Back then, Gao Xingshang not only married Gao Wang, the common wife, but also took a concubine. Shortly after Gao Xingshang died, Gao Wang's son also died of illness. Gao Wang simply sold the concubine and raised the concubine's son to his knees. This son was Xiaoman.

Gao Wang originally wanted to raise a child to prevent old age, but this was not her own child after all. Gao Wang lost her father and son, and the clan refused to accept her. She felt more and more unwilling to accept her life. Gradually, she blamed Xiaoman for all the unhappiness and believed that Xiaoman would die if her father and brother were killed, and she would also kill her mother.

The village often hears Gao Wang beat and scold children, but the Gao family is an outsider, and the villagers have almost no contact with them, let alone meddling in other people's business.

No one knew when Xiaoman left, but he knew when it started, and the Gao family no longer had any sounds of beating and scolding children.

Not long after, something happened.

Huaishu Gower belongs to Luhe County. More than fifty miles away from Huaishu Gower is Luheying. Wei Bao, the nephew of Wei Ming, was a hundred households in the Qianhu Camp of Luheying.

At that time, the recruitment fee reported by the Qianhu Camp of Luhe Camp was eight taels of silver per person. In order to greed for this money, Wei Bao was brave enough to directly rob people and force the men to strengthen them.

After a while, when encountering a tough guy, it aroused public anger.

Several young children were traveling together and were forced to strengthen the men by Wei Bao's men. One of them escaped while the person was unprepared and ran back to the village, and the villagers became anxious.

The villages within a radius of hundreds of miles have relationships with each other. If we discuss them in detail, they are still related to each other.

Therefore, the nephew went to his uncle's house to report the news. The nephew ran to tell his aunt's cousin. In less than half a day, hundreds of young and strong men gathered together and had an armed battle with the soldiers led by Wei Bao.

Both sides were killed and injured. After the incident, Zuo Shangwen, a thousand households in Luheying, wanted to suppress the matter, but Ning Hua, the magistrate of Luhe, handed it on a note.

The letter turned to Qi Wei, who went to Luheying in person and dealt with Wei Bao. Therefore, Wei Bao was stranded in Pingcheng to recuperate and was used by someone to go to Huichang Street to tease a good woman.

"There are also people in Huaishu Gower who participated in the armed battle. When I arrived at Luhe Camp, I was actually a step late. Wei Bao took revenge wildly and injured many people. Huaishu Gower was not spared. There was a family named Dong, and his son-in-law was the villager who escaped that day. Although his family did not live in Huaishu Gower, he also came to Huaishugou to report that half of Huaishu Gower were surnamed Dong. It is conceivable that at that time, most of the men in the Dong family participated in the armed battle.

The people sent by Wei Bao first burned the villagers' home, and then went to Huaishugou, which burned the villagers' Yue's home.

Not only this family, but also seven or eight neighbors, among which the Gao family was burned.

At that time, the Gao family was the only one of Gao Wang, and they didn't run out at all. They were burned to death like many villagers.

After that, although Wei Bao was severely punished, the people from Huaishugou no longer dared to live in the village.

At that time, many people were fleeing, and the people from Huaishugou also joined the fleeing army. There were originally more than 100 villages, but later only more than 30 families remained.

Even so, when Wei Ming formed the Nei Cao Army, Huaishu was not spared. He heard that he wanted to arrest a male student as a eunuch. The only families in Huaishu sent the male student away overnight. They did not dare to come back after leaving. After leaving outside, they quietly took their wives and children and left.

After the regime changes and the current situation stabilizes, when the number of people is registered in Ninghua, the magistrate of Luhe County, there are only nine families left in Huaishugou, all of which are old, weak, sick and disabled, but they cannot escape.

The villagers who fled either died in troubled times or lived in a foreign land like Wen Xiu's son-in-law's family.

Later, the imperial court asked all places to resettle refugees, and Huaishugou accepted more than 50 refugees. Today, Huaishugou is newly moved.

Li Qiniang's eyes had long since turned red: "Is Huaishu very remote? It's so far from Pingcheng, Xiaoman is a child, and he is in chaos. How much hardship has he suffered before he arrived in Pingcheng."

Qi Wei sighed: "At that time, there were many refugees who fled on the road. Xiaoman might have been among the refugees and beggars. He went to Pingcheng together. Before the Luheying Mutiny, he was no longer in Huaishugou. In this way, he must have been wandering outside for more than half a year."

Li Qiniang remembered the scene when she first met Xiaoman. She was thin and dirty, but she had bright and pure eyes.

"Where is the Gao family?"

Qi Wei said, "This is nowhere to be found. Gao Wang is a widow and has almost no contact with the villagers. She is the matter of Shang Ping's wife. But when he bought a house in the village, the intermediary who brought her to tell Li Zheng. Li Zheng's wife told the villagers again. The news was probably not accurate. The villagers participated in the armed battle, and Wei Bao's people came to the door with a fierce look. He was old and didn't come up in one breath, and he was scared to death."

In other words, if you want to know more detailed things about the Gao family, there is nowhere to be found. Even the affairs of Gao Wangshi and Xiaoman were said by the only few old ladies in the village who had lost all their teeth.

Qi Wei smiled bitterly: "I have seen the investigation of the people sent by the Luhe County Government, which is divided into existing, death and separation. Gao Wang and Gao Wang's son Gao Manjun both died. I think even the people from the county government decided that the child was no longer alive."

Seeing Li Qiniang's expression, she comforted her: "From the moment you took in Xiaoman, Xiaoman was your son. No one snatched you. Can you feel at ease now?"

Li Qiniang had tears in her eyes, but she couldn't help but be amused by him: "I never thought of robbing my son with others."

Qi Wei smiled: "Okay, you haven't thought about it. I thought about it. I was worried that someone would come to steal your son, so I asked someone to check Xiaoman's background in Pingcheng. Do you think I'm such a waste?"

Li Qiniang quietly wiped away her tears and smiled: "No, why did you do this in vain? Xiaoman is still young, and he may not know what he is. Everyone has a place to come from. This is where Xiaoman comes from. When he grows up, he will definitely thank you for helping him find out where he comes from."

"Okay, when he grows up, you come and tell him that it's my credit, okay?"

The comforting voice softened, and the room was quiet, only his voice flowed slowly like a stream in spring.

After Li Qiniang and her family left Pingcheng, Qi Wei started to arrange Xiaoman's life experience.

He wants Xiaoman to study, grow up, start a family, establish a career, and keep his children around him and have a stable life like thousands of children in this world.

Qi Wei was loyal to Renzong Chai Yu. After Chai Yu passed away, Qi Wei gave his loyalty to Chai Yu's two sons, first Chai Huan and then Chai Ran.

No matter how immoral the Empress Dowager is, as long as Chai Huan or Chai Ran is in power, Qi Wei will continue to persevere, work hard and die.

But Qi Wei never expected that the person who wanted to stop all this would be Chai Ran himself.
Chapter completed!