Apricot flowers are fragrant in the past 28 years, and they are very beautiful. Although they are not considered village flowers, they are also a flower in Koizumi Village.
Li Guangtian’s home is only a hundred steps away from Xinghua’s home. The two grew up together since childhood, and Li Guangtian has liked Xinghua for many years. Although Xinghua also likes this honest and kind boy, she doesn't want to marry him as a wife because their family is too poor and their family is not rich, so she doesn't want to suffer with him. Xinghua's parents also wanted to find a rich husband based on Xinghua's beauty, so that they could enjoy the happiness, so they never thought of marrying Xinghua to Li Guangtian.
This silly boy Li Guangtian thought that "the truest thing is to open up the gold and stone", so he begged my mother Mao and asked three matchmakers to propose marriage to Xinghua's house. Unsurprisingly, they were rejected by Xinghua's family. At this time, Li Guangtian seemed to have found the root of the problem, so he worked hard to earn more money, first renovate his house, and then go to the city to do business of student profit, so as not to be looked down upon by others.
Ming Dynasty 8th year of Hongzhi, early morning on summer. After breakfast, Li Guangtian carried a basket on his back and hurried up the mountain to pick herbs. During that time, the weather was hot, the number of patients in the city increased, the amount of medicine was increased, and many herbs were in short supply, and their prices also rose. Li Guangtian took this opportunity to go to Wanzhou Mountain to collect herbs every day.
00 beasts on the mountain, and many beasts run around the mountains all year round. There are seven or eight hunters in the village, so they make a living by hunting. Li Guangtian was already nineteen years old this year. He was fully capable of hunting animals and became rich like the hunters in the village. However, he was unwilling to kill, and he regarded many small animals as friends, so he did not join the ranks of those hunters. Also, the most important point is that his old father Li Dashan was once a pig slayer. Perhaps because he killed too many animals, he was struck by a thunder on the way to collect pigs. Mao Shi believes that her husband is too cruel, so he will be punished by this god, so he has never allowed Li Guangtian to kill.
Speaking of this day, after Li Guangtian searched in the forest for a while, he suddenly heard a "life-help" sound coming from the northwest corner of the woods. The sound seemed to be from a woman's mouth, or from a child's voice, which sounded a bit strange. Li Guangtian was eager to save people and had no time to think about it. He started running towards the northwest corner of the woods. But when he ran to the front, he did not find anyone. He only saw a black flower snake attacking a yellow dried fur.
"Help!" The Qianzi looked very panicked. Seeing Li Guangtian coming, he was as if he had seen a savior, and he quickly flapped his wings and wanted to fly behind him. But its wings were obviously injured and could not fly at all. It is also because of this that the black snake wanted to swallow it alive.
Li Guangtian didn't know that Qian Yi could speak human language, so he was very surprised when he heard it shouting "Help". Naturally, he also regarded it as a kind of divine bird, so without saying a word, he waved the sickle in his hand and scared the black snake away.
"Thank you, thank you!" Qian Yi immediately expressed his gratitude to Li Guangtian sensibly. Li Guangtian bent down in surprise and joy, looked at it for a few times and said, "Divine Bird, you can actually speak?"
"Nonsense, if I can't speak, how can I call you to save me?"
" Yes! Oh, are you injured? ! "
" I was sleeping in the tree, and the damn black snake actually came to sneak attack me. Fortunately, I reacted quickly and ran fast, and I was slightly injured, otherwise I would have been so The black snake ate it." The dried man blinked and said cutely. Li Guangtian stared at it and said, "Then can you fly now?"
"If I can fly, will I still call you to save me?"
"That's true!" Li Guangtian stood up straight and scratched his body. Ticking the back of his head, he smiled foolishly.
The dry fur said like a cheeky man, "Take me to your house to take care of it for a few days."
"Well, it's absolutely fine, but I have to pick some herbs before I can go back."Li Guangtian nodded. The Qianbi asked, "Why do you want to collect herbs?" ”
Li Guangtian answered truthfully, “Because I want to make money. "
Na Qian Si snorted coldly, "There are many ways to make money, why do you have to pick herbs? You should go to the Liu Qianzhu’s house in the city to become a son-in-law, it will give you a lot of money! "
" Become a son-in-law and have a soft meal? I won't go! I'd better make money based on my own abilities. "Li Guangtian smiled foolishly, then grabbed the dried croaker and put it in his backpack, and then began to search for herbs in the forest. The dried croaker seemed a little sleepy and fell asleep in the backpack.
is almost the same Four hours later, Li Guangtian's backpack was not yet full, but the dry man was a little impatient and couldn't help but urge, "Oh, the sun is almost burning me to death, why haven't you gone home yet? It's already noon, right? Are you not hungry at all? "
" I have to find this backpack to go home. "At this time, Li Guangtian was already sweating profusely, but he was not tired at all, and continued to walk through the forest with a sickle. After two more hours, the basket was finally filled with herbs, and he returned with humming minor tune In the village.
