Li Tu didn't know that his actions of teaching Cao San a lesson all fell into the eyes of a girl. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After dealing with this provocative Cao San, Li Tu was about to go home, but he heard a crisp female voice calling him.

The voice was crisp with a bit of childishness, full of childishness, but it was very good.

Turning around, Li Tu saw a beautiful figure.

That person is Li Tu's childhood sweetheart, Cui He, the second daughter of Cui Xianggong's family in the east of the town. I saw that Cui He was sixteen or seventeen years old, with a peach pointed bun on his head, wearing a plain white gauze silk green flower skirt, and silk embroidered and carved bow shoes on his feet, bright and moving, standing there and looking at Li Tu in a daze.

She stopped there, and the chaotic town market shone a little brightly.

is Li Tu, who lived in the city in later generations, and when he saw so many beauties, he couldn't help but sigh as a beauty.

The Cui family is one of the few scholarly families in the town, and the last three generations are all talents, and there have been people in the past. Although the family is not rich and expensive, they also have more than 100 acres of land, which is very different from the situation of the Li family.

In Li Tu's memory, he and this Cui He were childhood sweethearts when they were children, and they played together every day before they were seven or eight years old. But when she grew up, because the farmer Li Tu was stupid, this Miss Cui family looked down on Li Tu. Coupled with the fact that the two families have different statuses, there is no contact.

Seeing the beauty, Li Tu was not very happy:

"What do you tell me to do?"

Hearing this, Cui He flattened his mouth unhappily. After taking a few steps to Li Tu's side, Cui He said with wide eyes,

"If I don't do anything, I can't call you?"

Li Tu was stunned, but he didn't know how to answer this sentence. After all, they are childhood playmates, and they are familiar when they say they are familiar, and they are not familiar when they are not familiar.

Turning his head, Li Tu said,

"You can call me, of course."

Hearing this, Cui Hexi laughed.

Walking quickly to Li Tu, Cui He tilted his head and looked at Li Tu, and said curiously,

"I saw you teach Cao San a lesson!"

As soon as they saw Li Tu teaching Cao San, everyone felt that this Li Tu seemed to have changed as a person. At this time, I saw a number of beautiful girls in the town talking to Li Tu, who had never had a status, and the surrounding townspeople looked at me curiously. For a while, the place where Li Tu and Cui He stood became the focus of everyone.

If it is someone else, it must be happy to be able to talk to a beauty. Even the former Li Tu, although he was stupid and stupid, was excited and happy when he saw Cui He. But Li Tu, the traverser, is different from the farmer Li Tu.

Li Tu replied coldly:

"What do you see?"

Cui He blinked his eyes wide, looked Li Tu up and down again, and said curiously:

"How do I think you've changed into a different person."

Being stared at by a beautiful woman, Li Tu was a little embarrassed, and replied coldly,

"How did I become a different person?"

Cui He thought for a while, and said in that crisp voice:

"I don't think you ever spoke out loud before. Even if you are bullied by others, you will pass it as soon as you bow your head. ”

"People call you a fool."

Pulling the corner of his clothes, Cui He smiled and said:

"However, you have become so powerful today, that Cao San is so afraid of you, he has knelt down!"

After thinking about it, Cui He said with some flattery to Li Tu:

"Let's play together, if someone bullies me in the future, you have to help me, right?"

Hearing Cui He's last childish words, Li Tu almost burst out laughing. If someone bullies you, it is naturally your father and brother who come out, where can you find me an idler.

But on his face, Li Tu still has a serious face. Looking at the houses in the distance, Li Tu did not speak.

It's not that Li Tu is stupid, it's really useless to talk too much.

Although it was open at the end of the Ming Dynasty, after all, it was not kissed by men and women. Between seventeen or eighteen-year-old men and women, there will be no friendship except love. He is a low-level peasant, desperate for forty taels of silver, how can he be worthy of this scholarly lady. Although Li Tu, a traverser, was only a small clerk in his previous life, he was a person with strong self-esteem.

Standing on the road, Li Tu only looked into the distance with his eyes and did not say a word.

After being silent for a while, Cui He seemed to think of something, and suddenly took out a sachet from his pocket.

"I know there is something going on in your family, this is my two taels of pocket money, lend it to your family to pay off the debt."

Hearing the girl's words, Li Tu was stunned.

