I thought that when she came back this time, she would go out again and do what she wanted to do, but I was afraid that she would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Moon, who knows......

In the busy season of farming, the scene in full swing is very exciting, the countryside with good wind and rain, the farmers are busy, it is with the world people who joke and play temper from time to time, this God laughs and tears for a while, all day long, these farmers are busy grabbing the grain under the sun, and suddenly rush back to roll the dry mat and harvest the grain, sometimes, tomorrow tomorrow is the red and hot sun, and suddenly a bean big heavy rainfall can come directly.

However, this is so busy, although it is said that his feet do not touch the ground, but how to say, there is also a hope.

In addition to handing over the official grain according to the head, there is also a rent of four or fifty percent per mu handed over to the landlord, and I am busy all year round, and I don't know how many grains of grain will end up in the belly of my family.

For this little hope, even if Mengfan didn't say it for comparison, but just silently tried every means to get more food for the family in the busy farm to increase nutrition and physical strength; However, her father Li Mingjie finally willingly calculated the account in his heart.

Don't you know that he is a copper plate that is eager to be broken in half?

He still insisted on snatching so much from his harvest, which could be compared to the pain of cutting meat with a blunt knife.

He has a plan to buy land in this village, but the landlord's family has no shortage of food or clothing, and he is already thrifty, and there is no land in this poor mountain village to spend money indiscriminately, so what does he do selling land?

No matter how Li Mingjie expressed his wishes, the landlord of the Ding family said: "Don't sell!" Another sentence was added: "What kind of people are you from this village?" I don't know if there is another name in our village called Yes-Ding Family Courtyard? Want to poke a stake in my Ding's territory? Dream! Don't rent land? Don't want to farm for my family? Okay, all of your Li family moved away, in our village, there are not many talents with you, and there are not many talents without you, come on, where do you come from and go, go and go! ”

A scholar, who was despised by a rich man who had never even left the door, couldn't swallow this breath, not to mention, he Li Mingjie was not really a poor scholar, right?

He just wants to hide his clumsiness, he just doesn't want to be an upstart in the eyes of others.

Originally, he only planned to take out the silver and buy some fields in the place where he was born, grow it at home, and be self-sufficient, but who knows, in front of a village person who is more than half a hundred years old, he is actually a foreigner......

And tracing back to the origin, their Li family, the place where the clansmen lived, was in a deep mountain that was more than ten miles away from the nearest official road.

It's not a joke, it's true, the men of the Li family, each of them has seen their own family tree, the reason why they will take root and sprout on the slope of the deep mountain where birds don't lay eggs, the root of it is because in the former Li family, an old ancestor in the upper dynasties was once a civil official in the court, and the original surname was not Li, but the original ancestor was defeated in a factional battle, resigned overnight and left, and there was no inhabited land in the wilderness, when he was tired and thirsty, A plum forest not far away saved the urgent need, so after finding a secret place to live in seclusion, he changed his surname directly to the surname Li!

The dynasty has changed several times, but the descendants of the Li family can see these from the genealogy, and they all know the origin of their ancestors, but this is all a matter of the year of the monkey, and the descendants know that their surname is Li.

Now, let Li Mingjie go back to his hometown with his father, mother, brothers, wife and children, where will he go back?

"No home everywhere!"

Li Mingjie came out of the house of the landlord Ding, saw his wife sitting outside the door and threaded the needle and thread to help his son sew new clothes, saw him come back, raised his head and looked: "Come back!" ”

"Hmm!"

He was in a bad mood, and he didn't want to talk about business in front of his children, so he walked straight in, and in the hall, there was a piece of paper spread out on the dining table at home, and his daughter was teaching her son to read the line that had just been written on the paper.

"No home everywhere, everywhere ......" Li Mingjie frowned and entered the back room, lying on the bed with his hands behind his head, and turned sideways, looking out of the window.

Outside the window, I couldn't see anything, there was no green bamboo, only a mottled and cracked earthen wall behind my uncle's house.