The chick heard his noisy sound and couldn't help complaining again, "Oh, it's so ugly. Shut up, otherwise you can't cry even if you want to cry for a while. "
" Why do I cry? "Li Guangtian was worried that the sacred bird would be discovered by others and caused unnecessary trouble. As soon as he got home, he put it under his bed and told him, "You are here, don't run around. As for food and drink, I will Sent to you. "
" You idiot, do you know what I eat? "
" I don't know, but you can tell me. "
" I eat Xiaomi and drink clean water. You can get some for me first. "
" OK. "Li Guangtian nodded and went out immediately. As a result, he walked to the yard and saw a basket of herbs before it was drying, so he went to dry herbs first. Seeing that his son was back, Mao quickly brought the lunch to the table and shouted loudly He shouted, "Guangtian, I didn't have breakfast or lunch first, so I'll eat the meal first. "
" will be here soon. "Li Guangtian had dried the herbs and then went into the house to have a meal. When he saw Mao cooked the braised pork ribs, he wanted to give the apricot blossoms two pieces to taste. Seeing this, Mao couldn't help but sigh, "The apricot blossoms have already followed him." A rich young man in the city is engaged and will get married in three days. You should not make any decisions about her. "
What? Xinghua is already engaged?
Li Guangtian was surprised and murmured repeatedly, "Impossible, Mom, you must be lying to me. "After saying that, the boy ran for a while, turned around and went to Xinghua's house. He wanted to ask Xinghua in person to understand, but Xinghua didn't want to see him at all. Xinghua's mother, He, retorted coldly , "The man surnamed Li still misses our apricot blossoms? We apricot blossoms never took you in our eyes. Let me tell you, she is already engaged to Mr. Zhao in the city, so don’t harass her again. Alas, what kind of person do you are? Haven’t you reached the bottom of your mind yet? A toad can never eat swan meat. "
In this way, Xinghua is really going to get married!
Li Guangtian was extremely sad. After returning home, he fell on the bed and cried. My mother Mao comforted her outside the house for half an hour without any effect. She had to sigh and turned and left.
"A boring guy, crying here for a woman who is not worthy. Are you still a man? "At this time, the dried fur suddenly flapped his wings under the bed and mocked him. Li Guangtian then remembered that before he could give this guy some food, he quickly found some millet to fill his mouth. After that, he lay on the bed No matter how Qian Yi laughed at him, he ignored him.
The next morning, the sun was almost drying her butt, and this kid hadn't even gotten up from the bed. Mao probably suffered a lot, and it wasn't good. He urged him to get up and work. Seeing that he was so decadent, Qian Wei was too lazy to pay attention to him.
Two days later, Mr. Zhao, who came from the city, hired a large sedan chair and took Xinghua away. After Li Guangtian learned the news, he felt a burst of grief in his heart. Of course, this completely cut off his thoughts. Fortunately, he breathed a sigh of relief and survived. On this day, my mother Mao said that the herbs I picked recently had dried and could be sold to the city for money. Li Guangtian carried a load and carried a full load of herbs to the Chinese medicine store in the city to sell, but unexpectedly sold two taels of silver. With these money, Li Guangtian planned to go shopping in the city and buy some gifts for my mother, but he was worried that he would meet Mr. Zhao, who was proud of himself, so he bought some daily necessities and went home.
When I walked to Yushu Ridge, I suddenly heard a panic scream from the forest, accompanied by the shouting of a wild beast.
is the cry of a wolf!
Someone must have met a wolf in the forest! Li Guangtian didn't have time to think too much, so he immediately took off the shoulder pole and ran quickly into the forest. Just like when he saved the Qianzi, Li Guangtian still resolutely this day. When I arrived at the scene, I saw a ferocious gray wolf, staring at the two men with a fierce look. The two men were middle-aged, one of whom was fat and big-eared, and dressed very gorgeously, so he must be the master; the other was thin and wearing plain clothes, and he looked like a servant. Both of them held a branch in their hands, and while scaring the gray wolf, they retreated out of the forest with fear. Li Guangtian saw that the clothes on the two of them were torn and there were blood on their arms, and it was estimated that they had already fought with the gray wolf just now.
