twitched the corners of his mouth.

She is beautiful and thick-skinned. She can cheat herself hundreds of pennies and still pretend that nothing happened every day. At least Li Yi cannot do this.

"Hey, Xiaohuan is here!"

A rough voice suddenly came from his side, startling Li Yi. When he turned around to look, he saw a burly middle-aged man walking into the yard from outside.

When he saw this big man, Li Yi's body trembled and his face immediately darkened.

This big man and he were old acquaintances.

At that time, Liu Ruyi gave an order, and he turned over and dismounted, picked himself up and threw himself on the horse. Suddenly seeing this familiar face, Li Yi felt a slight pain in his lower abdomen.

"Uncle Fang, what's the matter?" Xiaohuan looked very enthusiastic towards the big man and said with a smile.

The big man smiled honestly, raised the things in his hands, and said, "You can stew the pheasants you just caught from the mountains this morning to replenish your health."

Only then did Li Yi realize that the big man was holding two "unidentified objects" in his hands.

It has a golden crest, colorful feathers on its body, a red belly, and long feathers on its tail - Golden Pheasant!

Li Yi glanced at the big man, was this the pheasant he shot on the mountain?

Hunting and killing nationally protected animals would be illegal in future generations...

However, Golden Pheasant is also a chicken, so it’s good to have meat. Moreover, wild pheasants should be much more delicious than the hens raised by Wu’s family, right?

In an instant, when Li Yi looked at the big man again, he actually felt that his originally hateful face became much more pleasing to the eye.

Xiao Huanmian looked troubled and said: "Uncle Fang, take these two pheasants back and let aunt stew them for the children. We haven't finished eating the pheasants that my uncle picked up two days ago."

Last year's harvest was not good, and every family in the village was having a hard time. The Liu family was a little better off. After all, they were the master's family. At least they wouldn't go hungry. But there were still many people who even needed two meals a day. After careful planning, the big man in front of him belongs to this category. He is afraid that he will not be able to eat meat twice a year. If he accepts this pheasant, not only will the lady blame him, but Xiaohuan himself will not be able to help him.

"Hey, it's a gift from the elders. Don't dare to refuse. Xiaohuan, you can't be so rude..." Li Yi strode over and took the golden pheasant from the big man's hand with a smile on his face, "Um, Uncle Fang is Well, thank you!”

The big man was stunned for a moment, and then said with a naive smile: "I am a rough man, I don't know what to say without saying goodbye. My family said that if the old village master hadn't given us a mouthful of food back then, we would have been hungry now. He's dead, you can't be without conscience, and there's nothing at home, so just take these two pheasants."

The smile on Li Yi's face became even brighter. People in ancient times were really simple and cute...

"Uncle..." The little maid tugged at the corner of Li Yi's clothes and opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say anything.

The big man turned his head and looked at Li Yi. Seeing his thin figure, he laughed innocently, reached out and patted his shoulder, and said, "My uncle is so thin, so he should take some supplements!"

There was a sudden strong force on his shoulders, and Li Yi staggered and almost fell to his knees.

The big man was stunned again, then scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "I'm so sorry, I have a strong hand, I forgot that you are a scholar, weak body, please don't blame me..."

Li Yi's face twitched a little, and he wondered if this guy's honesty was fake...

"Well... I'll go back first, my wife is still waiting for me at home!" The big man rubbed his hands and said a little embarrassedly.

"Goodbye, Uncle Fang!"

Watching the big man disappear from afar, Xiao Huan sighed and said, "Son-in-law, you shouldn't have accepted these two pheasants just now."

Li Yi rubbed his still painful shoulder and asked in confusion, "Why?"

"The master had done a favor to Uncle Fang's family before, and now there are only two young ladies left in the family. Uncle Fang often sends some things over, and some of the master's old brothers from the past also help with anything on weekdays..." The little girl frowned and said, "On weekdays, the young ladies don't let Xiao Huan accept these things, and their lives... are not easy."

If the two hens in his hand were from the Wu family, Li Yi would definitely kill and pluck the chickens without any psychological burden, one for fried chicken steak and the other for chicken soup...

But after hearing what Xiao Huan said, he suddenly felt that the pheasants in his hand were much heavier.

It is not good to accept favors for no reason. Li Yi thought about it and said, "How about this, we cook two pheasants and send some to them as a return gift, how about it?"

The little maid's eyes lit up when she heard this, and said, "Okay, okay, the food made by the son-in-law is so delicious, they will definitely like it."

Li Yi smiled, put the pheasant away, waved his hand, and said, "Pack up and go to the mountain to pick some fresh mushrooms. We will eat chicken stewed with mushrooms today!"