When Wang Zhen's wife and mother heard that Wang Zhen was killed by the enemy halfway, she cried bitterly for a while and was heartbroken. The old mother was originally old and sick, but after hearing that she had lost her son, she was even more sad, and she couldn't afford to get sick, and passed away within a few days.

After Wang Zhen left, his deputy general Tian Zhong came to visit his wife, children and mother from time to time according to Wang Zhen's instructions. After Wang Zhen's mother passed away, Tian Zhong was even more busy, helping the Cui family to take care of the old man's funeral. Cui's does have a bit of a posture, Tian Zhong originally had illusions, and after learning that Wang Zhen couldn't come back, Tian Zhong became even more interested in Cui's.

After the funeral was completed, in the evening, only Wang Xu and Cui were left alone in the house, Wang Xu pushed the sad mother, and suddenly shouted softly:

"Mother!Mother┄┄"

Cui Shi heard that there was something different in his son's voice, so he opened his eyes and looked at his son and asked:

"Do you have anything to say to your mother?"

"Mother, now that my father is gone, we are lonely, I think Vice General Tian has ulterior motives for his mother, does my mother know in her heart?" Wang Xu's eyes widened and he said to his mother.

Wang Xu was about eleven or twelve years old, Cui Shi looked at his son's shining eyes, and his heart was suddenly shocked, as if he had an understanding, so he touched Wang Xu's head and said:

"Although my son is young, he can see people, and my mother is so happy!"

"The son is not young, and the son can share the worries of his mother!" Wang Xu looked at Cui Shi and said.

When Cui Shi heard this, there was a little more sigh in his heart, and the mother and son snuggled up to each other for a while, and Cui Shi secretly calculated in his heart, feeling that this Deputy General Tian was taking advantage of the danger of others and had a bad heart. After a while, Cui Shi made up his mind, got up and packed his clothes, and took advantage of the night, the mother and son left the hut.

The two passed through several villages overnight, and in the middle of the night, they saw an unmanned changing shed on the way, and they went on to spend the night. Early the next morning, the mother and son went on the road and headed all the way in the direction of Weiguo.

Cui's maiden family is in the era of patriotism and chaos, Cui's has not been back for more than ten years, and she doesn't know the situation of her mother's family at all, but she has nowhere to go, no matter what, only her mother's family can reassure her. The mother and son stayed overnight and walked for two days, because of Cui's appearance, many men turned their heads and stared along the way. After all, Cui is the wife of a general, and he has not worked hard for more than ten years, and he is in the prime of life at this time, so he is quite a woman, so he is inevitably eye-catching. Although Wang Xu was young, he saw it all the way, so he stopped and said to Cui's:

"Mother, stop, my son will disguise you!"

After saying that, he deducted some mud on the side of the road, wiped it on Cui's face, and wiped some on his body. Cui's is not a fool, he naturally understands what his son meant, and he is secretly happy in his heart, his son's intelligence and carefulness make her feel that it is worth it to endure more hardship.

The mother and son walked for another seven or eight days, and finally arrived at the territory of Weiguo. Cui Shi found her hometown all the way, saw her childhood village that she had been away from for a long time, suddenly quickened her pace, and ran to her home with tears in her eyes. Wang Xu followed a short distance behind, and saw his mother looking at a dilapidated thatched house from afar, and suddenly stopped.

Cui Shi slowly approached the house, and saw that the house was dilapidated, obviously no one lived in it for a long time, and walked around the inside and out, and couldn't help crying bitterly. Wang Xu looked around, walked around, waited for his mother to cry for a while, and approached to comfort him:

"Mother, don't be sad, it's a good place, and the son likes it very much!"

Wang Xu grew up in the city since he was a child, and now he is in the village, looking at all this with the mentality of a child, he really likes it, so he has some happy emotions in his words. When Cui Shi heard this, he stopped crying and raised his head, and said to his son:

"My son is so good, now I have to suffer with my mother!"

While the two were talking, a man next to them heard a cry and walked over in search of the cry. When the man saw Cui's, he was stunned at first, and then said happily:

"But Miss Wan'er┄┄?" Wan'er is Cui's maiden name when she was in her mother's house, and this person is Cui's childhood neighbor, so she is called a girl.

"It's Wan'er, you're Brother Weiwen?" Cui Shi wiped his tears and forced a smile.

