The third old lady of Quan was really unable in front of Mrs. Quansi, plus she had troubled Mrs. Quan Si three times before, and everyone in the clan saw it, and at this time she could no longer take the elders' courtesy to press, as for Mrs. Quansi's jewelry, she didn't dare to take it, 1,800 taels of silver was not much, but it was a lot.

An elder in the next room forced his nephew and daughter-in-law to use the dowry to plug the hole in his business, and it was rumored that their third room would be spurned by the clan in the future.

In the end, the third old lady could only go to Zhou's house.

Zhou Ju's family bought a two-entry house in Yancheng, this house is not big, but only Zhou Juren and two people live, and it is enough to occasionally come to one or two relatives to live for a while.

When the third old lady of Quan Yao came to the door with Quan Yaobei, Zhou Juren and Meng Yan were both there.

The elders came to the door, Zhou Juren didn't dare to slack off, respectfully served tea to the third old lady of Quan, and then exchanged a few words of greeting, and then Quan Yaobei used the excuse of asking the future brother-in-law for teaching, and asked Zhou Juren to lead him to the study.

Only the old lady Quan San, Meng Yan and a servant woman were left in the house.

Due to the staring eyes of many servants, the old lady did not know how to speak for a while.

Meng Yan is the bride anyway, just bow her head and blush, and make a shy, of course, she is not ∵ ☆ Able to sit, with a veil in her hand, she can make up something casually.

The third old lady looked at Meng Yan, dressed in a group of red satin, with a red fluttering little face, her skin was shiny, and her eyes were full of spring, and she knew that this newlywed was doing well, and only a well-married bride had such a look.

She's in a good mood, so it should be okay to ask for something, right?

Old lady Kwon San pondered. While hesitating how to speak, he finally decided to open his mouth from Meng Yan's luozi, and said, "What kind of tricks does Yan'er play?" ”

Meng Yan smiled: "It's Meihualuo." ”

Mrs. Kwon San said, "Oh, let me see." ”

Meng Yan handed the rope to the third old lady.

"It was a good fight." The third old lady of Quan praised two sentences dryly, this network is really plain, there is no skill at all, people have nowhere to praise, after searching the intestines and scraping the belly, they can only give a little Jianyi, "It's just that this plum blossom network is too simple, why don't Yan'er play a little more exquisite?" ”

Meng Yan lowered her head and focused on the rope in her hand. He replied lightly: "Xianggong likes this style." ”

Mrs. Kwon San couldn't answer. She's not a good talker.

At this time, Ping's mother came in and asked Meng Yan: "Young lady, the kitchen asks what to cook for dinner." ”

Meng Yan thought for a moment and said, "Xianggong likes to eat fish. Let's steam a fish. Steamed. Add more chopped green onions...... Just stir-fry a lotus root...... And ......"

Seeing that Meng Yan couldn't think of it all of a sudden, Ping's mother smiled and said, "Today, the cook bought some fresh spring bamboo shoots." It's better to make a bamboo shoot stewed beef. ”

Meng Yan nodded, and then turned to the third old lady Quan: "The old lady wants to stay here for dinner, what do you want to eat?" And the Yaobei brothers, do the Yaobei brothers like to eat? Our kitchen has always been simple, and we have to go out to buy two more dishes. ”

"No, there are still a lot of things to do at home, so I won't eat here anymore." Mrs. Quan San hurriedly waved her hand, the newlyweds have no elders in the family, and they live nearby, so they shouldn't disturb others.

Meng Yan said a few polite words, but the old lady Quan San really refused, and she no longer insisted.

Seeing that if they don't speak again, they won't have a chance, and they don't know how Quan Yaobei talked to Zhou Juren, if they come back, they will have no excuse to stay, and the old lady Quan San gritted her teeth, and she couldn't care about the room full of maids and women, so she hid the matter and said it again.

Unexpectedly, when Meng Yan heard this, his face immediately turned white with fright: "This smuggling of prohibited iron is a felony, I used to hear my father mention it, if you really want to get involved, it will be difficult to clear up, and in the future, Yaobei and other brothers will be affected by the imperial examination, old lady, forgive me for being a niece, since the money can be solved, give them money." ”

"This ...... How can we have so much silver in our house? "The third old lady is pitiful," Besides, my niece also said that this is a serious crime, and if she really wants to give silver, isn't it a tacit crime? ”

"How's that for good?" Meng Yan was also anxious.

