With Lihua's careful care, Yao Jinsheng was able to go to the ground with crutches after lying on the bed for more than half a year. Lihua would go to the market every day to sell songs and earn some money to buy medicine. Yao Rengui no longer went to the mountains to hunt.
He helped Lihua pick up her opera outfit. Although the family lived a poor life, they could always have three meals of food and clothing, and the days passed like this.
In the market, Lihua's reputation is getting bigger and bigger. When she turned nineteen, Lihua was already a famous actress in Yicheng. Not only was she beautiful, but she was also good at singing. Any artist who could make a living was
We depend on the weather for survival. It's windy, rainy, and rainy. It's the rainy season, and the pear blossoms can't sing. Yao Jinsheng has just cooked the medicine and is busy packing for dinner. Yao Rengui is outside the hospital, giving fruit to some trees.
The pear tree was building a wooden frame to prevent the branches from being crushed by the fruit. At this time, a middle-aged man in his forties who looked like a housekeeper entered Yao Jinsheng's yard holding a yellow umbrella.
Yao Rengui went up and asked, "Who are you? Who are you looking for?"
"Boy, there's no need to tell you who you are. I'm here to find the pear blossom girl. Get out of my way and don't get in the way here." The middle-aged man holding an umbrella entered Yao Jinsheng's house by himself. Yao Rengui put down the umbrella.
The work at hand followed him in.
The middle-aged man came in and saw Lihua cooking dinner and praised: "The fish cakes are so fragrant. Miss Lihua is good at singing and hard-working, but doing such a menial job is really a waste of her beautiful hands."
Seeing this stranger's frivolous mouth, Lihua said displeasedly: "Sir, why are you here?"
"Haha, of course I'm here to bring you some great news. Mr. Li Er from the west side of the city is celebrating his fiftieth birthday the day after tomorrow, and he wants to invite her to a concert." After saying this, the middle-aged man touched his sleeve.
I took out three to five taels of silver and slapped it on the table.
Lihua didn't know anything about Mr. Li Er from the south of the city, but since he invited her to a concert, she couldn't refuse outright. The money on the table was enough to buy her father medicine for half a month. Lihua was in a dilemma.
At that time, Yao Jinsheng walked to the front room tremblingly with a cane. He knocked the silver on the table with his cane and said angrily: "Take your silver back, Li Hu from the west of the city is not a good person. The four brothers are running rampant in Yicheng.
, just because they were rich, the four brothers raped women and caused harm to the countryside. I heard this a lot in the wine shop."
The middle-aged man laughed and said: "Old man Yao, I am here to talk to you politely to give face to Miss Lihua. As long as I say hello, the brothers outside are not vegetarians. How can I ask you to stay in Yicheng?"
There is no place for standing, Miss Lihua, it all depends on your words." Yao Jinsheng stepped on his crutches vigorously, shaking with anger. Yao Rengui rolled up his sleeves and pushed the middle-aged man out of the door.
The middle-aged man sneered, put his fingers in his mouth and blew a loud whistle, and seven or eight big men came out from the courtyard wall. The middle-aged man shouted: "Tear down this house for me, don't you dare to do anything on the boundary of Yicheng?"
I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t give Mr. Li Er face!”
The servants from all the families rushed into the house like wolves and tigers. Yao Jinsheng suddenly cursed: "There is no king's law in the bright and clear world!"
The middle-aged man laughed wildly and said: "You old guy who doesn't understand current affairs, I, Li An, am Wang Fa here, beat me to death, hit me hard..."
Lihua shouted: "Everyone stop, I...I'm going..." As she spoke, tears rolled down her face.
Li An said with a ferocious smile: "Miss Lihua, what did you say? Why didn't I hear you? You all give me the key points to greet those two people who don't drink the fine wine!" The room suddenly became a living hell for the Yao family.
The two father and son were beaten all over the place, and some of the belongings they had finally earned were smashed to pieces...
"Stop, I beg you to stop. I'm going to sing in the church, I'm going..." Lihua pulled the domestic slave who was committing the murder and begged.
Li An moved a stool and crossed his legs. He picked out his ears with his fingers and said slowly, "Stop it. Didn't you dogs hear what Miss Lihua said?"
When all the slaves heard what Li An said, they all stopped and cursed and retreated behind Li An. Li An stood up and wiped the dirt off his body with his sleeves and said with a smile: "Miss Lihua, let's come in person at noon the day after tomorrow."
Pick you up, and you can run away, but I will tell you the ugly story first. If you can escape from Yicheng, I, Li An, will cut off your head and serve as a urinal for you. Haha, Miss Lihua, we will see you later." Li An took the lead.
The people walked away, leaving behind Lihua and a pair of Yao family father and son who looked like bloody gourds. Yao Rengui slowly got up with a bruised nose and swollen face, and helped Lihua to help Yao Jinsheng, who had passed out, to the bed.
Holding your breath as tight as a gossamer is obviously an old illness that has not yet healed but a new injury, and you are already on your deathbed...
Among those who pinched Yao Jinsheng while Lihua was in agony, Yao Jinsheng gradually woke up after a while, looked at Lihua and Yao Rengui and forced out a smile: "Your father has been an actor all his life, although he was
I look down on you, but if you ask yourself, I have never done anything wrong. Now that I am dying, my only regret is that I could not wait until you two got married."
Yao Rengui looked at the tearful Lihua and said, "Dad, you will definitely get well. When you recover, you can see me and sister Lihua getting married. Dad, you haven't taught me how to play the piano yet..."
Yao Jinsheng suddenly shouted: "Qin, where is my Qin?"
