Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, Gyeonggi ProvinceThere was a hunter named Liu named Liu Sanxing, who made a living by hunting all year round. He is sincere, kind, caring, and an honest person.
Like ordinary people, when Liu Sanxing reached the age of marriage, under the arrangement of his parents, he married Zhang, a girl from the same village. After their marriage, they had a son and a daughter. His son Liu Fangping was two years older than his daughter Liu Xiaomei.
If no accident occurs, Liu Sanxing's sons and daughters will get married and have children as adults, just like their parents, and live an ordinary life.
But something unexpected happened, and a sudden accident completely changed the fate of the brother and sister. The two almost became beggars and almost starved to death on the street.
That summer, Liu Fangping was eight years old and his sister Liu Xiaomei was six years old. On a sunny morning, Liu Sanxing went up to the mountain to hunt as usual. Not long after
entered the mountain, he suddenly encountered a big insect. He immediately turned around and ran away. Unfortunately, he had already been discovered by the big insect. Liu Sanxing saw that he couldn't dodge, so he immediately drew his bow and shot an arrow. Due to his haste, the bow and arrow passed by the big insect's leg.
How could a person rely on his legs to outrun a four-legged insect? When he saw the insect rushing towards him, he quickly took out his dagger and started fighting with one person and one tiger. The result was obvious.
Fortunately, Liu Sanxing had been hunting all year round and had rich experience in avoiding ferocious beasts. At the critical moment, he stabbed the big insect with a dagger, causing it to escape in pain. He himself was too injured to walk down the mountain alone.
was later found and brought home. He passed away within half a year.
After her husband left, Mrs. Zhang took her two underage children to make a living by doing handiwork for others. You can imagine how difficult life was.
Thanks to the fact that they were born in a prosperous era, with the help of the village masa and kind-hearted neighbors, the villagers would bring leftovers to the brothers and sisters no matter which family they had, so they had the opportunity to eat hundred families of meals and grow up.
Although life is difficult, the brother and sister are smart and sensible. They can take care of the housework and help their mother share the work at a young age.
Their mother often taught them not to forget the kindness of their fellow villagers and to be a person who repays kindness when they grow up.
As time went by, the brother and sister gradually grew up and became a young man and a young woman in an instant. One year, there was abundant rain and the river flooded, flooding many fertile fields.
The brother and sister were worried that the river bank would burst and their crops would be submerged in the water. They came to the river in the rain to check. They met two little girls on the road, shivering in the rain. After
inquired, he learned that it turned out that there was a flood in his hometown and his home was submerged. His father took them to escape here, but they were accidentally separated.
The brother and sister saw that the two children were pitiful, and recalled what happened to them when they were children. Without saying a word, they took the poor children home, helped them bathe them, and cooked for them, taking good care of them.
The brother and sister knew that their family was not wealthy and that if they could feed their two children, they and their mother would go hungry, but they did not hesitate to feed their children.
Of course, women are naturally more attentive and gentle than men. The two children have lost their mother's love since they were young. They enjoy Liu Xiaomei's care very much and feel like they have regained their mother's love.
More than ten days later, with the help of Liu Xiaomei, the father of the two children finally got news. Worried that the children would miss him so much, she personally sent them to their father.
After more than half a month of getting along, Liu Xiaomei and her two children established a deep relationship. When they parted, the children cried in Xiaomei's arms. They were very reluctant to part with this woman who was not their mother but better than her mother. They hoped that their father could marry a good mother like Xiaomei.
The father of the child was a rich man. He took one hundred taels of silver to thank Xiaomei. Unexpectedly, Xiaomei told him that it was his duty to help others and did not need to thank him...
Liu Xiaomei and Liu Fangping had reached the age of marriage. Matchmakers in the village often came to marry Liu Xiaomei. However, the family conditions were so poor that no one was willing to marry their daughter to his brother Liu Fangping.
At that time, people had a special rule that the children in the family must grow up in an orderly manner when they get married. If the elder brother did not get married but the younger sister got married first, others would laugh at him and think that there was something wrong with the older brother himself.
Liu Fangping had a childhood sweetheart named Xiaolan. The two had been in love with each other for a long time and had even made a private decision for life. However, the girl's parents firmly disagreed and said that it was okay to marry their daughter, but a betrothal gift of ten taels of silver was required for their son's marriage.
Liu Fangping owned all his belongings, except for three mud houses that could shelter from the wind and rain, and could not afford a penny. Seeing that the wedding date was delayed again and again, the two of them were getting older.
Xiaolan's parents were anxious to get their son married, so they forced their daughter to marry Zhou Yuanwai in the town as a concubine. The other party was willing to pay ten taels of silver as a dowry.
Liu Xiaomei and her mother were worried about having sex at home and had no choice. Liu Fangping didn't want his mother and sister to worry about him, so he decided to give up on each other and stay single for the rest of his life.
Although the mother was unwilling to do so because it would break up the Liu family and make it impossible for her husband to explain to her husband, she could not think of a good way and could only worry.
On this day, my brother came home with a sad look on his face and locked himself in the room without eating all day. My sister was worried, and it was not until night that she heard someone said that Zhou Yuanwai had come to Xiaolan's house to pay a betrothal gift, and the date was set to marry her on the fifth day of the next month.