The third old lady said: "Yan'er, I can't help it, the Quan family and the Meng family are in-laws after all, seeing that the Quan family and the Zhou family are also going to get married, you must help." ”

"I'm a woman in the house, and I don't go out of the door, even if I don't go out of the door, I'm the father-in-law, and he's just a scholar, no official and no lord, how can I help?" Meng Yan's face couldn't help with love.

"The in-laws can help, please trouble the niece to say a word to the in-laws." Mrs. Quan San eagerly shook Meng Yan's hand.

Meng Yan was surprised: "My father-in-law...... My father-in-law is also unofficial and untitled, and he is still in the field, so he can't help anymore. ”

"The in-laws I'm talking about are the Meng family." Mrs. Kwon San was a little embarrassed.

"My father, how can my father help?" Meng Yan was still surprised, and then she didn't wait for the third old lady to explain, and said, "In this case, the old lady will go and talk to her father, relatives, I think my father who can help will still help." ”

The third old lady of Quan was full of bitterness, and she didn't know if Meng Yan was pretending not to know about the Meng family's previous relationship with the Quan family or really didn't know, but she couldn't pierce it.

At this time, Zhou Juren and Quan Yaobei returned.

Seeing that the two of them looked wrong, he asked.

Meng Yan hurriedly informed Zhou Juren of the matter.

As soon as Zhou Juren heard about the smuggling of prohibited iron tools, he was immediately frightened, and the two of them persuaded the third old lady and Quan Yaobei to break the fortune and eliminate the disaster, and then looked at the old lady Quan San and Quan Yaobei still wanted to entangle, he couldn't care about anything, for fear of sticking a little to this matter, the third old lady and Quan Yaobei had not had time to mention the family affairs of Zhou Quan's two families, so Zhou Juren found an excuse, saying that he had an appointment with his colleagues, so he left first.

The old lady Quan San was sent out by Meng Yan with a disappointed face.

Ping's mother sent the third old lady to the carriage and sent her to the door to avoid people. Only then did he secretly say: "Old lady, it's useless for you to find your aunt and miss for this matter." ”

Quan Yaobei was young and vigorous, and said indignantly: "I'm going to get married, I'm his sister-in-law, how can he be so unkind as a scholar?"

Ping's mother shook her head and said in surprise: "Old lady, don't you know the relationship between your uncle and the young lady?"

"What's the relationship?" Old lady Quan San and Quan Yaobei glanced at each other, they really didn't know, did they have any other relationship besides brother and sister?

"Didn't the in-laws Zhou tell you when they got married?" Ping's mother was even more surprised. Then he said with some understanding: "No wonder the in-laws don't say it." It's not a glorious thing either......"

Ping's mother secretly told Mrs. Quan San about the fact that the Zhou family had two wives, but she didn't know very much, that is, she probably knew that the in-laws had two wives, regardless of size. The two ladies do not live together. My uncle was born by Mrs. He. And the fourth lady is from Mrs. Yang.

Now the face turned pale is the old lady Quan San.

She thought that if she let Quan Yaobei marry Miss Zhou, the Meng family would not dare to pursue the Quan family because of the face of the two families. This is also something that can't be helped, before she bribed her mother-in-law and secretly asked about Meng Yurou's situation, saying that Meng Yurou was rude, didn't know a single big word, bullied her sister, was spicy and greedy, and was the most unbearable village girl in the countryside.

In order to prevent hearsay, she took the opportunity to add makeup to Meng Yan that day and asked her mother-in-law to secretly lead her to look at Meng Yurou from a distance.

As a result, I saw Meng Yurou secretly following behind a maid, the silk flower on the side of the maid's sideburns was not very good, and it was about to fall, followed a few steps, the silk flower really fell, and the maid didn't know it, Meng Yurou secretly picked up a silk flower that the maid accidentally dropped, as if she had picked up a treasure, she smirked and ran away.

At that moment, the third old lady of Quan had an indescribable disgust, when she thought that such a greedy and stupid village girl was about to become her granddaughter-in-law, or her most outstanding grandson, she was like swallowing a bunch of flies, how disgusting and disgusting it was, such a village girl, not to mention being the original match for her grandson, was not worthy of being the most inferior maid in the Quan family.

She couldn't help but go home and mention it to the third old lady Quan, but the third old lady said that it was just a woman, and if she married, she would marry, and it would be good to marry a few more virtuous concubines in the future.

