He started from his own perspective. His snacks and eggs had to be delivered to the county every day, and he needed a good road.
The sale of vermicelli affects his interests. In order to sell vermicelli, he also wants to build roads.
However, Jiangzhi County still disagreed.
Jiang Zhixian asked him to go back and think about it carefully and not to be impulsive.
Seeing this, Li Qiao could only rest his thoughts temporarily.
Forget it, let’s wait until the next time we meet to mention this matter.
After the business was finished, Magistrate Jiang asked the waiters at Wangyue Tower to start serving food.
He originally wanted to keep Li Qiao to eat with him, but when he saw Tao Zhu standing aside like a wooden figure, he understandingly let the couple leave.
That's all, he is at ease alone, and so are the couple.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu walked out of Wangyue Tower. Tao Zhu took a deep breath. He was scared at first, but calmed down the second time.
As Li Qiao said, Jiang Zhixian is a good official. Those words and measures just now were all taken into consideration for the farmers.
He is also a farmer himself, so he is not afraid.
Li Qiao couldn't help but smile when he saw that he had automatically adjusted it. But thinking of what happened just now, he asked: "I used the money to build roads, do you blame me?"
Hearing this, Tao Zhu patted his heart with his hand instead: "Why should I blame you? It's so much money. If we take it, there's no telling how many people will say nasty things."
"If you take it out to build roads, anyone walking on the road will be embarrassed to say harsh words."
"Do you think I don't understand this? I understand."
"Besides, even if you don't understand, you must have your reasons for doing this. How can I blame you?"
"You ask this, do you think I'm stupid? Or do you think I'll be unreasonable?"
Li Qiao was amused by Tao Zhu's words. He grabbed Tao Zhu's hand that was patting his heart: "I just think that the two of us earned this money together, so I dealt with it like this without consulting you. I don’t respect you. I was wrong, I won’t ask like this next time.”
"I know whether you respect me or not."
Tao Zhu pursed his lower lip when he saw him like this.
The big tree attracts the wind. I have to earn so much money all at once, and I don’t know what will happen in the future.
The pressure is all on this man.
There is really not much he can share.
Taking a deep breath, he raised a smile and said, "I won't care about it this time."
"Brother Zhu is so generous!" Li Qiao immediately praised him with a smile. After receiving Tao Zhu's chuckle, he shook the hand holding Tao Zhu's and said, "Where should we go next?"
"Well... let's go to the bookstore."
Tao Zhu wants to buy Shengshang's new short essay.
Li Qiao shared everything about the imperial examination with him. He knew the importance of this essay.
"It's noon, it's time for us to eat." Li Qiao touched his belly with his other hand.
"Then go eat first."
Tao Zhu changed his mind.
Although the food at Wangyuelou was delicious, it had been eaten too many times and there was nothing new. The two of them randomly found a noodle shop and ate shredded chicken noodles.
The shredded chicken noodles tasted pretty good. Although it was not as good as Wangyuelou, it was still worth the price. After lunch, they went to the bookstore to buy a new short essay published by Sheng Shang.
Originally, the two wanted to find Zhuang Wen. Although Zhuang Wen was studying in the county school, because he had a yard in the county town, Zhuang Wen was a day student and would go home at noon.
Li Qiao wanted Zhuang Wen to explain to him the doubts he had encountered while studying recently, but he obviously couldn't find him now.
The couple bought some daily necessities and drove the ox cart back to the village.
Halfway through, the gloomy sky cleared up and the sun came out.
Li Qiao had already built a shelf on the oxcart specifically to shade them from the sun. At this time, they were not afraid of the sun.
But the newly rising sun could not dry out the muddy road, so they walked very slowly along the way. In some areas, the two of them had to get off the oxcart and walk.
Li Qiao led the oxcart forward with one foot in front and one foot in front of the other. He couldn't help but said to Tao Zhu, "We have to build a road here. It's too difficult to walk."
Tao Zhu nodded fiercely.
He didn't think it was anything before, but after feeling the blue brick floor of his new house, he couldn't bear the mud anymore.
It was already evening when the two returned to the village, and they went directly to the banker to find Zhuang Fengshou.
He told Zhuang Fengshou about Jiang Zhixian’s plan today. Zhuang Feng frowned as he listened. It turned out that so many sweet potatoes were planted in the county!
Since Jiang Zhixian gave the plan, he acted according to the plan.
He summoned the whole village to build a spacious sweet potato workshop.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu put the cart back home and went to Zhujiacun.
When I arrived at Village Chief Zhu’s house, I told him the good news. Village Chief Zhu was stunned after hearing it.
Can such a good thing exist in the world?
He repeatedly confirmed: "Do you really want Zhujiacun to make vermicelli?"
His family members also looked at Li Qiao nervously. Are there really no auditory hallucinations?
