A Timely Wife

Standing in the creek, Li Ruosong washed his calves, put down his trouser legs that reached his knees, and said to Chengdong, "From tomorrow onwards, we can teach other people how to transplant rice seedlings separately. I really can only let them do the farming." , A half-assed person like me, who is growing crops in the field, is completely destroying crops."

Chengdong wiped Li Ruosong's face and hands clean, and said, "You are quite self-aware, that is, to let you feel the hard work of the peasant uncles, otherwise you, young master, thought that the rice you eat can be bought with money, and there is no difficulty." .”

Li Ruosong didn't react when he heard this, but Li Ruoshan blushed because he was the one who said it before. Although Chengdong didn't laugh at him at the time, judging from what Chengdong said just now, it is obvious that his brother-in-law I have already remembered what he said so foolishly, really, it's too embarrassing.

"Someone said before that these years, the prosperity of the people is suffering, and the death of the people is suffering. I have never been able to understand why, but this year I have understood a lot. You see, no matter how powerful our Great Chu Dynasty is, the lives of these common people It can’t be considered good. I have worked hard all year round to tend some crops and barely paid the food tax. If there are more people in the family, the family can hardly open the pot for a few months. They can only rely on wild vegetables and other things to satisfy their hunger. , From time to time, there is corvée service, even military service, it’s hard, it’s really hard.

In case of a natural or man-made disaster, think about it, what do these ordinary people rely on to survive? If you give birth to a daughter, you don’t have to do a lot of work, and you will marry out in the future. You can’t blame the common people for patriarchal preference. It means that the poorer you are, the poorer you are.

This is how the world is peaceful. If the world is in chaos, the life of these ordinary people will be even more difficult. It is possible that ten rooms will be empty. Now I always think about getting more things out so that they can have more food in their hands. In the future, If there is such a day, these ordinary people will have some food in their hands, at least some children have practiced martial arts, and they can somewhat have the ability to protect themselves, so that they will not be unable to survive in the troubled times. "

While arranging Li Ruosong's clothes, Chengdong chattered, Xu Shi became a father, and often hugged the two children to talk with them. Chengdong talked more and more, and sometimes he could use nagging. To describe it in two words, it's just that Li Ruosong likes Cheng Dong who talks a lot, and he never reminds him, which also makes Cheng Dong able to make such long talks.

The three fathers and sons of the Li family fell into silence. Cheng Dong's words reminded them of one thing. The days of Dachu's peace may not be too long. Since they have such a thought, they must start to prepare in advance. The only thing fighting depends on soldiers and peace. Weapons, one is food and logistics, they seem to have everything now, but in fact, they still have nothing.

When the few people were still standing by the river, Wang Ziqing was anxiously looking for them in the field. After asking around, he found out that Li Ruosong and the others were all by the river. Wang Ziqing ran towards the river with big strides. After seeing Li Ruosong and the others, Wang Ziqing took a deep breath and shouted: "Master, Eldest Young Master, Eldest Young Master, Young Master, go home quickly, the official messenger is here to announce the good news, Eldest Young Master is Jie Yuan from high school! Young Master and Master Zhou is also on the list! Three blessings!"

This series of words seemed to be a very strange mechanism, making everyone who heard it seem to be frozen. For a while, no one spoke or moved, and the whole field could only hear the sound of the wind blowing through the mountain stream.

"What? Ziqing, what are you talking about? Who won?" Li Liang's voice trembled violently.

"Returning to the master, among our young masters, Xie Yuan, No. 1 in the provincial examination, and the young master, No. 20 in the provincial examination, nine, and Master Zhou, No. 17 in the rural examination, all won the Juren, all won the Juren!" Wang Ziqing His voice was also trembling, but Li Liang's trembling was because he couldn't believe it, while Wang Ziqing was because he was too excited, and he raised three people from one family. is extremely rare.

Li Liang was stunned for a while, then he didn't speak for a while, Wang Ziqing was still waiting to bring him back quickly, and the officials were all waiting at home for Li Ruosong and others to go back to receive the good news and get the reward, but the old man said, let him hurry up Take the master and the others back quickly, but the master actually stood by the river in a daze.

Wang Ziqing ran to Li Liang in two steps, "Master, don't be in a daze, go back quickly, there are still officials at home waiting to get the wedding money."

Li Liang turned his head in a daze, looked at Wang Ziqing, and said, "Yes, yes, go home, go home."