I have been running around these days, lobbying everywhere, and I also want to borrow some silver from the relatives and friends of the Li family to pay off the debt. But no matter how Li Tu patted his chest and assured that he wore out his mouth, the answer he got was that there was no money.

As soon as the poor relatives saw the stupid Li Tu, they wanted to blast him out. There are a few well-off clansmen who don't believe that the Li Tu family has the ability to repay the money, and then they heard that it is Huang Kaichou who is eyeing the Li family's fields, and they have all reassessed the situation, and none of their relatives and friends are willing to take out their pockets.

The so-called sophistication of human feelings, when it is really time to use money, it is revealed that relatives are close and far.

In just a few days, Li Tu has seen the world cold. Unexpectedly, he would meet a girl on this road who was willing to lend him money.

But the tenderness of this daughter's family, you let Li Tu, who is about to fall into a tenant or even a long-term worker, what to pay back?

Taking a breath impatiently, Li Tu said coldly:

"Don't be nosy! My father's debt is forty taels, and it is useless to have two taels of silver from you, and I still can't keep my family's land. ”

Cui He's kindness was not rewarded, and his mouth was deflated by Li Tu's words, and his face was suddenly full of grievances.

Lowering his head, Cui He said miserably:

"That's all I have. So what to do? ”

Seeing the girl's aggrieved look, Li Tu was also a little distressed. After thinking about it, he changed his tone and said slowly:

"Don't worry, I'll get the money."

Hearing the young man's categorical words, Cui He raised his head and looked at Li Tu curiously.

"How do you raise money?"

Li Tu didn't answer the question, but slowly pulled down the sleeve of his shirt that he had just lifted.

"I have a way!"

Turning around and throwing down Cui He, who looked curious, Li Tu left the bazaar.

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After putting the sauerkraut he bought home, Li Tu went to his paddy field to take a look.

Going out to the east of the town, walking for a quarter of an hour, he saw his own fields.

It was a gorge in a mountain col, surrounded by two hills, to the left and right. A small stream flows through the middle of the narrow area, providing water for the nearby paddy fields.

Zhangzhou is located in the south, with abundant sunshine and abundant rainfall, and the fertile land can be harvested three times a year. However, the Li family's paddy field has thin soil, and only two crops of rice can be planted a year. This will be the beginning of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and the early rice grains in the field will begin to plump, but they will not yet be ripe.

I didn't come for two days, and some weeds popped up in the fields again. Li Tu wielded his hoe and uprooted the weeds one by one.

After being busy for half an hour, Li Tu hoeed seven acres of land, and he was already tired and had a sore back. Li Tu only sighed that he was not a farmer, and he couldn't stand the farm work he bent over for an hour. This is still the time of farming, and the farm work is easy. If you are busy planting rice or harvesting rice, you will be tired and sick.

This livelihood of digging in the soil is really not suitable for me. If you don't want to have some way out, you can't get by as a traverser at all.

Sitting on the ridge, Li Tu calculated the income and expenditure for the coming year.

These seven acres of paddy fields have thin soil, and can only produce about fifteen stone of rice a year. As a yeoman farmer, the Li family had to pay the summer tax and the autumn grain twice a year. Although the regular tax is not much, the various increases are onerous. Not only did the official increase in the commission, but also some official gentry privately transferred all the tax money of their estates to the small people without background, so the taxes to be paid were heavy.

After calculation, the Li family's seven acres of paddy fields have to pay three taels of silver in taxes a year. The price of rice was high and low, and the average price of one stone of rice and one tael of silver was calculated, and the Li family had to pay three stone of rice to the government every year, and only twelve stone of rice could be collected from their own family.

When Li Tu's father was still there, twelve stones of rice were enough for a family of four to consume for a year, and life was tight, and it could only be said that he was just full. Now for a family of three, the income of twelve stones can only be said to have a slight surplus every year. When it comes to saving money to pay off debts, I really don't know how many years and months I want to save it.

If the land is returned to Huang Kaichou, he will have to pay land rent to the Huang family. According to the practice of Zhangzhou, it is about fifty percent or even sixty percent, that is, the rent of more than seven or eight stones. There is a surplus of seven or eight stones left, which is not enough to support a family of three. At that time, Li Tu or Li Tong had to leave home to do long-term work.

The land must not be allowed to return to the Huang family.

After resting on the ridge for a while, Li Tu made up his mind and went home with a hoe.