There is a lonely old man in Daping Village, named Wang Liben, in the early years he was also a personable young man, but an accident made him a lame, and his heart was also affected. Originally, he also had a fiancée who was in love with each other, but he didn't expect that after his accident, the woman was unwilling to marry him, and even seeing each other seemed to kill her. 
Since then, he has always been single, even if there is an aunt in the village who wants to help him introduce, he also flatly refuses, although his father and mother want him to marry a wife and pass on the family lineage, but every time someone talks about it, Wang Liben will be gloomy for a long time, so he never dares to mention it again, and let him go. After his father and mother died one after another, he was left alone in the whole family, and sometimes he felt lonely, but at this time he was not young anymore, and it was difficult to marry another one. Wang Liben's father used to be a carpenter and saved a lot of money for him, so his life alone is not bad, and he is considered the best in the village. On this day, when he went to the town on an errand, he saw a little beggar being chased after him, as if because he was begging from someone, who thought he was too dirty, and not only did not give him anything, but also scolded him and asked his family to drive him away. Wang Li didn't want to be nosy, but the beggar ran straight to him and begged him to save his life, so he had to help him confess to the man, and after seeing the man let the beggar go, he wanted to leave, but he didn't expect the beggar to be entangled with him. The beggar said, "You look like a good person, do well, give me something to eat, I haven't eaten for many days, and I can't live if I don't eat something." Wang Liben was a little upset at first, he was a person who was afraid of trouble, and he was afraid that he would keep pestering him, so he spoke out to help him, but he didn't expect to be entangled. But the beggar was indeed pitiful, and looking at his yellow-skinned appearance, Wang Liben felt pity. 
So he took out a few copper plates and handed them to him: "Take it and buy a steamed bun, I can't help you too much, I'm like this myself." The beggar was a grateful man, he took the copper plate with both hands, and said, "Thank you for saving your life, good people have good rewards, and you will be blessed in the future." After saying that, he was about to leave, Wang Liben listened to his words, but he was a little surprised, he thought he would be too little, but he didn't expect that he was still a person who knew how to be content. After thinking about it, he stopped the beggar and asked, "Are you a ** person?".What about parents and brothers?Why did you become a beggar?When the beggar saw his benefactor asking, he didn't hide anything, he replied: "My name is Liu Shuyan, I am six years old this year, my home is quite far away from here, I came here in order to escape the famine, my father and mother are no longer there, and there are no brothers and sisters, I can survive until now, it is also lucky, it is estimated that it will not be long before I will go to reunite with my father and mother." After listening to him, Wang Liben suddenly had an idea in his heart, and he said: "I am the only one in my family, and I have no children, are you willing to be a child for me?"Not to mention anything else, you can still afford to eat a full meal. Liu Shuyan listened, his eyes lit up instantly, who would want to die if he could live, he quickly knelt down and said: "In the future, you will be my father, I will treat you as my father, you can tell me to do the work you can't do, and when you are old and want to go, I can also carry you." ”
Wang Liben listened to his words like a little adult, and felt very warm in his heart, in the future, he will no longer be a lonely old man, he will also be accompanied, and he will no longer have to worry about dying at home, no one will know. In this way, he took Liu Shuyan back to Daping Village, and many people in the village persuaded him at that time: "This child is so old, and he doesn't know his character, don't lead the wolf into the house, and when the time comes, you will cheat all the money in your family, how can you live, in my opinion, it is better to raise a newborn doll, and the feelings are deeper." Wang Liben is not stupid, he has thought about these, but with his physical condition, he really can't take care of a newborn doll, fortunately, Liu Shuyan did not disappoint him, he is a child with a good character, and he is also very hardworking. Slowly, Wang Liben also accepted him from his heart and regarded him as his own child, he saw that Liu Shuyan sometimes spoke in a crepe, so he asked: "Shuyan, when you were in your hometown, did you go to school?"Liu Shuyan said honestly: "My family conditions are not good, I have never entered the school, but at that time there was a school in our village, when there was nothing to do, I would go to school by the window, over time, the master also knew about my existence, he took pity on my love of reading, and would guide me one or two, so I would have some things." Wang Liben was a little surprised, he asked: "Since you like to go to school, can I send you to school?"”
Liu Shuyan was a little flattered, thinking about Wang Liben's situation, he said again: "Dad, I'm not going to school anymore, I'll take care of you at home, don't you often say that your legs hurt recently?"I can still pinch your legs at home. Wang Liben listened, and said with relief: "Silly boy, Dad knows that you are a filial person, if you stay in this village all the time, you can only be a mud leg in the future, but if you study hard, you will be more productive in the future, and Dad can also follow you to enjoy Qingfu, so it was decided, you will go to the school tomorrow, sooner rather than later." Liu Shuyan felt that he was the greatest luck to be like now, with the warmth of home, and he never thought that he could enter the school, and he was very moved. Because there is no school in Daping Village, the nearest school is in the town, and the town is a little far away from Daping Village, so he lives in the school and can go home once every five days. He knew that Wang Liben had no ability to make money, and all the current expenses were saved by his father before, so after he was busy with his homework, he would go to the bookstore to do odd jobs to subsidize the family. A few years later, Liu Shuyan, like Wang Liben at the beginning, grew into a handsome son, and because he was very knowledgeable, he was very popular with women, and many classmates in the school wanted to introduce their sister to him, so Liu Shuyan also had a headache, he now only thinks about getting ahead, and he has not planned to marry for the time being. 
On this day, a classmate named Zhao Wanda found him and said to him: "Shuyan, don't you always help in the bookstore?"My dad also happens to be running a bookstore, why don't you go directly to his shop to help, recently his bookstore has come with a lot of new books, some of which seem to be related to scientific research, you can also read it. Liu Shuyan knew that this Zhao Wanda, his father was the shopkeeper of a bookstore, and the bookstore seemed to be the largest in the town, but it was a little far away from the school, so he didn't think about it at the time, and finally chose to help in a small bookstore near the school. Hearing Zhao Wanda talk about the book about the scientific examination, Liu Shuyan was instantly moved, and he asked, "Can it be done?"Can I go in and help?Zhao Wanda listened, smiled proudly, and said: "You should know that my father is the shopkeeper of that bookstore, as long as he says a word, it is not easy for you to go in." Liu Shuyan felt a little strange, although Zhao Wanda and him were classmates, the intersection between the two was very little, and they usually met just nodding their heads, why was he suddenly so enthusiastic?But what he said was too big, Liu Shuyan said in his heart: Let's go and see it, if he has any purpose, he can't accept it, it's a big deal. When Liu Shuyan went to the bookstore, Zhao Wanda's father was very polite, he said: "Liu Gongzi is really a talent, Wanda always mentioned you to me, saying that you were judged by the master to be a famous talent, now it seems that this is true." ”
Liu Shuyan heard this, and hurriedly hugged his fists at him and said: "The shopkeeper has praised it, and the master will only say that just to encourage everyone." After hearing this, the shopkeeper Zhao was more satisfied, talented and not pampered and arrogant people, will go further, he introduced Liu Shuyan to what he needs to do every day, and said: "Liu Gongzi, you help in my bookstore, when there are no guests, which book do you want to read, just read it." After Liu Shuyan thanked him, he got busy in the bookstore. The next day, there was also a woman who appeared in the bookstore at the same time as him, she said that she was the daughter of the shopkeeper Zhao, called Zhao Ximei, and she would also come to the bookstore to help when she was fine. Liu Shuyan didn't think much about it, this era did not require women who were not out of the cabinet to not show their heads, so many women came out to live, and Zhao Ximei was able to help in the bookstore, which was a good thing. That Zhao Ximei seems to have a good impression of Liu Shuyan, and every time she deliberately finds some questions to ask Liu Shuyan, and Liu Shuyan will patiently help her answer. He felt that Zhao Ximei was very considerate, knowing that his family's conditions were not good, and sometimes he would even cook some food for him, saying that it was brought to him, but in fact, it was just a change of law for him, and he still knew this. 
Shopkeeper Zhao saw that the two of them often looked at each other, and knew that the time was ripe, so he said to Liu Shuyan: "What does Liu Gongzi think of my sister?"She's already married, and it's time to get married, I think she seems to be very different from you, I think she likes you, if you also have feelings for her, why don't you two get married first. After Liu Shuyan went back and told Wang Liben about it, Wang Liben was very happy, he said: "This is a great thing, with his family's funding, you will definitely be able to go further." Liu Shuyan didn't think about it so much, he didn't want to get married before, and he didn't meet someone who made him excited, but now that he has met it, he also feels that he can still set a marriage first, and then marry her in the door. On this day, when Liu Shuyan was about to go to the bookstore to talk to Zhao's shopkeeper about this, he killed a masked man halfway, didn't say anything, and beat Liu Shuyan wildly. When Liu Shuyan woke up from his coma, he found that he had been sent to the hospital by well-wishers, but Na Langzhong told him a news that made him crazy, his right hand could no longer write, which means that his desire to get ahead by reading and being on the list in the scientific examination was in vain. What made him even more disheartened was that after the Zhao family learned about his situation, they didn't mention the matter of letting him marry Zhao Ximei, and said that his hand was injured, and he was afraid that he would not be able to do the job of the bookstore in the future, so he would not have to go again in the future. 
