In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a person in Xiangyang City who was going to take the imperial examination surnamed Zhao Mingfu Xin and Meng Chang, and only the mother and son depended on each other in the family. Although the mother Wang is poorly dressed, she has an extraordinary temperament, like an old lady from a rich family. The family lives in a remote deep alley in the north of the city, with the gate facing south, and there are two houses. The home is neat and clean, but the furniture is old, revealing a vicissitudes.

The mother and son rely on Zhao Fuxin's eldest uncle Zhao Changbao for food and clothing every month. To say that Zhao Fuxin's life is tortuous enough, his father Zhao Changde is the third in the family, the family is in the timber business, and the life is rich, his father only took his mother in his life, the husband and wife love each other, and gave birth to Zhao Fuxin to add icing on the cake to the happy life of the two. My father loves to read and likes calligraphy and painting, so the family's business is taken care of by the eldest brother Zhao Changbao, and the second brother Zhao Changlong went to the north to fight the war very early, and there has been no news so far. But Zhao Fuxin's grandfather Zhao Yun loved Zhao Changde alone, so much so that he handed over the entire family to him when he died, which made the eldest brother Zhao Changbao very annoyed, and the business has been taken care of by him, why did the money stay to the third child?

When Zhao Fuxin's grandfather died, there were only two brothers around him, Zhao Yun took Zhao Changbao with a trembling hand and said:

"In the future, you two brothers will rely on each other, make the Zhao family's career bigger, and contribute to the country, I have earned a lot of money in my life, and I have donated a lot to the imperial court, and I also let the second child join the army. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Yun shed tears that had not been left in his life for half a lifetime, and grabbed Zhao Changde's hand and continued:

"In the future, this family will be in charge of the third brother, Changbao, you have to listen to the third brother, he reads a lot, and will take care of our family better. ”

After speaking, he swallowed his breath, and the two brothers cried for a while and began to take care of the aftermath, at this time, of course, they had to abide by Zhao Yun's last wish and let the third child be in charge, but Zhao Changbao said to the third child:

"I've been taking care of this family for a long time, so I'll be in charge of my father's funeral first. ”

Zhao Changde didn't know that this was the eldest brother's means to seize the head of the Zhao family from him, and thought that the eldest brother was right, so he agreed. Who knew that after Zhao Yun's funeral was done, the boss summoned all the family members to announce that he would be the head of the Zhao family, Zhao Changde thought that he was going to announce that he was going to be in charge, but he was stunned and got up to oppose and said that his father asked him to be in charge of the house before he died, and the big guy didn't believe it at this time, because Zhao Changbao had been taking care of this family for a while, and even the old man's funeral was done by him. Facing everyone's disbelieving eyes and the angry expression of the eldest brother, he knew that he had no chance to be the master of this family, Zhao Changbao called the family to press Zhao Changde to the ground, and said that he wanted to be the head of the family and talked nonsense about his father's last wishes, so he expelled him from the Zhao family, let him live in the small courtyard in the north of the city, and gave him one or two silver per month. At this time, Zhao Fuxin just turned one year old, and the couple had to accept this reality, because Zhao Changde could only study and had no source of livelihood, so he had to live on this one tael of silver a month.