Liu Dahe was used to working in the Liu family, but when he arrived at the carpentry shop in the town, he was more diligent in his work, and he was smart and learned things quickly, which was very valued by the master.

A few years later, several of Liu Dahe's brothers married daughters-in-law one after another, and his sister Liu Yunniang was also married, but Liu Dahe's marriage was forgotten by his family.

When Liu Dahe was twenty-five years old, one night, Liu Dahe suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and saw a fire in the carpentry shop, so he hurriedly woke up his brothers and sisters.

The house where the old shopkeeper and his wife lived was very hot, and the brothers and sisters did not dare to go in to save people, so they all took wooden basins and barrels to fetch water and put out the fire with the neighbors who rushed over.

The old shopkeeper sent Liu Dahe to Fushengtang, the best medical center in town, and soon Liu Dahe woke up, but his body was paralyzed, he couldn't get up from bed, and his eyes were dull and he couldn't speak.

The old shopkeeper had to send Liu Dahe home, thinking that he had saved his feelings, not only did he not have the money to redeem himself, but also gave his family five taels of silver, saying that it was to supplement the money for his daughter-in-law.

Xu held five taels of silver in her hand, turning over and over to look at it, her heart was very rare, she had been in charge for so many years, and she had never saved enough five taels of silver.

Liu Quan looked at his daughter-in-law with a happy expression on her face, and said, "Let's save this money for Dahe to marry his daughter-in-law?" ”

Xu: "What kind of daughter-in-law to marry, just like him, let alone five taels, even ten taels, no one may be willing to marry him." ”

Liu Quan looked at Liu Dahe, who was lying on the ground in the courtyard with a sluggish expression, and asked Niu's: "Do you still let him live in the stove like before?" ”

Xu carefully received the silver into the cage and said to Liu Quan: "What do you want, how can you let him live at home, he is an ominous person, didn't you see the fate of the carpentry shop, it was all burned out, and he was the victim." ”

Liu Quan scratched his head: "Then where does he live?" ”

"Isn't there a vegetable garden in the east of the village, let's divide him and let him live in the vegetable garden, I remember there is a shack over there."

Their family has a vegetable garden in the east of the village, the vegetables grown in it are very small, and the leaves that grow are yellow, Xu is upset when he thinks about the vegetable garden, so Xu decides to send the upset vegetable garden to the person who makes her upset.

Liu Quan hesitated a little: "Can that grass shed live in the wind on all sides?" ”

Xu Shi disagreed: "Isn't the stove also leaking, didn't he live for seven years when he was a child, don't worry, haven't you heard of the scourge for thousands of years?" ”

So the Xu family divided Liu Dahe and gave him a small vegetable garden on the same day.

Liu Quan took his three sons to send Liu Dahe to the vegetable garden in the east of the village, where the shacks were made of wood, the wind was blowing on all sides, and the top was covered with straw.

Liu Dahe is now a little stupid and can't take care of himself, Liu Quan is afraid that his son will starve to death and be poked in the backbone by the villagers, so he will send some leftover meals to Liu Dahe every day, sometimes once a day, sometimes twice a day.

Strange to say, after Liu Dahe lived in a shack with wind on all sides, he looked more and more mentally day by day, and his body was strangely better.

Some people in the village said that they had seen the white-bearded old fairy in the vegetable garden where Liu Dahe lived.

"I heard that Old Aunt Liu saw the fairy with her own eyes."

Old Aunt Liu nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, it's a white-bearded fairy who can fly." ”

"It must be the blessing of the gods, otherwise how can a stupid person suddenly get better, you all know Qi Langzhong from Fushengtang in the town, he is the best doctor in our town, and he personally said that Liu Dahe's illness could not be cured."

Aunt Liu returned home and sighed to her wife: "Old woman, I have been honest for most of my life, and today I actually lied, I told the people in the village that I saw the white-bearded fairy in Dahe, but in fact, I didn't see it at all, I just felt that Dahe was pitiful, and I wanted everyone to be able to stop being prejudiced against him after hearing about the fairy." ”

On this day, Liu Quan came to the vegetable garden to deliver food, and when he left, he said to his youngest son: "Dahe, I came to bring you food yesterday and was discovered by your mother, she said that no one in the family is allowed to interact with you in the future, you can cook and eat by yourself in the future, take good care of yourself, it is my father who has no ability, and I can't let you live a good life......" Liu Quan cried as he spoke.

This is the first time Liu Dahe has seen his father Liu Quan crying, so he comforted Liu Quan and said: "I know, Dad, don't be sad, I have craftsmanship, and I will live well in the future." ”

In fact, Liu Dahe didn't feel as sad as he imagined, his mother didn't like him since he could remember, because he had never been loved by his mother, so there was no such word as loss.

Liu Quan returned home and was taught a lesson by Xu's pinching of his ears, the sons had not yet separated, and the courtyard was full of people, Xu once again said to everyone: "In the future, no one in this family is allowed to contact that ominous person." ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

After Liu Dahe recovered from his illness, he often helped his neighbors do some work to repair furniture, and slowly people came to him to make furniture. He has a flexible mind, is honest in his work, has good craftsmanship, and is said to be a person favored by the gods, and soon became so popular that even people in Phoenix Town came to his door to ask him to give his daughter a dowry.

Liu Dahe took more work, and made more and more money, after he saved enough money, he demolished the shack and built three brick houses in the vegetable garden, this beautiful big house can be counted in several nearby villages, because in addition to the Hua family and the ancestral hall of the Liu family, the other houses with earthen walls and thatched houses are all the same.

The three brick houses of Liu Dahe's house face south in the north, two of which are open, the inside is for people, the outside is used as a living room, the other is used for food and sundries, and a small half is built next to the utility room as a stove room. The space in the house is spacious, unlike the earthen houses, which are low and dark.

The courtyard door is open to the south, the courtyard gate to the house door paved a stone path, the stone path is planted on both sides of the moon flowers, the rest of the place is still planted vegetables, the southeast corner is planted with a bull's eye grape, has grown green leaves, this kind of big and sweet grapes are rare, it is Liu Dahe from the old owner of the carpentry shop in the town to find, thinking that after marrying a wife and having children, the family sits under the grape trellis to eat and chat is how warm and beautiful it is.

In the past, when Liu Dahe's mother Xu planted vegetables here, the vegetables grew sparsely and sparsely, and the leaves were yellow, but now Liu Dahe lives here and applies a lot of fertilizer to the vegetable field, and the vegetables grow very fat and gratifying.

Liu Dakui in the village is an expert in growing crops, Liu Dahe learned from him how to make fertilizer, dug a pit next to Gongfang to bring in manure water, and put the fallen leaves at the foot of the mountain into fertilizer.

Unconsciously, Liu Dahe became the golden bachelor of Liujia Village, and his popularity in the village is also very good, often helping the villagers repair tables and chairs for free, and the villagers seem to have forgotten that he was said to be a plague god when he was born.

Well, Liu Dahe is already twenty-five years old, and twenty-five years old in this era is really a very old young man, except for the poor ghost who can't afford to marry a daughter-in-law, he is basically a father at this age.

It didn't take long for Liu Dahe, who had a high income, to be taken by Niu Chrysanthemum in Niujia Village next door, Niu Chrysanthemum is the village flower of Niujia Village, Liu Dahe often goes to Niujia Village to work, naturally he has seen Niu Chrysanthemum, such a beautiful girl, who sees it is not rare, Liu Dahe is naturally rare.