The mountain stone is a three-way courtyard with a wall and seagrass as the roof, three main rooms, and three rooms in the east and west compartments. There is no barricade on the south side, but a stone gatehouse and a one-zhang high mountain stone wall. There is also a large wooden plaque hanging on the stone gate, with two strong and powerful characters written on it: Li Mansion.

However, the mottled and peeling paint on the wooden plaque made the two big characters lose their original color. The seagrass roofs of the nine rooms of the Li family also have a lot of artemisia grass floating in the wind. Decades of wind and rain have passed, and this triple courtyard house everywhere reveals the owner's family road.

This is Li Jing's home, a three-courtyard courtyard with mountains and rocks as walls and seagrass as the roof. The courtyard is very large, the rooms are not small, and there are many traces showing the prosperity of the Li family. This kind of seagrass house is a unique building in the coastal area of Shandong, Wangli Village is located on the seaside of the Shandong Peninsula, rainy and humid in summer, snowy and cold in winter, under this special geographical location and climatic conditions, the dwellings are more mainly considered to keep warm and cold in winter, and avoid rain and sun in summer. As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, there were people who built thick stone walls based on the unique architectural experience accumulated in their long-term lives, and used seagrass to dry the roof as a material to build seagrass houses.

Seagrass grows in spring and withers in autumn, and when it grows to a certain height, when it encounters strong winds and waves, the tide will roll it towards the shore in clumps. When people along the coast want to build a house, they will go to the beach in advance to collect seaweed. The seaweed is harvested, dried and used to build houses. Because the seagrass that grows in the sea contains a large amount of halogen and gelatin, it is used to form a thick roof, which not only has the characteristics of anti-insect moth, mildew and rot, and is not easy to burn, but also has the advantages of being warm in winter and cool in summer, comfortable to live in, and will not be destroyed for a hundred years, so it is the most favorite building of the coastal people in this area.

This three-way courtyard of Li Jing's house has a history of 50 years, and it is said that when it was first built, more than 50,000 catties of seagrass were used. Not to mention Wang Li Village, it is the entire radius of more than ten miles, and the Li family's triple courtyard is also one of the best houses.

It's a pity that only fifty years have passed, and the Li family has begun to fall in the middle, and the hundreds of acres of land that the family bought in the early years are now only 50 acres of land and 10 acres of mulberry fields, which is barely enough for the family to make ends meet. At the beginning of the Li family's best years, they had 300 acres of fertile land and three cattle.

But now, the Li family can't even come up with the money to repair the house.

Li Jing and Wan'er walked into the main hall one after another, and the sister-in-law had already prepared the meal.

"Auntie, sister-in-law." Li Jing greeted the two elders.

Li Jing's mother, Han, was just fifty years old, and her hair was already gray, but it was combed very neatly, with a fallen horse bun pulled up and a wooden hairpin diagonally inserted on it. She was also wearing a coarse cloth skirt, which had not been patched, but had been washed white.

Li Jing learned from his memory that his mother Han was the side of the Han family of the Qingzhou clan. In the early years, Han's father and Li Jing's grandfather set a baby kiss, at that time Li Jing's grandfather was a subordinate officer of Li Shidao, the envoy of Ziqing Pinglu Jiedu in Shandong, and he had a favor with Han's father, and the latter two families made this family affair. However, before Li Jing's father was born, Li Shidao was attacked and exterminated by the imperial court, and Li Jing's grandfather also died in the army. Li Jing's grandmother moved all the way to Wendeng County with her domestic servants, and the family affair with the Han family was considered yellow. Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, the Han family took the initiative to come to the door and round up this family business.

The Han family, it is said that the Han family studied with the young lady of the Han family in his early years, read and hyphenation, knew how to read and reason, and even made poems. She married into the Li family before she was twenty years old, and gave birth to three sons and five daughters to the Li family, none of whom died young, and all of them were raised. Li Jing's father gave up martial arts to learn literature since he was a child, and after marriage, he has always studied and learned, and almost everything in the family is Han Zhang Luo. Especially later, when he failed the imperial examination, he turned to an official, and he was away all the year round, and his family was all lost to the Han family.

Thirteen years ago, Li Jing's father died, and the eldest son was only thirteen years old at the time, and the other two sons were only seven or eight years old, and there were several two or three-year-old daughters in the front. At that time, Li Jing had several uncles of the same clan who came to persuade the Han family to remarry and wanted to take over the Li family's property, but the Han family refused.

Han is kind-hearted, hardworking, and single-handedly raised a group of children, and it can be said that she is the most traditional and commendable woman in this era.

"Are you feeling better, my son, if you feel unwell, ask the doctor to come and see it early." Han looked at this youngest son with a kind face, and sighed with relief in his heart, this son is different from the eldest and second, although those two sons are filial and diligent, but they have the strength of a child, but they can't read books. And this little son is different, not only sensible since he was a child, but also smart in reading, she has always believed that her son will definitely be able to enter the Jinshi in the future to participate in the imperial examination. If it weren't for the fact that the imperial court had already canceled the Xiucai Branch, the son would be the most powerful Xiucailang.

