Chapter 4 History of Wenjia Village

Wenjia Village Production Team is a natural village, surrounded by mountains, backed by the 2057-meter-high Lotus Mountain, and closely connected with the main peak in the south of the Guniujiang Mountain Range, the scenery is very beautiful. It's just that the road leading to the outside is full of winding mountain roads, and the traffic is very inconvenient. There are only 18 families in the whole village, most of whom live at the foot of Lotus Mountain, but my grandfather lives halfway up the mountain about three miles away from the village. This was originally the site of Wenjia Village, and later due to some accidents, my grandfather led the whole village to build Wenjia Village at the foot of the mountain, so that everyone moved to live at the foot of the mountain.

The cottages at the foot of Wenjia Village are all made of self-made green bricks, and each family has a courtyard house, which is basically built according to the house structure of Yanjing. Because there are not many people in the village, 12 houses were built at that time, all of which were lined up along the river, and outside the gate of the courtyard of each household, there was a bluestone paved street, and on the side of the river, there was also a protective railing of bluestone. Later, the families added were also built next to each other in accordance with the original house style of 12 families, forming a unique Wenjia Village style.

Speaking of the house and village history of Wenjia Village, we have to start with the grandfather, Wenle was in the previous life, after the death of the grandfather, listening to the grandfather's relics, reading the grandfather's codex, only to know that the grandfather was a very remarkable person, not only with superb medical skills and martial arts, but also single-handedly created the Wenjia Village. Even in his last life, Bunraku has always regretted not learning more medical skills and advanced martial arts from his grandfather.

Grandpa's real name is Wen Rucai, born in 1851, and lived to be 127 years old in his last life. In the summer of 1977, he died without a disease, and now he should have just turned 120 years old. His ancestral home is Jiping County, Jiangbei Province, and his family was originally a scholarly family. When he was seven years old, his father unfortunately died early, causing the family to decline rapidly, and at the age of nine (that is, the first year of Tongzhi), he was introduced by his cousin An Dehai and entered the palace as a little eunuch.

Because he can read and write, and he has the care of his cousin, he works as an errand in the imperial infirmary of the outer palace. It is mainly for the people in the palace, to see a doctor and contact the imperial doctor, and to take on the responsibility of guiding the imperial doctor in and out of the palace. This position, which can connect the inner and outer courts, is a relatively idle position, and he is diligent and studious, so in his spare time, he learns medical skills from these imperial doctors. The following year, he got acquainted with Dong Haichuan, who was on an errand in King Su's mansion, and privately worshipped him as a teacher to learn the art of gossip. In this way, he is very comfortable and obsessed with the knowledge of medicine and martial arts.

At the beginning of the seventh year of Tongzhi, the big celebrity in front of the Empress Dowager Cixi at that time, the chief eunuch of the inner palace An Dehai, discovered the abnormal situation of his cousin, and in order to prevent him from being in the palace often, massage, acupuncture, and beauty for the palace maids, and cause the emperor to ask for guilt, he often guided him to contact many other new things, such as eating, drinking, playing, and having fun. During this period, the cousins met many children of the Eight Banners, and through the introduction of these gentlemen, they met the beauty of the popular Hui class singing Danjiao, known as the nine-year-old red Marseille flower.

When An Dehai first saw Maasai Hua, he was shocked by the heavens, and he was full of pity, and said that he wanted to marry her. made those gentlemen show shocked expressions, but they laughed in their stomachs, what kind of wife do you marry as a eunuch. Unexpectedly, at the end of the year, An Dehai really married Ma Saihong, who was nineteen years old at the time, and it became a joke in the capital for a while. No matter how jokes are in the world, the Empress Dowager Cixi gave a heavy gift, which is a fact. At the same time, those officials of the dynasty, the children of the royal palace and others all sent congratulatory gifts.

However, the red-haired and purple An Dehai, although he gives a strong impression on the outside, he still maintains a very high level of vigilance in his heart. From Emperor Tongzhi and some ministers, he showed a look of hatred for him, and he was also quietly making a retreat for himself. He told his cousin about these plans for a retreat, and asked him to carry them out in secret. For this reason, Wen Rucai took advantage of his convenience in entering and leaving the palace, often relieved some poor people, sent them to the hospital for cold and cold, and also gathered more than 20 loyal young men and women to become his and his cousin's personal team.

In the eighth year of Tongzhi, in order to implement the plan, An Dehai took the opportunity to go out to do goods for Cixi, firstly, to collect money extensively, and secondly, to find a place to settle down and defend the retreat. Unexpectedly, Governor Ding Baozhen secretly received an order from Emperor Tongzhi and adopted the method of cutting first and then killing An Dehai.

Shen Rucai, who was in the capital, received a report that he secretly went overseas with Ande, and immediately summoned his confidants to collect the cage, and quietly transported the money and treasures that he and An Dehai had collected for many years to the south. In the end, based on the suggestion of Masaihua, she settled at the foot of Lianhuajian Mountain, twelve miles away from her ancestral hometown of Xili Village, and from Wenjia Village to the location of Longxi Commune, she had to pass through Xili Village.

Originally, with Wen Rucai and Ma Saihong, there were more than 20 people who arrived at Lotus Mountain, and there were more men and fewer women at that time, and Ma Saihong and several other young women all lived a life of polyandry. Therefore, several of them gave birth almost every year, and later, Wen Ru went to the nearby village and recruited some women, which made Wenjia Village at that time very popular. However, in the third year of the Republic of China, Wenjia Village was ransacked by a gang of bandits armed with earthen guns, killing more than 80 men and women in the village. Only eight men, four women, and twelve life-old children, who cleverly hid, escaped this catastrophe.

When Wen Rucai, who came back from going out on errands, saw this situation, he hid the twelve men and women in the cave and chased and killed the bandits alone. It took more than a month for him to kill all the bandits, and with the money he collected, he raised these twelve young men and women as a father and a mother, and changed them all to their surnames Wen, which is the origin of Wenjia Village.

And after this bloody ransacking, it directly caused the phenomenon that the population of Wenjia Village has not been prosperous. Today, more than ten families in Wenjia Village are all descendants of those who fled the capital with Wen Confucian. Like Wen Xiaomei's grandfather, he was a surviving child at that time and the only descendant of Marseille. After raising these twelve men and women to be Chengren, Wen Rucai helped them set up a small family. The man came back from marrying his daughter-in-law, and the woman also recruited a son-in-law from the outside village and took them to build a house at the foot of the mountain. In addition to the 12 children he adopted earlier, Wen Rucai had taught some superficial martial arts, and the children born to these people were all taught martial arts by their parents.

didn't find a good seedling, Wen Ru was unwilling to accept apprentices easily. He is not in a hurry to wait for the emergence of the ideal heir, and wants to teach his skills to the person he likes.