Bandit Reborn

On the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month, Li Long went home, and the next day when he sacrificed to the stove, Li Dada cried a lot, because she also wanted to kowtow to the Stove Lord with the men in the family.

Li Si cried bitterly, "reasonable and well-founded", Li Huaixi felt that the little girl was expected to grow into a feminist, so the next day he opened the elementary school for his younger sister, and taught everyone hand in hand for a long time. Li Si lived up to his high hopes, I memorized a dozen or so words that day, and I never forgot them when I asked them the next morning.

Li Huaixi taught his younger sister patiently for three days in succession, but on the fourth day his patience ran out and he quit.But he found that his younger sister is actually quite smart and learns things quickly. Li Sisi will be six years old after the new year, which happens to be the age when modern children go to school. Li Huaixi decided to follow the example of the big family and hire a tutor for his sister alone.

After he told his father and mother about this idea, Li Chengkui and his wife did not object. Their house looks no different from other farmers' houses, but in fact it is corn flour skin wrapped with pure meat stuffing, and the money box is full. It is not difficult to pay five or six taels a month to hire a teacher.

Li Siyi was very happy when he heard that he wanted to study like his brothers. He went out for a run and informed all his friends. When he came back, the little girl put her hands on her hips and made a big wish. She wanted to be the champion!

Li Huaixi doesn't expect her to be the No. [-] Scholar and to be a concubine. He only hopes that her younger sister will be easier to marry in the future. If she doesn't have looks, at least she has wisdom to make up for it. That way it will be easier to be a mistress, and she won't be ridden by a dowry maid On the head, and maybe you can meet a wonderful brother-in-law who doesn't care about looks, and it's not necessarily true that the couple can enjoy poetry and essays together.

On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, Li Huaixi and his two elder brothers went to give their husband a new year gift. At the door, they ran into Lin Yichen who also came to give a new year gift. The difference between the two sides was that Lin Yichen went out and they entered.

Li Long and Li Hu greeted the county magistrate and went in after a few greetings. Li Huaixi was grabbed by Lin Yichen and refused to let him go. The county magistrate said mysteriously, "I have great news. Guess what it is ?”

Lin Yichen stopped talking here, Li Huaixi looked at the county magistrate whose tail was about to go up to the sky, and asked lightly, "Are you promoted?"

The county magistrate drooped his tail and rubbed Li Huaixi's little head twice, "Little fox, can you be a little surprised? For example, say, 'Yi Chen? Are you going to be promoted!', change your tone, It also gives me a sense of accomplishment.”

Li Huaixi smiled, sitting on the back of Lin Yichen's carriage dangling his two calves and said, "Yuchuan has six counties and two prefectures. These years, floods, droughts, and snow disasters have occurred in turn. The remaining five counties and two prefectures are full of disaster victims. They cannot make ends meet. , Dudujin County is well governed, and the harvest is guaranteed due to drought and flood. The term of the governor has expired this year, and the transfer order has already been issued to be transferred to the governor of Jingzhao, but the candidate for the new governor has not yet been decided.

It was rumored that Lord Fu Yin recommended a young and promising magistrate to take over his position, and people speculated that it was you, because your term of office has also expired. With your political achievements, there are two ways to go. Or promotion, the possibility of leveling is very small, and now you claim to have a great thing, then I can only guess like this, if not, is the county magistrate going to tell me that you are getting married? ? "

Lin Yichen looked back and forth, and secretly pulled Li Huaixi's small face, "If I get married, you can't turn me into a eunuch, how dare I! Little fox, the transfer order has arrived, and I will take office at the beginning of next year. How about it? I'm okay, I'm the youngest governor of our Great Zhou Dynasty!"

"Before you were the youngest county magistrate of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and before that you were the youngest Tanhua, the former No. [-] child prodigy of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Shall I praise you all over again?!" Li Huaixi rolled his eyes and smiled. Pointing to the black door of Mr.'s house, "Lin Yichen, you came here not only to give a New Year's gift, did you find any good ideas? What did Mr. tell you?"

Lin Yichen sat down beside Li Huaixi, and said with a smile, "Mr. didn't say anything, he just said that there is not much difference between being a governor and being a county magistrate, except that the management area is a little bigger and the number of people is a little more. However, he did teach me some ways to be an official. Don’t look at Mr.’s stinky and stubborn temper. He is very slippery when talking about the way to be an official. No wonder it was not easy to get out of the third rank. .”

Li Huaixi glanced at the "youngest governor of the Great Zhou Dynasty" like an idiot, and jumped from the carriage to the ground, "That's up to you? Okay, I'm going in, so don't come early this year." Pick me up, so as not to annoy my mother."

