Bandit Reborn

In a blink of an eye, Lin Yichen felt a little more relaxed. His face was covered with white ointment, and he wore a nondescript hat. Except for the Confucian uniform on his body, he didn't look like a scholar at all.

"What's wrong? This face...was it burnt?!" Li Huaixi smelled the medicine and identified the ingredients, subconsciously looked out the window, worried that there would be no place to read in the spring next year.

Duan Zhengchun found a chair and sat down, and said dejectedly, "Don't worry about it, the house in the academy is fine, it's just that the fire in the stove burst out suddenly and burned me up. The supervisor was afraid that something would happen again, so he put the house in the middle of the house. We all got out."

"Driven out?" Li Huaixi laughed, he liked the word Duan Zhengchun used very much.

Duan Zhengchun glared at him, and returned to the subject, "I went to your inn just now, Liu Quan said that there is no room left, let me come to you, and you give up your room."

"Why?!" Li Huaixi rolled his eyes at him.

Duan Zhengchun had learned badly from following He Dashao and Li Huaixi in the past two days, and he was at ease with this level of rolling eyes, and said with reason and evidence, "You live in the government office, and the rooms in the inn are idle for nothing, Liu Quan said You haven't lived in it before, and your boudoir is not for girls, so what's wrong with letting everyone out?"

"Mine is the presidential suite, do you have any money?" Li Huaixi asked with a smile.

"What is the presidential suite and not the presidential suite? I have no money, and the friendship between classmates is priceless. You have the nerve to ask me for money?!" Prince Duan said, taking off his hat aggressively.

Li Huaixi spit the tea out of his mouth again, pointed to Duan Zhengchun's head and asked, "How did you get burned like this? Just cut it off, it smells like burning bird feathers!"

The hair in Duan Zhengchun's hat was not bundled up, it was twisted and tangled together, like a big bird's nest, he vividly described to Li Huaixi the grand occasion at that time, "You didn't see the big flame, it slammed It rushed out, like a fireball, I couldn't hide in time! I also blame the bottle of oil you gave me, it would catch fire if it touched the fire, if there was not a bucket of water next to me, I reacted quickly, and my hair would not be left! "

Li Huaixi curled his lips, "I kindly gave you a bottle of hair oil, but it's my fault. I will let you live after paying the rent. You can go now. I can't eat after looking at your head."

Duan Zhengchun didn't take it out, pointed to his face and said, "This face is burning hot, I definitely can't give you the rent, I have to buy medicine, or I have to pay for it at home." The New Year's Eve is held in Yuchuan City, and the New Year's Eve dinner has to be eaten outside because of this battle!..."

Prince Duan took the key after hesitating for a while and left. Li Huaixi sat on the chair and was overjoyed. Lin Yichen came back from the front and saw his blushing and coquettish appearance. He felt itchy all over. Into the inner room.

Li Huaixi laughed so hard that his body was exhausted, he let him mess around, after a while, he felt that this guy was getting more and more inappropriate, so he quickly returned to his place and lifted the person on him, "I'm still young!"

Lin Yichen was not annoyed when he was thrown off, he smiled and hugged and continued to rub, "Who doesn't know that you are still young, I have endured for so many years and it is still a year and a half away?! Lu Yingzhong sent someone to remove the brass horn. He carried it away, and grandpa also gave him the [-] machine crossbows that he had made in advance, little fox, maybe you can go back to celebrate the New Year in a few days, and I will be miserable and alone."

"Be careful to let your grandfather hear your skin." Li Huaixi sat up with a smile, "Did Lu Yingzhong thank you?"

"Thank you, but I'm just thanking the officers and men of the two sides, saying that I have immeasurable merits, a kind heart, and great wisdom. He also wrote a memorial and handed it up. I am not greedy for merit."

"Oh?" Li Huaixi became interested in this martial general. He saw the general who was a traitor and traitor, but he didn't know what this genuine general who was not greedy for merit was like.

