The Li family compound was jubilant again, celebrating Li Xiao's appointment as an official.

In the next few days, Li Xiao also boldly set up a table for a few days in a row to deal with the fame of Lanxi that came one after another. It is said that the Li family is developed, and it was originally related to the Chang'an Xue family and the county order, and now it is even more amazing, and it can actually get the emperor's holy decree to Lijiazhuang, Lanxi But whoever has a head and a face, who dares to despise it anymore.

Yang Dayan also took a vacation from the school in the past two days and concentrated on being the Li family's bookkeeper. Every day I sit at the door to receive gifts and register, and the gift list is written in a long volume.

There are those who send money, some send grain, some send sheep, and even some send silk and cloth, and the big landlord Liu of Dongxi is even more bold and directly sent a cow. The cow is a calf, but after another half a year, you can teach the plow.

Shoot a cow directly, but it's amazing.

"When did Liu's head become so generous?"

"That's right, it is said that Liu's head is an iron rooster, only in and out, a person who does not pull out a dime, today the sun came out in the west, and he actually brought a cow, my God."

A group of landlords and squires crossed their hands and stood there in amazement.

Landlord Liu's family is very rich, the family has nearly 1,000 acres of fertile land, and it is said that it is the top ten landlords in Lanxi, but Landlord Liu has always been stingy, it is said that Landlord Liu's family was very poor before, and he herded sheep for people since he was a child, and later went to the city as a buddy, and when he was thirty years old, he followed the owner to run a business in the grassland outside the Saiwai, which can be said to have suffered a lot.

Later, he was favored by the owner and married the daughter of the owner, and before the old owner died, he gave him a sum of money. The new owner was the son of the old owner, and the new owner did not keep him to continue working in the trading house, gave him some money, and let him go back to his hometown.

Lao Liu returned to Lanxi, sold land, and at the beginning was only about 100 acres of land, and he operated for 30 years, and now he has become a wealthy man with thousands of acres of fertile land and a few shops in the city.

But this person says that today's family business is a little bit of a piece between his teeth. Usually reluctant to eat and wear, even their own yard is still a cave dug, not even a little brick and stone. Every year, between the busy farming, he takes the whole family to work in the field together, so as to hire a few fewer short-term workers.

Such a person actually gave away a cow today, even if it is a calf, it must be worth at least thousands of dollars, this must not be cutting meat.

"When did this big head Liu do something that was at a loss, this Li Sanlang came back, and the family became prosperous in such a short time, and I definitely don't know what kind of life I want to live in the future. The Li family is now a boy in Sanlang, and there is only one sister in the rest of the family, which is also a sister from the same mother, and I heard that the relationship is very good. ”

Someone immediately said, "Isn't it Liu's big head that wants to hit other girls?" ”

"It's not, Liu's head has earned such a big family business, but the heirs are not prosperous, and he has given birth to several sons before and after, but they all died early, and now there is no son in the family, just a grandson, and he was born with weak bones, and in terms of age, it seems that he is almost fifteen."

"Then Liu's big head probably wants to ask Li Xiao's sister for his sick grandson, if the two families are married, it can be regarded as a good match."

"The Li family is a heritage of more than 100 years, and the old Liu family is at most a nouveau riche, where is the right door. To say that the portal is comparable, I think our family is similar to the Li family. "There is a landlord who also thinks that the Li family is on fire now, and it would be really good if his family could marry the Li family.

"Then the gift you gave today is not enough, just send two ducks, how is it enough, hurry back and lead the big cow."

"Hahaha."

Everyone laughed.

In the hall, Li Xiao ushered in.

The visitors are all guests, and they are all neighbors and villagers. Even if everyone is just icing on the cake, since people are here and bring gifts, they have to greet each other with a smile. In the future, if you live in this place, you will definitely have more opportunities for contact, and it is also necessary to build a good relationship.

However, what made Li Xiao not very happy was that many people came over, all of whom brought a young man, and after three sentences, they began to praise their children for how good they were, and the words revealed that they wanted to marry the Li family.

Sanniang is thirteen years old this year, which is actually very young, but for the Tang people, it is not too small. The Tang people's standard for women's adulthood is actually very simple. As long as the geranium comes, that is, the eldest aunt comes, then it is considered an adult woman, because coming to the eldest aunt also means that the woman has the ability to get pregnant and give birth to children.

If you can have a child, of course, you are an adult woman, and you can naturally get married.

Li Xiao is reluctant to marry his sister so early, he is only thirteen, and he has suffered for several years, it is too late for him to spoil now, how can he be willing to marry early, not to mention, those who are interested in proposing marriage are who are from whom.

are all children who have not grown up in the countryside, at the age of fifteen or sixteen, he is still a big child, can Li Xiao rest assured that he will marry Sanniang to them?

