Some people think that Li Shan and his wife are nosy, their own family is not full of food, and they raise children for others, of course, some people appreciate the righteous deeds of Li Shan and his wife. Among them is Li Shan's friend, Cao Zheng in Sorghum Village, Cao Zheng and Li Shan have been friends since childhood, bold and chivalrous, when they learned what happened to Mr. Yun's ancestors and grandchildren, they helped out. This time, after learning that Li Shan's family was worried about Yunmeng's study, he took the initiative to find Li Shan, saying that Yunmeng's study did not have to worry, it could all be wrapped up in him, but there was one condition. Cao Zheng has a son, named Qi, the same year as Yun Meng, born with thick hands and feet, born brute force, but stubborn by nature, good at fighting with others, and does not listen to the teachings of Mr., Cao Zheng broke his heart. As long as Yun Meng can keep an eye on Cao Qi and don't let him go out to make trouble. Don't worry about the cost of studying, of course Li Shan's family is happy. It's just that whether Yun Meng can control Cao Qi and let him not get into trouble, Li Shan and his wife really have no bottom in their hearts.

In this way, Yun Meng went to Cao's house early every morning and went to the school with Cao Qi, and after the school was dismissed, Cao Qi was sent home first, and then went home alone. However, Yun Meng just followed but never spoke, Cao Qi did not interfere with what Yun Meng did, but they were all right. After getting along for a period of time, Yun Meng found that Cao Qi was not as brutal and domineering as people said. On the contrary, Cao Qi is very righteous, but whenever he sees injustice or bullying the weak, he can always stand up, but he is sometimes a little reckless and does not like to read. Slowly, Cao Qi also felt that this Yun Meng, who was the same age as him, was not simple, he was different from other children, how different he couldn't tell, but he didn't hate it anyway.

Once, Mr. said, "I have three times a day, and I have three provinces." Asking the opinions of the children in the school, the other children just know rote memorization and do not seek to understand, but when Mr. asked Yun Meng, Yun Meng's opinions impressed Mr. Yun Meng, and the young Yun Meng replied with an old city attitude: "Sir, Yun Meng thinks that the sage said that the 'three provinces' are actually to teach us the truth of living in the world, one is self-cultivation, and the other is to others. Be honest with others, integrity is to be above board, not to deceive others or to deceive yourself. To do things for others, we must be dedicated, and we can be reluctant and perfunctory, which is the minimum virtue of a person. Self-cultivation should not be done at one time, self-cultivation should run through the whole life, and it is necessary to review old experiences from time to time, seek new knowledge, and not stop. Yun Meng's remarks showed his unique way of thinking and opinions for the first time, and also deeply shocked Cao Qi, although Cao Qi didn't understand Yun Meng's words, but he just felt that Yun Meng was reasonable, don't look at a weak little Yun Meng, what he said was his temper, which made people convinced. After that, people strangely found that it was Yun Meng who followed Cao Qi before, and later it became Cao Qi who followed Yun Meng all day long.

Time flies and another seven years have passed, and Yun Meng is already a fourteen-year-old child at this time, with a thin and slender body, a delicate face, a high nose bridge, a wide forehead, and a pair of big and bright eyes. Seven years later, Yun Meng is no longer the ignorant teenager, he has been proficient in the sage classics, but he has never forgotten the pain of the country's ruin, the death and death of his relatives, he has ambitions, worships heroes, virtuous, and hopes that he can one day achieve something, in order to comfort his grandfather, father's soul in the sky. However, reality is reality, and fantasy is often worthless in the face of reality. Scholars at the bottom of the entire society have to face the reality even if they are rich and talented. The same is true for Yun Meng, although Li Shan and his wife did their best to raise Yun Meng, it was still not easy to be able to worry about food and clothing. Now Li Shan and his wife are nearly half a hundred years old, and their health is not as good as before, and a lot of work must be undertaken by Yun Menglai. Yun Meng, who was sensible and filial early, was also afraid that his father-in-law and mother-in-law would worry, so he buried the thoughts in his heart deeply, and took the initiative to take on many major tasks of the family, whether it was farm work or weaving a dustpan, he was no worse than Li Shan. Not only that, but even proposed an improved method of widening and deepening the existing plough boom and plowshare, which achieved twice the result with half the effort.

In the summer of this year, Li Shan was going to take a trip to Yuanji, and wanted to bring more dustpans to Yecheng to sell, hoping to exchange more money. Of course, Yun Meng also had to go, and the Zhang family made some dry food and packed some clothes for the two of them. After all, this was the first time that Yun Meng was so far away from home, and Zhang's thousands of instructions asked Yun Meng to pay attention to this, and repeatedly settled Li Shan to take care of Yun Meng. Early in the morning of the second day, Yi Yi was reluctant to see Li Shan's father and son drive away with the ox cart.