60. Pingding

Ever since General Shenwu adopted Lin Yichen's strategy, the life of General Weiyuan has become even more difficult.From morning till night, there are always people making noise around General Weiyuan's camp, with all kinds of content. When they come across someone who can read and write, they will come and shout something like loyalty to the emperor, patriotism, and righteousness of the nation. There are two passages of "Little Lady Thinks of Her Husband" for Qu'er, a hodgepodge of meaty and vegetarian ones, and literary and white ones. In short, it is very annoying. There are strong soldiers with iron crossbows behind the loudspeaker to protect it. If you want to destroy it, you can Impossible, the combination of force deterrence and thought infiltration made the soldiers in the camp feel emotional, and most of them ran away in a few days.

Jia Zhengjing wanted to stop him, but he had more energy than he wanted. That day, he was hit by two iron crossbows. Although he missed the vital point, he had already consumed more than half of his blood when he ran to a safe place. The whole body of the crossbow was a black iron rod. Hey, the blades are cut at both ends regardless of the head and the tail. The arrow body runs through a blood groove. If it is not pulled out immediately, the blood will not stop. There is no nourishing holy medicine in the book, and even if there was, it can't be found now. The fleeing army even lost all the food and grass in the tents. Where can I find a few complete bottles and jars.

General Weiyuan swept the ground, lying on the sickbed all day long like a woman with postpartum hemorrhage, lacking in energy and blood, and would feel dizzy when he got up. His last ray of hope was pinned on Da Tan Khan outside the pass, but it is estimated that Time, the person sent to ask Da Tan Khan for reinforcements should have returned long ago, but now there has been no news. Thinking of the character of Na Da Tan Khan, Jia Zhengjing snorted coldly, knowing that there must be someone in this big camp. With the secret work sent by the Datan tribe, Datan Khan would have made such an arrangement after knowing the battle situation, cowardly rat!

Although Weiyuan knew that his situation was over, he was not reconciled. He sent experts from the battalion to sneak into Yuchuan City at night to steal the blueprints. The people didn't have the slightest chance, and returned without success again and again. In the end, the people sent out didn't come back, and it was unknown whether they were caught or defected along the way.Jia Zhengjing could no longer send any available people. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, when the people in Yuchuan began to worship the stove, the content in the copper horn suddenly changed to nursery rhymes. General Shenwu borrowed a few children from nowhere, and Singing while laughing, "23, Tanggua sticky, 24, house cleaning day, 25...", over and over again, the remaining lieutenants under General Weiyuan finally couldn't take it anymore, and planned a mutiny, awesome The famous General Weiyuan was tied up on the sickbed, and was pulled by a carriage to the outside of General Shenwu's camp...

From the outbreak of the war in the north to the pacification, it only took more than a month before and after. Without a single soldier, all the rebels surrendered. The sage, Long Yan, was rewarded according to his merits. With outstanding achievements, he was promoted three ranks in a row, reached the second rank, served as the governor of the six northern prefectures, and governed the military administration of the six prefectures. However, the war in the south is still raging, and the imperial court dare not take it lightly. Yu Chuan is located in an important place, and the emperor has no time to choose someone else. Lin Yichen will still serve as Governor of Yuchuan.

The emperor has the intention to reward Li Huaixi, but as the designer of the lore weapon, once Li Huaixi's identity is known, he will inevitably attract the covetousness of the southern rebels, so it is not easy to reward Li Huaixi.Knowing that he loves money, he sent his confidantes to send some precious jewels, and also a waist card from the imperial court. With this belt card, except for the king, all civil and military men in the Manchu Dynasty will not kneel, and there are some privileges .

These rewards were received by Lin Yichen on his behalf. Li Huaixi failed to thank him personally. He was so homesick that he didn't even attend the banquet of General Shenwu. Then Sha Mao and Liu Quan met Cheng An and Yan Li and went home together.

