Domineering husband

Chapter 60 Keeping up with his footsteps and serving corvee

  "Uncle Zhu, don't be angry!"

Seeing this, Li Dashan quickly explained: "Uncle didn't mean to force Uncle, he just hoped that Uncle could think about this while studying, he knows that reading is the most important thing, don't Dare to affect my uncle's study because of this matter!" "

But since he brought it up, he is embarrassing Li Qiao. Li Qiao is soft-hearted, easy to talk, and knows how to be grateful. If the villagers ask for something, he will definitely treat him as his Do your best to handle your own affairs."

Tao Zhu was still very angry.

"Eh..."

Li Dashan shrank his head, not daring to say anything.

Li Chuntao also put down her chopsticks, wanting to persuade her, but felt that what Tao Zhu said was reasonable.

It is indeed too much.

"Brother Zhu should be angry. Although I think Brother Qiao is very powerful now, in the final analysis, Brother Qiao is a human being, not a god. The sweet potatoes in several villages can be piled up into mountains. How can Brother Qiao consume it?

" Uncle Zhu, don't be angry, I also think that some folks will look for my uncle in the future, so I didn't keep my mouth shut..."

Li Dashan looked at Tao Zhu pitifully, regretting it very much.

If I had known earlier, he wouldn't have said it.

"I'm angry with other people, not you, you continue to eat."

Tao Zhu saw his big man huddled up on the small bench, his face softened a little.

"Dashan, it's none of your business, you eat."

Li Qiao finally opened his mouth, he held Tao Zhu's hand instead, and shook it twice: "Brother Zhu, I know you are doing it for my own good, but don't be angry, since Uncle Dashan just asked casually, then let's talk about it." Listen casually, don't take it to heart."

"I'm afraid you will take it to heart. Reading is so tiring, if you still have to think about how to deal with sweet potatoes, wouldn't it be even more tiring."

Tao Zhu frowned and looked at him.

"I won't take it to heart. I just think about it casually. It won't affect my study, let alone make me tired. Don't worry." "

Look, you really took this on yourself."

Tao Zhu sighed .

His man's heart is too soft, too kind.

Li Qiao smiled and said, "Since I've been asked, I'll definitely think about it."

But don't think too quickly, lest the villagers think he's omnipotent and come to him whenever they need something.

In this way, it is easy to cause the tragedy of Sheng Mi's kindness and Mi's hatred.

However, seeing Tao Zhu's angry appearance, after lunch, he took Tao Zhu and Li Dashan to install the sewer pipes in the new yard.

This job is light, and the three of them can handle it without the need to hire additional people.

After installing the iron pipes in the reserved place, Li Qiao asked Li Dashan to go back to make snacks, while he and Tao Zhu stayed behind with a shovel to bury the iron pipes.

"The more I look at this shower room, the more interesting it becomes. How about we use it tonight?" Li Qiao asked Tao Zhu with a smile.

Tao Zhu glanced at the shower room which hadn't been fully renovated, and shook his head: "It's better to wait until we really move in."

"Actually, I'm taking a bath in the yard at night, and it's already a bit cold."

Li Qiao thought of the situation when he took a bath at night in the past few days, and his body shivered.

He and Tao Zhu both bathed in the yard before, but the temperature has dropped recently, if there is a slight wind blowing over while washing, they will really be shivering and have goose bumps.

"I'll go buy a bathtub tomorrow. You have to study every day, so you can't catch the cold." Seeing him shaking, Tao Zhu hurriedly said.

"Don't you feel cold?" Li Qiao was a little surprised.

"I'm used to it, I don't feel the cold." Tao Zhu shook his head, he was just getting there.

"...Okay. But if you use a bathtub, you have to boil water, pour water, and clean the tub. It's too troublesome. I think we should hire a long-term worker." "Huh?"

Tao

Zhu was stunned, even the movements of his hands Stop it, hire a long-term worker to clean the tub?