"Exactly, I'm Wei Wen!" The man was very happy that Cui remembered him, looked at Wang Xu again, and then asked:

"Why did you come back? But something happened in Zhou Guocheng?"

"Exactly!" replied Tries.

The two then talked for a while, and Cui asked about the family, and Wei Wen answered one by one, telling Cui that her father and brother were no longer alive. Cui Shi was sad for a while, and told the unfortunate things in Luoyi's family to this man named Wei Wen.

Wei Wen is Cui's close neighbor, an honest countryman, a few years older than Cui's, although he is nearly forty years old, because his family is poor and has no ability, so he has not yet married a wife. Wei Wen liked her very much when Cui was in her mother's house, but the toad couldn't eat swan meat, although Wei Wen had a heart, he just kept this wishful thinking in his heart. Now that Cui's is back from trouble, although he has a son, Wei Wen does not dislike her in his heart, but feels that he has one more chance, so he comes to visit Cui's every day, asks for warmth, and takes the initiative to help Cui's inside and outside the work.

Three months have passed, and with the help of Wei Wen, although Cui's and his son's life is compact, they are also full of warmth and slowly stabilized. Although Cui's time away from home, after all, she was born and raised in her hometown, and she quickly became acquainted with the villagers. The men couldn't help but covet Cui's beauty, and occasionally approached Lala's homely routine, and when Wei Wen saw it, he drove people away with scolding, which made the other villagers laugh.

Wei Wen's care and liking for Cui's are written on his face, and Cui's heart is not unaware. Whenever it was night, Wei Wen often stayed at Cui's house and refused to leave, until Cui's took the initiative to ask him to leave, and he was very reluctant to leave. Sometimes Cui's rested, and when he heard someone walking around outside the door, Cui's knew in his heart that the person outside must be Wei Wen. Although Wei Wen has a heart, he has never done anything to Cui's family, and he has never even said a word of flirtation, so Cui's care and help for him rarely refuses.

In the evening of this day, Cui Shi was a little tired after a day's work, and was about to rest early, when he saw Wei Wen coming over with a strange expression. Cui Shi invited Wei Wen to sit down in the house and poured him a bowl of boiled water, Wei Wen said embarrassedly:

"Wan'er, don't be so polite, let me serve you in the future!"

"Where did Brother Wei say, you take care of our mother and son like this, just a bowl of boiling water, where is polite!" Cui said with a smile, knowing the meaning of Wei Wen's next sentence in his heart, and deliberately did not mention it.

Wei Wen uneasily took out a cloth bag from his arms and put it on the table, the cloth bag was wrapped in some copper coins, looked at Cui Shi and said shyly:

"Wan'er, I don't have any skills, you can take these copper coins first, and when you have time, go to the street to buy a few pieces of coarse cloth and sew clothes for you and your children. ”

"I can't help it, I can't help it! You take care of our mother and son so much, and we don't have anything in return, how can we collect your money again!" Cui Shi said and picked up the package containing copper coins, and while stuffing it into Wei Wen's hand, he said:

"If Brother Wei refuses to take it back, you won't be able to come to my house in the future!"

Wei Wen was already very nervous, but when he heard Cui Shi say this, he was anxious, and put the copper coin on the table with a bang, blushing and saying:

"Whether you want me or not, I will definitely not take this copper coin away!"

When Cui Shi heard this, he looked at Wei Wen's blushing face, and he was stunned, not knowing what to do. I only heard Wei Wen continue:

"I'm a bachelor, and the whole family is not hungry when I'm fed alone, so what do I want to do with these copper coins! I don't have the ability, so I earn these, you are from a big family, so naturally you look down on it!" As he spoke, the eldest man in Weiwen shed tears.

"Brother Wei, what are these words, I'll just accept it!" Cui Shi saw that he was serious, and he didn't feel good in his heart, so he said this, and froze there and stopped talking.

Although Wei Wen is honest, he is not stupid, seeing that Cui Shi did not speak, he wiped his tears and got up and said:

"Tomorrow, I asked Lao Shi to go to the East Village to do work, I'm leaving, you can rest early!"

Cui Shi didn't speak, opened the door and sent Wei Wen away, sitting on the bench silently. Just now all this was seen by Wang Xu, and when he saw that his mother was silent, he approached and said to Cui's:

"Mother, is Mother upset?"

