Lucky husband

After the Li family switched to selling rice noodles in the shop, the villagers were sour for a while. As time went by, everyone gradually got used to it and stopped discussing the Li family’s affairs. It's still the Li family's money, and it won't become theirs.

Time flies, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye. In the past three years, every room in Li's house and Li Erye's house has changed a lot, and many things have happened. Some things Li Mingjin dreamed about in advance. As I reminded, there are some things that won't affect Li's family, but he didn't dream about them, but they left a deep impression on him.

The first thing that has changed is the Li family. Dafang Li Chengzhi and his family have a shop to do business more stably and save more money. There are more flavors of Li’s rice noodles. At the end of last year, they bought a set of two Enter the small courtyard.

The change of Li Chengli in the second room was unexpected by everyone. He earned money by growing purple sweet potatoes, and by chance, he produced rattan rice, which was rewarded by the court.

Li Chengshi's life in the third room was the same as before. After saving enough money, they bought a small courtyard at the end of last year, which was very close to Li Chengzhi and the others.

Li Caoye of Li Erye's family followed Li Chengzhi and the others to earn money, and the days got better and better. She saved a lot of dowry for her son, Li Qiusheng, but seeing his excellent son, she didn't decide whether to marry him off or recruit him. .

Because Li Qiusheng met Xing Langzhong by digging herbs, he was literate and talented in herbal medicine, so he was taken by Xing Langzhong as an apprentice. After several years of training, he has become a little famous in the neighborhood.

Li Chengdi and Li Chengliang had more children in their family, but their land property did not increase, so their lives became more and more stretched, which made the villagers laugh.

As for the person who left a deep impression on Li Mingjin was his former second aunt, Qian Xinghua.

To explain why Qian Xinghua left a deep impression on Li Mingjin, I have to mention Qian Xinghua's life in the past few years.

Not long after Qian Xinghua reconciled with Li Chengli, the Qian family remarried Li Manzi from Lijia Village, a poor, ugly and bad-tempered man.

Liming only went to look for Qian Xinghua once, and that time Qian Xinghua was beaten out of blood, the doctor hired by the Li family found out that she was pregnant, and after convincing her new husband that she was pregnant with a son, she lived for a while. On a good day, you won't be beaten if you don't have to work, and you can eat and drink.

But the good times didn't last long. After the full moon gave birth to a daughter, Li Manzi and Li Manzi's mother treated her worse. After three days of confinement, they drove her to work in the fields, saying that she was not qualified to give birth to a girl. Confinement.

It was hot at that time, and Qian Xinghua found a rag to wrap her head tightly so that she didn't get sick, but there were many after-effects, and she didn't take care of her body, so she didn't have much milk. Her daughter was born for a month and it was still the same as when she was just born. Big, crying like a kitten, you can't hear it unless you get close.

But this little girl's vitality is extremely tenacious. When her mother was pregnant with her, she was bleeding heavily, did not take medicine, and was just lying on the bed. Nothing happened to her in her mother's womb, and nothing happened when she was born. .

Li Jiaqiong, Qian Xinghua had a better life after finding out she was pregnant, but she didn't have any good nourishment for pregnant women, so everyone is saying that this child may be used to it in the mother's womb, and she will not drink any milk. To be able to survive is to be thinner than ordinary babies.

Every time Qian Xinghua looks at her youngest daughter, she always thinks of Limingchun and Limingxia. She dislikes the first two daughters, especially after she has Limingcai, she thinks that the two money-losers are all for her. Talented stuff.

After marrying into the Li family and becoming pregnant, Qian Xinghua looked forward to having a son to support her, but when she was born a daughter, she blamed all the crimes she had suffered on her little daughter. When her daughter was breastfeeding, she felt as if she wanted to strangle her to death, but the nature of being a mother made her unable to do so. She could only pray day and night that she would have no milk one day earlier, so that she might starve to death.

The opposite happened. Although Qian Xinghua didn't have much milk, she let the child eat it for half a year, and when she grew up, she was able to eat rice paste.

The older the child was, the more Qian Xinghua disliked her. She was dark and thin, and her hair was sparse like a skinny man. You don't have to wait for her to grow up to see that she will never look good in the future.

On the contrary, Li Manzi and Li Manzi's mother gradually became pleasing to the little girl after experiencing the dissatisfaction with Qian Xinghua's baby girl at the beginning, and Li Manzi's mother took the little girl to her room when Qian Xinghua was weaned. I went to keep it.

