The spring breeze was blowing, and the peach trees planted in the yard were blooming. Lin Shiheng was sitting in front of the window, and a pink petal happened to float into the house with the spring breeze.
This picture is beautiful no matter where it is placed, but unfortunately the original owner doesn't think so.
This peach tree in the yard has been growing since he was born. I don’t know which year it started, but it only blooms and does not bear fruit. For other farmers, it does not bear fruit without bearing fruit. Anyway, they rely on the main It's crops not fruit trees.
But for the original owner, this peach tree represents the self who has been admitted to the examination for talents, but has failed repeatedly.
Flowers bloom early, but bear fruit late.
The place where Lin Shiheng is now is a place called Linyang Village, and the house he is staying in is the old house of the Lin family.
There are three sons in the Lin family. The eldest and the second are ordinary peasants. Only the third is the original owner. Because it is the relationship between parents who have grown up to have children, they are the most loved by their parents. He is someone who can go to the ground to earn a living, and because his parents are old, Lin's father and Lin's mother are afraid that their younger son will go west without any support before he grows up. After thinking about it, he decides to send him to the town to study.
The original owner is really smart, because his elderly parents hugged him and coaxed him when he was a child, saying that he could live a good life only if he studied hard, and he read hard.
At the age of thirteen, he was admitted as a scholar.
Ye Guo's territory has grown, and there are naturally many scholars. There are many young people. When the late emperor was there, there was a fourteen-year-old champion.
But in the backcountry, such a young scholar is very rare, especially since he passed the exam for the first time, it is even more rare.
At that time, when the news of being admitted as a scholar at the age of thirteen came, it almost caused a sensation in the entire Linyang Village. Everyone was saying that the Lin family had had great luck and would have an official master in the future.
The original owner who can become an official in the future is naturally held to the sky. He has not traveled too far, and the husband who taught him is only an old scholar all his life. Said he was a child prodigy rarely seen in a thousand years, and he really believed it.
From then on, he didn't study so hard, but put a lot of effort into himself.
The pen, ink, paper and inkstone must be the best, and the robes and blue shirts must be spotless. With his nice face, it is indeed a beautiful scenery in the gray countryside.
It's a pity, no matter how beautiful, there is no ink in the stomach, and still can't pass the exam.
From the age of thirteen to the age of twenty-two, at this age when everyone else has three children, the original owner did not marry a daughter-in-law because of the exam.
Of course, it's not that others look down on him. Although he didn't pass the examination, he is still a scholar. If he is willing to give up the imperial examination and go to the town to be a cashier, or open a school, he will always earn more money than finding food in the fields. The farmer is strong, not to mention his face, but it attracts the attention of many girls in the village.
The reason why the original owner was not married was because he himself was not reconciled.
He is good-looking and has literary talent. Why should he marry an illiterate country girl? As for the good-looking merchant girl, when he was just a scholar, no one came to ask about it, but the original owner didn't like the merchant at that time. I want to marry a wealthy, powerful, and good-looking official girl.
Now that he is old, and he failed the test, he wants to marry a merchant girl. He is also a shrewd person, and he is willing to marry his daughter to a farmer who has not been successful for nine years.
And the girls in the village don't dislike the original owner, but he doesn't like it himself.
It would have been fine to keep going like this, but when he was twenty-two years old, when Father Lin went out to drive the car, the ox was frightened for some reason, and he fell from it.
Father Lin is now 60 years old. In this day and age, half of his feet are already in the coffin. He was almost killed by such a fall. The doctor who invited him did not say that he could not cure him, but said It takes a lot of money, and even if he is cured, he will not be able to do coolies in the future, so he can only rest and recuperate.
As soon as these words came out, both Lin Da and Lin Er hesitated.
They do not want to let their father see a doctor, they are all from the countryside, and their family is not very wealthy. It's really not necessary.
Of course, their performance was not obvious, it was all their daughter-in-law's performance, Lin Da and Lin Er just didn't stand on their parents' side when their daughter-in-law was talking.