At noon on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, Li Huaixi couldn't sit still as soon as the carriage set foot on a section of stone road unique to Jin County. , but he still couldn't feel at ease after he didn't go to the house and didn't see his family. Li Huaixi said goodbye to Cheng An and Yan Li at the fork in the road, and didn't go to the city to greet his aunt and uncle.

Urging the coachman to go all the way, when he entered the village in the afternoon, Li Huaixi finally saw their new big tile house. The blue bricks and green tiles stood out like a flock of chickens. Li Sisi was still standing with her head poking her head, and Li Huaixi jumped off with a smile before the carriage stopped, her heart that had been hanging for more than a month was finally relieved.

Li Chengkui had a hard time for more than a month. He was so worried at home every day that he didn't dare to say anything. Later, he felt relieved when he heard the news of General Weiyuan's defeat. He estimated the day and found a reason to stand at the entrance of the village and wait in the afternoon. , stood for three days in a row, and now seeing that the youngest son came back unharmed, he finally felt at ease. He couldn't pick up his son who was only a head shorter than him, but it would not delay the long-lost reunion of the two. Hugging, Li Huaixi hugged his father's arms and said nasty things in a muffled voice, which made his father cry.

Li Si next to him was not ashamed of the duo's worthless behavior, pouted all the time, and looked up to see Liu Quan in the carriage smiling at her and gesturing to her with the burden in his hand. The little girl was so happy that she climbed into the carriage and threw The father and two who got off the ground directed the coachman to enter the village.

The women in the family don't go out of the door, and they don't even know about such important events as fighting outside. In addition, the man in the family deliberately conceals it, so Li Huaixi's mother and his grandma don't know how precious this reunion is at all. , Mrs. Cheng kept complaining that her son came back late, and grandma hugged Li Huaixi's "heart and heart" and touched here and there, only saying that Li Huaixi, who had started to twitch, was too thin.

The Li family was reunited. On the 29th day of the next day, Li Chengkui finally had the mind to work. The weather was warm in the morning. He took tools and sat in the main room to pack the broken meat load. Although this thing will not be needed after the donkey cart Yes, but there is no harm in tidying it up, at least it can be used by the grandchildren in the future.

Li Huaixi saw his grandma and his mother busy working in the house, so while squatting beside him to help, he quietly asked his father, "Father, cousin Yan Li said that my aunt came to visit my grandma on the second day of junior high school. When will uncle and the others come?" ?”.

Li Chengkui also looked into the room and said in a low voice, "I went to give the New Year's gift a few days ago. I said it was the third day of junior high school. I couldn't meet each other, so I avoided it. Good relatives, walking around like this, why bother?" What?! By the way, your elder brother and second elder brother gave you the gift from your husband, you just came back, take a two-day rest, go after the Chinese New Year, your husband said it’s okay.”

"Oh, then I'll be there on the sixth day of the lunar new year. Tomorrow is the New Year's Eve. It's not easy to visit." At this time, Li Hu was cleaning up Liu Quan in the west room, and Li Sisi didn't help his brother to help Liu Quan. Hehehe, Li Huaixi looked up and said with a smile, "Father, I bought another shop in Yuchuan, and the world is not peaceful now. If the second brother Kaichun doesn't want to go out, think of a business and rent it to someone else." You can’t get much money either.”

"Ask him about this yourself. He will not be young in the new year, and you guys will help you around, so you can do whatever you want." Li Chengkui said, nailing the last nail on the burden. The boys are flying farther and farther. Although he is reluctant, he is not that short-sighted. The children can read and read, and they have their own ideas about what they want to do. His father, who can't read a single word, has already made up his mind. Do not follow the blending.

Li Si's money for "one-on-one tutoring" this year was not in vain. She didn't take a nap after lunch, but stood in the room complacently reciting newly learned poems to her brothers. Li Huaixi sat next to her grandma, feeling My younger sister hasn't grown a bit in a year, but unfortunately, the development of facial features can't keep up with the development of face, and she still doesn't look good. The little girl has been a little fond of beauty recently, but she still doesn't know how to dress up. Wearing a skirt with big flowers, the visual effect is very shocking.

