Lucky husband

When Bai Chen went to Li's house, Li Chengli and the others had just had dinner, Li Chengli was washing dishes in the kitchen, Li Mingxia was tidying up the house, Li Chengli was picking out the purple potatoes and sweet potatoes harvested this year, looking for better quality ones for next year's seeds Yam.

"Father-in-law, fourth sister, Mingcai." Bai Chen knocked on the door.

"Bai Chen, come in and sit down." Li Chengli patted the mud on his hands, and looked at Bai Chen happily. He heard the news that his eldest daughter was pregnant when he came back today, and he will be a grandfather in a few months. , This feeling is not bad, "I have prepared some food here, and you can take it back to Mingchun to eat later. She will eat more after she is pregnant, it will be better for the child."

"Thank you father-in-law, but there's no need." Bai Chen looked at them and smiled awkwardly, "Father-in-law, can Mingchun and I stay here tonight?"

"Maybe not only tonight, but also for some time in the future." Seeing his father-in-law's surprised and confused look, Bai Chen cheekily told about the separation of the Bai family and leaving the house by himself.

The division of the Bai family was expected by Li Chengli, but he really didn't expect Bai Chen to leave the house, but let's leave the house cleanly, at worst, he subsidizes some daughters and asks them to find a new homestead Build a new house.

"Brother-in-law, you want to bring the second sister back?" Li Mingxia was overjoyed when she heard Bai Chen say that the Bai family was separated, and that the husband and wife were going to live in Li's house tonight.

Seeing Bai Chen nodding his head to confirm, Li Mingxia said happily that she would go to tidy up her elder sister's room immediately, and the two of them can live in when they come back.

Li Mingcai looked very happy, he didn't say anything, and followed Li Mingchun to help clean up the house.

On the contrary, Li Chengli was a little worried about the separation of the Bai family. He knew Bai Chen's status in his family, so he asked Bai Chen if he had any problems and if he needed their help.

Bai Chen thanked his father-in-law, and hurried back to Bai's house, not to allow the village elder to wait for him at their house for too long.

Because the division of Baichen's family does not involve the division of property, the speed is very fast. Village head Bai wrote a separation document in triplicate, and the separation was completed after the three parties signed or pressed their fingerprints.

The family separation that Bai Chen requested must be the kind of family separation that separates the household registration, but if you want to get the household registration again, you have to wait until the county government starts working after the opening, and there is no rush now.

However, Bai Chen was worried about problems, so he asked Village Chief Bai to give him his household registration in advance, and then he could go to the county government to apply for a new household registration with the separation paperwork and his own household registration when the county government resumed work.

Village head Bai sympathized with the child Bai Chen, so he tried his best to satisfy Bai Chen's request, so as not to let Bai Chen be restricted by his family members.

After the family division was completed, Bai Chen returned to his and Li Mingchun's room with these documents that were very important to him, brought up the small package that Li Mingchun packed up, closed the window of the room, locked the door, and helped Li Mingchun left the Bai family.

Bai Chen's father and mother took the five two taels of silver ingots that Bai Chen had just given them, and their eyes were so happy that they narrowed their eyes. They hid the silver in a place they thought would not be found, thinking about how to use the silver.

At this time, it was late, and it was cold and windy in winter. There were no two people in the village. The Bai family was separated, and the news that Bai Chen brought his daughter-in-law back to her mother's house did not spread.

It wasn't until the next morning that Bai Chen invited a few young men from the village to help him move Li Mingchun's dowry, that what happened to the Bai family became known.

Li Mingchun's dowry was all the furniture in their new house. It was neither too much nor too little to move. The five young people moved one after another for a whole morning before finishing the move. Bai Chen gave each of them twenty copper coins. Hard work.

Although the Li family has things like beds and cabinets, Bai Chen and the others will not need the furniture of the new house after they live there, but the couple will build a new house sooner or later, and it is impossible to leave these furniture that will be used in the future. The Bai family was ruined by the Bai family.

Bai Chen's parents watched Bai Chen bring people to evacuate the room little by little, and they became dissatisfied again. They felt that they shouldn't have agreed to separate the family for ten taels of silver yesterday, and they should have left all the furniture in the room.

But now that the separation documents have been signed, there is no room for repentance, and I can only watch helplessly, unable to do anything.

Looking at the empty room where he lived for half a year, Bai Chen felt that all the dissatisfaction, grievance, disappointment, and sadness in his heart were gradually removed. In the future, he and Ming Chun would build a happy little home for the two of them.

Although neither the Bai family nor the Li family had intentionally disclosed Bai Chen's leaving the house, the villagers still knew about it.

Bai Chen's parents would really do such a thing by kicking the eldest son's family out of the house before the Chinese New Year. The Bai people in the village would be embarrassed when they mentioned Bai Chen, and wished they could change their surnames to this strange couple, not Bai.

The atmosphere in the Li family on the other side is very harmonious. During the years of being engaged to Li Mingchun, Bai Chen has become familiar with the Li family. After moving to the Li family, he did not feel strange. It was also with the Li family.

This year's Chinese New Year, Li Mingjin thought that his second sister would be missing, but he didn't expect that the Bai family would separate before the Chinese New Year. As a result, this year's Li's Chinese New Year is still the same as last year, and there is even one more person than last year, which is more lively .

