Crossing the Qinghe Landlord gl

After the first snow, the sky cleared for a few days, and then rain mixed with snow before the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

Despite this, Qinghe Village is still full of joy, and every household is busy offering sacrifices to the gods.Li Xun's home was the most solemn. He specially invited monks from Longquan Temple to read scriptures, and prepared fruit wine to send God off.The purpose is naturally to "buy" Zao Jun, so that when he returns to the Heavenly Court, he will not report his evil deeds to the Heavenly Court.

As for Zhang He, who didn't know these habits of offering sacrifices to stoves last year, he didn't put up portraits of the stove king, not to mention that she had her period that day, and she hid in bed in pain and didn't want to move, so she didn't have time to buy new year's goods, and Zhang Xian had a very quiet year.But Jinxi was only slightly unwell, and Xia Jiniang, who was familiar with the custom of sacrificing stoves, only needed to be by her side to help.

The wine used for sacrificial stoves is brewed by Xia Jiniang with dates. Red yeast rice and sugar are added to it. When the wine is ready, it turns red.However, the alcohol content is lower than that of Zhang He's fruit wine, and it tastes more like a drink.

Although the imperial court strictly prohibits private brewing of wine, recently the government has not strictly controlled it, as long as it is not sold to others, and it is only for one's own use, it is not a problem.And this is only for ordinary people, a high-ranking official family like Zhang He is qualified to private wine.

Zhang He didn't know that Xia Jiniang knew how to make wine, but later he learned that almost every woman in every household knows how to make wine.It’s just that it’s very troublesome for ordinary people to get wine yeast, and they have to pay taxes. If they don’t pay attention and encounter corrupt officials who want to use this crime to make things difficult for them, they have committed a serious crime, so few people make wine in a grand manner.

After offering sacrifices to the kitchen gods, they began to clean the house.

Since Zhang He built the cowshed, the mansion has become much easier to take care of. There are not many guests on weekdays, so it is only necessary to clean the gate, room and kitchen.But the cleaning before Zhengdan was not so simple. Zhang He, Xia Jiniang and Zhang Xian alone could not do the cleaning of every place carefully.

So after discussing with Xia Jiniang, Zhang He hired two women to help, and within a day, the huge mansion was cleaned.Not only the main room and wing rooms were dusted, but even the dowry utensils were wiped, which gave Zhang He the idea of ​​hiring a maid.

And after cleaning the house, it is time to buy new year's goods until the New Year's Eve before Zhengdan.It's just that when it rains in the past few days, there will be mung bean-sized ice particles mixed in, and Zhang He is still menstruating, so he is prone to cold, so Xia Jiniang asked Li Qingshi, who went to the city to find Li Qinggui, to help buy some things.

Employed workers like Li Qinggui didn't have many days to rest in a year, but the emperor paid them a lot of money, and stipulated that in addition to the three-day ten-day rest every month, Zhengdan and Hanshi each had three days off.In these three days, except the yamen still had to work, all the restaurants had to close their doors and let the hired workers go home to reunite with others.

When Li Qinggui came back this time, Aunt Li had to persuade him to go home and get married, and stayed at home to help take care of the farmland with Li Qingshi.Li Qinggui thought for a day, and after being persuaded by Li Qingshi, he finally agreed.

After the lively and festive Zhengdan, it is a new year, and everyone is one year older.

For Zhang He and Zhang Xian, this year is more lively than last year, Zhang He is accompanied by Xia Jiniang, even though he is in a foreign land, the sadness in his heart is less.

Zhang Xian stayed up all night because of keeping watch, so he slept for half a day the next day.When Zhang He and Xia Jiniang went to Aunt Li's house to pay New Year's greetings, he was still sound asleep. When he woke up after noon, he went to buy clay figurines and candy with Gao Jiang and Gao He with the money Xia Jiniang gave him.

