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    ?Lunch for orphans and widows was very light. Jiang Liu didn't know whether it was because of his family background or because he hadn't passed his filial piety. There was no meat on the table.

    Rice mixed with dried potatoes, a plate of tofu mixed with shallots, a plate of dried tofu mixed with green beans, and a pickle served in a small bowl, these are the Jiang family's meals for the whole day today.

    Looking at such food conditions, Jiang Liu suddenly thought of when he was young, he and his grandfather lived together, and they had to pay off the debts owed to his father for the funeral. In the most difficult time, the two of them had every meal  Just half a piece of fermented bean curd.

    "After dinner, go back to the house for a while, don't run around, and when mother comes back from the mill, I will bring you bunches of candied haws."

    Meng Yunniang ate very fast. Jiang Liu felt that the sweet potato porridge was too hot to put into his mouth, but Meng Yunniang finished the sweet potato porridge in the bowl in two or three mouthfuls.  Take the beans to the mill and the vessel for the milk.

    Seeing that the mother in this world has so many things to do, Jiang Liu didn't dare to do foreign work anymore. He hurriedly blew on the heat in the bowl, and finished the small bowl of sweet potato porridge without even thinking about eating.

    In ancient times, men and women were strictly guarded against each other. Even mothers and sons slept separately from their mothers after their sons were four or five years old. Therefore, Jiang Liu now had his own small room. Meng Yunniang covered her son with a quilt and hurriedly  After going out, Jiang Liu finally had a quiet time alone, to receive the memories left by his original body, and to check his mission in this world¡ª¡ª

    This is the Jin Dynasty, a dynasty that has never appeared in Jiang Liu's memory. The current emperor is Emperor Jinyang, whose surname is Sikong, and is the fourth emperor of the Jin Dynasty.

    More than ten years ago, Jin State had a war with the neighboring Qiang State that took nearly two years. Although Jin State won in the end, it fought all the way to the capital of Qiang State, which made Qiang State bow down to Jin State all these years.  , became a subsidiary state of the Jin State, but the consumption of this war still seriously damaged the national strength of the Jin State. Even after more than ten years, it still has not fully recovered.

    In the memory left by the original body to Jiang Liu, many men were conscripted to fight at the border in that great war, and less than three-tenths of those who came back in the end were less than three-tenths of those before leaving.  Due to the shortage of labor force, a large number of fields are vacant, and it is also for this reason that the recovery of national strength is so slow.

    The administrative system of this dynasty is similar to the combination of the Tang and Ming dynasties in Jiang Liu's memory. The whole country is divided into sixteen provinces, and the provinces are divided into prefectures, prefectures, and counties.  One person in the village is elected as the head of the village, and the village below is the village. Like the head of the village, only Baiding is appointed.

    ?The Jiangjia Village where the original body is located, as the name suggests, is the settlement of the Jiang family members. The villager of Jiangjia Village is also the head of the Jiang family.

    It is rumored that the ancestors of the Jiang family were also personalities, but because they didn't know what happened, the whole family moved here to avoid disaster. The direct branch has a lot of land in this area, but it has been passed down from generation to generation. The current direct branch has no  Wealthy before.

    The branch where the original body belonged to did not share much land, but it was assigned a craft that can last for a long time - ordering tofu. In order to concentrate and pass on the wealth as much as possible, the ancestors stipulated that this skill can only be passed on to the eldest son.  The eldest son died young, leaving behind descendants, and the skills were passed on to the eldest grandson.

    As a compensation, other descendants can share more land and cash.

    When the family of Yuanshen's father was separated, Yuanshen's father got six acres of land plus the ancestral house they live in now, but not much money, while Yuanshen's younger uncle, his father's younger brother, got a lot of money.  Fifteen acres of land, plus thirty taels of silver.

    Although they don't have a craft that can last for a long time, the fields and silver are enough for them to live in peace.

    Originally, after the separation, the two families did not interfere with each other. The original uncle, Jiang Erchun, felt that his family had suffered a disadvantage, and hated this elder brother. He was unwilling to come to the house during the holidays.  In this way, it gradually became cold, and the children and grandchildren had no contact with each other, but who would have imagined that a wind and cold would take away the life of Yuanchen's father, and Yuanchen would be four years old at that time, leaving behind a fertile ancestral home and a craft that can make money  , the other members of the Jiang clan naturally focused on the orphan and widow Yuanshen.

    Especially Jiang Erchun and Su Panyun's couple, they can't wait to take over the property left by the elder brother immediately.

