Chapter 2 Children of the Poor Family

His father was stumbling towards the house, covered in mud and blood, and not far behind him were three children chasing after him, throwing stones and mud at his father. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Although Li Yanqing didn't like this father of the Song Dynasty very much, he didn't like it to be a family affair after the door was closed, and he couldn't stand by when outsiders bullied his father.

"Big Black, go bite them!"

Li Yanqing opened the courtyard door, and the big black 'Woo! With a roar, he threw himself out.

Da Hei came fiercely, and rushed past Li Daqi in an instant, Li Daqi was taken aback, and stood up all of a sudden, he turned around and saw the big dog pounce on the three of them, so anxious that he stomped his feet, "Come back quickly!" ā€

Da Hei ignored him, and angrily pounced on the three evil boys, who screamed in fright, turned and fled, running away like rabbits, and heard Liu Fu'er's shouts in the distance.

"Oops, we're going to get into trouble."

Li Daqi was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, he hurriedly chased after him, and after a while, he walked back in frustration, and the man and dog were gone.

When he walked into the courtyard, he kicked open the courtyard door fiercely, gritted his teeth and said, "I have to slaughter that dog!" ā€

"If it were me, I would beat those three little bastards to the ground, and I would never kick my own door, let alone scold the dogs of the guardian!" Li Yanqing replied to him the side.

Li Daqi looked at his son blankly, he has been accustomed to his son's old-fashioned tone in the past month, his son has been a different person since he was fished up in the well, he used to be a well-known second fool in the village, and he was so tired that the whole village made fun of himself for giving birth to a dog.

But now, his son seems to have changed as a person, his temperament has changed greatly, and he actually likes to read, and these changes have made him very excited.

But what also made Li Daqi feel very puzzled was that his son was so resistant and disgusted with the imperial examination at a young age, did he know what the imperial examination was?

Of course, Li Daqi also taught his son, and taught him to read for two whole years, the stupid son is difficult to teach, and it is very difficult to teach, but Li Daqi just refuses to give up, exhausting his hard work, the stupid son will finally recite a silent night thought, although he still can't memorize it well, and forget it from time to time, but as long as he reminds him of a beginning, his son will stammer, and he will stammer, which makes Li Daqi so proud, who said that his son is stupid, and he will not recite Tang poems? There are a lot of children in the village who don't know how to do it!

Although Li Daqi couldn't understand his son's magical ability to suddenly become self-taught in the past month, he still found a reasonable reason, that is, his son actually remembered what he had taught in the past two years, but he couldn't express it at that time, and a fall into the well made his son completely enlightened.

was a little distracted, but saw his son walking towards the well with a broken wooden barrel, so frightened that Li Daqi hurriedly shouted: "Don't go near the well, Daddy will come by himself!" ā€

He stepped forward and snatched the barrel, fetched half a bucket of water from the well, and washed the blood from his face, when the big black ran back from outside, ran to his master and waged his tail for a reward.

Li Daqi actually likes Da Hei very much, his son fell into the well, thanks to which he brought someone to save him in time, he saved his son's life.

But today his mood was very bad, the dog wagged his tail in front of him and asked for a reward, he suddenly became furious, picked up a stick in the corner of the wall and hit his head and face at Dahei, "Kill you mad dog, kill you troublemaker!" ā€

Da Hei was beaten screaming and curled up in a ball, Li Yanqing pounced forward to protect the dog, Li Daqi couldn't take the stick, and hit his son on the shoulder with a stick, this stick hit Li Yanqing into the bone marrow, Li Daqi lost his hand, so frightened that he hurriedly threw away the stick, stepped forward and asked in a trembling voice: "My son, Daddy didn't mean it, does it matter?" ā€

Li Yanqing held back the pain and glared at him angrily, "Why didn't you pick up a stick and beat those three little bastards just now?" You're just going to hit your own family! ā€

Li Daqi didn't care about explaining, and hurriedly rubbed his son's shoulder, "Let Daddy take a look, does it matter?" ā€

Li Yanqing broke free of his hand in anger, turned around and walked towards the house, he sat cross-legged on the kang, facing the wall, his chest rose and fell with anger, he was really fed up with this cowardly and timid father.

Bullied by the horseman in the Li family's stables, he read books for so many years, but he was scolded by those illiterate subordinates so that he couldn't lift his head, and today he was actually bullied by three little children, and he didn't dare to put one fart, but he would only take the dog who was loyal to the Lord to be angry, he Li Yanqing lived for twenty-eight years in his two lives, and he has never been so aggrieved as today.

