Winner in life

The one eavesdropping outside was naturally Song Hancong. At nine years old, he still looks like a child, without the upright temperament that children from martial arts families already have at this age. His face was ugly, and his baby-fat face was extremely gloomy. He avoided the servants and followed him around in the courtyard, climbed up to a rockery, and sat in trance.

It turns out that his parents were already worried about him. He was playing and having fun every day and didn't think it was a serious matter that he couldn't practice martial arts.

Until now, I overheard my parents talking and even said that they wanted to find a substitute for him.

substitute? Walk the world in his stead? Then will his name and identity belong to someone else? The substitute will appear openly in front of people, but in order not to be exposed, he, the real young owner of the village, has to hide and hide, secretly and afraid to see people?

Song Hancong, who was delicate and thoughtful, imagined the future days over and over again. The more he thought about it, the more he felt aggrieved and angry, and he also developed hatred for the person who would be his substitute in the future.

If Ruihe knew about Song Hancong's psychological journey, he would definitely tell him seriously: You have to ask others to pay for your waste. How do you have the right to resent your own name and life, and sacrifice your blood and sweat for your name? ? If you have the ability, do it yourself, don't use a substitute.

However, Ruihe doesn't have the ability to read minds from thousands of miles away, so naturally he doesn't know that before the death of his previous life, Song Hancong showed false love to Su Yu not because his character was broken, but because Song Hancong was such a selfish little guy from the beginning to the end. people.

After traveling for more than a month, Rui and the others finally arrived at Zuimengland. Zuimengxiang is located in a water town, with stone arch bridges everywhere. Under the bridge, there are graceful boat girls standing on small boats holding slender bamboo poles. From a distance, it looks as poetic as a painting.

Su Yaoniang breathed a sigh of relief when she finally arrived at her destination. This was the first time she had walked such a long way since she was sensible. Of course, according to her father, she escaped thousands of miles in his arms when she was four years old, but she was still young at that time and had no memory of it.

It is not difficult to settle down. The attitude of this area towards women is quite tolerant, especially women with children. Although some outsiders look disdainful when they talk about Zuimengland, there is no doubt that the special environment of this place has protected many women. Some women who can't survive will come together to find refuge. Instead of doing the prostitution business, they can just do some sewing, mending, washing and bathing, and they can still survive. Under the protection of Xiangmeng, no one will force them.

While on the road, Zhuang Liu Niang made sesame cakes to sell. Not only did they save money on buying food rations, but they could also sell them to passers-by in exchange for some money. After arriving in Zuimengxiang, they rented a small yard. Su Yaoniang suggested that she continue the sesame seed business and learn to fish in her free time.

"I don't believe I can hunt, but I can't learn to fish!" Su Yaoniang was very motivated.

However, fishing cannot be learned overnight. Not only do you need to buy fishing tools, but for safety reasons, it is also best to learn how to swim. Su Yaoniang had never learned to swim, but Rui He had already learned how to swim by swimming in the stream. He came to teach Su Yaoniang how to swim. What made him smile was that Su Yaoniang could do everything neatly. My mother has no talent in swimming. She is like a landlubber jumping into the water, thrashing about anxiously but unable to grasp the trick.

There has been little progress in the fishing business for the time being, but the business of the sesame cake stall has quickly become prosperous. Zhuang Liuniang did not hide her secrets, and she carefully taught Su Yaoniang the skills of making sesame cakes. The two skillful and hard-working women made hundreds of sesame cakes every day, and when the sun went down, there was very little leftover, just a few. It doesn't matter, when you take it home to cook mutton noodle soup, it's also delicious if you tear it up and put it in the soup to eat.

"Look, I'd better make sesame cakes with Liu Niang." Su Yaoniang happily counted the money and said to Rui He, "When we save enough money, we can buy a house and land."

"Liu Niang's craftsmanship is indeed good."

"Oh, Liu Niang is also suffering. Fortunately, the calf is back, and her suffering is finally over."

Zhuang Liu Niang came in with dry clothes and said with a smile: "Isn't that true? As long as the calf is by my side, it will be a great life. We, mother and son, are lucky enough to meet such people as the madam and the young master." A good person has to endure all the hardships."

Zhuang Liuniang's family is engaged in the sesame cake business. It is said that it is a fifty-year-old shop. The Zhuang family relies on this craft to make a living. If they specialize in one craft, they will naturally become better and better at it. It's a pity that when Zhuang Liu Niang arrived, she was the only daughter in the family and had no brothers or sisters to help her. Although the business was good, there was no way to expand. However, Zhuang Liu Niang is a woman who is easily satisfied. It is enough to keep the same shop and keep the whole family together. What she didn't expect was that a sect took a fancy to her family's sesame seed making skills and forced her to buy her. Zhuang Liu Niang's parents were both killed and injured in an accident, and their decades-old shop was also destroyed. In desperation, Zhuang Liu Niang sold Fang Zi at a low price with tears in her eyes. Fang Zi was bought out, and Zhuang Liu Niang could not take out any more sesame cakes except making them for her own family. Unexpectedly, as soon as the matter subsided and Zhuang Liu Niang was racking her brains to find another way to make a living, her husband ran away with the family's money, and she later found out that she was pregnant. Who would have thought that after her husband remarried, the new wife gave birth to three daughters in a row. For the sake of their son, they actually wanted to have her children and snatched them away while she was not paying attention.

