This foreigner's name is Li Fu, and he is the wounded soldier that the old Orion treated eight years ago.
It turned out that Li Fuben was a squad leader of a small warlord in Jiangxi. He was injured in a battle with another warlord in Wushan, and was later rescued by the old Orion.
After he recovered from his injury, he no longer wanted to be a soldier, so he said goodbye to the old hunter and returned to his hometown alone.
Li Fu has been a soldier for seven or eight years, and the military salary sent home is not small. He thinks that the life of his family will be much better than before.
He never thought that when he returned to his hometown village, he would see his shabby thatched hut and his mother who was terminally ill and lying on a broken bed, while his elder brother, sister-in-law and father were nowhere to be seen. .
After asking his neighbors, Li Fu found out that his father and eldest brother had passed away two years ago, and his sister-in-law also ran away and disappeared after his eldest brother died of illness.
But what was the reason? The neighbors were all silent and just said that his father and eldest brother died of the epidemic.
However, Li Fu, who was stunned and stunned by this sudden bad news, did not notice the strangeness of his neighbors and had no time to think about it. Seeing his mother who was as skinny as a stick and tortured by illness and hunger, Li Fu could only suppress his grief and hurriedly carried his mother, who was even lighter than a bundle of firewood, to a town more than ten miles away to see her. Doctor.
Although Li Fu sent most of his military pay back home through a bank, he still had some savings, otherwise he would not have been able to return home so smoothly.
However, he did not expect that his mother could not wait to see the doctor. On the way, her mother woke up and confirmed that she was not in a dream, but really saw her second son. On his back, he sobbed and told Li Fu what happened at home.
Only then did Li Fu realize that his father and eldest brother did not die of illness at all, but were beaten to death.
The problem lies in the military pay he sends home.
As I said before, although the salary of the army of the Republic of China during this period was not high, and they had to go through layers of exploitation as officials, being a soldier was better than the life of children from poor families in the countryside, who had no clothes or enough food to eat. Much more.
As a soldier, at least you can have enough to eat and get some military pay. As long as you don't get killed on the battlefield, you can still save ten or eight oceans in a few years, take it home, and at least buy a few acres of land.
Although there has been a folk saying since ancient times that good men should not serve as soldiers, in this era, becoming a soldier can be regarded as a way to change the poor life of the family.
Li Fu is considered to have a bright mind in the army. He knows that only by living longer can he get more military pay for a longer period of time, so he is very like a thief during the war. He puts life first, not seeking merit but seeking no demerits. With his mentality, he survived the years of warlord fighting, and later even got the position of squad leader.
He had calculated before that the money he had sent home in the past few years would be at least thirty yuan. He did not dare to say that he would build a new house for his family, but he would renovate the old thatched house, buy a few acres of land, and find a wife for himself in the future. enough.
But I didn't expect that someone would still care about him for a mere thirty yuan.
The main reason is that his father, who has suffered all his life, knows that this is his son's life money, and he is reluctant to spend it after receiving the military salary sent back by his son. He just wants to save more and marry his second son in a glamorous way when he comes back. Family affairs.
The eldest son's wife was originally a little girl who was about to starve to death from Henan and was taken in by the family when Li Fu was still at home. Li Fu's parents felt sorry for the little girl whose family had starved to death on the road, and they also had some thoughts, so they took her home and prepared to be a child bride for his elder brother.
The problem lies with this child bride.
When most people are taken in and raised when they are about to starve to death, they will always feel grateful, and they will not have any wrong thoughts.
But this child bride was a different kind. As she grew older, she became more mature. It should be said that Li Fu's family is also a poor family. Although they do not starve every day, when times are bad, it is inevitable to be hungry and cold. They just struggle to survive. Otherwise, Li Fu would not have served as a soldier, licking blood from the edge of a knife.
But despite such difficult living conditions, this child bride still looks presentable, with fair skin and tender skin. The folks in the village were amazed when they saw it, and called Lao Li's family the ancestors who had accumulated good deeds and found the treasure.
And the child bride was praised a lot, and she became a little complacent.
This is nothing. When the child bride was 16 years old, which was also the third year after Li Fu went to serve in the army, the Li family got married to the child bride.
A child bride, as the name suggests, is a daughter-in-law who has been raised by her husband's family. Naturally, she does not need any betrothal gifts or betrothal gifts. As long as she invites a few relatives and neighbors to have a wedding banquet when consummating the marriage, it is considered a marriage. This was also a popular method of getting married during this period among poor families who could not afford the bride price, in order to save money.
On this day, Li Fu's father, in order to show off that his family was a little better off than before, invited a wealthy family member in the village, who was also a distant uncle of the Li family, to have a wedding drink together to celebrate. .
But how could the master of a wealthy family like your poor and happy banquet? Just because the two parties are still somewhat distant relatives, he asked his son to come over to express his gratitude. It was also a great honor for this poor relative.
Who would have thought that Li Fu's father wanted to show off this time, but he had brought a disaster to himself.
The young master of the Li family has had enough food and clothing since he was a child, and he went to a private school in the county town for several years. He looks fair and has a somewhat elegant temperament, but inside he is a frivolous and dissolute playboy.
Although he didn't usually have much contact with the poor Li Fu family, he had already heard that the Li Fu family raised a golden phoenix in a chicken coop, and the child bride he picked up was the most outstanding beauty in the three nearby villages, and he had long wanted to see it.
So, the banquet had just begun, and Young Master Li called for newcomers to toast the elders.
According to the rules at this time, the bride is not allowed to come out to meet people during the banquet. Instead, she waits in the room with her head covered with a red cloth.
But Mr. Li doesn't care about this. He just said that the child bride's consummation does not count as a marriage. She has already been the daughter-in-law of the Li Fu family. It is not a big deal to come out to toast everyone.
Li Fu's father couldn't resist this stalking young master of the Li family. At the same time, he also thought that the distant uncle of the Li family would give him face, so he sent his own son to celebrate and sent tens of yuan in congratulatory gifts. He also wanted to give others Isn’t it about face?
In addition, several good-hearted people who came to visit also started to make noises, so they had to let the child bride, who had become the eldest son's wife, come out to toast everyone a glass of wine.
