PFC Chapter 158 The Li Family Started a Riot
Chapter 158 The Li Family Started a Riot
No matter how reluctant the villagers were, they still handed over all the grain to the imperial court.
The people should not fight against the officials, which is vividly demonstrated at this moment.
The price of grain also rose sharply after the imperial court's grain collection.
The price of black flour has increased from 3 wen to 10 wen per catty, not to mention refined rice and flour, the cheapest of which costs to wen per catty.
As a result, many people complained bitterly.
Most people would not be like the people in Kaoshan Village, who not only failed to sell the grain harvested last year.
We purchased several more batches today before the grain collection.
After learning about the grain requisition, they went on a buying spree and purchased a lot of grain.
Although a lot was handed over to the higher authorities, there was also a lot of grain stored at home.
The other families handed over all their food rations.
Now they can only tighten their belts and hope that it will rain soon so that they can have a good harvest this year, otherwise they will have nothing to eat in the future.
Li Erjia is considered smart.
The first time Xia Shengsheng said he wanted to stockpile food, not only the Li family followed suit and bought some food.
Li Erjia also went back to her mother's house to persuade her brothers to stock up some grain before the price of grain went up.
Later, she learned about the imperial court's grain collection. After discussing it with Li Er and her father-in-law, she sent two taels of silver to her mother's family and asked them to prepare more grain.
Her words are influential in her mother's family, and she helps her mother's family both financially and physically, so now she is not worried about whether her mother's family will run out of food.
But the Li family is different. They have no say in their mother’s family.
At the beginning, Li Youcai also asked Li Dajia to inform her mother and ask them to buy some food and store it at home.
But after Li returned, no one was willing to listen to her.
Everyone thought that they had enough food stored at home and would be able to harvest more food in the fall, so they did not listen to Li Dajia's advice and went to the town to buy food.
Later, Li Youcai asked Li Dajia to go back and persuade him many times, but it was of no use.
People from the Li family also work for Xia Shengsheng. Although they don't earn as much as the Li second family, eight or nine hundred wen a month is not a small amount.
They all paid one third to Li Youcai, and kept the rest in their own pocket.
Li Youcai told Li Dajia that he could also subsidize his mother's family so that they could store more food to avoid having no food in the future.
But Mrs. Li was not valued in her parents' home. She wanted to save the private money she had saved for her children to get married in the future and had no intention of giving money to her parents' home at all.
Therefore, after this grain collection, Li's family really had to dig out all their savings.
There was no food at home, and not enough money.
Wouldn't it be a shame to think of her as an unappreciated married woman?
The whole family came to the Li family under the pretext of borrowing grain, but no one could say whether they could pay back the borrowed grain when the time came.
"My dear father-in-law! Look, how are our family of more than a dozen people going to live in the future?
This damn thing asked us to hand over 900 kilograms of grain all at once. Are we going to have to eat coarse food from now on?
"Father-in-law, you have to help us! You have to lend us a few hundred kilograms of food to help us get through this difficult time."
Li Youcai is not the kind of person who can't lose face.
In today's world, they may not even be able to solve the problem of food and drink for their entire family, so how can they lend their family's food rations to others?
The behavior of the in-laws is particularly shameful.
I have reminded everyone who should be reminded. What can I do if they don’t listen?
"Sister-in-law, aren't you making things difficult for me? You are from the same family, aren't we?
You paid 900 kilograms of grain, and this time we paid 1100 kilograms!
You ask me to borrow food, but I don’t know who to borrow from!
I have to make sure my family has enough food and drink. "
Li Erjia's mother, Zhao, saw that Li Youcai refused to give in.
He could only wink at his son, daughter-in-law and a group of grandchildren behind him.
The little ones knelt down beside Li Youcai in an instant.
"Grandpa Li, I'm hungry! Please lend us some food!"
"Grandpa Li, please help us."
Several adults were also nearby, constantly speaking nice things to Li Youcai in order to borrow some food.
Li Erjia looked at their rogue appearance and sneered.
When Boss Li saw this situation, he felt a little embarrassed for a moment. Even when he lowered his head, he could see that his whole face was red.
Li Er quickly nudged his wife and asked her to go out first.
Li Erjia was not such an ignorant person, and she felt that her father-in-law must be a fair man who would not easily lend his life capital to others.
So he left the main room with peace of mind and prepared to feed the chickens in the yard.
"Old family, hurry up and get the nephews and nieces up. What kind of nonsense is this? Are you here to borrow food? Aren't you here to force me?"
Seeing that her father-in-law seemed really angry, Li Dajia quickly helped the children up and said to her mother, "Mom, my family really doesn't have that much food. Look at you, I asked you to save more food, but you didn't listen to me.
How high has the grain price gone now? The imperial court has collected 1,800 kilograms of grain all at once. Who can afford to lend grain to others?"
Seeing that the Li family was really disregarding their feelings, Zhao stopped speaking in a friendly tone and took the opportunity to make indirect accusations.
“You are such a heartless person, who knew it would turn out like this?
Don't you know how hard our life is? We are lucky to be able to support your nephews and nieces.
Where does the extra money come from to store grain?
If you really want to, you should give us some silver or food when we are in trouble. What's the point of saying those empty words now?
It's really fake mercy, you guys have taken all the benefits."
Li Youcai couldn't stand it anymore. It turned out that his previous kindness in asking the elders to inform them to store up grain had gone wrong!
He has become a person who is falsely inferior and has no conscience.
But after all, they have been relatives for many years, so they have to give each other some face.
He stood up directly from the chair.
“I guess we have nothing to talk about.
Boss, boss of the family, you guys should solve this problem yourselves.
Not a single cent of the public money or grain can be touched!
Your brother and sister-in-law never said they would use their home supplies to help your mother's family.
As for the money in your hands, I won’t care about a penny of it. I can’t stay in this family anymore.
You two can discuss and leave on your own!"
After saying that, he walked out of the yard with his hands behind his back, sighing.
Zhao was still shouting in the back, "What does he mean by this? Is this how you treat guests? He left our whole family here and just walked away?..."
Seeing this, Li Erjia also went back to the house. It seemed that there was no need to keep dinner for her. What was she still doing outside? Was she looking for trouble?
Before returning to the room, he also called Li Er out.
They were discussing something as a family, why was a brother-in-law staying there?
Zhao shouted for a long time but no one paid any attention to her.
Only then did she look at her daughter and son-in-law, whom she had never liked.
"Oh my good daughter and son-in-law! You have to help me..."
Mr. and Mrs. Li could not resist Zhao's pleading, and finally took out two taels of silver to send Zhao and the whole family away.
After leaving, Li Da looked at his wife with some dissatisfaction in his eyes.
Mrs. Li stood up straight when facing her husband, unlike the cowardly state she had just shown when facing her own family.
"What are you looking at? Isn't it just helping my mother's family with two taels of silver?
My sister-in-law sent two taels of silver to her parents’ home some time ago!
Besides, it’s not like I’m eating for free and I don’t make any money.
I helped, so what? "
Mr. Li sighed and said nothing.
He was not upset about the money, but was angry at the scoundrels of the Zhao family.
He was also angry that his wife only acted arrogantly in front of him and didn't dare to say a word in front of his mother and brothers.
But what can I do if I get angry? We have been married for more than ten years, and our eldest child is about to get married.
I have given up everything I should have given up over the years, so this time won’t be a big deal.