At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a plague broke out in a village in the south of the Yangtze River, killing many people. There was a road in the middle of the village, and the road divided the village into Qiancun and Houcun. Strangely, all the villagers who contracted the plague were from Houcun, and no case of the disease had been found in Qiancun.

There is a villager named Li Shan who lives in Qiancun, but his son has just been born. For the sake of safety, he decided to move his family to his father-in-law's house thousands of miles away. Before leaving, Li Shan went to Houcun to say goodbye to his friend Chen Hong.

After entering the room, he saw Chen Hong and his wife lying in bed in a daze. Seeing Li Shan coming, Chen Hong said with difficulty, "Don't come here, we are both sick and may be dying soon."

Li Shan was startled and said that he would invite Langzhong to the two of them. Chen Hong smiled bitterly and said, "No Langzhong would dare to come? Don't work in vain." He pointed to the cradle in the corner of the wall: "If you have the heart, help me raise my son." After saying that, he fainted. Li Shan endured his grief and immediately picked up the child in the cradle and left.

That day, Li Shan packed his things and went to his father-in-law with his family. Unexpectedly, halfway through, he first encountered bandits and was robbed of all his entanglements, and then his wife Li Shi accidentally fell on a steep slope. By the time Li Shan carried her to the roadbed, she had already fainted.

This time, Li Shan can be said to be called Tiantian Shou, and the earth is not smart. Two babies waiting to be fed and a fainted wife, how can they be good? At that moment, a few bells rang not far away, and Li Shan took a closer look. It turned out to be a lang zhong, walking towards him.

Li Shan hurried forward to ask Lang Zhong for help. Lang Zhong rolled up Li's trouser leg to check, and determined that it was a broken leg. He turned his head and said to Li Shan, "The situation is very serious.

Li Shan sighed and said, "To be honest, all my money was robbed by bandits, and now I have no money."

Lang Zhong said, "It's important to save people, and the rest is easy to say." This Lang Zhong's surname was Zhao, and he was originally a famous doctor in this area. Due to the serious injury of the Li family, he had to temporarily stay in Zhao Langzhong's medical clinic. And this stay lasted for two months. The whole family was supported by Zhao Langzhong for food and medicine. Li Shan was really sorry, so he said to Zhao Langzhong, "My wife can go down to the ground, and we plan to go back to the road. But how can I repay your great kindness?"

Zhao Langzhong waved his hand and advised Li Shan not to take it to heart and to hurry up and go. Of course Li Shan couldn't agree, and Zhao Langzhong had to offer conditions for return. Seeing Li Shan Xincheng, Zhao Langzhong pondered for a while before expressing his thoughts. It turned out that Zhao Langzhong's wife could not have children, and Li Shan and his wife were poor, and Li's leg injury had not healed. The couple dragged their two children on the road, which was really inconvenient. Zhao Langzhong wanted to adopt one and give Li Shan one hundred taels of silver as a reward.

Li shi's eyes lit up when she heard "one hundred taels of silver." She pulled Li Shan aside and said, "What are you hesitating about? Lang Zhong's words are reasonable, and Lang Zhong's family's conditions are much better than ours. If the child stays here, he will not suffer at all."

Li Shan sighed and said, "Then which child do you want to keep?"

Li shi said: "You need to ask, of course it is Chen Hong's child. We can still get one hundred taels of silver, why not?"

Li Shan shook his head and said, "This child was entrusted to me by Chen Hong before he died. How could I sell him? Aren't you trapping me up in injustice?"

Li shi said, "Could it be that you still want to sell your children?"

Li Shan frowned and fell into deep thought. After thinking for a long time, he decided to leave it to fate and said to Langzhong, "Two children, you can hug whichever you like."

Zhao Langzhong thought for a while and held Chen Hong's child in his arms. Li Shan raised his head and sighed, "This is God's will." After saying that, he took one hundred taels of silver from Lang Zhong and left with his wife.

With silver, Li Shan hired a carriage and quickly came to his father-in-law's house and settled down.