Li Qiao nodded again: "It's true. The county magistrate will convene the village chiefs of the entire county to discuss this matter in the next few days. Brother Zhu, starting from tomorrow, your village will also build a sweet potato workshop. The size of the workshop will be based on the number of people in your village. Come and decide.”
Village Chief Zhu: "!"
There really is such a good thing in the world!
He danced with joy, waved his hands randomly a few times, opened his mouth wide, and couldn't say anything except laughing.
At this moment, the crow of chickens came from the chicken coop. At this moment, his chickens were having dinner.
He immediately ran to the chicken coop, laughed and said to Li Qiao: "Take it away, Xiao Li, come here, come here, take it all away."
Seeing this, his family members also ran to the chicken coop to catch Li Qiao's chickens.
Li Qiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "No, no, no, just give me one. I don't want more. You know I've always been like this."
Knowing that he couldn't push it away, Li Qiao took the initiative to tell him a figure he could accept.
"It's different, it's different." Village Chief Zhu was still in ecstasy: "The favor you gave Zhujia Village this time is too great, and one chicken is too little to deserve you!"
Li Qiao: "?"
No number of chickens are good enough for him.
The rules cannot be broken. No matter how much the village chief Zhu and his family persuade him, he insists on only accepting one chicken.
Village Chief Zhu and his family were very helpless. Although they could not repay the favor by giving all his chickens, ducks, and pigs to Li Qiao, one chicken was too little!
Since Li Qiao only accepts one chicken, he will call the whole village for a meeting later, and tomorrow they will all give chickens to Li Qiao, one for each family.
The next morning, Village Chief Zhu came to Sanliu Village to learn how to build a sweet potato workshop.
Just ask Zhuang Fengshou for this job. He didn't bother Li Qiao.
It was not until noon that he used a cart to push more than 20 hens sent by the whole village to Li Qiao's house.
This is the wish of the whole village. The buckwheat must be harvested, otherwise they will not be able to make vermicelli with peace of mind.
Village Chief Zhu couldn't resist his kindness, and in addition, the people of Zhujia Village gave them to them, so Li Qiao accepted the more than 20 pullets.
There were so many chickens at once, and there was no shortage of eggs at home. He was not reluctant to eat hens like other villagers, so Li Qiao decided on lunch with a wave of his hand:
Large plate of chicken.
The whole family was very satisfied with the delicious large-plate chicken. The little hens grew up eating grain, and their meat was fragrant and tender. Coupled with Li Chuntao's good cooking skills, they easily killed three little hens. Chicken and more than 20 kilograms of wide noodles.
"This big plate of chicken is so delicious." Li Dashan patted his bulging belly while holding a bowl of iced sour plum soup.
Li Shu nodded fiercely. The chicken at Li Qiao's house was either braised or made into a large plate. She has eaten it many times since she came back, but she still hasn't gotten tired of it.
No, she will never get tired of it in her life.
It’s meat with so many ingredients, how can you get tired of such a good thing?
Li Qiao heard this and said, "Then we can have a big plate of chicken for lunch tomorrow."
But when Li Dashan heard this, he hesitated: "But I want to eat hot pot again..."
The big plate of chicken made me miss the spicy food. Speaking of which, since the weather got hot, I have never had hot pot again.
Now I really want to eat hot pot. Dip the thinly sliced pork belly in the chili plate and then cover it with sesame sauce. The taste is really amazing.
"Don't you feel too hot eating hot pot on a hot day?" Li Qiao asked him.
"It's not hot or hot. At worst, put it in a bowl and eat it away from the stove."
He is willing to endure the heat compared to the delicious food!
"Brother Zhu, Third Sister, Chuntao, Yu Ning, Yu An, what do you want to eat?"
Li Qiao solicited opinions from others.
"It's true that I haven't had hot pot for a long time." Tao Zhu also thought about it.
Seeing this, Li Qiao immediately said: "It's okay, we can make a cold pot skewers."
Of course, skewers are not needed, just use a cold pot.
He explained how to make cold pot skewers. After listening, Tao Zhu and others nodded, this is a good method.
You can enjoy delicious hotpot without having to sit around the stove!
When Li Qiao's family was discussing what to put in tomorrow's cold pot, when Li Qiao's family was living a calm life and studying eating and drinking every day, Sanliu Village and Zhujia Village... no, to be precise, the villages in the entire county were all in chaos. In a state of excitement and restlessness.
For the people of Sanliu Village, Li Qiao only takes half of the profit, and as more people enter the sweet potato workshop, the more money they earn.
But for Zhujiacun and other villages, this is not an increase in money earned, but a rise in money earned from zero!
Last year, other villages could only watch the people in Sanliu Village making vermicelli, but this year they no longer have to watch, this year they can join in!
The construction of sweet potato workshops in Sanliu Village, Zhujia Village and the county seat has already begun.
Various plans formulated by Jiangzhi County are also being implemented steadily.
