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

Chapter 45 The Little Spy is Really Greedy
"Oh." Li Zi hung her head in disappointment.

"Why are you disappointed? Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. For example, I understand pharmacology, but you don't. I'm strong, but you're weak." Tao Qiuyi raised one foot and shook it in front of Li Zi, pointing at the cloth shoes on his feet. "You can make shoes, but I can't."

When Li Zi thought about it, she suddenly understood.

"Sister-in-law, what you said makes a lot of sense." Li Zi pulled Tao Qiuyi and asked, "Well, sister-in-law, are we going out now so you can teach me how to fight?"

"What are you thinking about?" Tao Qiuyi reached out and tapped her forehead. "Learning skills is not something that can be done in a day or two. First and foremost, we need to take good care of our bodies, and then we can learn skills."

Four? She wasn't just teaching Xiaoli one. When Xiaohuai heard this, he looked at Tao Qiuyi with a puzzled look. An unrealistic thought began to grow in his mind. He... was a little bit unbelievable.

Wei Jingyuan, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, was also startled. Her words included him as well. This little spy was really greedy. Not only did she treat him as a protective umbrella, she also wanted to develop him into a spy.

Cunning, so cunning.

Tao Qiuyi didn't know what the two brothers were thinking. Seeing that Li Zi had a lost expression on her face again, she pulled her to the back of the door and dragged out the backpack. She took off the sack that was pressing on the backpack and put it aside, then took out ten big buns bought from the state-owned restaurant.

"Put it on the leftover chicken soup from last night and heat it up together. After you finish eating the buns, I have something for you to do. Let's take our time in learning the skills. Man is iron and rice is steel. If you skip a meal, you will feel hungry. I didn't have breakfast, and it's almost noon now. I'm already starving." Tao Qiuyi stuffed the big bun into Li Zi's arms.

He picked up the aluminum basin on the stone that was half filled with chicken soup and gave it to Lizi. He pushed Lizi out the door and urged her to go to the kitchen to heat up the food.

Xiao Huai wanted to go with them, but Tao Qiuyi stopped him.

"Xiao Huai, do you still have the ointment I gave you yesterday to apply on your elder brother's wound?" Tao Qiuyi asked.

"There's more." Xiao Huai reached into the pocket of his patched jacket and took out the ointment wrapped in leaves. A faint fragrance spread all around.

"Did you wipe it this morning?" Tao Qiuyi asked again.

"No." Xiao Huai replied.

"Give it to me." Tao Qiuyi held out her hand. Xiao Huai placed the leaf bag in her hand. She took the bag and walked over to Wei Jingyuan. "Sit in the middle of the bed and take off your clothes. I want to see how your back injury is healing."

"No need to look, it's healing well." Wei Jingyuan said decisively, then added, "Your ointment is amazing. I applied it twice yesterday and the pain went away. Even after all the pain today, I didn't feel any pain at all."

"Of course, the ointment I made is the most effective." Tao Qiuyi boasted without any modesty.

"You grew up in the Huang family and rarely left the hospital. Where did you learn pharmacology?" Wei Jingyuan asked.

Tao Qiuyi's heart skipped a beat and he almost crushed the leaf bag in his hand.

It’s bad, it’s going to be exposed again if I’m not careful.

Xiao Huai also stared at her curiously.

Tao Qiuyi rolled his eyes and became aware of something. He leaned closer to Wei Jingyuan's face, and his bright eyes met his dark eyes that were as cold as a pool.

"Do you really want to know?" Tao Qiuyi asked in a soft voice, her warm breath spraying on Wei Jingyuan's face.

She was so close that Wei Jingyuan could see the fine hairs on her face and smell the faint herbal fragrance on her body. His heart skipped a beat and Qingjun's face began to heat up uncontrollably.

"Speak nicely." Wei Jingyuan turned his face away hurriedly.

Seeing him like this, Tao Qiuyi sighed in her heart, what a pure heart! "It seems you don't want to know." Sighing with pretended regret, Tao Qiuyi stood up and distanced herself from him. "I originally wanted to have a good talk with you, oh, forget it."

Wei Jingyuan's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

Xiao Huai looked at the two of them, his eyes watching his nose and his nose watching his heart, completely treating himself as a transparent person.

Turning around and putting the leaf bag in his hand into the pocket of his cotton-padded jacket, Tao Qiuyi walked to the backpack and took out a bag of fruit candies and a bag of White Rabbit milk candies. He walked over and put them on the stone beside the bed, and said to Wei Jingyuan and Xiao Huai, "If you feel bored, eat some candy."

Candy was so precious at that time, mostly used to ask for favors. She actually told them to eat candy when they were bored. What was she thinking? The two brothers Wei Jingyuan looked at her.

Tao Qiuyi didn't notice the brothers' expressions. He walked back to the backpack and continued to take things out.

"Xiao Huai, have they vacated the room next door?" Tao Qiuyi asked casually, taking out the cotton and cloth he had bought from his backpack.

"No." Xiao Huai watched her take out something and answered woodenly.

"Not yet." Tao Qiuyi paused for a moment, then looked back at the sky outside. "Make the room available to us in the morning so we can clean up and arrange things in the afternoon, and have a place to sleep at night."

"If you don't give us the room now, when will you? You still want Li Zi and I to sleep in the woodshed for another night? If you don't pamper them, I'll go find them."

Tao Qiuyi threw the cotton and cloth back into the backpack and walked quickly towards the door.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, something bad has happened." Li Zi ran in hurriedly from outside and bumped into Tao Qiuyi.

"What are you doing! You're making a fuss and scaring me." Tao Qiuyi reached out to support her to prevent her from falling.

"Sister-in-law, I was just shocked." Li Zi's face was full of horror.

"Who scared you?" Without waiting for Li Zi to answer, Tao Qiuyi looked at the aluminum basin in her arms and asked another question. "Why are you still holding the buns and chicken soup?"

Li Zi quickly stuffed the aluminum basin and buns she was holding into Xiao Huai's hands, and pulled Tao Qiuyi out. "Sister-in-law, come with me."

"Xiao Huai, you stay in the room and take care of your elder brother." Tao Qiuyi followed Li Zi out without forgetting to tell Xiao Huai.

Xiao Huai responded.

Pulling Tao Qiuyi to the kitchen door, Li Zi pointed inside with her little hand, "Sister-in-law, take a look for yourself."

"Wow." Tao Qiuyi was startled and looked at the empty kitchen. "There's a thief in our kitchen?"

There weren’t many things in the kitchen before, but now there’s only an earthen stove and some firewood scattered around.

"No, no." Li Zi shook her head and explained, "Grandma and my aunt went to the kitchen to move things this morning. They said they bought everything in the kitchen with their own money and wanted to move it all out. My eldest brother was carried by my cousin to see my third grandfather for treatment. Xiao Huai and I were worried about him and didn't pay attention to the kitchen."

While listening to Li Zi's explanation, Tao Qiuyi walked into the empty kitchen. The firewood that was like a mountain last night was gone. She had to say that Li Hongying, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, were really talented.

After the family split up, not a single pot, pan, or bottle was left behind. This is understandable, but it is rare to see people taking away firewood as well. If the earthen stove and stone water tank could be moved, they would definitely have been taken away as well.

(End of this chapter)