Porridge and side dishes [farming]

Chapter 114 The Beginning of the War

Li Jiliang said: "Since you came home, many people have reminded me to be careful of you, because you must blame me for everything about your son, and you will definitely seek revenge from me. I am still not very reconciled, Just set up such a game. Prove that you are not that kind of person. Obviously, I guessed wrong."

Li Ji looked at the old man and said: "Old man, you have seen it all, my sister-in-law doesn't want to give me a way out, and called so many people to watch me make a fool of myself. You come and explain it to me. I should belong to their family, or should I owe it?" Of their family, have I ever been sorry to their mother and son over the years? Er Chanzi burned my livestock pen in the middle of the night. Her mother called a group of people to catch the adulterers today, and even ordered my food. You pinched it The Bodhisattva still has a bit of earthy nature, although I am young and ignorant, I have no reason to be bullied."

The old man still remembered the time when Li Ji helped him out of the siege some time ago. If it wasn't for Li Ji's help, the old man would have offended Er Gouzi's family and died.Now that Li Ji has something to do, the old man thought for a while to pay back Li Ji's old troubles, and this time he also intended to please Li Ji.

Li Ji can still live with Er Gouzi, that must be appreciated by Er Gouzi's family.As long as you have a good relationship with Li Ji, are you afraid that you won't have the chance to meet Ergouzi's family in the future?

The old man said: "It's no wonder you are so angry, I really wronged you."

The old man raised his head and said, "Damn you, Er Chanzi, I know you are not easy to get along with. Since you were young, you have never been afraid of you in the village. But bullying the weak and fearing the hard will always have to be divided. Xiaoji beats Xiaomei Mother, I lost my father when I was 14 years old, and now life has improved. Not to mention that I have no hatred with you, even if there is, you, the sister-in-law, really have to be so endless? The family affairs, you have to make a mess Can you die or live?"

After the old man finished speaking, Li Shuisheng also spoke to help: "It's no wonder the old man said that about you, Er Chanzi, you are too angry. The matter of Er Chanzi was not decided by Xiao Ji alone. At that time, we These elders were all present. From the beginning, Xiao Ji was thinking about his family, and he didn't intend to make it more serious. It was because the servants of Er Gouzi's family didn't want him to burn the livestock that Er Gouzi and Xiao Ji raised together. Send it to the county magistrate. The county magistrate is judged by Qingtian, and the person is judged by the county magistrate. Why didn’t you see Er Gouzi and the county magistrate? Er Gouzi, you can’t pick soft persimmons.”

From an onlooker's point of view, Li Ji has always been in a wronged position.

But Er Chanzi Niang held Li Ji alone, and she saw that Li Ji's orphan with no background was easy to bully, so the bully came to her door.

These words make sense, what else can Er Chanzi Niang say?Said that everything was calculated by Li Ji?But at this moment, the sober Er Chanzi's mother figured it out, why did Li Ji plot against Er Gouzi?The second shovel was plotted because he was afraid that the second shovel would retaliate, so he set up such a situation to see the attitude of the second shovel, but there was no motive for designing the second shovel.

Li Ji lived outside the village all the year round, rarely entered the village, and had very little communication with Er Chanzi. Why did he suddenly dislike Er Chanzi, and insisted on trying to calculate Er Chanzi and send Er Chanzi to prison?

The argument of exoneration from the mother and son is not valid. How could a smart person who can read and write not think of this in front of the county magistrate?

After thinking about everything before and after this, Er Chanzi Niang was also desperate.

Things have already reached this level, what else can I do?Admit it?beg for mercy?How could the second shovel girl do this.

She hated Li Ji so much that she was itching to hate him, wishing she could swallow Li Ji alive.Li Ji was the catastrophe for their mother and daughter. If it wasn't for Li Ji, why would their mother and son be like this now?

Er Chanzi Niang didn't speak, but she wanted to break the jar, she had better go up and tear her up with Li Ji and beat her up.

