Lucky husband

Bai Yao has been waiting at home in fear. Although she had discussed with her son, she decided to move her family back to Shanghe Village, because returning to their ancestral home to keep their filial piety was the best choice for them at that time. As for being bullied.

But from then on, for three years, Bai Zhiwen could only read and study at home by himself. Every time Bai Yaoshi thought about this, he felt uncomfortable, and always felt that he was delaying his son.

Therefore, after learning that there is finally a gentleman who can teach Bai Zhiwen, the smile on Bai Yao's face did not go away. He was also full of energy when embroidering every day, and he waited to save the money. After his son was born, he would send him to participate In the imperial examination, she was full of confidence in her son.

Although the Bai Yao family and the Li family did not deliberately disclose the apprenticeship, within two days, people in Shanghe Village knew that the Li family and the Bai family had successfully worshiped an old gentleman from the county as their teacher. De no longer needs to go to the county school to study, and can go home every day.

Those who were lucky enough to meet Mr. Zhang Lao at the first time heard about it, and said that these two boys are smart and lucky. With such a powerful teacher, they will definitely be able to pass the examination of scholars in the future, and even raise people. They went to Hecun to win glory.

There are also some people who haven't met Mr. Zhang, and they can't bear to see everyone's praise of Li Mingde and Bai Zhiwen, so they whisper bitter words in private, what kind of scholar, juren, and don't see how long it has been since the village in their area these years Scholar, stop daydreaming.

Regardless of whether it was a nice word or a bad word, Li's family and Bai Zhiwen pretended they hadn't heard it, just smiled and passed it by, and lived their lives as they wanted. Anyway, there were few people here, and there were few people visiting, so it was clean.

Every morning, Li Mingde went to the county seat with his father, mother and aunt next door, and he came back with Li Chengzhi and the others in the middle of the afternoon.

After a few more days like this, some people in the village had doubts, not that both the Bai family boy and the Li family boy had worshiped an old gentleman in the county as their teacher, why did the Li family boy go to the county town every day, and the Bai family boy did not move.

Without Li Mingde and Bai Zhiwen coming forward to explain, Village Chief Bai scolded those villagers who thought they were "fighting against injustice" for Bai Zhiwen, and Bai Zhiwen had to keep his father's filial piety. Bai Xiucai came to chat with you at night.

What Village Chief Bai said made the villagers dare not talk anymore, for fear that the real little Bai Xiucai would be dissatisfied and go to them at night.

In fact, although Bai Zhiwen did not go to Mr. Zhang every day, Li Mingde would bring back the homework and topics assigned to him by Mr. Zhang every day. The husband will answer and comment one by one, and he will go to the county almost every ten days. In fact, he has received quite a lot of guidance.

After two days of discussion about the apprenticeship of the two scholars, everyone gradually calmed down in the village. Studying is reading, and taking the imperial examination is taking the imperial examination.

Time passed day by day, and at the end of November, Li Chengzhi approached Li Chengli, and the two brothers had a quiet conversation.

Now that it is completely slack in the farming season, the villagers have nothing to do except to get some winter vegetables to eat at home or take them to the market for a few pennies.

Of course, diligent people will find things to do by themselves. After all, there are endless things to do, as long as you have the heart.

A man has a lot of strength. He can go out to do odd jobs to earn money to subsidize his family. He can also repair his roof, walls, chicken sheds, pig pens, etc., and arrange the family affairs well before the beginning of next year.

As for women, husbands, and brothers, they are too weak to show their faces, so they just pick up pots and pans, clothes, shoes and socks, bedding, bacon and food at home, and plan how to make the whole family have a good New Year. , How to arrange life after the new year.

When the Chinese New Year is approaching, as long as there is some money in hand, people will always think about taking time out to go to towns, counties, and temple fairs to see if there is anything new this year. It's good to look lively.

December is the best month for the rice noodle business every year. Li Chengzhi thought that there was no work in the field, so he might as well call his second brother to help work at the rice noodle stall.

It is Li Chengzhi and Bai Xiuhe's ability to make money by making soup bases of various flavors. It is also the taste of soup bases prepared by Bai Xiuhe that attracts many customers to their stalls to eat rice noodles, so Li Chengli went to the rice noodle booth Help can only be paid every day like Li Caoye.

