When his father died suddenly, Li Dalong was naturally sad, as if the sky had fallen. He suddenly felt that he was so helpless, in the past, all the affairs of the family were in charge of his father, who was both a strict father and a strict teacher.

He didn't dare to slack off in anything, and on the surface he was submissive and respectful to his father, but in his bones he was very resentful.

Now, his resentment towards his father is naturally gone, and only remorse and longing remain.

According to customs, Li Dalong had to keep filial piety in front of his father's coffin for seven days and seven nights. He pondered his father's last words repeatedly in his heart:

"'Brothers are on the wall' are words in the "Book of Songs", why did he only memorize one sentence and then connect to the "Tao Te Ching"......"

Li Dalong was puzzled. One day, he asked Li Dingshi: "When he said that his brother was on the wall, did he mean the matter between him and my uncle or the matter between me and Li Feihu? Could it be that Li Feihu killed him?"

"How so?" said Li Dingshi, "the explosion happened a long time after your big brother Feihu left our house, and he has been playing in the street with your son. ”

"Dada also said that 'the weak is better than the strong, and the soft is better than the strong', does it imply that Li Feihu knew that his strength was not good before he thought of using explosives?" Li Dalong asked again.

"Don't think about it, okay, if he did it, what evidence can he have?" asked Li Dingshi rhetorically.

Li Dalong has no evidence, but remembers Li Dejin's couplet - the black dog is silent, and the forest fire is burned when there is smoke. The anger in his heart against Li Feihu and Li Dejin burned again.

Seeing that Li Dalong stopped talking, Li Ding said again: "You see, your eldest brother Feihu always brings his three sons over at dawn every day, does not leave the mourning hall all day long, and says to relatives and friends over and over again that he is very grateful to you. ”

Li Dalong felt that his mother's words were reasonable, so he gradually dispelled his suspicions about Li Feihu.

When inscribed Li Zhangnan's tombstone, Li Dalong remembered his father's couplet - the dog's mouth barked, and the mountain man conveyed his spirit as an immortal.

He took out the words "mountain people convey the gods" and replaced the "handsome and honest" in Han Yu's "Liu Zihou Epitaph" in the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, "the mountain people convey the gods, discuss the evidence of the present and the ancient, and enter and exit the history of the hundred sons." It was engraved on Li Zhangnan's tombstone.

Soon, Li Dalong came out of the grief of losing his father, and at the same time, he gradually developed the majesty of being the master of the house and the pleasure of saying everything, and he could be free and unrestrained.

As for the strictness of his children and students, compared with his father's treatment of himself and his students before his death, Li Dalong is even better.

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Li Ding was not very sad about the unexpected death of her husband.

She didn't get pregnant for nine years after marrying Li Zhangnan, and she endured the cold words of her in-laws.

Li Zhangnan did not divorce his wife or take a concubine, ostensibly to maintain the style of the Li family, but in fact, it was because he was thoughtful and cautious.

Behind the scenes, Li Zhangnan and the two maids in the family had done that, but none of them were pregnant, so they determined that it was their own problem.

After his parents died one after another, Li Zhangnan once hinted at Li Ding and Li Zhangbei, hoping that they would inherit the family for him.

So, when Li Zhangnan went to Phoenix to buy textbooks and school supplies for students, Li Ding and Li Zhangbei slept together, and Li Ding became pregnant a month later.

At the same time, something that frightened Li Zhangnan also happened - Li Ding and Li Zhangbei moved their true feelings, and the two were inseparable.

However, what really embarrassed Li Zhangnan was not the incident itself, but Li Zhangbei's daughter-in-law, Li Shen, knew about the incident, and cried and threatened to hang herself in the river.

Finally one day, Li Zhangbei and his wife were kidnapped by bandits on the way out to do business.

To Li Ding's surprise, Li Zhangnan refused the bandits' request in one go, leaving no room for maneuver.

What made Li Ding's even more unacceptable was that Li Zhangnan said after a drunken fit that he had hired the bandits who kidnapped Li Zhangbei at his own expense, but when he sobered up, he completely denied it.

In the next thirty years, Li Zhangbei's voice and smile have remained in Li Ding's mind, but Li Zhangnan has become more and more annoying and frightened.

This fear made Li Ding's day and night uneasy. Regarding the ambiguity between Li Dalong and Wu Pandi, Li Ding's heart is also conflicted - she is not only worried and afraid of the incident between the two young people, but also sympathizes with their true feelings.

Now, although Li Ding couldn't imagine that Li Zhangnan's death was committed by Li Feihu, the scene of fratricide between brothers thirty years ago continues to emerge in front of him.

She didn't want that kind of tragedy to happen again, so when Li Dalong was guarding the spirit alone, he asked Li Dalong to swear in front of Li Zhangnan's coffin and cut off the love thread with Wu Pandi.

"Mom, don't you often say that you should respect your brother and sister-in-law?" Li Dalong defended.

Li Dingshi said loudly: "You respect your eldest brother, it's not too much, but to your sister-in-law, you have to stop in moderation!"

I told you to swear an oath in front of your coffin, so that you should always remind yourself to pay attention to proportion, and not to let people gossip.

I'm almost sixty years old, and I can't care much about you, but I don't want to watch you ruin the reputation of our Li family.

If you don't swear, I'll die on your coffin. ”

"Mom, don't! I, I swear, I ......swear," Li Dalong said as he thought about how to fool around.

"Don't be sloppy with me!" Li Ding said angrily, "You said the word 'responsibility' when you were dying, do you remember? You have to weigh its weight carefully!"

"Why don't you remember?" said Li Dalong, "I have relived every last word." I also translated the word 'responsibility' from the "Ming Dao Edition". ”

"Then tell me about it!" said Li Ding.

Li Dalong read: "Looking at Mencius's words of 'high hall', 'concubine', and 'general pleasure', you know that you must do something, and you can also see Mencius's heroic gift." If a person does not have such qualifications, he will not be responsible for the Tao. ”

"Alas...... It's the same as your dead ghost, you only know books!" Li Ding finished speaking, and left boredly.