Dajing Huizhou, She County, at the foot of the eastern mountain of Huangshan, a piece of Hui-style dwellings with white walls and gray tiles, is located in the green mountains and green waters, like a picturesque countryside. This village is called Yuezhuang, there is a moon lake in the middle of the Zhuangzi, and the people of the village live around the lake.

Most of the people in Yuezhuang have the surname Li.

The Lee family is a textile businessman.

A long time ago, Wolso was not as peaceful and beautiful as it is now. After the Li family moved here, they spent money to bring the water of the Huangshan Gorge over. There are two streams of water: one stream enters the village from the entrance of the West Village, divides into ditches, flows through the front and back of each house, converges in the center of the village, forms the Moon Lake, and then flows out of the village; The other river, from west to south, passes through the fields, surrounds most of the villages, and flows eastward into the Xin'an River.

In the seventeenth year of Jingkang, on the evening of the first day of the seventh month, the fog was steaming on the Yellow Mountain, and the moon lake and the moon river were also green smoke, blurring the outline of the moon village.

After the class ended, a group of naughty children flocked to the entrance of the South Village to play on the stone arch bridge of the Moon River. Suddenly, I saw a convoy coming from the other side of the bridge, and there were two men on horseback next to the carriage at the beginning, one of the young ones was named Li Zhuowang, who was from Yuezhuang.

Li Zhuowang shouted, "Don't run around, watch out for cars!" ”

The naughty boys hurriedly got out of the way, looked at the convoy, and whispered:

"Isn't this Master Li?"

"It's Master Li. Come back to see his wife. My mother said that Mrs. Li stayed up and refused to close her eyes, just waiting to see her son for the last time. ”

Master Li's name is Li Zhuohang.

He is the current head of the Li family.

When the carriage approached, it looked very ordinary, but on closer inspection, it was extraordinary: the wooden walls were not carved, with a simple and delicate log texture; The rubber tires run smoothly on the stone bridge, unlike the "rattling" sound of wooden wheels.

Delicate fan-shaped windows, the curtains are opened, revealing two faces, one large and one small. The eldest is a young man in his twenties, with straight eyebrows, phoenix eyes, a straight nose, thin lips, and a handsome face; In his arms was a little girl with delicate eyebrows and eyes, about four or five years old. The girl was looking through the car window at the distant mountains and fields, and out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the urchins on the side of the road, and hurriedly withdrew her gaze from afar to look at them, her black glass-like eyes full of curiosity.

The urchins couldn't help but hold their breath.

The carriage passed in front of them and entered the village, and when the last carriage had crossed the bridge, they hurried up and followed. And discuss:

"Which one is that?"

"It's a little girl."

"Nonsense! The little maid can let Master Li hold it? ”

"Yes, Miss. I heard my grandmother say that my wife gave birth to a girl, and the Li family is going to die. In the future, I will have a step-son. ”

……

The sound faded away and disappeared into the village.

A burst of dog barking sounded in the village, stirring the calm Moon Lake.

The Moon Lake is like a bend to the moon, and the Li Mansion is located in the middle of the bowstring.

There is a stone carving of "Hundred Sons Map" embedded between the two horizontal fangs of the gate building, and the hundred urchin children have different forms and rich charm.

The entrance is the vestibule, with a patio in the middle, wings on both sides, and a hall at the back; The hall is separated by a middle door and is divided into two bedrooms.

Behind the hall is a patio.

The Li Mansion has a total of 12 patios.

At this moment, in the second hall room, Mrs. Li, who was already on the verge of dying, saw her son's long and handsome figure and handsome face, and her originally cloudy old eyes suddenly widened, and her eyes were extremely bright.

Li Zhuohang stood at the door of the room, his eyes swept away, and he saw that the heavy, quaint and luxurious three-step bed was like a cage, enclosing his former rich and elegant mother on the bed, and he was so worn out that his life was dry and dying.

His throat and eyes were hot, his vision was blurred, he stepped forward, knelt down in front of the bed with a "plop", and choked up: "Mother, my son is back!" The deep and deep voice is exactly the voice that Mrs. Li thinks about day and night.

A gentle and beautiful young woman led the girl just now, came in behind him, and knelt down in front of the bed, first called "Mother", and then lowered her head to push the girl next to her, urging: "Yao'er, kowtow to grandmother." ”

The girl knelt down and kowtowed decently.