When I turned over, I saw through the blue flower tent with a few scars, and what I saw was still a wall, made of wood and made of mud.

"At the beginning of people, nature is good, sex is similar, and habits are far away!"

"If you don't teach, sex is migration, and the way of teaching is to be specialized!"

"Sister, sister, Xi Meng's mother, choose a neighbor, the son doesn't learn, and the machine is broken! What does that mean? ”

This means that Mencius was a sage a long time ago, and his mother moved from house to place in order for him to study well, until his mother thought that she had found a good environment for Mencius to study, and decided on their place of residence. Mencius was naughty when he was a child, naughty and mischievous, unwilling to study hard, always thinking about how to play, Mencius's mother picked up a firewood knife in front of him and cut off the cloth that was only half woven on the loom, so that he understood that he could not give up halfway in doing anything! ”

"Then, sister, it's been a long time since you went out last time, and you're only coming back now, why are you?"

"Sister is for my brother, in the future, you can eat your favorite white rice, meat, vegetables and eggs!"

"Sister, I'm going to eat today, I have to eat meat every day...... Sister, when I grow up, I will also go to make money and buy you the best and best new clothes. ”

Li Mingjie listened to his daughter's childish voice deliberately talking to his son, and thought to himself, does his daughter really think so? It seems that yes, the house deeds and land she bought are all in her son's name.

However, where did his daughter get these shocking thoughts? Even I, my son, never thought of it.

Outside, there was a brisk conversation between the daughter and the son: "Brother, my father said that when the farm is over, he will send you to the master's house to study, and in the future, you have to study hard, you have learned well, come back and teach me, okay?" ”

"No, sister, I'm going to study with you......"

"No, in this world, there are few literate people in my daughter's family, and in the school, Mr. does not accept female students!"

"What you're talking about is not few, it's not nothing, I don't care, I'm going alone, how boring, my sister has to accompany me......"

"You're going to study, not to play; Moreover, in the private school, not only you have a little baby to study, but also a lot of little male dolls! ”

"You're not an adult, I don't care, you go with me......"

Li Menghua is used to being followed, and he doesn't care about his sister's rhetoric, he only knows that he hasn't seen his sister for a long time and doesn't want to be separated from his sister.

Of course, if you want to understand his eldest young master, the adults in this family, it will take a lot of words.

It really doesn't make sense, so he coerced him to obey, anyway, whoever teaches children is like this.

Mengfan squatted down slightly with relief, looked at his younger brother at eye level, and gave a warm smile: "My sister also has to study and write, but she doesn't need to go to school, the idea of male superiority and inferiority of women has continued for thousands of years in this world, so that adults are deeply rooted in the idea that their daughter's family is useless except for laundry and cooking......"

She straightened up, wrapped her hands backwards, and then quickly circled back in front of her, spreading out her palms together, only to see that in each of her hands, she held a red apple and a crystal pear: "Eat for you!" ”

Hua Ge'er's eyes were obviously gluttonous, and he happily grabbed a fruit with one hand and ran out to find his mother.

Meng Fan shook his head lightly and smiled helplessly, his younger brother was only six years old, how much could he understand what she, a little adult who had two lives, said.

However, that night, after the mother freshened up her brother, she snuggled up to the bed of the sister and brother, and whispered to her about going out these days.

Unexpectedly, the topic of the mother's mother changed and said: "Now, your grandparents are unwilling to go out with us, saying that his roots are here, and your father also said that he will wait for your grandparents at home, over there, can you go with your fourth uncle?" ”

"We don't have our own land at home!" After Meng Fan finished speaking, he only used a pair of bright eyes to look at his mother-in-law who gave all the tenderness to his younger brother on weekdays.

