After several twists and turns, the ferry finally berthed at Zhenjiang Wharf in Qiu County. Zhang Shaofei's mother and son got off the boat with their luggage and walked in the direction of Taizhen Village in the afterglow of the sunset.

When Zhang Shaofei's mother and son left their homeland to join Pei Zhong in the West Sea, Zhang Shaofei was still a weak child, and six years passed in a blink of an eye, and Zhang Shaofei had reached the age of a child with his hair tied.

Nearly two or three miles of homecoming mountain road twists and turns, through the mountains and across the gorge off-road. The sunset, as if stopping at the West Mountain, illuminates the way home for Zhang Shaofei's mother and son.

Crossed the foot of Mount Tai and entered the field path. The rice in the field was already golden, and it was bent down heavily, like chanting a harvest song in the gentle evening breeze, and it was more like nodding to welcome the return of Zhang Shaofei's mother and son.

The sunset finally put away the last rays of afterglow.

As night fell, the lights of the houses in the village came on one after another. The stars above the field path and the lights of the village complement each other, which is full of poetry and extra Zen warmth.

Ah, at last we have reached the edge of the village!

A cold moon hung in the air, and the silver moonlight sprinkled on the sleeping Taizhen Village.

Wang Shaoxiang looked at this familiar village with emotion, everything here was too easy to arouse her reverie......

Suddenly, the huge longan tree by the small river at the edge of the village came into view......

This clear river, this huge longan tree...... Wang Shaoxiang didn't feel strange at all. Touching the scene, she couldn't help but think of the years that had passed here......

The curtain of memory slowly opened, bringing Wang Shaoxiang back to the days and nights she spent here......

After Zhang Jinzhao was relegated back to Taizhen Village at the foot of Taishan Mountain in Qiu County, he became mentally depressed, and when Zhang Shaofei was four years old, her husband unfortunately drove to the west......

Wang Shaoxiang is an orphan and widow, guarding her husband's family property before his death. But it aroused the jealousy of Huang Tianlei, the rich man in the village, and made it difficult in every way.

Fortunately, the local respected teacher Lu Xueru came forward to mediate, and he was able to keep the peace and sound.

Lu Xueru is an old pedant, born in Jinshi, has no intention of career, runs a private school in his hometown, and only teaches the book of holy words, and is a famous teacher within a radius of dozens of miles. married his wife Chen, and gave birth to five golden flowers: Lu Tai, Lu Zhen, Lu Hua, Lu Xiang, and Lu Lan. The four daughters of Tai, Zhen, Hua and Xiang have been married, and Lu Lan is still young and waiting for the word boudoir.

In the autumn when Lu Huilan was four years old, she followed her fourth sister to the river to wash clothes, and was accidentally bitten by a poisonous snake and was rescued by Zhang Shaofei. Since then, the Lu and Li families have begun to have friendly contacts.

Lu Huilan's father went to the school to teach, she stayed at home with her mother, and sometimes saw her mother sitting in front of the loom "squeak" busy weaving, so she sneaked out to play with Zhang Shaofei.

Wang Shaoxiang saw that Lu Huilan was born Bingxue smart and very endearing, so he didn't stop him.

After Lu Huilan's father and mother found out, not only did they not stop it, but asked the little girl to invite Zhang Shaofei to come over to play.

Lu Xueru knew that Zhang Shaofei was the benefactor of his family, and his youngest daughter liked to play with him, maybe this was fate.

Lu Xueru has no children under his knees, and his youngest daughter is two years younger than Zhang Shaofei, and he is at the right age.

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The past has come to Wang Shaoxiang's heart.

The night in the mountain village is quiet, and there is no sound around except for the "rustling" sound of the longan tree made by the wind.

I don't know when, in the hazy farmhouse in the distance of the village, with a few dog barks, a black shadow attached to the silver moonlight looms into Zhang Shaofei's sight......

As the black shadow moved forward, Zhang Shaofei couldn't help but be a little surprised, and then he was terrified!

"Ah, there are ghosts?" Zhang Shaofei subconsciously let out a scream.

