Self-cultivation of male support

The male protagonist Li Shimo accidentally rescued the daughter of Xie Yushan, the king of Dingbei, who is also the female protagonist Xie Jingfang, the princess of Mingyue, on his way to Fucheng for the exam.

The two fell in love secretly during the recovery period. After Princess Mingyue returned to King Dingbei, she told King Dingbei that she wanted to recruit Li Shimo as her son-in-law. Because of her daughter's strong request, she agreed in a moment of soft-heartedness.

After getting married, Li Shimo, by virtue of his cleverness and eloquence, quickly won the love and trust of King Dingbei, and gained a firm foothold in front of King Dingbei.

And Xie Yushan, king of the Northeast, as the late emperor's younger brother and the emperor's uncle, actually had a heart of disobedience for a long time. He and the first emperor were brothers of the same mother. Why did the father choose the eldest brother instead choose him?

In order for the eldest brother to be safe on the throne, he was crowned king early and sent to the frontier to eat the wind and sand?

So King Dingbei conspired secretly, colluded with foreign tribes, and finally found the right time to pull the emperor's nephew from the throne and sit on the chair he had dreamed of.

And the male lead, Li Shimo, also became the emperor's most trusted son-in-law and an important court official, with great power, truly one person under ten thousand people.

The whole family of the Li family followed suit, and lived a happy life surrounded by slaves, surrounded by pearls and jade, and delicacies from mountains and seas.

Except Li Shiyan.

Because the male protagonist Li Shimo once said in public, intentionally or unintentionally: "My brother is four years older than me. When we were young, we studied in ethnology together. Because of the limited money in the family, my father often left the pens and inks he bought with my brother first." , and the rest is mine."

People who can think about their thoughts naturally understand that the hero Li Shimo doesn't like Li Shiyan's second brother, so he used some tricks to deprive Li Shiyan of his fame.

Sending people back to his hometown far away, Li Shiyan had nowhere to show his ambitions. He was impoverished and made a living by selling calligraphy and painting and writing letters for others. He lived to the age of 30 and died early.

After the death, the local county government was afraid of causing trouble, so they hurriedly reported the news. None of the Li family members who got the news came to collect the body.

Or there was a seventh uncle in the family who really couldn't stand it anymore, and brought Shi Yan's body back to the family cemetery with the younger generation, and buried it in a thin coffin, so as to avoid the embarrassment of being a lonely ghost after death.

Shi Yan, as the second brother who was dismissed by the male lead, actually had a long-standing grievance with the male lead.

Mrs. Li favors sons over daughters and does not treat her daughters as human beings. Li Daya and her husband

Li Erya did the hardest and most tiring work at home since she was a child, and she didn't have enough food or clothing to keep warm. In the end, she married off her two daughters for the dowry from the husband's family.

Li Daya and Li Erya grew up in this environment. They were selfish and indifferent. They never went back to their natal family after they got married, and they hated everyone in the Li family.

Mrs. Li injured her body when Shi Yan was born. She lay on the bed for nearly a year and almost died several times. Therefore, after her health improved, she had no affection for Shi Yan, the son who almost killed her. , can even be said to be with hatred.

Several times when old man Li went to the ground, Shi Yan was locked in the room by Mrs. Li, and would not give him food or drink. Finally, one time, the little Shi Yan fell from the kang and broke an arm.

Old man Li was furious, lost his temper a lot, and threatened Mrs. Li to divorce his wife and marry another, only then Mrs. Li restrained herself a little.

Old man Li paid a little more attention to Shi Yan's son because of this.

Mrs. Li seemed to be against old man Li and Shi Yan. For Li Sanya and Li Shimo, who were born four years later, it hurt to the bone. use.

It was so excessive that at one point, Shi Yan's mother Li was Shi Yan's stepmother in Shi Yan's arms.

As for Shi Yan's son, Geda, when Shi Yan was busy studying, he was separated from Shi Yan by Granny Li, and Shi Yan worked hard to save a few pennies for Geda.

