Unlimited supplies: Bringing space to the supermarket to keep the right minister

Chapter 414 Getting promoted is not as easy as you think
As soon as Mrs. Li spoke, the woman who had been standing behind her immediately replied in a low voice, "Mother, the child is asleep!"

"What time is it? I'm still asleep. Go and get it out!" Mrs. Li said angrily.

"Mother, last night I had a sleepless night and refused to sleep well. I fell asleep only after dawn!" the woman bravely explained.

"If you want me to carry you, you can carry me here. After the guests leave, I will have time to sleep!" The old lady got angry.

The woman behind Mrs. Li seemed to be very afraid of Mrs. Li. Seeing that Mrs. Li was angry, she didn't dare to say any more, and went out to pick up the child with small steps.

Yu Xiaolian looked at Wu Shi, Wu Shi nodded, Yu Xiaolian knew that the woman who went to hold the child was Li Mingtan's concubine.

What kind of family, you still have a concubine, what a worry!
"Lian'er, after seeing the child for a while, go to auntie... to sister-in-law's room, let's chat and chat!"

Wu also knew that there were so many people in the living room that it was inconvenient to talk.

Soon the little concubine came to the living room with her sleepy-eyed son in her arms. Mrs. Li took the child and happily showed him to Yu Xiaolian.

"This kid really looks like my elder brother Li!" Yu Xiaolian flattered casually.

"That's not true, whose roots are like whom!" Old lady Li's tone was very proud!

"I heard that this child is raised under the name of my sister? My sister has to teach him well, don't let him learn some bad things." Yu Xiaolian looked at the child and turned to Wu Shi.

Mrs. Wu heard that there was something in Yu Xiaolian's words, and she cooperated very much, "It's just a name, and he has been raised by his mother all the time. The old lady said that she would teach it herself, so it's not my turn to worry about it!"

Although this child is her son in name, he is not close to her at all. Since he could talk, he has called her mother-in-law several times. Of course, she has hugged her countless times. The old lady is afraid She murdered her little grandson and forbade the child to get close to her at all.

"The child should be brought up by a well-educated mother like you, otherwise the talent of a talented woman like you would be wasted!" Yu Xiaolian smiled and glanced at the expression of the old lady of the Li family.

Mrs. Li heard what Yu Xiaolian said, and hurriedly said, "The child is still young, so he can't talk about education, when he gets older, his father will teach him himself.

This kid is just a blank slate, if he learns something bad from those sweet-hearted people, that would be a big deal! "

When Mrs. Li was talking, she looked at Wu Shi and said, and the provocation in her eyes was obvious, and it was not concealed, but it made Wu Shi very angry.

Li Mingtan suddenly felt the smell of gunpowder between his wife and his mother, and hurriedly said, "Chang Xia, why don't you take Xiao Lian to your room to talk?"

Wu shook the handkerchief, gave Li Mingtan a hard look, and then dragged Yu Xiaolian to her room.

As soon as Wu and Yu Xiaolian left, Li Mingtan immediately opened his mouth to blame his mother, "Mother, it's not counted as arguing on weekdays, but today there are guests, why don't you distinguish between occasions?"

Mrs. Li just got angry with Mrs. Wu, and she was in a great mood. When she heard her son scold her, she rolled her eyes and said, "Isn't it the child next door? It's not your serious colleagues, what are you afraid of?
Moreover, I looked at her and Wu Shi muttering, as if they were speaking ill of me. "

Li Mingtan was extremely helpless, "Mother, although Yu Xiaolian is not a colleague of my Imperial Academy, she is also a serious seventh-rank official, and she is someone who can speak in front of the emperor and Mr. Fu Ge. You don't care about the occasion." Make trouble, how embarrassing your son is!"

Mrs. Li turned around and threw the little grandson to his mother, and said angrily, "You have become an official, and you are starting to think your mother is ashamed, right? Don't forget, the family was so difficult at the beginning, and every penny was broken Two-petal flower, how did your father, me, and your three elder brothers save money for your education? Now that you are a promising person, we have only lived with you for a few days, and you start to despise me ?
I see, did the Wu family tell you again that they want to live in a separate residence?You lost your conscience, and you actually listened to her?Want to kick out your parents and brother? "

Faced with his mother's unrepentant and unreasonable troubles, Li Mingtan also broke out, "It's true that you provided me with education, but since I was 16, I haven't spent my family's money."

