Chapter 89

Wang Tongsheng was stunned for a while, and he seemed to have just realized it.

"I'm dead? I'm dead?"

He muttered to himself, and then he woke up like a dream, with a miserable expression on his face: "It turns out that I'm already dead."

After being exposed to this fact, Wang Tongsheng looked up to the sky and sighed.

Li Cezhi stood aside, feeling a little apprehensive.

I don't know whether it is good or bad to help him break life and death?

Long time, long time.

He turned around slowly, bowed to Li Cezhi and touched the ground.

"In my life, my obsession was too deep, and I got into a dead end.

Life is hard, but it's hard to get what you want.

Now, the only wish is to go home and meet old friends, and hope that Brother Li can give him a ride. "

He hasn't been back to Xihe Village for many years.

For many years, I haven't seen my relatives.

At first, I left my hometown to motivate myself to work hard, but after that, I never returned home because I was ashamed to see my family.

I was also afraid that if I returned to Xihe Village, I would suffer gossip from the neighbors.

So much so that I have always hoped to be admitted to fame and return to my hometown with glory.

In recent years, even if he borrowed money, he never returned home. Most of the time he found some old friends and friends to help him survive and continue his scientific research.

Repeated failures and repeated battles are just because I have paid too much for it. I hope that one day I will succeed in the imperial examination and I will be able to get back everything I lost.

Such a mentality is wrong.

Knowing that he was dead and his obsession dissipated, he thought about it.

The only wish is to go home and have a look.

"Alright."

Li Cezhi thought for a moment, but nodded in agreement.

Meeting this old boy was also a fate.

He only hoped that he could accompany him back to his hometown to have a look, and it would not be such a troublesome thing.

Xihe Village is located not far from Nanshan Village.

There is only one village in the middle, and the distance is only seven miles.

An hour is enough to walk from the Xishui River in Nanshan Village.

Li Cezhi and Wang Tongsheng followed suit, walking on the muddy path in the countryside.

He looked up and down from time to time, as if he hadn't been back for some years, and there were many changes in this hometown, which made him feel novel.

"That's the field of Widow Song next door. When I was young, I often went to help her with farm work."

Relying on his memory, he recognized the neighbor's property, and it was rare for him to show a happy mood. He seemed to recall decades ago, when he never left his hometown and worked alone.

"Brother Wang, are there any close relatives in the family?"

Li Cezhi asked while listening to his introduction.

"Close relatives? My parents died early, and there is only one elder brother above them.

More than [-] years ago, when I left, he was already married and had a baby. I guess he is now a grandfather. "

As Wang Tongsheng spoke, his face darkened again.

If it weren't for his high-sightedness and low-handedness, he got into the horns of the bull, and now he should have a family and land, married a wife and gave birth to a baby, and his children and grandchildren would be full.

Why is it that I am alone now, and my death is desolate.

Sensing that Wang Tongsheng's mood was not right, Li Cezhi didn't continue to ask.

One person and one ghost quickly walked into Xihe Village.

He stopped in front of a farmer's house at the head of Xihe Village.

"This is... the family she married into."

"Back then, I was so focused on the scientific examination, daydreaming, but I didn't work hard at all.

She said she could not see hope, so she let go and married a farmer in my village. "

Wang Tongsheng was silent for a long time before he opened his mouth and said, "When I heard the news, I was greatly shocked. I swore secretly that if I could pass the exam and become rich and honored, I would come to the village to pick her up and take her away."

"But before that, I don't want to go back to the village, lest I look bad."

After so many years, Wang Tongsheng still never forgets this regrettable event in his life.

He has never passed the exam.

So, all these years, he never came back once.

"Go in and see for me"

Wang Tongsheng hesitated for a long time, but in the end he was a little timid because of his closeness to his hometown, and he didn't have the courage to enter the door in person.

"It would be best if she lived happily, if not."

As Wang Tongsheng said, he gritted his teeth, "Then I will take that man away."

The hatred of taking one's wife is irreconcilable.

Wang Tongsheng's performance was quite restrained.

Li Cezhi nodded, but didn't say anything, and soon knocked on the door.

"Boom, boom, boom."

Soon, the door was opened.

The one who opened the door was a girl about four or five years old, with shofar braids, very cute.

"Grandma, it's an uncle I don't know."

The girl yelled into the room before seriously asking, "Excuse me, who are you looking for?"

"I'm passing this village on my way, and I want to ask for a bowl of water nearby."

Li Cezhi saluted respectfully and said.

The countryman was unsuspecting, so he quickly opened the door and let Li Cezhi in.

He entered the door and saw that the house was not rich and the furnishings were very old.

On the rattan chair in the inner hall, lay an old man with white hair.

The old man's youth has passed away, and his face is full of wrinkles, but his brows are bright, and he can vaguely recognize that he was also a beautiful woman when he was young.

When she saw Li Cezhi, she wanted to get up and scoop water for him.

Li Cezhi hurriedly said no: "Don't get up, old man, I'll scoop up some well water to quench my thirst."

With that said, he went to the courtyard and scooped up a ladle of well water.

The girls, on the other hand, sit next to the old woman and burn charcoal together to keep warm.

After pretending to drink two sips of water, Li Cezhi returned to the hall and thanked the woman: "Thank you for your kind help."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it's just a few sips of water."

The old woman was lying on the wicker chair, waving her hands, and said with a smile.

"It's cold, and it's freezing cold when we drive at night, why don't we warm ourselves up by the fire before leaving?"

The farmers are warm-hearted, but they are not out of touch.

Li Cezhi sat down as he said, and began to chat: "Old man, are you and your granddaughter alone in this house? Where are the others?"

"Who else is there?"

Hearing this, the old woman let out a long sigh, her face full of helplessness and hardship towards the hardships of life.

"My old man left early and had three sons, two of whom died young.

The only grown-up son was married a few years ago and gave birth to a granddaughter. He was hunting in the mountains and was killed by wild wolves.

The daughter-in-law remarried, leaving only the granddaughter. "

She sighed slightly: "These years, my old woman has been lonely and helpless, crying every day, almost crying her eyes out, it's fate."

"I have suffered so much in this life, and I have nothing to hope for. I just want to raise my granddaughter and die sooner."

Hearing what the old woman said, Li Cezhi was slightly startled.

It sounds like she left Wang Tongsheng and married someone else, and her life was not satisfactory.

Li Cezhi hesitated for a while, then took out a bank note with ten taels from his pocket, and put it on the table.

"Old man, this is entrusted by a friend to you for housekeeping expenses. I hope you will accept it."

The old woman was slightly startled when she saw the banknote.

She carefully looked at the bank note beside the charcoal fire, confirmed that it was correct, and held it tightly in her hand.

Ten taels of silver, for ordinary peasants in Xihe Village, is an amount that may not be able to be accumulated after more than ten years of hard work.

With this amount of money, it is enough for her to spend in the future, to bring up her granddaughter, and even have a surplus of silver to give her a dowry in the future.

"Which friend entrusted you to send this?"

Although the money was extremely important, the old woman did not dare to accept money from unknown sources, and asked in a trembling voice.

"It's a man named Wang Hu."

Li Cezhi was silent for a long time, and finally decided to mention Wang Tongsheng's name.

Wang Hu?

The old man was stunned, her cloudy old eyes seemed to light up all of a sudden.

It seems that through the years of change, I have found the names hidden deep in my memory that have not been smoothed out by daily necessities when I was young.

(End of this chapter)

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