The husband's son-in-law

Under the tree in the old yard, the villagers gossiped.

Because the Fu Zun came, the gossip after that was not as loud as it was at first, and now the villagers standing around were a bit cramped, and the people who talked were also close to Li Da's family, or were of seniority in the village High.

The child didn't even have the qualifications to move forward, so his parents coaxed him in a low voice: "Go and play with Master Fubao.", "Play well with the young master so that you don't upset anyone."

The people in the village don't understand the rules of the big mansion, and they don't know what to serve or not to serve, so they naturally want to flatter and show courteousness, but most of the time they speak subconsciously, most of them are respect and friendship for Li Da's family, and naturally protect future generations .

The smaller one is the fertile land of Li Da's family, which is leased to poor families in the village for free.The older ones are the villagers in the east and west villages, all of whom remember human feelings—the matter of war and conscription.

There are no eyesight on this battlefield. Boys raised to seventeen or eighteen are good hands in the fields. If they go to war, they will never come back.

Regardless of the righteousness of the family and the country, the ordinary people don't understand, they only care about the houses, fertile land, wives and children in front of them, and they go to fight any battles.

"It's okay to go to Zhaozhou. I'm not used to it at first, but I've lived here for two years and I'm used to it. But once I get back to our territory, I feel happy and comfortable everywhere." Li Da said.

The old village head grinned, gritted his teeth, and said, "Of course, no nest is as good as our own."

The village head's son was a little nervous, what his father said was too rough, the man in the Gang family was called Uncle Li, the old man, and he was talking to the old man, and he was still talking about it, not his own dog.

Li Da didn't care about these things, and he felt happy when he heard the local accent.

"Brother, how long are you staying?" Li Er asked.

I haven't seen him for so many years, Li Er is eight or nine years younger than Li Da, but now the two brothers are standing together, Li Da is more energetic, Li Er has a dark complexion, deep wrinkles on his face, and a tired waist After a while, there is no way to work in the fields all year round.

Li Da looked at this younger brother, the previous grievances had long since disappeared, and only his brotherly affection for his younger brother remained. He said with a smile, "What a few days, this time I plan to stay for two or three months, and then go to Beijing when the weather cools down."

"So long?!" Li Erke was pleasantly surprised.

Li Zhouzhou said: "The village is cool, and I wanted to stay longer. I just took the opportunity to build an old house, and I can live in it when I come back." The old house is still too small now.

"Yes." Li Da nodded, and said to the old village chief: "Build another ancestral hall, and our ancestors who have gone for generations will have a place to rest."

This is a good thing, a very good thing.

"But I have accumulated evil virtues." The old village head said.

Li Da then said: "We build this ancestral hall, and we have to establish rules, regardless of gender, as long as people from our east and west villages can be put in, just rely on the virtues of life, stealing chickens, dogs, gambling, laziness and disrespect to parents... ..."

The old village chief was taken aback for a moment, did you put in the memorial tablets for male and female brothers?Then the more I listened, it made sense, and the Li family paid for the repair, which was for nothing, regardless of gender, so I nodded and had no opinion.

Listening to what Li Da said, the ancestral hall is even bigger.

The villagers of Xiping Village originally thought that only their village was repaired, but now it seems that the two villages have repaired together.

"That's what Xianggong means." Li Zhouzhou mentioned Mr. Gu's name, and when he saw the big guy looking at him, he explained the meaning clearly, "The ancestral hall is the resting place for the spirit cards of the ancestors, and to protect the descendants of the two villages, Xianggong said , then make it larger, in the future, the old and the weak, women and children in the village, or villagers who have encountered difficulties, or married women who have been made things difficult by their in-laws really have nowhere to go, so they can go to the ancestral hall for a while..."

Everyone was very puzzled when they heard that, the married girls are all from other people, even if they are being made difficult, whose daughter-in-law has not been tortured?Why do you still run back, is it possible that you are not living well?

What a shame.

But the big guy wanted to go back to thinking about it, but he didn't dare to mention it. Later, he thought it was the Li family who paid for it, and whatever he wanted to cultivate, it was the place where the dead with spirit cards lived. Who would marry so boldly and dare to sleep? there?It's always empty.

After talking a lot, I drank several pots of mung bean soup.

The servants cleaned up the big kang in the old house, laid out new bedding rolls, wiped and swept it, and cleaned up the rice noodle tank and filled it with water.

The villagers dispersed when they saw this, and Li Da sent them off, saying: "There is no rush, there is plenty of time to chat slowly."

Li Er's family and Gu's family didn't leave, they stayed and wanted to talk about some family matters.

Zhongsi came to report, saying that Fu Zun had sent several carts of things, all of which were bedding rice, grain, chicken, duck, pork, etc.

