Chapter 175 – Giving her a hard time (4)
Li Mo paused. He disliked how Hehua was looking at him. He straightforwardly said, “Go back and sit down. The kitchen is small and can’t accommodate too many people.”
Hehua blankly looked at him. Just as she was going to say that it wasn’t a big deal, big aunt noticed Li Mo’s unhappiness and said, “Hehua, Li Mo is just being considerate about the tiring walk here. Come back here and sit with us. Leave the water to them.”
“En.” Hearing these words, Hehua happily returned to the hut.
Li Mo felt quite helpless. He apologetically looked at Li Man.
In contrast, Li Man didn’t think it was a big deal. Mother-in-laws had been giving their daughter-in-laws a hard time since the beginning of time. Li Mo’s parents had already passed away. It was only natural that Li Mo’s aunt wouldn’t let her off easily.
Ah, she was overthinking things. Her face instinctively flushed red out of shyness. Before Li Mo had a chance to notice, she quickly lowered her head and dashed towards the kitchen.
Li Mo though she was annoyed, so he quickly followed after her. When he came into the kitchen, he saw her ladling water into the pot and said, “You don’t have to do that. Little Five already boiled water this morning. It hasn’t been used yet.”
Li Man’s hand paused. She raised her eyes to look at him. “Then -” So, he had made up the excuse of having to boil water to help her out?
“There are some things that I haven’t had time to tell you. There’s not enough time today to clearly explain everything. Big aunt doesn’t have a bad heart. She just has a sharp tongue and likes to nag. Don’t take to heart anything that she says,” said Li Mo. These words were anxiously said. It was obvious that he was worried that she would be genuinely hurt over big aunt’s words.
Li Man sniggered. “You called me out here just to say this? It’s okay. I don’t mind.”
It was great that she wasn’t upset. Li Mo foolishly scratched his head and followed her in smiling. “I was overthinking things.”
“Will you bring the water over?” Li Mo’s older aunt didn’t want to see her, and she had no interest in finding trouble for herself.
“En.” Seeing that she genuinely wasn’t upset, Li Mo finally relaxed. He was faintly smiling as he poured two bowls of water from the jar.
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Inside the eastern hut, big aunt was holding out snacks and using it to get information from Little Five. For example, how much money had Li Mo spent to buy Li Man? How had this woman acted after coming here? Had she tried to incite disharmony between the brothers?
Little Five ate the snacks and shook his head to most of the questions. He said that he didn’t know the answer to them and that she should ask his oldest brother. As for the last question, he answered that older sister was wonderful. It wasn’t just him. His older brothers really liked to her too.
When Li Mo was about to enter the hut, he heard Little Five praising Li Man.
Afterwards, big aunt disdainfully snorted. “I was right. She’s just another vixen. She hasn’t been here long, and she’s already stolen away you and your brothers’ souls.”
“Older sister.” Li Xiangcao meaningfully looked at her older sister, Li Xiangyu.
However, Li Xiangyu glared at her in displeasure. “You only know how to pretend to be a good person. You’re going to be useless forever.”
Li Xiangcao’s face flushed red, and she didn’t say another word of refute.
Li Mo had originally wanted to pretend to have not heard anything, but he felt bad once he heard big aunt starting to scold little aunt. He quickly brought over the water. “Big aunt, here, drink some water.”
Then, he gave the other bowl of water to little aunt.
Holding the bowl, Li Xiangyu looked Li Mo. “Where’s the water for Hehua? She was already thirsty when we were halfway here. Why didn’t you bring a bowl of water for her?”
“Hehua, here, you can have mine. I’m not thirsty.” Little aunt quickly tried to alleviate the situation by giving her bowl to Hehua.