Li Si's poem was interrupted halfway through memorizing it. The Meng family, who hadn't moved around for many years, suddenly came to the door. The leader was the current patriarch, Meng Huaiyi, who was of the same generation as Li Huaixi. Li Huaixi first saluted Li Huaixi's mother when entering the door. It was a very formal visit.

According to seniority, Li Huaixi called Meng Huaiyi the second elder brother, but this second elder brother was two years older than his father Li Chengkui, so Li Huaixi couldn't say it, so he had to call him the patriarch.Meng Huaiyi was the brother of Meng Huairen, the bitter master in the Weitang murder case, and the youngest son of the old patriarch of the Meng family. When it comes to him, this person has a good reputation, at least his style is decent. Li Huaixi has met him several times in these years.

The two people who came here with Meng Huaiyi are also from Li Huaixi's family, one is Meng Zhaoyuan and the other is Meng Zhaohui, both are Li Huaixi's juniors, the young man in his 20s is not as embarrassed as Li Huaixi, and he swears at Li Huaixi's "Nineteenth Uncle" ' shouted, and Li Huaixi got used to it after listening for a while, and when people shouted, he responded with a smile.

The Meng family has a lot of minds. Although Li Chengkui and Li Long and Li Hu are still in the house, Cheng is still afraid that the younger son will suffer, so he has been secretly listening while serving tea. It turns out that the Meng family built a new ancestral hall this year. On New Year's Eve, the whole family wanted to burn incense and worship their ancestors, and wanted Li Huaixi to go back. Although his surname is Li now, and his relatives and uncles are all dead, he still belongs to the Meng family.

This request was not too much, Li Huaixi looked up at his mother and smiled and agreed without any response. At this time, Meng Huaiyi smiled and said another thing, but it made Li Huaixi embarrassed.

"Although the deed of the house is with me, I can't make the big deal of selling the house. It turns out that our family has never thought about it. If the second brother is not in a hurry, let me discuss it with my parents before replying." you."

"No hurry, no hurry, my family Zhaoming is still young, so there is no hurry." Meng Huaiyi quickly agreed, and now everyone says that the ancestral house left by the ghost scholar Meng Guangqing has good geomantic omen, so he rushed Li Huaixi to mention it at home today. Taking advantage of others, his son Meng Zhaoming is also studying in the school. Although the theory of Feng Shui is not completely credible, it is good to have peace of mind.

Li Huaixi didn't know that his old house with several holes was regarded as a treasure land of geomantic omen. After sending away the three members of the Meng family, he went into the house to discuss with his father and mother about selling the house. He would keep the place. It's useless, but he doesn't know the land price in Jin County now, so he just played with the gun just now and didn't agree immediately.

Li Chengkui had heard some discussions, and told Li Huaixi with a smile, "Don't tell me that now your old house, even your cemetery, is being missed. The land next to your Meng family's cemetery has been fought for several times in the past two years. I’m back, and I’m thinking of borrowing Feng Shui. Let me say, according to the market price, that dilapidated house is not worth much, but now the market can’t look at it that way, just like our bacon. It is not difficult to sell three or fifty taels."

Cheng laughed while embroidering, "I'll sell you an extra three or fifty taels. If I were you, I'd give you three and fifty taels. Except for the palm-sized land, there's nothing usable in that yard! Let me tell you." Well, the Meng family can't be messed with, they buried everything underground, and the rest? Hmph, it's not much better than Meng Huairen. Just sell them at the market price to save trouble."

Both father and son also felt that this was reasonable, and their family was not short of the extra 50 taels, so they honestly set a price of 80 taels.

On the day of New Year's Eve, Li Huaixi first went to the Lijiazu grave outside the village to kowtow, and then followed his father to Mengjiazhuang to worship the ancestors. Li Huaixi was 14 years old after the New Year, but when he returned home, Li Chengkui still regarded him as a A child, no matter what, he is worried about going out by himself.

