"Dead."
Shen Wenzheng said it simply. Xie Zhe actually made a rough guess and stopped asking further questions. Unexpectedly, Wen Zheng didn't shy away from saying anything and said to himself: "It's a good death."
"Uh...huh?"
They don't understand this.
"My father scolded us and beat us. He was so harsh that he broke several brooms!"
"why is it like this?"
"It's really nothing."
Ling Huan and Han Sheng expressed their emotions at the same time, and the two of them glanced at each other. Xie Zhe's expression was complicated and he asked:
"I see that your skill with a stick cannot be achieved even if it takes ten and a half years. You are like this, and your husband still dares to hit someone. I'm afraid he has some skills, right? But how can you rely on your own martial arts?" If you have profound knowledge, you bully women and children?”
"He knows shit about martial arts." Shen Wenzheng laughed mercilessly, "I gave him face. Before we got married, he told me three obediences and four virtues all day long. It was annoying to hear it. I don't agree with him. Dealing with it was a marriage contract arranged by my parents. We lived in the border area, and the Huns often invaded. Later, his parents went on business and brought him to the stable Central Plains. I haven't seen him in more than 20 years. They. Later, it seemed that the business failed, and the family ran back to their hometown in despair, but they thought of us. He came back because he was so poor that he couldn't find a wife. I joined the Self-Defense Forces when I was fifteen years old, and I originally joined the army. , I can still get a half-official title. As a result, they went around in my hometown and said that I did not respect women's virtues, which made the whole village persuade me to go back and get married. They also said that a woman's final destination is to have a husband and raise children. Quite. Funny, isn’t it?”
"It turns out that you have been a soldier, no wonder you are so powerful. But, then you still marry him...does this fail to fulfill his wish?"
Ling Huan couldn't understand, but she felt angry.
"I did it for my parents. People in our place don't live long, and the two old people are seriously ill. They are also old and confused, and they followed suit and tried every means to trick me into going back to get married first, and then negotiate for a guarantee. It's a matter of defending the country. Naturally, I can't get out of it. There is a male general in the army who covets the position of general, so he happened to replace me. He even pretended to let me go back to my hometown and not pursue the matter of 'deserting'. I can go to hell. , if you have the guts to come to me and tell me personally, what kind of skill is it to find someone to send a message? You are a coward."
At first, Shen Wenzheng indulged his useless husband, but he was shameless to some people. If he bullies you, you will get angry. You are not giving your husband face when you are outside, and you are not polite when you contradict him inside. When he is in a good mood, he is safe, but you never know when he is in a bad mood and looking for trouble. In front of his parents on both sides, he looked extremely filial, like a guard dog wagging its tail and circling around the old people. But one person behaves differently in front of others and another behind closed doors, and becomes the emperor of the family again. If she revealed this person's true identity to her family, no one would believe her. She was kind enough not to actually hit him. Later, she got pregnant and he recovered for a while. Shen Wenzheng thought he had changed his gender. But not long after the child was born, he started to be picky again. The most outrageous thing to say was the third day after she gave birth. He immediately drove her out of bed to cook, saying that confinement was just a waste of time. Although Wen Zheng felt that his body did not need any confinement, his attitude was really annoying, and without her to make a fire to cook, this person could starve to death? He didn't make much money for his family, so he scolded his wife and children all the time. Especially since the child is so unruly, even the in-laws who were nice to him before have changed their expressions.
Although the married daughter throws away the water, Wenzheng's family still occasionally sends some money as a subsidy. But as soon as he got the money, his husband used it to buy alcohol. When he came back drunk, he was beaten and scolded again. The dishes were thrown when the meal was cooked late, the child cried and scolded him, and even when Wen Zheng went out to pick him up, he stepped with his left foot first, which all became the reasons for him to hit others. Isn't this nonsense? Wen Zheng was afraid that his parents would not look good when they pinched him, and that it would have a bad impact on the child, so he continued to swallow his anger.
"Later I completely understood that if a man is reliable, a pig will climb a tree. Ah, it's not that these two young men..."
"It's okay, just go on..."
"I don't want to bear it anymore because he brought another woman back. I have a good nose and know that besides the smell of alcohol, most of the time he smells of brothel powder. I can't help it because the child is still young. He went back to business and occasionally made some money. I believed that he had changed his ways. But I was really a fool. I believed his evil ways and spent all my money on raising wild women. You know, the neighbors also said, How can a man not cheat? I’m convinced, your men are rotten, and I don’t want to sleep in the same bed with a rotten guy like you. As long as he can get his money back, that’s fine. At worst, my child will be older. I took him out to work to make money. But in the end, this guy got even worse. He didn't give me a penny, and even robbed me of the money my parents gave me to buy food. It was raining heavily that day, and the child was crying. He pushed me hard to the ground and robbed me. Hidden money. While he was rummaging through the boxes, he scolded me, saying that I had ruined his reputation in front of the neighbors. Listen, do you dare to do it? I am really angry. The brothel woman was watching next to him, eating My melon seeds were too damp. I couldn't hold them back, so I beat them both up and threw them into the rain."
"Damn, relieve your anger." Han Chang finally let out a long breath.
