Chapter 256 Li Family

The Republic of China was quite chaotic. Even though young girls like Chen Jiayue had read a lot of time-travel novels, they only read them and fantasized about what would happen if they really traveled through time. However, they were very self-aware and knew that they would not survive for more than a few days according to their IQ.

So even if they really traveled to the Republic of China with the store manager, they had never thought of leaving Yujia Village to go to other places. It was too dangerous.

The Republic of China was not a modern society ruled by law. They could rest assured about the public security in the socialist flower-growing country, but they would never dare to walk around in the era of warlord separatism.

So Chen Wenjiu and her group stayed in Yujia Village. When everyone in the village went to pick thorny fruits, they helped or went out to play. They came here for team building, not to work, so they would not help pick fruits all the time.

Chen Wenjiu and her group knew that Yu Chunsheng and Li Yan had agreed to purchase thorny fruits, and then they didn't care. Anyway, she just had to wait for the money.

The hotel staff only stayed in Yujia Village for three days, that is, after one day in the hotel, they went back.

After all, the others had to go to work. They had already relaxed and played here for three days, so how could they stay any longer?

In fact, the thorny thorns in Yujia Village had not been picked in three days, but the fruits picked in these three days had been sold to Li Yan.

Chen Wenjiu also specially sent a relatively large scale, the kind that could weigh 500 kilograms at a time, so that the people in Yujia Village could weigh the fruits when selling them.

This scale was directly given to Yujia Village. The thorny thorns will continue to bear fruit in the future, and they will continue to sell fruits, so of course this scale is very necessary.

On the first day of picking fruits in Yujia Village, he collected a lot of fruits. The whole village picked about 50,000 to 60,000 kilograms of thorny thorns in one day. In three days, two-thirds of the thorny thorns were picked, and the remaining one-third would probably take two or three days to pick.

Li Yan looked at the thorny fruits in the warehouse and remembered that he had sent the thorny fruits back to Chang'an City after purchasing them on the first day, and sent a batch back to the Li and Wei families for them to taste.

They were not so desolate in Qin Province. After all, Chang'an City was once the capital of ancient times. How could it be the capital if the surroundings were desolate?

It's just that it's January now, and it's hard to eat fruits in the cold weather. Even for families as big as the Li and Wei families, it's impossible for so many clansmen to eat fresh fruits.

Most of the fruits that Li Yan bought were because he wanted to send some fresh fruits to his family and the Wei family in the winter. As for making wine and using them as medicine, they were just by the way.

Chang'an City, Li Family.

"Yun Mo sent a batch of fresh fruits back home, which I haven't seen before." Li Yan's mother said while looking at the washed thorny fruits on the plate.

Yun Mo is Li Yan's courtesy name. Men still had courtesy names during the Republic of China. Li Yan's surname is Li, his given name is Yan, and his courtesy name is Yun Mo.

"Where did he buy so many fruits? There must be tens of thousands of kilograms." Li Yan's father was also confused. Where did his son buy fresh fruits?

"These fruits don't look like they have been picked for a long time. They are probably just a few days old."

It does take two or three days to get from Yujia Village to Chang'an City. The fruits sent back by Li Yan are not as fresh as they were just picked after two or three days of running around, but they don't look like they have been picked for a long time.

"I heard that Yun Mo bought these from a village in X City. I heard that there are more than 200 acres of this kind of fruit planted there, and they are ripe recently."

"Yun Mo bought these fruits when the fruits in this village were ripe for picking." Li Yan's mother said with a smile.

Li Yan's father's health is not that good. The reason why his son supported the Li family at a young age is because he was injured before. Although he is well now, he has left sequelae and needs to rest well.

So the Li family is supported by Li Yan and Li Yan's mother. Li Yan's mother is not a weak lady in the back house. She is also very powerful. She is also a strong woman who has learned business methods from her father since she was a child.

The reason why Li Yan was able to control the Li family so quickly in recent years is that he has a mother like her to help him, otherwise the young Li Yan would have been suppressed by the relatives, uncles and shopkeepers of the Li family.

"We can't eat tens of thousands of kilograms of fruit, so we also divide some for those rooms." Li Yan's mother said lightly with an unchanged smile on her face.

