During the Ming Dynasty of the Song Dynasty, there was a young man in Henan Province, Xijing, who made a living by picking feet.
The young man's name is Li Cheng, and the words are faithful. Since childhood, his life is bitter, his father died early, and he and his mother are dependent on each other, and the two of them live in Indon. The woman has no ability, and after farming, she can only do some needlework to supplement the family, but this can not support Li Cheng.
Half-sized, eating a lot, always in a state of hunger. The poor child has long been in charge, and from the age of a teenager, he began to "pick feet" for people. The so-called foot picking is to deliver to people and pick things to earn hard money.
Until the age of twenty, the young man will be able to maintain food and clothing, and there is no need to think about marrying a daughter-in-law.
This has become a heart disease of the mother Li's family, but this kind of thing is not in a hurry to get it, and the days are still going on like this.
Li Cheng is filial and kind,And since he was a child, he knows that it is not easy for his mother to raise himself, which makes Li Shi very pleased.
In addition to the two of them, there was a white cat in the house. This cat was taken in by Li Cheng on the way to pick his feet, and when he was small, he was dying. He couldn't bear to die such a small life, and took it home to take good care of it, and gradually became like a family member.
This year, the weather was cold, Li Cheng got up early to pick up the feet and transport goods for people, did not want to slip the road after the snow, and just fell to the ground when he was discharged from the hospital.
This fall, the fall out of a bizarre situation.
I.: Li Cheng saved people in the waxing moon, and in March, Tianyan Er was married
After entering the Waxing Moon, it snowed for several days, and it was very cold after the snow, and someone in the city asked him to send firewood, and he was reluctant to rest. On the fifth day, he had already gotten up, and had just been discharged from the hospital, and his feet slipped and fell heavily to the ground.
He felt his head hit the ground hard, and it took him half a day to get confused, shake his sleepy head and stand up, and suddenly found a woman lying prone under the wall.
Seeing the woman frightened him, in such cold weather, why did this woman lie down on the wall of her house? This must not be frozen?
He hurried over to call for the woman, but the woman did not respond. He couldn't bear to see that the kitten was going to die, and such a woman?
He couldn't care that his head was still drowsy, and he couldn't care less about picking his feet to earn money, picking up the woman into the house and shouting for the mother to hurry up and save people.
When Li Shi saw that his son had hugged a woman back, he was surprised and did not care to ask more questions, and immediately gave the woman warmth and treatment.
After half a day, the woman woke up slowly, and without saying a word, she covered her face and cried, leaving Li Shi and her sisters at a loss, not knowing how to be good.
This girl must have encountered something embarrassing, seeing that she did not look like a poor person, but why did she lie down by the wall when it was cold?
Li Brought hot porridge for the girl, and the woman cried again after drinking it. Li Cheng didn't know what to do, Li Shi didn't know either, he didn't care to send firewood, he wanted to know what difficulties this big girl like a flower had encountered.
The woman finally stopped crying and said that her name was Ma Yan'er, a native of Luzhou. This time was to follow Daddy to Xijing to play, but unexpectedly after arriving here, he suddenly separated from Daddy. She was a girl's family, and she didn't know how to return to Luzhou, so she had to wander around.
He happened to be favored by a local Liu surname, and forced her to be accepted as a concubine.
How could she have agreed unknowingly? So I don't agree. Not wanting the surname Liu to see that she did not agree, she wanted to use Qiang and forcibly tied her into the house to cause harm, so she took advantage of the drunkenness of the surname Liu and found an opportunity to escape. She was not familiar with this area, and she did not choose a path at night, and after entering the village, she could not go out, and fainted in front of Li Cheng's house.
It turned out to be so!
Li Cheng and his mother glanced at each other, this girl's encounter is indeed painful and pitiful, maybe at this time Liu Surname is looking for her, or it is better to be careful. If they were found here, not only would the girl be taken away, but the two of them might be unlucky.
After thinking about it carefully, Li Cheng decided to let the girl live in his own home for the time being, don't rush back, maybe she will be caught again.
