Among those who achieved good things this winter were the Li family.
As the Li family's children grew up, they began to suffer from headaches.
Even if they get married, they cannot leave the place of exile. The marriage partners must either be among the same sinners, or they can only marry with farmers from surrounding villages.
Even if they all once served as officials, but now they have become sinners, the villagers may not be able to take a fancy to them and be willing to marry a sinner.
However, Li Zhi is handsome, humble and polite, and the Li family has improved their lives with the help of Huo Xi. There are actually many people who like Li Zhi. He is the eldest son and grandson, and the family business will still be in the future.
It's all his.
Many people came to inquire, but Li Zhi's mother, Miao, looked down upon the farmers in the village.
In fact, Ma and Li Shimian felt uncomfortable marrying a granddaughter-in-law who was illiterate and didn't know how to take care of the house. But given their own conditions, they could only choose the taller from the shortest, and Miao was about to hold his nose and admit it.
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Unexpectedly, shopkeeper Bai from Jixiang Shop came to the village.
I highly recommend my eldest daughter.
The Li family was both surprised and happy.
On the day they met, after meeting the girl named Bai Yunling from the Bai family, everyone in the family, from the oldest to the youngest, was convinced. Li Zhi's whole face turned red, and the girl was so generous.
, but he was too embarrassed to say a complete sentence.
The two families quickly agreed on the marriage.
When Bo Yuanzhi's wife Zhan looked at the betrothal gift sent by the Li family, she stopped complaining and felt satisfied. Bo Yuanzhi said that she was snobbish.
"My biological daughter, I can't make plans for her? Just you, choose from thousands of people, choose a family of exiled sinners for your daughter. Our family was freed from slavery, and now we are good people. You let our precious daughter marry
You are willing to be exiled to the village! It’s as if Yunling is not your flesh and blood."
At first, Ms. Zhan thought that her man must be crazy because he wanted to marry his daughter to an exiled sinner. Even if his son studied with the Li family, there was no need to sacrifice his daughter's life.
I strongly opposed it at first, even if I wanted to take the two children back to my parents' home, and I didn't agree with this marriage.
Bai Yuanzhi persuaded her for a long time, and her daughter openly said that she wanted to see the person before making a decision. Zhan decided to see the person before making a decision.
Unexpectedly, after seeing the person, her daughter agreed first. She had always loved her daughter, and saw that Li Zhi was really talented. He was not decadent and slovenly like the ordinary exiled sinners. He was worthy of being raised by a noble family. She felt a little bit in her heart.
Agreed.
"Then the Li family really has someone to help them?" Zhan didn't believe it.
"Can I lie to you?" But shopkeeper Bai remembered his master's request and didn't say much to Zhan.
He only said: "After all, Mr. Li is the master of the imperial wine ceremony in Guozi Lin. He has many peaches and plums all over the world. He was just implicated at the beginning. As long as the court grants amnesty and there are nobles and his students running the show, it is not that his family cannot have a better future."
Although our family has lost its citizenship, it is impossible for us to join such a noble family. How good is this opportunity now?"
"Yes, mother, if his family hadn't been in trouble, how could he have taken a liking to a family like ours."
"What kind of family are we? We don't lack food and drink, we have saved some money, and we are still good people." Zhan was dissatisfied with the father and daughter devaluing themselves.
"We are good people, but others may not think highly of us."
"It's just that your daughter doesn't understand things yet."
Mrs. Zhan gave her father and daughter an angry look, and they knew how to coax her.
"If you have a bad life in the future, don't go back to your parents' house and cry. I won't pay attention to you." She chose the man herself and lived her own life. She didn't care.
Having said that, as soon as they got engaged, Mrs. Zhan concentrated on organizing her daughter's marriage.
The Li family has breathed a long sigh of relief since they decided to marry Li Zhi. Although Mrs. Miao is still a little dissatisfied with the status of her future daughter-in-law, she is already the one with the best conditions among all the people she has promised to marry before.
And Bai Yunling looked bright and elegant, and could read and write. She was a generous daughter-in-law who could be the director of the family. Mrs. Miao couldn't help but feel happy and began to prepare for her son's marriage.
"I have to tell Sister Ning about this. Let her be happy for his eldest cousin." Mrs. Miao looked at Mr. Ma and Li Shimian.
Ma frowned, and just when she was about to speak, Li Shimian held her back, "Come on, come on, you can grind the ink for me, and I'll tell Sister Ning and Nian'er about the happy news about his eldest cousin."
After entering the room, Ma glared at Li Shimian, "Why are you pulling me? I have to give her a good talk. I don't know what she is thinking!"
Li Shimian sighed: "She did it for Zhi'er. Although her family's life is better now, they don't have enough betrothal gifts."
Ma frowned: "We got too many things from Sister Ning. The child has not yet reached the age of hairpin. She is hiding her name in the market with Nian'er. We don't help her, and we always point at her. It makes me feel sad just thinking about it.
It hurts."
Mrs. Ma sat down in the room, thinking of her two poor grandchildren, and kept wiping her tears.
Her Rou'er passed away too early, leaving her two children suffering hardship in the market, with no flesh and blood relatives able to help. Thinking of it made her heart ache.
Li Shimian comforted her for a long time, and then Ma got better.
"Hurry up and write a letter to your children. I'll add a few words too. I miss them, and I don't know what Nian'er looks like." Her poor grandson, of flesh and blood, only has one sister by her side.
It was already late autumn in October when Huo Xi received the letter from the old couple who traveled thousands of miles away.
The late rice has been harvested in the village, and the last crop of silkworm cocoons has been harvested. This year is another bumper harvest.
After two years of experiments, the survival rate of silkworms has been greatly improved. This year, we have raised silkworms four times, and the mulberry fields have adopted the dense planting method. One acre of mulberry fields can produce six stones of silkworm cocoons a year. This year, several villagers can earn several dollars just by selling raw silk.
Ten thousand taels. This does not include the rent paid by farmers in the Jiahu area.
After the maritime ban was lifted, the Maritime Silk Road reached its peak. Huo Xi was in the south of the Yangtze River and in the center of the silk industry, so he naturally wanted a piece of the pie.
The raw silk was transported to Songjiang and asked to be woven into silk cloth by a weaver in preparation for going to sea next year.
After finishing this work, I received a letter from my grandfather.
I was very happy for my eldest cousin when I saw that his marriage was settled.
After reading the letter, he showed it to Nian'er. After reading it, Nian'er was happy and suddenly asked her: "Sister, whose parents are this grandpa and grandma? Aren't the ones we went back to Yangjiacun to worship my mother's parents?"
Why does he have two grandparents?
Huo Xi was stunned.
When Huo Nian was little, she coaxed him and said they were his maternal grandparents, and Nian'er didn't ask any questions. She happily wrote letters to them, starting from blacking out a few characters he didn't recognize until the characters became more and more numerous.
The better you write, the more you will be praised by your grandfather and uncle every time.
Now that he has grown up, he is no longer easy to coax.