Jinlong Village is densely populated and sparsely populated, and the land is barren.

There are more than 300 households in the village, which is considered a large village. Located in the recess of the Xincheng Mountains, it is a remote mountainous area of Hezhou and the place where Zhou Xian was born.

Zhou Xian arrived in Jinlong Village, with no land and no house. Facing the homeland, it is both familiar and unfamiliar. Lost his original property, and his money was not rich. Even the most valuable ox cart, from Yunzhou to Hezhou, after a long journey, the old ox could not afford to drag it, and finally died due to overwork, and the vehicle was scrapped.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it was made from scratch.

What to do? Everything has to start from scratch.

The first is the issue of residence.

Zhou Xian is an orphan whose parents have long since died.

When Zhou Xian left home a few decades ago, only one house remained. Because it has not been inhabited for many years, it has collapsed and has become a ruin.

Fortunately, relatives and friends rushed to hear the news. Seeing that Zhou Xian was pitiful, everyone worked together to help. Make purlins, donate beams, take tiles, and take stones. Scrape together the materials for building a house.

Then, Zhou Xian and Lu Gui did it themselves, repairing the house and building the house. Three rooms were built: one hall and two wings. There are also water towing and partial houses, which are used for stove houses and livestock pens respectively.

The second is the issue of making money.

As the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and rely on the water to eat the water. Zhou Xian saw that Jinlong Village was rich in bamboo, so he had an idea and came up with a way to make money with bamboo.

Using bamboo as raw material, Zhou Xianxue weaves bamboo mats, bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets and other bamboo utensils. When the weaving skills are perfected, the bamboo utensils are taken to the town to sell.

Then he taught his family and his servants to weave.

Unexpectedly, bamboo ware is very easy to sell, and it can always be sold at an affordable price.

There are many people and great power, and they come and go, and they slowly have a little savings. Zhou Xianqin earned his family business and bought three acres of thin land, a carriage, a horse, and a cow.

At this point in the story, some officials may ask: "Why didn't you introduce Zhou Xian's family?" ”

Rank officials, please don't rush first, take a sip of tea, and listen slowly.

It turned out that Zhou Xian married two wives successively and had two sons.

While in Yunzhou, Zhou Xian married his ex-wife and gave birth to his eldest son, named Zhou Jiang. When Zhou Jiang grew up, he married Zhou Jiang a wife named Wang Lan.

Back in Heezhou, his ex-wife died of illness at an early age.

Soon after, he married his stepwife and gave birth to a second son.

The day the second son was about to be born. Zhou Xian sat alone outside the house, not feeling sleepy, sleeping on a recliner.

In the haze, I saw a monster in mid-air, like a person but not like a human, red, short, only the face was cyan, smacking his mouth, jumping forward.

Zhou Xian screamed, and when he woke up, it was Nan Ke in a dream, and his heart was jumping around.

Just as he was in a trance, the midwife came out and said, "Congratulations, Madame has given birth to a boy!" ”

When Zhou Xian heard this, he gasped and was shocked.

When she entered the house, her wife asked weakly, "What is your name?" ”

Zhou Xian didn't look at the baby, and said, "Since the elder brother is called Zhou Jiang, the younger brother is called Zhou Hai." Because Jiang and Hai happen to be brothers. ”

When Wang Lan heard that she had given birth to another younger brother Zhou Hai, she said to her husband Zhou Jiang: "The family is not rich in the first place, but now that a younger brother has been born, the family wealth will only be divided into half in the future." Tell me, what should I do? ”

When she said this, Wang Lan's face was already slightly dark, but it looked even worse; The face was full of freckles, bouncing on the face, as if the doped gunpowder was pouring back and forth on the black skin.

It seems that Wang Lan is not good at stubble, and she is not a fuel-efficient lamp. For many years after marriage, Wang Lan never gave birth to a boy and a girl. Probably because of bad things, he gave birth to offspring.

Hearing Wang Lan's words, Zhou Jiang said: "I'm worried about this matter. I just heard my father say that he dreamed of a monster, and then his younger brother was born. I think my brother will be a monster in the future. ”

When Wang Lan heard this, she shouted: "Oh, the monster will lose!" So, looking strange, he had a plan, instigated Zhou Jiang, and said: "Why don't you get your father as soon as possible and leave that monster in the wild, wouldn't you worry about it as soon as possible?" ”

Zhou Jiang is good-looking, narrow-minded and fierce, always cares about everything, where can he tolerate others? Wang Lan has a face full of flesh and a ruthless heart, and her temperament is just a match for Zhou Jiang.

At this time, Zhou Jiang heard what Wang Lan said, woke up like a dream, and hurriedly got up to see Zhou Xian, saying that the monster was a loser.

Zhou Xian was originally suspicious of Zhou Hai's birth, but when he heard it, it was exactly what he wanted, and said, "You can do this matter quickly." In the future, when asked, he will say that he was born and died. ”

Zhou Jiang received the order, came to the delivery room, and secretly took Zhou Hai out and put him in a basket. After quietly coming to Xincheng Mountain, I saw a deep pit and wanted to put down the basket.

Just as he was about to throw it into the pit, a fox ran over with his teeth bared.

Zhou Jiang was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, and even the basket was abandoned outside the pit, and he ran back quickly, panting, and couldn't care about returning to Zhou Xian, ran to his room, and said in a loud voice: "It's too scary, it's too scary!" ”

Wang Lan hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhou Jianggu said about the past.

It happened that Lu Gui passed by the window and heard Zhou Hai's words. Lu Gui thought to himself: "This is a fresh life, how can you say that you will throw it away?" ”

So, after rushing to Xincheng Mountain, I heard the cry of a baby, followed the direction of the cry, and found a child. As soon as he saw Lu Gui, his crying stopped, he sucked his fingers and smiled at Lu Gui.

