in the Ming Dynasty, there was a merchant named Gu Xiuyuan in Ruzhou. He was mainly engaged in cloth business and often traveled to and from Kaifeng , Ruzhou, Luoyang and other places. He is righteous, honest in his work, does a good job, and has a wealthy family background.
Gu Xiuyuan's original wife's surname is Hu. She is virtuous and kind. The couple has a good relationship. Unfortunately, Hu is very blessed. Not long after giving birth to a son, she fell seriously ill and lay in bed for more than a year and passed away. That year, Gu Xiuyuan was twenty-two years old.
A year after Hu's death, his father arranged to re-marry his son. Gu Xiuyuan had a deep relationship with his deceased wife and was unwilling to remarry in a short period of time, so the matter was put on hold.
In the blink of an eye, six years have passed, Gu Xiuyuan still has no intention of remarrying, and his parents have given up and no longer urged them. They have their own son to decide whether to marry or not.
In the spring of that year, Gu Xiu went to Kaifeng to purchase goods and transported some goods back to Ruzhou by the warehouse. He stayed in the city for two days and returned alone. When I reached the boundary of Changge , I accidentally fell off the horse and injured my leg. Not to mention getting on the horse, it would be a bit difficult to walk.
Just at this moment, an elderly couple drove a donkey cart to pass by, saving Gu Xiuyuan home to recuperate.
The Qiu family was very attentive in their care, which made Gu Xiuyuan very grateful. During the chat, he also roughly learned about the situation of the family.
The old man is named Qiu Chen and his wife's surname is Wang. In fact, the couple is only over half of their 40s. They are only so old because they lost a son in their early years and miss him so much that they are so old. They look like an old man over 60 years old.
The couple has a daughter named Xiurong, who is in her early twenties and has an extraordinary appearance, but looking at her hair, she should have not been married yet. Out of politeness, Gu Xiuyuan did not ask much.
Seven days later, the leg injury was basically healed. After Gu Xiuyuan was grateful again and again, he stood up and said goodbye. Before leaving, he took out thirty taels to express his gratitude. Qiu Chen insisted not to accept it.
Gu Xiuyuan is a person who will repay kindness. He feels sad. Since then, whenever he goes to Kaifeng to get goods, he will visit Qiu's house. During the holidays, he will prepare gifts and thank him. After a long time, Yanran walks around like a relative.
Two years later, Gu Xiuyuan came to the Qiu family again. Qiu Chen and his wife made a suggestion this time, hoping to marry their daughter Xiurong to him as their wife. Qiu Chen said, "In order to take care of us, Xiuwen has always refused to get married. It is not easy to find a son-in-law when she wants to find a son-in-law. She is twenty-four years old. How can this continue? We just hope that her daughter will have a stable life."
After the past two years of contact, Gu Xiuyuan also has a good impression of Xiurong. He knew that she was a good woman. Her deceased wife, Hu, had passed away for eight years, and it was time to find a companion, so he did not refuse and said that he would go back to Ruzhou first and report to his parents that they would make the decision.
The next morning, Gu Xiuyuan returned to Ruzhou. When his parents saw that their son had finally gotten their minds, they were too happy, so how could they stop him? The two happily prepared many betrothal gifts and asked their son to go and get the job.
Everything went well. A month later, Gu Xiuyuan took Xiurong back to Ruzhou and got married. In order to reassure Xiurong, Gu Xiuyuan forced to leave some money for his parents-in-law to make their two elders live a worry-free life.
Xiurong is virtuous. She is considerate of her husband, filial to her parents-in-law, loves her step-son, and is also very caring for her sister-in-law Qiulian, who has not yet been married. She was recognized by her parents-in-law not long after entering the house. The family was happy and very unhappy.
Gu Xiuyuan's parents are both over 60 years old and are in good health. The two old men couldn't live freely and planted some vegetables in the yard. A few lentils are growing well, and the entire east wall is full.
Two months have passed in a blink of an eye. On this day, Gu Xiuyuan had just returned from Nanzhao . His mother called her into her room and whispered, "Xiuyuan, you have some problems with your wife."
"What's wrong, Mom, is it Xiurong that made you angry?" Gu Xiuyuan asked.