In a word, Qian Xinghua's life in Li's family was distorted and pitiful, and the most pitiful thing was her daughter. Born in such a family, it can be predicted that her future life will not be very good .

Compared with the days when Qian Xinghua was stuck in a swamp and couldn't get out, Li Chengli's side went smoothly and smoothly. It may be because of this that Qian Xinghua heard about Li Chengli's changes later and wanted to return to Li Chengli very much. home, and even came to Li's house to make trouble.

When Qian Xinghua was suffering because of giving birth to a daughter, Li Chengli happened to take care of his purple potatoes, and in autumn, the five acres of dry land were all harvested like in Li Mingjin's dream.

The five mu of dry land is because in addition to Li Chengli's four mu of dry land, the old man Li also planted one mu of purple sweet potatoes, adding up to a total of five mu.

In spring plowing, rice is planted first, followed by sweet potatoes and corn. In autumn harvest, rice is harvested first, and then sweet potatoes and corn are harvested. If the seeds are reserved, they will grow bigger and stronger in the field.

Therefore, everyone usually rests for two days after harvesting and drying the rice before starting to dig sweet potatoes. This time, Li Mingjin's dream reminded that old man Li asked Li Chengli to start digging purple potatoes while drying the rice.

Li Chengli has a total of two acres of paddy fields and four acres of dry land. He took his son with him, and the two rushed to collect the rice and purple sweet potatoes in the field before it rained.

Old man Li's side is different. He has a total of eight acres of paddy fields and six acres of dry land. Whether it is harvesting rice, purple potatoes, sweet potatoes, or corn, it is absolutely impossible for him to lead Li Chengzhi to harvest them before it rains. up.

So, at the beginning of the autumn harvest, Li Chengzhi spent money to hire eight people from other villages to help. These people were all veterans of the work, and they helped the Li family harvest the rice in the eight-acre paddy field in two days. Finished and threshed, faster than Li Chengli's side.

After the rice was harvested, Li Chengzhi still wanted those people to continue to help harvest the grain in the dry land, but the old man Li firmly disagreed. There was still some time before the rain in Brother Jin's dream. The family planted three acres of corn and two acres of sweet potatoes [-]. For an acre of purple potatoes, as long as the potatoes planted in the ground are dug out in advance, the corn is not so anxious. He thinks that he can finish it by himself, and there is no need to hire all the people.

Harvesting in the autumn is very tiring. Fifty renminbi a day also includes a meal at noon. If eight people help for two days, not counting their food, it will cost [-] renminbi. Old man Li is reluctant to part with this money.

Li Chengzhi had no choice but to continue to help his father dig sweet potatoes and purple potatoes at home.

Li Chengzhi and Li Chengli didn't quite understand why their father was in such a rush to collect food today, but they didn't dare to refute what their father said in terms of farming, and they all followed their work obediently.

The purple sweet potatoes in Li old man's field are smaller than the sweet potatoes, but the number of purple sweet potatoes under each purple sweet potato vine will be slightly more, which is not much different in comparison, and the result is indeed the same. We weighed 930 catties.

The other two acres of sweet potatoes dug out weighed more than 90 kilograms, and there was little difference between the two.

On the other side, Li Chengli's four-acre purple sweet potato field is somewhat different. A total of [-] catties of purple sweet potatoes were dug out of the two acres of dry land before. The newly reclaimed dry land is much less, only [-] mu. The land is not fat enough.

Regardless of whether it was the new dry land or the old dry land, the yield of purple sweet potatoes in both lands exceeded their expectations, which surprised Li Chengli and old man Li.

Farmers who farm every year have their own calculations in mind, what time to plant, what time to harvest, the big guys watched the Li family harvesting grain in advance, and asked old man Li why he was not like in previous years.

As an old farmer, old man Li loves the crops in the field as much as everyone else, and he doesn't see food rotting in the field due to the weather.

Moreover, they are all from the same village, and he can't just watch others work so hard for a year. In the end, he couldn't collect it because the harvest was not timely. He tightened his belt for the next year, so he told everyone that he felt that this year It will rain, so it is best to harvest the grain in the field in advance, anyway, it is not bad for two days.

