After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

Pei Rong looked at the table with his index finger. He would naturally be reluctant to part with a pot of soup that he cooked as if it were different from others. Kuang spent two years trying to open up connections with West Vietnam. Only he knows best what hardships he has endured and what sins he has endured.

But making soup requires a pot and firewood. He doesn't have it, but Liu Yunxiang does.

Of course, he can change the pot and use other firewood, but this pot of soup will not be cooked well.

He glanced at Liu Yunxiang, who was drinking tea calmly, but he knew that without asking, she would definitely not give in.

"Can you really clear the checkpoint at Zhenxi Pass?"

"You should know me. What I say must be reliable."

Pei Rong nodded, "Okay, as long as you can get through there, we will do this business together and share the benefits together."

After Liu Yunxiang left, Pei Rong came out of the study and looked around the house but did not see Lan Niang. He asked the maid and said she had gone to the front yard because someone was looking for her.

Who will look for her?

Pei Rong was a little worried, so he thought about it and went to the front yard. After passing through the hall, I saw a woman and a tall and thin man in front of Lan Niang. They had been wearing patched clothes for the past two days. They were dark and thin, like beggars on the street.

The mother-in-law couldn't see, so she stretched out her hand to touch, presumably to hold Lan Niang's hand.

"Lanniang, my mother has been asking about you. She knew you were back and hurriedly came to see you. You have been in our family since you were ten years old. My mother has watched you grow up. How can I not be worried?" said the mother-in-law. The tears fell.

Lan Niang sighed slightly, stepped forward and held the blind woman's hand, "I'm fine, you don't have to worry."

The blind woman carefully stroked Lan Niang's hand and said, "The hands are smooth and the calluses are gone." She then reached out and touched Lan Niang's face, "I must have gained some weight."

Lan Niang didn't know how to answer the question, so she responded, "Yeah, I'm fat."

These words made Chen Hou behind the blind woman dissatisfied. He first glared at Lan Niang, and then said in a strange way: "Mom, you are worried about her, is she worried about you? You care about the friendship between the family, she has Are you thinking about it? When you were eating branyan vegetables and her delicacies, did you ever think of us two?"

"Shut up!" The blind woman shouted at Chen Hou, then turned to look at Lan Niang and said: "Lanniang, don't be angry with him. Although he said so, he actually misses you very much and has been asking about you these days. Are you coming back or not? You are husband and wife after all, no matter what, the love is still there."

Pei Rong, who was standing at the door of the hall, heard these words and knew the identities of these two people, Lan Niang's ex-mother-in-law and ex-husband.

He frowned, intending to go up and drive them away, but he also wanted to see Lan Niang's attitude.

Lan Niang shook her head, "I have reconciled with him, and there is no relationship between husband and wife. I entered your house when I was ten years old, and started serving you and your mother when I was ten years old. I have already paid back what I owe, and please don't come looking for me in the future." Me."

"Listen! Are these human words?" Chen Hou said with an angry look on his face, "If my family hadn't bought you and given you food and clothing, you would have froze to death and starved to death!"

"If I hadn't raised you mother and son all these years, you would have starved to death and froze to death several times, so I don't owe you anything!" Lan Niang said loudly.

"You are ungrateful!"

"Whatever you say, I don't care."

"Mom, let's go!"

Chen Hou took the blind woman's hand and wanted to take her away. The blind woman shook him off and hit him. He turned back to Lan Niang with a look of pleading on his face: "Lan Niang, he committed the crime." It's a big mistake, he can't forgive you, and I can't apologize to you here."

As she spoke, the blind woman knelt down. Lan Niang hurriedly pulled her up, but she couldn't get up.

"Lanniang, we are a family after all. Broken bones are connected with tendons. You go home. We can't live without you in this family!"

Lan Niang frowned. Seeing that she couldn't hold the blind woman back, she simply let go and said, "It's probably because he didn't study well and had no hope of taking the imperial examination. The rice jar at home was empty, and there was no one to mend the tattered clothes. He was living a rough life." I can’t go down anymore, so you came to me.”

The blind woman was startled for a moment, "Lanniang, you used to be the most soft-hearted..."

"So I took good care of you and tried my best to maintain this family, but in the end I was sold by him."

The blind woman probably didn't expect that Lan Niang would speak so harshly and mercilessly. After a moment of silence, she turned to touch her son and insisted on pulling him to kneel down, "You can't help Lan Niang, please follow me." She kowtows to apologize!"

"Mom, I am a scholar..."

"In the future, if you no longer study, no longer take the imperial examination, no longer want to be an official and get rich, you will go to the dock to work as a porter and earn money for Lan Niang. You two can live a good life."

"I am a student of sages, how can I do such a lowly job?"

"You're almost starving to death, why are you reading a crappy book!"

"mother!"

"Get down on your knees!"

The blind woman refused to let go, and finally pulled Chen Hou to his knees, "Please beg Lan Niang, let her go home with you."

Chen Houben was not convinced, but his stomach growled loudly, and he was really hungry, so he reluctantly said: "I was wrong before, I apologize to you, please come home with me, my mother and I are still I’m hungry!”

Lan Niang looked at the two people kneeling in front of her, feeling suddenly relieved. She chuckled, "Think about the years I lived when I was married to you. What a life I lived. It's not an exaggeration to say it was a pit of fire. No matter how stupid I am now, I will never go back."

"Don't give your face shame!"

"It's you, mother and son, who are shameless!" Lan Niang shouted.

"You! Don't think I don't know. You must be with another man, that's why you refuse to go home! You slut, shameless and immoral!"

Lan Niang looked at the hysterical man in front of her and scolded him so much. She didn't feel angry, only funny, "Yes, I really followed another man. He is better looking than you, has better literary talent than you, and has money." There is also status, and the most important thing is that he treats me well, he...he won't even let me move heavy objects!"

After saying that, Lan Niang's heart trembled inexplicably. She couldn't help but think of Pei Rong urging her to eat more with a dark face, refusing to let her do any work, and staring at her belly with a dark face, but his eyes were extremely gentle.

If she is really pregnant...

Lan Niang shook her head quickly, refusing to think any more about such a good person. How could she think too much about him?

"You! Come home with me now! Don't I teach you a lesson!" Chen Houteng stood up, grabbed Lan Niang, and dragged her out.

At this time, Pei Rong ran forward, pushed Li He away, and at the same time protected Lan Niang behind him.

Chen Hou was a little confused, "Pei, Mr. Pei, I'm taking my wife home. You, why don't you step in?"

Facing Pei Rong, Chen Hou was scared after all, and his voice was trembling.

Pei Rong sneered, "She is now a member of the Hou Mansion, why can't I control her anymore?"

"This is her private matter."

"It just so happens that we also have an affair."

Chen Hou's eyes widened, "What, what do you mean?"

Pei Rong held Lan Niang's hand and said, "I am her man."