The fat and big-eared master saw Li Guangtian holding a long shoulder pole in his hand, and hurriedly cast a look at him asking for help, "Emma, righteous man, save us quickly, this wolf is so fierce, we almost just now I'll tell you here. "
"Don't be afraid, with me here, it will never hurt you again." Li Guangtian patted his chest and swore his promise, and immediately waved the shoulder pole in his hand and shouted at the gray wolf, "Go away, Otherwise, I'm not polite to you."
The gray wolf was a little scared when he saw the shoulder pole in Li Guangtian's hand, but it was a little unwilling to give up, so he tentatively launched an attack on Li Guangtian. Li Guangtian often deals with these wild beasts in the mountains. Not only did he not fear them, but he also knew their weaknesses. Therefore, after waving his shoulder pole and scaring him with his claws, the gray wolf was still afraid and ran away in shame with his tail.
The master and servant saw this and clasped their fists to express their gratitude to Li Guangtian. During the conversation, Li Guangtian learned that the master was named Liu Maolin and the servant was named Jiang Cheng.
Liu Maolin saw that Li Guangtian was handsome, so he found out his background like a matchmaker. When he learned about the boy's zodiac sign, he felt a little happy and asked him about his birth date and horoscope. Li Guangtian expressed his embarrassment at this time and couldn't help but touch his face and said, "Only my mother knows the birth date."
"Then, let's go and see your mother quickly!" Liu Maolin looked excited, and even felt the pain on his body. Forgot too.
Li Guangtian suddenly felt that the two of them behaved a little, so he asked Liu Maolin, "Master Liu, why do you want to know my birth date so much?"
"Because, our master wants to recruit a son-in-law!" Servant Jiang Chengzang He couldn't stop talking and immediately interrupted.
When Li Guangtian heard the words "Son-in-law to the house", he felt a little harsh, and his face suddenly became dark and said, "I don't have that interest. Two, say goodbye!" After that, he carried the burden, turned around and left.
"Hey, righteous man, don't leave, let's have a good chat." Jiang Cheng still wanted to bother him, but Liu Maolin quickly stopped him and said, "Looking at his appearance, he should be a backbone person, don't mention the matter of a son-in-law again. , let's follow him quietly. "
" Then we have no carriage now, what should we do if we go back to the city later?" Jiang Cheng looked embarrassed.It turned out that the two of them had just arrived in a carriage, but when they passed by this forest, Liu Maolin suddenly couldn't hold it in and wanted to go out, but when he got off the car and squatted into the forest, the gray wolf found them. The horse was frightened and had already run away with the two-wheeler. Now the master and servant have no carriage and it is very difficult to walk. But when Liu Maolin thought of his daughter Liu Huan, he didn't care about so much.
Li Guangtian took on the load again and went straight back to his home. When I heard that the herbs were sold for two taels of silver, I was very unhappy and quickly collected the two taels of silver.
Liu Maolin and Jiang Cheng stood quietly outside the door for a while. Jiang Cheng looked at the dilapidated courtyard and thatched house of the Li family and said, "This kid's family is so poor, and he still doesn't want to be a son-in-law. He is really a good person. A backbone person. "
" The most important thing now is to ask about his birth date. If he could close it with Huan'er, it would be great." Liu Maolin said, touching his goatee.
Jiang Chengdao, "Why do we find an opportunity to secretly give the old lady two taels of silver and ask her?"
Liu Maolin said, "We two outsiders asked her so directly, and she would definitely be suspicious and would definitely not tell her. We. Go and inquire. There are matchmakers in the village. Just leave this matter to the matchmaker."
After muttering a few words, the two left immediately.
A day later, the matchmaker of the village, Aunt Wang, found Mao Shi and said, "Old sister, let me tell you good news. Mr. Liu, who sells cloth in the city, has fallen in love with your Guangtian, saying that he is not only handsome, but also very kind. , He wanted to marry the daughter of the Liu family to Guangtian. But, he asked to come to Guangtian to live in their family in the future. As long as you nod, Mr. Liu will immediately give you a ten tael of silver gift. "
"Oh, we How can you be liked by Mr. Liu? I said, "Big girl, don't laugh at me." Mao didn't believe Mrs. Wang at all. Aunt Wang had no choice but to invite Liu Maolin into Li Family Courtyard . It turned out that in order to recruit Li Guangtian as his son-in-law, he came to visit the cottage again!
