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Chapter 17 The sixteenth round of Daliuzhuang filial son's relatives and lovers of virtuous ministers in Yueqing County

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It is said that when Kuang Chaoren saw the door of his house, he was very happy. He took two steps and one step, and hurried to knock on the door.Mother heard his voice, opened the door to greet her, saw her and said, "Little Er! You're back!" Kuang Chao said humanely, "Mother! I'm back!" Putting down her luggage, straightening her clothes, she bowed and kowtowed for her mother.His mother pinched him and saw that he was wearing a very thick padded jacket, she was relieved.Said to him: "Since you went with the guests, for more than a year, my physical body has been restless! One night I dreamed that you fell into the water, and I woke up crying. One night, I dreamed that you broke your leg. One night I also dreamed that you had a big pimple on your face, pointed it at me, and I would pick it up for you, but I couldn’t get it off. One night I dreamed that you came home and looked at me crying, and woke me up from crying. One night and another dream Seeing you wearing a gauze hat and saying that you have become a palace, I smiled and said, "I am a farmer, how can I have an official?" A man next to him said, "This official is not your son, but your son also became an official, but it is I will never come to you again in this life." I cried again and said, "If you are an official, you will not be able to see each other. If you are an official, you will not be him!" I woke up too. Your father asked me, and I told your father about the dream. Your father said that I was delusional. I don’t think your father got sick in the middle of the night, and he couldn’t move half of his body. Now he is sleeping on the bed. in the room."

While talking outside, his father, Mrs. Kuang, had already heard his son's return in the room. Immediately, his illness eased up and he felt a little refreshed.Kuang Chaoren walked up to him and called out: "Father! My son is back!" He stepped forward and kowtowed.The grandpa asked him to sit on the edge of the bed, told him the reason for his illness in detail, and said: "Since you left, your uncle in the third room has been thinking about my house. I have a plan in mind, and I will sell it to him, besides looking for another house. house, there are still a few liang of housing price left, and when you come back to start a small business. A neighbor said to me: "Your house is the side room of his house. He wants to buy you, and he needs a few more liang of silver." Rich people just want to be cheap. Not only are they unwilling to pay more, but they even pay a few taels less according to the current value. They clearly know that I am waiting for the rice to be cooked and will kill me. If I get angry and don’t sell it to him, he will buy the next one. Poison, the master owner redeemed me with the original price. As you know, the owner is still my uncle. He relied on his elders and said: "The property of this family is sold continuously." I said: "It is sold continuously. , The repairs in the past few years also have to admit me,'He didn't accept any money, he only wanted to redeem it at the original price, and he beat me up when we argued with each other in the ancestral hall that day. Li asked, all for him, but said that I didn't look at the face of my ancestors, and your brother was useless, and said a few words of "doesn't matter". After I took this breath, I fell ill when I came back. Since I fell ill, and my daily needs became more and more difficult. Your brother heard people say that he received the original price and wrote back to him. The money was collected sporadically, and it was all spent. Your brother saw that it was not a problem, and discussed it with your sister-in-law. Now and I shared it and ate it. I thought I didn’t have any furniture for him, so I had to let him earn his own food. He is carrying a burden every morning to go to the market, and the money he finds can’t support the couple. I slept again. Here, there is only air coming out all day long, but no air coming in, and the partitions need to be overturned, regardless of life and death, and people come back every three to five days to remind them, and there are so many gossips in their mouths. You go so far that you don’t know where you are. Crying once or twice!" Kuang Chao said: "Father, don't worry about these things, and recover from your illness quietly. I was in Hangzhou, and I met a gentleman who gave me ten taels of silver. Start a small business and find some firewood and rice to live on. The third room came to remind me, what are you afraid of! Wait for me to return to him."