What a joke!

But before he could speak, Li Qiao said again: "Besides, once we move to the new house, there must be someone guarding the old house, otherwise I'm afraid that our ox cart will be stolen." "Even this one

now Iron pipes, I'm afraid they will be stolen, seven or eight taels of silver."

Tao Zhu: "..."

His expression became serious, this is true.

"Then from tomorrow, let's look for suitable candidates."

"However, it needs money. Don't you still want to raise some livestock? We don't raise too many, but if we raise any one, the piglets and chickens will be worth it." It costs money."

"It doesn't cost much."

Tao Zhu said like this, but as soon as the words came out, he raised his eyebrows: "What do you want to say?" "

I want to say, if I really find a way out for sweet potato, it will not only benefit the villagers, We can also earn a lot of money, just like corn." "

So I hope you don't get angry anymore, I'm not just thinking about this for the folks, I'm for ourselves." "I know you

are I feel sorry for me, but I don't want you to waste your emotions on this matter anymore. Seeing you angry makes me anxious, and I want you to be happy every day."

Li Qiao straightened his expression and said seriously.

Tao Zhu: "..."

He pursed his lower lip, lowered his eyes, feeling a little uncomfortable: "You still have to spend all your time coaxing me, I'm no different from Uncle Dashan, I'm just causing you trouble." "...

No !"

Li Qiao quickly shook his head, he dropped the shovel in his hand, walked up to Tao Zhu in two steps, and hugged him: "Do we still need to talk like this? It's too natural!" He

said I couldn't help stretching out my hand to pinch the soft flesh on Tao Zhu's cheek and pulled it out, a little helpless: "I found that since I started studying, you have treated me like a glass person, and you always treat me carefully.

" When he was studying, Tao Zhu would not approach the main room, and he would not let other people approach the main room. Unless he came out on his own initiative, Tao Zhu would never disturb him.

There is also daily work, except for making meat floss, he doesn't have to do any housework now.

He used to do everything, such as washing clothes, sweeping the floor, cleaning tables, watering vegetables, etc., anyway, it was all easy jobs.

But now Tao Zhu won't let him touch at all.

Is this treating him as a giant baby?

"You study so hard, I don't want to affect you."

Being poked in his mind, Tao Zhu nodded and admitted.

As he spoke, he also threw away the shovel in his hand, and raised his hand to hold Li Qiao's big hand that was making trouble on his face: "The imperial examination is so difficult. Brother Wen has been studying for thirty years and has not been admitted as a scholar. Of course, you must be better than him." Brother Wen is smart, but I don't understand imperial examinations, and I can't do my best, what I can do is to do other things well, so as not to distract you."

He looked serious, but there was disappointment in his tone.

He didn't know anything about the imperial examination, and he had nothing to talk about with Li Qiao other than talking about how expensive books, pens, ink, paper and inkstones were...

He couldn't participate in Li Qiao's career.

He couldn't follow behind Li Qiao and support the family business with Li Qiao like making dim sum.

In the imperial examination, he was really powerless.

Li Qiao didn't miss Tao Zhu's loss.

After a moment of silence, self-blame appeared on his face: "I'm sorry, it was my fault."

"What's wrong with you." Tao Zhu was surprised, his eyes widened a little.

"My fault was that I didn't communicate with you, so that there was a gap between us. I should tell you more about the imperial examination." "...

Even if you did, then I don't understand." Tao Bamboo pursed his lips.

"No, the imperial examination is not as sacred as you think. You must understand it. It's like the two real questions on policy that Brother Wen showed me before..." Li Qiao began to talk about the current emperor's preference for writing short essays, and how he tortured

Zhuang Wen. The evil exam questions that can't sleep at night.

It was the first time Tao Zhu heard these things, he was surprised at first, but soon became interested.

These things were a whole new world to him.