Along the way, Yun Meng was so excited, he had been to the town a few times, but it was the first time that Mayor Ye was so big. Along the way, I kept asking Li Shan this and that, and I felt that everything was new. Yecheng is the main city of Wei County, and it is also a big city, with more than 100,000 permanent residents in the city, and tens of thousands of households. Although Gaoliangzhuang is also under the rule of Wei County, it is located in the easternmost part of Wei County, more than 200 miles away, and it takes a day and a night to walk. In order to save the entanglement, the father and son eat the dry food they bring with them when they are hungry, drink some stream water when they are thirsty, and do not stay in the store at night.

At noon on the second day of leaving home, the two finally came to the west gate of Yecheng. I saw that the city wall of Yecheng is several zhang high, the city wall is solid, there is a moat outside the city, the flag is displayed above the city tower, and the city tower is in the middle of the book "Yecheng" two big characters. Yun Meng has long forgotten the fatigue on the road, urging the ox cart to enter the city, the central cross street of Yecheng is full of traffic, pedestrians are bustling, buying and buying shops are next to each other, the sound of buying and selling is endless, this scene is so lively, Yun Meng and Li Shan are overwhelmed to see it. There is a steamed bun stall on the corner of the street, the hot steamed buns have just come out of the cage, the fragrance is far away, the greedy Yun Meng swallowed his saliva, his stomach also growled, and said to Li Shan: "Daddy, you see it's noon, the sun is poisonous, let's rest first, eat something." ”

Li Shan wiped the sweat on his face, put his hand on the pergola and looked at the sun, and said, "No, it's really hot enough, just rest." ”

"Dad, there's a bun stall here, it smells very good, can we eat a few?" Yun Meng tried to ask.

"Kid, do you want to eat steamed buns? Okay, just eat, and I didn't eat anything along the way. Li Shan felt sorry for the child, so the two drove the ox cart to the side of the steamed bun stall and asked for a cage of meat buns and two bowls of water.

Li Shan picked up a bun and handed it to Yun Mengdao: "Meng'er, eat." ”

"Daddy, you eat first." Yun Meng filial piety pushed the bun back to Li Shan,

"Okay, let's eat together!" Li Shan said.

"Look at this old and young, eating a bun and pushing it like this, it's so enviable!"

Li Shanxin said, "Who is this?" Hurriedly put down the bun in his hand, turned around and looked, it turned out that there was a white-haired old man standing in front of him, but he saw the old man's crane hair and childish face, red face, a silver beard under his chin, the old man wore a green gauze scarf, wearing a blue wide-sleeved coat, embroidered with gold thread on the edge of the clothes, and the ribbon tied around the waist.

At this time, Yun Meng also put down the bun in his hand, and hurriedly got up with Li Shan, and saluted the old man: "Old man, I'm waiting for the box to be polite." I wonder what happened to the old gentleman? ”

The old man smiled and said, "Yo, I'm sorry, the old man disturbed the two of you to eat." "This old man spoke very politely, without the slightest arrogance,

Li Shan hurriedly returned: "Look at what you always said, but my father and son have some gaffes that make the old man laugh outside." ”

"Where can I say this, but your father-son relationship is deeply touching! Hey, yes, yes, yes, I forgot about business, let me ask you, is the dustpan on the ox cart yours? The old man said.

Li Shan hurriedly replied: "Yes, yes, this is what my son knitted, and today I specially entered Yecheng to sell it." As he spoke, he pointed at Yun Meng.

Yun Meng hurriedly stepped forward and saluted again: "The kid is clumsy, which makes the old man laugh." ”

The old man smiled, squinted his eyes, looked Yun Meng up and down, and said that he was not muttering: "Well, not bad, not bad, just right." ”

Hearing this, Li Shan's father and son were stunned, and Yun Meng hurriedly asked, "Old man, what are you talking about?" ”

The old man laughed and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing, I'm just saying that the craftsmanship of this dustpan is really good, and the old man has it all." In addition, don't call me any old man or sir, I am just the old slave butler of my master, and I also do things for my master. The old man's surname is Yu, and others call the old man Yu Weng. ”

When the two of them heard that someone wanted to buy a dustpan, and they wanted it all, they couldn't believe it. As he spoke, the old man took out a money bag and threw it to Li Shan, Li Shan opened the money bag and roughly counted more than 100 yuan, and hurriedly said, "Give more, give more." ”

The old man said, "It's not much, how can I get so many dustpans, and I have to hire your ox cart to deliver a trip." ”

Li Shan hurriedly said yes, so he was about to catch the car and go with the old man, but the old man said: "My house is outside the north city, not far away, you are old, just rest here, let this young man go with the old man." ”

Yun Meng also said to Li Shan: "Daddy, Meng'er has grown up, let Meng'er drive with the old gentleman, send the dustpan to the old gentleman's house, and return in a moment, Daddy is waiting for Meng'er here." "Li Shan is indeed tired enough, after all, his age is not forgiving, so he depends on Yunmeng.