He was admitted as a scholar at the age of 16, and he fell in love with Wu at first sight not long after, and then Wu married into his family despite his family's opposition. Later, his father-in-law felt sorry for Wu's life with him and gave him a large sum of money Well, he just opened a small bookstore in Los Angeles, earning some money while studying.

"Not to mention anything else, more than half of the money my bookstore earns every year is subsidized to you. To put it bluntly, I have already paid off the money I spent at home, and paid it back several times!"

Mrs. Li didn't expect that his son, who never disobeyed her, would actually yell at her today, and she also lost her temper, and said louder than Li Mingtan, "Yes, you married a rich man from the capital. Daughter, our whole family is all tied up with you. Do you want me, as a mother, to kowtow to your old father-in-law and daughter-in-law to thank them for their relief to our family? If not for them, me, your father, and your Brothers, maybe they are already begging for food on the street!"

Li Mingtan saw that he was so ugly and ugly to his mother, he trembled and trembled in anger, his brothers hurried forward to comfort him, and pulled the old lady aside to comfort him.

"Mother, it's all our fault. If it weren't for us living here for free, the fourth daughter-in-law wouldn't be arguing with the fourth child all day long, and you don't have to be caught in the middle." The old lady of the Li family helped him Mother's arm, almost crying bitterly, with a sad face.

Brother Li regretted coming to the capital with Li Mingtan. If he had a choice, he would rather farm in Taohua Village, but the family is not separated, so what he says doesn't count, everything is up to his mother to decide.

After arriving in the capital, he found that he could do nothing but farming. He wanted to buy a few acres of land in the suburbs of Beijing and build a thatched house, but he found that the land in the suburbs of Beijing was also ridiculously expensive, and his fourth brother earned only a few acres of land. It is enough to maintain the life of their family, and there is no extra money to build houses and land.

His fourth brother's father-in-law is willing to continue to help, but his fourth brother refuses to spend any more money from the Wu family because he is afraid that people will say that he is a soft food.

Since they were a big family and started renting a house from the Wu family, his mother must be in charge of the house, but after only more than half a year, his mother took the initiative to hand over the power, not for anything else, just because his brother The monthly salary went to pay the rent, which was not enough to support the expenses of a large family.

And for more than half a year, Wu shi did not panic and waited for his mother to hand over power, as if he had expected that his mother would not be able to take care of the family.

Brother Li actually had some sympathy for Mrs. Wu, because within a few months after Mrs. Wu took over the housekeeping power, Li Mingtan paid a year-end salary of 40 taels of silver. The housekeeper asked for it back, and used the money to buy Li Mingtan's concubine Hui Niang.

From then on, Mrs. Wu also completely broke up with her mother-in-law. Until Mrs. Li lost all her family savings, and the family couldn't solve the problem, Mrs. Li wanted to repeat the old tricks, but this poor commander The Wu family also refused to be a member.

During that time, the Li family went through a period of time when they couldn't even afford porridge.

Even Hui Niang, the little concubine, couldn't help complaining, what kind of family is this, who is so poor and still buys a concubine to serve them, and doesn't even give them enough food?
Later, it was Li Mingtan who made up his mind to let the Wu family take charge of the family from now on without any changes, and the Li family returned to normal life.

Mrs. Li cursed, "Wu Changxia, that disobedient and unfilial person, in order to take over the power of the family, deliberately let her brother suppress my son's salary. Bah, it's impossible to control me!"

Mrs. Li completely forgot how her son yelled at her just now, and directly put all the dissatisfaction on Wu's head.

"Who would let my elder brother become an official in the household department? Alas, I can't afford to offend him!" Li's eldest daughter-in-law said angrily.

This sentence undoubtedly added fuel to the flames, and Mrs. Li immediately said indiscriminately, "She is letting her brother use power for her personal gain. When my son is promoted in the future, he has to..."

"Crack!" Li Mingtan couldn't hit his mother with his hands, so he had to slap his mother hard, "Mother, be careful that it comes out of your mouth!"

Mrs. Li didn't take it seriously, and there were no outsiders in this house, so she was still afraid of the thing that the walls have ears?
"To be honest, Mingtan, when you become a high-ranking official in the future, you really have to punish your brothers-in-law. Otherwise, the Wu family will rely on someone to support her, and she will be lawless!" Mrs. Li told her seriously. The youngest son gives advice.

Li Mingtan was about to explode with anger, "Mother, my father-in-law and a few uncles have treated me well, how can I repay my kindness? You must never say this again in the future, if the Wu family hears it, how chilling it will be? "

What Mrs. Li wants is for Mrs. Wu to be uncomfortable. She has endured Mrs. Wu for a year or two. If Mrs. Wu hadn’t occupied the latrine and didn’t shit, her son would have had a baby by now. age.

