A Timely Wife

The harvest in Liujiagou this year is still not very good. Originally, there are many fields and mountains, and the soil quality in Liujiagou is not good. My family doesn't frown, but this year is different. Those who can be sent to the school are sent to the school. Those who don't go to the school either go to the martial arts hall or to the caravan. The big girl and the young wife He is either helping to cook or making clothes. Not only does he not eat at home every month, but he can get back a lot of copper coins. These things alone are enough for the family to live on.

The 60 people in the Martial Arts Hall said they were going to do some exercises. They went there for five days, and when they came back, they surprised the villagers. They caught a lot of live pheasants, wild boars, roe deer, and deer. There are snakes, tigers, black bears, leopards, wolves and other extremely ferocious animals inside. In addition, there are many precious medicinal materials, which have opened the eyes of the villagers and admired them at the same time.

Among the more than 60 people, except for three who were accidentally slightly injured during the arrest, the others came back unscathed. Although this exercise did not go deeper into the forest, it was still very powerful. That's right, the live animals brought back cannot be moved, they have to be taken out and sold in the capital, as for the dead animals, most of them are distributed to the villagers on the spot, and only a small part is sold in the town.

It is not too difficult to get in and out of Liujiagou, but it is not easy. If it is not for the people in the village or someone to lead the way, few people can find it directly. The reason is that the road from the town to Liujiagou is very winding, and there are many forks. , It was built along the mountain. If one is not careful, he will go to other places. If he is unlucky, he will even go deep into the mountain and never come out. Li's family settled here at that time because of this. They did not She doesn't want to be found easily, and of course, Empress Lan doesn't want her parents to be disturbed all the time in the future.

People from the yamen have to bring them here to collect taxes and food, let alone people who don’t know this place. For the Li family, this is undoubtedly the most suitable place for them to live in seclusion, but for the second room of the Li family, It was something that nearly broke them down.

After the eldest family of the Li family was forced to leave, the people in the second room originally thought that they were in control, and that thousands of taels of silver would soon be in the account, and they could spend them however they wanted.

On the third day after Li Baiyi's family left Songjiang Mansion, Li Baifang held a big banquet to celebrate his birthday. All the dignified people in Songjiang Mansion gave Li Baifang a lot of face. Basically, they all went to Li Mansion. They all sent people to send congratulatory gifts. For a while, Li Baifang felt that this was the most glorious day in his life. He was so high-spirited, elated, and proud. Songjiang Mansion has become famous for thousands of years.

Originally, Li Baifang thought that his good life would last until he passed away, and that he could go underground with this honor to meet his ancestors, but the reality was often different from what he had imagined. The silver taels sent by the middle school were not the deeds of Guangyao's lintel, nor the good news that the Li family had improved to a higher level, but the sad news from the middle of Beijing that the empress Lan was dead, and she was buried in the sea of ​​fire together with the eight-year-old Princess Pingyang.

The Li family branch in Beijing was closed for investigation because of price gouging, and all the staff were sent to prison. It is said that several people have been beaten to death. The archway of Yuci was kept there, and they might have been taken away.

It's just that although the second bedroom of the Li family was not arrested, life was very difficult. Before the Li family had Concubine Lan and Princess Pingyang behind them, the people in the government office would give some face, but now the biggest backer of the Li family is gone. Of course, the government will not give any more face. At this time, the Li family is more like a big piece of fat, no matter who wants to eat it.

In less than three months, the shops and storefronts under the name of the Li family were seized one after another. Even Li's house was searched several times by the officials. After touching it away, Li Baifang asked the officials to find Li Bairen at the beginning. No, the officials gave the news that Li Bairen's family of seven had died a few months ago. Li Baifang felt regretful for the first time when he heard the news. If he had known that the Li family would become like this, he would never let Li Bairen leave. If so, he would not be the one being searched at the moment. go out.

It's a pity that Li Bairen's death was too fast, and at the wrong time, even in Li Baifang's view, Li Bairen's death was too easy, leaving him with no sense of accomplishment, let alone leaving a mess for himself , and let himself bear the infamy of being ashamed of his ancestors. Just thinking of this, Li Baifang gritted his teeth in hatred.

Li Baifang only cared about cursing his elder brother, but he didn't care about arranging the family's retreat, but his old wife was more knowledgeable about current affairs than he was. Seeing that the Li family's decline had been revealed, Li Liushi immediately packed up some silver and accessories, People hid them, and when Li's house was searched several times and nothing was found, Li Liushi unceremoniously took all her belongings, as well as her son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren, back to her mother's house, and left. At that time, Li Liushi did not forget to write a divorce letter, leaving Li Baifang and Li Baifang's aunts, sons and daughters and left.

