Chapter 2: A New Life
When Jinqing's mother died, she begged the patriarch to take care of them, and Jinqing's family had no relatives in Zhujia Village, so if they wanted to talk about justice and morality, they could only count on the patriarch to help them out in terms of friendship and morality.
Besides, Jin Qing thought sly, the stove house is also a house, and it is not wrong to say that Zhu Laoxiang forced them to demolish the house!
Jin Qing calculated this point for him, the patriarch who regarded himself as a descendant of Confucius and Mencius, how could he bear the fact that there were forced orphans and widows to demolish the house in the jurisdiction, Jin Qing's house was the place designated by the patriarch, Zhu Lao said that Jin Qing's house occupied his family's land, wasn't that a slap in the face of the patriarch?
What's more, Jin Qing remembers very clearly that the patriarch's eldest grandson is studying in Luoyang Academy and has passed the exam, so he is waiting to arrange a job to become a national civil servant, which is the biggest pride of the patriarch's family.
Although the selection in the Tang Dynasty was mainly based on the imperial examination, it still attached importance to the origin and morality of officials, and the local officials were very important for the evaluation of the Jinshi to be assigned. If something bad happens to his family and it reaches the ears of local officials, his image will be greatly reduced.
When Jinqing's mother first came, she decisively gave the patriarch a few valuable silver hairpins she carried, which was considered a bribe or a favor, and asked for a place in Zhujia Village.
Jinqing's mother can read and write, and all kinds of things about the Tang Dynasty were taught to Jinqing by Jinqing's mother, but it's a pity that Jinqing's mother died too early, and Jinqing, who crossed over, didn't have the luck to see this strange woman.
In the patriarch's view, those who can read and read are all literate people, and the status of scholars and scholars should be ranked in front of the peasants. When Jinqing and the others came to Zhujia Village, the patriarch still had a lot of respect for them in his heart.
Zhu Lao Xiang and the patriarch have never been very harmonious, and the patriarch is most disgusted with his copper smell and showing off his power all day long. The patriarch subconsciously thinks that he is a "scholar", and Zhu Laoxiang is the lowest "businessman", a lowly "businessman" dares to bully the "scholar", it is really the opposite.
The patriarch's beard is about to be cocked, and Zhu Lao is obviously not taking him seriously! When officials in the county came to inspect it, the patriarch always boasted that Zhujia Village was a model of simplicity, benevolence, righteousness and morality.
The so-called good things don't go out, and evil things go thousands of miles, if it comes out at this juncture, Zhujia Village forced orphans and widows to tear down their houses and cut off people's lives, affecting the future of his eldest grandson, he has to peel Zhu Lao Goods alive, this bastard!
After a while, almost the entire Zhujia Village knew that Zhu Laoxiang forced the orphans and widows of the Gu family to demolish the house, insisting that he occupied the homestead of his dead son, and a large number of angry patriarchs came forward.
Zhu Laoxiang's second daughter-in-law, Niu, had already prepared a large family's lunch, and Zhu Laoxiang was just about to sit down to eat, when he heard his grandson Zhu Xiaohu hurriedly come to tell him that the patriarch and grandfather wanted him to go to Jinqing's house for questioning.
Zhu Laoxiang sighed in his heart, the patriarch was old, and he hadn't seen him take care of the affairs of the village for a few years, but after thinking about it, the collapsed stove house did occupy his family's homestead, and it was reasonable to ask for demolition, and the emperor Laozi had to demolish it when he came, so he clapped his hands and went to Jinqing's house with peace of mind.
The patriarch stared at Zhu Lao Xiang on crutches, Zhu Lao Xiang felt weak for a while, he still had to call the patriarch an uncle, the patriarch looked down on him as a small businessman, and he knew it in his heart.
"Old man, what do you see? Our Zhujia Village has been pure and good for generations, why did we call you a pot of soup with mouse droppings! The face of the ancestors has been lost by your turtle grandson! The patriarch stomped the cane in his hand hard, and it was not wrong for him to be able to groan, but he didn't use it when he was scolding, and he had to speak in the local language.
Zhu Lao Xiang was very unhappy in his heart, didn't he just look down on him for doing business, but who was panicked when he got the money in his hand, and sent New Year's gifts to your house during the New Year's holidays, didn't you receive it very well? It's just a broken house, and he won't let him demolish a stove room, and he will not let outsiders take him seriously!
When Zhu Laoxiang thought of his drowned youngest son again, he was grieved, his face turned red, his neck straightened, and he argued strongly: "That was originally my son's land, and no one wants to occupy it!" ”
The patriarch snorted, waved his hand righteously, and shouted: "That's it, no one is allowed to mention it in the future, forcing orphans and widows to demolish the house, where will the faces of the people in Zhujia Village go?" If you dare to make trouble with others again, your uncle and I will beat you up like that! ”
Zhu Laoxiang has a few spare money in hand, and he doesn't dare to follow the patriarch to do it, if he annoys the patriarch, he goes to the ancestral hall and invites the ancestor to open the ancestral hall, and drives their family out, it is possible, and then they will be the same as the Jinqing family, and they will become rootless and unfounded.
