The southernmost end of Shanxi The Yellow River There is a village called Huanglongzhai on the bank of the shore. There is a young man named Huang San in the village. Huang San's parents died when he was young and grew up by eating a hundred families of food. Because of his poor family, he is still a bachelor at the age of thirty.
This year, the Yellow River in Shandong, Anhui suffered heavy floods, flooding large areas of fields and villages, and many people came here to escape.
In the evening of that day, Huang San came back from outside and saw a woman in her twenties lying in front of his house. Huang San was kind-hearted and hurriedly squatted down to check whether the woman was still alive. He put his fingers under the woman's nose and felt that the woman was still alive, so he gently patted the woman's shoulder.
After a while, the woman opened her eyes. Huang San asked her what was wrong. The woman said she had escaped from Anhui. Her husband had starved to death on the road. She hadn't eaten for three days...
Huang San hurriedly helped the woman up, opened the door, and helped the woman into the house. She asked the woman to lie on the bed to rest first, and then cook for the woman to eat. The woman ate two big bowls in a row.
After eating, the woman's complexion became much better. She said, "Thank you, brother, for helping you." As she said that, she was about to kneel down and kowtow to Huang San.
Huang San quickly pulled the woman up and said, "You don't have to be polite. Everyone will encounter difficulties when they go out, let alone you suffer disasters."
The woman looked at the only one Huang San at home and asked, "Brother, sister-in-law and child, why do you see only one elder brother?"
Huang San said, "I am alone, where do you get my sister-in-law and child..."
The woman said, "Then thank you brother, I have to leave."
Huang San said, "It's getting late, you're running here, where are you going tonight? If you don't dislike it, stay here for a night and leave tomorrow."
Huang San said, "It's too late. You can escape here. Where can you go to the middle of the night? If you don't dislike it, stay here for a night and leave tomorrow."
l0 The woman said, "Brother is a good person. I am a widow. I am afraid of tainting my reputation..."
Huang San said, "I am thirty years old. It doesn't matter if I have a reputation or not. But you are a woman's house. The homelessness at this night is dangerous. Let's stay here for a night."
The woman said, "thank you so much, brother."
Huang San said, "I don't know what the girl calls me?"
The woman said, "I'm Zhao Shuilian, my brother will call me Shuilian."
The next day, Huang San was going to work in the field, and Shuilian said she was leaving too. Huang San asked Shui Lian, where are you going? Shui Lian said she didn't know, just go wherever she went. Anyway, her family was gone and her husband was gone...
Huang San said, then if you don't dislike me, just stay here to wash and cook for me. Shui Lian said, don’t you think I’m a widow? Huang San said, you are a kind person and look so handsome, how could I dislike you? Shuilian said, thank you brother.
So Huang San went to the field to work. When I came back at noon, I saw Shuilian clean up the house and saw the hot food on the table. I felt very warm. I grew up to thirty years old, and I had never felt this way before.
Huang San said, Shuilian, are you willing to marry me? Shuilian said, as long as my elder brother doesn’t dislike him, of course I am willing. Huang San said, OK, I will tell you about my third uncle tomorrow, and we will get married. Shuilian said, brother, there is another thing I want to tell you. My husband and I have been married for three years and have not had a child. We may not have a child. If you don’t want to, I will leave immediately. If you want to, I will stay. Of course, Huang San also wants children very much, but he thinks that at his age, it would be good if someone is willing to marry him, and it doesn’t matter whether he has a child or not. Moreover, some women are happy late, and Shui Lian may have a child. So he told Shuilian that he would marry her even if he couldn't have children.
The next day, Huang San went to tell Uncle San that Uncle San was Huang San's only relative. He was very happy to hear that Huang San was going to get married, so he called a few prestigious people in the village to come to Huang San's house for a meal, which was considered to be a kiss for his nephew Huang Sancheng.
After Huang San and Shui Lian got married, although they were simple and simple, they were loving. During the busy farming season, Shui Lian often went to the fields to help with work.
On this day, the couple came back from the field and met several escapees on the way. One of the old women was about to die, and a three or four-year-old boy was lying on the old women and crying.
Huang San and Shui Lian came to see it.Huang San asked a few old ladies who fled to escape what was wrong? Several escapees said that the child was the old lady's grandson, and his son and daughter-in-law were not sure where they were going, and the old lady was almost out of reach.
