Li Qingzhi directly asked for a piece of pork strip meat. The pork belly of the pig, the kind with the ribs, is called strip meat by the locals, and the pork strip meat on one side is all the pork ribs in half of the pig, almost a boxy piece.

As soon as Li Qingzhi finished buying, Zhao Laosan put the meat into the basket he was carrying, and then followed Li Qingzhi to buy soy products.

From tofu to dried tofu to vegetarian chicken, Li Qingzhi bought some, as for the salted fish, dried kelp, bamboo shoots, which can be kept for a long time, Jin Xiaoye had already bought them a few days ago and put them at home.

In addition to meat and soy products, Li Qingzhi also bought a pot of oil and a jar of sauce.

These things were also put into the basket on his back by Zhao Laosan, and since Li Qingzhi asked Zhao Xiaodou to help him take care of the children, Zhao Laosan has worked very hard to help Li Qingzhi work.

Walking on the road that is not spacious in the county seat, Zhao Laosan and Li Laogen are very uncomfortable.

In a small city in the south of the Yangtze River like Chongcheng County, because there are many rivers and bridges, it is inconvenient for horse-drawn carriages to pass, and rich people do not ride horses and cars when they go out, they either take a boat or a sedan chair, or they walk.

On the road in this county, there are many rich people coming and going.

Li Laogen, every time they saw it, they would avoid it, shrink their hands and feet and lower their heads, and they didn't dare to look at others.

Li Qingzhi was very calm, and while he was walking, he also introduced Li Laogen and Zhao Laosan to the surrounding shops.

"Brother Li?" A familiar voice suddenly sounded, and Li Qingzhi looked towards the place where the voice came from, and saw Zhu Xunmiao.

"Xun Miao." Li Qing said with a smile.

"Brother Li, long time no see!" Zhu Xunmiao was very excited to see Li Qingzhi.

There are not many books that can be read in these years, Zhu Xunmiao read the book from beginning to end several times after Li Qingzhi finished writing Zhu Qian's autobiography, and the more he read it, the more he liked it, and read it to his mother and younger brother.

His mother and brother also liked the book very much.

Not to mention his friend Xu Qifei, Xu Qifei is now reading day and night, and he can't hold on anymore when he is tired, so he takes out this book and looks at it to motivate himself.

In short, Zhu Xunmiao likes this book more and more, and even likes Li Qingzhi more and more.

However, after Li Qingzhi finished writing his father's autobiography, he left his house, and he was going to study at Li Xiucai again...... He hasn't seen Li Qingzhi for almost a month!

Zhu Xunmiao pulled Li Qingzhi and talked for a while, and Li Qingzhi knew that Li Xiucai was going back to the countryside for the Mid-Autumn Festival, so he gave the students in the school a three-day holiday, and today was the first day of the holiday.

And the reason why Zhu Xunmiao came out of the house was to buy a gift for the friend he had just met.

Saying that, Zhu Xunmiao said: "Brother Li, Brother Hong is going to hold a Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting at home tomorrow, I got an invitation, and I can bring two people with one invitation, do you want to go with me?" ”

Zhu Xunmiao's new friend is surnamed Hong, and he is the eldest young master of the Hong family who was admitted to Xiucai at a young age.

Zhu Xunmiao has always been unpopular in the literati circle of Chongcheng County, and now the young master of the Hong family, who was born in a scholarly family, is willing to befriend him...... He was especially pleased.

"Wouldn't it be bad if I rushed over?" Li Qingzhi hesitated. He only knew Zhu Xunmiao, and it seemed a little inappropriate to suddenly go to the poetry meeting.

And he doesn't know how to write poetry at all.

Li Qingzhi has been working hard to endorse books, and has memorized a lot of books, but he writes poems...... It's a bit hard for him.

"There's nothing bad, Brother Li, there are a lot of people going to the Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting this time, you can get to know more people when you go." Zhu Xunmiao persuaded Li Qingzhi to go with him.

Li Qing thought about it and agreed. Since he has the heart to take the road of imperial examinations, it is good to go and see and get to know some people.

Zhu Xunmiao agreed with Li Qingzhi and asked Li Qingzhi to go to him the next morning, and then left happily.

When Zhu Xunmiao was talking to Li Qingzhi, Li Laogen and Zhao Laosan shrank in the corner and didn't dare to step forward, as if they didn't know Li Qingzhi, but when Zhu Xunmiao left, they breathed a sigh of relief and came to Li Qingzhi's side.