"My sister is still too young, she has suffered a lot in the past few years, and she has also lacked discipline, and now that I am back, I must teach her well, so that she can become a good woman who can get out of the hall and in the kitchen. At least in another three years, when the sister is sixteen, she will choose someone for her. ”

Li Xiao said politely to the big landlord Liu who was sitting opposite, the big landlord Liu had a big head, in his early sixties, but he was sturdy and burly, and his face was full of red light. However, the grandson he brought was like bean sprouts, weak and untouchable, and of course Li Xiao couldn't look down on such a child.

"That cow is too valuable, please forgive my nephew for not daring to accept it, and ask Uncle Liu to bring it back later." Li Xiaodao. In the countryside, a cow is indeed a bit valuable as a gift.

Liu Datou heard Li Xiao's refusal, but he was not annoyed, and waved his hand very generously, "I think it's bad, my family Huizu is a little weaker, and I haven't seen anything in the world, so it's normal for San Lang to look down on it." But it doesn't matter if it doesn't work, we are all folks, and we will have to move around more in the future. You also know that uncle, in addition to the family's fields, I also run a cattle and horse shop, selling some cattle, horses, donkeys and mules to earn some money to subsidize the family, a calf is nothing. ”

"San Lang is now revitalizing the family business, and now the field is almost thousands of acres, and the future will definitely be more and more prosperous, if the family plans to add some cattle and horses or something in the future, come directly to the uncle, and the uncle will definitely give you a discount."

"Thank you, uncle, when it comes to this, I am really a little moved. If you can add a few cows, it's really good, I'll go back to my uncle's shop and have a look. ”

"Okay, no problem."

Liu's big head was very happy, and he didn't wait for Li Xiao to serve tea to send off the guests, so he got up by himself.

"San Lang, uncle won't bother you much, you still have a lot of guests. But Uncle just heard that there is a family school in your yard now, there is a special gentleman, and there are about 30 students, Uncle was very surprised to hear it. Young people, courageous, uncle in this life is to suffer from illiteracy, I used to send my family Huizu to study very early, is attached to his uncle's side, this child is honest and always bullied, read and read can not read the famous hall, I think your school is very good, close to home, uncle has a reluctance, I don't know if San Lang can let my family Huizu to your school attached to a study? ”

"Sir's Shu Xiu, as well as the tuition fees of the attached school, you can rest assured, I will definitely not be stingy. If San Lang is willing, 100 catties of bacon and dried fish will be used as Mr.'s bundle repair every year, and I will also give a calf as a tuition fee, how about it? ”

Li Xiao was surprised, but he didn't expect Lao Liu to make such a request.

It is not too much to want the children of the family to come to school, this is the first to make such a request.

After all, there are not many rural landlords who can afford to run a private school on their own. Many landlords sent their children to study at the homes of relatives who had ethnic studies.

There is also a need to pay some money for attached school, but it mainly depends on the feelings of others.

Lao Liu used to let his grandson study in his wife's mother's family and study in Chang'an, which was okay, but his grandson was bullied there. It is also common for relatives and children in Chang'an to look down on their relatives of small landlords in the countryside.

There are now more than 30 children in the Li family's school, and there are a lot of them. Fortunately, there is a full-time gentleman Yang Dayan in the school, and Mr. Zhao and Li Xiao can sometimes make part-time cameos, but there is no situation where they can't be disciplined.

"Huizu is fifteen years old this year, what books have you read in Chang'an for a few years?" Li Xiao asked.

Liu Huizu was a little shy, and replied in a low voice, he has been studying in Chang'an for five years, but he doesn't read for long every year, and he often takes advantage of his physical discomfort to go back to the countryside to hide. In fact, I don't read much, mainly because the learning atmosphere of that ethnic group is not very good, and they are the children of the group of businessmen, and they lack discipline. It is said that it is a study, but it is just a place for their young children to teach some rules.

Liu Huizu has been reading it for five years, and he is familiar with the Mongolian book of Thousand Characters, and the other Confucian Nine Classics have not yet been introduced.

"Uncle Liu really wants Huizu to come here to study, but if you come to study, you have to follow my rules here, three days of fishing and two days of drying nets is impossible, don't think about always going home, food and lodging are here with me, don't be afraid of poor food and sleep, there will be strict supervision by teachers in schoolwork, and even there will be exercises in normal times, moral, intellectual, physical and beautiful should be comprehensively cultivated, if you can't endure this hardship, it's better not to come."

When Liu heard this, he smiled and said, "I like to be so strict, you always have to endure hardships when you study, where don't you endure hardships, when I was an apprentice, I suffered more when I was an apprentice." Saburo, when you say that, I'm more and more determined to send this child to this school here. ”

"Today I will leave Hui Zu behind, and tomorrow I will personally send Shu Xiu and tuition. One hundred catties of bacon, dried fish and a calf, it's decided. ”

Li Xiao smiled at the urgency of Liu's big head, "Why didn't the teacher ask Huizu what he thought first, and besides, even if we came to the attached school, it would be impossible for us to charge so much for cultivation and tuition." ”

"What you want, this is indispensable, and it costs money to run a school at home, and it's not easy."