Twenty-seven Flying Eaves and Wall-Running Luo Xiaosan

  Luo Da indeed did not disappoint Li Wei's expectations, and the next day after school he actually went home with Li Wei and their little group, which made his younger brother Luo Er stare at him in surprise, making Luo Da a bit unnatural.

  Li Wei gave him a sidelong glance, thinking to herself that this guy probably thought he was some kind of phoenix or something, and today suddenly returning to being a flightless bird was a bit unaccustomed. It seemed like she had the opportunity to remind him that he wasn't exactly a good bird himself.

  Moreover, don't look at Luo Dawei coming to learn kung fu for just a few days, but as soon as he arrived, the rest of them immediately conceded defeat.

  No matter what action, as long as Old Master Cheng teaches once, Luo Da can remember and do it correctly, almost perfect. This makes Old Master Cheng unable to help but praise him by patting his head: "Good job, good job, a rare clever kid."

  Li Wei took a look and found that her function as a monitor and assistant teacher was completely useless on Luo Da, even the small whip she used to hit him didn't get a chance.

  And when her grandfather taught her the moves, she really couldn't remember them very well, only slightly better than the others except for Luo Da. So Li Wei let go and made good use of it, letting Luo Da supervise the rest, just in time to free herself up to practice piano.

  Twinkling and sparkling, the whole sky is full of little stars.

  Highly suspended in the sky, like a gem shining brightly.

  Chirp chirp chirp chirp, chirp chirp chirp chirp.

  Chirp chirp chirp chirp, chirp chirp chirp chirp.

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  A simple tune, but one that Li Wei practiced over and over again. The more she practiced, the more proficient she became. And the better it sounded.

  Before going to school, Li Wei had taught the twins. So, as Li Wei's playing became more and more fluent, Li Lin was also attracted over. She moved a small stool from under her buttocks to sit down beside Li Wei and watch her sister play the violin.

  Li Lin watched for a while and felt that her sister was just pulling the strings back and forth. It's really simple. She got a little itchy: "Sister, let me play for a bit?"

  Li Wei ignored her and continued playing on the ground.

  Li Lin asked her sister twice in a row but she didn't respond. She couldn't help feeling itchy in her hands and reached out to touch the guqin.

  Li Wei was guarding against her. Seeing the little paws stretched out, she quickly twisted her body and scolded: "Go play on one side, I'm busy and have no time to bother with you."

  Li Lin pouted unhappily and muttered: "What's so great about it, I don't care anyway."

  Li Wei ignored her and continued chattering away.

  Li Lin was rebuffed by her sister and uninterestingly shifted her target, walking over to flirt with Wu Feng who was following behind in a horse stance: "Wu Feng, shall we go find Gu Liwei to play jump rope? Yesterday she said her mom bought her a particularly beautiful skirt in the city, let's go take a look?"

  Li Wei cursed in her heart: Good-for-nothing, all you know is eating and dressing!

  Wu Feng was also slightly moved, relaxed her posture and took a glance at the foreman Luo Da in front of her. Before she could even ask for leave, Luo Da ruthlessly lashed out with his whip, not even saying a word to her as he continued to make her stand at attention.

  Wu Feng pursed her lips and didn't dare to make a sound, continuing to stand still. Li Lin, however, was unhappy and glared with wide eyes, saying loudly: "Luo Jianhua, why did you hit someone? I'll tell my grandfather."

  She thought the only one who could calm Luo Da down was her grandfather. As for her sister, at most she just wasn't afraid of Luo Da.

  Luo Jianhua remained still, as if he hadn't heard anything.

  Li Wei scolded, "Li Lin, what are you yelling about here? Can't you see everyone is busy with serious matters? Go play somewhere else!"

  Li Lin still didn't dare to speak loudly in front of her sister, who was the kind of person that dared to argue with their parents and even hit Li Lin without asking for permission from them first. Even her grandfather took her sister's side. From past experiences, Li Lin knew better than to mess with her sister.

  But... Li Lin suddenly found herself an outsider. This feeling was terrible, and it made Little Li Lin's heart feel very uncomfortable.