It's a pity that the Li family has had many disasters, and now the burden of the family is all on this child, but it has delayed his future.

There was a dim soybean oil lamp lit in the room, the light was not very good, Li Jing vaguely saw that the corners of his mother's eyes were moist, and he couldn't help but say, "Auntie, my son is all right." ”

"That's good, that's good." Han patted his son's palm.

"Sister-in-law, what about the second sister-in-law?"

The sister-in-law arranged meals for the whole family, and said, "Your second sister-in-law is reciting scriptures to your second brother in the house, hey." ”

The second brother's seventy-seventh has just passed, and the second sister-in-law is still in Dai Xiaozhong. Li Jing sighed in his heart, his second brother was only one year older than him, and he died after only half a year of marriage to his second sister-in-law, Wang, and his second sister-in-law suffered. The second sister-in-law has also met a few times, and she is only sixteen years old, and she is still a thin and immature girl. Now she is a widow.

Li Jing turned his head to look at his sister-in-law again, the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law were similar, and the eldest brother went less than half a year after passing the door. My sister-in-law has been widowed for four years, and she is only twenty-one years old now. What made him sigh even more was that the two widowed sisters-in-law did not have a son and a half daughter, and they were young and had to be widowed, and they didn't even have a child to rely on, how tragic this fate was.

"Sister-in-law, if there is a suitable one, you can choose a good family to marry!" Li Jing couldn't imagine that such a young woman would have to be widowed for the rest of her life, so she couldn't help but say something.

As soon as his words came out, a pin drop could be heard in the room.

As soon as the fourth sister and the fifth sister came out of the weaving room at home, they heard this shocking remark, and the fourth sister hurriedly said: "Brother, what are you talking about, don't you pay compensation to your sister-in-law soon." Uncle and sister-in-law, you can also say this, but you are still a person who has read books. ”

The sister-in-law Zhang lowered her head and wept silently, and the family was silent for a while.

Li Jing opened his mouth: "Sister-in-law, I don't mean anything else, it's just that you have a good youth, and it's not worth delaying your life." You have no children, and now that our family has fallen, what can you do but endure hardships if you stay. Find a good family, you still have most of your life to live. ”

The sister-in-law wiped her tears, looked up and said, "Sister-in-law knows that Uncle Lu Dao is well-intentioned, but although I am a daughter from a peasant family, I also know what chastity is." What my sister-in-law admires most in her life is her mother-in-law, who raises her uncles and sisters-in-law alone. Uncle don't say anything like this in the future, my sister-in-law was born into the Li family, and died as a ghost of the Li family, and she will never marry again in this life. ”

Han sat there, wanting to speak and stopped, but he still didn't say anything.

"Let's eat, I cooked a dish tonight, and put two eggs, let's eat it, it's not delicious when it's cold." The sister-in-law said with a strong smile.

Everyone stopped talking, the Li family was strict, and it was the rule to eat and sleep. The Li family's meal is a separate table system, with two dishes and a bowl of rice in front of each person. One of the two dishes is boiled eggs with weed, the other is pickled slivers, and the rice is corn porridge. Woad is actually the cabbage of later generations, but the Chinese cabbage at this time is still a little different from that of later generations. Li Jing ate a few bites, and the cooked cabbage had no seasoning, only a little oil star seeds and a little salt, which was light and tasteless. The porridge was made of bran crushed with the husk and the husk, not only did the porridge have bran, but it was also as thin as soup, and there were not many grains of rice in it.

He looked up at his mother and sister-in-law and sister-in-law, and found that the two eggs that his sister-in-law said were all on his plate, and compared to the porridge in his bowl, the woman's bowl was even thinner, almost soup.

"What's the matter, San Lang, isn't this porridge full?" When Han saw Li Jing stop his chopsticks, he couldn't help asking, and turned his head to his sister-in-law Zhang, "Old man, there are still two woven cloths at home, let's exchange them for some rice and noodles tomorrow." Saburo's serious illness is just right, and he doesn't have any food. ”

"Hey, I know my mother-in-law."

"A-Niang, how much is the grain now?" Li Jing asked.

"Dou rice is 200 wen, corn is 160 wen, wheat is also 180 wen, a few years ago, this dou rice was only 20 wen, but now it has increased tenfold. Why do you have to go on like this? Mother thinks, if this grain goes up again, we will take all the rice at home to Wendeng and replace it with sorghum, and we will mix some chaff and wild vegetables, and this year should be able to alleviate it. ”

Hearing this, Li Jing's heart was extremely heavy, looking at the family of six or seven people all looking hungry and malnourished, but they still had to give him those two eggs to eat, and even gave him more porridge.

My heart was blocked for a while, how could a big man let a woman not even have enough to eat. He is also a descendant, so he can't let a large family of women raise him. It seems that the most important thing at this moment is to solve the problem of eating for the family. It's just that how to solve this problem of eating?

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