"Old sister, what she said is true. To be honest, two days ago, Hirota saved my life. The reason why I wanted to marry my Huan'er to him was that he helped me. Well, secondly, he is very good-character. I value him the most, so I want to take the liberty to ask you to agree to this marriage." Liu Maolin said very piously. Mao naturally had no choice but to refuse, but she knew that Li Guangtian was unwilling to be a son-in-law, so she said, "But Guangtian still needs to make the decision on this matter. When he comes back from collecting herbs, I will ask him for his opinion."
"Mom, don't ask, I won't be a son-in-law in other people's house." At this time, Li Guangtian came back from collecting herbs and heard the conversation between the two. He knew that Liu Maolin could find this place, and must have followed him that day, so he said angrily, "I have said that I will not be a son-in-law, why did you find this place? Please go out." After that, The boy pushed Liu Maolin out of the house without any explanation, and locked himself in the room. No matter how Mao was persuaded and comforted him outside, he did not open the door.
At this time, the yellow dry fur had healed. He flapped his wings and flew to the table and said, "If you don't make money, you're just a fool."
"Where am I stupid?" Li Guangtian angrily said Asked, staring at it. Qian said, "If you become the son-in-law of the Liu family, you will get a bride price of 60 taels of silver. Wouldn't it be good for you to use some money to support your mother?"
"You have short hands and short mouths for people to eat, Do you think that money is easy to get?" Li Guangtian was still angry.
The Qianzi said, "You nodded and agreed. Wouldn't the money come? If you don't agree, your family will be in trouble. Oh, I don't want to get involved in this disaster. I'm leaving." After saying that, this guy really flapped his wings and flew out of the window. Li Guangtian was too lazy to pay attention to it. Maybe he was too tired to collect herbs this day, so he fell asleep on the bed.Unexpectedly, when I was sleeping until midnight, a fire suddenly broke out outside the house. Because there was still strong wind at that time, a few grassy houses were ignited soon.
Li Guangtian also responded quickly and quickly escaped from the house with his mother on his back, otherwise the two of them would have lost their lives. Seeing that the house was burned out, Mao Shi had the ability to build a new house, so she couldn't help but squat outside the house and cried loudly, "Oh my God, the house is burned out, how can we live in the future!"
, is this the god? Is the bird called "a disaster coming"? Li Guangtian fell into deep thought.
After being extinguished by neighbors, although the fire was finally put out, several broken thatched houses in the Li family were burned bare. Mao rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the broken walls, and finally he turned over three taels of silver. This money is probably enough to rebuild a thatched hut or two. However, if you build two thatched huts, how can you get married in the future? At this time, Li Guangtian fell into deep thought again.
Soon after, it was dawn and the neighbors who were helping him disperse one after another. Mao was still sitting on the ruins and in pain. At this time, the matchmaker, Aunt Wang, came to persuade Li Guangtian again, "Guangtian, your family is like this now. Do you still want to go to the Liu family to be a son-in-law? Mr. Liu said that if it weren't for your good character, He also saves his life, so he will not come to your house with shamelessness. I think you are born in a blessing and don’t know how to be blessed! Alas, there will be no such store after passing this village, Liu The lady is so beautiful, it’s not that she can’t get married. “
”I, I agree to be a son-in-law. However, I must give me a bride price of 60 taels of silver. Aunt Wang, please help me go to the Liu family to talk. . "For my mother, Li Guangtian had to beg Aunt Wang to go to the Liu family to plead with her. Aunt Wang went to the Liu family for a trip, and Jiang Cheng sent 60 taels of silver over and told Liu Guangtian: I have to go to the Liu family the next day to get married, so that I can take the Mao family to live in the Liu family, otherwise I will take it back. The fate of the Liu family master.
Although Li Guangtian was unhappy in his heart, he had to nod, "Okay, I'll go to the Liu family to get married tomorrow morning." He knew very well that it would be difficult for his son-in-law to come to the house. If my mother follows him to the Liu family, it will definitely be After suffering, he hid the money, informed me, and temporarily took her to a cave in Wanshou Mountain to live. The cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the most important thing is the stone beds, stone tables and other utensils. The Mao family lives inside, which is both free and convenient.
The next day, just dawn, the Liu family sent a sedan chair to pick up Li Guangtian into the city like picking up the bride . Afterwards, Liu Maolin and his wife held a grand wedding for Li Guangtian and their daughter Liu Huan in the Liu family compound. Many high-ranking officials came to the Liu family to congratulate them.
