In the long history of China, Bao Zheng is widely respected as the "Lord of the Blue Sky" because of his image of not being afraid of power and serving the people wholeheartedly.
With the passage of time, Bao Zheng's descendants still inherit the aspirations of their ancestors.
In today's materialistic society, they still uphold the belief of law-abiding dedication and silently guard the ancient Bao ancestral hall.
However, in this tradition of family solidarity and mutual assistance, there seems to be a figure who stands out from the rest.
In ancient China, celestial phenomena were often seen as harbingers of future events.
One day, thunderstorms and torrential rains were pouring in, and Bao Zheng was born in this world. However, what followed was the fear and rejection of his strange appearance from his family.
The lightning and thunder of his birth seemed to suggest that the child would have an extraordinary fate.
Influenced by feudal superstition, the Bao family regarded Bao Zheng's face as a bad omen and cruelly abandoned him on the side of the road.
At that moment, no one could have imagined what kind of life this abandoned baby would usher in.
Fate seemed to have a different design for Bao Zheng, and his sister-in-law skillfully passed the path.
The sister-in-law felt pity and decided to take the abandoned baby home to raise it. Her kindness seems to have touched the will of heaven, and under the careful care of her sister-in-law, Bao Zheng not only grew up healthily, but also gradually became peaceful.
Although he was a little sluggish as a child, as the years went by, the child's talents gradually became apparent.
When the sister-in-law felt that Bao Zheng had grown up enough to be old, she decided to tell him the true life story.
After much deliberation, she succeeded in finding Bao Zheng's biological parents and confessed everything to them. Faced with the adult Bao Zheng, his biological parents felt guilty and decided to make up for his past mistakes and take him back home.
However, family harmony was not maintained as a result.
Bao Zheng's second brother and sister-in-law were jealous and fearful of the sudden return of the brother, fearing that he would compete for the family property in the future. The second sister-in-law had a bad idea and designed a trap to use Bao Zheng's innocence to guide him to help pick up the items in the well.
When Bao Zheng probed to check the bottom of the well, the second sister-in-law pushed him down the well, hoping to get rid of this potential threat forever.
However, it backfired, and the second sister-in-law's conspiracy failed.
Bao Zheng's accidental fall into a well seems to have triggered his latent intelligence, and from then on, he not only survived, but became smart and witty, and was no longer the dull child.
What's even more amazing is that the fall left a scar on his forehead that resembles a crescent moon. It is rumored that this scar gave Bao Zheng extraordinary insight and became his "third eye" to see through the good and evil in the world.
The story spread quickly from village to village, and so did the talk of Bao Zheng. Some people praise the kindness of the sister-in-law, some people marvel at Bao Zheng's ill-fated fate, and some people mysteriously guess the power behind the crescent scar.
Bao Zheng has cherished the ideal of changing the darkness of officialdom since he was a child, and knows that only through continuous learning can he have the power to change reality.
His efforts were not in vain, and he eventually became a member of the imperial court.
However, his journey didn't stop there. Bao Zheng took it as his duty to be a corrupt official and deeply understand the suffering of the people in the court, and became the "Bao Qingtian" who was widely admired by the people.
However, Bao Zheng's personality charm is not only manifested in asking for the people's lives, but also in his profound filial piety. In view of the advanced age of his parents, he resolutely chose to bid farewell to officialdom and return to his hometown to take care of him until the death of the second elder.
Even after completing the three-year mourning period, he had no intention of setting foot in the imperial court again, but under the enthusiastic persuasion of his fellow villagers, he finally decided to return to officialdom and continue his mission.
Bao Zheng's honesty and spirit of asking for his life for the people have profoundly influenced generations of descendants.
His image of iron-faced, selfless, honest and upright is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and has become a model of justice in the minds of many people. His family motto has been passed down from generation to generation, inspiring future generations: "If future generations commit stolen goods on the way to the office, they will never be allowed to return to their hometowns; After death, they are not allowed to be buried in solemn mausoleums. Not following my aspirations, not my true offspring. ”
Hundreds of years have passed, time has changed, and Bao Zheng's hometown has long since ceased to be prosperous. In the quiet village, the young footsteps are gradually drifting away, leaving only boundless tranquility and deep nostalgia for the past years.
The 35th generation of Bao Zheng, named Bao Xianliang, plays the role of a witness of time, witnessing all this, and his heart is surging with a heavy sense of responsibility.
He knew that he could not stop the flow of time, nor could he make his people give up the opportunities of the outside world. However, he understands that there are some things that will never be destroyed by time, and that is the glory of the family and the inheritance of culture.
So, he made up his mind to stay and guard the ancestral hall of the Bao clan, the spiritual habitat of the people of the Bao clan for hundreds of years.
Day after day, year after year, Pao's life was simple but repeated, as he worked as a cleaner in the town, earning a meager income to make ends meet. Still, he never complained.
No matter the scorching sun or the bitter cold wind, as long as he has time, he will go to the ancestral hall to wipe the dust for the statues of his ancestors, clean the moss on the stone tablets, sweep the cobwebs on the eaves, and carefully care for this sacred land.
Bao Xianliang's life seems to be closely linked to the ancestral hall, and his persistence is not only the respect for his ancestors, but also the inheritance of the family motto.
Although he did not have a son, he firmly believed that as long as the ancestral hall stands, the spirit of the Bao family will never be extinguished. Someday, someone will come back here to continue to protect this legacy.