Chapter 8:

After being scolded by Sun's family, Bai's restrained a lot. In the next few days, he was honest and had no sense of existence. He took his two daughters to hide in the house to do needlework, and would not go to the Westinghouse easily.
Although Gu Celadon didn't have the consciousness of becoming someone else's daughter-in-law, Mother Zhang was always by her side to softly teach some admonitions, and she listened somewhat.
After the tea ceremony broke out on that day, he obediently remained quiet for two days.
He paused, and then took a moment to go to the Sun family to recognize a low.
Although she knew that she was not sincere, she was willing to take the ladder anyway, and everyone could only take the opportunity to get off. When she was speaking, the old lady squinted a smiling face from start to finish, with a cheerful look. Outsiders who didn't know the insider saw how harmonious this house was.
Li Cheng was amazed at the sight, and the secret path really was all human beings.
In this way, his little wife's skill is still a little worse, but after all, she is still young. It's no wonder that the man's house is going to come over for a dowry maid, or you will be bullied to death if you run into a black-hearted family.
Both meals a day also go to the East Yard on time.
After the Li family got married for Li Chengze, the family background was exhausted, and the living conditions are naturally not as good as before.
The meat on the table has not been seen once in a few days. Most of it is a dry stew with a scrambled egg and stir-fried vegetables.
When Gu Celadon was at the dinner table for the first time, he wrote disgusting from head to toe, and really couldn't get used to it anywhere.
The roughness of eating is second, and the most important thing is the huge difference in diet between the nobles and the common people.
Gu Celadon was raised by the female prince in the Hou Mansion, Jiaojiaoer, Jin Zunyu, precious brocade and jade.
What is her environment like?
It's impossible for the Li family to know, I'm afraid they can't even imagine it.
Li Cheng compared the Rongguo Mansion in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber, and thought it was like that.
Just look at the period when Sister Lin entered Jia's Mansion in the Dream of Red Mansions, where the whole family was eating, and the old lady sat down with the girls. From the beginning, there was a bunch of girls holding a kerchief and a basin to wait for the ladies to wash their hands. When the plates of delicate dishes were warmed up, there was another servant girl who helped to pick up the dishes. After eating a bunch of girls again Appear, take the basin and water, let the masters cover their faces and rinse their mouths and drink tea. The continuous action reactions are all long-established habits.
It was raised by the wealth and heritage of several generations.
Every family has their own habits. Sister Lin is also the daughter of the 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 Celadon, she is not only a problem of different living habits, but also a sharp drop in living standards.
It is almost equivalent to falling from a wealthy family to an extremely poor family.
To tell the truth, for ancient women, getting married is equivalent to their second reincarnation, which directly determines their standard of living and happiness for the rest of their lives.
In modern words, Gu Celadon is a junk stock.
So how can she not despair? Because of despair, he will have no scruple to make heaven and earth.
Thinking of this, Li Cheng felt a little sympathetic to this kid.
There are not many Li family members, and the family will not be divided into tables for men and women when they are closed for dinner. They all sit in one place to eat.
The chopsticks of the people on the 7th and 8th were squeezed into that dish. Some elderly people are sometimes not too particular about it. They like to talk at the dinner table without paying much attention. Occasionally, they will inevitably leak out a little bit of saliva.
Gu Celadon didn't scream and kicked it off on the spot. It's really the credit of Mother Li's repeated instructions these days.
Although she didn't quarrel, her expression was even more unconcealed. The red, red and white changes were very ugly.
To be fair, let alone Gu Celadon's unbearable, Li Cheng didn't feel it at all.
It's just that the environment is compelling, and he can't be as willful as the little girl, what does it look like.
This kind of crude meal in Gu Qingci's eyes is impossible for her to eat. She has repeatedly poked a small bowl of rice a lot, and she has not delivered a bite to her mouth.
The pot of stew, a scrambled egg, and a stir-fried cabbage with oil residue did not touch it.
Li Cheng looked at Gu Celadon and didn't say anything, except that the faces of Li's family were not good, 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 rice soup on the eye table that no one has ever touched. It is available every day and no one in the Li family likes to drink it.
The appearance of Gu Celadon poking the rice grains with his head down is no different to Li Chengze and the children who are picky eaters.
Gu Celadon got angry, just thinking about going through the meal and going back to his house to eat something delicious.
Suddenly, a slender hand with distinct joints stretched out in front of him.
Gu Celadon was startled.
Li Cheng calmly picked up Gu's celadon bowl, scooped two spoons of rice soup into her rice, soaked the rice soup and rice together, and placed it in front of her.
The tone was a little gentle, and said: "Eat."
Everyone in the Li family was taken aback.
Li Celadon quickly raised his head and lowered it again, as if hesitating and struggling with himself. After a long while, he finally picked up the bowl, opened his mouth, and took a bite of the rice with great care.
Originally, the behavior of adding vegetables to the wife in public would definitely make the elders in the family dissatisfied, which would make the new wife even more angry.
But the situation is a little different now, because in the Li family’s view, Li Chengze only gave Gu Celadon some rice soup that was not worthy of anything in their eyes. This really made them think of having a wife. Forget things like mother.
On the contrary, Sun and Bai thought that Li Cheng could not bear Gu Celadon's face to their family, and deliberately taught her.
If Li Cheng knows these people's ideas are really hard to laugh or cry.
However, he was sure that if he really gave Gu celadon a stew that was smashed by everyone's chopsticks, he would be sure that Gu celadon would not eat a bite, and he would lose his temper with himself.
I have to say, Li Cheng understands Gu Celadon.
After reluctantly passing two more times, Gu Celadon refused to pass it anymore, no one persuaded it.
Sun and the others knew that tomorrow morning, they just looked at it coldly, but they couldn't talk about it.
