Honest people are being blamed for no reason
During the Years of the Republic of China, warlords were fighting, and there was a small town outside Tongzhou called Hutouling, and there was a railway station, which was considered a major transportation route. As a result, the town is home to the direct army all year round.
There is a man in the town named Hu Fugui, who carries wontons every day and sells them along the street, and is still alone in his thirties. There is "Fugui" in his name, but in fact, he can barely eat enough, buy a house, marry a wife and have children, and dare not think about it.
That night, Hu Fugui had just finished selling wontons along the street, returned to the door, and when he just took out the key to open the door, suddenly three masked men flashed behind him, holding a short knife in his hand.
Hu Fugui knew that he had met a villain, and quickly begged for forgiveness: "Three good men, I am a wonton seller, barely making ends meet, you have robbed the wrong person!"
Unexpectedly, one of the men said breathlessly, "You have offended my eldest brother, and you are limited to leaving Hutouling early tomorrow morning, otherwise you will be killed."
With that said, the other two rummaged through boxes and cabinets in the house, looting money. One of them went to the stove with ease, cut two bricks from the side of the stove, and took out an iron jar from inside.
Hu Fugui's head was in a cold sweat, in the tin jar was the hard-earned money he had saved for more than ten years, and he had planned to return to his hometown in a few years to buy land and build a house to marry and have children, but now...
Hu Fugui knelt down and begged the three good men to let him go, but the three good men ignored him, and he had to watch with his eyes. When the three miscreants left, Hu Fugui fell to the ground and couldn't help but cry and weep.
The news of the robbery of the old Hu family spread before dawn. Neighbors and neighbors can't understand: Hu Fugui is honest and loyal on weekdays, and does not provoke right and wrong, how can there be an enemy?
Hu Fugui thought about the dawn, but he didn't remember who he had offended. Seeing that the sun was rising higher, Hu Fugui remembered the threatening words of the three miscreants, and had to tearfully carry his luggage out of the city and embark on the road back to his hometown.
Hu Fugui's hometown is fifty miles away from Hutouling, called Hujialing. On the way home, the more Hu Fugui thought about last night's events, the more strange he felt.
Honestly, there can be no enemies, how can the other three miscreants know where they hid their money? Hard to come by... He remembered a man. This man was a young man that Hu Fugui saved last winter...
Save a life And become a brother with a different surname
One evening last winter, Hu Fugui was carrying a wonton burden and shouting along the street to sell chaos: "Wontons, delicious wontons, a bowl of salmon money, delicious or not expensive..."
When he walked to the door of Li Mansion, he saw a group of people gathered around the door, which was very lively. Hu Fugui curiously squeezed in to see the hilarity. Only to see Li Fu's subordinates tie a young man to a stone lion outside the door and beat him constantly.
Old Master Li was sitting in the doorway, holding a cup of tea in his hand, while drinking tea, he pointed at the young man and scolded: "Dare to come to my house to steal things, see if I don't smoke you!"
The guy cried and begged for forgiveness: "I didn't steal anything..."
From the intermittent cries and complaints of the young man, Hu Fugui understood that this young man came to HutouLing to defect to relatives and mistakenly entered the Li Mansion.
Just because of a simple misunderstanding, the young man was severely beaten by Mr. Li. The onlookers thought the boy was pitiful, but no one dared to intercede for him.
Old Master Li is a bully in the town, and there is a son-in-law who is the commander of the direct army, who acts as a mighty and blessed person in ordinary days, and does not bully the people of Hutouling, so no one dares to provoke.
Seeing that the young man had fainted and was going to die if he continued to fight, Hu Fugui hurriedly put down his ravioli burden, ran to Old Master Li, threw himself on the ground and knelt down, saying, "Old Master Li, please beg kai Kai," this man is my cousin."
Old Master Li took a sip of tea and said slowly, "Old Hu, is this your cousin?"
Hu Fugui quickly nodded and said, "Back to the old master, it is really my cousin, the countrymen have never seen the world, mistakenly broke into your house, please ask the old man to spare his dog's life!"
Old Master Li looked suspicious: "Old Hu, this boy has calluses in his mouth, and he has been a soldier when he sees it, what do you say?"
Hu Fugui was shocked and quickly said: "Back to the old master, my cousin did serve as a soldier a few years ago, and he fled back to his hometown only because he was afraid of death, and his hometown was too poor to make a living, so he came to the city." Please, lord, let him go!"
Old Master Li listened and said, "Well, on weekdays, you are honest and do your duty, pay taxes on time, and I believe you once." Let him go. ”
As soon as he waved his hand, the servant immediately untied the boy. After Hu Fugui thanked him for his kindness, he picked up the boy and went home.