  Li Wei saw that Li Lin was unhappy and, before she made a scene, said: "I'll give you two choices. Either go take a look at Guliwei's new dress or practice martial arts with them. If you just mess around here, humph!"

  The threat is written all over his face.

  Li Linke was not someone who could eat a loss in front of her, she pouted and said disdainfully: "I'm going to find Guliwei, I won't bother with you guys anymore, humph!" After that, she ran off.

  Li Wei's hands continued to tremble, but in her heart she was disappointed. This dead girl was too useless, only knowing how to be beautiful.

  Li Wei arranged a training course for Luo Da and others, five times a week, with Wednesday and Sunday off.

  On the second day of school after the first Wednesday break, Li Wei found that Luo Da actually had some signs of a bruised nose and face. After thinking about it, she understood that Luo Da must have gone to practice with someone during the break, and his schedule was quite tight. It's not clear if it was those few people who beat him up in the small woods that day.

  Considering that I not only gave them free lessons, but also had to pay for cold water and drinks, others didn't mind, they were all good kids, except for Luo Da, who never listened to instructions and even had a hint of disdain towards me.

  So Li Wei made a deal with Luo Da: she would learn kung fu from him, but in return, she had to help take care of his sheep after class.

  This is the only source of dairy products for her family and an essential ingredient for her growth and beauty.

  Then Luo Da followed the crowd to finish his homework, brought a few sheep that had finished their training, and took the milking sheep to the riverbank grassland for grazing, becoming a shepherd boy. Li Lianhui and Luo Er thought this was really interesting, and they rushed to follow, and three shepherd boys were born.

  Li Wei gradually discovered that something was not right, this sheep's milk yield was decreasing day by day. This morning, Li Wei squeezed the udder for half a day but only got a little milk out. Feeling frustrated, she looked at the goat's udder again, but couldn't see any changes after watching it every day, so she gave up.

  In the evening, after a few more were trained, Li Wei had them line up in her house's simple shower shed made by her grandfather and took turns taking showers. Er Baozi and Wu Feng went home to change their clothes, as for Luo Da Luo Er, Li Wei saw that Luo Nainai was busy with three children, so she simply let them each bring a set of clothes to put in her house, her mother had just bought a washing machine and didn't need to do it by hand, so the two brothers could change into clean clothes after taking showers.

  Li Wei couldn't stand the people around her being dirty like some kids every day, especially since they sat in front of and behind her every day. So she made a point to supervise their hygiene habits with great enthusiasm. For this reason, Li Wei sometimes even used a comb and scissors to give haircuts to several boys, and her technique was getting better and more impressive.

  I'm glad that in the future if all else fails I can become a barber.

  Today, Li Wei urged a few people who had finished bathing and changed clothes. Without Li Wei saying anything, Luo Da very consciously took the sheep away, and Li Lianhui and Luo Er both followed with excitement to play.

  Li Wei threw all the clothes they had taken off into the washing machine, thought for a moment, and decided to go see how they were herding sheep. How did they manage to lose all the sheep's milk?

  He picked up a small bamboo basket and went to the small river at the village entrance.

  She thought of just going to take a look, but if she went empty-handed and was seen by Luo Da and the others, Li Wei estimated that Luo Da would suspect her of being a wealthy landlord like Zhou Bo Pi, which was certain. So it's better to get some cover, besides, she also wanted to pick up a few pebbles, and in a few days ask Grandpa to build a small pool to raise a few goldfish or small turtles. Last time she went to the free market on Changjiang Road, she saw people selling them.

  Li Wei carried a basket to the riverbank at the village entrance, took a look around, and didn't see any of the little ones. She felt annoyed and knew that Luo Da was not an honest guy. After taking another careful look, she saw her sheep, which were tied up on this side of the river in a small grove, lowering their heads to nibble at the green grass on the ground. But where had the shepherd boys gone?

  Li Wei looked around, and on the other side of the river, there was a group of big and small children playing, but not what she was looking for. In the distance, in the deeper and slower part of the river, three naked boys were playing in the water, splashing water everywhere.

  Li Wei's eyes are quite good now, but the distance is a bit far, and they're all naked, so there aren't many distinctive features to speak of, although the numbers can be matched, it's also not certain.

