Porridge and side dishes [farming]

Chapter 127 Li Ji's Birthday

Li Ji's words made sense, but it seemed that Li Chang was being unreasonable.

Although Li Ji didn't give much convenience to his nephews in the past two years, he didn't do much to Li Chang either.At least compared to the general relationship between uncle and nephew, no one can treat his nephew like Li Ji.

Before that, Li Chang only thought that he had been wronged and that he had lost less.Little Tudou didn't know how to help Li Tian even when he was developed.But think about it.All of these are based on the standpoint of "relatives should", and any one of them is unreasonable.

Li Chang also wanted to understand that he used the strength of alcohol to come here and make a fool of himself.Li Jilun's seniority is an uncle, but his crush Nian is a child who has not yet married.

The aura on Li Chang's body is much smaller.Confused, he said in a low voice: "I'm also thinking about our old Li's family. Little Tudou has become someone else's child, so it has nothing to do with our family. Only Xiaotian has studied in our family. If he is successful, our old Li's family will not Is there any light?"

Li Ji replied: "Have you forgotten what I said at the time? What did I say when I sent the two brothers to the city to study culture? I never said that studying is for the sake of success! The county magistrate said It’s very good. Studying has never been for getting promoted and getting rich, but for knowing right from wrong and etiquette. If you study and focus on calculating gains and losses, what’s the use of a businessman who sells all over the street? You don’t have to complain about Xiao Tian’s incompetence. You father has been calculating all day long that I have this and lose that, so it's no wonder that the child is not as good as the county magistrate."

Li Ji's words are serious, but if you don't beat the stick hard, you won't wake up.

Li Chang was silent this time.No matter how old you are, you can't compare with Li Ji's vision.If you say blame, Li Ji can't really blame the Dao family.The height gap caused by the difference makes Li Chang feel uncomfortable, which is a very normal thing in itself.

It's just that this discomfort must be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise it will become a dead end after a long time, and it will really become a hatred.

I'm not afraid of feeling dissatisfied and complaining, but I'm afraid that if I don't speak out, it will be suppressed in my heart.

If it really takes a long time, then the relationship between relatives will really be born.

Li Chang was speechless when Li Ji said the same thing, but it was Li Ji who asked him to go back and think about it for himself.Li Ji felt angry in his stomach, but after scolding Li Chang, he was relieved.

The two drank tea and rested for a while, and someone from the county magistrate invited them over.

Entering the county magistrate's tent, Little Tudou was holding a book and was reading at this moment. He raised his eyes and saw the two of them, and lowered his eyes again.

After being seated, the county magistrate said, "Your elder nephew is looking for you?"

It was almost because of this that they were called over.

"Left and right is a matter in the same camp, you still don't know." Li Ji took a sip of the bird's nest that was brought up.Today is the official adoption day of Little Tudou, and the food and drink are exquisite.This bird's nest is a rare and good thing in the county magistrate's place, and now I can still ask for it after drinking it.

"What did you say?"

"It's just some grievances. Listen to it. I spent a lot of time to say a lot of words, and I shouldn't have this trouble in the future." Li Ji was also afraid that the county magistrate would disturb Li Chang's family, so he spoke first.

The county magistrate said: "You don't have to worry. I still turn a blind eye to your family. Speaking of which, Li Tian's child is not bad. But he is a bit dull. If he is studying, he can continue to study. It's just less Some spirituality. It is feasible to study a Juren in the future. No matter how high it is, it is unlikely."

The children raised by Brother Li Chang are different.Li Tianyou is a well-known good boy in the village.I haven't cried a lot since I was a child, so it's very worry-free.When I was a little older, I took the initiative to work for the family. It can be said that my parents would not say what they said.But small potatoes are famous for their solid skin.When I was young, I pulled girls' pigtails and stuffed straw into other people's chimneys.It can be said that the ability to be annoying has returned from the moment he simply left.However, when Li Jin lifted him up, he was such a baby, so petted like something.Going around to make amends to others, and those who are reluctant to fight back and refuse to give up the law can only preach.

