First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Chapter 218 Nangong Rui Returns Home

Nangong Rui's face was filled with disappointment and frustration, but Qian Feng had already said so much, and there was nothing else he could say.

He really didn't expect that his mother would bring her family to harass the general's wife.

In the final analysis, this matter was that his family betrayed the general. The general had been so good to him before. When he was in the mining area, he almost died. It was the general who picked him up, took good care of him, and even asked someone to use his connections to get herbs from outside the mining area.

There is no medicine in the mining area. If you want to survive, you have to exchange it for money. Everything has a price.

At that time, he was beaten to pieces and was dying. Many parts of his body had festered. Even the guards at the mine said he was dead, but the general did not give up on him...

His life was saved from the brink of death by the general.

In fact, Nangong Rui was not panicked at all when he was imprisoned in the military camp, but now he is panicked.

As far as he could remember, the first set of new clothes without patches that he wore was bought by the general. At that time, he was celebrating the New Year in the mining area, and he had just recovered from his illness. The general got a few sets of new clothes from somewhere, saying that everyone had a hard time and they should have decent clothes for the New Year, so he shared them among several people.

In fact, he knew that these clothes were given to the general by the general's followers. Although it is said that you can do a lot of things with money in the mining area, no matter what you do, it will be worth a lot.

Those guards are so cruel!

If I want to send in a few sets of clothes, I'm afraid the silver I have to give will be dozens of times the value of these clothes.

From that time on, Nangong Rui knew that he would only follow Wei Ling for the rest of his life.

Now that he had taken off his Black Tiger Army uniform, he really felt as if something was suddenly missing, as if a piece of flesh had been cut off from his body.

He lowered his head and walked towards his own home.

When he was almost at his doorstep, he suddenly remembered that his house was sealed off.

After asking his neighbors where his mother and sisters-in-law were living, he quickly composed himself and hurried over.

The small courtyard their family is renting now is not far from the original house, but it only has three rooms. His mother occupies one room, his two younger sisters occupy one room, and his several sisters-in-law and nephews and nieces occupy another room. The house is already full.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw that it was a mess. The snow was almost up to my knees, and no one had cleaned it. There were only a few paths trampled out in the places where people often walked.

Seeing Nangong Rui coming back, his family members all rushed over.

Nangong Rui's mother, Wang, looked at her son and burst into tears. "My son, you are finally back! Look at what kind of life our family is living now!"

When Nangong Rui saw his mother so excited, the words that had been pent up in his heart, wanting to question them why they went to the general's mansion to cause trouble, were immediately thrown out of his mind.

"Mother, I am an unfilial son and have caused you, my sister-in-law, and my younger sisters to suffer!" He lowered his head and let Wang pull at his clothes while crying.

"I don't care! Now that you are back, go and talk to your general and let our whole family return to our own home! Look at this broken place, is it habitable? The windows are all broken, the wind can't be blocked at all, and I was so cold at night that I couldn't even sleep well!" Wang cried. "Your general is too ruthless! After all, you are one of his people, how can he seal off our house just like that! We have no money now, and if you don't come back, our whole family, young and old, will starve to death here!"

When Nangong Rui heard this, he felt sad and aggrieved.

"Mother, it is indeed my brothers who have done something wrong." He frowned slightly and said, "Now that the general refuses to see me, I can't say anything. I'm afraid we still have to stay here for a while."

Upon hearing this, Wang punched her son in the chest. "You useless thing, they are officials, and you are an official too, why do they have the best food and the best drinks, and their whole family lives comfortably? We have to suffer if we follow you! What did your brothers do wrong? They didn't ask for the money, they gave it to them, can you blame your brothers? Not only do you not help your family, but you are also turning your elbow outward. What did they do wrong? If they don't take the money, they will give it to others, why can't our family members take it!"

When Nangong Rui heard his mother say this, an incredible light suddenly appeared in his eyes, "Why did mother say that?"

"Don't talk in such a flowery way. How many years have you studied? Do you think that just because your lousy general taught you a few words, you can pretend to be a cultured person?" Wang scolded. "Your brother is in jail now, and our family is all living in this small, broken courtyard. What's the point of your nonsense? If you have the guts, go and ask for mercy from your friends in the army! Aren't they your brothers and sisters?"

"Mother!" Nangong Rui's head suddenly became twice as big.

He really didn't expect that he would be scolded by his mother before he could say anything when he got home.

He couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart.

He is also his mother's son. How come in her eyes he doesn't deserve a greeting just because he was released from the army?

At least it would be nice to care about him for a little bit!

"Let's not talk about this for now." Nangong Rui waved his hand and said a little tiredly, "I guess I can only see the general after the New Year."

Qian Feng explained it very clearly.

The general doesn't want to see him now because he is very angry.

"Useless thing!" Wang was so angry that she hit Nangong Rui several times, until her hands were a little numb, and then she stopped. The anger that she had been holding back for the past few days was directed at Nangong Rui. "It's okay that your general refused to see you, but look at this broken yard, it's really uninhabitable. My house is as cold as an ice cellar. One of your two sisters is about to get married, and the other is looking for an engagement. How can you live here? Your eldest sister's marriage is about to fall through. Go and talk to them and settle this matter. The men in our Nangong family are not dead yet, so it's not their turn to bully us. And your sisters-in-law and your nephews and nieces are so crowded in one house, how can we sleep well at night. You should find a big yard to settle your family first! And the New Year is coming soon, and you need to make new clothes and buy some New Year goods. You should do these things right away. Our family can't spend the New Year like this!"