Wen Yuan listened to others conveying this to herself, cried and nodded, and kept saying yes, she believed him.
It's just that she was ugly, and she was crying so badly that the person who helped to deliver the message was so frightened that she couldn't even say a word of comfort, watching her tears fall to the ground.
Wen Yuan didn't care about this, she just cried herself.
She cried outside for a while, and when she came back to old man Zhou, she didn't show any abnormalities again, fearing that old man Zhou would also feel sad when he saw it.
The wood carvings made by Wenyuan are already quite famous in the neighborhood, and wealthy families often come to order from her.
They came and went, earning a lot of money, which made people in the town red-eyed again, and said sourly that Zhou's daughter-in-law was really worthy of asking for it. Although she was ugly, she could do things and earn money.
Old man Zhou was so angry that he didn't pick up the fire stick to chase and beat these talkative people. His family's daughter-in-law, he just disliked it himself, and it would be someone else's family to criticize.
Not long after that, Wen Yuan suddenly fainted one day when she was staying up all night doing work.
The old man Zhou was so scared that he ran to invite a doctor overnight. The doctor came and gave Wen Yuan a pulse, and found that Wen Yuan was pregnant.
After old man Zhou sent the doctor away, Wen Yuanren was still blindfolded. She... was pregnant with Zhou Qingxian's child?
These days, Wenyuan only feels that people get tired easily, but she doesn't have symptoms like nausea and vomiting at all, so Wenyuan doesn't think about pregnancy.
But now, the doctor said that she had a child!
Wen Yuan felt joy in her heart, and the old man Zhou sent the doctor away, with a smile on his serious old face, and said: "Don't do the work in this shop, come on, dad."
Wen Yuan obediently agreed.
She concentrates on raising her baby at home. In addition to eating and sleeping on weekdays, she spends her days in Zhou Qingxian's study looking through the poems that are not very smooth and the paintings he made for her.
At the beginning, Wenyuan was very resistant to Zhou Qingxian's painting for herself. She felt that she was born ugly, and there was really no need to be painted. Zhou Qingxian listened to her words, but changed his usual foolish appearance, and his face was serious: "Who said that? My wife is nice to look at, but others are blind and can't see it."
Wen Yuan gradually got used to it, and Zhou Qingxian took himself into the painting.
After a few days like this, Wen Yuan's stomach began to sink. On this day, she finally received a letter from Zhou Qingxian who was far away in Huaicheng. , I can paint for her when I get home.
Hearing someone read the letter to herself, Zhou Qingxian's careless expression quickly appeared in Wen Yuan's mind, and she couldn't help laughing out loud, and asked the sender to write back another letter, saying that she had him child, let him name the child.
Not long after, I received another reply letter, which contained the two names that Zhou Qingxian had racked his brains for a long time, as well as his longing for Wen Yuan.
He is usually the most squeamish person, and when he does some work, he is coaxed by jerky dignitaries. Now that he is on the battlefield, he doesn't complain about being coquettish, probably because he is afraid of Wenyuan's worry.
How could Wenyuan not know his intentions, so she could only try to show a relaxed mood in the letter.
After several months of trembling and fear, Zhou Qingxian hadn't heard any bad news yet, but Wen Yuan received another bad news first.
When the old man Zhou went to the timber merchant's warehouse to select suitable wood for carving, he was hit by unstacked wood. He bled profusely on the spot and was crushed to death.
Wen Yuan didn't expect that the old man Zhou who was discussing what to have for lunch with him in the morning disappeared like this.
Suppressing her discomfort, she went to the warehouse, led people to contain the body of old man Zhou, and finished the funeral of old man Zhou step by step.
She didn't even know how to mention this matter to Zhou Qingxian. She had clearly promised him that she would take good care of the Zhou family, but now...
Wen Yuan felt guilty and sent a letter to Zhou Qingxian, telling him about it.
Zhou Qingxian replied to the letter. Although there was sadness in her words, she did not criticize Wenyuan, and even comforted her in turn, telling her to cherish herself and not to worry too much.
On Wenyuan's side, life was indeed difficult. She had died shortly after she was pregnant with her father-in-law. Naturally, she was blamed by others, saying that she was born with a hard life and overcame old man Zhou to death.
Some people said, it's not just the old man Zhou, didn't Zhou Xiaoxian be forced to serve as a soldier that week?
This is pure nonsense, the conscription was decided by the emperor himself, how could she do it with just one gram?
More troublesome things were yet to come. Wen Yuan's parents and sister-in-law found out that there was only one person left to guard the house on her side, and there was a lot of money in the family. It's been so long, and I don't go home to have a look, and take some things to subsidize the family.
But when Wenyuan got married back then, they already asked the Zhou family a large amount of gift money.
Normally, Wen Yuan would just drive people out with a broom, but now that she is pregnant with a child, it is not convenient for her to walk, so she can only let the Wen family mess around every day.
Wen's family has been in trouble for a long time, and seeing that Wen Yuan still couldn't pry her mouth open, she stopped coming.
Wen Yuan finally regained a few days of innocence.
But after a few days of cleansing, Wen Yuan felt that something was wrong. Zhou Qingxian's letter sent home this month has not arrived, and she gradually became anxious after waiting.
She couldn't help but sent another letter to the barracks where Zhou Qingxian was.
But still no reply.
Until one day, the naughty Aunt Wang next door knocked on the door of her house. Aunt Wang showed her the letter sent by her son, which said that Zhou Qingxian was sent to the front line and was killed by an enemy soldier on the spot. The general was shot in the air, bleeding to death.
That general, whoever said his surname was Yuan, was very powerful.
When Wen Yuan received the news, she was so emotional that she couldn't cry anymore, and she became a puppet with her mouth open in a daze, as if part of her soul was pulled out of her body in an instant.