In a blink of an eye, Liao happily gave the money to Mrs. Li, and said flatteringly, "Grandma, look, my father is hiding money from his own house! He doesn't have you in his heart at all, and he doesn't know how to be filial to his elders!

I want it all back for you!You save it and buy pens and inks for Uncle Liu later. When Uncle Liu passes the Jinshi examination and becomes a high official, our family will live a good life with Uncle Liu!No dad! "

Mrs. Li smiled happily: "Well, you are really a good grandson of grandma. When you grow up, you must be filial to your sixth uncle. Look at how kind your sixth uncle treats you!"

Pida smiled and sat next to Granny Li and nodded repeatedly: "Grandma, don't worry, Lida will definitely be filial to Uncle Six when he grows up!"

It wasn't once that Shi Yan had seen such a scene in secret, and it wasn't that he didn't feel uncomfortable.

But he really has no skills, he is not smart, he can only work harder than others in reading to get the attention of the husband.

What Shi Yan thought in his heart was very simple, when he became famous one day, his family would be able to live a good life along with him, all the conflicts now, in Shi Yan's view, were caused by poverty.

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These contradictions will be resolved naturally. As for the upbringing of the children, we can only take it slowly in the future, after all, there are priorities.

But Shi Yan will never figure it out until he dies. He and the hero Li Shimo are the two flags for old man Li and Mrs. Li to fight.

Old man Li left early, and his flag naturally became a thorn in the eyes of the other party. The other party was both contemptuous and hostile, and wanted him to have nothing and live a life that would be worse than death.

Shi Yan figured out the current scene. It was old man Li who went out to work and was hit by a horse from a wealthy family in the county town, killing him.

He was carried back home by people from the same village.

The family sent them to handle the matter, and their attitude was considered good, and they paid the Li family 200 taels of silver in a good manner.

To be honest, the villagers who were still sympathizing with the loss of the mainstay of the Li family, the moment they heard the 200 taels of silver, all their sympathy turned into envy and jealousy.

These days, if you buy a strong guy in the village to serve in the military, it only costs 20 taels.Regardless of life or death, it is the price of human life.

200 taels is enough for the Li family to build a few large tile-roofed houses with blue bricks, buy a few acres of good land, and marry their two sons a capable daughter-in-law, so that they can live a carefree life in art for the rest of their lives.

Granny Li accepted the money with a smile, and personally sent the butler to the entrance of the village before returning reluctantly.

Here comes the problem, Mrs. Li is unwilling to use old man Li's life money for the funeral, and the married girl of the Li family heard that her father is gone, so she has to come to the house to pay homage for the sake of looking good.

A bunch of elders and juniors from the family came, and they wanted to put old man Li into the ground early, because old man Li died violently, it is best to invite some masters to read a few passages of scriptures in front of the grave, so that old man Li's ghost will not linger and haunt the Li family .

Everyone gathered in the small courtyard of the Li family, and the corners were crowded with people, half of them were sincerely helping with the funeral, and half of them wanted to see what the Li family would do after they got 200 taels of silver.

As for Mrs. Li's operation, the normal thinking of the villagers will never be able to catch up.

When Shi Yan came forward to persuade Mrs. Li to take out the money to buy a coffin for his father, she was pushed away by Mrs. Li, tired and hungry, Shi Yan was pushed to the ground by Mrs. Li when her body was weak, and her palm was scratched by stones. The bleeding stopped, and he passed out immediately.

After fainting and then waking up, it becomes the current Shiyan.

Shi Yan only listened to Mrs. Li singing and beating, and said to the people in the yard: "What evil did my old woman do! I married a short-lived ghost, and how can I live without leaving this big family?"

Some people said bluntly: "Mrs. Li, don't pretend

, your three sons have grown up long ago, brother Tie Dan became a scholar last year, brother Tie Zhu is also a child born, brother Tie Niu is a good hand at serving the crops, why can't you live?

