Professor Li’s Married Life Chapter 8:

After being scolded by Mrs. Sun, Mrs. Bai restrained herself a lot. In the next few days, she was honest and had no sense of presence. side.

Although Gu Qingci did not realize that she had become someone else's daughter-in-law, she listened to her more or less with Mammy Zhang being around her from time to time, teaching and admonishing her softly.

After getting angry on the day of offering tea, he obediently remained quiet for two days.

He took a breath, and then took some time to go to Mrs. Sun to make a confession.

Although I know she is not sincere, but at least she is willing to build a ladder, so everyone can only take the opportunity to get off. When talking, the old lady squinted a smiling face from the beginning to the end, and looked cheerful. Outsiders who didn't know the inside story really thought that this family was harmonious.

Li Cheng watched in astonishment, and secretly said that everyone is really good.

Looking at it this way, his little wife's skill is still a bit weak, but she is still young after all. It's no wonder that the mansion has to bring a nanny to dowry, otherwise they will be bullied to death if they meet someone with a black heart.

Two meals a day also go to the east yard for dinner on time.

After the Li family married Li Chengze, their family fortune was exhausted, and their living conditions are naturally not as good as before.

There is no meat on the table once in a few days. Most of them are dry stews, or with scrambled eggs and fried vegetables.

When Gu Qingci was at the dinner table for the first time, his dislike was written all over him from head to toe, and he really couldn't get used to it anywhere.

Rough food is second to none, the most important thing is the huge difference in diet between nobles and commoners.

Gu Qingci was raised by the daughter of the Hou Mansion, Jiaojiaoer, who is rich in gold, jade, brocade clothes and jade food.

What kind of environment does she live in?

It's impossible for the Li family to know, and I'm afraid they can't even imagine it.

Li Cheng made an analogy to the Rongguo Mansion in the novel A Dream of Red Mansions, and he thought it was probably like that.

Just look at the part of the Dream of Red Mansions when sister Lin enters Jia's mansion, the whole family eats in a well-behaved manner, and the old lady sits next to the girls. At the beginning, a large group of maids brought handkerchiefs and basins to wait for the ladies to wash their hands. When the plates of delicate dishes were warmed up, there were maids who served the dishes to help pick up the dishes. Appearing, carrying basins of water, asking masters to cover their faces, rinse their mouths and drink tea, the continuous movement and reaction are all long-term habits.

It was raised by the accumulation of wealth and heritage of several generations.

Every family has its own habits. Sister Lin is also the daughter of an official family, but she went to her grandmother's house because the customs and rules there were different from her own, and she thought that she would have to change them one by one in the future.

As for Gu Qingci, it's not just a matter of her different living habits, but also her living standard has plummeted and she has plunged sharply.

It is almost equivalent to descending from a wealthy family to an extremely poor family.

To be honest, for ancient women, getting married was equivalent to their second reincarnation, which directly determined their living standards and happiness index for the rest of their lives.

In modern terms, Gu Qingci is a junk stock.

So how can she not despair? It is because of despair that there is no scruple to do everything in heaven.

Thinking of this, Li Cheng felt a little sympathetic to the kid.

There are not many Li family members, and the family does not divide the meal into men's and women's tables when the door is closed, and they all sit together to eat.

The chopsticks of people on the seventh and eighth are picking up and down in the dishes, and the elderly people are sometimes not very particular, they like to talk at the dinner table, but they don't pay much attention to it, and occasionally a little bit of saliva will inevitably leak out Xingzi.

Gu Qingci didn't scream and expose it on the spot, it was thanks to Nanny Li's repeated exhortations in the past few days.

Although there was no quarrel, her complexion was even more undisguised, changing from red to white, very ugly.

To be fair, don't say that Gu Qingci can't stand it, Li Chengze doesn't feel it at all.

It's just that the environment is unbearable, and he can't be as willful as the little girl, what does that look like.

It is impossible for her to eat this kind of vulgar food in Gu Qingci's eyes. After several small bowls of rice were poked many times, she didn't take a bite of it.

