Chapter 40: The Events of the Year

Back then

Time goes back to thirteen years ago, when Yu Buregret was not a scholar, Xiao Xun was still a little marquis, and the woman they liked was not married. And for some reason, they went to the border, but because they got lost, they ended up in a farmhouse. Zhoujiazhuang is a small town on the border, and there are not many villagers in the town, only about ten households.

At that time, Bai Yunsheng and Bai Yunxiao were not called by this name, they were called Zhou Sheng and Zhou Xiao, their father was an ordinary trader, and their mother was a famous beauty in the neighborhood, and the family lived happily and peacefully. On that day, they received Yu Buregret and the three of them, and Zhou Sheng liked Yu Buregret's character very much, so he often asked him to learn martial arts with him.

Zhou Sheng's mother was an extremely gentle woman, she touched her little son's head dotingly, and gently admonished:

"Ah Sheng, big brother still has something, don't bother him, if you want to learn martial arts, my mother will ask your father to find you an uncle who knows martial arts tomorrow to teach you, okay?"

Zhou Xiao, who was seven years old at the time, pulled his mother's skirt with some jealousy and said:

"Mother, Mother, I also want to learn"

"Okay, good, you all learn, you all learn"

At that time, Zhou Xiao and Zhou Sheng naively thought that this kind of happiness could last forever, their father sold goods during the day and came back at night, and their mother washed her hands and soup, sewing and mending her life. He occasionally sulked because his mother was too partial to Zhou Sheng, and he would be happy for a long time because of his mother's praise.

It wasn't until later that my father's business became bigger and bigger, and they also moved from the border to a small county town in the interior, where they lived in a big house and ate delicacies from the mountains and seas.

Yu Buregret had already married his beloved woman as his wife at that time, because he had the grace of staying overnight back then, and Zhou Xiao's father was indeed very outstanding in running a business, so Yu Buregret often opened letters to ask his father to help buy things.

At that time, in addition to Zhou Xiao's father, there was also a vendor in the town, an extremely selfish trader Ji Chip. The store opened by Ji Chip and the Zhou family are also competitors, and the two business grabbing are in full swing, although they have their own successes and failures, they can barely get along, until later, the two families are completely feuded and even make Ji Chip's sword towards Zhou Xiao's family appear.

That person is a senior official who has returned from the capital to his hometown, and in this small town, he is an extremely respectable and stammering figure. Zhou Xiao's father didn't regret some things he didn't regret, and he didn't understand it very well, so he often went to the respected old man to discuss, and after a long time, he naturally had some friendship. Today you give me some food, tomorrow I will give you some knick-knacks, and it can be regarded as harmony with each other.

The old man had a granddaughter, sixteen years old, still in the boudoir, her appearance was delicate and beautiful, Ji Chip fell in love with her at a glance, and wanted to marry her home as a wife.

He had visited the mansion many times, and had seen the woman a few times, and when he heard that the woman liked poetry and books, he picked up the books that he didn't know how to throw into the corner, and in just a few days, he gained a lot of knowledge.

Because he liked the woman, he began to try to read, write words, paint, play the piano, and learn to do some elegant things, so that the granddaughter of the old man could take a fancy to him, and it was better to marry him.

Reading was boring and boring, for the sake of the woman, he persevered, and played crutches under the brush, for the sake of the woman, he persevered, playing the piano messily, for the sake of the woman, he endured silently, but in the end, his hope was dashed.

He thought that the woman would refuse the county official's request to invite him to travel with him, but he was surprised to find that the woman actually agreed, she agreed!

Seeing this scene, Ji Chip suddenly felt like a dead heart, his heart ached, he was like a walking corpse who had lost his soul, wandering behind the two, he saw the delicate and shy smile on the woman's face, and saw the gentle but shy smile of the county official.

The county official Ji Chip knows, is a scholar who was sent here by the saint two years ago, his parents are alive, his family is quite solid, and his character is not bad, whether it is a trial or a case, it is reasonable and evidence-based to conclude the conclusion, and even mediated the conflict between the Ji family and the Zhou family.

Hearing that he was the only son in the family and had no brothers and sisters, and his parents were gentle and upright people, Ji Chip asked himself if he was a woman, he would also want to marry him. However, he is not a woman, what should he do if the woman is married? How could he have worked so hard for a woman? How could he have been so willing to be busy with things he was not good at for a person? Therefore he was angry, and therefore he was unwilling.

He took advantage of the woman's exit and deliberately blocked her way, but the woman seemed to have forgotten him, so she became angry and rebuked him. He was accustomed to hearing the vulgar words of the market, and now the girl scolded him, all of them were crepe, and he was fascinated by it. is worthy of the woman he fancies, even scolding people is so elegant, he expressed his heart to the woman, saying that he would marry her and let her wait for him for a few years. Before the words fell, he was kicked away, and when he looked closely, it was the guard next to the county official who kicked him away.

The county magistrate looked at the woman with a worried face, and although the woman did not despise him, she also said coldly:

"I have a marriage contract with Cao Chen, the two families have already exchanged Geng stickers, in a few months, they will marry Cao Chen, the love of the son, the little woman is ashamed, and I hope that the son will find another lover, don't entangle with me"

As soon as the woman's voice fell, she was taken to the sedan chair by the county official, and then, the county official came, although he did not embarrass him, but his eyes were extremely cold and contemptuous.

The high-minded, victor-like look stung him, and he was angry, but he didn't dare to vent it, so he had to go back to the house.

Later, his business was suppressed, and then plummeted, his mother was ashamed and reprimanded because she heard that he was pestering the fiancée of the county official, and even went to the county official's house to apologize, although the county official did not embarrass his mother, but told him that he did not want to see Ji Chip.

Therefore, he bought an ancestral house, bought a shop, like a lost dog, and left in a gloomy manner, and on the day he left, the woman was getting married, and he heard people on both sides of the street say that this marriage was facilitated by Zhou Xiao's father.

Anger filled his entire body like erupting magma, he forced himself to calm down, after settling his mother, he sneaked into the backyard of the Zhou family, put poison in the meal, took advantage of the dead of night, slipped out of the shadows, and stretched out the butcher's knife to the group of people who had no power to resist.

He can't kill the county magistrate, that will make the beloved woman hate him? Therefore, he can only kill Zhou Xiao's family, whoever asked him to introduce his beloved woman to others, and who let him lose his love, then, he killed his whole family as a reward.

It's just that what he didn't know was that although the poison he gave made people worse than death, they had no power to resist and were even extremely torturous, but that day, the two children of the Zhou family, one did not eat because he was punished, and the other ate too little because he was not too hungry, and survived by mistake, which led to Bai Yunxiao's revenge ten years later.