Chapter 34: Relatives
After King Jing's whereabouts were revealed, he received posts from all over the world, asking him to heal the sick in his home. King Jing didn't get tired of it, and simply pushed the matter on Wei Yu and asked him to find a way to solve those people. And he hid in the inner courtyard of the hidden herbs, concentrating on curing the two brothers of Li Da.
The house they live in now was built 15 years ago. At that time, it was still a large family living in it, so there were five large rooms. Except for the middle hall, all the rooms are divided into two rooms, inside and outside.
Therefore, even if there are four more second aunts, mothers and daughters, the house is enough to live in. Because Li Xiaonuan's room has something to draw, it has always been locked. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Li Xiaonuan did not open the lock and let the cousins live in, but prepared another room for them.
In the past two months, Li Xiaonuan has added a lot of furniture and other things, among which beds and bedding are the majority. The doors and windows are also patched, so there is no more shabby that I just crossed over. Although it is still a mud wall and thatched roof, it has a strong pastoral atmosphere when you live in it. This is what Li Xiaonuan longed for in his previous life, but he couldn't feel it.
There is still quite a lot of farming in the summer. The seedlings that have been planted should be pulled out and fertilized, and the fields of broad beans and mung beans planted should also be seen to see if the seedlings are uneven. If it is missing, it is too late to make up for it in time. Therefore, Xiaoyang and Su Shi were busy again.
Li Xiaonuan also wants to help. Li Xiaogang will hold an apprenticeship ceremony the day after tomorrow, and some relatives and friends will be invited to witness it. But there are so many things at home that I can't spare the manpower to invite a few other uncles.
When the two twin cousins found out, they volunteered to help hire someone. Originally, Su and the second aunt Tang thought it was not bad. But Li Xiaonuan thought it was unsafe for the two cousins to go out alone, so she didn't agree. She asked Li Xiaogang to invite someone in person.
First, Li Xiaogang personally went to invite, which can reflect his sincerity; Second, Li Xiaogang has some ideas in his heart, and if he goes, he may be able to avoid a lot of trouble. Let's not talk about the somewhat eccentric grandmother, that is, the stingy and selfish fifth uncle and his wife, who want to make a fuss if they can't say it.
Previously, when Father Li fell ill, it was the eve of the fifth uncle's marriage. At that time, my grandmother still lived in Li Xiaonuan's house, and in order to help Li's father treat his illness, she embezzled part of the fifth uncle's marriage funds. For this reason, the fifth uncle and his family have not been to Li Xiaonuan's house for several years.
Before, Li Xiaonuan's sister and brother sold Ganoderma lucidum to make money, and it was spread by people with good intentions. Although I don't know how much, since Dad Li lived in Tibetan Baicao, all kinds of news about the development of the Li family have emerged one after another.
At that time, there were rumors on the street that Li Xiaonuan's family was ungrateful, and the relatives tried their best to help raise money to treat Li's father. Now that they are so developed, they can't even remember that their relatives have come. There is even that person who said that the expenses for the fifth uncle's marriage were all borrowed from his mother's family, and he has not repaid it until now.
When Li Xiaonuan heard those rumors, she laughed. Back then, seven taels of the ten taels of silver that the fifth uncle got married, seven taels were made by Father Li who went to the landlord's house in Zhou day and night to help carry water and save the fields. That year, there was a bit of a drought, so everyone had to go to the river to carry water to prevent the seedlings from dying.
That year, Li Xiaonuan's family had seven acres of land. Li Dad went to the landlord's house to help during the day, and picked up his own water in the first half of the night. I slept less than two hours in the second half of the night. And so, from May to mid-August.
The fifth uncle's wedding was scheduled for the twelfth day of the winter month. On the seventh day of October, Father Li went to the mountain to trap rabbits to add a dish to the fifth uncle's wedding banquet. Unfortunately, it started to rain at noon that day. Daddy Li was drenched in the rain for half a day and fell ill that night. The next day, no matter how much I screamed, I couldn't wake up, and I was still hot and sweating.
The family invited a doctor, saying that Dad Li was suffering too badly and had a wind, so he had to take good medicine to recuperate for about half a year. At that time, the Li family was in charge of the grandmother's family. Therefore, Daddy Li's private room did not exceed one or two silvers.
But half a year's tonic has to cost twenty or thirty taels, which is a big pit. In the first half month, my grandmother was willing to pay for medicine. But as the money ran out and her pockets became more and more empty, she began to be reluctant.
She and her grandfather have a total of five sons and a daughter, and she is more partial to the younger son. In order to allow the fifth uncle to marry a daughter-in-law with dignity, she gave the remaining thirteen taels of silver to the fifth uncle. Among those silvers, except for three taels of silver, which were earned by the fifth uncle in the past few years, and three taels were paid by other uncles, the remaining seven taels were all Li Dad's silver.
Daddy Li's medicine costs half a tael of silver every half a month. Therefore, after another 500 yuan of medicine money, grandma announced that there was no silver. At that time, Li Xiaonuan was still very young, less than fifteen years old, so he quarreled with her.
At that time, my grandmother was heartbroken, saying that Li Xiaonuan was disobedient, and asked Li Zheng to judge with the old people in the village. Of course, Li Zheng and the others knew how much silver Li Dad had earned in the landlord's house before, and he also earned a lot by going to the landlord's house every year to do short-term work. Therefore, everyone only persuaded the old man a few words.
But grandma pretended to be an old man and an elder, so she lay in bed and pretended to be sick for several days and couldn't get up. There was no way, so the fifth uncle had to go to the other three uncles and aunts to help. After everyone negotiated, it was decided to let Li Xiaonuan kneel and kowtow to admit his mistake. After that, the fifth uncle gave three taels of silver for medicine, and that was it.
Because when he was grabbing water before, Dad Li often went to help his brother and sister grab water at night. Therefore, several brothers and aunts jointly contributed seven taels of silver, and made up enough ten taels to give to Father Li.
At that time, Daddy Li did not show any dissatisfaction on his face. But in private, he was disappointed and angry. It's just helpless, this is his family. Therefore, after the fifth uncle got married, Father Li took out five taels of silver and asked him to move to the Zuo Village that he chose at the beginning.
In the past, it was because the fifth uncle did not get married, so he lived with his parents as a matter of course. But in fact, as early as three years before his grandfather's death, when Li Xiaonuan was eleven years old, the Li family was separated.
At that time, the imperial court re-adjusted the land distribution for those who fled the disaster. After investigation, the five brothers of the Li family settled in five different villages near Fucheng and were allocated land. But he has been living in Xinzhou Village.
The people from the government came to ask if the Li brothers would settle in Xinzhou Village in the future, and if so, they could take advantage of the time to complete the formalities. But the uncles felt that the place they had chosen was good, so they split up and moved to their place of settlement.
In this way, the five brothers lived in different villages. And these are all known by Li Xiaonuan based on her own memories and combined with the few words Su Shi told her.
On the third day after the fifth uncle moved out, the grandmother also moved away under the pretext that she wanted to go to the fourth uncle's house to help take care of the children. At that time, Li Dad, who had endured to the extreme, vomited a mouthful of blood. For the next half a month, he refused to take the medicine and even poured it out.
Since then, Daddy Li's body has collapsed, from being able to go out for a walk, directly to the point where he has to be supported by someone to go to the thatched house. And grandma has grown up in the fourth uncle's house since then. She said that if Li Xiaonuan knew filial piety to their elders, they would be able to go to the fourth uncle's house to see her during the New Year's Day.