In the simple little courtyard in the city, Mrs. Zhou Wang was holding a pair of children in her arms, waiting uneasily.
More than half a month later, a man suddenly appeared at her home and said that he would take her to the Imperial City to find her husband who had lost contact with her family. Although she did not know the man, she also thought about whether the man was a liar.
?But she really couldn't survive alone in her hometown, so she had no choice but to follow the man to the imperial city.
As soon as the news came home that her husband had been stripped of his honor and sent to prison, his father-in-law and mother-in-law couldn't bear the blow and passed away one after another. She also had people write letters to her husband, but she never received a reply. After her parents-in-law's funeral, her husband
None of them came back.
After the parents-in-law died, the Zhou family's relatives took over all the family's land and real estate, leaving only the three of them, mother and son, in an old house to live in. If it weren't for the support from their parents' family, the three of them would have starved to death long ago.
When she came to the imperial city, she just wanted to find her husband, reminisce with him, and get her property and fields back. Although he has lost his fame now, his family cannot starve to death relying on the fields at home, and these days are always
Can survive.
"Mom, I'm hungry," Zhou Yu's son Zhou Wenhao said to his mother with eyes sunken due to malnutrition.
"Mom, I'm hungry too." My sister Zhou Wenqian, whose hair was withered due to malnutrition, also whispered.
Mrs. Zhou Wang touched her daughter's face and said, "Uncle Chen went to buy food. We will have something to eat later."
Seeing her children become so thin, Zhou Wang felt very sad. Before her parents-in-law passed away, they were considered a well-off family. These children were raised by young ladies and young men in the city, and they had never been exposed to the cold.
hungry.
The sun turned to the west, and suddenly there was movement at the locked courtyard door from the outside. Mrs. Zhou Wang thought it was Chen Gui'er who had come back from buying delicious food, so she swallowed her saliva and stood up.
After a while, the courtyard door was opened, and Chen Guier and a well-dressed man with a black iron mask walked in.
"Mother." When Chen Wenhao and Chen Wenqian saw the man wearing a black iron mask, they shrank and hid behind their mother in fear.
Zhou Wang looked at the man wearing the black iron mask warily, and asked Chen Guier, "Brother Chen Guier, who is this person?"
Chen Guier hurriedly introduced to the Zhou family: "This is my master, and it was he who asked me to find you."
Wen Xu saw that they seemed to be afraid of him, so he said in a very soft voice: "Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person, I know where Zhou Yu is."
The reason why Wenxu wears a mask is because he does not want the Zhou Wang family to know his appearance, so as not to expose him in the future.
"Where is he?" Zhou Wang asked hurriedly.
"Hey..." Wen Xu sighed and said, "Brother Zhou Yu..."
"What's wrong with him?" Zhou Wang was almost anxious to death from him.
Wen Xu pretended to be sad and said: "Zhou Yu is at the mass grave."
"Mass grave?" Zhou Wang was confused and asked, "Why is he in the mass grave?" Could it be that my husband had no money, so he lived in the mass grave.
Under the mask, Wen Xu frowned in disgust. Zhou Yu was really stupid. But he was a little curious. Zhou Yu looked good and was a civil servant, so why did he marry such a country woman with average appearance and stupidity?
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The Zhou family used to be a wealthy family. Later, Zhou Yu's father, wealthy Zhou, got involved in gambling and lost all the family's land and real estate. It was all because of Zhou Yu's mother, who licked her face and asked to work in the Lin Mansion.
The sister in charge of the housekeeper helped. When the Zhou family was defeated this week, the Zhou Lin family married Zhou Yu's child bride early in order to have more people working in the family. So this week Zhou Yu is only twenty-three or four.
, this eldest daughter is eight years old. After Zhou Yu won the imperial examination, he wanted to divorce the Zhou Wang family. He felt that the Zhou Wang family was not worthy of him. It was also because his mother Zhou Lin had some bad conscience, so this Zhou Wang family did not
Being divorced, the Zhou family's life gradually improved thanks to the support of the Zhou family.