Chapter 179:
Li Sanmao took the sickle to the back mountain bamboo forest and chopped two bamboos about the thickness of a thumb.
He found matching wooden strips and set them aside, first cutting several sections of bamboo tube…
To pour the heated and boiled Goddess Luo Flower Juice into, allowing it to cool and solidify.
Next, making the base by sawing a section of wooden strip, using a drilling tool to remove the wood shavings from the middle, and polishing it smooth; this space needed to be large enough to fit the lipstick tube.
Then sawing a slightly thinner section to make the lipstick tube.
After hammering away for half a day, he finished the lipstick tube and base. Finally, with a flash of inspiration, he used the wooden strip to make an outer case, very classical and exquisite.
Luo Zhi’er held it in her hand and couldn’t put it down!
“How is it? Wife?”
“Your craftsmanship is pretty good!”
Li Sanmao scratched behind his ear, “Hehe, as long as wife likes it!”
Actually, if he knew how to carve flowers, engraving some patterns on it would make it even more exquisite.
However, this was just a trial version for Ye Beiyao to see, so for now, this would do.
“I like it a lot, but need to make a few more!”
“Good!”
Li Sanmao buried his head again to make utensils for the lipstick, while she restarted boiling the Goddess Luo Flower according to the previous steps.
This time, pouring the boiled Goddess Luo Flower Juice into the lipstick tube to cool and solidify!
After nearly a whole noon, she finally made five complete lipsticks.
Hers only had Goddess Luo Flower; she considered going to the mountain in the afternoon to find wild flowers and see which colors would make good rouge or lip balm, then make a few more lipsticks in other colors!
In the afternoon, she carried a bamboo basket and took Miaomiao to the riverside and wilds to pick flowers and play!
Before dark, carrying a bamboo basket full of various wild flowers home, at Li Zheng Sen’s doorway, she suddenly ran into Li Wei coming out the door with his arm in a sling and leg dragging!
Li Wei looked at the mother and daughter with vicious eyes, licked his dry lips maliciously, and without thinking spat at them,
“Pah! Hah! Who did I think it was? Turns out it’s you two little whores!”
Luo Zhi’er’s face turned cold; if he weren’t standing high on the yard’s stone ledge, she would definitely slap him several times!
She shouted loudly,
“Li Wei, please show some respect. Miaomiao didn’t provoke you in adult matters. As an elder, calling her a little whore, is that how you act as Fourth Uncle?”
Li Wei was stumped; damn, this Luo Zhi’er was like a ghost, always bringing him endless trouble.
“Hmph! Luo Zhi’er, you jinx, you made my home restless, got me dismissed from Yu Man Lou; do you think you can rest easy? Will I, Li Wei, let this go?” The man hissed like a venomous snake, staring at her viciously.
“Oh?”
Luo Zhi’er didn’t miss the information he gave, silently pondering: he was dismissed?
When did it happen? Just because he sent people to beat her, or was there something else she didn’t know?
Looking at the woman with a big belly in the main hall, staring at her from afar with unclear expression, and a little boy!
When did these people come back? Could they have been hiding at home all along?
Why was his arm in a sling? Beaten and broken by someone?
Could Li Wei have offended someone? Staying home to recuperate and evade? Recalling the thugs he brought back that day, it all became clear.
Those people didn’t come back for her, meaning Wang Jiji admitted knowing her!
Even if Li Wei was dismissed, it wouldn’t mean dragging his whole family to hide at home.
He must have offended someone.
Cold laugh: “I can’t take responsibility for this. You know the exact reason you were dismissed! As for why you’re hiding at home like a turtle with your family, that’s what I want to figure out!”
Li Wei was so angry his head smoked.
Hiding for several days, afraid of being discovered by those people who knew they were back.
“If there’s something, come at me!”
“Li Wei, for the sake of being from the same clan and sharing a father, I came back and didn’t go troubling your family, yet you proactively come to bully her and her daughter?”
It was Li Sanmao who came, to pick up Miaomiao and the mother to go home.
Li Sanmao looked indifferently at Li Wei whose face was cloudy: “So what if we’re brothers?”
“You think I’m, Li Sanmao, easy to mess with? That my wife and daughter are for you to bully? Hmph! Then you’re greatly mistaken!”
He waved his fist! “If you’ve got the guts, one-on-one with me!”
Li Wei’s heart flinched; how did he show up?
This brute with no culture who only knows brute force, why appear right now?
His arm still in a sling; one-on-one, only a fool would do that!
“Hehe, it’s Brother Sanmao ah, when did you come back?” Li Wei’s face changed like a chameleon, so quickly!
Li Sanmao kept a cold face and ignored him.
“Brother Sanmao, you misunderstood. I just saw them passing by and greeted them; what bullying? Never happened!” Li Wei denied.
How could this Li Sanmao care so much about this Luo Zhi’er?
Looking at the fat woman’s smug expression, he wanted to tear her apart.
“Oh? Is that so? Then who sent people to my home to trouble my wife?”
“Could I have misheard?” Li Sanmao found it amusing and questioned him.
“Of course, don’t just listen; look. See if they’re not standing here unharmed?”
Li Wei said pointedly,
“I know you must have heard some slander from unreliable people. At the time, I was just momentarily angry and came back to vent.”
“Later I thought it through; after all, we’re family, so I persuaded Fourth Brother Ding and them not to come to the village troubling everyone!”
This Li Wei could make fake seem real and real seem fake; it even made Luo Zhi’er laugh in anger!
Li Wei spread his hands,
“See, because of this, I offended Fourth Brother Ding and his gang; they’re searching everywhere for me to cause trouble!”
“Hmph! Li Wei, no matter how glibly you talk, remember: Luo Zhi’er and Miaomiao have me, Li Sanmao, protecting them. Whoever dares bully them, as long as I’m alive one day, they won’t have a peaceful rest of their life!”
Li Sanmao gave Li Wei a threatening look, took the basket from Luo Zhi’er’s hand, pulled Miaomiao, and went home.
Li Wei gnashed his teeth in anger; this Li Sanmao had formidable martial arts.
He had just heard from his mother about Li Sanmao going to Li Daniu’s to cause trouble; openly offending him now wasn’t smart.
Last time he went to trouble Luo Zhi’er, knowing he was back, he deliberately hid for several days, afraid he’d come settle accounts!
Moreover, in the village, everyone knew he had done a lot of work for his parents in his place before…
People would scold him as ungrateful; he already had nowhere to go, couldn’t let the villagers hate them too.
Li Gen still needed to apply to go to the village school.
Luo Zhi’er felt Li Sanmao had a true man of integrity this time, looking at him with a bit of infatuation!！
But in her heart, a faint unease rose: this Li Wei was sinister; he would definitely blame this on her…
At this time, Miaomiao said: “Mother, didn’t you know? Father was so majestic and dominant yesterday!”
