Poor Family

  Chapter 77 The Controversy between Li and Zhang (1)

   "Old Li, why are you here?" Wang Gui rushed up a boulder, so happy that he almost jumped onto Li Yanqing's donkey.

  Li Yanqing pretended to be on the donkey and cupped his hands: "I'm here to congratulate Brother Wang's ninth place in the county high school entrance examination, and bring a little gift, please accept it!"

   After finishing speaking, he handed Wang Gui a hare he had caught on the road. Wang Gui was stunned for a moment, and the three of them suddenly burst into laughter.

  Tangyuaner ran forward and saw the wild rabbit, she immediately shouted in surprise: "Lao Li, give me the wild rabbit!"

  Li Yanqing threw the rabbit to her, and smiled at Tang Huai: "You girl should be educated, you are always the same, why don't you change your words?"

  Tang Huai glanced at Wang Gui, "I can't control her, you can find someone to take care of her!"

  Wang Gui scratched his head, "Old Li, you don't really give me a rabbit as a gift!"

   "Yeah! I'm going to give you another pheasant."

  While talking, Li Yanqing took out a pair of six high-quality pocket swords bought in the county weapon, handed them to Wang Gui and said with a smile: "I'm kidding you, how can I not give you a gift?"

  Wang Gui was overjoyed, took the little sword and said happily: "Old Li knows me, I like this kind of little sword!"

  Li Yanqing jumped off the donkey, stepped forward and asked Tang Yuaner with a smile, "What good things did you get, why don't you show me?"

   Tang Yuan'er picked up two pheasants, "I shot two pheasants, all of which were shot by Brother Gui!"

  Tang Huai rolled his eyes, pretending not to hear, Li Yanqing took a look at it, and said with a smile: "It's quite fat, let's bake it for lunch."

   "That's a great idea!"

  When Tang Yuaner heard that the game was going to be grilled, she immediately said with great interest: "I'll go back later and get some barbecue guys!"

  At this moment, Li Yanqing didn't see Yue Fei, so he asked with a smile, "What is Lao Yue doing?"

   Tang Huai said with a smile: "He is helping his father plow the land. Their family bought another ten acres of wasteland this year, preparing to plant wheat in autumn."

  Li Yanqing nodded, then said to Wang Gui in a low voice: "Old Gui, I have something important to ask for your help today."

  Wang Gui saw that his expression was serious, and he didn't seem to be joking with him, so he put away his playfulness and asked Tang Yuaner to play aside for a while, Tang Yuan pouted and walked away unhappily.

  Wang Gui then asked: "What is it?"

Li Yanqing told the story of the patriarch borrowing the boat, and finally said to the two of them: "My father and the patriarch are already very anxious about this matter. If the food cannot be sent to the capital in time, our Li family's years of hard work will be paid." It's running water."

   Tang Huai frowned, "Why is the Zhang family in such a hurry to get a boat? Zhang Daxiao told me yesterday that they haven't finished collecting the cloth yet!"

   "The Zhang family and the Li family have some historical grievances, let's not talk about it now, Lao Gui, you have to help me with this matter, and say a few nice words in front of your grandfather."

  Wang Gui patted his chest, "It's on me, I'm going to find my grandfather now."

  The three of them stopped hunting and walked quickly to Wang Gui's house. Tang Yuaner followed Wang Gui and came to the gate of the Wang Mansion together. At this time, Wang Wanhao entered the house to accompany the guests, and Wang Gui entered the mansion through the side door.

  After waiting for a while, Wang Gui came out and said to Li Yanqing: "Grandfather is too busy now, so he doesn't have time to listen to me. Why don't you wait until noon! I'll find another chance."

  Li Yanqing nodded, "I'll leave this to you."

  At this time, a young man came running and said to Wang Gui, "Brother Gui, the master told you to hurry over to meet the guests!"

Wang Gui really didn't want to go, but he didn't dare not listen to what his grandfather said, so he could only mutter something, and followed the boy back to the mansion. Seeing that Li Yanqing and his brother didn't notice him, Tang Yuaner also pretended to be bored and wandered around quietly. Followed Wang Gui into the mansion.