"Accept it." Li Zhouzhou thought about it, and went out to talk to the delivery person in person, and he couldn't let him make a trip for nothing. When he got up, Zhongsi took a quick step to support him with sharp eyes.

"Tell your lord for me, thank him for his kindness, they are all things that can be used, don't worry."

The master showed his face for a while, his face flushed with excitement, he hurriedly said that you are so polite, and then he took the car and left.As soon as the person left, Li Zhouzhou said to Zhongsi: "Remember things and people."

After leaving the yard, the Gu family and the Li family all watched.Li Zhouzhou intentionally reminded his relatives at home, tapped and tapped, and then walked back and said: "These gifts and bedding for eating and drinking are not expensive. I accept them. I have to write them down. I will return a gift for the new year." Yes, don't miss it."

"The mother-in-law and the second aunt may not know that the official is powerful and powerful, but if he commits a crime, he will be involved. When Xianggong was a junior official of the seventh rank, there was a farmer in Beijing who was of the same background as Xianggong. As an official, he has achieved the second rank, but the Holy One is about to be punished, and that is the burden of the nine clans."

Li Guihua first asked: "What nine tribes?"

"Brothers from my father's generation, parents from above, brothers from my generation, children from below, and the Gu family..."

Li Guihua was so frightened that she was at home.

All the people here are relatives, Li Zhouzhou is afraid that the grandpa and official will grow up, and the relatives of the family members will have some bad thoughts, or the two families are honest and honest, but they can't be swayed by the caring people holding money.In the past, the road was far away, Zhaozhou was also far away, and the official position of Xianggong was not high. Even if he went to Nanjun later, the village didn't know about it, and he didn't go out like this today.

But it's different now, Li Zhouzhou wants to stabilize the rear for Xianggong.

"It's not to scare the elders of the two families. The position of Xianggong is too high, surrounded by wolves in Beijing, there are always people who want to pull down Xianggong and sit on the seat by themselves."

Gu Jiali's family understood and nodded, the boss of the pavilion, the Fu Zun personally went there, but not everyone wants to do it with envy.

"There is an old saying, if you get the benefits and eat the benefits, if you get caught, you will have to suffer along with it. It is impossible to just take the benefits. If you really want to ransack your house and behead your head, you can't run if you want to run under the order of the Holy Spirit. "

After Li Zhouzhou finished speaking, he saw the fear on the faces of his relatives, so he said a little sincerity, "Xianggong has become an official and has great abilities. Naturally, he has to shoulder the future responsibilities of the children of the two families. It's not that he is cruel. It doesn’t matter, it’s not like that.”

"It's about propriety. If a member of the clan violates the laws of the Dali, and commits murder and arson, then the Lord must be fair first, and he will be punished in any way. Those who should be beheaded will pay for their lives. plead."

The Gu family and the Li family all heaved a sigh of relief, as the elders in the family are busy.

"If you don't dare, how dare you kill someone."

"If Guangzong Jianan dares to do such a bad thing, I will send him to the Yamen first."

Although Li and Gu's two families have their own little problems, Liu Huaxiang likes to listen to flattery, exaggerates and wants to face vanity, and Li Guihua is stingy and selfish and loves to take advantage of money, but the women and elders of the two families are not treacherous and evil man of.

Vanity, that is to show off the newly bought cloth head, jewelry, not worth any money.

Hugging money to take advantage of it is cheap, it is a few pennies and a few melon dates, if there is too much stuffed for Li Guihua, Li Guihua dare not reach out to take it, and she is still panicked.

"You can see the battle today. If we go to Beijing in the future, are the money and expensive gifts from outsiders really for you? They are expecting you to follow the path of the husband and do things for others. These My husband said, I won’t do it at all, and whoever receives the money will do it at that time, and if you can’t do it, don’t come to us.”

"My words are harsh, but it is also for the benefit of our two families. I have discussed with my husband, and when I built the ancestral hall, I also chose a place to build a family study. All the children of the two families go to school without money. When my son gets married, our family will add a dowry."

"Really?!" Uncle Gu exclaimed in shock.

Li Zhouzhou: "Naturally." In fact, it has been the same way for more than ten years, but Lu Yuan's information is inconvenient, and he always misses it. The money for the two children's education is subsidized by them.But now that I have made it clear, and have covered ethnology, it is different after all.

Originally, Li Zhouzhou was a junior, and when he spoke out in front of everyone, Li and Gu's parents couldn't hold back their face, as if they really borrowed Gu Zhaoguang to gain benefits - nothing happened.But I heard Li Zhouzhou say that the family school is built, the children in the family go to it for free, and the girl brother gets married with a dowry.

It is better to rely on yourself than anyone else.

"In the past, it was inconvenient to build a family study, and it was difficult to invite a master after it was completed. Now, with the help of the name of the master, a master will come." Li Zhouzhou said.

