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Chapter 91

(Thanks to the yellow and black masked classmate for the reward!)

My son returned home in glory. The fourth sister Wanjing, who was originally worried about, finally booked a marriage for a while, and was happy for a while. Han said excitedly: "You sit down, and I will cook for everyone with a few in the house. Today, I will cook the cold pottery you like the most before."

Li Jing looked at Han's happy appearance and felt a burst of joy in his heart. "Mom, don't be tired."

Cui Decheng, a man in his forties, also said to Han: "Auntie doesn't have to work so hard. My nephew sent two soldiers back to Chishan Town and called all the best chefs in the town to have a banquet. Today, the double happiness is coming, and I'm about to celebrate it."

He was about to call the personal soldiers outside the courtyard to come in and send a message to Chishan, but he saw that Li Huier and Yu Youniang had already changed into gorgeous women's clothing and were walking in with a chat and laughing with Wang Yueying, the daughter of the old village chief, who was walking in. "No need to be so troublesome. I have already invited the best master of Zuixianlou from Wendeng County. The preparations have begun."

When Han saw Wang Yueying come in, he quickly stood up to greet him. After Li Jing left home, Wang Yueying took great care of the Li family. Not only did he borrow grain, he also took out 100 acres of land for rent and rented it to the Li family for farming. Later, Li Jing sent money and grain home twice, and they were all sent back through Wang Yueying's cloth shop. Even the Li family yard was sent to help repair. Although Li Jing felt that Wang Yueying did these, some of the reasons were because he joined the army for the Wang family, and more of the reasons might be because of his current identity. However, no matter what, Li Jing still admired and understood this widow-strong wived woman in the same village.

Wang Yueying was 25 or 26 years old and her husband's family was already dead, and then she divided half of her family property with her husband's family. In recent years, she managed the Lifeng cloth shop alone and helped to manage the family business of the Wang family of her father. Over the years, she not only managed the Wang family in an orderly manner, but also opened more than ten branches of the Lifeng cloth shop such as Lai, Qing, Qi, Zi, Mi, Hai, Xu, etc. Although Wang Yueying was not born with beauty, even though she only wore a white skirt and showed her plain face, she gave people a unique feeling. Li Jing was very familiar with this temperament, which was the ability and confident temperament of a professional woman that was common in later generations.

"I used to ask you to take care of you, and even you asked someone to help repair this house. Why do you have the nerve to make money now?" Han smiled and looked forward, and could see that she was very close to Wang Yueying.

"Auntie is so polite to me. Sanlang is now a general. I usually don't have a chance to curry favor with me." Huang Yueying smiled, "By the way, I just heard from Xiaoma Yu that the dozens of hungry people brought back on the way have been taken in? I have asked someone to go to the store to make a batch of clothes and give them to me. Since they are all servants of the Li family in the future, how can they not be well-dressed? In addition, I also asked someone to find some craftsmen and set up some houses to arrange them immediately. I will let them live in the old house of our house in the past two days." Wang Yueying seemed to say casually, but Li Jing looked at her in surprise. He also wanted to bring those people back temporarily, and there was no formal arrangement yet. However, Wang Yueying had already made arrangements for him.

Only Han was surprised and complained to Li Jing: "Even if you become a general now, how much salary can you have in a year? It would be nice to leave some money to buy all the land sold by your ancestors before. Why do you still collect so many hungry people?"

Li Jing smiled: "Mom, you don't have to worry about money. You don't have to worry about land and property management. You have plans." After thinking about it, he said: "I remember that in a few days, the 18th day of the twelfth lunar month will be my mother's fiftieth birthday. It's not easy for family in these years, and my mother has worked hard. I think I'll hold my mother's fiftieth birthday this year. At that time, I'll invite all the villagers and some juggling opera singers to come and have a big show, which is lively and lively."

"Have a birthday?"

Han was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes became wet again. When her husband died, she was only 36 years old. She worked hard to raise eight children by herself for so many years. In a blink of an eye, fourteen years passed and she was fifty years old. Thinking about the days back then, now, her son has become a general of the seventh rank, and her daughter is going to marry a general of the seventh rank. Han hid his face and ran back to Li Jing's father's spirit card in the house, and cried loudly: "Hey, have you seen the spirit in heaven? I have worked hard for fourteen years and finally pulled the children up. Did you hear it? Jing'er is already a general of the seventh rank, and her son is finally promising..."

