Lijia Village is a large village, and there is a scholar named Li Xiaowen in Lijia Village. Although Li Xiaowen is talented, his family is poor. One year, Li Xiaowen's parents died one after another. In order to bury his parents, Li Xiaowen sold three houses and lived in a broken house for himself.
One day in the winter of the following year, heavy snow fell for several days and nights. One morning, Li Xiaowen just walked out of the broken house, and the broken house collapsed. It turned out that there was a lot of snow on the broken house, which crushed the broken house. Li Xiaowen saw the broken house collapse, found a shovel, and then came to the field outside the village. There was an earthen slope in the field, and he had dug a hole under the slope, and he intended to live in the hole after digging the hole. He dug until dark, and finally dug the hole, and that night he lived in the hole.
Two days later, late one night, Li Xiaowen suddenly heard a scream from the village. He was so scared that he didn't dare to get out of the hole. After dawn, Li Xiaowen came out of the cave. After he came out of the cave, he went to the village, only to find that the village was full of corpses. Suddenly, he saw a corpse move. He hurried to the side of the corpse, only to find that it was aunt Wang of the village. He squatted down and pinched aunt Wang's men with his fingers. It wasn't long before Aunt Wang woke up. Li Xiaowen saw Aunt Wang wake up and said to Aunt Wang, what happened in the village? Aunt Wang said that late last night, bandits from the mountains entered the village.
After Aunt Wang finished speaking, Li Xiaowen said to Aunt Wang, I live in the field outside the village, so let's dig another hole and you will also live in the field. Aunt Wang thought about it and said, "Okay."
Li Xiaowen took Aunt Wang to the soil slope in the field and began to dig a hole. He dug until the afternoon and dug a hole. He said to Aunt Wang, "From now on, you will live in this cave!" Since then, Li Xiaowen and Aunt Wang have lived in a cave in the wilderness. Time passed, and three years later, Aunt Wang fell seriously ill and died soon after. After Aunt Wang died, Li Xiaowen buried her body. Since then, Li Xiaowen has lived alone in the wilderness.
One morning two years later, an army passed through the field, and the soldiers found Li Xiaowen and brought him to a general. The general said to Li Xiaowen, now that there is a war, you should join the army! After listening to the general's words, Li Xiaowen said, "Well, I will join the army." Not long after, Li Xiaowen followed the army.
Eight years later, the war was over. After the war, Li Xiaowen was made a county by the imperial court.