Tao Shu stamped his feet and hurriedly chased after him: "Dongmei, pack Brother Zhu's things quickly so no one can see him!"
Lai Dongmei: "...you peed and pooped on it, go and clean it up!"
"Hey, forget it, let's both stop them." Tao Shu told Lai Dongmei to run.
Outside the door, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu separated and went to knock on the doors of the neighbors on both sides. At the same time, they shouted: "Come out and watch the fun. The Tao family wants to drive Brother Zhu away and throw away all Brother Zhu's things!"
It was not too late at this time, many villagers were still awake.
Hearing the shouts of the two people, he couldn't help but be surprised. The Tao family wanted to drive Tao Zhu away?
This is indeed a lot of fun.
Soon, the folks near Tao's house came out of their yards and went to Tao's house to watch the fun.
Tao Shu and Lai Dongmei were so anxious that they quickly explained loudly: "It's all a misunderstanding. It's nothing. Let's go back to sleep."
The couple's reaction was very abnormal. The villagers became more interested and walked towards Tao's house.
Tao Zhu's things were scattered in the yard, and they still smelled of excrement, and Tao Zhu's house was empty.
No one can deny these evidences.
"It's too much. This is really going to drive Brother Zhu away."
"Even if you don't agree with this marriage, you shouldn't be like this."
"I don't know why I disagree. Not to mention that Brother Zhu is only willing to marry Li Qiao, but Li Qiao himself. What a good young man. I want to be a matchmaker for Li Qiao but I can't!"
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The villagers all agreed that Tao Shu and others were stupid.
Tao Zhu was determined to get married, so why did he still have trouble with Li Qiao?
Didn't you see how much money Li Qiao can make now? They had long been as close to Li Qiao as a family, but Tao Shu still treated Brother Zhu like this.
So stupid.
Tao Shu felt wronged: "I didn't drive Brother Zhu away!"
"Then what do you mean by throwing away all Brother Zhu's things? How can you let Brother Zhu sleep?" asked a fellow villager.
"Sleep on the bed board! Are you wronging him by letting him sleep on the bed board? If my parents hadn't raised him up, how could he marry Li Qiao now?"
"If his wings are hard, he will fight with me. I can't teach him a lesson? If he wants to leave the Tao family, there is no way. He will owe the Tao family his whole life!"
Tao Shu retorted plausibly.
"You raised me so that I could grow up and work for you! I have worked as a cow and horse for these years. If I were to be paid as a long-term worker, you would owe me!"
"I don't ask you for wages. I'm already soft-hearted. Now you're treating me like this. What can you do if I don't recognize you as my big brother?"
Tao Zhu said and waved his fist at Tao Shu: "I'm leaving now, you try to stop me."
Tao Shu: "..."
He was only frightened for a moment, and then he immediately let the villagers have a look: "You've all seen it, he just wants to be a white-eyed wolf, he just wants to be unfilial to my parents!"
"Didn't Brother Zhu give the gift to your father to treat his leg?"
"Yes, Brother Zhu only said that he doesn't recognize you as my eldest brother, but he didn't say that he doesn't recognize your parents."
The villagers objected to Tao Shu.
If it were another person, the villagers would definitely make peace and try to persuade them to make peace.
There is always a dark side in people's hearts. Tao Zhu, an older leftover brother who couldn't get married in the past, is now marrying Li Qiao. Some people are definitely feeling sad.
But just because they were marrying Li Qiao, in front of Li Qiao, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they naturally preferred Tao Zhu with their mouths.
Li Qiao is both a wheat sickle and a small business owner. He is prospering day by day. It is better to have a good relationship with Li Qiao than with Tao Shu.
They are not stupid.
Tao Shu's face turned red and his neck was thick with anger at these words, and he felt like his breath was stuck in his throat.
He waved his hand to drive these people away: "Gungun, it's not your turn to interfere in my family's housework!"
As he talked, he walked towards the villagers. Passing by a piece of Tao Zhu clothes, he stepped heavily on it. Feeling uneasy, he used the clothes like a rag and rubbed his soles on it.
"Bitch, it's not that easy to get rid of me!"
After scolding him, he went to drive the villagers away again.
