Kneel down and beg to return to the field

Changning Town is a small town in the east of Qizhou Prefecture. It is not too far from the state capital, but because it is located in the mountains and the roads are difficult, compared with the surrounding towns, it looks a bit poor.Although it is called a town, it is not more prosperous than some villages on the edge of the state capital. As for the villages around Changning Town, there is nothing comparable.

The town is not big, there is only one main street running through the whole town, and it only takes a cup of tea to walk from one end to the other, so there are only about twenty shops on both sides of the street.If it weren't for the fact that there are many peddlers on the street who carry things to sell, and some townspeople set up stalls selling food and the like to add a bit of excitement and vitality to the street, the street in Changning Town would be even more deserted. .

"Ms. Wei, cut me two pieces of tofu." The fat middle-aged woman held a basket on her arm, glanced at the plate of white tofu on the stall, and said with a smile.

"Hey, good." Aunt Wei, the stall owner, raised her eyes and glanced at her. After answering, she picked up the tofu cutting knife and cut two pieces squarely on the top of the plate of tofu, and then took out a clean one. The lotus leaf carefully wrapped it and handed it to the woman.

"I didn't say that, Mrs. Wei, your family is not the only one who sells tofu in this town, but your tofu is the best after eating." I couldn't help complaining a little: "But Mrs. Wei, you are making less and less tofu now. I came a little late last time, so there is nothing left."

Aunt Wei took the money, smiled embarrassedly and said: "I can't help it, I'm getting old, and I can't do anything."

Speaking of which, Mrs. Wei is not very old, she is only in her early forties now, and she is not a few years older than the woman who bought tofu.It's a pity that her life is not good, not to mention the loss of her husband in the early years, and she finally dragged her eldest son to join the army a few years ago, and now she is the only one left in the family to live alone.After a lot of hard work, his face is inevitably stained with weather, so he looks much older than that woman.

This town is not big, and everyone has known each other for not a day or two, so the woman naturally knows this.Hearing this, it's not easy to complain any more, and he just smiled and said, "That's it, then just pretend I didn't say anything, I'll just come here sooner."

Aunt Wei smiled when she heard the words, and after a few words of politeness, she sent the woman away.Her tofu stall has been open for more than ten years, and the business is really good. Soon, someone came to the stall to buy tofu, and she turned around and got busy again.

After the woman put the tofu into the basket, she turned and left without saying anything more, because everyone in the town knew that Aunt Wei did not live off the income from the tofu stand.The Wei family is different from other families who set up stalls. Her family still has a few acres of tax-free fertile land outside the city for rent. Aunt Wei is alone, and the rent is enough for her to eat. Why bother?So everyone said that Mrs. Wei set up a stall in this town just to wait for her son to come back.It's just that how many people who left as soldiers can really come back alive?

The weather has been cold and cold recently, and older people always have a lot of problems. Aunt Wei has been in a bad mood these days, so tofu is being made less and less.Today, she only made three boards of tofu, and the woman had sold out the last board when she came, and within a quarter of an hour, the last board of tofu was also sold out.

But it's still early, and Mrs. Wei is not in a hurry to close the stall and go home.People in the town said that she was waiting for her son, and she was indeed waiting, because her family's name as a military household has not been removed, which indirectly proves that he is not dead yet, and she also has something to look forward to.

So this wait, Aunt Wei waited for seven years, from the initial ardent expectation, to now she has been disappointed year by year.It happened that she was really uncomfortable these two days, and the weather was getting colder and colder, so after selling the tofu, she just waited until noon, closed the stall and prepared to go home.

It was winter, and the weather was getting colder every day, and the cold wind was raging in Changning Town.The slightly stooped old woman wrapped her winter clothes tightly, and finally looked back at the road leading out of the town, but unfortunately she still didn't see the familiar person.

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Before setting off again, Wei Lai actually spent the whole night in a state of apprehension.Because not long after returning to the room, it suddenly occurred to her that what Ms. He said about going on the road might not mean going back to Changning Town with her, but asking her to set off directly back to Beijing together, and then the two would break off their engagement or something.

Fortunately, He Zhi is not such an unreasonable person, and he has no intention of asking him to give up all his previous efforts and go back home directly.

Early the next morning, everyone ate breakfast together in silence in the lobby of the inn. Afterwards, the coachman brought the carriage, Miss He and Xi Qiu boarded the carriage again and sat down. From the beginning to the end, they never proposed to change the itinerary to return to Beijing.Of course, this time, Ms. He firmly ignored the hand that General Wei extended to help her into the carriage, and then got into the carriage with Xi Qiu's help.

For this, Wei Lai was a little disappointed, but after thinking about it, this is actually an excellent result.After all, after she confessed her identity, Ms. He didn't ask to go back to Beijing directly to terminate the engagement. Otherwise, since the coachman and Xi Qiu are both from the Shangshu Mansion, she would not be able to stop the problem under the premise that she could not directly use force to solve the problem. their departure.

Seeing the car curtain being lowered again, Wei Lai couldn't help letting out a long breath.She flipped onto the horse's back with agility, and then clamped the horse's belly with her legs, and the horse under her took steps obediently, kicking and stomping forward.

This time Wei Lai didn't look back, because even if Ms. He changed her mind at this time, it was beyond her control.

Riding on horseback, he calmed down a bit, put aside for the time being the messy things he had with He Zhi, and didn't think about them. Wei Lai's mood soon jumped up again—the end of seven years away from home She had to come back, not to mention returning home, just thinking that she would be home in half a day, and then seeing her mother whom she hadn't seen for many years, she couldn't help but be excited.

For the last part of the journey home, Wei Lai rode his horse very fast, and the carriage behind him also followed quickly.

Since the departure today, the cabin of the carriage has been unusually quiet all the way, and He Zhi in the carriage still looks preoccupied, making Xi Qiu, who is usually talkative at the side, not dare to speak indiscriminately.

Until the carriage became more and more bumpy, Xi Qiu and He Zhi were bumped into one place, and then one finally came back to his senses, while the other secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and took the opportunity to complain to the driver outside the carriage: "Why? It’s like this? Can’t you drive well?!”

As soon as the words fell, the driver's innocent voice came: "Girl, you and the miss will bear with it for now. The road is not good, and it is going so fast that it will inevitably be a little bumpy."

"The road is bad, why do you go so fast..." Xi Qiu was not happy when he heard it, but He Zhi stopped him just halfway through.

Why are you walking so fast when the road is bad?Naturally, it was because someone wanted to return.

Xi Qiu was always outspoken, so he complained without thinking too much, but He Zhi thought of this very quickly, and subconsciously stopped him.It's just that after stopping it, I couldn't help feeling a little bit of annoyance in my heart - she had decided to draw a line with Wei Lai yesterday, and the two of them will have nothing to do with each other in the future. Today, Xi Qiu just complained, why did she take the initiative to stop it? ?

It took only a day or two for Wei Lai to confess his identity, but in this short period of time, He Zhi found that something seemed wrong with him.

So the half-day journey from Qizhou Mansion to Changning Town ended unknowingly amid Wei Lai's joy and He Zhi's entanglement.It was already noon when the noisy voices came from outside the carriage again.

Xi Qiu lifted the curtain of the car to look, and found that the carriage had already driven into a strange town.After a rough look, there are not many people in this town, and there are not many shops, so it is not considered prosperous.

Wei Lai, who was driving in front of the horse, glanced back as if he felt it. After a short pause, he raised a big smile, and even his voice was filled with joy and excitement: "We are here! !"