People in the village are spreading the word that this little potato will be a prisoner if it grows up.There are naughty children, but if parents refuse to teach them, they will not be able to be successful in the future.On the contrary, they are all optimistic about Li Tian, ​​and think that if he is honest, he will be reliable in the future.

It's just that from Li Ji's point of view, things are quite the opposite.Little Tudou is indeed naughty, but he also has a bottom line.It's annoying, but it's not really to the extent of being harmful.And if he didn't cause trouble, he would follow Li Jin and Erying to the door to apologize.I have been influenced by my parents' attitude, so no matter how naughty I am, there is a bottom line.

Because it is not bound, it blooms.Because parents set an example, learn to grasp the scale.

On the other hand, Li Tian.No child is born obedient and sensible, behind this is the strict discipline of the parents.How to talk to people when you go out, how to feel sorry for your parents when you go home.How to be a good boy, how to become diligent.As long as I can remember, I have been restrained and supervised all the time.He looks like a person carved out of a mold, how can he spread his wings?A child who was portrayed according to his parents' cognition, what else could he do?

"Xiaotian is indeed too honest. In fact, my family is not a big family. If you can produce a scholar, you are already Amitabha. As long as you are still alive, you can live a good life, which is better than anything else."

"It's good if you can think so." The county magistrate knew that Li Ji was not a selfish person, but he was worried about Li Tian's parents.The whole camp was occupied by the magistrate of the county, and it was easy for the magistrate to know anything, so he naturally knew how Li Chang and his wife pestered Little Tudou.

Little Tudou spoke to him, and the county magistrate knew that he was too young to show his face, so he just dismissed him casually.If Li Ji spoke in person, the magistrate would not be able to refuse.

"Now that Little Tudou's surname is Shen, Li Jin's side has less people to pass incense. Li Jin means that when there is a child in the future, he will take one of them. Master, look at this..."

It is not without reason that Li Ji raised it.You know, the son of the county grandpa's mansion and the son of an ordinary farmer's family in the small broken mountain village are the same in the sky and the other in the earth.

Not to mention whether he wronged Little Tudou's child at that time, even if Little Tudou was willing, would the county magistrate be willing to go outside as the blood of the Shen family?

The magistrate of the county looked at Little Tudou: "Of course, parents are the ones to decide this kind of thing. If Little Tudou discusses it with his mother-in-law, I won't intervene. If his wife is not happy, then don't blame me for helping her." .”

This remark seems to be displeased, but in fact it has been relaxed.Helping granddaughter-in-law is also sincere.The child was born to the grandson's wife, so it was decided that Master Quan should put it on the grandson's wife.

Maybe it's because Li Yan is alone in Fuyang and has two dogs. It's not easy to think about her. The county magistrate loves the house and loves Wu, and respects all mothers.

Because I love you, I love the whole world, nothing more than this.

Little Tudou was still a bit older, so he didn't say anything. Li Ji smiled and said, "Then you are ready to be with your grandson."

Er Gouzi is the father and son in name to Little Tudou most, but Er Gouzi doesn't even know what kind of role his father is, let alone want him to be a decent father.So Er Gouzi didn't talk to Little Tudou from beginning to end.That is to say, Li Ji mentioned him when he was talking, and he was able to echo him. ,

When I left, it was still delivered by Xiaotuo.Standing at the door, Li Ji touched Little Tudou's head: "From now on, you will follow the magistrate. I don't have any skills, and I can't teach you how to be decent. But you have to remember, the magistrate will be yours from now on. Dear grandpa, he won't harm you, and you have to be with him. From now on, we will live together, no matter how successful you are, don't be separated from your grandpa. Remember?"

Little Tudou nodded and watched the two leave.

Since then, Little Tudou has grown from the son of an ordinary farmer to the eldest son and grandson of the county magistrate.This trick flew to the branches, and it will also change the future of Little Tudou enormously.

