Six months later, the seven children were back to normal.
Li Mu also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his disabled child regain health.
Eyes full of pride!
"Congratulations, sir!" Sun Mengxi thanked you.
"I don't want to be granted the title of Marquis, but I want peace in the world!" Li Mu said proudly, "Now that these children have grown up, they can be sent to good families to feed them!"
"Sir, don't drive us away!"
"Sir, don't drive us away!"
Immediately, the seven children knelt down on the ground and kowtowed.
Li Mu fell silent and looked at Sun Mengxi aside.
Sun Mengxi said: "Sir, it's better to keep these children and adopt them as adopted sons!"
Poof!
Li Mu complained in his heart, but still said: "I have two daughters and five sons before I get married. This is too much!"
"Sir, if we send them out, they will end up..." Sun Mengxi persuaded.
"Actually, it's not impossible!" Li Mu frowned and said, "It's just a few more chopsticks and a few more bowls. It's just that I can't even take care of myself, and I can't take care of a few children either!"
"Sir, we can take care of ourselves!"
One of the children spoke up.
"right!"
"right!"
The other children also nodded.
"Okay, if you are driving one sheep or herding two sheep, I will accept you!" Li Mu said, standing up and saying with endless majesty: "As a human being, you should abide by loyalty, filial piety, reason, wisdom, and trustworthiness.
What is loyalty? Loyalty to the original intention, which remains unchanged; what is filial piety? I am your foster father, you must respect me!"
"What is principle? It is the principle of heaven, and we must abide by heaven's principles and morality; what is wisdom? You should understand clearly what is small wisdom and what is great wisdom. What is faith? People can't stand without faith. I don't like to talk and just fart.
people!"
With that said, Li Mu looked at the seven children and said, "Do you still want to be my adopted son?"
"Yes! Please help me, sir!"
The seven children said in unison.
Li Mu said: "Very good, to be my adopted son, you must abide by the rules! First, you must not do anything that is harmful to nature; second, you must be united and friendly and cannot hurt each other; third, you must respect me, my adopted father! I hope you will do
In everything you do, you must think clearly: above you must be worthy of God, below you must be worthy of yourself, and in the middle you must be worthy of your father-in-law!"
"If one day I hear that one of you has done something outrageous, my foster father, I won't mind beating you to death with my own hands!"
Li Mu threatened, with murderous intent, like a villain.
Confucius said that only daughters and little men are difficult to raise. Those who are close will not be inferior to them, and those who are far away will be resentful.
Kong Shengren said that it is difficult to support women and children. If you are too close and doting on her, you will become arrogant and lose your sense of proportion; but if you are too distant and ignore her, you will feel that you do not love her anymore.
Resentful.
Looking at Sun Mengxi, a woman, and seven children, I can't help but feel overwhelmed. It doesn't work either too far or too close. If you can't grasp the right balance, it will cause big trouble.
"Yes, sir!"
The seven children said together.
"Hurry up and call your adoptive father?" Sun Mengxi reminded.
"My child, meet your adoptive father!"
"My child, meet your adoptive father!"
Suddenly, all seven children fell to their knees on the ground.
Li Mu looked great, sitting on a chair and accepting their worship, feeling at ease.
Some people say that kindness should be given without any intention of repaying it. In fact, this is a big mistake. Who would show kindness without expecting to repay kindness?
Raising the moral level leads to a decline in moral quality.
Just like Cong Fei helped many out-of-school children, but all of them turned out to be white-eyed wolves. Although those white-eyed wolves are not things, they take other people's help as a matter of course.
But Cong Fei also did something wrong. He said he knows a favor but does not repay it, so who would show kindness?
As the saying goes, if everyone gives a little love, the world will become a beautiful world.
"Nothing can be accomplished without rules. Since you are my adopted son, you cannot embarrass me and must abide by the rules!"
"First, you can't eat before I eat!"
"Second, go to bed early and get up early every day, practice martial arts and study!"
"third,…………"
Li Mu began to set rules and became more and more like a feudal patriarch.
In the previous life, there was an only child, a family of three, even if there were multiple sisters, brothers, etc., there were four people. With fewer people, there were fewer problems. Whether there were rules or not was not a big problem. But now, with seven children and one woman, if
If you don't make rules, there will be chaos.
"Yes, foster father!"
The seven children said in unison.
"Sir, please name a few of your children!" Sun Mengxi reminded.
Li Mu suddenly had a slight headache.
In today's era, most poor families have no names. At most, they are Li Dalang, Li Erlang, Li Sanlang, or Li Fourth Brother. Most of the women are Li Damei, Li Ermei, Li Sanmei, Li Simei, etc.
But Li Mu is a prostitute, so naturally he cannot use numbers instead of names. He must be educated and have a strong personality.
"Gold, wood, water, fire and earth, my father's name is Li Mu, with wood as the root! You should be named after water!" Li Mu said: "Water benefits all things without fighting. Let me think about it..."
"Li Zhen, Li Xiao, Li?, Li Yi, Li Li, Li Zhi, Li Wei!"
After a long time, Li Mu finally named the seven children. The names of the seven children are homophonic to "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and trustworthiness".
I finally gave him face and didn’t call him Ben Jie, or I would have trouble writing my name.
"Thank you to my adoptive father for the name!"
The seven children said in unison.
…………
A few days later, Li Mu had just finished eating.
Sun Mengxi stepped forward and said, "Sir, there is something wrong with Xiaosi!"
The seven children were named according to their age. Xiaosi was the fourth child, named Li Yi.
"What's the problem?" Li Mu asked, "Did you do something wrong?"
"Xiaosi is only six years old. I recently inquired and found out that Xiaosi is a survivor of the Qian family's destruction!" Sun Mengxi said.
Qian family survivor Li Mu fell silent.
The Qian family was wiped out. Li Mu searched for a long time but could not find the culprit. In the end, he had to find the thief Live King of Hell and the Blackwater Gang Li Heishui to take the blame.
Finally, the case was settled. But Li Mu knew that this was a stain on his life.
But he was still unwilling to find the murderer.
In the whole case, everyone in the Qian family died of poisoning. Only three people survived, one was the fourth aunt, the other was Qian Xiucai's daughter-in-law, and Qian Xiucai's son.
In the end, Qian Xiucai's wife was also killed on the way.
Fourth Yi Niang returned to the brothel again; as for Qian Xiucai's son, he disappeared.
"The child's memory is a little fuzzy and some things cannot be explained clearly. I went to the nearby neighbor's house to check and confirmed that he is the son of a scholar from the Qian family!" said Sun Mengxi.
Li Mu said: "Could it be the murderer who sold the Qian family's scholar's son to a black beggar?"
Sun Mengxi said: "That's not true! According to Xiao Si's memory, he just slept for a while, and when he woke up, his mother was missing. Then he was caught by a black beggar, his legs were broken, and he begged on the roadside until he was