"We don't have a typhoon in Pingcheng, but there is one in the exam question. I understand that the Holy Majesty wants to be down-to-earth, but for our Pingcheng candidates, this question is not down-to-earth, but hell." Li Qiao couldn't help complaining

.

Tao Zhu: "..."

He was taken aback for a moment, and then burst out laughing, his watery eyes sparkling: "Keep your words down, don't let anyone overhear you." "Don't worry,

I'm just flirting with you Complaining, you must never say it in front of others." "

Now you know what the imperial examinations are all about, it's not sacred at all. You can understand." "

If you don't mention the big things in the books Reasonable, then I do understand the topic of this strategy."

The smile on Tao Zhu's face did not fade away.

Li Qiao's words were like a rope, pulling him, who was far behind Li Qiao, to Li Qiao's side.

"Then I will tell you more about this in the future. I went to the bookstore to buy books today, and I bought local chronicles and travel notes that record the situation in various places..."

Li Qiao talked about his coping ideas again.

Tao Zhu listened very carefully, and when Li Qiao finished speaking, he couldn't help but boast: "That's a good idea, no matter what the next exam is, let's make complete preparations first." "Look, if you can give me some advice

, I was wrong before, I ignored you."

Li Qiao couldn't help but hug him tightly as he spoke.

Before he knew it, Tao Zhu must have been suffering extremely in his heart these days.

When Tao Zhu heard this, he smiled and said, "You've done a good job."

Which scholar in this world would take out the imperial examination questions and chat with his husband like this?

Anyway, none of the scholars he had met was like this.

Not only was this person pulling him forward in business, but now he was also doing the same in the imperial examination. He was so happy that he didn't know what to say.

"Let's bury this iron pipe quickly, and then you go back to study, and I'll make snacks, and by the way, think about who to hire as a long-term worker."

In the end, he chose to be pragmatic.

Although happy, but still have to work.

Hearing his brisk tone, Li Qiao couldn't help laughing too: "Okay."

Next, he was going to toss sweet potatoes.

In fact, if you want to consume sweet potatoes in large quantities, the method is very simple:

vermicelli.

There are many ways to eat sweet potato vermicelli, each of which is delicious and can be stored for a long time. It is perfect for consuming sweet potatoes.

However, such a good idea, he can't take it out easily, he has to "experiment".

In the next few days, Li Qiao still concentrated on his studies, but in the evening when Li Dashan and Li Chuntao left, he would chat with Tao Zhu about the contents of the books he read that day.

Not only talk about the content in local chronicles and travel notes, but also talk about the content in the Four Books and Five Classics.

Of course, he will not say those big truths, but mention some interesting points.

Tao Zhu wanted to keep up with him, even if what he said was not interesting, Tao Zhu listened with gusto.

The relationship between the two is better than before. Tao Zhu seems to have let go of all the knots in his heart. He is no longer wary of Li Qiao, and the smile on his face has increased a lot.

However, at noon that day, Tao Zhu couldn't laugh anymore.

Because Mrs. Tao is here.

In fact, Mrs. Tao also came over from time to time before, asking Tao Zhu for snacks, meat, and money, and asked Tao Zhu to pull Tao Shu.

Tao Zhu refused all of these.

Tao Zhu refused, and Mrs. Tao either cried and sold herself miserably, or scolded others.

Tao Zhuquan pretended not to hear these words.

If Mrs. Tao dared to pull him, he would hide.

If there happened to be a villager there, the villager would go and drag Mrs. Tao away.

In short, Tao Zhu didn't let Mrs. Tao take advantage of her.

But this time, Mrs. Tao didn't come here to be a demon, she came to announce a big event: From now on, Tao Zhu will provide her and Old Tao three meals a day.

Her family ran out of wheat, and Tao Shu and Lai Dongmei went to Lai Dongmei's natal house to collect sweet potatoes. She and Old Man Tao had nothing to eat, so they had to come to Tao Zhu.

Tao Zhu was unhappy, but he didn't refuse.

After all, he said before that he can manage old man Tao and old lady Tao to eat together.

