The growth of the eldest daughter-in-law of the farm gate

Ruiwen accompanied Zhao Yunlan to school day by day, and he gradually calmed down. Every day when his mother went to teach, he obediently wrote homework in his seat. Occasionally, Mr. Chen took time to give lectures to his children, and Ruiwen would accompany him listen.

Today was the school holiday, and I happened to meet Li Mingren Xiu Mu, and the family of three accompanied Mrs. Wang to the study after having breakfast.

"Father is here to test you." Li Mingren said the last sentence casually and then motioned Ruiwen to recite the next sentence.

"Three talents, heaven, earth and man. Three lights, sun, moon and stars."

"It's not bad, it's made great progress recently." Li Mingren was a little relieved and a little proud.

Zhao Yunlan felt the happy atmosphere between father and son and couldn't bear to break it, so she wrote her own lesson plan.

The time of concentration always flies by, and when Zhao Yunlan raised her head again, she saw that the father and son were quietly waiting aside.

"What are you two doing?"

Ruiwen spoke first and said, "Let's have some snacks together, mother."

He Hua made some new snacks today, Ruiwen naturally wanted to enjoy them with his mother.

Zhao Yunlan smiled softly and said, "I'll come right after I wash my hands."

Chunxiang next to her had already prepared clean water, and Zhao Yunlan got up to wash off the ink stains on her hands and then dried them before walking to the father and son.

"I kept you waiting for so long!" Zhao Yunlan picked up a piece of pastry to Ruiwen, and then to Li Mingren.

Li Mingren smiled: "We are willing to wait for the lady."

After enjoying the pastries with his parents beautifully, Rui Wen saw that the timing was right and wanted to go out for a while.Li Mingren immediately agreed happily, thinking that finally no one would disturb his time alone with Yunlan.

Zhao Yunlan urged Ruiwen to pay attention to safety, but she didn't notice Li Mingren's careful thinking at all.

Ruiwen ran away in a flash, Zhao Yunlan couldn't help smiling, and said, "I'll go see my daughter!"

Li Mingren: "Then I'll accompany you to see it. Qing'er should be sleeping right now."

Seeing Li Mingren's stickiness, Zhao Yunlan felt a little uncomfortable, thought for a while and said, "Let's go later, don't wake up the baby."

Just as Li Mingren was about to nod his head in agreement, Zhao Yunlan continued, "How's the matter with your yamen?"

Alas~ Li Mingren couldn't help sighing, thinking that today he would not be able to talk to his wife intimately.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that Li Mingren was silent, Zhao Yunlan continued to ask.

"No, it's fine over there at the Yamen."

"Where did the money raising and road construction mentioned earlier go?"

Li Mingren: "The money has been raised a few days ago. We chose the [-]th day of this month to start road construction. We have to give everyone some time to finish the work in the field, otherwise no one will come to work."

"Is it so easy for those wealthy households to agree to raise money?"

Li Mingren smiled: "It would not have been so easy to talk about this matter years ago, now cough cough~"

Hearing this, Zhao Yunlan thought about the difference between years and years, it should be about defending the city with the common people.Zhao Yunlan raised her eyebrows to confirm with Li Mingren.

Li Mingren nodded: "The lady is really beautiful and intelligent, and women don't give way to men."

Zhao Yunlan curled her lips and asked Li Mingren to return to the topic.

"Because of defending Shiyang County, those wealthy households have a good impression of me. This time, I was able to raise this money without any effort. It is because they expressed their hearts, or they recognized me as Zhima County Magistrate. Of course , I definitely can’t hand over the initiative to them, the money I~ No, the county government doesn’t take it in vain. I still follow my previous idea and exchange the money for land. It’s just that the previously set acreage is too much, and I reduce it. It’s half of it, but it’s enough for them to set up a shop in the back.”

Zhao Yunlan kept nodding, and Li Mingren continued: "Next, we will start with your school to build roads. I will first repair and widen the road from the school to the county town, and then spread it out." "OK , I will wait for you to build the road so that I can recruit more students."

"Yunlan, I have one more thing to talk to you about."

"you say!"

