Ming Dynasty There was a man named Qin Yong whose parents died early. The villagers saw him pitiful and often helped him. After growing up a little, Qin Yong followed the villagers up the mountain to chop wood. Later, he became a woodcutter.
Qin Yong is kind and generous, has a very good character, and often helps villagers with worse conditions than him. Due to his poor family, he has not yet married in his thirties.
This year, floods occurred in neighboring counties, flooding large areas of farmland and villages, and many villagers fled to other places.
On this day, Qin Yong still went to the mountain to chop wood, and then picked it to the market to sell. By the time he got home, it was already dark.
He saw someone lying in front of his house from afar, motionless. Qin Yong hurriedly stepped forward to check and found that it was a young woman with disheveled hair.
He reached out to the woman's breath, but fortunately he was still alive. So he called softly and patted the woman's shoulder with his hand. After a while, the woman slowly opened her eyes.
Qin Yong helped the woman into the house, poured water for her, and prepared meals. The woman was probably hungry and swallowed her voraciously, and soon ate all her food.
It turns out that the woman's name is Ning Caifeng, from the neighboring county, her family died in the flood, and she was the only one left. Caifeng originally planned to defect to her relatives, but she had begged all the way here, but found that her relatives had moved and disappeared.
Caifeng was hungry for several days and was exhausted. She finally fainted in front of Qin Yong's house.
"Then what are your plans in the future?" Qin Yong asked.
Caifeng has nowhere to go, so she can only shake her head with tears. Qin Yong thought for a while and said, "I am an orphan. I live alone here now. There are two dirt houses at home. If you don't dislike it, you can live here temporarily and think about your future plans."
Caifeng was very grateful and planned to kowtow to Qin Yong to thank him, but was stopped by Qin Yong. In this way, Caifeng lived in Qin Yong's house.
On weekdays, Qin Yong still went to the mountain to chop wood, while Caifeng stayed at home, cleaned up the house, washed and cooked for him.
Over time, Qin Yong and Caifeng looked at each other, and the two became husband and wife and supported each other. After getting married, the couple was very loving and inseparable, and their lives were dull but happy.
However, three years have passed, Caifeng has not been able to give birth to a son and half of his daughter for Qin Yong. For this reason, Caifeng was worried and depressed all day long. Qin Yong often comforted her, saying that as long as the couple lived a good life, it would be fine.
On the evening of that day, Qin Yong and Caifeng returned home from the market. On the way, they met an old woman sitting under a big tree, dying, and a boy about three or four years old was crying loudly beside them.
The couple hurried over to check. Caifeng asked about the old woman's condition. The old woman opened her eyes slightly, then held Caifeng's hand tightly and said, "Good man, I'm afraid I can't do it anymore, you can do it, take this poor child away."
As soon as the words finished, the old woman didn't mention it in one breath and closed her eyes. Caifeng was at a loss and looked back at Qin Yong.
Qin Yong thought about it and asked Caifeng to take the child home. Afterwards, Qin Yong made a simple coffin to let the old woman be buried.
The boy is too young to ask for his name and origin. So, after discussion, Qin Yong and his wife decided to keep the boy and name it Qin Tianci.
After that, Qin Yong and Caifeng regarded Qin Tianci as their own. Qin Tianci was also very sensible and well-behaved. He helped Caifeng do housework at a very young age. He often followed Qin Yong to the mountains to pick up firewood, but was always driven home.
Ten years have passed in a blink of an eye. Qin Tianci is already thirteen years old and is very filial to Qin Yong and his wife. However, even though Qin Yong went out early and came back to work late and Caifeng did needlework for others to supplement the family's income, the Qin family was still very poor.
This year, Qin Tianci learned that He Fu's family in the town were looking for a child to herd cattle, so he explained to his parents that he wanted to go.
After hearing this, Qin Yong and Caifeng both knew that the child felt sorry for them, but the couple were worried that he would suffer in the He family and both disagreed. After Qin Tianci's repeated persuasion, his parents allowed him to apply for the job.
Unexpectedly, Qin Tianci actually applied for the job. Every morning, he took dry food out to herd cattle, drove the cattle back in the afternoon, and had to feed the cattle at night, so he lived in the woodshed next to the cowshed.
He family manages food and accommodation, and has additional wages. Although the money is not much, Qin Tianci is already satisfied.
He Furen has a daughter named He Shulan. He loves this daughter very much and asks her to study in a private school.
Shulan is two years younger than Qin Tianci, but her personality is like a boy. She often skipped school and secretly followed Qin Tianci to the mountains to herd cattle. She climbed through trees and dug through bird nests.
Qin Tianci was worried that she would be injured and always drove her home. But the next day, Shulan secretly followed him to the mountain again. Qin Tianci had no choice but to let her go.
Shulan is not very interested in reading and literacy. However, when she learned that Tianci was unable to pay for the tuition, Shulan began to study in a private school seriously and taught Tianci all the things she learned.
That's it. Tianci studied with Shulan. He was extremely smart and wrote his articles very well.
Once, Shulan didn't want to write an article, so she secretly took the article written by Tianci to the private school teacher. After reading it, the gentleman praised it.
