Qian Xiaowen was a scholar, his family was poor, his father was often sick, and his mother's health was not very good. Qianjia Village, where Qian Xiaowen lives, is a small village with only more than 20 families living in the village.
One morning, a matchmaker from a neighboring village suddenly came to Qian Xiaowen's house. She told Qian Xiaowen's parents that the Wang Fugui family in the neighboring village wanted to recruit a door-to-door son-in-law, and she thought that Qian Xiaowen was suitable, so today she came to make a matchmaker for Qian Xiaowen. In the local area, many parents are reluctant to let their sons be son-in-law. Because they think that if their son becomes the son-in-law of others, he will be angry at others. Although Qian Xiaowen's parents were not willing to let Qian Xiaowen become a door-to-door son-in-law, they also knew that with their family's conditions, it would be difficult for Qian Xiaowen to marry a daughter-in-law. Therefore, after consultation, they agreed to let Qian Xiaowen go to Wang Fugui's house as a door-to-door son-in-law.
Wang Fugui and his wife Wu Meihua only had one child, a daughter, named Wang Xinghua. Soon, Qian Xiaowen went to Wang Xinghua's home as a door-to-door son-in-law. Unexpectedly, after Qian Xiaowen went to Wang Xinghua's home as a door-to-door son-in-law for three months, Qian Xiaowen's father fell ill and died. Only two months after Qian Xiaowen's father died, Qian Xiaowen's mother also died. His parents died one after another, and Qian Xiaowen's mood was very bad.
Six months after Qian Xiaowen's mother died, one day Wang Fugui suddenly fell seriously ill, and soon after, Wang Fugui died. Three months after Wang Fugui's death, Wu Meihua also died. A year after Wu Meihua's death, Qian Xiaowen suddenly fell seriously ill. Wang Xinghua quickly took him to the medical center in the county town. As a result, after Examining Qian Xiaowen's body, Lang Zhong in the medical hall quietly told Wang Xinghua that Qian Xiaowen was terminally ill. Unexpectedly, the conversation between Lang Zhong and Wang Xinghua was overheard by Qian Xiaowen.
After Wang Xinghua took Qian Xiaowen home, she said to him, "Now that you are seriously ill, go back to your own home!" Qian Xiaowen knew that Wang Xinghua was driving him out, and although his heart was very angry, he still said very calmly on the surface: "Well, I will leave your house now." ”
Three days after Qian Xiaowen returned to his home, he left the house alone and went up the mountain 17 miles from Qianjia Village. After Qian Xiaowen entered the mountain, he walked all the way to the depths of the mountain. He thought well, he was going to die in the depths of the mountains. After he had walked for most of the day, he met two women. One woman was an old woman, the other was a young woman, and it looked like a young woman was about eighteen or nineteen years old. The old woman said to Qian Xiaowen: "This is the depths of the mountains, and when you walk here, it is easy to get lost." Qian Xiaowen said: "Even if you get lost, it doesn't matter." ”
The old woman said, "You have something to say, talk about it, why do you say that?" Qian Xiaowen thought about it after listening to the old woman's words, and then he was terminally ill and was driven out of the house by Wang Xinghua, and he told the old woman about the passage of walking alone to the depths of the mountain. The old woman said, "Well, my family and my granddaughter are two people, you go home with us!" Stay in our house from now on. Qian Xiaowen said, "That will cause you trouble." ”
After about half a column of incense, the old woman and the young woman took Qian Xiaowen into a valley. There were five grass huts in the valley, and the old woman told Qian Xiaowen that those five grass houses were her home. Since then, Qian Xiaowen has lived in the old woman's house, and he also knows the name of the young woman, whose name is Li Xiaoqian.
Since Qian Xiaowen lived in the old woman's house, he followed the old woman and Li Xiaoqian to do farm work every day, because the old woman planted crops and vegetables in the valley, and also raised chickens and sheep.
To say that time, passed really fast, unconsciously, three years have passed. One morning, the old woman said to Qian Xiaowen: "Xiaowen, you have been living in my house for three years, and you have not died, which means that your body has recovered its health, these days, I feel very tired, maybe in a few days, I will die, after I die, you and Xiaoqian will bury me, and then you will take Xiaoqian home!" ”
Six days later, the old woman died. After the old woman's death, Qian Xiaowen and Li Xiaoqian buried the old woman not far from the five grass houses, and built a new grave.
The next morning, Qian Xiaowen took Li Xiaoqian out of the grass house. In the evening, Qian Xiaowen took Li Xiaoqian back to his home. When the villagers of Qianjia Village saw that Qian Xiaowen had returned, they asked him one after another, how did he cure his terminal illness? Therefore, Qian Xiaowen told the villagers about his own walk to the depths of the mountain, met the old woman and Li Xiaoqian, and then lived in the old woman's home. After listening to his words, the villagers were amazed.
In the evening, Qian Xiaowen's neighbor, Aunt Wang, came to Qian Xiaowen's house to visit the door, and she told Qian Xiaowen. Three months after Wang Xinghua drove Qian Xiaowen out of the house, she recruited a man named Wu Dahai as her son-in-law. Although Wu Dahai is handsome, he eats, drinks and gambles. After Wu Dahai became the door-to-door son-in-law of Wang Xinghua's family for half a year, he owed a lot of gambling debts. One morning, he tricked Wang Xinghua into a field outside the village and sold Wang Xinghua to a human trafficker. Soon, the traffickers sold Wang Xinghua to a middle-aged single stick. The middle-aged Singles is an alcoholic, often drunk, and when he is drunk, he beats Wang Xinghua violently. One evening, the middle-aged Guanggun was drunk again, and as a result, he lost his hand and beat Wang Xinghua to death.
Shortly after Wu Dahai sold Wang Xinghua to traffickers, he also sold the house of Wu Xinghua's family. Later, Wu Dahai became a beggar. On a cold winter night, Wu Dahai froze to death in a broken temple.