The Meng family ancestral hall was built quite grandly. Hundreds of people, men, women, old and young, knelt on the ground. Li Huaixi's seniority was not low, and he had a reputation as a scholar, so he sat in the front, and a clean futon was placed on the ground.

Meng Huaiyi was the patriarch, so he presided over the ceremony of worshiping the ancestors. Although the process was simple, it was cumbersome, so he didn't spare time to entertain Li Huaixi. There are quite a lot of people in the village who have the same idea as him. Several families with some spare money are asking about the dilapidated house.

Meng Huaiyi was not a good person, he pushed and pushed away the crowd, pulled Li Huaixi and walked out while saying, "Huaixi, it's cold outside, come and sit at my house for a while, your sister-in-law has been talking about you, here you go I left a lot of good things, let's go, look at the cold weather..."

He is the head of the patriarch, and the villagers are somewhat jealous of him. Seeing that he is bound to win, most people will not rob him, but there are still two Qing characters who follow. Li Huaixi has been waiting for him. Li Chengkui outside, the father and father looked at each other and smiled, and mouthed '100 taels' at the same time.

Meng Huaiyi's ancestors were officials, and his family was rich. As soon as Li Huaixi quoted the price of 100 taels, the two Qing generation hesitated for a while and fell to the disadvantage. Here, Meng Huaiyi directly took out the bank note.Li Huaixi said he was embarrassed while accepting the banknotes. In the past few years, he has been very good at buying houses and lands. He wrote the deed in less than 3 minutes. , holding the 100 taels of silver bills, followed his father's manner to be polite to others, and then took his leave as a matter of course.

On the way back, the father and father were afraid of being scolded when they went home, so they re-unified their caliber, and they still quoted the price of 80 taels to the butcher's wife. smoothly.

Li Huaixi had a good year this year. The war in the north was pacified, his family and lover were safe, and even the old house that had been idle for many years was turned into money. The New Year's Eve dinner was rich and delicious, and the fireworks seemed to be particularly beautiful.

On the day of the second day of junior high school, my aunt’s family came to pay New Year’s greetings, and my uncle and uncle came together for the first time. A family of six, old and young, three generations, sat in a car, and brought a lot of things, large and small piled up in the carriage. There is no place to stay in the house, even if it is like this, Yan Li found a gap where no one was around and secretly gave Li Huaixi a jade belt buckle that he had been holding in his arms, "This is a good thing. Don't waste it."

This time Li Huaixi did not make the exotic animal Pixiu that only eats but does not pull. He also prepared gifts for Yan Li. When Lin Yichen was promoted, many people sent congratulatory gifts. Li Huaixi picked out several famous calligraphy and paintings for Yan Li. Anyway, Lin Yichen is not interested in these, these famous paintings have been kept at the bottom of the box, instead of throwing them in the dark, it is better for him to take them home and give them to people with discerning eyes.

Yan Li knows calligraphy and painting, so he naturally knows how precious Li Huaixi's gift is in return. Although he likes it, he knows Li Huaixi's character. If he said that these paintings were bought by Li Huaixi as a gift, he would not believe it even if he was beaten to death. So after asking about the source of these calligraphy and paintings, Yan Li put down the paintings again, and glanced at Li Huaixi's more refined face, Yan Li suddenly became angry and changed his face, "I can't afford the things of Mr. Fuyin, you keep it yourself. Let's go!".

Li Huaixi, who had something wrong with the gift, felt baffled. These calligraphy and paintings were both boxes and scrolls. They were very heavy to carry, and they were expensive, at least a thousand taels. He carried them all the way back and gave them to Yan Li to make For human feelings, I thought Yan Li would be happy, but I didn't expect to show my temper instead!

"If you don't want it, then you don't want it," Li Huaixi was also angry, and after a few rolls, he put away the calligraphy and paintings, "Don't say I didn't return the courtesy."

"Who cares about your return!" Yan Li put down these words, turned around and left angrily, and didn't say a word to Li Huaixi until he left in the evening.

