Chapter I
In the early morning of spring, not long after the sun rose, the smell of medicine came from the best tiled house in the east village of Liushuwan Village. Liu Momo sat on the edge of a small clay stove, fanning his fan with red eyes, wiping his tears from time to time, and crying for his friend Zhao Momo's family.
Liu Momo's friend Zhao Momo's original name was Zhao Qing, and he has always been the object of Liu Momo's envy. Before Zhao Momo's family background was similar to Liu Momo's before he got married, the two of them were about the same good-looking, and the gentlemen they chose when they got married were all honest people in the same village who relied on God to eat. But after getting married, the fates of the two people in a small village can be said to be very different.
Zhao Momo's husband Du Fugui got married less than a year ago and went to the back kitchen of the town's restaurant to work, and within a few years he became a blister chef, specializing in making pastries, and he could earn three wages a month. Zhao Momo does a good job of embroidery, and he can earn consistent money by embroidering for two or three months, relying on these incomes, the Du family's days are among the best in Liushuwan Village. At least an ordinary farmer like Liu Momo may not be able to earn two months' silver money from the Du family for half a year, and I don't know how much people are jealous.
Zhao Momo married Du Fugui at the age of fourteen, and because his stomach was not angry, he gave birth to a child at the age of twenty-six. This child is a young man, named Du Qiyue, sixteen years old this year, studying in the best school in town, and is often praised by the master for his good learning. I heard that you can go to the county exam in the spring of next year, if you pass the exam, you will be a child, and if you compete for the exam, you will be able to rely on the court to eat, and you can receive a certain amount of money every month, and you can also be exempted from paying taxes, not to mention conscription. Although I haven't been admitted to anything so far, there are many people who are hot for this.
But half a year ago, the Du family suddenly began to undergo earth-shaking changes, first Du Fugui, the pillar of the Du family, suddenly had a cold and fell down, and then did not get up, and it took two months to ask for a doctor to buy medicine, and spent a lot of money, but finally he died without surviving. Then, less than half a year after Du Fugui was buried, Zhao Momo's body quickly collapsed due to excessive sadness, and he followed after lying on the bed for more than ten days.
The Du family has saved money for more than 20 years, and in the past six months, it has been spent cleanly because of the doctor's consultation and two funerals, and the family's ten acres of good land have also been sold, and seven acres of good land have been sold. Fortunately, the Du family's original house was good, it was a six-room blue brick house just built two years ago, and the new furniture in it was complete, which was also a small asset in several nearby villages. Moreover, as long as the three acres of land are well served, it is completely enough for Du Qiyue to eat and drink, and there will be a lot of grain left after paying taxes at the end of the year.
And Du Qiyue was married to the Qian family in Liushutun Village next door, the Qian family has a good family background, there is a tofu factory in the village, and there is only one little brother in the family, and the dowry will not be less in the future. Although it generally takes three years to keep filial piety, there are not many rules in the countryside, only the first year has many taboos, and the last two years as long as you don't wear brightly colored clothes and don't eat meat all day long. Therefore, Du Qiyue can marry the little brother of the Qian family after a year, and when the little brother of the Qian family brings the dowry to the Du family, Du Qiyue's life will definitely be much better.
Thinking like this, Liu Momo finally felt some comfort in his heart, but something happened a few days ago.
Du Qiyue couldn't go out to visit friends because he had to take filial piety at home for at least a year, so he found an opportunity to go to the town to return a few books he had borrowed from his classmates. I didn't think about it, I was fine when I went, but when I came back, I fell ill for no reason. If it weren't for Liu Momo's distrust of Du Qiyue, when he went to see him after dinner the day before yesterday, he didn't know that Du Qiyue had fainted on the ground.
Liu Momo thought about it and wiped away his tears again, the doctor said that Du Qiyue was angry and angry, and he was depressed in his chest and his qi was not smooth, to put it bluntly, it was heart disease, what heart disease can a sixteen-year-old child have, and it was not because of the sudden death of his parents that he was sad.
The strong smell of medicine in the kitchen drifted into the east bedroom, and Du Qiyue woke up when he fell asleep, and when he woke up, he couldn't sleep again, so he had to stare at the wooden beam roof in a daze.
Now Du Qiyue is actually not the real Du Qiyue, the name of his inner soul is Du Xiaoyang, he is twenty-seven years old this year, his parents died in a car accident when he was eighteen years old, because his relatives intended to share the inheritance and pestered him all day long, he simply dropped out of school and sold his house to his distant cousin in the big hotel in Shanghai as a pastry apprentice.
Du Xiaoyang has worked diligently for nine years, and last month he finally got the special chef certificate, and was waiting for a salary increase, but he suddenly crossed over, and wore to Daqing, a country that has never appeared in history, and became a rural master.
Gentlemen, this is the unique name of Daqing for men, because in addition to men and women in Daqing, there is also a kind of people, and the people of Daqing call them brothers. Brothers look the same as men, but they have the same fertility as women, and in order to distinguish them from brothers, real men are called grandfathers.
