Xiao's mother saw the silver bracelet on Xiu'er's wrist, her face turned pale with anger, she trembled her lips and pointed at Xiu'er and couldn't say a word, Xiao Zheng angrily reprimanded Xiu'er: "You have your mother at a young age, and you still speak ill of your own dear aunt, how many people will you harm when you grow up in the future, I advise you to stop the precipice, otherwise, you don't know how to die in the future!" ”。 Xiu'er said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about whether I die or not, but I know that your mother and son can't get better", and ran to the entrance of the village without waiting for Xiao Zheng to reply.

Xiao Zheng held his mother and kept comforting: "Auntie, you dissipate your anger, be careful of your body, Xiu'er is jealous that you are stronger than her, this evil girl said this purely to be angry with you, we can't be a child of her, you put your heart in your stomach first, sooner or later your son will give you the face to get back today's matter." Mother, you have to be lucky, she is fortunate not to be your daughter-in-law, if the son really marries her, then sooner or later she will one day make you angry to death, and the son will be killed, now we know her face, this is a good thing, and besides, she is the same as her mother, she is a scourge everywhere, and sooner or later it will not end well."

Xiao's mother calmed down under Xiao Zheng's repeated persuasion, and said to Xiao Zheng with tears: "Or my son, you have a vision, and my mother also wanted to persuade you at that time, let you endure and marry Xiu'er, our family will live a peaceful life, but fortunately you rejected her, otherwise it would be ......, alas!" ”。 After Xiao's mother finished speaking, she sighed, lowered her head and looked at the small cloth bag in her hand containing dozens of big coins, smiled bitterly and said, "I think the love between brothers and sisters is worth these dozens of dollars." Saying that he wanted to throw the small bag containing money to the side of the road, Xiao Zheng hurriedly took his mother's hand and said: "Ah Niang, this person is worthless, but what you have in your hand is a real copper coin, and the road for our mother and mother will still be long in the future, although you have some savings in your hand, but you can sit and eat empty, money is useful, we can't gamble with money, besides, you have to take good care of your body, Master Changjie didn't say that the child still has a great fortune, you can only enjoy the wealth of your son in the future if you take good care of your body."

Seeing that her son was reasonable, Xiao's mother patted her son's hand and said: "You child, I see that your temperament has changed a lot since you got better, and I don't know who you learned from.

The mother and son walked and stopped, walked for a long time, and arrived at a big town in the afternoon, Xiao Zheng asked Xiao's mother: "A-Niang, we have no relatives now, where are we going next?" ”。 Xiao's mother pondered for a long time before saying: "Now our mother and son are lonely, when your grandfather was alive, he had a colleague and your grandfather did not distinguish each other, he came to our house and your uncle has always treated him with the gift of an uncle, and later he was promoted to Luoyang, although the two places were separated, but the two still did not break off the relationship, that is, your grandfather resigned and returned to his hometown, and the two often have correspondence. After your grandfather died, he also made a special trip to pay tribute to your grandfather, and when he came, he also told our brothers and sisters that if there is a problem at home, you can go to Shenhe Bay in the southwest of Yushan County to find him, but Du Shi slowly cut off the news because of his evil with others. I think that man is also a loyal man, and we can only go to his house now, hoping that he will take us in." The mother and son had dinner in the town and stayed in the town for another night, and the next day Xiao's mother hired an ox cart and set off slowly to live in Yushan County.

