Chapter 255 Are you really willing to share these profits that you've already secured with outsiders?
Although Li Yueniang has only just turned seven, she is a very clever child.
Even Jiang Huai said that among the children in the school, only Li Yueniang was someone he could recite after reading her name two or three times.
So, when Li Yueniang saw Yu Zhenniang's expression as if she were amusing a child, she sighed like a little adult.
This cute little face amused Yu Zhenniang so much that she reached out and patted Li Yueniang's head. "Are you even imitating people sighing like that?"
Li Yueniang shook her head and waved to Yu Zhenniang again. Yu Zhenniang lowered her head and put her ear close to Li Yueniang's small mouth again. She heard Li Yueniang whisper in her ear, "Mother, I know about the matter of marrying into a family."
When Yue Niang grew up, she invited a man to live with her and they had a baby girl named Little Yue Niang.
Moon Maiden knew that if she didn't take a husband into her family, she would have to marry into another family and give birth to a baby Moon Maiden, just like her mother.
After saying this, Li Yueniang let out a deep sigh.
Yu Zhenniang raised her head and her eyebrows were raised in surprise. Before she could ask anything, she heard Li Yueniang look up at her and say, "Mother, if I become like you, who will take care of you in your old age and see you off in your final days?"
The teacher said, "First, filial piety and brotherly love; second, knowledge and experience." The teacher also said, "Xiang Jiuling was able to warm the bed for his father."
Although I am not yet nine years old, I know that my mother gave birth to me and raised me, and I should be filial to her.
Mother, Yue Niang will not marry in the future; she will only marry into a family and stay at home to accompany you in your old age and see you off in your final days!
(First comes filial piety and brotherly love, then knowledge and experience. Xiang Jiuling was able to warm the bed for his parents. --- All from the Three Character Classic.)
Xiao Yueniang's words brought tears to Yu Zhenniang's eyes. Looking at the little face in front of her, she couldn't hold back any longer. She pulled Li Yueniang into her arms, hugged her small body, buried her head in Li Yueniang's body, and silently cried while biting her tongue.
At this moment, Li Shiyue, who was sitting at the head of the table, felt that enough time had passed, so he called out to Shi Tou, who was sitting below, "Brother!"
Boss Shi stood up, walked to the wall, picked up the gong hanging there, and, under Li Shiyue's nodding gaze, struck the gong with a "clang clang clang".
This was something Li Shiyue had agreed upon with Shi Tou beforehand; whenever she called Shi Tou, he would go and bang the gong.
The sound of the gong finally silenced the noisy crowd in the ancestral hall. When Li Shiyue saw that everyone was looking at her, she laughed out loud.
Her two sudden bursts of laughter sent chills down one's spine.
Li Youfu, who had previously scolded Li Shiyue for being "mad," now remembered Li Shiyue's ruthlessness.
Li Youfu glanced down at his eighth uncle sitting beside him. His eighth uncle's severed finger had scabbed over and healed, but a person who is missing half a finger is ultimately not a complete person!
The men sitting behind Li Youfu looked at each other, but none of them dared to look up at Li Shiyue.
"You guys always make such a fuss over nothing."
After glancing casually at Li Youfu's group, Li Shiyue turned around and looked at all the groups of people in the ancestral hall from left to right.
Li Wangshui, Ma Zi, and Wei Zi were one group of their own; Li Youfu's side was another group; and there was also a group of more than a dozen households from the Wang family;
Oh, and there were also the original residents of Liujiatun: Old Man Liu, Old Woman Liu, and Little Chestnut.
"I won't explain why I set this rule; just look around this ancestral hall yourselves."
How many unmarried women are there in our village these days?
After hearing Li Shiyue's words, Jiang Huai finally realized what he had been feeling was not quite right.
"Yes, Liujiatun only has three girls who haven't even grown up yet!"
The only unmarried girls around ten years old were Li Shiyue and her two sisters!
Yes, among all the people in Liujiatun nowadays, there are only three unmarried women: Li Shiyue, Li Qiutian, and Li Xiatian.
There were originally four people, but Qin Tao's daughter, Li Chunli, became Liu Shu's concubine!
"ah!
"This! This... I counted, and including the Wang family, there are only three young girls!"
"Oh! Only three?"
"Isn't that right? Look for yourself, there are only three!"
Seeing that they had realized what was going on, Li Shiyue spoke again: "Not counting the three of us sisters, there are only three families left in the village with young girls!"
In our Li family, there's six-year-old Li Yueniang; in Old Man Liu's family, there's five-year-old Xiao Lizi; and then there's Wang Qiniang from the Wang family!
All told, there are only these three people!
"I didn't know there were any women in our village I didn't know about?"
Everyone then went back and forth to look at the three little girls being held in the arms of their families in the ancestral hall. There were only three of them!
"Even if every family can have children in the future, it will take at least fifteen years for a girl to grow up and get married!"
Right now, we don't even have enough manpower in the village to build a house;
In the future, who will work on my paper mill, paper shop, village charcoal yard, tofu shop, rabbit farm, sheep pen, as well as the rented houses and shops, two large inns, and that whole row of large livestock sheds?
Are there enough people in our village to serve us?
They even marry off their daughters to other women?
Are you really willing to share the business we run in our village, the livelihood we make right here at our doorstep, with outsiders?
Fifteen years from now, do you still want to marry off your own daughters?
If we leave our own daughter at home to find a husband, then any children she has will belong to our village!
It's easier to get things done when there are more people!
Nobody's here. I just came up with the idea. Can you guys finish the job for me?
Now that I have an official position, I have many more things I can do. If you don't leave it to your own bloodline, do you expect me to find outsiders?"
Li Shiyue's words, which revolved around interests, were all about money and daily life, and they really made everyone's hearts itch, wishing they could scratch them a couple of times.
Li Shiyue didn't give anyone time to think; she turned her head and looked at Li Youfu.
"I heard Mr. Jiang say that Yue Niang is very smart. She is the fastest child in our village school to learn to read and memorize.
"Slightly less fortunate than her was also a young woman, the daughter-in-law of the Zhao clan chief's youngest daughter-in-law, the little girl named Xi'er," Li Shiyue continued, seeing that someone remembered, "Yes, the one from another village who came to our door, paid tuition separately to Mr. Jiang, and studied in our village's school."
Li Shiyue smiled at Li Yueniang, whose name she had called, before turning her cold expression to Li Youfu.
"Moon Girl is so intelligent at such a young age. If she marries someone else when she grows up, our village will not lose out."
Just for a few taels of betrothal money?
"If the daughters are left at home, aren't the value they create more than those few taels of dowry?"
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