Holding Li Gang's tablet, Han burst into tears and snot, crying out the bitterness and grievances behind the strength over the years. Han's crying led the fourth and fifth sisters, sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, Gui Niang and Wan'er over, and several female relatives supported Han. But as soon as Han helped him up, his sister-in-law and second sister-in-law were also touched by this, and hugged the spirit cards of the brother and second brother and started crying.

Everyone stood behind Li Jing and watched silently. They all understood what the crying meant. This was Han comforting Li Jing's father and telling him that his son was finally ready, so that he could feel at ease.

"Jing'er, come up and kowtow to your father!"

Li Jing walked forward in a heavy mood and kowtowed to the father he had never seen before. Every time he kowtowed, he silently recited a sentence in his heart. With him, he would take good care of everyone in the Li family.

After the women had cried enough, Li Jing, his wife and Wan'er helped them out of the hall.

Near noon, the strong meat fragrance was floating everywhere in Wangli Village. The chefs invited by Wang Yueying were very good at craftsmanship. In addition, Wang Yueying spared no expense to prepare a large amount of mutton, pork and a lot of seasonal vegetables. The chefs made a lot of skills and stewed them one by one, which caused people to drool.

The first meal he returned to the village was entirely contracted by Wang Yueying. When he was trying to win over his relationship with Li Jing, Wang Yingyue did not forget the villagers. The meal was simply made into a long seat and invited all men, women, young and old in the village to hold a banquet. Even the more than 50 hungry people who had just followed Li Jing into the village were arranged with several large tables, with enough fatty meat slices. If this meal was not discovered quickly later, there was a doctor there and the rescue was timely. It was estimated that more than half of the hungry people would have died of eating too much meat that day.

At this spring banquet where the village was celebrated together, more than 150 families in the village received a New Year gift from Li Jing to each household with two pieces of cloth, five dou of rice, ten kilograms of pork and ten kilograms of mutton. In addition, Li Jing gave each of the children under the 16th in the village to 100 yuan. Li Jing's generousness made everyone in the village praise Li Jing, praise Li Jing's father, Li Jing's grandmother and others for how kind they are, and how good the family style of the Li family is.

After Xiao Shitou and the others returned home, they said their current situation and made the whole family happy. Then at the banquet, the eight families kowtowed to Li Jing with their families to thank him. Especially Xiao Shitou's father Wang Blacksmith, he also knew about Wang Liang's framed Li Jing. In order to thank him for his help to the Li family, Li Jing returned the twenty acres of land that Zhang Ku had returned to him, and also divided the sixty acres of land in his family.

He gave him half of it and gave him 100 guan. The blacksmith refused to accept it. For him, the relationship between the two families was not measured by a few acres of land and dozens of guan. What's more, Xiao Shitou not only took back more than 200 pieces of silk several times, but now he has become a gang leader. He also heard from his son that after the New Year, he might be promoted one or two levels after he followed Li Jing to take office. Then he would be a real official family with a grade.

The old blacksmith was not very good at speaking, but he was the most honest. At the banquet, he pulled Xiao Shitou and knelt in front of Li Jing, asking Xiao Shitou to swear to Li Jing that he would be loyal to Li Jing for the rest of his life. No matter what Li Jing asked him to do, he would never have any words. Listening to Xiao Shitou's oath and looking at the old blacksmith's innocent face, Li Jing was very moved. When the other families saw the old blacksmith asking Xiao Shitou to swear, they also let their children swear. Other families were full of envy and looked at the boys who could follow Li Jing.

Wang Liang's mother did not come at this banquet, and Wang Guiniang couldn't help but tell her the truth about Wang Liang. This simple mother was very ashamed and took all this to herself, thinking that she was incompetent in her children. She even thought of using death to clean up the shame that Wang Liang brought to the Wang family. Fortunately, Li Jing arrived and persuaded Wang Guiniang for a long time before she could relieve her desire to die.

