Bamboo Fragrance

Chapter 116 Accident
Li Meilan was taken aback by what she said, and then narrowed her eyes in response, "Are you testing me?"

"Trying?" Li Kongzhu chuckled lightly, "You have overestimated yourself too much!" She only played a small trick, and completely forced out her nature.

Speaking of temptation, she has already noticed her true nature, so is there any need to do more?

Seeing her saying this, Li Meilan couldn't help but look at her again, and said angrily, "What's so arrogant about you? I'm related to you by blood. If you treat me like this, aren't you afraid that outsiders will say it to you?"

"What have I done to you?" Li Kongzhu laughed, "If you want to be free, I will help you to be free. How can you just bite me back?"

"How are you helping me?" Li Meilan screamed.

Yu Jiadi, who was standing by the door, was so frightened by the roaring that he quickly lifted the curtain and stepped in.

Li Diaozhu gave him a reassuring look.

But over there Li Meilan covered her head and yelled violently, "You are not helping me, you are obviously jumping me from one fire pit to another fire pit, Li Diaozhu, you are so cruel! You ..."

As she spoke, she immediately rushed towards her and grabbed her.

"Girl!" Yu Jiadi watched in shock from behind, and hurriedly ran towards this side with eyes wide open.

Li Kongzhu, who didn't want to sit on the top, had already seen her movements clearly, leaned down and got up quickly, and called out to the dark, "Jianning!"

"Flop!" Almost at the moment when Li Meilan turned around frantically, Jian Ning, who was hiding in the dark, flew over immediately.

Standing between the two of them, the big palm grasped his pair of waving claws effortlessly, and raised the one above his head to fix it.

"Ah~~" Li Meilan screamed, and began to twist her body and yell, "Let me go, let me go!"

"If you have that strength, you should save it. After all, I heard that the embroiderer's job is not easy to do!"

The neither salty nor weak tone made Li Meilan's crazy nature even more irritable.Seeing that she couldn't break free, she simply changed from twisting to kicking, and started kicking and hitting the sword embedded in her non-stop.

And while kicking, he yelled and cursed, "You bitch, you will die! You poisonous woman, you will die, bitch, bitch~ah~~ let me go!"

Li Kongzhu watched her more and more uncontrollable movements, and said kindly: "It seems that I will tell you now that your contract is only until you repay the 300 taels, and you won't listen to it. Why don't you wait until you wake up and think about it slowly!"

As he spoke, he winked at Jianning.

Jian Ning nodded, and after seeing her gap, he reached out his hand to her neck very quickly!
"..." Li Meilan, who was scolding vigorously, was so startled by this point that she fell down again with her eyes closed.

"Oh!"

With the sound of landing, the room was completely silent.

Li Kongzhu looked at the motionless body lying on the ground, and raised his eyebrows in satisfaction, "Hurry up and send her away before she wakes up. If she struggles halfway, just tell her what I just said, look Is she going back to Ren's house, or is she going to the embroidery shop!"

"Yes!"

Jian Ning bowed his hands.

Li Diabolo yawned in a good mood, "Tired! Aunt Yu, help tidy up the rest of the place, and I'll go to the house to rest for a while!" Now his stomach is getting heavier, and he feels very light at night. At least, if she doesn't seize the opportunity to catch up on sleep during the day, she won't be able to distract herself from the extra work.

"Miss, just go to sleep with peace of mind. Just leave this place to the old slave!"

"En!" He replied and walked to the door of the house, lifted the curtain, and unexpectedly ran into Hua Lao standing there.

She raised her eyebrows, but Hua Lao snorted coldly at her: "It's solved?"

"Of course!" The woman chuckled.Come out and stand under the eaves, looking at the heart-warming sun in March, the mood is unprecedentedly happy!
Hua Lao stood there with her, waiting for the people in the room to carry the fainted woman out, he raised his eyebrows and hooked half of the corner of his mouth, "It's getting more and more diligent."

"Naturally!" Li Kongzhu smiled, "It's rare to grow up to this point, it's really not easy to get your constant praise!"

The old man snorted softly, and wanted to say something to her, but when he saw her growing belly, he swallowed the words, turned his eyes, and asked another question, "I'm afraid there will be a baby next month?" Come on!"

"Yes!"

Li Kongzhu stared at his belly and smiled lovingly.After watching Mai Ya'er and Hui Niang's delivery, especially Hui Niang's delivery, although she was shocked, she never felt afraid or panicked at this moment.

