094 Gifts
"The car is loaded with brown rice, this is what the second master meant, the second master said that you have just escaped from the famine, it takes time to reclaim the famine, and it may not be necessary to wait for the harvest, and there must be a shortage of food, so I asked the master to prepare it for you, and it should be the Mid-Autumn Festival." Steward Wang saw Li Ping'an stop and stared at the sack on the cart, so he explained with a smile.
Okay, the fabrics and snacks have been collected, and it is not bad for these hundreds of catties of brown rice, Li Ping'an "accepted it" and accepted it boldly without prevarication. You don't have to think about it to guess that it was for the sake of the drawings that he had donated the threshing machine that the high-ranking Taishou would take such good care of him, a humble country man.
He wrote down this love in his heart, and secretly made up his mind to do his best to get Qu Yuan out of the plow, and there was only one way he could repay Wang Taishou.
Considering that Li Ping'an and they couldn't drive the ox cart, Steward Wang called the coachman who drove the ox cart to Master Wang's house, and asked him to take the ox cart to Li Ping'an and them back to the village, and teach them how to drive the ox cart by the way on the way.
Li Ping'an couldn't help it, after all, it was noon now, and the coachman sent them to the village and then walked back to the city, and it was dark after a round trip. But he couldn't shirk it, whether it was him or Zhang Xiaoshan and Li Dong, let alone driving the ox cart, he hadn't even pulled the ox!
Usually it is rare to see a cow, where it is their turn to get these children to get started, they are almost the same as cows, working and pulling carts.
However, Li Ping'an got started quickly, and in less than two quarters of an hour after leaving the city, he learned well, and the official road was spacious, although there were many passers-by, it did not affect it, Li Ping'an said to the "coach" that they did not need to send them to the village, and they just carried the ox cart back on their own for the rest of the journey.
The "coach" saw that Li Ping'an really learned well, and it was good not to toss, so he agreed, and when the "coach" left, Li Ping'an generously gave him ten copper plates, and he paid the tuition.
There is not much money, but he is indeed poor, but fortunately, the "coach" does not think that the money is small, and accepts it with a smile.
The brothers took turns to drive the ox cart to the village, and each one was quite addicted, and they were reluctant to change people, with a smile on their faces, and their crooked eyes stared at the cow as if they were looking at some treasure.
Zhang Xiaoshan and Li Dong were immersed in joy, although they were full of curiosity about what Master Wang said to Li Ping'an, and how he could send cattle, grain and cloth to Li Ping'an, but they didn't ask. They should know, even if they don't ask Li Ping'an, they will tell them, since Li Ping'an doesn't take the initiative to tell them, it means that they shouldn't know.
When he returned to the village, he immediately caused a sensation. After all, everyone saw Li Ping'an in the morning and they were pulling the cart, but when they came back in the morning, the cart turned into a cow!
Not to mention that there were still so many things on the car, six sacks were bulging, and three back baskets, although they couldn't see what was under the lid, there must be something, and the only ones that were empty were the six barrels.
The curiosity was not so strong, so he said hello to Li Ping'an and the three, and looked at the car on tiptoe. The curious ones followed the ox cart and asked Li Ping'an where the cow came from, what was in the sack, what was in the basket, and whether the jelly they sold had made a fortune......
Talking nonsense, Li Ping'an couldn't resist it, and Li Dong, the kid, jumped out of the car directly, leaving behind the sentence "I'm going to call the second uncle back" and ran away.
Li Ping'an scolded in his heart, thinking that he would have to catch this kid and scold him later, although it was said that the ox cart could not go fast, and it slowed down in the village, but it was really dangerous to jump out of the car like this. Safety aside, he is short of manpower now, if Li Dong jumps out of the car and stumbles, won't this delay things.
When he retracted his gaze, he saw the village chief Li Jianghe coming over, and Li Ping'an hurriedly shouted: "Seventh grandfather, seventh grandfather." ”
When those who were curious and asked questions heard this, they immediately stopped talking, and when they saw that it was really the village chief who came, they stopped.