In the following days, Li Jing's home was very lively, and even Wang Li Village was very lively. Qingning Township had long been legendary everywhere that Li Jiasanlang from Wang Li Village went out to conscript the united troops, but when he came back, he had become a general of the seventh rank, and became a disciple of the Jiedushi and the prime minister. Even the princess and the Jiedushi's daughter returned to Qingning Township with him. It is said that Li Jing, who became a general, had to celebrate his mother's fiftieth birthday. On the birthday party, all those who went to pay their birthday could have a banquet, regardless of their identity, even hungry people.

When this news spread throughout Qingning Township, and even spread throughout Wendeng County in just a few days, and it was in a momentum that it spread farther and wider, the entire Qingning Township became lively. First of all, officials, officials, gentry, wealthy households, and even small landlords from Wendeng County and the lower townships began to prepare gifts and attend this birthday party. In addition, the brothers under Li Jing, who came home from the Left Yidu, who were more than 100 yuan under Li Jing, were also preparing gifts and preparing to pay their birthday to Li's mother's birthday.

Then, the hungry people around Wendeng County were also moved and rushed towards Wangli Village like the wind.

These days, Li Jing is busier every day than training the united soldiers in Dengzhou. When another day of busyness ended, Li Jing returned to the quiet room alone. On the two days after returning, Han arranged Gui Niang and Wan'er to Li Jing's room in turn. As a result, a few days later, Han found that his son's eyes were black and his lips were a little white, so he issued a ban on his son's two women, and he was not allowed to have bed with Li Jing within half a month, and he was not allowed to have sex with him.

Li Jing walked into the room, but suddenly found a piece of paper on the table in the room, with a line of familiar fonts on it.

"There are many hatreds when meeting the river and the sea. The autumn wind and leaves are under the waves of Dongting. Farewell to Huaiyin City at night, and the moon shines on the high-rise buildings. This is a gift to the boy by Wen Tingyun, a famous poet of the Huajian School of the late Tang Dynasty. The poet who was wandering around the rivers and lakes met a boy in the bleak autumn wind. They had a similar feeling, but for a moment, they broke up immediately. They had a visit to express the "unattached" feeling of the writer's "lost encounter" when he went to the rivers and lakes.

But at this time, Zhang Yingying, who left this poem, obviously did not express the feeling of not meeting. Through the poem, she wrote about the feelings, lovesickness and separation with Li Jing. Li Jing looked at this thin sheet of paper and suddenly realized. Who is Zhang Yingying? He only knows her name, but not her identity. And he never told her his identity, why did she suddenly appear that day, find this place again, and leave this poem? Does she want to see herself or do she want to express that the two "no longer meet"?

The beauty of the Fahua Court came to my mind that day. Li Jing was surprised to find that the short night had been engraved into his heart and was indelible. Li Jing felt that he was not a person who was too infatuated. Although he was still a student in later generations, he had had the experience of breaking up at dawn several times. When he was in the Fahua Court with Zhang Yingying that day, he admitted that he was moved by the beauty and temperament of this woman. Because of various reasons, the spring breeze was several times in the end. He did not ask about her identity at the time, maybe it was with the idea of ​​breaking up at dawn. But he didn't expect that she would be the first to leave before dawn.

Is it because of this that he never forgets her? Then what does she mean when she clearly left without saying goodbye, and now she suddenly put this poem here? If she continues her previous relationship, or will she never meet again? For a moment, Li Jing actually felt that she was a little confused and infatuated.

"It seems that this incident is true? Oh my God, Zhang Yingying, the 'Queen of the Sea' who is dominating the Three Seas, actually has such an unforgettable feeling with a farm boy. I wonder how much storm will cause on the Three Seas if this matter is spread?"

Just when Li Jing was in a mess, a thick voice suddenly sounded in the dim room with a mocking tone. Li Jing was shocked and he had quickly turned around, hid behind the desk, and quickly pulled out the three-inch dagger tied to his leg with his right hand.

"Who is it?" Li Jing maintained a defensive posture, and carefully searched the house with his eyes.

"Swish!" Several flints hit, and then a flame lit up. Behind the flame, a middle-aged man with a yellow beard grinned, revealing his big yellow teeth. "Why, I haven't seen him for a month, but I don't know my old friend?"
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