Thanks for the invitation: In ancient times, people shared children

Little Pei was almost inside the house when he remembered how he got out. He hurried to the kitchen to ask Aunt Yu for a pot of hot water to cover up his lie.

Cuimei, curious, pulled her aside and said, "Miss, what are the master and the others talking about? They won't let anyone listen. Could it be that there really is an egg half the size of a child?"

Pei Xiaohai was annoyed when he heard her speak: "I told you not to listen, but you're still asking. I don't know, you should ask your godmother."

As he said this, he pulled his arm back with force and ran away with the kettle in his hand.

Cuimei had been scolded by her several times, and this time, in front of Aunt Yu, she felt a little embarrassed. She withdrew her hand awkwardly and muttered, "She may be small, but she has a big temper."

Aunt Yu dumped the chopped vegetables into the wok and stir-fried them. With a sizzling sound, a faint puff of steam rose up, and the spatula made a clattering sound when it hit the bottom of the wok, making a rather noisy noise. Her laughter was even louder than the noise, and she said with a gloating look, "Serves you right! I told you to get involved in everything all day long. You've become an eyesore, haven't you?"

Cuimei didn't get along well with her. She always felt that she was being lazy under the pretext of serving the old master and the old lady, and only doing light work. When she heard her say that, she immediately became unhappy and said, "Who are you talking about? Don't think I don't know that you've been asking questions in front of the old lady."

Little Pei left the arguments behind him and ran to the backyard. When he passed Shuanzi, he had already run past him, but then he retreated and warned him, "Don't tell my godfather and godmother about me eavesdropping."

Shuanzi: “They know.”

"What?" Pei Xiaohai was a little surprised. "You've already told others?"

"No," Shuanzi said sullenly, still with his head down. "When you run, it makes such a clanging noise that even the old man can hear it."

There were bells on the four bracelets on Pei's hands and feet, and also on the longevity lock on her necklace. It was okay if she walked on tiptoe, but once she ran, the noise was very loud. Just now, when she put the pumpkin outside the window and dodged, she was running away.

Really, she thought she was quick to react.

Pei Xiaohai was a little annoyed:

"Then why didn't Godfather arrest me?"

"Why should we arrest you? You're not a thief." Shuanzi said as a matter of course.

Pei Xiaohai: "But I heard them talking."

Shuanzi: "Just listen, aren't words meant to be heard?"

What he said was completely useless, but there was some inexplicable truth to it, at least that's what Pei Xiaohai thought.

But her godfather and godmother remembered something and called her over and told her not to talk about these things outside or tell Changsui and Baifu.

Little Pei hadn't originally intended to tell anyone, but their insistence on reminding her made her feel uncomfortable. It wasn't until her godfather and godmother also gave Changsui and Baifu the same instructions that she felt balanced.

There must be something wrong with her.

Looking at Changsui and Baifu, who still didn't know that their grandmother had harmed people, she not only didn't want to tell anyone, but also had a strange thought -

Go ahead and have fun as you please. If anyone finds out what's going on, you'll never be able to have fun again.

This thought made her look at Changsui and Baifu with some unconscious pity.

She even almost accepted Momofuku's half-eaten shortbread.

"This is really delicious, sister. The filling is different from yours." Baifu emphasized.

Pei Xiaohai looked at the teeth marks and saliva on it and shrank his neck in resistance: "I don't want it, I want to eat my own."

"But I want to eat yours too." Baifu held up her pastry and stared at Pei Xiaohai's hand eagerly.

Changsui pretended not to care, but stood aside.

The Liu family would give them snacks every few days, but they wouldn't give them too much. They would give them two or three pieces of smaller snacks, or one piece of snack as big as a pastry.

Changsui and Baifu also have some, but they always think that their sister's will taste better. Pei is such a stingy kid, how could he possibly share some with them?

So Baifu thought of taking turns eating with her, but Pei was still not happy.

"Sister, do you dislike me?" Baifu was holding back tears, as if she would cry if anyone dared to say so.

Pei Xiaohai said carelessly: "Occasionally."

As she spoke, she opened her mouth wide and stuffed half of the biscuit into it, grinding it slowly with her teeth and swallowing it slowly. Only a little bit of oil stains and biscuit crumbs were left on her empty hands. If she had freed her tongue, she would have licked it clean.

Baifu was about to cry, but...but...

"Sister, your mouth is so big..."

Chang Sui said in shock.

Baifu stamped her feet: "Sister, you did it on purpose, sister."

Little Pei nodded, covered his mouth and said vaguely: "That's right."

"Mom!" Baifu was angry. He held up half a piece of cake and went to pull Peizhu's clothes to complain, almost crying.

Pei Zhu, who had just changed her skirt, had a few more mimeographed ones on her, and she felt a headache: "If you want to eat that, can't I get you another piece?"

"I don't want it, I want my sister's." Baifu was stubborn like a small stubborn kid.

Pei Zhu: "She ate it all."

"Sister, take it out," Baifu said, stuffing her hand into her mouth, "Just like that... Ugh!"

Before Pei Xiaohai could take the biscuit out of her mouth, she vomited it out herself.

Pei Zhu had no choice but to change her skirt and shoes. Bai Fu, who was crying from vomiting, felt even more uncomfortable when she saw Pei Xiao's deflated cheeks.

I don’t know what she is obsessed with, but Pei Xiaohai doesn’t want to pay attention to her.

Changsui paid attention to her. Seeing that she was crying, he handed his pastry to her to comfort her. But when he was rejected, he was so sad that he started crying too.

Pei Zhu and Liu Renben each held the baby and coaxed him for a long time.

Old Lady Liu Lianhua was annoyed by the noise, so she took Little Pei out and said to her outside:

"Go find Cuimei and Aunt Yu and tell them that tomorrow is a day off. Ask them to go home and have a look around. It'll be cold soon and it'll be hard to travel. Tell Shuanzi too, and tell him to come home if he wants to. If not, just rest and go out for some fun."

Pei Xiaohai was surprised: "They have a family?"

"What are you talking about? How can anyone be homeless?" Old Madam Liu Lianhua flicked her head lightly with her finger. "Don't say such things in front of others."

It made a strange noise, but it didn't hurt at all, and it didn't interrupt Pei's curiosity.

She wondered why they were sold even though they had a home, and whether they were unwanted and abandoned like her.

But Liu Lianhua didn't want to say more to her. She waved her hand and said, "Don't ask questions like that, kid." Then she left.

Pei Xiaohai went to tell Aunt Yu and Cuimei about this. Both of them had happy expressions on their faces, and did not look like they had been abandoned at all.

She didn't want to ask them, so she went to find Shuanzi.

Shuanzi said dully, "There's nothing much to say, Miss. Please stand further away."

Pei Xiaohai took two steps back, and chopped down hard with the axe in his hand, bringing up a gust of wind. With a crisp bang, the big piece of wood was split into two, and some small wood chips bounced up and fell to the ground in all directions.

Okay, if you don’t say it, don’t say it.

Pei Xiaohai was afraid that he would get angry and kill her too.

She is definitely not as strong as wood.

When Pumpkin heard the noise, he jumped out of his pouch without even opening his eyes and ran away at a flash. It was so fast that it was beyond words.