Speaking of wages, I have to mention Li Caoye's current situation. Before Li Erye's family separated, Li Chengzhi and the others paid Li Caoye [-] cents a day's wages, which they claimed at the time to be Li Caoye's. The salary is ten Wen, so she still has to hand over part to Mistress Li, and she can only hold a few Wen in her hand.

Later, Second Master Li separated, and Second Master Li and Mistress Li lived with Li Caoye. Mistress Li asked Li Caoye to keep the money to go out to work. Granny Li also found a chance to ask Li Chengzhi to give Li Caoye The "increased" wages were said to be [-] cents to the outside world.

As the business of the rice noodle stall is getting better and better, three flavors of rice noodles, cold rice noodles, dry rice noodles, and sour radish and duck soup rice noodles, have been added one after another. , Lunch is also included, almost catching up with the wages of a young man doing odd jobs for a day outside.

Since she is not an odd job, she follows Li Chengzhi and the others to help at the rice noodle stall every day, so she can earn one tael of silver and two hundred cash a month, which is better than most of the men in the village.

Things really happened as Li Chengzhi had expected. Li Chengdi's wife and Li Chengliang's daughter-in-law were very dissatisfied when they found out that their eldest sister could earn so much money alone in a month. People are making noise, and those who have heard the meaning inside and outside the words can understand that it is nothing more than wanting to reduce the filial piety promised to the two old people at the beginning.

Li Caoye was busy outside all morning and one noon, and when she got home, she always listened to the two brothers next door singing and talking in unison. For a while, she thought about getting her parents to agree with her brothers and sisters for the sake of the peace of the family, anyway. This year's autumn harvest has brought a lot of food, which is enough for their family to eat, and she can still go out to earn money. The family does not lack the filial piety of the younger brothers.

Second Mistress Li has a soft temper and a soft ear. She has no opinion. She didn't say anything before Second Master Li didn't express his opinion. Anyway, the family has been separated, and she can't manage the two daughters-in-law. Listening to their words, she feels uncomfortable quietly. Just touch two handfuls of tears and it's over, don't bother your daughter with these things.

Li Erye disagreed. When the family was separated, he thought that the two sons would have wives and sons. If they would have a hard time without paddy fields, they would give each of them an acre of paddy fields. At that time, he felt wronged. girl.

How long has it been since the family separated, the two boys don’t want to give them food, and it’s okay if this goes on, Li Erye said that he can still move and farm when he is young, it doesn’t matter if the two boys don’t want food, when he gets old, he can’t plant. If you move, do you really rely on your daughter to support you?

Mistress Li also heard the same reasoning. Living with Li Caoye every day, she also felt sorry for her daughter, knowing that her daughter's money is not so easy to earn, why are her two sons so ignorant.

If it is winter, when Li Caoye wakes up in the morning, the sky is not bright, and it is still very cold. The wind blows straight into his neck, and he still feels that the air is leaking when he huddles up. The dishes that the guests have eaten have to be washed frequently. Even with lukewarm water, I still had a lot of chilblains on my hands.

In summer, although the sky is already bright when we wake up, it is hot in summer, especially when we are standing in front of the casserole with charcoal burning under the casserole, and the sweat does not stop, it is also uncomfortable.

Because the two daughters-in-law were talking about it all the time, it was inconvenient for Second Master Li to come forward, so he asked Second Mistress Li to talk about them.

Mistress Li was soft-tempered, she couldn't swear words, she thought she was standing at the door of Li Chengdi and Li Chengliang and said a few words to the two daughter-in-laws, but she didn't expect to see anyone.

Before the separation, Li Chengdi's daughter-in-law and Li Chengliang's daughter-in-law were still a little afraid of their mother-in-law. After the separation, they got used to being in charge of their own household. The two of them were not as afraid of going to Li's mistress as before. Acting not at home in the house.

After doing this twice, Second Master Li couldn't stand it any longer. He asked Mistress Li to ask her to go directly to her two sons. Hearing that they were going back to the village today, he asked her to ask them if they were right in front of the villagers. Does the filial son not want to give them food for the old couple, if they don't answer, he will pull them and scold them severely.