Starting from the servants around the magistrate, they all started to call Little Tudou Jie Geer, and when they met each other, they would bow down and say hello, showing great respect.

And those ordinary people, when they met, they were all polite.Some children of the same age, who used to play very well, suddenly saw Little Tudou turned into a master, and some who had never lost their identity for a while saw Little Tudou and didn't know what to say.

If you wait longer, there will be fewer people talking to Little Tudou.Especially those kids.Say a few words to Little Tudou, only to be reprimanded by his parents when he turned around.After a long time, Little Tudou finally realized that the high status was not as comfortable as imagined.

Li Ji continued to live after returning home.Every day, there is constant oil and water, and there is no work to do, and I am gaining weight almost visible to the naked eye.

Others didn't think much of it, but Li Ji himself couldn't stand it anymore.When I was free, I took Ergouzi and ran around the giant tent with him, trying to drop the meat.

If it is another person, especially someone who lived a poor life in the past, they will like to gain weight.Because being fat means being rich, eat more and eat well.All fat is also called plump and rich.

But Li Ji is different from them.Looking in the mirror, he only felt that he could see through if he was a little thinner, but if he was really fat like something, it would be so embarrassing.

In fact, Er Gouzi really doesn't care whether Li Ji is fat or thin, but Li Ji cares so much that he can't see a little fat.

Day after day, Li Ji didn't gain weight, but he didn't lose much weight either.If there is a small bite at the dinner table, Er Gouzi will think that Li Ji has some kind of illness, and if he feeds it himself, he will see that Li Ji is full.

Eat more, run more.This weight is maintained there, and it does not move.

Accidentally asked what day it was today, and when he heard the answer from Ge Er's innermost, Li Ji recalled with a bit of a breakdown that three days had passed since his birthday.

Li Ji still remembered the days when he was at the foot of the mountain in previous years, even if he didn't, there were so many juniors in the village.When the day comes, I will come to give gifts.This year, six people lived in this giant tent.

Er Gouzi had no concept of days, and the remaining four had no idea when Li Ji's birthday was.

But even if you remember.Li Ji couldn't do anything to offer incense to his parents.As for the birthday celebrations of the younger generation, he is only very old, and he doesn't like those at all.

Li Ji boiled some eggs and started rolling out noodles again.

Hearing that Lan Ben didn't care, he casually asked Li Ji why he was thinking about eating this, and Li Ji said casually, "I think it was my birthday two days ago, so it's over with two eggs now."

Ting Lan was slightly stunned, and almost didn't get scared.

Whose master's birthday is not mostly special?Even if you think that your parents are still there, and it's Mother's Good Friday, you have to close the door and find some close people to have a good meal.Li Ji said so calmly, it was a blessing to hear Lan ask, otherwise the matter would have been over.

"How can you only eat eggs and noodles for your birthday? My lord, you didn't know that you said it earlier. So that those of us who are good at the moment are ready to prepare. This year is only for a while, how can it be passed by so hastily?"

Hearing the complaints, Li Ji took it lightly: "How old am I? It's still early for my birthday. Our family is together, so eating two eggs means nothing."

Ting Lan didn't listen this time.He directly called the other three servants to make a good meal at night.

They prepared it with good intentions, and Li Ji couldn't really refute their good intentions.Sitting there helplessly, watching them busy.Li Ji, the little birthday boy, was sent to the bedroom to idle, Er Gouzi stopped working at all, and came to accompany Li Ji to relieve his boredom.

After eating melon seeds, Li Ji remembered that he never knew when Er Gouzi's birthday was.Just about to ask, the words were swallowed again.How could Er Gouzi remember.

And it's been said before.The day Li Ji met Er Gouzi was regarded as Er Gouzi's birthday.The encounter between the two is the rebirth of the other.

