Chapter 298 Every family has its own household chores, but the desire to live a good life is the same for everyone.
Brother Zhao arrived at Liujiatun with a cart full of goods, and when he left, the cart was also completely full.
On the way back, as usual, Brother Zhao, Zhao Yan's elder brother, and Sun Xiaodou's father and brothers went back together.
The cars were loaded with a lot of goods. During the trade season, the people of Liujiatun really made a lot of money by listening to Li Shiyue's advice.
Therefore, they are very generous with the return gifts they give to their wife's family.
Li Shiliang and his companions drove the dog-drawn sleds to escort the group onto the main road. Once they were safely on the road and almost out of sight, they led the sleds home.
As Zhao and his companions braved the cold wind and drove their cart full of goods home, they each had their own thoughts on the matter.
As evening approached, and it was almost completely dark, Brother Zhao finally drove back to Zhao You's house.
Before he even drove the car to his own doorstep, Brother Zhao spotted a short, hunched figure standing at the gate of his yard.
Zhao's mother shouted loudly, and after hearing Zhao's eldest brother's reply, she shouted into the courtyard.
She was having her daughter-in-law, who had been waiting in the kitchen, add firewood to the fire so that Brother Zhao could cook.
After being out in the cold all day, I really need a hot meal when I get home.
After Brother Zhao parked the car in front of the house, Mother Zhao finally noticed the bags and baskets on the car. She asked Brother Zhao in surprise, "Brother, did Minniang not let you in?"
Brother Zhao was stunned for a moment, then looked up at his mother. He then realized that his mother, seeing the cart full of things, thought that Zhao Min had confiscated what he had taken.
"Mom, what did you say?"
Minniang and Sanlang were overjoyed to see me. As soon as I entered the door, before I even went inside, Minniang brought me a bowl of fried dough sticks!
"These are all gifts from Minniang and Sanlang, sent back to our family. The ones you asked me to take have already been unloaded in their kitchen."
At this point, as if remembering something, Brother Zhao pulled something wrapped in a cloth out of his chest. He looked at his mother, then at his father and his second brother who had just come out of the house. "This was given to me by Minniang in private. She asked me to bring it back to Mother."
She said this was a filial gift for her mother, specifically for her mother to use as she saw fit.
Using the last rays of daylight, Zhao's mother peeled back the layers of cloth and saw a piece of silver weighing about one or two ounces inside.
Looking at the small piece of silver, Zhao's mother felt a lump in her throat, and tears streamed down her face as she faced the cold wind.
Before Zhao's mother could say anything more, Zhao's eldest brother called to Zhao's second brother to help move the things, "Minniang and Sanlang are busy in their village, they still need to learn to read."
The weather is bad again. Minniang said she would bring Sanlang and Yanqiu home again on the fifteenth or sixteenth of the first lunar month.
So when I went, while I was driving, they asked me to bring back all the gifts they had requested for the fifteenth.
"Elder brother, who is Yanqiu?"
"Hey, little girl, she's got a formal name now!"
Minniang and Sanlang asked the village schoolteacher to name her, saying that the little girl would henceforth share Sanlang's surname, Li. The family added her name to their ancestral worship ceremony this year.
Father Zhao was a man of few words. He simply went over, picked up the baskets from the cart, and carried them into the kitchen, but he also listened carefully to what his elder brother Zhao was saying.
Hearing the commotion outside, Sister-in-law Zhao Da and Sister-in-law Zhao Er, who were in the kitchen, quickly came out to help.
The adults were all outside, while the children on the kang (a heated brick bed) inside were all leaning on the windowsill looking out.
Such a scene also occurred at Zhao Yan's home, and at Sunjia Kiln, Sun Xiaodou's father and brothers were in the same situation.
The Zhao family looked at the things they had just unloaded from the cart in the kitchen, which filled the corner of the wall. This was much more than what the Zhao family had taken with them.
"Honey, are there any unmarried men in the village where Minniang married?"
My younger sister is old enough to be a potential matchmaker!
Every family has its own household chores, but the desire to live a good life is the same for everyone.
On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Wangming's small class at Liujiatun School was suspended.
The Lantern Festival is just around the corner, isn't it?
Li Shiyue planned to take her whole family to the prefectural city again, as there would be many more things to do this time.
The first thing was to celebrate the Lantern Festival in the prefectural city. Now that we had money, we had to spend it, right?
If you earn money but don't spend it, what's the point of earning it?
Therefore, when Li Shiyue came last time for the Lantern Festival, she booked a private room at the Yuelai Restaurant in the prefectural city.
Then, we can bring Li's mother and the others here to enjoy delicious food while watching the opera performance downstairs. I wonder what kind of opera will be performed this Lantern Festival?
Then, he took Li Wangming to the prefectural school. Although the prefectural school did not have teachers until February, Li Wangming had already made an appointment with his classmates to go back to the prefectural school in advance to review his lessons.
Thirdly, Li's Paper Shop in the prefectural city also has to open its doors to customers. Although a manager has been hired, the manager also needs to take a holiday, right?
But if the paper shop doesn't reopen after the fifteenth, all the customers we've worked so hard to build up will leave.
This time, Li Shiliang and his family also came to the prefectural city. Li Shiyue's idea was to let Li Shiliang stay in the shop for a few days first, and then let him return to the village after Manager Qian came back.
Fourthly, we should wait until after the 20th of the first lunar month, when the government office is on duty, to inquire about Li Shiyue's official land, salary, and stipend as a sixth-rank military officer.
Actually, it's just a formality. Ma San had already told Li Shiyue about it at the New Year's Eve banquet at the Prince's Mansion. Liu Tan had made all the arrangements, and Li Shiyue just needed to take the official document with her.
The last thing is that on the way back, we should stop by Jiangjia Village to pick up Jiang Huai, and then when we pass through Sanshan County, we should go to the clinic to find Doctor Jin and buy some medicinal herbs that Jin Daping, who was invited back to the village by Li Shiyue, wanted.
Thus, the five days and six nights spent in the prefectural city were all arranged perfectly.
On the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, in the afternoon at an inn in the prefectural city, Li Xiatian urged his mother and the others to hurry up and pack up to go to the Yuelai Restaurant.
Li Shiyue also changed into a bright red dress. After listening to her mother's words, she not only styled her hair in two buns but also wore a red hair ribbon, which made her look charming and cute. She finally looked like a young girl.
The family arrived at Yuelai Restaurant by carriage, went up to the second floor, and entered a private room. This time, the private room they booked was quite a coincidence; it was the same one they had visited the first time—the entrance was decorated with hibiscus flowers.
As soon as she entered the room, Li Shiyue took off the red cloak that her mother had specially made for her at a high price.
Li Shiyue, who had long since become immune to heat and cold due to her cultivation of internal energy, was actually impatient with this cumbersome cloak, always finding it in the way.
But Li's mother always wanted to dress Li Shiyue up like a worldly young lady, and Li Shiyue always obeyed her mother in such matters.
If Li Shiyue were to say it, it would be: "Just consider it as entertaining your parents with colorful clothes."
Just as Li Shiyue sat down at the round table inside the room and was about to pour tea, she heard a familiar voice coming from outside the door of their Hibiscus Flower private room, which was not yet fully closed.
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