Not to mention anything else, just say that if these two boys still want to live in Shanghe Village, it is impossible not to care about what the villagers think of them. I muttered quietly, if word spread that they didn't respect their parents after the separation, one word from the villagers would embarrass them to the point of going out.

Mistress Li listened to Erye Li's words, thought about what she would say later, and then went out with a basket to work under the big locust tree in the center of the village, while waiting for her two sons who had gone out to do odd jobs to come back.

When villagers go out to do odd jobs, they usually choose to do odd jobs outside for a few consecutive days. The main house is almost busy, so they will settle their wages in advance and let those who live far away go first, so as to save them when they get home. It's too late and it's not safe. If something goes wrong, ask them, those who care for workers, to talk about it.

This time Li Chengdi and Li Chengliang met a generous host who gave each of them [-] Wen in five days, and they were happily planning to use the [-] Wen for the New Year's Eve dinner.

As a result, as soon as they stepped into the village, the two brothers saw their mother running towards them and asked them if they would not be given the monthly filial grain.

Li Chengdi and Li Chengliang had heard their mother-in-law say that the elder sister earns a lot of money working outside, otherwise they would send less food to the second elder. After all, they saw that they had sons and daughters and wanted to raise a large family. People, I believe parents can understand.

The two brothers scolded their respective daughter-in-laws on the spot. The food in the family is not enough, and the food for parents every month is not much. How can we reduce it? It is said that they are still human.

Therefore, at this moment, faced with the old lady's questioning, Li Chengdi and Li Chengliang immediately denied it, saying that they had never thought of not giving food to the old lady.

After finishing speaking, Li Chengdi took out a string of copper coins from his arms, that is, one hundred Wen, and handed it to Mistress Li, and said with a filial expression that the two brothers went out to do odd jobs to earn some money. Wen is their filial piety to the two elders.

Li Chengdi took out the money, he looked at Li Chengliang who was still standing stupidly, and pushed him to speak quickly.

Li Chengliang was not stupid, he immediately followed his brother's words and said that the money was their filial piety, asked Li's mistress to keep the money, and promised that the food would be delivered every month.

No one knows what the two brothers really think, but seeing them take out a hundred coins on the spot to honor their parents, the people in Shanghe Village finally have a little better evaluation of the two brothers, and their conscience is not bad at all. .

Waiting to get out of everyone's sight under the big locust tree in the center of the village, Li Chengdi immediately kicked his brother's ass and asked Li Chengliang to return him fifty coins.

Li Chengliang really wanted to say that he never thought about giving money to his parents. It was the second elder brother who gave his mother a hundred coins on his own initiative, and he would have to pay half of it anyway, so he didn't want to.

Seeing Li Chengdi's displeased expression, Li Chengliang still untied the string of money, and counted fifty cash. After being a younger brother for so many years, he didn't dare to disobey his second brother's words.

After returning home, Li Chengdi and Li Chengliang brothers cleaned up the mother-in-law at the same time. If they hadn't made troubles, were not willing to give food and provoked their parents, they would not have to pay today. Appease the mother.

Li Chengdi's daughter-in-law and Li Chengliang's daughter-in-law settled down after being cleaned up, and they would take the initiative to offer food every time it was time to deliver food, lest their men forget and dare not think about Li Caoye's salary anymore.

Mrs. Li has been paying attention to the conflicts in Li Erye's family. This time she didn't take care of it, and let Li Erye and the others solve it by themselves. According to Li Mingjin, who used to play often, the conflict was resolved fairly well this time, without letting the two This heartless bastard really gives less food.

The salary for a woman in Li Caoye was [-] Wen a day. When Li Chengzhi approached Li Chengli, considering that Li Chengli was not familiar with the work at the booth, except for the first three days it was [-] Wen a day, and after that it was temporarily set at [-] Wen. One day, the specific situation will be determined at that time.

What Li Chengzhi didn't expect was that Li Chengli refused the invitation because he wanted to stay at home and take care of Li Mingcai.

Li Chengli's refusal was unexpected and disrupted Li Chengzhi's plan, but it also allowed him to see his brother's growth and responsibility, which made him very relieved, so he didn't force it, and rethought the arrangement of the booth.

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