Liu Wenyuan is a tinkerer in Wu County, Suzhou, this person is very pitiful, when his parents went to Taicang County next door to visit relatives, he called the Qing soldiers to surround the city and kill him, after that, Liu Wenyuan lived with his hunchbacked uncle.
When he was six years old, the hunchbacked uncle went down to the river to touch the mussels to give his nephew some nutrients, but unfortunately slipped into the deep water and drowned.
After the kind neighbor helped bury his uncle, Liu Wenyuan ate a hundred family meals, often the east family drank a bowl of porridge, and the west family chewed the pot and starved for a day.
And so it went on for a few years.
A distant relative came to him, and saw that Xiao Liu Wenyuan was really lonely, so he took him with him to learn the craft of making pots, thinking that this child would also have skills in the future and support himself.
Liu Wenyuan is indeed sensible, and he seriously followed this relative to learn the craft, and learned the skill of mending the pot with his hard work.
When he was 17 years old, this distant relative gave some money and told Liu Wenyuan about his family, hoping that this child could also start a family and pass on the incense of the Liu family.
Liu Wenyuan's wife is the third daughter of a tenant farmer in the countryside, and her appearance is average, but like Liu Wenyuan, because she comes from a poor family, she is particularly able to endure hardships and knows how to cherish it.
The two are hardworking and love each other, although the life is poor, it is not easy to survive in the troubled times, and there is nothing to be satisfied with.
In the third year after getting married, Liu Wenyuan's wife suddenly had joy, which made Liu Wenyuan's coke bad, because his parents died in Taicang and could not find the bones, so he bought a lot of paper money to burn the tomb of his hunchbacked uncle, and hoped that the uncle in the spirit of heaven could bless his nephew and his family to be safe, and his nephew and daughter-in-law gave birth smoothly.
Unexpectedly, just when his wife's belly was getting bigger day by day, bandits from Jinxia suddenly came to the Yangtze River not far away, saying that they were going to fight Jiangning City.
The bandits are on the river, and they are going to fight Jiangning again, what they should worry about is the old men in the official mansion, Liu Wenyuan, a pot tinker, what is he worried about, so he didn't take it seriously.
Not long after, sure enough, news came, saying that the pirates had been defeated and withdrawn under Jiangning City.
It came and went quickly, this news made many officials and gentry in Suzhou frown, and regretted it, but it had no impact on poor people like Liu Wenyuan, what should they do, even if they change the emperor, it will not prevent them from earning money to support their families.
Not long after, the Qing soldiers came outside the city of Suzhou.
These Qing soldiers brought a lot of bound women, who were said to be thieves.
These women are in rags, crying and hoofing, which makes people look very uncomfortable.
Liu Wenyuan watched it from a distance for a while, but he couldn't stand it, so he went home and told his wife about it, and his wife was also uncomfortable, but what could he do, he could only blame those women for their miserable lives.
In the troubled times, the only thing that can take care of the small people is themselves.
Liu Wenyuan and his wife sympathized with those women, but they were only sympathetic, they didn't even dare to scold in front of those soldiers, the only thing they wanted was that this pitiful thing should not happen to them.
After those Qing soldiers entered the city, they were fine, except that people went to the barracks every day to buy women, and the others were no different from before.
As for where the women who were bought go, everyone in Suzhou City knew it.
Liu Wenyuan still walks the streets and alleys, mending the pot for the east and repairing the knife for the west.
But a few days ago, the Qing soldiers in the city suddenly began to arrest people, which made Liu Wenyuan frightened.
The Qing soldiers only took women, dragged them out of their homes, and told their families to bring money to the barracks in seven days to ransom them, otherwise the women would not want to go home.
When the neighbor's house was crying, Liu Wenyuan and his wife hugged each other and hid in the firewood room.
However, they could not escape the bad luck, and the door of the firewood house was smashed open.
The two Qing soldiers dragged Liu Wenyuan's wife out, and when they found out that it was a big belly, the two Qing soldiers let out a cruel laugh.
Liu Wenyuan's wife was frightened and screamed in terror.
Liu Wenyuan was also frightened, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately, begging the military master to let his wife go.
The two Qing soldiers only coldly asked him to bring money to ransom people in seven days, and dragged Liu Wenyuan's wife out.
Liu Wenyuan stepped forward and hugged his wife tightly, begging bitterly, saying that his family had no money, but the response was a fierce scabbard from the Qing soldiers.
Liu Wenyuan fainted, and when he woke up, the courtyard was empty, and the gate was open.
Liu Wenyuan was in a hurry, and the Qing soldiers needed ten taels of silver to ransom people, but all his belongings were only three taels.
He wanted to go to the neighbor's house to borrow money, but all he heard along the way was crying.
It's over, the wife is gone, the home is gone, the son is gone, everything is gone In the past few days, Liu Wenyuan didn't know how he survived, he only lived like a walking corpse.
He had been to the barracks of the Qing soldiers, but he couldn't get in at all, he could only kneel outside the barracks and cry and beg like countless people whose wives and daughters had been arrested.
However, it didn't work.
The Qing army said that no matter whether the money was raised or not, it would be able to redeem people after seven days.
The sky was pitiful, and before waiting for the seventh day, the Taiping army from Nanjing suddenly entered Suzhou City, and those Qing soldiers cut off their braids and turned into the Taiping army.
The Taiping army is better, better than the Qing army.
There was news from the barracks that the Taiping army ordered the people in the city to go to the barracks to collect their relatives.
When he heard the news, Liu Wenyuan couldn't believe it, he suddenly had the spirit, he ran to the barracks quickly, he wanted to pick up his wife.
But when he approached the barracks, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
There were disheveled women everywhere, some even naked, and most of them had empty eyes and no life.
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Some women wept heartbreakingly in the arms of their loved ones.
Liu Wenyuan also cried, but he was more worried, he was crazy looking for his wife everywhere.
After searching for a long time to no avail, he came to a table set up by the Taiping army at the camp gate and reported his wife's name.
After flipping through the roster, those Taiping Army people shook their heads and led Liu Wenyuan to a corner of the camp.
In the corner, there are many naked corpses.
One of the women had a large belly, was covered in scars, and her expression was distorted, and she must have been subjected to great torture and pain before she died.
Liu Wenyuan was stunned, he recognized that the big-bellied woman was his wife.
He held his wife's corpse and roared to the sky, tears rolling down.
The Taiping army was also very sympathetic when they saw this, and an officer ordered Liu Wenyuan to find an ox cart so that he could bring his wife's body back.
Liu Wenyuan refused, he didn't want anything.
He just hugged his wife's corpse and went home step by step. oshow7 t1706231537: