Fertile land

Chapter 97

What I care about is not the fourth or fifth child!

Old Li felt a little sad when he saw that Li Lei had a dark face and didn't welcome him well.

But it didn't show up either.

"Leiwa, dad brought you some freshly ground wheat flour from home today. It's not easy for you to live in your father-in-law's house. This freshly ground flour will make dumplings and pancakes delicious!"

"Let's eat together with your father-in-law, brother-in-law and his family!"

"Ah."

Li Lei made a sound from his nose.

Do you still know how difficult it is for Li Lei?

It's because parents like them don't care about anything and don't provide anything but take it from him. That's why he has no status in the Chen family and his life is so miserable!Being looked down upon!

He had no choice but to think of various ways to make a living!
Old Li looked inside at Li Lei and his father-in-law. His face seemed not to be good, and he didn't greet him when he saw him coming.

I was a little nervous. The second daughter-in-law came back from home like that last time. I wonder what Leiwa and her father-in-law thought!
Are you angry? I hope this little wheat flour can apologize to him and help him calm down!
Old Li put down his backpack, took out his bag of wheat flour, and placed it by the door of the shop. He then said, "Leiwa, someone came to marry Pearl yesterday. It was a gentleman named Zeng from this town. You are here in this town." Well, Dad wants to ask you for a favor! Go and find out!"

Li Lei knew very well that with the virtues of that damn girl, Pearl, you still treat her like a treasure and are reluctant to marry her. If it weren't for him, would she have found such a good family?
"Okay then, tell me about that person, and I'll go find out about him right away!"

"Eh!"

Old Li Tou told Li Lei everything he knew, "I heard that Mr. Zeng has recently moved to the town. You must find out more about it, as it concerns the future of Pearl..."

"I know, Dad!" Li Lei said vaguely, took the flour in, said hello to his father-in-law and went outside.

At this moment, the father-in-law seemed to have seen the arrival of Lao Li. He walked out with a noble step and said contemptuously: "Leiwa's father is here?"

"Sit inside!"

Then he left!

"Uh……"

What did he want to say, oh, he wanted to thank him for nurturing his Lei baby, but he didn't say anything...

The only things left in the store are tangerine peel and lotus flowers!
Lao Li was tied up, and the couple were busy greeting the guests. Chen Pi asked Lotus to pour a cup of tea, and Lotus was flying and stumbling.

He must have felt bored, so he took out the cigarette stick from his waist and planned to roll some tobacco leaves and smoke a cigarette to relieve his boredom.

That lotus hated him so much, "Uncle, what are you doing?"

"Uh...I just want to smoke a cigarette."

"Smoking? We are selling cloth. What if you set the shop on fire?"

"Haha! I didn't think so much, I'm sorry!"

The atmosphere was not good, and I felt that I couldn’t stay in the store, so I stood up and told him to go out for a walk!

Hehua wished he would leave early. The shop was so big, how could they do business with an old country man smoking inside?
A little wheat flour is nothing, just sending a beggar away!Old Chen's family raises their old Li's family's seeds, and they hunt all year round, but I don't see them willing to give me a piece of meat!

Old Li was walking on the street with his head bent and his hands behind his back, smoking a cigarette and hanging around outside for an unknown amount of time.

Seeing the people coming and going around him, the bustling streets and the busy traffic have nothing to do with him!

They are all traveling for their own lives!He clearly has so many children and a wife, but why does he feel like an orphan at this moment?

Looking back on most of my life, I have worked very hard, but why haven’t I lived the life of a master?

I think it’s almost done, so I’ll go back and take a look…

At this time, Li Lei had come back and was busy working in the shop. When he saw his father coming back, he was very angry: "Dad, where have you been? Why did you come back?"

Lao Litou didn't expect him to be so angry, so he quickly explained:
"Dad went out for a walk and got lost for a while! How's it going? Did you find out anything?"

Li Lei was unhappy: You are quite leisurely and in the mood to hang out!
"Well, I heard about it!" "How about you tell me quickly?"

"Master Zeng's mansion is located on Xishui Street. He is engaged in the ceramics business."

"Oh?"

Old Li Tou was delighted, there really was such a person!

Ceramics business, that’s big business!
"Then tell me quickly!"

"I just went to the gate of their mansion. There were two big lions at the gate, a red painted gate, and a butler guarding it!"

"I knocked on the door, and the housekeeper opened it. I took a quick look inside, and my eyes almost went straight. There were pavilions, garden rockeries, and a little girl dressed as a maid was cleaning inside..."

Lao Litou was very excited!
"How old is he? Does he really have no children?"

Li Lei's eyes flashed: "I should be around forty years old! As for children, of course I don't have any. If I did, I wouldn't look for pearls!"

"should……?"

Old Li Tou felt strange, why should he be 50 or [-] years old?
"Ouch, Dad, why are you so obsessed with that other word? You asked me to ask, so I went, and you still think I didn't ask clearly?"

"No, no, Leiwa dad didn't mean that!"

"Hmph! As for whether he has concubines or something like that, since his wife can't have children, it's natural that he wants to have children. Dad, you are also a man, can you understand?"

"Which rich man doesn't have three wives and four concubines? He just wants to carry on the family line and inherit the incense. Not having children is not worthless in his eyes!"

Because not only in the old-fashioned thinking of rural people, they are afraid that no one will dig up their graves!Counting women to get pregnant again and again, rich people are also afraid that no one will inherit their incense!
Don’t treat women as human beings anyway!

"Believe me, if Pearl enters, she must have entered a golden nest and enjoy happiness!"

"Is this so? But... Dad has already called off the matchmaker Wan, what should we do about this matter?"

"What? Did you back out?"

Old Li Tou regrets it too late!
"How about daddy go and beg her?"

Li Lei looked down on him with a look of greed, regret, and impatientness.

He said embarrassedly: "How about this? Since you are a matchmaker, I have heard about it. Dad, I will find someone to intercede with you. It will only cost you a few more coins!"

"What? You want more money?"

Lao Litou frowned and cried. This old woman didn't scold him to death when she got back!It was obviously a deal that was sure to make money once and for all, but he backed out a little bit, and ended up like this...

"Then what do you think! People say that this is the money that matchmakers make. If you want her to run back and forth again, she will definitely have to pay more! I also want to trouble others when I find someone. Don't you want to pay for tea?"

"Well, can't we go to Zeng's house and tell us ourselves?"

"Dad, what are you thinking about? Aren't you just rushing to make Pearl your concubine? Can you pull this off?"

"When word spreads out, do our old Li family still want to be people in the village? Besides, if someone has already decided on a girl from another family, is it useful for you to tell me? You still need Wan Matchmaker's clever mouth!"

"This...cough! It is indeed a bit...that! Leiwa, you are right!"

"Okay! Just leave it to me to lose some money. Then you can just wait to get Pearl's marriage certificate!"

"Eh! Eh!"

Old Li Tou was overjoyed!
Before dark in the afternoon, Lao Li Tou got the marriage certificate signed by Matchmaker Wan, went to find Zhao Maogen, got on the bullock cart and prepared to return to the village!

His face was smiling like a flower, and Li Zhengxin and his wife made fun of him, asking him why he was so happy because of his good deeds?

What's up?You will know after some time.

A meaningful slap in the face!

(End of this chapter)