Along the way, Xiao's mother intermittently told Xiao Zheng about her past, it turned out that Xiao's mother's grandfather's name was Du Yingze, who was a petty official in Jinyang City during the former Sui period, although the position was not high, but raising a family was still rich and surplus, Du Yingze had a son and a daughter who was Du Zhaoyuan and Xiao's mother, how could Du Zhaoyuan be born stupid, Du Yingze had an empty stomach of ink, Du Zhaoyuan just didn't get a drop, but his daughter, that is, Xiao Zheng's mother, was quite a little beautiful, and inherited his father's knowledge for seven points, Although Xiao's mother is not from a high background, she is also knowledgeable and literate, which was very rare at that time. Du Yingze saw that his son had no hope of studying, so he bought more than a dozen acres of land in his hometown village, built a house, and the family continued to stay in Jinyang as an errand. How can Yang Guang succeed to the throne after the continuous conquest of the people, coupled with the digging of the Grand Canal to make the people miserable, the eighteenth road anti-Wang Feng smoke everywhere, and Jinyang City is a place where soldiers must fight, often the head of the city changes the banner of the king, all walks of life you come and go to kill and kill, although Du Yingze is a petty official, but it is also difficult to survive, everyone you fight for me, don't say to be an official, it is good to be able to save your life. Seeing that the troubled times could not be safe, Du Yingze resigned from his official position and returned to the village to avoid chaos, after coming back, Du Yingze told his son Du Zhaoyuan that he married Du Shi, and he wanted to live like this, but this person is not as good as the sky, Du Zhaoyuan married less than a year, Du Yingze and his wife were sick one after another, first Du Yingze's wife passed away, and Du Yingze also died in less than half a year, leaving only Du Zhaoyuan's family and Xiao's mother to rely on each other. Du Shi saw that no one was in charge, and he could be the master of the house, so he became rampant, she saw that Du Zhaoyuan Mu Na was good at bullying and did not dare to say anything, and gradually revealed his vicious temperament, and when he bullied Du Zhaoyuan, he continued to squeeze Xiao's mother, today she said that she couldn't cook, tomorrow she said that she couldn't work, and she picked her nose and eyes to see that Xiao's mother was not in the right way, Du Zhaoyuan didn't dare to put one after seeing Du bully her sister, Du Zhaoyuan and Du Shi were married for two years, and they sold Xiao's mother to a big family in Chang'an City to be a maid, Although Xiao Zheng asked his mother twice about the future, this was his mother's sad past, and Xiao Zheng stopped asking when he saw that his mother was no longer silent.

Less than three or four days after leaving Du Yuan, I slowly found that more and more people on the official road behind me were going to the direction of Chang'an City, there were rich and noble people riding horses and cars, and more people were still carrying burdens and walking. Xiao Zheng's mother and son were walking on the road, and saw a cart of things in a frame car behind them, and a few people pushed the cart and hurried up, Xiao's mother glanced at the people in the car, and suddenly exclaimed: "Second uncle, where are you going?" ”。 Xiao Zheng saw that it was the second uncle of his own family who spoke up for Xiao's mother when Du Yuan was in power, and the second uncle Du was hurrying away with the family. After he saw Xiao's mother, he also exclaimed in surprise: "Zhi'er girl, where are you two going?" ”。 Xiao's mother replied: "Second uncle, I was going to Yushan County in Chang'an City, why did your old man bring the whole family here, is there anything going on at home?" ”。

The second uncle of the Du family sighed and said: "Zhi'er, or your girl's fate, your mother and son were driven out for two days, Liu Wuzhou went straight to Jinyang with soldiers and horses, I heard that Liu Wuzhou brought tens of thousands of people over, and now Jinyang City has been surrounded, I think that Jinyang has long been beaten down by others, fortunately we got the news early, all the people in our village have hid out to avoid chaos, this is not our family is going to go to Chang'an City's brother's house to avoid a period of time, and then go back to the village when the war subsides."

Mother Xiao was shocked when she heard this, and hurriedly grabbed the second uncle of the Du family and asked, "What about my brother?" How is their family? The second uncle of the Du family said: "I don't get along with their family, when we ran out, his family was also packing up things, after I ran out, there were bold descendants hiding in the mountains and looking out, and the letter brought back said that our village was all set on fire by those rebels, and the houses you built were also set on fire by the rebels. God knows where their family went, the Du family hurt you like this, how many people in the village poked her in the back, that wicked woman had better be hacked to death by thieves and soldiers, phew! Zhi'er, if you can go as soon as possible, your mother and son should hurry up, the more you go to Chang'an City, the safer it will be, I will go first", the second uncle of the Du family hurried away again after speaking. Xiao's mother lowered her head when she heard the news and didn't speak for a long time, and when she raised her head, she let out a long breath, and then got in the car with Xiao Zheng and hurriedly walked towards Yushan County.