At this time, Tang Huai whispered to Li Yanqing: "Old Li, I didn't hit you. You expect Lao Gui to persuade his grandfather. I think there is little hope of success. The Zhang family and the Wang family have deep interests. Lao Li Your grandfather's neutrality is already giving face to your patriarch, unless the Zhang family gave up on borrowing the boat, otherwise, you should not have too much hope."

  Li Yanqing nodded silently, he knew what Tang Huai said was the truth, this kind of competition between the two families could not be resolved with just a few nice words from Wang Gui, he had to think of another way.

At this time, two other young guests came on horseback from a distance. The one in front of him was Zhang Daxiao. He was eighteen years old this year and had not been admitted to the state school. Now he was running the cloth business with his uncle. Very smooth and sophisticated, completely without the youthfulness of the student days.

The other rider, Li Yanqing, looked familiar. He was also a young man. He looked a little old, but he was only sixteen or seventeen years old. He was not very tall, but he was very strong. His skin was bronze, and his hands were like steel claws. Tough, with sharp eyes like an eagle.

  Li Yanqing suddenly remembered, isn't this the young man who had a very close relationship with Dayan in the Spring Club? He was indeed a member of the Zhang family, but he had never seen him before.

   "Who is that man?"

   Li Yanqing pressed his mouth and asked: "The guy who is with Zhang Daxiao."

   Tang Huai's eyes suddenly showed admiration, "That man may be the most outstanding child of the Zhang family, his name is Zhang Qiao, he won the third place in the Xiangzhou Wujie Examination, and he will go to Beijing to participate in the Wuju Provincial Examination in June this year."

  Li Yanqing was also interested. He was actually a martial arts examiner. When did such an outstanding disciple appear in the Zhang family, he had never heard of it.

Tang Huai understood Li Yanqing's doubts, so he explained with a smile: "He is from Anyang, not from our Tangyin County, and he happened to be buying horses in our Tangyin County during this time, today, Mr. Zhang specially brought him to Wang's house for a drink. "

   "Why?" Li Yanqing was puzzled.

Tang Huai laughed softly and said: "The four squires in Xiaohe Township, the Li family won the first place in the county examination, the Wang family and our Tang family also entered the top ten, the Zhang family can't lose face! Of course we have to bring a promising son here Support the field."

"I see!"

  Li Yanqing asked again with a smile: "How about his martial arts?"

   "I've only seen him shoot arrows, pull the eight-dou bow, and the arrow hit the bull's-eye. I don't know anything else. It is said that he is very powerful with mace."

  At this moment, Zhang Daxiao saw Tang Huai, and urged his horse to run towards this side. Tang Huai waved to him in greeting.

  Zhang Daxiao reined in the horse's reins, turned over and got off the horse. He suddenly recognized Li Yanqing, and exaggeratedly widened his eyes and said, "Oh! Isn't this brother Qing? It was the fragrant wind that brought you here!"

  Li Yanqing saw that his hair was combed shiny and shiny, he was wearing a black satin half-sleeved breeches, and there were more than a dozen unknown gadgets hanging on his belt, and his belly was already slightly fat.

  Li Yanqing smiled lightly, "Lao Zhang has made a fortune in the past two years!"

   "Where! Where! It's all about making a little money. How can your Li family's grain business be as big as yours?"

Hearing the sarcasm in his tone, Li Yanqing remembered what his grandfather said to him, Zhang Junbao had already come yesterday, so he shouldn't come again today, but they still came today, apparently to prevent the Li family from borrowing a boat from Wang Wanhao .

  Tang Huai hurriedly smoothed things over with a smile and said, "I heard that Big Brother Zhang has visited the entire capital, so enviable!"

"That's right! As long as you have money in the capital, your life is happier than that of a god. Ah Tang, don't go to some **** county school. It's really boring. Go to the capital with my brother. I will take you to eat all kinds of delicacies, and then I will take you Go to Jiaofang to have a meal, and I guarantee that you will never want to study again, how about going to the capital with brother next month?"

