Porridge and side dishes [farming]

Chapter 67

As soon as Li Ji's words came out, the woman had a smile on her face, and just as she was about to speak, Li Ji continued the conversation:

"This time you sent it here without calculating the catty, and we can't let you take it back. But I'm a small business, and the money is the hard-earned money of me and Er Gouzi. Let's do it, half a catty I'll give you a penny, and next time you send more than half a catty, it's two and a half catties, your family doesn't seem to be short of money, and it won't be a burden on our two children. You say yes."

Li Ji put his words to death directly. Li Ji is an elder in the village, and he is 19 years old and unmarried. Although he is not young, he is considered a child if he is not married.After these words are pressed, who is willing to entangle with half a catty of grass?

Maybe it's because Li Ji's life is so good that the village has forgotten Li Ji's identity.He is an orphan without father and mother, without the love of his parents, his elder brother is dead, and he lives with a poor nephew who is also an orphan. If he didn't have the money he earned, the two of them might still be hungry.

You can't just cheat two orphans who didn't have a family just because they made a few more taels of silver.

The woman choked for a moment, she didn't take advantage of it, and she couldn't just leave with a bad face, so she nodded and handed it over to take a penny, then turned around and left quickly.

Li Ji took Er Gouzi's class, but neither of them is a master who can take advantage of others.Er Gouzi absolutely carried out Li Ji's words, he didn't know anyone except Li Ji, he didn't talk about anyone's feelings, and he couldn't talk him out of his mouth.

And Li Ji is even more difficult to deal with. If you type one sentence and wait for ten sentences, and just talk about it, it is Li Ji's kindness to prevent you from losing money.

In this way, more than 500 catties of hay were collected in one day, and some people were more diligent and delivered more than 30 catties of hay at one time, which earned 15 Wen.

It cost nearly [-] Wen a day, but Li Jihua was very happy. With so much grass, he and Er Gouzi could save a lot of work and raise more rabbits.Rabbits are raised, and one or two rabbits can earn back the money for buying grass today.

There is a simple warehouse behind the cattle pen, which is dedicated to storing livestock feed. The hay is almost full, and there will definitely be a lot tomorrow, and more space needs to be vacated for storage.

The warehouse was not built in a day, so Li Ji simply put the place where the hay will be harvested tomorrow in the old house, where the warehouse and the house are empty, there is a lot of space, and it can hold a few days' worth, and then Li Ji finds some The young and strong man built a warehouse that can store tens of thousands of catties of hay directly outside the yard to the west, thinking that he would use it frequently in the future, so he bought bricks to build it.

The village is basically full of thatched houses. Li Ji's house here is not only made of bricks, but also warehouses.I don't know how many people are envious and jealous.

Li Ji is working as a supervisor here, and the work of harvesting grass falls on Er Gouzi again.There are a lot more animals in the house, and sooner or later they feed themselves. At noon, Li Qiaoer comes to help, so that the group of open-mouthed beasts will not be hungry.

It is not a house for people to live in, and it is not too delicate. The tiles are reluctant to use them. They are rough to make a beam, and the roof is made of straw. I am sure that no grass will fall, so I can rest assured to store houses inside. Hay is gone.

All the warehouses for stocking livestock have been built, and the stockpiling of feed has already begun. All that remains is to build a place to raise livestock.

The warehouse for storing things can be rough, but the place for raising livestock must be more meticulous, durable, heat preservation in winter, and snow and sunshade in summer.

Although there is no shortage of money in the house, tiles cannot be used to make the roof, which is too eye-catching, so we still need to use straw, which needs to be replaced every one or two years, otherwise the straw will leak when it rots, and it is difficult to deal with it. troublesome.

Trouble has to be taken care of, the villagers can't feel that Li Ji builds brick and tile houses for livestock but doesn't care about his relatives in the village.

Reasonably speaking, the money belongs to Li Ji's family, and what Li Ji wants to do with it is his own business, but in terms of love, he is a villager, with broken bones and tendons, how can he only give it to livestock and not to relatives if he has the conditions?