Liu Shuyan thought that all this was the meaning of Zhao's shopkeeper, and when he thought about going to Liu Ximei, people directly refused to admit those things in the past, and made fun of him: "Just because you are a useless waste, you still want to marry me, it's really whimsical, you still have to be self-aware." Poor Liu Shuyan always thought that he and Zhao Ximei were true love, but he didn't expect that people just took a fancy to his future, no wonder Zhao shopkeeper has always said that he is married, not directly married. Thinking of Liu Shuyan's dedication over the years, seeing that he suddenly looked like an eggplant beaten by frost, and no longer had the spirit of the past, Wang Liben said distressedly: "Shuyan, people say that officialdom is like a battlefield, it can be seen that officialdom is not so easy to mix. That Zhao family girl is such a person, if it weren't for this incident, we wouldn't be able to see her clearly, if we marry her back, what happens after that, if she does this again, it will be even more difficult to deal with, this is also good, it's a big deal to be a farmer in the future, and she won't starve to death. It's just that I don't know who it is, my heart is so vicious, I know that you are a scholar, and you actually destroyed your right hand, if the yamen can find out who did it, I will fight this old life, and I want to make him look good. ”
Liu Shuyan couldn't guess who it was at all, he had such a big prejudice against him, he didn't want his life, he just wanted to ruin him, he has always been a cautious and cautious person in the school, never embarrassed by others, he shouldn't offend people. Fortunately, Liu Shuyan has always been an optimistic person, he quickly figured it out, from almost starving to death at the beginning, to now even going to school for so many years, his life is already very good, he can't complain about the sky, let's take one step at a time. The night he figured it out, just as he was drowsy, a voice suddenly sounded in his room, and when he sat up to check it, he was startled when he found that there was an extra snake in the room. After his expression recovered, the snake suddenly turned into an old man, he looked at Liu Shuyan and said, "Little boy, do you still remember me?"Liu Shuyan has always had a good memory, he looked at the old man and exclaimed, "It's you?"It turned out that when Liu Shuyan was still a beggar, one day the weather was very cold, he was in a bush to avoid the cold, and saw a snake on the side, I don't know how long it had been frozen, no matter how much it didn't respond, he immediately felt pity, so he put the snake in his clothes and used his body temperature to help him recover. 
When he fell asleep in a daze, and when he woke up again, the snake in his clothes was gone, but there was an old gentleman sitting beside him, which was the one in front of him, at that time he thought he was an old gentleman of human beings, he said thank you to Liu Shuyan, and left, Liu Shuyan still felt inexplicable at that time, and now that he thinks about it, he is the snake. The old man obviously remembered when he saw him, and said: "At that time, it was really thanks to the little boy, otherwise the old decay would be over, and now you are in trouble, I have to help you." As he spoke, a white light suddenly appeared in his hand, and the light seemed to have an autonomous consciousness, and suddenly broke away from his hand, drifting towards Liu Shuyan's right hand, and kept rotating around his hand, and when the light disappeared, the old gentleman said: "You move your hand to see if it has recovered?"When Liu Shuyan heard this, he quickly raised his right hand to check it, originally his hand couldn't move at all, but now it was as flexible as before, he quickly picked up the pen again, wrote a few words, and found that his hand was really back to the same as before. After being excited, he immediately thanked the old gentleman: "Thank you sir for your help, now I can conduct scientific research again." After the old gentleman finished repaying the kindness, he left, Wang Liben was also very happy when he learned about it, he said: "I do good deeds, I have such a kind and filial son like you, you do good deeds, get such a big opportunity, it seems that there is really a good reward." Liu Shuyan returned to the school, the Zhao family soon knew, this day came to Liu Shuyan's home, from a distance he saw Zhao Ximei wandering at the door of his house, after seeing him, she hurriedly ran forward, hugged him and said, "I'm here to live with you." ”
It turned out that after the shopkeeper Zhao knew that Liu Shuyan was good, he felt that he must have had a great opportunity, such a person would definitely have a bright future in the future, and he had to be enveloped in everything he said, so that Zhao Ximei appeared here. But now that Liu Shuyan has seen the faces of the Zhao family, how could he still accept Zhao Ximei, he pushed her away and said: "You still have to be self-aware, I am not worthy of Miss Zhao, please leave by yourself, I just went home, I am a little tired, so I won't send it." After another period of time, the yamen found out the person who killed Liu Shuyan, it turned out that he was Zhao Ximei's admirer, knowing that the Zhao family had taken a fancy to Liu Shuyan's future, so Zhao Ximei deliberately approached him, so he abolished his right hand, thinking that without Liu Shuyan, he would have a chance, but he didn't expect the Zhao family to take a fancy to him at all. After Liu Shuyan learned about this, he felt a little remorseful in his heart, for such a woman who was greedy for power, he almost ruined his life, but fortunately, the final result was good. A few years later, Liu Shuyan really went to high school, married a good wife and mother, and took Wang Liben over and lived a happy life. And the Zhao family's face soon spread in the town, becoming a rat crossing the street, the owner of the bookstore was afraid that Zhao's shopkeeper would affect the business, so he directly dismissed him, although Zhao Ximei is a generation of beauty, no one wants to marry her.