Chapter 4 happy but short childhood

During Li Lianying's childhood, his family had already risen, and he basically spent his childhood in a well-to-do family, rather than from a miserable background.The reason why people say that he came from a poor family may be fabricated by someone based on the experience of ordinary eunuchs. Since the Li family moved to Dacheng, they have gone through more than 400 years of vicissitudes.By the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, it had multiplied into a large family of fifty or sixty families.However, due to various reasons such as famine and war, the family also began to have conflicts and gradually divided.At this time, the Li family was roughly divided into four factions, and the Li Lianying family belonged to the descendants of the fourth faction.After the great division of the family during the Xianfeng period, some members of the Li family won the competition and took the opportunity to make a fortune and buy houses and land;

Although Li Lianying's father, Li Yu, was not the beneficiary of this great division, at least the result was not bad. In addition, he already had some savings, so he took advantage of the time when some clansmen left their homes and fled to other places, and bought a large number of them at low prices. their house land.Within a few years, he purchased sixty or seventy acres of land, tied a cart, built more than a dozen houses, and even hired some short-term laborers during the busy farming season to take care of all the work in the fields.Li Yu's life is getting more and more prosperous when others are in trouble.Li Yu and his wife believed that this was a blessing from the gods, so they often went to the big temple in the west of the village to offer incense, and the clay tires became their devout idols.

Li Yu has always taught his children very strictly, and he is full of hope for them, hoping that some of them can inherit the craftsmanship and property of the Li family.Li Lianying was naughty and smarter than children of the same age since she was a child. When she was seven or eight years old, she followed her parents and did some work within her ability.In front of his mother, he always appears to be more diligent and capable than his elder brother. He works hard, is quick and well-behaved, and can clean the fur that his father has cooked, comb it smooth and smooth, and fold it neatly. He is the inheritance of the family business. It is a good seedling, so it is very popular with parents.Seeing that he was smart, his mother decided that he was a good material for studying, so she advocated letting him study, hoping to gain fame and wealth in the future, get promoted and make a fortune, and shine on the family.His father, Li Yu, advocated letting him learn the craft, inherit his own mantle, and keep the Li family's job.The couple even quarreled over this matter.

Li Lianying also has two younger brothers, and taking care of the younger brother is his main task.But Li Lianying is a child after all, it is inevitable to be playful, but she always wants to please her mother. In order to make her happy, she came up with a way: whenever she played games with the children, she tied her little brother to herself with cloth strips. on the back. Once, he played with the children and was very involved in the game. His younger brother fell asleep on his back and didn't know it. His head was dangling back and forth on Li Lianying's back as Li Lianying was bouncing around. It made people feel sad .Just when my mother saw it, she felt that Li Lianying was too sensible, and said to him distressedly: When my brother is gone, you don't have to carry him.My mother thought that Li Lianying would be very happy, but he said: "When he leaves, you will give me a younger brother again."All the people present were amused by him.

Li Lianying is not only smart, but also courageous.When he was a child, he was very good at climbing trees, and other children could not match him.He often climbs to the big tree to pick out crow and magpie eggs, and other partners are very envious of his ability.He never suffers when playing with his friends.Only he takes advantage of it, not his disadvantages.He was always willing to pretend first to be the slave and then the master when playing horse games.In this way, he can strike late and take advantage of the initiative.And he is very serious about making games. When he was a slave, he would kneel on the ground obediently and obediently, let the person pretending to be the master ride on his back, and earnestly perform the duties of a slave; when it was his turn to pretend to be the master, He always holds a whip made of wicker in his hand, while whipping the slave's buttocks constantly, he shouts in a majestic and pompous manner: "The master is here!"Master is here!Get out of the way!Clear the way!In fact, it can also be seen from here why he will be so reused by Cixi in the palace and respected by the eunuchs and maids in the palace. Seriously perform his duties, grasp his own position, and be a slave. Put out the score of the master!

Ziya River nurtures Dacheng County and is the mother river of people living in this area.In summer, when Li Lianying and her friends take a bath in the river, they always smear their faces with mud and make all kinds of grimaces.When it made everyone laugh, Li Lianying took the opportunity to sneak up on her friends, making them hard to guard against.At that time, he can show a lot of scheming. Li Lianying has been loved by his grandmother since he was a child. He often sleeps with his grandmother and listens to his grandmother telling him stories while lying in bed.His grandmother was a typical rural woman who believed in ghosts and gods in the feudal period. She always liked to tell Li Lianying some magical stories, and Li Lianying often fell asleep in these magical stories.