    During that time, the Jiang family was very lively, and people came to the door all day long, not to mourn Yuanshen's father, Jiang Dachun, but to get ideas about the Jiang family's property.

    Fortunately, Meng Yunniang was able to stand up. She knew that she was a widow and it would be difficult to keep the family wealth.He decisively found the patriarch and the uncle of the village official, and said that his husband and son-in-law had a last wish, saying that after he left, his wife and children would have to trouble the clan to take care of him, so he was willing to borrow the six mu of land from the clan to cultivate it, so that his son Jiang Liu  Before reaching adulthood, the village can provide the rations that the mother and son need each year. When the son becomes an adult, the land deed will be transferred to the family and owned by the family.

    At that time, Jiang Dachun was so ill that he was almost speechless. How could there be such a last word? This so-called last word was actually Meng Yunniang's decision after deliberation.

    First of all, as a woman, she can't cultivate the six acres of land at home. Rather than abandoning those fields, it is better to give some benefits to the tribe.

    As for the six mu of land that belongs to the family when the son becomes an adult, it actually belongs to the line of the patriarch. Out of interest considerations, the patriarch will also take care of their mother and child.  The land will not go into the hands of the patriarch.

    As for their mother and son, they have a craft of making tofu. Before her son grows up, she will be able to save the money to buy land and buy a new family property for her son.

    Meng Yunniang's mind is exceptionally sober. She understands that the land is dead and the craft is alive. As long as the craft and her son are kept, it is worth sacrificing something.

    Sure enough, after the intervention of the village, those noisy people subsided, only Jiang Erchun and Su Panyun and his wife continued to make noise from time to time.

    Because of the six acres of land given away, the orphans and widows lived a comfortable life for a period of time, but there was a lot of gossip in front of the widow's house.  One face, even if she never thought about remarrying, there are countless bees and butterflies rushing towards her. The steward Jiang Liu saw this morning is one of them.

    As for the Hu Guirong mentioned by Su Panyun, Jiang Liu also found out the identity of the other party from the memory of the original body. That person was the Orion from Meng Yunniang's natal family. It is said that before Meng Yunniang married into Jiang's family  , Zeng and Hu Guirong fell in love with each other, but because the Meng family took a fancy to the Jiang family's wealth and forced their daughter to marry into the Jiang family, the lovers were separated like this.

    Now Meng Yunniang is the mother of a six-year-old child, and Hu Guirong has never remarried. Everyone said that he can't forget Meng Yunniang and has been guarding her all the time.

    However, he didn't know much about his mother's former love, and even he didn't have a deep impression of this memory when he was young.

    He only remembered that when he was about to enter school at the age of seven, a major incident happened at home, which almost killed his mother, and it ended with Meng Yunniang scratching his face.

    Because of the loss of her pretty face, the scandalous news surrounding this widow finally stopped. No one believed that there would be a man willing to have an affair with such an ugly ghostly woman, and the clan finally believed that Meng Yunniang would take good care of her deceased husband.  Began to actively protect the orphans and widows.

    That period of memory was particularly profound, as if the original body had grown up since that day, he studied hard, and wanted to become a respected existence like Master Juren, because he knew that only when he grew up and had the ability, could he be able to serve himself.  Mother-in-law shelters from the wind and rain.

    Meng Yunniang is a tough woman. The tragic experience of disfigurement did not seem to have caused her much damage. After the wound healed, she continued to make tofu and sold it in the market to earn money for her son's education expenses. She valued her son more than before  up.

    During this period, Hu Guirong, who had a relationship with Meng Yunniang, will still appear in the lives of the mother and son.

    One winter, Hu Guirong braved the heavy snow and entered the deep mountains. When he came out of the mountains, his body was covered with scars, and he dragged a dead female tiger.  For the money, there was an endless stream of people proposing for him, but Hu Guirong refused them all. He used the money to set up a shop in Fangshi, and began to change jobs to become a butcher.  Bring the meat over and exchange tofu with Meng Yunniang.

    Until the original body in his twenties passed the examination and moved to Fucheng with his mother, the other party still did not remarry.

    Jiang Liu didn't know whether Meng Yunniang still had feelings for that man, because she never talked about that man with her son, but when she was dying, she cried and told her son that she was sorry for a man in her life, and that she was not  He knew who she was talking about, but Jiang Liu felt that the man Meng Yunniang was talking about was probably Hu Guirong who never married again.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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