His mother came in and asked him to eat, and he followed into the kitchen, bowing to his sister-in-law.The sister-in-law poured tea to eat with him.After eating, he ate again, hurried to the market, bought a pig's trotter with the remaining travel money, and simmered it at home, and ate it with Taigong at night.After buying it, it happened that his elder brother entered the door carrying a burden. He bowed to his elder brother and knelt down. His elder brother supported him, sat in the main room together, and told some of the sufferings of the family.His elder brother said with a frown: "Father is getting a little embarrassing now, and what he said is 'not true'. Nowadays, people are urging houses, and they always refuse to come out next to each other, which makes me angry. He loves you, you Come home and talk to him sooner or later." After that, he took the burden to the room.

Kuang Chaoren waited for the food to rot, and brought the rice to his father.Get up and sit up.The grandfather was very happy because his son came home, and he had some meat dishes. He also ate a lot of those vegetables and rice that night.For the rest, I invited my mother and elder brother to come in and set the table for dinner in front of the grandfather.The grandfather looked at Huanxi, and sat until the weather was getting worse before helping him to sleep.Kuang Chaoren took the sheet and slept on Taigong's heels. I got up early the next morning, took money to the market and bought a few pigs, kept them in the pen, and bought a handful of beans.First take out a pork shoulder, kill it, scald it, wash it, and sell it all night.I also ground the beans into a box of tofu, sold them for money, and put them under the grandfather's bed.Sitting in front of the grandpa, seeing that the grandpa was bored, he searched out some scenery on the West Lake and all kinds of food for sale, and heard jokes everywhere, twists and turns, and told the grandpa in detail.The grandfather laughed when he heard this.After two sessions, the grandfather said to him: "I want to show respect, so call your mother to come in." The mother hurried in and was about to place the cloth for the grandfather, when Kuang Chao said, "Father wants to show respect. Don't do it like this. The cloth is under the quilt, and it's uncomfortable to get out, and besides, I have to wash the cloth every day, and my mother is afraid of being smoked, so don't hurt my stomach." Too fair: "It's good if I stand up and show respect, there is nothing I can do about it Kuang Chao said humanely: "It's not right to stand up, I have a reason," he hurriedly went to the kitchen and took out a clay pot, filled it with ashes, took it in and put it in front of the bed, then took a bench and put it on the bed. Outside the crock pot, I climbed onto the bed by myself, helped the grandfather to the side, put his feet on the bench, and his buttocks were facing the ashes of the crock pot.He got in the middle by himself, knelt down on both knees, and held the grandfather's legs on his shoulders, so that the grandfather could sleep peacefully and freely.It was easy to get out again, and there was no bad smell in the bed.He took the bench away, took out the crock pot and poured it out, and still came in and sat down.

In the evening, he helped the grandfather to sit up and had dinner.Sit for a while, wait for the grandpa to sleep, and cover the quilt.He filled a big iron lamp brought from the province with oil, sat beside his grandfather, and read the article.Tai Gong couldn't sleep, he had to spit and drink tea at night until Si Geng Drum, and he read until Si Geng Drum.The grandfather called out and was right in front of him.The grandpa wants to go out at night. In the past, there was no one to serve him, so he had to wait until dawn. Now that his son is waiting by his side, he can go out at night when he wants to go out. He can eat a few more mouthfuls for dinner.Kuang Chaoren didn't go to bed until four o'clock every night, and after only one night, he had to get up to butcher pigs and grind tofu.

Four or five days later, his brother came home early from the market, and brought a chicken to cook in his sister-in-law's room. He also bought a jug of wine to help his brother, and said, "You don't need to tell the old man about this. Father." Kuang Chaoren refused, so he took a bowl of chicken and gave it to his parents, and the two brothers ate the rest in the hall.It just so happened that the uncle of the third room came to urge the house, Kuang Chaoren threw down the wine and knelt down to the uncle.Uncle said: "Okay! The second child is back, wearing such a thick padded jacket! He learned how to be polite outside, and can bow and bow." Kuang Chao said humanely: "I have been home for a few days, busy with things, and I haven't Come and see Uncle, please sit down and have a glass of wine." Uncle sat down and drank a few glasses of wine, and when he mentioned the idea of ​​leaving the house, Kuang Chao said: "Don't be impatient, uncle, let the two brothers go. Here, how dare you live in Uncle’s house for nothing? Even if you don’t have the money to purchase the house, you can rent two rooms and go out to live, and give the house to Uncle. But now my father is ill, people say that the patient’s bed has been moved, It’s fine. Now my brother is in a hurry to ask my husband to treat my father. If my father is cured, I will let the house go to my uncle as soon as possible. Even if my father is seriously ill, we can’t say it. Let’s find a house and move; just occupy it Uncle's, not only Uncle wants to remind, but my parents and two old people live in uneasiness." Uncle saw that what he said was pleasant, tactful and straightforward, but he didn't have anything to say, he just said: "One of my own family members, it's not that I just want to come to remind, because I have to dismantle and repair, since you said so, let's wait a little longer." Kuang Chaohumane said, "Thank you uncle! Uncle, but please don't worry, this matter It's not too late." The uncle promised to go.His brother said: "Uncle, have another glass of wine." Uncle said: "I won't eat." Then he resigned.

