Jianyi is located in the Jianghuai region, since ancient times the water is abundant, digging four or five zhang can basically dig the underground river, the well is naturally not deep.

Two soldiers with greater strength pulled the well rope, and sent another smaller one to pull the well rope down the well, and soon fished up the person who fell into the water, only to find that this person was the old Taoist priest they were looking for, but the old Taoist priest seemed to have choked too much water and was already unconscious.

At this time, the crowd also poured in, and the second child of the Chen family stepped forward to take a look, and said to a few soldiers: "That's right, this is the old Taoist, I know him, he also received two pennies from me last time to tell fortunes, saying that I have something prominent happening to me in the past few days, and now that I think about it, there are still some doorways." ”

The small soldier smiled disdainfully, stretched out his right hand to probe the old Taoist priest's nose, and found that there was still qi, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and half-laughed: "Why, why is he so accurate, why didn't he calculate that he himself fell into the water today?"

"You can't say that, this official. The woman in the crowd with a cotton towel wrapped around her head said solemnly: "I heard the old people say that this fortune teller can't count himself, and if he counts himself, he will lose his life! ”

"A few days ago, I saw that Aunt Zhang's child couldn't stop crying, and I couldn't stop looking for a few Langzhong, and finally this old Taoist priest just looked at the child's face, and knew that it was evil qi entering the body, so he took a piece of talisman paper and burned it, and patted it on the child's body, and guess what? The child actually stopped crying all of a sudden!

The second child of the Chen family first looked at the woman wrapped in a cotton cloth towel and said, "Didn't you say that it was the child of this old man who stole it?" The woman did not speak stupidly. Then he looked at the old Taoist priest lying on the ground, half-squatted down, and said suspiciously: "This old Taoist priest seems to have water in his stomach." ”

The soldiers didn't pay attention to these at first, but simply dragged the old Taoist priest out and found that he was still angry, so he put it aside, and now if he looks closely, he has a lot of well water in his stomach. This raw well water has to make a stomach trouble if you drink too much, this old Taoist priest looks like he is too old, and he can't bear it after pouring so much well water.

The second child of the Chen family has long known how to deal with this situation, and he has been a county soldier for two years in the county town, and he is definitely not messing around, and the army in this county has to teach first aid, attack, and retreat all kinds of battlefield knowledge, and the second child of the Chen family naturally understands how to save the person who fell into the water.

Straighten the old Taoist's body, press the calloused hands on the old Tao's stomach, and press it down in the rhythm of one, two, one and two.

After pressing for a while, the old Taoist's throat trembled for a while, and then he spit out a stream of cold well water from his mouth, and pressed it like this for a few minutes, until there was no well water to spit out, the second child of the Chen family was embarrassed, and he couldn't care about whether it was clean or not, so he sat down directly on the ground and said, "The water has been spit out, and it should be able to wake up in a while." ”

A few soldiers on the side were a little surprised, and said with some admiration: "Brother Chen is really different, he can observe this situation in detail, we are really not good, it is not a loss that we have spent time in the army of the county town." ”

The second elder of the Chen family waved his hand modestly and said with a smile: "I stayed in the scout team for a while, and I learned some skills along with it. It's nothing. ”

"Come on, there's a boy in this house!" Just as a few soldiers wanted to chat with the second child of the Chen family, several women shouted loudly from the west wing.

"Is there really a child?" When the crowd of onlookers who watched the old Taoist priest who fell into the water heard this, they all scattered and ran to the west wing, and before they could squeeze in, they saw that the old lady of the Li Mansion had taken a step forward from them, and had already taken the baby in her hands and walked out of the wing.

The women were both envious and jealous, and felt that this old lady had robbed them of their first work, and even complained in their hearts: "How old are you!

At this time, a clear-eyed woman leaned forward and said, "This good baby, she looks so good!"

"Really!" When all the women heard this, they leaned forward excitedly, and used their hands to remove the baby's swaddling clothes that covered their faces, and said in unison, "This boy is so white!"

