Li Xu blushed and said to the middle-aged man unhappily: "Fourth uncle, is he his savior? Don't talk nonsense."
After saying that, he picked up the bookshelf and led Chun Niang, mother and daughter towards a house surrounded by a dilapidated bamboo fence.
It's dark outside, but it's clean and tidy.
"Mother!" Li Xu put down the frame on his back and ran into the house.
There was a red-haired woman lying on the wooden bed outside the house. She heard the voice and struggled to get up from the bed: "Xu'er..."
Li Xu rushed over, knelt in front of the bed and cried, "Mom, what's wrong with me? Are you sick?"
The red-haired woman burst into tears and stretched out her skinny legs to touch her son: "Xu'er, are you really me?"
"Yes, yes, my son is back."
Li Xu hugged the old woman's legs and arms and cried. Suddenly he remembered something, took out a small bag from his arms, pinched out a pill and stuffed it into the old woman's mouth. "Mom, I'll take that. If it's not given by the little miracle doctor, my son will die."
I can’t come back to you until I eat it.”
The old woman ate the dongyao balls and choked with sobs: "Xu'er, I'm really back, woo woo woo... Mom, weren't you dreaming?"
Li Xu: "You didn't dream. My son fell ill in the inn. Fortunately, he met a little miracle doctor to save him, and he escaped from death."
The old lady An burst into tears when she heard this: "His son is useless. He received my letter and wanted to pick me up, but he fell down on the road and sprained his foot."
At that time, her ankles were so red and swollen that she couldn't walk at all, so she went to Xu'er and his uncle's family for help.
It turned out that his uncle was not at home those days, and his sister-in-law Li rejected her directly, saying that she was making a fuss out of a molehill.
Angry and angry, An Shi fell ill that night, and his illness lasted for several months.
Later, Uncle Li came back and told her that Li Xu had been arranged to recuperate in an inn, saying that his family didn't need to worry about it, and that he would go directly to Fucheng to take the exam when he recovered.
Hearing this, An felt relieved. After recuperating at home for a long time, the injury on her ankle got a little better, but her eyesight became increasingly blurry, and she was no longer semi-blind.
Li Xu obviously noticed that my mother's eyes were good, so he asked: "Mom, what's wrong with your eyes? Can you see your son?"
His mother had been doing embroidery for him to study all year round, so her eyes were damaged all the time, and she couldn't see clearly in the morning.
Why can't she see the posthumous title in the red sky?
"Yes, you can see it." Afraid of worrying her son, An wiped away her tears and struggled to get up. "Since guests are coming to the house, he has to go out to receive them to avoid being rude."
"Okay." Li Xu helped his mother up and while looking for shoes for her, he talked about sending a letter to his uncle in Anping County.
Anshi was startled, tears streaming down her face again.
Outside the house, Ying Bao and Chun Niang Chen Zhao stood on the east eaves and waited for a while, then saw Li Xu supporting a red-haired woman coming out.
"Guest, please come out of the house quickly." An said with a slight blessing in the direction of the figure: "My family is poor, which makes you laugh."
Chun Niang and her two children hurriedly returned the gift: "Where are you, otherwise we will disturb you."
Li Xu looked around, then went back to the house and brought out a few stools, placing them on the east eaves for Chun Niang and the others to leave.
Chun Niang and An exchanged names and exchanged pleasantries before talking about Li Xu's stay at the inn.
Initially, Chun Niang didn't want to say anything, but An couldn't help but kept asking.
When Mrs. An learned that her son was dying in the inn and almost died, she couldn't help covering her face and crying.
It turned out that after Li Xu sent the first letter to his mother, he wrote two more letters to his uncle, hoping that his uncle would bring money to take him home.
Because his mother, An, had never traveled far, and because of her poor eyesight, it was impossible to go to Anping County, which was more than a hundred miles away, to pick her up.
Uncle Li not only ignored his nephew's request for help, but also failed to tell his sister-in-law the truth, which made Li Xu almost die in a foreign country.
