Chapter 77
Landlord Zhang’s Silly Son
"Ours is not yet cooked, so we need to wait a little longer."
Sheng Lingzhi's full expectations were dashed by her mother's words.
"But we can dig wild vegetables."
"Daddy asked the brothers to go too?"
"No way. Your father has to go to someone else's house to help thresh grain. Your brothers don't have to do the homework assigned by you. We don't have time. It's just the two of us."
"Okay, while others are threshing millet, we will collect firewood and dig wild vegetables."
Li Dahua saw her daughter's expression of lack of interest and asked curiously: "What, you want to thresh millet?"
"Um."
Sheng Lingzhi nodded, "I heard about harvesting in autumn and storing in winter. I heard that people face the loess, but I have never seen it with my own eyes. Now that I'm home, Lingzhi wants to participate in it personally."
"That's it."
Li Dahua's face flashed with a trace of unnaturalness, but soon he smiled. "We'll wait a few days and see if the millet is ripe, our family will thresh the millet."
"good."
Before going out, Sheng Lingzhi assigned tasks to her younger brother and the children who came to study at home, and asked Yan Jiaoer to supervise them. Then she safely took the small basket and went out with her mother.
"Aniang, I'm going to call Xiaoju, Magpie and the others," Sheng Lingzhi said as she went out.
"No need to go." Li Dahua said with a smile: "Xiaoju's house, Axia's house, and your sister-in-law Lan's house have harvested their millet and are very busy now. How can they have time to dig wild vegetables? This time, it's just us.
Two went."
"That's just right!" Sheng Lingzhi took Li Dahua's arm, "It's just me and Aniang."
"You kid."
Li Dahua felt her daughter's intimacy and was overjoyed.
When I walked out, everyone was smiling and greeting everyone.
When no one is around, mother and daughter will chat.
While chatting, Li Dahua said excitedly: "Our family's millet should be ripe in a few days. This time our family only needs to pay taxes and does not have to pay taxes to landlord Zhang's family."
When Li Dahua talked about this, her eyes were full of hope.
Finally, I breathed a sigh of relief.
"Landlord Zhang?!" Sheng Lingzhi was surprised.
"What?" Li Dahua said helplessly: "You said Landlord Zhang, don't you know why we still have to hand over grain to him? Yes, I have a bad memory and forgot to tell you. This is because our family was in debt before.
, so the interest is offset by food.”
"Um."
Sheng Lingzhi nodded.
she knows.
I just owed a little money, so my family always ate wild vegetables.
And this, compared with the Su family, even a servant has a better life than the family.
Sheng Lingzhi thought about it, feeling sad in her heart.
"Auntie, is our family the same as that person's? We don't have enough to eat or keep warm?"
"Who is that person?" Li Dahua looked over and said with a smile, "What do you think this is called? We just said that Landlord Zhang saw him."
"Zhang Landlord?!" Sheng Lingzhi's eyes widened, "Auntie, are you saying that that person is really Zhang Landlord?"
"That's right." Li Dahua said: "The land at Landlord Zhang's house collapsed. He also stole things from Yuan Su and others from the Yamen. In the end, he just used money to ward off the disaster. After that, Zhang had no money.
When the landlord woke up, he went crazy and ran around the village every day."
Sheng Lingzhi nodded and looked into the distance.
I saw Landlord Zhang, who was once fat, big-eared and covered in flesh, skinny as a stick, wearing a big, ill-fitting dress, sitting in the middle of the road where the bamboos on both sides were bent down to leave a path, and he opened his hands and smiled stupidly when he saw people:
"Haha, pearl, pearl. Hahaha."
"well."
"Daughter, let's go home when we get hungry soon." Li Dahua took out some dry food from the basket. Without waiting for Sheng Ganoderma to react, she walked over and handed the things to Landlord Zhang: "I originally wanted to eat it in the mountains later.
Looking at him like that, I might as well give him some."
After giving the things to Landlord Zhang who had his hands open, she came back.
He pulled Sheng Lingzhi behind him and left defensively.
"etc."
At this moment, a voice that sounded like Landlord Zhang but not Landlord Zhang came from behind.
Sheng Lingzhi and Li Dahua turned back in confusion.
"Lingzhi, this is Landlord Zhang's silly son." Li Dahua said in a low voice.
"..."
Aniang! How do you know that someone is stupid?!
Sheng Lingzhi thought so in his heart, but his face remained calm.
At this time, Landlord Zhang's son came over.
He was dressed in rags. Although he looked not as well-dressed as Landlord Zhang in the past, he was not as worn and ill-fitting as Landlord Zhang now. He did have a sense of cleanliness and neatness.
"Master Zhang." Li Dahua became wary.
In the past, Butler Zhang wanted his daughter to be Landlord Zhang’s daughter-in-law. Now that he is bankrupt, he still wants her?
She said warily: "What are you doing? We are giving food to your father, we are not bad people."
Landlord Zhang's silly son saluted Li Dahua and said, "I know."
He said: "We are leaving the village, but we want to sell our house to make some money, so..."
He looked at Sheng Lingzhi: "Miss Sheng, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Please help me buy our house."
"No." Li Dahua: "We don't have any money at home. If we had money, we wouldn't buy your house. Your house is so terrible. If one day we live in a house like that, who will be responsible?!"
"No." Landlord Zhang's son said, "That's man-made."
Sheng Lingzhi was surprised, "Human, how is that possible?!"
"Excuse me, please come."
"No." Li Dahua pulled Sheng Lingzhi: "Daughter, there are a lot of bad people now. Especially the bad people's house, how can you go? If you go, you can't come back."
Sheng Lingzhi looked at Landlord Zhang and his son, and replied in a low voice: "Auntie, Master Zhang doesn't look like that kind of person."
"You kid, do you know that dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, and mice give birth to sons that can dig holes? This bad guy is not written on his face, but written on the door."
Sheng Lingzhi understands what Li Dahua means.
But the young Master Zhang in front of him was not like the stupid person in the legend, but rather like a nerd.
He looks exactly like Landlord Zhang when he was fat, but he looks stupid all over, but his eyes are clean and clear, like a child who is not familiar with the world, and there is a sense of stupidity from time to time.
Maybe that's why everyone calls him the silly son of a landlord.
Sheng Lingzhi looked at the man with a sincere face and said firmly: "Auntie, Master Zhang doesn't know how."
She said: "Besides, the sky is clear and the sun is bright, the two of us are together, even if there is any conspiracy, with A Niang here, Ling Zhi will not be afraid. Or, A Niang can't protect Ling Zhi and will only hide?"
"Yes! I will protect you."
Li Dahua was aroused by her daughter, her mind was buzzing, and she had only one thought: go, must go. If you don't go, you won't be able to protect your daughter.
How could she not protect her daughter?
She is Li Dahua!!!
"arrive."
Sheng Lingzhi and Li Dahua followed Landlord Zhang to his house, but the house still looked collapsed.
Landlord Zhang's son stepped on it and walked over, pointed to a place and said, "Miss Sheng, look, the beams in this house are neatly broken. It's obviously not broken by collapse, it's obviously cut by someone."
Chapter completed!