Because of this, now Li Ji won't let the villagers know what he feeds Xiaowei.

Afterwards, Li Ji went to the bull market for several days in a row to watch, but the harvest was not great. He only snatched two goose cubs. Fortunately, one male and one female, they will breed after they are fed.

Li Ji also put down his words in the village, asking anyone who has relatives from other villages to ask, if they have sheep or piggies to buy, no matter how much they have, Li Ji wants them all.

It was only a few days after the news was released that I heard the news. There was a family in another village who raised sheep and had a ewe and three lambs to sell.Two of them are big weaned lambs, and they can be killed for meat after another half a year.

Li Ji was overjoyed, he asked the place directly and drove the ox cart there.

It took me a while to find the family.

"I would be reluctant to sell it, but there are too many sheep in the family, and the old lady is sick again, and she always needs copper coins to buy medicine. If there are fewer sheep in the family, I can spare more energy to take care of the elderly." The sheep seller is in his thirties. If it's his old lady, she's at least fifty.

It is normal for such an old age to be plagued by diseases, and it is a filial son to be able to sell sheep to treat his illness.

"You are a filial man, so I won't bargain." Li Ji glanced at the sheep pen with a smile, and there were more than ten sheep in the sheep pen except for the sold ones.Most people can't afford beef and mutton, even big families in the city don't eat much. "If you want to sell it in the future, just come to me. I don't mind how much you have."

Li Ji directly handed over the counted copper coins and asked him to count them again.

The sheep seller counted carefully, and his daughter-in-law said next to him: "It looks like you are capable. Raising sheep is very good, and you don't have to worry about it. Didn't you say that the house is far away from the mountain? Just circle around the mountain. If you put the fence in, you don’t need to worry about putting the sheep in, at most you just feed them some water, and they can grow fat and strong by eating the grass on the mountain.”

Li Ji nodded: "It's a good way. I'm afraid that there will be wild beasts coming out of the deep mountains. However, I have been living in peace all these years. I should have thought too much. By the way, if anyone nearby has pigs to sell, please trouble brother Let me and my sister-in-law find someone to tell me, it’s best to be Piggy, the business will give you hard-earned money.”

The daughter-in-law who sold the sheep smiled even deeper: "Look at your politeness. You didn't even pay back the price for buying the sheep. We made a lot of money. How can we make you spend more money? Don't worry, I will help to inquire more. There are not many people, but you can find them if you want.”

After the sheep seller counted the copper coins, Li Ji tied the sheep to the cart and drove the ox cart back.

Four sheep is not a small harvest. When there is nothing to do in the future, the cattle and sheep will be mixed together and let them go to the mountains. Seven sheep are worth going up the mountain to let go.

The little tail was already as high as the calf, it was very strong, and it looked a little fierce.It's impossible to hide now, anyone who comes over can see such a half-grown fat dog, and always say a few words about his family's dog food.

Li Jizhen was worried that Little Tail would be stared at and beaten to death by some evil person in the village, so he purposely spread the word that Little Tail didn’t actually get fed much. Dare to grab it, and bring back what you can't eat.

He also specially showed them the blood stains at the gate, which proved the credibility of what he said.

Afterwards, the rumors spread in the village, all saying that Li Ji raised a god dog, that he could go hunting in the mountains, and that he raised himself so fat and strong.

When the rumors in the village were just in time, Li Ji touched the little tail that was licking and drilling in his arms.This is for the little tail, and all the credit for the wolf is placed on it.

With the title of "God Dog", at least for the time being, he doesn't have to worry about someone calling him attention.Even if you hit him with attention, at most you take him for yourself, not as meat to satisfy your greed.

There are still not enough pigs, not enough for Er Gouzi to eat.Now there are only two big pigs and four piggies left in the family.Ordinary people only raise one pig, which is raised from spring to winter and killed, and the meat is frozen and eaten slowly for a whole winter.But the situation in Li Ji's family is different, one pig is enough to feed two dogs for a few days.