After Zhengdan, Zhang He also had to think about planting eggplants.According to last year's plan, she had to set aside [-] mu of land for rice planting, but now that there are [-] mu of peas planted in the field, she only has [-] mu of land left unused.It's just that she planned to plant potatoes, so she had to set aside an acre of land, so the remaining eight acres would be planted with five acres of white-skinned eggplants and three acres of purple eggplants.

However, before Zhang He went to hire workers, Liu Dashan's wife Song Shi came to the door again.

"Zhang Langjun, please save our family!" Song cried even more terribly than last time, as if she was really desperate.

However, it was within Zhang He's expectation that something would happen to Liu Dashan.Although she knew that Li Xun was treacherous, Liu Dashan was too naive, and would rather put the life of his family on Li Xun's "good intentions" than find another way out. Apart from naivety, there is also ignorance.She has no sympathy for such a person.

"Sister-in-law Liu, the Lantern Festival is not over yet, why don't you cry in front of my house?" Zhang He said.She once said in front of Zhang Yan that if Li Xun was really so insidious, she would do Liu Dashan a favor, but it didn't mean that she didn't mind that Liu Dashan spoiled her good intentions last time, she had to let people know, she Not a bad guy.

"Yeah, crying, how unlucky!" the crowd who were watching said coolly.

Song Shi turned a blind eye to their taunts, Song Shi thumped and knelt down, the sound of knees colliding with the blue bricks was dull but clear.She pleaded: "Mr. Zhang Family, I know that we failed your kindness last time, but we never expected that Li Xunguan would be so dangerous! If you don't help us this time, we really have only a dead end .”

Xia Jiniang gently held Zhang He's hand, and said, "Erlang might as well listen to what she has to say first?"

"Since the family has said so, let me hear what you have to say." Zhang He said.

Song said while crying: "That day when I went back, I tried to persuade Dashan to quit his tenancy, but Li Xunguan soon sent someone to say that the previous thing was a misunderstanding..."

"I already know about this matter, and the next thing is that you think it's better to continue renting a tenant than working as a hired worker here, so you slapped my face." Zhang He said lightly.

Mrs. Song was extremely ashamed by what Zhang He said, and Zhang He offended Li Xun because of them.But in the end, not only did they not appreciate it, but they continued to fulfill the contract with Li Xun.This was more than a blow to Zhang He's kindness, it was a slap in the face of her.

Although she tried to persuade Liu Dashan, but Liu Dashan didn't listen to the persuasion, and as a woman, she couldn't influence his thoughts, so she could only obey.I thought that Li Xun would fulfill his promise, but the day before Zhengdan, Li Xun said that he would give them some New Year’s goods for Zhengdan, Liu Dashan went to Li Xun’s mansion to get them, and he called Li Xun’s conscience directly after returning home Found.

Unexpectedly, just after Zhengdan, Li Xun tied up Liu Dashan, claiming that Liu Dashan had not only been in arrears with rent and taxes, but also stolen his New Year's goods.

Liu Dashan was dumbfounded, and quickly defended himself, but not only the servants of the Li family saw Liu Dashan taking a lot of New Year's goods from the Li family, but even outsiders saw it, and Li Xun argued that he had not promised to give him the New Year's goods.

Zhang Baochang asked Liu Dashan: "When you arrived at Li's house, did someone bring you new year's goods?"

Liu Dashan said: "It was the servants of the Li family who told me that the New Year's goods were there, so I went straight to get them."

"When Li Guanren said to give you the New Year's goods, was there anyone else present?" Zhang Baochang asked again.

"My wife and children."

"The words of your wife and children cannot be counted."

Liu Dashan became anxious: "But Li Guanren came to my house and told me that!"

Li Xun argued: "I was going to urge you to pay the rent."

Zhang Baochang couldn't judge, so he asked Li Xun to escort Liu Dashan to the Yamen to report to the officials. After all, even if Liu Dashan defaulted on rent and taxes, the government would have to urge them to pay.But even if Li Xun really told Liu Dashan to get him to get the New Year's goods, no one can prove that it is a crime for a servant to steal from the landlord.

