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Yi Yuxiu died, and Yi Yuxiu died without a word after being bedridden for ten months.

When the bad news came, her children, children and grandchildren did not show that heart-rending grief, but only felt some regret. Why not grieve? This is because Yi Yuxiu has lived for ninety-nine years, ten months and eighteen days. Such an old person, like the melons and fruits in the garden, has already reached the picking period, and it can be regarded as ripe and falling. What's more, she has been suffering in bed for more than ten months! The filial piety to be exhausted, the children feel that they have already been exhausted. Why regret it? This is because Yi Yuxiu has lived for nearly a hundred years, why can't he survive for an extra month and twelve days? If she lived another month and twelve days, and let her children finish the 100th birthday banquet for her before leaving, then her life would be called a complete merit!

Yi Yuxiu married at the age of 14 and remarried at the age of 31. She lived her life in poverty, leaving little of value for her children. Several crumbling old-style tiled houses were demolished and built by the sons twenty years ago, and several pieces of furniture that could no longer be used as firewood by the children were reduced to ashes at the same time.

Yi Yuxiu had a rough life, often suffering and bad luck, not wearing clothes, and not having enough food. But she is strong, brave, indomitable, and always fights against fate.

Yi Yuxiu is too ordinary! Husband and children, running a family, never going far in his life, not even a train, let alone a plane or a ship.

Yi Yuxiu is so great! lived for a hundred years, leaving seven sons, two daughters, and nearly 100 descendants for the two clans of her ex-husband and her step-husband.

Yi Yuxiu has experienced a lot of things.

There are even more stories left by Yi Yuxiu.

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Chapter I

The sound of "buzzing" mosquitoes was in the left ear for a while, in the right ear for a while, and on the bridge of the nose for a while, which made Chen Liushi unable to sleep for a while. So, she nagged to herself: "Damn mosquitoes, always noisy and biting people here, and don't let people sleep?" After saying that, he used his hand on his left ear, right ear, and cheek, dancing and shooting aimlessly, hoping to shoot these nasty mosquitoes to death as soon as possible, so that he could sleep quietly.

"What's wrong, you can't sleep again?" Although her husband Chen Zenger slept at the other end of the bed, he slept very vigilantly, and as long as his wife moved the slightest, he would be awakened. No, as soon as Chen Liushi "muttered", he sat up with his waist straightened and his legs shrunk, and asked his wife lovingly.

"There seem to be a lot of mosquitoes tonight, and I am so hungry that I can't sleep." Chen Liushi complained and complained to her husband.

After hearing this, Chen Zenger quickly picked up the yellowed moxa fan next to the pillow, rolled up the front curtain of the mosquito net with several patches, and fanned it from the inside to the outside, from top to bottom. Later, he said, "I drove all the mosquitoes out of the mosquito net, it's okay, sleep!" Go to sleep! It's not early. ”

The couple was speechless for a while, and each pretended to fall asleep.

"Hey! This ghost weather has been hot for dozens of days, why doesn't it rain a little and cool down? Chen Liushi seemed to be talking in a dream, and as if he was talking to himself, he sighed and spoke again.

Seeing that his wife was talking again, Chen Zenger had to cheer up again and answer his wife's words: "Why don't I feel very hot!" Maybe after you gave birth, your body has become weaker and more afraid of heat! ”

"You're a cow, that's a man! Only cows don't feel hot. You see, it's been a drought for so long, and the whole world is about to become a big furnace, why don't you feel hot? ”

"As the saying goes: 'At the end of autumn, the heat is so hot that the ghost cries', this season must be hot! But it's not so hot that you can't even sleep. ”

"Hey, maybe we women are more afraid of heat! If it continues to be hot like this, I think everyone will be killed by the heat, and many crops will be lost! ”

"Yes, this year is drier earlier than in previous years, if God doesn't rain again, the late harvest in the fields behind Yuanzhou will definitely not be able to be saved."

"In other places, there are nine droughts in ten years, and your Chenjiafang has become ten droughts in ten years!"

"That's not true, there was no drought last year, and even so many high shore fields on the elephant ridge have harvested the late valley!"

"Last year, God was kind, and I didn't want to hurt you Chenjiafang people anymore, otherwise, many people in Chenjiafang would have to live hungry this spring!"

"Yes, this kind of day of relying on the sky to eat is really difficult! But what can we, the croppers, do to change it? Chen Zenger said with a sigh.

