At this time, the carriage had started. She waved her hand impatiently and said, "I know, next time, if you see me acting coquettishly, you don't have to pay attention to me."
Xu Zhilan said it very coldly.
The musician could only say yes.
Since then, the two of them have maintained a pattern of not disturbing each other.
Anxi is far away from the capital, not too far, not too far. After driving day and night for almost three days, this small town appeared in Xu Zhilan's field of vision. Naturally, such a small town is incompatible with the capital. Compare.
However, Anxi is better because it has mountains and rivers at its back. The mountains are clear and the water is beautiful. Walking there feels like being in an ink painting.
The musician did not follow Xu Zhilan into the town. His home was in Lulin Village on the outskirts of the town.
Therefore, when he arrived in the countryside, he proposed to part ways with Xu Zhilan. Xu Zhilan only said that she would send him back out of good intentions.
But he obviously didn't want to have anything to do with this noble lady anymore, especially as a musician, he was already enough to be talked about by the people around the village. They all said that musicians are selling themselves, and if he rides in her carriage again When I go back, I don’t know how much I will be chewed out by the people in the village.
Therefore, considering these things, he only insisted on staying in the countryside, got out of the car, and walked home with joy in his arms.
His package was filled with rewards Xu Zhilan had given him in previous years.
He figured that he should renovate the old house in its original location into a grand mansion with white walls and blue tiles. Then he would live in that house with his mother and marry another wife. He didn't know how to envy him. others.
And he had been away from Lulin Village for several years, but he didn't expect that there was no change at all in this village.
It is still early spring in the fields, and an endless stretch of golden and bright rapeseed flowers stretches for ten miles. There are also cattle in the village plowing the fields again. At the end of the field, there is a very concentrated village. Most of the families in the village use mud for their walls and thatch for the roof.
Children in the village were playing on the field paths.
When he looked at the children, they were looking at him.
Everyone didn't know each other.
Finally, he saw a farmer carrying a hoe and was about to go to the fields, and then he vaguely recognized the person.
He stepped forward and called him Uncle Fang, but the Uncle Fang only looked at the young man in front of him with the eyes of a foreigner.
After all, this young man has changed so much. His complexion is fair and his face is as handsome as the young man in Tsing Yi in the drama. Although he is wearing the most ordinary Tsing Yi shirt, compared with the peasants who have lots of patches on these clothes. Even though he got up, he was still so respectable that he didn’t know where he was.
Therefore, the man obviously did not recognize the young man, and he did not know how the young master, who looked like a respectable person, knew him.
Until the other party said, "Uncle Fang, I am Chen Ke."
The farmer still had an expression of disbelief.
The young man then said, "My family lives next door to yours."
The farmer seemed to believe the other party's words with hesitation, and he only said in a low voice, "Chen Ke?"
The young man quickly responded happily, "I am."
Then he just stretched his neck and wanted to look towards the village, but the old farmer said, "Don't look, your brother and sister-in-law took the money from selling your body and went to open a shop in the town. They had already sold the land of this old house to a man with a foreign surname who had escaped from the disaster."
After hearing this, the young man felt sad and a little relieved at the same time.
He asked in a low voice, "Then did my mother go to town with them?"
After listening to the young man's words, the old man Fang simply put down his hoe, took a puff of dry smoke, and then acted like a child without a mother, who has a long story to tell.
"After they took the money you gave them, they coaxed your mother to take out the money you left her as well. They lied to your mother and said they wanted to take her to live in the town. Who knew that these two couples , took the money and bought a house and shop in the town directly. Now they are living a prosperous life in the town. However, they have no conscience and did not take your mother away. They only sold your old house. During the period when your mother was still alive, she relied on a little help from her employer and a little food from her family. As for living, she could only live in the woodshed of your third uncle’s house who didn’t marry a wife. You Chen
I don’t know how many times my uncles and uncles went to them to talk to them about this matter. They only asked them to either take your mother to live in the town or to take out the money you gave your mother, but they couldn’t stand it. He was thick-skinned, refused to take money, and refused to care about the life or death of the old man. "
"Last year there was a severe drought in Anxi. Many of us, not to mention helping others, were almost starving to death ourselves, so we didn't take care of your mother. She hasn't been hungry for more than ten days. When your third uncle goes to the neighboring county to ask for help, When you came back from getting some rice, your mother starved to death. I heard that your mother was holding a handful of Guanyin soil in her hand when she died."
As if the death scene was still vivid in his mind, the old man just sighed when he said this.
Chen Ke, who was listening on the side, naturally grabbed the baggage in his hand angrily.
