"Is the fourth brother okay?"

As soon as he wandered to the top of the mountain, before he could enter the mine, a group of tattered teenagers called out to him from afar.

They are all villagers who work in the mines, miners who dig and carry mines, treadmills who crush ores, charcoal workers who burn charcoal, and furnace workers who take care of iron-smelting furnaces, and they earn money by working hard.

Although they were all gray and dirty, and the clothes on their bodies were tattered, Li Xi still recognized them one by one. His predecessor was a miner, but he didn't throw away the surname of the scholar, and he was also teaching the miners to read and write, and the relationship between everyone and him was not bad.

"Uncle Guan said that you were just injured, why did you run out now?"

"Don't worry, we'll help you do your class, everyone will help you this month, and you won't be paid less."

Among them, two fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys had the best relationship with him, the stunned one was called Wu Shishi, and the other was a shy one called Jia Gouzi.

"I've been lying down for two days, I'm so bored, come and have a look."

Li Xian said lightly, and the calm temperament that was very different from before made the two teenagers flutter for a moment.

"Fourth brother, how do you feel...... Have you changed a bit? ”

Wu Shishi touched the top of his smooth head, very puzzled.

"How nice is your head?"

Jia Gouzi thought about it a little bit, and a layer of worry appeared on his face.

"It's really good, people, after a great tribulation, there are naturally some changes."

Li Xi casually came up with such a reason, but let the two teenagers nod solemnly, the fourth brother is a scholar, and he knows a lot of truth......

"It's good in two days, and I'll teach you how to read!"

Li Xian looked at the two teenagers, although he didn't dare to think about whether he could change the fate of Huaxia for the time being, but it was inevitable to change the fate of the original owner of his body. The two partners in front of him, who trust him a lot, should be the original team.

"How much more money can I earn by reading and reading? Do you still think you're a maid? ”

A teenager sneered on the side, seeing that his clothes should be cleaner and cleaner, although he was also resting, he deliberately kept a distance from these teenagers who were working in the mine.

Tian Qing, his father Tian Dayou is the head of the mine, and is responsible for surveying the ore veins and screening ores in the mine[1], while he himself is a furnace worker, helping Guan Fengsheng take care of the iron-smelting furnace. Although they are all from the same village, this young man learned some things from his father and Guan Fengsheng, and always regarded himself as a craftsman. When he was young, he was nothing, and his attitude towards "Li Si" has gradually become worse in the past two years.

"I can read and write, so I won't let myself be sold and help others count the money."

Li Shi's predecessor didn't have a good impression of this guy, although he was now replaced by a more thoughtful self, there was no need to put a hot face on a cold ass, so he responded so salty.

"Yes, Daqing can probably sell a little more than the maid."

The teenagers laughed, Tian Qing could not say anything about Li Shi, and he only snorted at the moment, shook his head and ignored him.

"I'm going to teach you more than just literacy."

Tian Qing is such a young man, naturally he does not deserve more attention from Li Shi, he smiled and said goodbye to the two teenagers, Jia Gouzi and Wu Shishi looked at Li Shi's back, and did not take their eyes off for a long time.

"In addition to literacy, does the fourth brother know anything else?"

Wu Shishi muttered to himself stupidly.

"Of course, I could only read before, but now I ...... I don't know. ”

Jia Gouzi felt that the straight back had a momentum, and it seemed that even the head of the mine, Lai Tongchang, was a little worse.

"Lai Yipin has sent a string of tickets."

"How much more than last year?"

In the evening, Li Shi came to Guan Fengsheng's house and was about to push open the broken wooden door, but he heard something in the house, Guan Fengsheng and his wife Guan Tian. I only heard these two sentences, and I didn't hear them clearly.

The name Lai Yipin is very familiar, Li Xian thought for a moment, and finally remembered that the owner of the mine was Master Zhong, and the chief sent by Master Zhong to supervise these people who rented the mountain was this Lai Yipin. I heard that this Lai Tong Chang is the wife and brother of Master Zhong, and he is still on a bad role in the county government.

"Isn't a string ticket just a rolling order [2]?"

Li Xi was digging for relevant memories in his mind, and a low female voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Fourth brother, why don't you go in yet?"

It was Guan Yunniang, Li Xian turned around, and looked at her, and the girl looked at him, and her eyes were still the confusion that made Li Xian confused before.

"Alas, this is all the ...... we owe you to the Li family"

Then Guan Yunniang sighed and pushed the door straight in.