Once, his grandmother told him a real character story for the first time: During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Dongchen Village, Dacheng County had a left servant of the military department, surnamed Li Mingsong, who guarded Liaoyang in his early years and made many military exploits. A stone archway was built, facing east to west, engraved with Li Songfang, the left servant of the Ministry of War, for future generations to look up to (this archway was destroyed in 1958), and people call him Li Dutang. One winter, Li Song went to the Town God's Temple to play. Just after the heavy snow fell, Li Song made a snowball and put it on the altar of the City God. Grandpa's head to pay.In the spring of the next year, the weather became warmer, and the City God couldn't stand it any longer, so he entrusted Li Song's teacher with a dream one night, begging him to tell Li Song quickly to come to the temple to get his snowball, otherwise I really can't stand it anymore.When the teacher woke up, the scene in the dream came alive. He was very puzzled and felt very strange.

The next morning, when Li Song came to the school, the teacher asked Li Song if he had played around in the Town God's Temple. Li Song couldn't remember it for a while, so he said no.The teacher said: "Think about it carefully, what happened to the snowball in the Town God's Temple?"When Teacher Li Songjing mentioned it, he suddenly thought of it, and said: Last winter, the students went to the Temple of the City God to play once, and it happened that it was snowing heavily, so they made a snowball and put it on the altar table, and asked the Lord of the City God to watch it for me.Mr. said: You hurry up!It's such a hot weather, the City God can't stand it for you.Li Song quickly ran into the temple, and sure enough, there was still water stains and a snowball the size of an apricot pit on the altar table.Li Song said mischievously: Why should you take such a trivial matter so seriously.As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a gust of wind blowing, and the snowball turned into a ball of gas and was blown away.After the teacher knew the cause and effect of this incident, he believed that Li Song must be rich and powerful in the future, so he taught Li Song seriously from then on.Kung Fu pays off, Li Song passed the martial arts examination in the Wanli period, and sealed off the frontier to guard Liaoyang.Later, he defeated the invading Jin soldiers and became the left servant of the Ministry of War.

Li Lianying usually fell asleep after listening to the story, but that day he listened to it so much that he lost sleepiness. After listening to it, he asked his grandmother Li Song why he was not afraid of the City God.His grandmother told him: If a person has courage, he will have God's will, and if he has God's will, he will have an official position.Li Song was talented and courageous, and he became a high-ranking official later. Li Lianying was deeply attracted by this story, and he insisted on letting his grandmother see him as God's will.His grandmother told him: How much talent a person has in life is determined by fate. The emperor is the most talented, so he is called the son of heaven, and the talents of ordinary people are always inferior to the emperor.Although Li Lianying didn't quite understand what her grandmother said, she firmly believed in a belief: as long as a person has the courage, he can become an official, and the more courageous the more official.

Not only that, but his grandmother also told him the story of Li Yi, another famous eunuch in his hometown.Since Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty moved his capital to Beijing, among the Limin people in Dacheng County, many of them became eunuchs.One is that it is close to Beijing, and the other is that it is forced by life.Dacheng County produced many powerful eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, among which Li Yi was the most influential and powerful.Li Yi is from Dalibei Village, Dacheng County.In the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs monopolized power, and Li Yi assisted the government. He was favored by the emperor, and his power overshadowed the sky for a while.

One year, he privately built a house with carved beams and painted buildings, which was magnificent and attracted many people's attention.Because he usually offended some people, someone took the opportunity to read a copy of him in front of the emperor, saying that he built the Golden Temple privately at home with the intention of rebelling.The emperor was dubious, so he secretly sent someone to investigate.Li Yi's hands and eyes were open to the sky, and he soon got wind of it, knowing that something was wrong.In his haste, he turned the house into a temple, and carved many Buddha statues, filled with incense inside and out.In addition, he secretly bribed the officials who came to investigate and let them report to the emperor that he was doing good deeds by building Buddhist temples.After the emperor learned about it, he not only dispelled his doubts, but also rewarded him.In this way, no one dared to provoke him. Many people in his hometown voted for him as an official.People in Dacheng County want to be an official, look for Li Yi, and want to make a fortune. The song of going to Beijing has been circulated for many years, which shows its great influence. Under the influence of her grandmother, Li Lianying remembered all the legendary characters in her young heart, regarded them as her role models, and secretly vowed to become the envy of the people in her hometown.And his grandmother was the person he trusted the most in childhood and an important person who influenced his outlook on life. He has always been grateful to her. In Li Lianying's life, he only stayed in his hometown for eight years, and spent his childhood. When his childhood life just started, he went to Beijing to purify himself and enter the palace, and began his legendary life.