But even so, it was enough to make Mother Lin feel chills.
Being a father and mother, they worked hard to raise their sons, provide them with food and clothing, and start a family for them, but when something happened to their own father, the son actually didn't want him to come back to life.
To Mother Lin's relief, her youngest son, whom she loves most, stood firmly on her side, expressing that she must let her father see a doctor.
In fact, the original owner was not as filial as Mother Lin thought. He had never worked in the fields since he could remember. He had to rely on family support, buying brushes, rice paper, books, clothes, and travel expenses for his exams. These were all provided by his parents through gritted teeth.
The eldest brother and the second brother have always criticized him for spending money on his studies. If his father really leaves, I am afraid that only Lin's mother will not be able to hold down the big room and the second room. Who will support him then
This farce, which came about because Lin's father needed medical treatment, ended in separation of the family.
Mother Lin was disheartened by her two sons, so she brought in the elders of the clan and neighbors as witnesses.
This is what the original owner did not expect.
He just wanted to let his parents continue to support him, but he didn't want to support his parents. The job that should have been given to his eldest brother fell on his head, and he really regretted it.
Lin's father was cured, but he couldn't do the heavy work, and Lin's mother had to take care of the fields and her husband. Originally, he only needed to stay in the room and study, and he also needed to take care of the housework. In just a few days, he could no longer maintain the previous noble and clean. Image, tired and devastated.
Finally, when Mother Lin carefully proposed to hire a daughter-in-law for him to take care of the housework, those who did not want to do housework had to agree.
The married daughter-in-law is 18 years old, and the reason why she hasn't married yet at 18 is because her parents' family is poor. Although father is a good person, what's the use of being good, poor.
Second, because her mother died early, a daughter without a mother's upbringing is always reluctant to marry. Furthermore, there is a legend in the village that it is said that this girl stopped her father to do good deeds, which must be a bad person, so some people are afraid of marrying People who come back to make trouble after a wicked woman don't dare to marry.
Third, it was because the girl's mother had been married for ten years, and she passed away with such a single seedling. People were afraid that this girl would not be able to give birth to a boy if she followed her mother.
In a word, all the circumstances put together, this 18-year-old girl has become an old girl who can't marry.
The original owner didn't want to marry her, but he needed someone to support him, so he married someone with a cold face.
I also know that he doesn't like her, and of course he won't give her any good looks.
After the girl got married, she spent almost every day running around, taking care of the land, serving her in-laws, and providing for her husband. The original owner disliked her illiterate. Although she was good-looking, she was a country girl and didn't care about sex, so she was not happy after three years of marriage. , Finally, the original master was admitted to Juren, and she was also pregnant. She thought that the hard days were coming to an end, but it turned out that she was waiting for a letter of divorce.
It has not been a day or two since the original owner disliked this daughter-in-law. Before that, she still needed her as a confession. Even if it was disgusting, it was not easy to divorce his wife. Now that he has gained fame and stood in the eyes of everyone's envy, he naturally doesn't want to wrong himself any more. .
He is not stupid. He knows that it is not good to divorce his wife as soon as he is admitted to Juren. In addition, he dislikes the ill father Lin, and after having a lover outside, he and his lover carefully designed a case of "daughter-in-law killing father-in-law".
Then, he got his wish and sent his daughter-in-law to prison, and got rid of the burden of Father Lin.
After that, he never passed the exam again, and continued to marry his former lover, the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
I thought I could enjoy it in the future, but because my lover's family was rich, he developed a prosperous attitude, and he took advantage of him to kill his father and framed his wife. He clearly couldn't live, but he was pressing him to prevent him from taking a concubine.
In ancient times, not being able to have one's own children was the greatest punishment. The original owner had countless dreams in the middle of the night and regretted that he had framed him regardless of his wife's pregnancy.
When he was in his 40s, because he discovered his lover's cheating, he became furious and died in agony.