Lin Yichen was also shaking his legs triumphantly, "Her wishful thinking has come to nothing, your mother thought that we would be able to break up after you went out for a few years, hehe, my son's official career is magnanimous, he has been promoted to three ranks in a row, and he has been promoted to governor! "

"You look like a villain!" Li Huaixi rolled his eyes at him, and stepped into the yard by himself.

28. During the New Year’s gift, Li Huaixi thought it was cold and was unwilling to go out. Li Si followed her around relatives’ houses, and when she came back, she started babbling loudly, “Cousin, no, my cousin has no milk. Auntie, find me My nanny and aunt wouldn't let me in...the second aunt and the third aunt got into a fight,..."

Li Si gossiped a lot, but there was nothing good in it. His mother's complexion became more and more ugly. Li Huaixi took a piece of rice cake and blocked her sister's mouth, glared at her and said, "After eating, practice calligraphy. Talking can suffocate you?!"

Li Si was blocked by rice cakes, Li Huaixi solved the source, and decided to find something for his compassionate mother. His mother was careless, careless, looking for such a thing is easy, and he remembered it in a blink of an eye. One, "Mom, have you prepared paper money for the Chinese New Year?"

Sure enough, as soon as this remark came out, his mother immediately lost her mind to meddle in other people's affairs, she quickly put down the work in hand, and found out the straw paper she bought at the market before, "Mother forgot, I haven't done it yet, mother has to do it now." Let's go, can you help my mother get it?"

Li Huaixi curled his lips, "I don't have time, I have to practice boxing in winter, I have to go to boxing, you can find the eldest brother and the second brother."

"Without conscience, how can your elder brother and second elder brother do this kind of work so well?"

"Aren't I a young man?! I won't do it either!" Li Huaixi got angry, threw the toilet paper all over the kang, turned his head and went out.

"You don't even have all your teeth, what kind of young man is he, you little heartless..." Ms. Cheng muttered, and hurriedly raised her son's temper and rearranged the straw paper before the youngest daughter got on the kang. Their family is more expensive than others. Prepare twice as much paper money, which is a tedious task every year.

In the evening, Li Chengxiao's family came to visit. Li Huaixi's mother had already forgotten about her mother's mess. The two sisters-in-law discussed together and planned to visit the most famous matchmaker in the town together after the Chinese New Year.

The aunt sat on the kang to help cut the paper money, and she said while cutting, "The head of our family said that he planned to renovate the house at the beginning of next year. Do you have to do it too? Now that wages have risen, it is hard to find craftsmen." In spring, we have to fix the manpower early, the children are getting bigger and bigger, so we can’t do it quickly.”

Li Huaixi's mother was folding ingots, threw one into the basket, and began to babble about her plans, "The east wing of our house was taken by that hypocrite of our house, and the west wing was occupied by the kitchen. Cheng Kui said he planned to re- The added courtyard was built for Dalong’s marriage, and the wages and materials would cost a hundred and ten taels of silver. Everything is expensive now, but the furniture can be saved. The Yipinxuan in the city is my sister’s shop, but It can't save too much, my brother-in-law has always only had abacus in his eyes."

"Hey, Yipinxuan! No wonder your sister dresses so richly every time she comes here. We don't need it in our family, just ask a carpenter to make a set. The marriage of a daughter-in-law is about being well-matched. I just want to find one for our boss. Those who can work and do their duty, you Dalong have to pick and choose carefully, and you can’t miss a lady who is a scholar."

Mrs. Cheng nodded, sighed, and said, "That's why I bought good furniture. Otherwise, my second brother is a carpenter. After all, my home is still worse than the ones in the shop. I still have to worry about it." Stepmother's name, sister-in-law, when I have a suitable family to look at in the future, you have to help me. If Dalong's daughter-in-law is poorly selected, the villagers will not point my spine. "

The aunt smiled, "Look at you, there's no need. You haven't been married for a year or two, and your fourth son is already old. I don't know what kind of village people you are. We mothers are all the same. Give them What can you look for when choosing a daughter-in-law? Whether she looks good or not, whether her parents are good, how many brothers and sisters are there, and the rest, just ask around to find out whether the girl is a dutiful girl. These are enough. As for the days to come, Whether the couple live well or not depends on themselves, but it can't depend on parents."

The two sisters-in-law talked and laughed for a while. After dark, the aunt helped cut the paper money and went back. Cheng sat on the kang and folded two large baskets of ingots, and then dragged Li Chengkui who came back from the outside, chattering for half the night.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, when men and women got married, they also paid attention to the orders of their parents and the words of the matchmaker. However, before the orders of their parents, ordinary parents would also ask their children for their opinions, so as not to do bad things with good intentions.Li Long was late to enlightenment, so far he has no girl he likes. When his mother asked him what he wanted from his wife the next day, Li Long thought about it for a long time but couldn't think of anything. Lin Linhan said with a smile, "Look Let's do it."

