[Marriage first, love later] She is happy after marrying a widower

The man took the two children to a dilapidated temple outside the city gate before stopping. He turned around and looked at the two children who had been following him silently.

The two children are not very old. The older one looks one or two years older than the eldest child, and the younger one is about the same size as the eldest child.

"Take it out."

His voice was soft and the younger children hid behind their brother in fear.

The older boy took out a red string from under his clothes and hung it around his neck. A piece of broken jade was hanging on the red string.

"Are you the one who came to pick us up?"

The boy handed the broken jade hanging around his neck to the man, and the man also took off the broken jade from his waist. The two pieces of broken jade put together turned out to be a small seal with a dragon pattern.

"Yes, what are your names?"

After the man checked the broken jade and confirmed that the two children in front of him were the people he was looking for, he returned the broken jade to the boy.

"Uncle Jian said that my brother and I will not have names in the future. Whoever comes to pick us up will call us whatever they want."

"how old are you?"

He wanted to adopt these two children, so he always wanted to know the basic details.

"I am seven years old and was born on the ninth day of the second lunar month. My younger brother is four years old and was born on the twenty-third day of the tenth lunar month."

The boy spoke clearly and did not hide anything. He told the birthdays of himself and his brother clearly. His family must have told him about it.

The man's expression was gloomy and unreadable.

"Follow me."

They asked the children other questions and did not give them names. The two children followed the man to the back of the ruined temple.

Behind the ruined temple was a forest. The man walked into the forest with his two children.

After walking for about half a quarter of an hour, the man stopped, bent down, and rummaged under an empty tree hole, pulling out two packages.

He tossed one of the packages to the boy.

"Put on."

The two boys opened the package, which contained two sets of girls' clothes, pink cotton coats and trousers, which made the two children very excited.

"Don't you want to change it?"

The older boy looked at the man and mustered up the courage to speak.

"When we just left the city, you saw that Xuzhou City was under martial law. If those officers and soldiers hadn't thought you two were dirty, you two wouldn't have been able to leave Xuzhou City. Guess the next city will be in the same situation.

You don't want to wear women's clothes, do you want to be a beggar with your brother forever?"

As beggars, he and his brother were too conspicuous for men, so who knew that the guards of the next city would not look at his and his brother's faces.

The boy didn't say anything. He took off his outer clothes, exchanged them for beggar clothes with the little beggar for a penny, put on the pink jacket and pants, and changed his brother into the same clothes.

The two boys were well-raised, and their fair skin could be vaguely seen through their dirty faces, so they did not look out of place in women's clothes.

The man took out a wooden comb and combed two small buns for each of his two brothers. The man's skill was not good, and the buns were combed into frizzy shapes. The man couldn't do anything about it. He had tried his best to comb them into a smooth place, but with such a poor skill, there was nothing he could do.

The man packed the wooden comb, took out a tinder, and set fire to the beggar clothes that the two children had changed out of.

"From now on, you are two girls. In front of others, I am your father. Your name is Chun Xing and your name is Er Ya. Don't let it slip, understand?"

The two children nodded obediently. They knew that they were running for their lives and the man in front of them was the one who came to take them away, so they had to listen to him.

In Hongya Village, Song Yanzhi opened the gate and looked at Song's father and mother who were standing outside with their hands in their sleeves, with undisguised disgust on their faces.

"What are you doing here?"

She was just in the house making roasted sweet potatoes for her two children. When she heard the knock on the door, she was wondering who could come to their house in such heavy snow.

"Rouge, let's go inside first. It's cold outside."

As Song's mother spoke, tears came out of her eyes. She looked at her daughter with tears in her eyes. Her daughter was fairer and rounder than when she was at their home, and she looked much prettier.

Seeing that her daughter was doing well, she felt a little relieved. Since her daughter followed Han Heming, she had never returned to her parents' home. She missed her daughter but only dared to look at her from afar.

Now that she can see her daughter, she is really happy.

After Song's mother finished speaking, she was about to walk past Song Yanzhi and enter the yard.

Song Yanzhi reached out to stop him.

"As I remember, we are no longer related. If you have anything to say, just say it here."

"How dare you! We are your parents. Don't think that you can disown us just because you have a good life now."

Song's father has always had a bad temper, especially in front of the soft and obedient Song Yanzhi, he would not tolerate Song Yanzhi's disobedience in the slightest.

"Why, do you want to hit me? Have you forgotten? It was you who sold me for twenty taels of silver."

Song Yanzhi looked at her father's raised palm, a sneer flashing in her eyes.

"Yanzhi, mother knows you hate your parents for selling you out, but don't worry, your parents are here today to take you home. Once you're home, you'll still be my good daughter."

Song Yanzhi was stunned. Song's father and mother had always been mean to her, so why would they be willing to take her back to the Song family? What did they want to do?

"Take me back. I was sold to you for twenty taels of silver. Your son won't take the exam?"

As far as she knew, his brother Song Tianbao had gone to Beijing to take the imperial examination a few months earlier. She said this just to get answers from Song's mother.

"Pah, pah, pah, you damn girl, what nonsense are you talking about? Your brother passed the exam and became the third place winner of the imperial examination in our Red Moon Nation.

We have money, and your brother said that no matter how much it costs, we will buy you back."

But he doesn't want to buy it back. If people knew that the third place winner went to Beijing to take the imperial examination by selling his sister to raise money, he would be so embarrassed.

"No need. I cut all ties with the Song family when you sold me. Just treat me as your only son, Song Tianbao."

"Nonsense! Your brother is the third place winner in the imperial examination. If you come back with us, you will be the third place winner's sister. Isn't that better than being the stepmother of the three Han family members?"

Song's father couldn't suppress his anger. Women are always short-sighted and ignorant, especially his daughter, who has been a fool since she was born.

"No matter how rich he is, it has nothing to do with me. You guys can go now."

Song Yanzhi slammed the gate shut. She was not her original self and had no feelings for Song's father and mother. She didn't know what her original self was like or what her original self would choose. Anyway, she didn't want to be the sister of that damned third place winner.

"Rouge, Rouge, why are you so disobedient?"

Song's mother slammed the gate of the courtyard, but Song Yanzhi pretended not to hear and strode towards the main room.

In the closed door of the main room, two little heads were poking through the crack, stealing glances at the three people talking outside.