"Iron Sword Sect?" Rui He felt that the name sounded familiar, but it was just familiar, which showed that this sect was just a small sect.

Zhuang Liu Niang smiled bitterly: "Yes, the person who robbed my family of prescriptions is the younger brother of the concubine of the deputy master of the Iron Blade Sect."

The younger brother of the concubine of the second-in-command of a small sect can bully others by taking advantage of his power. It can be seen that this world is based on strength. Even if he is an 18th-rate person, he is still a towering mountain in front of ordinary people.

"Xiao Niu will practice martial arts with me in the future." Ruihe said. "When he grows up, he can protect you."

Zhuang Liuniang was overjoyed and pulled Xiao Niu to kowtow to Ruihe and become his disciple. No one thought it was wrong for a seven-year-old child to take a five-year-old child as his apprentice. During this journey together, Zhuang Liuniang saw the ability of the young master clearly, and it was an honor for her son to be able to worship the young master as his master.

Ruihe stopped him. "Xiao Niu and I are only two years apart in age. It's strange for him to call me Master. Otherwise, I will recognize him as my younger brother. It's the elder brother's duty to teach his younger brother. In this case, Liu Niang should not call me Little Master anymore. My mother is uncomfortable hearing you call her Madam. I think it's good for you two to become sisters with different surnames. We can live together as a family in the future. What do you think, mother?"

The mother and son are weak after all. He has investigated Zhuang Liu Niang and Xiao Niu. The former is sincere and is really repaying his gratitude. The latter is younger, but innocent and romantic. As long as he is guided well, he will be a good child. He hopes to find "relatives" and "friends" for him and Su Yao Niang, so that they can support each other in the future, instead of "servants" repaying their gratitude.

Su Yao Niang agrees. She is indeed not used to Zhuang Liu Niang being respectful to her and calling her "Madam". She is just an ordinary person. She has never had a little maid around her since she was a child. The word "Madam" can make her shiver. When they were selling sesame cakes at a stall, Liu Niang once called her "Madam", which startled the customers and made them look at them curiously for a long time. It was only after she insisted that Zhuang Liu Niang stopped calling her "Madam" when they were selling sesame cakes at the stall, but when they returned home, Zhuang Liu Niang still called her that and even competed to do housework and "serve" them, which really made her very uncomfortable.

"That's great!" Su Yaoniang said happily, "I've been getting along well with you, Liuniang, and we are close in age. Isn't it a sisterhood made in heaven? Last time I heard you say that you are two months younger than me, so I will call you sister and you can call me sister."

Zhuang Liuniang twisted her hands, expecting and fearful: "But I, I swore to the Buddha that from the moment the young master saved my calf, I will repay your kindness as a slave-"

"Liuniang, don't talk about kindness or not. Xiaoyu and I couldn't do without your care on this journey. If you didn't make sesame cakes to earn money, we would all be hungry now. Our kindness is gone, and we will be a family in the future. Isn't that good?" Su Yaoniang held Zhuang Liuniang's hand.

Zhuang Liuniang's eyes turned red, and she choked up and nodded: "Okay, okay."

Time flies, and five years have passed quickly. During these five years, Ruihe's martial arts have become more and more advanced. Xiaoniu was also brought in by him. After several years of diligent practice, he has danced with a wooden sword in a decent manner. Ruihe planned to find two good swords. Su Yaoniang and Zhuang Liuniang didn't know swords, so they took out their family savings and said, "Buy if you like it!"

Give Ruihe one hundred taels of silver.

"Brother, does this look good?" Xiaoniu pointed to a sword hanging on the wall and turned to ask Ruihe.

That day, the two of them came to a store selling weapons to buy swords. Xiaoniu looked around and liked a broad sword hanging on the wall. Ruihe asked the clerk to take it down for Xiaoniu to try. The sword was really heavy, but Xiaoniu swung it effortlessly, looking at Ruihe with bright eyes: "Brother!"

"How much is this sword?"

Thirty taels

Ruihe also picked one for himself. If he had enough money in the future, he would definitely change to a better one, but for now, this ordinary forging sword was enough for the two of them.

There was still a hundred taels of silver left, so Ruihe took Xiaoniu to have lunch. The two sat on the roadside eating wontons. Xiaoniu chewed and pointed forward: "Brother, look, someone else was beaten out."

Ruihe didn't even turn his head: "Eat yours."

In Zuimeng Township, the most common thing is that prostitutes are thrown out of the brothel for making trouble or eating a free meal.

After eating wontons, the two strolled home. Ruihe saw a familiar man leaning against the stone bridge, grinning and adjusting his clothes and hair.

"I said I would pay you back someday, he's really cruel!"

He was a little surprised that this man was actually the uncle of Song Hancong's wife in his previous life.