No.
The people can live and work in peace and contentment, because he, the emperor, has paid a lot.
Li Aiqing knows how to be grateful and wants to repay him, which is good.
Moreover, look at Li Aiqing's reverent and admiring eyes. He impressed Li Aiqing with his personal charm and made Li Aiqing willingly pay for the people. He was quite successful as an emperor.
"Then you should open a school." He waved his hand and happily made the decision.
If Sheng Hong is right, then things will be easier to handle.
At the end of November, the school opened. Just in the south of the city, Li Qiao bought three more houses, two for accommodation for these students and one for teaching.
The twelfth lunar month is coming soon, and this year is about to pass.
The weather is very cold, except for the snow that fell before winter, there has been no snow in the past two months.
Auspicious snow heralds a good year, but without snow, the people would have to irrigate their own fields.
Li Qiao could ask people to dig more wells on his farm, but he couldn't make suggestions to Sheng Hong.
He has no valid reason.
He doesn't understand weather.
If you want to improvise, you have to find a reasonable excuse.
At the shantang, after the first wave of cotton-padded clothes distribution activities ended, the shantang was on the right track.
There are far fewer people going to the charity hall to donate things and sell cotton clothes every day. Tao Zhu does not need to go to the charity hall every day.
When he was free, he would still pick Li Qiao up from get off work.
On this day, as usual, he went to take Li Qiao home.
After waiting for a while at the gate of the inner city, Li Qiao and Xin Zhi came out together.
Xin Zhi and Li Yu'an are making good progress. To outsiders, they seem to be incompatible and completely different, but they actually have a lot to say.
After Li Yu'an arrived at Sanliu Village, she immediately became Li Qiao's child laborer and had to work every day.
Because there are many vendors going to Sanliu Village, Li Yu'an can see many people and hear many things every day even if he stays at home making snacks every day.
The gossip in the countryside is full of nonsense and twists and turns, but it can actually arouse people's interest.
Li Yu'an told Xin Zhi, the noble young master, what he had heard and seen over the years, and Xin Zhi listened with great interest.
No one expected that between the two of them, it was Li Yuan who talked the most, while Xin Zhi was in a listening position.
Both Tao Zhu and Li Qiao were satisfied with this.
The couple were originally worried that Li Yuan would feel inferior due to the huge gap in status between the two of them and would be manipulated by Xin Zhi, but who knew that this would develop like this.
As a result, they looked at Xin Zhi in the eyes and their attitude towards Xin Zhi became much kinder.
Chapter 198 Snail Noodles, Li Ershan’s Engagement Li Qiao’s personal influence is limited
"I haven't seen Xiao Yu'an for two days. I got a jade pendant yesterday and will send it to Xiao Yu'an today."
Xin Zhi came to Tao Zhu and took out a delicate wooden box from his arms with a smile, shook it towards Tao Zhu, and then stuffed it back into his arms.
Tao Zhu laughed and said, "Okay, Yu'an made a new dish today, it tastes good. He made it specially for Li Qiao. You're lucky enough to have a try."
"I know!"
Xin Zhi hurriedly said: "It's about making rice noodles with snail soup, right? He told me before that he didn't expect it to be made today. I must try it."
"Get in the carriage."
Li Qiao signaled Tao Zhu to get on the carriage first. There was a charcoal basin in the carriage. Although it was not very warm, it was better than nothing.
He really missed the snail noodles, but the method he knew in his previous life required a lot of modern seasonings. Those seasonings were not available in this time and space, so he didn't bother.
The New Year is coming soon. There is a small pond over there in Zhuangzi, with some lotus roots planted and some fish raised in it.
A few days ago, Li Liang asked people to drain the water in the pond and dig lotus roots, and got some snails.
So he said that he could make snail noodles, and he explained the specific method. As for the missing seasonings, he asked the kitchen to do their best to make whatever flavor they could, as long as it was delicious.
Li Yu'an was very interested in this, and he and the cook in the kitchen fumbled for a few days, and today he actually made delicious snail noodles?
When Li Qiao, Tao Zhu and Xin Zhi returned home, Li Xiaorui was leading Li Changfeng and Li Yunfan to play on the merry-go-round.
This carousel is mini and can only accommodate five children, and it has to be manually moved to turn around.
But for children of this time and space, it was so new and interesting.
Even though it was cold, the three of them stayed bundled up and played in the yard.
However, seeing Li Qiao coming back, the three of them jumped off the merry-go-round and gathered around Li Qiao chattering about what they had learned and done today.
Li Qiao hugged them one by one and told them not to play too long to avoid catching a cold in the yard, and then he and Xin Zhi entered the multi-purpose leisure room in the front yard.
Since he wanted to let Xin Zhi and Li Yu'an stay together, every time Xin Zhi came over, Li Qiao would let him stay in the multi-functional greenhouse in the front yard, and then call Li Yu'an over so that the two could be alone.
But he has to stay in the next room and monitor at all times.