But she couldn't make up her mind.At this time, she was already like this. Standing in front of the old man, if she dared to be presumptuous, she would not be able to stay in the village any longer.Her parents died long ago, and there were only one or two brothers left who were not close.If she is kicked out at such an age, where can she go?When Er Shovel came back, where could he go?

Even if Er Chanziniang's life here is not good and she gets looked down upon, it's better than being outside.

Er Chanzi Niang didn't speak, but the old man said, "You go back, don't mention this matter after today."

Er Chanzi Niang didn't expect the matter to end so easily, she looked up with astonishment on her face.

The old man said again: "These things you did are not in a good shape. You can't get rid of the responsibility for the second shovel to be crooked into what it is now. But anyway, you raised a child of our Li family by yourself. Every parent and brother will pick you up. You will stay in the village. However, you are embarrassed to let your ancestors know about these things you have done. When you leave someday, don’t send them to the ancestral grave, so as to save your ancestors from seeing you. Upset."

Speaking of which, it's no different from Hugh.Many people place more value on the afterlife than on life.Whether one can enter the ancestral grave is even more of a big deal.

Especially for those big families, I don’t know how many people have spent their whole lives trying to enter the genealogy and ancestral graves, but they can’t do so.Although this place is small and small, the ancestral grave is the home after death. If you can't enter the ancestral grave after death, you are a lonely ghost, and you will be bullied by other evil spirits in the days after your death.

In the eyes of this matter, Er Chanzi Niang is willing: "You can't treat me like this! No matter what I do, I am still the daughter-in-law of your old Li's family! Why don't you let me enter the ancestral grave! Why!"

The decision of the old man of the family to sit down is not influenced by the village chief.Besides, the second shovel girl really asked for it.

The old man didn't want to waste time on Er Chanzi Niang, so he asked Li Bao to help him leave.Er Chanzi Niang went up to grab the old man: "Have I done anything to offend your old Li family all these years! I really didn't deal with Li Ji, but you don't want to see how Li Ji treated me! Back then I You are clear about the daughter-in-law, if it weren’t for the rotten tongue, my son might not have a wife? Maybe my grandson is now on the report!”

Er Chanzi Niang was still repeating what happened back then, but no one wanted to listen to what he said, and they all dispersed as soon as possible.

The second shovel girl took a chance and wanted to rush over, but was stopped by the two of them.

Li Ji came behind and said: "Sister-in-law, please be careful. If you make troubles and hurt the old man again, let alone you will not be able to enter the ancestral grave in the future, I am afraid that you will not even have the qualification to enter the ancestral grave. At that time, you Do you think you and Er Chanzi can stay in the village any longer?"

Er Chanzi Niang stared at Li Ji fiercely: "You are satisfied!"

Li Jidao: "Where did I get satisfied, sister-in-law, have you forgotten? From the beginning to the end, I have been sorry for you a little bit? Back then, you hated me for saying those words. Don't forget, I am also a young man who has not married a wife. You My daughter-in-law had a miscarriage, why don't you let me worry about it? Later you found fault with me everywhere, and at most I scolded you, but it didn't hurt you. Thinking about what you two have done, what is it? Who is sorry for whom?"

Li Ji's words had already been spoken, Er Chanzi Niang was slightly stunned.She has always hated Li Ji so much that her teeth itch, but now that she thinks about it, did the things Li Ji did really make Er Chanzi Niang hate him to this extent?

After Li Ji finished speaking, he walked out through Ershozi Niang. The fire on the firewood pile had been extinguished, and it was all wet.The firewood inside is basically blackened, and even if it is empty, it must be very dirty if you want to burn it.

Li Ji doesn't plan to ask for it anymore, and today is not the time to tidy up.

After leaving the courtyard, Li Ji heaved a sigh of relief.The two shovels and their families have solved more than half of the problem by now.He wasn't afraid that Er Chanzi's wife would break the jar, and she would destroy him if she really wanted to die, because although Er Chanzi's mother had a bad character, she was suspicious and vengeful, but she was sincere to Er Chanzi's kindness.

