The Little Widower

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The Little Widower

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Introduction:

Chen Qing has a miserable life. 

He was displaced and was bought back to be a husband for three taels of silver. 

However, on the day he was bought back, his husband was forced to conscript and he never met him. 

Chen Qing finally got married with a chicken in his arms.

Five years later, the war was over, but Chen Qing received the news that her husband died in the war, and he became a widow.

His mother gave him half of the pension and asked him to remarry, but Chen Qing refused.

The taciturn and extremely socially anxious Chen Qing held a funeral for her husband and propped up the shaky family. 

He workedfrom sunrise to sunset, with two or three acres of fertile land and a small courtyard.

But the neighbor next door who had just returned from the battlefield looked at him with increasingly deep eyes.

Zhou Yuan came back from the battlefield with his life, and got three acres of land from the court, and settled down in the village.

He was tall and strong, and was considered a good son-in-law by the villagers, but his eyes were only on the widower Chen Qing from his next-door neighbor's house .

Wild animals in spring, straw raincoats in summer, wild fruits in autumn, and silver charcoal in winter.

And a true heart.

Even the slow-witted Chen Qing understood what he meant, and he looked at his mother at home.

But his mother said, "People who have worked hard for half their lives have the right to pursue their own happiness."

In the days that followed, the family of three lived in peace and prosperity.

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