The whole family travels through the book, the plot is broken but the characters are not

When begging in Wuping County, the young Li Dezhi and five others had to work together to snatch some food from other beggars and barely survive.

But they were often beaten black and blue.

This kind of life lasted for about a year until they met Yan Bao.

Yan Bao is the father of Yan Dahu and Yan Erhu.

That day, the steamed buns that the five of them begged for were snatched away by two older beggars.

The five of them naturally wanted to take it back.

But they were too young, how could they compete with two teenagers?

The five children were beaten so badly that Wang Gui's arm was broken.

If they hadn't met Yan Bao, the five of them might have been beaten to death.

That day, Yan Bao was selling pork and returning home when he saw two teenagers bullying some other children. Thinking of his own two children at home, Yan Bao stopped the two teenagers.

Seeing Wang Gui's arm drooping, Yan Bao felt sorry for the money he had just sold today, and put Wang Gui in the car to see a doctor.

The other four children followed behind.

Fortunately, Wang Gui is young and the broken bones can heal.

The doctor fixed Wang Gui's arm with a splint and hung it around his neck.

The doctor originally wanted to scold Yan Bao for how he looked after the children, but when he looked at Yan Bao, and then at the dirty and ragged little beggars, what could he not understand?

In the end, he confiscated Yan Bao's money and only told the other children not to touch Wang Gui's arm and to come back in two months to remove the splint.

The children agreed obediently.

When Yan Bao left the city and returned home, several children followed him.

Yan Bao was anxious. He just didn't want to see the children being beaten to death, not that he wanted to raise them.

He can't afford it either.

Yan Bao's wife died of complications during childbirth when she gave birth to Yan Erhu.

When Yan Erhu was born, he was thin and small.

Many people said that he probably couldn't make ends meet.

It was Yan Bao who begged and pleaded with the women in the town who had just given birth to help feed him milk, and only then did Yan Erhu survive.

When Yan Erhu was four months old, Yan Bao could no longer ask others to feed him, and could only make some millet porridge for him to drink.

The family can't just sit there and live off the savings.

Yan Bao asked six-year-old Yan Dahu to look after his younger brother at home while he went to Wuping County to sell pork.

The price of pork in the county is two cents more per pound than in Jinling Town.

On the day they met Li Dezhi and his men, Yan Dahu was less than nine years old and Yan Erhu was less than three years old.

It was difficult to support two children at home, so how could Yan Bao dare to let these children follow him?

He scolded them and told them to get out, but the children continued to follow him.

Yan Bao had no choice but to pretend to hit them, which scared the children away.

The next day, when Yan Bao had sold the pork and was about to leave the city, he couldn't help but go to the place where he met Li Dezhi and others yesterday.

Seeing this, Yan Bao was so angry that he almost died.

It was the same two teenagers from yesterday, still beating up those kids.

What was different from yesterday was that Li Dezhi and the other three were protecting Wang Gui, who had a broken arm, closely behind them.

The children were even more miserable than yesterday. Wang Gui was protected at the back and kept crying and shouting for them not to be beaten.

Yan Bao thought that if he took action again this time, he would probably never be able to get rid of these children in his lifetime.

But by the time he thought of this, he had already beaten the two teenagers away.

Li Dezhi and the other three knelt down and begged Yan Bao to adopt Wang Gui.

In Wang Gui's situation, if he couldn't follow Yan Bao, not only would he lose his arm, he might even lose his life.

Yan Bao was very sad and finally carried all five children onto the cart.

While scolding himself for meddling in other people's business, he pushed the children back to Jinling Town.

Li Dezhi told Yan Bao that the people in the shelter said that they all came from Jinling Town.

Yan Bao cursed, "Damn it, this is such a bad fate."

After returning to Yan Bao's home in Jinling Town, Yan Dahu and Yan Erhu were happy to have a few more friends.

But when asked what their names were, Li Dezhi and his companions were at a loss.

Forget their names, they don’t even know how old they are. We only know that they are probably around five or six years old.

In the shelter they are all arranged by numbers, so where are the names?

When Yan Bao heard this, he thought that this wouldn’t work. He couldn’t just call them Ah San and Ah Si.

So Yan Bao shamelessly asked Zhang Banxian, who made a living as a fortune teller next door, to give names to his children.

As for age, let’s say they are all six years old, and their birthdays will be on the twentieth of January to May.

Yan Bao also found a branch and broke it into five sticks of different lengths for them to smoke.

Chang Fei drew the longest one and ranked second after Yan Dahu. Li Dezhi was the third, Tan Mu was the fourth, Lin Shan was the fifth, Wang Gui was the sixth, and Yan Erhu was the youngest brother.

Afterwards, Yan Bao went to the government office and registered the children as adoptive children.

When the neighbors learned that Yan Bao had brought back a few more children, they all called him a fool.

He can barely support his own children, and now he is raising five fatherless and motherless beggars. What kind of person is he if not an idiot?

But no matter how much they scolded them, if anyone had some leftovers, they would give some to these little beggars.

Two or three years passed like this, and Yan Dahu began to go to the city with Yan Bao to sell pork.

Li Dezhi and his friends would take Yan Erhu with them and wander around the town every day.

Today I went to Zhang Banxian's stall and learned a few words.

I'm going to Jiqing Restaurant tomorrow to help clean up and get some leftovers.

The next day, I went to Liu Tailor's shop again, helping customers move the cloth, and picking up some unwanted scraps when I left...

Since Li Dezhi and his friends were ten years old, Yan Bao would deliberately save some meat every day and give some to Zhang Banxian, Liu the tailor, Chen the blacksmith, Hua the carpenter and others.

He wanted these children to help these people, learn some skills, and then have a way to support themselves in the future.

But how could the craftsman’s skills be passed on to outsiders so easily?

Zhang Banxian and the others naturally ignored Yan Bao. When they saw a few children coming, they drove them away.

Li Dezhi and his friends have been struggling since childhood. Their biggest advantage is that they are thick-skinned and it is impossible to drive them away.

But they also knew that it was not okay to crowd around one person like this.

So everyone chose someone to follow according to their own interests.

Li Dezhi chose Zhang Banxian, Wang Gui chose Liu the tailor, Chang Fei chose Chen the blacksmith, Tan Mu chose Hua Mujiang, and Lin Shan went to Jiqinglou.

The children are all diligent and perceptive. When you are busy, I will help you. When you are free, I will come over to ask you questions, which makes Zhang Banxian and the others very annoyed.

It just so happened that they were all from Yan Bao's family. Yan Bao and his eldest son Yan Dahu were both big and strong, and they were particularly protective of their own people.

Zhang Banxian and his men did not dare to attack these children.

But they couldn't scold him away, and they had to endure the naughty kid's devilish voice that pierced their ears and kept scolding their master.

After more than a year of negotiation, the manager Gu of Jiqinglou finally gave in and let Lin Shan stay in Jiqinglou.

Later, Zhang Banxian and the others were gradually moved by the call of "Master".

They are not young anymore, and they might die at any time.

These guys seem more reliable than their sons, so let's teach them.

Later, when Zhang Banxian and his companions no longer wanted to do this, Li Dezhi and his companions took care of them until they were old.

When he passed away, Li Dezhi and others helped with the funeral.

Zhang Banxian and others, these disciples were not accepted in vain.

While Li Dezhi and his companions were diligently learning the craft, nine-year-old Yan Erhu picked up another person and brought him back...