The Li family of Longsheng River, Lanxi County, the ancestor is in Matouying, Leting, Hebei, the ancestor is called Li Xuxian, and Li Xuxian has three sons: Li Shu, Li Sen, and Li Lin.

After Li Xuxian died, there was a year of drought, and it was not easy to live at home, Li Shu and Li Sen went to Heilongjiang, settled in a shack in the northwest of Lanxi, and carried work for others. After mixing up and going back to find the third brother, Li Lin didn't know where he went, and asked many relatives, but they all said they didn't know. This group of people has been lost since.

It is not easy to marry a daughter-in-law while carrying work outside. Li Shu married the daughter of the old Zhang family, and the old Zhang family man died, and the woman was not in good spirits. After getting married, they lived with their mother-in-law, as well as a younger sister and a younger brother of Li Zhang's family, and the younger brother was only six years old.

A few years later, the brothers saved money to buy a carriage and a horse and planted four or six plots for others. Li Shu wanted to help his younger brother Zhang Luo's daughter-in-law, so he mentioned a few, but Li Sen didn't like it. A person came over from Liaoning, and when he heard that Li Sen was looking for a daughter-in-law, he said that he would help find it, and it was easy to find a daughter-in-law in Liaoning.

Li Sen took the money and the matchmaker to Liaoning. The girl brought by the matchmaker, he fell in love at a glance, he wanted to look good, he wanted to have a head, there was nothing to pick.

He gave the money to the matchmaker and prepared for the marriage.

A few days later, I married my daughter-in-law, and my daughter-in-law was changed, not to mention her ugly appearance, and she still had rat sores on her neck.

Li Sen went to the matchmaker, and the matchmaker said, "You just have this amount of money, what else do you want to find?" Just this person, you want to take it away, you don't want to take it away, you go back by yourself, the money is gone, I give it to others. ”

Li Sen is in his heart, but he is not familiar with the place, there is nowhere to reason, the money is spent, it is better to bring people back.

This daughter-in-law gave birth to a daughter-in-law to Li Sen, all of whom had rat sores, and the eldest daughter and the third daughter died before they were too old. When the second daughter was in her twenties, she found a doctor in her forties to fill the house, thinking that she could be cured, and she died within a few years.

Li Sen has no sons here, Ding Wang is from Li Shu's side, and there are only four sons: Chunshan, Chunlin, Chunsheng, and Chunxiu. Chunshan and Chunlin have both gone to private schools for two years, and they are not old enough to go to Sanhetun to be a buddy for businessmen. Chunlin stood in the Han family's shop, only fifteen years old, and he was good at accounting and bookkeeping. The two brothers discussed, and passed Chunlin to Li Sen, as well as Zidan.

Chunshan and Chunlin have been in the business for a long time, pay attention to food and clothing, and learn to smoke a lot, and at the end of the year, they can't get back a few dollars.

After the Japanese came, the business was not good, and the brothers went home. At that time, the younger brother of the Zhang family not only married a wife and had children, but also his sons married daughters-in-law, and the old Li family and the old Zhang family were still together. The family has opened up wasteland, has dozens of acres of land, and also planted four or six plots for others.

The Japanese pioneer group arrived at the head shack, dozens of households. The Japanese asked them to vacate five large grass houses and live in the Longsheng River. The Japanese still lacked an errand runner, so they sent letters everywhere, Li Chunshan became a liaison for the Japanese, went to the Japanese every day, wore a Western dress and a cotton jacket, and changed his name to Li Xiufeng.

After Li Shu died, Li Zhang's housekeeper and Li Chunlin's housekeeper, he also dressed properly, did not work in the field, and also supported his daughter-in-law to make tea.

Behind the scenes, people call these two brothers "big traders" and "second traders". These two nicknames are loud in that area.

In those years, he often grew beards, and his beards smashed into kilns to smash rich families. Their family is not a rich family, and they often go to the beard, and they are good to rob when they see anything.

Once, dozens of beards came to the door, and there were many women in the family, so they were afraid that the beards would be evil. Chunlin said to the bearded head, "Are you hungry?" I'll give you a lot of food. ”

He instructed the women of the house: "Hurry up and take the basin and the noodles, make noodles, and no one is allowed to squeak." ”

I used a bag of noodles for that meal, and Beard ate a stomach of noodles, took some things and left.