Cui's heart was slightly shocked when he heard his son ask this, nodded and said softly:

"Hmm!"

"Mother, don't mistake herself and her son because of guilt in her heart!" Wang Xu said.

When Cui Shi heard this, he was even more surprised, and he didn't expect his son to see the clue at a young age and say this. Cui Shi understood what his son meant, but still asked:

"Why did you mistake my son, you told your mother!"

"Although Wei Bo is good, he is cowardly and incompetent, and his mother cannot be entrusted with his life! My son has grown up, so don't worry about me! Now my son wants to study and learn some skills, and my son doesn't want to live here anymore!" Although Wang Xu did not answer his mother directly, Cui Shi already understood the meaning of his words.

Cui Shi looked at her son calmly, but her son's words caused a shock in her heart, she never expected that a child would be able to recognize this truth and say this.

"Mother knows!" Cui Shi stretched out his hand to put his arm around her son and said softly.

In the afternoon of the next day, Cui was cleaning at the gate when he suddenly saw Lao Shi's wife Zhou walking towards her in a panic, and shouted to her from afar:

"Oh no, no! Your family is in trouble!"

"Eldest sister, how are you talking!" Cui asked with a smile on his face.

"Ouch! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I'm in a hurry, I said the wrong thing, Wan'er don't blame me!" Zhou knew that there was something wrong with saying "your family Weiwen", so he covered his mouth and smiled and admitted his mistake.

"What's wrong?"

"Today, Na Weiwen didn't know what was going on, and in a panic, he sawed off the main beam of the other family! Do you say that this main beam can be short? If the main beam is sawed short, it will be scrapped, and it will bring bad luck to the master's family, this is a terrible thing!"

"What's wrong with Wei Wen now? Did you beat someone else? Or locked up?"

"I don't know if I beat it down! You say it's the right beam, if it's the partial beam, it's okay to say, my old stone also has a head and a face in the three villages of East and West, but ruining people's main beam is not a trivial matter, now he Wei Wen was arrested by the master's family, not to mention, even my old stone was detained, hey┄┄ why do you say he is so confused!"

"But the master of the East Village?"

"The Guo Pavilion chief's family in the East Village is not something that we ordinary people can afford to offend!"

"How, what's that going to be?"

"Madame, don't worry, I'll go and see first, inquire, and I'll discuss with you when I come back!"

"Then there is Sister Lao!"

"Oh! You said that my old stone is also unlucky, who is not good, I called a Wei Wen to be a helper, and now I have even taken myself in!" Zhou said as he walked away.

Although Zhou is a woman, she is very clever, she is a famous lobbyist within a radius of several miles, and her husband Lao Shi is also a small craftsman, so the husband and wife are a few points better than ordinary villagers in the township. Zhou ran all the way to the East Village, saw the head of the main family, Guo Tingchang, and after a while of making amends, he whispered to Guo Tingchang:

"Adults do you know the Cui Laosan family next door to Weiwen? Originally, there was a daughter who married into a big family in Luoyi, and she was born handsome since she was a child, and now she is back from being a widow, and now that Wei Wen is a toad thinking about eating swan meat every day, I am afraid that when I am working, I will think of it, miss the work in hand, and delay the business of the adult's family!"

"Cui Laosan's father and son were killed in the army the year before last, I know this, but I don't know that he also has a daughter who is married outside!"

"The misfortune is caused by Wei Wen, and this woman can't get out of it! Why don't you ask her to be punished together!" Zhou knew that this matter had nothing to do with the Cui family, but he said it eloquently, and secretly observed Pavilion Chief Guo's reaction.

"The words are good, I'm afraid it's a bit far-fetched!" When Guo Tingchang heard this, he knew that this woman had a heart and wanted to shirk the involvement for her husband, so he said deliberately.

"Hey, you are a pavilion chief, she is a helpless widow, it doesn't matter if it's far-fetched!" Zhou knew that the pavilion chief was just a big little official, but he still made a loud noise.

"If she voluntarily comes to atone for her sins, I will release your old Shi and Wei Wen, if she refuses to come, I'm afraid this matter will be a little difficult!" Guo Tingchang said.

