Dawn.

Hunting the autumn wind, like a sobbing resentful woman, through the vast and empty land, through the withered and yellow sparse forests, jumping into the dark streets and alleys, hitting the doors of everyone's small households, and making a terrible scream.

On the avenue at the junction of urban and rural areas in the western part of Jiangzhou City, there is a ghostly little bit, which is faintly floating with the flow of the autumn wind.

The little one got closer and closer, and the little one got bigger and bigger, and when he got closer, he turned out to be an unkempt and ragged little beggar.

The little beggar staggered and staggered, swaying like a reed in the wind, and staggered toward the city, with cloudy eyes, looking about the hungry infant with a pair of cloudy eyes, hoping to find a family to give alms to, and to ask for a little scrap to soothe the hungry. However, because it was still early, the doors and windows of the houses were closed, and the streets were deserted.

The breath is dying, and it is difficult to walk......

Suddenly, "Boom! With a bang, the little beggar fell headlong in front of a shop.

Early in the morning, Liu Huadong, a guy from the "Guangji Pharmacy", opened the door and was about to sweep the courtyard, but he saw a pile of black things on the steps, and when he got closer, it turned out to be a dirty little beggar, who seemed to be dead.

Because Chenguang is still early, Liu Wenlu, the sitting physician, has not yet gone to work; Liu Huadong hurriedly asked a young man to go to the Dragon Mansion on Fengming Street in the east to report the situation to Long Ye, the owner of the "Guangji Pharmacy".

"Master Long! Big things are not good! There is a road down in front of the store today, and it looks like a beggar. ”

The "road down" that the young man said is a local dialect of Jiangzhou, which generally refers to people who starve to death or die of illness on the road.

"Have you been cured?" Long Ye, who was playing Tai Chi, heard what the young man said, and hurriedly stopped his fists and feet and asked about the situation.

"Because Chenguang is still early, Mr. Liu has not yet arrived at work, and no one has treated him."

"Then quickly carry someone to me to have a look." Long Ye, who has always been compassionate, does not care about any auspicious or unlucky, so he asked the young man to bring the "road down" to his home for treatment.

"This ...... This ......"

"What is this? Save someone's life, win the seventh-level floating slaughter! What are you waiting for? ”

"Master Long! This...... I got a road upside down to the house early in the morning, and I always ...... It's not a big deal! "The young man is completely thinking about his master.

"What's so bad about that? Do good without taboo! If something like this happens in front of my shop, how can we die without help? Hurry up and get that little beggar carefully, don't delay the treatment. "Master Long didn't allow his beak, and ordered the young man to hurry up and carry people.

"Yes!" The young man obeyed.

After a while, the two guys carried the little beggar who had been fed a little boiling water by Liu Huadong and had a little bit of life, and the two went back to the pharmacy.

Long Ye asked Wang Mohan, the health doctor in the house, to hurry up and rescue. Mr. Wang looked at the little beggar's eyes, tried his snort, checked his pulse, and knew that it was caused by cold and hunger, and there was no serious illness; Immediately ordered the servants of the house to come to the kitchen to bring a thin porridge and feed it slowly.

The little beggar who went around in the capital city ate a bowl of hot porridge, bid farewell to the impermanence of black and white, and returned to the world.

Long Ye asked the little beggar to take the little beggar to the next person's room to wipe his body with hot water and change his clothes; In an instant, an unkempt and sloppy little boy named Hanako looked like a human.

"Little one, where are you from? What do parents do? Master Long asked aloud to the little beggar who was standing with his head down.

"Back to Lord Long! I may be from Dawangzhuang because I am an abandoned baby, and my adoptive father and adoptive mother picked it up from the Dawang Temple - these are things that my adoptive father and adoptive mother told me when I grew up. So I don't know exactly where I am, or who my biological parents are or what they do. The little beggar heard others shouting that the master who saved his life was Master Long, so he followed and reported his birth truthfully.

"Dawangzhuang people?" Long Ye, who has always been calm and practiced, listened to the little beggar's reply, as if he had been pricked by an embroidery needle, and was slightly stunned, but then calmly asked, "Then how old are you this year?" ”。

"Probably...... I should be fourteen years old. "After more than ten years of grinding the rough sandpaper, the little beggar looks much older than his actual age.