After the death of the eldest brother, the roof of the house leaked, and the eldest sister-in-law and the two children had nowhere to hide, so Chunlin helped Zhang Luo repair the house.

On the day of repairing the house, a bearded man came from Beishan, riding a horse and carrying a knife. The beard asked, "Whose house is built?" Is there anyone in charge? ”

Chunlin was afraid that the beard would have bad intentions towards his eldest uncle and sister-in-law, so he stood up and said, "I'm in charge, the house can't be lived, and it's repaired." There's no money in this house, so you can look elsewhere. ”

One of the beards took out a knife and stabbed it, the first one was missing, and the second one was pierced into the artery of his left arm, and it was all pierced. There was a person surnamed Ding in his beard, and he said, "Isn't this the second brother of Lao Li?" When the two bearded men heard that they knew each other, they rode away. At that time, there was no medicine, so I washed it with wine, and wrapped it with some peppercorn noodles.

Chunlin rode to the police station, Li Zhang found out, and said: "Under the eaves of people, don't chase this matter, leave him a life." ”

The surnamed Ding went to prison, moved to the second shack after coming out, and later moved away.

Someone from outside walked to the door of the house and asked, "This is Lao Li's house, right?" ”

They said, "Yes." ”

If people ask, "This is Lao Zhang's family, right?" ”

They also said, "Yes." ”

The old Li family and the old Zhang family have been together for forty-three years, and they have forty-three people, but then they can't go together and want to split up. They invited a few people from outside to help divide the family for a few days, and they finished dividing the family.

This is divided into three major shares, one share of Li Shu, one share of Li Sen, and one share of Lao Zhang's family. Li Shu's shares belong to Xiufeng, Chunsheng, and Chunxiu, and Li Sen's shares belong to Chunlin himself.

After dividing the family, Li Zhang's came to Chunlin: "Second brother, I still have to ask for half a share from you, even if my stomach doesn't hurt in vain." ”

Chunlin was angry: "You want half a share from me, which is considered to be the end of your pension?" ”

Li Zhang said: "Sort of. You don't have to worry about the end of the pension. ”

Chunlin took out half of the shares and gave them to the brother.

During the land reform, the composition of Chunlin's family was poor peasants, and he gave him a horse and a bancang, gave his family a half-broken grass house, and lived in an east and west house with Lao Yin's family. The house was in the westernmost part of the village, with a big ditch in front, a reservoir in the west, and a mountain in the back, more than 100 meters away from the house in the east, and the ground in the middle.

I heard that there are several wolves in the ditch in the west, and they often turn around, and one of them is a flower-faced wolf. The old Yin family in the west courtyard set up a pole next to the door, hung a broken iron bucket on it, tied a rope on the barrel beam, and tied an iron ring to the end of the rope. When the people in the house heard the movement, they pulled the rope, and the iron ring hit the iron bucket with a loud sound, and the wolf was frightened away.

Chunlin and his daughter-in-law went back to the field, he drove the cattle in front, and his daughter-in-law supported the plough in the back. He doesn't use oxen, and oxen don't go straight. The small-footed daughter-in-law will not support the plow, and the plough will be deeper and shallower, east and west. He took a whip and scolded his daughter-in-law for being stupid, and since then he never went to the ground, dressed uprightly and turned around, and when he returned home, he asked his daughter-in-law to boil water to make tea.

At that time, there was a shortage of people with a little culture in every unit. Chunlin not only plays abacus well, but also writes well, I heard that the small characters he writes are similar to those printed. The county bank asked for him, but he didn't go; The supply and marketing cooperatives asked him to go, but he didn't go. Later, a grain purchasing point was established, and Murakami asked him to go to the accounting and help for a few days, and he went.

Someone from the county food bureau came to see that his abacus beads were making a loud noise, someone here reported the number, and the account came out over there, and the general ledger was not bad at all, so he went to the county food bureau as an accountant. He said, "No, I have to marry my son Zhang Luo." ”

It is said that the second trader is smart and a human spirit, I don't know why he didn't go out to mix, he couldn't see clearly because of the change of dynasty, or he wanted to put on a score to let people carry a sedan chair to invite him.

After that, no unit looked for him. The most beautiful time of his year is when the production team calculates the general ledger at the end of the year, and the accountant comes to invite him, and he takes the big calculation. In the production team room, the accountant read the accounts, he was planning to make a plan, and a group of people watched around. After the accountant finished reading the accounts, he finished the calculations, and the points were exactly the same, and their production team finished the accounts first in any year.

