The courtyard where I live now is full of green plants, and the lush trees cover a lot of the heat on the roof. Sleeping in the house at night is obviously more comfortable than living in the three- or four-door house before.
Tao Zhu also likes his current new house very much.
In the yard where he and Li Qiao live, there are two tall persimmon trees. The two trees are very close to each other, and the shade they cast is as much as a room. Not only can you sit under the tree to enjoy the shade, but you can also sit on the tree. Hang a swing, hammock.
This is the first time Tao Zhu has played on a swing when he has grown up. This kind of toy is actually common in the countryside, but it is not his turn to play.
Later, we got married and were busy doing business, so I never thought about it.
Whoever dreamed of becoming a father actually hung up the swing at home that he could only covet but never play with before.
He loved it.
There is also a hammock, which he also likes very much. The hammock he is currently using was custom-made by Li Qiao from a shop. It is wide and wide. After lying on it, Li Qiao pushed him gently. He only felt it once and fell in love with it.
The two cubs, including Li Xiaorui, also like these two persimmon trees. After summer comes, they play under the trees every day.
The two cubs are over two years old, and Li Qiao has already arranged homework for them.
Every morning, Li Xiaorui sits under the persimmon tree and reads.
The two little boys were also sitting under the tree, holding a picture album customized by Li Qiao, looking at pictures and learning words.
The two little ones have very strong learning ability. Li Xiaorui's learning progress was already among the best among his peers, but the memory of the two little ones is stronger than that of Li Xiaorui. Now they are only a little over two years old, and they know the same words as Li Xiaorui. Li Xiaorui was almost three years old.
At this rate, after the summer, the two of them might be able to catch up with Li Xiaorui's progress.
The two little guys have such strong learning abilities, which makes Zheng Qianqian extremely envious.
Zheng Qianqian always thought that Li Xiaorui was great, but she didn't expect that the two little cubs were even better. They were indeed his uncle's babies!
The baby in Zheng Qianqian's belly is already nine months old, and the baby will be born next month. In order to make the baby in his belly better, he also sits aside when the three little ones study every day, so that the baby in his belly can listen.
In the future, even if this baby is not as good as Li Changfeng and Li Yunfan, it will still be the same as Li Xiaorui.
Li Xia had the same plan. The baby in his belly was almost two months older than Zheng Qianqian, but it was better to nurture him early than not at all.
On this day, Li Qiao came home from get off work and entered the cross-yard through the corner door - he was not that particular. Anyway, he lived in the cross-yard now, so there was no need to go through the main entrance.
However, when he entered the courtyard where he and Tao Zhu lived, he immediately saw Tao Zhu, Zheng Qianqian, and Li Xia sitting under the persimmon tree, all with slumped faces.
Tao Zhu rested his arm on the stone table to support his cheek, his watery eyes drooped and his eyebrows furrowed.
Zheng Qianqian crossed her arms over her heart, as if she was grinding her teeth and bulging with anger.
Li Xia, on the other hand, held her cheeks with her hands and frowned.
The three little guys were playing Cuju on the side, as cheerful as ever.
"What's wrong with you?"
Li Qiao asked curiously as he walked towards the persimmon tree.
As soon as he spoke, he drew the attention of several people, and the three little guys ran towards him with a smile.
"Daddy!"
"Uncle!"
Tao Zhu also immediately stood up from the stone bench, smiled and asked Li He who was waiting aside to get a basin of water for him to wash his face.
Li Qiao squatted down, hugged the three little guys and kissed them one by one, then looked at Tao Zhu who was walking towards him: "What are you doing?"
Before Tao Zhu could speak, Li Xiaorui immediately opened his little mouth and said, "Uncle Shen is here today. After he came, Uncle Zhu, Dad, and Uncle Xia were all unhappy."
"That's it..."
Li Qiao looked stunned, smiled and pinched Li Xiaorui's face: "Uncle, I understand, then Xiaorui will take your two uncles to play ball, okay? Uncle, I want to know what happened."
"good!"
Li Xiaorui responded crisply, then bent down, holding a young uncle in one hand, and walked towards the ball under the persimmon tree.
The two little cubs were very obedient and followed up on their short legs.
Li Qiao then looked at Tao Zhu.
Tao Zhu breathed out softly, pursed his lower lip, and then explained: "Brother Hua is pregnant, but the Xu family is acting like monsters as always."
"The Xu family called Xu Ying to the Xu family for dinner last night. They wanted to get Xu Ying drunk and then arrange a concubine for Xu Ying and make cooked rice from raw rice."
"Xu Ying saw through it at a glance, scolded the Xu family and left. But today, while Xu Ying was on errands, the Xu family went to Brother Hua's house and talked nonsense, saying that Brother Hua should take the initiative to give birth to Xu Ying if he couldn't serve her after she was pregnant. Xu Ying arranged for a concubine, saying that Brother Hua was jealous and wanted to divorce her. How about Brother Hua?"
"If it were normal, Brother Hua would be angry, but he wouldn't take it seriously. But now that he is pregnant, his mood is changeable, and he has been suffering from severe morning sickness recently, and his little face has been vomited. So he He was having a hard time, so he came to us in the afternoon to cry."
Tao Zhu sighed as he spoke. The Xu family was too much.
But Xu Ying couldn't really do anything to the Xu family. This kind of pain, like a slow knife cutting flesh, was really torturous.
"...Brother Hua has indeed suffered."