More than half a year passed by in a flash. On this day, Li Shan was about to go out when he saw a person walking outside the courtyard. After a closer look, it was Chen Hong. According to Chen Hong, as soon as Li Shan and his wife left the village, the court invited a famous doctor, Zhao Langzhong, to the village to treat the plague. Zhao Langzhong heard that the villagers who were sick lived in the back village, and no one in the front village was sick, so he thought it was not like the plague. After visiting around, he learned that the water used by the villagers in the front village came from the small river in front of the village, and the water used by the villagers in the back village came from the ancient well behind the village. Therefore, Zhao Langzhong came to the side of the ancient well to check, and discovered the mystery. Due to the death of several old people in the village last year, some new graves were added to the mountain, and the corpses rotted. In the rainy weather, sewage seeped into the well below the mountain along the After finding the cause, Zhao Langzhong applied the medicine symptomatically, and the sick villagers all recovered.

Li Shan asked Chen Hong what Zhao Langzhong looked like, and Chen Hong gave a general idea. Only then did Li Shan realize that it was the one he met on the road. Chen Hong said again that he came here this time because he wanted to get his child back. Li Shan was shocked and hurriedly said, "The child was carried out by your sister-in-law, I will go and bring him back, you wait here for a while."

Li Shan found his wife and carried the child over. He told his wife that Chen Hong was not dead and had come to ask them for a child. His wife hurriedly asked him if he planned to give him his child, and Li Shan nodded.

The wife said anxiously, "Why didn't you tell Chen Hong what happened on the road? You treat the two children equally. If Zhao Langzhong had picked up my child, he would have picked it away, right?"

Li Shan smiled bitterly and said, "This is indeed the case. The question is, will people believe it? Even if you have a hundred mouths to explain, people will only think that you sold your friend's son for a hundred taels of silver."

The wife cried, "Then you can't give him your child. No, give the child back to me!" With that, she was about to reach out and grab the child from Li Shanzhili.

Li Shan pushed her away and said loudly, "Listen to me, if Chen Hong is loyal enough, he will take the child away today and bring him back in a few days."

Seeing his wife's puzzled expression, Li Shan continued: "When Chen Hong gave me the child, the child was also just born. Today, I gave him my child, but he may not be able to see it. But his wife is a careful person, and she will definitely recognize that this is not his child, so Chen Hong will definitely come back to me with the child in his arms. At that time, I will tell him everything that happened on the road, and he will believe it."

As expected by Li Shan, after Chen Hong carried the child back, his wife found out that the child was not theirs that day, and urged Chen Hong to bring the child to Li Shan. Li Shan told Chen Hong what happened on the way, then knelt down on the ground and asked Chen Hong to forgive him.

Chen Hong helped Li Shan up and sighed, "Since you can give me your child, I naturally believe you. It's just..."

Li Shan quickly took out a hundred taels of silver, stuffed it in Chen Hong's hand and said, "You go to Zhao Langzhong's hospital now, tell Zhao Langzhong the ins and outs of the matter, and return the silver to him. Zhao Langzhong is a good man. He will definitely return the child to you."

Chen Hong hesitated and said, "I'm afraid Zhao Langzhong won't believe me. How about you go with me?"

Li Shan turned around and took out a few pieces of paper from the drawer, handed them to Chen Hong and said, "I just happened to have something to do in the past few days. This is the prescription that Zhao Langzhong prescribed for my wife. When he sees this prescription and the one hundred taels of silver you gave him, he will definitely believe what you said. In addition, since there is no outbreak of plague in the village, I have discussed with my wife that I will go back. Let's meet in the village."

Chen Hong nodded, accepted the silver and prescription, and left.

A few months later, Li Shan's family moved back to the village. That night, Chen Hong met Li Shan at home. Seeing that there were no children in the house, Li Shan said anxiously, "What's going on? Could it be that Zhao Langzhong refused to return the child?"

Chen Hong shook his head and said, "It's not that he refused to return it, it's that I didn't ask Zhao Langzhong at all. That day, I found Zhao Langzhong's medical clinic, and saw Zhao Langzhong holding the child, kissing and laughing. I remembered that he was not afraid of the plague, risked his life to come to my village for treatment, saved dozens of people in the village, and also saved the lives of me and my wife. I really can't open this mouth."

Li Shan pondered: "Since you can't bear to speak, why don't I go there myself?"

Chen Hong waved his hand and said, "Forget it, knowing that the child has a better life than me, and knowing that the child has a great father like Zhao Langzhong, I am already satisfied. What's more, Zhao Langzhong is a good person who saves lives and helps the wounded, and he is kind to me and everyone. I can't let him chill."