In fact, Hu Fugui did not know this young man at all, he saw that the young man was pitiful, and he was hot-blooded for a while, and he risked his life and lied to save the young man! The boy was seriously injured and was injured for more than a month in lao Hu's house before he could get out of bed. But he still fell ill, and his right leg was a little lame.
The young man told Hu Fugui that his name was Fu Ergui, a native of Shandong, and had been wandering outside. This time I came to Tongzhou to do business, and I was calculated and lost all.
When I was wandering in the past, I met a brother surnamed Li in Hutouling, and I wanted to come to him. Unexpectedly, he mistakenly broke into the house of that old master Li, was treated as a thief, and almost provoked the disaster of killing himself.
After the injury was healed, the boy followed Hu Fugui out of the stall to sell wontons, he was clever and diligent, never lazy. As the days went on, Lao Hu felt that the two were more and more like-minded, so he worshipped the handle.
In this way, Fu Ergui lived in Hu Fugui's house for nearly two months. On this day, Fu Ergui suddenly said that he was worried about his family, and he had not returned for such a long time, afraid that his family would be worried.
Old Hu was very reluctant, but he had to say goodbye with tears. On the day of leaving, Fu Ergui had tears in his eyes and said, "Big brother, your great kindness, I will never forget in this life..."
The boy is well-intentioned just to repay the favor
At this moment, why did Hu Fugui think of Fu Ergui? Because the place where the money is hidden is only known to this brother with a different surname than himself.
Alas, he was so blind that he saved a beast! But he couldn't understand why Fu Ergui still had to take himself away from the town?
The more Hu Fugui thought about it, the more angry he became, the more sad he became, plus it was cold and windy, and he was hungry for a day, and when he just knocked on the door, his eyes were dark and he fell to the ground.
Hu Fugui lay on the kang for a day and a night before he woke up. He told the old man about this, but he didn't expect the old man to say, "Son, you are not a curse, you are a blessing." Thank you for those three miscreants! ”
Hu Fugui was blinded. It turned out that on the night that Hu Fugui returned to his hometown, the Fengzhi army in the northeast attacked the direct army of Hutouling at night, wanting to seize the railway station, and the good luck soldiers went south to seize the territory. A great battle broke out between the two sides, killing and injuring many people, and the people in the town did not have time to flee, and many people died.
After Hu Fugui listened, he was shocked and lamented that the world was uncertain. Hu Fugui, who returned to his hometown, followed his father to work in the field every day, and did not return to Hutouling to sell wontons.
One morning, when Hu Fugui had just finished eating and was preparing to work in the fields, suddenly a man on a horse and wearing a military uniform came to the door of his home.
Hanzi turned over and dismounted, and when he saw Hu Fugui, he asked him what his surname was. Hu Fugui was a little confused, but he still answered truthfully.
After Han Zi finished listening, he immediately called "Big Brother," then unwrapped the package from his back, held it in front of Hu Fugui with both hands, and said, "Big Brother, this is your thing, and now it's all over to Zhao."
Hu Fugui was even more surprised, did not reach out his hand, and said: "This military master, I don't know you, are you recognizing the wrong person?"
But the man said, "Fu Ergui, but are you a brother in arms?"
"Yes!"
"That's right! Big brother, you first open the package and look at it, and you will understand it when you look at it. ”
Hu Fugui unwrapped the package and looked at it, it was the jar where he hid the money, opened the jar, and the money was all there. Surprised, he asked, "What's going on?"
Hanzi said slowly, "My name is Liu Qian, and I am a soldier with Fu Ergui in the Fengjun Army." Some time ago, it was Fu Ergui who led me to rob the eldest brother, in order to force the eldest brother away, because the Feng army was going to attack Hutouling. ”
"This is a vicious battle, in order to let the eldest brother escape, and can not leak military information, Fu Ergui only made this decision." The previous adventure to Old Master Li's house was actually to steal the deployment map of the direct troops in HutouLing!"
After Hu Fugui finished listening, he asked busily, "What about Fu Ergui?"
Liu Qian said, "The battle of Hutouling was killed. Before the war, Fu Ergui and I swore that whoever survived would return the money jar to the eldest brother. Now that the war has subsided a little, I have found it!"
When Hu Fugui heard this, he cried a lot. Liu Qian turned on his horse, said "Big brother take care of himself," and sped away. Since then, Hu Fugui has never seen Liu Qian again.
Later, Hu Fugui used this money to build a house and marry and have children. He had two sons and a daughter. The eldest son is called Hu Niangui, and the second son is called Hu Nianqian.
Whenever the Ancestors of the Qingming Dynasty were worshipped, Hu Fugui would not be bothered to mention the past with his sons, and he always advised: "When doing things, we must be honest and do our duty and treat others well." For example, if I hadn't had the brother who worshipped the shogun, I might have died in the chaos of the war..."