In order for Er Chanzi not to be named in the genealogy, Er Chanzi's mother can be honest from now on.When the second shovel comes back, let's talk about the second shovel's return.

Half a month later, the crops were golden and basically mature.The village is busy again. Every household has a few acres of land on which to live. It is the law of everyone's survival to plow in the spring, cultivate in the summer, harvest in the autumn, and store in the winter.

During the few days of harvest, besides the Chinese New Year, there are the most smiling faces in the village.Although exhausting, the food brought by the harvest will feed the family for the next year.If you harvest more, you can sell some silver taels to make your family's life better.

Li Ji's house is no exception.

Ergua was released, no matter how locked up and punished, it was time to release people to help the family when the farming season was busy.

Ergua's daughter-in-law didn't go to Li Ji's house to help anymore.Calculated by day, she worked at Li Ji's house for more than half a month, and after another month, Li Ji's money before Ergua would be paid off.If Ergua's daughter-in-law continues to work with Li Ji in the future, Li Ji will also pay her regularly.

If he had been working at Li Ji's side for a whole year, he might have earned more than farming the land for a year.

The four members of Li Ji's family are very busy these days. After working in the field every day, they have to work hard to cook when they go home, and make some simple meals to deal with it.

I can't stand it for a day or two.Originally, the heavy work in the field is exhausting, so can't you eat something good after doing this?

After a final discussion, they might as well leave Ting Lan at home to cook.Any odd jobs at home are done by Ting Lan, and the meals are left to her alone.In this way, the three of them were exhausted after working in the field for a day, and they could eat a hearty meal when they got home, and they could also reward the hard work of the day.

It seems that staying at home is better than being in the field, but the work that the first four members of the family did before now falls to Tinglan alone.

At this time of busy farming, no one can be more leisurely than anyone else.

It seemed to be busy here for four or five days, and the county magistrate sent some servants from home to help with the work.It was too dazzling during the day, so at night, when the villagers were asleep, they went to the fields and started working.Most of the field is full of corn, and all the cobs are piled up in one place. When Li Ji and the others come over, they only need to cut down the corn stalks and bring them back with the corn cobs.

As for the roots in the ground, just wait until the next year to get them, it doesn't have to be so troublesome.

After working day and night for two or three days, the grain in Li Ji's field was almost harvested.

The county magistrate knew that they had worked hard these days, and specially sent a carriage and things as a reward.Most of the things in this carriage are for food, and the main thing is dried meat, all of which are food for people.

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After the carriage was unloaded, Li Ji was still busy filling the cart with rice sticks from this year, as well as mountain products picked by himself, and dried vegetables in the sun.These are not good things, and there must be better ones in the county grandfather's mansion.

But the precious thing is that Li Ji and Er Gouzi got these by themselves, and the two of them don't have any good things, so sending them to the county magistrate is also an expression of heart.

The county magistrate looked at these things sent over, and none of them were good-looking. In the past, the county magistrate would not have looked at them more.

But when he remembered that his son and son-in-law got it by himself, looking at it like this, no matter how he knocked it, he felt it was extremely precious.

"Send it to the kitchen, I'll eat these tomorrow."

The sky looked bright again.Recently, the magistrate of the county has been busy with official duties and has a lot of preparations, so he hasn't slept in bed for a long time.

It's not that the magistrate doesn't want to sleep, it's just that there are so many things, who else can do it except the magistrate?

The magistrate was lying on the bed, still thinking about messy things.After a while, he finally calmed down and fell asleep gently.

The county magistrate hadn't slept for half an hour when he was awakened by knocking on the door.The county magistrate opened his eyes, suppressed his anger a few times before looking at his mouth and asked: "What's the matter!"

The magistrate knows that if it is not an urgent matter, the general affairs in the mansion will be solved after he wakes up.The knock on the door in the middle of the night must have happened.

The servant outside the door said nervously: "The commander is looking for you! It is said that the rebel army has fought hundreds of miles away. The local army is asking for reinforcements here. The commander wants to ask you to go over and listen to your opinions."