The butcher's wife found it very strange, and she was not sure what Yan Li had in mind for her son, but as cousins, she still didn't want any gap between them.

"What happened to your cousin Yan Li?"

"Who knows!" Li Huaixi said angrily, "I took a lot of things from him in the past, but this year I kindly gave him a few paintings, but he didn't want it, and even lost his temper at me!"

"Did you draw it yourself?" If that was the case, Cheng felt that it was normal for Yan Li to be angry.

The sarcasm in his mother's eyes was too obvious, Li Huaixi couldn't pretend not to see it, so angrily he pushed the famous painting he brought back on the table, and the lobby pleaded like a grievance, "Heavenly conscience, am I such a stingy person? ! This is a famous painting by a famous artist I scraped from Lin Yichen, it is worth a lot of money!"

You didn't spend money no matter how much money it was worth!The butcher's wife reprimanded in her heart, understood some of the reasons, rolled her eyes twice, and said with a smile, "Forget it if he doesn't want it, maybe it's too expensive, next time I'll find something with a reasonable price as a gift, you are a scholar, Don't keep doing upstart things."

After hearing this, Li Huaixi thought about it carefully, but felt that what his mother said was very reasonable, and he slapped his forehead suddenly, "It's my fault, I was so abrupt, I only thought about Yan Li's liking for painting, but unexpectedly Forget about this one. It would be great if only one piece would be given away, and the price would be right and he would like it, then these would be enough for me to give away for several years! Stupid!"

His mother glanced at him, smiled and went into the kitchen to pack things. There will be more relatives coming tomorrow, and she has no time to watch her son's "rarely confused".

In the early morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, the uncle, the second uncle, and the third uncle came together, and the house became a mess. Several plates of snacks could not hold up a dozen mouths to eat and take together. After a while, everything was gone The butcher's wife asked Liu Quan and Li Si to lead the children to play in the yard. Some children dropped sugar cubes out of their pockets as they walked. Who is it, the child changes his appearance every year, even if his memory is amazing, there is nothing he can do about it.

The third aunt was pregnant with another one for more than seven months. She shouldn't have come this time, but she was thinking of Li Sisi's delicate clothes and toys when she was a child, so she made the effort to come.

The Li family doesn't plan to have another 'Li Wu', so it's useless to keep those things. Li Huaixi's mother rummaged through the boxes and found a lot of things, Li Sisi's small clothes, small quilts, small toys, Li Long Li Hu these years Old clothes and Liu Quan's old clothes are useless, they are mostly new silk clothes, and the boys of the three brothers' families can also wear them, but they can't hold back after they are turned over, and even some old clothes that are out of date have been turned over come out.

The first aunt and the second aunt had been watching the movement here when the sister-in-law dug out the first piece of Li Long's old clothes. When they saw the whole pile of clothes, their eyes lit up, they looked at each other, and followed Surrounded up.

The rich butcher's wife really doesn't care about these things now, and she distributed them clean in a blink of an eye. When she turned around, she saw that her sister-in-law was still wearing old clothes from a few years ago, so she secretly stuffed another piece of crimson red whole material, Cheng An Just as his mother was about to speak, Cheng Xiu smiled and winked at her, Cheng An's mother understood, and hurriedly put away the things in embarrassment.

At noon, the women prepared wine and dishes together. There were too many people. Women and children opened two tables on the kang in the east room, women and children on the kang, and older children like Li Long, Li Hu, and Cheng Ping had tables on the ground. , Li Chengkui and his three uncles opened a single table to drink in the main room. At first, the atmosphere was harmonious and enjoyable, but after drinking for three rounds, there was suddenly crying in the main room. uncle.

"What's the matter with drinking?! This worthless thing!" Grandma had already finished her meal and was sitting on the edge of the kang drinking water. At this time, she opened the door curtain and was about to go out to scold him. The eldest aunt hurriedly got off the kang to follow him. Going out, Cheng Ping, the second son of the uncle's family, also went out.

