In Yang Village, the Zheng family used to be a single family and a single surname, but now it is flourishing.

Yangcun is located in the loess dang of Lixia River, it is surrounded by water on three sides, only the east side is connected with the official road, and it is only more than 200 miles away from the ancient city of Jiangdu.

It was an afternoon a few decades ago, not long after the end of the Huaihai Campaign, and a woman with small feet in a cheongsam came to the head of Yang Village.

Seeing that she is in her early twenties, she claims to be Wang Dakou's niece, named Xiugu, and now that her parents are dead, she came to Yang Village to join her family.

In Yang Village, there is no family surnamed Yang, and most of them are surnamed Wang, as for how did the name of the village come from? Accounts differ and opinions vary.

It is not difficult to find that the most glorious moment of the surname Yang was Yang Jian, the founder of the Sui Dynasty.

But the good times didn't last long, and the Sui Dynasty fell violently at the hands of the second-generation successor Yang Guang, and he was also in a different place in Jiangdu.

Some people speculate that the descendants of Yang Guang who slipped through the net fled to this point, and there was Yang Village. In order to avoid pursuit, the surname Yang was changed to the surname Wang. The king, above 10,000 people, the emperor also.

The surname Wang is in Yang Village, passed down from generation to generation, and some people are young but quite high, and Wang Dakou is one of them.

Wang Dakou's parents are not alive, only one sister is married in other places, since he went out to join the army, he has not returned, life and death are uncertain. What to do? To take or not to receive, to keep or not to keep? The villagers were in trouble.

It stands to reason that she should be taken in, but now it is a cold winter, and the family does not have too much surplus food, how can she support her aunt? Besides, where to live is a big question.

At this moment, a homeless man on the side of the road cried out, "If the girl doesn't dislike it, come with me, I have a place for her to live, and I can beg for food to feed her." ”

When did this homeless man come to Yang Village, the villagers were not very impressed. I only know that he dragged his lame, went out early and returned late, and stayed overnight in a thatched hut on the embankment of the Sanwang River.

Xiu Gu wiped the tears from her eyes, and couldn't help but look carefully at the homeless man in front of her, only to see that his clothes were so sloppy that he couldn't see the original color, and he was tattered, and he could only cover his body but couldn't keep out the cold.

Look at his face again, dirty, estimated to be about thirty years old, but not ugly, and between his eyebrows, there is a heroic aura.

At this time, someone raised an objection, saying that if a girl lives with a single homeless man, who can guarantee her safety, and what if she is bullied at night?

This is a very real problem, after all, Aunt Xiu is a relative of the Wang family, and in terms of seniority, she is the youngest grandmother.

Xiu Gu, who had nowhere else to go, said resolutely at this time, "Thank you relatives for taking me to live in Yang Village." As for safety, it's not a problem, I'm a woman, I'm going to get married sooner or later, as long as he can support me, I have no regrets. ”

When it came to this, no one said anything more. The parties have planned to promise each other at any time, and others are not careful.

No one asked her where she was from, and no one questioned her identity.

Many years later, the witnesses of the scene woke up like a dream, and the woman who could still wear a cheongsam in winter was by no means an ordinary woman.

At this time, the cold winter of the ninth month, the cold north wind is a knife, and on Xiugu's face, it cuts one knife after another.

She didn't cry or flinch, and just like that, Xiugu followed the homeless man to the thatched hut on the embankment of the Three Kings River.

This thatched hut was originally built by fishermen, but it was abandoned after fishermen begged for a living elsewhere. Due to disrepair and no one has lived in it for many years, it has been dilapidated, and it may be blown down by the wind at any time.

No one knows, and no one understands, how Xiu Gu survived that night in a thatched hut that leaked around without being frozen to death.