A few people walked and talked, and soon followed Wang An in front to a small courtyard, which should be the easternmost part of Taiyuan City, surrounded by some crooked houses, some bare-bottomed children running around, thin little faces with vegetables, occasionally walking past a few adults, the clothes on their bodies are also very ragged, Wang An's clothes in front of them are compared with them, but they still look neat, it can be seen that this should be a similar place to a slum.

Wang An looks sloppy on the outside, but the yard where he lives looks very clean, a neat row of fences encloses the whole yard, a wooden courtyard door faces the main house, the main house is a little dilapidated, the window paper on the windows is yellow, it looks like it hasn't been changed for a long time. To the east of the main house was a small thatched hut with a stove and some cooking utensils, needless to say the kitchen.

The whole yard area is not large, but it is fully utilized, the piece next to the kitchen, is reclaimed into several small vegetable fields, the weather is hot, the vegetables inside are growing vigorously, the green looks extremely gratifying, the east area of the yard is relatively large, the bamboo frame for drying clothes is set up one by one, and it is full of washed clothes, sheets and other things.

A middle-aged woman in a linen dress sat under a big tree in front of the kitchen, and was working hard to wash clothes in the shade of the tree, but these clothes were all kinds of and did not look like they belonged to a family.

Wang An, who was full of alcohol, stumbled open the gate of the courtyard and carried the food box into the courtyard. The woman who was washing looked up and saw Wang An, and immediately wiped her wet hands on her body, and at the same time walked forward quickly, supported Wang An, who was unsteady on her feet, and said with a strange face: "Husband, why do you drink so much wine?" ”

And at the same time as the woman looked up. Li Su, who had been standing outside the hospital, was stunned. This woman looked to be in her forties, and although her face was full of vicissitudes, her face was quite beautiful. It can be seen that she must have been a beautiful woman when she was young, and the other party's words and deeds were generous, but the shabby clothes still couldn't hide the wealth on her body. In addition, I heard her address Wang An again. Could it be that she is really the mother of Wang Guo?

Thinking of this, Li Su turned his head to look at Wang Qian, and from the expression on the other party's expression when he saw the woman, he was more sure of his guess. And when Cui Yu saw this Mrs. Wang, a look of respect also swelled up on her face.

I saw Mrs. Wang help her husband to sit down next to the small chair she was washing and put it in the kitchen. At this time, Wang An, who was sitting in the chair, had already heard a thunderous snoring sound. Mrs. Wang smiled helplessly at her husband's appearance, turned around and entered the main house, and after a while, she saw her struggling to move a bamboo bed out. Although the bamboo bed is not heavy, as a woman, her strength is already small. Plus the door is small and the bamboo bed is wide. She tried several times, but she couldn't move the bamboo bed out.

See this happens. Wang Kuang and Cui Yu didn't seem to have any previous concerns, and they ran into the yard together to help, and when Li Yu reacted and wanted to help, they had already helped Mrs. Wang move the bamboo bed out, and helped Wang An to the bamboo bed to lie down.

Mrs. Wang was not surprised at all by the arrival of Wang Guo and Cui Yu, and when she saw Li Su with the escort behind her, the indifferent smile on her face immediately disappeared without a trace, and she turned to salute Li Su with a solemn face, and then said a sentence that made him scratch his head: "Folk woman Wang Cui, meet His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and ask His Royal Highness to forgive them for their crime of deception!" ”

"Please forgive your sins!" Wang Kuang and Cui Yu also suddenly saluted at this time and said, their faces also showing a little guilt.

"This ...... What's going on? Li Su was not a fool, and immediately understood that Wang Guo had something to hide from him, but no matter how much he wanted to break his head, he couldn't guess what the other party was hiding from him.

Hearing Li Su's question, Mrs. Wang, who was standing at the front, showed a wry smile, stepped forward and bowed down and replied: "Your Royal Highness, this time you came to Taiyuan, you must want to recruit your husband, but you don't hide it from Your Highness, although the three strategies are from your husband, but he never thought of dedicating them to His Highness, everything is the old woman's opinion, and he can't bear to see his husband's talent buried, so he instructed Guo Er and Yu'er to go to Dengzhou to deceive His Highness, in order to let His Royal Highness come to see the old woman's husband in person!" ”

Hearing the other party's words, Li Su couldn't cry or laugh, when Wang Guo and Cui Yu told themselves that someone offered three strategies to help him temporarily alleviate the manpower crisis in the Tang Dynasty, which made Li Su mistakenly think that the person who offered the advice wanted to take this opportunity to lead him to Taiyuan for a personal interview, and then take the opportunity to take refuge. But where did he think that the person who made the plan and the person who gave the advice were not the same at all, and Wang An didn't know that he was coming, no wonder Wang Guo and Cui Yu didn't dare to step forward when they saw Wang An just now? It turns out that there is such a reason, the real mastermind behind the scenes is this woman who makes a living from laundry!