"Since the pavilion chief said so, this matter will be wrapped up in the old woman, if it becomes a good thing, the pavilion chief should not forget the old woman's credit!" Zhou knew that Cui's was a soft-hearted woman, and he already knew it in his heart.

"The old man calmed his anger, and it is not difficult for me to be your old stone!" Guo Tingchang put on an official posture.

"The old body must do his best for the pavilion chief, so I will say goodbye, and the old body will do it!" Zhou got the message from Guo Tingchang, as if he had received a holy decree, and hurried back to see Cui.

When Zhou arrived at the door, he saw that Cui was doing some needlework, and when he entered the door, he said with a smile:

"What is my sister busy with?" said he picked up a coarse cloth shirt that Cui Shi sewed for his son, looked at it carefully, and said:

"I heard that the sister's house was originally a general's family, but I didn't expect you to be a general's wife, but your skills are better than those of us who do work!"

"My sister smiled, and my sister didn't know the details of my sister, where was the lady!" Cui Shi was in his mother's house, and he was originally an ordinary farmer, so he said.

"My sister is in a farmer's house, but it should be the life of the official family! It's just that the men are not angry, so my sister is suffering like me now!" Zhou said sympathetically.

Cui Shi didn't know how to reply to her, so he asked:

"My sister just went to the East Village, has things taken a turn for the better?"

"Hey┄┄ Originally, I couldn't complain about the main family, don't say that the size of the main family is still a pavilion chief, even ordinary people, and they don't depend on it, sister, do you say it!"

"Yes!"

"Fortunately, this Guo Tingchang is a kind person, and that Wei Wen is a bachelor and penniless, and he killed and ruined the reputation of the master's family, so although he was angry, he also wanted to find a compromise and settle the matter!"

"But there's a way to tie the knot?"

"No matter how kind a person is, he can't put that Wei Wen back in vain, my sister said yes or no? After all, it broke the main beam of the other family! It is also considered that my old stone is a little thin, my husband and wife are easy to talk about, and they have done their best, but they have thought of a compromise method, I don't know if it will work?"

"It's my sister who suffers with it!"

"It doesn't matter if this doesn't matter! That Wei Wen is a bachelor, has no relatives and no reason, and takes a lot of care of his sister on weekdays, I'm afraid that my sister will have to endure some hardships in this matter and help him to get through this difficulty!"

"If the girl can help, she naturally doesn't dare to shirk!"

"I know that my sister is a loving and righteous person, my sister said so, I will go back and go around, and end this matter today, so that the two of them can go home as soon as possible!"

"If this matter can be concluded today, my sister can just tell me!"

"It's not very embarrassing sister! Sister just needs to do some work for Na Weiwen, go to the pavilion chief's mansion to do some light work as a helper, dissipate the anger of the main family, and let Guo Tingchang have a step down, that's it!

"This Pavilion Chief Guo is indeed a kind person! I originally thought it was inappropriate, so I told the Pavilion Chief to let you let a general's wife go to his mansion to do help, I am afraid that you are unwilling, but the Pavilion Chief said, as long as you go for two or three days, do something, and tell the truth of the people!"

"What kind of general's wife is not a lady, I'm just a peasant woman now!" Cui said to Zhou with a smile.

"But don't worry, there is a sister here! He is a pavilion chief, and he is not a great official, so he will never be difficult for his sister! Besides, this pavilion chief is also a person who walks in the world, so he will not be embarrassed for a woman!"

"That being the case, I'll just admit it, I'll bother my sister to go again and settle the matter as soon as possible!"

"Okay! Then I'll go, my sister is waiting at home, I'll let the Guo Pavilion Chief put the two of them back first, so as not to have too many dreams at night and make people laugh!"

After Zhou finished speaking, he said goodbye to Cui, secretly happy in his heart, and went straight to the East Village.

Zhou saw Guo Tingchang, the two of them muttered, and Zhou suddenly clapped his hands and said:

"It's still the pavilion chief who thinks thoughtfully, then I'll take Lao Shi back for the time being, and bring the Cui family to exchange for Wei Wen tomorrow!"

"There you go!"

Zhou then took Lao Shi away, and the two went all the way back to Cui's house. When Zhou saw Cui's, he had already thought of his rhetoric and told Cui's that he would ask her to come back tomorrow in person for Wei Wen. Cui thought that it made sense, so he agreed to Zhou. Pavilion Chief Guo only let Lao Shi come back, because he was afraid that Wei Wen would come back and say something indifferent to Cui's, so he let Lao Shi go.

