Shui Lian and Shui Tong had already led the girls to welcome them in the second door, Li Xiaoqi got out of the car, greeted the two of them, and looked at Shui Tong up and down, compared to last autumn, Shui Tong has changed a lot, people are fatter, their expressions are relaxed, and there is some compassion hidden between their eyebrows and eyes, Shui Lian also looked at Shui Tong with Li Xiaoyi's gaze and smiled: "Fifth master, Sister Tong is busy every day, but it is better than the original body!" ”

"People who accumulate kindness have Yu Qing, Tong Da / Grandma is busy doing good deeds every day, how can her body be bad?" Li Xiaoqi said a word Shui Tong also laughed, the three of them let each other into the inner courtyard, the banquet was set up in the warm pavilion on the hill in the back garden, all kinds of tea and rice snacks were homely and everywhere were significantly meticulous and attentive, the three of them sat or half lay down at will, looking at Jing gossiping, Li Xiaoqi listened attentively to Shui Tong's gentle and slow words, and an indescribable taste surged in his heart, remembering the withering when he first saw her, and his heart was dead like ashes after he was released from prison, and now it is gentle and slow•••••• I heard that she was a very refreshing and pungent person in the past. Speaking must not be so slow-talking, she has died once, and now she cares about this Salesian Bureau, I am afraid that she is doing it like a Buddha, alas•••••• Li Xiaoqi is thinking nonsense, while listening to Shui Tong's gossip: "•••••• have never been in our deep house compound, how have I heard of such a tragic thing, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, just listening to them, I really couldn't believe it, the child was alive, and he •••••• pressed it into the cold water bucket, and I was still strange at the beginning, why did the midwife recite the mantra after the midwife?" I heard that there are more things outside the city, and I gave birth to a son and set off firecrackers to celebrate, and when I gave birth to a girl, I drowned and reborn, alas, our women's family ••••••"

Li Xiaoqi frowned disgustingly when he heard this, looked at Shui Tong and asked, "Is there such a thing?" ”

"I've seen it five or six times with my own eyes, the first time I didn't stop it, and the next few times I was stopped, and the Venerable Master took those girls back to the Salesian Bureau to raise them, and the girls were four or five months old, and they laughed when they laughed, and I heard that there were more things in the countryside outside the city, alas! It is said that God has the virtue of a good life. Shui Tong sighed long, Li Xiaoqi was silent for a moment, looked at Shui Tong and suggested: "Bringing back the Salesian Bureau is not a long way, and it is useless to deal with this vulgarity, I have a way, you see if it works, do it in two ways, one is to let the government send a notice, if there is a drowning baby, the head of the family and the stable woman each have ten sticks, three days of flail, two, by the Salesian Bureau, whoever gave birth to a girl, came to report the name of the parents, the birth date, where the family lived, and immediately gave one or two silver, and so on! Li Xiaoqi said while thinking about it: "Let me calculate, there are more than 30,000 households in Kaiping Mansion, and each household adds a daughter every year, which is 30,000 taels a year, and one tael of silver is enough to be poor for more than half a year, which is enough, but it can't be given at once, divided into two parts, give 500 yuan first, and when the child is half a year old, the parents must hold the girl and come to the Salesian Bureau again, you let people see it, if the girl is well and healthy, give another 500 yuan." In this way, the notice of the government and the good deeds of the Salesian Bureau can be combined in one place, so that the Kaiping Mansion can spread to all villages and households. ”

"The fifth master asked them to take the girl to receive another 500 yuan in half a year, because they were afraid that they would be ruthless after receiving the money, but what about this half a year later? The fifth master is not afraid? Shui Lian asked, Li Xiaoqi looked at Shui Tong and said with a smile: "This drowning house is not a wicked person, but the embarrassment of life is caused by their own flesh and blood, how can they do it for half a year?" Don't talk about mother, even if you are a father, you can't make this ruthless move. Shui Tong nodded again and again: "What the fifth master said is very true!" There is no health care in the body, this method is good! ”

"Good is good, that is, the silver has to be carefully calculated, thirty or forty thousand taels of silver a year, which is not a small amount! It's not very useful to do this thing for a year or two, and it will only be useful for three or five years. Li Xiaoqi smiled,

"Silver is not a big deal!" Shui Lian waved her hand nonchalantly: "This Kaiping Mansion is full of old ladies, old ladies, ladies, and ladies who want to do good deeds and accumulate blessings, you ask Sister Tong, where is it not a matter of one sentence in our Salesian Bureau to raise money?" Shui Tong smiled and nodded, looked at Li Xiaoqi and said with a smile: "The day before the old gentleman's meeting in the first month, Lian Mei and I invited the old ancestors to come forward and invited the old ladies and ladies of seven or eight families to the Salesian Bureau, but in half a day, we received 210,000 taels of silver. Li Xiaoqi sighed when he heard it, and only exhaled softly after a while, he was becoming more and more Li Xiaoqi, in the past, those charity associations, those wives were not like this, 300,000 and 500,000, but they just wore two less clothes.