【Ding! This small world mission: Protect Li Lanlan, current completion: 0]
Li Lanlan was the Yuan wife who devoted herself to taking care of her husband and in-laws for three years, and was beaten up again.
Lin Shiheng was a little surprised, [The original owner doesn't seem to be someone who would give up his soul to protect people. 】
[His wish is to marry his wife and adulterer after killing him, and the task of protecting Li Lanlan is to be released systematically. The two should not be confused. 】
[Okay, I understand, you can withdraw. 】
Another peach blossom floated in along the wind, Lin Shiheng clamped the petals, gently placed it on the table, and got up again.
Just outside, an old lady came in with a bowl and chopsticks. Seeing her son get up, a smile appeared on her face: "Shi Heng finished reading so early today? Come and eat."
Because Father Lin was still recovering in bed, Mother Lin wanted to take care of him, and the original owner ate in his own room.
Lin Shiheng glanced at the food she brought over. Seeing that it was steamed bread with white noodles, a bowl of porridge and a few side dishes, he asked, "Mother, what did you and my father eat? These steamed bread with white noodles are expensive, you can bring them to my father to eat. Well, the doctor said that he should take a good rest."
Hearing the younger son's words, Mother Lin's nose turned sour.
She and the old man actually didn't eat very well, that is, a little gruel. They were old and they were reluctant to eat so good. They gave their son white-faced steamed buns, which they didn't have to eat, so they took the gruel to their house just now. At that time, I happened to meet the boss. Although the family was divided, they still lived in the original house because they had no money to build a house. They just didn’t get together. Mother Lin, who was already cold-hearted, was heartbroken.
When the sons were young, it was their two elders who didn't want to feel wronged, but when they were older, they were able to throw their father's life away.
They married their two sons and helped them take care of their grandchildren, but when it came time for them, they were thrown to the third child so eagerly, how could they not feel cold.
Unexpectedly, the youngest son, who still hadn't seen what they were eating, thought of this layer.
Mother Lin felt a little solace in her heart, thinking that she still has a son who is filial, and the smile on her face became happier, "It's okay, mother and father eat well, reading takes a lot of brains, you eat better, I Your dad and I are both happy."
"Then there's no need to eat so well, the situation at home is like this." Lin Shiheng took a bowl of porridge on the plate and put some vegetables in the bowl, "I don't do any physical work every day, just eat this, and the rest eat it."
Seeing Mother Lin had to say more, he took the plate with a smile: "It's okay, mother, I'm so old, can I still starve myself? I'll go to the county in the afternoon to see if I can find a book copying job. , I can buy good medicine for my father."
Mother Lin's heart that was stabbed by her two sons softened again after the younger son said these filial words. Her eyes were red and she wiped it with the corner of her clothes, saying, "You didn't say before that it is degrading for scholars to make money by copying books. Is it? The family hasn't suffered so much yet, so don't lose your reputation for the family."
"It's okay girl."
Copying books to make money is humiliating. Of course, the original owner deceived his family. After all, he just wanted to be raised and didn't want to work so hard to make money.
Lin Shiheng came back directly: "Now the family is separated, my father and mother rely on me alone, and my father is sick in bed. As a son of man, if I do nothing, I will be ridiculed by others. Now I am copying books to buy medicine for my father, right. My reputation can only be beneficial and not detrimental."
Mother Lin breathed a sigh of relief, "Then don't take too much work, don't get tired."
"Don't worry, mother, I still have to take care of you and my father. Now that my son has nothing to do, I am tired of you and my son. In the future, the child must let you and my father enjoy the scenery comfortably. "
This remark moved Mother Lin again. While moved, she also thought of the two unfilial sons in the family.
When the family split, they didn't talk much, but the two daughters-in-law shouted that they were partial to their younger sons, and that they loved the younger one. Mother Lin admitted, but that was mostly because they felt that the younger son was at a disadvantage.
She gave birth to the eldest at the age of sixteen, and the second child at the age of eighteen. After more than ten years, she was not pregnant again. She and her old man worked hard for a lifetime and used the money for her two sons to marry daughters-in-law and start a family. .
