Li Changsheng from Fude Village walked anxiously outside the house with clothes in hand.
The midwife in the house shouted, "Hard, hard." ”
After a while, the midwife's shout came from the house again: "Changsheng, the child's feet come out first, your daughter-in-law has a difficult birth, if you can only live one, keep the big or the small?"”
Li Changsheng is a carpenter in Fude Village, his father died early, and now he is the only one left.
When he was six years old, he went to the mountains with his father to chop wood, and accidentally fell into the hunter's trap and stepped on the trap, and when his father found him, he was unconscious.
In the end, the man was rescued, but his right leg was left with a lifelong disability. His family was not wealthy, and because of his physical defects, none of the girls in the village wanted to marry him to live a hard life.
When he was thirty years old, he met his current wife, Zhou, a woman who fled the famine, and she did not dislike Li Changsheng's poverty and physical defects, and married him.
Over the years, it was Zhou who made him feel the warmth of home, so when the midwife asked him whether he was big or small, he said without hesitation: "You must keep big." ”
Half an hour later, the sound of a baby crying could be heard in the house. The midwife came out of the house with the child in her arms and said, "Changsheng, my daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy for you, she is gone, and I have done my best." ”
Li Changsheng immediately rushed into the house and looked at his wife, who had passed away on the bed with a pale face, and suddenly felt sad, feeling that there was no point in living in the future, so he crashed into the wall and went with the Zhou family.
The midwife looked at the child in her hand and didn't know what to do. She rolled her eyes and suddenly thought of Xu Gensheng, a woodcutter in the village.
Xu Gensheng is now in his forties and has not had children since he married his wife Zhu.
finally gave birth to a baby girl last month, and the old couple was happy, but who knew that they died before the full moon, and since then, Zhu has been washing his face with tears all day long.
The midwife thought to herself: "Why don't you be a good person today and give this child to the Xu family to raise." So, he walked to Xu's house with the child in his arms.
When she arrived at Xu's house, when she explained her intentions, Zhu saw the chubby baby boy, and her heart blossomed, and she immediately agreed. Xu Gensheng also likes this child very much, and specially found someone to name him, Xu Tao.
The Xu family and his wife love Xu Tao very much, and they are afraid of falling in their hands, and they are afraid of melting in their mouths. Whatever is good, give him food first, after Xu Tao can speak, he screams from his father on the left and a mother on the right, calling the old couple as sweet as honey in his heart.
In the blink of an eye, Xu Tao was nine years old. On this day, he played with a few friends and laughed together. At this time, Tian Yongxin, the son of the chief of security, came over and kicked their stones everywhere.
Tian Yongxin is just nine years old this year, relying on his father is the chief security officer to grab other children's toys everywhere, those parents dare not speak out, only let their children see him and stay away, so Tian Yongxin has no friends in the village.
Xu Tao saw that his partners' stones were kicked everywhere, and he was angry, so he grabbed Tian Yongxin's collar and slapped him, Tian Yongxin had never been so wronged when he was so big, and he reached out and scuffled with Xu Tao.
But because Xu Tao often helped his father chop wood, he trained his muscles at a young age.
Tian Yongxin was his opponent, he was beaten in three or two strokes and lay on the ground with a blue nose and swollen face, he finally stood up and cried: "You wild child who killed my father, wait for me." With that, he ran home.
After Xu Tao got home, he asked: "Father, some people say that I killed my father and mother, am I your own child?"“
Father Xu saw that the child was older, and he should no longer hide it. So he told his life story.
After hearing this, Xu Tao knelt down in front of Xu's father and said: "Thank you for the grace of rebirth from my father, in my heart, you and my mother will always be my biological parents in this life." “
Xu's father and Xu's mother were very moved after hearing this, and the family cried with joy and hugged each other tightly.
At this point, the door was kicked open. Tian Yongxin took his father to the house angrily.
