Chapter 5 chapter Five

Today, the situation of the Liao family is very different from what it used to be.With a house - three main rooms of a landlord surnamed Dong; with land - three acres of fallow land; most importantly, because Huaibao is an official in the town government, the prestige of the Liao family in the town has increased Now, the Liao family went out to walk on the town street, and people all over the street rushed to say hello. Now Liao Lao Qi is no longer humble and goes to the street to write the petitions on behalf of others. Apart from busying in the fields, he drags his little daughter to dance leisurely in the street, or hums a few operas in the yard.He also specially asked a carpenter to make a black lacquered grand master's chair. He thought it was a grand chair, and as the father of an official, sitting on this kind of chair was suitable for his status.Every evening, he moved the Taishi chair to the courtyard, made a cup of tea, and leaned back on the Taishi chair to tell his little daughter various stories about the emperor's relatives in ancient times.

The days started to get more interesting. One night, Liao Laoqi was sitting on the master chair to taste tea, when Liu Shun from the East Street hurriedly brought a bamboo basket into the courtyard, plopped in front of him, knelt down and cried, "Brother Liao, save me!" Me, they want to define me as a false appearance of a middle peasant; "market false appearance" - produced by the abuse of language or unclear concepts, you should know the situation of my family, even the lower middle peasants can't reach it!This fixes the middle peasants, and you will not be in the same class as you in the future. Please let Nephew Huaibao speak for me... Liao Laoqi was a little dazed at the first moment: he has lived such an old age, and no one has ever approached him I knelt down and begged for mercy!In the past, he was the one who knelt down to others. How many people did he kneel down to beg for that pen and ink lawsuit?After this moment of stupefaction passed, he felt a burst of satisfaction that he had never felt before: My Liao family can be begged after all!He got up slowly, bent down to support Liu Shun and said: We are all brothers, get up quickly, we have something to say.

Before Liu Shun left that night, he took out the presents in the bamboo basket: three catties of sugar, one catty of foreign alkali, one foot five feet of flowered foreign cloth, a small jar of rice wine, one pack of Xinyang Maojian tea, and five boxes of big stage cigarettes.Liao Laoqi looked at those gifts, and said why bother to spend money, but he was really surprised and happy in his heart: so many gifts! ——This is the first time he has accepted a gift from someone other than relatives and friends. When Huaibao came back from the town government in the early morning of the next day, Liao Laoqi pointed out those gifts to his son: In the past, we would have had to write so many couplets to earn these things!Today, we got here without any effort, why?It is because you are an official in the government, you have power in your hands, and you can speak for others and do things.So you have to remember that you can throw away anything in the future, but this official can't be thrown away!understand?If you lose everything else, as long as you are an official, you will get it again...

Huaibao didn't have the heart to listen to his father's lecture that day, he had something on his mind - he came back to discuss the important matter of marriage with his father.After his father's words came to an end, he found a chance to speak and said: "Father, I should find someone." Looking for someone, who are you looking for?Liao Laoqi hadn't gotten out of his thoughts for a while. Wife, now called wife. Oh, Liao Lao Qi glanced at his son in a little surprise, but then he laughed, isn't it, it's time to find him, your mother and I were talking about this a few days ago, did you fall in love with anyone?

cowardice. Cowardice? It is Pei Zhonggong's youngest daughter. Oh, I remembered.Well, that girl's appearance is not bad, and the child she will give birth to in the future will also look good, okay, you still have some discernment.This daughter of the Pei family, in the past, if you didn't have a hectare or two of land, you wouldn't want to marry her.Although her family is defeated now, they are not defeated by the death of a tiger.When we marry her, others will say: Look, the pretty lady from the Pei family is following the son from the Liao family.It is also an honor.In, in this marriage!Besides, now that she is in peace, she will not ask for much dowry, and she will also listen to our greetings when she comes to our house, but will she not want to——

Has someone asked her? asked. Okay, that's good, your mother and I will start preparing for you, let's have an engagement ceremony first, and then choose a happy date, anyway, your age is also up, get married early and have children early... Huaibao didn't listen to his father's words any more, he just shouted happily in his heart: "Piece, father agrees, agrees, we are going to be husband and wife in a legitimate way!" ...