"Women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, men are afraid of giving birth to the wrong village, although I didn't marry the wrong man, but you gave birth to the wrong village. I knew that Chenjiafang was such a ghost place, and I wouldn't marry you even if you had flowers on your body. ”

"Then why did you marry again?"

"The order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, I was deceived."

"Looks like you regret it, don't you? Or will you divorce me? ”

"Since ancient times, I have only seen men divorce women, and I have heard of women divorce men! If a woman could divorce a man, maybe I would divorce you! ”

"Huh! Then you can make an example. ”

"No, no! Now there is only a chicken to marry a chicken, a dog to marry a dog, and it is fate! I'm ready to live a hard life with you for the rest of my life! ”

The husband and wife snorted one by one, so that neither of them had any sleepiness. Especially Chen Liu's words, like a wheat mang, pierced deep into the depths of Chen Zenger.

Yes! I wasted all my efforts, wasted my good skills, was busy, worked hard for a year, not only did I not have much savings left, but even my daily life was tight. His wife has already given birth to three sons for him, and it will be a problem to eat and live when the children are older in the future, how will he live this life? Is it your own bad life? Or is it really born in the wrong place? Chen Zenger fell into a deep contemplation that he had never felt before......

According to their Chen family genealogy, after King Wu of Zhou established the Zhou Dynasty, he found Hu Gongman, a descendant of Shun, and sealed the place where he was in Chen, and established the Chen State. By the time of Chen Mingong, the state of Chen was destroyed by the state of Chu, and the descendants of the state of Chen after the death of the country took the original country name as their surname, so they had the surname Chen. In addition to the main line of Chen Wan, there were three descendants of the Chen family who fled to other places during the period from Chen's civil strife to the death of the country. The descendants of the main lineage surnamed Chen originated from Wanqiu (now Huaiyang, Henan), looked at Gushi (now Gushi County, Henan), flourished in Yingchuan (now Changge, Henan), and opened Minzhang in the south. The surname Chen of Chenjiafang came from Minzhang, Fujian, and passed on to Chen Zenger's generation, and he is already the 112th generation of Chen Wangong's descendants.

Chen Jiafang's ancestor is Qingheng, a famous friend of Cai, and is a distant younger brother of Chen Youliang, the general of the Red Turban Army in the Yuan Dynasty. According to legend, Chen Youliang once commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, entrenched in Nanchang and Yuanzhou for several years, and was later destroyed by the Ming ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang. Chen Youcai used to be a military food procurer in his elder brother Chen Youliang's army, and often went to Yuanzhou City to purchase grain, oil and military supplies. Later, Jia Shiliang, a merchant under Ximen Beach in Yuanzhou City, was named Chenglong's fast son-in-law. But the good times didn't last long, and in the third year of Chen Youcai's marriage, his brother Chen Youliang defeated Zhu Yuanzhang. After hearing the bad news that his brother Chen Youliang was killed by random arrows, Chen Youcai, who had no time to bring him infinite glory, shed a few tears and burned a few pieces of paper, so he hurriedly fled from Yuanzhou City with his wife. He was worried that Zhu Yuanzhang would settle accounts with his brother after the autumn and punish his brother's nine clans. If Zhu Yuanzhang really punished his brother's nine clans, wouldn't he Chen Youcai also be among his brother's nine clans? What's more, he often relies on the power of his brother Chen Youliang, eats fragrant, drinks spicy, and has been threatening for a while!

Chen Youcai took his wife Chen Shishi, did not take official roads and big roads, but only took small roads and mountain roads, he was afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers would arrest him back, and he was afraid that he would meet acquaintances and know his whereabouts. Two days later, the couple came to a small hill Chong, which is surrounded by mountains on the east, south and west, and only the terrain in the north is low-lying, which is not only convenient to enter and exit, but also can be cultivated into the land, which is an ideal place to avoid danger. So, Chen Youcai decided to settle down. Since then, the husband and wife have worked at sunrise and sunset in this small mountain nest, cultivating land and reproducing offspring. Chen Shi is also competitive, and after more than ten years, he gave birth to five sons and two daughters for Chen Youcai, but two sons died soon after they were born, and only three sons survived. In a blink of an eye, Chen Youcai's three sons have grown up. After the three sons became adults, Chen Youcai arranged for the eldest son Chen Tongchang to settle down two miles away, and later this place was named Chen Jiashan, and the second son Chen Tongsheng went to a place four miles away to settle down, and later this place was named Chenjiafang, only the third son Chen Tonggui stayed in place, and later this place was named Chenjiatang. Since then, the three brothers have cultivated wasteland, sowed seeds, married wives and had children, and reproduced offspring for more than 600 years.