Li Mingren: "There is another school in the county, Baima School, you should know about it, my lady!"

Zhao Yunlan nodded: "Well, the master of that school is named Hou. He has studied in Youzhou City for many years. After many references, he was finally admitted to the Juren with the last grade. After passing the Juren, he knew that his talent and experience were limited, so he returned home. I returned to Shiyang County and set up a school. Of course, Magistrate Qin also contributed to this. Now there are only 12 students in the school, all of whom are over 20 years old."

Li Mingren was a little surprised that Yunlan knew so comprehensively. Then he thought that this is his own wife, who has always been considerate in everything. Since she wants to open a school, she must inquire about everything in order to deal with it.

"The lady let me be educated again."

The corner of Zhao Yunlan's mouth twitched into a smile and said, "Then tell me what's going on with him?"

"A few days ago, Hou Juren came to the county government office to ask for a meeting and asked about the intention of opening a new school. I didn't say anything at the time. I even asked him to talk to you directly. But I guess he was afraid that other schools would compete for students. .”

Zhao Yunlan could understand: "Well, originally I planned to visit this Hou Juren to get to know him better. It seems that I can't be too proactive, so I'll just wait for him to come to me. If he doesn't come, then I will I don’t care about it for now. Our school only recruits young children now, and we really don’t have too many conflicts with him, it’s just that we’ve been waiting for a long time..."

"Well, as long as the lady has an idea in mind."

"Hey, fix the road quickly, everything on my side will wait for your road to be repaired before it can be deployed."

Li Mingren looked determined: "Yes, lady!"

Chunxiang came in from the outside, and reported politely: "Madam, master, the old lady asked you to go to the main courtyard."

"What's the matter?"

Chunxiang: "There is a letter from my hometown. The old lady asked you to go and have a look together."

Both Zhao Yunlan and Li Mingren went to the main courtyard. Before entering, Li Mingren asked, "Mother, what did the letter from home say?"

Mrs. Wang didn't rush to respond before seeing anyone coming, she only waited for the couple to come in and sit down before saying: "Wait for the third child to come and talk together."

Zhao Yunlan looked at Wang's calm expression, and felt relieved that there was nothing to worry about.

After a while, Li Mingli hurried over, "Mom, what happened at home?"

Wang glanced at the third child, finally calmed down, and this time he failed again.

"Sit down quickly, I see you are out of breath after running. Take a break and have a cup of tea, and listen to me slowly."

Mrs. Wang took out the letter and showed it to Li Mingren and his wife, and said: "Your father is probably lonely at home and wants me to go back. There is no one in charge at home, so it is difficult to rely on your father's unreliable mind." In addition, Mingmei is also old and unmarried girls can't show their faces outside. Although the second child went home after the new year, he can't completely abandon the business now. He has to travel to Beijing and Fucheng, and he doesn't have enough time to stay at home. A lot, and the fourth child has to be busy studying."

After saying that, Mrs. Wang looked at Ming Li, who had a dumb look on his face, and said, "Third brother, you have to start taking care of your business. Although the Zhao family's Xiao Liu is younger than you and can afford to wait, it is not appropriate to delay it like this. The etiquette also chills the woman's family. So I think our mother and I have to go back."

Li Mingli couldn't hide his happiness, and it showed on his face with a grin.Wang looked at Li Mingli's smirking face, and then turned to look at Li Mingren and Zhao Yunlan.

Zhao Yunlan said: "Well, mother, you just go back, Ming Ren and I will help you arrange everything. Now the situation has stabilized and the weather has warmed up. This road is easier than when we came here."

Mrs. Wang was not worried about traveling, but worried about the lack of manpower on Zhao Yunlan's side.

"I'm going back because I want to go back. Let's set the date to go back next month. I won't leave until the school's affairs stabilize. You are all busy now, and Qing'er still needs someone to take care of her. I can't let it go."

Zhao Yunlan was moved by Wang's consideration, and she was really short of manpower right now, but if Wang and the others went back, Zhao Yunlan could arrange it herself, at worst, she had to work harder.

Li Mingren followed Wang's words and said: "Okay, then mother will stay for one more month, and I will arrange the car and guards."