A Timely Wife

Li Liang and Li Chen's early departure did not make others feel uncomfortable. After all, Li Liang's hard work in the past few days has been seen by everyone. Li Ruosong prefers Li Liang to stay here with them. Go back and take a good rest. After all, it will be the busy farming season from tomorrow, Li Liang will only work harder than now, and will not be easier than now.

As the eldest son, it's not that Li Ruosong doesn't want to share with Li Liang, it's just that the news came from Beijing that the emperor is not in good health and has not been in court for some time, and the imperial concubine seems to have not given up on tracking down the young master's whereabouts and has already used After finding Yu Jinwei, although there was no clue after finding Songjiang Mansion, the hundred Yu Jinwei sent out never went back. Instead, they continued to search outside. Not only that, they were still in the capital near Songjiang Mansion. The portraits of their family of six were posted, and it was stated that the six were Jiangyang thieves, and all localities were requested to cooperate in the investigation. Once found, they should be reported immediately without delay.

If it weren't for their people's quick action, and the location of Liujiagou in Xiahe Village is far enough away, and they haven't gone out after changing their identities, the young master might be arrested and brought back. Thinking of this possibility, the Li family is all Cold sweat, after discussing with Steward Zhang, the appearance of Li Qi and his wife and Li Liang's couple have been slightly adjusted.

Butler Zhang is quite proficient in this way. After receiving the news, Butler Zhang used drugs to adjust the facial features of Li Qi and Li Liang. Very small changes, people in the village see this family every day, so they don't think there is any change, but if they are seen on the road, it may be difficult to connect these people in front of them with the people in the portrait Even if the Li family of Songjiang mansion sent someone, I dare not say that it is the family of the elders of the Li manor. It is only a small change. The five senses are still the same as before, but when combined, they are completely different from before.

Chengdong and Li Ruosong did not follow, not to say that their looks will change, but now that Li Ruosong and Chengdong have gone out, few people can recognize them, even the people from Chengfu and Lifu before, Needless to say, Chengdong was notorious for being so domineering and domineering before, but now he is calm and down-to-earth and gentle with others. They all say that each other comes from the heart, and if the inner core is changed, the outer appearance will also change to a certain extent. Even Li Ruosong The person next to the pillow thinks of the previous Chengdong and looks at the current Chengdong, and says that there are two people, let alone those people in the past.

As for Li Ruosong, this more than a month of tempering has transformed Li Ruosong from a fair and gentle scholar to the current strong and slightly dark man, not to mention the so-called grandparents of the second room of the Li family, they are Li Ruosong's If father and mother hadn't been together day and night, they might not recognize each other.

The key reason why they started to do these things after receiving the news is that after the summer solstice is the busy farming season, when the busy farming season is over, people from the county government will come to collect taxes and grains, and more and more tax grains have been collected in these years , It was [-]% before, and then it became [-]%. Now, although [-]% has not changed, the actual payment is more than [-]%.

People's life is getting more and more difficult, especially these years, God doesn't give food to people. It's either a severe drought or a heavy rain. Sometimes someone has worked hard for a year and the result is nothing, but you didn't confiscate even a single grain of rice. It should be handed over. Taxes and grains of rice are indispensable. A few years ago, it could be said to be living, but these years can only be said to be living. Of course, Li Qi's family doesn't know these things now, but they will know soon.

Not long after the Summer Solstice Festival, the two new houses of the Li family were completed. Compared with the lively Yuewei Hall, the Yanwu Hall seemed very deserted. No one in the village knew that more than 30 military men lived here.

Zhou Nuyuan's subordinates arrived at night on the fifth day after the summer solstice. After arriving, they did not disturb the Li family, but went directly to Zhou Nuyuan. Dormitory is a vocabulary invented by Cheng Dong, which is strange but appropriate.

These more than 30 men originally thought that the place they lived in would not be very good, but they changed their minds after entering the so-called dormitory. Each dormitory can accommodate four people. Chengdong followed the plan of modern university dormitories. There are desks, cabinets and benches under the bed, and the stairs to the bed adopt Japanese-style storage stairs. When opened, there are small drawers that can be used to store some sundries. There are four beds in total. In addition, there are four large wardrobes. Come to put personal belongings, including things like bedding, and personal belongings are also ready. According to modern parlance, it is called that you can check in with a bag.

