Lu Ciyuan was born in Lujia Village, Juzhou, Song Dynasty. His ancestors were out-and-out farmers. His father, Lu Yuqian, had made a living by hunting since he was a child. His mother, Chen Meilan, was a concubine from a business family in Huangping Mansion. She could not bear to be plotted by her aunt to marry a sixty-year-old man as her stepmother, so she ran away from Huangping Mansion and paid for her money. Finally, passing by Songjia Village in Juzhou, he was bitten by a poisonous snake and fell into coma. He was rescued by Lu Yuqian. Lu Yuqian insisted on marrying Chen Meilan, who lied about being an orphan and was three years older than him. His grandparents strongly opposed his father's marriage and separated his newly married father and mother. They saw that two years after the separation, Over time, Lu Ciyuan's parents' life improved and their house was renovated. His grandfather thought that Lu Yuqian was the son of a man and had hidden his private property. In anger, he asked the clan elders to remove his father from the family tree. Lu Yuqian was also an honest man, but he was very kind to his wife. The couple loved each other and gave birth to six children. How old is his mother? He knew some words, and he usually took care of his husband and raised his children at home, and taught the children to know some words. When the eldest son Lu Ciyuan was young, he knew that he could only rely on himself to change his destiny. He relied on his mother's explanations and his father's teaching of shooting and hunting. When he went to the town to exchange money, he bought some military books and read them by himself. When the Northern Song Dynasty was overthrown, Lu Ciyuan relied on the skills he had developed while hunting to decisively join the army, step by step, and ascended to the position of general. He became the savior of Zhao Gou, the official Song Gaozong, and gained the emperor's trust and reliance. And he became a king with a different surname who dominated the whole court during the Southern Song Dynasty...