"Your Royal Highness, after my father recovered from his illness, he has seen through everything in the world, and his ambitions have turned into ashes, plus the power of the five surnames and seven hopes is too great, and his strength alone is really insignificant, and the monitoring of his father in the clan is still not relaxed, so that he can't even improve his life, and he is depressed, and he anesthetizes himself with wine every day, but fortunately, His Royal Highness appeared, and almost changed the pattern of the entire society with his own strength, which made his father very excited, and he usually admired His Royal Highness a lot, Although he did not clearly reveal the intention of assisting His Highness, the villain believed that as long as His Highness sincerely invited, his father would definitely not refuse! ”

Wang Guo turned his head to look at his father, who was sleeping on the bamboo bed, and said with an affirmative expression. As a son, seeing his father like this, even his mother suffers with him, but he can't help him as a son at all, which makes him more painful than anyone else, sometimes he really wants to send the second elder out of Taiyuan to be supported by all means, but Wang An and his wife don't agree at all, because if they do this, not only will the king's current status not be guaranteed, but he will even be suppressed and hated by the clan.

"Mrs. Wang, Brother Wang, there is no need to explain, I, Li Su, am not an unreasonable person, a great talent like Uncle Wang, let alone let me invite me personally, even if it is a three-way house, as long as I can be invited, it is worth it!" The two of them talked about this, and Li Su naturally couldn't say anything, so he had to say generously.

Hearing that Li Su did not pursue it, Mrs. Wang and the three of them were all relieved. As the host, Mrs. Wang hurriedly beckoned Li Yu to sit down, and then asked Wang Kuang and Cui Yu to enter the house and move a bamboo table and a few bamboo stools. Originally, Wang An and his wife were poor, and there was really nothing to entertain Li Su, but fortunately, Wang An brought a table of wine and food from the old wine of the grassland, among which a few fruits were taken up, but they could just be brought out, although these things were used to entertain Li Su A little shabby, but Mrs. Wang did not show the slightest embarrassment, but seemed very calm, so that Li Su was impressed again and again.

Li Su sat on the main seat, Wang Guo and Cui Yu accompanied each other on both sides, and Mrs. Wang sat on the edge of the bamboo bed, fanning Wang An while listening to Li Su and their chat. Wang An is still asleep, originally Wang Guo wanted to wake up his father, but unfortunately tried a few times but had no effect, according to Mrs. Wang, as long as Wang An is drunk, he will sleep for at least two hours, if Li Su can't wait, you can go back first, and after Wang An wakes up, she will persuade the other party to visit.

Regarding Mrs. Wang's proposal, Li Su refused on the spot, joke, since he wanted to ask this Wang An to go out of the mountain to help him, then he had to show a minimum of sincerity, if he couldn't even wait for this little time, then what kind of sincerity was it? It was with this thought in mind that Li Su decided to wait here for Wang An to wake up, anyway, he came to Taiyuan for this person, and there was nothing to do when he went back.

Since Li Su has to wait, Wang Guo and Cui Yu naturally accompany each other on both sides, Mrs. Wang is a female dependent, so it is inconvenient to go to the table, so she only sits on the side and watches the three of them eat and talk, and occasionally when Li Su asks her, she will say a few words.

And from the conversation, Li Su slowly learned that Mrs. Wang called herself Wang Cui's just now, which made Li Su have some associations, and now it has finally been confirmed that the other party is indeed the same as Cui Yu, both from Qinghe Cui's family, and in terms of generation, she and Cui Yu's father are cousins, that is, Cui Yu's aunt, and the reason why Wang An patiently taught Cui Yu was because of Mrs. Wang.

Speaking of this Wang Cui's family, she is indeed a strange woman who is single-minded, Wang An went crazy and was kicked out of the house, not only his biological father cut off relations with him, but even the young Wang Guo was forced by his grandfather to cut off the father-son relationship with Wang An, and for Mrs. Wang who appeared in Qinghe Cui's family, Wang An's father originally wanted them to break off the relationship between husband and wife, stay at home and concentrate on raising Wang Guo, after all, Wang An was crazy at that time, and was expelled from the family, there is every reason not to recognize this husband.

But Mrs. Wang, who was only in her thirties at the time, refused her father-in-law's kindness, and moved out of the Wang family's mansion with her husband Wang An, personally taking care of the crazy husband, and later after the Wang family cut off the supply of their couple, the naturally stubborn Mrs. Wang did not ask for any help, but put down her body and went out to work to earn money to support the family.

This is not that Mrs. Wang is stubborn, but for the sake of her husband Wang An's reputation, because she is already a married daughter, if she takes money from her mother's family to support the family, although others will praise her, they will look down on Wang An as a man, and even regard him as a rich, which was one of the biggest insults to men in the early Tang Dynasty. Of course, because Wang An went crazy, his previous reputation had already been ruined, but in Mrs. Wang's heart, her husband was still the husband who was worried about the country and the people, and she couldn't let her husband be ashamed because of this little thing!