"Uncle, you are back."

Seeing Xi Zhong, Zhou Feng quickly stood up and said with a low eyebrow.

In this era, once a woman gets married, she becomes a relative, even though his mother and his nephew are no longer considered actors.

Therefore, when Zhou Feng and his mother lived in the theater family, they could only live under the shelter of others. Sometimes they had to watch the family members' faces, especially when meeting the family head Xi Zhong, and they had to be more careful and not dare to mess around.

"Um……"

Xi Zhong only glanced at him lightly and walked towards the inner courtyard without any pretense.

He had no objections to Zhou Feng and his mother. After all, they were his biological sisters. Now that they were in trouble, they had come to seek refuge, so there was no problem in raising them.

He just looks down on Zhou Feng.

Especially last time, at the strong request of his mother, he was forced to shamelessly recommend Zhou Feng to Boss Cao to be the uncle of the Qian army.

In the end, he only went out to do one thing, and when he came back, he received the news that Zhou Feng was temporarily sent home. This made him feel that he had lost face in front of Boss Cao, and he even looked down on Zhou Feng.

Although Boss Cao kept saying that it was not because Zhou Feng was incompetent or made any mistakes, but because of physical reasons that he was not suitable to continue serving in the army, and that he would arrange for a suitable official position in the future, Xi Zhong still felt that he was lost.

I don’t even want to mention this useless nephew anymore because of my dignity.

What physical reason?

It's nothing more than laziness and spinelessness. Others can go to the grave, why can't you?

Even for the sake of my shamelessness in recommending you to the envoy and the slightest concern for my reputation with the actor, you still have to give me this honor.

A useless thing!

This is so good, I am afraid that not only will you be looked down upon, but also the actors and actresses will be looked down upon too. It is extremely annoying!

In this way, we arrived at the inner courtyard.

Long before this, servants had rushed in to deliver the message. At this moment, the whole family ran out to greet him. Seeing the opera fans, their faces were all happy, as if they were celebrating the New Year.

"Mother."

After the actor briefly exchanged greetings with everyone, he immediately came to an old lady over sixty years old, held her hand and shouted respectfully.

"It will be good if you come back. It will be good if you come back An Ran."

Although the old lady was old, her eyes were not cloudy yet. She looked up and down as Xi Zhong arranged the clothes for him, while nodding her head and saying with red eyes, "Zhicai, I heard that you followed the envoy to win the battle in Xuzhou. This time

You have made great achievements again and have given our opera actors a lot of face. Your father will be very pleased if he knows this. Okay, okay!"

"Mother, I push myself all the time. I don't ask for success, but I ask not to embarrass my ancestors."

Xi Zhong lowered his head slightly and said, with an unusually arrogant look on his face.

"Okay! Okay!"

The old lady looked at her son happily. After a moment, she raised her head to look at the other family members and servants gathered here, but she frowned slightly and scolded, "What are you doing here? Why don't you hurry up and get ready?"

Serve Zhicai with delicious food and drinks. He has been out for a few months and now he is tanned and hungry. Will he continue to suffer when he finally returns home?"

"yes!"

All the family members and servants quickly retreated.

At this time, the old lady looked at Xi Zhong with distress and said: "Zhicai, it's late autumn now, why are you only wearing a pair of trousers? Come on, follow me into the house to warm yourself up. Fortunately, I have asked someone to warm you up in advance."

You have prepared clothes for the winter and will have them delivered to you shortly."

"Thank you, mother."

Xi Zhong just let his mother pull him into the house, always with a gentle smile on his face, completely different from the serious and cautious person he was when he was away on an expedition.

Once inside the house, the old lady asked him many questions.

However, it mainly focuses on trivial life matters such as food, rest, warmth, treatment, etc. during the expedition, and does not interfere with the military.

Xi Zhong, on the other hand, would occasionally answer a few words, but at other times he would smile and hold his mother's hand and listen quietly.

What a warm picture of a loving mother and a filial son.

But as she kept talking, for some unknown reason, her mother finally talked about the incident that the drama star didn't want to mention at all, and even felt ashamed when she heard about it.

"Zhicai, do you already know about Qiwen (Zhou Feng's calligraphy)?"

the old lady asked.

"I know."

Xi Zhong nodded, not hiding his dissatisfaction, and gritted his teeth and cursed, "This guy is really worthless. I followed my mother's advice and shamelessly recommended him to the envoy, but he was so helpless that he was looked down upon.