"As soon as my birthday is over, the new year will not be far away. I really never thought about celebrating the new year in the mountains. We still have some firecrackers, except some are allocated to scare the wild animals, and the rest of the new year is also for fun. That's it. I don't know if the master is preparing for it. If not, we will divide it up and send it to your father."

"May I ask?" Er Gouzi said.

There have been two snowfalls outside in the past few days, and the one who can come and go freely at this time is Er Gouzi.

Li Ji hesitated.In fact, Li Ji tried his best to let Er Gouzi go out as little as possible, because he always felt that it was not safe in the mountains.

"Let's talk about it a few years ago. It just so happens that I have saved a lot of skins here, so I will give your father last year's goods." Li Ji picked the melon seeds and stuffed them into Er Gouzi's mouth, and said with a smile, "Look at me. What are you thinking about? Your father is here, why am I planning to celebrate the New Year here again?"

There is no need for firecrackers, it must be celebrating the New Year with the county magistrate.If you want to take it, you can take it all over there, and you have to discuss how long you will stay there, depending on what the county magistrate wants.

The Chinese New Year must be a family reunion together.

"The snow outside is very deep." Er Gouzi said.

"Isn't there you? If you think about it, you will definitely be able to get over it. Besides, the predicament that we can see here must be remembered by the master. The master has many people and is smarter than us. He must be able to find a way. "

Er Gouzi nodded, and stopped bringing up the matter.

Ge Er came in and asked for Li Ji's opinion: "Fourth Master, we have a lot of meat in our house, but besides rabbit and chicken, some livestock meat is the best. Pork is used to eating, and the young ones look at a bull that grows. It's big enough, now it's time to kill and eat meat. Look..."

Is this to kill a cow?Li Ji thought about it and nodded.He is really hungry for beef.It's also good to make a braised beef to satisfy your cravings.

With more oil and water, I naturally prefer to eat rare meat in my heart.

Er Gouzi went out to help butcher the cow, Li Ji watched the excitement, the cow put away the edible ones and cleaned them up, washed the inedible ones and steamed them in the pot used for livestock feed to feed the small potatoes.

Hairy belly is a good thing, Li Ji didn't understand it, but those four people knew how to eat it.Half of the hairy belly is left to freeze, and the remaining half is made into mixed hairy belly.

The tastiest parts of the cow were cut off and fried to make various dishes, and the hardy vegetables grown in the ground looked pretty good too.

Most of the picked off are used as seasoning, and the shallots on the windowsill grow taller.It is also a good thing to clear the mouth after pulling it out and washing it to eat with sauce.

In the evening, a jug of good wine was boiled.When the county magistrate was preparing, he didn't prepare much for the camp, but he prepared for this side.Several jars are placed in the cellar, the two of them are not greedy for wine, usually a few sips are enough to drink for a year or two.

The wine prepared by the magistrate is different from ordinary ones.It's a pity that no one is a good wine taster. The concept of wine is similar to that of tea, only the difference between good taste and better taste.

The dinner was sumptuous.Six people sat around the kang, talking and laughing.

This is the first time for Li Ji to celebrate his birthday with six of them. The atmosphere is good, and the food is light to suit his taste.Li Ji ate enough to fill his stomach and drank a few glasses of wine.After eating and drinking enough, he came down from the dinner table smelling of alcohol.

The Longevity Noodles tasted good, and it was a bowl that Li Ji and Er Gouzi shared.It stands to reason that this bowl of noodles was eaten by the little birthday star himself.It's just that Li Ji looked at Er Gouzi and wanted to share this blessing with Er Gouzi.

"I promised that the day I met you would be your birthday. But I was too busy going up the mountain to forget it. Let's treat it as our birthday together and eat longevity noodles together."

Li Ji didn't share the food either, just a bowl of noodles, and when the two of them ate, they stuttered.

In the end, I don't know why Er Gouzi came up with such a bad idea.Holding one end of the noodles in his mouth, he motioned to eat with Li Ji.

Li Ji had a bright smile on his wine-smeared face, but he was not shy. He grabbed the other end and grabbed a piece of noodles with Er Gouzi to eat.