After the Chinese New Year, when the Li family went to visit their ancestors' graves on the first day of the new year, Bai Chen was also with the Li family, but after the Li family returned home, he returned to the Bai family with the annual gift he had prepared before. , stood at the gate of the Bai family's yard, put things into the gate, and then left.

The people in the village already knew that Bai Chen had left the house without leaving the house. Seeing that Bai Chen was very filial to his parents, they all praised Bai Chen for his filial piety and praised them. Good luck.

Then they turned their backs, and almost everyone said that Bai Chen's parents had problems with their brains and eyes, they couldn't see the good of their elder son, and they insisted on pampering the younger son, such an incompetent bastard.

In the first month of this year, everyone talked about the matter of the Bai family over and over again. When the spring plowing began in February, the villagers became busy and fewer people talked about it.

The village was busy with spring plowing as usual, but a major event happened in the county government—the magistrate Zhao Chengze finally ushered in his transfer after serving two consecutive terms.

During the six years of these two terms, Zhao Chengze's political performance was very good.

First of all, there was a severe drought in the first year. The people under Zhao Chengze found a new edible food - taro, which saved many people from starving to death in the affected areas. This is a great achievement. The emperor remembered this little seventh-rank magistrate.

Then in the year following the drought, Zhao Chengze assisted in the investigation of the case of the governor of Hui'an Province accepting bribes and withholding food and salaries for disaster relief. Few people knew about this case, but the emperor was the one who read the entire case file, and once again saw Zhao Chengze's case on it. The name deepened the emperor's impression of Zhao Chengze.

Then people under the rule of Zhao Chengze planted purple potatoes with a higher yield than sweet potatoes, and ratooned rice that can be harvested twice a year. The food is from Changping County, so this achievement is also counted on the magistrate of Changping County.

Food is the foundation of a country, and the grown food can feed more people and make people's lives easier. Today, the Holy One is sympathetic to the people, and he is very satisfied with Zhao Chengze.

Logically speaking, Zhao Chengze's achievements in the past three years are enough to be transferred to a better place, but because he has only been a county magistrate for three years, the emperor intends to suppress him for one term, so he has been allowed to stay in Changping County for three more years. Year.

In the next three years, the weather in Dayu was smooth and there was no trouble, so Zhao Chengze quietly became his county magistrate, handling all the affairs of the county under his rule, and the annual report papers were also very beautiful.

For Zhao Chengze, his harvest in the next three years was actually not small. He went to discuss the way of becoming an official with Shibo Zhang Anhao who had settled down in Changping County and accepted his apprentice. This made him grow up rapidly. No matter where he is an official, I believe he will not do well.

This time, the Zhao family did not use their connections to find out about Zhao Chengze's transfer, because Mr. Zhao believed that with Zhao Chengze's achievements as a county magistrate in the past few years, there would definitely be a position that would surprise them.

Sure enough, in the first ten days of February, after the promotion of the current officials came out, Mr. Zhao in the capital was the first to receive a series of congratulations.

Zhao Chengze is about to take up the position of the general judge of the Jintai Prefecture of the former Han Province. The position of the general judge is from the official position of the fifth grade. He is in charge of grain transportation, family land, water conservancy and litigation under the magistrate. It has the responsibility of supervision, because the general judgment can directly deliver the papers to Tianting, without going through the prefect, governor, governor and other officials.

So don't think that Tongpan is just a small fifth-rank foreign official, but this is a position that is very popular with the emperor. Officials who can hold this position can be described as "Jane in the Emperor's Heart".

Throughout so many years, as long as the officials who have served as general judges have not made major mistakes, they can control a party's power regardless of whether they are in Beijing or abroad when they get seniority.

Moreover, the Zhao family has been pure ministers for generations, and is one of the emperor's favorite courtiers. Even without Zhao Chengze, with Mr. Zhao and his eldest son, Mr. Zhao, the Zhao family is not a small family in the capital.

Now that Zhao Chengze has passed the verdict, he still skipped two grades. All sensible officials know that as long as the Zhao family doesn't commit suicide, their family's status will not change for at least the next few decades.

Zhao Chengze left Changping County, but to Li Chengshi and others, he didn't seem to have left, because he went to Fucheng and was still in the original Han Province. The county government servant.

The new magistrate was transferred at the same level. An old scholar in his 40s, he passed the examination at the age of 30. Knowing that he would not be able to pass the exam, he took his wife and son to a remote and poor place. Lack, good luck got a post of county magistrate.

After five or six years of hard work in the position of county magistrate, the county magistrate died suddenly. It was not easy to appoint a new county magistrate in such a remote place for a while, so he, the county magistrate, became the local magistrate.

Then, the old scholar worked as a county magistrate for more than ten years, and finally ushered in the first transfer in his life, from a remote and poor place to the rich and prosperous former Han Province.

Letting this old scholar take over the position of Zhao Chengze, Mr. Zhao asked the people from the official department to do a little favor, because he didn't want Changping County, which his son managed so hard to manage, to be destroyed by others, and it would be best if an honest person took care of it.

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