Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 55

Li Jingjing stared and said: "Hey, you are not allowed to talk nonsense. If you talk nonsense again, I will ask my father to send you home and not let you go to Tanzhou."

Only then did Li Yunxiao eat honestly.

"Liu Qingbai has a worse reputation than your grandfather. Your Aunt Qin said marriage is more difficult than mine." It was the first time that Qu talked about the past in front of his children and grandchildren.

He knew that Qu's marriage was difficult many years ago from the discussions of Qu's villagers, so he was not surprised.

Li Jingjing muttered, "Grandma's food is better than restaurants. My grandpa is the smartest person in the world, and he married my grandma."

Qu Shi is very confident in her cooking skills, she smiled, and then said honestly to Li: "After I married your father, your father once told her about a marriage, that is, a martial artist from Taiqingguan, this Taoist priest Martial arts are strong, but there is a small problem, the right hand has six fingers."

He's eyes showed surprise.In order to please Qu Shi, a person like the father-in-law actually acted as a matchmaker for Qu Shi's best friend, but the match was still a martial artist who was too pure.

Qu sighed softly: "Your Aunt Qin agrees, but Liu Qingbai is determined not to, and insists on marrying her to a drunkard. Not long after your Aunt Qin got married, the drunkard beat her. You are five years old, and your Aunt Qin still No heirs. I asked her just now, and she said that she has a son with an alcoholic, who is 17 years old this year, and also loves to drink, so she can't even find a housemate."

The Li family thought that the woman just now looked like a 60-year-old woman, dressed in shabby clothes and went to drink, and her life must be very unsatisfactory.

Although the Qu family lives with her husband less often and lives as a widow, she is rich in money and her children and grandchildren are filial, which is many times better than that woman.

He Shi sighed softly: "A woman is lucky if she marries a good husband."

Li Laoshi looked at He Shi affectionately, as if asking her, do I count as your good husband?
After eating enough, Li Yunxiao ran to the window and stepped on a stool to watch the street scene outside.Li Jingjing was hugged by Mochizuki and stood next to Li Yunxiao.

Liuyang County belongs to the south, not far from Tanzhou, the capital of Hunan Province. The size of the county is twice the size of the ancient city of Pingyao that Li Jingjing visited in her previous life.

It was already night, and every household in the county was lit with oil lamps and candles, and the brick and tile houses were brightly lit, and the streets were full of pedestrians, which was much busier than Taihe Town.

I don't know if the two houses that Qu's and Qu Kuaishou sold more than ten years ago are still there.Did the siblings regret leaving Liuyang County?

Qu Shi was slightly drunk, he was helped out of the restaurant by He Shi, woke up by the wind, and asked Li Laoshi how much money he spent.

Li Laoshi replied with a smile: "Mother, I spent a total of two cents and five silver coins."

People in Qujia Village grow rice and vegetables, and some even raise pigs, fish and chickens.

Two cents and five silver coins are 250 copper plates, which is equivalent to the expenses of an ordinary family in Qujia Village for several months.

Qu nodded and said, "It's more expensive, but the dog meat pot is really delicious."

He Shi said softly: "It's not expensive. As long as mother is happy with it."

In the dark night, Qu Shi tightly held He Shi's hand, the two supported each other like a mother and daughter, and walked back to the inn.

At dawn the next day, Qu woke up.Li Jingjing only stayed in the Rejuvenation Medicine Mansion for an hour at night before she came out, sleeping soundly.

Qu put on her clothes and went to wake up her family, and finally woke up Li Jingjing.The Li family ate a breakfast of broth and rice noodles at the inn, took the package and paid the bill, and then went to the pier outside the county seat.

The official road from Liuyang County to Tanzhou is about 130 miles away. There is no donkey cart to hire, only a horse-drawn cart, which costs eight cents. There are nine members of the Li family, and a horse-drawn cart is too crowded.

If you go by water, the middle class cabin on a passenger ship only costs two cents and seven silver, and it is spacious and has a view of the river.

The morning sun in winter shines on the quiet and clear Liuyang River, and more than [-] passenger ships, cargo ships, and fishing boats are moored by the river.

There are people coming and going on the wharf, men carrying baskets full of river fish just caught at night, hawkers pushing wheelbarrows selling food, fat tenants who are holding small children who have not yet woken up and driving the boat, and they are exhausted from unloading heavy loads from the boat. The young man panting heavily, noisy and lively, all attracted Li Qubing and twins.

Li Yunxiao pointed to a large three-story passenger ship with a red sedan chair parked there, and shouted excitedly: "Grandma, I want to take that big boat, and I want to see the bride!"

Qu immediately asked Li Laoshi to go to the passenger ship to ask. It turned out that the ship did not go directly to Tanzhou, and had to stop at three small piers for a quarter of an hour before picking up people. The passenger ship in Zhouzhou is five copper coins cheaper, and the upper class only charges 25 copper coins per person.

Qu Shi wished to arrive at Tanzhou immediately, but Li Yunxiao couldn't help making a fuss, almost rolling on the muddy ground of the pier, and finally had to follow him.

The Li family boarded the boat, and Li Laoshi paid for the boat, and a boatman led them to the upper-class cabin on the third floor with spacious windows, hot tea and a fire to warm their hands.

After a while, the beaming bride with a red head covering and a red dress was helped in by a middle-aged woman wearing a brand-new iron embroidered red mid-length jacket and long skirt, followed by a middle-aged man, a young man and a four-year-old man. , A five-year-old skinny boy.

Several people sat down and talked, and it sounded like the bride was married to a wealthy family in the outskirts of Tanzhou.

The middle-aged woman and the middle-aged man are the eldest brother and sister-in-law of the bride, and the young man is her second brother.Xi Yazi is the only son of a young man.

A total of thirty or so people who saw off the relatives and bearers came, and in order to save money, the rest sat in the middle class.

The passenger ship sailed away, and Li Yunxiao stood by the railing at the bow and looked at the rushing river below the boat, clapping, shouting and jumping excitedly.

Fearing that the wind in the bow of the boat would blow Li Yunxiao, He asked Li Yunqing to carry him in.

Li Yunxiao is not willing to sit in the cabin as honestly as Li Jingjing, insisting on arguing to go outside to see the river view.

He Shi shouted: "You are not allowed to go. If you fall into the water, the people who rescued you in the cold weather will suffer from rheumatism."

It's useless for Li Yunxiao to cry, He's tough attitude keeps him in the cabin.

The young nephew of the bride has a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes, and gloatingly made faces at Li Yunxiao, ran out of the cabin to the bow of the ship for a while, and got off the middle cabin for a while, and took out a big red orange in his pocket. he.

Li Yunxiao turned his head away angrily, rolled his eyes, and said to Li Jingjing: "Sister, the dog meat pot last night was really delicious. I ate five pieces of dog meat and drank dog meat soup."

Li Jingjing could not cooperate and said: "Yes. The dog meat pot is spicy and fragrant, a hundred times better than pork."

The young nephew of the bride obviously swallowed, pulled the young man's sleeve and asked, "Father, is there any dog ​​meat pot for this wedding banquet?"

The young man shook his head and said, "No."

The little guy immediately ran to the bride and shook her hand coquettishly: "Auntie, I want to eat dog meat pot, you ask uncle to give it to me at the wedding banquet."

(End of this chapter)