The old lady opened her eyes and said to Huang San, "Good man, okay, okay, I'm almost out of here. Take away my poor child. This jade pendant was left to him by his mother... she died before she finished speaking. Huang San took the jade pendant from the old lady's hand and brought the child home with Shui Lian. Huang San made another simple coffin to bury the old lady.
Huang San asked the child what his name was, but the child shook his head and didn't know. Huang San said to Shui Lian, I think he just calls him Huang Jiaxing, he will be our son from now on. Then he said to the child, your name is Huang Jiaxing, I am your father, she is your mother, call her mother quickly. The child called out timidly, "Mom." Shui Lian agreed and hugged the child in her arms, bursting into tears.
Since picking up this child, Huang San and Shui Lian regard him as their own, and pampered him in every way, but they did not spoil him, and a poor family like them did not have the capital to spoil him.
In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed. Huang Jiaxing is already thirteen years old and has grown into a young man. He is also very filial to Huang San and Shui Lian. He not only helps his mother Shui Lian carry water and chop firewood, but also helps his father Huang San.
Huang San himself has no land and is a tenant of the rich man Liu Wenxing. He rented and planted six acres of land in Liu Wenxing. Apart from paying rent every year, the remaining grain is only enough for three people to eat for half a year.
Huang San and Shui Lian would rather eat more wild vegetables by themselves, and also let their son have enough food for their family. Although Jiaxing was only thirteen years old, he had already understood these things. Whenever he was eating, he always said that he was full and overeating.
On this day, Jiaxing heard that the rich man Liu Wenxing's family wanted to find a child to herd cattle, so he told Huang San and Shui Lian that he wanted to go to the rich man's house to herd cattle so that one person could eat less at home and make some money.
Huang San and Shui Lian heard this and their eyes were red and wet. When the child is so young, he knows that he feels sorry for them and it will not be in vain. But they felt sorry for Jiaxing and were still young, and they were afraid that he would suffer and suffer from grievances when he went to the rich man's house.
Huang San said, "You are still young. Let's talk about it in two years, and we will not short of food." Shui Lian also said, "Jiaxing, you are a filial and sensible child, but you are still young, and your father and mother can't bear to suffer..."
Jiaxing said, "Dad, mom, I am thirteen, I am not a child anymore, and I have to do something for the family. Don't stop me, I decided to go."
Shui Lian said, "Your father and I originally wanted you to study and take the exam..."
Jiaxing said, "Mom, let's talk about it after you study, I don't want you two elders to suffer for me."
In the end, Huang San and Shui Lian did not persuade Jiaxing, and Jiaxing still went to the rich man's house to herd cattle.
The rich man’s housekeeper told him that he would keep a girl during the day and feed the cows at night. The salary is 80 yuan per month, so you can live in the woodshed next to the cow shed.
In the morning, when the family is up, they have to clean the cowshed first, then go to the kitchen to have a meal. After dinner, they go to the mountain to herd cattle, including ten cows, eight big cows, and two calves. When we go to herd cattle, we need to bring dry food, eat it in the mountains at noon, and drive the cattle back in the afternoon.
The rich man has a daughter named Liu Ruonan, who is one year younger than Jiaxing and has a personality like a boy. Liu Wenxing only has this daughter, so no one plays with her. Children have no distinction between rich, tenant, master, and servant, only age and personality preferences, so they often go to the cowshed to find a family funeral. Although Jiaxing is mature, he is still a child after all, so he also likes to play with Ruonan.
Sometimes, Ruoman will secretly follow Jiaxing to the mountains to herd cattle. The air on the mountain is fresh, the flowers are everywhere, and there are many mountain fruits and game, which is paradise for Ruonan. It is much better to be free and play freely on the mountain than to be at home.
Once, they played house on the mountain, and Jiaxing played the groom. If a man played the bride, they worshiped the world in the straw shed they built and entered the bridal chamber. Ruonan suddenly discovered the jade pendant on Jiaxing's neck. You said your jade pendant is so beautiful, can you let me see it? Jiaxing took it down and showed it to Ruonan. Jiaxing said that this was left to her when his mother died.Ruonan said, didn’t your mother live a good life? Jiaxing said, my biological father and mother are gone long ago, and I escaped here with a mother-in-law. Before my mother-in-law died, she handed me over to her current father and mother.
So that's how it is, you are too miserable, Brother Jiaxing. Ruoman said.
