The brother was too poor and the sister was too ugly, the two simply became relatives, and the result of giving birth to a son was passed down through the ages
One of the great differences between the people of the Mainland and the West is that our traditional thinking is very conservative, and there are many etiquette and rules that need to be followed! Among them, the rule of inheritance, "no filial piety has three nothings to be greater", is deeply rooted in our bones. If they can't pass it on, then they think they don't have the face to face the ancestors of the underground, so no matter how much money they pay, they must marry and have children! Today we will say that an older brother is too poor to marry a daughter-in-law, the sister is too ugly to marry out, the two people simply become relatives, and the result of giving birth to a son has been passed down through the ages!
In modern times, we have many ways to make money, but in ancient times, if you want to get ahead, in addition to casting a good fetus, you can only pass the imperial examination! However, the examination is not so easy, and the difficulty is much higher than our current college entrance examination! In the Qing Dynasty, there was a reader Li Dianhua, who had been studying hard, hoping that he could pass the imperial examination to embark on a career path, but he failed again and again. In the end, Li Dianhua could only abandon this path.
Later, he returned to his hometown and began to farm for a living, but it was simply unrealistic to rely on more than a dozen acres of land to feed a large family. Therefore, he had to find another way and learn Chinese medicine, hoping that he could rely on curing diseases and saving people to earn more silver and two subsidies for his family. One day, Li Dianhua picked up a baby on the way back from the clinic, Li Dianhua picked it up and looked at it, the baby's face was full of numbness, very ugly, it turned out to be smallpox. So Li Dianhua took it home for careful treatment, originally only hoping that the child could walk more peacefully, but he did not expect to be saved in the end!
More than ten years have passed, and the baby girl that Li Dianhua picked up has grown up to the age of marriage, but because of the smallpox when she was a child, her face was covered with hemp, which looked really ugly, so no one came to mention her. Just when Li Dianhua was worried, his fourth son, Li Wen'an, stood up and said that he wanted to marry her as a wife. It turned out that Li Dianhua had many children, in order to support this big family, it can be said that he was already a disciple of the family, and most of the children had reached the age of marriage, but he could not pay the dowry money, so the children's marriage had been delayed.
Unexpectedly, the proposal of the fourth son suddenly solved the marriage of the two people, these two children have lived together since childhood, have a deep emotional foundation, if they are married, it is to kiss and kiss, Li Dianhua happily asked the girl whether she agreed to marry the fourth brother Li Wen'an, the girl did not speak, just nodded with a red face, the family saw here, they all smiled happily. Although these two people are nominally brothers and sisters, they are not related by blood, so the union of the two people does not have any ethical and moral conflicts, but has become a good story. After marriage, the two were very affectionate, Li Wen'an studied hard, and eventually became a jinshi, his wife was diligent and thrifty, the family was well-managed, the parents and brothers took good care of them, and the family's life got better and better, which was really envious of others!
Since Li Wen'an became a jinshi, his wife has given birth to many children for herself, one of which we are very familiar with, that is, the famous Li Hongzhang!