When the mutual aid group was implemented, no one intervened with the second trader, so he could only work alone.

In the first year, when I was cleaning up the buds and rice planted at home, my daughter-in-law broke off the buds and ears of rice, and carried them home one bag after another. She was five years old and had feet that hurt after standing for a long time. I couldn't stand anymore, so I knelt in the ditch and moved forward, carrying a bag of bud rice, and rolling and crawling on the road.

The snow has been sealed, the bud rice has not been brought back, the daughter-in-law is so anxious that she cries, the two traders don't care, they should drink tea and drink tea. The daughter-in-law's nephew finished the work in the field and helped carry the buds back.

The old Yin family in the West Courtyard did not repair the house year after year, and the house over there collapsed and the people moved away. Chunlin had no choice but to build two small adobe houses in the same place. The draft well is in a big ditch, and you have to go up and down the slope to carry water, and there is no roller, so you have to use your own wooden bucket to pull up the water.

Chunlin has two sons and two daughters, the old daughter is named Gui Qi, born in 1951. When she was six or seven years old, she used an iron kettle to carry water home, seven pots were a bucket, and she carried seven pots of water, so her mother and sister carried one less trip.

At that time, there was their family on the west side of Tunzi, and Gui Qi was so frightened when he heard the wolf howl. The house was short, there were no courtyard walls, no gates, and the windows were papier-mâché, and she was always afraid that the flower-faced wolf would climb the windowsill and enter the house. To this day, I often dream of wolves, a flower-faced wolf with his chin resting on the windowsill and looking into the house.

How poor is the family? She had no clothes to wear at the age of six or seven, and only had pants at the age of fifteen, and she was still wearing a torn jacket when she took a photo of her elementary school graduation in June.

After the separation, the fourth Chunxiu went to Qinggang and moved to his daughter-in-law's house. The big businessman lived with the third spring student and lived in the east and west houses. At the time of the land reform, the composition of these two brothers was also poor peasants.

The big businessman writes well with a pen, and he writes words as big as a fist, and the people of Tunzi are looking for him to write Spring Festival couplets. I heard that he is good at abacus, who is the best of these two brothers? Some say that the second trader is powerful, and there are also those who say that the big trader is powerful. Big traders will "swallow gold in their sleeves", no need to calculate the account, you report the number, he counts the big number by mouth, the decimal number by hand, add a piece of two times, and the number will come out, which is similar to using an abacus.

After the land reform, the town asked him to go to work, and a bunch of empty seats were asked for him to choose, but he didn't pick them, turned his head and went home to stay. He said, "Let me serve them?" I'm not going to do it. ”

The big traders do not go to the fields in the morning, but only go to work in the fields in the afternoon, wearing straw hats on their heads and a pair of white gloves on their hands. Chunsheng didn't give him a good face in front of him, and scolded him even more behind his back.

When the father doesn't work, people don't give him good luck, Gui Chun went to the ground at the age of six or seven, the third uncle drove the cattle in front, and he helped the plow in the back.

After Gui Chun grew up, the two families were separated, and the big businessman was more like an old man, he had nothing to do to go out, go home and sit on the kang, and eat a small stove. There is white flour at home, and the daughter-in-law has to keep it for him, and when the white flour is finished, the daughter-in-law goes outside to borrow it, and then returns it to others.

When Gui Chun's daughter-in-law first got married, she didn't know this rule, she also made a small stove for her father-in-law, and after eating the white noodles, she didn't make a small stove, and the meals were the same.

During the meal, the big businessman stretched his face, knocked the rice bowl with chopsticks, and said while knocking on the rice bowl: "How can you eat this rice?" Can I eat this meal? ”

He doesn't eat.

Gui Chun's daughter-in-law knew that her father-in-law was picky, and she didn't have white noodles in the future, so she also borrowed them outside, and there were not many white noodles in every family, so she borrowed a bowl and a half bowl at a time. People know that it is not easy for her, so they can lend it to her.

The big dealers used to be liaison officers for the Japanese, and they wanted to fight him when they were "*****". He had already contracted tuberculosis, and he was carried by people in the ground, and he died in his sixties.

The second trader lived to be more than seventy years old.

Gui Chun's generation, eleven men and five women in the old Li family, I heard that there are also people who love to play music, but compared with their predecessors, they are much worse.