Bao Changtian Dafu said loudly: "Look at the good things your Xu Tao has done, beat my family Yong'er like this, if you don't give me an explanation today, I won't give up." ”
Xu Tao immediately said, "It was he who kicked off our stones first." ”
Father Xu immediately said: "Elder Bao, I'm really sorry, it's a child who is ignorant, I apologize to you here." ”
Tian Yongxin roared: "I want Xu Tao to kneel down and apologize to me." ”
Father Xu said cautiously: "The man has ** under his knees, I think we can't do this kneeling thing, please do more things, and you can agree to the rest." ”
The chief of the security officer, Tian Dafu, opened his mouth and said: "Xu Tao beat my son like this, we have to recuperate from our injuries, plus the nutrition fee will compensate us for ten taels of silver." ”
Ten taels of silver is a lot of money for the Xu family, but in order to prevent Xu Tao from kneeling to others, Xu's father scraped together to prepare the silver.
Tian Yongxin had to ask Xu Tao to kneel, and Xu Dafu didn't want to make trouble anymore after receiving the silver, so he pressed Tian Yongxin down, and after that, the seeds of hatred germinated in Tian Yongxin's heart.
Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, Xu's father went to the mountains to chop firewood as usual, Xu Tao went home after selling firewood and found that his father had not come back yet, and was about to go out to look for it, when he saw Uncle Liu next door running in a hurry.
Uncle Liu shouted as he ran: "Xu Tao, it's not good, your father fell from the mountain, it's not good." ”
Xu Tao found his father under the leadership of Uncle Liu, and at this time, Xu's father had stopped breathing.
After Xu's mother learned about it, she was already in poor health, and because of her excessive sadness, she followed in the footsteps of Xu's father.
As soon as Xu Tao buried his parents, Tian Yongxin brought many villagers to his house.
Tian Yongxin said with an evil smile: "Folks, look at him, he is an ominous person, he killed his parents twice, we can't tolerate such a person here, don't you say?"”
These people are Tian Yongxin's lackeys, and when they heard him say this, they immediately chimed in: "Get out of our village quickly, this is not the place you should stay." ”
Most of the people in the village sympathized with Xu Tao, but they didn't dare to speak out under Tian Yongxin's obscenity.
Xu Tao felt that if he continued to stay here, they would only come to find trouble twice in three days, and this would not be a good time, and it was very likely that other villagers would be affected.
He didn't say a word, packed up his things and left the village, and came to Liuyan Town to rent a farmhouse, even if he settled down.
A year passed in a blink of an eye, and on this day, he was chopping wood and had just entered the door, when he saw a woman hurrying from a distance.
The woman ran to Xu Tao and knelt in front of him with a "plop": "Childe, the wicked people in the back want to arrest me for some reason, please save me."
After speaking, he looked at Xu Tao with pleading eyes, Xu Tao was already upright and liked to help others, not to mention that he was a weak woman in front of him.
He immediately took the woman into the house and hid her in a water tank. As soon as he walked out of the house, he was greeted by three strong men with meaty faces, and the strong men led by him asked, "Hey, boy, have you seen a woman passing by here?"”
Xu Tao said respectfully: "A few masters, I saw her hurrying to the west. Several strong men immediately chased after them to the west. After seeing that they were far away, Xu Tao returned to the house.
In the woman's crying, I knew that her name was Zhong Mei, because the women in the town have always disappeared inexplicably recently, which makes people panic, and they usually don't dare to go out.
Today, her mother was infected with a cold, and she had no choice but to ask her neighbor Su Lan to go out and buy medicine for her mother. But on the way home, he met three strong men, and Su Lan was arrested by them in order to protect herself.
Now, I don't know where Su Lan isIs it dead or alive?After hearing this, Xu Tao asked Zhong Mei to think carefully about whether there were any special people and things in the town recently.