"How's that...... Should I be fourteen years old? How old are you? Long Ye looked at the "old-fashioned" little beggar and asked.

"Back to Master Long, I can't say how old it is; I heard my adoptive father and adoptive mother say that they picked me up in the broken temple gate building in the year (that day) when the Dawang Temple lost the fire, so they said that they should be fourteen years old. ”

"The day when the Dawang Temple lost its fire?" When Long Ye heard this, he was slightly stunned, and he secretly thought in his heart: The loss of the fire in Dawang Temple was the first day of the first lunar month in the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu, and that year was 1901, a full thirteen years ago...... Don't? No! No! How can there be such a clever thing in the world? Long Ye muttered to himself thoughtfully.

"Do you know what month and day you were born, young man?" Long Ye held back his thoughts and then asked.

"I heard my adoptive father and adoptive mother say that the year when the Dawang Temple lost the fire, that is, the day they picked me up in the broken temple, was the first day of the first lunar month of the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu, and they estimated that I was only five or six months old at the time, so they set my birthday as the first day of June, and every year since then, it will be the first day of June for my birthday."

The first day of June? Didn't my baby have it all his life at the beginning of June? Is it really ...... No way! No way! The children I gave birth to and raised with her were not given to Lei Sanye and Lei San's grandmother in the western suburbs nursery; And then disappeared again? How is it still alive? How can you become a beggar? No! No! Definitely not! There is no such thing as a coincidence! Besides, this is the first day of the sixth month, which is only based on the guess of the child's adoptive father and adoptive mother, which may not be accurate, and it is also possible to make a mistake for half a month and a month.

"Little one! What's the name of your adoptive parent? What do you do? ”

"Back to Lord Long! I don't know what my adoptive father and adoptive mother really called, but I heard people call my adoptive father Lei Sanye and my adoptive mother the third grandmother, and they make a living by planting trees and flowers in the suburbs. ”

"Ahh Your adoptive father and adoptive mother are Lei Sanye and Lei Sangrandma, who plant flowers and plants in the nursery in the western suburbs? What's your name? When Long Ye heard the little beggar say such a thing, he was a little shocked!

"Back to Lord Long! Because people say that the Dawang Temple was burned down because of the natural fire, and my adoptive father and adoptive mother picked me up in the broken temple on the day of the heavenly fire, so they named me Lei Tianhuo. ”

"Lei Tianhuo...... this name is quite interesting." Long Ye said with a wry smile.

"My adoptive father is uneducated and always calls me a baby; It wasn't until I was ten years old that I was given this name, it didn't mean anything, it was just for the sake of shouting, please don't laugh at Master Long. "Lei Tianhuo was a little embarrassed by Master Long.

"Then you have an adoptive father and an adoptive mother, why did you go to the streets to beg at a young age?" Long Ye froze down, changed the topic and asked.

"Master Long! When I was three years old, I was tricked away from my adoptive father and adoptive mother by a bad uncle and sent me to a place called 'Tiandaotang'. The 'golden dragon' and gold collar I wore around my neck were also taken away by that bad uncle. ”

"What? You were tricked from your adoptive parents by a bad uncle when you were three years old? Sending you to a place called 'Heavenly Dao Hall'? The 'golden dragon' and gold collar you wore around your neck were also taken away by that bad uncle? Do you still have an impression of that bad uncle? When Long Ye heard this, he was even more shocked - he and Jiang Cuilian visited the baby in the nursery for the last time, wasn't the baby just three years old? After Wan Fuxiang and Zhao Shuxian had a quarrel in the nursery, he and Jiang Cuilian's original agreement to "go to the nursery in the western suburbs to 'buy flowers' together on the first day of June every year -- to visit the child named 'Long Miao'" was abruptly interrupted. But the two of them still took the time to visit the child in the nursery in the western suburbs - so they knew that the child was gone - it turned out that they were deceived by a bad person from Lei Sanye and Lei San's grandmother, and sent the child to a place called "Tiandaotang", and also took away the "golden dragon" and gold collar worn by the child's neck.