Lu Gui opened his clothes, picked up the child, held it in his arms, and ran home.

When he saw Zhou Xian, he tried his best to persuade Zhou Hai to stay.

Zhou Xian's heart was moved, and he suddenly realized that he had made a wrong decision. As the ancients said, tigers don't eat their children, let alone people? Therefore, in any case, you should not throw away your own children.

But Zhou Jiang and Wang Lan, the couple, never stopped infringing on Zhou Hai's life.

One day, Zhou Jiang slandered Zhou Xianjin, saying: "Now that my younger brother is six years old, he is not young, he should be asked to herd cattle, not only to learn skills, but also not to eat idle meals." ”

Zhou Xian saw Zhou Jiang and said it reasonably, so he followed it.

Called Zhou Hai over, ordered him to go out to herd the cattle, and told him not to go far.

One day, Zhou Hai went out alone to herd cattle. Wang Lan held a piece of oil cake in her hand, walked over, and said, "Brother, you have worked hard, and you are here to reward you!" With that, he handed the scallion pancake to Zhou Hai's mouth. Zhou Hai smelled the fragrance of the cake and was about to eat it when he took it.

Then, suddenly, the cow let out a violent cry. Zhou Hai was startled, and his fingers were numb, and he dropped the oil cake to the ground. Just as he was about to pick it up, a wild dog came from behind, and he went away with the bread, and after walking a short distance, he ate it.

Lu Gui happened to come in time, and when he saw this, he said, "It's a pity that a piece of oil cake was eaten by it, wait for me to rush back." ”

It turned out that Lu Gui saw Wang Lan coming to find Zhou Hai, so he secretly followed. Seeing Wang Lan taking bread to Zhou Hai to eat, he didn't care. thought that Wang Lan was kind, so she didn't stop it. Who knew that Wang Lan was at ease with the heart of harming others.

At this time, Zhou Hai stopped Lu Gui and said, "Don't go!" Now that the wild dogs have been taken away, even if they are brought back, I will not be able to eat them. ”

After that, Lu Gui looked at the wild dog, didn't go far, fell to the ground and died, bleeding from seven holes.

Lu Gui looked at it, understood it in his heart, called Zhou Hai to a secluded place, and advised: "Don't be greedy for the food that your sister-in-law will give you in the future." ”

When Zhou Hai heard this, not only did he not believe it, but he blamed Lu Gui, separated his uncle and sister-in-law, and went home angry, so he sulked.

Lu Gui knew that Zhou Hai was kind-hearted and not angry. is just secretly protecting, guarding against Wang Lan and his wife, and harming Zhou Hai again.

Wang Lan saw that Zhou Hai could not be harmed, so she had to give up, but she still did not give up and kept looking for an opportunity.

Unconsciously, Zhou Hai grew up, with a big face and wide eyebrows, a simple and kind heart, a relatively broad heart, not caring much about gains and losses, and married his daughter-in-law Zhang Cui.

Zhang Cui is small and exquisite, gentle and generous, but she gets along with Zhou Hai.

After Zhou Hai married his wife, the opportunity for Zhou Jiang and his wife to harm Zhou Hai came again.

It was a summer, the summer was hot, the sun was scorching, and the heat was unbearable. Some green plants, basking in the sun, as if they were suffering from a serious illness, wilted and could not lift their spirits.

One day, after lunch. Wang Lan saw the reservoir, Zhang Cui was doing laundry, and Zhou Hai was swimming.

This reservoir is not far from Zhou's house, only a few hundred steps away. It doesn't look big, but the water is so deep, as deep as three adults combined.

Wang Lan knew that although Zhou Hai could swim in the water, his swimming skills were not strong.

So, he frowned and had a plan.

Wang Lan led the ox to the reservoir and asked the cow to take a bath.

After greeting Zhou Hai and Zhang Cui, he deliberately untied the cow rope and let the ox swim away.

Seeing the ox swimming to the middle of the reservoir, Wang Lan screamed in a hurry and shouted in an almost crying voice, "Look, the cow has swam to the middle of the reservoir!" Who's going to save the cow? ”

When Zhang Cui heard this, he said to Zhou Hai: "You go and save it, scalpers are the most valuable in the family." ”

Zhou Hai hesitated a little and said, "I'm afraid I can't!" Go and call Uncle Ru to come to the rescue. ”

Seeing Zhou Hai hesitating, Wang Lan shouted again: "Call someone to rescue, it's definitely too late, what should I do?" ”

Zhang Cui was in a hurry, only thinking about how to save the scalper, without considering the safety of people, so he hurriedly urged: "Zhou Hai, you go quickly!" ”

Zhou Hai had no choice but to bite the bullet and swim to the middle of the water. When he swam half away from the scalper, Zhou Hai felt physically exhausted, his hands and feet were numb, he couldn't swim, and his body slid straight down.

Seeing that he was about to sink, Zhou Hai felt that there was something to support him.

Seeing it, a big fish swam over and held the soles of Zhou Hai's feet.

The cow was saved, and Zhou Hai was spared. God has eyes, Wang Lan's plan to harm others did not succeed.

Soon, Zhou Xian's wife also died of illness.

Since then, Zhou Xian has not remarried.

The days go by. On the surface, Zhou Jiang and Zhou Hai are like brothers and sisters, Bo Xun Zhongchi, intimate, but also harmonious. In fact, this so-called harmony was obtained by his younger brother Zhou Hai without caring and forbearance.

Zhou Jiang saw that he couldn't harm Zhou Hai, so he started the idea of splitting up.