Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 230

“Where did the shameless rat come from, dare to pretend to be a ghost in front of my Wu family?!”

“Don’t bully my mother!” Gu Ye, who had just returned to the house and lay down to rest, rushed out, pulling his shoes.

In the blink of an eye, they ran from the house to the top of the hill in the backyard, but the two little kids didn’t rush over any more, and Gu Yin held them back.

She already recognized the young man in front of her. Although she still didn’t understand the situation, at least she knew that he was not a bad person.

After Wu Qingyi glanced at them, he still looked at Mrs. Wang, tears running down his resolute face.

Eight years were neither long nor short.

For young people like Gu Yin and Wu Qingyi, eight years was enough for them to grow from young teenagers to another person.

But for Mrs. Wang’s age, the eight years had only left ravines and vicissitudes on her face.

But the mother in front of him, although dressed poorly and she was a little older, she looked extremely energetic, and her whole body showed a kind of youthfulness.

It was something he could never imagine in his dreams.

“Mom, I’m back.” 

His voice was rough and hoarse. Mrs. Wang was both delighted and horrified. She closed her eyes and said, “Son, people and ghosts have different paths. It’s still broad daylight, so don’t come out, it’s scary!”

When she turned her head and saw that Gu Yin and the others didn’t move, Mrs.Wang trembled and tried to lean toward Gu Yin and the others, and said in a trembling voice, “Can you not see him? Woo, come and help me. It may be that I haven’t slept all night and I’m confused.”

Seeing that she was so frightened, Wu’an immediately replied, “Don’t be afraid, mother, we can see him! He is not a ghost.”

“If you can see him, that’s good. He is not a ghost…” Mrs. Wang walked up to them, far away from the two tombstones, but when she said that, she stood up abruptly, and then turned her head suddenly in disbelief, “My son, you are not dead?!”

Before she could finish her words, she staggered and ran over. Wu Qingyi also hurriedly stretched out his hand to greet her. The mother and son hugged each other, and Mrs. Wang wept bitterly, “You unconscionable b-stard, tortoise son! You haven’t been dead for so long, but you just came back, and the old lady was going to die of sadness.”

Wu Qingyi let her scold, and then heard her scolding incoherently, “I folded so much paper money for you and your father every year, but it’s all in vain. I’ll have to let your father spend it all alone, that old man is not ashamed. Yes, he got so much more money. He should come up to report to me in my dream, he must beg me…”

“Mother,” Wu Qingyi laughed, the person in front of him was indeed his real mother.

He said, “Father isn’t dead!”

Mrs. Wang finally stopped scolding, and said, “Why didn’t he die?”

That really didn’t sound good, but all the people who were close to her knew that she didn’t mean to curse Father Wu to death.

“Although my father and I were conscripted into the army by the imperial court, we met Emperor Zhengyuan and became the generals under him before we joined the army.” Wu Qingyi slowly talked about the events of the past, and finally said, “Father is now being enlisted in the army. Today, he has been enthroned as a Duke Ying of the country, but he is not in good health now, as he had suffered a stroke.”

“Stroke is fine, stroke is fine!” Mrs. Wang cried and laughed. What was more important than human life?

As for what her son was talking about, Mrs. Wang didn’t understand it. Anyway, he was a high-ranking official. Mrs. Wang could never dream of such a good thing.

From the excitement, Mrs. Wang, who had not slept all night, fainted.

Wu Qingyi’s face sank, and he immediately picked her up and strode into the thatched hut.

“I’ll go to call the doctor!” Gu Ye ran out of the house immediately.

Although he had only been in Batou Village for a few days, he was as restless as ever and had already figured out the situation in the village.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Gu Ye came with a doctor.

Naturally, there were not many good doctors in the countryside. Fortunately, Mrs. Wang was in good health, and there was nothing wrong with her. When the doctor checked her pulse, she started to snore.

“It’s okay, she just fell asleep,” the doctor left after saying that.

Everyone in the room was relieved. Seeing Mrs. Wang’s sleeping soundly, Gu Yin took the two children out of the house.

Wu Qingyi stayed for a while. He was relieved after confirming that his mother was in the room and all that was not his imagination.

Then his eyes fell to the door of the house.