At night, I don't know if it's cold or afraid, Zhang Shaofei stood there, a little shivering.

Zhang Shaofei stared nervously at the black shadow, and gradually, he found that it was a vigorous and fierce black dog.

As a result, Zhang Shaofei's entire nerves immediately calmed down from a moment of horror.

Soon, the big black dog had rushed to Zhang Shaofei's mother and son, barking "Wang".

The barking of the big black dog pulled Wang Shaoxiang back to the scene in front of him from the lingering memories of the past.

The big black dog stopped in front of Wang Shaoxiang's mother and son, sniffed a few times with his nose, and recognized the two strangers as from the village.

The big black dog circled around Wang Shaoxiang and his mother and son three times, waving his tail and nodding, as if he was saying something.

The big black dog jumped a few times, then wagged his tail and walked towards the village.

It turned out that this big black dog was a puppy of Huang Tianlei, the rich man in the village, six years ago, and now that he has grown up, the dog has become the "guard" of the village.

Wang Shaoxiang looked at the big black dog that disappeared in the hazy moonlight, rubbed her eyes with her hands, looked up at the night sky, and half of the bright moon hung low above Taizhen Village, as if greeting her on behalf of the villagers: Zhang Shaofei's mother and son, who walked out of Taizhen Village, welcome you back to your hometown......

As the saying goes: pigs come to be poor, dogs come to get rich. Wang Shaoxiang couldn't help but wake up suddenly! Is this providential? She looked at the big black dog in the distance, her heart beat wildly, the blood in her body began to boil, and all kinds of reveries were like the night mist in front of her, gently and softly, drifting in her mind. Now, in the depths of her soul, it was difficult to tell whether it was really an illusion, so that she forgot about herself in a moment of trance, and fell into the clouds and mist of five miles......

Finally arrived at the door, Zhang Shaofei took the key from Wang Shaoxiang's hand, walked to the door, and saw a sieve-sized spider web hanging from the eaves of the gate, and a pair of male and female spiders were estrus on the web.

Zhang Shaofei bypassed the cobweb, opened the lock with the key, and pushed the gate hard, the cobwebs on the eaves of the gate were broken, and dust flew everywhere.

Zhang Shaofei pushed the door in, the hub "squeaked" twice, the door opened, and a burst of silver light followed the gap of the door from narrow to wide, and gradually swayed from the ground of the hall to the shrine of the temple.

There was a spirit plaque standing on the shrine, with the name of her late husband Zhang Jinzhao written on it, which caught Zhang Shaofei's eyes.

The small table in front of the spirit card was covered with a thick layer of dust. This means that no one has come to the house for a long time to worship incense and burn paper.

When Wang Shaoxiang saw this scene, she burst into tears and choked up with grief.

After Wang Shaoxiang mourned, he silently stood in front of Zhang Jinzhao's spirit card, took out ingots, candles, and incense from the drawer of the shrine, lit them and inserted them into the incense burner placed in front of the spirit card.

Subsequently, Wang Shaoxiang asked Zhang Shaofei to kneel on the futon and set the money on fire.

In the blink of an eye, the money burned. At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew in the house, and there was a "rustling" sound.

The burned money turned into black ashes, and it swirled around the house, eerie and bleak, as if it had arrived in the underworld. But Zhang Shaofei was not afraid, because he was worshipping Daddy, and Daddy would protect him and Auntie.

Wang Shaoxiang knelt on the futon, faced her husband's spirit card, and sobbed in a low voice to tell her husband about her and Fei'er's experience of leaving their hometown and leaving the well in the past few years......

The cry, from the low sound at the beginning, slowly became louder, echoing in the house, wafting out through the cracks in the gate, echoing in the silent night sky of Taizhen Village.

Zhang Shaofei's mother and son returned to their home after many years of absence on a moonlit night, and saw Zhang Jinzhao's spirit card on the hall and the thick layer of dust on the small table in front of the hall.

The sound of crying alarmed the neighbors in the village.