When Mrs. Tao left, Li Qiao pulled Tao Zhu into the room: "It's just Caiwowo and wild vegetable soup, which are not worth much, so don't be unhappy. Come on, give me a smile." "...I'm

not Because those wowotou are not happy."

Tao Zhu frowned.

"What is that for?" Li Qiao asked.

"Because of Tao Shu. In the past, I was the one who built roads and dug rivers, but now that I'm gone, that family can't afford five hundred cash. When the government recruits manpower, Tao Shu will definitely come and make trouble." "And you

now In school, reputation is very important to you, if we reject it too thoroughly, will outsiders think you are cold-blooded and heartless?"

Tao Zhu was worried, but of course he was also angry.

"We're not really cold-blooded and ruthless, but if they want to repent, we're definitely willing to pull them. But they don't! They just want to suck blood from us." How could he meet such a difficult relative

? Already.

well!

"So it's this..." Li Qiao understood.

He has a solution, but he can't say it.

So, he hugged Tao Zhu's waist and comforted softly: "Take one step at a time. If he goes out to ruin my reputation, then the folks will definitely support us.

" Going to a private school, even if your classmates know that he is hateful, but seeing him as a poor man, we are popular and drink hot food, then we will become unreasonable even if we are reasonable." "We will talk about it when he really makes trouble

. Let's live the life in front of us first."

Li Qiao could only say so.

Tao Zhu sighed, yes, at present there is really no other way, alas!

On the third day that Mrs. Tao came to Liqiao's house for dinner, Tao Shu came.

He came to ask Tao Zhu for money, but he didn't want to serve corvee.

Tao Zhu refused to give it, and he clenched his fists to beat him. The corvee in Pingcheng is not heavy, it's just building roads and digging rivers. He refuses to do these jobs.

Seeing that Tao Zhu wanted to beat him, Tao Shu yelled for Tao Zhu to beat him to death just like before.

When Tao Zhu's fist really landed on him, he wailed and yelled that he was going to die at Li Qiao's house.

As he spoke, he actually slammed into the kitchen wall.

Tao Zhu didn't want to pay him for the medicine, so he wanted to drag him. Seeing this, he thought he had Tao Zhu in his hands, and even made a full posture and slammed into the wall.

He wanted to touch porcelain, but for some reason, his foot slipped and he fell to the ground.

His head just hit the green brick in the corner.

Blood spurted out immediately, and he also passed out.

Tao Zhu was taken aback, while Li Qiao carried the medicine box to stop the bleeding, but the bleeding couldn't be stopped, so the husband and wife pulled out the ox cart and took him to the county seat.

When we arrived at the county medical center, the doctor worked hard to stop the bleeding, but Tao Shu had a high fever that night and almost survived.

In the evening of the next day, he finally woke up, but he looked a little foolish.

And I dare not move my head at will, it hurts when I move it.

According to the doctor, he had a fever and his brain went crazy.

Li Qiao: "..."

High fever can indeed burn out the brain, but this happens more often in babies. Because the brain of babies is not fully developed, the high temperature will affect the nerves in the brain.

But this is not the case with adults, whose brains are already fully developed.

But Tao Shu met this opportunity, which was even more difficult than winning the lottery, so it can only be said that Tao Shu was unlucky.

He didn't do anything, he just let Tao Shu fall, who knew the consequences would be like this.

Tao Shu stayed in the clinic for a few more days, the wound on his head stopped bleeding, but he was indeed stupid.

This stupidity doesn't mean that he has really become a fool, but that his reaction is very slow. If you say a word to him, he has to think for half a minute before he can respond.

And there is still a sequela of a concussion, and the head dare not turn at will.

Old Mrs. Tao, Old Man Tao and Lai Dongmei cried heart-rendingly. They relied on Tao Zhu and had to make Tao Zhu lose money.

With the villagers around, the three of them didn't even touch Tao Zhu's clothes.

