Most of the old people in Fushun Town still remember Li Qi when he was young. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAt that time, the Li family only had five or six old and small water porters, and most of the two of them were new and not old bamboo tube wells, and a large family of people ate, wore and chewed all on the well, but they were full of food and warm clothes, but to say how rich they were, it was impossible to talk about.

Maybe if you change someone, you can live like this, but Li Qi is a ruthless person from the bottom of his bones. Regardless of the opposition of the whole clan, he used the sacrificial field as a mortgage, borrowed a large amount of silver from a certain landlord and old wealth, and specially invited a craftsman to dig a well, and opened three new wells with a lot of brine at any cost, and kept boiling well salt day and night. After a few months of grinding work, the inspection department and the county government were obedient and close, and even the county lord occasionally said that Li Qi was a sensible person - in short, in less than a year, even as far as the Longchang Neijiang area, it was rumored that there was a Li Qi in Fushun County, which was very good.

In this life, the grandfather of the Li family has endured great hardships and enjoyed great blessings. At the age of thirty, he had a wife who died young, leaving only a son who was not a child, and his hands and feet were so thin that he had chicken feet, and a boy of eleven or twelve years old had a long body, like a bamboo that did not grow into a wood. Li Qi has a conscience, guarded his wife for three years, and married the daughter of a dilapidated Xiucai family in Fushun Town in the fourth year. A few years later, he died of illness, and he was also ordered to be buried under Mrs. Dafang's head, and the whole first seven days of the funeral were done, and the day of the funeral was full of white. The entire town of Fushun said that the Li family was the master, benevolent, and knew the rules.

Now, this benevolent, righteous and well-known Li Jiading Haishen Needle, is thin into a bone frame, and the bones are stuck to the hard bed board, he shouts that he is in pain, and he has to lay down five solid Songjiang cotton mattresses; He cried day and night, and slept restlessly. said that it was painful and swollen there, the Li family's silver flow price was used out, and the doctors who saw the doctor changed one after another, from Fushun to Chengdu, all said that they couldn't, and finally this Dr. Chen said, prepare for the future.

He only raised two sons in his life, the eldest son Li Yongbo was young and sick, and was regarded as a treasure by his biological mother who died early, but his body was well raised, and his temper pattern was no longer good. At the age of eleven or twelve, he knew how to visit the flower building, raise a clean man, and take a group of followers to make a miasma in Fushun, Li Qi had a few seizures, and broke several bamboo strip boards, after all, he was reluctant to kill him, and in the end he had to let him marry a good wife and give birth to a grandson, only to raise a rich idler.

The youngest son, Li Yongzhong, is too eccentric. Silent and silent, smart is really smart, August can speak, the first year old can walk, the third year old can read, the fifth year old can write, but he is not like a child, children love to play tricks, but Li Yongzhong was seven years old to take care of the affairs and settle accounts, eight or nine years old and Master Yan rode a Dian horse, he sat in front of Wang Huanzhi, and went to pay the water porter before dawn. Seeing Li Qi's rules and manners, he got along like the owner and the shopkeeper, but not like father and son.

When Li Qi was not sick, he was also worried about how the brothers would get along with him in a hundred years, he loved his eldest son, and during the many years of Li Yongbo's illness, he and his wife burned incense and made wishes with great piety, and made alms; The business was too busy when the young son landed, and he was happy to have another son, but he didn't pay much attention to it, and he was busy in the blink of an eye, and just went to see the child at night.

But now he is dying, but the eldest son is still not successful, he was seriously ill before, but Li Yongbo quietly accepted the third aunt, now it is the time of the heat, the servants have no scruples in front of him, and even the gossip of "the third aunt of the uncle wears red and gold, and carries it into the door from the corner gate" is also spreading.

The dying master of the Li family thought with remorse in his drowsiness that he should have tied up the boss's hands and feet, cut off his money and food, and threw him into the salt well, to be in the company of those water porters who broke their sweat for two meals of brown rice and oil residue rice a day, and to be in the company of those horse teams who shuttled back and forth between the mountains and mountains of Bashu with heavy salt goods.

In the drowsiness, Li Qi suddenly found that his heavy body was lighter, and he was pleasantly surprised to see that his dry, thin palms had become smooth and powerful again, and the strength he had lost had returned to this body that had been tormented by illness for a long time. He couldn't wait to get to his feet, his knees, which had been so sore and stiff, were now soft enough to carry the weight of a man in the prime of life.

The owner of the Li family wanted to laugh happily, he put on a Songjiang cotton jacket at will, Tara mille-feuille green cloth shoes, and held a purple sand handle pot from Suzhou.

The door of the grid opened silently, and the silent subordinate in Tsing Yi hurriedly walked past Li Qi with a pale face, making him both surprised and angry: no one dared to ignore the majesty of the Li family's master for many years. He tried to reprimand the daring servants, but was quickly caught by a familiar voice.