Fortunately, the innkeeper was kind-hearted and did not throw him out secretly. Instead, he consulted a doctor and got medicine for him, barely allowing Li Xu to support him for more than two months, until he met Yingbao.
After having a brief conversation with her son, Mrs. An already knew the whole story. She felt secretly resentful and sad at the same time.
Her husband passed away early, and she, a widow, worked hard to raise her son and worked hard to earn money to send him to school.
The son was also very successful, and passed the examination as a scholar at the age of seventeen. Although he was not born in the countryside and had no income from the countryside, he had twenty acres of land in his name and was exempted from the corvee tax.
As a married woman, she could not do farm work, so she gave the twenty-acre tax-free land to her son's uncle's family.
I really hoped that if something happened to my family, his uncle would be able to help him, but I didn't expect that not only would they not help me, but they would be very helpless.
Seeing that it was almost noon, An stood up and said, "Madam Jiang, let's go and rest first while he goes to cook."
Chen Zhao stood up obediently: "He helped me light the fire."
Mr. An glanced at the little girl and said with a smile, "That's good work."
Yingbao ran to dig through her backpack and took out some mandarin oranges and put them on the table as a gift.
In Sanba Village, news of Li Xu's return soon spread throughout the village. Neighbors on the left and right stood outside one after another, looking outside and talking about it.
"Didn't you say that you only took the provincial examination in August? Why did you come back then? It's only the end of July now."
"Oh, I brought a woman back, tsk tsk. Could it be that the woman was held back from taking the exam?"
"Don't tell me, if there is such a cocoa, those two children are the little widow's spoilers, right?"
The more people talked, the more outrageous they became. Someone quickly went to tell Li Xu's uncle, the village leader Li Jishan.
Li Jishan was walking around at home with his legs on his back. When someone said that, he immediately became energetic and hurried to Li Xu's home.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard, I saw a beautiful woman walking east of the eaves. She was in her thirties, and her charm was still there. She was more attractive than any young lady.
"Li Xu!" Li Jishan shouted loudly: "Come out!"
Li Xu was picking vegetables from the vegetable garden behind the house, preparing to give them to his mother for cooking. When he heard his uncle shouting, he came over immediately.
"Uncle." Li Xu asked lightly, "What's the matter?"
Li Jishan stood with his legs crossed and shouted angrily: "Why are you coming back now? Have you passed the provincial examination?"
Li Xu: "My nephew has been ill in Anping County for more than two months. He is just getting better now and cannot afford to go to the provincial examination."
"Don't make up stories for him! Let him see if I'm obsessed with women!" Li Jishan pointed at Chun Niang: "Tell me! Who is she? Why do you come to my house with me?"
Li Xu immediately understood what the uncle wanted to say, and was immediately embarrassed, "Uncle! Aunt Jiang's family is his savior! She is a doctor!"
He can just say that now, otherwise the description will get darker and darker.
The quarrel between the two attracted many people to watch, and they looked at Chun Niang and Ying Bao wantonly.
When Chun Niang knew that those people were pointing the finger at her, she was a little panicked.
Yingbao asked her mother to go to the kitchen, and she stood beside Li Xu and asked, "Li Xu, who is that person?"
"Xiao Langzhong, that is Xiao Sheng's uncle." Li Xu replied: "He is also the mayor of our village."
Old God Yingbao said: "Since I have an uncle and so many relatives, why did no one care about me when I was lying in the inn about to die? No, no, they didn't know that I was seriously ill in Anping County?"
Li Xu's eyes were red and he sniffed: "The young man wrote two letters to ask for help from his uncle, but no one came to save him."
Li Jishan's face darkened and he shouted angrily: "What nonsense am I talking about! When will he receive my letter?"
Li Xu wiped his eyes and looked directly at his uncle calmly: "Since uncle didn't receive his letter, how did he know that he was staying at Penglai Inn? You told his mother personally that you had placed him in Penglai Inn to recuperate. Uncle,
When did you go to Anping County to resettle him?"
