Chapter 12: The enemy retreats, and I advance
When breakfast was finally put on the table, Ouyang screamed, but when he saw the old man raise his eyes, he still flinched. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Father-in-law, it's time to eat."
"Got it." The old man snorted, went to the well to wash his hands, and looked back at the eldest grandson, who had already swept the yard. Put the dead leaves from the yard into the fertilizer vat separately. And the earth was poured in, and some of the water was poured into it.
The old man nodded, he had long eyes, he hadn't taught him, but he didn't expect it, but he knew. Dead leaves can also be used as fertilizer, and the soil will naturally not be wasted.
Zeng's breakfast table is very simple, porridge and coarse bread, plus some pickles. The bread is made according to the number of people, one per person. The quality is not very good, but it can be managed.
The old man sat down and ate his own silently. Ouyang didn't fall asleep all night last night, and when he thought that Li Niangzi was actually teaching Erya to weave, he felt like his heart was burning.
It can't be blamed that the Ouyang clan reacted so much, the two villages are so close, and the time when the two got married back then was actually about the same. They are all married scholars, and they all point to them being nominated for the gold list. The two naturally competed secretly.
Mr. Li Niangzi had a son, and Ouyang finally gave birth to his eldest son two years later, so he was relieved. then gave birth to three sons in a row, and when she gave birth to her third son, Li Niangzi gave birth to a daughter, and she finally regained her sense of superiority.
But at that time, Li Xiucai was admitted to Xiucai, which gave Ouyang a heavy blow. Moreover, at that time, everyone knew that Li Xiucai had no one in his family except for the clan. He was confessed by Mrs. Li with a pair of hands, and it is precisely like this, whatever the wealth and power of the Li family are, Mrs. Li alone can have the final say.
Later, Li Xiucai went to the provincial capital once, and she was very happy, although Zeng Qing didn't have anything at that time. Li Xiucai didn't take the test, and she also said behind her back that she was unproductive. Waiting for her father-in-law to stop taking the exam, she really felt depressed. At that time, Li Xiucai had already brought out two Jinshi masters.
Over the years, she has been holding her breath, and her opposition was so strong at the beginning, in addition to wanting her son to marry a rich girl, what she wants is that she hates Mrs. Li very much.
Now Mrs. Li wants to teach Erya to learn weaving, and in the future, her mother-in-law will go to the ground, and her daughter-in-law will do light work at home. Thinking of this, Ouyang felt that his heart was like a fire.
"Fan'er, I still can't let Erya learn to weave, now the white cloth is worthless, and the work is delayed, even if their family is willing to marry a loom, do we have a place to put it?" Ouyang said to Zeng Fan.
Zeng Fan is thirteen years old, and he is actually half a child. Now it's a little tangled, what qualifications does he have to let his mother-in-law not let his fiancée learn to weave? A little dazed.
"How do you speak, why did Fan'er go to Yue's house to say this." Zeng Qing didn't wait for the old man to speak, and immediately shouted.
"What do you know...... Ouyang clan didn't want to think about it. But immediately, Old Man Zeng slapped a pair of chopsticks on the table.
Zeng Quan, the second eldest of the Zeng family, and Zeng Yi, the third eldest of the Zeng family, shrank their heads even lower, and now they will take a peek at Zeng Fan, their eyes full of sympathy.
Finally coming out of the house, the three brothers breathed a sigh of relief.
"Brother, you say, my mother doesn't like my sister-in-law so much, what should I do?" The third Zeng Yi said very worriedly. He deeply felt that now that the eldest brother had not yet married, and when he really got married, he couldn't even think about it.
"That's right, why don't you quit?" Zeng Quan said.
Zeng Fan glanced back at his two younger brothers and went to school indifferently. Zeng Xiucai said that he wanted to teach the three of them to read, but they still had to go to a special school, so the family was still very hard. Now he just wants to be admitted to Xiucai as soon as possible, so that at least the county will give him some rice and grain a year to help his family. Where did he have the time to think about those things that were gone?
However, Mrs. Li felt a little uncomfortable not inviting her future son-in-law to dinner, Mrs. Li was a well-known capable lady in ten miles and eight villages, she originally looked down on the Ouyang family, thinking that her daughter was going to beg for a life under the Ouyang family, she didn't sleep well these days. For her, the cartridge is the first step, and she must let her son-in-law know what a good mother-in-law is. On the way to study in the city of the three brothers of the Zeng family, Mrs. Li was picking eggs and cutting leeks at home.
"What are you doing in the morning?" Li Xiucai, seeing that the breakfast lady was so-so, steamed a drawer of steamed buns with vermicelli pickles and a thin porridge like rice soup, even if they sent their father and daughter, but now they are ready to serve it again. Leeks are grown by his own family, and it is when they are fresh and tender, he saw them yesterday, and said to his mother, or he will scramble a leek egg tonight. Seeing that the lady was preparing, although she was happy, she also felt that where to eat eggs at noon, so she was busy stopping.
"I'll do it in the evening, just in time for Da Lang to come back and eat."
"What do you do at night, I make leek egg pie at noon and send my son-in-law to school." Mrs. Li is full of fighting spirit.
Li Ping just came out after washing the dishes, and when she heard the old lady's words, she was almost choked by her own saliva. There is a mother-in-law who invites her son-in-law to dinner, but is it appropriate to send food to her son-in-law? After a few times in his heart, he hurriedly stood up, "Mother, this is not good!" ”
"Yes, yes, you send it, let other students in the school see it......" Li Xiucai also felt that it was wrong, nodded hurriedly and said hurriedly.
"No, mother, how many are you going to send? There are so many children in the school, who do you give them to eat, do you want your classmates to take care of them, or do you want to invite your husband to have a drink. Just send it to the Zeng family...... bit, only afraid of bad things. ”
Li Ping understands her mother, she doesn't really want to tie up her son-in-law, but to let the kid of the Zeng family think of her good, and be good to herself in the future. However, this is how big it is, this one is too eye-catching to do this. Moreover, it doesn't have to be looked down upon, and if it can't be done, it can be done, and the Li family is the Zeng family.
Sure enough, when Mrs. Li heard this, she immediately stopped doing it. It doesn't take much bread to make it for your son-in-law. But it's not good to do it for the whole school. One is reluctant, and the other is that leeks are not something that everyone likes to eat, and it is not good to look back and spoil the food, not to mention it, and to offend people.
"I'll make you vermicelli and leek cakes to eat that night." Mrs. Li looked at the leeks that had been cut distressed, and decided to make cakes with the stuffing of the buns in the morning and some leeks. She carefully put the eggs back into the jar where the eggs were kept.
Li Xiucai pursed his mouth and went to study early with his hands behind his back.