But unexpectedly, the clothes under his feet slipped and he fell heavily to the ground face down.
"Ouch!" He burst into tears instantly.
His nose hurts so much!
My knees and forehead also hurt terribly.
"Master, are you okay?!" Lai Dongmei was shocked and ran over to help him.
"It hurts, it hurts..." Tao Shu cried out, tears welling up in his eyes.
Li Qiao stood at the door, watching this scene, and said to the villagers with a smile: "Thank you, villagers, for bringing justice to Brother Zhu."
"Brother Zhu and I will get married in three days. Twenty kilograms of wedding candies will be scattered on that day. If you are free, you can join in the fun."
"Twenty pounds of wedding candy!"
After Li Qiao finished speaking, people couldn't help but exclaim.
After being surprised, they immediately smiled and congratulated each other, and heaped all kinds of auspicious words on Li Qiao and Tao Zhu.
Hey, darling, twenty pounds of maltose, one pound of two hundred coins, that’s four taels of silver.
Such a big deal, Li Qiao must have really made money.
You must go and join in the fun then!
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Chapter 24 Preparations before marriage
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu went straight to Li Liang's house.
Tao Shu screamed in pain and didn't even bother to stop them.
Walking on the way to Li Liang's house, Tao Zhu felt a little sad when he thought of Li Qiao's words: "Twenty pounds of maltose, four taels of silver."
In the countryside, only wealthy families would scatter wedding candies when they get married. To celebrate, Li Qiao would scatter wedding candies even if she didn't have much money.
The original agreement was to sprinkle two kilograms of maltose, but now it has increased tenfold.
"Just think of it as buying the villagers with maltose. Filial piety overrides others. We don't want Tao Shu to take advantage, so this is the only way."
“If you can spend it, you can earn it.”
Li Qiao said with a smile.
"...I am dragging you down."
Tao Zhu felt panicked when he thought of all the outrageous behaviors of Tao Shu and the others.
He was already inferior to this person in everything, and now his close relatives are like this. It's so embarrassing.
"People can't choose their closest relatives by blood. It's not your fault that you were born into the Tao family. Just have less contact with each other in the future."
Li Qiao held his hand tightly.
"……Um!"
All the discomfort in Tao Zhu's heart disappeared instantly.
He couldn't help but hold the other person's hand.
Even if he is destined to wake up from his dream, if he has been treated so tenderly by this person, then his death is worth it.
The two people quickly arrived at Li Liang's house. After explaining the reason, Li Liang's family was very angry.
But since Tao Shu has already been punished for his own actions, there is nothing to argue with Tao Shu.
Wang Guihua asked the three brothers Li Dashan, Li Ershan and Li Xiaoshan to move and make a room for Tao Zhu.
During the three days before the wedding, Tao Zhu temporarily stayed at Li Liang's house.
Li Qiao went home to sleep, got up at two in the morning, and walked to the county seat to sell Shaqima.
Tao Zhu also got up before dawn.
After a simple breakfast, the rest of the Li family went to the fields to continue harvesting wheat. Tao Zhu, Wang Guihua and Li Xiaolan went to Li Qiao's house to make bedding.
Li Qiao came to the gate of the county town, put down the cart as usual, and opened the bag containing Shaqima in his backpack.
Aunt Shaobing had no business at the moment, so she came over and said, "Xiao Li, you came very early today."
"I want to go to the city later, so I'm a little early. Auntie, do you want to buy Feng Gao? You can try it first."
Li Qiao said as he took out a small cloth bag from his backpack, which contained Shaqima cut into pieces, each piece as long as a finger.
"Oh, you can also try it for free."
Auntie Shaobing was so happy that she immediately stretched out her hand and pinched a piece.
When Shaqima took it into her mouth, she couldn't help but click her tongue. It was indeed a round snack made by shopkeeper Wang. It was lightly sweet and soft. The texture was different from the snacks she had eaten before.
"Then let's take half a catty." After swallowing the Shaqima in her mouth, the sesame cake lady spoke.
Buy half a catty first, and if her eldest daughter-in-law likes to eat it, buy more next time.
"Okay." Li Qiao took out the prepared oil paper and weighed half a catty.
One catty is one hundred and fifty cents, and half a catty is seventy-five cents.
