In the early morning, Li Mengxi was woken up by the crow of roosters. He got up, and his younger brother Xiao Zhuan also got up early and was tumbling around on the bed.

"Brother, what are you looking for?" Li Mengxi sat up, rubbed his eyes and asked with a yawn.

Xiao Bian, who was lying on the edge of the bed and looked down, raised his head and said, "Looking for the cricket, the cricket is gone."

Li Mengxi thought in his heart, damn, he really wanted to catch his brother and beat him up, but this guy took the messy things on the bed again.

After the two brothers got dressed and got up, Xiao Zhuan was thinking about the crickets that ran away last night and insisted that Li Mengxi go with him to catch another one.

Li Mengxi raised his head and looked at the sky. He used his intelligence to think about it. There seemed to be more crickets near the firewood pile.

So, Li Mengxi took his younger brother to the firewood pile to look for it.

Halfway through, he bumped into Liu Bei.

Li Mengxi thought Liu Bei had just woken up, so he said good morning.

Liu Bei stopped the two of them with a smile, "Xi'er, you wait first, I'll get something."

After a while, Liu Bei came over carrying a big baggage, which seemed to be full of things and bulging.

"Here." Liu Bei handed the baggage to Li Mengxi and said with a smile, "I didn't bother to buy it carefully when I came back. I just bought some. Do you like it?"

After saying this, Li Mengxi understood that it was a gift.

After taking the bundle, which was heavy, Li Mengxi was extremely curious about the gifts in the bundle. He threw the bundle to the ground and opened it on the spot.

On the side, his younger brother Xiao Bian bit his fingers and squatted aside, looking forward to the scene with great anticipation.

As soon as I opened the layers of baggage, a dazzling array of gifts came into view.

"Wow!" Brother Xiao Bian's eyes lit up when he saw so many things.

"Brother, look, is this a bird?" The younger brother grabbed a small wheeled car that looked like a turtle dove and brought it to Li Mengxi for Li Mengxi to see.

"Well, this seems to be a turtle dove." Li Mengxi replied.

From a pile of gifts, Li Mengxi picked up a small sword made of wood. The small sword was short, round, clumsy and cute, like a sword without a full moon. He played with it and found that the small sword still had a scabbard and was still in use.

It could be pulled out, and it would make a clicking sound when it was put in. Li Mengxi smiled because this sword looked so much like a toy he had when he was a child.

"elder brother."

The rattle bell rang, and Xiao Bian picked up a beautiful red rattle and said, "Brother, what is this?"

"This is a rattle." Li Mengxi took a look. The rattle in Xiao Bian's hand was very delicate. The drumsticks were delicate little bells that made a nice sound when plucked.

Xiao Bian knew the name of the toy in his hand. It turned out to be a rattle. He happily shook the rattle and made it make nice sounds. Xiao Bian liked this thing so much that he asked Li Mengxi cautiously with a look of anticipation on his face, "

Brother, can you play with this and let me play too?"

Li Mengxi was stunned for a moment. He raised his head and looked at his brother for a long time. Li Mengxi thought of the children of later generations. When they see gifts, they will grab them. The most polite thing to do is to ask his brother.

One sentence: "Brother, can you give this to me?"

Xiao Bian is very sensible. He obviously likes rattles so much. He is so young, but he always gives everything to his brother first.

"Xiao Zhuan, I'll give you all these things." Li Mengxi smiled and touched his brother's head.

The younger brother suddenly became very happy, "Wow! So many!" He looked at the pile of gifts, his eyes were full of joy, and his big happy eyes narrowed.

Li Mengxi had agreed to give all the gifts to Xiao Bian. Xiao Bian happily picked them up and played with them for a while. He suddenly raised his head and said to Li Mengxi, "Brother, let's both play."

What a sensible child, Xiao Bian must be worried that he has taken away the things and his brother will not have anything to play with, so he refuses to take the toys as his own.

Liu Bei bought back a lot of toys, including a turtledove car, a rattle, a small sword, a small clay monkey, colorful masks that were suspected to be used for sacrifices, a small roly-poly, and a lot more.

For Li Mengxi, these toys are not very attractive to him. Who is the military strategist who plays with a rattle all day long? The greatest value of these toys from Luoyang to Li Mengxi is that he can take the opportunity to see the toys of children in this era.

kind of.

There are many children in Julu City. It seems that we should make some toys for the children. If there are no toys, they can only roll on the ground all day long. How sad.

There are enough craftsmen in the army, and it doesn't cost much to make some small toys out of wood scraps.