The pot of stew, a scrambled egg, and a fried cabbage with oil residue were not touched.

Li Cheng glanced at Gu Qingci and didn't say anything, but Li's family members didn't look well, and he also had a headache.

Suddenly, I realized what it was like to be caught between mother and daughter-in-law.

There is a pot of untouched rice soup on the eye table. This thing is available every day, and no one in the Li family likes to drink it.

In Li Chengze's eyes, the way Gu Qingci poked rice with his head down was no different from that of a picky eater who doesn't eat.

Gu Qingci was so angry that she just wanted to get through the meal and go back to her own room to eat delicious food.

But suddenly, a slender and well-articulated hand stretched out in front of her eyes.

Gu Qingci was taken aback.

Li Cheng calmly picked up Gu Qingci's bowl, scooped two spoonfuls of rice soup into her rice, soaked the rice soup and rice together, and placed it in front of her again.

The tone is a bit gentle, and said: "Eat."

Everyone in the Li family was stunned for a moment.

Li Qingci quickly raised his head and then lowered it, as if hesitating and struggling with himself, after a long while, he finally picked up the bowl, opened his mouth, and carefully took a mouthful of rice.

Originally, such an act of adding food to his wife in public would definitely dissatisfy the elders in the family, and would anger the new wife even more.

But the current situation is a little different, because in the eyes of the Li family, Li Cheng only made some rice soup for Gu Qingci, which is completely worthless in their eyes. There are words like daughter-in-law forgetting mother.

On the contrary, Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Bai thought that Li Cheng didn't like Gu Qingci's embarrassment to their family, and deliberately taught her a lesson.

If Li Cheng knew what these people were thinking, he would really be dumbfounded.

However, he was sure that if he really gave Gu Qingci the stew that was poked by everyone's chopsticks, he would guarantee that Gu Qingci would not eat a bite, and would lose his temper with himself.

I have to say that Li Cheng understood Gu Qingci clearly.

After reluctantly passing by two more times, Gu Qingci refused to go there again, and no one persuaded him to do anything.

Ms. Sun and the others knew it well, and they just watched it coldly, but they couldn't talk about it.

In the end, Li Chengze was still required to come forward to explain the truth. He only said that Gu Qingci was young and frail.

After speaking for her, Gu Qingci took it for granted.

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On this day, Mrs. Sun recalled what she said earlier about buying someone for Li Chengze. After breakfast, she originally wanted Mrs. Bai to invite the old man's house, but Mrs. Sun didn't know how to buy someone. I don't even know that a matchmaker like her who only buys one servant will not come to the door.

Or Li Cheng said that there is no need to bother, he can go to the Yashe by himself.

The Sun family will let him go.

Li Chengze didn't go out for the past few days. He accompanied the little girl back home, and there were many complicated lawsuits in the Hou Mansion, which took him a lot of effort to deal with.

When they were about to come back, Gu Qingci insisted on pulling the second wife's clothes, with a face full of reluctance, and refused to go back. In the end, the second wife cruelly scolded her daughter before finishing.

Because of this, Gu Qingci was still angry with a cold face from the time he got into the carriage until he returned to the house.

Naturally, Li Cheng would not care about her, he only thought of her as being awkward.

He still has a lot of things to deal with in his mind, and he doesn't have time to discipline Gu Qingci right now, he only occasionally coaxes her when he finds time.

Li Cheng had a memory, so he didn't rush to go to the private tooth house before going out, but looked around while walking, familiarizing himself with the route and the customs here.

The difference between different worlds can be truly felt when you leave the door. The rented buildings, roads and paths, horse-drawn carts, people's clothing... These are completely different from the modern times he lives in.

Li Cheng sighed, and wandered around the west of the city for a long time, until it was almost noon before going to the private tooth house.

The street behind Yashe is full of slaves, Li Cheng looked at many of them coldly along the way, and finally chose one, and asked someone to take him to choose, and finally bought a fifteen-year-old boy.