The rooms she mentioned are not only Li Yan's father's brothers or uncles, but also Li Yan's illegitimate brothers and sisters.

Li Yan is the eldest son, and he has a sister who is born from the same mother, but in fact, Li Yan's father also has several concubines like most men, and in addition to Li Yan, there are three illegitimate sons.

However, although Li Yan's father had illegitimate sons, he still valued the eldest son the most, and respected the legitimate wife the most, just like many other patriarchs. Therefore, although the illegitimate sons were his sons, they could not surpass Li Yan.

Mrs. Li did not have any thoughts. After all, this was the way the world was. Men who did not take concubines were rare, and Li Yan's father was obviously not that kind of man.

As for the illegitimate children, Madam Li had no idea about them. As long as they did not think about challenging her and her children's status and did not want to snatch the family property from her son, she could treat them as no different from others.

Li Yan's father nodded when he heard his wife say this. He did not have too many opinions about his relatives and his illegitimate son. After all, he had retired behind the scenes and did not want to care about too many things.

Madam Li looked at the man in front of her. He was not very old. He was able to give birth to a son as handsome and gentle as Li Yan. He was also very handsome when he was young.

Even now that he is old, he can still see his handsome appearance. Wasn't she also attracted by this face and his tenderness when she just married him?

But unfortunately, although this man is very shrewd in the business world, he does not have so many thoughts about women.

In his opinion, marrying a wife means that you should marry a wife and have children when you are old enough. After marrying a wife home, treating her well means giving her all the housekeeping power and giving her the greatest authority.

As for taking a concubine, which man does not take a concubine? Which rich and powerful man has only one woman? And the Li family is so big and powerful, how can there be only one child? Of course, they have to take concubines and have more children.

Li Yan is only 23 years old this year. His father retired five years ago. Maybe it was because of his injury, but also because he was actually old.

Mrs. Li couldn't have children for five or six years after marrying him. Why? Of course, it was because of the struggle between the women in the backyard. Li Yan's father had two concubines before marrying her.

Later, one year after she married into the Li family, the two concubines were promoted to concubines; three years after she married into the Li family, there were more and more concubines in the backyard.

She was pregnant before Li Yan, but the first child was accidentally miscarried because she had no experience. Someone attacked her that time. It was purely because she was inexperienced and too tired that she miscarried.

She took care of her body for a year, and originally thought that she would get pregnant as soon as possible after she recovered her body, but the concubine in the backyard also miscarried, and the spearhead was pointed at her.

Mrs. Li was really wronged. Her family background was not too different from that of the Li family. Was she afraid that the children of the concubine in the backyard would surpass her children? Why did she cause the concubine to miscarry? Was she stupid to get involved in something she shouldn't have been involved in?

But Mr. Li was also very young at that time. He believed it. Even though it was later found out that it was the concubine who framed Mrs. Li, Mr. Li had already had a gap with her.

Mrs. Li knew very well that she and Mr. Li were married by two families. When they just got married, they both looked good. It was normal to have a good impression of each other and to be tender and affectionate.

Later, Mr. Li had a gap with her, but he didn't dare to treat her, the legal wife, badly, and would not easily break up with her family.

Mrs. Li was disheartened at that time. The feelings she had for his handsomeness and intimacy after marriage gradually died.

After Mrs. Li figured it out, she focused on her career and her own power, and she no longer put her feelings on Mr. Li.

Of course, she had carefully prepared to get pregnant with Li Yan. As the legitimate wife, she had no children. Would the family property in the future be left to the children of the concubine? She didn't want that.

She had long since stopped caring about the things that happened in the past. Anyway, her son was now the head of the Li family. She was calm even when she had to face Mr. Li, a man she had loved and hated before, but finally didn't care about.

"Madam, Zijun has already reached the age of 20. It's time to plan for his marriage, right?" Mr. Li looked at Mrs. Li who was eating thorny fruit and said, "Yun Mo is already 23 years old and it's up to him to get married, but it's time for Zijun and the others to get married."

Zijun was the name of Mr. Li's second son born out of wedlock, the second young master of the Li family. The biological mother of the second young master had no conflicts with Mrs. Li. She was quite good to him and didn't suppress him.

