Chapter 56: Visiting Relatives
Li Xiao returned to Li's house with things, and Mrs. Li was very happy to see that Li Xiao had prepared so many things. Li Xiao prepared some big money and gave the old lady some red paper, saying that it was for the old lady to wrap it for the juniors, and the juniors' gifts would not be bought one by one, after all, the road was quite far, and it was not very convenient to have too many things. And I don't know how many people are in the old lady's mother's house, it's not good to buy more and buy less. The old lady saw that Li Xiao was so thoughtful, and she was looking forward to returning to her parents' house. These gifts are already very important for the peasant family.
After two days of preparation, they set off. Li Ren drove the ox cart, not knowing Li Xiao's calculations. The ox cart was loaded with grain, cloth, and live pheasants and hares, and behind it sat Mrs. Li and Xiulan. Li Xiao sat on Li Ren's left with a bow and arrow on his back. And so it went.
Li Xiaotou found Wu Tian and Wang Wensheng one night and asked Wang Wensheng how much money he still had, Wang Wensheng took the account book out and looked at it and said: "There are a lot of entries during this time, and now there are a total of two hundred and eighty-six two hundred and seventy-five nine in the account. ”
Wu Tian and Li Xiao gasped at the same time. Li Xiao asked, "So much?" ”
Wang Wensheng nodded. Li Xiao took out the drawings and said, "This is the house I want to build, look at it, I'm going to trouble the two of you when I go back." “
Wang Wensheng said: "You want to demolish the ancestral house? Do Zhang Cheng and Li Ren agree? ”
Li Xiao looked at the two of them and said, "Do you know what it means to cut first and then play?" ”
Wang Wensheng understood, and Wu Tian asked what he meant.
Li Xiao said: "When I send my old lady away, I will take Li Ren with me and ask him to send us there." Zhang Cheng: I will ask him to go to the county to help me buy fertile land. All the money except for the house was bought on fertile land. These places are circled on the cover paper, and the others are under construction in the future. Wu Tian found some people and said that I would renovate the old house and help me move everything out. Then someone secretly demolished the house in the middle of the night. Wang Wensheng, when the time comes, you can help me find the shopkeeper of Yeweixuan, I told him that he will help me find someone who understands and guide everyone to build a house. I'll send the old lady and I'll rush back. When the time comes, Li Ren will see it, and it will have been demolished, hehe. “
Wu Tian gave Li Xiao a thumbs up, and Wang Wensheng said, "Since you have thought about it, let's just do it." “
The old lady's maiden name is Zhao, and because of the long distance, their ox cart walked for half a month to arrive. The old lady got married at the age of fifteen and has not returned to her parents' home for more than thirty years. It was the first time I went back and I was very nervous. They stayed in the hotel all the way, and the time was a little slower, but they didn't suffer. The old lady sighed all the way that Li Xiao was such a young child, how to do it so thoughtfully. Thinking that his old man still had a vision, it was only half a year before the family bought an acre of land and built a new house.
Because Li Ren is here, Li Xiao has to go back with Li Ren. Li Xiaolu said, don't mention that she is a girl, and the old lady doesn't want to tell her mother's family that her granddaughter is in charge, so she said that Li Xiao is her eldest grandson in the third room, and Li Ren is the patriarch's family, so she escorted them.
The old lady's younger brother is still there, called Zhao Tian. The children in the family were also conscripted and left, leaving some young grandchildren and a group of daughters-in-law. Life was not very good, and when Zha saw the old sister, Zhao Tian didn't recognize it. After the two recognized each other, they hugged their heads and cried for a while before they both entered the house. Li Ren and Li Xiao moved their things to the house, and Zhao Tian saw his sister go back to her parents' house to get so many things, and asked worriedly if her brother-in-law agreed.
The old lady said: "Your brother-in-law left a few years ago, our Li Shan family is now the head of this child, and his name is Li Qing is the eldest grandson of the third room." These are all prepared by her. “
Zhao Tian said good boy twice, and asked the children of the Zhao family to come over and call someone. The old lady gave each a red envelope with a lot of money, which was very face-saving, and even her old brother got it. Zhao Tian wanted to give it to Li Xiao, but the old lady didn't let her, saying: "The Li family has money for her, and my brother doesn't pay attention to her." “
Li Xiao said: "Uncle and grandpa, grandma will trouble you here, they are tired all the way, let's arrange a place for them to live first."
Zhao Tian said: "No trouble, no trouble. The family members all went to the army, and there were many empty houses, so let them live in the old family's house, and let the eldest daughter-in-law go to live with the second daughter-in-law. The old lady was indeed tired, so she went to rest with Xiulan.
Li Xiao saw that the old lady was gone, so he said to Zhao Tian: "Uncle and grandpa, I will come to pick up my grandmother in two months at the earliest, and it may take four months at the slowest time, and the time depends on the speed of building the house. So the timing is hard to say. You have this money, it is the money for my grandmother to eat. ”
Zhao Tian said: "Child, I can't take your money, you came to take so many things."
Li Xiao said: "Uncle and grandpa take it, I don't know how long my grandmother will live with you, and I can't let the Li family eat my mother's food." If my grandfather had known, he would have blamed me. Brother Li Ren and I have to rush back, and the family is building a house, and I don't feel at ease when I look at it. Let's just go, and don't talk to my grandma. With that, he and Li Ren took the ox cart and left.
Zhao Tian looked at the back of this teenage child and muttered, or my sister and brother-in-law will raise children. Just let the old sister teach him too.
Li Xiao was finally on the way home, and with just the two of them, Li Ren sped up.
Let's go back to the Li family......
Before Li Xiao left, he told Zhang Cheng that he wanted to buy 30 acres of fertile land, so he would buy it in Zhangjia Village, and if he wanted to use money, he would find Wang Wensheng. Zhang Cheng packed the ticket for her before she returned. Zhang Cheng gave Li Xiao to the county seat to handle the purchase of land during the day, and went back to Zhangjia Village to sleep at night. The Li family had Wu Tian and Wang Wensheng watching, and he was very relieved, so he didn't come to see it.
Wu Tian saw that Zhang Cheng was gone, so he hurriedly summoned people to go to Li's house to pack and move things. Wu Tian was afraid that there were some things that were women's, so he asked his mother to go to the inner room to have a look first, and if there was no problem, he called them in to clean up. There are also things that people put on outhouses and warehouses. The pheasant and rabbit were pulled back to Wu's house first, and the stones were taken care of. Others erected thatched huts not far away. A few rooms were reserved for the craftsmen, and two were for the contents of the house.
The people of Lijia Village knew that the Li Shan family was going to build a house, and they were all talking about Li Qing's ability, and it had only been a long time since they had built a house.
Wang Wensheng went to the county seat to find the shopkeeper of Yeweixuan, and the shopkeeper knew that Li Xiao came to find the craftsman, so he introduced a team of people. An old craftsman with eight young craftsmen. Wang Wensheng negotiated the price and showed them the drawings. It is said that only the part of the ancestral house is built now, that is, the three rooms on the pen circle, and the rest is built little by little. The old craftsman was very happy to see that it was a big project. I responded directly, saying that this house was definitely very beautiful when it was built.