Fast Travel Strategy: Female Supporting Counterattack Manual

Chapter 22 Poor Old Wife VS Knowledgeable Husband (5)

Chen Yushi and his entourage rode their horses back to the government office, and on the way they really experienced a "spring breeze proud horseshoe disease".

"Sir, when you enter the city, you will find the government office." The attendant reined in his horse and looked at him.

"No hurry, no hurry..." Chen Yushi gently stroked his beard, with an unexplainable smile on his face, "Let's go change clothes first."

"My lord, why do we have to change into coarse linen clothes?" The attendants who came out of the tailor shop were very puzzled.

"You guys wait outside the city for my return. I'll go back to my hometown first." Chen Yushi touched the silver hairpin in his sleeve without explaining to them.

He has been away for many years, and what has become of his old wife at home, is she still waiting for him?Or has he already married someone else?
You can't blame him for thinking so, it's really because he has seen through the coldness of human nature in recent years.

He walked from the government office all the way to the countryside. Just when he wanted to inquire about his old wife's life in recent years, he was recognized by the woodcutter who was passing by to chop wood.

Naturally, the people in the countryside didn't know who he had seen in Chang'an or what he had experienced. They still looked down upon him when they saw that he was still wearing rags and coarse linen when he came back from a foreign country.A group of people booed and taunted him.

"Ah, isn't this Chen Yushi who went to Chang'an to become an official?" The woodcutter wearing a rough linen jacket deliberately exclaimed in surprise.

"Chen Yushi, I thought that if you go out and make a living, you will definitely come back home in fine clothes. Look at you like this..." The barefooted woodcutter

He deliberately left half of the sentence, but his face was full of mockery.

"That's right, I've suffered a lot for your old wife. In the past few years, her life has been a crime." One of the group of people said this with some sincerity.

Chen Yushi was both worried and curious, "What happened to my wife?"

"Your wife has been living a hard life. She has not had a man to help her in the past few years, so she has to carry everything by herself." The eldest woodcutter drooped his eyebrows, "Once you go to Chang'an, there is no guarantee of your return. You don’t know that those gangsters from the next village come to harass your old wife from time to time.”

"Rogue lame?" Chen Yushi raised his voice a little.

"Yes." Although the other woodcutter looked down on Chen Yushi, they truly admired his wife.In other words, it was precisely because of his admiration for his old wife that he looked down on Chen Yushi.

"Hu San, the rascal from the next door village, found out that you went to Chang'an and didn't know when you would come back. He went to your house in the dark that day, trying to belittle my sister-in-law. Unexpectedly, my sister-in-law hacked you out with a knife." The first to speak Thinking of the scene he saw that day, the woodcutter admired a woman with such courage.

"Hu San suffered from his sister-in-law, how could he let her go so easily, so he was entangled with his group of rascals, and came to make trouble for sister-in-law from time to time. But sister-in-law beat them back severely."

"Over time, the reputation of sister-in-law and shrew spread."

As soon as the topic related to Shi Yi was opened, these woodcutters immediately became active, talking to each other about Shi Yi's events in the past few years.

"You don't know. If you haven't come back these few years, people in our village think that you may have died outside. Many matchmakers have started to match their sister-in-law."

"It's strange, my sister-in-law just thinks you're not dead."

"Sister-in-law said, as long as you don't come back for a day, and you don't get together for a day, she will guard the house. Later, she directly beat those matchmakers out with a broom."

Why do these woodcutters admire Shi Yi?

One is because in this day and age, it is normal for a single woman to depend on a man for survival.But Shi Yi didn't make such a choice, and still insisted on waiting for his husband.

Secondly, I always care about the friendship between the villagers. When they pass by the door of my house, I will boil water and make tea with the second sister-in-law Huang next door, which is very touching.

In Chen Yushi's heart, he still had some doubts about his old wife, but now, he was only full of emotion.

He couldn't care less about slapping the ignorant villagers, and almost trotted home.

Shi Yi didn't know that he would come back today, and he was still doing what he usually did.

Outside the fenced courtyard wall, Chen Yu saw his old wife who was drying dried radishes.

His feet suddenly felt like they were filled with lead and he couldn't move a step.

He just stared his eyes wide open, looking at his wife without blinking.

Not seen for several years, his wife looks a little strange.Obviously the two are about the same age, but his wife seems to be a little younger.

Shi Yi picked up dried radishes with chopsticks and dried them on the ground one by one, while thinking about when to take them to the government office to sell them to buy rice.

After drying the whole basket of radishes, she straightened up to rest, and saw her husband standing outside the courtyard wall at a glance.

She didn't move, just kept looking at the wanderer who had returned in coarse linen clothes, until the tears in her eyes fell unblocked down her cheeks.

"My wife!" Chen Yushi almost rushed to her side and hugged her.

"You're finally back." Shi Yi hit him on the shoulder aggrievedly, "You haven't had a good life outside these years. Why didn't you come back earlier and let me worry about you in vain."

"I have accomplished nothing these years outside. Do you really not blame me?" Chen Yushi finally understood that her tears were for him, but he still couldn't help but continue to test.

"On the day you left, I told you that you don't have to worry about your family." Shi Yi wiped his tears with his sleeve, and continued: "We have both lived in poverty for most of our lives. , Wealth or wealth, as long as we are together, it is the best."

Chen Yushi was extremely moved and ashamed.

He was really getting better and better, and he even wanted to test his wife.

"Come in and have a rest. I'll cook for you." Shi Yi tugged on his sleeve, "You must be hungry after a long journey."

When she saw Chen Yushi, she didn't mention a word about the grievances she had suffered over the years.

A wise woman will only let a man discover everything she has done for him, instead of condescendingly talking about her contribution through her own mouth.The former will make men more moved and distressed.The latter may cause unnecessary resentment.

Chen Yushi followed his old wife into the house and found that the house had changed drastically.

Compared with before, it is cleaner and brighter now.In an unknown corner, a large bouquet of wild flowers was placed in a broken porcelain vase with a large mouth, exuding a pleasant fragrance.

"Sit down and drink some water first. The food will be ready soon." Shi placed a porcelain bowl filled with water in front of him, immediately rolled up his sleeves and hurried into the kitchen.

Chen Yushi looked at her back as she disappeared through the door, picked up the porcelain bowl and drank it in one gulp.

After not seeing each other for many years, his wife has not changed. It seems that she has changed since he became an official.

(End of this chapter)