With a "squeak", the bedroom door was pushed open from the outside, and a young woman of eighteen or nineteen years old walked in with a basin of water.

"Mother, aren't you cold?" asked the young woman with concern, "let you go to bed early at night, and don't weave so late, you always don't listen." ”

The woman smiled lovingly: "It's okay, most women are cold, and it's normal to sneeze a few times." It's you, your body is getting heavier and heavier, and you are about to give birth, just do some light work, and don't bring this face and foot wash in the future. I can feel that there is an extra thread and a stone in this house, you don't have to worry about me, taking care of yourself and the child in your womb is more important than anything else. If it weren't for this niece, she didn't know if she had the courage to scare her eyes, and she was stunned to survive by successfully avoiding the chase and changing her name and surname.

At that time, she escaped to the physical and mental exhaustion, and did not want to continue to die in the world, she unexpectedly learned that her brother and sister-in-law were gone, and her niece, who was less than a year old, became the child daughter-in-law of a ten-year-old fool next door, and she had been ashamed of her stepfather and stepbrother, and she stole her niece back to the village late at night, hiding in an ancient tomb and training blindfolded for a year before she poked her eyes and scared her eyes. Now the neighbors on the whole street are familiar with calling her Qiu Niangzi, and they all know that she is a poor widow who has died and lives with her daughter, but in fact Qiu is her stepfather's surname.

With the fan weaving skills learned since childhood and the brutal training they received after becoming a dead soldier, Qiu Niangzi's aunt and nephew gradually settled down and had plenty of food and clothing. When her niece Qiu Nianzu was sixteen years old, Qiu Niangzi set her a doorman and said that she would be a son-in-law. The son-in-law's surname is Cheng Mingfeng, he is a useless talent, since the death of his widowed mother, it is difficult to even live, let alone study, so he did everything possible to please the mother and daughter of the Qiu family who lived on the same street, and recommended himself to be a son-in-law.

Although the Cheng family is poor and even the housing is rented, everyone says that Cheng Mingfeng is honest and talented, and he will definitely be able to go to high school in the future.

is not only the son-in-law of the Qiu family, but also his own person, if the scenery is developed in the future, the Qiu family is also a glorious ancestor, Qiu Niangzi naturally treats Cheng Mingfeng is not stingy, and eats and drinks for him to study.

As soon as Cheng Mingfeng's filial piety period passed, Qiu Niangzi did a family affair for her niece and Cheng Mingfeng, and then bought a carriage buyer Ding to send Cheng Mingfeng to Beijing to take the exam.

To Qiu Niangzi's delight, less than two months after Cheng Mingfeng left, Qiu Nianzu found out that she was pregnant. Inexplicably, Qiu Niangzi firmly believes that this child must be a boy, the eldest son and grandson of the Qiu family's incense. As long as the child is born safely and grows up safely, she is worthy of the Qiu family. If Cheng Mingfeng is really named on the gold list, the child's future will not be bad.

The only thing that made Qiu Niangzi a little uneasy was that half a year had passed, and Cheng Mingfeng had not sent any news back.

Recently, Qiu Niangzi has become more and more diligent in weaving fans, Cheng Mingfeng has spent a lot of money on studying, taking exams, and getting married, and now the family's savings have decreased a lot, and the upcoming import of Ding Ding means that the cost will continue to increase. After her niece became pregnant, she hired a neighbor to help with the housework, and came back in the morning and evening. It's enough now, but when the niece is about to give birth, at least one more maid or servant will have to be bought.

In case of Cheng Mingfeng...... , she still has to pick up the burden of this family. Time is the most shocking, Qiu Niangzi, who was originally full of confidence in Cheng Mingfeng's character, felt that she was more and more cranky and suspicious, which was not good.

Seeing the thoughts on his mother's face and the wry smile that flashed, Qiu Nianzu's heart was slightly sour. When she was seven or eight years old, she knew that her biological father was long gone, and the mother who worked hard to raise her was actually her aunt. At that time, her aunt told her that she was the only seedling left by the Qiu family, and she was the hope of the Qiu family's bloodline, so she would not marry in the future, but would recruit a son-in-law.

After getting married with Cheng Mingfeng, she soon had joy again, and she was really happy when she thought that she was about to fulfill her mother's wish. Niang Hanru worked hard to raise her and give her a worry-free life, and she was her mother in her heart. Therefore, no matter before or after, she always calls her mother sincerely, and even her husband Cheng Mingfeng doesn't know the true identity of her mother.

first has an aunt who treats her as her own, and then has a husband she really loves, and now she is pregnant with her own flesh and blood, even if Cheng Mingfeng can't go to high school, Qiu Nianzu, who is not big-hearted, is also very satisfied with his life, until recently, more and more neighbors are secretly talking about Cheng Mingfeng marrying the daughter of a noble family after taking the Jinshi exam and will not come back......

Qiu Nianzu resolutely didn't believe it at first, but more and more people said it, and some pointed out by name that it was a relative of a neighbor who also went to Beijing to take the exam, and the outsiders looked at her with sympathy.

Qiu Nianzu's belief was shaken, but she didn't dare to tell her mother. At the beginning, my mother was a little opposed to recruiting Cheng Mingfeng, saying that she was useless as a scholar, and the most ruthless was also a scholar, and it was she who fell in love with Cheng Mingfeng, and then she deliberately emphasized the praise of Cheng Mingfeng's character in front of her mother, which made her aunt change her mind. If Cheng Mingfeng is really wolf-hearted, she deserves it, who made her blind and confused by his appearance, but she didn't want her mother to worry about her.

Slowly, I don't know when it began, the mother and son invariably mentioned Cheng Mingfeng less and less, and their topics always revolved around the baby in her womb, the child's surname was Qiu, and nothing else seemed to matter.

"I'll be very careful, mother," Qiu Nianzu put the basin and walked over to help her mother take off the coat hanging next to the bed, "Lang Zhong said that it will not be so hard to move more in the future when I give birth." ”

"Uh, mother, what is this?" Qiu Nianzu caught a glimpse of a strange-shaped small iron piece that was half exposed from his mother's middle clothes, and curiously reached out to take it and take a look, wearing gold, jade, and silver, how could anyone wear a small iron piece close to his body, and it was so ugly? Although their family is not rich, it is still okay to wear a gold and silver pendant, she is wearing a jade safety buckle that has been opened, or her mother asked for it after donating a lot of sesame oil money in the temple.

"It's nothing, it's just a thought left by the deceased," Qiu Niangzi quickly stuffed the iron piece into her middle coat, fastened the loose button, and said slowly as if nothing happened, turned around and put on the coat with Qiu Nianzu on her back, and under the cover of the clothes, the closed loose eyelids trembled slightly.