When the savings they had saved for their son were almost spent, the younger son came.
The youngest son was born at the age of thirty-seven. At that time, the eldest and the second became fathers, and the nephew was older than the younger uncle. There were a lot of children in the family, and they all took care of them together. Naturally, they could not be like the previous two. Carefully.
Later, when the younger son grows up, she and the old man will not be able to save years of savings for him to marry a wife and have children. It is because the first two big ones took advantage of them, so what if they hurt the little ones more.
No matter how much her heart hurts, she is impartial on the face anyway. If she has a younger son, she has a big house and a second room. It is a lot of money to send the younger son to study, but that is what they have worked so hard to earn. If you really want to compare the money for the big room and the second room, the money they spend on the eldest and the second is much more than what they spend on the younger son. Why do they resent being parents
Even resentment came and stopped their biological father from being treated.
Lin's father has the ability. He was a trader when he was young and saved a fortune. Later, he bought cattle. The family raised pigs, chickens, and farmland. On weekdays, he drove an ox cart to pull goods to earn money. The money for medical treatment will empty all the savings of the second old man, but it will not affect the second house, so why do they stop him? It's not that they are afraid that all the money will be used to treat their own father's illness. In the future, the two old people will not be able to inherit the money.
For the money, my father doesn't want it.
In fact, if Father Lin was awake at the time, he might not want to take care of it. Parents actually don't want to be a burden to their children, not to mention that he is old enough, but he was not awake at the time, and Mother Lin was saddened. I was ready to die, and when I ran into two daughters-in-law who couldn't wait to stand up, they immediately said angrily that they had to be cured.
She remembered the appearance of the two unfilial sons hiding behind his daughter-in-law and letting the daughter-in-law stay silent in the first place, and she shed two more tears, and then thought that the younger son would let the two old men eat the white-flour steamed buns by himself, and she felt heartbroken. Take comfort.
When the mother's heart is ruthless, and the two white-eyed wolves are not filial, she and the old man are not uncommon!
In the future, she will only think that she has only given birth to a son like Shi Heng, and that she will only be his mother!
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that the younger son was good, Mother Lin suddenly thought of what she had asked the matchmaker to inquire about.
The matchmaker said before, it seems to be the girl of the Li family in the west of the village, right
I heard that work is a good hand, and I am a bit older, but now the situation at home, I have no choice, I should settle it early, get married and go home, and have a daughter-in-law to take care of it, I can always let Shi Heng say goodbye. So tired.
Mother Lin thought about something, and asked her son, "Shi Heng, what do you think of the girl in the Li family? Mother has seen her a few times. She is very handsome, and she works diligently. She is just right for you."
She thought her son would be a little unhappy. After all, he was thinking about marrying the daughter of a high-ranking official before, but Lin Shiheng paused slightly, "From the Li family?"
"Okay, then I'll trouble my mother."
He was so refreshing, but it made the prepared mother Lin a little dazed. She raised her eyes and glanced at her son carefully, and asked, "Shi Heng, mother knows that you have never wanted to marry a girl in the village, this time it's me and your father who are dragging it down. you."
"Mother, what did you say?"
Lin Shiheng frowned slightly, and said warmly, "I think the husband and wife are one, and you can't marry someone who can't read. What's the point of being a drag? If the girl from the Li family agrees, I will naturally teach her to read when she comes in. It's no different from marrying an official woman."
Mother Lin felt a little better at this. She was soft-tempered, and she always married her husband. The most powerful time in her life was probably the last separation. Now that her husband is still lying, she naturally listens to her son. Lin Shiheng agreed, and she Immediately went to the matchmaker's house and asked her for help to ask the Li family's opinion.
If it was someone else's house, maybe the matchmaker would have run away this time. After all, everyone knows the current situation of the Lin family. A poor scholar who fails to pass the exam and is unwilling to do other jobs and earn money, his brother does not help, and brings two 60-year-old old people with him. , one of them still needs to take medicine to support, but anyone who loves their daughter will not marry someone.