The main room became a mess, Li Huaixi looked out through the gap in the door curtain, his uncle who was almost 50 years old hugged Li Chengkui and cried like a tearful man, accusing himself of all these years of forbearance and compromise , To put it bluntly, those who heard it were sad and those who saw it shed tears. The grandma who wanted to scold him had no choice but to carry him to the bed in the west room to lie down, but the uncle didn't appreciate it, and cried while crying, "What are you carrying now?" ?! My eldest son was driven away by his mother! I can’t even come back to carry me after I die! Ah... I don’t need anyone! I will climb into the pit by myself! I have no ability! I can’t keep my son! ah……"

Li Sisi went to school on the kang, and the uncle said that she went to school on the kang, Li Huaixi stood up and stuffed her with an extra-large ball, "Shut up, you son of a bitch, you don't understand anything!"

61. Homely

People say that they tell the truth after drinking. My uncle may have been holding back all these years. He sat in the main room with his brother-in-law in his arms and uttered the "truth" for more than an hour. His back hurt, and when the uncle was finally persuaded to rest on the bed, his legs were numb, and he staggered for a while when he stood up.

The uncle's heart knot is Cheng An, and he is crying and nagging. He is thinking about Cheng An's body, whether Cheng An can't hold his head up at his father-in-law's house, thinking about Cheng An's future livelihood, and thinking about his little granddaughter. ...

With uncle being such a spoiler, the whole family felt uncomfortable eating this meal. Li Huaixi knew about Cheng An's recent situation, and when he heard uncle talking about Cheng An, he went out to persuade him, but uncle's comprehension ability declined after he was drunk It was beyond imagination, you said things and he said things, you said monkeys and he said chickens, Li Huaixi was so angry that he finally stopped persuading him, and wanted to give him the teapot next to him!

But the people next to what Li Huaixi said were all heard clearly. The news of Cheng An's recovery made everyone especially happy. The aunt pulled Li Huaixi and asked him several times. I thought my aunt was drunk too.

The uncle was still lying on the bed in the Westinghouse, wanting to drink water and throwing up again. The uncle took Cheng Ping inside to take care of him. The second uncle and the third uncle sat in the main room discussing with Li Chengkui about the plans for the sixth day of junior high school. Every now and then, we will go to Yan's house together, we will make a match in the middle, and slowly let the two families move around again.

Although the uncle and aunt were very stiff at the beginning, these three families have always maintained neutrality, and now they can still talk, especially Li Chengkui's family. In the past two years, due to the growing closeness of the juniors, Yan Shigui treats this brother-in-law as well. Very polite.

The men sighed while discussing. Speaking of which, the Cheng and Yan families were right about each other in this matter, and no one had much reason. It was true that Cheng An's mother did something wrong at the beginning, but this Yan Shigui The couple did not do it right. Even if the elders were at fault, the two juniors should bring their children home to have a look during the festival. Whether or not the Cheng family can open the gate is his Cheng family's business.Cheng An and Yan Ying are a pair of weak and foolish people. I'm afraid these things are unexpected, but the juniors can't imagine that a person like Yan Shigui should have thought of it. The white-eyed wolf who tends to be popular, actually his Yan family's face is not good, and I don't know what they think.

The women sat on the kang in the east room and sighed. The eldest son of the second uncle's family had a marriage proposal last year and also built a new house. Cheng Ping was one year older than Li Long, so he was supposed to be at the age of marriage proposal, but their family did not The house has no land, there are many brothers and sisters, and the reputation is not very good. So far, no matchmaker has come to the door. Although the eldest aunt did not say anything, she was still in a hurry. But the matchmakers far and near did not dare to accept her family's marriage, so it was delayed. down.

