Chapter 141: The Reason for the Year
As soon as Zhang said this, the faces of the people in the whole room instantly became ugly.
More than ten years ago, Zhang and Li also had big bellies, but their fates were completely different, and they can be said to be two extremes.
Zhang's husband is a well-known gangster in Peach Blossom Village, and he doesn't care about the family's fields or Zhang's stomach all day long, and goes out with the family's money all day long.
At that time, the Zhang family also quarreled from the head of the village to the end of the village for those things at home all day long, which was also a scenery that could be seen every day in the village at that time.
And Li's is different, Li's husband is a serious farmer, not to mention anything else, is down-to-earth and willing to work, after Li is pregnant with a child, he is even more down-to-earth, in addition to those jobs in the field all day long, he is always looking for other work, in short, as long as he can earn money, he is almost not tired, not too hard to do.
If the village still said that he was fighting so hard for the child in Li's belly, the man scratched his head with a red face at that time, and did not speak, just smirked.
It's that some people in the village laugh at him for being afraid of his wife's rake ears, but he doesn't care, he still does the work, and the money is still Zheng.
I don't know if it's a stupid person who has a stupid fortune or what, this person actually earned six taels of silver in nine months.
Now the people in the village who have seen it at that time are afraid that they can still think of the simple man, who is reluctant to do anything on weekdays, but when the Li family gave birth, he invited a doctor from the town with a large amount of money.
The doctor stayed in the village for three days, and it was not until the end of Li's birth that the nerd sent them away.
The child was born, it was a boy, and the strong cry was very loud, and it was seen that a better day was just around the corner.
Unfortunately, three months later, the weather was getting colder, and the silence of the village was broken by the arrival of a group of uninvited guests.
Soon a bad news spread through the village.
The official family is fighting, and now the troops are not enough, so now they directly order that each family should send one person to recruit soldiers, and if the people in the family don't want to go, they can also pay five taels of silver over there.
That is to say, if you pay five taels of silver in response, you can be exempted from this conscription.
What is conscription? lost the battlefield fighting, and for them, the peasant families who worked in the fields on weekdays, this was tantamount to death.
But what is the concept of five taels of silver?
In the border area of Peach Blossom Village, there is little fertile land, not to mention what it is, and each family may only have one or two acres of land, plus the harvest that year is not a good time.
A family calculated, the person with the best income, the surplus money at the end of the year is only two taels of silver, these five taels of silver for the already barren Peach Blossom Village and Peach Blossom Village, is undoubtedly astronomical!
All of a sudden, the whole village was covered with dark clouds.
At the same time, the whole village began to be in chaos, and from time to time there were cries, which were heart-rending and intertwined with the bitter cold wind, giving people an indescribable sense of desolation.
At that time, Li Zheng still remembers clearly, the family, almost every household obediently sent people to serve, only the pillar family.
The humble man paid him the money, that is, he was the only one who did not have to go to the army.
At that time, although the people of other families in the village were envious, they also knew that the five taels of silver were probably all the savings of the couple.
Originally, the man had been out of the conscription list, but in the evening, Zhang appeared at the door of the pillar's house with a big belly, accompanied by a man with a thief's eyebrows.
The purpose of the two is very simple, that is, to ask the kind-hearted Li and the honest man to take out five taels of silver to help the Zhang man escape from service.
And the reason is that the Li family has money, what do they have to help the people in the same village? Isn't it possible to watch the man of her family go to his death?!
The Li family is not wealthy, although the man is down-to-earth and hardworking, but the two have only been married for two years, take out the five taels of silver, one thing his entire savings, how can he have extra money to help the Zhang family?
Without thinking about it, Li Shi opened his mouth to refuse, but he didn't expect that the husband and wife would be stubborn and miserable, and they would start to play scoundrels.
came and went, no matter how good the temper of the pillar father was, he was annoyed, and he stretched out his hand and pushed the two of them.
Li Zheng was not there at the time, so he didn't know the specific situation, but he only knew that the last news came out that the Zhang couple were injured one after another.
The man with the thief's eyebrows was completely lying on the bed and couldn't get up.
Li's man was an honest man, and he felt very guilty at that time, and he couldn't bear Zhang's pleading, so when he was conscripted at that time, he directly replaced Zhang's man and left.
Since then, this honest man has never been seen in Peach Blossom Village.
But the man who was lying in bed and could not move, but two days later, he was alive and kicking around the village, doing some things like stealing chickens and dogs all day long.
At this point, everyone here understands that this Zhang family was injured by that honest man, but deliberately touched porcelain to avoid military service.
Li Shi also knew the theory of coming to the door and these two people at that time, and didn't want these two people to turn their faces and deny it, so they all knocked Li out of the door.
At this point, Li was seriously injured and fundamentally moved, and his health has not been good in the past few years.
It is precisely because of this that the life of the Zhu family is bleak and unbearable.
And over the years, Li Zheng has seen that although the Zhang family is domineering, a little shameless, and greedy for small and cheap, but he has never provoked the Li family, I thought that even if this person is messing around on weekdays, she always remembers her debt to the Li family, but she doesn't admit that she is like this now!
If it weren't for his identity, Li Zheng felt that he really wanted to raise his hand and slap the Zhang family in front of him.
It's outrageous to be so ungrateful.
But there was no way, as the head of a village, he couldn't do that.
I don't know how many deep breaths he took before he calmed down the anger in his heart, and a sense of powerlessness suddenly arose in his heart, as if he was deflated, and he spoke weakly:
"Then tell me what you want today."
The Zhang family is actually a little weak-hearted, and what happened back then was indeed that she calculated the Li family.
But she didn't think she was wrong, after all, who made them stupid?
After a pause, Zhang spoke: "Hmph, don't say it, as if I owe her a lot of favors from the Li family." It can't be said that the man of the Li family has actually been disgusted with the Li family for a long time, and uses the excuse of conscription ......"
"Shut up! Say it again! ”
Seeing that Zhang's was getting more and more outrageous, the pillar on the side finally couldn't help but open his mouth.
The young man's body was strong, and his face was bruised with rage, and he looked very terrifying.