Seeing that her brother is not thinking about food and food, he is becoming more and more haggard, and he is losing weight day by day. It is fake that Xiaomei and her mother are not worried.
Xiaomei was unwilling to give up, so she persuaded her mother to collect ten cents, find matchmaker Zhang who was the most eloquent in the village, and go to Xiaolan's house for a final try. Unexpectedly, Xiaolan's mother kicked them out without even paying attention to her face.
Three days later, the younger sister took twenty taels of silver and handed it to her brother and said, "Hurry up to Xiaolan's house to propose marriage, and use these twenty taels of silver as a betrothal gift, otherwise she will not easily regret the marriage!"
The elder brother and mother looked at their sister in surprise and said, "Where did you get so much silver?" Both of them were very worried, afraid that their sister would do something stupid.
Sure enough, in order to get the money, she agreed to marry Mr. Zhao. Mr. Zhao is the son of Zhao Yuanwai from the outer city. It is said that he is a swinger. He has two daughters without a wife. His bad reputation has long been known to everyone.
Although this could resolve his brother's marriage, it was obviously in exchange for his sister's happiness, and Liu Fangping would not agree to anything. The mother also firmly opposed it. She could not push her daughter into the fire pit for the sake of her son.
However, the younger sister was very determined and was unwilling to break off the engagement at any cost. She also told her elder brother that Mr. Zhao had promised her that as long as she got married, she would help the family renovate the house.
The elder brother cried anxiously and said: "No... I can't just watch you betray yourself and ruin the rest of your life."
Xiaomei was also anxious, "The ancients said that there are three ways to be unfilial and the biggest is not having children. You are a man, and you have the responsibility to carry on the Liu family. My father passed away early, and my mother pulled us up. Are you willing to watch her die with hatred?"
After listening to his sister's words, the elder brother was silent and speechless.
At night, my sister and her mother slept together. She said to her mother, "My brother is the only son of the Liu family. He must marry and get a wife, otherwise the Liu family will be divorced. As long as I can get my brother to marry, I will do anything and will never regret it."
The mother's tears were like the decision of the Yellow River.
On Xiaomei's wedding day, she forced a smile to prevent her mother and brother from worrying. The moment she put on the hijab, she felt extremely sad when she thought that she was going to marry a playboy.
was sent into the bridal chamber with tears in her eyes. She cried for a whole day and her eyes were swollen from crying. The moment the groom took off the hijab, she was dumbfounded. The young master Zhao in front of her was actually an old acquaintance of hers!
He did not rush into the bridal chamber, and wiped his wife's tears with a handkerchief, and then said, "Don't be sad, madam. I will take you to meet these two people, and you will understand everything. I believe you will not regret your decision."
The groom gently took Xiaomei's hand and slowly walked out of the bridal chamber. The two came to a room with lights on. As soon as they entered the door, they saw two little girls, the two sisters who were saved by the younger sister.
The groom did not explain, but just told her, "Don't worry, the rumors outside are all false. I will only love you in this life, and I will treat you well for the rest of my life!"
When the two little girls saw Xiaomei, they immediately pounced on her. She walked into her arms and said happily: "Mom, we finally have a mother!"
It turned out that after Xiaomei rescued the two children, under her careful care, they fell in love with her and hoped that she would be their mother, so they were reluctant to leave when they left.
After returning home, they told their father how kind Xiaomei was and how good she was to them, and hoped that their father would marry her home and be their mother.
Mr. Zhao is a rich man, but he has no habits of a young man. He is kind-hearted and a very responsible person.
The two children were not her biological ones, but two abandoned children. When he saw that the children were pitiful, he adopted them into his home and treated them as father and daughter.
He has another purpose of doing this, which is to help him select wives, because the Zhao family is a wealthy family, and there are many people who want to cling to the powerful. If he shows himself in an upright manner, those suitors will be a mixed bag, and they will all show their best side, and he will not be able to see the true face of the other party.
Therefore, he asked his children to call him father and not to tell the truth to any outsiders. This would automatically help him filter out many targets with impure purposes, which would not only help him avoid troubles, but also allow him to gain true happiness.
The two children told the truth and apologized to their mother on behalf of their father. They asked their mother not to blame them. What others said about their father was false.
Looking at Xiaomei who was stunned, the groom hugged her into his arms and said, "I'm sorry, it's not that I don't believe you, it's because I have no choice but to test you."
The groom said that his family arranged a marriage for him two years ago.
He was sad for several days, and finally chose to give up his fiancée for the sake of the child. That's why this happened. If his wife could accept him giving birth out of wedlock, of course she could accept him adopting the child.
Only in this way can one prove that his wife is a loving and magnanimous wife.
Xiaomei was completely moved by them. Her tears couldn't stop flowing down her face. She hugged the child with one hand and lay on her husband's shoulder, sobbing.
At this moment, she was not sad, but moved, happy, and excited. My choice not only helped my brother get a wife, but also brought me happiness!
Xiaomei laughed while crying. The family of four were talking and laughing in the house. Soon the laughter filled the house and the entire yard...
[Editor's Note] In today's society, it often happens that when a daughter marries a daughter, he or she will be asked to give a sky-high price to his son as a gift. Xiaoshou wants to say that although there are no strict regulations on the betrothal gifts of both parties during the wedding, they should be based on the financial strength of both parties. It is not that the more the better, nor is it what some people think. The more you give, the more you value yourself!
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