After all, Mrs. Zheng didn't agree to Mrs. Leng. She couldn't say that Changqing was not worthy of Shang Qingshi, she just said that it looked inappropriate.
Mrs. Leng can't force her. Since the master doesn't agree, she can find an opportunity to match her.
If such a daughter-in-law comes into the house, the Leng family will have no limit to what they can do in the future.
In the evening of that day, Duan Chengde and others came to Luwu County, visited the house in person to discuss the matter of escorting grain seeds, and set off at dawn the next day.
This time it was much more formal, with dozens of carriages all bearing brand new escort flags.
Li Jinghe, who was plowing in the fields, looked up and spat when he saw the escort car, secretly cursing Duan Chengde for being a real villain who would not take one of his own even if he had a good job.
We had dinner at Li Changming's house at noon. After one meal, Min's face almost grew to two feet tall. These two half-grown boys are so edible!
No matter how much work you do, you can finish a bowl of red rice in just one meal, and you don’t have to worry about not being able to pull it out?
In the afternoon, Li Jing and his two brothers went to work. Min grabbed Li Changming and whispered: "How can this still give us wages? It will eat up our family's food for three days! We can't afford it for a half-grown man who is a poor man!"
"It's so delicious." Li Changming's flesh ached, and he thought for a moment: "I'll give you a scoop of red grain in the afternoon, and you'll be paid wages from now on. Let's combine the two meals into one scoop of red grain."
Mr. Min had no other choice. There was no one to work at home, so he had to do this.
The couple agreed, and Li Changming also went to the fields. He felt like a mirror in his mind. Li Jinghe didn't dare to play tricks while he was there, so he had to work more.
When he came back from work, Li Changming asked casually: "Jinghe, don't you plan to go to the capital? If this person is really gone, after all, a tomb must be erected."
"It is said that he fell off a cliff and there is no trace of his body left." Li Jinghe's eyes turned red and he shed tears: "My family is too poor, and we don't even have the money to go to the capital, let alone anything else."
Li Changming didn't go on to say that this man had both good and bad things hidden. Now it seems that Li Jingrui has a bad heart. He defrauded so much money before leaving. It's unclear whether he is really dead or not.
If the old Li family didn't cause so many troubles, the Li family village was full of relatives and friends, and everyone would have to go to the capital to collect the corpses no matter how hard they tried. Who would be willing to take care of their family now?
When they arrived at the door of Li Changming's house, Min held a palm-sized gourd ladle filled with sharp red grains and handed it to Li Jinghe with a smile: "Jinghe, take these grains home, and you won't be provided with meals every day from now on.
Give me food directly, your mother is the only one in the house, so she cannot go hungry."
Li Jinghe took the red grain with both hands, thanked him profusely, and turned back with Li Jingtai.
Li Jingtai muttered in a low voice: "You're so stingy! What can you do with this little food? How can you work if you don't have enough to eat?"
"Shut up." Li Jinghe quickly returned home.
When Mrs. Zhou saw this small scoop of red grain, she immediately screamed and cursed.
"If you want to starve to death, just scold him!" Li Jinghe poured the red grain into the rice vat. There was no water in the kitchen, let alone hot meals. The stove was covered with a layer of dust, which made him feel uncomfortable all over.
I came back with water to clean up the stove and asked Li Jingtai to start the fire. A pot of porridge with only a few grains of rice was for dinner.
"Tomorrow you bring a basket and pick up all the wild vegetables." Li Jinghe drank two bowls of watery rice soup and went back to the house to lie down.
After Li Jingtai finished eating, he went back to the house. He lay on the bed and reminisced about the delicious food at Fang Qingshi's house. He tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.
"Are they all dead? Come out and clean up!" Ms. Zhou shouted several times in the main room, but her two sons ignored her and she started to cry.
Li Jinghe covered his head.
"Second brother, can't we go work for my sister-in-law? Their family has enough food and meat to eat," Li Jingtai said.
Li Jinghe didn't say anything. What he was thinking about now was not whether he could eat enough, but whether he really wanted to make Fang Qingshi his woman. Apart from anything else, there was no way he could have this woman. She was so shameful and unruly as a woman.
Do you want to rely on yourself to support yourself in old age? But no, no one wants to live a life of crying, howling and cursing all day long.
Fang Qingshi goes into the mountains every day to collect herbs, so there will definitely be opportunities.
In the sound of crying, Li Jinghe fell asleep. At dawn, he took Li Jingtai out and hid the food before going out. This made Ms. Zhou so angry that she wanted to go when she woke up.
I tried to cook some food in the kitchen, but there was nothing!
Angry as she was, she didn't dare to offend Li Jinghe. Sooner or later, Li Jinghe made the decision in this family. After much deliberation at home, only Fang Qingshi was left.
Arriving at the door of Fang Qingshi's house, looking at the closed door, Zhou walked around the yard two or three times and patted her thigh. Fang Qingshi left her house and her life became better, no matter who it was.
Help, at least there is someone to help.
She and Li Jinghe suffered a lot together. As a daughter-in-law, it is only natural for her to support her mother-in-law!
Therefore, I have to take care of Fang Qingchang, and no one else can tell the difference!
Everyone in Lijiazhuang has relatives and friends, and they usually go to Li Changming if anything happens, but there is still an ancestor in the village.
Mrs. Zhou knew that there was no way for Fang Qingshi to take care of her in her old age, so she had to find someone to make peace with her.
Li Xiuwen's family lives in the middle of the village.
I used to be a scholar, but I was still a child in my forties. Later I became a bookkeeper without taking any merit examination, and only returned to the village a few years ago.
On weekdays, the family works in the fields, and none of the children or grandchildren study. They live a life that is neither rich nor poor. However, this family is very arrogant and has little contact with people in the village.
Nowadays, Li Xiuwen, who is almost 70, drinks tea and enjoys the scenery at home every day.
Mrs. Zhou arrived at the door, dusted herself off, and knocked on the door.
The Li family's daughter-in-law went to open the door and was quite surprised to see Mr. Zhou at the door.
"I am Li Dalin's wife. Grandpa Six watched me come in." Zhou said with a smile, "Brothers and sisters, I want to meet Grandpa Six."
The Li family's daughter-in-law looked at Mrs. Zhou for a few times, but she really didn't dare to recognize her, so she politely invited Mrs. Zhou to come in.
Li Xiuwen looked at Mr. Zhou who was kneeling in front of him and crying, and asked after a long time: "Do you mean to leave your unmarried son alone and live alone with your daughter-in-law?"
"Grandpa Six, there's nothing I can do about it." Mrs. Zhou wiped her tears and complained about the miserable situation of Li Jinghe hiding food and not being able to even eat.
Li Xiuwen was so angry that he slammed the table, cursed him for being unworthy of his descendants, and asked his daughter-in-law, Zou, to invite Fang Qingshi to come and talk.
Fang Qingshi was about to go into the mountains and was surprised when he saw Zou. After all, he didn't know him.
After Zou introduced who he was, he got to the point.
Hearing that Mr. Zhou wanted to live with him, Fang Qingshi was so angry that he laughed, got up and followed Mrs. Zou to Li Xiuwen's house.
She muttered about Mr. Zhou's shame. So many things happened one after another until today. Instead of being taught a lesson at all, she was still staring at herself.
When they arrived at Li's house, Li Xiuwen looked at Fang Qingshi and said slowly: "Your mother-in-law wants to live with you, please take her back."
Fang Qingshi was blessed: "Sixth Master, it's not that I don't want to give you face, I definitely don't want this person!"
"Presumptuous!" Li Xiuwen slapped the table: "Are you turning against Tiangang?"