Since then, Kuang Chaoren's meat and tofu business has been dry, and they are sold out before noon, and he brings the money home with his father.Calculating how much money I made that day, I bought a chicken, duck, or fish at the market, and came home to have dinner with my father.Because my grandfather has a phlegm syndrome and is not very suitable for eating big meat, so I bought these things.Or pork loin, or pork belly, but also constantly.Medicine is needless to say.The grandpa lived a satisfactory life, and his son took care of him every day and night, and Kuang Chaoren must have knelt in front of him, holding his legs on his shoulders.The grandfather's illness gradually improved, and he discussed with his two sons about finding a house to move, but Kuang Chaoren said, "Father's illness is getting better, so we might as well wait a little longer and get up and walk, and it won't be too late to move." People over there came to urge him, but Kuang Superman faltered in the past.

This Kuang Chaoren is the most energetic: he does business for half a day in the morning, and spends the night with his father reading articles.It was just after breakfast that day, and he watched the grandpa had a meal, went out with nothing to do, and was on the paddy field with a cowherd from the same family, turned over a rice basket to make a table, and placed a chessboard facing each other.I saw an old man with a white beard, looking at him with his hands scissored behind his back. After looking at it for a long time, he said from the side: "Brother lost this game!"Yin stood up and called him, and made a bow.Pan Baozheng said: "I don't know who it is, I hardly recognize it just now. You are the second minister of Kuang Taigong's family. When did you come back when you went out the year before last? Is your father sick at home?" Kuang Chao said humanely: "No Tell my father that I have been here for half a year, and because I have nothing to do, I dare not come to the house to disturb my father. My father is sick in bed, and he has been feeling better recently. Thank you for remembering my father. Please come to the house Serve tea." Pan Baozheng said, "Don't bother me." As he approached, he raised his hat for him, took a cigarette from his hand and looked at it carefully, and said, "Second Master, I'm not flattering you, I'm flattering you." Since elementary school, you have learned some sackcloth gods. You are a noble face. You will only have good luck when you are only twenty-six or eight years old. You will have a wife, wealth, sons, and salary. Now Yintang looks a little pale Huang, in a few days there will be a noble man who will follow his fate." He lifted his ear to look, and said: "But there is still a false alarm, it's not a big deal, and luck will seem like a year after that." Kuang Chao said: "Father, when I start this small business, I only hope that I will not lose my money. I can find some money to support my parents every day, so I thank the Bodhisattvas of heaven and earth. I don't think it's my turn to be rich." Pan Baozheng shook his hand and said: " Irrelevant, where did you do such a thing?" After finishing speaking, they parted ways.