"I know you look down on Daddy, Daddy is useless!"

Li Daqi's sigh came from the door, "There are some people we can't afford to mess with, Daddy is not afraid of those children, but ..... Ay! You don't understand it, but you'll understand it when you grow up. ā€

Li Yanqing ignored his father, still angry, how could he not understand.

Li Daqi saw that his son ignored him, so he thought about how to make his son happy, at this time, he suddenly remembered something, and immediately slapped himself on the head, "Look at my foolish father, I forgot all the good things, and my father bought this for you." ā€

He took out a wheat straw packet from his arms, walked into the house and handed it to his son and said with a smile: "This is your favorite syrup cookcake, Daddy went to the town to buy it today, it's still hot, eat it!" ā€

Li Yanqing sighed in his heart, although his father was useless, he really loved himself, so he shook his head and said, "I don't want to eat, you can eat!" ā€

"Daddy bought two and already ate one, this is left for you, by the way, Daddy still has something, you eat it quickly, Daddy may come back later, remember to close the door before you go to bed."

Li Daqi was thinking about the weasel in the corner, he had to hurry up and sell it in the pharmacy in the town, and then buy some incense and candles to come back, today is an important day.

Li Daqi put the wheat straw packet on the table, went to the firewood room to get a broken hat, and left home in a hurry.

Li Yanqing looked at the tightly wrapped wheat straw packet, his stomach also gurgled, and at this time, Da Hei came in from outside, jumped on the kang, and snuggled beside him with a whimper.

Li Yanqing touched the dog's head and said with a smile: "Today's performance is very brave and worthy of reward, let's be half of each other." ā€

He tore open the straw, took out a still warm cookcake from it, tore it in half, and stuffed half of it into the dog's mouth, and he himself took a big bite of it, and the sweet syrup flowed into his mouth, and savored it, which he really liked.

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In the middle of the night, Li Yanqing was awakened by a very soft voice, he smelled a strange smell, and couldn't help but open his eyes in a daze, only to see a little light flickering in the side room next to him, he heard the sound of talking, it was his father talking to himself.

But there was nothing in the wing, what was my father doing there?

Curiosity overcame sleepiness, he got up from the kang, crept over the wall, and walked to the door, where he quietly peered into the chamber.

I saw a candle lit on the ground, three sticks of incense inserted into a small incense burner, and green smoke curling, and it was this smoke that he had just smelled.

There is a spiritual tablet in front of the incense burner, you don't need to look at Li Yanqing to know that this is his mother's tablet, he has no impression of his mother in the Song Dynasty, it seems that he died of illness when he was two years old, his mother's surname is Ding, his father calls her Yunniang, in his father's daily chatter, he knows that his mother is the most virtuous and beautiful woman in the world, Li Yanqing has always regretted in his heart, if this mother is still alive, their father and son will not live so embarrassed.

His father sat in front of the spirit card, chattering about something, Li Yanqing didn't listen carefully, but he was surprised to find that there was a large pile of copper coins beside his father, strung with ropes, a string of about six or seven hundred wen, about ten strings, according to the Song system, this is ten guan money.

There was an empty clay pot next to it, lying horizontally on the ground, and there was a big pit in the corner of the house, and the earth had been cut open, and it turned out that the money was hidden here.

Li Yanqing had no concept of Song Qian's purchasing power, but he knew that the syrup cooking cake he ate this afternoon was about ten yuan each, and the ordinary cooking cake was only three yuan.

That's a lot of money to buy thousands of cooking cakes! At present, Li Yanqing's goal is not high, he only hopes to have a full stomach, yesterday he only ate two vegetable bean buns at noon, and ate half a cooking cake in the afternoon, and the Song Dynasty did not eat breakfast, so he was really hungry.

My father was desperately thrifty, what did he do with so much money?

Li Yanqing began to be interested in his father's self-talk.

"Yun Niang, today I finally saved up ten times of money, I can fulfill your wish and send our son to study, Yun Niang, you must be very happy, right?"

Li Yanqing only felt his nose choke, and hurriedly turned his head away.

"Yun Niang, I know that you are very lonely down there, it doesn't matter, when my son grows up and I pay off my debts, I will go to accompany you, and we will watch my son be admitted to the imperial examination together, which is better than his father....."

Li Yanqing wiped his face, quietly turned around and returned to the kang, looking at his father's tattered shirt hanging on the rope, he couldn't hold back anymore, covered the quilt and cried silently.