This story begins with Li Dianhua of the Qing Dynasty, Li Dianhua's family has dozens of acres of land, but when the harvest is not good, the days are tight, although he is a rural reader, but the exam has been repeatedly frustrated, always did not learn a famous hall, in short, he is a poor but not a businessman, and later simply set up a school at home, planning to put the hope of obtaining a meritorious name on his son, but he did not look favorably on his young son.
The youngest son is called Li Wen'an, born in 1801, and the name is the same as quiet and quiet, this is because he was weak and sickly since he was a child, and he did not go out to meet people, and he could only start to enlighten from the age of 8, even if he began to study at this age, it was very late, it was difficult to keep up, and it was indeed so, until he was 13 years old, Li Wen'an "finished" the four books, which was equivalent to the door of the imperial examination, and Li Dianhua had to send his eldest son to supervise him.
However, the "stubborn" Li Dianhua and the "stupid" Li Wen'an have one thing in common, that is, they both have a heart of love beyond mortals, perhaps this is the original heart of the reader after being cultivated by the sages, that is, one day in a certain year, Li Dianhua heard crying on the side of the road, the crying was terrible, he looked for the past, found that from the mouth of a baby girl, in that era abandoned babies are everywhere, not to mention that this abandoned baby girl is still smallpox, hot, obviously life is not long.
Li Dianhua did not bear to turn a blind eye, he took the girl back home, supplemented pediatric knowledge everywhere, and then cured this little point, completely treated her as a daughter, only two points are not good, that is, after the ceiling is good, the girl's face left a piece of white pockmarks, ugly, in addition to knowing that she was picked up, the girl behaved really politely, never regarded herself as a lady, has not tied her feet, busy for the Li family, was ridiculed by the villagers "can't marry".
But her industrious figure has won the favor of Li Wen'an, Li Wen'an was originally a soft and sticky young master, the first half of his life has not grown any heart eyes, see people suffering under their own eaves, it is painful to not want, this kind of heartache has accumulated more and more has become a favorite, once returned home at night, saw the girl sleeping in the kitchen door like that, his heart will melt, gently put on his coat for this young and poor girl.
What he didn't know was that this scene was looked at squarely by his father, and he thought that this little son must have taken a fancy to the little girl he had picked up, just one was too ugly to marry, one was too poor to marry temporarily, simply hit it off, so this little girl married the little young master of the Li family, became the bride of the Li family, and later paid a lot for the Li family, which can be said to be the kind of payment that let the Li family transfer.
The imperial examination has always been difficult to ascend to the heavens, if there is no family as a backing, may not have waited for the day of the examination to hang up, this bride is one is spicy, the other is capable, never let the Li family be bullied, Li Wen'an has never worried about the big and small things in the family, every day only to bury his head and read hard, so that Li Wen'an from the most unpopular child to the li family keju first person, in 1834, in 1838, the middle of the jinshi, and Lin Zexu's son Lin Ruzhou in the punishment department together as an official.
In addition, in the eyes of the people in feudal society, this bride also has a powerful point, that is, to give birth to children, she gave birth to 6 sons for the Li family, for Li Wen'an, 2 daughters, all of them have a great success, 6 sons are: Li Hanzhang, Li Hongzhang, Li Hezhang, Li Yunzhang, Li Fengzhang, Li Zhaoqing, yes, those who have had brilliant marks in China's modern history, especially Li Hongzhang.
Li Hongzhang gathered his grandfather and father's earnest and hard work towards learning, and inherited the wisdom and spiritual show in their genes, and also had the benevolent heart of the two, in 1840, Zhongxiucai, 1844, and 1847, at the same time, he made friends, received new ideas, understood the suffering of Li Min, studied Zeng Guopan and sought wealth, and gained some respite for the Qing Dynasty in the situation of tigers and wolves.
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