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Chapter 4 The benefactor

Li Mu's father, Li Gan, was once a halberd leader in the army. When he was young, he died in a battle with the Turks. The mother and the mother received a pension of two cents of money, which was not enough to live. In desperation, Li Mu's mother, Sun, began to be a girl-red girl for the wealthy family and barely maintained their lives.

After finally pulling Li Mu apart, the battle started again. Li Mu was recruited to join the village to transport grain for the army. He never returned. Aunt Sun's life was very hard.

Li Mu was seventeen years old this year. People in the Tang Dynasty married early, and his mother was only thirty-five this year. According to later generations, she was in her prime and enjoyed her life. But in this era, if Li Mu had married early, she would have been the age of being a grandmother in her thirties. Over the years, Sun had pulled Li Mu alone, worrying and suffering more than her peers in her later generations. Therefore, although she was only in her thirties, she looked like a woman in her forties and was not in good health.

Just as Li Mu followed the grain truck, Sun was still drinking medicine. So what Li Mu said to Tang Jian was not completely a play. The original Li Mu thought about his mother at home until he died. The fact that he could say that was also influenced by the memory of this body.

Standing at the door, Li Mu took a deep breath and said silently in his heart: "Brother Li Mu, I have taken your body and I don't know how to repay you, so I will fulfill the responsibilities you should bear for you. My mother, I will raise you, go with peace of mind, reincarnate as soon as possible, and strive to join a good family!"

It's strange that after making this wish, the feeling of depression that had been lingering in my heart instantly disappeared. Li Mu was a later generation and didn't believe in the sayings of ghosts and gods, but now he began to believe it a little.

After sorting out his mood, Li Mu pushed open the door and shouted: "Mom, I'm back!"

"mother?"

He shouted twice before a response came from the room, his voice weak: "Is it my son back? Is it really my son back?"

Li Mu heard the sound was wrong and hurried into the house. He saw a woman lying on the kang, with a pale face and sweat on her forehead. This scene seemed familiar. When he just came over, Li Mu was almost like this. This was a cold wind!

Wind-cold, or cold, is not a big deal in later generations. It will be cured if you take some cold medicine for a few days. However, in the Tang Dynasty, there were no cold medicines. The wealthy families could drink Chaihu Decoction, and the small families could not afford to take medicine at all, so they could only hold on. If a fever caused pneumonia, it would be a death, and there were very few people who could survive it.

When Li Mu saw Sun's appearance, his heart suddenly became thrust. Since he had promised to take responsibility, the woman in front of him was his mother. And he also found that this kind of emotion originated from bloodlines and could not be resisted by reason. Before seeing Sun, he had many thoughts. After seeing Sun, he only had the idea of ​​"to save my mother."

"Mom, I'm not filial, I'm late to come back!" Li Mu knelt on the edge of the kang, his eyes flowing down. The sound of mom was completely heartless, without any slightest force.

Sun also had tears on his face, holding Li Mu's hand tightly, fearing that her son would disappear if he let go.

"Mom, I'll find a doctor for you now!" Li Mu got up and wanted to go out, but Sun grabbed him tightly. Li Mu didn't dare to break free, so he had to return to Sun's side.

Sun coughed twice, followed this breath and said, "Mom is no longer able to do it anymore. The family has no money. You go to get medicine and you will owe famine. It's not worth it. If you can see you come back safely before you die, you will have nothing to worry about. Don't go anywhere, just stay with Mom at home. Mom hasn't been there for a few days."

"Mom, I have money!" Li Mu put his other hand behind him, silently redeemed in his heart, exchanged one or two taels of silver from the system, and exchanged them all for copper coins. He took it to the front and showed it to Sun, and said, "Mom, look, isn't this money? I killed the Turkic soldiers, made contributions, and received a reward."

"My son killed the Turkic soldiers?" Sun was startled, then happy, and said with relief: "My son has grown up, your father died at the hands of the Turkic people. If you kill the Turkic soldiers, it will be considered as avenging him. But you still keep the money. My mother is terminally ill, and this money may be difficult to cure. You still keep it for marriage and spread the branches and leaves for the Li family. My mother can rest in peace under the fountains."

Li Mu felt very sad when he heard this. No wonder Li Mu missed his mother when he was dying. His mother was really nice to him. Of course, Li Mu would not let Sun die of illness and said, "Mom, I'd better treat you first. Where did I get my wife? When you get sick, choose one for me."

"Where did my son say that? Have you forgotten that you have a wife!"

"I don't have..." Li Mu was suddenly stunned, and a fragment passed through his memory. Li Mu had a wife, but it could be said that he didn't. Li Mu's father, Li Gan, saved Bai Chun's life, the shopkeeper of the Qianjie wine shop. Bai Chun was nicknamed Bai Nai'er. He was from another place. In order to repay his kindness and to hold Li Gan's thigh, he made a promise to marry his four-year-old daughter to the newly born Li Mu as his wife. Li Gan saw his daughter smart and cute, and with a few cups of yellow soup, he agreed to this marriage. Unexpectedly, Li Gan died in battle the next year, and Sun pulled Li Mu alone, and Bai Nai'er never mentioned this matter again. Li Mu is also a shameless person. After learning about this from his mother, he silently remembered it in his heart. From childhood to adulthood, he never took the initiative to talk to Bai Nai'er's family, including his fiancée.