But the Li family is now only a widower of Li's father, and his man's family, how can he understand the twists and turns, when he hears that the matchmaker praises Lin Shiheng so much, and he is the only scholar in the village, he is a little moved, and the matchmaker wants to thank him The matchmaker, focusing on Li's father's weakness, said that an old man from the Lin family was sick in bed with no one to take care of him, how much he needed someone, and Li's heart softened immediately.
He is a kind-hearted person in the village, and he is also a fool who talks behind the back of the three aunts and six grandmothers. In order to do good deeds, he can endure starvation and have no bedding cover by himself. Now, to do good deeds, he promised his daughter to go out. .
Even because of being considerate of the Lin family's difficulties, the dowry was just a little more meaningful.
The matchmaker was proud and said it was a good marriage, but she was a little worried that when Li Lanlan returned home, she knew that her father had "sent out a good deed" and regretted her marriage. On the way back, she specially asked the villagers to tell the big news about the marriage between the Lin and Li families. In this way, even if Li Lanlan knew that the Lin family was a fire pit, she had to jump. When she got home, the incident spread throughout the village.
Li Lanlan went to work in the field early in the morning. She was so busy that it was almost dark before she walked back with farm implements. She made pancakes yesterday for the day's work today, but she didn't know until she went out in the morning that the pancakes were taken out by her own father. I went to give it to the man at the end of the village who broke his leg, saying that this man was the only pillar of their family, and that he had a hard time and helped him.
She was almost out of breath and cried, that family is difficult, isn't it difficult for their own? There are only two people in the family doing farm work. She is still a girl with little strength. She finally earned money through hard work. Father Li turned around and pitied others and sent it out. Li Lanlan was obviously in her own home. She was afraid that her father would find out that working on the farm would be tiring. She made pancakes because she was afraid that she would not be able to bear it when she was tired, so she was given to others by Li's father.
Li Lanlan couldn't figure out why Li's father was willing to give his love to unrelated people, but he couldn't understand her.
Today, because there was no pancake, she felt dark in front of her eyes several times, and she was in a bad mood when she walked back. She was suffering when a young girl in floral clothes ran over with a smug expression on her face: "Li Lanlan, Congratulations, I really didn't expect that you could marry a scholar, but we envy us badly."
She said envy in her mouth, but her face was full of schadenfreude. Li Lanlan was shocked and stopped, "What did you say?"
"You don't know yet? Your father promised you to a scholar from the Lin family, the Lin family who just split up. He took his parents with him."
Li Lanlan was not in the mood to bother with this girl at all. She hurried home all the way and asked directly, "Dad, did you really promise me to the Lin family?"
Father Li was drinking water, when he heard this, he stood up and laughed: "No, the Lin family is not living well now, I heard that the old man is ill and needs someone to serve, but he can't make time, then the scholar of the Lin family is a weak scholar and can't do it. When I was doing farm work, the matchmaker came to me, and I thought, isn’t this a good deed, so I did it.”
Li Lanlan almost fainted. She had never seen Lin Shiheng, but had only heard of the situation in the Lin family. People in the village were saying that it was difficult for a scholar-in-law to find a daughter-in-law. Now, in his family's situation, no one dared to marry his daughter.
This is her father.
her father.
The village knew that the Lin family was not doing well, so they avoided letting their daughter go there, but her own father wanted her to marry him just for his good deeds.
Li Lanlan closed her eyes and hid the tears in her eyes. Her heart that had hoped for her father gradually cooled down. She opened her eyes again, and there was nothing but indifference.
"Okay, I'm marrying, you tell that over there, let's get married, the sooner the better."
After she gets married, she will definitely take care of her husband, serve her in-laws, and be a daughter-in-law of the Lin family as Father Li wished.
It's just that in the future, if Dad does good deeds and doesn't eat or wear what he does, she won't care anymore.