Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 223 Pear against Aunt
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Tao Qiuyi put down the dead tree, clapped his hands and said to Li Zi, "Li Zi, the axe is in the backpack, bring it to me, and then take the pheasant and rabbit to the kitchen."

"Okay." Li Zi put down the backpack, took out the axe from the backpack and handed it to Tao Qiuyi.

Tao Qiuyi stretched out his hand to take the axe, but it was snatched away by a large hand. He glanced at his empty hand and looked up at Wei Jingyuan who had taken the axe.

"What are you doing?" Tao Qiuyi asked puzzledly.

"I'll do these jobs from now on." After saying that, Wei Jingyuan walked over to the dead tree with his axe and squatted down. With a flick of his hand, the branches on the dead tree were chopped off.

Regardless of the size of the branch, he cut it down with one stroke. It was exactly the same as when Tao Qiuyi cut the branches. Li Zi was stunned by what she saw.

Xiao Huai, who came out of the kitchen after hearing the noise in the yard, was also confused.

Brother, you are very different from before.

"I didn't realize you were so strong." Tao Qiuyi teased Wei Jingyuan with a smile. Hearing footsteps at the door, he guessed that Zhou Mei had finally come to her senses and come in.

She winked at Li Zi, who understood and went to the kitchen with the pheasant and rabbit.

Just as he was about to say that he didn't have this much strength before, Wei Jingyuan saw Zhou Mei walk in from the corner of his eye and decisively swallowed his words.

Taking the pheasant and rabbit from Li Zi's hand, Xiao Huai whispered something to Li Zi.

Then, Xiao Huai carried the pheasant and rabbit into the kitchen, and Li Zi came over and asked Tao Qiuyi, "Sister-in-law, Xiao Huai asked me to ask you, the bath water is boiling in the pot, do you want to take a bath first or eat first?"

In the kitchen, Xiao Huai's face instantly turned dark when he heard Li Zi's words.

Wei Jingyuan paused in chopping wood, looked up at Li Zi, and then at Tao Qiuyi.

"Take a shower first." Tao Qiuyi chose to take a shower first without hesitation.

The two dead trees were quite large, and it would take Wei Jingyuan some time to chop them into pieces suitable for burning in the fireplace. She wasn't hungry yet, so she went to shower and wash her hair first, so she could come out and eat.

Tao Qiuyi walked briskly into the house to get some clothes to change into.

"I want to take a shower after coming back from going up the mountain. I don't know what I went up the mountain for." Zhou Mei, who heard them talking, walked up to Wei Jingyuan and looked at him hesitantly.

Wei Jingyuan hadn't said anything yet.

"What else can sister-in-law do up the mountain?" Li Zi said first. "Don't you need time to find all those herbs in the basket? And don't you need time to chase those two rabbits and pheasants?"

"Won't it take time to find two dead trees this big? Won't it take time to knock them down? Won't it take time to drag them back?"

"My aunt doesn't go up the mountain to chop firewood or look for herbs, so she can talk without any back pain."

"My eldest uncle and my third uncle went up the mountain to chop firewood. It took them half a day to bring back a bundle of firewood. Why didn't my eldest aunt ask them what they were doing up the mountain?"

"Our eldest sister-in-law has an unbreakable habit of bathing and washing her hair every time she comes back from the mountains. That's because she loves cleanliness. I don't know what my aunt has in mind."

"You..." Li Zi's words left Zhou Mei speechless. She raised her hand and wanted to slap Li Zi.

Li Zi was so scared that she covered her head with her hands, waiting to be beaten. The familiar pain did not come, and she was a little confused.

Zhou Mei struggled to withdraw her hand, but failed after several attempts. Panic-stricken, she could only ask, "Wei Jingyuan, I'm your aunt. What do you want to do?"

"Auntie, unable to gain an argument with Li Zi, raised her hand to hit her. I wanted to ask, 'Auntie, what are you doing?'" Wei Jingyuan asked instead. The hand that held Zhou Mei's arm didn't exert much force, but it was like a pair of pliers, preventing her from retracting it no matter how hard she tried.

Hearing her eldest brother's voice, Li Zi lowered her hands from her head and looked over. She saw her eldest brother holding her aunt's arm, and no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't get free.

In the past, no matter if grandma, great aunt, third aunt, great uncle or third uncle beat her, Xiao Huai would stand in front of her and take the beating for her when she was there. If Xiao Huai was not there, she would take the beating herself.

Today, big brother... was defending her, and tears were in Li Zi's eyes.

"I..." Zhou Mei's eyes dodged for a moment, then she thought of a good reason. "I hit her because she spoke rudely to me."

Hearing this, Li Zi's face suddenly turned pale and her heart was in suspense. In the past, when she was beaten by her eldest brother, her grandmother, eldest aunt, and third aunt always used this sentence to evade her eldest brother.

And then... then my brother believed it.

Wei Jingyuan's expression suddenly turned ugly.

He was very familiar with this because he remembered seeing Li Zi being beaten several times before. Before he could ask what was going on, his grandmother, aunt, and aunt had already said this.

Today, he saw with his own eyes that his aunt could twist the facts and put the blame on Li Zi. It was conceivable that Li Zi had also been wrongly accused in the past.

Shaking off Zhou Mei's arm, Wei Jingyuan said in a deep voice, "Aunt, please tell me, what did Li Zi say that was wrong? Which of her words was disrespectful?"

He was very surprised to hear his sister say such harsh words for the first time. He knew that Li Zi was a weak and timid person. If it weren't for Xiao Huai protecting her, she would have been bullied to no end.

Today, she actually made her aunt, who was always eloquent, speechless.

What does it mean? It means that something the aunt said at the gate of the yard irritated Li Zi.

Her arm was suddenly thrown away, and Zhou Mei stumbled back a few steps, staring at Wei Jingyuan in disbelief. She was flustered and wondered, what had happened to him today? Why was he suddenly speaking up for the girl?

He also questioned her as an elder.

She was told that Xiaoli was wrong, but of course she couldn't say it. Zhou Mei gritted her teeth and said, "She's talking back to her elders."

After hearing this, Wei Jingyuan suddenly smiled, a smile bitter and full of self-blame. How blind he had been to blindly believe the lies of these elders.

"Li Zi, well done." Tao Qiuyi came out of the house holding clothes and gave Li Zi a thumbs up with a smile.

Although she was in the house, her hearing was excellent, and she heard the conversation between the three people in the yard clearly. Only then did she realize that Li Zi's fighting ability was quite good.

Li Zi confronted Zhou Mei to protect her, which shows that her love for Li Zi was not in vain.

"Sister-in-law." When Li Zi saw Tao Qiuyi, she ran towards her as if she had seen a savior.

Holding the clothes in one hand and supporting Li Zi's shoulders with the other, Tao Qiuyi said softly, "Don't be afraid, your sister-in-law is here."

Li Zi was comforted instantly, and her heart finally settled down.

Patting Li Zi on the shoulder, Tao Qiuyi walked over and glanced at Wei Jingyuan first. His eyes turned a little colder when he looked at Zhou Mei. "Auntie, you have so much free time! You still have time to meddle in other people's business. It seems that the money and tickets you lost have been found."

This sentence made Zhou Mei so angry that she wanted to hit her. Losing the money and tickets was an eternal pain in Zhou Mei's heart.

"Don't you know who stole my money and tickets?" Zhou Mei looked at Tao Qiuyi with gritted teeth.