Thinking of mass-producing toys, Li Mengxi also thought that toys could be sold as commodities.

Anyway, even in later generations, in the early years, simple rattles could still be sold.

If toys are sold as a commodity, there will be a lot of operation content. Li Mengxi rubbed his chin and thought, although the toys are simple, selling a bunch of shoddy toys will firstly have no competitiveness and no sales, and secondly,

Shoddy workmanship is not Li’s style either.

To make top-notch and exquisite toys, it seems that research and development is required, or craftsmen can be gathered to set up a toy research and development department. When I think about it, this method is feasible.

"Brother." Li Mengxi's thoughts were interrupted by his younger brother's call.

Li Mengxi looked and saw that his brother was holding a beautiful hairpin in his hand.

"Brother, is this a joke? Is it written on the ground?"

My younger brother thought the hairpin was a wooden pen for writing.

Li Mengxi took the hairpin from his younger brother's hand, held down his moving head, and pinned the hairpin to his hair.

One end of the hairpin was decorated with a red pearl hanging from a thin silver chain. Although the hairpin was simple, it was exquisitely and beautifully made. This was obviously a girl's headwear. It was pinned to a small brick. It was very funny. Li Mengxi couldn't help laughing.

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Little Brick had no idea how embarrassed he was. He shook his head, swung the hairpin pendant around, and happily asked Li Mengxi if he looked good.

"Good-looking! Good-looking! Hahaha!" Li Mengxi praised a few words against his will, and he couldn't help laughing.

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This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! On the side, Liu Bei smiled and watched the two of them playing, and he said, "Xi'er, take the hairpin and give it to Ningning."

"Oh!" Li Mengxi suddenly realized.

Still wondering why there was a hairpin mixed in the toy, it turned out to be for Zhang Ning. Li Mengxi sighed, but Liu Bei was thoughtful.

"Come on, little brother, let's go give the hairpin to Sister Ning."

"good!"

Liu Bei smiled happily as he looked at the two brothers running away hand in hand.

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Women and children camp.

Perhaps the Women’s and Children’s Camp shouldn’t be called the Women’s and Children’s Camp now. When there were no houses or places to live, the Women’s and Children’s Camp organized a separate camp to facilitate care and management. Now that Julu has been built, the women and children have houses to live in, which means they have a family.

Same.

Zhang Ning usually helps take care of the children at the Women's and Children's Camp, and also lives near the Women's and Children's Camp.

"Sister Ning!" Li Mengxi called from afar.

"Sister Ning! Sister Ning!" Xiao Zhuan also shouted in a milky voice.

In the large courtyard, most of the women were fetching water and washing themselves. When they heard Li Mengxi's voice, the women immediately looked at Zhang Ning in the corner.

"Ning Ning, people are here for you again." The women teased with a smile.

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Mengxi ran in with his younger brother.

Finding Zhang Ning, Li Mengxi handed over the hairpin in his hand, "Here, sister Ning, this hairpin is for you."

Zhang Ning's hair was half washed. She held her wet hair with one hand, and water drops kept dripping from the ends of her hair. When she took the hairpin from Li Mengxi's hand, Zhang Ning's delicate face turned red.

Li Mengxi explained to himself, "Gong Xuande bought this and asked me to deliver it."

"Okay, I'm leaving first!"

After saying that, Li Mengxi took his younger brother and left like a wind.

After Li Mengxi left, there was a burst of laughter in the yard.

Zhang Ning held the beautiful hairpin in her hand and blushed as the women teased her.

It seems that hairpins cannot be given away easily.

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When the two brothers ran back, Liu Bei was chatting and laughing with Jian Yong and looked like gossip. When they saw Li Mengxi coming back, the two immediately stopped discussing.

"Xi'er, have you sent the hairpin?" Liu Bei asked with a smile.

"Sent it away." Li Mengxi replied.

"Then what did Ning Ning say?"

Li Mengxi was confused, "I didn't say anything."

Seeing Li Mengxi's confused look, Liu Bei and Jian Yong looked at each other and snickered in unison.

Li Mengxi's eyes fell on Jian Yong, and she asked curiously, "When did Mr. Jian Yong come back?"

"Just got back last night."

With that said, Jian Yong came over and handed over a small cloth bag he was holding in his arms. He said, "I came back in a hurry and bought it hastily. Do you like it?"

Li Mengxi finished the package and shook it open. Inside the package were two very simple and ugly little clay figures the size of fists. Even though they were ugly, one of the clay figures also had a broken arm.
To be continued...