"Hmmm! I vaguely remember that bad uncle was skinny, black, and sharp-mouthed. After that bad guy tricked me away from my adoptive father and adoptive mother, he sent me to a place called 'Heavenly Dao Hall'. That place is very afraid of people, and everyone is born like bandits (in fact, they are bandits); I lived there for three or four years in great fear. Once, a bandit uncle took me out into the street to rob something, and I took advantage of him to hide in an old man's robe without paying attention; He didn't find me, and I ran away! I ran for a whole day to find my adoptive father and adoptive mother at the nursery in the western suburbs. They were so happy that night they cried!

"Then why did you end up so far with your adoptive father and adoptive mother?" When Long Ye heard Lei Tianhuo's reply, he was even more shocked and grief-stricken.

"My adoptive parents have always been very hardworking, they are like a machine that has passed the warranty period, and they are still running at high speed. He eventually became ill due to overwork and passed away last winter. In order to bury the two old people, with the help of my neighbors, I sold three thatched huts to bury the two elders, and I lived in a flower shed. Unexpectedly, this summer's tornado swept away the thatched hut where I lived, and I had no place to live. When I went to work in other people's homes, they thought I was young, so I had to wander around and beg for a living. The little beggar said with a sigh of tears.

"Where are you going now?" Long Ye secretly wondered in his heart: If this "quasi-son" is the real son of me and Jiang Cuilian, how can I let him wander outside again?

"Master Long! I have no roof on the top, no inch on the ground, no clothes (no clothes to cover my body), no food (no food), and no relatives, I am really homeless, and I have nowhere to go. If your old man can be merciful, take me in, and be a subordinate in your house, you will be my re-parent (re-parent), and you will be willing to let me be a cow and a horse in the future, so please ask Master Long to keep me! Lei Tianhuo was full of tears, sad and sad, and brought out some of the "Sven words" and "Thanksgiving words" that he had heard and learned in his begging career, whether it was right or not, he used them all like this.

"This ...... All right! Then you go to the pharmacy to help with chores, and sleep with Liu Huadong at night, and the two of them can be companions. "Master Long, this is an expedient measure - first put this "prospective son" in the pharmacy, slowly verify it later, and then slowly find a way to arrange it.

"Xie Longye! Xie Longye! Your great kindness and virtue are shameless and do not forget (no teeth to forget). I must not be afraid of hardship, I am not afraid of doing (tired), diligent, hard work and resentment, and work hard for Lord Long (service)! ”

Don't say that! All you have to do is stay at the pharmacy! Xiao Huang, you send him to the pharmacy, talk to Mr. Zhou, and arrange for him to do some light work. Master Long commanded.

"Yes!" Xiao Huang took Lei Tianhuo to the "Guangji Pharmacy", explained the meaning of Master Long to Mr. Zhou Jingzhai, the chief pharmacist, and Liu Huadong, the leader of the guys, and left Lei Tianhuo behind, and went back to Longfu to resume his life!

Lei Tianhuo has stayed in the "Guangji Pharmacy" to help with the work, and this day is September 25, the third year of the Republic of China.

Lei Tianhuo is a man of words, he is really not afraid of hardship, he is not afraid of tiredness, he is diligent, hard-working, and he has won everyone's heart; He himself felt very happy in the "Guangji Pharmacy".

The good days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, and the big and small pharmacists, a group of guys, and sitting doctors were busy cleaning, preparing to take the red envelope back for the New Year in the afternoon.

Liu Huadong, the small leader of the men, was using a ladder to climb up and wipe the plaque of "Guangji Pharmacy" with gold letters on a black background. I don't know if the iron nails on the horizontal plaque have been rusted for a long time, or if Liu Huadong has used too much force, he only felt that with a shake of his hand, a huge horizontal plaque slipped down; Liu Huadong, who was caught off guard, hurriedly reached out to grab it, but it was too late, and he only heard "Boom!" With a loud bang, the gold-lettered horizontal plaque of "Guangji Pharmacy" fell to the ground and lay on the ground in two.

This scared Liu Huadong so much that he was scared, thinking that he would just wait for Master Long to come and scold him, and then sweep the floor and go out, and he would never be able to get a job in the Long Family Pharmacy.

At this time, Long Ye happened to come to the store to visit everyone, and saw the golden horizontal plaque of "Guangji Pharmacy" falling to the ground and dividing it into two halves, and he couldn't help but be furious; Just as he was about to have an attack, Liu Huadong, who slipped down from the ladder, was already prostrate on the ground, frequently making mistakes, admitting his mistakes again and again, trembling and begging for forgiveness from Master Long.

