Self-cultivation of Male Supporting Role

The male protagonist Li Shimo inadvertently rescued the daughter of Dingbei King Xie Yushan, who is the female protagonist, Xie Jingfang, the princess of Mingyue County, on the way to Fucheng to take the exam.

The two fell in love secretly during their recuperation. After Mingyue County returned to King Dingbei, she told King Dingbei that she wanted to recruit Li Shimo as her son-in-law. Yu daughter's tough request, momentarily soft-hearted, agreed.

After getting married, Li Shimo, with his cleverness and good words, was quickly loved by King Dingbei, very trustworthy, and stood firm in front of King Dingbei.

And Xie Yushan, the king of the Northeast, as the late emperor's younger brother and the emperor's uncle, actually had a heart of disobedience for a long time. He and the late emperor were obviously brothers of the same mother's compatriots. choose him?

In order for the eldest brother to do well on the throne, he was also crowned king early and sent to the frontier to eat the wind and sand?

So King Dingbei secretly plotted, colluded with foreigners, and finally found the right time to pull the emperor's nephew from the throne and sit on the coveted chair himself.

And the male protagonist, Li Shimo, has also become the emperor's most trusted son-in-law and court official, with enormous power, and the real one is under ten thousand people.

The Li family also followed the rising tide, and lived a good life surrounded by servants, surrounded by pearls and jade, and delicious from mountains and seas.

Except for Li Shiyan.

Because the male protagonist Li Shimo once said in public, intentionally or unintentionally: "My brother is four years older than me. When we were young, we studied in the clan school together. Because of the limited money in the family, my father often left the pen and ink he bought with his brother. , the rest is mine."

People who can figure out their thoughts naturally understand that the male protagonist Li Shimo dislikes Li Shiyan, the second brother, so he uses some means to deprive Li Shiyan of his fame.

Sending people back to their hometown from a distance, Li Shiyan had nowhere to show his ambitions. He was poor and reluctant to make a living by selling calligraphy and painting and writing letters for others.

After the death, the local county government was afraid of the trouble and reported the news in a hurry. No one from the Li family who got the news came to collect the corpse. They only gave the person who reported the news a few taels of silver and asked them to help buy a coffin and bury the matter.

There was still a seventh uncle in the clan who couldn't bear it any longer. He brought Shi Yan's body back to the clan's cemetery and buried it in a thin coffin with the younger generation.

Shi Yan, as a second brother who was thrown away by the male protagonist, actually has a long-standing grudge with the male protagonist.

Mrs. Li prioritizes sons over daughters and does not treat her daughter as a human being. Li Daya and

Li Erya has been working the hardest and most tiring work at home since she was a child, and she was not fed and clothed. In the end, for the dowry from the husband's family, she married her two daughters as a gift.

Li Daya and Li Erya grew up in this environment. They were selfish and indifferent. They never returned to their parents' home after they got married. They hated everyone in the Li family.

Mrs. Li injured her body when she was born. She lay in bed for nearly a year, and almost died several times. Therefore, after her health improved, she had no sympathy for Shi Yan, the son who almost killed her. , even with hatred.

Several times when Old Man Li went to the ground, Shi Yan was locked in the house by Mrs. Li, and he was not given food or drink. Finally, once, a small Shi Yan fell off the kang and broke an arm.

The old man Li was furious, and he lost his temper, threatening Mrs. Li to divorce his wife and marry another person if he didn't stop, and Mrs. Li calmed down a little.

Old man Li paid more attention to Shi Yan, his son.

Mrs. Li seems to be against Old Man Li and Shi Yan. For Li Sanya and Li Shimo, who were born four years later, it hurts to the bottom of their bones. use.

It was so excessive that Mrs. Li in Shi Yan's arms was Shi Yan's stepmother.

As for Shi Yan's son Kandao, when Shi Yan was busy with his studies, he was taught by Mrs. Li to be separated from Shi Yan, and Shi Yan worked hard to save a few pennies for Kandao.

In a blink of an eye, the lump gave the money to Mrs. Li with a happy smile, and said flatly, "Grandma, look, my father is hiding money from his private house! He doesn't have you in his heart at all, and he doesn't know how to be filial to his elders!

I'm all for you to come back! You save it, go back and buy pen and ink for the sixth uncle, wait for the sixth uncle to pass the jinshi examination and become a high official, our family will live a good life with the sixth uncle! Without dad! "

Mrs. Li smiled happily: "Okay, she's really grandma's good grandson, the lump will grow up in the future, but you have to be filial to your sixth uncle, look how good your sixth uncle treats you!"

Knob sat next to Mrs. Li with a grin and nodded again and again: "Damn, don't worry, when Knot grows up, she will definitely be filial to Sixth Uncle!"

Shi Yan had not seen such a scene in secret once, and it was not because he felt uncomfortable.

But he is really lacking in skills. He is not smart. He can only get the attention of his husband if he works harder than others in reading.

What Shi Yan thought was very simple. When he became famous one day, his family would be able to follow him and live a good life. In Shi Yan's opinion, all the conflicts now are caused by poverty.

rich in the future

These contradictions are naturally resolved. As for the upbringing of children, we can only take it slowly in the future. After all, there are priorities.

But Shi Yan couldn't understand until he died. He and the male protagonist Li Shimo were the two flags for the struggle between Old Man Li and Mrs. Li.

Old man Li left early, and his flag naturally became a thorn in the eyes of the other party. The other party was both contemptuous and resentful, and he wanted to make him have nothing and live as a life as death.

Shi Yan figured out the current scene. It was the old man Li who went out to work and was killed by the horses of wealthy people in the county town.

He was carried home by people from the same village.

The family was sent to handle the matter, with a good attitude, and the Li family lost two hundred taels of silver in a good voice.