"There is silver, this thing is easy to do, the government side, the day after tomorrow I will say to the prince, or Sister Tong directly to find the water Hou Ye said it will be, this is a good thing that is beneficial to the country and the people, the prince and the Hou Ye must be in favor, by the way, I opened a weaving workshop, last month just was able to weave something decent, today brought a few horses, you see how, if it is good, I will let people recruit more girls to work! Otherwise, if you open an embroidery workshop in the future, there will be more girls who use it in this way! If the girl's family can also earn money to support the family, no one will dislike it! Li Xiaoqi said while thinking about it, Shui Lian laughed out loud, pointed at Li Xiaoqi and Shui Tong and said: "Which family raised a girl who has half of our five masters, which is more useful than a hundred sons!" Shui Tong nodded and smiled, Li Xiaoqi looked at Shui Lian, and quietly changed the topic: "I'm like this, two or three can't be worth one Shui Sheng, Shui Sheng Brother only started to learn kung fu with my father at the age of eleven or twelve, and he didn't study for a few years when he went to the village to suffer, but now his kung fu is better than my eldest brother, and he studied with Shui Houye, and after only a month, he took the exam and got a martial arts solution!" Li Xiaoqi raised his chin without concealing it, Shui Tong hurriedly turned his head to look at Shui Lian, Shui Lian's face was flushed, and he tried to be generous and naturally said: "The fifth master's brothers are extremely rare, I heard the second brother praise Wei Erye several times, saying that he is smart and natural, and he is kind and kind." ”

"Not only is he kind, Brother Shui is also very affectionate, it turned out that when we were in the mountains, it was good, and now in the Huwei Camp, my colleagues and subordinates, there is no one who is not convinced by him, you see, among my brothers in the future, I have to count Brother Shui is the most promising, and the prince is ambitious, Brother Shui will have to earn a marquis with military merits sooner or later!" Li Xiaoqi proudly boasted of his brother, Shui Tong looked at the triumphant Li Xiaoyi, shook his head while laughing, the vigilance in his eyes gradually dissipated, Li Xiaoqi only cared about the smug and continued: "In the future, if any girl can marry Brother Shui, it will be a great blessing, our Li family has a family motto, men do not accept concubines, women do not take concubines, although Brother Shui said that his surname is Wei, but it can be regarded as coming out of our Li family, this Li family rules, in the future, it will naturally be the Wei family rules, in fact, there is no family rule, according to Brother Shuisheng's temperament, he will not take concubines, Brother Shui Sheng told me that if you want to marry, you will marry someone you like, and if you marry back, you will stay together, grow old together, and never let your daughter-in-law suffer half a grievance, just rush this, tell me, will my second sister-in-law have great blessings in the future? Sister Tong said yes? ”

Shui Tong was stunned for a long time, looked at the water lotus who was listening intently, and slowly nodded and agreed: "It's true." Shui Lian's eyes flashed, her eyes looked at Li Xiaomi, I don't know where she saw, Li Xiaomi looked at her and Shui Tong, as if she remembered something, she clapped her hands lightly and smiled: "The farther you talk, on the day of Brother Shuisheng's martial arts test, I must go to help Brother Shuisheng!" Can you have two older sisters with me? There are more people! Shui Lian hurriedly nodded and agreed: "Okay! Shui Tong turned his head to look at Li Xiaomi, and nodded with a smile, Li Xiaoqi secretly breathed a long sigh of relief, and no longer mentioned Wei Shuisheng, the three of them chatted idly until it was nearly late, Li Xiaoqi got up and said goodbye, got in the car and went back to Willow Hutong.

Shui Lian and Shui Tong watched Li Xiaoyi's car go out of the gate and walked away, Shui Tong looked at Shui Lian, who was reluctant and a little excited, sighed softly, waved his hand and motioned for the girls to step back, stepped forward and pulled Shui Lian, and said in a low voice while walking towards the courtyard: "Why did you confiscate this heart ••••••?" Shui Lian's face turned red all of a sudden, and she didn't answer, she didn't look at Shui Tong, she just lowered her head and twisted her handkerchief indiscriminately, Shui Tong patted her hand, sighed again, and said in a low voice: "Then Second Master Wei, I've seen it twice, and it looks like a loyal ••••••" Shui Tong suddenly paused, stopped his steps and stayed for a while, a bitter smile appeared on his face, looked at Shui Lian and whispered: "I am an eyeless person, since Hou Ye and Yan Second Master said that he has a good character, it must not be bad, the fifth master said solemnly today, if you can really promise this, He hit the move again this time, and he can be regarded as a good person. Shui Lian looked at Shui Tong with surprise in her eyes, opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say, Shui Tong gently stroked her shoulder, pushed her in, and continued: "This is one head, you are different from me, you are the daughter of the Shui family, there are few daughters of our Shui family, your father, and two marquis, how can you be promised to Wei Erye like this?" Alas, besides, he took the martial arts exam, if he was a martial artist, if he could win the top three again, maybe he would be able to make the two marquis and your father nod this head, but now he is taking the martial arts exam, even if he wins the martial arts champion, it is just a martial arts champion, it's not that my sister won't help you, forget it. Shui Lian bit her lip tightly, Shui Tong sighed a few more times, and persuaded in a low voice: "The matter of marriage, the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, the old saying has its own truth, listen to my sister, forget it, ah?" Shui Lian didn't say a word, buried her head lower, and twisted the handkerchief with both hands, only to twist the handkerchief as tight as a silk rope, and her fingers were so hard that the joints turned white.