Zhong Mei pondered for a moment and then said: "Recently, a large mansion appeared on the outskirts of the town, and I heard that many rich people like to go there, and ordinary people can't go there, so I don't know what kind of place it is. “
After hearing this, Xu Tao said to Zhong Mei: "You just stay here temporarily, I will go over tonight." ”
It was dark for a long time before Xu Tao found the house that Zhong Mei said, which was brightly lit and sang and danced. It's supposed to be a meeting place for the rich, and there's nothing special about it.
He went around to the back of the house to see what was going on, but he heard the faint cry of a woman from inside, and he immediately became vigilant and quickly climbed to the window outside the wall.
I saw a strong man in the house holding a leather whip in his hand, and three women lying on the ground, all of whom were beaten and bruised.
Seeing that they didn't dare to move, the strong man threw down a sentence: "I will think about you for a day, if you don't beat you to death with a stick", he slammed the door and left.
After the strong man left, Xu Tao turned into the room and immediately said, "Don't make a sound, I'm here to save you." “
He took the sheets from the bed in the room, tore them in two, and let the three women slide down the window. After the women all went down, he also jumped out of the window.
He took the woman to his home, Zhong Mei saw it and walked over to hug the woman in yellow, and said excitedly: "Su Lan, I finally found you, who beat you like this?"”
Su Lan said everything tremblingly:
It turned out that the owner of the house on the edge of the town was called Tian Yongxin, and he raised more than ten strong men under his command. Every day, they would look for women on the edge of town who had gone out alone, and then snatch them into the house.
The house is no different from ordinary homes during the day, but when night falls, the town's wealthy people flock here to have fun.
The purity of these captured women is incomparable to those dusty women. The rich are addicted to this fresh pleasure.
In this seemingly peaceful house, the night is filled with endless sorrow and fear, as if there is an invisible claw in the darkness, ready to drag these innocent women into the abyss.
If these women do not comply, they will be punished with starvation and beatings. Some people can't bear this kind of pain and can only be forced to become the playthings of the rich.
In the worst case, they were directly drugged and slaughtered. Many women are drugged, and when they wake up, they can't accept being ruined and choose to commit suicide.
I'm glad I was found early, otherwise.
At this point, she couldn't stop crying.
When Xu Tao heard about Tian Yongxin, his heart was furious, like a flame. He deeply felt that Tian Yongxin was hopelessly bad. In the early morning of the next day, Xu Tao went to the county government to beat the drum and voice his grievances with righteous indignation.
When the county magistrate heard the news, he immediately dispatched capable men to Tian Yongxin's mansion that night and arrested him smoothly.
In front of human and physical evidence, Tian Yongxin could not quibble and calmly confessed his crime. To mitigate his guilt, one of his brawny men reveals a secret.
Back then, Xu Tao's father did not die due to an accident, but Tian Yongxin's conspiracy. He sent his younger brother to quietly follow Father Xu, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to push him off the cliff.
The purpose is to avenge the humiliation of kneeling at the age of nine. He forced Xu Tao to kneel down and apologize, and finally resolved the conflict with Xu's father's ten taels of silver.
However, this incident planted a deep resentment in his heart, and he was never able to let go. So, he ruthlessly killed Xu's father to relieve the hatred in his heart.
When Xu Tao heard this, he shouted violently, roared like a wild lion and rushed forward, punching and kicking him, but the county magistrate pretended to turn a blind eye.
It wasn't until Tian Yongxin was beaten to the death that the county order pronounced the verdict: "Tian Yongxin harmed others and robbed people's daughters, the crime is unforgivable, and he will be executed immediately!""Bao Changtian Daifuku was sent to the army because of the fish and meat township.
Xu Tao is chivalrous and genuine, and was appointed by the county to be the chief of Fude Village.
After Xu Tao returned to his hometown, his first priority was to go to his parents' graves to pay respects.
He knelt on his knees, folded his hands, and said affectionately: "Daddy, the unfilial son has avenged you." Now that the enemy has been prostrateged, may your souls in heaven rest in peace.