When I was at home, Ruoman was forced to go to a private school by his father, but Ruoman didn't like studying very much and often skipped classes and went to the cattle shed for fun at home. However, Jiaxing was very interested in reading and reading, so Ruonan taught Jiaxing to recognize and write, and used books and ink to let Jiaxing read and write. When my father asked, he said that the book was lost and his father bought it for her. As a result, Jiaxing followed Ruonan to read a lot of books and write a lot of articles. If the man doesn't want to write an article, let Jiaxing help her write it. Ruonan took the article written by Jiaxing to a private school and handed it to the teacher. The teacher applauded repeatedly and read it in the lecture hall as a model essay. The rich man was very happy to hear that his daughter wrote a good article and thanked the gentleman for holding a banquet. Finally, Jiaxing took the Academy Examination and passed the scholar exam. The cowherd's admission to the scholar has become a local story.
Although Jiaxing was admitted to the scholar, he still had to herd cattle in the rich man's family. However, the rich man's family did not look down on Jiaxing as before, and Ruonan fell in love with Jiaxing even more.
In a blink of an eye, Jiaxing has been herding cattle in the rich man's house for three years. Jiaxing, who is sixteen, is already very mature, and Ruonan is fifteen years old. Although she is extroverted and like a boy, she has the shyness of a girl after all. She also blushed when she sees Jiaxing. She is not as casual as before when she is before. However, Ruonan, who has just fallen in love, fell in love with Jiaxing deeply.
Fifteen-year-old Ruonan was born in a rich man's family and fell into a celestial world. There were endless people proposing marriages, and he kicked the threshold. Of course, they were all from families of officials and wealthy families.
Two of them have the greatest influence. The family is the son of the head of the county government, and the other is the son of the richest man in the local area.
The headmaster's son is Wang Chao, a real playboy, the boss of a street ruffian, and a group of gangsters are following behind him all day long.
The richest son is Zhang Tianyi, who is a talented person and works with his father. He is a real businessman. If a man doesn't fall in love with Jiaxing, he will definitely marry Zhang Tianyi.
No one agreed, she would not marry her if she was right or wrong.
In the team to propose marriage to Ruonan's house, the headmaster's son and the richest man's son appeared, everyone else left the court, and the headmaster and the richest man's family launched a fierce duel.
First, the headmaster spoke out, "If you marry Ruonan, you will be given a bride price of 1,000 taels of silver." Then the richest man also spoke, "If you marry Ruonan, you will be given a bride price of 1,500 taels of silver."
The headmaster's family must not be as rich as the richest man in terms of dowry, so he spoke again, "Who dares to compete with his family as a man and arrest his whole family in prison."
This is not a brag either. As the headmaster of the county government, he will just take you into charge and he will arrest you for at least a few days.
The richest man also made a statement, whoever wants to fight for his family will take off his black hat . This is specifically for the head catcher. It means that your chief dares to compete with me Ruonan, and you will take off your black hat if you spend any money...
The richest man in a wealthy family fought hard, but Ruonan sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight. The boss's proposal came. Ruonan quietly said to the matchmaker, "You can agree, but we can't afford to offend the richest man, and the richest man's proposal came. Ruonan's parents agreed with full words, but Ruonan quietly told the matchmaker that he wanted to promise you, but we had no power and no power, and we can't afford to offend the captain...
As a result, not long after, the richest man's son Zhang Tianyi was arrested in a cell for selling opium. Although the richest man later asked someone to spend a lot of money to get his son out, he never came to Ruonan's house to propose marriage again.
So, the headmaster came to the door to propose marriage again, but if the male parents said, if the male is still young, I will talk about it in two years. In fact, if the male parents don’t want to marry their daughter to the captain’s son.
The headmaster is not a vegetarian. They soon learned that the reason why Ruonan refused was that Ruonan fell in love with their young man Huang Jiaxing.
The captain's son thinks it is too incredible and embarrassing him. I, the captain's son, you don't want to marry, but you want to marry a young man who grazed cattle. It's tolerant, but who is intolerable.
So, Wang Chao told the captain's father about this situation and asked his father to arrest the young man from Ruonan's family into the cell. The headmaster had heard of this scholar who grazed cattle, but he didn't believe that the lady from the rich man's family would like a cowherd kid. Besides, in order for his son to marry Ruonan, he has already framed the richest man's son, and then framed others for the fact that the black sand on his head will be thrown away. What's more, the richest man is secretly going to the prefect to sue him, and he must not lose his big mistakes because of a small matter. So he told his son not to do anything randomly...