By the time Li Baifang came to his senses, Li Liushi and his two aunts had gone to nowhere. The Li family had dismissed the servants when they searched the house for the first time. Li Baifang just wanted to send someone to find them all. I don't know who to send, but Li Baifang's aunts also want to run away, but unfortunately, they are just concubines for others, if Li Baifang doesn't let them go, they will run away from their concubines, and there is no other way but death Walk.

For a moment, Li Baifang didn't know who to hate. He also thought about going after the Liu family to catch that shameless old woman, but just thinking about the burly brother-in-law of the Liu family, Li Baifang didn't want to go there, but if he didn't After bringing the old woman back and tossing and tossing hard, Li Baifang couldn't swallow that breath, no matter how he thought about it, he felt uncomfortable.

After being overjoyed and sad, he was angry and angry again. Li Baifang was not too young, but he just pissed himself off like this. Once Li Baifang died, his concubines would take away the few things left in the Li family. Leaving the Li Mansion with the child she gave birth to, there was no one to collect Li Baifang's body.

The Li family in Songjiang Mansion, a scholarly family and a hundred-year-old family, fell apart like this. A few months later, when the news reached Liujiagou, Li Qi locked himself in his study for a whole day. Shi was in a hurry but didn't dare to disturb him, so he could only watch worriedly in the side room next to the study.

Half a month later, the house of the Li family in Songjiang Mansion was bought by a foreign merchant. It is said that he bought it from a concubine of Li Baifang. It's just that after buying it, the Li's mansion was refurbished, and a plaque was replaced to live in. The Li's house in Songjiang mansion disappeared completely.

At that time, Li Qi took three 1000 taels of silver notes and handed them to Li Wu, asking her to hand over the 3000 taels of silver to Li Chen. Li Wu took the silver notes and looked at Li Qi carefully. Seeing that Li Qi seemed to be really thinking about it, he turned around and handed the bank note to Steward Zhang, asking him to help deliver the bank note to Li Chenshi.

Although Li Qiqing couldn't see anything on his face, his mood was very depressed, and he was much more silent than before. Maybe he felt ashamed of his ancestors, but in just a few days, Li Qiqing lost a lot, and he was not considered fat in the first place. People now look even thinner.Li Wushi was extremely anxious but had no choice but to watch her master lose weight day by day.

Just when everyone was at a loss what to do, a happy event made Li Qi feel better.

It was September, and the weather was still a bit stuffy. Chengdong always felt that his appetite was not very good these days, and he was very prone to sleepiness, and he was tired after a little movement. According to Li Ruosong's instructions, he did not go to lectures or work, let the kitchen do something if he wanted to eat, and went to sleep when he wanted to sleep.

Li Ruosong did not forget to tell his parents and grandparents about this matter. Several elders thought that Chengdong might be tired, so they didn't think much about it. After all, Chengdong had been really hard these days, and he was busy developing landmines. , he knew the ingredients of gunpowder very well, and he quickly bought all the ingredients and made the gunpowder according to the mix in his memory, but landmines were more troublesome. After all, the smelting technology in this era was not yet mature, so it would be better to make it. The detonating device is more difficult. Chengdong locked himself in his laboratory to study this thing almost every day, completely reaching the point where he forgot to sleep and eat. After countless failures, Chengdong finally successfully developed it. Out of stepping mines and squatting mines, these two types of mines were developed, and Cheng Dong relaxed a little.

The reason why I say slightly is because there is one important thing in Chengdong's work list that he has not had time to do, and that is the seven-person lift. During Chengdong's life, the seven-person lift played a huge role during the War of Resistance As a result, only seven people can mass-produce grenades anytime and anywhere. Although the method is not difficult, the problem still arises in the smelting process. What Chengdong needs to overcome is the smelting furnace used by the seven people.

It’s just that before Chengdong started to develop this thing, he began to be anorexic and lethargic. His physical condition seriously affected his work status. No matter how much he wanted to keep working, he couldn’t ignore his health, so he had to follow Li Ruosong’s instructions to rest more and eat more On a certain autumn morning, Cheng Dong hadn't eaten yet, but he smelled the smell of eggs, and he started to vomit. Li Ruosong was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he quickly called for Butler Zhang, asking him to help find out what happened to Cheng Dong. What's the matter, just looking at it, you can see the great news.