Uncle Zhao, a neighbor, was just about to go to bed, when he suddenly faintly heard the sound of "yi" opening the door from the isolation house, and at first thought that he had heard it wrong, so he went to bed without paying much attention. In the haze, there was another choking and mourning sound, so he got out of bed in his cloak and saw a fire in the isolation room, thinking that Wang Shaoxiang's mother and son had returned.

Uncle Zhao stepped forward and knocked on the door and shouted, "Is Sister-in-law Zhang back?" ”

Wang Shaoxiang heard a shout outside the door, stopped choking and mourning, walked out to open the door, and saw that it was Uncle Zhao, a neighbor in isolation, and said embarrassedly: "Uncle Zhao, I haven't seen you for several years, how are you?" Our mother and son had just returned, and they didn't dare to disturb the villagers when they saw the night. ”

Uncle Zhao said a little complainingly: "Sister-in-law Zhang, if you say this, you will see the outside, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors......"

Uncle Zhao looked at Zhang Shaofei standing next to Wang Shaoxiang, looked at Wang Shaoxiang, and asked, "Sister-in-law Zhang, this is Shaofei, right?" ”

Wang Shaoxiang replied: "Uncle Zhao, he is Fei'er." ”

Zhang Shaofei stepped forward, bowed to Uncle Zhao, and said respectfully, "Hello grandpa." ”

Uncle Zhao stepped forward and took Zhang Shaofei's hand with love, and said with emotion: "I haven't seen you for a few years, Fei'er has grown so tall, you came home so late, and you haven't eaten yet, right?" ”

"Hmm." Zhang Shaofei nodded honestly.

"Let's get me something to eat first." Uncle Zhao said with concern.

Wang Shaoxiang was embarrassed: "It's the middle of the night, why are you embarrassed to come to your house to disturb you......"

Uncle Zhao said indiscriminately: "Sister-in-law Zhang, don't see outside, besides, Fei'er is growing up now, don't starve, let's go." ”

Wang Shaoxiang saw that Uncle Zhao was still enthusiastic, the two families were neighbors, and they usually shared half of all good things for everyone to eat, and Fei'er had won the love of their whole family since she was a child, so she was embarrassed to push it back.

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The next morning, Wang Shaoxiang got up and opened the duffel bag, and wanted to take out the bag of souvenirs (biscuits, candies and other foods) brought back in Hepu and distribute them to the villagers to taste, but her hand touched the luggage compartment, felt a little strange, opened it, and found a small yellow bag containing a bag of things.

Wang Shaoxiang thought to herself: She seems to have never seen this bag of things, what is it?

She opened it and couldn't help but let out an "ah" sound: "Silver!" ”

This bag of silver was secretly placed in her luggage by Zhang Longxing's wife, Xu.

A feeling that is not family affection is better than family affection, mixed with parting feelings that hit her heart like a tide......

Wang Shaoxiang only felt full of blood. Born in this troubled world, there is still true love in the world!

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When the villagers heard that Zhang Shaofei's mother and son had returned after a long absence, they all came to say hello.

After hearing the news, Lu Xueru and his daughter came over with salt, oil, rice and vegetables, and fell in love with the same family......

Zhang Shaofei's mother and son successfully returned to Taizhen Village after many years of absence. Kiss or not, hometown people; Ripe or not, hometown soil.

Wang Shaoxiang saw that this old house that had not been inhabited for a long time was really dilapidated, and the roof had already been blown out of the open air by Dafeng, which was really uninhabitable, so he took out the bag of silver money given by Xu's Xiang, purchased building materials, demolished the original old house, and built a new one.

With the help of the villagers, the new house was quickly completed, and Wang Shaoxiang chose an auspicious day to enter the house.

In order to thank the neighbors for their help and care, on the day of the new house, Wang Shaoxiang invited the villagers to come to drink the house wine for free. Of course, it is indispensable to invite Lu Xueru's family.

In the township, who didn't know the inside story, looking at Wang Shaoxiang's newly completed new house, such a big feast, I thought that Wang Shaoxiang had gone out for a few years and made a lot of money and returned to his hometown!

And who knows what's going on?

After the feast, after paying for the building of the house and the banquet, there was not much silver left in the bag.