Li Qiao was convinced.
The Xu family can indeed be demons.
"I will make a note to the Holy One tomorrow and propose to create some special official positions for women and young men."
"Is this possible?" Tao Zhu was worried.
Not to mention whether Sheng Hong will agree, if Sheng Hong knows that Li Qiao made this proposal because of the Xu family, will Sheng Hong's impression of Xu Ying become worse...
This is a family scandal.
Does Xu Ying want Li Qiao to spread the word?
Li Qiao hesitated after hearing Tao Zhu's worries.
Yes, even if he didn't mention a word about the Xu family, but if Sheng Hong wanted to investigate, would he be causing trouble to Xu Ying?
"Then I'll take it easy. You go to spend more time with Brother Hua recently." He could only say this to Tao Zhu.
"Okay." Tao Zhu also had this intention.
Shen Hua wanted to buy a house in the east of the city, but the house in the east was expensive, so Shen Hua didn't make a decision for so long.
Now that we live far away, meeting Shen Hua is not as convenient as before. Shen Hua only came over after such an outrageous thing happened.
"I'll take a look at the houses here. If there's anything suitable, I'll buy it for Brother Hua first. Brother Hua will pay back the money slowly in the future," he said.
Of course Li Qiao had no objection.
Even though he moved to the east of the city, Tao Zhu's social circle did not expand. He did not take the initiative to make friends with the families of other high-ranking officials. When others posted posts, he would just push them away.
Tao Zhu only had a few friends, and he hoped Shen Hua would move to the east of the city more than Tao Zhu.
However, Tao Zhu really didn't have time to socialize.
His family's method of raising cubs is different from that of other wealthy families. His family does not have a wet nurse, and there is no separate maid for the two cubs. Tao Zhu does everything himself.
Taking care of the two little guys took up a lot of Tao Zhu's time. The nearby Dongkuaoyuan was still under construction, and with the death of the third prince, Tao Zhu immediately sent someone to take the poor father and son who suffered from last year's snowstorm to the hot pot shop.
In this short period of half a year, the father and son spent all their savings and had no fixed source of living. They relied on washing clothes for others to earn a meager income.
But one of the father and son had a broken arm, the other was too young, and the amount of clothes they could wash was really limited. When Tao Zhu sent people there, the father and son already owed one month's rent, and the landlord was evicting them.
If the Tao Zhu sect had left one step later, the father and son would have had to sleep like beggars.
After taking people to the hot pot shop and arranging work such as lighting the fire, selecting vegetables, washing vegetables, and so on, the father and son finally settled down.
But this is just the beginning.
There are many people who are as pitiful as this father and son, and there are many people who are more pitiful than this pair of father and son.
He wanted to help these people.
His shop has been open to recruiting outsiders for some time. It may be that Li Qiao, a third-grade official, is in charge, so the newly recruited employees are very diligent and well-behaved.
The employees were diligent and well-behaved, and the business was good, so Tao Zhu wanted to open a new shop.
The more shops we open, the more jobs we can provide.
Under such circumstances, how could Tao Zhu have the time and thought to socialize.
Li Qiao is very supportive of Tao Zhu's idea. Tao Zhu would like to do whatever he likes to do, other than open a new shop. When he takes out the cement, it will definitely provide a lot of jobs.
There are only a few days away from the deadline given by Sheng Hong. If the seventh prince wins, then his cement can be relieved.
But if the Sixth Prince wins, the cement must be born.
As the eldest prince said, no one can guarantee that he will win the remaining rounds, and he must go all out in each round.
Li Qiao thought the deadline was still a few days away, but summer came and Sheng Hong couldn't stay in the palace any longer.
Sheng Jun has moved to Dingchun Garden, and he wants to move there too.
Therefore, after the morning court the next day, he did not summon the ministers to discuss matters, but asked several princes to stay.
Anyway, there are only a few days left, so let’s set the deadline today.
The Hall of Seeking Xian.
Sheng Hong sat behind the imperial desk, resting his arms on the table to support himself, and looked at the princes in front of him with a smile.
"Hao'er, Mi'er, Xiao Qi, do you three have a more brilliant idea than Xu'er? If not, then I will let the courtiers discuss Xu'er's clever plan tomorrow."
As soon as these words came out, the fourth prince was relieved and immediately shook his head. Of course, he looked ashamed: "Father, my son is stupid and can't think of a better idea. In this game, my son is powerless."
The second prince followed immediately, with a look of shame on his face: "Father, my son is more stupid than my fourth brother. Don't be angry. My son really can't think of any better ideas."
When Sheng Hong heard this, he did not educate the two of them as he did before, nor did he show any disappointment.
Because he didn't come up with any better ideas during this time.
He couldn't even think of it, so there was no need to embarrass his two sons.
Therefore, he looked directly at the seventh prince.
"Xiaoqi, what about you?"
The seventh prince stepped forward calmly and replied: "Son, I don't have any more subtle ideas. However, the eldest brother is willing to spend all his family wealth and hire people to make adobe bricks so that the official roads of Dasheng can be built into flat adobe brick roads. .”
"My eldest brother has limited financial resources, but my eldest brother makes a lot of money every year. If it takes twenty or thirty years, my eldest brother will definitely be able to complete this task."
"Although it will take a long time, the eldest brother is willing to spend all his family wealth to bring peace to the people of the world. Although the eldest brother is poor, Dasheng and the people will benefit."
"Father, what do you think of this method?"