"Master Long! Damn the villain! Damn the villain! I'm in trouble! I am willing to deduct half a year's salary to compensate you for the plaque. ”

"Liu Huadong! Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, what is the use of you cutting the golden plaque in half and fining you half a year's salary? "The unhappy Long Ye in his heart wants to deal with Liu Huadong fiercely; But seeing Lei Tianhuo, who had been sleeping with Liu Huadong and being like a brother to Liu Huadong, flashed over, and said with a smile on his face:

"Congratulations to Master Long! Congratulations to Lord Long! ”

"What's the joy of?" Master Long, who was angry, saw that the "prospective son" Lei Tianhuo came out to say such things at this time, so he asked angrily.

"Master Long! This plaque is old and mottled, and it should be replaced with a new one, but fortunately, there will be a new atmosphere in the coming year! Besides, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve means the night of removing the old; On the night of the old one, the plaque falls down and is replaced with a new one, which is much better than falling down for the New Year!

"As for this plaque falling in half, it's not a bad thing, it's a metaphor for your dragon master to open a branch. How good it is for you to ask the carpenter and the lacquer maker to redo two new plaques, one to hang here and the other to hang in your soon-to-be-opened branch! ”

Lei Tianhuo is clever and speaks, insisting that an unlucky thing is a good thing. This is to exonerate Liu Huadong and repay him for his rescue. Second, it is also to persuade Long Ye not to be angry when the New Year is about to be celebrated, and it is useless to be angry. The third is to take this opportunity to show his eloquence and cleverness, so that Long Ye will be impressed by him.

"You little fellow, you're pretty good at talking. Well...... So be it! According to your good words, I will open another branch next year. But you and Liu Huadong hurry up to find carpenters and lacquer workers, and let them hurry up to make two large plaques - first make one to hang here to ensure that there is a signboard before the opening on the sixth day of the first lunar month; The other piece should also be done as soon as possible, and I will open a semicolon when I find a good house. Long Ye thought to himself: The ancients often said that "if you fall into the cauldron, it is useless to look back". This means that if the bottle has fallen and broken, do not look at it again, because it will not help but increase sorrow. Now that the plaque has been smashed, it won't help to say more, but if you say it, you will get angry, and if you get angry, you will hurt your body, so what's the benefit? It's better to borrow the auspicious words of "like a son", push the boat down the river, get a good mood, and open a branch anyway.

Liu Huadong and Lei Tianhuo listened to Long Ye's words, were overjoyed, quickly thanked Long Ye, cleaned up the remaining plaques, and immediately went to find carpenters and lacquer workers, so that they could take the time to make two plaques - first make one to hang in the old store to ensure that there is a signboard before the opening on the sixth day of the first lunar month; Another plaque should also be done as soon as possible, and Long Ye will find a good house and open a semicolon.

The carpenter and lacquerer heard that it was the famous dragon master to do something, and he did not dare to slack off, so he joined hands to make a new plaque on the morning of the fifth day of the first lunar month, and transported it to the "Guangji Pharmacy" together with Liu Huadong and Lei Tianhuo, who had repeatedly come to chase it, and hung it on the lintel upright, and there was really a fresh atmosphere.

After five days, the carpentry and lacquer workers made the second plaque of "Guangji Pharmacy", wrapped it in red satin, and sent it to Longfu by blowing and blowing. Master Long was overjoyed, and rewarded the master carpenter and the master lacquer master heavily, and the two received the reward and left happily.

As the saying goes: "Long sleeves are good at dancing, and more wealth is good." "The powerful Dragon Master, after the beginning of spring, he found a spacious and luxurious mansion in the south of Jiangzhou City, and simply spent money to buy it. He also hired three pharmacists, a sitting doctor, and five or six apprentices, and opened a "Guangji Pharmacy" on the sixth day of the fourth month of the Republic of China.

The opening day of the second "Guangji Pharmacy" will inevitably be a celebration and excitement, so I will not discuss it in detail here. But there is one thing that must be said - just as everyone was congratulating, thirty meters outside the door of the store, there was a man with a thin body but a murderous face, and a creepy sentence burst out from between his teeth viciously: "Hmph! No matter how many shops you open, in the future, your Long family's property will be my son's. "Who is this person? He is......

