At the beginning of "Guofeng Zhounan Guan ju", there is such a sentence: "Guan Guan Ju dove, in the river continent." Ladies and gentlemen. It can be seen that beauty has been pursued by "gentlemen" since ancient times. However, in ancient times, women had no status, so robbery and robbery happened from time to time. Ancient love stories are so rare that they are often sung by later generations.
Lee Wen An
People only know Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, but they don't know Li Wen'an and Zhongtang's mother. The former is a poignant love story that has spread since the Eastern Jin Dynasty; while the latter is a sweet love affair at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Li Wen'an is Li Hongzhang's father, and Li Hongzhang's mother has been called Li Wen'an as a brother and sister since childhood.
It all started with Li Dianhua (Li Hongzhang's grandfather). When Li Dianhua's family was still living in the countryside, they went out once and met an abandoned baby on the road, the baby girl was infected with smallpox, smallpox was an incurable disease at that time, and the Tongzhi Emperor who lived in the imperial palace died of smallpox; and in the poor Family Of Li Dianhua's home, the girl was miraculously saved.
Although the girl was saved, smallpox left a sparse white spot on her young face, which was a big flaw for the girl who was not of high status and was in a bad situation. Because the girl is homeless, the kind-hearted Li Dianhua takes her in and treats her children as brothers and sisters.
This girl is very sensible, from a young age began to help the family to do housework, did not be inferior because of her own defects, an optimistic, positive attitude. She worked hard and worked hard with Li Dianying's family, and because of this, she did not wrap her small feet like the traditional "deep boudoir", and she worked freely with a healthy body, but she became the laughing stock of the villagers.
A girl with a face full of white spots, a girl with "huge" feet, a black girl who goes to the field all day to farm, such a girl is difficult to marry. Just when Li Dianhua was sad about this, he found that his fourth son, Li Wen'an, was unexpectedly kind to this girl. He always took good care of the girls who were tired for a day. So he made the two children kiss in the name of his father. - "Li Hongzhang Family"
Li Wen'an completely inherited the character of his father Li Dianying, and was kind and kind in heart. And Li Wen'an has more perseverance beyond ordinary people. Li Wen'an was the only child who realized the ideal of his father Li Dianying, who was selected in the Jiangnan Township Examination and finally passed the Jinshi Examination.
Li Wen'an, Li Hongzhang
But Li Wen'an was not born intelligent, he studied very hard in his early years, and he worked hard, he was the youngest among his brothers, and his body was very weak. Other children began their education at the age of 4, while Li Wen'an did not start reading until he was 8 years old. At the age of 13, some children in the same village had already been admitted to Xiucai, and he had just finished reading the "Four Books". His father thought that Li Wen'an was playful, so he called his brother Li Wenyu to supervise the study.
Li Wenyu was also not happy on the field, and there was no progress after the examination, so he simply learned the appearance of his father and opened a museum at home. Li Wenyu was very strict with his brother and did not slacken off at all. "Strict master out of high disciple", Li Wen'an finally won the lift, and four years later, he won the jinshi, leading his family to run away from the mountains, at this time he was nearly 40 years old.
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When Li Wen'an was preparing for the exam, his wife (the girl) showed her extraordinary. She kept the whole family in good order and gave birth to 6 boys and 2 girls for Li Wen'an. She worked tirelessly alone to pull several children to grow up, and eventually created Li Wen'an's success, and even more or less affected his children. Both of her daughters were married to officials, and his eldest sons, Li Hanzhang and Li Hongzhang, were both officials of the imperial court.
In the end, all this was brought by Li Wen'an's wife. Because Li Wen'an's wife is very hard and unusually hard-working, she keeps the family in order, so that Li Wen'an has enough environment to study and prepare for the exam.
Li Wen'an, who had no worries, was able to concentrate on preparing for the exam and finally passed the jinshi, and there was also a person named "Zeng Guofan" who was admitted to the jinshi that year. Because they were admitted to the jinshi in the same year, this gave him a relationship with Zeng Guofan - "the same year".
At that time, Zeng Guofan and Li Wen'an were both newcomers who had just entered the career, and this relationship was extremely delicate but extremely important to newcomers like them. When they first arrived at the imperial court as officials, they were invisibly a whole, except for their examiners, they were closer to each other than anyone else in the official arena, and they could be understood as a relationship of mutual help and mutual use.
Although Li Wen'an is "middle-aged and lower-class" and generous, he knows everything in his heart, and he has always been closest to Zeng Guofan in the "same year". At that time, Zeng Guofan was just a small ordinary Beijing official, but Li Wen'an had asked Li Hanzhang and Li Hongzhang to worship Zeng Guofan as a teacher long ago. This is probably the highest wisdom that Li Wen'an has contributed to his family.
Li Hongzhang's mother
Li Wen'an died earlier, and the original little girl became an old lady. At this time, Li Hanzhang and Li Hongzhang both became governors, and the old lady lived with her two sons. The bitter old man became rich and wealthy in the second half of his life, and became her wife in the governor's court.