"But......" Su Nianyun looked at Xiao Changfeng puzzled, "How did this happen?" ”

"It all started when I was six years old......

Facing Su Nianyun's face full of doubts, Xiao Changfeng fell into his own memories.

At that time, the young Xiao Hu had not yet accumulated military exploits, and was just a small soldier in the army.

In his hometown to the south, his wife Zhao Yuan is pregnant with his second child in her womb.

But from the time she had a happy pulse until the birth of her second son, she never received any letters from her husband.

Thinking that something had happened to her husband, Zhao Yuan asked people to inquire about her husband's whereabouts in the army.

Later, a fellow villager inquired about her in the army, saying that Xiao Hu had been promoted to general.

When Zhao Yuan was happy for her husband, the fellow villager went on to say that after Xiao Hu was promoted to general, he immediately married a noble girl in Beijing, and he should not return to his hometown.

This news, for Zhao Yuan, who had just given birth, was tantamount to a bolt from the blue.

She couldn't believe that her husband could be such a person.

So, she entrusted her eldest son Xiao Changfeng to a neighbor to help take care of her, and she took her unweaned child to the capital to find her husband.

Her youngest son hadn't had time to choose a name yet, and she was full of hope that after meeting her husband, she would let him name his son, and she firmly believed that it was just a misunderstanding for her husband to marry another.

However, after Zhao Yuan left, there was no news.

Xiao Changfeng was eight years old at the neighbor's house, and seeing that the Xiao family and his wife had not heard from him, the neighbor was really unwilling to take care of Xiao Changfeng's oil bottle, so he kicked him out of the house.

At that time, Xiao Changfeng had no relatives, and thought that his mother would go to the capital to find his father and never return, so he begged all the way to the capital.

In just two years, Xiao Hu has been promoted from a general to a deputy general.

The little beggar Xiao Changfeng entered Beijing and asked someone casually, and he knew the location of Xiao Hu's mansion.

Since he was a child, coupled with the bumps and experiences from his hometown to the capital, eight-year-old Xiao Changfeng is extremely precocious.

He didn't find out where his father was, and then recklessly rushed into his mansion to confess his relatives.

Because he decided that his mother would not be in his father's mansion.

If the mother really found the father and was with him, it was impossible for the mother not to come back to pick her up for two years.

So, Xiao Changfeng monitored Xiao Hu's movements outside the Xiao Mansion, and at the same time asked others about the situation in Xiao Hu's Mansion.

Things turned out to be as he thought, his mother was not in the Xiao Mansion at all, and it was his wife Wei Shi who was marrying in the Xiao Mansion who presided over the overall situation.

And Webster also gave birth to a son to Xiao Hu two years ago, and Xiao Hu loves this son very much.

At that time, Xiao Changfeng did not have much resentment towards Xiao Hu, who abandoned his wife and children.

Because he has a memory, he has no shadow of his father who joined the army, so Xiao Changfeng doesn't care very much about whether he is his own mother's husband or someone else's mother's husband.

What he really cared about was where her mother and brother had gone.

So he begged in Beijing while looking for his mother's traces.

In the Xiao Mansion, he did not relax, and used the money from begging to buy off the maid in the Xiao Mansion many times, trying to find out a trace of his mother's news.

But the financial resources he begged for were limited, and the people he could buy were all people who did rough work, and he didn't buy any of the people around Webster.

The whereabouts of his mother and younger brother became a mystery.

In the end, there was no news of his mother inside and outside the capital, and Xiao Changfeng had no choice but to sell himself into the Xiao Mansion.

At first, his purpose in entering the Xiao Mansion was very simple, that is, in case his mother was delayed by something on the way to the capital, she would definitely come to the Xiao Mansion after she rested, so he waited for news in the Xiao Mansion.

On the other hand, he wanted to see his father's attitude, whether he remembered his wife and son who he had abandoned in his hometown to the south.

However, the two purposes for which he entered the mansion disappointed him in the end.

Because when Xiao Hu was at home, he never mentioned the slightest thing about his wife, and it seems that he completely abandoned that home.

There is also the fact that the mother and younger brother did not appear from beginning to end.

Xiao Changfeng couldn't help but be disheartened, after working in Xiao Mansion for more than half a year, seeing the intimacy between Xiao Hu and his son Xiao Lei, he was even more shocked, so he decided to leave this sad place and return to his hometown.

The turning point of events came on the night when he packed his bags and prepared to leave.

Xiao Changfeng came to the backyard of the Xiao Mansion for the last time, said goodbye to everything familiar around him, and wanted to take one last look at Xiao Lei, who was as big as his younger brother.

I didn't want to, so I saw the scene of Webster quietly leaving the house from the backyard and burning paper and incense in an inconspicuous house.

Because Wei had guards around him, Xiao Changfeng couldn't really tell what Wei said, and after the people left, he slowly walked into the mansion.

The yard was empty, and it looked like it had not been inhabited for a long time.

The paper ashes on the ground scattered, swirling on the ground, and led him into the main room.

Seeing the furnishings in the house, the young man Xiao Changfeng was stunned.

Because the arrangement of the items and utensils inside is exactly the same as his mother's habits.

In particular, my mother is good at tailoring, and she uses scissors a lot, so she always wraps the scissor handles a few times with soft cotton cloth, so that she doesn't grind her hands.

Although there are also women who do tailoring next to them, Zhao Yuan and others have different methods of tying cotton cloth.

She likes to tie a red thread when the cotton strip is tied to the scissor handle.

Once upon a time in her hometown, when a bunch of women sat together to tailor, it was easy to take the wrong scissors, so she always left red silk threads on the handles of the scissors as a mark.

The moment he saw the scissors, Xiao Changfeng understood that this was the place where his mother had lived.

The next day, he began to ask his neighbors about the whereabouts of his mother and younger brother.

People say that there were people in this house three or four years ago.

Many people have no impression of who used to live in the house, because the people who lived in it rarely went out.

Finally, an elderly woman recalled, "It seems that there is a mother and son living in it." ”

"Auntie, do you really remember that it was a mother and son? Do you know where they have gone now? ”

The old woman shook her head, "I just remember that the child who was a few months old had a sudden illness one day...... Later, I heard the young woman say that the child was gone...... I haven't seen her since! ”

"Kid...... Gone? Hearing this, Xiao Changfeng's eyes widened in disbelief.

Could it be that he saw Webster come to worship, and it was his brother who worshipped?

With this speculation, Xiao Changfeng temporarily suspended the idea of returning to his hometown.

He returned to the Xiao Mansion to work and continued to inquire about his mother's whereabouts.

This time, he decided that Merriam-Webster knew his mother's whereabouts, so he went to work near Merriam-Webster's yard.

Later, he used all his wages to please a young girl next to Webster.

The girl finally revealed the secret to Xiao Changfeng, "There was a mother and son who came to find the master back then, but the master was on the expedition at that time, and it was the mother and son who were received by the lady......"

"Later, I knew that the child of the mother and son died first, and then the mother also died of depression, and I didn't have time to wait for the master to return to Beijing!"