The result, of course, was that the two kissed together.The four people on the table just watched, with clear expressions on their faces.

The two masters have a good relationship.Living a good life without making noise is actually a kind of blessing for servants.

Both of them have only one other, neither takes concubines, nor has children, the four servants only need to serve the two of them and understand, there is no need to stand in line, and there is no need to help the master to give advice.For them, it is God giving them a good life.

After eating, Li Ji didn't need to do anything, just watched them pick up the bowl and throw it on the kang.After they all went out, Li Ji took off his clothes.

Seeing that the end of the year is approaching, God loves people so much that he gave us half a month of sunny days.The mountains are full of snow, and we are not afraid of running out of water.It's not snowing now, so it's much easier to clear the snow.

Because it's not particularly cold inside the giant tent.Li Ji also spared a few hens to hatch eggs.At this time, the little chick is about half a year old, and it is the time for jubilation.Open the windows during the day, and when it’s not too cold, the little guy runs around the yard, making a lot of noise. ,

One at night.Some were not particularly close to the hens, and ran to a corner to hide by themselves, while these six people still had to catch chicks all over the yard.

Fortunately, the giant tent is closed, otherwise, it would be distressing to lose a little guy at such a time.

The largest litter of chickens weighed more than a catty.The hen doesn't care much anymore.

Li Ji watched the chicken grow up day by day, it must have endured the cold, and he decided to send it to the county magistrate.Take it as a New Year's gift to the county magistrate.Li Ji and Er Gouzi have nothing to offer, so it is absolutely practical to take the chickens hatched by themselves.

The rest will have to wait and see, and see if it can be firm when I go to the camp during the Chinese New Year.It is also a thought to take some more at that time.

The cage for carrying has to be weaved.It's also easy to carry over by then.Because there are many rabbit cages at home, Li Ji and Er Gouzi have a lot of experience in making cages.The other four couldn't handle this matter.The two were busy for two days, and weaved a big cage out.Two people carrying it, one in front and one in the back, are really quite decent.

It's not too much effort to get some chickens quickly and then lift them up.However, Li Ji's physical strength is obviously impossible to carry so many things to the county magistrate.

Until Xiaonian, when I was planning to slaughter a pig, I heard movement outside.When Li Ji went out to open the door, he saw two people standing at the door, tightly covered, their eyebrows and hats were white, and their bodies were covered with snow.It's all like this, and they still bowed their bodies to salute.

Li Ji hurriedly let people in, and asked them to come over with towels to sweep the snow for the two of them.

"How did you come here?" The snow outside was up to the chest, and only the second dog in the family had the courage to go out at this time.

"Qingxue came here. It's been a month since I was young, and Qingxue has been shifting to clear the road here. Fortunately, the direction is easy to distinguish, and the snow was shoveled and moved back to the camp for use. Until you, nothing was ruined. "He took off his hat and Weibo, and the speaker still had a simple smile on his face.

Li Ji was moved in his heart, knowing that this was all for them.

"Where does it take so much trouble? It's really impossible to make a sledge and try it on the snow. It's too hard to dig it directly. Thank you." Li Ji let people into the house and served tea.

"The master said that the other convenient methods are not safe. The Chinese New Year is almost here, and you can't ignore safety for the sake of convenience. Although this method of digging directly is a bit stupid, it will be easier for the two masters to come back later. .As long as there is no strong wind blowing, even if it is snowing, it will be much easier to clear the snow. I will be able to walk more in the future.”

This makes sense, it is troublesome now, but it will be convenient in the future.

This road is open, so what I want is to invite the two of you to pass.People are inseparable from the family, and the four servants will stay here for the New Year.

Li Ji and Er Gouzi went up to the beam to discuss, first kill a pig here, it is the meat for the four people to celebrate the New Year, and then drive the two pigs away to the camp.It can be regarded as delivering last year's goods to the people in the camp.