Tao Zhu asked him to bring a backpack.
"Okay!" Li Dashan left happily.
After his unremitting efforts, Brother Qian's attitude towards him finally changed. Although he failed to marry Brother Qian back this year, he will definitely succeed next year!
In the afternoon, every household was either making dumplings or stewing meat. Li Ping came over to deliver a small bookshelf. Li Qiao ordered a small bookshelf from the dealer a few days ago, which is for Tao Zhu.
Li Ping didn't leave after delivering the bookshelf. Instead, he sat down and helped make dumplings.
Of course, the main thing is to gossip.
She was always well informed.
"Don't you know? Now there are not only people who are matchmaking for Dazhong every day, but there are also people who are matchmaking for your third uncle Li Dao!"
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"What?"
"..."
Everyone in the room was shocked.
When talking about gossip, what you want is this kind of reaction. Li Ping became very interested and said: "Who asked Zhao Erniu to offend Li Qiao? If Zhao Erniu was kicked and Li Dao was given a blow, then what would happen? Li Dao might be as good an elder as Li Gu. By then, his treatment by Li Qiao will naturally be the same as Chuntao's father."
"Many people pay this attention."
Li Qiao: "..."
Mixed feelings.
Don't know how to evaluate it.
Li Ping quickly added: "Nowadays, many of the girls and boys in our village are preparing to find a husband. Just like Tao Tao, who originally wanted to choose a good one, and even wanted to marry in the town. As a result, now we only recruit son-in-laws, not marry outsiders."
"It's a pity that he doesn't like all men who are willing to marry."
"He is as big as a mountain. He will be 18 after the Chinese New Year. If we delay him any longer, it will be even harder to find him."
Li Qiao: "..."
So, recruiting a son-in-law has become the mainstream in their village?
"By the way, by the time I came here, there were 600 households in other villages who had donated money to our village, and they had donated 1,200 taels of silver!"
Li Ping remembered this and quickly shared the good news with Li Qiao and Tao Zhu.
"There are so many?" Li Qiao was surprised.
This was beyond his expectation.
“When the vermicelli is finished and construction begins next year, there will definitely be donations from others.”
Everyone wants to have Li Qiao's name appear on a stone. After the merit monument is erected, Li Qiao will definitely look at it carefully. Then their names will appear in Li Qiao's eyes.
Li Qiao: "..."
OK.
Nor could he dampen the enthusiasm of the crowd.
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Li Ping left in the evening, and Li Qiao's family set off firecrackers, ate dumplings, and watched the new year come. Another year has arrived.
On the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Qiao's house was very lively.
Li Liang's family, Li Gu's family, Zheng's family, Zhuang's family, and Zhao Mancang's family called Li Dazhong, but Li Dazhong didn't come.
With so many people working together, the pig's trotters and ribs were stewed in no time.
In case there was not enough food, each family also brought their own stove to stew a lot of food.
This stew lasted until evening, and the rich aroma filled the whole yard. Everyone was holding either ribs, pig's trotters, or other big bones, and everyone's face was stained with oil as they gnawed.
Li Qiao stood by the stove, grabbing sausages from the pot with chopsticks, and nibbling a few pieces of pig's trotters, feeling a little tired.
Eat a spicy sausage for a change.
Tao Zhu stood beside him, holding a small basin with two pig's trotters in his hand.
Tao Zhu, who is now being taken care of by Li Qiao, also likes to chew bones like pig's trotters and duck necks that don't have much meat.
Seeing that Li Qiao continued to fish after two sausages, he said: "I don't eat sausages. You can fish out a few less sausages. I will also eat pig's trotters later."
"Okay, you can eat whatever you want. Today is an all-meat feast." Li Qiao said, looking at him and saying with a smile: "It feels like everyone came to our wedding banquet. We were poor at the time and there was no meat at the wedding banquet. Even if it is today, Made it up.”
Tao Zhu didn't expect that he would have such an association. He was startled when he heard this, and then he couldn't help but look at the situation in the yard.
Everyone either sits at the table or squats. Farmers are not so particular.
Both adults and children have smiles on their faces.