Lihua reached out and handed over the Huqin from the edge of the bed. Yao Jinsheng grabbed something in the air with his hands, but his eyes were empty and lifeless. He was obviously blind. Yao Jinsheng touched the Huqin that Lihua handed over.
He took a long breath and sighed: "Silly son, I have taught you the Huqin for several years but you still can't learn it. Listen carefully to me. I will leave the pear blossom to you in the future. Don't do it."
"I have made Lihua feel wronged." Yao Jinsheng played the huqin as before, and Lihua sang softly with tears in her eyes. A piece of "Phoenix Qin" was sung to the point where she burst into tears and complained that her heart was broken...
While singing, the huqin in Yao Jinsheng's hand suddenly stopped playing. Yao Rengui and Lihua rushed forward and shook Yao Jinsheng. Only one huqin with broken strings slid down quietly, and the patter of plum rain outside the house seemed to be falling.
She mourns for the injustices in the world. The dead live on, but the living still have to linger. In two days, Lihua will go to the Li Mansion to sing in the hall. At that time, it was a dogma that a woman's death was a minor indiscretion and a serious consequences. Lihua really
I want to hand my body over to Yao Rengui and then go into the Longtan Tiger's Den. But I can only think about it in my heart. It is difficult for Lihua to say it. Yao Jinsheng's new funeral, except for Yao Rengui and Lihua who are worshiping in the mourning hall, all relatives and friends are called Li
The evil slave of the house was beaten back.
The Li family's notoriety in Yicheng has long been known to everyone in the streets. The Li family gave birth to four boys. The eldest, Li Long, ### Li Hu, the third, Li Bao, and the fourth, Li Biao, the four of them have always been together.
They have never done anything good. In the early years, they were four impoverished gangsters. They gambled, drank, and fought and killed without knowing which ancestral grave smoke was rising from. These four guys became rich overnight in their ancestral home.
He opened a mule and horse shop here.
Other mule and horse shops buy mules and horses used by bachelors who have returned from other places, and usually charge them at a discount of 60 to 70% of the original price, so that no one suffers a loss. The discount lost on selling mules and horses is always cheaper than hiring a car.
, the buyer of mules and horses keeps the horses for a few days and then sells them at the original price. The four brothers of the Li family in the west of the city do not buy the horses and mules like this. They always ask the sellers of mules and horses to keep the horses first, saying that they will see if the horses are healthy for a day.
As soon as the seller left, he fed the mules and horses crotons. The next day the seller came and the mules and horses were dying. It was not easy for the seller to take away the mules and horses that could not even stand up. He had to suffer the loss of being mute.
We sold it to them at a price of 20%. There were also returnees who came back to Yicheng and were unwilling to sell to them. They suffered even more. First, they beat and kicked you, and then they said you were a stolen mules and horses. This place in Yicheng
There is not even a county government. How can you reason with me if the emperor is far away...
The other mule and horse shops in Yicheng were either burned down by them, or they secretly poisoned all the mules and horses. If people in Yicheng wanted to go out, they could only go to the Li Ji Mule and Horse Shop in the west of the city to buy mules and horses at high prices. After a few years,
The four brothers of the Li family earned a lot of money. Once they had money, the four bad boys started to use their brains. They would deceive and rob the girl from any family who was pretty. After the girl was snatched, the four brothers waited.
When they got tired of taking turns, they were sold to prostitutes in other places. Maybe the four brothers had done too many bad things, and they were all fifty years old and had no children.
Not long ago, the four brothers of the Li family saw pear blossoms selling and singing in the market, and their eyes suddenly lit up. They were even more relieved when they found out that she was the adopted daughter of the useless Yao Jinsheng. On a rainy day, they were at home and prepared to trick pear blossoms. This time it was the same as usual.
It was ###'s turn to take the lead, and he made up a reason to invite people to sing for his birthday. The birthdays of the four brothers were celebrated several times in a year. Anyway, he used his reputation to thank several people.
The businessmen in Yicheng are making money. Yicheng knew the four brothers of the Li family and secretly called them the four tyrants of Yicheng. The boss, Li Long, would fight whenever they disagreed with each other and was cruel and cruel.
His eldest brother is even more powerful and can kill people. The third brother, Li Bao, is full of bad ideas and can make people die. The fourth brother, Li Biao, is a smiling King of Hell. His face smiles like a flower, but there is a knife behind his back.
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Two days later, the Li family's carriage stopped outside Yao Jinsheng's house. Li An, the manager of the Li family, walked in and said with a smile: "Miss Lihua, today is a good day. Let's hit the road, the second master is still here.
The girl is waiting for you at the house."
Lihua, who was dressed in plain white mourning clothes, said coldly: "I want to tell dad, get out!" Yao Rengui, whose eyes were red, clenched his fists and was about to rush forward to beat Li An. However, Lihua grabbed him and dragged him away.
He was dragged into the back room.
"Brother, you can't twist your arm with your thigh. There are so many of them and you rush forward to die in vain. My father's body is still cold, so I don't want anything to happen to you. Brother, don't worry, I will come back safely." Lihua cried and touched Yao Jinsheng's body.
I held a stick of incense and muttered something silently...
Li An secretly glanced into the inner room and saw Yao Jinsheng's body lying on the door panel. He spat and cursed: "Bad luck." He opened the curtain and went out to the courtyard to wait for Lihua to come out.
When Lihua got up and went out, she quietly hid Yao Rengui's hunting dagger in her sleeve. Yao Rengui went to pick up Lihua's opera outfit and followed Lihua out. When Li An saw Yao Rengui, he shouted: "What are you doing? The second master invited...
Miss Pear Blossom, get out of the way. Come on, pick up the burden for me and let’s go..."