Although Lei Xiangren and Zhao are both boring, the villagers didn't expect that their couple would end up like this. Poor Dabao and Erbao lost their parents at a young age.
Lei Xiangyi and Lei Xiangli could only ask the aunt to take care of Zhao's funeral, and wrote a letter to the capital to report the funeral. It was more than ten days after the two received the reply.
The letter was written by Lei Xiangzhi, and it is not easy for Lei Xiangzhi in Beijing.
After Lei Daqiang and Du Shi got into trouble with Lei Xiangren, they asked Lei Xiangzhi to write to Lei Tie, wanting Lei Tie and Qin Mian to pay to get Lei Xiangren out. Lei Xiangzhi did not follow suit. He thinks that it is a good thing to let Lei Xiangren squat in jail for a few years. Maybe he will learn a lesson if he suffers some hardships. If Lei Xiangren grows in two or three years, he will think of a way; if Lei Xiangren didn't grow up, so he just gave up, just as if there was no such brother. After Lei Daqiang and Du Shi weighed, they decided to listen to the younger son. After all, they have to rely on their youngest son, not their second son. Lei Daqiang and Du only sighed for the death of Zhao's, without any explanation. As for Lei Dabao and Lei Second Treasure, Lei Daqiang and Du Shi mean to let Lei Xiangyi and Lei Xiangli adopt. Lei apologized to Zhi for this matter, and confessed in the letter that he hadn't established himself in the capital yet and could not take care of Dabao and Erbao. He sent back twenty taels of silver along with the letter.
Lei Xiangyi and Lei Xiangli are unwilling to adopt Dabao and Erbao. If you just pull two children together, there will be no problem, but teaching them adults is a big responsibility. The temperaments of Dabao and Erbao have long been nurtured by Lei Xiangren and Zhao. Lei Xiangyi and Lei Xiangli admit that they are incapable of bringing them back, and they are also worried that Dabao and Erbao will invisibly bring bad things to their children. Impact. People are selfish.
The brothers discussed it, and wrote to Lei Xiangzhi again, explaining their concerns. While waiting for Lei to reply to Zhi's letter, the brothers did not take Dabao and Erbao home, but gave them three meals a day and urged them to go to school. In eating and putting on clothes, the brothers did not treat Dabao and Erbao badly. Some of their children must have Dabao and Erbao. However, Lei Dabao and Lei Erbao have not realized that they are not protected by Lei Xiangren and Zhao, and they have no right to be willful. The little brothers were still as stubborn and arrogant as before. Even if they were dissatisfied with the food, they yelled at Qian and Sun and learned 90% of Zhao, so that Lei Xiangyi and Lei Xiangli treated them both. Even more disliked.
Before long, Lei wrote back to Zhi. Lei Daqiang and Du Clan asked Lei Xiangyi and Lei Xiangli to send Dabao and Erbao back to the Zhao family's family. Lei Tie, Lei Xiangyi, Lei Xiangli and Lei Xiangzhi gave two taels of silver to the Zhao family every year. Until Dabao turns sixteen.
As the uncles of Dabao and Erbao, Lei Xiangyi and Lei Xiangli should pay some money to help their children grow up. Both of them have no objection, but they tacitly did not propose money to Qin Mian and Lei Tie.
The two took time to visit Lizheng there, explaining that they would send Dabao and Erbao back to the Zhao family; Lei Xiangren's house can be rented out if possible. After all, if the house is unoccupied for a long time, it will break down quickly. Naturally, all the income goes to Dabao and Erbao, and Lei writes down the account to Yi and temporarily keeps it. Lei also rented out the land from Renjia, and the income also went to Dabao and Erbao, and returned them to them when they grew up. These few things have to be a testimony in trouble.
Zhao's family did not separate. Originally, they did not agree to adopt Dabao and Erbao, but when they heard that there were six taels of silver each year, they agreed.
After Dabao and Erbao were sent away, Lei's affair with Renjia was all over.
A few days later, Lei Xiangli came to Qin Mian's house to borrow money from him and Lei Tie, planning to open a grocery store at home.
Qin Mian is very supportive of this. He had discovered that Lei Xiangli was a bit business-minded before, but now it seems that it is true. In recent years, because of the existence of the processing garden, the conditions in the villagers' homes are much better than before. They are willing to spend money to buy some side dishes to add a dish to the dinner table. Many villagers are happy to give their children one or two copper plates from time to time. , You can buy some snacks when the seller arrives; in addition, there are some people in the nearby villages who come to work in the processing park. If there is a grocery store in Qingshan Village, it will be much more convenient for their family to buy a needle and a needle. Ran far to town. Therefore, Lei Xiangli is indeed profitable by opening a grocery store in the village.
Qin Mian lent Lei Xiangli twenty taels of silver generously and taught him some business lessons.
Lei has gained a lot from Li. Ten days later, the Liji grocery store opened, selling all the things that villagers often use, such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, sugar, wine, needles, thread, etc., as well as some side dishes. For example, fried peanuts, fried soybeans with oil and salt, sauerkraut, and soy sauce, as well as various cheap and delicious snacks, for the villagers, the goods are very complete, and basically everything is cheaper than the town. Or a penny. Not only that, the Book of Rites also allows the villagers to settle accounts once a month, but if someone defaults on three consecutive debts, they will not be credited in the future. In addition, it also helps villagers sell their small handicrafts, such as small baskets, small baskets, small purses, etc., to provide convenience for the villagers.
