Farming Happiness: Husband, Come and Plough the Fields

Li Haitang was coaxing Xiao Baozi, and Bai Guo came in to deliver a letter, and the old lady in front of Mrs. Shaoqing of Dali Temple came to deliver a greeting card.

Li Haitang reacted for a moment and then remembered that it was Fang Shaoyao, a sister she just met yesterday. At that time, she said she would come to visit. She thought it was just a casual talk, but she didn't expect her to come so quickly.

After arriving in Kyoto, she would have a new social circle, and Fang Shaoyao was the first person she met.

"Please!"

Li Haitang washed his hands and went to Zhuangzi's front hall to meet the guests, thinking about buying a courtyard in the city.

Living in the suburbs of the city, the environment is good and you can escape the heat in the summer, but it takes more than an hour to go out, which is really inconvenient.

Just as she was thinking, a woman of about forty years old came in.

The mother-in-law was the one she met yesterday, so Li Haitang was familiar with her. She smiled and said, "Mother Fang, please come quickly!"

"Mrs. Xiao, our wife had a great chat with you yesterday, and she even told the master about it when she got home."

Aunt Fang narrowed her eyes and looked at Zhuangzi, knowing that Mrs. Xiao must have a deep foundation in the family.

The Li family, where my father Li Guanglu belongs, is also a family of officials in Kyoto, but the officials are not big. Once they sit at the fourth rank, they will never be promoted.

The main family of the Li family lived in Zhuangzi not far from here. Her wife wanted to escape the summer heat in Zhuangzi. In this way, being close to Mrs. Xiao, the two families could move around more.

"This is so daring!"

Li Haitang welcomed Fang Shaoyao's arrival very much, and the Li family's village was right behind, so it only took half an hour by carriage, so it was very convenient to go back and forth.

The officials and servants who can move around in Kyoto are all very talented. What Fang Shaoyao mentioned and what Li Guanglu said proves that the head of the family agrees to the exchanges between the two houses.

After all, in the eyes of others, my family has no background and is just the home of a merchant from out of town.

"We are new here, and my Doubao doesn't have any playmates. Yesterday I saw Tangbao being lively and cute, so I just happened to be a little sister for Doubao."

Li Haitang and Grandma Fang exchanged some polite words and learned that they were in the city and had to buy vegetables, so they gave away some of the produce from their own farm. Finally, they even had some crisp plums picked and sent over.

For the first time, you don’t need to give anything too expensive, just give some food, which is quite meaningful in making friends.

On Fang Shaoyao's side, Grandma Fang brought two extra-large carp, which were still alive and specially raised in a basin.

The two chatted happily. Li Haitang sent the person away, gave him a red envelope, and told Aunt Fang that he would be waiting for Fang Shaoyao at any time.

It was dusk. After looking at the sky, Li Haitang guessed that it was about the same. He set off from Zhuangzi and arrived at Zhang Zheng's private house. It happened to be dark.

Xiangli and Mrs. Wang were restless, thinking about the upcoming meeting with Yang Xu's parents. Many scenes came to their minds, especially Xiangli, who was ready to offer words of comfort.

The carriage was driving on a country road, while the sun was setting, rendering the surrounding clouds a fire-like color, but they lost their light and looked a little dim.

Along the way to the official road, there were farmers busy preparing land in the fields. They were wearing burlap, wearing a few patches, and they were sweating like rain.

No matter in what era or where, there are poor people who work hard on their own just to have enough to eat.

The atmosphere in the city was a bit depressing. Xiangli straightened her back and sat upright with her hands clenched into fists, which was enough to see her inner unrest.

As expected, it was getting dark when we entered the city. Pedestrians on the road were in a hurry, all rushing home.

Zhang Zheng's courtyard is a private residence, surrounded by merchants and petty officials. There are lanterns at the door, illuminating the road in the alley, but the red doors of every house are buckled with dark iron rings, which still makes them look a bit awkward. Terrified.

"Madam, this is the place."

Li Duanji got off the carriage first, and then knocked on the door. After a while, a response came from inside, asking slowly and leisurely, "Who is it?"

"We talked about it with Mr. Zhang before."

Li Duanzu quickly checked the code, wondering if Mr. Zhang had a fire in the backyard and raised a baby outside at night. Otherwise, he couldn't let the crazy woman chase him around.

Thanks for making trouble in front of them, wouldn't it be embarrassing in front of colleagues?

The other party was silent for a moment, then opened the door, and Li Haitang and his party entered.

After entering the door, Li Haitang was startled. Yellow paper money was floating on the ground in the courtyard. When the evil wind blew, the paper money danced with the wind like falling flowers, and even swirled.

"Xu'er, you are back to see your parents again."

In the courtyard, an old couple sat, their hair already gray, bent over and looking very old, staring at the whirlwind of paper money and muttering to themselves.

"It's good to come back. It's good to come back. Your parents are incompetent and can't avenge you."

Yang Xu's mother muttered in a low voice, and her voice became increasingly shrill in the end, "Xu'er, where did they hide your other thigh?"

The scene was so weird that even an atheist like Li Haitang took a few steps back unconsciously, with goosebumps rising all over his body.

Yang Xu was dismembered, and after a long search for the body, he pieced it together, but one leg was still missing, and there is still no news about it.

"Oh, it's been a long time. It happens every night."

The person who opened the door was a widower who was about forty years old and had no children. Because of his hard luck, he often wandered between wealthy families, helping people carry corpses and the like.

These days, people are in awe of ghosts and gods, so he couldn't help but say, "When you came here, you saw the lights in the alley were on, and every house had its lights on, but no one was actually living there. Only three or two servants were left to look after the door. "

He is the gatekeeper hired by Master Zhang at a huge price, otherwise no one would dare to take in these two people.

Especially every night, a dark wind blows, blowing paper money everywhere.

At first, some neighbors came to the house and scolded them. I don’t know who spread the word. They said that the house was the place where the murders were carried out and the bodies were dismembered. It was haunted every night. Then they had frequent nightmares, so they all moved out.

There were several merchants in the surrounding area, as well as petty officials of the sixth and seventh grades from out of town, as well as the courtyard that was originally rented. They were so frightened that no one dared to come back to live there.

Now, six or seven houses in the alley have entrusted middlemen to sell their houses at extremely low prices, half of the previous price.

"This is a good location in Kyoto, so there is no need to worry about selling the yard. But when the middle-aged man comes with the house watchers, paper money is floating around the yard. Who dares to buy it?"

No matter how cheap it is, you can't buy a haunted house. Some brave people who don't believe in evil come to the yard to experience it in person. It is said that in the middle of the night, they saw a pale thigh with their own eyes! Afterwards, the middle-aged man was unwilling to take over the house. Every time he came here to open the door for the housekeeper, he would tremble and have nightmares when he went home. So Hua Yinzi entrusted him with the key and let him keep it temporarily and take care of it. People look at houses.