The Cheng family hated that iron could not be made into steel. The youngest son sold himself early, but the eldest son couldn’t figure it out. He guided him for a long time, fat and thin, tall and short, white and black... Li Long finally said, "" You figure it out."

Li Huaixi and Li Hu laughed so hard in the room that their stomachs ached, and they decided to give their future sister-in-law a nickname, "It's up to you"!Li Long rolled into a ball with his two younger brothers, his face flushed red. Their mother scolded all three of them out, and sat on the kang thinking about his own daughter-in-law who could do what he could.

Liu Quan didn't catch up with the excitement, he didn't see Li Long's face was flushed, he was being forced to lose weight at this time, chasing Li Simman's running around the village, the little girl refused to stay in the house, and carried her elder brother to cut him. Liu Quan was worried that she would poke him, so he followed behind tirelessly, trying to coax the stick down, but Li Si refused to give it to him, and said he was in a hurry, and slapped him twice.

Liu Quan had nothing to do with Li Si. This little girl was grown up under his own eyes. She was Li Huaixi's own sister. He could resist Li Huaixi, but he couldn't fight against Li Si, because the victory was invincible.

On the second day of the first lunar month, Li Chengkui’s family went to pay New Year’s greetings to his grandma. Li Huaixi originally brought all his belongings and planned to stay with grandma for two more days, but in the end he found that his uncle’s house was no longer a "livable family", so Li Huaixi finally abducted his grandma. up.

He suspected that the old lady was planning to run away long ago, because he had only rolled on the kang for three minutes, and grandma packed up the small bundles. Nothing was left behind, including needles, threads, clothes and jewelry, not even the walnuts promised to him. It's ready.

On the way home, his mother began to sigh with emotion again, "In the New Year's Eve, the adults cry and the children make trouble, and the chickens fly like dogs. How will we live in the future? If you are married, what is the sister-in-law doing?" ?! What’s the point of drinking goat’s milk for a baby just born? She’s a pretty little girl, and she’s not as thin as our cat.”

The grandma was sitting in the car teaching chubby Li Si to sing nursery rhymes. After hearing this, she stopped and looked at her little daughter, "What are you worrying about? Everyone has their own destiny, just take care of your own family." By the way, on the day 26 years ago, your cousin brought her granddaughter to visit me. I was still surprised. I haven’t been in contact with their family for many years? After listening for a long time, it turned out that the words were insincere. As for Dalong, no wonder he brought me two catties of good snacks. But I don’t like their girl, she looks too widowed, she looks similar to Yan Ying, so she’s not lucky!"

Mrs. Cheng was dissatisfied when she heard that she looked like Yan Ying, so she quickly replied, "We don't want those who are not blessed, because they will make the house restless. Mother, we plan to hire a husband for Si'er at home after the Chinese New Year. Originally, I I'm also planning to take you over, otherwise Cheng Kui would go out early and return late every day, and it would be inconvenient for me to be at home alone, so don't go back to your elder brother, you'll be flying like a dog."

After saying this, Mrs. Cheng thought of the sickly Cheng An, and poked her son next to her, "Huaixi, how is Cheng An's pulse? Can you get well?"

Li Huaixi was taking a nap with the hand stove in his arms, and was startled when his mother punched a finger. He opened his eyes and was dazed for a while, and immediately complained, "Grandma, my mother punched my ribs, it hurts!"

The grandma raised her hand and slapped the little daughter, "Why are you pestering him? He slept soundly!"

Mrs. Cheng rubbed her shoulder aggrievedly, "I just slapped a finger lightly, how painful it would be!" Turning her head and pulling her younger son, Mrs. Cheng continued to ask, "I'm asking you, how is Cheng An?" ?”

"What else can I do? Raise it, there is no good way." Li Huaixi yawned, and added, "I saw my uncle when he was beaten. No way, just lie down for ten days and half a month. It’s almost the same, this is the injury I got after I came back.”

"Didn't Yan Shigui hit it?!" Li Huaixi's mother expressed doubts. She was a married daughter, and she didn't know what happened in the Cheng family's ancestral hall.

"It was from the clansmen in the ancestral hall after I came back." The grandma testified to the eldest son-in-law with her mouth curled up. Thinking of the chaos in the family these days, the old lady said a few fair words, "Your sister-in-law took the money The account was charged to Yan Ying, and she also knew that her son was wronged and ruined her innocence, so she didn't want to turn over this old account, but she picked on Yan Ying's small problems all day long. If you add too much salt, you will find it tasteless the day after tomorrow, and you will make a fuss, and it will be fine if you make a disaster, and it will all stop."

