Chapter 11 10. The Story of a Lady from a Famous Family

Jicheng studied in the private school jointly run by his father Jicheng. He read with other students every day, and he read loudly, but he was absent-minded.Both reading and writing disgusted him, and only when he walked into the mountains after school every day and smelled the fragrance of flowers and plants did he feel alive.He picked all kinds of flowers and plants from the mountains and placed them in the house, classifying them according to "blue fruit", "black leek", "red tang" and "lavender".Some of the names were given by the people on the island, and some were given by him himself.He boiled the flowers and plants, mixed them together and gave them to chickens and dogs.The chicken ate the "scallion sunflower" and jumped up the tree; the dog ate the "vegetable grass" and ran like flying.If the animal does not die after eating the herb, he will try it.If you are in trouble, you will be in high spirits, but if you are in trouble, your face will be ashamed.One day he prepared "black grass juice" and gave it to his classmates

After drinking, the classmates laughed endlessly during Jihe's lecture, and Jihe beat him up for this.But two days later, Jihe suffered from hemorrhoids, and the pain was so painful that he could not sit still. Jicheng made "green fruit soup" for him to drink. He drank it, and the hemorrhoids disappeared the next day.Jihe couldn't laugh or cry to his son. From then on, Jicheng became more and more vigorous, using "Wu Tiao" to kill rats for his neighbors; mixing "black leek" to treat heartache; using "Hong Dan" to treat infertility.Jicheng didn't care about anything except flowers and plants. When he was 16 years old, Jihe asked him what he wanted to do, and he said, "Open a small shop." He went out, and put some of his ancestral savings to buy a small shop in the city for his son.

Jicheng's small shop sells everything, both high and low grades.He transported the land from the island to the land, and then brought the goods from the land to the island.Not long after, he earned his father the first sum of money.Jihe was very surprised, how could he raise such a businessman as a man of god who had seen pigs and tortoises, together with his wife's female leopard, and a lot of knowledge about poetry and books.Unbeknownst to Jihe, apart from those tempting daily necessities, Jicheng also secretly sells herbal medicines he made himself.Herbal medicines are packed in different small jars with labels on them, indicating the name, purpose, origin and dosage.These herbs are not only very popular on the Big Island, but also sold inland.But this business is not open to the public. Jicheng knows that he is not a legitimate pharmacist, so he only does this business with his confidantes.Jicheng told his friends that he has swallowed more herbs than he read books in his life, and herbs have transformed him thousands of times, and he may not be him long ago.

Outside Jicheng's small shop, there is often a blind man who tells fortunes.People who came to buy things had to pass by the blind man's fortune-telling booth, and they couldn't help but have to do their fortune-telling.So there are as many people who buy things as there are fortune-tellers.The blind man followed Jicheng's deal to find a deal.That day when Jicheng closed the shop in the evening, he heard the blind man calling him, and he walked over, but the blind man took his hand and insisted on making a fortune for him.Jicheng asked the blind man to do the math, and the blind man said, "It's terrible, I will be reincarnated into my successor's family when I see the son and grandson of the gods, please tell me to see your father, and I will tell him face to face!"

Jicheng had no choice but to ride a horse and take the blind man to see Jihe.The blind man told Jihe that the daughter-in-law Jicheng should marry lived in Xingjia Lane in the city and was the only daughter of the Wang family.Although this Wang family is also the descendant of the Chinese literati who fled from the capital, they have always been modest and kept their duty, never arrogant.The only daughter who is born now is ugly, and the family members say it is inherited from generation to generation, because in the early years of the Wang family, I don’t know which generation had married a distant relative of a certain emperor in a certain dynasty. Lost a throwback man.The girl's poems and paintings are often spread and admired by literati disciples, but as long as they see her in person, men can't help but take five steps back.Jihe hurriedly asked the blind man what she looked like, and the blind man said: "Eagle nose and eagle eyes, bald brows and pointed face, thick lips and pointed teeth, thick neck and broad shoulders, dry yellow hair, short stature, deep roots in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, He looks like a murderer." Jihe immediately said: "My successor family does not lack beauty, nor does it lack immortality, but it lacks this root of wisdom." Immediately thanked the blind man, and prepared a gift to ask the matchmaker to go to Wang's house to be his son. say dear.

After a few days, Jihe's matchmaker arrived at Wang's family. Wang's family had heard about Ji's family for a long time, so they weighed this marriage: Jihe is just a local squire, and Wang's family is a big family from the capital, and their ancestors have had distant relatives of the emperor. However, Jihe is the son of a local god, who is said to be guarded by ghosts and gods behind him, and his wife is said to be a leopard, while the Wang family is just a mortal child. It happened in the last few dynasties, and now even the emperor of this dynasty can’t sit still, who still pays attention to the previous generations of royals? The emperor will be invalidated if he changes dynasties, and the distant relatives of the emperor are even less valuable. Relatives have been around for a long time. Thinking about it, this family has climbed up again; the son of Jihe inherited the looks of his parents and was known for being handsome, while the daughter of the Wang family was too ugly to marry, so he could marry a handsome local man. Thinking about this But although the Wang family's daughter is ugly, she is very smart and well-educated, and Jihe's son is just a small local businessman. Thinking about it this way, the family is at a loss again; but the daughter will not be able to marry when she grows up. , who knows how many such good opportunities there will be, and Jicheng's business is doing well, and Ji's family can be regarded as a famous family on the big island.Thinking about it this way, this relationship is just right.So he agreed.

The wedding between Jicheng and Wang Xiuer, the daughter of the Wang family, is grand.The Wang family understood the rules, and explained the authentic process of the wedding to the step-family one by one. The successor entrusted merchant ships to the mainland to buy the goods designated by the Wang family. They all followed the eight-carried sedan chairs and the imposing red lantern team to see off the bride. The women were shocked when they saw the big boxes and small cages brought by the bride's house.As soon as the send-off team arrived, the band hired by the successor immediately played. What they played was "Will Enter the Wine" that they had just learned from the troupe from the mainland, but they forgot while playing, so they had to change to the band from Dadao Island. After playing "Pig and Turtle", he played "A Most Pure Virgin" learned from John.

The people in Dadao said that this time the step-family has really become a Han Chinese, and it is much more dignified than Mr. Ji’s appearance when he was alive. Maybe he will give birth to an emperor in the future, and then the people of Dadao can They all moved to the capital on land. On the second day of the wedding, Wang Xiuer wanted to show respect to her parents-in-law, so she went to the kitchen to cook lotus seed soup for her mother-in-law. As a result, she broke a stack of plates, fell a big somersault, knocked over a bucket of water, and wet her red pomegranate dress. It was stained red soup all over the place.