On the morning of the second day, Cui instructed his son a few times, and followed Zhou to meet Guo Tingchang. When Guo Tingchang saw Cui's family, he really didn't look like an ordinary village woman, although she was wrapped in plain clothes and coarse cloth, she could still see her delicate skin and outstanding appearance, and she was happy in her heart, and she couldn't help but reveal a little bit of her original intention. Cui Shi only lowered his head, not knowing that the other party had revealed his true appearance, and only listened to Zhou's words:

"Pavilion Chief, that Wei Wen made a mistake, it didn't interfere with Cui Niangzi's affairs, but the lady was righteous, grateful for his care of her orphans and widows on weekdays, and he had to help to relieve the siege, and took the initiative to come to make amends to the adult, so he urged me to come early in the morning!"

"There is such a thing! such a righteous lady is worthy of the old man's worship!" he said and bowed to Cui's family.

"Kill the people's women!" Cui's hurriedly replied: "Please raise your noble hand, and let Weiwen go back, the women are willing to listen to the adults!"

"Adults love the people, and they will not embarrass him as a bachelor!" Zhou said to Cui Shi and then said to the pavilion chief:

"If you don't worry, I'll take Wei Wen back, so that Cui Niangzi can repay his favor!"

"Go ahead, bring that Wei Wen over to Cui Niangzi to see, if you don't have any arms and legs, let him get out of here!" Guo Ting said.

Zhou saw Wei Wen and told him in advance that Cui Shi had come to replace him back, and then said fiercely:

"I'll see the lady later, don't talk nonsense, just say thank you and go back quickly, don't be embarrassed here, can you hear?"

"I heard it, I heard it!" Wei Wen nodded in response. Although he was not locked in a cell, he was clearly locked up by the master's house, and he was already scared to death, and he didn't know what to do, but now he was suddenly released, and it was Wan'er who came to save him, and he was still a little happy in his heart, where would he think about anything else, so he nodded again and again.

After a while, Zhou pulled Wei Wen to see Cui's, and when he saw Wei Wen, he didn't dare to look at Cui's, and said to Cui's and Guo Tingchang with a smile:

"Now that I've taken him away, Elder Pavilion can't treat my sister badly, if there is one less hair, I will avenge my sister!"

"Let's go!" Pavilion Chief Guo said impatiently.

"Thank you Wan'er for the rescue!" Wei Wen said hurriedly before leaving.

Guo Tingchang then asked the housekeeper to arrange some light work for Cui's, and he looked at Cui's from time to time, looking for opportunities to talk to her. Cui Shi replied cautiously, neither arrogant nor humble, no more, no less, but suspicion gradually arose in his heart. Since arriving at his mother's house in Luoyi, the Cui family has also experienced a lot along the way, and he is no longer the general's wife of the past, so he has gradually learned to pay more attention to everything.

In the evening, when the sun was about to set, Cui Shi saw Guo Tingchang and said:

"Pavilion Master, today's work is done, let's come back tomorrow!"

"You just rest here today, so as not to run back and forth, do you think it's okay?" Guo Tingchang stared at Cui Shi and said with a smile, with some tentative meaning in his words.

When Cui Shi heard this, his heart suddenly became alert, and he replied with a smile:

"There is still a baby at home, I came in a hurry, and I didn't tell him! When I go back and settle him, I will come back tomorrow, and if the pavilion chief doesn't dislike the sloppy women at that time, I won't leave!" Cui Shi said while looking at the pavilion chief, with a deliberate smile on his face, which made Guo Tingchang's heart itch.

"If that's the case, why don't you go back and pick up the baby and come back!" Guo Tingchang couldn't wait in his heart.

"A big baby is in the way of people's eyes! The folk woman is in the next village, and the orphans and widows have no one to rely on, if the pavilion grows benevolent and loves the people, the folk women will naturally come often!" Cui Shi said with a smile again, his tone soft and the hint obvious.

Guo Tingchang thought about it well, this woman was in the village next door, and she couldn't escape from the palm of his hand, and the twisted melon was not sweet, and now she was willing to be better, so she was secretly happy in her heart, so she put her back.