Originally, she wanted to sell this batch of vermicelli quietly, but when Li Dazhong got angry, she set up the stall openly. Who could do anything to her?
She is Li Qiao's former cousin-in-law, and the mother-in-law of Li Qiao's nephews and nieces!
She quietly built the stove all night last night. She was full of confidence and wanted to make a big fortune, but the cruel reality gave her a blow.
When it was first light, she had the stew ready.
Then she solicited diners, saying that these were vermicelli her family got when they were working in a sweet potato workshop, and they couldn't bear to eat them, so now they set up a stall.
And the price is two cents cheaper per bowl than at Wangyuelou.
Many people believe this. Even though people in Pingcheng are getting rich from vermicelli, for farmers in the countryside, if someone in their family is selected to work in a sweet potato factory, they can eat vermicelli at cost price during the Chinese New Year.
But apart from that, they rarely had the chance to eat vermicelli - the braised dishes at Wangyuelou were too expensive for them to part with.
As for those families where no one works in a sweet potato workshop, there are even fewer opportunities to eat vermicelli.
So, more than ten people immediately wanted to sit down and eat.
This made her extremely happy. Humph, she just wanted to make money by disobeying Magistrate Jiang’s orders in an upright manner!
But who knew that she had just filled a bowl of stew and before she could serve it to the guests, an aunt passing by recognized her.
Han Xiaoyan's words immediately scared away the dozen or so diners.
No matter how hard she tried to attract diners, no one dared to sit down again.
At this moment, she finally knew how powerful Li Qiao was in Pingcheng. She offended Li Qiao, so no one dared to eat her stew.
She realized deeply that Li Qiao's former cousin-in-law was nothing like that.
She was in Pingcheng, and although others didn't dare to really bully her, they didn't dare to eat her stew or buy her vermicelli.
Therefore, unprecedented fear enveloped her at this time, and she could not control the tears in her eyes.
She really has no way out!
Tao Zhu never expected that Han Xiaoyan would burst into tears all of a sudden. He didn't know Han Xiaoyan's psychological journey, but he was disgusted with Han Xiaoyan's behavior today: "You secretly made vermicelli, and you feel wronged?"
"Don't you dare to do this just because Li Qiao is here? Without Li Qiao, would you have the guts to disobey Magistrate Jiang's order?"
Tao Zhu was really disgusted with Han Xiaoyan. He dared to openly disobey Jiang Zhixian's order. This was because he wanted to exercise his privileges because Li Qiao was here.
Just like when she stopped Baiyou's carriage, she felt that even if the sky fell, Li Qiao could hold it up.
She felt that after helping Li Qiao once, Li Qiao would have to repay her indefinitely. She felt that Li Qiao had already flown away, so she was defying Jiang Zhixian's order.
After all this time, she has not shown any repentance or change.
She is still the original Han Xiaoyan.
"Either you're crying or you're right. It's all your fault for being greedy that you're in this situation today. Li Qiao never owed you anything, and he never really harmed you. If you hadn't tried to commit suicide again and again, how could you have done it? Is there today?"
"People's good lives are managed by themselves, not made."
"You are right about one thing. This matter really needs to be reported to County Magistrate Jiang today."
After saying this, Tao Zhu turned around and left.
Jiang Zhixian has repeatedly ordered that private individuals cannot make vermicelli. Everyone in the county knows this, and he cannot slap Jiang Zhixian in the face.
Li Qiao is just a young scholar now, and Li Qiao has no right to deal with this matter.
With Li Qiao's kindness, he would definitely intercede for Han Xiaoyan, but the process had to be followed.
Tao Zhu was going to report to the police, which frightened Han Xiaoyan. She cried and tried to stop Tao Zhu, but was quickly stopped by passers-by.
The next thing was simple, Tao Zhu reported to the official, Han Xiaoyan was imprisoned, Li Qiao went to plead for mercy, Han Xiaoyan admitted her mistake and said she would no longer make vermicelli privately in the future, and then Jiang Zhixian released her.
Although she only stayed in the prison for one day, she looked a little stupid after she came out.
Li Qiao asked her parents to pick her up and then stopped caring about her.
He had the same opinion as Tao Zhu about Han Xiaoyan. When Han Xiaoyan went to stop the carriage of Baiyou, the son of an eighth-grade official, he was nothing.
When he was a young scholar, Han Xiaoyan dared to openly disobey Jiang Zhixian's orders.
When he becomes an official in the future, will Han Xiaoyan have to disobey His Majesty's orders?
He himself never takes a step beyond the thunder pool, but Han Xiaoyan is good at it, and she wants to throw him into the thunder pool at every turn.
Even if he had supernatural powers to protect his body, he wouldn't be able to withstand Han Xiaoyan's trick.
Han Xiaoyan's trouble spread quickly in Pingcheng, and Baiyou and Li Dazhong came to the county to find Li Qiao and Tao Zhu.
Li Qiao is a day student and does not live in the academy. He goes home for lunch at noon.
At the lunch table, Li Dazhong apologized to Li Qiao with a guilty look on his face, blaming him for this.
"Brother Dazhong, how can I blame you? If you don't break up with her, she will definitely do worse now."
Li Qiao shook his head and told Li Dazhong not to take responsibility for him: "You two have different views, so it is right to separate. She is just an ex-wife, so you don't have to be responsible for her for the rest of your life."
"But the world is harsh on women and young men." Baiyou sighed.
"As long as she truly repented, she would have a chance to survive. She was the one who led the way to death." Of course Tao Zhu felt pity for Han Xiaoyan, but there must be something hateful about a pitiful person.
