Poor Family

  Chapter 9 Reporting Complaints Directly (Part 2)

'when! when! when! '

  Someone was carrying a gong and beating desperately on the north side of the small town where members of the Li clan lived, shouting: "It's flooded! It's flooded! The ancestral hall is flooded, everyone hurry to save it!"

  Men and women from every household rushed out, carrying buckets and wooden basins, and rushed towards the ancestral hall at the foot of Lushan.

At this time, the ancestral hall had been engulfed by the fire, the flames were soaring, and the flames danced wildly. Countless members of the Li family took water from the stream and rushed into the yard, and poured it towards the burning main hall, but no one dared to approach it. Wet outside, but inside does not help.

  In fact, everyone can see clearly that the wooden niche where the spiritual tablet was placed has been burned and collapsed. Even if the fire is extinguished, the ancestor’s spiritual tablet cannot be saved.

  In the yard, a middle-aged man in a brocade robe was stamping his feet, beating his chest and crying loudly, "I am guilty! How can I, Li Wenyou, explain to my ancestors!"

This middle-aged man who was crying heartbreakingly was Li Wenyou, the patriarch. In a few hours, he would start worshiping the ancestors. The heroic souls of the ancestors had gathered and were ready to receive the respect from the younger generations. But at this time, the ancestral hall was on fire. I am afraid that the fire will burn the souls of the ancestors.

   There is a deeper meaning in Li Wenyou's self-blame. The fire burned away the most precious family heirloom of the Li clan. If people from the capital or the south came to ask for things, how could he get them out.

Beside the patriarch Li Wenyou, stood the terrified Li Daguang. He had explained the cause of the fire to the patriarch just now, and put the blame on the three villains who stole the offerings, but even so, he was still very disturbed. Knowing the consequences of the fire, the ancestral hall can be rebuilt, and the spirit tablet can be re-established, but if the ancestor's spirit tablet is burned, it will be an irreparable catastrophe.

  I really shouldn't have escaped hastily at that time, at least I could bring out the spirit card of the Great Ancestor!

At this time, Li Yanqing had already appeared in the backyard. Li Daguang's residence in the backyard was not affected by the fire. The people of the tribe opened the back door and stood in the backyard and poured water on the main hall. However, the patriarch couldn't see here, and everyone ran to the front yard. The tribe is here to fight the fire.

Li Yanqing had already soaked his clothes in the creek, covered his mouth and nose with a wet handkerchief, and wrapped himself with a piece of Li Daguang's quilt. While no one was looking, he took out the piece from an empty wine jar. The spiritual card of rosewood is hidden under the clothes.

   "Go! Go! Go! It's dangerous here, children, go away."

  A clansman found Li Yanqing and rushed up to drive him out, but Li Yanqing avoided him and ran to the other side.

  Several clansmen were angry, "Which family are you a child from, why don't adults listen to you?"

  How could Li Yanqing listen to them? This is his only chance. It is related to whether he can go to school, whether his father's debts can be forgiven, and whether his father will no longer be discriminated against in the family.

   Seeing that the fire in the east had weakened, he rushed into the fire.

   "That child...bewitched!"

  Several members of the tribe were so shocked that they were at a loss and shouted, "A child has entered! Save people!"

Although the fire in the main hall has weakened, thick smoke is billowing, and nothing can be seen. Li Yanqing has participated in firefighting training, and he knows how to escape from the fire. That is to climb out along the wall. This is the best way. After finding out the route, he sealed his mouth and nose with a wet veil, and quickly crawled along the wall to the front door.

  The clansmen fighting the fire in the front yard heard the shouts, and everyone looked at each other in shock. A child rushed into the fire. What's going on? Whose child is it?

  Many clansmen looked at a group of children at the back gate, fearing that their own children had entered the fire.

   After a while, a small figure rushed out from the fire scene, and everyone immediately cheered, "Come out! The child is out!"

  Li Yanqing was choked by the thick smoke and had tears and snot all over his face. He threw off the bedding on his body, hugged the rosewood spirit tablet tightly, and shouted: "I found it! I found it!"

  Li Daguang ran up, pulled him and asked in surprise, "Qing'er, why are you here?"

   "Fourth Uncle, I'm also here to fight the fire, I found that spirit card!" Li Yanqing held up the spirit card high.

"Gosh!"

   Several members of the tribe who knew it exclaimed, "It's the spirit card of the great ancestor!"

  Li Daguang was so excited that he hugged Li Yanqing, "Good boy, really good boy!" He burst into tears, as long as he saves this spirit card, he will be able to atone for his sins.

  Suddenly, someone nearby shouted: "Go! The roof is about to collapse!"

  People were so frightened that they ran outside one after another. The girder of the ancestral hall was burnt, and finally it could not bear the weight of the tiles and collapsed.