Chenjiafang, located in Beiqiao Township, Yuanzhou County, is more than 60 miles away from Yuanzhou City, the surrounding terrain is a typical hilly terrain in the south of the Yangtze River, there is no decent river flow in the east, west, north and south directions, only a curved river. The creek flows from north to south, and then turns east to cross the harbor. As soon as the rainy season passes every year, this small river gradually dries up, and in case of drought, the rice fields with slightly higher terrain have a big reduction in the harvest of early crops, and the harvest of late crops is basically out of harvest, and the people in the village have to rely on the sky to "eat". Within a radius of dozens of miles, there have been folk songs such as "There is a woman who marries Chen Jiafang, who is hungry for ten years and nine droughts" and "There is a woman who marries Chen, who pushes grain and grinds rice".

There are four natural villages in Chenjiafang, one is called the front house, one is called the back house, one is called the long nest, and the other is called the duck mud mound. There are more than 80 households and more than 280 people in the village. Most of the paddy fields, dry land, and camellia mountains on the village are owned by Chen Jiangquan, a big family in the village, and the Lotus Temple at the head of the village, and most of the farmers in the village are their tenant farmers.

Due to the lack of water, the rice planting area on the village is only about 400 acres. If the farmers who rent the land to cultivate the land encounter a good year, they can still barely support themselves after paying the grain rent, and if there is a year of little rain and drought, some tenants cannot even pay the grain rent. Therefore, I don't know from which generation, the men on the village went around to learn art to make a living, especially the number of people who learned clay craftsmen; In addition to giving birth to children and doing housework, most of the women in the village have learned to make ramie, spinning and other crafts to earn some change and help the family's daily life. In the generation of Chen Zenger, the craft of building houses has been quite high, and the ancestral halls and temples of the clan in the four towns and eight neighbors, the yamen of the Futai in the city of Yuanzhou, and the large buildings are mostly from the hands of the people of Chenjiafang. They are all exquisitely crafted, building claws and corners, piling dragon portraits, it can be said that they are proficient in everything, and the buildings they make are unique and famous. Chen Canru of Chenjiafang is the most famous clay craftsman in Yuanzhou City, and was later respected as the king of masonry by the people of Yuanzhou. Under the influence of Chen Canru, the mason king, Chenjiafang produced several skilled craftsmen in the construction industry, and Chen Zenger was one of them.

There is a field port of more than 100 acres in front of Chenjiafang Village, the port surface is low in the east and high in the west, the shape is oval, and it resembles a big pumpkin. The widest area is about 130 zhang. This Tiangang was called Huangjiagang by the people surnamed Huang who lived before the people surnamed Chen. In the fourth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, a nun fell in love with a piece of land under the pig-shaped mountain in the east of Zhuangtou, and built a temple here, named Lotus Nunnery. After the completion of the Lotus Nunnery, this Huangjiagang was renamed Miaoqian Port by the people surnamed Chen, and sometimes it was called Chenjiagang. At first, the people surnamed Huang did not follow, but the people surnamed Chen came later, and the population developed more than the number of people surnamed Huang. The rules of the jungle, survival of the fittest, whoever is strong has the right to speak. The person surnamed Huang knew that he was inferior to others, and finally had to follow. The harbor in front of the temple was split in two by the crooked river. The east side of the river is called Yijiaping, where more than 30 households with the surname Yi live, and the west side of the river is called Chenjiafang, which is owned by the people with the surnames Chen and Huang. The houses on both sides of Chen Huang and Yi are built opposite each other, and the gate is facing the gate, facing each other across the port, which is faintly visible. For a long time, they married each other and lived in harmony. There is a spring well on the east and west sides of the south end of the small river, the spring well on the east side, the well surface is small, the water is also small, it belongs to the Yijiaping people; The spring well in the west, the well surface is large, and the water is also large, and it belongs to the people of Chenjiafang. Although the two springs are their own masters, the names of the springs are the same, and they are both called Zhangshu Spring. Speaking of this camphor tree spring, the old people around know that it has a little-known mythological story.