However, after discussing with Li Qiao, Tao Zhu and Li Qiao decided to take a step back.

Although he is a married man, who made him soft-hearted.

From now on, he can manage Tao Shu to eat.

However, the food standard is the same as that of Mrs. Tao and Mrs. Tao. You can eat vegetables and wild vegetable soup as you like, and you can eat as much as you want.

As for Lai Dongmei, he really has no obligation to take care of Lai Dongmei's meals.

This result made the villagers a little bit embarrassed, but Tao Shu deserved it, a big man with hands and feet, who can collect sweet potatoes for Lai Dongmei's natal family but can't serve corvee?

Threatened Tao Zhu to kill him, but he knocked himself into a fool. God has eyes, and God has shown his spirit again.

Some people even said that this is very good, at least they will not have to worry about eating and drinking in the future, isn't this better than before?

However, the villagers also knew about the urine behavior of the three people from the Tao family. They were afraid that these three people would go to Li Qiao's house to make trouble. The big guys paid close attention to Li Qiao's situation twelve hours a day.

Amidst this noise, the autumn harvest is over, and the autumn tax is also over, and the next step is to plant winter wheat and perform corvee labor.

For corvee service, each family sends out a male, carrying tools and dry food, to work in places designated by the government.

The corvee labor in Pingcheng is mainly to repair pipelines and dig rivers.

The roads at this time are all dirt roads, which are prone to potholes, so they have to be repaired every year.

This job is not heavy.

Digging the river, sometimes digging a new channel, sometimes digging the silt in the river to dredge the channel, is more work than building roads.

This year, Sanliu Village was assigned to dig a river fifty miles away.

The imperial court wants to build a big river to facilitate the irrigation of the nearby villages, so the corvee work of the nearby villages this year is to dig the river.

Relying on Li Qiao this year, Sanliu Village's income for each household is higher than before. However, if they don't go to corvee, they have to pay 500 Wen. Many families are reluctant to part with this money. Sanliu Village is not far away, so, except for a few families, most of them have a male, carrying a simple bag and dry food, and went to dig the river.

The fifty-mile road is actually not close, and it is too time-consuming to go back and forth every day. The government will provide simple tents, and the villagers can live in the river.

This year's sweet potato harvest was bumper, but none of the villagers in Sanliu Village took sweet potatoes to dig the river.

Everyone in the autumn tax pays sweet potatoes. If they also bring sweet potatoes, they will be full of sweet potatoes.

Although sweet potatoes are delicious, but eating too much heartburn!

Therefore, the villagers of Sanliu Village brought other miscellaneous grains, such as millet and sorghum.

After this group of people dug the river and left, life in Sanliu Village continued as usual, and winter plowing began, which was related to next year's wheat harvest, so it must not be sloppy.

But the sweet potatoes at home have to be consumed too.

In previous years, all the sweet potatoes could be stored in one cellar, but this year it takes two or even three cellars to store all the sweet potatoes.

If so many sweet potatoes are not eaten quickly, they will either be spoiled, or they will be made into dried sweet potatoes and kept to feed pigs.

With corn in front, no one really wants to feed sweet potatoes to pigs.

After such a long period of observation, the villagers have summed up the rules of Li Qiao's reading: when it gets dark, he will stop reading.

Therefore, in the past few days, people have come to Li Qiao's house every day to inquire if Li Qiao has any new achievements.

Everyone has known for a long time that Li Qiao is using sweet potatoes to make various delicacies, so as to find a way to make money for many sweet potatoes.

But it's been more than half a month. With Li Qiao's intelligence, it seems that there is no progress.

But yes, if you can find a way to make money for sweet potatoes by just messing around, then this money way has already been found out.

The big guys have been planting sweet potatoes for so many years, and no one has seen new tricks on sweet potatoes.

This afternoon, Li Ping came to buy the Youth League.