"No, Xiurong is very nice to me, but I recently discovered that she often picks lentils on excuses and secretly looks at Old Chen's house next door. Just say yesterday. When I saw her looking at her again, I went over to ask. When she saw me, she quickly pulled her back, her face blushed, and it was very unnatural. I walked over to Old Chen's house and looked at Old Chen's house. It turned out that Chunsheng was taking a shower with her upper body naked. Although Chunsheng was only sixteen years old, she was a man after all. Isn't Xiurong doing this too much?" After my mother said that, she sighed.
The newlywed wife peeked at another man taking a shower. No one could stand it. Gu Xiuyuan ignored his mother's obstruction and turned back to the house to question Xiurong.
Xiurong seemed to expect her husband to question. She was silent for a moment and said, "My husband, do you still remember? My parents once said that I had a younger brother who disappeared more than ten years ago."
"Remember! What did you say this to do?" Gu Xiuyuan said.
"Thirteen years ago, we went to a opera troupe. I took my three-year-old brother Xiucheng to watch the big show. Who knew that before the show was over, my brother disappeared. There was no news for more than ten years. My parents turned white and wanted to ruin their health. I regretted this. I have refused to get married over the years. One is to take care of my parents, and the other is to forgive myself for my sins." Speaking of this, Xiurong couldn't help but shed tears.
She calmed down and continued, "A few days ago, Chunsheng next door came to help her father grow vegetables. I found that he looked very similar to his lost brother, especially those eyes. After seeing Chunsheng, I felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy. There was a red birthmark on my younger brother's back, which looked like a puppy, so I took advantage of picking lentils and took a look. I had no other thoughts, that's it."
"Oh! So that's it! It seems that I blamed you wrongly." As soon as Gu Xiuyuan finished speaking, his parents and his younger brother and sister-in-law came to the door. They were worried that Gu Xiuyuan would get angry and came over to persuade him.
came just right, Gu Xiuyuan invited several people into the house and repeated what his wife said just now.
The younger brother Gu Xiuyi said, "Oh! There is indeed a red mark on the back of that kid Chunsheng's waist. He was bathing in the river two years ago. I saw it. As for what shape it was, I didn't look carefully. Dad, is Chunsheng the biological son of Baocai's second uncle?"
Gu Xiuyuan's father said, "I really don't know this. Zhao Baocai and his wife have been married for five or six years but have no children. Later, they went to Baofeng to join their cousins for a small business. When they came back, Chunsheng was five or six years old. Who knows if it was their biological child? However, Chunsheng and Baocai and his wife did not look like each other."
Xiurong heard this, Her eyes lit up, she turned back to the room, took out a piece of copper lock from the cabinet, and gave it to everyone, "Dad, mother, second uncle, have you noticed, did Chunsheng carry such a copper lock on his body?"
people looked carefully, but they shook their heads and didn't know. At this time, the younger sister-in-law Qiulian came in and said, "Sister-in-law showed me." Xiurong handed the copper lock over, Qiulian looked at it for a moment, and said, "Chunsheng seems to have a piece, similar to this. I remember three or four years ago, everyone was playing together, Chunsheng showed it to us, but later he was snatched by his mother, and his mother beat Chunsheng up. "
" That's it, that's it. My father used two pieces back then, and my brother and I were one piece by one. I had the word "rong" engraved on it, and he had the word "cheng" engraved on it. It seems that this Chunsheng may be my lost brother Xiucheng." Xiurong was surprised and happy at this moment.
"That's a coincidence. I'll go over and ask." Gu Xiuyuan's father said this, took the copper lock and turned around.
A moment, Gu's father came back with anger and went into the house and said angrily: "Baocai is not at home. His wife is really unreasonable. I just said a few words and was kicked out, which made me angry to death."
"It's no wonder, Ruochunsheng is really Xiurong's lost brother, and the son who Lao Zhao's wife has raised for more than ten years means flying away. If it were you, would you? Don't forget that Baocai and his wife will have a child in Chun!" Gu Xiuyuan's mother said.
"If it is really my younger brother Xiucheng, I just need to take him back and let his parents let go of their concerns, and then come back. It is said that it is better to raise a kindness than to have kindness. Uncle and Aunt Zhao have worked hard for more than ten years to raise him. I should enjoy filial piety. I think my parents will agree." Xiurong said while shedding tears.
Gu Xiuyuan said, "If this matter is not something, no one can accept it. I think this is the case. Let everyone calm down first and wait until Uncle Baocai comes back before making a conspiracy." The family felt it was reasonable and agreed with this point of view.