She spent a few days in a daze, and finally couldn't hold on on the third day after learning the news, and passed out.
Fortunately, she was very lucky, the doctor just came to take her pulse that day, and saw Wen Yuan lying on the ground as soon as she entered the door, so she rushed to rescue her, and Wen Yuan saved her life.
Seeing that her heart was ashamed, the doctor comforted her and said: "Although Zhou Qingxian is gone, you still have your child in your belly, take heart."
After that day, Wen Yuan seemed to come back to life again, and her words and deeds looked almost the same as before.
A month later, Wen Yuan gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix twins, who were named according to Zhou Qingxian's meaning during his lifetime. The girl was named Zhou Ying, and the boy was named Zhou Hu.
The rumors in the town became more and more ugly, saying that Wen Yuanke killed her father-in-law, and now she has killed her husband, it is really an unlucky person.
But Wen Yuan has no intention of moving out of town, she chooses to continue to endure such gossip. If there were ghosts in this world, she was afraid that Zhou Qingxian would not be able to find her if she moved.
Day by day, Wen Yuan is still relying on making wood carvings to pull the two children to grow up. At the beginning, everyone was afraid of Wenyuan's "unlucky" and hesitated to order from her, but Wenyuan's craftsmanship is good and the price is fair, because it can save some money, gradually, everyone will continue to order from her Ordered.
When Wen Yuan was thirty years old, the Li Dynasty was finally conquered and the capital was conquered. The faint emperor was beheaded on the spot, and the world changed hands.
And those who were still alive after fighting the war were all released back to their hometowns by amnesty.
On the day when they came back one after another, Wen Yuan stood on the winding path in front of the town and waited for a whole day and night, but she couldn't wait for her return.
Seeing the other relatives reunited again and huddled together, Wen Yuan's heart was ashamed, and her complexion was ashen.
She knew that her last secret expectation had come to nothing, that Zhou Qingxian was really dead, and he would not come back, so she would paint for herself and boast that she was good-looking.
From then on, Wen Yuan worked harder and harder to make wood carvings, as if she wanted to vent all her excess energy.
Perhaps because of her hard work, her wood carvings became better and better, and later even became famous all over the world. The aristocratic families of the new dynasty regarded her wood carvings as treasures, and Wen Yuan's value also increased accordingly.
She has a lot of wealth, and hired a very good teacher to teach her children to read.
It stands to reason that she should have some consolation after suffering for so long in her life, but... her children are useless.
The children didn't know beauty or ugliness when they were young, and they were still very close to her, but gradually, after hearing some gossip outside, the children began to dislike her as a mother.
Learning the language from outsiders, it is said that Wen Yuanke died of his father and grandfather.
Wen Yuan was so angry that she scolded her severely, but with just this scolding, her children completely separated from her. While squandering the family fortune she earned, they disliked her for being ugly and let themselves be talked about outside. .
Later, the sons and daughters got married separately, but they did not go out independently, and they still brought the whole family to live on Wen Yuan.
While looking down on Wen Yuan, he racked his brains to get money from her.
It has been a torment for many years, and the reason why Wen Yuan is willing to tolerate it is only because her son and daughter's face is somewhat similar to Zhou Qingxian's.
When Wen Yuan was fifty years old, she was already too old to look good. She had just passed her fiftieth birthday, and before she had been quiet for a long time, her descendants forced her to make a will and divide the property.
Wen Yuan didn't agree.
After a few days of free time at home, Wen Yuan received an order from a high-ranking official in the capital. The man wanted to cling to a general and wanted Wen Yuan to make a woodcut of the general's heroic killing of the enemy.
It also carefully included the appearance of the general Yuan, and his heroic posture when he picked up a gun to kill the enemy.
General Yuan, use the gun...
Wen Yuan came to his senses in no time.
She began to sculpt the last work of her life. When Zhou Qingxian was being picked up by a gun and bleeding blood, she shed tears again and again. The tears frequently blurred her vision, making her carving work almost impossible to continue. She still gritted her teeth and finished carving the woodcut picture. She carved the picture to perfection and lifelikeness, and tried her best to make the General Yuan couldn't help reaching out to touch it when he saw it.
Wen Yuan secretly bought a colorless and odorless poison, applied it on the wood carving, and then delivered the wood carving.
A few days later, officers and soldiers broke into Wen Yuan's home and took Wen Yuan away.
And behind her, those useless descendants kept shaking their heads, saying that they didn't know anything, it must be Wen Yuan alone, and it had nothing to do with her.
But a few days ago when they were fighting for the property, they didn't think so.
Wen Yuan was taken to the center of the town by the officers and soldiers. They set fire on the execution platform and asked why Wen Yuan poisoned the general.
Wen Yuan didn't raise her head and didn't answer a word.
He then listened to the human being in charge of the interrogation: "Since that's the case, don't blame us for being rude."
Wen Yuan was pushed into the fire and tied tightly with iron chains.
She suddenly said, "Is he dead?"
"General Yuan Jiren has his own aura, how could he be poisoned to death by such a small scheme like yours." The man said loftily.
Listening to the man's words, Wen Yuan felt madness in her heart, why didn't he die, why didn't he die?
He killed Zhou Qingxian, how could he not die!
Wen Yuan gritted her teeth tightly, with hatred that could kill people bursting out of her eyes, and looked from a distance in the direction where the officer who tortured her was bowing to the general when she complimented the general.
The flames continued to burn Wen Yuan's body, and her vision gradually became dizzy from the burning. In the heavy flames, she vaguely saw the young man in white shirt who was lying on the wicker chair back then, and stretched out his hand towards her with a smile. Ah Yuan, long time no see."
So Wen Yuan stretched out her hand and caressed the other's hand: "Long time no see."