Speaking of the children of this Jianyi, although they were born without the baptism of acquired turbidity, they were extremely clean, but because of the backwardness of the small town, the family that took care of the children was always a little inconsiderate, so the baby looked a little sloppy. But this baby is different, the whole body is white, and the big eyes are extremely clear, so that these motherly women can't help but want to take them into their arms and love them.

"This is whiter than the sons of the Li family!" A middle-aged woman in the crowd said.

"It's much more well-behaved and white than my little Qiwu! This kid is really hugging and can't help but let go. Mrs. Li looked doting, stroked the child's face and said.

"This child, at first glance, is the son of a big official's family, or the child of a knowledgeable gentleman, you look at the quiet temperament of this body, and the people in our places are different. ”

"How knowledgeable must a gentleman who can give birth to such a temperamental child?"

"I think at least Mr. Taixue in the county town!"

"Is this possible?" asked one of the women.

"It can't be the gentleman of the Fucheng Taixue Academy, right?" said another older woman. For these small people in the countryside, Fucheng is really far away, and no one in this small city has ever been to Fucheng.

Don't say it's a prefecture city, even if it's a county town, it's thousands of miles away from here, take the fastest carriage, keep running, then you have to run for four or five days! Whether there is a Taixue in the prefecture city, in fact, they don't know, but listen to the people from the county town come back and say that the county town has it, so in their speculation, the mansion city that is bigger than the county town should not have a Taixue school, right?

Several soldiers and men were crowded aside by the group of women at this time, and they did not even have a chance to see the face of the baby, and in the words of the group of women it was called: "What do you rough men know about women!"

This is obviously a retaliatory response to them saying that women "know what a woman's family" on weekdays, but the men really don't know how to take care of the child in the end, so they can only let these women who are overflowing with motherhood gather around to discuss the matter of taking care of the child.

Several big men, including the second child of the Chen family, were the object of everyone's attention along the way, but now because this child was left out by everyone, several soldiers were also a little embarrassed, and glanced at each other, just standing stupidly in place and not knowing what to do.

Fortunately, the leader has also experienced some things, otherwise how would he sit in this position? At that moment, he approached the loud soldier and spoke in his ear, and then he picked up two long knives with curved handles, knocked them back to back, and made a "bell" sound, attracting the eyes of the dead women around him, and the loud officer and soldier said:

"Now it is suspected that the offender is unconscious, and a baby is found in his home, and he will be brought back to the county government immediately and subject to the judgment of the county order!"

When the women heard this, they finally dispersed reluctantly, although the relationship between everyone and the officers and soldiers was not bad in private, otherwise the officers and soldiers would not have indulged everyone so much, they were all villagers, and it was difficult to say anything.

But now it is obvious that these officers and soldiers have planned to do the right thing, and no one intends to touch this mold. Just kidding, the laws of the imperial court, everyone is ordinary people, who dares to touch it?

Only when Mrs. Li heard this, she still didn't let go of her hand, but said calmly: "This child looks like he should be hungry, he needs to be fed some food!" beckoned a maid to come over and asked her to go to the house to get some hot goat's milk that the young master drank on weekdays.

Then he said pitifully to a few soldiers: "I see that this child is pitiful, I don't know who my parents are when I am young, I have already sent someone to fetch hot milk, if you hurt this child, I am afraid that your case will be disgraceful, right?"

After all, this is the old lady of the Li family, the only big family in Jianyi City that has ever produced a big official, and the eldest son of the old lady is now the chief bookkeeper in that county town, and even the county order has to be given a few thin noodles, it is said that it is likely to be promoted to the county imperial envoy, and even his own county order will be under its jurisdiction.

"Then it's up to the old lady, but after feeding the baby, you still have to go to the county government together. The soldier at the head made a gesture to Mrs. Li.

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Jianyi County Yanei.