Ma Yan'er thought about agreeing to it, she didn't agree and there was no way, she couldn't go back to Luzhou herself, and now there are evil people outside looking for her, what if she doesn't hide?
In this way, Ma Yan'er lived in Li Cheng's house, and the young man let her live with her mother and mother, and she lived in another room.
Usually it is the life of the two of them, at this time there is suddenly a delicate big girl, Li Cheng is both scared and excited every day.
I was afraid that I would be found by Liu Yan, and I was excited to see a girl like Ma Yan'er every day.
The lad was twenty years old, and this mood was understandable.
Ma Yan'er didn't talk too much, needlework wouldn't be done, rice wouldn't be done, and she wouldn't eat and drink in vain on weekdays, but Li Cheng and her mother didn't bother her, but the white cats in the family didn't like it, and often called out to her.
Someone did look for this girl. They were a bunch of vicious thugs, and when they entered the village, they inquired whether they had ever seen the girl and whose family had taken the girl in.
Everyone didn't tell the truth, although they came twice, but Ma Yan'er didn't go out, and it wasn't so easy for them to find it. Coupled with li cheng's intention to conceal and hide, the gang of people have looked for it twice without success, and they have never come again, which is equivalent to giving up, or going to look elsewhere, Ma Yan'er is really safe.
A few months passed, and the weather warmed up after the opening of spring, and Li Cheng felt that this girl probably had not lived for a long time.
Sure enough, just in March, once Li Cheng picked his feet and came back, Ma Yan'er and his mother sat in the courtyard and watched him come in, and Ma Yan'er asked him to sit down, and he wanted to stop talking.
Li Cheng knew that there would be such a day, people are the daughters of rich businessmen, and they will definitely not live here for a long time. Just how does she go back alone? Want to send yourself? If you go to send her yourself, this trip to Luzhou is so far, you have never been far away, and there is still a mother-in-law at home, go to send her yourself, who will take care of the mother-in-law?
He was thinking about it, and he never expected Ma Yan'er to say something that surprised him.
"Why don't we get married?"
Li Cheng didn't hear clearly at first, in fact he heard clearly, but he just couldn't believe his ears. Don't talk about him, even the mother and father couldn't believe their ears, and the two of them looked at Ma Yan'er in shock, like wooden people.
Ma Yan'er blushed shyly, bowed her head, and said, "In the past few months or so, you have been filial and kind, which has allowed me to avoid for so long. ”
Li Cheng's face was red, and then he was very excited, such a delicate girl said that she wanted to marry herself? Isn't that a good thing in the sky?
Li Shi was also very excited, and took Ma Yan'er's hand and asked, "Is the girl serious about this?" ”
Ma Yan'er nodded shyly, and Li's tears immediately came down, and she quickly went into the house to kowtow to her deceased husband, saying that they had accumulated virtue in the Li family and had even fallen from the world to have a daughter-in-law.
The son married his daughter-in-law, Li Shi was worried every day and could not do so, and now Ma Yan'er suddenly said that she wanted to marry Li Cheng, this kind of good thing even if it made the two women dream at night, they would not dream.
Li Cheng was even more excited, he was helpless, standing was not, sitting was not, only felt that his whole body was full of strength, wanted to shout, and was afraid of scaring Ma Yan'er, he could only keep smiling.
Ma Yan'er smirked at him and laughed at his stupidity.
This smile made Li Cheng's heart laugh. The girl spoke, and the two of them quickly prepared, discussed things in early March, and married the two on March 16.
Neither of them could have imagined that they had inadvertently rescued a girl, but they had solved the problem that the family had been worried about, which was really planting melons and melons, planting beans and beans, if they were not saved at that time, could there be such a good thing?
However, what neither of them could imagine was that since they got married, Ma Yan'er had changed, and this change made Li Cheng embarrassed.
II.: After getting married, Yan'er changed, and Li Cheng resigned from her mother when she was gentle
When she was not married, Ma Yan'er was just a borrowed person, always cautious and silent.
After getting married, she became a member of the family, no longer need to be careful, and talked more.
