In the territory of Xiangxiang, Changsha Prefecture, at the foot of Luo Mountain, in the new forest of Shanqing Township. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This barren small mountain village is famous for the great Confucian who is famous in Xiangxiang and even Changsha and Hengzhou, and is Luo Zenan, a master of science and known as "Mr. Luo Shan".

On this day, on the ridge road of this mountain village, there was a peasant woman in her forties, leading an eight-year-old boy, walking among them.

"Ji'er, go faster, it's the double robbery season, your father is not at home, the whole Luo family is just our mother, the seven acres of paddy fields at home will be harvested in a few days, and we have to quickly plant the seedlings of late rice, which is very nervous. Hey, the old lady has been moldy for eight lifetimes and married someone surnamed Luo. The peasant woman urged the boy, her tone full of resentment towards her husband.

"Mother, don't talk about father like that! By the way, mother, when will my father come back? I've almost forgotten what he looks like. The boy walked barefoot on the uneven ridge with a milky voice.

"Don't ask, the old lady doesn't know when he'll come back! Perhaps, he will die outside. It's best not to come back for the rest of your life! Now that life is good, the old lady doesn't need him at all! "The peasant woman looks very spicy.

At this time, someone in the distance shouted and walked towards them quickly: "Sister-in-law of the Luo family, do you have any news from Mr. Luo Shan?" ”

When the peasant woman saw the visitor, she knew each other, and said with some displeasure: "What Mr. Luo Shan? You're talking about Luo Zenan, right? He hadn't been home for a year, I didn't know where he was, I hadn't written a letter, and maybe he would have died outside. ”

There were three people who came, and when they heard the peasant woman say this, they looked at each other and were quite helpless.

And the person who shouted at the head before still didn't give up, and continued: "Sister-in-law of the Luo family, you know, we have no malicious intentions! We are from Shanqing Township Office. Looking for you, first, to learn about the recent situation of Mr. Luo Shan; Second, let's see if Mr. Luo Shan's family needs help, it seems that we came at the right time. ”

"Hey, it's really short to take other people's hands, and eat other people's shortest. The old lady is really afraid of you people from the township office. However, speaking of which, the one you pulled over, what is that one called, it's really good! The peasant woman couldn't remember the name for a while, and looked at the boy next to her, and sure enough, the boy was very clever, and he opened his mouth to come: "Mother, it's phosphate fertilizer!" If you talk about it all day, you'll forget. ”

"Yes, yes, phosphate!" The peasant woman patted the boy on the back of the head, "You're clever!" ”

"Oh, I said phosphate fertilizer! Sister-in-law of the Luo family, what is the effect of this phosphate fertilizer? The Holy Land official of the township office asked expectantly.

The peasant woman's eyes were a little confused.

The peasant woman's real surname is Zhang, and she is Luo Zenan's original wife. As she said, after marrying Luo Zenan, she suffered the most painful ordeal in the world.

She was also a scholarly family, although her mother died early, but her family background was not bad. Because his father took a fancy to Luo Zenan, a talented Luo of the Luo family who had been engaged in farming for generations, he married her to him.

But after marrying Luo Zenan, Luo Zenan and the Luo family have had bad luck one after another.

First, Luo Zenan's child test student failed to make the list, and then, because of his poor family, lack of food and clothing, and no money to seek medical advice, his relatives died one after another: the year after marriage, Luo's mother died of illness; In the second year, Luo Zenan's brother and sister-in-law both died of illness, leaving the only pair of nephews and nieces for Luo Zhang's family to help support; A year later, my niece died and my grandfather died; In the next three or four years, Luo Zhang's four-year-old and two-year-old eldest and second sons were both sick but had no money for treatment and died tragically; This is not over, another two years later, Luo Zenan's sister died of illness, and the third son, as well as the nephew entrusted by the dead brother, both died young.

There is no greater pain in life than this. The pain in Luo Zhang's and Luo Zenan's hearts can be imagined.

Perhaps Luo Zenan felt that he was sorry for Luo Zhang's family, and he had no face to face it, Luo Zenan moved to the suburbs of Xiangxiang County, worked hard to study, became a great Confucian, and cultivated a large number of disciples such as Wang Ju, Li Xubin, Li Xuyi, Jiang Yili, Yang Changjun, etc., who were fully influenced by academic ideology and had worldly ambitions and talents.

Then, on the order of Xiangxiang County, he arranged a group practice, leaving Luo Zhang's family at home to pull his son up. However, fortunately, Luo Zenan at this time already had a certain foundation, and from time to time he would bring back the silver taels, and Luo Zhang's life was better.

Moreover, the paddy fields of the Luo family have also grown from the original seven acres to more than 30 acres.

However, it didn't take long for the long-haired thieves from Guangxi to kill in Munan, and they also swept Changsha Mansion, Luo Zenan trained in Xiangxiang City, and a small amount of money of the Luo family was also looted by the passing rebels.

Later, the Taiping Holy Kingdom occupied Xiangxiang and Changsha Mansion, and Luo Zenan was driven from Changsha to Yuezhou step by step with Zeng Guofan, and then from Yuezhou to Wuchang, so he was unable to receive Luo Zhang's family, so Luo Zhang's family and his son Luo Yunji began to fall into poverty again.