On the contrary, feeling the kicking of the child in her womb, her mood was unprecedented happiness and tranquility.

"I don't know where that kid is now."

"Yes! Who knows!" Li Kongzhu turned around without much ups and downs, and walked slowly towards the main house.

Elder Hua looked up at the sky and sighed softly, "I don't know what's going on with that kid!" Now that the battle report is not timely, and when he travels to the interior of Jing'an, he often changes his route to fight and fight, so it is very difficult for this letter to be delivered in time. It's up.

Li Diaozhu didn't care what Hua Lao thought.

When the peach blossoms are in full bloom, the number of large-scale tourist activities held is unprecedentedly crowded.

In order to make the village unique, Li Kongzhu started a workshop to make gluten and Liangpi, and wholesaled them to villagers in the village at a low price, and allowed them to rent the newly made vending table in Taoyuan Garden to sell these Liangpi.

Of course, not all the people in the village can be dispatched to sell this cold noodle, otherwise you will scramble for it during the introduction, and there will be too much hawking, and you will not make much money except for the cost.

At this time, since it is already spring, if you have eaten cold noodle soup, you should at least drink a bowl of water and a bowl of ice to quench your thirst, right?
Therefore, Li Diaozhu ordered Yu Xiaoling's family to officially make ice at home, and the ice bowls and popsicles were still wholesaled to the villagers in the village, and they were allowed to sell in the peach forest.

In this way, half of the residents in the village are used to sell Liangpi, and half are used to sell ice bowls and popsicles.

During the flowering period of less than half a month, the villagers who wholesale cold noodle and ice bowls in the village directly made a fortune.

In addition to the land rent and wholesale fees collected, Li Diaozhu also made a lot of money from tourism.

At that time, she was sitting in the room with her abacus, and after talking with Li Chong and others about the money she had earned during the flowering period, she began to plan the future route.

"Now that the hawthorns are off the shelf, the peaches stored in the cellar can be taken out. Taking advantage of the hot weather, the ice will also start to be made. By the way, because of the combination of Liangpi and gluten, many cooperators The shop knew about it, and most of them opened teahouses and restaurants, and they placed a batch of orders. I thought, now is a good time, and the branch shop can open at this time." Said, Looking at Li Chong in a blink of an eye, he said, "Brother Li, can you let go now? After all, you have been responsible for the manpower and layout of this branch. If you change people temporarily, you may be too busy!"

Li Chong nodded, "It's free!" Hui Niang recovered now, it was only two days before the full moon, and the family bought another person, which freed him a lot of hands.

Li Kongzhu nodded, "I still need some manpower here. Regarding ice making, it must be a death contract. This is a great benefit. I don't want to be discovered early!"

"give it to me!"

Li Kongzhu hummed lightly.

Then he ordered Zhuzi and Zhao Mengzi to take care of the grain collection.

"The wheat is coming down soon, so it's okay for the two of you to be in charge of receiving the goods? Now I think that if the cold noodle and ice bowl sell well during the season, they can be wholesaled to some people in the village during the slack season. If you sell it at a farther place, you can earn some money to support your family!" The people in the village are richer and living better than other villages, so they will be more united and not betray her.

Zhao Mengzi and Zhuzi nodded straightly.

Seeing that the discussion was almost done, Li Kongzhu nodded and waved the meeting to disperse.

It is now the end of March, and her belly is so big that she is panting even when she walks.After sitting for a while, she couldn't bear to think about getting up.

When everyone was astigmatized, she ordered Yu Xiaoling to help her quickly, went down to the outside, and took a few deep breaths, which made her irritable mood better.

Hua Lao has been paying attention to her all the time.

Seeing that she was free now, he beckoned her into the main room to get her pulse.

"how?"

"Very good!" Elder Hua nodded, and gave her a few more instructions to stay away as much as possible during this period. If there is no accident, this little guy will come in less than a month.

Li Kongzhu carefully wrote down his instructions one by one. At the end, when the old man left, she rubbed her stomach and felt that she should do something.

After thinking about it, Yu Xiaoling brought a pen and paper, thought for a long time, and her mood was also complicated for a long time, and finally wrote a few letters, hoping that you will return soon.

"Isn't it hypocritical?" He lowered his head and asked the naughty kid who kicked his stomach, the little guy answered with a heavy kick.

