Yesterday they all ate and couldn't sleep for most of the night, but this morning, they still have a soft spot for bone broth.

Li Xiao didn't drink bone broth today, he only took a bowl of millet porridge and drank it slowly.

The bone broth was processed from the ribs that were gnawed and smoked yesterday and then returned to the oven, not the old chef He Heixin. When he first learned the news, he wanted to get angry, but later Mr. Zhao and others said that Lao He had done nothing wrong.

Be diligent and thrifty, and not waste. Wasting is a crime, and wasting food in particular is absolutely not permissible. Although the bones were stewed and eaten yesterday, there is still bone marrow in the bones, and if you put it in the pot and stew, you can still make a good soup.

As for whether the bones have been gnawed or not, no one has considered this at all. Everyone has been doing this all along, which family's bones must not be stewed three or four times repeatedly, and whose bones are stewed back into the soup and thrown away, that is a loser, and his leg will be broken.

Li Xiao wanted to refute that this was really unhygienic, and he wanted to take people like Xue Wu as an example, the Xue family would definitely not eat such pot bones, but then he still forgot it.

He can't stop everyone's enthusiasm for the bones to return to the pot, just don't eat them himself.

Looking at the courtyard, up to Mr. Zhao and Yang Dayan, down to Biaozi and Tiezhu, Li Xiao could only pretend not to see the delicious appearance of drinking soup bowls one by one.

Originally, Li Xiao felt that it didn't matter if the bones were stewed a few more times, the key was that these bones had been distributed into everyone's bowls and sent into their mouths to be gnawed. If you don't take the bones out of the soup pot, just scoop the soup and drink it, and then continue to stew the bones a few times, but everyone is still more accustomed to eating the meat while drinking the soup, and then putting the cleaned bones back in the pot and simmering a few more times.

Li Zhen also took a bowl of millet porridge and squatted next to Li Xiao.

"You don't eat bone broth, do you?"

"I only eat bone broth the first time." Sanniang grinned.

Seeing her naughty appearance, Li Xiao also smiled. This sister has suffered a lot at a young age, although she is also the daughter of the landlord's family, but now she does not look like a little gold. In the early morning, he squatted in the corner with a bowl of porridge like Li Xiao, drinking porridge while basking in the sun.

Although the big families will look down on her and think that she has no family education and less etiquette, Li Xiao doesn't think there is anything. It's okay for your sister to be casual, why be so tired. Originally, she was only thirteen this year, and a child of this age was just an innocent middle school student.

"Hurry up and eat, you have to follow Mr. Yang to read after eating." I told Mr. Yang that you have some foundation, so I will assign you to be the class leader, take the other children to study hard, and lead by example, but you can't be late on the first day. ”

Li Zhen pouted, "Brother, I'm so old, and I'm still studying with those little babies, how embarrassing." Besides, it's just me a girl, it's inconvenient. ”

"What's inconvenient, the school is in our courtyard, Mr. Yang is not an outsider, you don't have anything to do anyway, follow and study."

Li Zhen had read some books before, but she didn't read much, and her family path changed. Li Xiao thinks that the sentence that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented is not true at all, what's wrong with girls reading some books, I don't ask Li Zhen to be a talented woman in the future, but it's always good to read more books.

Let her be the class leader, and she can also assist Yang Dayan to manage the children.

"Is it okay if I don't go?" Li Zhen cried with a sad face and sprinkled coquettishly.

"No bargaining."

Before the meal was finished, people rushed to the Li family's compound one after another.

The first to arrive was Zhao Lushi, who returned half drunk yesterday, and came early this morning with a few officials, but he came to deliver a few documents to Li Xiao. The first is the slave contract documents of the eleven slaves, which have been transferred, and from now on, they will officially become slaves of the Li family.

The second document is that Li Xiao asked Zhao Lushi to help Da Biao get it yesterday. According to Li Xiao's statement, Da Biao and their original hometown is Jiangnan, because of the natural disasters and famine in Jiangnan this year and the military disaster, they fled to join their relatives, and now Li Xiao is willing to leave them to live in Lanxi, so they have to settle here. The reason, of course, is that there is no house in my hometown, relatives and so on, and I can't live anymore when I go back.

In this case, it was not allowed to settle in Guanzhong, after all, the practice of the imperial court was that the hungry people fled the famine in the disaster year, and at most all the localities were relieved, and after the disaster was over, the victims still had to return to their hometowns. But the rules are dead, there are human relationships, and this thing is not a big deal.

Zhao Lushi recorded the situation of Da Biao and several of them yesterday, and when he came today, he had directly brought the documents for registration, and in the future, Da Biao and they would be from Lijiazhuang.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhao." Li Xiao thanked him.

"The virtuous nephew is polite, a little thing, not enough to worry about."

Zhao Lu came over, and there was good news to tell Li Xiao, "Your family's fields, shops, and other industries, Liu Xian Ling personally sent a message to inquire, and we have verified it from all sides, and now we have come up with a result." The 800 acres of land in your family's Blue Creek will still be returned to you. ”

Mr. Zhao said on the side, "The fields that the Li family was usurped by the Zhang family add up to more than 1,800 acres, how can it become more than 800 acres." ”

Zhao Lushi smiled, "It is true that the Li family used to have more than 1,800 acres of land, but some of the land was not all bullied by the Zhang family, but a normal transaction of buying and selling, and these fields have actually changed hands many times by the Zhang family, so it is impossible for these to be given to the Li family again." ”

The transactions he said, including the compensation given by Li's father to the Zhang family for helping Li Xiao hurt people, and the gifts given to the Yamen people, the Zhang family took the lion's share, and Zhao Lushi and many other people in the Yamen also took benefits, and now that the meat has already rotted, how can it be spit out again.

Li Xiao knows that these cats are greasy, and if he can return 800 mu, it is estimated that it all depends on the Xue family and Liu County's order, otherwise you can't do anything if you don't return an acre.

"What about the shops?"

"The condition of the shops is similar to that of those lands, and it is impossible to return them to you."

Mr. Zhao was very dissatisfied, but Li Xiao stretched out his hand to stop him, Zhang Papi's father and son had been completely laid down, and now the Li family's industries are actually not Zhao Lushi is embarrassed, but has entered the pockets of many people, and it is impossible to come back.

This kind of thing, even if there is the face of the Xue family, it is impossible.

It is already rare to get back 800 acres.

"Thank you Uncle Zhao for your help, Li Xiao keeps it in his heart, and he will definitely be rewarded in the future."

Zhao Lushi saw that Li Xiao was interested and didn't pursue the brutality anymore, and a smile appeared on his face, Li Xiao really stiffened like a stunned person, and no one's face looked good at that time, and now he will accept it when he sees it like this, and naturally everyone is happy.

"Don't be polite, don't be polite, in fact, I am not alone in this matter, all the bosses and colleagues in the county have also taken care of it, virtuous nephew, I have already brought the contract of the 800 acres of land here, you can sign and draw it here, and the 800 acres of land will be officially returned to the original owner."

"Okay, I'll sign!"

1,800 acres became 800 acres, but Li Xiao still signed it, he had already figured it out and was not in a hurry at this time. When you are not strong enough, there is no need to be an enemy of everyone.