To tell the truth, the villagers who were still sympathetic to the Li family's lost pillar, when they heard the two hundred taels of silver, suddenly all sympathy turned into envy and jealousy.

These days, I bought a strong boy in the village to serve in the military, and it was only twenty taels. Life or death is the price of human life.

Two hundred taels is enough for the Li family to build a few large brick houses, buy a few acres of good land, and marry a capable daughter-in-law for their two sons, so they can live a worry-free artistic life for the rest of their life.

Mrs. Li accepted the money with a smile, and sent the housekeeper to the entrance of the village in person, before she came back reluctantly.

Here comes the problem. Mrs. Li is unwilling to take out Old Man Li's life-buying money for the funeral. The married girl from the Li family heard that her father was gone, so she had to go to the door to hang her in order to look good.

The elders and juniors of the clan came to a group, and they wanted to bury the old man in the ground early, because the old man died in a hurry, it is best to ask a few masters to read a few passages of scriptures in front of the grave, so that the old man Li’s ghost will not be scattered and entangled with the Li family. .

Everyone gathered in the small courtyard of the Li family, and the corners were crowded with people, half of them really helping with the funeral, and half of them wanted to see what the Li family would do when they had two hundred taels of silver.

And Mrs. Li's operation, the normal thinking of the villagers can never catch up.

When Shi Yan stepped forward to persuade Mrs. Li to take out the money to buy a coffin for his father, Mrs. Li pushed him away. Tired and hungry, Shi Yan, whose body was weak, was pushed directly to the ground by Mrs. Li, and her palm was scratched by stones. The bleeding stopped, and he fainted immediately.

When he fainted and woke up, he became the current Shi Yan.

Shi Yan only listened to Mrs. Li's singing, and said to the people in the yard, "What kind of evil did my old lady do! Married a short-lived ghost, how can I live if I leave this family behind?"

Someone said bluntly: "Mr. Li, stop pretending.

, Your three sons have already grown up, Brother Tie Dan became a scholar last year, Brother Tie Zhu was also a child, Brother Tie Niu is a good hand in serving crops, why can't you live?

If my family had such three sons and two hundred taels of silver, I would definitely be able to live! Better than living now! "

"Yes, the Li brothers are still lying on the ground, but you come up with a charter and say that this funeral is going to be done like this? It's June now, and maggots will grow after two days of corpses. help?"

"Brothers of the Li family died tragically, but anyway, there are two hundred taels of money to buy their lives. Whatever you say about this funeral, it needs to be done in a grand manner!"

Mrs. Li raised her eyebrows and made a mournful expression: "My life is just that the big guy looks bright on the face, but who knows the suffering inside?

Although Tie Niu is a good hand in serving crops, but my family has only a few acres of land in total.

There are also two scholars in the family, especially Tie Dan. The daughter-in-law went early, and the child is only five years old.

We all know that iron eggs are not very healthy from birth. They are weak and sickly. They need to eat more refined grains and ask for medicine. After all, it costs more than tens of taels of silver every year.

Tie Dan's annual reading is only the cost of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and the little output in one year is simply not enough to fill this hole.

For the relationship between scholars, even if you invite your classmates and friends to eat a table of meals every month, it will cost hundreds of dollars, and you have to buy decent clothes at four o'clock and eighth, so that you don't have to go out and look up among your classmates. These are another big problem. pen cost.

God is pitiful, my wife, I had the cheek to borrow 10 taels of silver from my second son-in-law's house last month, just because Tiedan is going to Fucheng to take the rural exam next year, I have to make him something delicious to nourish his body!

All of you are from the villages. Tell me, in such a situation as my family, can I still give money to the old man to make a big deal? I don't know the old man's wrongful death?

Of course I know.

But the living are more important than the dead! These silver coins are reserved for Tie Dan's future imperial examinations, and every copper plate must be used on the blade!

Just treat it as the old man and I am sorry to the old man, and think that our mother owes him, and when the old man is in the future, I will climb to the old man's grave and kowtow to him to make amends! "

Madam Li bowed to all the people in the courtyard, and burst into tears: "Everything is simple today, please help me to bury my old man.

Come on! Let him go in peace, don't worry about these filthy things. "

People in the crowd who didn't know the truth had already begun to waver, and even sympathized with Mrs. Li. Those who knew the truth wanted to step forward and scold Mrs. Li for her nonsense, turning black and white.

Before the man could speak, a crying male voice came from behind the crowd: "Mother, you, you are really, really..."

The words were not finished, but the crowd instantly gave way, revealing Shi Yan who stumbled to his feet behind the crowd.

Shi Yan was staggering, his body was soft, his complexion was sallow, he was hungry after several meals. In addition, I heard the bad news when I woke up this morning. From the morning to now, the water and rice have not entered, and I was pushed by Mrs. Liu, bleeding a lot, and the whole person is in a very bad state.

When the clansmen saw Shi Yan's appearance, they couldn't help frowning. Someone close to him wanted to step up to help, but Shi Yan refused.

Shi Yan walked up to Mrs. Li and held up a pair of **** hands. The thin blue veins on the back of the hands were all visible, and only a handful of bones remained.

There is a thick layer of calluses on the **** and thumb of the right hand, which is even worse than the calluses on the palm of the elder brother who has been working in the field all the year round.

Shi Yan staggered and took out these fingers for everyone to see. The connected wrists looked like only a layer of skin and bones were left.

Everyone felt that the atmosphere was wrong, and they all kept silent, quietly watching the mother and son in the middle of the crowd.

Shi Yan walked in front of Mrs. Li, and knelt down with a plop, sobbing in her voice, making others feel sad when they heard it: "Mother! I dare to ask you in front of all the villagers today, are you really my mother?"

As soon as the voice fell, the crowd was buzzing.