The woman frowned, stretched out her slender hand and patted the place where she was kicked, "Don't you want your father to know your existence?" No, he should know his existence, "Don't you want your father to know that you want to Out of shell?"

"Boom!" Another kick.

Do you want to or don't want to?
The woman frowned, and sealed the letter in an envelope, "Why don't you write it after you are born?"

Her answer was still kicking, the woman got angry and slapped her hand down again, "You boy, my mother is discussing with you, why are you so disobedient?"

Yu Xiaoling on the side watched this scene speechlessly, and felt that the girl was really funny.

He obviously wanted my aunt to write a letter to ask for comfort, but he hypocritically used his unborn brother as a cover.

Really... contempt!

Li Kongzhu put the letter away, and after making a sound, Yu Xiaoling tidied it up and went out.

Seeing her go away, Yu Xiaoling thought for a while, then took out the letter she put in the account book, turned around and went out to find Mr. Hua.

At that time, Mr. Hua was very surprised when he took the letter. Did he figure it out?

Yu Xiaoling pursed her lips, "The girl didn't say she would give up after she finished writing, it was the servant who brought it on her own initiative. Also, the girl has been so heavy recently that she can't sleep more and more at night. I miss my uncle!"

The old man raised his eyebrows.He looked down at the letter in his hand, "Understood! You go down first!"

"Yes!"

After Yu Xiaoling left, Mr. Hua called Jianning and asked him to deliver the letter.

Jianning agreed as always, but when he jumped out of the village, he found a way to hide and folded the letter.

When I saw that there were only a few questions on it, I put the letter back and packed it again. When I got to the handover place, I just said, "This item can be delivered!"

The guard in charge nodded, knowing that he had read the letter.After receiving it, he jumped directly towards the direction of the boundary.

The branch was grandly opened in early April.

At that time, when the out-of-season canned peaches came out, it caused a lot of purchases.

In addition, the ice bowl popsicles and cold noodle fans have also been welcomed by other places.

In terms of ice making, Li Chong bought twenty twelve or thirteen-year-old semi-dead boys for Li Diaozhu.

After being tested by Li Diaozhu one by one, she assigned several people to Lin County and Linfu to make ice.

In addition, in order to ensure the quality and freshness, the Liangpi and noodles are also made separately in those two places.

The workshop is a small place that Li Chong is in charge of buying. The people who were recruited were recruited from the countryside around the town. For the sake of confidentiality, everyone signed a confidentiality contract. Once the secret is leaked, no one can compensate for the consequences. affordable.

Therefore, once this group of people passed by, they worked hard.

In addition, Mai Ya'er found her on the eighth day of the lunar new year and said that she would like to go to the new store.

Needless to say, the reason is that I really can't stand the mother-in-law who is talking about her more and more.

"I can't bear it any longer. The head of the family has also noticed that he has recognized a lot of characters in the past few months, and he will be able to write a few strokes after that. Sister-in-law, take a look. If it is okay, we will be married." Let's go!" Now her son is half a year old, and after a few months, she will be able to help take care of the child while taking care of him.

Li Kongzhu nodded, although there is a little shortage of manpower now, and he really hopes to keep Zhao Mengzi here to collect the goods, but he can't ignore her family's affairs.

Nodded, "It happens that the workshop in Yizhou Mansion is short of supervisors, Brother Li can only help Guan Linxian first, and he is inseparable. Let's see when you and your wife can leave. When you clean up, come and follow me." Let me say it!"

"It won't take too long!" Mai Ya'er said with red eyes, holding the little boy named Tuanzi and wiping tears, "I'll go back and pack it up now, and when the head of the family comes back in the evening and make an agreement with her mother, tomorrow morning I can go!"

"Will you be in a hurry?"

Li Kongzhu felt a little bad in his heart, he was going to leave the next day after the conflict happened, and he could guess which elder he was appointed, he must be dissatisfied!
"Hurry up! Don't you know, that little friend talked a lot all day long. Today, he was even more agitated. He said that his adopted son was abducted by a woman for many years. They are old dogs. Not only can't get well, but she spends money all day long to support outsiders!" After a pause, she burst into tears again, "What she said, isn't it just saying that my heart is for my mother's family? Just because my mother's family came again yesterday After a while, I gave another tael of silver secretly. This is not happy, like fried hair. I take the silver I earned, why am I just eating inside and outside? Could it be that you let me eat and drink every day? Spicy, look at my parents, brothers, sisters-in-law and nephews, all of them starving and freezing and ignoring them?"