Moreover, Li Qiao didn't care about Li Shu, and he didn't care about Tao Tao. If Han Xiaoyan really realized that he was wrong, could he and Li Qiao still force her to death?
Thinking like this, he asked Li Dazhong and Baiyou not to mention the matter again. It had been almost half a month since he and Li Qiao moved to the county. This was the first time he met Baiyou and Li Dazhong. He should be happy.
Seeing this, Baiyou and Li Dazhong could only change the topic and talk about things in the village.
In the past half month, the biggest change in the village is the addition of a private school.
During the Chinese New Year this year, Zhuang Fengshou specially held a meeting to solicit opinions from the whole village. He wanted to build a private school in the village. His wife was Huang Youming. If the villagers were willing, they would pool their money to build a house.
The villagers are naturally willing.
As the villagers became richer and Li Qiao was convicted of crimes again and again, everyone in Sanliu Village became more and more enthusiastic about reading.
Moreover, Huang Youming was Li Qiao's private tutor and lived in Li Qiao's house for more than two years. Li Qiao was able to achieve three yuan in primary school and middle school. Most of the reason was because of Li Qiao's own intelligence, but Huang Youming must also have contributed to it.
If Huang Youming didn't have real talent and learning, how could Li Qiao let him stay at home for so long.
Therefore, after confirming that the master of the private school was him, every household was willing to donate money.
This is Li Qiao's personal trainer!
The villagers pooled their money, and Zhuang Fengshou took advantage of the slack to build a private school in the northeast corner of the village.
Now that Li Qiao was studying in the academy, Huang Youming resigned from his position as a private tutor and became a tutor at a private school in Sanliu Village.
Each student is given thirty taels of silver per year to study, which does not include food or housing.
This price is very expensive in the countryside, but who wants to enroll so many people? Anyone with children of the right age at home, and the right age refers to children from six years old to unmarried, anyone in this age group can go to school.
Everyone wanted to see the level of Li Qiao's personal trainer, so there were nearly 300 people there.
With so many people, it was too hard for Huang Youming to teach alone.
Huang Youming said that he couldn't teach him, and wanted Zhuang Fengshou to hire another master, but the whole village disagreed, so he had to let him teach him, and he also had to practice more, from the original two taels of silver to three taels of silver, for the sake of the money For his own sake, Huang Youming gritted his teeth and agreed.
The Huang family was poor. Over the years, four generations of his ancestors, fathers, sons, and grandsons had provided him with such a scholar.
He felt sorry for his family. There was an opportunity to make money at this time, and he was not willing to miss it.
Just be tired if you are tired. He is only forty-nine years old and can barely teach so many people.
The harder he works, the easier it will be for his family.
In fact, he is not poor now. When he worked as a private tutor for Li Qiao, his salary for a month was ten taels of silver. He also received a red envelope at the end of the year and had travel expenses to the capital.
This time Li Qiao passed the exam and was given a red envelope of one hundred taels as a thank you gift. With Li Qiao alone, he earned nearly six hundred taels of silver in more than two years.
But there’s no such thing as too much money.
While he can still teach students, he will work hard to save some money for his family.
Baiyou and Li Dazhong finished talking about the private school and Huang Youming, and then talked about crops. The wheat harvest has begun. There is not much rain this year, but because Li Qiao dug a lot of wells last year, the wheat harvest in Sanliu Village this year is very high. It's a good harvest.
Li Qiao's family also grows a lot of wheat, but Li Qiao can rest assured that everything in the family is fine.
Li Qiao was going back to the academy to study after lunch. Bai You and Li Dazhong waited for him to leave and sat for a while before returning to the village.
The two of them left, and Tao Zhu started doing housework as before.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Tao Zhu went into the kitchen to cook. When dinner was ready, Li Qiao came back.
After dinner, Li Qiao went back to the study to study until nine o'clock, then came out of the study to wash up.
Tao Zhu washed up with him.
After lying in bed, he would tell Tao Zhu some things about the academy, and Tao Zhu would also tell some things about his family.
However, today Baiyou and Li Dazhong came, and Tao Zhu talked about these two people.
"Baiyou said today that Brother Dazhong went directly to his second uncle and aunt after he came back from Fucheng. Brother Dazhong gave the old couple some money and asked them to keep an eye on the child and not allow Han Xiaoyan to get close to the child again."
"With money as motivation, the second uncle and second aunt carried out the work seriously."
"Han Xiaoyan can't reach the children, so that's why she sells stew."
Li Qiao: "..."
I see.
"Then Brother Dazhong is interested in Baiyou?" he asked.
"No, when Baiyou told me about this today, he smiled so sweetly."
"As long as Han Xiaoyan doesn't brainwash the two children into tormenting Baiyou, then their lives will definitely get better and better."
Li Dazhong married a new husband, but he did not become a stepfather. He always cared about his two children and went back to the old home to play with them every day. The two children were young, so if they were taught slowly, they were instilled by Han Xiaoyan Distorted thoughts will definitely turn into normal.
After his mother was divorced, the two children were indeed pitiful, but did Han Xiaoyan ever think about the two children when he committed suicide?
The situation at this time is already the best result.
"Very good." Li Qiao nodded gently while grabbing Tao Zhu's hand and playing with it. This is indeed the best result so far.
He was lying on his side, supporting his head with one hand and holding Tao Zhu's hand with the other.
Tao Zhu also lay on his side, facing him.
After hearing what he said, she stretched out her legs to press on his legs, and leaned into his arms: "Don't worry about this from now on, just concentrate on your studies."