After hearing this, Zhang He felt very headache. Things that were originally very simple, became complicated after such a mess happened.If she really wanted to help Liu Dashan, would she have to help settle the case?She said: "When Li Xun came to your house, was he really alone?"

Song Shi nodded, Zhang He said: "Then I can't save him, please go back!"

Li Xun intends to drive Liu Dashan to a dead end, but Liu Dashan obediently stepped into that trap, how can she help?

In a hurry, Song suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "That day, that day, Zhang Hua was also there!"

"what for?"

"That day Zhang Hua came with Li Xunguan, but when Li Xunguan was talking to us about the New Year's goods, Zhang Hua went outside."

"What is his relationship with Li Xun?" Zhang He asked.

"Zhang Hua's house is next to Li Xun's house. As for the relationship, it's not clear."

The women watching suddenly laughed and said: "Zhang Hua? After you came to Zhang Erlang's house that day, it was Zhang Hua who ran to inform Li Xunguan!"

"Yang Er's family, how do you know he was the one who sent the news?" someone asked.

"That day he was watching a play here with us, and he disappeared later. When I passed the village when I went home, I saw him coming out of the gate of Li's house. Not long after, Li Xunguan took him with him. People have come here. As for what happened here later, I also heard from others.”

Zhang He pondered for a long time, Xia Jiniang said softly to her: "If Li Xun came to Liu's house with Zhang Hua, then even if Zhang Hua never heard what they talked about in the house, Zhang Hua must have known that when he accompanied Li Xun. What's the matter?" If Liu Dashan was really framed by Li Xun, the whereabouts of that Zhang Hua would be very suspicious.

Zhang He said with a smile: "Ji Niang, you are so smart!"

"Don't praise me, what should I do now?" Xia Jiniang asked, although she didn't approve of Zhang He's wading into the muddy water, she also felt that Liu Dashan deserved to have today, but after knowing that there was grievance in it, she couldn't completely Be indifferent.

Zhang He pondered for a moment, and said, "I'm just an ordinary person. If I could have helped you before, but now I can't do anything about it. Li Xun said that you owe rent and rent. If you have any reason, you don't need it." I'm worried, and I'm not good at solving the case of Liu Dashan stealing New Year's goods. Sister Liu might as well listen to my advice, you go to the yamen to find the county magistrate, and ask him to solve the case."

In fact, Zhang He Layue and Shi Qing talked about the matter of Li Xun and Liu Dashan. If Shi Qing could pay more attention, he would be able to find out the connection between this matter. If he used the power of the yamen to investigate, the matter would be easier to find out.On the contrary, if she asked the Song family to go to Shi Qing openly, not only would it cause trouble for Shi Qing, but she would also be bitten by Li Xun, saying that she was bullying others.

"Sister-in-law Liu must believe that the government will return you innocent." Xia Jiniang also said, there will always be loopholes in what Li Xun does, and the government will not be so stupid, and will definitely be able to find out the matter.

"I still say the same thing, if the government finds out the facts and proves that Liu Dashan is really innocent, I can still have a place for you here." Zhang He said.

Although Song had certain fantasies about Zhang He's background, she also understood that even if Zhang He forgave the Liu family, why would Zhang He use his own power to help them?Zhang He promised that Ruoliu Dashan was innocent, and after they had a complete falling out with Li Xunjia, she could still let them have a place in Qinghe Village, which was already tolerant regardless of past suspicions.

After Mrs. Song left, many spectators also left one after another. Naturally, it was inevitable to relay these things to Li Xun.

Li Xun didn't take it seriously, even if he couldn't force Liu Dashan to death for the tax arrears, Liu Dashan took his own New Year's goods, but there were no other witnesses, the government would not be able to find out the truth no matter what.

But he took it for granted, when Shi Qing took Zhang Hua to be tortured, he panicked.

The author has something to say: instant noodles caught a cold, and I have a terrible headache. I haven't added more updates today, sorry guys.