Today's young man Du Xiaoyang is not to mention how much he is worried about, his monthly salary before his death is 8,000 yuan, not counting the extra money he earns by going out to make wine banquets for others, he eats and lives in the hotel all year round, except for giving himself a few sets of clothes and a few pairs of shoes every quarter, he basically doesn't spend any money. Therefore, although Du Xiaoyang is only twenty-seven years old, he already has more than 300,000 yuan in savings.
In Du Xiaoyang's original plan, he would find a partner in two years, and after the relationship was confirmed, he would use the 500,000 yuan compensation he received when his parents died and his own savings to buy a small house in Shanghai, and then get married and have children to live a stable life. He was admitted to the special chef certificate again, and he can earn at least one or two hundred thousand yuan a month in the future, as long as there are no accidents, his life will be happy for the next few decades.
And now he has somehow become an unlucky rural master, his parents have just died, all the savings are less than five taels of silver, and he can't continue his studies because of filial piety, and the most important thing is that this young man is angry to death.
The original owner Du Qiyue went to the town to return the book the day before yesterday, and before coming back, he went to a grocery store to buy oil and salt, and overheard the guys of the family discussing the affairs of the Qian family in Liushutun, saying that the little brother of the Qian family climbed up to a merchant family in the town, and the Qian family was planning to come to the Du family to withdraw from the family, and the reason they prepared to withdraw was that Du Qiyue had killed his parents, and their Qian family was worried that they would also be killed before they wanted to withdraw from the marriage.
In Daqing Kingdom, the number of women and brothers is a little less than that of the masters, so it is not a big deal for the grandfathers to withdraw from the marriage before they get married, as long as the women and brothers have no obvious shortcomings, they can still get married. But it is quite a humiliating thing for a gentleman to be divorced, and Cheng DΓΉ is only a little better than being cuckolded.
And if Du Qiyue is really divorced by the Qian family, it will not only be a shameful thing, it will be very difficult for Du Qiyue to marry in the future, not to mention the daughter and brother of a good family, even ordinary people will not casually marry their daughter and brother to a man who will kill his family. And his reputation will be very bad, and he will be ridiculed and discriminated against for the rest of his life, because he has a bad reputation, he can't go to the scientific examination in the future, so the Qian family's move is equivalent to ruining Du Qiyue's life.
Du Qiyue's self-esteem as a scholar was much stronger than that of ordinary people, and he was angry and dizzy at that time. Because I didn't want to be embarrassed and laughed at outside, I forced myself to go home before I fainted. As a result, the treatment was delayed, and he died of anger.
"Alas!" Du Xiaoyang sighed, he felt that Du Qiyue was really unlucky enough, but it was him Du Xiaoyang who was even more unlucky, Du Qiyue's eyes disappeared with a kick of his feet, leaving him Du Xiaoyang had to bear his unlucky things.
Liu Momo entered the room with a bowl of medicine, and saw that Du Qiyue woke up, he was happy and sad, he sniffed and put the medicine on the table, and said: "Xiaoyue, you are awake, you child is not feeling well, don't say anything, if something happens, how can I explain to your dead Ah Mo, when he closed his eyes, he told me to take good care of you." β
Du Xiaoyang has been a child with an independent personality since he was a child, and after the death of his parents, he will never let anyone help if he can carry anything by himself, with his personality, he definitely hopes that he will quietly take care of the Qian family in private, but he is not familiar with the place of life when he first arrives, and the original owner Du Qiyue was a person who did not listen to things outside the window and only asked the sages and sages, and he did not know much about the affairs of the Qian family. Now Du Xiaoyang wants to solve the affairs of the Qian family by himself, and he can't think of a way for a while, so Du Xiaoyang wants to discuss it with Liu Momo, and from Du Qiyue's memory, he can know that this Liu Momo is really good for Du Qiyue, and Du Xiaoyang will definitely be willing to help if he has something.
So Du Qiyue sat up with Liu Momo's support, leaned on the pillow and coughed twice, and then said angrily: "Momo, I... I didn't want to get sick either, but the Qian family was so hateful that I fainted in a hurry. β
"The Qian family, what's wrong with the Qian family?" Liu Momo immediately asked.
"I went to return the book the day before yesterday and went to the grocery store in the town, there was a guy there who was from Liushutun, I heard him tell others that the little brother of the Qian family had climbed up to a young master of a rich merchant family in the town, and the Qian family planned to divorce me, the reason was... It's me who killed my parents and family. Du Xiaoyang doesn't have to pretend that his face is sad and angry, when his parents were in a car accident, he was not less told by those cheap mouthfuls in the countryside that he was afraid of his father and mother, that kind of painful feeling is only clear to those who have experienced it, it is simply a knife in people's hearts.
"What! How can they do this, isn't this going to ruin your life! Liu Momo's face turned red when he heard this, the people of the Qian family are really hateful, and it is okay to withdraw from the marriage, after all, it is understandable that the Du family wants to withdraw from the marriage now, but their family wants to withdraw from the marriage and take out all their responsibilities, so they want to give Du Qiyue the notorious reputation of his father and mother, that is really murder without blood, if such a message really spreads, it will make Du Qiyue be criticized for the rest of his life.