The third room urged the house to be evicted, and it was getting closer day by day. Kuang Chaoren couldn't help it, so he had to insist on a few words with him. He was in a hurry, and said fiercely: "If you don't come out in three days, ask someone to come and take off the tiles!" Kuang Chaoren was anxious, but refused to tell his father.After three days, it was getting late, and the grandpa was waiting to go out to respect, and the grandpa fell asleep.He lit the iron lamp by the side to read, when suddenly he heard a loud sound outside the door, and dozens of people shouted together.He wondered how many people in the third room were called to come down the tiles and pick the door.In an instant, hundreds of people shouted together, and a burst of red light illuminated the window paper red.He yelled: "It's not good!" He hurriedly drove out to have a look.It turned out that the village was on fire.The whole family ran out together and said, "It's not good! Move it quickly!" His brother's sleepy dream gun was picked up, and he only cared about the burden of the previous episode.The things inside the burden are fragmented again: sesame candy, dried tofu, bean curd skin, clay figurines, children's whistles and jingle bells, tin hairpins worn by women, one is added and another is lost.The sugar and clay figurines were broken and shattered, and they were covered in sweat before they got up and ran outside.The head of the fire was as high as ten feet, and one by one fireballs rolled into the courtyard.The sister-in-law snatched a pack of quilts, clothes, and shoes, hugged her and wept, but walked back.The old grandma was so frightened that her feet went limp and she couldn't move a step.The flames shone red everywhere, and there were loud shouts from both sides.

Kuang Chaoren thought, nothing else matters, hurried into the room and grabbed a quilt in his hand, lifted the grandfather from the bed, put it on his back, hugged his hands tightly, and ignored his mother, took the grandfather Sit with your back in the open space outside the door.He ran in again, grabbed his sister-in-law and pointed him out the door.He helped his mother up again and carried her on his back.Before going out, the fire had already reached the door and there was almost no way out, Kuang Chao said humanely: "Okay! Parents have been rescued!" He put the grandfather to sleep in the open space and covered him with a quilt.The mother and sister-in-law sat in front of them.When he was looking for his brother again, he had already hidden there in fear.The fire was vigorous and vigorous, and Yeye fluttered, glowing red, dancing like a golden dragon.There was a fire in the countryside, and I didn't know how to save it. The water was far away, and it burned for half the night before it gradually went out.The rice field is full of bituminous coal, which is full of flames.

