A scholar becomes a landlord

Because he always remembered the hard work of his grandparents, Wei Le did not go astray. He should thank his grandparents for teaching him, so that he did not become a scum and a pest in the society.

After eating, Wei Le went to the storage room again, opened the lid of the clay pot of detergent, and released the gas inside, so as not to burst the pot, and he would lose more than gain.

After closing the lid and wiping the dust off it with a rag, I left the storage room in a good mood.

Go take a nap first, and then get up to practice big-character part-time silent calligraphy.

Not long after lying on the bed, I heard voices outside in a daze.

"what's up?"

Sitting up with his forehead propped up, Wei Le's expression was not very happy.Anyone who has just laid down and fell asleep will not be happy to be suddenly woken up.

"Master, Lizheng is here."

Li Dahai was also not happy. His young master was exhausted from going to the ground today, and he was disturbed as soon as he fell asleep. stand up.

"Okay, sit with Lizheng in the main room, I'll go over after I clear up." Wei Le also knew that Lizheng came to the door for everything, since he came, he would always go out to see him.

I poured hot water from the stove, added some cold water to mix it up, wiped my face to wake myself up completely, then put on my coat, opened the door and walked to the front yard.

"Uncle Lizheng, what kind of wind brought you here today. The big bone soup happened to be stewed at home, would you like a bowl? The wind has been strong in the past few days, and it is not close to walk from home."

Wei Le came out and bowed, and said to Li Zheng.

"Hey, Mr. Wei, please stop talking, uncle, I'm about to die from a headache."

Li Zheng had a bitter face, he just let Li Dahai pry no matter how much he didn't say anything, when he saw Wei Le, he started to vomit bitterness.

After listening carefully, I realized why Li came to his house during his lunch break.

It turned out that there were two families in the village, and they were still brothers.Because of the matter of supporting the elderly, a fight broke out, and the two brothers did not want to support their parents. In the end, the old mother hanged herself in anger.In the end, trouble came. What should the two brothers do?Not too heavy, not too light.

It's not serious, the people in the village will learn from them in the future, so it's okay?

The punishment will be heavy, and the fathers of the two brothers will make trouble again. Although the sons are unfilial, they are their own sons after all, so how can they be punished!

"Where are you looking for..."

Wei Le couldn't figure it out, what does this have to do with him?

"Mr. Wei, you also know that people in the village don't read much, so I want to ask you about the Qing Dynasty's laws in this regard. You are the only one in the village who reads the most."

Li Zheng was blushing, and he also knew that it was inappropriate for him to disturb Wei Xiucai, but he really couldn't think of another idea, and now everyone in the village was staring at him!If this matter can't be handled well, he just doesn't want to do it here.

"The Qing Dynasty did have such a law. Although the two brothers didn't directly kill their mother, the mother died because of them. According to the Qing Dynasty's law, they have to serve five years of hard labor."

People in ancient times attached great importance to filial piety, and it was good if they were not exposed. If they were exposed, hard labor would be the lightest, and exile and beheading would be scary.

Now the news about the two brothers will definitely spread. After all, everyone in the village knows that if Li Zheng is going to handle it badly, it will indeed cause trouble for himself.

"That's good, so I know what to do."

Lizheng nodded, it is good to have this law.Li Zheng stood up and said goodbye. He came to Wei Xiucai not to ask for advice, but to ask if there is such a law.

Now it depends on whether the two pairs of brothers are going to serve five years of hard labor, or take their father back to serve them well, and then fine them 20 taels of silver to the clan, and they have to work for the clan from time to time.

Ancient times are different from modern times. Generally speaking, as long as the clan handles it, the county government will not be closed.In ancient times, the power of the clan was often greater than that of the government.

More than 90.00% of the people in this village are surnamed Li, and they also have their own clan.

There are still very few outsiders like you, Wei Le. Li Dahai also belongs to this village. Although Wei Le is alone, if Wei Le really bullies him, the Li clan will not let him go, even if he has The status of a scholar.

So as soon as Wei Le came to Dale Village, he first established a good relationship with Li Zheng and the villagers, otherwise he would have difficulty moving in the village in the future, and he couldn't always change places!He just wanted to live a comfortable life, and he didn't come here to make enemies.

"Hey~~~"

Uncle Li sighed when he came back after seeing off Lizheng.

"What's wrong, uncle?"

Wei Le leaned back on the cushioned chair, holding a cup of tea in his hand. The habit of drinking tea came from the original owner. He only liked to drink juice drinks and wine in the past. Unexpectedly, after timetraveling, due to the influence of the original owner, he fell in love with Ordered tea.

There are not many good teas, just ordinary scented tea and green tea, one tael is only one or two hundred Wen, and one tael is enough for him to drink for a long time.Of course, his general is only relatively speaking, the tea prepared by ordinary scholars' homes is not as good as his.His tea is usually all influenced by the original owner, after all, Mr. Hou's mansion, no matter how poor the tea he usually drinks, it is better than that of the country people!