The second young master is now in charge of part of the Li family's business. Although Li Yan is the one in power, he will not let his illegitimate brothers go. If they are capable, they should work for him to earn money. He can't work hard to earn money to support people who eat for free, even if it is his brother.

Madam Li looked at Master Li and asked indifferently, "Master, which girl do you want to marry to Zijun?"

"The girl from the Mu family in Xianyang next door is not bad." Master Li said, "Didn't the Mu family come to Chang'an to discuss business before? I talked to the head of the Mu family, and he mentioned that he had a good illegitimate daughter."

Madam Li frowned slightly and said, "The one from Xianyang? Will the Mu family be willing?"

"Why not? What's wrong with our Zijun?" Master Li said, but he felt that all his sons were excellent.

Mrs. Li shrugged and said, "Okay, Zijun is twenty, and Junyi is nineteen, it's time to arrange a marriage."

"Zijun is going to marry the girl from the Mu family, what about Junyi?"

Junyi is the third young master of the Li family. He is only one year older than the second young master, but who can blame them for having different mothers? The age difference is not big, that's natural.

The fourth young master of the Li family is only thirteen years old this year, it's not time to talk about marriage, it's just the age to study peacefully.

"Let's marry the girl from the Gao family, their girls are not bad." Mr. Li thought for a while and said.

Mrs. Li glanced at Mr. Li after hearing this, her face didn't change but she couldn't help sneering in her heart. The second young master is going to marry the girl from the Mu family in Xianyang, and the third young master is going to marry the girl from the Gao family?

You know, the Gao family is incomparable to the Mu family and the Li family. Aren't you afraid that the third young master will feel unbalanced if you marry a girl from the Gao family?

As expected, the woman who can give birth to a son after her is more liked by Mr. Li. After so many years, he still protects her son.

Although Mrs. Li and the second young master's biological mother have no conflicts, she is actually full of resentment towards Mr. Li when she sees that Mr. Li dotes on her and protects her son. She doesn't think that concubine is anything wrong. She hates Mr. Li's love more.

Mrs. Li thought for a while and said, "Let's marry Jun Yi to the girl from the Lin family. The fourth girl from the Lin family is a good girl."

At least compared to the girl from the Gao family, the girl from the Lin family is more suitable for the third young master.

The couple discussed the marriage of the two illegitimate sons. As for Mr. Li's illegitimate daughters, those who were of age had been married off long ago. The oldest one who has not been married yet is only twelve years old. There is no rush.

The Li family talked about the thorny thorn fruit and Li Yan, and then talked about the marriage of the concubine's son from Li Yan, while the situation of the Wei family was much simpler.

Of the 50,000 kilograms of thorny thorn fruit sent back by Li Yan, 20,000 kilograms were sent to the Li family and 30,000 kilograms were sent to the Wei family, under the pretext of "thanking for the protection of Wei Shaoshuai, sending fresh fruits to reward the soldiers".

After receiving 30,000 kilograms of thorny thorn fruit, Wei Ying tasted a few and thought they tasted very good. He also knew that the fruit was edible, so he simply distributed the 30,000 kilograms of fruit.

Of course, he only distributed the 30,000 kilograms of fruit to his personal guards. There were so many people in the Northwest Army, and it was impossible for him to distribute all the fruit to everyone, so he only gave it to his personal guards.

Others in the Northwest Army were very envious, but who told them that this was something that Master Li gave to Wei Shaoshuai? Wei Shaoshuai was also a domineering person. Although everyone envied him, they did not dare to complain.

Everyone who received the things distributed by the young marshal was very happy. It was rare to eat such fresh fruits in winter.

Especially the thorn fruit was really delicious, juicy and sweet. Everyone was very happy after eating the fruit.

The soldiers praised the generosity of the young marshal Wei while eating. Of course, when they praised the young marshal Wei, they did not forget to bring Master Li. These were the fruits that Master Li gave them.

Master Li is really the God of Wealth of their Northwest Army. I hope Master Li will always be well, and Master Li will live a long life and be rich and prosperous.

There is only one chapter today, but one chapter has 4,000 words.