Moreover, Er Gouzi likes to eat pork, and it is not too much to raise ten more pork.

But this year was not as lucky as last year, and I couldn't find a suitable one after many inquiries.

Probably because of the impact of the drought last year, pigs can be eaten and pulled, and consume a lot of water. Many people who raise pigs directly kill them.

If you can’t buy it, you can only feel sorry for Er Gouzi and eat less in the future. Keep the two big pigs and eat them when they grow up. Fortunately, they are not small now, and there are one or two more It can be bred in a month.

It takes about four months to give birth after bringing the cubs, and it takes at least four months before they can eat.

In this way, only after the next year can they eat pork bred by themselves.

Before that, I can only try to buy piglets from other people's homes to raise, or buy grown pigs directly.

After Li Ji finished his work, it was almost June, and the matter of Little Tudou was finally settled.

I made an agreement with the teacher, I bought the teacher's apprenticeship ceremony, paid the tuition fee after paying the teacher's visit, and Xiaotuo can go to school directly when the next school starts, so that I don't have to worry about not being able to keep up with the progress, and start learning directly from the enlightenment.

Both nephews have gone to school, no matter whether they can read well or not, if there are scholars in the family, it is a matter of honor.

They entered school at the end of June, and the two nephews specially brought the two little ones who were about to enter school to kowtow, thanking Li Ji for giving them a good opportunity to read and write.

Li Ji was not a few years older than them, and he accepted their kowtows with Er Gouzi, and said a few words of caution.

"If we have the opportunity to learn to read and write, we should cheer up and study hard. Of course, there is no need to be under any pressure. I don't ask you to get academic honors. If you can read, you don't have to be blind with your eyes open. So there is no need to have no grades. I won't blame any emotions. I just have to study hard, and what I learn is all due to the good deeds of our old Li family ancestors, and it is a good thing to honor our ancestors."

Two nephews, one Li Tian and one Xiao Tudou, will go to the city to study in the future. Although they don't know what they will be able to study in the future, at least the whole Li family and even the whole village feel for these two children. There is light on the face.

After studying, you don't need to work hard in the village. If you can get a name in the exam, you will be a high-class person who eats the emperor's food, and the whole family can enjoy the blessing.

"Listen, you two are the only ones in our village who have the opportunity to learn how to read. If you learn how to read, you will be a scholar. No matter what happens in the future, you will definitely have more opportunities than others." Erying smiled and pushed Little Tudou again. Kowtow.

Li Ji helped the two nephews up, feeling satisfied in his heart. He looked at Er Gouzi standing next to him, and they looked at each other with a smile: "When I was young, people often said that I was a seedling of studying, but I didn't go because I had no money. It’s a pity now that I think about it, now I have some spare money, and it’s my wish when I was a child for you to go there. You study hard, no matter whether you succeed in your studies, Fourth Grandpa will love you.”

After seeing off the two families, Li Ji stood at the door and watched for a while, then took Er Gouzi back to the house and closed the door.

"I really envy them. It would be great if I had a rich fourth grandfather when I was young." Li Ji said this with a smile, mostly as a joke.

Er Gouzi said: "You can too."

Li Ji shook his head: "It's late, it's too early for Kaimeng. I heard that rich people's children Kaimeng are all three or five years old. In fact, Tiantian in our family is quite late, and Little Tudou is even later. So I said , I never thought they could teach me what to look like, just go to school and it's fine."

Now that I know how to read, it’s not easy to be fooled. I can read the characters on the signboards when I go to the city, and I don’t have to go anywhere to ask people what the store sells.

"Go to school?" Er Gouzi had no idea about these two words.

"It depends on the situation. It's good to be able to go to school, but if a poor family wants to provide a student, it needs to pay a high price. However, there are so many students in the country, how many people can really make it? Most of them are foils. I've heard of people from poor families tightening their belts to give up a scholar, and I've also heard that the same family background gave out a nerd who can't pass any exams. In the end, it depends on talent." Li Ji explained.