The magistrate suddenly stood up and asked loudly, "Where are you?"

The servant's voice became more trembling: "Go back to the master, a hundred miles away!"

Hundreds of miles away!If the cavalry were traveling fast, they would be able to get here in a day and night!Even if they call from city to city, it won't take a few days!

It's only been more than ten days without receiving a letter, and the call is almost at the door of the house!

After preparing for more than two months, in fact, the county magistrate sometimes felt that his worries were unnecessary. Although Daxia was corrupt and Hengsheng, there were millions of soldiers, how could they be defeated at such a fast speed!

The county magistrate hurriedly put on his clothes, stepped out of the house, got into a carriage and went straight to the army.

Li Ji slept until dawn, and his body is still sore for the past two days. The dealer has finished collecting, and his bones have not rested yet.

But Li Ji is not a good sleeper.When the time comes, wake up and start working.

"These two rabbits look good, let's send them to the master next time." Li Ji teased a fat rabbit with a piece of grass to eat.

"It's easy to break if you kill it and send it over." Er Gouzi said, "It's better to send it alive."

"How come I forgot, how could there be no one in the county grandpa's mansion who can kill rabbits."

Li Ji opened a cage, took out a rabbit by its ears, held it in his arms and stroked its fur.

Rabbits have seen people since they were young, so they are not afraid of being touched. Compared with the two litters that were first bred, the current rabbits can be said to be almost completely tamed.

Li Ji touched the soft fur of the rabbit.Such a piece of skin is worth at least four renminbi, and the rice that can be exchanged is enough to feed a family for a month or two.

This is also because rice is a fine grain, which is rare. If it is replaced by stick rice, it will be enough for the whole family to eat for half a year.

That is to say, leather is rare here, and if you change places, you can't sell it at such a high price.

It can be said that Li Ji's wealth is a combination of the right time, place and people. Li Ji is not as comfortable as he is now.

The grain is plentiful and the food and clothing are worry-free.I don't know how many people in this world can't ask for such enjoyment in their whole life.

In all fairness, Li Ji lived very contentedly in such a small life.

Touching the rabbit's ears, the rabbit trembled unaccustomedly, but did not struggle too much.Li Ji embraced joy, touched the rabbit's head more, bowed his head and kissed it.

Li Ji has little resistance to this furry thing.But even if there is no resistance class, Li Ji can tell the difference between liking and liking, which should be different from Xiaowei.The little tail is a part of the family. Although the rabbit is indispensable, it is the family's hope for eating meat.

The two are different, so no matter how much he likes it, Li Ji won't feel bad at all when he kills the rabbit.

"Most of the rabbits raised in the spring can be killed and eaten. It's also time for us to tell the master when the delivery will be delivered. It's just in time. We should go back and have a look. I was very busy a while ago, your father must want to is you."

The rabbits raised in the beginning of spring are now six or seven months old, and they are quite fat. Except for some selected as breeding rabbits to keep their cubs, the remaining [-] or so can be sent to the county magistrate to be killed. .

There have been a lot of other animals in the family recently, all of which were sent by the county magistrate, twenty piggies alone, six cattle and sheep each.This means that there are only four people in the family. Otherwise, as long as the county magistrate thinks about it, it will be easy to bring in a hundred or eighty heads.

So after discussing it, I killed one that was raised at home before.Li Ji had never tasted mutton before, Ting Lan was good at cooking, and made a table of mutton feast, which was a feast for Li Ji and Er Gouzi.

Maybe Li Ji is not a rich man, others eat mutton, no matter what kind of meat they like, it is good meat from serious sheep, but Li Ji likes to drink that haggis soup, it is best to add some tender mutton, Sprinkle with chili oil, even if you don't eat, you are happy to drink haggis soup there.

As for Er Gouzi, there is no difference between likes and dislikes.As long as it is delicious, meaty dogs will like it, which is very fair.

We just finished the mutton feast here, and the sky is getting late, which is the most lazy time.Both Li Ji and Er Gouzi planned to go to bed early.

