Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

At the west end of this alley, there is a small courtyard with two entrances from north to south. The gate is unpainted and has no knocker, showing a very dilapidated and dilapidated appearance. Old tall weeds.

The gate is always open, because the people in the courtyard are very poor and have nothing to steal, and also because there are poor people in the West Lane, and they will not have any dissatisfaction with their neighbors.

At the entrance of the alley, there is an old yellow dog lying on its stomach. When it encounters a stranger, it pricks up its ears vigilantly and barks wildly. It will stop barking when its master comes out.

At this time, at the north end of the alley, where the North Gate of Jinan is located, a young woman led a five-year-old boy walking towards the depths of the alley.She heard the barking of the yellow dog, and showed a faint smile on her tired face, but it was more of a wry smile.

She lowered her head, and was about to say something to the boy, but the boy let go of his mother's hand, cheered and ran forward. When he reached the place where the yellow dog was, the old yellow dog also came up to him, and rushed to the boy with all his might. wagging his tail. [

The door was open, and the young woman probably had been away from home for a long time, so she couldn't help but look up at the front of her house, and when she saw the words "Guotai Min'an" written on the Spring Festival couplets on the door, the young woman's face suddenly softened He smiled and showed a very sad expression.

After entering the open gate, the condition of the yard was fine. Although the square brick floor was dilapidated, it was still clean and tidy. At the head of the main hall, there was a sound of reading, and the young woman smiled slightly. Knowing that it was her husband who was teaching his disciples to read.

Her husband, Zhang Deqi, is a native of Jinan. This young woman's surname is Li, but her hometown is Texas.

The two families are both scholarly disciples, and their fathers were all high school graduates. They were good friends in the same year, so they married in-laws even though they were far apart.The wife of the Li family was teaching her husband and children in the Zhang family, and her life was quite light and happy. There was only Deqi in the Zhang family, and her parents had also passed away. Although the family was small, the family of three enjoyed themselves and lived comfortably.

Zhang Deqi was selected as a scholar, and he was still young, so many families in Jinan City sent their children to him and asked him to be a tutor. With an income of seven or eight taels to ten taels a year, food and clothing are not a problem.

This time, the wife of the Li family left home when the news came a month ago that the Qing army had entered the customs. Immediately, her husband asked her to take her son Zaiwen back to her hometown in Dezhou to take refuge.

Strange to say, at that time people were all running to Jinan. Although Dezhou was a big city, it might not be better than Jinan, but Zhang Deqi insisted on this arrangement, even very tough.

The husband and wife never quarreled, and they had a real fight over this matter.

But the wife of the Li family lived in Dezhou for a few days, and people there were panicked, because there were not many soldiers and horses in Dezhou. Now the army is all in Jinan City, and the prefectural city is high and wide. The gentry in Dezhou are running to Jinan. In such a chaotic season, people's emotions are easily affected. When she came back today, she not only came back by herself, but also brought her old parents, younger brother and sister-in-law, and the whole family, but they returned from Texas together. into the city of Jinan.

After entering the door, I first heard the voice of her husband teaching, and the face of Li's wife was much more beautiful. She was about 23 or [-] years old. In later generations, she was still a young and beautiful girl who had just entered the society. At this time, her son She is five years old and has been doing housework all year round, which makes her fingers rough and her face has several fine and dense wrinkles.

But generally speaking, she is a beautiful woman. Although she is dressed in civilian clothes, she is wearing a bun style that was popular in the Suzhou Prefecture of Nanzhili at that time. It was groomed, thin and long.

It can be seen that although she is not a wealthy family, the wife of the Li family also has a heart for beauty, and tries her best to tidy herself up as clean and beautiful as possible, with neat makeup.