Great Qin had a prosperous age

Chapter 641 The Rat in the Toilet (please give me a monthly recommendation ticket!)

Accompanied by the sound of huffing and puffing, the man came down from the ridge and walked to the valley to take shelter from the rain.

The rain was pouring down, hitting my face like needles pricking me.There are tall and stubborn stones on all sides, and there are thorns growing up to the waist. Flowers bloom in the thorn bushes, but each thorn has a small thorn, and if you get close, you will be cut.

Under the forest cover, there are loess ravines, winding and crisscrossing, which can accommodate a person.

When the man saw the ravine, he said to himself:
"The virtuous and dishonest people are just like rats, they are in their own place! Rats in the officials' houses and toilets do not eat enough, and they are frightened by people and dogs when they are close to them. Rats in the barn eat accumulated millet and live under the big veranda, but they do not see the worries of people and dogs. . Now I am like a rat in the toilet, how frightened I am. I think back to when I was a rat in the hamster, how sad I am! But even if I am reduced from the barn to the toilet, I will not change my ambition as a hamster. In this ditch, only the lower-class people are willing to tolerate it. .”

At this point, everyone should understand that this person is Li Si's eldest son Li You.

Let's say that Li You is now assigned to a place like Shu County under the leadership of the Feng family.Shu County is very large and has a large number of people. At that time, various counties and counties in the country moved back and forth, and the people were already mixed. No one thought it was strange that there was an extra family.

It's just that this self-reliant life, soaking in the sun and rain all day long, chopping wood and herding sheep, has already taught Li You to tan his face, dry out his skin, and lose weight to his bones.Whatever etiquette and knowledge I learned in the past are completely useless now.

Li You was tired from walking and looked around in Rugesen. He saw a place under a huge pine tree.So he gave up the good place to take shelter from the wind and rain, and came to sit under the clouds and pine trees.

There are roasted sweet potatoes in the basket behind.It's just that after the heavy rain, the skin is naturally no longer hot.

But after peeling off the skin, the inside is ripe and the yellow flesh enters the belly, making the heart at ease and the mouth sweet.

But I ate too quickly and almost couldn't swallow it, so I had to look for water and opened the bamboo tube containing water. There was no water inside.But he has learned how to fetch water from the mountains.I found some dry branches on the spot and started a fire under the pine tree. Then I borrowed some rainwater from the leaves and started burning like this.

Wearing two straw sandals on our feet, we were naturally too cold on a rainy day to feel anything.

While eating and drinking, Li You didn't know why, tears were streaming down his face.

At this time, he heard the sound of a shepherd's flute on the mountain, melodious and long, like a woman crying.

Li You woke up suddenly. There was someone nearby!

He hurriedly wiped his tears with his clothes, then sat upright, treating the pile of firewood in front of him as the incense burner he used to serve.

But for a while, the rain stopped and the sun showed its face. After a while, the rain on the mountain stopped. He sat here and looked at the rainbow in the sky after the rain, hanging above his head. Li You suddenly smiled. .

His steps became brisk and he went down the mountain singing the newly learned folk songs.

When I got home, I opened the firewood door and heard a yellow dog coming to greet me. The children at home were so hungry that they couldn't eat anything. When they heard him come back, they all squeezed out with pots and pans, but when they saw him Empty hands, one by one ignored him.

Li You sat on the tree stump in the yard. This is his current seat. There are no armrests and no cushions underneath.There was only one yellow dog willing to squat next to him, sticking out his tongue and spinning around.

Li You didn't say a word.

He didn't miss it just now, his little children were all naked.There is only a piece of fabric hanging around the upper body, barely used as clothing.

If they hadn't beaten them before, now they would stand outside the door and scold him when they saw him come back without food.

Then, Li Lu wandered in from the door, holding five sheep in his hand, which was the only property of their family now.

His face was shriveled, and his belly was tightened with a belt.It was when I was young and high-spirited in the early years that I recited "The Analects of Confucius" in front of him in one breath.Now he is silent and silent at every turn.

When he saw his father, he didn't do any etiquette or say hello, as if he had never seen him before.

Li You felt as if he had swallowed a sword in his belly, but he didn't speak.

As the eldest son, Li Lu has nothing to offer now. The wife he married in his early years couldn't bear the hardship, so he decided to remarry and became someone else's concubine.

Li You came to the kitchen.It is said to be a kitchen, but it is a shed built in the open air, with a stove inside.This yard was abandoned by others, and their family occupied it.The yard is narrow because there were only two old men living in the family, but now Li You and his family have moved in.

Li You's biological brothers have parted ways with him and are looking for a living elsewhere.

After all, there are too many people in their family, so many people should be suspicious if they suddenly come to this place together.

The only people who followed Li You at the beginning were his wife, two concubines, eldest son and daughter-in-law, four younger sons, and two daughters.Now there are only one wife, one concubine, one eldest son, two daughters, and two youngest sons.

The other two children and their biological mothers and concubines remarried and went to other families. If they stayed, they would starve to death.

Li You came to the kitchen. His wife was the concubine of the current emperor.What the princess can do, of course, is nothing but eating.Li You still has to serve her.

Sitting in front of the stove, the princess was so hungry that she wanted to eat the dry paste from the bottom of the pot, but she was unwilling to condescend.I just waited for Li You to come back and watched the concubine Li Yuan cook.

The so-called concubine was originally Li You's first wife, whom Li You had married from his own Li family in Jingchu.When he married the princess, he did not abandon his wife and only made her his concubine.

So the eldest son was born to a concubine, but he was also counted as the eldest son. After all, his father had such a high status in front of Ying Zheng at that time, so what he said at the time naturally counted. The eldest son who had been cultivated for many years was still the eldest son.

Let's say that when Li You arrived in the kitchen, the concubine was making porridge, while the princess was choosing vegetables that would be eaten in the porridge soon.

Li Lu knew that his father was in trouble, and now his father was like a lost dog.

Li Lu took the initiative to say:
"Thankfully this is a good year, otherwise we would be as hungry as before."

The days in the past few years were called hardship. Who would have thought that the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed by his father would fall on him a few years later? Li You was fed up with this suffering.His father also advocated the design of the huge mausoleum, but he did not expect that not long after, his family would end up living in the Lishan Imperial Mausoleum to repair the tomb.

Everyone listened and was silent.

[I wrote these two chapters because I had this feeling when I was young. Today I will talk specifically about it. I hope all book friends will work hard to improve themselves, don’t forget their roots, and strive to live a better life.It is not terrible to know that you live in the toilet. The important thing is to work hard to live in the warehouse.This does not mean that everyone should go to the warehouse to be a rat like Li Si, but to get rid of disease, hardship, inferiority, and pain.Meeting spiritual needs is the most important thing.If any inappropriate words or deeds are offensive, please forgive me. 】

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