Lao Li Tou sighed and silently brought a basin of water into the house.

Everyone Li cried and begged: "The head of the house, it's a life, I can raise her with a few bites." ”

Li Da glared and said, "How to raise?" Don't you know what's going on at home? Besides, isn't it a money-losing thing if you raise it? ”

Amid the cries of the Li family, the prince rushed into the house, and as soon as he entered, he saw a scene that made him angry and tearful.

Li Da actually pressed the baby girl into the basin, the baby girl had just been born, and she was already weak, but at this time she was convulsing all over, and she couldn't do it when she saw it.

The prince was furious, stepped forward and pushed Li Da to the ground, and reached out to pick up the baby girl.

The baby girl choked on a few mouthfuls of water and immediately burst into tears.

The prince was so angry that he couldn't help but reprimand: "Li Da, tiger poison is not yet a child, you want to drown your own daughter, you are really not as good as an animal!" Fatherhood in vain! ”

was scolded by the prince, Li Da was also angry, and he roared loudly: "If there is surplus food in my family, but if I can support her, how can I do such a thing?" ”

"You're a rich man, do you give me money to support him? I'm her father, she's my daughter! Do you think I don't feel distressed? ”

After that, Li Da, a man with five big and three rough people, whimpered and cried.

The prince frowned and asked, "How much can she eat as a small child?" You're just looking for a reason. ”

Li was furious, he dragged the prince to a large vat in the house, lifted the lid made of sorghum stalks, and said loudly: "Come, come and see, how much grain is still here?" Is it enough for my family to eat the autumn harvest? ”

The prince stretched out his head to look and found that there was only one grain at the bottom of the jar, and even if he saved it, he was afraid that it would not be long before he could eat it.

The prince couldn't help frowning and asked, "Where is your family's grain?" Why is there only so many? ”

Li Da laughed miserably: "My family's food, there is only so much!" I have to pay eighty percent of the rent for the land I rent, and my family has rented twenty acres of land, and how much is left in a year? ”

The prince couldn't help but ask again: "Isn't your family renting the land of Master Joan's family?" You don't have food, you can't even feed your children, why don't you go to Master Joan's house and ask for some food? ”

In the eyes of the crown prince, Master Qiong was really a good official who loved the people like a son, and if he knew that the tenants who rented his land were so difficult at home, he would never have failed to help.

Unexpectedly, after listening to the prince's words, Li Da couldn't help laughing and said:

"You want me to go to Master Joan's house and ask for food? Haha, that's a big joke! If you rent someone else's land, you only need to pay 60% of the rent, and if you rent the land of Bachelor Qiong's family, you have to pay 80% of the rent. ”

"With such a heavy rent, Bachelor Joan's family is still trying to make us pay more rent! If it weren't for the fact that there was no way, the dog wouldn't rent the land of Master Joan's house. ”

Rumble!

Li Da's words suddenly collapsed some inherent cognitions in the prince's heart.

He couldn't believe that Scholar Qiong would be such a person, Scholar Qiong was full of benevolence and morality, how could he do such a thing that was inferior to a pig and a dog?

At this time, everyone Li saw some clues.

She struggled to get up from the bed, knelt down in front of the prince and said, "Please save my girl's life, I am willing to sell this girl to my son, I don't want a penny from my son." I just hope that the son can raise this girl. Please, Childe. ”

At this time, even Lao Zhao Tou and Li Da looked at the prince with blank eyes.

Lao Zhao said urgently: "Liu Gongzi, you can buy this girl, my family doesn't want a penny." She was born to our house because of her sins in her previous life, and we are sorry for her, and we only ask my son to give her a way to live. ”

The prince sighed and said, "Okay, when I leave, I will take her with me, and when the time comes, I will give your family some money." ”

"By the way, everyone Li, you take the child away, she keeps crying, and her voice is almost hoarse at this time."

Li hurriedly got up from the ground and took the girl from the prince's hand, but the girl was still crying.

The next moment, everyone Li opened the placket and stuffed the pacifier into the girl's mouth, and the girl immediately stopped crying and sucked hard.

The prince hurriedly turned his head, but his face was full of joy.

However, he really couldn't calm down, he still didn't believe that Miss Joan could be such a person.

He even suspected that all this was done by Jia Huan.

Lunch was eaten at home, and the Li family made an exception to cook a bowl of egg soup with one egg for the Li family, which was used as a milk thing.

In the afternoon, the Li family labored and had two children, and they still went to work in the fields.

But the prince wandered around Lijia Village, and he saw old people, children, women, or laborers—the least laborers.

At this point in time, most of the laborers were working in the fields.

The question asked by the prince to them was basically whether you were happy?

How much rent do you have to pay for renting the land of Master Joan's family?

What difficulties did the family have, and even asked if there were any other families in Lijia Village who drowned baby girls.

And the answer he got made the prince's mood heavier and heavier.

Because he found that everything Li Da said was true.

The drowning of the baby girl in Lijia Village is not limited to the old Li Tou's family.

However, the prince also found out that Li Da was afraid that he was lying.

Their family, including several other families that drowned baby girls, is not because they can't feed their children.

If a baby boy is born, they will raise the child, and there is no reason why a baby girl will not be able to raise it, and the baby boy should be able to eat better than the baby girl.

Mainly because the family is indeed poor, and for them, girls are money-losers.

It's easy to raise and get married after a few years of work, and the family has to pay a dowry, where can they accompany so many poor people?

is like the Dani of Li Laosan's family, who is so handsome, because she can't afford to marry, she has never married until she is sixteen years old.

The prince also discovered that there were really more boys and fewer girls in Lijia Village, and there were not even many girls in sight.

This made his mood heavier and heavier.

That night, Jia Yun went to Ninglu Hall again to report on Liu Gongzi's affairs.

When Jia Huan learned about Li Da's drowning of the baby girl, he couldn't help but be silent.

He hadn't expected anything like this to happen.

In historical materials, he has seen that the people in some places have drowned female babies.

However, those were just cold words, and what appeared in front of him now was a living case.

After Jia Yun left, Jia Huan only felt uncomfortable.

He couldn't help but get up and went straight to Rongguo's mansion.

After entering Daiyu's courtyard and seeing Sister Lin, Jia Huan's mood gradually relaxed.

Lin Daiyu was also very happy to see Jia Huan.

The two talked for a while, and Lin Daiyu suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked Zijuan to take pine nuts for Jia Huan to eat.

Lin Daiyu said: "Brother Huan, this is given to me by my ancestors, you can taste it." ”

Jia Huan tasted a few pine nuts, and the taste was really good.

Jia Huan suddenly became playful, and he couldn't help asking, "Sister Lin, guess how many pine nuts I have in my hand?" You guessed it, I'll give you all five of them. ”

(End of chapter)