Li Xian frowned, this expectant wife who was married with her fingertips was disgusted with herself and eating soft rice with their Guan family?

The anger in his heart rose faintly, but it dissipated like a cloud of smoke, Li Xian smiled bitterly, he was really sticking to the Guan family. It's just a trivial thing to eat often, paddy fields are entrusted to other people's cooking, and they don't care about a day, so they sit on the cashier's money, and the job in the mine is also taken care of by Uncle Guan, who is more attentive than his father to his son.

Thinking about Uncle Guan's goodness, Li Shi no longer has a bad feeling towards Guan Yunniang, forget it, he is a big man, how can he care about a woman with small feet, how much he owes the Guan family, he will repay it tenfold and hundredfold. And in his fate plan that roughly has a direction, this Guan Yunniang will not be his wife, and he really can't accept a woman with small feet.

"Today, your aunt fried shredded bean curd meat, and when your Uncle Tian comes, try it out one piece!"

Guan Fengsheng greeted him with a smile on his face, but Li Xian could see that the corners of this man's mouth had just been pulled back, and his smile was a little stiff.

Li Shi didn't ask, chatting with Guan Fengsheng while still looking for the figure of Second Sister Guan, until the little girl appeared from the hillside outside the house, and when she saw him, the breathtaking little face also bloomed with a sweet smile, and Li Xi was slightly relieved.

"If the dead girl doesn't come back soon, she will be in the mountains! was bumped into by the living, and was beaten as a little woman, only to know that it was impossible to learn to be obedient!? ”

Guan Tian seemed to have nowhere to vent his anger, and when he saw the second sister Guan jumping around, he immediately scolded, until Uncle Guan frowned and stared at her, and then closed his mouth angrily. The three words "little fanpo" answered a question from Li Shi, the aesthetics of the Qing people are very bad, and a little girl like Guan Erjie who has a deep nose will naturally feel ugly. Perhaps because of this, Guan Tian had no expectations for her, and the surname Suo did not bind his feet.

It's just that Li Shi never found the memory that Second Sister Guan was the adopted daughter of the Guan family, but found a clip of Guan Tian crying about how he gave birth to such a freak, which is really strange......

After a while, another middle-aged man appeared, carrying a bottle of wine, and happily patted Li Shi's shoulder.

"I just said, how can Brother Li's son be so bad! Cai Langzhong said that he had to lie down for at least seven or eight days, and this was only the third day, and the fourth brother was a concubine! ”

The person who came was Tian Qing's father, Tian Dayou, who, like Uncle Guan, was a friend of Li Xian's father, and Guan Tian was his sister. Although he is not as tightly taken care of by Uncle Guan, he will reach out when there is something to do, and he will not hesitate. He was also a blacksmith, and he had no iron to beat at the moment, so he worked as a head in the mines.

"Why didn't Tian Qing come?"

Uncle Guan asked in surprise, Li Xian thought to himself, most of the time he was annoyed by him during the day, and he didn't want to follow his father to see him.

"Talk back to me just now, lock him in the house, don't pay attention to him, come on, let's eat and drink by ourselves!"

Tian Dayu said disapprehantly.

The three men were eating at the table, Guan Tian and Guan Yunniang were serving on the side, and they never sat down, and the second sister Guan was busy in the stove room and didn't show up. Li Xian was accustomed to wanting to greet them, but suddenly realized that in this era, poor families still observe etiquette, and as long as there are guests coming, women are not allowed to serve at the table. Looking at the plate of shredded bean curd meat on the table that reminded him of the university cafeteria, Li Shi's mind flashed the scene of the little girl pursing her lips and swallowing her saliva.

Not to mention Second Sister Guan, Guan Tian and Guan Yunniang's eyes have been rubbing over this dish.

"Pork will have it, good wine...... There will also be, Li Si, I will pay you back the favor you owe, and then I will enjoy the blessing myself. ”

Drinking the sour and inferior rice wine brought by Tian Dayou, Li Xian secretly made an oath and solemnly bid farewell to the original owner of the body.

[1: The copper and iron mine that needs to be excavated has seven lengths, of which the inlay is equivalent to the engineer of the mine construction, looking for ore veins, determining the direction of excavation, and ensuring the safety of the mine, which is responsible for the inlay. 】

[2: The rolling order is the tax notice, the early Qing Dynasty used the double bill, easy to know by the single, and later changed to the rolling order, and the folk also called the string ticket. Write the amount of land tax collected by five or ten households and the payment period on it, and the first household A will urge the collection. 】