Gong Fujiao Daughter-in-law

Chapter 71
Xie Zhiyun has become the only straw for the Wang family's wife.

She didn't even know Xie Zhiyun's real identity, and she believed her words just based on Xie Zhiyun's short words.

The lady of the Wang family lowered her head and wiped her tears, and when she looked up again, her eyes became much firmer.

"Madam, please ask, I will try my best to remember."

Xie Zhiyun said lightly: "It's just a question, where does he like to go to drink on weekdays?"

The lady of the Wang family fell into the memory, she thought very seriously, as if she wanted to dig out all the bits and pieces of these years from the depths of her memory.

"When we first got married, he didn't drink alcohol," said the wife of the Wang family. "In the beginning, he said that it was General Sun who forbade the soldiers under his command to drink alcohol. , the people of Yezhou City will suffer.”

"Only when he is not on duty, he occasionally has a few drinks at home, but he is not gluttonous."

"Later..." Wang's wife's eyes changed slightly, "Later, in the third year of Yuankang, Yezhou was invaded by bandit troops from the Wucao tribe, causing heavy casualties. That is, after that year, Wang Eryong started Go to the tavern frequently."

Xie Zhijun listened carefully, and didn't ask her what she experienced at that time, but just asked: "Which tavern?"

The taverns in this city are all old businesses. They are all old wine shops that have been run for generations. They have a lot of wine guides in their hands.

The lady of the Wang family lowered her head: "I just went through the war at that time, and I was born prematurely because of the fright, but he was always away from home at that time, so I was very angry and quarreled with him, and he just coaxed me blindly , or take the silver taels back to prevaricate me."

"He is a capital, and his monthly salary is only 20 taels, but he got back as many as a hundred taels during that time, which I feel is a bit wrong."

Because of the ills of the old dynasty, years of war and chaos, and even today, there is finally a moment of stability, which is cherished by the ruling and opposition parties.

Therefore, compared with civil servants, military officials have higher salaries, and the common people also agree with this.

After all, they threw away their homes and businesses to protect the people, and exchanged their lives for money. If they paid more, they would naturally get more in return.

For the wife of the Wang family, 20 taels is not a lot. The family of four can live happily ever after. When Wang Eryong gets promoted in the future, he can save dozens of taels a year, which is already better than most ordinary people. .

So the 100 taels scared the lady of the Wang family.

"He must have explained it to you, otherwise you wouldn't have noticed nothing unusual."

The lady of the Wang family sighed.

"Madam is right. He told me at the time that a tavern he often went to opened a poker game, specializing in mahjong. He could not do anything else, but he knew how to memorize cards. He won after going there for a few days. How much money, I dare not tell me because I am afraid that I will be uneasy."

The Wei Family Army has strict military orders. The first rule is that eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling are not allowed.

He not only went to the tavern, but also gambled. No wonder he was cautious and lingered. It was precisely because of this that the wife of the Wang family didn't notice what he was hiding.

Xie Zhijun asked, "Which one?"

The lady of the Wang family smiled wryly: "Of course he refused to tell me. I was worried that he would lose his job, so I repeatedly advised him not to gamble. Later, he seemed to have really listened to my words and didn't go to that place."

In the third year of Yuankang, such a thing happened, Wei Cang was heartbroken because of the extermination of the family of his acquaintance with the same name. In that year, he basically took Wei Ji to suppress bandits in Taiji Mountain, and he was indeed a little negligent in guarding against Yezhou City.

Xie Zhiyun kept all these in her heart, she didn't ask the wife of the Wang family, she just waited quietly for her to speak.

Sure enough, the wife of the Wang family said: "The 100 taels of silver are always hanging over my head. I was afraid that he would not restrain himself and be found to have violated the military order, so I specially chose a day to follow him secretly."

"The tavern is called Zuiwozhai, and the name sounds nice. Because it's close to home, I used to go there to buy wine when I needed to celebrate the New Year."

"What did you see there?" Xie Zhiyun asked.

The lady of the Wang family said: "I didn't dare to let him know that I was following him, and I didn't go in, so I took a sneak peek outside. It was very quiet inside, without any noisy sound, and it seemed that the door was closed and locked."

Having said that, the lady of the Wang family fell silent.

But Xie Zhiyun continued to say for her: "So you think that Wang Eryong is just playing mahjong, and the tavern is very cautious, as long as he is not discovered, he will be fine. Besides, Wang Eryong has always been very lucky. He wins more and loses less. Is it right?"

The lady of the Wang family lowered her head: "That's right, that's not right."

"Ma'am, you probably don't know how an orphan girl lives. Although I am fostered in my third uncle's family, I am not my own after all. Since I married Wang Eryong, my relationship with my third uncle's family has faded, because I already have another one." A home."

"If this new home is gone, then I will be homeless."

So she kept it a secret and didn't tell anyone.

"Fortunately, Wang Eryong didn't go there much later, and he seemed to have lost interest in gambling, so I felt relieved. If it wasn't mentioned today, I would almost have forgotten it."

Xie Zhiyun didn't pause, and she didn't have to go out to tell Liu Zhaohui. She believed that Liu Zhaohui had already started searching the wine shop.

Xie Zhiyun asked: "Is there any more? You and your husband have been together day and night for six or seven years, and you have been companions day and night. It is impossible for you not to notice his abnormality."

"It may be the jewelry that was given to you suddenly, or the inexplicable late return and early departure, or it may be the unusual smell on your body."

Xie Zhiyun's voice was clear and faint, repeating a wisp of smoke and dust, bringing the Wang family lady into the past years.

She lowered her eyes and recalled carefully, the tent became quiet for a moment.

At this moment, she suddenly raised her head: "I remember, I remember that he bought a military uniform and came back."

Yu Hanzhao, who had been silent all this time, his eyes darkened, and he fixedly looked at her.

The wife of the Wang family was silent in her memories, she didn't notice her gaze, she said: "Wang Eryong's military uniforms are all issued in the battalion, three in one season, and I will wash them for him every season when I bring them back, so that wearing them is not easy. It hurts."

"But once he bought an identical military uniform from outside. He told me that he was discussing with the people in the camp and accidentally damaged the military uniform. The new season hadn't been released yet, so he had to buy a new one and come back to replace it. .”

"I can remember to this day because there was a bad smell on the military uniform. I washed it with soap locust for three days before washing it off."

Xie Zhiyun said, "What's the smell?"

The lady of the Wang family recalled it carefully: "It's an indescribable smell of rotten food."

Yu Hanzhao gently tugged on Xie Zhijun's sleeve, Xie Zhijun looked at her, and saw Yu Hanzhao's eyes were shining, and there were thousands of stars in them.

"Sister-in-law, I know what's going on."

(End of this chapter)