Luo Zhang may never forget the time half a year ago, when his son Luo Yunji suddenly had a high fever in the middle of the night, and by the morning, he had already begun to convulse and become unconscious.

Luo Zhang was frightened, and his face turned white. She has already had three sons and two nephews and nieces dead, and at least three of them had the disease before she died. The high fever does not go away, and the whole body is convulsed.

Now that her only fourth son is like this, how can she not despair?

And just when she was grief, desperate and helpless, it was this person who claimed to be the deputy head of the township office, Yang Deputy Township, who happened to come to her house and asked her about the news of her husband Luo Zenan. Seeing the appearance of her son Luo Yunji, without saying a word, she picked up her son and ran to the infirmary next door to the township office, found a doctor, took medicine, and applied a cold water bag for two hours.

At that time, Luo Zhang's family was really willing to be a cow and a horse for this deputy township chief Yang.

Then, Deputy Township Chief Yang took the people from the township office to re-measure and divide the paddy fields in the new forest. Because of Luo Zenan, the Luo family was classified as a demon official, and all the land and property were confiscated by the township office.

At this time, Luo Zhang's wanted to cry without tears, and began to hate the township office again.

However, it didn't take long for the township office to receive instructions from the superiors, or maybe it was because he saw Luo Zhang's family with a young child, lonely and helpless, so he classified it as an ordinary family and gave her the original 7 acres of paddy fields. In addition, she was given some relief food to help her get out of trouble.

Next, this deputy township head Yang would come to Xinlin from time to time, and asked the village chief to take more care of Luo Zhang's family.

At the time of spring ploughing, the paddy fields of other people in the village were ploughed, and she was a woman's family and could not plough, at this time, the township sent people to come, and several strong laborers in the village spent two days to help her family plough the land and plant seedlings. Of course, not only to help their family, but also to help two other families in need in the village.

But she felt like she had come to help her family.

Although she is pungent, and even outsiders say that she is a little tough, she is not indifferent to anything, such a township official, since ancient times, has never seen it, and she naturally remembers the goodness of others.

More than two months ago, due to the lack of fertility in their paddy fields, the growth of their seedlings was naturally worse than that of other families in the village, and they were much shorter. She was so anxious that she panicked, but there were only two people in the family, and there was only a little human and animal feces, all of which were used up, and the growth of the seedlings in the paddy fields did not improve.

At this time, the newly elected village chief came and told her that at this time, their seedlings were sick and they could go to the township, and there was a peasant training center next to the township office, and there were teachers in it who knew how to treat the seedlings.

In addition, the peasant training center is like a private school, teaching children to read and write during the day, and there is no tuition fee, and several boys in the village are ready to go to school; However, the training center is different from a private school, and it teaches villagers skills such as literacy, planting, breeding and handicrafts at night.

So, Luo Zhang's idea of using a dead horse as a live horse doctor took a day to take his son to the farmer's training center in the township that the village chief said.

More than 50 children are already learning from their teachers. After the class, the teacher followed Luo Zhang's to her family's paddy field, looked at the seedlings carefully, and judged that the fertility was insufficient.

The teacher told her that it happened that the township office was promoting a fertilizer called "phosphate fertilizer", which was developed by the Holy King himself, and although the effect was not yet clear, he believed that it could cure her family's seedlings. The amount of this "phosphate fertilizer" is not too much, the price is cheap, you can borrow it first, and then return it when the grain is harvested, it is recommended that she try it.

Luo Zhang, who had no idea, pressed his handprint and bought 700 catties of phosphate fertilizer with 700 Wen, saying that it was to buy, but in fact it was on credit, and Luo Zhang's family only had less than two taels of silver, which she used to save the emergency, and refused to use it easily.

Because it was promoted, teachers and people from the township office came to her house to teach her how to sprinkle phosphate fertilizer in paddy fields, and sprinkle 100 catties of phosphate fertilizer on one acre.

At that time, many people in the village went to her family's field to watch, pointing and discussing, and laughed at her: "Sister-in-law of the Luo family, you shouldn't be deceived, right?" Can this gray lump of dirt be better than the big dung you pulled out? The devil believes it. Our ancestors have been here like this for generations, and it is still easy to use dung. ”

"yes, it's better to have a big! Sister-in-law of the Luo family, if your family is not enough dung, go to my house and pick some? The villagers giggled and joked, not really laughing at her, but they didn't believe that the phosphate fertilizer recommended by the townsman had any effect.

"The dung is easy to use, keep it for your own use!" Luo Zhang replied, ignored them, and concentrated on sprinkling phosphate fertilizer.

For the next three or four days, the seedlings in the paddy fields did not change at all, and they were still wilting. When the villagers pass by, they will laugh and say, "Hey, sister-in-law of the Luo family, your phosphate fertilizer has no effect!" Now, it's a waste of those hundreds of articles, right? ”

Luo Zhang's mouth didn't answer, but in his heart he also agreed with the villagers' statement, and secretly resented, the township office of the dog day, everything else was done well, why did he lie to himself about this?