Once entering the yard, there are twelve dormitories like this, and two bathrooms. This bathroom is the most interesting place for Zhou Nuyuan. Chengdong asked the people in the house to make a lot of thin and long iron pipes. A mountain spring in the back mountain is connected to the house. On the side of the iron pipe is a strange-looking thing called a faucet. As long as you turn it on, the water will flow out automatically. After you turn it on, the water will be turned off, which is very convenient.

Iron was strictly controlled in the Great Chu Dynasty, but no matter how strict the control was, it could not hold back Chengdong's luck. There is a mountain rich in iron ore on the back of Liujiagou. The nurse took Li Ruosong, Li Ruoshan, Chengdong, Wang Ziqing and Wang Zize to ambush in the jungle. If you want to talk about Chengdong's expression at that time, it is really mixed, there are surprises, surprises, and surprises. Very subtle emotions, probably similar to how I have such good shit luck, maybe this is the so-called golden finger.

Before Chengdong was still thinking about how to make new weapons under such strict control over iron products, but now he doesn’t have to worry about it at all. Iron smelting is not a very difficult thing, it’s just that it can’t be done too much. The smelting workshop is placed in the row of back rooms closest to the mountain in the Yanwu Hall. There is only a small door leading to that row of back rooms. Tubes are manufactured here.

Fortunately, Chengdong didn't plan to make these water pipes on a large scale, they were only used for Li's house and Yanwutang. In order to allow both houses to shower, Chengdong also took great pains to cover up the water pipes extending from Yanwutang to Li's house. Iron pipes, he also had many tall and dense trees transplanted to cover these water pipes inside these trees.

After the water pipes are installed, life is indeed much more convenient. Although I can only take a cold shower now, I don’t know how many times better than before when I had to pick up a lot of water to take a shower.Not to mention the convenience of running water with a twist, it is much more convenient to wash clothes, wash hands and wash vegetables.

Li Qi and Li Liang have become accustomed to the fresh ideas that this son-in-law pops up from time to time, thanks to Li Ruosong's subtle influence, if Li Ruosong hadn't told Li Qi and Li Liang that Chengdong's favorites would be these Knocking and knocking, he has excellent hands-on ability since he was a child. When he was studying, he often studied books such as "Mo Jing" and "Book of Luban". I am afraid that the two old men have already become suspicious.

The two shower rooms in each yard are all made of blue bricks, and even the walls are made of blue bricks. Although there are many windows, they are also opened relatively high, except for one wall that seeps There are a dozen or so shower faucets, and the other three sides are similar to modern bathtubs, also made of blue bricks, with a slightly shorter faucet for cold water, and a wooden barrel for them to carry by themselves. Use with hot water.

All the water flowing out of the shower does not flow directly into the river, but flows into the nearby paddy fields through culverts. There are not so many chemicals these days, and even the things used for bathing are all natural and free of soap. Polluted plants, so there is no problem with using the bath water to grow rice.

The most troublesome thing for Chengdong is the bathroom. He definitely doesn't like to use the ancient open-air toilets. Dirty and smelly are only part of it, and the other part is that it is easy to cause various sanitary problems. Big, after much deliberation, Cheng Dong finally decided to build the public toilet outside the house first, and wait until he figured out how to deal with the excrement. room.

Considering that the number fourteen is not very auspicious, Chengdong also specially built two small houses as storage rooms. These two storage rooms are specially used to store weapons. At that time, Chengdong had a flash of inspiration The products of this product played a big role in the later stage. These two storage rooms later became a weapon depot. Everyone must register here before they can use it. It is very convenient in terms of weapon storage.

These 30 people only occupied nine dormitories, the last one was not full, and there were two empty beds. Yihao Wang Ziqing and Wang Zize moved here from Li's house on the second day, so after the martial arts hall was completed, There were 36 people living in, and Zhou Nuyuan wanted to move in, but was stopped by housekeeper Zhang.

Things about Zhou Nuyuan's family in the capital also spread. Zhou Nuyuan received the news of his mother's death, and the silent people became even more silent. Zhou Nuyuan was the youngest son. Big one, no matter how deviant he is, his mother will always stand by his side, but the person who will always protect him and love him is gone, and left him forever, no one will be injured when he falls He hugged him distressedly and coaxed him, wiped away his tears, and no one would ask him if he was tired or hungry, hungry or cold, the person who would ask him like this was gone.

Chengdong and Li Ruosong will always remember that night when Zhou Nuyuan locked himself in the room. After a long time, there was a low and depressing cry from the room. That was the only time Zhou Nuyuan shed tears in Chengdong's memory.