She has a lot of problems and often doesn't want Li Cheng to go out.
How much money can you make by picking your feet, according to her words? It is better not to go.
However, if he doesn't go today, if he doesn't go tomorrow, what he does is to make a living, if he doesn't go, how can he make money? How did you live this day?
At the beginning, Li Cheng and his mother understood Ma Yan'er, she was from a rich lady, and it was normal not to look at this little money. However, not letting out every day is not a solution.
Over time, Ma Yan'er had a conflict with Li Shi.
Li Shi knew that if his son did not go out, the family's life would not go on. Ma Yan'er thinks that Li Shi is widowed and deliberately does not want to make them good, and is annoyed with Li Shi.
Poor Li Shi has always hoped that his son can marry his daughter-in-law, who ever thought that Ma Yan'er would be so unreasonable after marriage? She had nowhere to say anything but to secretly shed tears.
In the gentle countryside, going out to pick feet, where is the daughter-in-law better? Slowly, Li Cheng also changed, and he was not willing to go out and suffer.
He was not unaware of the contradiction between Ma Yan'er and his mother, at first he thought that his mother was right, and Ma Yan'er blew down the pillow several times, and his thinking completely changed. He believes that he has a hard time marrying his daughter-in-law, who is still the daughter of a rich businessman, and his mother is so difficult that she still wants to make herself without a daughter-in-law.
Li Cheng, who was previously filial and kind, gradually changed, became impatient with his mother, and became lazy.
The life of the family is all supported by his picking feet, he is no longer dry, how can the life of this family be lived?
Li Shi had no choice but to desperately make needlework for people, but how much money could he earn? The family has eaten the last meal and has not eaten, and the poverty is abnormal.
At this time, Ma Yan'er said her plan, she wanted Li Cheng to go to Luzhou with herself, their family was a famous rich family there, as long as they arrived in Luzhou, Li Cheng did not have to do anything, only to be the son-in-law of the Ma family.
At the beginning, Li Cheng still hesitated, because his mother was old, he followed Ma Yan'er away, who would take care of the old mother in the family?
But then he changed, he thought that his mother had been dragging himself down, without her, he and Ma Yan'er went to Luzhou, became the son-in-law of a rich merchant, and guarded his wife, that kind of life would not be a fairy day?
And Lee's? She understood the child's transformation and could see it at the same time.
Although she was only a woman, she had lived for so many years and understood a lot of truths, and she knew that her son would have to go with Ma Yan'er sooner or later.
Sure enough, after waking up one morning, there was no trace of Li Cheng and Ma Yan'er at home, and the two set off for Luzhou at night, leaving Li at home.
Li Shi sat in front of her husband's spirit for a whole day, and she knew that if her son went this time, he would never come back, and he wanted to live alone.
But she didn't complain too much about her son, just lost in her heart.
Unlike Li's sad loss, Li Cheng, who set off with Ma Yan'er, was very excited, and after he arrived there, he learned to do business on his own, and later inherited the Property of the Ma family, and he did not have to suffer in this life, thinking that he could laugh out loud.
All the way to Luzhou, there was a big difference from what he imagined, the Ma family was doing business, but it was not a big rich businessman, just an ordinary businessman.
In fact, Li Cheng should be able to understand that if he is really a rich businessman, his daughter is scattered when she goes out to play, and she will not look for it? If there is really strength, people will definitely find their daughters, but the Ma family has not or did not find them, indicating that the strength is still not good.
The Ma family runs a dyeing factory, the business is not big, and it is better than the life of ordinary people.
And what's worse is that the Ma family is very happy about their daughter's return, but they don't have a good look for the son-in-law she brought.
The Ma family did not welcome him, which he never expected when he came, he thought that he had saved Ma Yan'er, the Ma family would be grateful to himself, and now the gap made him unhappy.
Although the Ma family only has one daughter, Li Cheng's idea of inheriting the family business will probably not be as desired, because Ma's father and mother are both strong and strong, and there is also a cousin of Ma Yan'er who helps with business at home.
That is to say, the Ma family's business is basically run by Ma Yan'er's cousin.