In the end, Li Chengze was asked to come forward and speak up, saying only that Gu Celadon was young and frail, and that he had suffered some stomach problems these days and couldn't eat anything.
After speaking for her, Gu Celadon took it for granted.

On this day, the Sun family remembered that he would buy people for Li Chengze. After breakfast, he originally wanted Bai’s to invite his toothpother’s house, but in fact, the Sun family didn’t know how to buy people, let alone pick them. Like her, who only buys one person, the tooth woman will not come.
Or Li Cheng said that he doesn't have to be so troublesome, he can go to the dental office by himself.
Sun's family is free of him.
Li Cheng hasn't gone out these days. He had accompanied the little girl back home before. There were many complicated lawsuits in the Hou Mansion, which made him work hard to deal with it.
When he was about to come back, Gu Celadon stubbornly pulled the second wife's clothes with a reluctant face and refused to return. In the end, the second wife cruelly scolded her daughter.
Because of this, Gu Celadon remained cold and angry from getting on the carriage until returning to the house.
Li Cheng naturally wouldn't care about her, only when she was awkward.
There are still a lot of things in his heart that he hasn't dealt with, and he doesn't have time to discipline Gu Celadon right now, only occasionally take the time to coax her.
Li Cheng has a memory. When he goes out, he doesn't worry about going to the private tooth house, but looks at it as he walks to get acquainted with the route and local customs.
It is only when I go out that I really feel the difference in different worlds. The rent buildings here, the avenues and roads, the horse-drawn carriages and the ox carts, people's clothing...These are completely different from the modern times he lives in.
Li Cheng sighed and walked around the city for a long time, until it was almost noon before going to the private tooth house.
The street behind the tooth house was full of slave traders. Li Cheng walked along the way and looked at it coldly. Finally, he chose a house and let him be taken. Finally, he bought a fifteen-year-old boy.
Although population trading is legalized at this time, it makes people feel complicated.
However, there were people who knelt down to Li Chengze and begged him to buy himself, but Li Cheng didn't know what to do.
The newly-purchased boy was a little clever because of his age, not very cheap, and spent five taels of silver.
Li Cheng is very poor. He has lightly tapped his possessions these days, and there are only ten taels of silver in total. This is what the original body has saved for a long time. He always spends money on studying from home every month, so he saves more.
I bought a man, and now I have fifty taels of silver left all over my body.
The Li family has always lived on the two hundred acres of farmland in the countryside, and has not been in other businesses.
When there was nothing serious about the family, life was going well, even for Li Chengze to study.
Of course, because there is a scholar in the family, the Li family hasn't saved much money over the years.
In order to sell another 100 mu of farmland this year, the family that they depend on for survival was cut in half at once, and it was too late in a short time.
Li Cheng is a big man, and now he is still a relative, naturally it is impossible to reach out to Li Baode or Sun for money like the original.
I also thought of the ten people in Gu Celadon’s house. If Gu Celadon had a dowry and could give people a monthly allowance, he would not be able to support it.
In this way, he is already someone who can't even support his wife.
When Professor Li was so embarrassed, he thought that he had to quickly figure out a way to make money, otherwise, let alone the elderly woman, he would not be able to support it.
Li Cheng didn't know how to name him. He took the boy he bought back and asked Sun to help him choose a name called Yuan Bao.
The old lady felt good intentions and screamed.
Li Cheng first let Yuanbao get acquainted with the environment, mainly in the east yard. The west yard is all people with Gu Celadon. The wife and girls are all female families. Except for the east wing room, Li Cheng slept, the rest of the rooms are There is an arrangement. You don't need to guess that Gu Celadon has very strict rules and may not allow foreign men to enter the second door. So he arranged Yuan Bao to live in the south house on the side of Dongyuan. The house here is empty and can live in open.
"Little Feudal." Li Cheng couldn't help but shook his head and cursed with a low laugh.
Yuan Bao is obedient and clever, but Li Cheng has a good impression of him, and took him with him in these two days.
If you want to stay at home and think about not having money, naturally you have to go out and go around.
On this day, Li Cheng looked at Li's account book at home to check the yield and rent of the fields in previous years.
Farming is entirely a matter of looking at the sky for food, God appreciates your face, good age, a good harvest in the field, the renter will be able to harvest more. Can't receive it.
It is very unstable to rely on this little land for food. The Li family is not a big landlord, and there are thousands of hectares of fertile land. One hundred acres is not enough to say, and there may be no food at all.
Later, Li Cheng discovered another 100 acres of woodland in the Li family. It is said that because the land was not good, he couldn't grow anything and couldn't rent it out, so he stayed idle for a few years without taking care of it.
Such a large piece of land was so wasted. Li Cheng wanted to see what the situation was like. If it could be used, planting some fruit trees would be an income.
He mentioned the matter to Li Baode and said that he was going to take a look.
Li Baode nodded and said, "Also, I haven't visited the fields in the second half of this year. You have passed by. I met those tenants by the way and collected this year's rent." These things were done by Li Baode in previous years.
Li Cheng didn't like procrastination, and when he got up early the next day, he asked Yuan Bao to hire an ox cart to come back, and the two of them went out in brief.
Li's paddy field and gold land are all Hekou Village. It takes about an hour and a half to drive out of the city, but it is not very far. At least it belongs to a village near the outskirts of Beijing.
When Li Cheng went out, it was two quarters of the hour.
Xiaoman came back quietly from the side door and followed to the main house.
Grandma Zhang was waiting outside, and when she saw her coming, she quickly asked, "Do you know where the uncle is?"
"Returning to the mother, the uncle went to the countryside, saying that it was Hekou Village. It seems that he went to collect the rent from the land.
Mother Zhang nodded as she listened, then raised her foot back to the inner room.