Chapter 16 Let her go

Li Xiaocui is one year younger than her, so she didn't expect that she would fall in love with Shen Muyin. It's no wonder that one of the Shen brothers looks like his father, and the other looks like his mother. Shen Muyin, who looks like his father, is the prettiest. Compared to Shen Muci, I can only say that she is not ugly.

Shen Qingrou also looks like his father, with an outstanding appearance. Faced with such a younger brother and sister every day, I don't know what Shen Muci feels in his heart.

Probably the same mood as when Shen Qingrou secretly mocked her for being thin, dark, and short, but ended up being superior to Shen Muyin. Li Erya didn't want to pay attention to the unsatisfactory Li Xiaocui.

"Humph, I'm so proud of you." Li Xiaocui said sourly.

Li Erya didn't want to explain and concentrated on looking for herbs. After a while, she noticed something unusual behind her. She saw a swarm of bees approaching. She was so frightened that she quickly yelled for her to run away. She found a place to hide and squat down to use it. The basket protects the head.

When the danger was over, she carefully took away the basket and stood up. Li Erya looked around and saw Li Xiaocui, whose face was covered in stings. Then she looked at the stick not far from her, and seemed to understand what was going on.

Seeing that she was seriously injured, but she was cursing in a rage, she probably wouldn't die for a while, so Li Erya calmly collected the honey before sending her home.

"What's going on?"

"Asking you."

"I, I accidentally poked a bee's nest."

Seeing that she didn't dare to slander him, Li Erya gave half of the honey to Madam Li Zheng, told her to take good care of Li Xiaocui and left. From a distance, she could hear Madam Li Zheng cursing.

When passing by the house, Li Erya went in, sat down for a while and then left in a hurry without giving away the honey in her hands. When such good things came into the hands of her parents, she was worried that they would give them all to the child who was not yet one month old.

It's just that Shen Nanzhou and the others probably haven't come back yet. It's quite awkward for her to be alone with Mrs. Shen, and she'll be lazy when there's no one around.

When the sun was about to go down, she hurried home and saw the black face without surprise.

"I came back quite early today." Mrs. Shen said angrily.

"I was worried that you would go home early because you were bored at home alone." Li Erya took out the honey like a treasure, "It's a good thing found on the mountain."

"What is this?" Mrs. Shen was angry again. She had to speak bluntly before she would understand?

How could such a person be worthy of her son? Mu Yin would also take the imperial examination in the future. Thinking of her husband's praise of her youngest son, Mrs. Shen frowned. She could not let her drag her son down.

But the Shen family couldn't divorce her for no reason. With so many worries, Mrs. Shen naturally couldn't give her a good look, but she acted like nothing was wrong, and she was so angry inside.

"Honey, I almost got stung for this. It's a pity that there are no dates, otherwise we might be able to make something that only an emperor can eat." Li Erya grinned.

Mrs. Shen no longer wanted to correct her words. She sat on a small stool under the eaves, looked at the setting sun, sighed, and then looked eagerly at the intersection.

Seeing this, Li Erya put away the honey and went to deal with the herbs.

This wait was until it got dark, and Mrs. Shen couldn't sit still. She held up a lantern and wanted to go further away to see if they would come back.

Li Erya was worried that something would happen to her, so she could only follow her quickly. Fortunately, she heard the sound before she had gone far.

"Mom, we are back."

Hearing her son's voice, Mrs. Shen breathed a sigh of relief. The strength she had been holding on gave out, her feet went weak and she almost fell to the ground.

Li Erya quickly helped her up and said, "Be careful."

"I'm fine, I just tripped a little." Mrs. Shen didn't appreciate it, calmed down, stood up again, and then faced her children and Shen Nanzhou as if nothing had happened.

Li Erya looked at their family and asked about their welfare, silently walking in front holding a lantern.

It seemed that Shen Muyin was coming back so late because he wasted everyone's time, but no one else meant to blame him.

Li Erya was thinking about his medicine hoe and was too embarrassed to interrupt them. He glanced at it and figured they would buy it and not look back.

There was a medicine hoe, but Su Yue half sold it and half gave it away. Shen Muyin gave the rest of the money back to her.

Li Erya took it subconsciously. Seeing that Mrs. Shen seemed dissatisfied again, she hesitated and put it in her pocket.

Shen Qingrou knew Mrs. Shen well, and she was chattering about how Shen Muyin caught a criminal and took a tael of silver as a reward.

In fact, the reward was more than one tael, but he just tipped off the news, so being able to get one tael was already pretty good. Shen Muyin saw Li Erya pricking up his ears and coughed slightly.

Shen Qingrou wanted to talk about the new things she saw in the city, but Shen Nanzhou stopped her with her eyes.

It was late at night, and Shen Nanzhou asked them all to pack up quickly and go back to sleep.

Shen Qingrou then reluctantly calmed down.

Li Erya seemed to have received a pardon and quickly returned to her room with the medicine hoe.

"The dishes and chopsticks haven't been washed yet." Mrs. Shen sighed, but she was unable to stop Li Erya's determined steps.

Shen Nanzhou told her not to worry about this, and it wouldn't matter if she washed it tomorrow.

Mrs. Shen refused to listen and insisted on washing the dishes before going to bed.

With some moonlight, she moved the basin near Li Erya's room and started washing the dishes seriously.

In the room, Li Erya fell asleep with those crisp sounds, and actually had a sweet dream. She dreamed that she was back in that warm little home, cooking delicious food freely.

Sweet dreams are fragile, and she wakes up with nothing, so she can only cook some wild vegetable porridge.

While the others had just woken up, she quickly drank some porridge, took the medicine hoe and basket and went up the mountain.

Mrs. Shen couldn't help but complain a few times because she didn't catch her.

"Mom, it's best if she's not at home. I'll get angry when I see her." Shen Qingrou comforted her.

"Qingrou, here we go again. She's going to lose the face of our Shen family by going out like this." Mrs. Shen frowned, fearing that Shen Nanzhou would hear this.

Shen Nanzhou still heard it, walked up to the mother and daughter, was silent for a moment, and smiled to himself, "What kind of dignity does the Shen family have? Let her do it."

Mrs. Shen didn't know why. It wasn't until she heard Shen Nanzhou talking about what happened in the court that she suddenly realized it. She suddenly felt despair. The emperor wanted to suppress the big families, and the Shen family was one of them. I probably couldn't care less about them.

At the moment he was demoted, their family might have become abandoned. Mrs. Shen asked worriedly, "What will Mu Ci do? Can he still take part in the county examination next spring?"

"It's not a bad idea." Shen Nanzhou said resolutely. Now that they were in this situation, they had nothing to lose.

Shen Muyin listened clearly on the sidelines. The emperor suppressed aristocratic families and did not like courtiers forming cliques, but he still appreciated talented people. However, the coming year was not a good time.

Yesterday, he tasted the first sweetness after his rebirth, and impulsively wrote a letter back to Qidu. He was afraid that something might happen, and he felt a little uneasy. At this moment, he did not dare to rashly dissuade him, lest it would be counterproductive.
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