In order to sell Lei to Li, Qin Mian also asked Lei Qin Le to carry a jar of salted eggs preserved for his own consumption at home for consignment. Each salted egg sells for one cent, which is very popular.
Sun's ingenuity, occasionally gave some regular customers some snacks made by himself. Lei is enthusiastic to Li, and Sun is kind. The villagers in this village and the villagers in the next few villages have gradually become accustomed to shopping here. The children in the school have to go to buy some small runaways from time to time after school, such as fried melon seeds, which is a lot of money and can eat very enjoyable. In less than half a month, the Liji grocery store had a firm foothold and business was booming.
Seeing that the fourth brother is also earning a living, both Lei Xiangyi and Qian can't sit still. Both of them don't know craftsmanship and only farm the land. It is really not easy to come up with the idea of money for a while. In the end, the Qian had an idea. Didn't Wu Di in the village make a fortune by raising chickens? They can raise ducks. There are several large ponds and a river in the village, which are fully equipped to raise ducks. However, there is another question: there are many people who eat eggs and chicken, so raising chickens can make a fortune; if they raise ducks, can duck eggs and ducks be sold?
The couple thought that Qin Mian could do business, so they went to Qin Mian for advice.
Qin Mian expressed appreciation and support for their ideas and suggested that they should raise less to accumulate experience first, because both of them are still young and have enough time and energy to try, so there is no need to worry. After learning the experience, it is not too late to increase the number of breeding. As for the sales of duck eggs and duck meat, don't worry, as long as you develop a variety of ways to eat duck eggs and duck meat, you will surely be able to sell them.
The couple believed in Qin Mian's business acumen and accepted his advice.
Qin Mian also lent them twenty taels of silver.
It didn't take long for the twelfth lunar month.
Lei Xiangzhi continued the habit of writing a letter to each of his three brothers every two months, and another letter arrived a year ago. This year is the first year of entering Beijing, so I have to stay in the capital to make a good impression on Shangfeng's New Year's greetings in time; he apologized to his brother in the letter and paid the New Year's greetings in advance. The new year that came with the letter was also for the whole family of the three brothers. ceremony.
As for Lei Daqiang and Du Clan, you can guess it. After seeing the prosperity of the capital, they will be happy to return to the mountain?
Without Lei Daqiang, Du Shi and Lei Xiangren, Lei Tie, Lei Xiangyi and Lei Xiangli are more cordial, and the Lei Dagang family are closer than ever. During the New Year's greetings in the first month, you come and go among the four families, and take turns to invite dinner, it is very lively.
YuanYuan and ManMan are the most popular among the juniors. In the first month, they received more than 20 red seals from relatives alone, plus more than 80 red seals given by villagers.
The two little guys happily took out their own money box, took out all the silver money in the red envelope and put them in the money box, and asked Qin Mian and Lei Tie to prepare a special book for them, and solemnly put it in the book. Write your name on the first page.
The names of the two little guys do have a lot of strokes, and they only learned to write names not long ago. The three characters occupy a page, and the words "sharp", "qi" and "lin" are all written more like two Words, Qin Mian snickered for a long time.
Lei Tie was forced by his two sons to overwhelm him on the kang, and the three of them tickled him together.
After the beginning of the spring, there were a group of little yellow ducks in the village, a total of fifty, swayingly following the mother chicken (note)'s buttocks running around, the fluffy balls were like yellow balls of hair.
In April, Lei Xiangzhi wrote another letter and returned, and he has been promoted to compile from the Sixth-Rank Imperial Academy.
Qin Mian was a little surprised, Lei was promoted to Zhi Zhi too fast. But anyway, getting promoted is a good thing, and I wrote a congratulatory letter with Lei Tie.
After the busy farming period, it is almost July. The weather is too hot and it is not a good time to go out. Moreover, this year will be a very busy year for their family. YuanYuan and ManMan are four years old. In addition to studying, they also need to practice with Qin Mian and Lei Tie. Four years old is one of the most suitable ages for foundation building.
YuanYuan and ManMan do not need to build the foundation like the last time Qin Mian built the foundation, but directly use the foundation building pill refined by Qin Mian to build the foundation. Moreover, YuanYuan and ManMan were originally conceived in the space, there were almost no impurities in their bodies, and there was almost no pain in the process of building the foundation between them.
There are twelve stages in cultivation, foundation building, enlightenment, fusion, heart movement, golden core, primordial infant, out of orifice, distraction, merging, void, Mahayana, and transcendence. Each stage is divided into initial stage, middle stage and late stage. Qin Mian is now in the early stage of heartbeat, Lei Tie is in the middle stage of Yuan Ying, with the two of them teaching YuanYuan and ManMan, YuanYuan and ManMan will be very smooth in their cultivation.
Note: This is not a bug. Ducks don't incubate their eggs. Baby ducks are hatched by hens and run around with hens when they are young.