Cheng Xiu is the water splashed by her married daughter. She is willing to help but dare not force her to stand out. The two sister-in-laws are not fuel-efficient lamps. The butcher's wife has become more and more stable in recent years. , Only in the dead of night did I discuss with Li Chengkui in a low voice, "Cheng Kui, I want to help my elder brother and the others, otherwise I would feel a little sorry, if my elder brother hadn't decided to let me marry you, our mother and I might have starved to death long ago. "

Li Chengkui understood his daughter-in-law's thoughts, hugged her in his arms in the dark, and said softly comfortingly, "For those who celebrate the New Year, what are you talking about? Our family will live a long life. If you want to help, help, Chu Six, my second brother and my third brother went to Yan's house to help make peace, and you and Si'er went to the eldest brother's place, didn't you just have no money to build a house? Let's borrow some from them first, our family is not in a hurry, just ask Does Cheng Ping have any plans? Our boys plan to start another business in Yuchuan in the spring. Let him come over and contact San'er and the others more. How much money can he earn from farming at home? If you can help them once, you won't be able to help them for a lifetime , This is not helping the poor, but helping them find a living is the right way."

"It's the same reason," Cheng Xiu agreed with her husband, "Our house cost no less than 100 taels. Now the wages are cheaper, but the cost has increased. No matter how much you save, you will have to save 80 to [-] taels. If they rely on digging from the soil, they won’t be able to pay it back in ten or eight years. The eldest brother’s family has a total of more than ten acres of land, and there are enough workers in the family. It’s good for Cheng Ping to go out and earn a few years.”

The couple discussed it for half the night, and then discussed with grandma the next day. Grandma was also helpless about the plight of the eldest son's family. She was very happy to hear the plan of her daughter and son-in-law, and had nothing to disagree with.After Li Chengkui went out, the old lady took her daughter's hand and smiled, "Girl, you are really a blessing that you have cultivated in a few lifetimes. This is not only your blessing, but also our family's blessing! This Chengkui is really a blessing." It's hard to find a good man even with a lantern. You two have been together for so many years, and my mother is not afraid to tell you the truth. Don't look at the time when my mother persuaded you to marry. In fact, I felt uncomfortable for you at the time. Compared with Huaixi His father is far away from him by hundreds of thousands of miles, and he can't keep up with horses. Mother thinks he is ugly. But your brother said he is a good man, and his family is rich. It’s enough to have enough food, and forget everything else. Now my mother is really lucky. Fortunately, you are married. It doesn’t matter if the man is ugly or handsome. It's been so many years, and I haven't taken out any more points, and the concubine has taken one after another, how can it be as good as Cheng Kui!"

Cheng Xiu pursed her lips and secretly laughed. She knows better than others about being a daughter-in-law. The big and thick man outside has many advantages. She doesn't think her man is ugly at all. In her eyes, Li Chengkui It's just darker, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, no worse than Li Huaixi's father.

In the early morning of the sixth day of the lunar new year, the Li family split up after breakfast.Li Chengkui went to Yan's house with his second and third uncles to make peace, Cheng Xiu, Li Si, grandma, and Liu Quan went to the uncle's house to "send charcoal in the snow", and the remaining three brothers of the Li family went to visit the husband's house together, and finally, the big Only Fat Cat was left as a housekeeper in the yard. Unfortunately, this guy slept from morning to noon, from noon to afternoon, and didn't open his eyes until his family members came back.

The butcher's wife gave her brother and sister-in-law 100 taels of silver notes. The money was in Tongding Town, which was enough to build a house and bring a betrothal gift. In fact, he also wanted to go out for a break, but at the time he was thin-skinned and embarrassed to open his mouth. Later, when his uncle made a fuss, he didn't find a chance to ask these things in detail.

Li Huaixi has a very weak impression of Cheng Ping. Anyway, he has to hire a man when he goes back, and he doesn't care if he is a member of the family. , Let him pack up and go together, and if anyone else wants to go, let him go together, so as to save trouble in the future."

Mrs. Cheng thought it was funny seeing her youngest son's appearance as a shopkeeper, touched his small forehead, and said with a smile, "You have such a big business, and your tone is not small.