Li Xiaoge listened to the constant knocking on the door, and reluctantly moved his steps to the front of the courtyard door. When he was about to open the door, he thought about putting his head on the door, listening to the movement outside, but didn't want to. There was no sound, and the door opened silently.
"Why did it take so long to open the door?"
When Li Xiaoge heard Li Changfeng's voice, he was instantly revived with blood! "Second brother! Second brother!" Xu Qing looked at Li Xiaoge'er's excited look, and resisted not reaching out to touch his head.
Li Xiaogeer let the two of them in, and immediately closed the courtyard door. Li Changfeng noticed this and didn't say anything, but frowned a little more, "Ah, they are all busy in the fields, those little dolls I also went out to find other people to play, and I am the only one at home, not to mention how boring it is."
Li Xiaoge tugged at Xu Qing's sleeve and complained, Xu Qing did not stop him, but he was surprised that he could stay at home so peacefully, "You can also go out for a walk." Li Xiaoge shook his head melancholy, " My good friends are all getting married, so I can't disturb them."
Xu Qing remembered that Chen Hong and Li Xiaoge seemed to have a good relationship, "What about Chen Hong?"
Hearing this, Li Xiaoge's face was almost wrinkled, "He is also preparing to marry, you don't know, he is actually going to marry the poorest Zhou family in our village!" Li Changfeng immediately roared when he heard Li Xiaoge's remarks. Said: "How did you talk!"
Li Xiaogeer stuck out his tongue, and immediately fell down, Xu Qing gently pulled Li Changfeng, Li Changfeng's face became slightly better, "Is it his own decision, or his family?" Li Xiaoge thought about it. , "He made it himself, saying that the Zhou family is good at reading and writing, so he told him, and Chen and the others agreed, so Chen Hong is also preparing for marriage these days. ."
Since everything has already been decided, Xu Qing is inconvenient to ask more, so Li Changfeng handed over the gifts for the Li family's yard to Li Xiaoge'er, "These are for them, and this is for you, we just built It's a good room, and I have something to do at home, so I won't stay any longer."
Li Changfeng nodded, "Help us give it to Ah, and Dad will make up for it." When Li Xiaoge heard that the two were leaving, he felt a little flustered, "I'll go back now, me, me."
When Xu Qing and Li Changfeng heard Li Xiaoge'er's hesitant tone, they felt that there was something in it, Li Changfeng sighed, "Tell me, what happened to the family." Li Xiaoge'er also looked a little depressed, "It's not the third brother. ."
It turned out that after Li Laosan was invited several times to teach the young students who were about to take the exam, his book business became angry again. This is to reveal that he wanted to take the exam again, but now there are fewer family members. Li Changfeng, there are many children, and Li Xiaoge is the age to discuss marriage again, where can he come up with extra money to support this "ambitious" third Mr Li!
Especially the daughter-in-law of the old family is even more unhappy. He was already very critical of the third family, but he never thought that the third third Li still wanted to eat plain rice with a cheeky face! Of course, he could only compose a few sentences in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it.
Who knew that a few days ago, Li Laosan's little brother and Li Laosan's little brother had a quarrel. The little brother was older and knew how to let the other party. As a result, the more this was done, the more Li Laosan's little brother fought. Cheer up, no, the child didn't know the severity, grabbed a stone and threw it at the other side, and scratched the corner of the little brother's eyebrows.
That's okay, just a little further away is the eyes, the eldest Li's daughter-in-law started to make a fuss, "As a result, the third brother got into a fight with the eldest brother," Li Xiaoge paused, "the third brother also said that the eldest brother was originally a child of the eldest brother. It's not smart, it's just what's wrong, and..." The words he said later were so disrespectful that Li Xiaoge couldn't even say it.
"This is really..." Xu Qing didn't know what words to use to describe this third Li, no matter what, it was his nephew, how could he say such a thing, he was still a scholar.
Seeing Li Changfeng's expressionless face, Li Xiaoge'er was a little unsure of what he was thinking. When he was about to ask Xu Qing for help, Li Changfeng said, "Don't worry about this, my father will have an opinion. Let's go first."
"Third Brother..."
Li Xiaoge never thought that Li Changfeng would go home after hearing this. He originally thought that when the second brother came back and heard about it, he would stay. Li Changfeng didn't have to guess what Li Xiaoge was thinking, "I am What can you do if you stay, you have to understand, I don’t have the kind of bossy words like the eldest brother and the third brother in this family, I have my own home, a home that completely belongs to me and your second brother.”
Xu Qing didn't interrupt, Li Changfeng could just come forward and talk about this matter, and it would be meaningless for him to say more.
Brother Li opened his mouth, but found that he had nothing to say at all, he could only watch Xu Qing and Li Changfeng drive away in a donkey cart.
"See what I do? Huh?"