However, Wang Chao was not willing to listen to his father's words. He first asked someone to find Jiaxing and say, "Thank you one hundred taels of silver to leave Ruonan's family."
Jiaxing said, "Who asked you to come? Why did you let me leave the Liu family?" The visitor said, "You don't need to know this. Just leave with the silver. If you agree, go to the Land Temple to get the silver at this time tomorrow."
Jiaxing told Ruonan about this. Ruonan said, it must have been done by that kid Wang Chao, please ignore him.
The next day, Wang Chao asked someone to take 100 taels of silver to the Tudi Temple. However, before Jiaxing had arrived, he was arrested by the county government as a suspect who traded opium by the county government. When the captain knew that his son was still trying to attack Ruonan's attention, he scolded his son severely.
Wang Chao thought he was the official of Jiaxing, so he was furious. Damn, if you don’t eat toast, you are impatient and you are actually having fun with me. You are waiting.
Ruonan told Jiaxing that you should be careful these days, Wang Chao is afraid that he will cause trouble for you. Jiaxing said, "If you guys do you want me to leave your house first." I'm worried that this will be detrimental to you." Ruonan said, you are stupid, you are gone, what should I do? Didn't he come to me? You can't leave, I have to find a way to get my parents to agree to marry you.
If the man wants to take down his father first, because relatively speaking, his father is more open-minded and easier to communicate with. As long as the father agrees, the mother will be easy to say.
Ruonan came to his father's room and said, "Dad, that captain's son has been asking for trouble. What do you think?"
Liu Wenxing said, "I can't help either. The richest man can't afford to offend him. Can we afford to offend him?"
Ruonan said, "Dad, I have a way, do you think he can?"
Liu Wenxing said, "You say."
Ruonan said, "You only have me, why don't you recruit a son-in-law in your home? And The captain has only one son, so he will definitely not let his son be a son-in-law..."
Liu Wenxing said: "Yes, your mother and I are confused, okay, you should have recruited a son-in-law, but if you want to recruit a son-in-law, you don't have a good family..."
Ruonan said: "As long as your daughter likes it, our family is not without food or clothing..."
Liu Wenxing heard something in his daughter's words: "Tell me, do you like a poor girl? "
Ruonan said, "What's wrong with a poor boy? Just be honest and kind to me..."
Liu Wenxing said, "Tell me, who did you like?"
Ruonan said, "Dad, I will never marry him in my life. If you don't agree, I will not marry someone and become a nun..."
Liu Wenxing said, "My ancestor, please tell me who it is, how can I agree if you don't say it?"
Ruonan said : "No, I will say it after you agree."
Liu Wenxing said, "Okay, okay, I agree, say it quickly!"
Ruonan said, "It's far away in the sky and near in front of us. It's our friend Huang Jiaxing..."
"What, young man Huang Jiaxing? His family is our tenant, and he is our cattle-herder. If you let him be your son-in-law, wouldn't it make the crying people laugh? No, no, your mother will never agree." Liu Wenxing said angrily.
Ruonan was also angry and said, "You only consider your face and don't consider your daughter's feelings at all. If you don't agree, then okay, I will become a monk and become a nun..."
Liu Wenxing said, "Okay, okay, I agree, I agree, but I can't guarantee your mother will agree."
Ruonan said, "As long as your father agrees, it's fine, my mother doesn't have to worry about you."
That night, Ruonan told Jiaxing the good news.Ruonan was in a good mood, so he took out the wine and asked Jiaxing to drink with her. As a result, both of them drank too much...
The next morning, Jiaxing opened his eyes and found himself lying on Ruonan's bed. Ruonan looked at him shyly.
"Ruonan, why am I here?" Jiaxing was frightened. "Yes, you are very brave, how could you sleep here with me?" Ruonan said. "This, I don't know. I didn't mean it. Is it sleepwalking ? I had sleepwalking when I was a child..." Jiaxing stammered. "Okay, OK, we all drank too much last night. You forgot, go back to your cowshed before dawn..." Ruonan said. Jiaxing was relieved and hurried back to his room.
However, Wang Chao, who was angry and embarrassed, kidnapped Jiaxing and locked him up in a small black room in the Land Temple.
Wang Chao said: "Huang Jiaxing, you toad still want to eat swan meat. If you don't pee, you can't pee and look at your face. Why does a cattle-herding guy want to marry Ruonan?"