Besides, Yun Meng let Yu Weng sit in the ox cart, took two buns, and after saying goodbye to Li Shan, he drove the car to the north, out of the city gate, and walked towards the outskirts of the city. On the way, Yu Weng didn't speak, as if he was just napping on the ox cart, Yun Meng didn't dare to speak, just drove the car with his head bored, but he was muttering in his heart, "This old man seems to be from a rich family, but what do you want so many dustpans for?"

When Yun Mengzheng was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard the old man snort and said, "It's too hot this day, little brother, there is a forest in front, how about you and I go to the forest to take a cool breath and rest?" ”

Yun Meng replied: "Old man, what you said is extremely true. It's just that I'm afraid of losing time, and my father is worried. ”

"Eh, this place is not far from my house, and after crossing this forest, I will enter a ditch in front of me. It doesn't hurt to take a break. ”

Yun Meng was right when he heard it, the sun was scorching, and he had to suffer from heat stroke after a while, so he stopped saying nothing and drove the ox cart into the woods. The forest is not big, but there are a few big trees with a wide canopy, and the branches and leaves are very dense, Yun Meng chose a place under the big tree, and brought two big stones from the side, dusted off the dust on the stones with his sleeves, asked Yu Weng to sit down first, handed the water bladder to Yu Weng, and sat on another stone, using his sleeves as a fan to fan the wind.

Yu Weng took a few sips of water, wiped his mouth, put the water bladder aside, looked at Yun Meng and asked, "Young man, the old man has a few words I want to ask you, if you don't know?" ”

Yun Meng hurriedly turned around, straightened his sitting posture, and replied, "You always have something to ask?" ”

Yu Weng smiled: "The brother who came with you is not your biological father, right?" You had an unfortunate childhood, you must have experienced the life and death of your loved ones, right? Your surname is Yun, yes or no? ”

Yun Meng's face suddenly changed when he heard Yu Weng's words, and he couldn't help but be surprised. He immediately stood up and asked, "Who are you, old man, why do you ask me these questions, and how do you know what happened to me?" What do you mean? ”

The old man also stood up at this time and said, "It is normal for you to have this question or suspect that the old man is plotting against him. You can rest assured, the old man has no malice, you just answer me or not? ”

Yun Meng also pondered, seeing that this old man was dignified and extraordinary, he didn't look like a villain. But why do you know so much about what happened to me? And answer him, and see what else is wonderful. He replied, "What the old gentleman asked just now is the truth. Yun Meng simply told Yu Weng what happened at the beginning.

After hearing this, Yu Weng whispered to himself: "It seems that the old man has found the right person." Then he straightened up his clothes and bowed deeply to Yun Meng.

Yun Meng was stupid at this time, and when he saw this, he hurriedly helped Yu Weng and said, "Old man, why are you doing this time, you scared me stupid." ”

Yu Weng said: "Childe, the old man was offended just now, and I hope the son will understand." ”

Yun Meng was even more confused now, why did he become a son again? Busy also gave a deep salute and said: "What the hell is going on with the old gentleman, don't laugh at me." ”

The old man laughed and said: "Blame me, blame me, only blame the old man for being too abrupt, but please remember that you will not be a pond fish in the future, and you will definitely become a pillar of the country in a short time." This is also what my master instructed my husband to tell my son. ”

Yun Meng really couldn't digest these words for a while, but he was stunned on the spot. The old man said: "After listening to the old man's remarks, the son must have many questions, and the son doesn't have to ask, and he can't talk about it if he asks the old man." Don't leak it! ”

Yun Meng opened his mouth and just wanted to say something, when he heard the old man say, "Hey, why is this Li Shan here?" ”

When Yun Meng heard this, he suddenly turned his head and said, "No, where is Daddy?" When he turned his head, he found that Yu Weng was gone.

Yun Meng looked around again, and there was no trace of the old man, but he found that there were suddenly four lines of poetry on the stone that the old man had just done, "The sky will descend to sharpen the hard, Taiyi will visit the immortals, Yunzi is not a bird in the forest, and he turns into a big peng to rush to the nine heavens." ”