  Li Wei picked up pebbles while slowly moving towards the three naked kids, but they were swimming around like loaches, making it hard to tell if they were the wild bathers she knew.

  At last, Li Wei saw the clothes placed on a big stone on the shore. It was neither Luo Da nor Luo Er, but who else could it be?

  Li Wei was so angry, she had just finished taking a bath and ran out to play with water. What's the point of washing up? It's all for nothing! Li Wei glared at the pile of clothes, wishing she could take them away so they couldn't go home, but she didn't want to be like Zhu Bajie (a character from Journey to the West known for being greedy and lustful). Although those little brats weren't beauties either.

  Fortunately, the water was not deep, just reaching their waists, and there was no great danger, and not far away were adults washing clothes.

  Li Wei was searching for colorful and patterned pebbles while thinking to herself, even if they weren't taking care of the sheep seriously, at least they were letting them eat grass. Especially when she saw Luo Da playing around for a bit before running over to switch the sheep to another tree to graze, probably because he was worried the sheep wouldn't be full.

  Then why is the sheep's milk getting less and less?

  The cool and refreshing creek, Li Wei wore her self-made denim shorts and a small white T-shirt bought from the free market, walking in the creek to find fun, the sand and stones at the bottom of the water tickled her feet, feeling very comfortable, slowly putting down the sheep's milk matter, focusing on finding pebbles with the kids.

  As the sun sets in the west, several children start to come ashore and begin to dress. Li Wei suddenly discovers that the creek water has become somewhat murky, looks up upstream, and sees a large flock of sheep being driven by an old man to cross the river and drink water.

  Li Wei hurried ashore, thinking that after the sheep had all crossed the river, she would wash her hands and feet. She figured those few young ones should also be getting ready to head back home.

  Like this, Li Wei watched as a group of sheep slowly crossed the river, and the water quickly became clear again. She began to wash her hands on the riverbank and rinse her small feet wearing plastic sandals. Then she submerged the bamboo basket containing pebbles in the water to remove the mud and sand. Finally, she stood up and saw that several little ones had already put on their clothes and were saying something.

  When Li Wei looked up and saw the small woods where the sheep were tied in the distance, she suddenly understood why her family's sheep had not been working hard and did not love producing milk.

  All that was seen was a large ram with beautiful curved horns, behaving intimately with the sheep in her household, while the shepherd was driving it away with a small stick, letting it follow the flock in front.

  Sweat! She's talking about her family and sheep falling in love!

  If it really comes down to talking about love, Li Wei wouldn't be opposed to it, and it would also result in a few more little sheep.

  Li Wei followed Luo Da and the others back home, ignoring Luo Da's suspicious looks. As soon as she got home, she found her mother and told her about letting the big sheep have a baby, and her mother was very agreeable, immediately calling her father to take the sheep to Old Li's house in the village to find a mate for their little sheep.

  These are not what Li Wei is worried about, but it also means that for the next five months, she won't have any goat's milk to drink. She mentioned this to her mother, who was chopping dumpling fillings, and her mother thought for a moment: "What's so good about drinking that stuff? It has a strong smell of mutton, I think Xiaolin and Xiaohui don't like it either, and your grandfather only drinks it because he doesn't want to waste it. Don't think I don't know, you use the leftover milk to wash your face, hands, and feet. So, if there isn't any, then there just isn't any."

  Li Wei used her old mom's bath without being seen, otherwise she would have more ideas.

  "I love drinking milk, mom. Why don't we buy another one? I still want to grow taller." A cup of milk a day makes a strong Chinese person.

  "Tall, who told you that drinking goat's milk can make you tall? Why aren't the goats themselves big and tall then? If you said cow's milk makes you tall, I might have believed it." Old Mother Li's knife flashed with a cold light as she stared at the meat filling on the cutting board, not even glancing at Wei.

  It's not that I'm afraid of my mom, it's just that my mom is uncultured. Li Wei said helplessly: "Oh, then you buy me a cow, I'll definitely grow up to look like a cow, really."

  The old lady also heard that it wasn't a good thing to say, and her tone turned unpleasant: "Go on, go play somewhere else, don't mess around here." She chased Li Wei away.