The old lady was originally looking at her son eagerly, but when she heard the young woman's voice, she hurriedly rolled her eyes, and her gaze skipped over her daughter-in-law Jiang Yuzhen and fell on the little girl.

"It's ...... Yao'er? ”

"It's Yao'er. Grandmother. ”

"Come on, let...... Grandmother look. ”

Li Hanyao got up and stood at the head of the bed.

Although she was very unfamiliar with the old man in the bed, she knew that it was her grandmother, and her father had told her. She took the initiative to get close, stretched out her little hand, touched the old man's dry hand comfortingly, and smiled, "Grandmother, don't be afraid, tomorrow will be fine." ”

Mrs. Li laughed silently and looked at her carefully.

The little girl wore a bun on her head, and a string of pearls, rubies, and jade carved plum blossoms; Wearing a light pink dress, her skin is like snow. She inherited Li Zhuohang's straight eyebrows and straight nose bridge, Jiang Yuzhen's almond eyes and petal-like red lips, a pointed small chin line is very beautiful, and her figure is thin.

The old lady let go of Li Zhuohang, grabbed her granddaughter's hand, buckled it hard, and said bitterly: "It's a little thin......"

Li Hanyao felt pain and frowned slightly.

She didn't dodge, she didn't cry.

Jiang Yuzhen saw her mother-in-law smiling wildly, and her chicken-claw-like old hand clamped her daughter's delicate little hands, and couldn't help but be shocked - she was worried because she couldn't give birth to a son, and when she saw this, she thought that her mother-in-law was angry with Li Hanyao.

She didn't dare to drag her daughter back, so she hurriedly said, "Mother, the daughter-in-law took a concubine for him!" It was he who didn't want to. Ask the mother to point one, and the daughter-in-law will obey all the orders. As he spoke, he bowed his head.

Li Zhuohang was grief-stricken, aware of his wife's panic, facing his mother who was about to die, he did not hesitate for a moment, took a step on his knees, moved sideways to the head of the bed, and stretched out his jade bamboo-like bony hand to cover the back of the old lady's hand.

The old lady couldn't help but let go of Li Hanyao.

Li Zhuohang gently held the thin hand, stretched out his other hand, put his hands together, wrapped his mother's hand in the middle, choked and said firmly: "Mother rest assured, the son and daughter-in-law are still young, and there will be no chance to have a son in the future." The son asked someone to calculate a hexagram and said that the son would not be ......"

Jiang Yuzhen was stunned——

When did he ask someone to tell a fortune?

Didn't he never believe in destiny?

The old lady's eyes lit up again, and she said happily: "You are ...... too Mother rest assured! After saying this briefly, he turned to Jiang Yuzhen again, "I don't blame you...... Be...... The life of the Li family...... The ancestor took a concubine...... It didn't work either......"

Jiang Yuzhen breathed a sigh of relief, but she didn't dare to think that the old lady let her go, the old lady didn't target Li Zhuohang, but told her that she was hinting at her.

She hurriedly said: "Daughter-in-law will pick ...... carefully"

The old lady suddenly interrupted her in a hurry, and squeezed a thin, broken voice out of her throat, "Don't take a concubine!" What your man said...... Yes, you are still young, and you may not have the opportunity to have a son. There are times in life when you have to have it, and there are times in life...... No...... Concubinage...... Good...... Teach...... Yao...... ...... children"

She felt that the strength in her body was disappearing sharply, and she didn't have time to finish the sentence "Don't force it in life", so she urgently instructed "Don't take a concubine" and "teach Yao'er well", as if these two things were the most important. This also became her last words. After speaking, she turned her eyes to Li Hanyao and smiled.

Her eyes were still open, and there was some regret in her eyes.

This regret combined with that smile seemed to be reluctant to let go of Li Hanyao. - It's not that I can't give up my son, but I can't give up my granddaughter!

Li Zhuohang shouted in grief: "Mother--family-" The voice reached the outside of the house, rose from the patio, cut through the dark sky, and alarmed the people of Yuezhuang.

Jiang Yuzhen looked at her mother-in-law blankly-

The old lady didn't want her son to take a concubine?!