It's all thanks to her having business to do and secretly buying Hui Niang back, otherwise his son would be suppressed by the Wu family and dare not take a concubine!
"She's chilling? She's a hen that can't lay eggs, and she occupies the position of the seventh-rank official as the head of the house, so she can secretly enjoy her. If it weren't for the fact that her father and brother are still helpful to you, you think I can tolerate her to today?
Son, mother is looking forward to your promotion now, to become a high-ranking official, an official who is older than your father-in-law and brother-in-law, so that those from the Wu family can look up at our family. Eyelids are stunned, if you become a high official, mother can use your eyes to stun her to death! "

Li Mingtan said helplessly, "Mother, it's not that you don't know, even the current seventh-rank officials are all arranged by my father-in-law for me. Promotion is not as easy as you think!"

Moreover, because his father-in-law stood on the right team and supported the crown prince's succession, he has now been promoted to be the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, a third-rank official.

Being third grade, he Li Mingtan dare not even think about it in his life!

"Son, then you have to work hard. Mother is old, and I don't know if I can survive until the day you feel proud?" Mrs. Li pretended to be sad and unable to control herself.

Li Mingtan sighed, "Mother, you should be content with your son's current fortune.

Son, I don’t ask for anything else, I just ask you to have a doorman, don’t say anything, you must know that the capital is full of princes and nobles, if you get into trouble that you should have caused, then don’t blame your son Unfilial! "

Mrs. Li couldn't hear her son talking to her in such a tone. Just as she was about to tell her son about the hardships she suffered when she was young, she was stopped by her eldest son.

"Mom, you go back to the house to see dad, my dad is about to take medicine again!"

Li Mingtan's father accidentally stepped on the ice on the road in the alley last winter, fell, and broke his tail bone. Now he can only lie on his stomach on the heated kang, waiting for someone to serve him.

Mrs. Li glanced at the sun, and it was indeed time for her old man to take his medicine. She glanced at her younger son, "Tell Mrs. Wu, your father's medicine is gone, and there is only the last pair left. After she's gone, tell her to go to the pharmacy to get some medicine!"

Mrs. Li twisted and left.

Li Mingtan frowned deeply, and at this moment he truly understood how difficult it was to support this big family with his meager salary.

His salary is 45 taels a year, which is only three taels and seven dollars a month. After taking out the rent money, there is only seven dollars left. How can seven dollars support this big family?

"If it weren't for some lumi every month, I really don't know how to support this big family!" The Wu family is also complaining to Yu Xiaolian.

Yu Xiaolian listened to Wu's bitterness, and did not interrupt Wu's words the whole time, but only echoed Wu from time to time.

After Wu's sighed and frowning, Yu Xiaolian said, "Sister-in-law, it's actually very easy to get rid of them."

Wu sighed, "You don't know, I have used all methods, your brother Li is a very filial person, he will definitely not drive his parents out.

Alas, speaking of it, I still miss the days in Los Angeles. In those years, you, Brother Li, and I were in love. Although we didn't have children, we didn't have any grievances at all.

Now...well, I just don't feel like living. "

Wu thought that in order to get rid of her parents-in-law and three eldest brothers, she had almost made Li Mingtan's ears callused, and even proposed the method of giving five hundred coins to each of his brothers for free every month. But they were all rejected by Li Mingtan.

Yu Xiaolian smiled slyly, "Sister-in-law, if you want to separate them out, you can't act too hastily, throw them out all at once, and let them have nowhere to go, I, Brother Li, definitely can't do it, you have to take it step by step, first get rid of the three households. They can go out and live alone, so that the family can also reduce a lot of burden!"

Wu Shi looked like he was willing to hear the details, "Tell me about it!"

Yu Xiaolian said, "It's definitely not good for such a big family to live together. You have to eat half a bucket of rice every day, right?"

"No, the Lumi that your eldest brother Li sends out every month can't be eaten for the next month. There are too many people. Only my eldest brother's family has twelve people. The second uncle's family has less, six, three The elder brother has five members, but his two daughters-in-law are pregnant, and in May, there will be two more people in the family."

When Mrs. Wu thought of so many people crowded into this small second courtyard, she felt a little suffocated. Sometimes, she even wanted to ignore them and drive them out of her house, but she couldn't do that , ethics and morals do not allow her to do such a crazy thing.

(End of this chapter)