When Li Yunrou heard this, she almost couldn't hold back her laughter.

Hurriedly and quietly bit his cheek, letting the pain help him maintain a serious expression.

Not to mention the old Li family, it is the entire backer, who doesn't know the virtue of the Nie family?

As long as there is something delicious, even if it is ten miles away, she can smell it.

But if you want to make her pay for it, she can run faster than a rabbit.

Sure enough, as soon as Nie heard that she was asked to pay for it, he immediately didn't dare to say anything.

Drooping his head, he slowly raised his feet weakly, and slowly moved back, his face full of lovelessness.

She took a fence and casually stirred the freshly cooked turnip soup.

I secretly complained in my heart:

"The old lady is also picking!

This turnip soup is just to wash the turnips away from the mud, cut them coarsely, throw them into white water, and cook them indiscriminately.

No oil and less salt, clear soup and little water, where is the fish stewed tofu delicious! ”

When Qiao Ximei saw her like that, she felt angry.

couldn't help but slap Nie Shi again:

"All day long, I have a heart-eating eye!

How far away is the tofu shop from us!

When you come and go, who will you take on the way, what time will it take?

If you're hungry, you'll plant all the land? ”

Nie Shi was trained to turn purple and tremble, and he didn't dare to gasp.

Qiao Ximei just gave up.

turned around, commanded Li Yunrou, put all kinds of things here and there one by one, and put them in the place she designated, and then let Li Yunrou go back to the house to rest.

As soon as Li Yunrou left with her front foot, Li Jingfu came back with her back foot.

Li Jingfu is not tall, but his body is very strong, and he is very diligent in farm work, which can be regarded as a first-class good crop.

It's just that on ordinary days, Li Jingfu has always been a kind face and a smile.

At this time, his face was serious and solemn, and if he looked closely, he was even a little gloomy.

When Qiao Ximei saw Li Jingfu's appearance, her heart was "chuckled".

Xin said: "It's bad, something big will happen this time!" ”

The last time Li Jingfu showed this appearance, it was the eldest son Li Huai, who was calculated by the villain and broke his leg.

Before Li Huai, he was also a smart, filial and sensible good child.

But since he experienced that experience and cut off the way to advance in the imperial examination, this child's temperament has become much more extreme.

For parents and brothers, it is not the same as before.

After that incident, Li Huai was depressed for more than a year.

I don't think about tea, I don't want to eat, I can't sleep at night, and people are getting thinner and haggard day by day.

At the beginning, Li Jingfu and Qiao Ximei were simply worried about him, and their hearts were broken.

But after persuasion and persuasion, and scolding, he still couldn't untie the knot in his heart.

Li Huai, as the eldest son of the old Li family, was originally very favored by Li Jingfu and Qiao Ximei.

As soon as this incident came out, the old couple was like being cut off by a sharp knife.

Qiao Ximei restrained the family honestly, and didn't even dare to say a word.

I'm afraid that if someone is ignorant, if he says something wrong, he will provoke Li Huai to think about it for a while, and he will find a short-term view, how painful it is to be a father!

The family was cautious, coaxed and held, let them endure, and finally survived until Li Huai figured it out and relieved himself.

However, Li Huai was reluctant to stay in the backer anymore.

He always felt that he had injured his leg and broken his career, and the whole village was watching his jokes.

I just packed up my things and moved to town on my own.

Without saying a word, he rented two houses to live in, saying that he wanted to find a job in the town.

Although the old couple was reluctant to let their son leave their eyes, they were overjoyed when they saw his appearance.

Naturally, whatever he wanted, he was full of promises.

Besides, the backer is not far from the town. I really miss my son, so I'll go and see it!

It's not hard to find a job in the town. Especially Li Huai was originally a scholar.

Because he wrote well and made a good calculation, after some picking, he finally became a bookkeeper in a grain store in the town.

Qiao Ximei felt sorry for his inconvenient legs and feet, so she asked his daughter-in-law Cao to live in the town with him so that she could take care of his diet and daily life.

The two lived in the town for a few days, and their minds slowly became wild.

During the New Year's holidays, when he returned to the backer, the Cao family was extremely attentive and careful, and always "inadvertently" revealed his tone in front of Qiao Ximei, saying how much Li Huai missed his children and grandchildren.

Qiao Ximei knew what the Cao family had in mind, but in the end she was still biased towards the boss.

simply let the eldest grandson's family of three, follow the eldest and the two to live in the town together.

The backing mountain is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the water on one side, and the traffic is very inconvenient.

Although the land is vast and sparsely populated, it is not easy to open up the wasteland.

Moreover, the backing mountain is too close to the mountains and forests.

In summer and autumn, it is often plagued by large insects, black blind people, wild wolves and wild boars.

Relying only on the harvest from farming, it is difficult to make ends meet after paying field taxes, silver, service silver, and so on.

Therefore, most of the families in Tunzi have children who work in the town or county.

I can earn a few copper coins to support my family.

The laws and folk customs of Dachu all pay attention to "parents are here, and there is no selfish wealth".

In the backing mountains, there are many children like Li Huai who work in the town.

But their income is the same as that of their brothers who farm at home. Every copper plate is handed over to the parents to collect and dispose of it uniformly.

However, when he came to Li Huai, because of his house, a family of five lived in the town, Li Jingfu and Qiao Ximei did not ask him to pay money to the family.

Not only that, the two rooms he originally rented in the town were not enough to live in, so he rented a small courtyard with two entrances, and the old couple also helped them dig some out.

Qiao Ximei thought of her eldest son who she hadn't seen for a while, and when she saw Li Jingfu's expression again, she couldn't help but worry in her heart, and secretly looked forward to it: "But don't let something happen to your eldest son!" ”

She took a large porcelain bowl with a notch, and poured out a bowl of hot water from the rattan shell teapot that was warm on a small stove. While handing it to Li Jingfu, he asked cautiously:

"Gyeongbook, what are you doing? What did the chief say? ”

Li Jingfu took the water bowl, drank most of the bowl of water, handed the bowl back to Qiao Ximei, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand:

"This time something really happened! There was a fight on the Jinghu side.

The king of Jingnan wants to collect money and grain, levy people's husbands, and levy military households from us! ”

Hearing this, Qiao Ximei's face instantly turned pale.

The fence in the hands of the second daughter-in-law, Nie, fell into the big iron pot and made a loud "clang".

If you want to put it aside, the Nie family will be scolded by Qiao Ximei at this time.

But at this moment, Qiao Ximei was in no mood to worry about her.

She hurriedly grabbed the placket of the old man Li Jingfu's clothes with both hands:

"Didn't the King of Chu say, what kind of dragon is the land of our dragons, and has already issued an exemption order for us? Why did a King of Jingnan pop up again? ”