Li Yuanhong has a total of four brothers and sisters, and one brother is named Li Yuansheng, who passed on to the same ancestor as the heir, and unfortunately died early. He also has an older sister and a younger brother.

The Li family has a very large house, and they live in part of it, rent out the rest of it, and do some other livelihoods. thought that the family could live in peace, but who knew that disaster would fall from the sky.

I just changed to a tenant, and he looks very polite and cultured. If you live alone, you will pay a lot more rent than the previous customer. It's not what Li Chaoyang wants, it's what people insist on giving.

Li Chaoyang is not a greedy person, of course he can't accept it, but he can't accept it.

Is there such a bargain in the world? Those who buy must pay a high price, and those who sell must keep the price down.

The client said that he lived here alone, but he often had friends visiting. Is it wrong to have friends visiting? What's more, these guests who come are better than the other. Almost all of them are scholars, all of them are educated, polite, and polite to people. Sometimes he also brought some delicious food to the children, and Li Yuanhong was especially looking forward to the landlord's uncle having guests anyway.

One day, the tenant came back from outside in a panic, Li Chaoyang happened to be at home, and in the panic, he still paid the month's room fee first.

Li Chaoyang said that it was not time to pay the room fee, and the customer said that he might not live here in the future, and it turned out that he was leaving. Li Chaoyang said that there is still a week left before the full moon this month, so it will be paid according to 20 days. If the other party doesn't do it, he has to pay it for a month. Just as he was pushing, a few military policemen rushed in outside, and tied up the customer without saying anything.

Li Chaoyang came to speak for the customer, and he was also tied up. Li Yuanhong's grandfather and mother came to reason, but they were loudly reprimanded by the military police, and almost arrested Li Yuanhong's grandfather.

Later, I learned that the client was a revolutionary party, and Li Yuanhong's home was regarded as an underground organ of the revolutionary party.

Li Yuanhong's father, Li Chaoyang, was not arrested for a long time, but the hardest blow to the family was that his family's house was confiscated for harboring the rebel party.

An important source of income has been lost, and the family has no shelter.

Li Yuanhong's grandfather and father are very popular in the village, and the neighbor has a very dilapidated warehouse, and some tattered things are put in on weekdays. The neighbor found another place for the things inside, and Li Yuanhong's family moved in.

No matter what the place to live in, what about the life of the family? Li Chaoyang is looking for a way out.

It was difficult to go out to find something to do, and after running into walls everywhere, Li Chaoyang had the idea of becoming a soldier again. In any case, it is better to be a soldier and have a salary on Weibo than to have no income at all.

In 1872, after being introduced by Li Decai, a clansman, Li Chaoyang left Hubei and his family and came to Beitang, Tianjin, which was subordinate to Zhili. At this time, Prince Heshuo Gong was training the new army here. For the sake of the family's life, Li Yuanhong's father, Li Chaoyang, who had been a guerrilla, started as a recruit egg.

The foreign instructors are hired, and they are all new weapons, which everyone is used to calling foreign guns and foreign cannons. There are a total of 15,000 people, and the establishment is the six armies of the pro-soldiers, also known as the "training army", and Li Chaoyang is a member of the "training army".

After his father left, there were still five people in the family, Li Yuanhong's grandfather, grandmother, mother, sister and him. His younger brother had not yet been born at that time.

There was no news for a long time after my father left, and there was no money to send back, so the family mainly relied on my grandfather to set up a grocery stall to survive. Mothers, grandmothers do some needlework for others, etc., to subsidize the family. Although he is frugal, he can still live with difficulty.

However, the disaster is not a single line, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and at this time, as the pillar of the family, Li Yuanhong's grandfather died of a sudden illness.

My father still didn't have the money to send it back.

Li Yuanhong was six years old that year, and his sister, who was six years older than him, took him out every day to beg for food, which became the main source of food for the family.

Years of war, no one's life is easy. But everyone knows that no one will send their children out to beg for food until they don't have enough to eat. No matter how difficult it is for your own home, if you have to go to the door, you still have to save a few mouthfuls from your mouth, and you can't let the begging child go back empty-handed.

Going out to beg for food is the best way to experience the warmth and coldness of the world. However, it was too difficult for the villagers, and once, Li Yuanhong and his sister asked for most of the day, and they didn't even fill their stomachs. The grandmother and mother at home are still waiting for the two of them to return to satisfy their hunger, what should they do?

On the way back, Li Yuanhong had an idea when he passed by a piece of rob land. He plucked out a turnip, unscrewed the tassels, planted it to the place where it was plucked, and hid it in the basket of begging.

He was proud of his self-inflicted cleverness, when he lowered his head and saw a pair of big feet in front of him. Immediately realized what was wrong, honestly took out the stolen radish and put it down, stood up and waited for the radish owner to reprimand.

To his surprise, instead of reproaching him, the owner of the robb pulled out two more robbs and put them in his basket together.

