Xinhe is Webster's milk name, and Xue Rong has always called his wife's milk name in front of Li Mao to show his kindness.

Li Mao got up and thanked: "If the work is not successful, why do you want to be a family, I am just doing this and I am busy getting married, what do people think, let's wait and talk." ”

Xue Rong shook his head: "How can a good woman wait, the opportunity is fleeting." ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "If you can't wait, you won't have a chance, so why force it if you don't have a chance." ”

Xue Rong shook his head and sighed: "That's it, I know your thoughts, being an official and looking down on the countrymen, why, still thinking about the little lady on the Yellow River." ”

Xue Rong's words were originally a joke, but they touched Li Mao's heartstrings,

Tian Ming, thinking of this name Li Mao's heart throbbed, yes, he should marry such a wife when he was alive, and he confessed his life's events in a daze, which was really unwilling.

Since having Qin Niang, Li Mao once thought that he should not ask for anything else after he had this fate, although the law of the Tang Dynasty clearly prohibits the concubine from being a wife, and both men and women must be punished, but in Li Mao's opinion, this is not a big problem, you can't give Qin Niang the title of a wife, and let her be a wife, so what's the matter.

But soon Li Mao knew that he was wrong, and it was a big mistake.

When a man marries a woman when he marries, it is not just a matter of talking, but when he reaches a certain age and has the ability to marry a wife, he will be regarded as an outlier by the world and suffer endless discrimination and questioning.

After all, people are in the society in life, a person who has been abandoned by society, especially the mainstream society, and it is still difficult to survive, so how can we talk about development.

Qin Niang also forced him to marry a wife and have children as soon as possible behind his back, and completed the glorious mission of inheriting the Li family's incense. Qin Niang can use some small means to contaminate him, please him, and capture his heart, but she will never dare to covet the status of his wife, if her man is not married, she will be considered a concubine to be too ambitious, too jealous, too controlling, too vicious, a freak from a vixen, and a huge moral pressure can crush her alive.

Burdened with such pressure, Qin Niang nagged in front of Li Mao more than once and urged him to get married as soon as possible, and almost teamed up with Wei's to sell Li Mao.

Now Li Mao has also figured it out, follow the customs, since he can't change the rules of this world, for the sake of survival and development, he still obeys it first, and marrying a woman after having Qin Niang is no longer an obstacle in his heart, and the current obstacle is that he can't accept a woman he doesn't know at all, doesn't know, and hasn't even met in person as a wife.

After the Tang Dynasty, the society has become more and more open, and there is no forbidden area for men and women to interact in the famous city of Dayi, but in this closed small county, things like blind dates are still quite ridiculous, and people with a little identity will not let their daughters show up to a strange man to pick and choose, which is ridiculous!

In Li Mao's opinion, it is really absurd to let him marry a person who has never met and does not know each other at all, which is why he politely rejected Xue Rong.

When he went out, Li Mao thought of Tian Qian again, although they only got along for one day, her voice and smile were already engraved in her heart, if she married her, it might be a good match. It's just that......

Li Mao quickly vetoed his idea, although he is now an official, he is still a positive eight-grade, but he still has not gotten rid of the fate of the toad, the girl he met on the Yellow River boat still flies too high and too high for him, maybe one day he can fly as high as her, but at that time she must have a partner by her side.

Xue Rong is right, a good woman can't afford to wait, what reason does the arrogant white swan have to wait for you to be a toad. When Pingshui meets, there should be such a thing as love at first sight, but not this time, Li Mao knows this very well.

Early in the morning of the second day, Li Mao went to Su Nu Township to recruit Ding, and went to visit the local wealthy Su Zhen and Su Dong brothers, Su Zhen's family background is far from being comparable to Su Xiaodu and Su Gui's father and son, but he is very low-key, the wall of his house stretches for two miles, and the area accounts for almost half of the village, but the gate building is very small, the plaque at the door is mottled with paint, it looks very dilapidated, and the word "Su House" in the ink pen line book has also been obscure.

Hearing about Li Mao's visit, Su Zhen deliberately changed into a new robe and went out to greet him, and he was very respectful. Li Mao is now an official, Su Zhen is a people, the people worship officials, Li Mao received it, and he didn't be too polite with him, and when Su Zhen visited the shrine, he returned a salute and said: "The old gentleman has tormented the younger generation with such a heavy gift." ”

Su Zhen said: "Although Su Zhen is a man in the countryside, he still understands etiquette. Li Zhiya is young and promising, and the future is promising. Because the official of the festival is the official of the festival, outsiders often call it "Escort" to show respect.

Xue Rong's two acres of land are in the territory of Su Nu Township, and a year ago he planned to dig a half-mile-long diversion canal, Li Mao had already assigned tenants to dig after the spring, but it was dug by the Su family when they were renovating their own ditch, and Li Mao came to Su Mansion on this ground. After serving tea in the main hall, Li Mao thanked Su Zhen for the matter, and Su Zhen said with a smile: "With a lot of effort, why worry about it." ”

After a while, he said: "Since the beginning of summer, the heavy rain has poured, and the Sunu Township and the surrounding states and counties have been affected everywhere, destroying more than 10,000 hectares of fertile land. Li Mao exclaimed: "This year's disaster is so serious? Su Zhen sighed: "Seventy percent of the old family's fields have been affected, eighty percent of the fields of the Dongdi family have been destroyed, and the villagers and neighbors have been more affected. ”

After the reform of the two taxes in China and Tang Dynasty, the local tax revenue should mainly be paid in three parts: one is to stay in the state, which is used to pay for the expenses of local garrisons and officials, maintain the operation of local political power, develop public welfare, and prepare for disasters and famines; the second is to send envoys to the army; The third is for the imperial court. Ziqing, the military town is powerful, the control of the state and county is strict, the local wealth is concentrated in the hands of the Jiedu envoy, the so-called upper court is more of a formality, and the bulk of the local wealth is intercepted by Yunzhou to maintain a large number of standing army. This is a red line, which no state or county magistrate dares to touch.

accidentally made Su Zhen cry poor, Li Mao was a little impatient, but in the face of an old fox like Su Zhen, he was still patient and listened to him continue to chatter quietly. Su Zhen said impassionedly: "The Su family has become a martial artist, and the neighbors are loved and pushed to the elderly, how can Su sit idly by and ignore the neighbors?" At that time, they will bankrupt their families and help their neighbors survive the famine. There are gods in the first three feet, one loan and one repayment, Su will never covet the slightest benefit from his neighbors, and when he encounters a bad family, Su will have to delay for a few years. ”

Speaking of this, Su Zhen smiled slightly, and said: "The old man said this not to ask for merit, but just to state one thing, outsiders look at my Su family's gold and silver mountains, in fact, it is also a sub-empty shelf, please see that the furniture here is still prepared by my great-grandfather, and it has been passed down for four generations, and I am not willing to change it." "The Su family's welcome hall is low and dilapidated, and although the furniture is considered expensive, it has been used for many years, and the paint peeling and the wood grain are bare at the corners.

Su Zhen took the lead and wanted Li Mao to open his mouth, Li Mao knew that he had no chance of winning with such an old fox, so he took a sip of tea and moistened his throat and said: "The day before yesterday, I heard that there was a commotion of hungry people in Teng County, Xuzhou, who robbed a squire, robbed a squire, robbed the grain, burned the house, took the beautiful concubine, and took away the cattle, and at the end even discounted his legs. The government sent troops to suppress it, but the road was blocked by thousands of hungry people who were pressed by the black, and they were disgraced. Disaster years are prone to rheology, and the old gentleman must take precautions. ”