In the evening, Li Zhongda returned home drunk and smoky.

"Dead ghost, drink so much again." Fang Shi smelled the smell of wine all over his body, so he covered his nose angrily, and then brought hot water and a sweat towel to wipe his face.

"Leave me alone." Li Zhongda swept away Fang's hand with one hand, fell on the bed like a dead pig, looked at the mosquito net on the top with both eyes, and didn't say a word.

Li Zhongda didn't expect his father to come forward to take care of this matter, this evening, he was called by Fang's eldest brother Fang Quan, not only accompanied him for a meal of wine money, but also begged Fang Quan for a lesson, saying that he had no ability, such an adult, he couldn't even do such a trivial matter, Li Zhongda only felt aggrieved. In my heart, I hated my father for meddling in his affairs, and hated Fang Quan for completely ignoring the face of his relatives and bearing him like a grandson.

Therefore, when he returned home this time, when he saw Fang's eyes, his eyes were not his eyes, and his nose was not his nose.

"Why, I'm angry outside, and when I come back, I'll serve you at home with the old and the small, am I easy?" Fang Shi looked at him like that, his face was aggrieved, and he threw the sweat towel into the basin with one hand, splashing a bunch of water.

"What are you talking about? You are in this house, you are a servant and a servant, I am not outside to look at people's eyes and bow my head to do things, earn some hard-earned money for the life of the family, how difficult it is, not to mention anything else, just say that your eldest brother is there, I pay him a lot of money every year, don't you just want to ask him to do a favor and get an errand in the yamen? Don't think I don't know, a few days ago, the second son of your eldest sister's family entered the yamen as a field official, the last time I met him on the dock, I saw my uncle as if he hadn't seen it, he used to drill into my shop as soon as he was short of money......"

Li Zhongda snorted angrily and said, the officials of the Yamen belong to the system of money and grain, and everything related to the acres of land is used, and they are also the officials who have more oil and water in the Yamen.

The acres are divided into upper, middle and lower three products, the tax to be paid for each product is different, the tax of the upper grade is more, the tax of the lower grade is less, some large families often stuff some silver to the field and mu officials, and then ask the order officer to set the upper grade as the middle or lower grade, used to evade taxes.

Li Zhongda inquired about this position at the beginning of the year, and also knew that the main book of the Yamen in charge of money and grain was a member of the Zhou family, and the eldest brother of the Fang family, Fang Quan, was a scholar who followed Uncle Zhou when he was a child, and now he is the housekeeper of the Zhou Mansion, and he is very dignified in front of Uncle Zhou, and the master of money and food is also called a brother and sister to Fang Quan on weekdays, so Li Zhongda entrusted the relationship with this uncle and wanted to get this position, so he stuffed a lot of silver for this, but he didn't expect that in the end, Fang Quan gave the position to his nephew.

For this reason, Li Zhongda's heart was cold for a while, until this time, the Zhou family wanted to marry Sister Li Yue and entered the door to be happy, Fang Quan found him again and said that he would find another position for him, but in the end, Old Man Li intervened, and the matter was yellow again, did he feel good? He doesn't feel good, but Fang Quanquan is fine,

didn't talk about it at all, he almost pointed at Li Zhongda's nose and scolded, reprimanding him as if teaching his grandson, Li Zhongda held his breath and couldn't swallow it.

Thinking of this, Li Zhongda's face was even more ugly: "In the future, you will run to your sister-in-law less if you have nothing to do, and people who don't know will still say that my family is wrong with you, so that you will run to your mother's family every day." ”

"The conscience of heaven and earth, I often go to my sister-in-law, and it's not for you, why do you open your eyes and talk nonsense." Fang Shi called Qu again.

Then he also looked hateful: "This time, I can't blame my brother, and I can't blame us, we have done our best, thanks to Sister Yue'er's disobedience, I have never heard of a granddaughter who dared to open her mouth and shut up and sue her grandmother in court, it was really the opposite, and Dad, I don't know what kind of ecstasy medicine Sister Yue gave him, when the two husbands and wives were alive in the past, Dad never cared about the affairs of the Westinghouse, this boss has only been gone for a long time, yo, Dad will take care of it, who is Dad with?" I don't think I can live this day, so let's split up. ”

"Separation? The shop on the dock is still in the name of my father, so let's drink the northwest wind. Li Zhongda glared at his daughter-in-law angrily, this daughter-in-law has long hair and short knowledge.

The shop on the wharf of the Li family is a bamboo strip workshop, which invited more than a dozen guys, all of whom have followed the old man Li to learn the craft of bamboo strips, after leaving the school, because of the fame of the Li family mill, he stayed in the workshop to do work and get wages, and on the wharf, transporting goods, moving goods, bamboo baskets are also indispensable, therefore, the business of the Li family mill is quite good, in addition to expenses and wages, there are forty or fifty taels of silver every year.