Li Laogen asked: "Ah Qing, who is this?" ”

Li Qing insisted: "It's the young master of the Zhu family." ”

"This little young master is so handsome, he looks like a fairy child!" Li Laogen said, and Zhao Laosan also nodded again and again.

Zhu Xunmiao actually looks average, but his skin is snow-white and his face is round, which is the best looking in Li Laogen's opinion.

There were no outsiders here, Li Laogen talked a lot, chattered, and asked Li Qingzhi all kinds of questions.

Li Qingzhi also told Zhu Xunmiao about inviting him to participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting tomorrow.

"The Hong family...... My little bean almost went to Hong's house to be a small servant. Zhao Laosan said suddenly.

Zhao Laosan didn't tell Li Qingzhi and Li Laogen about the Chinese wanting to introduce Xiaodouzi to Hong's house as a small servant before, but now that he has mentioned it...... And he told him about it.

Li Qingzhi was stunned after listening.

When Jin Jasmine told Jin Liushu about the Hong family's young master's love to beat people, he was also beside him.

He has lived through the end times and is keenly aware of the emotions of others...... Kim Jasmine was telling the truth at the time, at least she herself was convinced of it.

But he didn't take this matter to heart, after all, the young master of a big family is a madman who likes to beat people, and it has nothing to do with him.

Can ...... now If the Hong family knew their children's problems and still looked for a small servant for their children, they were still looking for seven or eight-year-old children...... The Hong family doesn't care at all that the little young master of their family hurts someone?

Of course, it may also be that the young master of the Hong family beat people falsely, and Jin Jasmine got the wrong information.

But if that little master really likes to hit people...... The family style of the Hong family, which is highly respected, is afraid that it is not very good.

Jin Xiaoye made an appointment with them to meet at the dock, and Li Qingzhi brought Li Laogen and the others over there, and also found a shop and invited them to eat noodles.

There are several kinds of noodles, the cheapest is mixed noodles, put soy sauce lard and green onion in the bowl, and a chopstick noodle is made into it, a bowl of two pennies, in addition to some other noodles with ingredients, such as shredded meat noodles, pork liver noodles, grass carp noodles and the like.

Li Qing insisted on five bowls of pickled vegetables and shredded pork noodles, he and Zhao Laosan Li Laogen had a bowl for each person, and the three children ate two bowls, this noodle cost four dollars a bowl, there are not many noodles Adult men are actually a little hungry, but there is a banquet to eat at noon, and now it is enough to use it to cushion a stomach.

"Xiaodou and I don't need to ......," Zhao Laosan repeatedly excused.

Li Qing insisted: "Third uncle, if you don't eat, I'm embarrassed to let you help me, and if we all eat, you won't eat, what is this?" ”

Li Laogen directly pressed Zhao Laosan's shoulder and asked Zhao Laosan to sit down: "My family A-Qing is rich!" He tells you to eat, and you eat it! ”

Zhao Laosan could only sit down, but when the bowls of noodles were served, he refused to eat them first, and waited until the last bowl to eat.

In addition, when he divided two bowls of noodles for the three children, he picked out some noodles from the two bowls and gave them to Zhao Xiaodou to eat, and the shredded meat did not move at all.

However, he gave most of the shredded meat in his bowl to Zhao Xiaodou, and Zhao Xiaodou didn't eat less.

Li Qingzhi didn't stop him from doing this, lest he be even more uneasy.

After eating the noodles, they waited at the dock for a while, and Jin Xiaoye, who had already taken care of the things to be dealt with, came to pick up the people and send them back to Miaoqian Village.

At this time, Jin Dajiang and Jin Mu had already done all the preparations for Shangliang wine, and as soon as they saw the meat, the two began to cook.

The pork is cut into small pieces and used to stew dried bamboo shoots, kelp, and soybeans, and tofu and vegetarian chicken are also made into their own dishes......

They made eight dishes in one go, the table was very decent, and there were many people invited. The relationship is close, such as Jin Xiaoye's mother's family, such as Li Laogen's two younger brothers' family, they all invited their whole family, and some relatives who are more distant invited him

The head of the family.

Too many please, they can't sit down here.

The Yao family next door is both neighbors and a little related to them, plus this time the Li family held a banquet, the Yao family's tables, chairs, benches and even iron pots and chopsticks were borrowed, and now the Yao family can't cook at all, so Jin Xiaoye asked the Yao family to come to their house for dinner at noon.