You must know that when he sold himself, his family was too poor to take the blame, and he happened to be beautiful, so he was attracted by a wife who was in the town's dental business, and she paid a high price, otherwise he would not have been away from home for so many years. .
He sold himself originally because he wanted his whole family to live a good life and no longer have to live in the open, especially his mother.
After all, his father died early and his mother did not remarry. She only relied on the yamen's little help for the widow and day and night weaving to help the two brothers grow up. It was also because of this that his mother became blind early on. .
He also suffered from an illness. At that time, his eldest brother had already married a wife, so he gave part of the money to his eldest brother and part of the money to his mother.
His original intention was to let his eldest brother and sister-in-law help him take care of his mother, but he didn't want his mother to be gone in just a few years.
Thinking of this, Chen Ke couldn't help but feel sad.
Then Uncle Fang just said to Chen Ke, "How about I take you to see your third uncle."
Chen Ke nodded silently.
The joy of returning home for the first time was only replaced by anger and sadness.
With a heavy heart, he came to a dilapidated old house. There were almost no thatches on the old house. An old man was twisting straw ropes and knotting straw sandals in the yard. This is what country people wear. Shoes, one or two copper coins a pair.
His third uncle had little strength when he was young, so he only learned this craft. Even now, he only relies on this craft to make a living. However, this man is getting older and his eyes are getting harder and harder to use.
Therefore, his skills in making straw sandals were getting slower and slower.
At this time, even though the uncle walked outside the fenced yard of his house, he seemed not to see him. He just continued to rub the straw in his black, calloused hands. .
Until Uncle Fang called out, "Chen Laosan, who do you think is here?"
After hearing what Uncle Fang said, the old man looked hard at the young man, but his reaction was obviously the same as Uncle Fang's. The look in his eyes meant that it was none of my business except you.
However, he still stopped what he was doing and just went to the back room to get two old benches that were not very useful for the two of them to sit on.
Uncle Fang was not polite and directly chose a better stool to sit on. He only said loudly, "Chen Laosan, this is your little nephew!"
After hearing this, Chen Laosan looked at the young man opposite as if he had been struck by lightning.
At this time, Chen Ke shyly called "Uncle."
Then Chen Laosan seemed to have confirmed that the person coming was really Chen Ke.
He only called out vaguely, "Ke? Is it really Chen Ke?"
"It's me! Third uncle!" Chen Ke responded immediately.
Hearing Chen Ke's words, Uncle Chen's eyebrows were filled with disappointment.
"Why did you come back? Do you know..."
As if mentioning the sadness, the old man's words paused again at this moment.
"Uncle, is what you want to say about my mother?" Chen Ke immediately asked.
Uncle Chen sighed deeply and then nodded.
"Your brother and sister-in-law are really nothing! Especially your brother! Your mother worked hard to bring you two brothers up. One of you sold yourself for a little money, and the other sold your own mother for that little stinky money." They don’t even recognize them! The clan really can’t control them, so we can only remove them from the clan, Akko, you can’t follow your brother’s unscrupulous ways.”
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Chen Ke just nodded immediately at the third uncle's words.
Seeing the guests coming to Sanshu Chen's house, the women in this kind of rural village were just curious, and the women who had leisure time also came over to sit.
At that time, Sanshu Chen's house was also bustling with people. Chen Ke looked up and saw that they were still the familiar aunts. If there was any difference, it might be that their skin was darker and their bones were rougher.
The Chen family's affairs were such a big fuss that naturally these country people started talking about it.
The aunts only mentioned what her brother and sister-in-law had done, which only made Chen Ke angrier.
"You don't know, even if your brother and sister-in-law don't take your mother in, they go around making sarcastic remarks to everyone, saying that your mother had an affair with your third uncle and gave birth to a boy like you, and that your mother has remarried you now. Third uncle, I will never let your mother go back."
Listening to these people's chatter, Chen Ke just wanted to confront his brother and sister-in-law on the spot.
However, people only stopped him at this time.
"Your brother and sister-in-law are getting richer and richer now. They have dogs at home and thugs in the house. Your uncles and uncles were beaten in the past, but you were so small that you were beaten to death!"
Chen Ke just said bitterly, "Don't they have any royal skills? I want to see how they beat me to death!"
After saying this, Chen Ke went to find someone.
Unexpectedly, at the same time, several elders of the Chen family also rushed over after hearing the news.
Seeing those clan elders, Chen Ke could only continue to stay here. Although Chen Ke had changed a lot, these clan elders obviously knew of Chen Ke's existence after being introduced by people. Therefore, regarding Chen Ke’s current changes. They were not too surprised.