Jiaxing said: "Wang Chao, you don't understand what love is at all. Love cannot be bought by money, and it cannot be stolen by power and power..."
Wang Chao said: "Stop talking nonsense, your family doesn't even have land, only three broken houses, you still herd cattle for others, you can earn 100 million yuan in a month, you can't support you, you can still give happiness to others, you shouldn't want to eat Let’s just eat soft rice..."
Jiaxing said, "Wang Chao, you don’t know what love is, what happiness is, it’s illegal for you to do this..."
Wang Chao smiled contemptuously and said, "It’s illegal? I am the son of the captain. Will I break the law? I advise you to leave here, the farther the better. Think about it carefully, and tell me if you figure it out. However, my patience is limited..." Wang Chao said to several gangsters: "Follow him with me, and you will die if you run away..."
However, Wang Chao didn’t know that the disaster soon came to his head.
Before he could get home, he saw many officers and soldiers coming to his doorstep. What's going on? He suddenly saw his father coming out of the house by several arrests.
is finished, run away quickly. So he ran away desperately and wanted to run to the mountain to hide. However, before he could run far, he was caught by the officers and soldiers.
It turned out that the richest man sued the captain directly to the governor. Because the captain was full of crimes, the prefect dared not protect him and sent someone to arrest the captain. At this time, someone told Ruonan that Wang Chao had captured Jiaxing and locked him up in the Land Temple. So, Wang Chao was arrested and Jiaxing was rescued.
At this moment, the governor brought the officers and soldiers, and an official from the capital was also here with the governor. The governor and the capital officials came to the county government. The governor asked the county magistrate Huang Jiaxing to bring him.
Ruonan didn't know what happened to Huang Jiaxing again, and was very worried, saying, "Why don't we run away, run far away... Jiaxing said it's a blessing, not a disaster, but a disaster, I'd better go, I didn't do anything illegal...
Jiaxing came to the county government office and was taken into a dark room and saw two people sitting there.
Officials from the capital said, "I heard you have a jade pendant, take it out and I'll take it out."
Huang Jiaxing said, "This is what my mother left to me..."
Officials from the capital said, "I know, I just look at it, I won't want it."
Huang Jiaxing took out the jade pendant and handed it to the officials from the capital. The official said, "Come, bring Huang Jiaxing's parents!"
Jiaxing said, "Why arrest my parents? What crime did they commit? How can you arrest innocent people?"
Officials from the capital said, "It's okay, it's not arresting them, it's just calling them for a question."
Soon, Jiaxing's parents were taken into the secret room of the county government.Officials from the capital asked them, "You must answer my question honestly. Are you Huang Jiaxing's biological parents?"
Huang San said that they were not Jiaxing's biological parents. Jiaxing was entrusted to us by an old lady before she died. She also gave us a jade pendant, saying that it was left to him by Jiaxing's mother, so we took him home, but the child didn't know what his surname was, so we treated him as his own child and named him Huang Jiaxing...
Officials from the capital said, "Okay, since you are not his biological parents, then we will take him away."
Huang San heard that he was going to take Jiaxing away, and said anxiously, "What crime did Jiaxing commit? Do you want to take him away?"
But the two of them were almost driven out by the arrest.
Shuilian cried and said, "What should I do? What happened to Jiaxing?"
Huang San inquired everywhere, what crime did Jiaxing commit? But no one knows.
Soon after, a team of officers and soldiers came to Huang San’s door, picking Huang San and Zhao Shuilian away, and a team of officers and soldiers also came to the door of the rich man Liu Wenxing’s house, picking Liu Ruonan away.
It turns out that Huang Jiaxing is the son of the current emperor. Back then, when Jiaxing was three years old, the emperor was still the prince. He was framed and rebelled and his whole family was arrested. The prince asked Jiaxing's nurse to take Jiaxing away and handed a jade pendant to the nurse, saying that it would be used as a certificate in the future. The nurse took the three-year-old Jiaxing to escape everywhere and was starved to death on the road. Before her death, she entrusted Jiaxing to Huang San and Shui Lian.
Jiaxing took his adoptive parents to the capital to celebrate his old age, and took Ruonan to the capital to marry him. The emperor made Jiaxing the crown prince, and Ruonan also became the crown prince's wife.
A year later, if the man gave birth to a young lady for the prince, two years later, he gave birth to another son. Huang San and Shui Lian helped take care of the two children.