He thought of the woman and child he had just seen. Although he didn’t look carefully when he was in turmoil, he also knew that it was his younger brother and his wife, and a five- or six-year-old small child who kept calling his wife ‘mother’.

He had been away from home for eight years, where did the five-year-old come from?

Especially when he married his wife, it was an expedient measure, and they didn’t have such a relationship.

But he said back then that if he didn’t come back, she could get married on her own. She should have remarried again.

Time had changed, and he didn’t remember much about what she looked like eight years ago. He only remembers that she was timid, and only dared to hide behind others. He didn’t expect that she would dare to wave a kitchen knife.

He got up and left the room.

Gu Yin had already gone into the kitchen, and had prepared a night’s meal, but it couldn’t be wasted. Although there was no need to make sacrificial meals, it was possible to make a reunion dinner.

The two little boys were whispering at the door of the house.

“Is that your big brother?” Gu Ye felt a little sour.

He also recognized Ugly Uncle’s half face and particularly burly figure. He admired him very much, thinking that he would swoop in with him again.

But he didn’t expect to meet again, only to find out that he was Wu’an’s big brother.

Wu’an did not practice martial arts. How could he have such a good big brother? It would have been good if he was his brother!

Wu’an looked stupid, nodded and said, “Yes, he’s my big brother!”

Seeing that Gu Ye’s tone was not right, he said again, “He’s my eldest brother and also your father!”

Gu Ye scratched his head and asked, “But he didn’t give birth to me and raise me, so why is he my father?”

“Well…” Wu’an explained after thinking for a while, “The one who is married to your mother is your father.”

Gu Ye still shook his head and said, “I don’t want a father, I just want a mother.”

When Wu Qingyi left the house, he just heard their conversation.

Listening to what they said, he concluded that the child did not have a father, which made him wonder if his father died.

With a condensed expression on his face, he went out of the house and asked Gu Ye who had his back turned to him, “Where’s your mother?”

Seeing him come out, Wu’an, who usually didn’t talk much, was very enthusiastic, and immediately rushed to answer, “In the kitchen!”

Gu Ye’s mood was a little down, but when he heard Wu’an’s answer, he didn’t bother to say a word, and squatted on the ground.

Wu Qingyi smiled at Wu’an, then went to find Gu Yin.

Gu Yin had already heard them talking outside, and kept her eyes on the door.

She bent her lips and was about to speak, but saw that he just walked to the door and stood still, with the door halfway open from her.

Suddenly, Gu Yin heard him ask, “Where is the child’s father?”

Gu Yin thought that he had misunderstood.

Seeing that she had not spoken for a long time, Wu Qingyi sighed to himself, “I understand, it has not been easy for you these years.”

Although his wife remarried, she also supported her mother-in-law for all those years. The conditions at home were really poor, and he definitely couldn’t let them stay there.

“You follow me to Beijing, and then divorce…”

With a “click”, the kitchen knife in Gu Yin’s hand was inserted into the cutting board.

“Okay, write it now on the spot, and we’ll divorce!”

Her voice sounded very familiar.

Wu Qingyi stepped into the room, and then looked carefully, only to see Gu Yin in front of him. Although wearing a coarse dress, with a snowy complexion, apricot eyes and a beautiful nose, especially her pair of eyes, it was not an exaggeration to say that they were like stars. 

“You…Why is it you?”

Gu Yin was still a little angry. She didn’t expect that when they met again, he would be Wu Qingyi of the Wu family, and she didn’t expect that his first sentence was about divorce.

Hearing that, she was also stunned for a moment, then said, “It’s me.”

“It’s you, good.” Wu Qingyi suddenly laughed, and his slightly fierce face softened instantly, “It’s good that it’s you.”

Wu’an, who came to the kitchen with Wu Qingyi, had already run back to the house and said, “Mother, don’t sleep. It seems that something is wrong with my eldest brother and sister-in-law.”

Mrs. Wang was so sleepy that she couldn’t open her upper and lower eyelids as if they were stuck together, and muttered, “What can happen? I’m so sleepy, don’t bother me.”

Wu’an said, “I don’t understand either. It’s just that the elder brother said ‘divorce’, and then my sister-in-law was not happy, and inserted the kitchen knife into the chopping board.”

Mrs. Wang immediately got up and got off the kang without wearing shoes, picked them up and went out.