Having said this, Li Ji couldn't help but think, if his father listened to other people's advice, tightened his belt and tried every means to send him to study, where would Li Ji be now?

Maybe he will become an official, maybe he will lose all his money, and work in the village to help the children of the villagers choose names.

Of course, no ifs.Let Li Ji choose, he will choose the present day without hesitation.As long as Er Gouzi is by his side, Li Ji will enjoy any kind of life.

"Let's go up the mountain to see the wolf tomorrow, I'll miss it," Li Ji said.

Thinking of that wolf and dog licking Li Ji, his face darkened, and he said, "Okay."

These words came out of Er Gouzi's back molars.Li Ji just thought it was funny.

"Don't tell me you're jealous." Li Ji smiled.

"What is jealousy?" Er Gouzi asked.

"It's just that you feel uncomfortable when you see me getting close to others. Although the object is a wolf, I can feel that you will be unhappy when I get close to it." Li Ji laughed.

Er Gouzi thought about it seriously, and nodded uncertainly: "Maybe. The wolf licks you, dirty." Then he deliberately added, "I'm clean, I'll lick you."

Li Ji's mind began to have charming thoughts again, his face flushed, he turned his eyes away and said: "It is a wolf and not a human, don't think so much, have you seen the litter of rabbits that was laid yesterday? Pay attention to giving mothers more care." Feed the rabbit some water, I'll go to the stream to wash clothes first, you cooked the meal."

Li Ji began to clean up the dirty clothes of the two of them. These clothes are washed every two days. Compared with the villagers, it can be said that there is no cleaner. People who are sloppy have clothes washed once a month, and there are no fresh ones left and right. The materials are all dark and stain-resistant, and you won't see anything if you don't wash them for a month.

However, since he started taking a bath every day, Li Ji couldn't bear it if the clothes he wore smelled a little strange. Washing once a day is too extravagant. Washing every two days is the maximum tolerable. When it gets hotter, I'm afraid it will be true. Just wash it every day.

The days when it didn't rain, the weather was getting hotter and hotter. Li Ji went to the stream with a pile of dirty clothes and couldn't wait to soak his hands in the stream.The stream is left from the mountain, cool and comfortable.

There were two women by the river who were washing clothes, and they laughed and teased a few words.The women in the village are basically familiar with Li Ji. There are not many men in the village who wash their own clothes. Some men who live alone would rather wear dirty clothes all the time than come to the stream to wash them clean.Because everyone thinks that washing clothes is a woman's job, and men's washing clothes is a drop in price.

But Li Ji competes with Er Gouzi for washing clothes at home, especially when it's hot, it's so refreshing to come and play with cold water.

It was precisely because they were used to seeing Li Ji coming to wash clothes that the women in the village secretly felt sorry for Li Ji.Such a good man will definitely not be treated harshly when he marries a wife in the future, but his fate is not good.So what if the family is rich, if there is no child, it is a dead family, and no one will know that the money will be cheap in the future.

There has been a wicked habit since a long time ago. If a family has no children, or only has a girl but no son, they will call him a dead family by whatever surname they have behind their backs, as if saying so can make them superior to others. of.

But I understand the truth, but there will always be people who say a few words behind their backs, then wantonly sneer twice, and then praise twice that their mother-in-law's belly is so strong that she can give birth to a leader.

Sitting on a stone bench by the stream, rubbing the clothes with soap root powder, Li Ji is a man after all, stronger than a woman, and after washing clothes for many days, he knows the skills, and the clothes are not very dirty. Very fast.

A laundry woman couldn't stop looking into Li Ji's laundry tub, and said with a smile to the laundry woman next to her, "Look, there isn't a single piece of clothes with patches, it doesn't look like our family is about to be finished." Baijiayi (clothes made of various colors)."

"What? Are you greedy? The greed is not yours. How can you marry your daughter?" Another person lowered his voice and looked carefully at Li Jidai.