The two families are not living in the same poverty as in the past. Taking advantage of Gu Zhaoguan's power to fish for gold, silver, jade and delicious delicacies is really short-sighted and has future troubles. It is better to build a family study and hire a wife so that the family can last for a long time.

After talking about it, the two families were delighted, and the female relatives were busy going into the kitchen to cook.

After playing for a long time, Li Zhaoxi came back with a large group of two children. His trousers were all wet, his hair was stuck to his cheeks, and it seemed that he had splashed water. His eyes were shining, and when he entered the door, he shouted: "Daddy, I'm in the river!" Caught a fish!"

"Did you keep it? Or did you eat it?" Li Zhouzhou went out and took a dry handkerchief and handed it to Fubao to wipe it himself.

Li Zhaoxi thought for a while and said, "It's really fat, let's eat."

"Okay." Li Zhouzhou laughed, he must have been hungry after playing all afternoon.

The smoke from every household's cooking rose, and the scent of chickens and ducks wafted far away. The courtyard gate of Li's house never stopped. From time to time, some family sent their sons and daughters to deliver meat dishes, bowls of meat dishes. Originally, Li Gu's two female relatives I was afraid that there would be too many people in time, but now I am not afraid.

After eating, we packed up and went back to our respective houses.

Fortunately, when Li Zhou and Zhou gave birth to Fubao in the courtyard of Li University, a row of side rooms where the food was originally stored was built with a large kang, and now the soldiers and servants can live there.

It was getting late, Su Shiyi and Liu Tao couldn't go back today.

Li Da said: "I'll go to my second child's house for one night. Shi Yi, you and Xiaotao will sleep in my room with Yueniang. They are all new and clean."

"I know uncle." Su Shiyi replied.

Li Zhaoxi had just taken a bath, so of course he didn't soak in the tub, or boiled a pot of hot water mixed with cold water, scrubbed and scrubbed, changed into pajamas after washing, his hair was loosely tied, and ran to the back room, facing the big kang Straight music.

"Father, this bed is so big, you can roll on it."

"Have you gone to the toilet? Go to the Kang when you're done."

Li Zhaoxi got on the kang and rolled from one end to the other, it was really big!

Li Zhouzhou just watched Fubao play, and when he was tired from playing, the father and son lay on the kang and chatted.

"Father, was I born here?"

"Yeah, you were very good when you were little, you would moan or cry when you were hungry or thirsty, and you wouldn't cry or make trouble."

"Father, I like this place, the river is cool, I saw the ears of wheat, and I touched them, but I didn't pick them off. Grandpa said that the ears of wheat came out, so I will go to the field with my grandfather to cut the ears of wheat in a few days. "

Li Zhouzhou: "...Okay, you don't have to worry about getting tired."

"I'm not afraid of being tired, my physical strength is good." Li Zhaoxi was so sleepy that he couldn't keep his eyes open, but he insisted.

Li Zhouzhou patted Fu Bao lightly, and after a while there was the sound of long breathing, and he fell asleep too.

Because I haven't lived in it for a long time, I was afraid of insects and moisture, and I smoked it with wormwood. At this time, the room had a dry and faint smell of wormwood, which was not unpleasant.Through the window paper, in the summer, there are frogs and crickets in the fields in the distance, which can't be heard clearly, as if they are urging people to sleep.

After such a long journey, I finally arrived at my hometown.

The next day, Su Shiyi drove Liu Taoyueniang back to Sujia Village with his car.The courtyard of Li's family was also busy. The ancestral hall and ethnology were to be built. Li Da negotiated with the village chiefs of the east and west villages in these two places.

Several children in the village came to the door, but they dared not enter. They stood at the gate of the courtyard and looked in. Li Zhaoxi noticed two barks in the courtyard, and hurried over, "Good morning, are you coming to see me? Come in first." "

Three little girls of different ages came in shyly.

"Have you eaten? My family eats vegetable buns in the morning. It's delicious." After Li Zhaoxi asked, he went to the kitchen, only to hear the inside say: "Little master, don't move, it's hot."

The servant picked up a bowl of steamed buns with a large coarse porcelain bowl and handed it over.Li Zhaoxi took it out, put it on the wooden table under the tree in the yard, and said, "I invite you to eat buns, can you take me to pick the fruit mentioned yesterday?"

"Did you say sour? That's sour."

"I haven't tried it, I want to try it."

"Well."

The vegetable buns of Li’s family are wild vegetables from Xiping Village, as well as dried seafood brought by Li’s family from Zhaozhou. The little girl took a bite of the buns and tasted something wrong. It’s not vegetable buns, there is meat in them, but She has never eaten it, but it is delicious.

When Li Zhouzhou came out of the main room, he found that the three little girls under the tree were extremely restrained, so he said with a smile: "Go out and play, while the weather is cool, come back when the weather is hot, so you don't get sunstroke."

"Got it Dad!"

