The wicked mother-in-law doesn't try to whitewash herself; she only abuses her awful children.

Chapter 577 Taken for granted

On a crisp autumn morning, the ground was covered with a thick layer of frost.

Tong Huaqiong got up a little early and stood in the thin sunlight, but her mood was not affected by the bleak autumn wind.

Her weaving workshop is finally about to officially open.

Just then, a piercing wail echoed from the village road.

Tong Huaqiong looked outside and saw it was Granny Luo. Tong Huaqiong smiled. Only Chunwang could make Granny Luo cry like this.

The early risers in the village heard Granny Luo's wailing and rushed over to eat melons.

"Aunt Luo, why are you crying so sadly?" someone asked.

Granny Luo held a piece of paper in her hand, slapped her thigh, and said, "Incredible! My Chunwang has gone to join the army."

Join the army?

Everyone was stunned.

Dasheng had been peaceful for many years. Apart from occasional border conflicts, the villagers no longer had a deep understanding of war or joining the army. They were completely baffled when they suddenly heard that Chunwang had joined the army.

Even if he joined the army, he wouldn't be able to find a unit. Does Chunwang have such great ability to get in?
“Chunwang, could he be trying to scam you? He’s enlisting in the army? Where would someone so young enlist? Who would take him in?” the village chief rushed over and said.

Grandma Luo sobbed, waving the paper in her hand, and said to the village chief, "He disappeared the day before yesterday. I thought he went to my parents' house in Moon Bay. His older brother had a wedding banquet the day before yesterday to find a daughter-in-law, so I thought he went to the banquet. He hasn't come back for three days, so I got worried and sent Fugui to Moon Bay to call him home... Waaah..."

Seeing that Granny Luo was rambling on and on without getting to the point, everyone couldn't help but disperse.

When Granny Luo saw that no one cared about her Chunwang, she got anxious and let out a loud wail, which stopped everyone in their tracks.

Granny Luo wiped away her tears and said, "My son Fugui arrived at Moon Bay. My family said that Chunwang did not go to Moon Bay. Fugui searched for a long time in the surrounding villages but could not find him. This morning, I went to his room and found this piece of paper. I can't read, but I showed it to Master Su and he said that he had joined the army."

What Granny Luo didn't say was that Chunwang had taken away her hidden twenty taels of silver and two gold bracelets.

Tong Huaqiong felt delighted upon hearing this.

The team values ​​camaraderie, and anyone who can join the team for training is someone who can withstand the tests. Someone like Chunwang, who is a thief and has a bad character, would not be tolerated by his comrades even if he successfully joined the army.

Moreover, they would have to go to the battlefield.

Stealing chickens and dogs in Qinghewan doesn't require battlefield knowledge or luck. Fighting a war isn't just about talking; it's about using your brain, hands, feet, and even your life to fight.

Especially now in the era of cold weapons, war means a meat grinder. Chunwang would probably be scared to death on the first day.

If he wants to escape, all the better; deserters will probably be court-martialed on the spot.

Getting rid of that little beast in the village is truly a virtuous act.

The village chief clicked his tongue and said, "Why did Chunwang suddenly decide to join the army?"

Liu Qingsong, slurping down a bowl of porridge, said, "What made you think of that? Didn't he always say he could become a great general?"

Who hasn't dreamed of being a hero and fighting on the battlefield when they were young? But dreams are just dreams. After waking up, everyone went back to farming and living honestly in Qinghewan. Only Chunwang truly believed that he was destined to be a general and took action.

Grandma Luo yelled and grabbed Liu Tielian's hand, saying, "Village chief, you have to take care of this! A person has gone missing in our village, such a big thing! You need to organize people to go and look for him right away."

Liu Tielian had a headache and said, "Where am I supposed to look? I haven't heard of any troops stationed here." At this moment, Qin Qingyou, who was driving a donkey cart to work at Peach Blossom Dessert Shop in town, stopped when he heard this and said, "Uncle Liu, I came back from the prefectural city yesterday and I actually saw a troop breaking camp. If Chunwang is going to join the army, he'll probably join this troop."

Hope ignited in Granny Luo's eyes. Holding Liu Tielian's hand tightly, she said, "Hurry up, there's still time."

Qin Qingyou said, "You really know how to talk. Do you know how many miles a day an army marches? I'm afraid they've already passed Ningcheng. Even if you were the fastest runner, you couldn't catch up with them."

Liu Qingsong said, "Even if you can catch up with him, do you dare to bring him back? Once you join the army, you're a soldier, and there's military law. If you bring him back, you'll be considered a deserter, and deserters get beheaded."

Granny Luo was so frightened that she lost her voice. After a long while, she asked Qin Qingyou, "Where is that group going?"

Qin Qingyou said, "I heard in the prefectural city that the northern deserts are harassing our border. Some time ago, they said they launched a surprise attack on our northern desert camp. Now we are going to war with the northern deserts and have transferred troops to the border. This force was transferred from Shengjing to the border. I reckon Chunwang has joined this force. Aunt Luo, think positively. Maybe Chunwang will really make great contributions at the border and become a great general. Then you will be a matriarch of a military family."

War breaks out in the northern desert, on the border.
Every word filled Granny Luo with dread.

Becoming a general isn't that easy. "One general's success is built on the bones of ten thousand soldiers." How could Chunwang have such luck?

After hearing this, Granny Luo's eyes rolled back and she fainted with a thud.

“Good heavens, we’re heading to the border. Chunwang is just a kid, and winter will be here by then. How can he possibly survive?”

“He might brag in the village all the time, but how could he actually go to the border?”

“Military merits are so easy to earn, but swords have no eyes. Everyone only knows Min Han Niu, who became a general at Black Dragon Pool, but they don’t know how many people followed the rebel army back then? Only Min Han Niu survived.”

"It's just hearsay that Min Han Niu became a general. Has anyone actually seen him become a general?"

Everyone started discussing it.

Grandma Luo had been woken up by a kind-hearted woman in the village pinching her mouth, but when she heard the villagers talking about life and death, her eyes rolled back again.

The village chief directed everyone to carry Granny Luo away, and then folded up the letter Chunwang had left behind and stuffed it into Granny Luo's pocket.

The group of people hurriedly carried Granny Luo home. Upon hearing the news, Cao rushed home from the pig farm and cried her heart out.

When her son Chunwang was expelled from the private school, she was extremely anxious and wanted to take Chunwang to Tong Huaqiong to apologize and plead for him. However, Chunwang directly cursed at her, saying that he had no desire to go to the private school for a long time and that he would take this opportunity to become a great general.

She thought Chunwang was joking, but he actually went and joined the army.

When Granny Luo woke up, she saw Cao crying beside her. She took her cane and beat Cao, saying that it was because Cao went to Tong Huaqiong's pig farm that she couldn't keep an eye on Chunwang.

He urged Tian Fugui to go to the place Qin Qingyou had told him to go. Tian Fugui, equally distressed for his son, hurried off as fast as he could.

But when they arrived, there was no camp left; it had long since vanished.

He dared not go to the border to search, fearing that if he arrived and found his son missing, he might be killed by the Tartars.

Not only Luo Pozi and Tian Fugui, but even the villagers couldn't guess that Chunwang's decision to join the army was encouraged by Xiaolong.

Chunwang disappeared from Qinghe Bay after that, and the fact that he never returned is another story.

Chunwang's enlistment in the army, aside from making the villagers in Qinghewan with children wary of their own children joining the army, didn't really cause a stir in the village. The discussion was overshadowed by new events after a few days.

This new matter naturally involves Tong Huaqiong's weaving workshop.