At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, on the east bank of Jianchang River in Wuchuan, there is now a small village with only a few dozen people in Changqi Su Village, hence the name Su surname and Su Village. Around AD 1408, the children of a well-off family in Sucun married an old mother of a scholarly family in Shuangpai Village, Huazhou. Husband and wife love each other, men plow and women weave. Time flies, the sun and the moon fly, and it took five or six years to have a son. Sue's family couldn't help caring for it in every way and regarded it as the apple of her eye. News came from the daughter-in-law's house frequently, urging her daughter to give her nephew baby to her grandparents for love. However, Su's family always used the doll as a small child and had to walk 40 miles back and forth as an excuse to prevent his daughter-in-law from carrying her children to visit relatives. I saw the baby as cute as a peanut seedling in February and as tall as a jute seedling in March. Sue's daughter-in-law can't stand the urge from her parents. That summer, she took her two-year-old child to visit relatives in Shuangpai Village. This trip, if it doesn't matter, has had an unpredictable and serious impact.
Walk 20 miles from Su Village to Huazhou Shuangpai Village. It was a summer day in June, and the child was in the mother's back pocket? After more than two hours, I arrived at my grandmother's house, covered in prickly heat. Grandma loves it, so wash it with cold water. Even adults, not to mention children, get sick when they suddenly get hot or cold. The child had a high fever that night. At that time, medical care was backward, so we had to ask the village yellow-green quack to prescribe some herbal decoction for gastric perfusion. Two or three days later, the child's condition worsened. A few days later, the child who was regarded as the apple of Sue's eye died. Sue's daughter-in-law, Li, cried her eyes out, and her parents were sad and at a loss. Sister-in-law takes care of her two young sons while comforting her aunt. One son is seven or eight years old, and the youngest is only over two years old. My aunt took care of two children when my eldest sister-in-law went to farm work. Every time Sue's daughter-in-law holds this two-year-old child, she feels that she is holding her own son. She looked at her nephew carefully, and the child was stronger and smarter, and she was ignorant. My sister-in-law came back from work in other places, but she didn't see her aunt hand the child back to her. She only saw her aunt standing on the edge of the village with her child in her arms, looking around. Twenty miles east is her home! When I first came, the children were alive and kicking, and in a flash, I was left alone. What should I tell my in-laws and husband when I go back? Sister-in-law worked hard, but still failed to snatch the child from her aunt's arms. The child held her aunt's neck tightly with a pair of small hands.
Sister-in-law told her in-laws that children love their aunts more than themselves. In-laws say that children may have a fate with their aunts. To meet the wrong person in the dream, my sister-in-law feels that it is unimaginable if my aunt suffers such a heavy blow and doesn't help her. Since the child is predestined friends with her, let the child go with her aunt. Sister-in-law told her reasonable in-laws, and immediately approved it.
Sue's daughter-in-law returned to Su Village with her nephew who is similar to her child's age. Her in-laws and husband looked around, dumbfounded. Daughter-in-law had to tell the truth, saying that her family was willing to take her children to Sue's home. In the face of cruel facts, Sue's family suffered great pain. Looking at my daughter-in-law's nephew, a dignified and strong child, smart and lovely, she regards it as her own.
When the child grows up, he is named Sue. Su Zhangzhong benefited from the excellent genes inherited from his ancestors, and Su Jia also tried his best to cultivate them. In her twenties, Su took the provincial examination in Wuchuan City, Gaozhou, which was a blockbuster and became a junior high school scholar. Sue, who had a successful career as a teenager, became more and more diligent. During the orthodox years of the Ming Dynasty, he took part in the Guangdong Provincial Examination and won the first prize. Immediately sent to Gaozhou as an official. Sue's grandson grew up beside his grandfather and received a good education and influence. It was also in his twenties that he was admitted. Children and grandchildren, immediately spread throughout Huazhou, Wuchuan. Gaozhou government sent officials and deacons to Su Village with wedding gifts to report good news. However, Li, a double-row village in Huazhou, refuses to accept, saying that you Sue is my son of the Li family, and your grandson is naturally the descendant of the Li family. There is no point in congratulating the Li family. Therefore, Su, and should be reported to Maoming County (then Huazhou belonged to Maoming County). The county magistrate has never sentenced this kind of case, so he is not sure at the moment, and Sue and Li are at loggerheads. Maoming county transferred the case to Gaozhou area. It happened that an inspector (equivalent to the section chief) who handled the case was also surnamed Su. After reading the complaint and listening to the statements of the two families, he had a brainwave and advised Sue and Lee to stop quarreling. Because Sue's grandparents and grandchildren belong to the Li family and grew up in the Su family, so let's call them all. This view, taking care of the feelings of both sides, is a great pleasure. So Wuchuan had a strange surname more than 570 years ago, called "Su Li".
Since the name "Su Li" appeared, Su surnames with a small population have moved to other places for various reasons, leaving only the descendants of "Su Li" to continue to multiply in Su Village. But Su Cun's name has been used to this day. The population of Su Li is developing rapidly. In the last century, Su village developed into four villages: Xifangtang, Dongfangtang, Bingong and Low Mountain, and three villages: Biandan Village, Zhongcun Village and Beihoushan Village, where Lanxi was born. * * * There are more than 5,000 people whose surname is "Su Li". So far, the population of these villages has exceeded 22,000. In the 1940s, Li Yushan, secretary and district head of Mao, Hua and Mei Border Areas, developed Sucun and Lanxi into old revolutionary areas, and interpreted many touching stories. Li Hanhun, a famous anti-Japanese fighter and chairman of Guangdong Province, was born in Pingze, Huangpi. He returned to his hometown three times with his uncle Li Rongting and others, and repeatedly appointed Li Rongting to visit the villagers in Su Li. After liberation, the villagers wrote more about Li's surname, and some wrote it. Generally speaking, it is named "Su Li" after dignitaries. In the genealogy, Su Li also wrote Su as Li. Only the couplets in front of the ancestral temple will always record the beautiful stories of hundreds of years ago:
Difficult heirs raised nephews in the past.
Li was born today.