After this encounter, Li Dalong's sense of pride in the Li family, especially his self-confidence, was greatly bruised, and he began to feel doubts, sorrow, and even despair about his life future.

As the saying goes, the house leak is rainy, and the boat line coincides with the head wind. The grain ship was ransacked by bandits, and the wealthy Li family instantly became poor.

It is not an exaggeration to say that "poor bastards" are not exaggerated. In fact, at that time, for the Li family, something more terrible than being destitute was that from then on, there were many creditors.

What Li Dalong regrets is his lack of greed: "I have earned so much money, which is enough for my family to enjoy it for twenty or thirty years, why can't I accept it when I see it?"

The creditor who embarrassed the Li family the most was Li Dalong's doll relatives of the Liu family. The Liu family had no return for the investment they had poured out, so they withdrew in a fit of rage.

Breaking the contract and retiring from relatives, if it didn't happen when the Li family broke their fortunes, it should be something that Li Dalong couldn't ask for.

At this moment, Li Dalong felt a great shame, as if he had been robbed by falling into a well and taking advantage of the fire.

However, just when Li Dalong was sad and indignant, his doll relatives wanted to live with him. This more or less also made him feel the true feelings and warmth of others.

Looking at the snowflakes fluttering outside the window, Li Dalong couldn't help but think of the tense days the family had before, especially when he was sick, he got his father to bring back a bag of biscuits from Phoenix.

And the bag of biscuits, he was reluctant to eat it all at once by himself, but ate one piece a day with Li Feihu.

Now, suffering such a catastrophe, he can't even live a life of poverty like before, Li Dalong is almost repentant in his intestines, and his spirit is on the verge of collapse.

Li Dalong suddenly remembered that that morning Xi Yunhong chanted a poem about plum blossoms in the snow, so he wrote a poem "A Cut of Plums":

"The snow dance and flowers fall on the steps, not like spring, and bury the heart.

The red remnant snow is full of plum blossoms, looking forward to spring, and the two little ones have no guesses.

Water and wine only plant flowers and trees, that fool, incomprehensible feelings.

There should be good poems in the New Year? ”

After writing it, he carefully framed it, rolled it up and put it in his sleeve, and then held up his umbrella and walked to the house of Guan Dabao at the west end of the street.

After a while, Li Dalong came to Guan Dabao's house. Because of the snow, Guan Dabao didn't go out.

Li Dalong said while unfolding his "A Cut of Plums": "It's going to be the New Year, and I don't have anything good to give you, so I have to write a poem." ”

Seeing Xi Yunhong chanting with vigor, especially when he heard "that fool", Guan Dabao thought that Li Dalong was laughing at him, and he was furious and couldn't bear it.

Because of the robbers of Li Dalong's brothers, Hekou Street has been rumored, and Guan Dabao has no scruples. He snatched "A Cut of Plum" from Xi Yunhong's hand, and shouted while tearing it:

"What do you mean? Do you bully Lao Tzu to be illiterate? Say it's the New Year, why don't you write couplets on red paper and send it? You actually send white paper! This is obviously a curse to my family!"

After tearing them up, Guan Dabao angrily picked up the big pole and weighing stone used by Li Dalong to collect grain, and threw them outside the yard.

"My mother...... Xi Yunhong cried bitterly, covered her face and ran into the room.

Li Dalong looked at Xi Yunhong's painful appearance, and wanted to follow up the house to comfort her, but when he saw Guan Dabao glaring at him menacingly, he was afraid that things would be unimaginable, so he had to leave in disgrace.

......

Fortunately, although the Li family encountered accidents and had a surplus of creditors, the prestige of the famous family and the scholarly family still existed.

Approaching the Spring Festival, the old monk of Erlang Temple came to ask Li Zhangnan to write a couplet.

Li Zhangnan is still thinking and scrutinizing his stomach, and Li Dalong has already presented the written couplet - the breeze sweeps the dust speechlessly, and the bright moon accompanies Zen to drive away the haze.

The old monk was very pleased, and immediately consecrated the jade Buddha worn by Li Dalong.

Probably because of God's mercy, Li Dalong, who was in a slump, seemed to be enlightened and determined to abandon the fetters of mundane things. He resolutely cut off his braids, vowed not to marry for life, and followed the old monk.

After Li Dalong's doll heard the news, he immediately went crazy to the monk's temple to find him and knelt in front of him and the old monk.

Li Dalong looked at the doll kissing a pair of little feet and the mud on her body, knowing that she had walked so far, but he didn't know how many falls she had fallen, and his heart was sour, so he helped her up and promised to go back and marry her.