Li Yanqing didn't listen to Zhang Daxiao's nonsense, his eyes fell on Zhang Qiao behind him, he could feel that this Zhang Qiao was a powerful warrior, his arms were extremely muscular, and his figure was not very good due to years of weightlifting practice. Gao, especially with a single mace on his back, seems to be full of strength. This is a real professional warrior, and his temperament is very different from that of a reckless warrior like Uncle Hu.

  Zhang Qiao glanced at Li Yanqing briefly. Although he had seen Li Yanqing at the Spring Society, his eyes were filled with disdain. If it wasn't for his clan brothers greeting Tang Huai, he wouldn't bother to pay attention to these country boys.

At this time, Zhang Daxiao took a look at Li Yanqing, rolled his eyes, and introduced Li Yanqing to Zhang Qiao, "Third brother, I forgot to introduce you. This little brother Li is the first in our county examination this year, both civil and military. One, it has a great reputation in our Xiaohe Township."

  Zhang Qiao said indifferently: "What is the county examination? I haven't heard of it."

  Zhang Daxiao heard the sarcasm in the clan brother's tone, and couldn't help laughing: "It's the county school entrance exam, it's even better than the solution exam!"

   "Let's go! Don't waste time."

  Zhang Qiao ignored Li Yanqing and rode his horse towards the north. Zhang Daxiao quickly got on his horse and said to Tang Huai, "Ah Tang, you should consider the advice my brother gave you!"

"I see!"

  Zhang Daxiao urged the horse and chased the clan brothers in the north. Seeing the Zhang brothers walking away, Tang Huai smiled and said, "Do you feel a little arrogant?"

  Li Yanqing nodded, "A little bit indeed."

  Tang Huai sighed, "After all, he is the third place in the martial arts test! He has the capital of arrogance, and it is normal to look down on us."

  Li Yanqing smiled and said: "It's still early, let's go see Lao Yue!"

  The two turned around and walked towards Yue Fei's house.

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Yue Fei's house is next door to Wang Gui's house, but even though it is next door, there is still a distance between them. The main reason is that there is a fish pond with a size of more than ten mu. The two sides of the fish pond are full of weeping willows. Green, green everywhere, especially pleasing to the eye.

  Yue Fei’s house is an ordinary farm house, with five houses in one yard. However, Tangwang Village is generally relatively affluent, and the conditions of Yue Fei’s house are pretty good, with five houses all tile-roofed.

Yue Fei originally had four older brothers, but unfortunately all of them died young. He was the fifth eldest, and everyone called him Wulang. He had an elder sister who was going to get married next year, and a younger brother, Yue Fan, who was only seven years old this year. Entered Lushan Academy.

Of course, this is not the first time for Li Yanqing to come to Yue Fei's house. He and Tang Huai walked around the fish pond, and saw a woman in her thirties walking towards her. The Yao and Yue families are family friends, and the Yao family was betrothed to Yue Fei's father, Yue He, since she was a child. She is a very virtuous woman who is well educated.

Yao Shi wore a coarse cloth dress that she spun and tailored herself, with a copper hairpin on her head. Although their family was not too poor, with Yue Fei's father's hard work and the dozens of acres of good land left by his ancestors, she could still buy them. He can afford a few decent jewelry and clothes, but Yao is very frugal. He spends the money he saves on his children's education, and teaches them to live a simple life by setting an example.

   "Hello, Auntie!" Li Yanqing and Tang Huai hurried forward to salute.

Among the several friends of his son, Yao Shi likes Li Yanqing the most. Li Yanqing is her father's beloved apprentice. Those who are red.

  Ms. Yao said with a smile: "It turns out that it is Brother Qing and Ah Tang. They are here to find my Wulang! He is still in the field. Today is busy. I will go and deliver some water to their father and son."

  Speaking, she raised the earthen pot and the rough porcelain bowl in her hand, Li Yanqing said with a smile: "Auntie, go back and rest! Let's go to Brother Yue to deliver water."

  Yao Shi hesitated for a moment, then agreed, "That's fine!"

   "Auntie, we're going."

  Li Yanqing took the earthen pot, and ran to the distant field with Tang Huai, Yao Shi watched them run, smiled and shook his head, then turned and went home.

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