She hadn't come for several days. After buying the Youth League, she didn't leave, but stayed and ate, chatting with Tao Zhu while eating.

"My father just came back from the construction site and brought Da Zhong back."

"Huh? What's wrong with Brother Dazhong?" Tao Zhu was a little surprised when he heard that he was making winter clothes.

Li Dazhong just went to dig the river a few days ago, why did he come back today.

"There are sweet potatoes all over the construction site. He has a weak spleen and stomach. After eating sweet potatoes last night, he couldn't sleep. He brought it back."

As the village head, Zhuang Fengshou naturally had to go to the construction site for a few days to resettle the villagers of Sanliu Village.

There is a big stove on the construction site, and the two villages eat together, and they are from Xiaogang Village who started a partnership with Sanliu Village.

The villagers in Sanliu Village brought other miscellaneous grains, but half of the people in Xiaogang Village brought sweet potatoes.

Not everyone will get heartburn if they eat too much sweet potatoes. In addition, this year's sweet potato harvest is bumper, so people in Xiaogang Village brought sweet potatoes.

Anyway, it's a big pot of rice, everyone will eat whatever they bring, and there must be some people who don't bring sweet potatoes, so not all meals are sweet potatoes.

The people in Xiaogang Village thought very well. It is true that Sanliu Village did not bring sweet potatoes, but the government could not help but provide them with sweet potatoes.

So the meals for the past few days have hardly seen other miscellaneous grains. They are sweet potatoes in the morning, noon and evening, steamed sweet potatoes, sweet potato porridge with little water and no millet, and a bowl of wild vegetables that are old without oil and water. It's just a meal.

Li Dazhong had a weak spleen and stomach and couldn't carry so many sweet potatoes, so Zhuang Fengshou brought him back.

"Why don't the cooks cook with other grains?" Tao Zhu asked with a frown.

"Tsk, isn't there a yamen servant here? The yamen servant doesn't want to eat sweet potatoes, and the cook doesn't want to eat them either, so we leave the miscellaneous grains brought by our folks to start a small stove."

One yamen servant is in charge of two villages, but in order to have people to run errands, the government temporarily recruited two assistants for the yamen servant. Therefore, Sanliu Village and Xiaogang Village are managed by three people.

These three people are old men, they don't want to eat sweet potatoes, and the cooks don't want to eat sweet potatoes, so they can only let the people of the two villages eat sweet potatoes every day.

The miscellaneous grains brought by the folks in Sanliu Village were taken by the yamen servants and cooks.

Let's talk about it being big, but it's not that big.

In addition, the villagers naturally have a kind of fear when facing the government servants, so the people in the two villages only dare to complain in private, and dare not really protest.

Tao Zhu had been serving corvee for several years in a row before, so he knew the twists and turns.

The yamen servants were not corrupt, and Li Dazhong was the only one who had an accident, so the villagers could only endure it.

"It will pass after a while." That's all he could say.

"That's right, it's not a big deal, at most it's because I don't want to eat sweet potatoes for a long time after I come back."

Li Ping didn't think it was a big deal either.

Li Dazhong didn't think it was a big deal either.

But Li Dao felt that this was a big deal, since Li Dazhong came back, it was up to him to dig the river, and he didn't want to eat sweet potatoes either!

When the harvest was not good a few years ago, the family was full of sweet potatoes every day. He was hurt by eating them, and he never wanted to eat sweet potatoes since then.

Now he must be on top, no, he has to save himself.

He avoided Zhuang Fengshou on the pretext of going to the toilet, and ran to Li Qiao's house in a hurry.

He wanted to borrow money from Li Qiao, but he didn't want to serve in corvee.

Besides, isn't Li Qiao studying sweet potatoes? Why didn't it work after so many days, did Li Qiao play tricks on purpose?

The author has something to say:

I wanted to write a long chapter to finish the vermicelli, but I was very sleepy today QAQ.

Send a small red envelope to the treasures, and I must finish writing this plot tomorrow!