Ma Yan'er's cousin is named Chen Hui, and he has no good face for Li Cheng.
After coming, Li Cheng began to regret it, if he was at home, at least he didn't have to look at other people's faces, but at this time it was too late to regret it.
Li Cheng thus lived in the Ma family, he had originally grown up suffering, and at this time he also made up his mind to secretly learn the craft of dyeing workshop, and could not let the Ma family always despise him.
He worked as a cow and a horse, lived in the Ma family for several years, has never gone back, even dare not mention it, it seems that he has long since remembered that there is a mother and father who raised him from childhood, he also knows that if he does not go back in these years, his mother and father are afraid that they have already passed away.
In order to take root in the Ma family, for the sake of the Ma family's family business, he abandoned everything.
In the past few years, he and Ma Yan'er also had two children, a man and a woman.
In the past few years, he has studied hard, and now he can stand alone.
However, he did not get any reuse, and the Ma family's business was still in the hands of Chen Hui, which made him indignant.
Chen Hui is only Ma Yan'er's cousin, he is her husband, he is the son-in-law of the Ma family, why does Chen Hui control the Ma family business? These should all be their own, now and later.
Therefore, he wanted to do something to Chen Hui and drive this person out of the Ma family.
He told Ma Yan'er about it, and Ma Yan'er was surprised at first, and then nodded in agreement.
But before he could figure out a way, Chen Hui suddenly left on his own, saying that he had been in the Ma family for many years, and now it was time to leave.
Li Cheng was looking forward to this, he not only sent money, but also sent all the way business to Chen Hui, as long as he left the Ma family, everything was easy to discuss.
Chen Hui finally left, how many years of suffering, he felt that he had finally survived, thinking that he was going to become the master of the Ma family.
Three days later, someone came to talk about a big business, but he was suddenly cut off by the supply of dye, resulting in no completion of the supply to others, people sued him, and finally lost a lot of money to others, and even lost the dyeing workshop.
This time it was completely planted, and he almost fell into prison, he was depressed and sullen.
On this day, Ma Yan'er and her son went out, he had nothing to do at home, and an impulse arose in his heart that he could make a comeback, which was just a setback. Although I lost money and dyeing workshops, I still have many business partners, as long as I start small, I can always do business again.
Thinking of this, he went out and wanted his former business partner to help him.
Unexpectedly, I arrived at a dyeing workshop, but found That Lady Ma Yan'er was coming in and out from inside, and the guys inside were respectful and respectful.
This surprised him inexplicably, did madame still have business in her hands? Impossible, if there is, why don't you know?
Thinking about this, he quietly followed up, and suddenly found that Ma Yan'er was actually talking to Chen Hui, he was shocked, looking at the intimate looks of the two people, how to see how awkward.
He thought of a terrible possibility, and his head began to ache.
He shook his head vigorously, returned home in despair, and thought about it all.
After he came to ma's house with Ma Yan'er, Chen Hui was there, and he has been there for several years. He is Ma Yan'er's cousin, why has he been in the Ma family? He had just said that he was going to drive Chen Hui away, so why did he suddenly say that he wanted to leave?
Three days after he left, someone came to talk to him about big business, but he was cut off by others, resulting in him losing a lot of money to others.
Is this all accidental? Or is there someone in the middle?
The more he thought about it, the more shocked he became, what had he been doing all these years? Is it the Ma family's long-term worker? What do you end up with when you work hard and hard?
Thinking about this, he secretly made up his mind.
The next day, Ma Yan'er went out again, and he quietly followed. Ma Yan'er did indeed go to meet Chen Hui again, and he directly broke in and arrested Him.
But what he never expected was that Ma Yan'er did not panic, and Chen Hui did not panic, he did not panic after being arrested, but instead called for someone to arrest him.
He struggled, and Chen Hui said that after his business failed, he wanted to steal his home, and directly sent him to the official.
He was beaten and thrown into prison, and now he finally understands that Ma Yan'er has had a marriage contract with Chen Hui from the beginning, she and her father went to play but scattered, they saved her, and she proposed to marry herself in order to send her back.