The three little girls followed Li Zhaoxi and Wang Wang to leave, and once they went out, they walked quickly.Li Zhaoxi went out to play, with Wang Wang and two soldiers behind him, he was used to this, the little girl was a little afraid of adults, so she whispered, "Who is that Fu Bao?"

"My elder brother knows a good brother, and he protects me in case I am in danger. My name is elder brother, so you can call me that too."

The two soldiers not far away also showed smiles on their faces.

On the battlefield, General Meng rescued them several times, and they were friendships through life and death. Let me tell you, they treat General Meng as their elder brother, but General Meng is majestic, he doesn't like to joke, and he doesn't get close to them when they joke. When the general's younger brother said this, he knew that General Meng also regarded them as brothers.

If it wasn't so important, why would you entrust your family to them for escort?

Li Zhouzhou was eating steamed stuffed buns and drinking soy milk in the yard, when he heard someone knocking on the door, at first glance, he was so old that he almost couldn't recognize him, but if he looked carefully, there was still a shadow of the past.

"Aunt Wang?"

Aunt Wang carried a basket, and wiped the hem of her clothes with the other nervous hand. Yesterday when Li Da's family came back, she also came over, but she didn't stand in front, but stood behind the crowd to block it.Logically speaking, the two neighbors have been neighbors for so many years, and she helped Zhou Zhou when she was a child, so the relationship is naturally different from other people in the village.

But... speaking of it, Aunt Wang felt guilty and regretted it.

Yesterday all the nobles came to tie up with Li Zhouzhou, and when they went back at night, everyone in the family said that Li Da found such a good marriage for Li Zhouzhou, said that Li Zhouzhou was developed, and said that he didn’t care if he heard that Mr. Li Da called the old man and said a lot, and naturally he also talked about the ancestral hall.

This is a great thing.

But Aunt Wang became more and more frightened as she listened to it, afraid that her ancestors would not be allowed to enter the ancestral hall after it was built, and that Li Zhouzhou would still remember the few times she had shown her face in the past.In the morning, I heard my son come back in a hurry, saying that Uncle Li’s family still needs to build a family school, and then invite a master from outside to teach, and the children in both villages can read it. If our family can read it well and become an official...

The more she listened to Aunt Wang, she was afraid that she would regret it, regretting how she had ruined this relationship back then.

What is it all about?Aunt Wang actually remembered it, but she didn't want to mention it now, why was she so stupid, she just saved a penny or two for the stove, and made Li Zhouzhou grudge.

Why is she so unresponsive?

It's just one or two pennies, how can it be worth it, and it's worth being so angry.

Now Aunt Wang took eggs and pickles as a gesture of apology, "Zhou Zhou, you just came back. I remember you used to like pickles."

"Thank you, Aunt Wang." After Li Zhouzhou finished speaking, his servants stepped forward to pick up the basket, and replaced it with the stove house, so that the empty basket could be returned.

Aunt Wang was empty-handed, and she was even more cramped. Li Zhouzhou asked Aunt Wang to sit down, but Aunt Wang waved her hand away, so Li Zhouzhou asked Aunt Wang to eat steamed buns, which were steamed at his house. Try it, Aunt Wang couldn't take the buns. After taking a bite, the taste is much more delicious than her pickled vegetables.

Li Zhouzhou is not short of a pickle and a few eggs now.

"Zhou Zhou, it was Aunt Wang's fault in the past. Auntie compensated you. It was my narrow-mindedness who was fussy. I bought gas with you for the stove to be cheap. It wasn't your family's business. I was fooled by lard at that time. I always go there and think about it, now that you have a large number of adults, don’t worry about it with your aunt, there are ancestral halls and schools built in the village, don’t go to my house, my aunt will kneel down and kowtow to you..."

Li Zhouzhou supported Aunt Wang first, and it took a while before he remembered the money for the stove.

"If Aunt Wang hadn't said it, I wouldn't even remember it."

"The ancestral hall built by my family treats the two villages equally. It's the rules my father said. It doesn't matter if you are a traitor or a corrupt person. The same is true for the ethnology. You have to get a nod from the master before you can enter the school."

"Auntie, you don't need to keep this trivial matter in mind."

Aunt Wang was ashamed and ashamed, Li Zhouzhou didn't remember this, but she remembered it for more than ten years.

The author has something to say:

Tomorrow, I will write about Brother Xing and the village, and then I will write about the curiosity and gossip of the officials and wives in Beijing about Mrs. Gu in Gu Ge’s rumors

Noble lady 1: I heard that Li Zhouzhou was a countryman, and he recruited a son-in-law because he couldn't get married back then. He must be ugly

Lady 2: Gu Ge is old and young and has a good appearance. I have free time at home. How about some good families?

Lady 3: I've heard that the guy from Gu Ge's hometown is a shrewd man, Gu Ge never dared