He also told him that he should also take back the radish tassels, and that they could be eaten.

He was a loyal and honest peasant, and from the tattered clothes he was wearing, it could be seen that his life was also very hard.

Li Yuanhong has always remembered this kind face, and later after Li Yuanhong developed, he deliberately came here to find this respectable person, but he failed to do so.

After Li Yuanhong gained status, he has always treated ordinary people well and helped them as much as possible. Everyone around him could feel that he had a deep affection for the people at the lower levels. And this has a lot to do with his experience of asking for food.

Generally speaking, officials at all levels are from wealthy families, and it is difficult to have the experience of sharing weal and woe with the people at the bottom. Being able to have deep feelings for the people at the bottom is even more precious for a politician and a leader. It is also easy to get the support of the people at the bottom.

Those people at the bottom, although it is difficult to give this world except for birth and death records. Leave more to stay, unless he is related to your Excellency or happens to fall in love. Otherwise, it's hard for you to know them.

However, after all, these people are the majority of the population, and they are the main body of this society, the mainstream of this society. If a society wants long-term peace and stability, it must take them as the starting point and the end point. A society that only thinks about a small number of people, a small number of wealthy people, and a special class is by no means a good society. In the same way, a politician or leader who stands entirely on the position of a special class is not destined to be a good politician or leader.

Does this world have to torture people to death? In the spring of the year when Li Yuanhong was seven years old, he contracted smallpox. This is really a fatal disease, people have a serious illness, there is a folk saying, if you don't die, you have to shed your skin, and if you have smallpox, you have to be pockmarked if you don't die.

Such a family, where there is money to treat their children. Even if there is money, there is no rule of law for this disease. Li Yuanhong's mother knelt in front of Guanyin every day, unable to kneel for a long time, and asked the Bodhisattva to bless her, which was the only thing she could do for her precious son.

Was it Li Yuanhong's mother's piety that moved the Bodhisattva, or is there really a miracle in this society. After being tormented by smallpox for more than 100 days, Li Yuanhong stopped coughing. Not only was smallpox not killed, but there were no traces left on his face.

Li Yuanhong's mother is determined that it is the manifestation of Guanyin Bodhisattva, who is compassionate and compassionate in saving suffering, otherwise, how could there be such a good thing. She said that she was born on the same day as Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the Bodhisattva is to be specially favored.

In fact, the most important thing for people to resist diseases is to rely on themselves and rely on their own resistance. The mortality rate of the world's most vicious infectious disease is not 100%. For example, the plague was scary enough, and the mortality rate was said to be only 85 percent. That is, theoretically, if a hundred people get the plague, fifteen people will survive.

How to mix in those fifteen people, the most important thing is probably to rely on yourself,—— rely on yourself to have a good body. Li Yuanhong won a complete victory in the confrontation with smallpox, and he must rely on his own superhuman physique.

The children of poor families must always have stronger vitality than the darlings of those rich families. As for Li Yuanhong's mother, she thinks that it is a Bodhisattva manifestation, so let her think so.

After suffering so much misfortune, do you want to take away the last sustenance of her soul? Man's ignorance of the outside world is the ultimate source of superstition. Besides, if you tell her that there is no Bodhisattva in this world, let alone a Bodhisattva's blessing, she won't believe it, and she will be anxious with you if she doesn't get it.

Just like now, the spacecraft has landed in space and the moon, and there are still people who firmly believe that there are gods in the sky, there are Jade Emperors, there are heavens and heavens. Who has what to do?

Just like now, in a country that is so developed and said that the quality of its citizens is quite high, his president is talking nonsense, saying that the sterilized disinfectant sprayed outside can be used by people orally to fight the virus, so that the production chief family is so frightened that they are busy coming out to clarify that the disinfection they produce cannot be taken orally, and those who do not listen to persuasion will bear the consequences.

But there are still people who are superstitious about his president and drink disinfectant into their stomachs desperately. Do you say they are ignorant? They don't think so themselves, they think they know everything, and others are inferior to them.

In a society, the cult of personality that is crazy and extreme for a certain person by a large number of people is terrible at some point.

After all, begging for food is not a glorious thing, if there is another way to fill the stomach, who wants to beg for food and eat a hundred family meals?

Unlike modern society, asking for food has almost become a profession, a way to make a fortune. Don't look at the poor beggar who begs, maybe he has his real estate in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. There is nothing more shameless than exploiting human compassion and deceiving the best feelings of mankind.

At Li Yuanhong's time, there were generally no such people.

Li Yuanhong's sister Li Yuanping grew up day by day, begging from east to west, afraid of being looked down upon and unable to marry in the future. Li Yuanhong's mother chose a fishing family surnamed Su for her, and became a child daughter-in-law, which can be regarded as bringing out a mouth.

Without his sister, Li Yuanhong went out to beg for food alone, and the old man in the family was not at ease, so his mother took Li Yuanhong back to his hometown in Huangpi and sent Li Yuanhong to a distant aunt's house.