At the beginning of the night, the gate of the Gu family rang. When he opened the door, he found that it was Zhao Baocai and his wife and Chunsheng. After he invited them into the room, Zhao Baocai asked Chunsheng to remove his coat, reveal the dog-shaped Hongji on his waist, and then took out a copper lock from his arms.
Xiurong suppressed her excitement and took it to check it out. It was exactly the same as hers, with the word "cheng" engraved on it. Xiurong could no longer control herself at this time and cried out with a wow cry. Then she knelt outside the door and shouted in the direction of Changge: "Dad, mother, my daughter has finally found her younger brother." After that, she was already crying.
Zhao Baocai was also moved. He tried the tears in the corners of his eyes and told him about Chunsheng's life experience.
The couple had no children for five or six years, and they were worried about this. Later, they went to Baofeng to live. One day a few years later, Zhao Bao found a man covered in wounds lying beside the tree, sitting next to him, a three or four-year-old boy was crying. He stepped forward to visit and found that the man had lost his breath.
Zhao Baocai was kind, so he took his child to the yamen to report the case. After verification by the yamen, the dead man was a dealer who was a student who had been cut off. He was chased and injured by a servant in a neighboring county and fled here and died.
The yamen buried the man's body in the wild. As for where the child was, they were too lazy to ask. Zhao Baocai saw that the child was charming and whether he had children, so he took it home to adopt it.
Xiucheng was only three years old at the time. Except for knowing his name, he didn't know anything else. Zhao Baocai's wife took off the copper lock on Xiucheng's neck, hid it in the wardrobe, and then changed his name to Chunsheng.
Gu Xiuyuan's father took the copper lock and asked, "Where is Zhao Baocai's wife willing to admit it?" Who would have given up the child she raised since childhood? If Chunsheng knew the truth and returned to his biological parents, what should he do?
Zhao Baocai went home in the evening. After learning the situation, he advised his wife: "You only know that you are reluctant to give up Chunsheng, have you ever thought about his biological parents, how worried he has been in the past ten years? Put your heart in mind, do you think this is appropriate?"
Zhao Baocai's wife is not an unscrupulous person. In the afternoon, she was eager to protect her son and drove away Gu Xiuyuan's father. Her husband's words just made her calm down. After thinking about it, she decided to tell her about Chunsheng's life experience.
The truth is clear. Chunsheng is indeed her own younger brother Xiucheng. Xiurong cried with joy and pulled her younger brother to cry. Chunsheng also shed tears.
The next morning, Gu Xiuyuan took Xiurong and his brother to Changge. The son who had been missing for more than ten years suddenly returned. Qiu Chen and his wife were overjoyed. The couple held a banquet and asked neighbors to celebrate together.
Half a month later, Qiu Chen and his wife urged the three of them to go back. He said to his son: "I can see you again in my lifetime. This is a great fate. God has not been too weak to me and my wife, so I dare not expect anything else. Besides, the adoptive parents raised you and grew up. The kindness is far greater than that of us. You should return to them and be filial. There is no need to worry about it here."
Qiu Chen and his wife are very wise. Gu Xiuyuan admired them very much. After returning to Ruzhou, Zhao Baocai and his wife also admired Qiu Chen's character and went to visit him in person soon.
After Gu Xiuyuan discussed with his wife Xiurong, he planned to take his parents-in-law to Ruzhou to settle down, so that he would stay with his children, but this suggestion was rejected by Qiu Chen.
Two years later, under the search of the two families of the ancient Zhao, Zhao Chunsheng (that is, Qiu Xiucheng) married a good woman, Zhang's wife and started a family and established a family. Zhao Baocai and his wife were also righteous people. They told their son that they would go to Changge to visit their biological parents after a while.
Since seeing his son, Qiu Chen and his wife have a good mood, and the couple are carefree and younger.A good mood - more effective than any magic pill, isn’t that the reason? (Finished story)
[Written at the end]
It is better to raise grace than to be grateful. Zhao Baocai and his wife, Qiu Chen and his wife, and Xiurong have all said this. It can be seen that these people are kind and righteous, and understand the word "gratitude". The reason why they have such a mind can they get a perfect life.
is like Qiu Chen and his wife, who are willing to help Gu Xiuyuan with righteousness. This is the starting point for finding their own son. After all, it is a kind heart that allows them to get what they want in their lifetime.
Folk story: The broken-tailed fox is a clever media
Folk story: The traitor monkey