Long Ye's second "Guangji Pharmacy" opened very smoothly, and the business was even more prosperous, which made him happy and full of ambition.

Since Long Ye took in Lei Tianhuo last autumn, it was as if there was something subconscious that touched some emotion deep in his heart, and there was always an irrepressible love for this kid in his heart. Today, the comfortable Long Ye suddenly remembered that Lei Tianhuo had relieved Liu Huadong before the Spring Festival. There was a burst of joy in his heart - Long Ye thought to himself: This "quasi-son" is quite smart and clever, if he is cultivated and shaped, he will definitely be able to cultivate a talent. Besides, if this "quasi-son" is a real son, I should train him! Long Ye thought of this, so he asked people to go to the "Guangji Pharmacy" to call Lei Tianhuo.

"Lei Tianhuo, I think you are still relatively smart and clever, so I want to transfer you to my house to exercise and use, I don't know if you are willing?" Long Ye asked affectionately to Lei Tianhuo, who was gradually raising white and tender hair.

"If Master Long can transfer the villain to the mansion to accept your teachings, it is my Lei Tianhuo Sansheng who is lucky, this is a good thing that cannot be desired, how can I not want to?" Lei Tianhuo didn't know what Long Ye had to tell him at first, but when he heard that he was going to be transferred to the mansion for exercise, he was a little flattered, and hurriedly knelt down on one knee and expressed his attitude in fear.

"Alright! Then you go to the store and clean up and come over tomorrow morning. ”

"Thank you, Master Long! Thank you, Master Long! The great kindness of the dragon master! Under the shameless do not forget (no teeth do not forget), the villain arrives at the house, he must listen to his orders, and the horse's hand is dipping (the horse's head is Zhan). Lei Tianhuo, who was grateful, brought his "Sven words and thanksgiving words" to express his gratitude.

"You have used a lot of words incorrectly, but it doesn't matter, I will let the tutor Mr. Wang teach you in the future, you go first! Come early tomorrow. ”

"Yes! Thank you again! ”

Lei Tianhuo said goodbye to the dragon master and left happily.

On the 21st day of July in the fourth year of the Republic of China, the first day of the sixth lunar month, Lei Tianhuo came to Longfu happily like a general who had just been awarded a medal - this day was Lei Tianhuo's fifteenth birthday (fourteenth birthday) - Lei Tianhuo's life will gradually appear a sunny day from the next stage. But the spring of the little man does not come just by saying, and he will still inevitably suffer from the wind and snow.

Lei Tianhuo's adoptive father and adoptive mother planted plants and flowers, and under the influence and guidance of his adoptive father and adoptive mother, he also had a three-point "linen appearance" for plants and flowers. In particular, the Lei family has a book of "Flower Cultivation", Lei Tianhuo took it out as soon as he had time to read and comprehend it, and there were a lot of words and contents that he did not understand, so he asked the old Xiucai Zhu Tongxing grandfather in the village for advice, and then came back to combine the actual and practical experiments -- Lei Tianhuo, who had a high level of understanding, really mastered a lot of knowledge about the cultivation and maintenance of flowers. Therefore, Long Ye asked him to temporarily assist the old flower worker Wu Liangcheng to maintain the flowers and bonsai, and when he had time, he learned some Mongolian books such as "Three Character Classics" and "Hundred Family Names" from his family teacher, Mr. Wang Mingyuan, and then slowly read other books in the future.

In people's lives, often a word, an event, a coincidence, a chance encounter, a timely and appropriate or blind and rash decision, can change the path of a person's life, and even change the fate of a family, several families, and generations.

Last year, out of suspicion of Lei Tianhuo's identity, Long Ye took in his "prospective son" Lei Tianhuo. Today, out of the support of his "quasi-son" Lei Tianhuo, Long Ye transferred Lei Tianhuo from Lei Tianhuo from "Guangji Pharmacy" to Longfu. This was a good thing, but what no one expected was that because of this thunder and fire, the entire Longfu and even the entire Jiangzhou caused countless tear-jerking stories of love and hatred, joy and sorrow.