"Good sister, please remember," Shen Wenzheng said to Ling Huan, "This man is so shameless. Well, it's not that these two young men..."
"It's okay, you can continue talking. Only robbers will sympathize with the plight of thieves," Han Chang said in an indifferent tone, with a bit of sarcasm, "Those who drag themselves in for comparison are those who were hit by bricks in the pigsty and screamed. The loudest one.”
"Not bad." It was rare for Xie Zhe to reach a united front with him.
"Uh, but shouldn't you give them to..." Ling Huan was still a little worried that Wen Zheng would become a murderer.
"That's not the case. Although I threw them out, I then thought: No, my husband's family is so large, what should I do if I bully the few? I packed up my things and took my daughter away, and left him a divorce letter. . Since ancient times, I have never written a letter of divorce to my husband. I am considered a big girl and got on the sedan chair once, just to piss him off. The only ones I am sorry for are my parents. I am afraid they will be criticized. But this is also them. It's your own fault. Even though I have the upper hand, it's not that I don't have the lower one. I'm responsible enough for them. I have to be responsible for myself and my baby daughter in the rest of my life."
"That's so well said." Ling Huan murmured, "This is the first time I've heard such a heart-wrenching thing, like a storyteller."
"Whether it's true or not, just take it for fun. Another reason why I haven't found a place to stay is that people always say, 'It's better to have a man at home', and then arrange a blind date for me. Come on, let the man take care of himself. What trouble can I get into? Thank God for not bringing trouble to my mother. And those who say 'some things can only be done by men' are sheer fart."
Ling Huan tilted his head: "Then what do they think only men can do?"
"I don't know, eunuch."
Han Chang almost choked on his saliva with this smile.
"So... your husband is actually not dead, right?" Xie Zhe asked carefully, "It's just that in your heart he is no different from a dead person."
"The enemy." She scratched her neck and continued, "But the army can't go back... they are not our own, and I am still half a 'deserter.' There is no other way, so I become a mercenary. Work, running around with my daughter. If you can find a quiet place to live a stable life, who wouldn't want to."
They sighed for a while. As he was talking, he had already walked from the top of the mountain to the foothills. Looking down the mountain from a distance, after passing through a small forest, the border of the town was indeed heavily guarded and seemed to be heavily guarded. What's outrageous is that a bird flying up the mountain from inside was shot down by an arrow. The five people who witnessed this scene felt a little scared. Especially Wen Zheng, who was talking lively just now, now his expression changed.
"It's broken... I didn't expect it to be so strict." She unconsciously squeezed her daughter's hand, "I didn't know my sister..."
"Will Auntie be okay?" Yi Yi asked.
"It will be fine. It will be fine..." Wen Zheng was not sure either.
Han Chang volunteered: "Let's do this. You stay here. I'll go down and talk to the guards first. I'll come back and tell you after I figure out the situation."
Xie Zhe stared at him: "Don't even think about running away."
"How could it be? Don't we have to worry about Mrs. Shen and the little girl?"
"Alas. In this case, Mr. Zhongli will be in trouble."
Shen Wenzheng saluted and thanked, and Xiao Yiran also bowed in a decent manner. Han Chang waved his hand and walked forward to reassure them. He ran very fast and disappeared into the trees in front of him without a shadow. Viewed from a high place, a red dot quickly appeared from the end of the woods and ran towards those dense black dots.
"Master Zhongli's skills are so fast." Wen Zheng praised repeatedly.
It seemed that although Mrs. Shen was very skilled, she could not tell Han Chang's identity. This saves the two of them the time to explain how "harmless" he is as a vixen. They sat here and talked for a while. After a while, Wen Zheng still said he was hungry, so he took out Huang Chengcheng's cake and shared it with them. It was a honey potato pancake that she had thought up by herself. It was delicious, but it was difficult to keep it in because of the sugar. She was worried that she would make too much and not be able to finish it. Most of the honey was given to the nobles. This was the hive picked by Wen Zheng himself. Xie Zhe and Ling Hu both listened with their eyes wide open. Compared with them, the experiences of the mother and daughter were almost as exciting, but they had a more energetic spirit of fighting for life, which was a kind of power that money could not buy. To Lingyu, it's another colorful world.
The sky was getting dark very quickly, but Han Chang rushed back as early as possible. He was a little out of breath, after all, he was really tired from coming and going.
"You actually eat alone behind my back?" He took two more breaths before saying, "Is this reasonable?"
"Aren't you going to keep it for you?" Xie Zhe threw him a piece of cake and asked, "What did you find out?"
"Strict, it is indeed strict. You can still go in now, but you can't leave without an order from above. If we had come earlier, we would still have a chance to leave. The order is new. The New Year is coming soon. In order to reunite, some people are returning home and some are returning home. It is easy to spread the disease when you come and go. However, none of the people in the group wore masks. They said that this disease... currently can only be contracted by being bitten by a sick person and seeing blood. Just in case, stricter measures should be taken, I don’t know what will happen in the next year. If it’s the kind of disease that’s transmitted by sneezing, I don’t recommend passing through this town; but if so...if we protect ourselves properly, we might have a chance to leave. What do you think—?”
Several people looked at each other speechlessly.
