Jiaqing years ago, there was a village called Lijia Village in Fuzhou County. There was a man named Li Bing in Lijia Village. He went to Fuzhou County to work hard at the age of fourteen or five, and opened a cloth shop by himself. When he was married, he earned a lot of money. He married a beautiful wife, Liu, and lived a happy life. A few years after the marriage, the Liu family gave birth to two more children for Li Bing, one son and one daughter, and Li Bing's life was quite complete. But there was an unexpected situation this day. When he was 30 years old, he suffered a serious illness and did not leave only a few words for his wife, and he died!
At that time, the eldest son Li Miao was only twelve or thirteen years old, and the younger daughter Li Xiangxiu was only 8 or 9 years old.
I lost my father at a young age. When it comes to these two children, the villagers are very sympathetic.
What makes people even more sad is that their mother, Liu, sold all the valuable things in the family the day after her father was buried, took all the property, and eloped with a wealthy businessman from other places.
Li Miao and Li Xiangxiu were kicked out of the house by the person who bought the house.
Li Bing had a cousin Xu in the village. He was fifty-eight years old. He was a widow and had no children. He lived alone for most of his life. He was lonely and helpless. He happened to go to work in the field that day. He passed by Li Bing's door and saw two children sitting at the door crying. After interrogating carefully, he realized that Liu had sold his property and ran away with a wild man. She looked at the two children and felt distressed, so she took the brother and sister back to her house with tears.
Li Miao and Li Xiangxiu finally have a place to settle down and not be cold or hungry. Xu himself has no children, so he raises these two children as his own children. The young Li Miao and Li Xiangxiu are very grateful to the aunt, and are determined to be filial to the aunt when she grows up and pay tribute to her for the aunt's death.
But the good times didn't last long. After all, Xu was old and in poor health. After seven or eight years, he was seriously ill and had no cure, so he died. Li Miao and his sister buried mourning clothes and buried their aunt.
This year, Li Miao was already twenty years old, and her sister Li Xiangxiu was also at the age of waiting to marry. If a matchmaker often came to the matchmaker, she had only one request, and she had to have a bride price of fifty taels of silver. The fifty taels of silver at that time were equivalent to the current 200,000 yuan. This bride price was indeed too much for ordinary families, and many people who admired it were afraid of it. But Li Xiangxiu was a beauty since she was young. Now she is 18 years old and has become more beautiful and charming. There are five or six men who are willing to pay the fifty taels of silver.
Li Xiangxiu chose a man with outstanding appearance, honest and kindness among these five or six men and married him. Then she gave the fifty taels of silver to her brother Li Miao, asking him to use the money as principal and open a shop in the county town to do business.
Li Miao took the money given by his sister with tears in his eyes. After drinking his sister's wedding banquet, he took the money to Fuzhou with him to do a big fight.
I don’t know if his father is in the sky. Li Miao took a look at a storefront in Fuzhou County, then rented it down and prepared to open a Li cloth shop. He heard that the cloth in Hangzhou was excellent, so he went to Hangzhou in person. After repeated selection, he chose a poor village. The women in the village were proficient in embroidery, and the animals embroidered were vivid. So he set up a garment workshop in that village, where a kind widow in the village was in charge, and he himself brought some of the ready-to-wear and cloth he had purchased.
Li's Clothing House opened like this. Women in the city love beauty. Countless ladies were amazed when they saw the Li's Clothing House's Clothing House. So for a moment, the supply of ready-to-wear and cloth in Li Miao's shop was in short supply. Customers who came to booked were lined up.
Later, when Li Miao saw it, it didn't work, so he called his sister and brother-in-law to come and see the store, and he ran around with Fuzhou and Hangzhou every day, and his business was getting bigger and bigger.
Li Miao stayed in Hangzhou for more time because he wanted to urge the embroidery girls to get out of life as soon as possible. Later, he expanded the scale and recruited thirty embroidery girls. The widow in charge of the business was Chen, who was about the same age as Li Miao. Her husband died not long after he got married. She had been widowed for many years. Seeing Li Miao running around in the two places, she felt very distressed and often asked about her well-being. Chen was young and beautiful. After two years, Li Miao became interested in marrying her.
Later, Li Miao talked about his thoughts with Chen. Chen said that he was not worthy of Li Miao, so he refused. Unexpectedly, Li Miao had decided to marry her, so he confessed to her every day that Chen had been widowed for many years and could not withstand this offensive. Not long after, the two fell in love. Later, under the witness of her sister and brother-in-law, the two became kin.
Li Miao found a shopkeeper for the clothing store in Hangzhou, and hired two more friends to travel between Hangzhou and Fuzhou.
After arranging the business, Li Miao took his wife back to Lijia Village. He found someone to renovate the aunt's house and turned it into a luxury house.
After that the business grew bigger and bigger, he bought land in the village and built many houses, allowing the poor to live in for free.
For a moment, the beautiful name of " Li Shanren " spread throughout the ten villages and eight miles.
The poor people within a hundred miles came to join him.
Li Miao always refuses these poor people.
Not only did they have a house for free, they also arranged work for them according to their own strengths, and everyone lived and worked in peace and contentment. Lijia Village was later changed its name to "Safe People Village".
Later Chen gave birth to Li Miao a pair of children, and Li Miao was very happy.
When Li Miao was forty years old, he already owned ten thousand acres of fertile land and had a wealth of wealth. .
This year, during the Qingming Festival, Li Miao took his wife and children to visit his father's grave, and saw a female beggar kneeling in front of the grave.
Li Miao saw that it was a beggar, so he quickly stepped forward and helped her up. When he looked closer, he realized that this was Liu, the mother who had cruelly abandoned him and his sister and ran away with other men.
But now she ends up like this.
It turned out that Liu had been with the rich businessman for less than two years. The rich businessman was with her every day. He was so tired of seeing that, he looked for a beautiful woman. While Liu was asleep, he took away the money at home and ran away without a trace. Liu suddenly became a pauper and could only live a life of wandering around. With her appearance, she could have found someone else to marry again, but at this time, a terrifying rash appeared on her face. Everyone thought she had any infectious diseases and couldn't avoid them.
So over the years, she became a beggar wandering around.
After I got older, I probably suddenly realized my conscience and wanted to go back to the countryside to find the pair of children who were cruelly abandoned by her. When I returned to Fuzhou, I found out that her son Li Miao had long become the richest man in Fuzhou County. Liu was lucky enough to think that Qingming Festival was coming soon, so he went to Li Bing's grave to repent. If his son saw it, he would definitely forgive her.
So during the Qingming Festival, Liu knelt in front of Li Bing's grave every day to repent.
As a matter of fact, hard work pays off. She waited, and Li Miao came to visit the grave!
However, when Liu talked about her tragic experience of exile in the past few years, she suddenly fell head-on in front of Li Bing's grave and never woke up again...
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