After Li Qiao heard these words, even his hair was satisfied.
If it were in the past, Tao Zhu would have been scolded for being unfilial.
But now, hehe, Tao Zhu is actually very filial and kind, and the folks are right to praise him!
It was not yet nine o'clock when the couple returned home. Li Shu was sitting at the door sewing clothes, and her two children, Song Zhaodi and Song Xiaocao, were learning needlework from her.
As for Li Dashan, he followed Wang Guihua to Dahe Village.
Li Chuntao didn't go to visit relatives. Her family and the Zhou family completely fell out.
But she didn't want to stay at home. After the Chinese New Year, she was one year older. At eighteen, she was a proper big girl in the countryside. She was afraid of being criticized by others and by her own family, so she came to Li Qiao as usual. Home.
Li Qiao didn't arrange any work for her, so she took out the account book used to record the thank-you gifts given to Li Qiao by each village and household. She sat at the door of the main hall in the front yard and practiced calligraphy on the ground with a branch.
It's not that she loves studying very much, and she can't take the imperial examination. She became literate mainly to help Li Qiao.
Nowadays, there are so many people giving thank-you gifts to Li Qiao that Li Dashan cannot remember them all by herself, so she must be literate.
"Why are you back so early?" Li Shu saw Li Qiao and Tao Zhu coming back with snacks and pork, and hurriedly put down the sewing basket and stood up from the small bench.
Li Qiao briefly explained the situation, which made Li Shu very angry. However, they were Tao Zhu's parents after all, so she couldn't say much. She just said, "You should be satisfied when you are a human being."
As long as the Tao family is willing to say a kind word to Tao Zhu, with Tao Zhu's kindness, the Tao family will become popular and spicy in no time.
"Third Sister is right." Li Qiao nodded. He touched Song Zhaodi and Song Xiaocao's little heads and said with a smile: "Third Sister, why don't you take Zhaodi and Xiaocao out to play? I and I just said When Brother Zhu came back, he saw several salesmen."
In the past few months, the number of people in Sanliu Village has increased a lot compared to before, and people from other villages come here every day.
Some come to sell sweet potatoes and starch, while others want to go beyond Wangyue Tower and directly go to the sweet potato workshop to get the goods.
When there are more people, the salesmen will come more diligently.
Now during the Chinese New Year, married wives and husbands return to their parents' homes, children also have New Year's money in their hands, and salesmen from surrounding villages are even more diligent in coming.
At this time, there was no canteen in the village, let alone a supermarket, and the peddler's burden was a colorful world.
Yesterday, the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Qiao gave new year's money to all the children of the Li family. He had never met Song Zhaodi and Song Xiaocao before, so this time Li Qiao gave a big one directly to Guan Guan. money.
And he also clearly told Li Shu that the two children were old and they could keep a few pennies in their hands.
Li Shu now listened to him on many things, so he left ten coins for each of his two children.
"I don't need anything now, clothes, you gave me new cotton cloth, food, the snacks you make are better than the salesman. As for the maltose, my eldest brother sent me a few kilograms, you can eat as you like, so you don't have to go to the salesman."
Li Shu immediately shook his head.
This answer was expected by Li Qiao. He squatted down and asked Song Zhaodi and Song Xiaocao: "Do you want to go shopping with the salesman?"
"I don't want to." Song Zhaodi immediately shook her little head: "Uncle, I want to save money."
"Uncle, I also want to save money."
Song Xiaocao spoke softly.
"You have saved yesterday's New Year's money, and now you can spend the money in your hands as you wish."
Li Qiao persuaded with a smile.
"Uncle, can I not spend it?"
Song Zhaodi held the corner of her clothes with her little hands, feeling a little nervous.
She didn't want to listen to her uncle this time...
Children from poor families have long been in charge. She is now eight years old and like her mother in the Song family, she can do all kinds of work.
She has long understood the importance of money.
After finally getting the money, she didn't want to spend it at all.
Li Qiao: "..."
Seeing the little guy's anxious look in his eyes, he raised his hand and pinched Song Zhaodi's little face with frostbite and bruises, and nodded gently: "Of course. Since I gave the money to you siblings, it's up to you to Disposal of siblings."
"Thank you, uncle." Song Zhaodi breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and a smile immediately appeared on her face.
It was so kind of her uncle to allow her to do with the ten cents as she pleased!
As if she remembered something, she immediately lowered her head and rummaged through the sewing basket, and then quickly took out a pair of gloves.
The gloves are made of the same kind as pottery bamboo, with the thumbs and fingers separated.
She handed the gloves to Li Qiao and said with some embarrassment: "Uncle, these are the gloves I made. You can put them on and see if they fit. My needlework is average, so I'm not as good as Uncle Zhu."
"Hey, did you actually make gloves?!"
Li Qiao was surprised and took the glove.
Because Song Zhaodi and Song Xiaocao both had frostbite on their hands, Tao Zhu gave the gloves he made to the siblings and asked them to apply frostbite ointment and put their little hands in the gloves to protect them from getting too cold. .
But I didn't expect that Song Zhaodi actually made a pair of gloves based on those made by Tao Zhu.