The county magistrate of Jianyi is now a Confucian named Xiong Yi, do you want to be the county magistrate, and it is also a Confucian scholar or above in the county town.

Xiong Yi was also high-spirited when he was young, and when he was young, he thought that he could guide the world with a pen in his hand, but since he was admitted to the fame of lifting people, he found that manpower will eventually come to an end, and the water of officialdom is deeper than the East China Sea, and he can't even vomit slag if he eats people.

After being depressed for a few years, Xiong Yi followed his friend's advice and immediately pushed up a letter of advice, and chose the smallest Jianyi City to make an idle county order. Relying on the monthly income, I also live a leisurely life.

In the rear courtyard of the county office.

Xiong Yi looked at the old man who was sitting on the ground in the courtyard and checking the pulse of the old Taoist priest, and asked, "How is it?

Lao Langzhong got up and bowed to Xiong Yi, and said with a smile: "Lord County Order, he was just stimulated by the cold well water, and now the well water is discharged from the body, naturally there is no big deal, but I just saw that his legs had traces of impact, and I heard what happened just now, thinking that it should be caused by the impact when he fell down the well. ”

Xiong Yi sighed and said, "It's good that you don't die." As a Confucian scholar who is familiar with the scriptures, he still has the benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom of the saints in his bones, so he naturally can't see this old man come out of this disaster of his life. At this time, a servant came from outside, saying that Jiang Laosi, who was in the same courtyard as the old Taoist priest, had something to see.

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Inside the hall of the county office.

"That's the case?" Xiong Yi looked at Jiang Laosi standing in the hall and asked.

"The sentence is true, my lord, this baby was picked up by me and the old Taoist on the stream, I think it was floating upstream, the old Taoist priest was anxious, it happened to be raining heavily, he took it back first, said that he wanted to adopt this baby, there was some moss on the edge of our well, he should have wanted to fetch some water to wipe the baby's body, accidentally fell down. ”

"So, if it's really a 'Jiang Liu'er', it's understandable that he wants to adopt. Xiong Yi stroked his beard and thought, and then said to Jiang Laosi: "You take this old Taoist back first, he is afraid that it will be inconvenient for him to have one leg and foot in the future, I will post a notice here first, if no one comes, this baby will be classified under the name of Lao Dao." ”

Jiang Laosi said yes again and again, and then took a board trailer and dragged the baby and Lao Dao back together.

A day later.

The old Taoist priest naturally woke up, and after knowing that one of his legs might be inconvenient, he didn't show too sad looks, but said helplessly: "It's all so wasted, it doesn't matter if you waste another leg." ”

But the baby is really smart, the young will open his mouth to ask the grandfather and the old Taoist priest to offer him as a treasure every day, and now the whole town knows that the old Taoist priest now has a precious grandson, always want to see this white baby.

Even the old lady Li was obsessed, and even sent someone to send goat milk a few times, and wanted to spend five taels of silver to buy this child as a playmate for her little master, but unfortunately the old Taoist priest never agreed.

When the child was still young, the old Taoist priest would put it in a basket and take it out to sit in the stall every time he went out of the stall.

"Old Dao'er, this kid of your family is probably the young master of a big official!" The passerby quipped.

"Old Dao'er, I think this kid will definitely become a big official in the future, and you can enjoy happiness in the future!"

"Old Dao'er, where is your little fortune teller, why didn't you bring it out?" said a passer-by jokingly.

However, the old Taoist priest only smiled at all this, and he still set up his fortune-telling stall to earn a few copper plates that day.

Finally, one morning, the old Taoist priest still came out of the stall early, and a vegetable farmer who came out of the stall early together teased the child, and said to the old Taoist priest with a smile: "Old Dao'er, does your grandson have a name?

The old Taoist priest was stunned for a moment, looked at the orange-red sky reflected by the first sun, thought carefully for a long time, and finally said: "The sunrise in the east is dawn, so let's call him Ah Xiao." ”