Originally, Li Guangtian thought the bride Liu Huan looked a little scary, but when he opened the veil and saw her shocking appearance, he was instantly happy and full of joy: This Liu Huan is actually more beautiful than apricot blossoms! It would be worth it to marry such a wife in this life even if she became a virgin and a horse for the rest of her life.
"Husband, it's time to drink cup of wine ." Just when Li Guangtian was in a daze, Liu Huan brought two glasses of wine. Li Guangtian took it and was about to give her a cup of tea when the yellow dried flew over from somewhere. He kept flapping his wings and said, "I can't drink, I can't drink!"
"Ah Huang, what are you talking about? "Liu Huan glared at the chick, obviously, she knew this chick. Li Guangtian couldn't help but say in surprise, "Madam, is its nickname A Huang?"
"That's right, my name is A Huang. Sister, this idiot once saved my life. You shouldn't lie to him, you shouldn't lie to him. !” The Qianfeng said again with his wings. Liu Huan was shocked when she heard this, "It turns out that you saved Ah Huang! Then I really shouldn't lie to you-"
Gradually, Liu Huan lowered his voice and said, "To be honest, this wine is poisonous, You will die after drinking it! "
"Ah, why is this happening? I knew it was not a good thing to be a son-in-law, but it was not as expected." Li Guangtian was shocked.
Liu Huan said, "Because I am not the real Miss Liu, although my surname is Liu, my real name is Liu Xiaoyu, and Liu Huan is my cousin. She died of illness a few days ago. My uncle is here for her. Not lonely, so he wanted to find someone to bury her. "
" So Mr. Liu asked you to pretend to be Liu Huan. After you get married to me, he would try every means to kill me and put it in Miss Liu's coffin?" Li Guangtian suddenly realized that At the same time, I also hated Liu Maolin for being cruel and ruthless, "I once saved Mr. Liu's life, why did he treat me like this?"
Liu Xiaoyu said, "Because it's very simple, my uncle has found dozens of people, only you and me are together. My sister’s birthday and horoscope are in line with each other. "
As soon as she finished speaking, Liu Maolin suddenly rushed into the house with Jiang Cheng. He stared at Liu Xiaoyu and said fiercely, "You are a traitor, I'll bring you up. , it’s a good thing that your cousin treats you as a real sister on weekdays, but you have to be a widow for a foreigner, and you will be a widow even if you kill her. I won’t beat you to death! "
"Sister, run, run, run!" The god saw you Liu Maolin came in a fierce manner and quickly flew towards his head with his wings, then pecked his head with his mouth. Liu Maolin suddenly shouted in anger, "Oh, you damn guy--"
"Go away!" Li Guangtian took a chance, kicked Jiang Cheng away, pulled Liu Xiaoyu up and ran out of the yard. Liu Maolin was so anxious that he shouted loudly, "Come here, catch them quickly and catch them!"
Liu's yard wall is high and there are many guards. Liu Xiaoyu made it impossible for them to escape, so he couldn't help but push Li Guangtian's hand. , then learned Liu Huan's voice and said angrily, "Father, after death, a person will turn into a ghost and be reincarnated as a human being. How can he say that he will get married and have children in the underworld? Don't be obsessed with it! If you still want to be Liu If you accumulate virtue and bring blessings to yourself, you will let Xiaoyu and Guangtian go. Don’t forget that one of them is your niece and the other is your savior!”
After saying that, Liu Xiaoyu pretended to fall. On the ground, it kept twitching. Li Guangtian seemed to have guessed her intention, so he cooperated with the acting and said, "Oh, Xiaoyu is probably possessed by Miss Liu!"
Not to mention it. After the two of them sang and reconciled, Liu Maolin suddenly woke up and couldn't help but shoot it suddenly. He slapped himself and said, "It's really my confusion. Huan'er, don't blame your father!" At this time, Liu Xiaoyu sat up from the ground again hypocritically, looked around in panic, "It was just now that it was finally true. What happened? "
At this point, Liu Maolin even thought that Liu Huan's soul had just returned, so he immediately admitted his mistake to Liu Xiaoyu and Li Guangtian, and promised them that they would treat them as their biological children in the future. Although Li Guangtian forgave Liu Maolin, he did not believe him, so he took Liu Xiaoyu and the Qiang out of the city early the next morning. As for where they went in the end, it is unknown, but one thing is certain. Yes, they later lived a happy life. After experiencing this, Liu Maolin never dared to do bad things again.