There was nothing he could do about it. Xin Zhidao, a beast in the workplace, was targeting junior high school students. Even though he had been in this world for almost ten years, he still couldn't accept it.
After a while, Li Yu'an came over, followed by Li Tianlimei, who each carried a large food box in his hands.
There are two bowls of snail noodles in the food box.
There are no sour bamboo shoots in the snail noodles, and because it lacks some seasonings, the taste is a little different from the snail noodles that Li Qiao had eaten in his previous life.
But the snail soup base is well cooked, the rice noodles are smooth and have a strong rice aroma, and coupled with Taozhu's special chili oil, this bowl of snail noodles and buckwheat is quite satisfying.
In the winter, have a bowl of hot snail noodles as an appetizer before meals. After eating, your whole body will be warm and your appetite will be whetted.
"I'll just eat this tonight. You can make arrangements for the rest. Whoever wants to eat can do whatever they want."
He said to Li Tian.
Li Tian responded and returned to the kitchen with Li Mei.
Li Yu'an stayed. He sat on the edge of the kang and looked at Li Qiao expectantly.
Li Qiao couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
My own juicy cabbage is in a hurry to go to the pig, but I can't save it.
"Yu An, you and Zi Zi go sit next door and talk." He pointed to the room next to him.
There are three multifunctional leisure rooms in total.
After hearing this, Li Yu'an glanced at Xin Zhi quickly, then got up from the kang, said yes, and went to the next room with a mixture of shame and joy on his face.
Xin Zhi chuckled and cupped his hands towards Li Qiao: "Thank you, Brother Li, for your support."
Then, without waiting for Li Qiao to speak, he got off the kang and went to the next room.
Li Qiao rolled her eyes and saw a plate of dried mango on the Kang table, so she picked up a piece and started chewing it.
The biggest disadvantage of living in Shengjing is that you can't eat various fruits from the south. If you want to eat these fruits, you can only eat dried fruits.
While chewing dried mango, he raised his ears to listen to what was going on next door.
"Mr. Xin, does the snail rice noodle just now suit your taste?"
Li Yuan sat at the table, folded his hands on the table, sat upright, and looked nervously at Xin Zhi across the table.
"It's perfect! It's so perfect! Didn't you see that I finished the bowl in one go just now? Xiao Yu'an, your cooking skills are amazing."
Xin Zhi said with a smile and gave Li Yuan a thumbs up.
Li Yuan stared at his smiling face for a few seconds, then lowered her eyes shyly: "As long as you like it."
"I love so much!"
"You have been working too hard on this rice noodle recently. Here, I will give you a jade pendant. You can play with it when you have nothing to do."
Xin Zhi took out the small wooden box that had been in his arms all day, opened it, and placed it in front of Li Yu'an.
Inside the small wooden box is a very delicate persimmon-shaped jade pendant.
"I see that you like to stay under the persimmon tree in the west courtyard, so I asked someone to order this jade pendant. Do you like it?"
Xin Zhi also put his arms on the table, but he couldn't help leaning towards Li Yu'an, his eyes staring straight at Li Yu'an's little face.
To be honest, Li Yu'an is not very beautiful, but the melon face with baby fat in front of him is inexplicably appealing to him, and it looks cute no matter how he looks at it.
Xin Zhi's gaze was hot, but Li Yu'an couldn't feel it at the moment. He looked at the persimmon jade pendant in the small box with surprise. He couldn't help but reach out and take it out, putting it in the palm of his hand and looking at it carefully.
The carving of this persimmon is so lifelike that even the lines on the leaves are clearly visible.
But after a moment, he raised his eyes to look at Xin Zhi, and said with some embarrassment: "This is very valuable, I can't accept it."
"It's not expensive, just a few hundred taels of silver. You can just play with it."
Xin Zhi said immediately.
Li Yu'an blinked when he heard this, handed the persimmon jade pendant in the palm of his hand to Xin Zhi, and said seriously: "If you give it to me, you won't be able to get it back in the future. My money, jewelry, etc. are all... I saved it for my fourth uncle."
"puff."
Xin Zhi was amused by these words, but looking at Li Yuan's serious expression, he immediately made a serious look: "No problem, you can keep all your belongings for your fourth uncle. The Xin family has money. When we grow up, After we get married, I will also give you my money, and you can do with it as you like, even if you want to give it to your fourth uncle, then you can give it to you as you please."
As soon as these words came out, Li Yuan's cheeks immediately turned red, but he looked at Xin Zhi and shook his head seriously: "Your money is your money, I won't touch your money."
"You are my husband, so of course you have to take care of the money."
Li Yu'an: "..."
He lowered his eyes in embarrassment.
His cheeks turned redder, and he couldn't help but tighten the jade pendant in his hand.
But my heart is sweet.
Li Qiao, who was sitting outside, almost got goosebumps all over his body when he listened to these conversations. He knew that this guy was too glib.
However, he remembered these words. When the two of them get married in the future, Xiao Yu must be the housekeeper!