He blew his nose and sighed again, "Sister-in-law, my life is becoming more and more difficult. In the first two years, I was a bride, and I would be more or less secretive. Now that my son has lived a good life, his temperament is all his. The mother is exposed!"

Li Kongzhu handed her a handkerchief to wipe her tears, and now Xiaotuanzi can crawl, watching his mother cry, babbling, picking her face non-stop with his fingers.

Mai Ya'er grabbed his hand.

Wiping away the tears, I felt a lot more relieved.

He took a deep breath and said: "Now that I say it, I feel a lot better in my heart."

Li Kongzhu nodded, feeling that Mai Ya'er was really a clear person.

Considering that she is so rich now and has made good friends with herself, she can definitely give some more money to her natal family secretly, let them start a small business, or ask herself to arrange a good one for her elder brother and sister-in-law. Work.

Any of these two points would make her natal family feel better.

But she did neither.

If it's not that her elder brother and sister-in-law are incompetent and lazy, it's that she doesn't want to arouse the suspicion of her family or hurt her friendship with herself.

Thinking about it, I couldn't help asking, "How is your brother and sister-in-law?"

Mai Ya'er was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head helplessly.

Is this the lazy and incompetent guy?
Li Kongzhu guessed, but heard Mai Ya'er sighing in frustration: "My brother and sister-in-law are all honest people. To put it mildly, they are honest. To put it bluntly, they are stupid. They only know how to work with their heads down, without a heart. My son, a few years ago I went out with someone to find a job, and I was scrapped to nothing, and because of this, my father was so angry that he was bedridden for half a month." At that time, it was the most difficult time for the family, and the whole family They were all counting on his little salary, who would have thought that his stupid mind was sold out, and he was still helping to speak good things about others, so he was really pissed off.

Sighing, "If he was a piece of material, my family wouldn't be so miserable."

It's nothing to borrow a few taels of silver, if he has the ability to give birth to silver, she will borrow a large amount of money even if she is scolded to death by her husband's family.

Li Kongzhu understood.

For such an honest person, it was exactly what she wanted.

"Now this workshop is short of manpower, how about letting your brother and sister-in-law come over?"

Mai Ya'er was startled when she heard that, and then waved her hands again and again, "No, no, no, no! This is known to others, so let's not talk about me!" It's a good way to take advantage of the big tree to enjoy the shade, but she can't borrow it all the time, can she?
Li Kongzhu felt indifferent, "Nowadays, there are many people who take advantage of the situation. Look at the people from other villages in the workshop. When they heard that they were going to recruit workers, who didn't want to introduce their relatives here? Your mother's elder brother and sister-in-law are Those who come to work to earn money, and not to be a master, what are you afraid of? Don't worry, I won't give you special treatment, and if you come here, you can't work, I'll let you go!"

"Sister-in-law~" Mai Ya'er was moved.

Li Kongzhu patted her with a smile, and when he stopped, he lightly pinched Xiaotuanzi's chubby little round face.

Seeing him in a blink of an eye, Ha Lazi was bleeding all over and humming, so he squeezed again amusedly.

"Fight!" The boy became impatient, and he was about to hit her with his little paws.

Seeing this, Li Diaozhu was immediately amused and burst out laughing.

Mai Ya'er was moved by her childish behavior, either it was funny or not, she was speechless for a while, and finally hummed a few times through tears, "I'm not afraid that you will bully him, wait until you get out of your belly , Be careful to return all my sons back!"

"That's just right! Let the two brothers fight each other, and see who wins."

"How do you know it's a son? What if it's a daughter?" The three of them were pregnant within a few months of each other. She and Hui Niang both gave birth to sons, but they all hoped that she would give birth to a daughter.

She also thought that if many years later, if the two families were not too different, she would like to be her in-laws.

Li Kongzhu pursed his lips and smiled without saying a word. In fact, after more than four months, Hua Lao had already recognized it as a boy.

But now that he hasn't gone to the ground, everything is possible, so naturally the possibility of being a girl cannot be denied.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Mai Ya'er thought that she also wanted to have a son in her heart, so she couldn't help feeling ashamed of her own selfishness.