Li Changfeng and the others drove back. On the way, Li Changfeng felt that Xu Qing had been staring at him. Xu Qing was not embarrassed to be caught, but asked directly, "You don't like to take care of things over there. "
Of course Li Changfeng knew what Xu Qing meant by "over there", "I'm the one who "married" into your family, and this matter is also a matter of my "family", I don't care what I do, but, I I really don't want to."
Xu Qing raised his eyebrows and pointed at the back of Li Changfeng's head: "The married daughter-in-law has a long day, can you leave soon?"
Li Changfeng looked at the rising sun, "You are pregnant, so you can't run too fast. It's still early in the afternoon. Are you afraid of getting sunburned? Come on, take my clothes to cover for a while." Driving the donkey cart with one hand and pulling on his clothes with the other, Xu Qing quickly stopped him, "Alright, alright! I can still stop it for a while, don't do such a thing!" Men are not, they are just afraid of heat stroke.
In the days that followed, Xu Qing and the others were both happy and unhappy. The happy thing was that almost every day, people came to ask for the carving of "wooden dolls" on the spot, and most of them were made of nanmu, which happens every day. Income! Even if you don't do crops, you can eat meat every day! If it makes the villagers jealous, don't want it.
The happy thing is about Xu Qing and Li Changfeng. The worry is not about Xu Qing and their family. The whole village, town, or even the common people are worried. It's not raining anymore.
The children in the hot village went into the river to fight the water fight, but the faces of the adults and the old people were sad. The crops in this field are growing at a good time, and the sun is always shining at this time. However, it will be dry for a long time. If it is dry, the life of the peasants will be very sad.
Xu Qing hid in his room to catch the cold. It was too hot today, and he would sweat every time he walked. Li Changfeng went to the ground three or four times a day these days, either from the river to the fields or the vegetable soil. .
"Dong Dongdong, is Brother Qing at home? I'm Xie Yu."
As soon as Xu Qing heard the knock on the door, before he got up, Xiaobao rushed towards the gate of the courtyard in high spirits. He is also in a panic these days, even though there are many people coming to ask for the statue at home, Xiaobao also Not to relax because of this, Xu Qing repelled Xiaobao and opened the hot courtyard door against the scorching sun on his head. Outside the door were Xie Yu and Lin Fangliang dressed in cool clothes.
"Come in, it's hot today."
Xu Qing pulled Xie Yu and greeted Lin Fangliang to enter the door. Just when he was about to close the courtyard gate, Li Changfeng came back, "Second brother Li." People poured herbal tea, and Xu Qing's was warm boiled water.
Lin Fangliang drank a few sips of herbal tea to quench his thirst, with a slightly heavy expression on his face, "The price of food in the town has gone up." As soon as these words came out, everyone's heart sank, and after a long time, Li Changfeng sighed, " I hope there will be some rain this day." Otherwise, the food will become more and more expensive, and the farmers will have no grains in the fields, there is no food to pay the tax, and there is no money to buy food, that day...
"Everyone, don't think so badly. This God changes his face very quickly. Who knows if there will be rain tonight." Lin Fangliang felt that the atmosphere was a little heavy, so he immediately said haha, trying to ease everyone's heavy hearts.
Brother Xie shook his head, "I think we still need to make some plans. When we come back this time, we will discuss with Ah Mo and the others whether we should go to the town to buy some grain, or the harvest is not big, at least we are taking advantage of the grain now. The price of the house is not too high, it is always right to buy some and save.”
Xu Qing nodded, his mood became heavier and heavier with the continuous scorching sun, there was rice and meat in the space, but it was not when he could take it out casually, he looked at Li Changfeng, who knew Li Changfeng He was also looking at him, "Buy, use our donkey cart, pull a few carts back, not only to buy tax grain, but also to buy the grain we need to eat when we can harvest crops next year!"
"Okay, let's go back and tell Ah Me about this. After an hour, we will meet at the end of the village!" Lin Fangliang and Brother Xie felt that Li Changfeng's idea was more long-term, so they immediately decided to go back to discuss and meet later. .
After Lin Fangliang and the others left, Xu Qing and Li Changfeng returned to the room. Xu Qing took the opportunity to rummage in the cabinet, took the opportunity to take out their money box from the space, put the box on the bed, and after Xu Qing opened it , looking at Li Changfeng, "Before we had one hundred and thirty-seven taels, these days more people came to carve dolls, earning eighty-eight taels, a total of two hundred and twenty-five taels."
Li Changfeng took out fifty taels, closed the box and handed it to Xu Qing, "Fifty taels is enough." You must know that even if there is no food, it is only five taels of silver to replace it with silver. Of course, no one can see it. Taking out so much without blinking, Li Changfeng would rather buy more than let Xu Qing and his children go hungry on days when there may be no harvest.