A sunny day in the second half of the lunar month.

The old couple on the big passenger boat came to Qujia Village with a hired donkey cart, paid tribute to Li Jingjing in his early years, thanked the medicine and wine for curing rheumatism and leg disease, and sent five catties of dried golden silk jujubes, five catties of pine mushrooms, five catties of dried fungus, five catties of smoked roe deer meat, two small packets of hair cabbage, and two jars of old white dried vegetables.

The old woman smiled: "It's not worth any money, it's just a heart." ”

The old man said bluntly: "My children all live near the Tanzhou wharf, and their families are all engaged in a small business selling food from the north. These were taken from their houses for free. ”

Qu wanted to send them some bacon, but they didn't accept it, and they didn't eat at Li's house, saying that they had brought their own dry food, and they only sat for half an hour to recognize the door and hurriedly took the donkey cart away.

On the first day of the new year, someone came to Li Jingjing to thank her for the New Year, and it was Liu Xiniang and her children.

I haven't seen her for a few months, Liu Xiniang looks very good, wearing a lilac middle jacket and a royal blue dress, and her appearance is still very attractive.

Her son's name is Liu Feng, nine years old this year, studying in the school in Liuyang County, with a Chinese face and big eyes, wearing a navy blue shirt and black pants, not liking to talk, and looking old and stable.

Her daughter's name is Liu Cai, she is eight years old this year, her appearance follows her, but her personality is a little cowardly, and she doesn't dare to look at people squarely.

Qu likes children very much, and takes out the dried fruits and snacks at home to entertain them.

Li Quzhi is not a talker, and he really wants to ask Liu Feng what the school in the county is like, because he was not familiar with it when he met for the first time, and saw that Liu Feng was not a lively and talkative person, so he did not speak.

However, Li Yunxiao was familiar with everyone, and enthusiastically poured water for the three guests, but when he was excited, he beat the water cup and wet one of Liu Cai's embroidered shoes.

This Liu Xiniang dressed her children in new clothes and new shoes, Liu Cai's embroidered shoes were bought by a customer in Tanzhou in order to thank Liu Xiniang for becoming a big matchmaker, brocade powder embroidered with red plum, beautiful and exquisite, and the price is ten times that of ordinary shoes.

The upper was stained with tea stains and could not be washed, and a pair of newly embroidered shoes were destroyed after wearing them for half a day.

Li Yunqing directly took Li Yunxiao, who was in trouble, out of the hall.

Liu Cai was not unhappy at all, but she was very shy and resolutely refused to take off her shoes and let Li Jingjing take it to the stove to dry.

He asked Li Jingjing to take a set of four treasures of the study and a small sachet with silk flowers bought from Tanzhou and give them to the Liu brothers and sisters.

Liu Feng accepted the four treasures of the study, a smile flashed on his little face, and when he heard Li Yunqing calling his name in a cheerful voice outside, he hesitated for a moment and went out to play.

Liu Cai took the sachet with both hands, still staring at the ground, and said softly: "Thank you, Auntie." ”

Li Jingjing smiled and took the sachet from Liu Cai's hand, took out a rose-red silk flower inlaid with four and a half pearls, inserted it in her hair, clapped her hands and praised: "Sister Cai is so beautiful." ”

Liu Cai raised her little face, Li Jingjing went to the bedroom to get a bronze mirror for her to see, and she finally showed an innocent smile.

"Cai girls rarely laugh at home." Liu Xiniang was very happy to see this, and started a family routine with the He family and the Qu family, and told her special situation in a moment of excitement.

It turned out that Liu Xiniang was the only daughter in the family and suffered from epilepsy, and her father did not let her marry out of the Liu family to be divorced by her in-laws in order to continue the incense of the Liu family, so he recruited a rich husband for her.

Men who have been rich have been ridiculed for hundreds of years, and good men will never be rich. There are only a handful of men in Liuyang County, and none of them are good men.

Liu Xiniang's husband is an orphan, he was a lay disciple in the temple before he got married, he has a good face, he has a stupid brain and no opinions, he is looked down upon, and he has a very miserable life.

After he got married, his life changed dramatically, food, clothing, housing and transportation were ten times stronger than in the temple, but he didn't cherish it well, and he learned to be lazy and lazy with a few gangsters, and he was idle and didn't make a living.

He doesn't care about all the expenses of the family, he doesn't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are, and he has to receive five cents of silver pocket money from Liu Xiniang every month, and if he doesn't give it to him, he won't go home to the temple.

