Twenty years ago, not long after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, Qingyun was only eight years old that year, he was originally a child of a peasant family in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, his surname was Zhou, his father's name was Zhou Daping, and his mother Zhou Li's family. There are three sisters, the eldest sister is called Xiumei, the second sister is called Xiuzhen, and the third sister is called Xiufang. But although Zhou Daping didn't know a few big characters, he never thought that this was unfair to the girl's family, the girl's family didn't even have a serious name, and would be looked down upon by others, and at the same time, after marrying into her in-law's family in the future, she didn't have much status, so she spent five taels of silver and three chickens to the house of the most knowledgeable old Xiucai in the village, and begged him to give his three daughters a name.

Lao Xiucai saw that for the sake of silver and chickens, he chose such an elegant-sounding name for his three girls.

After Qingyun was born, he was the only son in the family. Zhou Daping thought that even his daughter's family had a good name, and the only son was even more sloppy, and this time he brought five taels of silver to Lao Xiucai's house, hoping that he would give his only son a good name, and he would look forward to a good future in the future, preferably to be able to study and become an official, and to glorify his ancestors.

Zhou Daping last time five taels of silver and three chickens begged Lao Xiucai to marry three names, this time five taels of silver only took one name, Lao Xiucai looked at the five taels of silver again, thought for a long time, turned the book, and divination, and finally said: "Since you hope that this child can be an official in the future, Qingyun will go straight up, and the lintel of the light gate will be called Zhou Qingyun!" So the name Qingyun grew up with him day by day.

Zhou Daping and his wife are farmers who do their duty, and a family of six has a few acres of thin fields to live, although they are poor, they are all harmonious and respectful, and live a simple and happy life. And Qingyun, as the only son in the family, is the youngest child, he is loved by his parents and his three sisters, although it is cold, he lives a very happy life.

Time flies so fast, in a blink of an eye, the eldest sister Xiumei is twenty years old, the second sister Xiuzhen is seventeen, and the third sister Xiufang is also thirteen years old. The Zhou family is in a flower, and everyone knows and praises it in this small village called Taiping Village.

The eldest sister Xiumei is twenty years old, and it is time to leave the cabinet. This year, his parents arranged a marriage for him, and the man was a fallen brother Xiucai from a neighboring village, five years older than Xiumei, surnamed Luo, named Luo Yuxuan. Luo Yuxuan's father also had a show talent when he was young, but then he couldn't pass the exam again, and when he was in his forties, he vowed not to take the test, and when he was forty heads, he gave birth to such a son.

Unexpectedly, the world always makes people, although this Luo Yuxuan is smart, he is also very hard-working, he can recite poems since he was eight or nine years old, and he is a famous prodigy in ten towns and eight miles. Urging Luo Yuxuan to work hard day and night, and in a few years, when he is fifteen or sixteen years old, he will be able to read more thoroughly, and then send him to participate in the scientific examination to fulfill his lifelong wish.

At that time, it coincided with the late Ming Dynasty, the so-called internal and external troubles, the country will not be a country, the Qing soldiers were eyeing the outside of the Guan, and Li Zicheng and other righteous troops in the Guannai were approaching the capital day by day, and the imperial court was in a hurry every day for the country.

Luo Laoxiucai looked at the current situation, anxious, his son's age is getting older day by day, the imperial court building will fall, the imperial examination will be abolished, one day suddenly came the news, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, Li Zicheng occupied the city of Beijing, and the Ming Dynasty died. Luo Laoxiucai heard that his heart was cold, and before he could calm down, he heard a rumor that Wu Sangui opened the Shanhaiguan gate to enter the Qing army, and Li Zicheng was defeated and fled, and from then on the world was full of people.

Luo Lao Xiucai was originally a loyal and patriotic person, although he only won a show in his life, but the traditional thinking of the imperial court's loyalty to the Son of Heaven, filial piety and righteousness is deep-rooted, and it has long been integrated into the bloodline. When he heard that Li Zicheng had fled, and the flowers and rivers had fallen into the hands of the foreign Yidi, when he heard the news, he was like a thunderbolt from the sky, he was stunned for a moment, and suddenly fell to his knees and shouted: "I am a Han country!" Then he cried loudly, so that the family was at a loss, crying to the depths, and he couldn't get up in one breath, so he fainted, the old mother and son at home rescued for a long time, and did not wake up, Luo Yuxuan hurriedly went out and ran all the way to invite Lang Zhong, and when he and Lang Zhong arrived at home, Luo Laoxiu had already been angry for a long time.

As soon as Luo Laoxiu died, the pillars of the family fell, leaving only Luo Yuxuan and the old lady to rely on each other. Luo Yuxuan has been taught and nurtured by his father since he was a child, and the ideas of loyalty, righteousness, benevolence and filial piety are also deeply penetrated into the bone marrow. Since then, he has taught more than a dozen children in the village to earn a little money to survive and serve his mother.

Luo Yuxuan reached the age of twenty-five, because his family was poor and brought many literati to the high school, and the marriage had not yet arrived, so he never got married. He didn't care, he taught his children all day long, and led more than a dozen children to the river to swim and fish in his spare time, and he didn't pay any attention to the major matters of marriage.

So he went around looking for his relatives and children, and he searched for several villages around him, but he didn't even find a suitable one, either because people thought that his family was poor, or he felt that Luo Yuxuan was a nerd, and he was a nerd all day long, not doing business, and playing with a group of little hairy children, like an old child. After talking about more than ten doors in a row, they all failed.

Mrs. Luo was sad and sad, thinking to herself that my son was really beating the life of a bachelor, and at this time, I heard someone in the same village mention that there was an old Xiucai in Taiping Village next door, and I heard that the old Xiucai was not only knowledgeable, but also divinerable, and one by one. When Mrs. Luo thought of this, she grabbed a life-saving straw, hurriedly prepared silver taels and gifts, hired a donkey for the first time, and the next day it was dawning, but she rode the donkey straight to Taiping Village, she wanted to go to the old Xiucai's house to find another way out for her only son.