When Wu Lishan, who had drunk all night in the family ancestral hall, returned home drunk, it was already dawn. His wife, Xie Miaoying, had already gotten up and finished washing, and was about to go to the kitchen to cook.

Seeing her husband Wu Lishan coming back, she was a little drunk and staggered, so she hurriedly stepped forward and helped her. Not wanting Wu Lishan to reach out and touch his arms with the intention of drinking, Xie Miaoying blushed and blocked Wu Lishan's big hand that wanted to make a mistake, and whispered shyly:

"It's not that you don't know that the concubine is already pregnant. ”

"I'm just touching it, nothing else. ”

The newlywed Yan'er is a young man who has tasted it for the first time, so naturally, Xie Miaoying stuck to Wu Lishan's arms and let him be careless for a while, until he heard a cough in the yard, and hurriedly pushed Wu Lishan away.

"Hurry up and wash up, won't you go to the New Year after breakfast for a while?"

Wu Lishan couldn't get enough of kissing Xie Miaoying's cheek again, and then he reluctantly turned around and washed.

It turned out that Wu Lishan asked the clan for Wu Zheng's old house, and after renovating it on the ruins after being burned by fire, because it was close to winter, the new house was not dry, so Wu Lishan's parents planned to move in after the beginning of spring. Now he still lives in the courtyard of his hometown with Wu Lishan and his wife.

After washing, Wu Lishan first went to his parents' room to greet him, then sat down and waited for his wife Xie Miaoying to serve breakfast, and after eating, he went to pay New Year's greetings.

During the chat, Wu Lishan's mother casually asked:

"Why did you drink until dawn this year?"

"It's not because of Ono planting Wu Zheng. ”

"People who are all married, why are you still talking so ugly, you don't cover it up, you are not afraid that people will hear that you are not educated?"

"Why does the clan have to sink Wu Zheng into the pond, and if he runs away, he will run away, but he is just a child, why do you have to catch him?"

Wu Lishan glanced up at his father Wu Youjin, and replied casually:

"Dad, how do you know, it's a big deal. ”

At this moment, his wife Xie Miaoying walked in with boiled dumplings. I just heard Wu Lishan's last sentence, so I asked casually:

"What's the big deal?"

"It's nothing, it's about herding cows and baby Wu Zheng. ”

Hearing this, Xie Miaoying put the dumplings in her hand on the table and subconsciously said:

"Since I came to Wujiabao, I have heard this Wu Zheng the most. Why do I always think that the Wu Zheng you are talking about is a little similar to the child who came to my house on the morning of August 16 last year?"

"What do you say, what kid is somewhat like?"

Wu Lishan was putting a dumpling in his mouth, and because it had just come out of the pot, it was inevitable that it was a little hot, so he didn't hear his wife Xie Miaoying's words clearly in a hurry.

"I mean, on the morning of August 16 last year, around noon, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child suddenly appeared in the yard outside my yard where he was making furniture. He was still carrying a rabbit in his hand, and without saying a word, he squatted down to help pull the big saw. Lunch is still eaten at my house. ”

"You, you say it again?"

"What's wrong?"

Xie Miaoying was obviously taken aback by the look of surprise on Wu Lishan's face.

"What does the child you just said look like, how old is it, what is its name, and where is the accent?"

Hearing her husband ask several questions one after another, Xie Miaoying paused before saying:

"He looks about the same as Wu Zheng you said, and his age is about the same, he seems to be thirteen or fourteen years old, and he is not big. I don't remember what it was called. As for the accent, I didn't hear it at the time, but when I got here, I realized that it was Wujiabao's accent. ”

After listening to his wife Xie Miaoying's words, Wu Lishan couldn't care about eating dumplings anymore, so he walked out with his feet raised, and said as he walked:

"I'll go to Uncle Youren first, and then come back for dinner after the New Year. ”

trotted all the way to Wu Youren's house, and saw that their family was also having breakfast, and they were already in the ancestral hall to worship Wu Youren and others for the New Year, so Wu Lishan just greeted Wu Youren's wife and said:

"Happy New Year, auntie. ”

"Okay, okay, are your parents okay? Haven't you eaten yet, sit down and eat together, dumplings that have just come out of the pot." ”

As he spoke, he handed over a pair of chopsticks, Wu Lishan was not polite, and took them casually, but did not eat dumplings immediately, but first repeated the words of his wife Xie Miaoying just now to Wu Youren.

Wu Youren listened quietly, pondered for a while, and said:

In this way, Wu Zheng did not flee to the direction of the county seat of Jue County at all. ”

"Uncle, what do you say?"

"According to the time your daughter-in-law said, at that time, it happened to be the people of Liulinburg, and our people just passed. That is to say, Wu Zheng was hiding somewhere and only appeared when he saw that the person looking for him had gone away. ”

"According to the uncle's analysis, doesn't it mean that Wu Zheng really fled to the Shannan area?"

"Can't be wrong, that's how it should be. ”

"Then do you want to go and tell the third grandfather and the eldest grandfather right away?"

"Let's eat first, and we'll go over together after eating. ”

Inexplicable Xie Miaoying, after her husband left, immediately figured out that the teenager who came to her house for lunch on August 16 should be Wu Zheng who escaped.

Thinking of this, I can't help but ask my in-laws:

"Father, mother, Wu Zheng, a teenage child, what did he do to make the clan so excited?"

"Well, who's to say it's not. The child had a hard life since he was a child. When his mother gave birth, he died. When he was nine years old, his father Wu Lipeng was lost when he went out to do business with a caravan in his clan, and four or five years later, he still doesn't know whether he is dead or alive, and there is no news. At the end of April last year, although the only grandmother was not very strong, she did not see any illness during that time, but she fell and died. Immediately afterwards, he said that Wu Zheng fled because he lost the big green cow in the clan. Later, I found out that I was afraid to flee because I lost the cow, but was secretly sunk in the pond by the clan. ”

"Mother, how can this be?"

"Who knows?"

Xie Miaoying, who was puzzled, turned her head to look at her father-in-law Wu Youjin, who was speechless, and then turned her head to look at her mother-in-law and said:

"The big green cow was not lost by Wu Zheng. ”

"How do you know?"

Wu Youjin only interjected at this time, the daughter-in-law only entered the door in October, and Wu Zheng's incident happened at the end of April, so it stands to reason that the daughter-in-law should not know.

"The Jin Liang daughter-in-law in our village is from Houpo Village, and the big green cow is in the hands of Jin Liang's daughter-in-law's father. On the night of August 15, someone broke into the house and set a fire, which not only frightened Da Qingniu, but also frightened Jin Liang's daughter-in-law's mother-in-law. The next day, Jin Liang and his family took their father-in-law to the house, as well as the big green cow. Later, I heard the neighbors chatting and said that Jin Liang's daughter-in-law's maiden father was a big green cow bought for sixteen taels of silver from a descendant who claimed to be Wujiabao. And,"

Speaking of this, Xie Miaoying stopped and took a sip of dumpling soup, and then said:

"I heard that early one morning at the end of April, Jin Liang's daughter-in-law's mother-in-law took the big green cow to the river to graze the cattle and rescued a child who was about to drown from the stream. ”

"What about the kid?"

Vaguely, Wu Youjin had heard that Wu Zheng was hiding in Luo Xudong's house in Houpo Village to herd cattle, so he asked.

"It's not very clear, it seems to have disappeared on the night of August 15. ”