Later, with Shulan's encouragement, Tianci took the scientific examination and passed the imperial examination.
When Shulan was fifteen years old, she was already in a graceful state, and there were endless people coming to propose marriage. Two of them are the most powerful, one is the son of the captain of the county yaning, and the other is the son of Xue Furen, the richest man in the local area.
Catcher Ning's son is named Ning Chuan, a famous playboy, idle and domineering all day long.
Xue Furen's son is named Xue Qingfeng. He learned to do cloth business with his father. He is an authentic businessman. He is making his family business bigger and bigger.
However, Shulan's family did not agree, she only wanted to marry Qin Tianci.
On this day, both Ning and Xue families sent people to the He family to propose marriage. Somehow, the two families began to compete on the bride price. You add 500 taels and I add 1,000 taels.
compares financial resources, and the head-catching family naturally cannot compare to the richest family. So, the Ning family's matchmaker said, "Whoever wants to fight with the Ning family will put his whole family in prison."
The richest family is not willing to be outdone and said, "Whoever wants to fight with the Xue family will make him lose his black hat ."
Who is targeted by the Ning Xue family? It is clear at a glance. He Furen was extremely worried, and he couldn't afford to offend both sides.
Shulan is relaxed, making her father relax. She quietly said to the Ning family's matchmaker: "It's OK to promise the Ning family, but our family can't afford to offend the richest man."
Then, Shulan secretly found the Xue family's matchmaker and said: "It's OK to promise the Xue family, but our family can't afford to offend the captain."
Not long after, Xue Qingfeng was imprisoned for some reason. Xue Furen spent a lot of money to protect her son. Since then, the Xue family has never seen him come to the He family to propose marriage.
Soon, the Ning family asked the matchmaker to propose marriage to the He family. However, the He couple said that Shulan is still young and wanted to stay with her for two more years.
Ningchuan naturally knew that this was the excuse of the He family. He had already found out that He Shulan had a crush on a cattle-herding man at home.Even though this guy passed the exam for scholarship,
So Ningchuan sent someone to find Qin Tianci and asked him to leave the He family: "If you agree, go to the temple in the suburbs of the city tomorrow night to get a hundred taels of silver and leave."
Tianci asked who asked him to leave the He family, and the man said nothing. On the same day, Tianci told Shulan about this, and both of them thought it was sent by Ning Chuan.
The next night, Ningchuan sent people to the temple in the suburbs of the city to wait for Qin Tianci. Unexpectedly, before he could wait for Qin Tianci, he waited for the yamen runners to arrest him as a thief and entered the county yamen.
Ning Chuan learned that it was the official of Qin Tianci, and threatened to let him go with him in the end.
Qin Tianci felt that Ning Chuan would definitely not give up and was worried that he would implicate the He family, so he planned to leave the He family, but Shulan disagreed after learning about it.
She found her father and asked, "Dad, Ning Chuan has been in trouble. What do you think?"
"We can't afford to both Ning Xue's family." He Furen sighed and said that he was very embarrassed.
"You only have me, why don't you recruit a son-in-law? The Ning and Xue families, no matter who they are, will not agree to their son coming to the house." Shulan suggested.
He Furen suddenly realized and thought this was a good idea. After he calmed down, he said to Shulan, "Is this what you mean? Are you interested in a poor boy?"
"What's wrong with poverty? We don't have to worry about food and clothing. As long as we are kind to our daughter and be filial to our parents, it's enough." After Shulan said that, He Furen continued to ask who it was.
At this time, Mrs. He smiled and said, "Master, can't you really see it?"
When Mrs. He asked, He Furen thought about it, and then realized that the person Shulan liked was Qin Tianci. Thinking of Qin Tianci's character, the He couple did not object.
Unexpectedly, before Shulan could tell Qin Tianci the good news, he was kidnapped by Ning Chuan.
Ning Chuan threatened him that if he did not leave the He family, not only would he have trouble, but the He family would not have a good time.
Ning Chuan gave Qin Tianci a day of consideration and sent someone to guard him, and then he left.
Unexpectedly, when Ning Chuan was about to return to the Ning family gate, he saw his father coming out of the house by several yamen runners from afar.
Ningchuan was so scared that he didn't dare to speak out, so he hurriedly turned around and ran into the mountains. However, he was soon caught by the officers and soldiers and brought to the government office.
It turned out that the head of the Xue Furen Jiang Ning sued the Governor and listed the crimes of the head of Ning and Ning Chuan one by one. Therefore, the prefect did not dare to protect Captain Ning anymore, so he had to send someone to arrest them.
Qin Tianci was soon rescued by the people from the He family. Later, as soon as the news that the He family had recruited a son-in-law came out, the Xue family really gave up the idea of proposing marriage to the He family.
In this way, Qin Tianci and He Shulan got married and became the son-in-law of the He family.
After the couple got married, they had a deep relationship and were very loving. They were very filial to the He and the Qin couple. From then on, the family lived a happy and stable life.
is adapted from "Folk Stories". Follow @Xinyan Xiaoyu Listen to the stories and understand life!