Houses in a village were burned to the ground.Kuang Chaoren had no choice but to have nowhere to hide. He saw a monk's nunnery on Zhuangnantou road, and he carried the grandfather to the nunnery, asked his sister-in-law to support his mother, and walked to the entrance of the nunnery step by step.The monk came out to ask, but he refused to take him in. He said: "The wood caught fire, and almost no houses were left for the burned ones. When they moved to my nunnery, they would not be able to live in two houses. Besides, you have another Patient, where is it convenient?" I saw an old man coming out of the nunnery, and when he looked closely, it was none other than Pan Baozheng.Kuang Chaoren stepped forward and made a bow, so he was rewarded.Pan Baozheng said: "Mr. Kuang, your house was also involved in the fire last night. Poor!" Kuang Chaoren said again that he wanted to borrow a monk's nunnery, but the monk refused.Pan Baozheng said: "Master, you don't know that Taigong Kuang is a well-known honest man in our village. Besides, this young man has a good looks, and he will definitely be prosperous in the future. You are a monk, and you have the right to live with him for your own convenience. After staying for two days, he naturally moved in. I'll give you the incense money." The monk heard Baozheng's father's order and dared not disobey, so he invited his family in and gave up a room.Kuang Chaoren carried the grandfather into the nunnery to sleep.Pan Baozheng came in to greet the grandfather, who thanked Baozheng.The monk burned a pot of tea to eat with everyone.Baozheng went home, and later sent some rice and vegetables to calm him down.It wasn't until the afternoon that his brother found it, and it was no wonder that his brother didn't help him grab things. Kuang Chaoren saw that it was not a problem, so he asked Baozheng to rent a half house for him at the intersection of Anbang Dalu, and moved in.Fortunately, Yuan did not sleep that night, and the capital was still close to him. He still slaughtered pigs and ground tofu to live, and lit the lamp at night to read articles.But because of this fright, the grandfather became seriously ill.Although Kuang Chaoren was worried, he didn't stop reading.I read it for more than two days that day, and I was reading happily. Suddenly, I heard the sound of gongs outside the window. Many torches surrounded an official bridge and passed, and there was a sound of horseshoes behind. He passed. Unexpectedly, the county magistrate lived in the mansion in Zhuangshang this night, and he felt relieved: "In such a rural area, there are still people studying hard in the middle of the night, which is really admirable! I just don't know that this person is a scholar and a child, why don't you tell Bao Zheng to come?" Ask?" At that moment Pan Baozheng came and asked, "Who is that person who reads the article at night near the gate of the Zhuangnantou temple?" Baozheng knew it was the Kuang family, so he said: "It was burned by fire. Rent to live here. This is his second son Kuang Jiong who reads the article, and he reads until three or four drums every day. He is not a scholar, nor is he a child, but a small businessman." After hearing this, the magistrate was miserable, Instructed: "I am posting a post here, and you can take it out tomorrow to pay tribute to Kuang Jiong, saying that it is not convenient for me to invite him to a meeting at this time, and the exam is coming soon, so ask him to sign up to take the exam. If he can do the article, I will promote him. " Baozheng took the order. Early the next morning, the magistrate went to the city and went back to the Yamen.Baozheng knocked and sent it back, ran to Kuang's house, knocked on the door, and said, "Congratulations!" Kuang Chaoren asked, "What's the matter?" Baozheng took out a single post from his hat and handed it to him.It said: "Worship Li Benying." Kuang Chaoren was shocked when he saw that it was the post of the county magistrate, and asked quickly, "Father, who is this post for?" Baozheng said so and so: "Master I have been here with you, and when I heard you read an article, I sent it to me to ask. I said that you are so poor, and how to behave filial piety, you have told the master. The master sent this post to you, saying that you will take the exam soon, and ask you to take the exam. To flatter you. I said the day before yesterday that you look good, and the Lord has a noble person to take care of you, how about today?" Kuang Chaoren was overjoyed, and took this post to tell his father, and the grandfather was also happy.When his brother came back in the evening, he saw the post and told his brother this again, but his brother refused to believe it. A few days later, the county really issued a notice to test children.Kuang Chaoren buys papers to take the exam.After passing the exam, a group case was issued and taken.For the retest, Superman Kuang bought another paper and waited on him.The magistrate sat in the hall, and he was the first one to roll the roll.The county magistrate stopped and said, "How old are you this year?" Kuang Chao said humanely, "Tongsheng is twenty-two years old this year." The magistrate said: "You can write well. You need to be more careful when answering the test. I will take care of you." Kuang Chaoren kowtowed his thanks and went down with the paper.After two reexaminations, when a long case came out, he actually took the first place in the case and reported it to the village.Kuang Chaoren thanked him with his handbook, and the county magistrate came to see him at the gate of the house, and asked him about the sufferings of his family, so he sealed up two taels of silver to give him: "This is my salary, and you take it to support your parents. When you get home, work hard. , When you come to see me again during the government and college exams, I will also subsidize your expenses." Kuang Chaoren thanked him, went home and took the money to his father, and told the officials what he said.The grandfather was really grateful, holding the silver, kowtowed to the sky on the pillow, and thanked the master of the county.Only then did his brother believe it.The field of vision in the countryside is shallow, seeing that Superman Kuang took the lead in the case, and the county lord passed in to see him again, and it was in the village that everyone made an appointment to send He Fen to his house.The Taigong ordered to borrow a day's wine in the wall nunnery. At this time, the end of winter had passed, and after the seal was opened, the master came to Wenzhou.Kuang Chaoren kowtowed farewell to the magistrate, and the magistrate gave him another two taels of silver.He went to the government, passed the government exam, and then went to the college exam.After the examination, it happened that the county magistrate saw Xuedao at Shangyuanmen, knelt down in front of Xuedao, and said, "The leader of the case, Kuang Jiong, is a lonely man and a filial son." Elaborate.Xue Dao said: "'Scholars first know the tools and then the rhetoric', as expected, they are experts in Ketun, and their diction is a last-minute art. But I read Kuang Jiong's writing yesterday. Although the rationale is a little late in the Qing Dynasty, the talent is excellent. Please come back to your county. It's enough to learn." Just because of this, there are different teachings:
I don't know if Kuang Chaoren passed the exam or not, let's listen to the next chapter.
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