Later, Yaobei and Miss Thursday made her very happy, no matter who she married, she was much stronger than the village girl of the Meng family, so she lobbied hard, besides, when it came to this, Miss Zhou's reputation was at a loss, and it would not work if she didn't marry, and when the time came, the Meng family didn't care about anything, and they wouldn't marry Meng Yurou.

I really didn't expect the Zhou family to have such an inside story.

When I returned home, Mrs. Quan San mentioned it to Mrs. Quansan.

The third old lady was also stunned for a moment, and hurriedly went to ask Mrs. Quansi.

Mrs. Quan Si didn't pretend not to know, but she said that it wasn't a big deal, the old man of the Zhou family was benevolent and righteous, and he didn't want to live up to it on both sides.

The third old lady Quan really couldn't say it, and he had the heart to ask why Mrs. Quan Si didn't say it earlier, but think about it, when she was engaged to Miss Zhou's family, Mrs. Quan Si objected, and she didn't ask anyone at all, so what qualifications do you have to question now.

In this way, the third old lady still scraped together 20,000 taels of silver to those officials.

Since then, Sanfang's family is almost empty, people are high and low, the third old lady of the right has several incidents, and his status in the clan is becoming more and more bad, especially this time, the crime of smuggling iron weapons is likely to affect the whole clan, he hid it before the incident, and borrowed a lot of money from the clan for business, and he couldn't pay it back for a while, and the clan complained.

Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.

The Zhou family, who were far away, heard the news.

Master Zhou is okay, and the Yang family is completely stupid.

Hearing that the Quan family was defeated, she couldn't say that she was poor and white, but she was about to be destitute and owed a lot of debts, and she was worried that her daughter would suffer hardships when she got married.

Master Zhou comforted her, there are still three points of nails in the broken boat, the right family is a big family, and the declining children are not useless, besides, Quan Yaobei scholars don't care about that bit of family wealth, without money, maybe people will be more motivated, can be admitted to fame, and then life will be better.

Yang looked at Master Zhou in a daze for a long time, and then burst into tears.

Master Zhou sighed, and just silently accompanied him, even without saying anything to comfort him, and he didn't go away, just sat there.

He really has nothing to say about Yang, in all fairness, Yang is also a good woman, she has served her in-laws all these years and has done no fault in housework. If he hadn't been in love with the He family a long time ago, even if he and the Yang family couldn't love each other for a lifetime, they would still be able to respect each other for the rest of their lives.

It's a pity that providence makes people, morally speaking, he treats Yang and He equally, but emotionally speaking, he only has respect for Yang, no love, and when he is with Yang, he does not have the sweet feeling when he is with He, he is doing his duty, which Yang can also feel.

The Yang family didn't mess with him, but he could also feel the grievances in Yang's heart, but he couldn't, the Yang family couldn't give birth to a son, and the old lady He was pressing forward step by step, and he couldn't press the He family hard, so that the He family would pass on his son to the Yang family, in that case, he would be sorry for the He family.

"Master, master, the concubine only asks you for one thing now." Yang cried for a while, and then begged Master Zhou in a hoarse voice.

"Don't talk about it." Master Zhou waved his hand, "It's impossible to withdraw from relatives, not to mention the scholarly family of the Zhou family, you can't rush to withdraw from your family, just say that this daughter's family, after quitting her family, has a bad reputation, and it is difficult to book a better family, even if the right family is there, they will not agree, make trouble, and it is our daughter who will suffer in the end, and how will you deal with yourself in the clan in the future?" ”

The Yang family also understands this truth, just because the male family is a little defeated, it will inevitably affect the reputation of all the girls in the Zhou family, and others will return it, but she insisted on staying in the Zhou family in the name of not marrying the second husband, and now if her daughter boldly withdraws from the family, it was a joke back then, and the people in the clan will speak, maybe for the sake of the reputation of the Zhou family, she will be forced to retreat from her original match, and take away the identity of her daughter, after all, if it is a concubine who has an accident, the impact will be much smaller.

"In the future, I will distribute more dowry, and if I want to have more dowry, my daughter will be only wronged." That's all Master Zhou can do, this family affair is not very glorious, he knows what the Yang family mother and daughter must have done, but he can't bear to criticize a woman with a bad fate, it's a foregone conclusion, and it will be useless to complain.

The Yang family whimpered and cried again, this matter is difficult now, and the Quan family is not completely declining, even if he retreats regardless of a qiē, his daughter will not be able to marry any better relatives, but Quan Yaobei is also a son of a family, gentle and elegant. (To be continued......)