Therefore, before leaving Sanliu Village, Li Qiao also gave her an additional ten taels of silver, as the food expenses of the three Tao Shu, and let her and the Tao Shu family supervise each other, if one party did not spend all the silver on the three Tao Shu, then the food fee would be gone, and they had to use their own food to raise the three Tao Shu.

But after Tao Zhu's family and Lai Dongmei learned about the Li family's high salary, the more they thought about it, the more angry they became, so they went to give advice to Li Shu and Li Liangwang Guihua.

"Brother Zhu, what do you think?" Li Qiao turned over and lay on her side looking at Tao Zhu.

Tao Zhu pursed his lips, now Tao Shu is almost a fool, and someone has to guard his daily meals and clothes, Tao Lao Han is lame, and he can't do without people.

Mrs. Tao can't do any work, and she feels tired from doing some housework.

It is indeed hard for the Tao family and Lai Dongmei to take care of these three people.

He said: "Now that you are an official, I don't bother to worry about them, why don't you give them ten taels of silver a month?" ”

"So much?" Li Qiao frowned.

"Why don't you give five taels at the beginning, see how they perform, and if they perform well, then give them ten taels."

The person who bullied Tao Zhu, Li Qiao was not generous.

Tao Zhu smiled when he heard this: "Okay." ”

Fifty taels or tens, he didn't care.

But Li Qiao's rare "slamming the door" attitude made him happier the more he thought about it, and he stretched out his hand and grabbed Li Qiao's hand: "Hug me." ”

When Li Qiao heard this, she immediately hugged him, but avoided his stomach.

Tao Zhu felt the familiar temperature on his body, and slowly opened his mouth: "Speaking of which, our house seems to be small." If Bai Yu and Brother Da Zhong want to live here, they won't be able to live either. ”

He lived in the main courtyard with Li Qiao, Li Ershan and Li Xia, Zheng Qianqian and Li Dashan lived in the front yard, and the cook Zhao Chef and the house doctor Dr. Chen lived in the backyard.

If the Li family comes, then there is no place to live, and they can't let their own family stay at the inn.

"Buy a house." Li Qian also realized this problem, and he immediately said.

If the house is not enough to live in, then buy it.

However, his current official position is too small, even if Sheng Hong is promoted because of the book, then it is impossible for him to jump several levels in a row, so don't think about the big mansion of Wujin for the time being, it is too high-profile.

The new house should be bought near here, relatives and friends are here, lively.

Li Qiao and Tao Zhu are both vigorous and resolute people, saying that they want to buy a house, and they studied it on the second day.

Shirayu also wants to buy a house.

He and Li Dazhong are going to spend the New Year in Shengjing, and they must not be able to stay at the inn all the time.

So, when Li Qiao went to work, Tao Zhu and Bai Yu, Li Dazhong, Shen Hua and others watched the house nearby.

Although Tao Zhu is pregnant, he also has to exercise, take a walk around the neighborhood and take a walk, even if it is exercise.

Bai Yu's stomach was still silent, but he was not anxious, he hadn't had enough of the two-person world with Li Dazhong.

His father went early, he was very depressed in the Bai family before he got married, and he suffered a lot after he got married.

Now that he finally feels the joy of being a husband, he doesn't want to have children.

He was not short of silver, and soon took a fancy to a two-entry house, paid the money and passed the formalities on the same day, and on the third day he lived with Li Dazhong.

He entered Beijing this time, and Li Dazhong was purely for fun.

But Tao Zhu was pregnant, and she also provoked the British government, so she couldn't move around at will.

Shen Hua, he received Sheng Hong's order again, asking him to paint next year's spring and summer clothes, Shen Hua has a bitter face every day, and he doesn't have time to play with him often.

Now Bai Yu has the feeling that everyone has serious things and only he has nothing to do, so he can't be the same as in Sanliu Village, and he is tired of being in bed with Li Dazhong every day.

After entering the wax moon, Tao Zhu was six months pregnant, and her belly was bigger, Li Qiao didn't let him go out, and he could only walk in the yard for a walk, and he was not allowed to take him to and from work.

Because at the end of last month, Dr. Chen told them a big news after the daily routine of Tao Zhu's pulse.

After many days of observation by Dr. Chen, he was finally convinced that Tao Zhu was pregnant with twins.

Twins!

This frightened Li Qiao, and the first child made him scared, and now tell him that he is a twin?

This made him treat Tao Zhu as a fragile treasure, and he didn't let Tao Zhu do anything, like settling accounts, going to the shop to see, all of which couldn't be done.

You only need to eat and drink well and walk around the yard every day, and Li Xia will accompany you throughout the whole process, and you must ensure that there are people around Tao Zhu at all times.

As a result, there are not enough people in the shop.

Bai Yu pondered for many days and decided that he and Li Dazhong would be on top.

Since the two of them got married, the two of them haven't done anything serious, and this kind of life is actually boring after a long time.

Since Li Qiao and Tao Zhu are short of manpower now, then their husband and wife should be on top.

Moreover, he knew that the Li family was short of people, and he abducted Li Dazhong, the only cousin of Li Qiao, and he was actually a little embarrassed.

Bai Yu's decision surprised everyone, but it didn't look like he was joking, so Li Qiao asked him and Li Dazhong to try.

As a result, he and Li Dazhong did very well.

Whether it is the condiment configuration of dim sum or duck goods, the two quickly got started.

With the addition of Bai Yu and Li Dazhong, both shops are operating as usual.

Li Qiao didn't bother to worry about the shop anymore, what about love, he was worried every day, Brother Zhu was pregnant with twins, he was too worried.