  Li Wenyou was also completely desperate. He knelt in front of the gate and thumped his head, shouting in grief: "Great ancestor! Great ancestors! Unworthy descendants Li Wenyou's crime is unforgivable!"

   At this time, the big housekeeper Liu Chenghong stepped forward to help Li Wenyou, and persuaded in a low voice: "Patriarch, this is the end of the matter, let's mourn!"

  Liu Chenghong's father is Mrs. Li's book boy. He has won the favor of Mrs. Li since he was a child and recognized him as his adopted son.

  Relying on the favor of the old man, Liu Chenghong usually bullied his neighbors, was tyrannical and rude, which made the Li clan dare not speak out.

  Although the old man died last year, Liu Chenghong could not change his arrogant and domineering habits. Like a father, like a son, his son Liu Fu'er also inherited his cruelty and lawlessness, and finally brought him a catastrophe today.

The ancestral hall was burned and the Great Ancestor Spirit Plaque was destroyed, which made Li Wenyou hate Liu Chenghong so much in his heart, he pushed him away and said coldly: "Burning the ancestral hall is a serious crime in my Li family's regulations, and it must be severely punished. My son, I will use clan rules to punish them, your son's surname is Liu, our clan rules can't control him, you can figure it out yourself!"

   Liu Chenghong panicked and said: "Master, I will definitely punish that little **** severely!"

  Li Wenyou shook his head, "It's up to you to punish him severely, but I want to give an explanation to my ancestors. After dawn, pack up your things and go!"

   Liu Chenghong was so frightened that he knelt down and begged bitterly: "Master, our father and son have been in the Li family for forty years. For the sake of the old man, please forgive me this time! I will break the legs of the evil son and apologize to the master."

  Li Wenyou pointed at the collapsed ancestral hall and shouted angrily: "I spared you, but the ancestors and ancestors will not forgive me. Either you get out of here! Or beat your son to death!"

   Liu Chenghong's face turned ashen immediately, and he stared at Li Wenyou with great resentment, "I understand, let's start killing donkeys, okay! I'll go, and one day I, Liu Chenghong, will come back to ask for an explanation!"

   Liu Chenghong got up and rushed away angrily. Li Wenyou looked at the collapsed ancestral hall and knelt down again powerlessly, full of fear that he could not explain to the clans everywhere.

  At this time, Li Daguang led Li Yanqing forward, couldn't bear the excitement in his heart, and said in a low voice: "Patriarch, this child rescued the spirit card of the Great Ancestor."

"What!"

  Li Wenyou raised his head abruptly. He looked at the rosewood spirit tablet in Li Yanqing's arms in disbelief. He took the spiritual tablet with trembling hands and held it tightly in his arms, feeling like he was dreaming. He was so excited that he almost burst into tears.

   This spiritual tablet was the only spiritual tablet rescued by their ancestor Li Congqian from the ancestral temple of the Southern Tang Dynasty when the Song army set fire to it. It has become the most precious thing of their family ever since.

After Li Yu was poisoned by Zhao Guangyi, Li Congqian was very frightened, so he washed the gold characters on it with brine, making it a wordless spirit tablet. Even so, he did not dare to pass it on to his son. Let him take the spirit card away from the capital to settle in Xiangzhou, and this spirit card has been passed down from generation to generation in Xiangzhou. It is usually locked in the patriarch's room, and it is only taken out and placed in the ancestral hall when worshiping the ancestors for ten years.

Other spirit cards can be redone, but once this spirit card is destroyed, Li Wenyou will become an eternal sinner of the family. His grief and panic just now is because he thought that this spirit card was also destroyed by the fire. rescued.

   "Whose child are you...?" Li Wenyou asked.

  Li Daguang said from the side: "Patriarch, he is the son of Daqi, named Yanqing, and he is only six years old this year."

   "So it's Daqi's child!"

   Li Wenyou was very grateful in his heart, and took his hand again and asked, "Qing'er, you are only six years old, how could you have the guts to rush into the scene of fire and grab this spirit card?"

Li Yanqing lowered his head and said in a low voice: "I don't know either. I was outside watching the adults put out the fire, and suddenly I heard someone shouting to me, "Help me! Help me! I seem to be pushed by a force." , rushed into the scene of fire.”

  Li Wenyou'Ah! ’ screamed loudly, and asked anxiously, “Then what?”

   "I was very scared in the fire scene, but the voice told me not to be afraid. He was in the east corner, so I crawled along the wall to the east corner, and as a result... I finally found this spirit card."

  Li Wenyou hugged Li Yanqing, and burst into tears again, "This is the manifestation of our ancestors!"

   Li Yanqing blinked, even he himself believed it a little bit.

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  (end of this chapter)