Tao Zhu knelt down and took a glove from Li Qiao's hand. He looked at it carefully and saw that the stitching was as fine as his own. He couldn't help but praise: "Zhao Di is really amazing, even though she is young. , but as good as what I did.”
Li Qiao also finished looking at it carefully at this time. He put the gloves on his hands and shook them at Song Zhaodi: "Zhaodi is really amazing. I will wear these gloves when I go to the county seat tomorrow!"
He hadn't seen Song Zhaodi sewing in the new house these days, so she must have made these gloves by lighting an oil lamp in the old house.
An eight-year-old child was sitting in front of an oil lamp sewing gloves stitch by stitch. Just thinking about that scene made him feel extremely distressed.
Song Zhaodi didn't know that Li Qiao was more distressed than happy at the moment. She was a little shy and lowered her head after being praised by her two uncles.
When Song Xiaocao next to him saw this, he also stretched out his little hands to turn over the sewing basket. He also did it, but he was young and did it slowly, so he hasn't finished it yet...
"Oh, did Xiaocao do it too?"
Li Qiao saw his action and asked quickly.
"It's not ready yet...it's for Uncle Zhu."
Song Xiaocao stopped his hand, his head hanging down, a little frustrated.
When Song Zhaodi saw this, she felt anxious and said quickly: "Uncle, Xiaocao made it with me. I originally planned to give it to you together, but I just took out this glove when I was happy..."
Her face was full of regret.
Will her uncle dislike Xiaocao because of this?
"It's okay, it's a trivial matter. You and Xiaocao are both powerful." Li Qiao saw that Song Zhaodi looked uneasy as if she had gotten into a big trouble, and he quickly spoke to comfort her.
Tao Zhu quickly raised his hand and rubbed Song Xiaocao's little head: "Xiaocao did it for me too."
"Xiaocao is so good and awesome, but you are young, so it is normal for you to be slow. I am not in a hurry. You will give it to me when it is done."
"That's right, winter hasn't passed yet anyway, don't worry, Xiaocao, please take your time, your uncle Zhu will definitely be able to use it." Li Qiao also went to rub his little head.
Of course, he didn't miss Song Zhaodi's little head either.
Tao Zhu also smiled and rubbed Song Zhaodi's little head: "Zhaodi, don't worry, we know you are too happy."
Feeling the tenderness of the two uncles, Song Xiaocao's depressed mood improved a lot. He raised his red face and looked at Li Qiao and Tao Zhu, and hummed softly.
Song Zhaodi's heart fell back into her stomach. Her two uncles were really good.
Li Qiao pinched the little cheeks of the two siblings, then stood up and said to Li Shu: "Third sister, Zhaodi and Xiaocao are both children of our Li family. They are well-behaved and powerful. In my opinion, it is better to change their names." Change your surname, the current name doesn’t sound good, and the surname Song is not appropriate anymore.”
"Ah?" Li Shu didn't expect Li Qiao to say this. He was stunned for a moment, and then nodded fiercely: "You're right, neither the surname nor the given name is appropriate anymore!"
Although she had settled down in the past few days, there were many things happening every day, so she never thought about it.
Now that Li Qiao mentioned it, she wished she could change the names of the two children now.
Zhao Di?
Ah.
Grass?
hehe.
It's all bullshit!
"Xiaoqiao, you are a scholar, so it's up to you to give them two new names, right?"
"Okay." Li Qiao did his part.
He also couldn't wait to change the names of the two children, so he thought for a moment and said: "Both children have quiet and well-behaved personalities, just like beautiful jade. Well... let's call them Li Yuning and Li Yu'an."
Yu, beautiful jade, also means advantages. The two children have too many advantages, so this word is very suitable.
Peace, this represents his blessing to his two children.
Li Shu and Tao Zhu were happy and satisfied after hearing Li Qiao's explanation.
Li Shu said: "This name is good, Li Yuning, Li Yuan, it sounds good and auspicious."
Tao Zhu read these two names several times and asked the siblings with a smile: "Yu Ning, Yu An, do you like this name?"
The siblings are actually a little confused. Are they going to change their names?
However, these two names sound so high-end, much better than their original names Zhaodi and Xiaocao!
No girl is willing to bear the name Zhaodi, and no brother treats her like a fool, so the siblings smiled and nodded.
They like!
"Thank you uncle!"
"Thank you uncle!"
The two little guys raised their little faces and thanked Li Qiao.
"So good." Li Qiao looked at their happy smiling faces and couldn't help but laugh too: "To celebrate Yu Ning Yu'an's new name, let's have a lively lunch."
Anyway, he had nothing to do today and he didn’t want to study, so why not have a hot pot instead?
He has never had hot pot since time travel.
Action was what he said. Hot pot is indispensable without meatballs. He immediately took out a small basket with a long wooden stick tied to his back and prepared to go to the river to catch fish.
Tao Zhu naturally wanted to go too, and he also called Li Yuning and Li Yuan.
But just as the four people were about to go out, Village Chief Zhu came.
During the Chinese New Year, Village Chief Zhu came to visit Li Qiao, carrying a duck in his hand.