After a pause, grandma went on to say, "Speaking of which, I don't like Yan Ying either. I don't smile all day long, but your sister-in-law is too much. Although Yan Ying is not everyone's daughter, your sister didn't let her go. She has suffered, and no one cooks at home, but she has to do all kinds of work when you come to your elder brother's place, and your sister-in-law doesn't have a straight mind, and she doesn't think about herself, I never treated her like this before."

Li Huaixi heard Li Si say that Yan Ying was out of milk years ago, so he knew that her life was difficult, but he didn't think Yan Shigui would just ignore it. He was almost home now, and he didn't sleep anymore, and started to wriggling around After shaking his arms and legs, Li Huaixi asked his grandma, "Grandma, why didn't Auntie come over today?"

"Your aunt broke up with your aunt when she brought the nanny over last time. She thought I, an old lady, didn't protect her daughter, and she even blamed me. She definitely won't come today, love to come Come on, I can't control their bad things." After finishing speaking, the grandma continued to teach her granddaughter to sing nursery rhymes, very disapproving.

Li Huaixi's mother didn't want it anymore, and she also complained to her mother, "You too, the left and right belong to our family, you should persuade me a little, and run fast."

The old lady raised her eyes and said unconvinced, "Can I persuade her son? Can I find a job for him? Let's fight, break up and separate the family. Didn't Yan Li also go to Yuchuan? Only your sister-in-law, like an idiot, can't see through, bullying Yan Ying all day long. The more the son is separated from her, she will continue to be stupid, and within three months, the son and daughter-in-law must go to her mother's house together and become the family's door-to-door son-in-law."

"How do you know?" Li Huaixi was very surprised.

"Yan Shigui planned it this way from the beginning, why didn't I know? How can they hide this from me?" The old lady also stretched her arms and legs, and went on to sing nursery rhymes.

Cheng was dumbfounded, muttering to digest the whole thing, Li Chengkui drove the donkey cart ahead without saying a word, and secretly decided to leave the old lady at home and not return it. For things, you have to ask the old lady's idea first, so as not to make foolish detours.

After the fifth day of the new year, Li Huaixi's mother followed Li Chengxiao's family to the town's matchmaker's house.

After returning, the aunt did not go home directly, but sat on the kang and repeated her young daughter's criteria for choosing a daughter-in-law to her grandma, "Mother Huaixi can't help Zhang Matchmaker, she even said, 'Our family doesn't choose, it looks like It’s fine for Zhou Zheng to be sensible,’ and then, he talked a lot like a cannonball, not too thin, not too fat, neither fat nor thin hands and feet should not be too big, saying that it’s better to be a female celebrity if you look stupid, You also need to be able to cook, that’s not enough, but you have to have both parents in the girl’s family, saying that you are blessed, and there must be literate and hyphenated brothers and sisters, for fear that Dalong will not be able to chat with his in-laws during the New Year! Ouch, But I’m so happy, this mother has counted how many days at home, and she thinks it’s all, thanks to Zhang’s matchmaker’s good memory, if I still can’t remember her lot.”

Grandma laughed too, she never thought that the carefree youngest daughter would be so careful when it comes to choosing a daughter-in-law.

At this time, Li Huaixi ran in from outside, grabbed a handful of walnuts and was about to run out again, the aunt grabbed him, "San'er, what are you doing in such a hurry? Tell the aunt, what kind of wife are you going to marry in the future? Look at you." Can mother find it for you in our small place?"

Li Huaixi twisted and struggled, "I don't want a wife! Ma'am, let go, I still have to go out to watch wolves. The east of the village has caught a wolf, and I haven't seen it yet!"

The aunt let go of Li Huaixi when she heard the words, and stood up anxiously, "This group of people, if they trap the wolf, they will kill them quickly, and they will hook the children to join in the fun, you silly boy, you can't move forward, that wolf Sweeping your tail can sweep you away! I have to go, and those of our family may also pass by, ouch, this group of people is not worry-free!"

After seeing off his sister-in-law, Li Huaixi's mother hurriedly called Li Si everywhere, but she disappeared after shouting, and Li Si had already run out with Liu Quan.

When Li Huaixi and his mother ran to the east of the village together, the wolf had already been locked in a cage, and his sister was happily leaning forward with a rabbit in her arms. Pulling it back, the little girl was very dissatisfied and kept stepping on Liu Quan's feet. Poor Liu Quan, the shoes just made for the New Year were beyond recognition.