  It's estimated that not drinking sheep's milk for a few days won't affect growth, let's talk about it later. Li Wei thought while practicing the erhu to relieve boredom, if it really doesn't work out in a few days, she'll just buy a sheep herself with her own money, anyway there are already people raising sheep nearby, no need to waste it.

  In the evening, my mother's pork and celery dumplings were cooked. She first picked a large bowl and asked Li Wei to send it to Lao Nai Nai in the front yard. The neighbors are all quite good, especially Lao Nai Nai's zongzi during Dragon Boat Festival, with dates, peanuts, green beans, etc., four corners pointed and looked beautiful and tasted fragrant. Unlike her mother, who only used glutinous rice or big yellow rice, each one was wrapped like a silly big guy, stupid, like Lao San Jiu Ma's waist.

  Li Wei looked at the bowl of dumplings, which was barely enough for Luo San and Luo Er to eat. Grandma Luo probably wouldn't get any. It seemed a bit insufficient, but her mother didn't make that many either. On the way out, she took a detour to her family's baozi and mantou production workshop, and casually grabbed a few buns and bean paste buns. Now there was enough, and Grandma Luo wouldn't have to cook dinner.

  When Li Wei arrived at Old Lady Luo's house, the old lady was tending to her vegetable garden in front of the house. Li Wei greeted her loudly and said: "Old Lady Luo, my mother asked me to bring you some dumplings." The old lady was a bit hard of hearing.

  The old lady saw Li Wei coming and smiled: "Look, your mom, thinking of me when eating something, thank your mom for me, little Ming."

  "Grandma Luo, don't be polite, where's Little San? I haven't seen that little rascal who needs a rope to tie him up."

  "The stinky kid is sleeping in the house, otherwise I wouldn't dare let go, that naughty one, has no bounds." Old Lady Luo was deeply tormented by the naughty bag.

  Li Wei followed the old lady into the house, putting dumplings and buns into a small basin that the old lady had taken out. She carried her bowl and said goodbye to Luo Nainai before heading home.

  Her home and the Luo's were adjacent front and back yards, with the Luo's being next to the Lin family's place by the side of the road. Li Wei had just turned past the small alley in front of the Luo's house onto the street, walking along the wall of the Luo's yard when a small tile suddenly fell from the sky, almost brushing against Li Wei's hair as it passed by, giving her a big fright.

  Who is this? How can you be so shameless?! Or, who wants to attack me on purpose?!

  Li Wei hastily jumped aside and looked around, but there was no one. She then raised her eyes to look at the high place where the tile had flown from, and felt exasperated.

  Only the small house on top of Luo Nainai's courtyard wall, where Luo San, that naughty kid who was said to be sleeping in the house, was pinching a small tile and sitting on top of the house, hee hee, smiling at her!

  This is going to be the death of me, doesn't this kid know that being hit on the head with a tile will make one's head crack and bleed? Just now when I entered the courtyard, I didn't see any ladders or anything, and I don't know how this kid climbed up. The house may not look very big, but it must be over two meters high.

  Li Wei wanted to shout for Luo Nainai to get Luo San down, but thinking of Luo Nainai's legs and feet, she gave up. Anyway, she didn't have anything important to do, so she might as well exercise her body. She also didn't know where Luo Da had gone, otherwise it would be a good idea to take care of his younger brother.

  Li Wei went around the wall to her house's side alley, where Lin Fourth Uncle had piled up a lot of sand and rocks on the path behind Luo's house, just enough to step on to reach the small rooftop. Li Wei placed the big bowl on a rock, while climbing the wall she was fiercely thinking: Luo Xiaosan, you wait, let you casually take things to hit me, wait until I get up there and see how I'll deal with you!

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  These two days, I've been reading other people's articles and felt a bit discouraged. My mind is filled with visions of royalty, beautiful women, and handsome men, making me feel like an old lady, too focused on trivial matters. However, seeing the comments from all of you has been very encouraging. As long as there's one person who enjoys reading, I'll continue to write about my daily life. From now on, I won't be greeting everyone individually, but this should happen rarely. Recently, my typing speed has improved significantly, and it's no longer as laborious as before. To those of you who leave comments and vote for me, you are my motivation!