Although it is not as good as a large family, in this circle in the town, it is not bad, at least there is enough food and clothing, and there is some surplus, so the matter of separating the family cannot be mentioned.

"I'm not going to just talk about it." The Fang family didn't really want to split up, relying on the old couple, the life of this family was so comfortable, there was no need to go up and down the mountains and fields like a group of village women, and many people envied her.

pampered her daughter, and marrying a big family in the future is also the life of the young grandmother. Compared with Sister Yue'er, her own golden phoenix is the phoenix of the branch.

I really don't know why the Zhou family fell in love with Sister Li Yue?

"By the way, in charge, why did the Zhou family fall in love with Sister Li Yue?" Fang asked strangely.

"Why are you still asking these things, it's all over." Li Zhongda turned over and lay on his stomach, then pointed to his waist and back, and said to Fang's: "Kneading, I'm very tired." ”

Fang's face couldn't help but turn red, he walked over, picked up Li Zhongda's coat, rubbed him only through his underwear, and said, "If you're curious, just ask." ”

"It's still the ghost that the big monk of Lingshui Temple made out, saying that Sister Yue has the life of the Wang family, and the old lady of the Zhou family said that the gentleman Zhize was the fifth generation and beheaded, and their Zhou family is also rich and noble for five generations, and if it goes down, it may start to lose, so I want to take advantage of the illness of the old lady Zhou to marry Sister Li Yue, one is for Chongxi, and the other is for the Wang family."

"Really? If Sister Yue'er really has the life of the Wang family, how could the eldest couple leave early. Fang looked incredulous.

"I don't think it's like it, it's just that big families pay attention to this, but I don't think the Zhou family believes it very much, otherwise they wouldn't have given up so easily." Li Zhongda said.

"Hmm." Fang's agreed, a poor girl, a lifetime of poverty, and a prosperous family.

At this time, Li Zhongda rubbed his stomach again: "By the way, I drank a stomach of wine this night, I didn't eat much, I was a little hungry, what else to eat at home, get me some." ”

"Okay, there's still a bowl of dumplings, I specially left it for you, I'll go make some soup again and cook it." The Fang clan mastered, and opened the door and went out.

After a while, he came back with dumplings.

Li Zhongda was hungry, a bowl of dumplings, three bites and two bites swallowed it all after a while.

"Really, like a child, eating in such a hurry." Fang Shi sneered.

"I'm not hungry, you have a good mind, so many things happened today, you still have the heart to make dumplings." Li Zhongda handed the bowl to Fang Shi and said.

"I don't have that good intentions, this dumpling is made by Westinghouse, Sister Yue brought a few bowls over, and I left one for you." Fang Clan said angrily.

"Over there, their family still owes a lot of debts, where can they get the money to buy meat dumplings." Li Zhongda said, I ate dumplings just now and found that there was a lot of meat in them.

"Sister Yue'er got rich, grandpa gambled with Uncle Zhou on the stage, she learned to bet under the stage, the day before yesterday, she saved the boy of the Yao family, and the mother-in-law of the Yao family borrowed her five taels of silver, and she used it to build a grass house, and the two taels of silver were bet, and it became six taels in a blink of an eye." Fang said, although there is income in the shop, and life is smooth, but there is not much that can be saved, only more than ten taels of silver a year, and this girl, a gamble will get six taels, then she is a little angry, and then she looks disdainful: "This girl, I don't think it's a good thing, how dare the daughter of a good family do this." ”

"Oh, this girl, I dare to bet." Li Zhongda suddenly realized. He also knew the situation at that time, but no one dared to bet on his father to win.

"Hey, when the boss was sick, Sister Yue borrowed five taels of silver from us, you told your mother to get the silver back." At this time, Fang Shi leaned up to Li Zhongda's side and said.

"It's not very good, I didn't say to borrow it at the beginning, so I gave it to her directly, I think my father and mother mean to give, not to borrow." Li Zhongda said with a frown.

"Why don't you borrow it? This was originally said by Sister Yue'er herself, if you don't say it, tomorrow, I will talk to my mother. Fang Shi was considerate.

"Okay, you can do it." Li Zhongda said, this kind of thing is originally a better way for a woman's family to speak.

At this moment, they heard a snapping sound outside the window, and the husband and wife in the room were startled, and Fang couldn't help but frown and shouted at the window: "Who?" ”

"It's me, second aunt, I got up to go to the toilet and kicked something." Yue'e's voice sounded outside the courtyard.

"Debt collectors, I don't know how to light, and I think I'm a thief." Fang said hatefully, so he blew out the lamp and lay down with Li Er.