Zhu Laoxiang glared fiercely at Jin Qing, who was hugging Jin Zhi, he knew that this girl was made up of a monster, and she didn't dare to speak when she saw anyone before, but now she has broken her head, not only is she fat, she will use witchcraft to make medicine, but she will also set up an ecstasy array!
Whoever eats the medicine made by Jinqing, a crazy girl, will get Jinqing's ecstasy method and become a little ghost who listens to her! Zhu Lao secretly cursed with hatred.
Jin Qing also stared back at Zhu Lao Xiang without fear, Mama Liu has a soft temperament, and Jin Zhi is only seven years old, if she shows her timidity, their family will not return to the situation where anyone can bully before!
When the onlookers dispersed and the sun turned westward, Jinzhi was grunting with hunger, and Mama Liu hurriedly lit a fire on the simple stove under the eaves and started cooking.
The sorghum flour cake and sweet potato porridge mixed with sweet potato noodles are the lunch of Jinqing's family.
Jin Qing chewed the cake with difficulty, her teeth were about to hurt, and the sorghum flour was coarse and hard like a stone, and she had to chew hard to swallow it.
I think that in modern times, people in the city advocate eating whole grains and pay attention to what is healthy, but let them eat it for a month. Since Jin Qing came to Zhujia Village, every day has been full of multigrain cakes, and the coarse cakes are hard and tasteless, and the people who eat them have a dish.
Seeing the sweet potato soup boiled in clear water, Jin Qing felt sick to his stomach. Jinzhi was growing his body, he was already hungry, and he was gobbling it up, Jinqing knocked on Jinzhi's bowl with chopsticks and said, "Chew it and swallow it." ”
Children's digestive ability is already weak, and if they continue to eat like this, sooner or later there will be problems with their stomachs.
Jin Qing sighed, what can be done about this, their family is a foreign household, the village can accept them, it would be good to be able to give a small piece of residential land for them to live in, as for the cultivated land, everyone thinks that their own family is not enough, how can they give it to them?
Even if they are given arable land, the two women plus a child, and they don't know how to plant, what can they do? Most of the places in the small courtyard were planted by Mama Liu, and before Jinqing came, the whole family relied on Mama Liu spinning cloth and selling vegetables to survive.
This is already very good, when I first wore it, Jinqing's family didn't even have sweet potato porridge to drink, and it was good to be able to eat multigrain cakes.
I don't know if it's a coincidence or fate, the appearance of this body is exactly the same as hers, after fusing the memory of this body, Jin Qing was a little surprised, this Datang is not the Datang she had read in the history textbooks of her previous life.
When Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen Change, the crown prince Li Jiancheng knew in advance, and took down the Qin king Li Shimin in Xuanwumen in one fell swoop, and after "tearfully" executing the rebellious second brother, Li Jiancheng ascended the throne.
The emperor has changed, but the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty has not changed, Jin Qing has always had a little doubt in his heart, maybe this Li Jiancheng also crossed over......
Jin Qing sighed and retracted her thoughts, it didn't matter to her who became the emperor, what was in front of her was a major matter of people's livelihood such as eating a full stomach and living well.
Fortunately, medicine for nearly seven years in her previous life was not learned in vain, although Jinqing did not understand traditional Chinese medicine, and there was no necessary laboratory in ancient times, she could not cure serious diseases, but the medicine to treat headaches, brain fever, bruises, and other minor diseases and small pains was not difficult for her.
The doctors of the Tang Dynasty were all distributed in the towns, and not all families could afford to hire a doctor when they were sick. In the vast number of villages, when a farmer gets sick, he either carries it himself, or he goes to the bell doctor who walks the street to buy some medicine, and the quality of the bell doctor is also uneven.
In this era, no one asked the bell doctor to practice medical qualifications, and shaking a bell with a medicine box on his back is all the work of the bell doctor.
I remembered that when I didn't sell medicine before, my family didn't even drink sweet potato porridge. Jin Qing took a deep breath and poured all the sweet potato porridge in the bowl into her mouth with her eyes closed. Since she occupies Gu Jinqing's body, she has to take care of her younger brother and adoptive mother Liu Mama instead of her.
Be content, the days of the previous life were a mess, she was sold and helped to count the money, and now she has a new life here, although life is more difficult, but she has hands and feet, Jinqing firmly believes that as long as she must work hard, life will definitely get better.
Before going to bed at night, Xiao Zhengtai Jinzhi, who was wearing a big red belly pocket, shrank in the quilt, looked at Jinqing lying next to him, and asked in a low voice: "Sister, does our stove really need to be demolished?" ”
Jin Qing's heart was sour, Jin Zhi was just a child less than eight years old, it was the most sensitive time, Jin Qing's mother died because of Jin Zhi, the original Jin Qing had a resentment towards Jin Zhi, he was autistic and didn't like to talk, and he didn't want to deal with Jin Zhi, Jin Zhi always had a fear of his sister.
Jin Qing stretched out his hand and patted Jin Zhi's little face, and said with a smile: "No need to dismantle it, the patriarch and grandfather have spoken, who dares not to listen to him." When my sister saves money, let's build a good stove again! ”
Jinzhi's bright eyes were full of excitement, nodded vigorously, closed his eyes with a smile and went to sleep.