It also damaged the actor's reputation. If it weren't for the sake of my mother and sister, I would have kicked him out of the actor's house. I wouldn't care if he died of starvation, exhaustion or being beaten to death. I wouldn't even watch.

Give him a look!"

"Don't be angry if you are talented. I have inquired about this matter carefully, but I can't blame Qi Wen."

The old lady smiled and patted Xi Zhong's hand, comforting him and saying.

"How can I not blame him? Could it be that someone is tying him up and not letting him do things..."

Xi Zhong said angrily.

It is inconvenient to say more.

However, after saying this, Xi Zhong had realized that there seemed to be some information gaps between him and his mother, so that although they were talking about the same thing, the content of what they said was slightly different.

"Mother, is there another secret behind this matter?"

The actor paused immediately, frowned slightly and looked at the old lady and asked.

"Exactly, Qi Wen had little experience when he first entered the military camp. He wanted to show off his talents diligently, but he didn't expect that he would be framed and plotted by someone if he was not careful. That's why he ended up in this situation."

The old lady said bitterly, "The one who is really hateful is the person who framed Qi Wen!"

"Originally, Qiwen followed the army and accomplished the mission entrusted to him. He had already made a great contribution, and he would be rewarded by the envoy upon his return. How could he have known that there was a shameless slave in the army who planned to frame him in order to climb up the ranks? However, the army at that time

Hou was also a confused person, and easily believed the slave's words, so he imprisoned Qi Wen, a meritorious man, and sent him to the envoy to deal with him."

"Qi Wen also hoped to confront the envoy in person and ask the envoy to make the decision for him. However, the envoy did not even see him, so he dismissed him and sent him home. Instead, he reused that shameless slave..."

"Oh, people's hearts are not ancient, people's hearts are really old."

"this……"

After hearing what his mother said, Xi Zhong was immediately stunned.

When the Hu army returned, he had never met Zhou Feng. He only heard Boss Cao tell him that Zhou Feng claimed that he could not enter the cold place due to physical reasons, so he was not suitable to continue serving in the Hu army and had been temporarily sent away.

Gone home.

At that time, he only hated Zhou Feng for being incompetent, but he never thought that there was such a hidden secret in this matter.

However, the mother's remarks were obviously made by the Zhou Feng family and should not be fully believed.

What if Zhou Feng was afraid of being punished by the dramatist when he returned home and made up such a nonsense story? If he acted rashly, he would be humiliating himself.

I thought about this for a moment.

The actor finally looked at the old lady and said: "Mother, although my actor rarely gets into trouble with others, he can never be bullied by anyone who wants to. If what Qi Wen said is true, then what the slave did is

But it is not as simple as harming Qi Wen alone, it is tantamount to slandering the actor's reputation. I will definitely seek an explanation from the envoy to clear the actor's name!"

"Since this is the case, my theater family will not suffer such humiliation!"

The old lady nodded and said.

"Mother, sit down for a moment. This matter still needs to be verified. I will call Qiwen in person and listen to him tell him what happened at that time. It will not be too late to make a judgment!"

Xi Zhong stood up and said.

…

Zhou Feng was naturally lying.

When he was dismissed and sent home, he was extremely frightened.

He knew Xi Zhicai's temper. If he taught Xi Zhicai what he did in the Hu army, or if the opera family knew about it, he would be kicked out of the opera family even if it was minor, and he would never have any contact with him from then on.

If so, his good days will come to an end...

The scene when his family suffered a catastrophic disaster and he fled with his mother is still vivid in his mind. If he were to leave the protection of the actor, he would have to go back to the life of having no fixed place and sleeping in the open. Now that the war is in chaos, how can he

Starving to death on the roadside is nothing new.

Therefore, he must find a way to save himself.

So on the way back, he made up a story about being framed.

In this story, the positions of Wu Liang and Zhou Feng are interchanged.

Wu Liang became the villain who encouraged others to steal gold and frame Zhou Feng, while Zhou Feng became the innocent victim who was framed and robbed of his credit.

As for the details.

As the planner of that incident, Zhou Feng only needed to make slight changes to adapt the entire story so seamlessly that it sounds just like the real thing.

So after returning home, I told my eldest mother (Xi Zhicai's mother, equivalent to my grandmother) the story I had compiled in tears.
To be continued...