The journey of the only child of a peasant family to take the imperial examination

To be more precise, it was Zhang Xiaogu's son Shunzi.

Zhang Xiaogu herself had dirty thoughts, thinking that her aunt's identity was not secure enough to go to the capital with Zhang Laoer's family to enjoy a good life.

So she wanted to upgrade her aunt's status and make her Wu Ya's mother-in-law.

Although Wu Ya had been married twice and was a hen that didn't lay eggs, Zhang Xiaogu looked down on her and felt that she was not worthy of her son.

But when she thought about the property that Wu Ya held at the time of the divorce, as well as the wealth of the second wife's family, Zhang Xiaogu felt that it was not unbearable. She had to compromise for the sake of her grandson's future.

At worst, I can just give my son a concubine in the future.

As for the claim that Wu Ya is disobedient, that is not true. Now that she is in her hands, she has the final say. She has plenty of ways to discipline Wu Ya.

The daughter-in-law was completely under her control before.

Aunt Zhang had calculated everything, even thinking of the reactions of her mother Zhang and other family members when they found out. Since the matter was already settled, she was not afraid.

The worst that could happen is she'd get scolded and beaten, but she'd just have to deny it.

After that, you will be rich and prosperous.

However, he had missed two points. One was that Wu Ya had already left, and the person sleeping in the bed was another maid.

The second was her son Shunzi, who was not as willing to cooperate with her as she had thought.

Shunzi has a lot of resentment towards his mother. Ever since Zhang Xiaogu came into the family, she has been in charge of everything in the family, making her husband, sons and daughters-in-law obey her completely. She is a master at crying, making a fuss and even threatening to commit suicide.

It would have been fine if it was a peaceful time, but it happened to be a war, and his father and two brothers all died because of Zhang Xiaogu's stupidity. From that time on, Shunzi's opinion of his mother changed.

Later, after the war, in order to help him get married, Zhang Xiaogu sold her sister as a child bride and remarried herself. Shunzi could understand the difficulties his mother faced, and the ice in his heart loosened a little.

The mother and son maintained superficial peace.

Later, he had a son, Xiao Jinzi. Although life was difficult for the family, they were happy and he no longer thought about the past.

But later, his wife gave birth to two more daughters, but they were all secretly thrown away by Zhang Xiaogu. Shunzi was angry and helpless, but he was used to being suppressed by Zhang Xiaogu, and he didn't know how to resist. He could only fight in his own way, and he spoke less and less.

This time, in order to get close to her uncle's family, Aunt Zhang directly forced her son to divorce his wife. Not only that, she wouldn't let him leave even after the divorce and wanted him to work like a slave at home.

Shunzi really couldn't bear it anymore.

He has a good relationship with his wife and has no intention of using dirty means to get rich.

So when he knew his mother's plan, he was not prepared to cooperate.

He even wanted to use this incident to directly cut off his mother's idea of ​​wealth and fame, and let his uncle's family know what kind of person his mother was.

Shunzi mustered up great courage and was ready to die together with his mother in the face of her roar.

Unexpectedly, the person on the bed was not Wu Ya at all.

"Where is my cousin?" Shunzi asked with a frown.

The maid looked confused, "I don't know, the master told me to sleep here."

Then he reacted, stood up and pushed Shunzi away, and asked, "You are a man from outside the courtyard, shouldn't you be in the yard? Why are you running to the wing room?"

Shunzi had nothing to say and remained silent. After a while, he left the window.

Aunt Zhang was still keeping watch with her grandson. Seeing her son come out so quickly, she asked in surprise, "How come he came out so soon? Did he finish his mission?"

Shunzi shook his head, "No one is here, only the maid."

"What? That shouldn't be the case. Didn't Wuya say she had a stomachache and went to bed early to rest? Where did she go?"

Zhang Xiaogu couldn't understand it and thought Wu Ya had gone somewhere else. She could only sigh that God didn't help her.

No one made this matter public.

Therefore, it was not until Xu went to bed at night that she wanted to go and see if Wu Ya was feeling better, only to find that Wu Ya was missing.

When asked, the maid knew nothing and could only kowtow and beg for mercy.

Xu thought of something and looked at Wu Ya's dressing box again. Sure enough, it was mostly empty. Wu Ya took the money away, but not all of it, which meant that she knew what she was doing.

"This fool, when I find her I will make her become a nun. It's so troublesome," Xu said angrily, slamming the table.

Zhang Laoer also frowned tightly.

After a while, he got up and went to discuss it with his mother Zhang.

Zhang had already gone to bed, but after hearing about this, she sighed, "Wu Ya has never suffered before. What does her mother mean? Did she come back safely?"

"Ping'an asked someone to send a message back, saying that he will not be coming back today and will rest in Luojia Village. I plan to send someone to look for him tomorrow morning. The child's mother means that it is best not to make it public and we will talk about it after we find him." Zhang Laoer said with a heavy face.

"Let's do it this way. There is no better way unless you don't recognize this daughter," Zhang nodded.

At this time, Wu Ya had already taken her maid to the town in an ox cart, and then hired a car from a car agency to go to the county town overnight. She was still cautious along the way and did not talk to outsiders.

But her attire and complexion were too different from those of ordinary people, and she was alone, so she was quickly noticed.