Jin Jasmine didn't want to go to Li's house for dinner. In her previous life, Jin Xiaoye had always lived better than her, which made her feel very unhappy, and in this life, she hoped that Jin Xiaoye would be inferior to her everywhere.

It's just that Jin Xiaoye's days are getting more and more prosperous.

And she always felt that Jin Xiaoye deliberately cheated her and robbed her of her happiness, but it didn't seem to be like this, which made her even more uncomfortable.

But Kim Jasmine didn't want to go, her two children did.

Glancing at the two children drooling in the direction of the Li family, Jin Jasmine began to clean herself up.

Yao Zhenfu has a good relationship in the county, which made Yao Zhenfu lose face and made Jin Jasmine very shameless.

She didn't want to go out during this time!

This time she had to go out, and she planned to dress herself up.

Jin Jasmine has a lot of dowries in her hands, although most of them are going to be spent by Yao Zhenfu, but she also leaves some flowers for herself.

Because she thinks that Yao Zhenfu will become a rich person in the future, she does not save money.

This can be seen from the fact that she went to Jin Xiaoye to buy a flower and bought two flowers at a time.

Such a golden jasmine naturally has something to use to dress up, she took out a box of duck egg powder, applied some to her face, and smeared a little rouge on her lips.

Jin Jasmine is always scolded by Yao's mother for working on weekdays, but she actually doesn't go to the field, she does all the work at home, and her skin is whiter than most people in the village.

After such a toss, she looked very beautiful, and she also had the fragrance of duck egg powder on her body.

Putting the two head flowers on her head, Jin Jasmine walked out of the door and saw Yao Zhenfu wearing the best clothes on her body and combing her hair meticulously.

Yao Zhenfu's thoughts were exactly the same as Jin Jasmine's, he didn't want to go to Li's house to drink Liang wine, but he felt that he didn't go as if he was afraid of Li Qing's insistence......

Yao Zhenfu finally decided to go.

Although he was made fun of for looking for something nice, it wasn't really a big deal!

People are not romantic!

He is a scholar, and he will take the Xiucai exam in the future, he is much more powerful than Li Qingzhi, why should he be afraid of Li Qingzhi?

Yao's mother has been helping out at Yao's house today, and according to their custom here, someone invites guests to hold a banquet, and the neighbors want to help. She was not in good health when she was old, and she was so tired that she couldn't straighten her waist, but when she turned her head, she saw her son and daughter-in-law coming over in a bright and beautiful way, and she was immediately annoyed.

To help with such work, it is supposed that her son and daughter-in-law should come, not her, an old lady!

But Yao's mother was reluctant to lose her temper with her son, and she didn't dare to lose her temper with her daughter-in-law, so she could only hold back in the end.

The dishes have already begun to be served, and people have sat down one after another, praising the food while eating: "The Li family is really atmospheric!" ”

"That's a lot of meat!"

"Jin Dajiang's craftsmanship is good!"

……

However, while praising the food, they also felt that Li Qingzhi and Jin Xiaoye spent money a bit lavishly: "It's building a house and holding a banquet, the money that Li Qingzhi earned by copying books before, and the money that Jin Xiaoye earned rowing during this time, I'm afraid they have all been spent, right?" ”

"Young people just don't know how to live, how can they spend so much money! It's a serious thing to save some money to buy land for Da Mao Ermao. ”

"That's right! Their family used to build a house, and they even stewed meat for the helpers every day. ”

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Of course, some people also said the facts: "Jin Xiaoye is not a person who spends money indiscriminately, they are so generous, maybe because they have money in their hands." ”

Yao Zhenfu had been listening to people chatting, and then couldn't help but say: "Li Qingzhi also helped people copy books for two months, Jin Xiaoye is just supporting the boat, and they can earn at most five or six taels of silver a month...... Now that they spend so much, they must be slapping their swollen faces and filling them with fat. ”

Seeing Yao Zhenfu say this, the person who said that Jin Xiaoye Xingxu had money in his hands stopped talking.

Yao Zhenfu was very satisfied with the situation, he took a sip of rice wine and began to pick meat to eat. Since he didn't go to the county seat to study, and ate the same things as his parents at home, he felt that his stomach lacked oil and water.

This Li family's meat, he must eat more.

After no one spoke at the table where Yao Zhenfu was, they heard some words from Li Laogen at the next table.