Liu Xiniang gave birth to a pair of children one after another, all of whom took her surname "Liu".

Four years ago, Liu Xiniang's husband repented after listening to the villain's instigation, and wanted to let his daughter follow his surname, and his daughter's family affairs were decided by him. Liu Xiniang refused.

In a fit of anger, this guy actually threatened Liu Xiniang to shave her hair and become a monk. Liu Xiniang didn't believe it at all.

This guy ate vegetarian food in the temple for a few days, listened to the monk's chanting sound and was irritable, so he went down the mountain to eat wine with fox friends and dog friends, returned to the temple at night and encountered a heavy rainstorm, stepped on the air, rolled into the ravine, and was suffocated by the muddy nose.

It's a shame that he died on the mountain in the temple, otherwise he died in the Liu family, and Liu Xiniang couldn't tell.

Liu Xiniang got married in a daze, and suddenly became a widow.

She didn't feel sad and didn't want to remarry, she continued to be a bride in the county, earning money to support her father and raise her children.

Now she lives in a small courtyard with two entrances, her father and mother are healthy, eat well, live well, her son goes to school, and her daughter learns embroidery with her embroiderer, which is no worse than other children.

Qu Shi listened to the tears that were about to fall. Her life is no different from that of a widow, but she is many times stronger than Liu Xiniang.

Listening to Liu Xiniang's tone, He didn't resent his father and deceased husband, and couldn't help but look up to her a few points, and admired: "You are a good daughter and a good mother." ”

Liu Xiniang shook her head and said, "I often go to work on weekdays, and I don't have time to accompany them." You see, they're very introverted, and none of them are like me. ”

He Shi looked at Liu Xiu, who lowered his head and was silent, and Liu Feng, who had a small face, and said in his heart: There is a father who died in the temple, and I don't know how many white-eyed ridicules I have to suffer, so it's strange that I can be lively.

She has a good suggestion in her heart, but she is not familiar with Liu Xiniang, so it is difficult to say it directly.

Liu Xiniang couldn't resist Qu's enthusiasm, so she took her children to have a hearty lunch at Li's house. The two palanquin men who came with her were still the same as last time, both with dry food, and Qu asked Li to get sick and brought them two bowls of hot tea.

After the meal, Li Jingjing offered to check the pulse of Liu Feng and Liu Cai, and asked the two if they had had epilepsy, Liu Feng shook his head, and Liu Cai nodded and shed tears.

Li Jingjing said to Liu Feng: "Little brother, this disease is not only hereditary, but also very stubborn. You are a scholar, and you will participate in scientific examinations in the future, and you still have medicine on you. ”

Liu Feng bowed again to Li Jingjing in gratitude.

Li Jingjing likes such a precocious and sensible child, and gave each of Liu Feng's brothers and sisters a bottle of scorpion epilepsy pills for them to put away.

Liu Xiniang has already obtained a bottle of Li Jingjing's whole scorpion epilepsy pill, which contains seven pills, which can save seven lives in the event of a sudden seizure.

She inquired before she came to visit Li Jingjing, and it was rumored that Li Jingjing was a close disciple of Guangmingzi, and the medicines made by Li Jingjing were all instructed by Guangmingzi.

The whole scorpion epilepsy pill is not sold in Tanzhou's time-honored pharmacy.

Li Jingjing gave her family three bottles of twenty-one pills at a time, and the last life-saving grace can never be repaid, and this time she owes a great favor.

"Feng Lingzi, embroidered girl, come and kowtow to Pharmacist Li three times with my mother." Liu Xiniang's gratitude is indescribable, and she can only remember it forever.

After Liu Xiniang took her children in a sedan chair, Qu and He opened the gift box she sent, which was a pair of pure gold bracelets inlaid with red crystals worth 100 taels of silver.

Liu Xiniang received 30 taels of silver in the Qu family, added 70 taels of silver, and bought this pair of red crystal bracelets for Li Jingjing in a time-honored brand in Tanzhou.

With her family background, both old and young, and her body still suffers from epilepsy, she actually gave such a valuable gift, which is a hundred times stronger than those ungrateful men in the world.

On the twenty-ninth of the year, the sky in Liuyang County was overcast and gloomy, and light snow fell at night.

At dawn the next day, Li Laoshi carried Li Bing's handwritten letter in his arms, pushed a wheelbarrow full of food, and ran all the way from the room to the back door.

A tall Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe standing in the snow walked briskly towards Li Laoshi.

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