However, his fiancée Bai Qiaoqiao always remembers this. When he was a child, he often came to talk to Sun. When he grew up, he helped his family sell alcohol and saved some money to Sun and help her subsidize the family. However, Li Mu, who is a heartless person, never talks about his words. It is like not seeing it. Over the past ten years, the two of them have said less than twenty words.

Bai Qiaoqiao came to visit Sun and ran away secretly. If her father Bai Naoer caught him, he would scold him at the least, or beat him up at the worst, saying that she was paying money and paying off money. No matter how ugly it sounds, he would not think that she was her daughter at all.

When Bai Qiaoqiao's mother was still there, the situation was better. When she was six years old, her mother died of illness. Bai Naoer gave birth to a son, which became even more excessive. The stepmother was not good to her, but Bai Naoer only thought she hadn't seen it. Seeing Bai Qiaoqiao raised a big girl, he began to arrange for the matchmaker to marry her daughter. The matchmaker found him a young man of age and similar family background, but he disagreed and insisted on letting the matchmaker find those wealthy families, preferably

If a wife dies, it is best to take charge of the bill when entering the door, so it is better to knock on a betrothal gift for your son to marry a wife. He has already spoken that his daughter is beautiful and should not come to the door if she has less than five stag of money. The matchmaker introduced several families, but Bai Qiaoqiao fought to the death, but he disagreed. When Li Mu left, Bai Naoer spoke again. He had already accepted the betrothal gift from the Mashangguan in the fur shop and would marry his daughter to Mashangguan as a second wife soon.

All the memories about Bai Qiaoqiao are. Perhaps in Li Mu's heart, Bai Qiaoqiao is not important at all, so when Li Mu heard the words "My wife", he didn't think of her at the first time.

Thinking of this, Li Mu smiled bitterly and said, "Mom, isn't she already married? I heard that Bai Naoer has already accepted Ma Lazi's betrothal gift."

"I haven't married yet. Ma Cleizi's wife disagreed and started to make trouble. A few days ago, someone from her mother's house came to beat Ma Cleizi. The marriage was ruined. Now Ma Cleizi is asking Bai Naoer for a betrothal gift." Sun finished speaking such a long sentence and coughed again. He took out Li Mu's money and stuffed it back into his hand, saying, "Don't you have money? Go and give it to Bai Naoer. Although it's not as much as Ma Cleizi gives, it's money at all. You tell Bai Naoer that you can still make money in the future. If you earn it, you can calculate interest. Without my burden, you will soon have savings."

Li Mu felt very uncomfortable when he heard this. A manly man is so cowardly, it would be better to die than to marry a wife! Not to mention that he has a system and has some hope, even if he doesn't, he will never accept such conditions! Li Mu said: "I don't think our family can afford to buy their Bai family's daughter. I'd better use this money to treat you. Their daughters will sell them to whoever they want!"

"Boy, how can you be so unconscience?" Sun was furious when he heard Li Mu say this, and actually raised his hand and slapped him. Li Mu was a little confused and said, "Mom, what's wrong with the child?"

Sun Shi said with a stern look: "Boy, how can you say Qiaoqiao like this? Qiaoqiao is your benefactor. Even if you don't want to marry her, you should respect her. Do you know that if you didn't have her care, your mother would have been sick and bedridden for so many days. It's really disappointing to be like this!"

Seeing Sun was so excited, Li Mu had to respond voluntarily. Just at this moment, the sound of opening the door came outside the house. Sun was happy and said, "Go and welcome it quickly, it must be Qiaoqiao."

Li Mu had no choice but to get up to greet him. As soon as he arrived at the door, a girl in a robe dress was walking towards him, carrying a bamboo basket with several dishes inside. It seemed that she was delivering food. Look at her figure, she was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, and could reach Li Mu's shoulders, almost 1.65 meters tall. Her standard melon-shaped face, a pair of dimples on her cheeks, without any makeup, but a hint of flushing on her cheeks. Even if she was standing there, she seemed to be smiling, which made people feel happy. Li Mu couldn't help but be a little stunned. No wonder Bai Naoer dared to ask for a price of five cents. She was indeed beautiful. Even with his memories of his previous life, he rarely saw such a beautiful beauty.

The two almost bumped into each other and looked at each other. Bai Qiaoqiao whispered, "You're back" and entered the house from Li Mu. Li Mu noticed that Bai Qiaoqiao showed a tiger's teeth when she spoke, which made her look cute. It is undeniable that the first impression this fiancée gave him was very good. Bai Qiaoqiao took out the dishes from the bamboo basket and smiled on her face, which was different from when she talked to Li Mu.

"Auntie, today I brought you a vegetable porridge and a few slices of cooked meat. It was not left over from the guests. It was secretly left by me when I cut the meat for the guests. I will help you sit up and feed it to you." As he said that, Bai Qiaoqiao wanted to act. Sun stopped her, grabbed her hand, and said, "Children, don't be busy eating. My son has come back safely, and has made military achievements and has received rewards. Most of my illness cannot be cured. Before he died, I wanted to see that you couples could become husband and wife, and I would die with peace of mind..."

"Auntie," Bai Qiaoqiao blushed with shame, interrupted Sun's words, secretly glanced at Li Mu who was standing next to her, and lowered her head and said, "He doesn't like me, it's not sweet to make me want. Besides, my father... Oh, let's not mention these, auntie, I'll feed you porridge."

Sun was anxious, looking at Li Mu who was standing there silently, and said angrily: "You are an unfilial son and you don't speak yet. Would you be angry with your mother to death?"
Chapter completed!
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