At this time, as soon as the carriage rushed over, the sound of horseshoes and wheels could be heard from afar.Usually when I come here, the voice is very quiet, for fear that others will hear it, but this time it is the first time that I have made such a big fuss.

Li Ji listened to himself in the room, put on his shoes and went out to greet him. The carriage stopped at the door, and Li Ji just opened the door: "What's the matter? It's so urgent?"

The groom saw sweat on his head, and said: "The magistrate of the county wants the younger one to borrow from the two masters. It's best to pack up the things in the house and go to the mansion together."

If it is said that it is against them, it is normal to take them away, but let them pack up and go there, I am afraid that there is a reason for the incident.

"What happened?"

The groom tidied up his words and said: "The information I just received shows that the rebels have already fought hundreds of miles away. Look at this posture, I believe they will come here soon. The county magistrate is worried, and the countryside is not safe Recently, many refugees have fled here. Even if the rebels will not attack innocent people, the hungry refugees are not the ones to fly to. So the county magistrate wants the two masters to hide in the mansion first. The ending is strict, even if you do call, it will be the safest place in the entire county."

After hearing this, Li Ji finally understood.

"You said there was going to be a war soon? I heard it when I was in the mansion, didn't you say that it was impossible to fight? Don't we have a lot of soldiers?"

The magistrate of the county, who knows the situation of the court so well, can't believe that Daxia can be defeated so badly, let alone a commoner like Li Ji.In his eyes, the government is the sky, and the court is the god.How could such a behemoth fall down one day?

How can a coachman understand this?

The coachman sighed heavily: "How did I know this. Fortunately, the master has made a lot of preparations in advance. It must be fine for you to go back with the master."

"Then I still have so many animals! And so many rabbits and chickens!"

The coachman said: "Where can you take care of so much? You go with the younger ones first, and when you turn around, the master will naturally send someone to take care of it. The master must have thought a step ahead of you. I beg you, just follow the younger one." let's go!"

Having said all this, Li Ji doesn't like to smell such a coachman.

But looking back quietly in the yard, there were a hundred or a thousand people who were unwilling.

The coachman almost knelt down to Li Ji, so Li Ji nodded heavily.

"Er Gouzi! Uncle Ge! Listen to Aunt Lan! Pack up your things, let's go to town!"

After shouting the words, Li Ji's eyes started to turn red.Hearing what the coachman said, there is going to be a war.

What is Zhanluan?Uprooted from their homes, blood flowed into rivers, homeless, and corpses littered the fields.None of them could be afforded by an ordinary person like Li Ji.

Why is there war in this world.Can I come back after this walk?

The carriage is quite big, but after two people are seated, there is not much space.Li Ji took away all the unsustainable food, so as not to waste it.

He brought all the eggs at home, and a dozen more rabbits, and piled up the carriage to the brim.

The groom said "drive".Li Ji opened the curtain and looked back.My house that was newly built for one or two years, the village where I lived for nearly 20 years, and the villagers in that village.

Li Ji's mind is full of Zhan Luan, and whenever he thinks of Zhan Luan, he thinks of casualties.The more I think about it, the more terrifying and hopeless I feel.Under the infection of this emotion, his eyes were moist, accompanied by a strong urge to cry.

Ge Er heard about it, and comforted him: "Don't think too much about it. Usually, if you fight, it won't be too difficult for the people. Let's go to the master's mansion, and the master will protect us, so we will be fine."

The author has something to say: Don’t worry, I won’t leave the village so easily~

This is where the ending begins~

Just waiting for the chaos to end and the dynasty to change~

A more stable day for the two of you is coming~

In fact, the second shovel girl...

It can be said to be the best in the village.

But in my article, everyone’s character is not for nothing

It's all set in there

I have already thought about the setting of the second shovel girl

There's a reason she's like this

I really want to write it in the text

But I’m afraid that everyone will think that I’m making up words

so don't write

Let me talk about it on Weibo when I have time

Meme Chirp~

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