After finishing speaking, Li Liang even forgot about Li Ruosong and the others, and ran back on his own. Liang was so groggy, he was too happy to think about it, so that he lost his usual stability.This cannot be blamed on Li Liang. More than a year ago, he thought that his son would be just like him. Liang thought that Li Ruosong would only win one candidate at most, but he never expected that his son, the only son, who was always ridiculed by others, actually won the Jieyuan exam, Jieyuan, the first place in the provincial examination, this is Their Li family has been No.1 for nearly a hundred years.

Li Liang ran away without a trace, Li Ruosong shook his head, pulled Chengdong to run back, Li Ruoshan and Zhou Jinyan followed behind them, Wang Ziqing wanted to follow, but was stopped by the villagers who reacted They didn't dare to stop Li Ruosong and others, but Wang Ziqing and the others still dared to stop him. A group of people pulled Wang Ziqing to prevent him from leaving, and asked Li Ruosong about Zhong Jieyuan.

Wang Ziqing was very anxious, he wanted to go back quickly to see his young master receiving the happy news, but he was surrounded by people here, even Wang Ziqing, who was usually good-tempered, couldn't help losing his temper.

"Stop asking around me. I don't know much. If you want to know more, don't drag me along. Go to the young master's house. The officials are waiting there. I'm here." At that time, there were already many people around the door, if you don’t go through, you probably won’t even have a place to stand later.” After speaking, Wang Ziqing took advantage of the time when they were all in a daze, and quickly tore away the man who was being dragged by them. Clothes, ran back quickly.

Wang Ziqing ran in front, and the people behind also reacted one after another. One or two didn't even want the farm tools in their hands. They threw them on the ground and ran to Li's house behind Wang Ziqing. This kind of thing may happen in this life It can only happen once, what is farm work, watching this kind of excitement is the most important thing.

Li Liang ran to the door of the house in a daze, and at a glance, he saw Li Qi, Li Wushi and Li Chenshi waiting at the door, and there were several people in official clothes standing there, and the surroundings were full. The students from the Yuewei Hall who were usually studying at this hour and the students from the Yanwu Hall who were supposed to be practicing martial arts also ran over, closing the gate tightly.

Seeing that Li Liang was back, Li Qi asked, "Are Ruosong, Ruoshan and Jinyan back?"

Li Liang recovered a little from the excitement of the crowd. He calmed down and replied, "They are all behind my son, and they should be there soon."

"Okay, come here and stand here, can Ziqing explain everything to you?" Li Qi asked again.

Li Liang suppressed the excitement in his heart, and replied: "I told my son and listened."

Li Qi nodded when he heard the words, and said: "That's good, let's wait for them to come back first, I just hope they can move faster, the officials have been waiting for a long time."

One of the leading officials immediately said after hearing the words: "Old Master Li is very polite. The younger ones did not wait too long. It is also a blessing for the younger ones to be able to announce the good news to the elder."

Li Qi stroked his beard and said, "You guys are being polite."

Li Qi didn't say too many words, and if he didn't put on airs at this time, he would just disrespect Li Ruosong and the others in public. At this time, the vacancy can be directly filled as an official. The politeness of the officials at this time is not for the sake of the Li family, but for the name of Juren.

The faces of the students and villagers standing around were beaming. Li Ruosong, Li Ruoshan and Zhou Jinyan all passed the Juren examination. You know, there are only [-] Juren in the entire Qingjiang Mansion, and they are in Liujiagou. They accounted for three, and even one of them was Jieyuan, and their children all followed these three to study and read. What does this mean? It's a face-saving thing to say after going out, they are all Li Jieyuan's students, this is a matter of Guangzong Yaozu.

Everyone was staring at the direction that Li Liang had just run towards, waiting for Li Ruosong and the others to come back. Everyone was excited, but the only one with a calm expression was Li Qi. Li Qi was not not excited, but He was so excited that he didn't know what expression to use, so he just kept a straight face, but Li Qi was already overjoyed in his heart.

I don't know who suddenly shouted, "Here, come, the elders are back, look quickly, the elders are back."

Everyone followed the voice, and sure enough, the figures of Li Ruosong, Cheng Dong, Li Ruoshan and Zhou Jinyan appeared on the road, and there were 30 or [-] people behind them.

When Li Qi and Li Liang saw the figures of these people, they all showed smiles at the same time.