"Hey, I know those two brothers, and they don't look like the kind of people who don't care for their elders when they usually sleep. How can they..."

Li Dahai didn't say all the rest, but Wei Le understood the meaning.

"Heh, knowing people, knowing faces but not knowing their hearts, a penny kills a hero."

No matter what kind of person you usually are, as soon as many people have their own interests involved, that's another story.

"It's also poor. Those brothers each have five children to raise and serve their parents. This is why there is trouble."

Li Dahai also knew that there were not many farmers who were poor, but it was indeed too much to treat their parents this way.

"Heh, uncle, you just need to know that poor people get poorer the more they are born, instead of getting poorer as they grow more."

The truth that modern people know, but it didn't work in ancient times.They all pay attention to having many children and grandchildren, but they don't know that this will make poor families poorer.After all, the more mouths, the more food and drink.

"Hey, there is another saying?"

Li Dahai was sitting on the threshold smoking a cigarette. Since he came to Wei's house, he could save dozens of coins every month, and he was not short of food and drink. There are two points of land planted in the land!

"Of course, uncle, if you think about the poor people in the village, they usually have a large population?"

Wei Le reminded Li Dahai with a smile that the more children and grandchildren, the better, not only the more people, but also the poverty.Just like the Hou Mansion, there are dozens of people, and the struggle is almost enough to write a book.

"Hmm~ Really!"

Li Dahai searched all the families in the village, and found that the poorest ones were indeed the ones with the largest population. The young master was really right.

"So, it's good to have one or two children. If there are too many, it will be more troublesome to split up the family."

Of course, the ancient times also paid attention to the number of people and power, just like clans, clans with many people are not afraid of being bullied by outsiders.

"After listening to the young master's words, uncle, I realized that this child really can't have too many children. Look at the first few families in the village, which ones don't make trouble every day, aren't they all poor? "

Because they are too poor, they have to fight for everything. The interpersonal relationship is probably not as good as Wei Le's in the village.

"Uncle can eat enough for one person, and the whole family is not hungry. Although there was only two acres of land before, life is better than their family after paying taxes."

Because he was the only one in Uncle Li's family, he was not entitled to this corvee service. Apart from grain tax and poll tax, Uncle Li didn't have to worry about anything else.

"The young master is right. Occasionally, my uncle, I can still play the tooth-beating ceremony. They are not as good as me."

Li Dahai said with a smile, adding that when he was young, he knew how to hunt, tanned leather, and saved some money. As long as there is no great famine, his life is indeed not difficult.

"I'm going to town in two days, do you have anything to bring?"

Wei Le looked at the clothes on Li Dahai's body, and found that they had been patched a few times. This time, he went to town to buy some clothes for Li Dahai, and he went to bring back the cotton-padded clothes and leather jackets he ordered a while ago. It was the winter clothes that Wei Le prepared for Li Dahai.

"Uncle, I don't have anything to buy. The young master will go early and return early."

Li Dahai waved his hand. He has food and drink at home, and he doesn't lack anything.

"it is good."

Wei Le didn't say much, and went to the study to practice calligraphy.

Li Dahai saw that his young master started to practice calligraphy, and without making a sound, he quietly went up the mountain to cut firewood with a pole and machete.It's cold here in winter, and besides cooking, we also need to burn the kang, so this kind of firewood is indispensable.Don't make it right now, people won't be able to enter the mountain after the heavy snow falls.

Wei Le practiced calligraphy while writing silently. After writing for an hour, when the ink in the inkstone was used up, he stopped to rest for a while, and sharpened the ink by the way.

After finishing writing, it was bound with thread, and a layer of harder blue paper was added outside as a cover, and then the title of the book was written on the cover.In this way, a book was completed, and he neatly placed it on the bookshelf according to its category.

Fearing that the books would get damp again, Wei Le even made a door for the bookshelf, which can be closed at ordinary times, but only needs to be opened occasionally for ventilation.

Counting the books on the bookshelf, there are dozens of them. This is the result of his two or three months. It's not easy!

Fortunately, his hard work was not in vain, his handwriting was even better, and even the teachers in the college would praise him with the word 'good'.Driving to the town, I saw mostly bullock carts on the way. Mule carts are quite rare. After all, mules are only a little cheaper than cattle, but they are not as good as cattle. People who buy them always not much.

Of course, the most rare thing for everyone is that this car still has a carriage, and the ox cart of the countryman is just a cart. It is rare to see such a carriage with a carriage. Seeing them take the initiative to give way, the rich can't afford to provoke them, so it's better to avoid them.

The first time Wei Le saw it, he was still very surprised, but after Li Dahai reminded him, he realized that the fault was caused by the carriage.From being unaccustomed at the beginning to being used to it now, Wei Le has long since ignored the strange eyes of everyone.