Old Li Tou sighed and silently brought a basin of water into the house.
The Li family cried and begged: "The head of the family has a life after all. I can raise her by eating just a few mouthfuls."
Li Da glared and said, "How to raise him? You don't know the situation at home? Besides, won't he be a loser when he is raised?"
Amidst the cries of the Li family, the prince rushed into the house. As soon as he entered, he saw a scene that made him furious and full of anger.
Li Da actually pressed the baby girl into the basin. The baby girl had just been born and was already weak. At this time, her whole body was twitching and she was dying.
The prince was so angry that he stepped forward and pushed Li Da to the ground, and reached out to pick up the baby girl.
The baby girl choked some water and suddenly burst into tears.
The prince was so angry that he couldn't help but angrily yelled: "Li Da, tiger poison is not capable of eating its own children, but you want to drown your own daughter. You are really worse than a beast! You have failed to become a father!"
After being scolded by the prince, Li Da also became angry. He shouted loudly: "As long as I have enough food in my family to feed her, how can I do such a thing?"
"You are a rich man, do you give me money to support him? I am her father, and she is my daughter! Do you think I don't feel sorry for him?"
After that, Li Da, a big and thick man, burst into tears.
The prince frowned and asked: "How much can she eat as a little child? You are just looking for excuses."
Li was so angry that he took the prince to a large vat in the house, opened the lid made of sorghum stalks, and said loudly: "Come, come and see, how much food is left here? Is it enough for my family?" Eat until the autumn harvest?"
The prince stretched his head to look and found that there was only grain at the bottom of the tank. Even if he saved his food, he might not be able to eat it for long.
The prince couldn't help frowning and asked: "Where is your family's food? Why do you only have so much?"
Li Da laughed miserably and said: "My family only has so much food! I have to pay 80% of the rent for the land I rent. My family rents and cultivates 20 acres of land. How much will we have left after one year?"
The prince couldn't help but asked again: "Isn't your family renting the land from Bachelor Qiong's family? You have no food and can't even feed your young children. Why don't you go to Bachelor Qiong's house to ask for some food?"
In the eyes of the prince, Xueshi Qiong was really a good official who loved the people as his own son. If he had known that the families of the tenants who rented his land were in such hardship, he would never have refused to help them.
Unexpectedly, after hearing what the prince said, Li Da couldn't help laughing and said:
"You want me to go to Bachelor Qiong's house to ask for food? Haha, this is a big joke! If you rent other people's land, you only have to pay 60% to 70% of the rent. If you rent land from Bachelor Qiong's house, you have to pay 80% of the rent. son."
"With such a heavy rent, Qiong Xueshi's family tried every means to make us pay more rent! If it weren't for the fact that they had no other choice, they wouldn't even rent the land of Qiong Xueshi's family."
boom!
Li Da's words suddenly caused some of the inherent perceptions in the prince's heart to collapse.
It was hard for him to believe that Bachelor Qiong was such a person. He was full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, how could he do something as bad as a pig or a dog?
At this time, everyone in Li saw some clues.
She struggled to get up from the bed, knelt down in front of the prince and said: "Please save my baby girl's life, sir. I am willing to sell this baby girl to him. I don't want a penny from him. I just ask him to sell this girl to you." Raise the girl up. I beg you, sir."
At this time, even Lao Zhaotou and Li Da looked at the prince eagerly.
Old Zhaotou said eagerly: "Mr. Liu, just buy this girl. My family doesn't want a penny. She was born into our family because she committed evil in her previous life. We feel sorry for her and only ask the young master to give her something." A way to survive.”
The prince sighed and said, "Okay, I will take her with me when I leave. When the time comes, I will give your family some money."
"By the way, Mr. Li's, please take the child quickly. She keeps crying and her voice is almost hoarse from crying."
The Li family quickly got up from the ground and took the baby girl from the prince's hand. The girl still cried non-stop.
The next moment, Mr. Li lifted up his clothes and put the pacifier into the girl's mouth. The girl immediately stopped crying and started sucking.
The prince quickly turned his head, but his face was full of joy.
However, he couldn't calm down in his heart. He still didn't believe that Bachelor Qiong could be this kind of person.
He even suspected that all this was Jia Huan's fault.
Lunch was eaten at home. The Li family made an exception and cooked a bowl of egg soup with one egg for the Li family as a milk-boosting thing.
In the afternoon, the Li family and their two children still went to work in the fields.
The prince started wandering around Lijia Village. No matter whether he saw old people, children, women or laborers - laborers were the least.
At this time, most laborers are working in the fields.
The questions the prince asked them were basically, do you feel happy?
How much rent does it cost to rent the land from Qiong Xueshi's family?
If there were any difficulties at home, he even asked Lijiacun if there had been any other cases of drowning of baby girls in other families.
The answer he got made the prince feel even heavier.
Because he discovered that everything Li Da said was true.
The drowning of a baby girl in Lijia Village was not the only case of Lao Tou Li's family.
However, the prince also discovered that Li Da was probably lying.
Their family, including several other families who drowned their baby girls, did not do so because they could not feed their children.
If a baby boy is born, they will raise the baby. There is no reason why they will not be able to raise a baby girl if they give birth to a baby boy. A baby boy can eat better than a baby girl.
The main reason is that the family is indeed poor, and to them, girls are losers.
It was easy to grow up and work for only a few years before getting married, and the family had to pay a dowry. How could a poor family like them afford so much?
For example, the eldest daughter of Li Laosan's family is so handsome, but because she couldn't afford a dowry, she has never married until she was sixteen years old.
The prince also discovered that there were indeed more boys than girls in Lijia Village, and there were not even many girls in sight.
This made him feel even heavier.
That night, Jia Yun went to Ning Lu Hall to report on Mr. Liu's affairs.
When Jia Huan learned that Li Da drowned his baby girl, he couldn't help but fall silent.
He had not expected anything like this to happen.
In historical materials, he had seen records of people drowning baby girls in some places.
However, those were just cold words, and what appeared in front of him now was a living case.
After Jia Yun left, Jia Huan only felt unhappy.
He couldn't help but get up and went straight to Rongguo Mansion.
After entering Daiyu's courtyard and seeing Sister Lin, Jia Huan gradually relaxed.
Lin Daiyu was also very happy when she saw Jia Huan.
The two talked for a while, and Lin Daiyu suddenly remembered something and asked Zicuckoo to bring pine nuts to Jia Huan.
Lin Daiyu said: "Brother Huan, this is given to me by my ancestors, please try it quickly."
Jia Huan tasted a few pine nuts, and they tasted really good.
Jia Huan suddenly became playful, and he couldn't help but ask: "Sister Lin, guess how many pine nuts I have in my hand? You guessed it right, I'll give you all five of them."
(End of chapter)