Although human trafficking is legalized at this time, it makes people feel complicated.

However, just now along the way, someone kowtowed to Li Chengze and begged him to buy him, but Li Chengze didn't know how to react.

The newly bought kid is just a little bit smart because of his age, so it's not very cheap, costing five taels of silver.

Li Cheng is very poor. He has lightly tapped his property in the past few days, and there is only a total of ten taels of silver, which was saved by the original body for a long time. He spends money for his studies from home every month, so he saves some.

I bought someone, and now I only have five taels of silver left in my whole body.

The Li family has been relying on the rent of the 200 mu of land in the countryside, and has not been operating other businesses.

When there are no major affairs at home, life is still good, and it can even be used for Li Chengze to study.

Of course, because there is a scholar in the family, the Li family has not saved much money these years.

This year, in order to sell one hundred acres of land, half of the family's livelihood was cut off at once, and it will not be slowed down in a short time.

Li Chengze is a big man, and he is still married now, so it is naturally impossible to ask Li Baode or Sun for money like the original body.

I also thought of the ten or so people in Gu Qingci's house, if it wasn't for Gu Qingci's own dowry to send monthly allowances, he would not be able to support them at all.

Based on this, he is already someone who can't even support his wife.

Professor Li has never been in such a state of embarrassment. He thought that he had to figure out a way to earn money quickly, otherwise he would not be able to support his wife, let alone his wife.

Li Cheng is not very good at naming, so he took the boy he bought back and asked Mrs. Sun to help him name him Yuanbao.

The old lady thinks the intention is good and easy to shout.

Li Cheng first let Yuan Bao get acquainted with the environment, mainly in the east courtyard. The west courtyard is full of people around Gu Qingci, and the women and maids are all female relatives. Except for the east wing where Li Chengze slept, the rest All the houses are arranged. You don't need to guess to know that Gu Qingci has a lot of rules, and he might not let outside men enter the second door, so he arranged Yuanbao to live in the south room on the Dongyuan side. The room here is empty and can be accommodated.

"Little feudalism." Li Cheng couldn't help but shook his head and cursed in a low voice.

Yuan Bao was obedient and smart, but Li Cheng had a good impression of him, and took him with him when he went out these two days.

I can't think of a way to make money when I'm locked up at home, so I naturally have to go out more.

On this day, Li Cheng looked through the Li family's ledger at home to check the income and rent of the fields in previous years.

Farming is completely dependent on the sky and eating. God rewards the face. If the year is good and the harvest is good, the rent will be able to collect more. Naturally, the rent cannot be collected.

It's really not safe to rely on this little land for food. The Li family is not a big landlord, and they have thousands of hectares of fertile land. One hundred mu is not enough to say, and there may be no food at any time.

Afterwards, Li Cheng discovered that the Li family still had 100 mu of forest land. It is said that because the land was not good, nothing could be grown and rented out, so he had been idle there and ignored it for several years. .

Such a large piece of land is so wasted. Li Cheng wants to see what is going on with the land. If it can be used, planting some fruit trees and the like can also be an income.

He mentioned this matter to Li Baode, saying that he was going to go there to have a look.

Li Baode nodded, and said: "It's okay, I haven't visited the fields in the second half of this year, you go there, meet those tenants by the way, and collect this year's rent." These things were done by Li Baode in the past of.

Li Cheng didn't like to procrastinate, so he got up early the next day and asked Yuan Bao to hire an ox cart to come back, and the two of them pretended to go out.

The Li family's paddy fields and golden land are all in Hekou Village. It takes about an hour and a half by car to get out of the city.

When Li Cheng went out, it was 2:00 and 2:00.

Xiao Man quietly came back from the side door, followed by the main room.

Nurse Zhang was waiting outside. Seeing her coming, she quickly asked, "Do you know where the uncle is?"

"Go back to Mama, the uncle has gone to the countryside, he said it is Hekou Village, it seems that he has gone to collect farm rent."

Nurse Zhang listened and nodded, then raised her feet and went back to the inner room.