Zhang Xiaoshan also stopped the ox cart, and after Li Jianghe approached, he glanced at the cow a few times in surprise, glanced at the things on the cart, and glanced at the seven or eight people on the side, and immediately understood why Li Ping'an was so eager to call him just now.
"All of them are idle and have nothing to do, right, believe it or not, I'll drive you to reclaim an extra acre of wasteland tomorrow?"
People from a village, look up and don't see what they look down, he doesn't know what the temperament of these seven or eight people is, the chickens passing by can say two words, and when he sees Li Ping'an, there are cows and carts here, maybe he can't say anything.
Li Jianghe, the village chief, still has prestige, as soon as he opened his mouth, this one said that he wanted to go back to make dinner, and the other said that the chickens raised at home did not know where to go and went to find them.
"Okay, go back first, and I'll go to your house later." Li Jianghe said that it was impossible not to be curious, but he couldn't make a move to block the road and find the bottom of it.
Li Ping'an nodded, "Thank you Seventh Grandpa, I also happen to have something to tell you, I'll go home and settle down first." ”
Li Jianghe responded thoughtfully, looked at the cow again, smashed his mouth, and left with his hands behind his back.
When I got home, it happened that Li Erlin and Chen Dajuan also came back in a hurry, although I heard what Li Dong said just now, but when I really saw it, I couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
"Ping, peace, this and this ......" Chen Dajuan's words were not good, and there was no follow-up for "this" for a long time.
Li Erlin was able to hold on, quickly came to his senses, frowned and asked what was going on.
"Let's move the things back into the house first, and I'll explain to you later!" Li Ping'an moved down the back basket for Caoya, "Zhang Xiaoshan, take this back basket to Caoya's house, this is what Master Wang ordered to give to Caoya." ”
Zhang Xiaoshan didn't look at it, he picked up the basket with one hand and left, he has always been very concerned about the affairs of his future daughter-in-law's family.
Seeing that Li Ping'an was unloading the car, Li Erlin suppressed the doubts in his heart, hurriedly stepped forward to help, and carried the sack to his shoulders, so he probably guessed what was in the bag.
His shoulders sank, and his heart sank at the same time, this is both cattle and grain, what did Li Ping'an do in the city?
I just want to finish moving things as soon as possible so that Li Ping'an can explain, he doesn't even have the heart to take a look at the croppers' favorite cattle, one trip or two...... After carrying the last bag of grain back to the house and unloading it, he anxiously asked Li Ping'an to tell him what was going on with these things.
"The six sacks are all brown rice, which was given to our family by the prince and the king, and the two baskets are the fabrics and snacks that the king gave to our family." Li Ping'an wiped his sweat, his heart was bitter, he came back from afar, and he didn't even have time to take a sip of water, "Dad, do you remember what we gave to Master Wang before, this is just a part of the thanks." ”
Li Erlin remembered and took a breath, "This is only a part?" ”
"Well, I also told Master Wang something...... Li Ping'an briefly introduced the matter of promising Master Wang to try to improve the plough tool, and then without waiting for Li Erlin to question, he hurriedly continued, "Dad, don't worry, Master Wang also said that it doesn't matter whether you succeed or not, you are not afraid of doing something wrong, you are afraid of not doing it." And I can even think of a threshing machine, and although it is difficult to improve the plow, it is not without direction. ”
Li Erlin hesitated and hesitated, and exhaled for a long time, "You have an opinion when you are young, but now that you have grown up, your father can't control you, and your father can't understand what you have to do, you can figure it out yourself, no matter what happens, what your father can help you carry will help you carry it." ”
"Say what to do, it'll be fine!" Li Ping'an hurriedly diverted the topic, "Dad, go and see how the cow is, and where should we keep the cow?" ”
As soon as the words fell, Xiao Ruyi shouted "cauldron" outside the house, and before she shouted twice, she was heard shouting "cow" again.
Li Ping'an burst into laughter, isn't it "cauldron, cow" in his ears? didn't hurt this little sister in vain, she saw the essence through the phenomenon, her eldest brother is indeed a cow!