As soon as the words came out, the sound was silenced.No matter how hot Li Ji is, it is impossible for him to become his son-in-law.Even if it is a heartless one who pushes the daughter into the fire pit, the fortune teller also said that once the wife is married, the fortune will be cut off, and she will not be so rich and have such good conditions in the future, so what is the use of marrying in the past?Just for the wedding gift?

In fact, something similar happened.Many families with daughters want to have a son-in-law from a rich family, but at the beginning, there were not many lions who asked for dowry. It's not good to have any more contact.

So those put!Girls who marry rich people often don't pay much attention to the bride price. What they wait for is that the girl will marry to someone else and live a life. It's best to give birth to this kid before coming to the door.

At that time, there will be plenty of opportunities to ask for money. If the house at the head of the family is broken and needs to be repaired, or the money for the son to marry a wife is not enough, the husband's family will not be able to refuse for the son's sake.This is the biggest benefit of marrying a rich family.

If you marry your daughter to Li Ji, even if you want a lot of dowry, the daughter will die after marrying, and Li Ji is poor, so the dowry will not be easy to spend. On the one hand, you will have to suffer from the spine of the village leader, and on the other hand, you will have to worry about your conscience. My daughter found it in her dream.

So regarding Li Ji's matter, unless another fortune teller comes over and says that the previous fortune teller is just talking nonsense, Li Ji doesn't have this fate at all, or spends some money to ruin it, otherwise Li Ji is doomed to be single in this life. up.It's just that the fortune teller in front didn't take any money, so he left after talking.He is not cheating money, nor has any enmity with Li Ji, so it must be true.

After being silent for a while, the woman started talking about other topics, and soon the atmosphere became hot again.

Li Ji didn't hear what they were doing, even if he heard it, he didn't hear it.This matter was originally arranged by him himself. They were afraid that he would suppress his wife and son and not introduce a girl to him. He was definitely a fan.

Quicken the action to wash the clothes, wring out the clothes and put them in the laundry tub and take them back. Just two steps back, I saw Li Shuisheng's daughter-in-law coming over with the laundry tub.

"Xiao Ji also came to do the laundry." Shui Sheng's daughter-in-law laughed.

Li Ji nodded: "It's good to come and play in cold water in hot weather, otherwise it would be really boring to stay indoors in this hot day."

"If you want to talk about hard work, it's you and Er Gouzi. There are no men in the village who are more diligent than you. Asking them to do some work must be done by women, and the price of men is actually an excuse for laziness. Don’t you do all kinds of work? Who in the village can compare with you?”

Shuisheng's daughter-in-law said that since Li Ji came up with an idea to relieve Li Qiaoer, Shuisheng's daughter-in-law had a very good impression of Li Ji.But having said that, no matter how optimistic you are about Li Ji, it will not be your family, just like Li Shuisheng wants to marry Li Qiaoer to a widower in his 30s. Still have to go on.

"Sister-in-law, what you said, don't tell any old man to cut me with a stick. It's not a tiring job. It's good to have leisure activities. How is Qiaoer?" During the slack season, at most, he would come here to help when building a warehouse, and he would not see anyone at ordinary times. Li Ji knew that Li Shuisheng locked him up.

The smile on the face of this aquatic daughter-in-law faded when she mentioned it, and she sighed: "Don't mention it, I don't know what kind of crazy my family's dead ghost is. It's a blessing that Er Gouzi can recognize Qiaoer as his younger sister, but he just thinks Qiaoer is favored by God, she is a lucky girl, in the last three days I took her to the city every now and then, let Qiaoer learn how the girls in the city do, so that she can marry a rich family in the city in the future."

The author has something to say: I happened to glance at it at home two days ago, and the TV series should be a modern TV series, but the whole family is praising the daughter-in-law for her success and giving the family a good example.

They are all old drama bones, expressing the feeling of liking grandson vividly.

I was not feeling well

Although TV is for realism, it is really disgusting to express the value of "having a son is the value of a woman" when facing the public.

Any plots about patriarchy I wrote in this article are satires, and there is absolutely no such thing as promoting ancient dross ideas.