The roar of the eldest son floated from afar: "He dares not to come!" He didn't dare to come! He relied on my family to eat, rely on my family to drink, wear gold and silver, and make slaves and maids, not relying on the old man, relying on the Li family, and his family now has to eat soil! I had to be a landowner! Dig in the soil, and be reluctant to tear a piece of cloth and eat a piece of meat for a year! ”

The sound of a series of porcelain shattering was brittle like someone had moved the bronze of the Buddhist temple, and it was also like a mournful wind chime in the night wind, even in the midst of these harsh noises, Li Yongbo's curse was still as clear as if it was in Li Qi's ears: "Usually good words are poured out one by one, but now they are going to be used, and they are running fast one by one!" When the old man is there, everyone can't wait to lick the old man's fart ditch and eggs! ”

"Needless to say! I'm the old man's sister-in-law! What is he Li Yongzhong? A little mongrel! A little lady who should be raised by flooding and fire, he also deserves to fight with me! His wife was bought by the old man for five taels of silver, and she was even a in the spring makeup building. It's not as good as a child, and today it is also shaking, and it is also called an outsider! What kind of master is he! ”

"And Wang Huanzhi! A person with a foreign surname also dares to mix the water of the Li family, and he is not afraid of drowning him! A salt master, who doesn't know how many catties and taels he weighs, and he called the county lord two sentences, and he trembled! I can't fit the Li family in my eyes! When I take the old man's seat, I immediately call him to go and tell him to get out! Let's see what he shakes when the time comes! Take his poor sour! ”

"And that dead old man! Don't die sooner! Shouting pain all day long, the pain should die early! Do not suffer! No sin! Die and let your son be happy! I only know that the little bastard is smart and capable, and my son-in-law is just an ornament, and he can't fall into the right eye! Now you should die, you are dead, your son, I will set you up for seven days of flowing water, and ask the best Taoist monk to do a full forty-nine days of water and land dojo! ”

Li Qi was cold, his eyes were blood-red, and hot anger rolled in Li Qi's body, surging from the soles of his feet to the Heavenly Spirit Gai, from the tips of his fingers to the thumbs of his feet, he walked forward unconsciously, and even forgot to wonder why people under him didn't see him. Now he just wanted to walk in front of that rebel and slap him hard with all his might, slapping him in place, slapping him so that he rolled to the ground and couldn't get up.

In the midst of the chaos of a place, he saw his eldest son -- Li Yongbo was really very much like him, tall, with eyes and a straight nose, so that he must be the most imposing to arouse people, wearing silk and brocade, eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, even if he took it to Chengdu Mansion, he was also a very good and likable young man -- but now Li Yongbo was full of gloom, walking around among the broken porcelain, his eyes were fierce, his cheeks were twitching, his mouth was full of nonsense, and he cursed his capable half-brother in the sky and the earth, and gave the Li family ten years of hard work to the master, The blood relatives of the same clan who are not out of five suits, and the old father who is seriously ill and dying.

Li Qi was dizzy, everything in front of him was rapidly receding, he gasped in pain, only to find that the familiar feeling of suffocation returned, and there seemed to be a huge hole hidden in his chest, like a leaky bellows. The strong and powerful body weakened again, and he panicked and wanted to shout, but the dull mind of the town was clear for a while—the protagonist of the Li family opened his eyes suddenly, and the familiar, swarthy shelf bed top board met his eyes.

He coughed twice, it had been a long time since he had breathed so smoothly, and the energy that had been lost with the arrival of the decoction had returned to Li Qi's body, at least it would allow him to support his stiff and aging body from the bed.

The Li family owner knew that he was running out of time. He opened his mouth and wanted to order his subordinates to invite the two young masters over, but he found that his throat was so dry that he couldn't even make the faintest sound.

Li Qi leaned weakly against the bed frame, a terrible ho-ho sound came from his throat, and his strength began to slip away gradually, everything around him was sometimes clear, sometimes blurred, and the figures in white and black floated five steps away. Ah, yes, yes, I heard that the black and white impermanence of the underworld is the messenger of the soul - the king of Hades let you go on the third watch, and never left anyone until the fifth watch.

"Squeak."

As the carved grid door opened, there was a footstep that was neither fast nor slow, neither light nor heavy. It is not the square step of the rich and noble, for the square step is far from being so strong and strong, and it is not of the rough and ignorant, for they have never understood that patience is a great virtue; The sound of the footsteps of the visitor was very rhythmic, and it went from far to near, and finally stopped at the bedside of the dying old man.

The shelf bed shook slightly, and after a very soft crunch, someone sat on the edge of the bed.

A pair of warm and powerful hands with calluses in their palms held Li Qi's cold and damp hands.

Li Qi finally exhaled a long breath. He curled his fingers feebly, trying to grasp the healthy, youthful palms.

"Zhongguan'er ......"

The second son of the Li family, Li Yongzhong, was silent for a moment, and closed those thin fingers in his palm. He stared at the withered and sickly face and called softly, "Father." ”