"Hey!" Cheng sighed and said: "So, what do you say, stay at home, we don't have our own land, not to mention, even the place where we live is also owned by the landlord of the Ding family." ”

"Mother, I have a booklet here, which contains the canonical history and laws of this dynasty, all of which are about our farmers, and there are many things written in this regard; For thousands of years, our country has mainly been based on agriculture, and in addition to the higher status of officials than peasants, we peasants also have a status in this world; Innocent family background, the family is a person with meritorious fame, Daddy is Xiucai, Daddy's father's wife and son, all have a certain amount of legal benefits, Daddy's homestead under his name and his relatives, according to the law, can have a certain area, Xiucai's land, in addition to the government's rigid assignment of the village and town to give some allocation, you can also buy fertile land and mountainous land, if Xiucai's family reclaimed the wasteland and planted it themselves, within three years, these lands do not need to pay official taxes, three years later, It is only necessary to pay half of the ordinary grain tax. ”

"Li Mengfan, what you said is true? Or is it fake? ”

This was not asked by her mother Cheng, but by her father, who rushed into her sister's and brother's room with his coat in a hurry.

"Dad," Meng Fan turned his head with a faint expression: "In Longmen County, because the officials directly above and the officials below are relatively honest, therefore, the laws of my dynasty are promulgated unhindered there, so I can buy the twenty-three acres of fertile land and a mountain forest for Hua Ge'er, who is the son of Xiucai, as the daughter of Xiucai, if I still want to buy it, it is also possible, but in our hometown, I don't know whether it will work or not!" ”

Okay, you know it yourself, I don't need to explain it.

"So, what if your grandfather refuses to leave here? The landlord of the Ding family has been deeply rooted here for many, many years, much longer than your grandfather. Li Mingjie's tone was still cold.

Mengfan was surprised, was her father discussing things with her? Or, what my mother mentioned tonight was also my father's instructions?

"I said, you don't scold me?"

Mengfan deliberately trembled slightly, but in those clear and bright eyes, there was no trace of fear, she was waiting for her father's attitude.

"......" Li Mingjie didn't say a word, looked at Mengfan coldly, snorted, and turned around to go back to the house.

Hey, Mengfan sighed in his heart, arrogant father to the end, you don't want to soften down a little bit in your life to be a scholar and a father, not only, if your daughter really ties a knot in her heart for this, in the future, will you really only rely on your younger brother?

However, my younger brother is still so young, and he doesn't look like a little adult like her, all day long.

In the end, looking at the anxiety in the eager eyes of his mother, Mengfan couldn't help but say to his mother: "We are here, the information is blocked, the officials and gentry are one, our family, and there is no one who can talk to us, if you want to get what we deserve here, the homestead and the fields and forests are a bit difficult, and it can't be done overnight." ”

"What then?" Cheng's brows furrowed, very melancholy!

"If there are people up there, you can do it directly; There's no one up there, it's just ......"

After a few days of hard work, the old landlord of the Ding family let his two and a half sons go back and forth to the town several times, and no one knew what happened to the landlord's family.

The harvest of this rice actually made two tenant farmers in the village put aside their farm work and go to help his family harvest grain.

And the old landlord Ding was hiding in the house, and the long dry tobacco pot next to the bed was boiling several pots, and he was worried.

Where do so many rats come from in the house? I don't know when he made a hole under his bed, and the teeth were fierce enough, and he bit a big hole in the wooden box he took to hide the title deed, and he also bit all his precious pieces of paper to pieces, and he couldn't even put together a piece of it completely.

No, hurry up, I have to let the eldest son and the second son go to the town together to say hello and send a few big gifts with a smile, and let the eldest son go to the official office of the county seat to see how to reissue these land deeds, this is the treasure that his Ding family has accumulated for several lifetimes!

At the same time, Li Mingjie, a talented man from Jinshan Village, also went to the town with his fourth brother Li Mingquan with the Mid-Autumn Festival ceremony of Mengfan, and visited Lord Li Zheng who lived in the town and Mr. Li Mingjie's original teaching, and under the guidance of Mr. and Li Zheng, he invited the town chief and the scribe to Li's house to eat and drink together, and before leaving, he also sent a bunch of tea, tobacco, alcohol, rice and many other things brought back from outside.