After getting married, she blew the wind in her ears every day to let herself send her back.
I was so blind that I abandoned my mother-in-law who had raised her since childhood and came here with her. When they first arrived, the Ma family definitely wanted to drive him away, but they wanted to use themselves as a long-term worker, so they let themselves stay.
In fact, Ma Yan'er has always had an adulterous affair with Chen Hui, and maybe the Ma family knows that she is alone in the dark. In this way, the child is not his own.
All these years, he's been helping other people in business, and he's a fool.
He said that he wanted to drive Chen Hui away, and Ma Yan'er told Chen Hui that they had jointly set up a plan to let people talk to him about business, while not letting others supply his materials, resulting in his failure to complete. Those should all have been discussed between Ma Yan'er and Chen Hui.
They don't dare to kill themselves, because then they will be charged with homicide, and they just want to slowly survive themselves.
This time when they found them, they simply did not pretend, the Ma family and Ma Yan'er were biased towards Chen Hui, and they were only an outsider after all. Now that there is nothing, who will help them?
Thinking of this, he burst into tears, he regretted, regretted not listening to his mother-in-law's words, regretted that he abandoned his mother-in-law, and now he is alone in Luzhou Prison, everything in the past, what marries his daughter-in-law, what gentle township, what becomes the lord of the Ma family, is just his own wishful thinking, it is just a dream of wealth, prosperity in the water.
At this time, it is too late to regret it.
He was framed for stealing, but he did not succeed, so he was released after more than a year in prison.
When he came out, he realized that all this was as he expected, and by this time, he was seriously ill.
III.: On the day of death, Grandma shouted, and when she opened her eyes, she woke up from a big dream
He came out of prison, Ma Yan'er was married to Chen Hui, the children belonged to Chen Hui, the business was also Chen Hui's, and he became a homeless person.
He wanted to go back to Henan Province, but after he was beaten, he was in prison for more than a year, suffering regret and heartache every day, and at this time he was seriously ill and could not turn back.
The foot-picking guy of the year is now a lonely man.
He built a hut in a place where no one was there, begged for food every day, and his illness worsened day by day, and people who were not yet forty years old were now as old as the old, and it was very difficult to walk.
He never went to the Ma family again, but he became a joke, and many people were calling him stupid, calling him stupid.
He regretted every day in the hut, regretted that he had abandoned his mother-in-law, regretted that he had listened to Ma Yan'er's words, and regretted that he coveted the wealth in the mouths of others.
Such a gap, how can people bear it? It was better that he had not married Ma Yan'er at all, or that he had not met her in the first place.
The most undeserved thing is to abandon the mother-in-law and secretly run to Luzhou with her, if you don't come, there will be nothing behind you, you can do the pick at ease, and there will be no disaster today.
But he had done all this, and there was no way to get it back.
Now that he was alone in the hut, he thought that when he and Ma Yan'er arrived here, when his mother was seriously ill, wasn't that the same? How can she be sad that a son who is lying alone and has been raised so hard is not around?
Li Cheng cried like a child, he regretted it, he was ashamed, he wanted to kiss his mother.
"Cheng'er, Cheng'er."
He heard someone shouting, and when he saw that it was his mother-in-law, he was surprised, and then he lost his voice and cried bitterly. The mother touched his head and said that she did not blame the son, never.
Li Cheng suddenly woke up, opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood, this time, I am afraid that I will not be able to live.
As he gasped violently in the broken house, a white-clad grandmother suddenly appeared in the room, and the grandmother looked at him with a pair of pity eyes, reached out and gently stroked his face: "Wake up from the dream." ”
Li Cheng didn't know who Grandma was, was this the messenger who took him away?
He laughed bitterly and said weakly, "Grandma, I didn't dream." ”
"No, wake up from your dream and open your eyes!"
He muttered, "I'm not dreaming, I'm obviously keeping my eyes open." ”
He slowly closed his eyes, and all the past slowly disappeared and disappeared with the closing of his eyes.
"Wake up from your dream!"