If my family had such three sons and 200 taels of silver, I would definitely be able to live!Live better than now! "

"Yes, the brothers of the Li family are still lying on the ground. Why don't you take out a charter and tell us how the funeral is going to be done? It's June now, and maggots will grow out of the corpse after two days. By then, who will agree to it?" Help with it?"

"The brothers of the Li family died miserably, but at least they have 200 taels to pay for their lives. This funeral must be done in a grand manner!"

Mrs. Li raised her eyebrows and made a weeping look: "The life of my family is that the big guys look good on the surface, but who knows the suffering inside?

Although Tieniu is good at tending the crops, my family only has a few acres of land. If the crops are not good, half of the year we will be hungry and can only eat half full.

There are also two scholars in the family, especially Tie Dan, whose daughter-in-law left early, and the child is only five years old, and the mother needs me to help raise it.

Everyone knows that Tie Dan's body is not good from birth, he is weak and sickly, he needs to eat more fine grains, and he has to wait for medical treatment. In the end, it costs tens of taels of silver every year.

Tie Dan's annual reading is just the cost of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and the little output in a year is simply not enough to fill this hole.

The human relationship between scholars, even if you invite your classmates and friends to have a table of meals every month, it will cost hundreds of dollars, and you have to buy decent clothes during the four seasons and eight festivals, so as not to lose your head among your classmates when you go out. pen cost.

God is sorry to see you, old lady, I had the audacity to borrow ten taels of silver from my second son-in-law's house last month, just because Tie Dan is going to Fucheng to take part in the township examination next year, and I have to make some delicious food for him to nourish his body!

You are all from the village, please tell me, in such a situation in my family, can you still give money to the old man to make a fuss?I don't know why the old man died?

Of course I know.

But the living are more important than the dead!These silver coins are reserved for Tiedan's future imperial examinations, and every copper coin must be used wisely!

Just treat it as the old woman, Tie Dan and I are sorry for the old man, and our mother owes him. When Tie Dan becomes famous in the future, I will crawl to the old man's grave even if I am an old woman, and kowtow to him to make amends! "

Mrs. Li bowed to everyone in the courtyard, broke down in tears and said: "Everything will be kept simple today, please help me to bury my old man."

Come on!Let him go with peace of mind and don't worry about these dirty things. "

People in the crowd who don't know the truth have already begun to waver, and even sympathize with Mrs. Li. Those who know the truth want to come forward and reprimand Mrs. Li for her nonsense, turning black and white.

Before this person could speak, a crying male voice came from behind the crowd: "Mother, you, you are really, really..."

He didn't finish speaking, but the crowd stepped aside in an instant, revealing Shi Yan who stumbled up behind the crowd.

Shi Yan staggered, his whole body was weak, his complexion was sallow, he was hungry after several meals.In addition, I heard the bad news when I got up early this morning. I haven't had any water and rice since morning, and I was pushed by Mrs. Liu, bleeding a lot. The whole person is in a very bad state.

Seeing Shi Yan's appearance, the clansmen couldn't help frowning. Some close people wanted to come forward to help, but Shi Yan refused.

Shi Yan walked up to Mrs. Li, and raised a pair of bloody hands. The thin veins on the back of the hands were completely exposed, and there was really only a handful of bones left.

There is a thick layer of calluses on the middle finger and thumb of his right hand, which is even worse than the calluses on the palm of his elder brother who has been working in the fields all year round.

Shi Yan staggered and showed the pair of fingers to everyone, the connected wrist looked like only a layer of skin and bones remained.

Everyone felt that the atmosphere was not right, so they all kept silent, quietly looking at the mother and child in the center of the crowd.

Shi Yan walked in front of Mrs. Li, knelt down with a "plop", and wept in a sobbing voice, which made others feel sad when they heard it: "Mother! Tie Dan dares to ask you in front of all the villagers today, are you really my mother?"

As soon as the voice fell, the crowd became a sensation.