After thinking for a while, she laughed again: "Sister-in-law is a lucky one, so naturally she can get what she wants!"

Knowing that she misunderstood, the woman scolded her eyes reproachfully, did not explain much, only talked to her some other words, and then left.

After seeing off Ma Ya'er, Li Kongzhu happened to be in a good mood, thinking that he would officially enter the slack season in less than two months.

She is going to wholesale ice bowls and popsicles for the villagers to sell, which cannot be done without preservation.

After thinking about it, Yu Xiaoling prepared her things, sat on the kang and began to draw pictures.

Just when she was engrossed in painting, she heard a knock on the courtyard door.

Yu Jiadi went to open the door, and saw that it was a neighboring family surnamed Qian, who was holding Mai Ya'er's son with a panicked face.

I couldn't help being surprised, "Sister-in-law of the Qian family, why are you holding Xiaotuanzi!"

The woman surnamed Qian was terrified when she heard that, "That girl Ya'er was brought by me. I happened to be sitting there chatting with her mother-in-law. For some reason, the two suddenly started fighting Now, I'm not afraid of hurting the child, let me hug it!"

Yu Jiadi was also surprised when he heard it, and quickly reached out to take the awkward Xiaotuanzi.

Li Kongzhu, who was interrupted by the knock on the door, would hear something about Mai Ya'er intermittently, thinking about what he said here just now, he couldn't help frowning, got off the kang, and walked out.

"what happened?"

Yu Jiadi had just said goodbye to the woman surnamed Qian, and was coaxing her with a small dumpling in her arms.Hearing this, he told her what he had heard.

After hearing this, Li Kongzhu frowned more and more.Thinking of Mai Ya'er's stubborn temper, he might be busy collecting things as soon as he returned, which made Lin's suspicions.

After going down the steps, Xiaotuanzi, who was hugged by Yu Jiadi and who was groaning awkwardly, saw her, immediately stopped crying, stretched out his hand, and wanted to hug her.

Although Li Kongzhu said that it was not easy to hug him with a big belly, but seeing his little tears streaming down his face, he stretched out his hand.

"girl!"

"It's okay! I'll hug and coax you first, and you can take over when you stop crying!"

Yu Jiadi was helpless, so he nodded and handed the child to her.

Li Kongzhu hugged the little dumpling weighing more than ten kilograms, and when he saw him pointing outside without crying, he knew that he wanted to go home.

After thinking about it, Li Kongzhu raised his feet and prepared to go to Mai Ya'er's house.

"Girl?!" Yu Jia looked at her in confusion.

"I'll go and listen at their door. If there's a lot of noise, I'll try to persuade them outside!"

Yu Jiadi disapproved when he heard it, "It is said that you are engaged in a battle, what should you do if you encounter something when you go?"

Li Kongzhu didn't feel anything, "I won't enter the courtyard, so I'll just listen outside the courtyard!" Besides, Xiaotuanzi obviously didn't want to stay here, and after a while her hands were sore from hugging her, and she cried again after handing them over to them. What should I do if I make a fuss?
While speaking, she followed Yu Xiaoling and opened the door.

As soon as he stepped out, he saw a lot of people around the gate of Zhao's house not far away.

Yu Jiadi was worried about her, so he ran to the crowd first to inquire.

Seeing that it was Yu Jiadi, the people surrounding him voluntarily gave way to come out.

Li Kongzhu held Xiaotuanzi in his arms and looked among the crowd along the way out.

Seeing that Mai Ya'er was being beaten up by her mother-in-law riding on her face with blood all over her face, she couldn't help being startled, not daring to resist.

"You little slut, ah~ Now that your wings are stiff and you're next to Gao Zhi, you want to abduct the son that my mother has worked so hard to raise, and want to lose my old couple, don't you?"

"You unfilial thing, see if my old lady will beat you to death today!"

"Wow~~" Xiaotuanzi, who was being held by Li Kongzhu, saw his mother being beaten, and immediately gave up, twisted his body and cried loudly.

Li Diaozhu was afraid that he would kick him violently, so he hurriedly prepared to send him to Yu Xiaoling who was next to him.

Unexpectedly, she was about to turn around just now, and the boy couldn't see his mother because of the turned direction, so he turned around and kicked vigorously, and his two short short legs just kicked her in the middle of her lungs just like that. On the tip of the high belly.

(End of this chapter)