The voice of the white-robed grandmother sounded again, and he opened his eyes sharply, and the first thing he saw was a white paw caressing his face, which was the white cat that had been picked up by the family.
Seeing him open his eyes, the white cat put away its paws, screamed and jumped to the ground, and he saw the face of the mother-in-law, whose face was full of tears, and was sitting on the side crying.
Seeing him wake up, Li Shi was surprised, shouting in his mouth that Cheng'er woke up, holding him in both hands and began to cry bitterly, he felt at a loss, what was wrong? Is he dead? Is this meeting with your mother on the other side?
At this time, many people came in from outside the door, all of whom were people from the village, and they smiled at Li Cheng: "Finally woke up, finally woke up, this is good." ”
What's going on here?
Li Cheng didn't know why, he only felt a headache.
At this time, he found that his mother was blind in one eye, and he asked her what was going on.
The villagers said that he went out to pick up his feet, but he fell by the door, his head hit the cold ground, and he had been in a coma for more than two months.
Everyone's words made Li Cheng panic, why did he fall into a coma for more than two months? After he fell, he got up, saw Ma Yan'er fall by the wall, saved her, and married her, and later went with her to Luzhou, and in Luzhou, he was poor and lying in the hut, why would he be at home?
Everyone congratulated him on waking up, and the white cat lay on the beam and looked at him, and he thought of the old lady in white, and thought of the words Please open your eyes.
There was no Ma Yan'er, no rescue after he fell, no marriage, no going to Luzhou, no other people's plans, no business cheated, no imprisonment, no Luzhou hut, he has been lying in his own home.
From the moment he fell, he fell into a coma, and it was always his mother and the white cat guarding him, the mother was distressed, crying blind in one eye, and the white cat stroked and called at him every day.
Everything in Luzhou was just a dream in his coma.
In the dream, he married Ma Yan'er, abandoned his mother-in-law, and won the plan of others.
Now that he woke up from a big dream, he hugged his mother and cried: "Mother, the son will never leave you again, never leave again!" ”
Li Shi was also crying bitterly, and the white cat jumped from the beam and landed next to the mother and son. When Li Cheng picked up the white cat, he saw that he had scars on his wrists, which he had been beaten up when he was in Luzhou prison.
He stared blankly at these scars, if all that was a dream, where did these scars come from?
He spent his whole life in Luzhou, was it really just a dream in bed for two months?
The white cat grunted in his hand, gradually getting bigger, and a voice sounded in his head: "Wake up from your dream!" ”
Everyone, Li Chengzi is faithful, he has actually always been a filial child.
But sometimes, people change with the change of the environment. For example, Li Cheng, he saved Ma Yan'er and became married, and Ma Yan'er blew wind in his ears every day, causing him to eventually abandon his mother and go away.
Is it his nature that is bad? Isn't filial piety by nature? Non also! In fact, it was so gentle that it changed his mentality.
He experienced the beauty of the world, but also experienced the pain of the world, and finally lay alone in front of the sickbed to repent and be sad.
He woke up and found that it was just a dream, a dream after his coma. In reality, he did not save people, nor did he go to Luzhou, nor did he count in others, those are all fantasies in a coma.
Fortunately, the old lady in white woke him up, made him wake up again, so that he could live in the world again and be filial to his mother.
Is the old lady in white a white cat? In fact, this is not important at all, what is important?
Importantly, Li Cheng, who woke up, was told that he had been in a coma for two months, and during these two months of coma, he had spent his life in Luzhou. If that's the case, then how did the wound on his hand come about?
If everything in Luzhou is a fantasy, then is it a fantasy to finally return home? How did the scars on your hands come from? Since he fell into a coma, he could imagine spending his life in Luzhou. So when you are dying of a serious illness, will you fantasize about returning home and finding that all the pain is nothing more than a dream when you are in a coma?
So, which one is true? Which one is fake? Is living in Luzhou a fantasy after a fall? Or is it the fantasy of finally waking up at home at the time of death?
I guess everyone will have a different answer, what do you think?
(This article was first published by Black Sister-in-law!) ）