Every day after work, he ran home as soon as possible, and invited many doctors to come back, so that these doctors could diagnose Tao Zhu's pulse, and give relevant suggestions on fetal care and childbirth.

Tao Zhu felt that he was a little too nervous.

Because he was pregnant, Tao Zhu should eat, drink, morning sickness, edema and many common pregnancy discomforts, he has not encountered.

The baby in the belly is so well-behaved, it should be okay when it gives birth, right?

But this kind of thing must not be left to chance, he strictly follows the doctor's instructions, and he will do whatever the doctor says.

In the midst of his and Li Qiao's preparation, the days slipped forward day by day, and soon reached the end of the year.

It's time for the New Year again.

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The author has something to say:

Ahem, I decided that one of the twins is a boy, and the other is the sex, draw lots...... The triplets are too hard, and they are reluctant to let Tao Zhu suffer this, and they are reluctant to give birth to him once...... QAQ

Chapter 126: Chinese New Year. The whole story is a running account, there is no main plot, and it can be jumped. Li Xia set up a marriage

Dasheng has strict attendance requirements for officials on weekdays, but when it comes to a big festival like the New Year, the Sheng family father and son are still very humane.

Considering that some officials who are far away will return to their hometowns, after entering the lunar month, officials who want to return to their hometowns can ask for leave.

Officials who do not ask for leave, if there is no major event in the DPRK and China at that time, then the 15th day of the lunar month will be on vacation, and they will not start work until the Lantern Festival is over.

Li Qiao originally wanted to take a leave of absence.

However, Tao Zhu felt that he was in good health, and he didn't need Li Qiao to give up his business to accompany him, and Li Qiao's first reference book on water conservancy was about to be completed, so at Tao Zhu's insistence, Li Qiao stayed in the Hanlin Academy until the fifteenth day of the lunar month before officially taking a holiday.

After the holiday, although Li Qiao wanted to focus on Tao Zhu for twelve hours a day, he was now an official, and he couldn't care about human relations like when he was studying.

For the first time after becoming an official, he must prepare a New Year's gift for his colleagues, there is no housekeeper at home, and there are no elders, so Li Qiao can only go on it himself.

Li Qiao has been an official for half a year, and there are not many people he knows, so far he still has to stand outside the Taiji Hall when he goes to court, and he also hugged Sheng Hong's thigh early and doesn't need to take refuge in anyone, so the New Year's gift he prepared is very simple, that is, the food in his shop.

On the twenty-second day of the lunar month, Li Qiao stood in the courtyard and looked at the fine food boxes in the yard, and the more she looked at it, the more satisfied she became.

In fact, after Laba, someone sent New Year's gifts to his house.

However, at that time, the gift-givers were all merchants, some of whom were neighbors on the left and right sides of his shop, and some of whom did not know each other at all.

Acquaintance, and the New Year's gift is not valuable, Tao Zhu accepted it, and prepared a return gift.

Those who do not know will not be accepted.

Later, the officials were on vacation, and in the past few days, his family received New Year's gifts from colleagues in the Hanlin Academy.

It is not valuable, some are worth more than a dozen taels of silver, and some are dozens of taels.

Although the income of Dasheng officials is high, but on a big festival like the New Year, there are many human contacts, and if it is too valuable, then in terms of the wealth of the people in the Hanlin Academy, they can't afford to send it at all.

Since the gifts given by his colleagues are not valuable, Li Qiao naturally can't send too valuable, and the New Year's gifts he and Tao Zhu prepared are eight-inch cream cakes, duck goods, vermicelli, and puffs.

Each of them was packed separately into a three-storey food box, and in terms of the popularity of these foods in Shengjing, their family's New Year's gifts were completely handy.

Because of the eight-inch cream cake alone, Sheng Hong priced it at twenty taels of silver.

He originally thought that he was already very ruthless in doing business, but Sheng Hong was even more ruthless, relying on the fact that this was a fresh food, and the price was sky-high.

But the rich people in Shengjing didn't care about this bit of silver at all, and they grabbed a hundred cream cakes a day and grabbed them in minutes.

Some of them are slow runners or unlucky, and they haven't eaten cream cake yet.

Therefore, the New Year's gift he prepared is really handy.

"Okay, let Li Dao and the others drive the ox cart and set off."

After Li Qiao finished appreciating it, he began to give Li Dao, Li Jian, Li Gong, and Li Crossbow the task.

He bought five more ox carts and put them in the courtyard where Li Dao, Guofu Min'an and others lived, which was enough for these people.

Today, I will give gifts to my colleagues, and tomorrow I will prepare the New Year gifts of Zhao Youzhi, Lord Zhao and the Seven Princes.

Of course, because these two have high status and are relatively close to him, the amount of food they eat should be increased.

Prepare friends and relatives the day after tomorrow.

These major events were arranged, and Li Qiao looked at Tao Zhu beside him.

Tao Zhu's belly is already obvious, and now he has mixed feelings when he sees Tao Zhu's belly, pregnancy is really a magical thing, it can hold a person's belly to such a big ......

"Let's go back to our room, it's cold outside."

Li Qiao said, carefully hugging Tao Zhu's waist with one hand, and grabbing Tao Zhu's hand through the cloak with the other.

The two of them stood in the courtyard for most of the hour, but Tao Zhu was wearing a thick cloak, and his head and hands were hidden in the cloak, so his hands were hot at this time, and Li Qiao was just wearing normal cotton clothes, and his hands were already a little cold after standing in the yard for so long.

The two of them walked along the corridor and slowly returned to the main courtyard.