Think again about the scene of everyone washing and stewing together in the afternoon. Of course, everyone’s blessings for the Liqiao County Examination cannot be missing.
This whole process was just like the day he and Li Qiao got married.
He couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, looking at Li Qiao's eyes sparkling: "Yeah!"
Complete.
If this person gets good results in the county examination, it will be more complete.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the sweet potato workshop started working again.
Li Qiao also calmed down and concentrated on reading.
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the county office announced the date of the county examination:
The five days from the 12th to the 16th of next month.
The county examination is held for five consecutive days.
The exam date is announced and the next step is to register.
This registration is quite complicated, because there were no ID cards in ancient times, so registration was troublesome, but Li Qiao had already been prepared.
On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, he and Tao Zhu went to the county seat.
As soon as they arrived at the gate of the city, they met Jiang Zhixian's carriage.
"What a coincidence, it saves me a special trip to Sanliu Village." Jiang Zhixian said with a smile as soon as he saw Li Qiao.
Li Qiao: "?"
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Chapter 71 Reward from the Holy One A house that accumulates good deeds will always be happy
Accompanying Jiang Zhixian were three men riding tall horses and wearing blue brocade clothes.
These three men looked very capable. The leader had ordinary features, but his eyes were sharp. When Jiang Zhixian called "Xiao Li", his eyes swept over Li Qiao like a searchlight.
Li Qiao seemed completely unaware and just looked at Jiang Zhixian in surprise.
Jiangzhi County ignored Li Qiao for the time being, but said to the leader: "Master Zhao, this is Li Qiao. How about we go back to the county government office to ask questions?"
"Yes." The leader nodded.
So, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu, who looked "confused", followed Jiang Zhixian's carriage to the county government office.
Li Qiao is not stupid. Looking at this posture, it is probably the Holy Emperor who has responded.
But Tao Zhu beside him was confused, so he also became confused.
When they arrived at the county government office, County Magistrate Jiang explained the process to Li Qiao and Tao Zhu.
These three adults in blue brocade robes came from the Holy Guards, and the leader was Zhao Cun, the captain of the Guards.
Mr. Zhao and the other three were ordered to investigate the vermicelli incident.
After Jiangzhi County's report was sent to the emperor's case, the emperor was overjoyed but also doubtful. He had just written an article about the low price of grain hurting farmers and the high price of rice hurting the people. As a result, Pingcheng jumped out of this strange circle with practical actions. What a coincidence, right?
The vermicelli tastes really good.
But the benefits brought by vermicelli are questionable.
So the Holy One sent his guards to investigate.
Zhao Cun and the others came to Pingcheng eight days ago. During these eight days, they first visited the sweet potato workshops in the county town, and then randomly selected several villages and towns to investigate.
Of course, in Sanliu Village, which was the top priority, they also pretended to be ordinary vendors and went to investigate, but no matter where they were, no fraud was found.
This Pingcheng vermicelli is exactly as written in Jiangzhi County's booklet. There was a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes, farmers made a lot of money, and the whole county fell into madness.
Since Jiang Zhixian did not make up any nonsense, then the Holy Spirit will definitely reward him.
Zhao Cun and the other three have already brought the reward from the Holy Emperor. Now they will wait for Zhao Cun and the other three to inquire with Li Qiao in person, and then the investigation will be completely over.
After the investigation is over, the Holy Spirit's reward will fall into the hands of Magistrate Jiang and Li Qiao - of course, if any fraud is found, it will be punished.
So today, Magistrate Jiang and Zhao Cun were preparing to go to Sanliu Village. Who knew they met Li Qiao at the gate of the city? In this case, it would save trouble today.
After Jiang Zhixian explained this, Li Qiao looked stunned, and then looked at Zhao Cun a little nervously, waiting for Mr. Zhao to ask questions.
Zhao Cun put out pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and first asked Li Qiao about his life.
He also asked Li Qiao why he had such a big change.
He also asked what miscellaneous books Li Qiao had read about the snacks he made.
Of course, the key point is how Li Qiao makes vermicelli.
After this inquiry, an hour has passed.
Li Qiao looked nervous on his face, but he was calm in his heart.
What miscellaneous books did you read it from?