Old man Li said more than once that he doesn't care about weather changes. During the most tense moment of the year, such as the autumn harvest, he would rather believe it or not. Many people did not rest after harvesting the rice, and then went to the ground to dig sweet potatoes and break corn. .

People have a herd mentality. When people in one village do this, people in other villages will also have some thoughts when they see the movement. Unknowingly, many villages in Shanghe Village have followed Shanghe Village to harvest dry land a few days earlier. food.

Seeing that most of the people harvested grain with them, old man Li didn't say anything. After leaving enough seeds for next year's farming and food for his family, old man Li began to urge Li Chengli to contact the grain shop in the county. Ask them if they accept purple potatoes, and what the price is.

Li Chengzhi used to do such things as surplus food in the seller, not only because Li Chengzhi was the eldest son of the family, but also because Li Chengzhi knew how to deal with people.

Now that Li Chengzhi has to be busy with the business of the shop, the old man Li has a few sons under his age, so it is impossible for him to be busy with such trivial matters. Of course, Li Chengli has to do it, and he will grow up to be the head of the family in the future. He can't always count on others.

In fact, Li Chengli has grown a lot in the past two years. He was able to make up his mind to go to the grain store to buy purple sweet potato seed potatoes, and he will have the courage to sell the purple sweet potatoes he planted when the autumn harvest comes.

The first grain shop Li Chengli went to was the one that sold purple potatoes to him. The shopkeeper of that store still had some impressions of him. He was the only one who bought a lot of purple potatoes this year.

At this time, purple sweet potatoes were not popular yet, and the total amount of purple sweet potatoes grown by the Li family was less than [-] catties. Not to mention transported to the prefectural capital and prefectural capital, they could be sold out even in the county town.

The shopkeeper of the grain store heard about the quantity of Li Chengli's purple potatoes and boldly bought them all, but the purchase price was a little cheaper, three and a half pennies a catty.

Grain shops buy grain in bulk at a lower price than they sell grain, three and a half pennies is not a disadvantage, Li Chengli agreed immediately, and he told old man Li after he went back that old man Li had no objection.

Then, Li Chengli borrowed an ox cart from the villagers, and began to transport back and forth the grain that he and his father wanted to sell to the grain store.

Purple potatoes are more expensive than sweet potatoes, so it is a luxury to eat them at home, so Li Chengli only kept 200 catties of purple potatoes at home, of which more than [-] catties were seed potatoes, and the rest was eaten by himself.

In addition to selling sweet potatoes, Li Chengli also plans to sell [-] catties of white rice. Part of the white rice in the family is used to pay taxes, and after the tax is paid, it is his turn to eat.

After Li Chengli transported the grain from his side to the grain shop, he sold a total of 15 taels of silver and 780 six cash, and the shopkeeper gave him neither more nor less.

When his family's food was finished, old man Li asked him to help transport the food he wanted to sell. Purple sweet potatoes sold for 26 catties, white rice sold for [-] catties, and corn kernels sold for [-] catties. They got a total of [-] taels of silver. Another four hundred texts.

The fields of the Li family included the grain of the old man Li, the old lady Li, and the two brothers Li Chengzhi and Li Chengshi. After selling the grain, there were still about a thousand catties of white rice, six hundred catties of corn kernels, and six hundred catties of grain left in the family. Purple sweet potatoes and more than 900 catties of sweet potatoes.

Not counting the sweet potatoes, the grain left by Li's family is enough to pay taxes and feed their family for a year. The main reason why the sweet potatoes are not sold is that Mrs. Li is thinking about her second son.

Li Chengli sold all the purple potatoes and half of the white rice he had grown. Naturally, he wanted to buy cheap sweet potatoes as food, so Mrs. Li planned to sell the sweet potatoes he grew at home to his second son at a lower price.

It took a whole day for Li Chengli to transport all the grain that the two families wanted to sell to the county seat. After returning, he looked at the nearly 16 taels of silver in his hand in a daze.

Li Chengli recalled what his mother said, and couldn't help being ashamed. After being scolded by Mrs. Li and persuaded by Li Chengzhi, he cheekily agreed, and bought a thousand catties of sweet potatoes for the price of two catties of sweet potatoes, saying, It was a thousand catties, Mr. Li stuffed some for him too much, at least it should have been one thousand one hundred catties.

When the grain business in these few rooms of Li's house was completed, as the old man Li said, it rained when everyone started harvesting sweet potatoes and corn on weekdays. Accumulated water.

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