Sima Xiangru's previous plan was that Zhuo Wenjun would go back for a period of time, and slowly scrape together enough money for him to go north to Chang'an, and then he would set off for Chang'an, and there would always be a chance to be appreciated by nobles in Chang'an for three or five years.

Sima Xiangru still thought that he was afraid that he would have to endure for a few more months outside X County, but he didn't expect that Zhuo Wenjun was so useful, he actually only went back for one night, and sent him a huge sum of money, and he thought that according to Zhuo Wenjun's brain, it might take several months to make up these. "It seems that that stupid woman, in order not to make me suffer, is still somewhat useful!" Sima Xiangru held a large bag of gold and silver jewelry, and took out the gold hairpin from it with some excited emotion.

Sima Xiangru got a huge sum of money in advance to be able to go north and live a comfortable life in Chang'an, Sima Xiangru of course would not let himself become a beggar and shrink outside X County waiting for Zhuo Wenjun to feed, so in Lu Ru with a affectionate farewell letter she wrote indiscriminately, he rolled up the big bag of jewelry, and after Lu Ru left, he quickly left outside X County, for fear that the Zhuo family would find out that Zhuo Wenjun was a wealth boy and took out her jewelry to him, and forced him to go back.

"After pawning these things, I can settle down in Chang'an and slowly plan there." Sima Xiangru hugged the big bag in his arms tightly, feeling that his unlucky days were gone.

However, his idea only lasted for 3 days, and he walked to Y County, the nearest small county in X County, and was about to pawn some jewelry as the road fee to Chang'an, but he had not yet entered the county seat, and the burden given to him by 'Zhuo Wenjun' was snatched away by a group of masked robbers.

He struggled to enter Y County to report the crime, but when he was asked by the county order what he had been robbed, he honestly replied that it was a bag of gold and silver jewelry in order to recover the burden of the robbery as soon as possible.

"Gold and silver jewelry, how can you be a big man with such a large bag of gold and silver jewelry for women?" The county order looked at Sima Xiangru, who was dressed shabby as if he wanted food, and asked with some scrutiny, which made Sima Xiangru very embarrassed, but he was also anxious about the huge amount of money that had just arrived, and answered the county order with a face.

"All the gold and silver jewelry belongs to my wife!"

"Wife? How can you have such a rich wife as a poor man, don't deceive the official, don't be from which rich and noble family you stole these gold and silver jewelry! The county order brought some speculation, and this guess was 100% correct based on Sima Xiangru's shabby clothes, so he was ready to torture Sima Xiangru and ask him where the gold and silver jewelry he was robbed of came from.

Sima Xiangru was beaten a few times for no reason, and he didn't want to expose the matter between him and Zhuo Wenjun, so he had to tell the county order.

"My wife is the daughter of Zhuo Wangsun, Zhuo Wenjun, Zhuo Wangsun, the county magistrate should know!" In the sound of the board, Sima Xiangru shouted eagerly, and the county commander immediately stopped the board when he heard the words 'Zhuo Wangsun', but instead of letting him go as Sima Xiangru thought, he sat on the high platform and looked at him with some disdain.

"You were recently expelled by Linqiong County and X County as a 'great talent' Sima Xiangru? Didn't you sign me up before and say, your name is Zhang Da? The county order thought of some of the things that had been rumored in their Y county recently, and looked at Sima Xiangru's disdain even more, Sima Xiangru because he was beaten on the board, the pain in his buttocks made him not hear the disdain of the county order, and he also ignored the expulsion from the two counties, and quickly admitted his true identity.

"I'm Sima Xiangru, and I live in Chengdu! Zhuo Wenjun is my wife, and she gave me that bag of jewelry. ”

"Didn't your wife also be kicked out by the Zhuo family? Aren't the two of you shabby and destitute selling wine on the street in Linqiong County? Why is there such a big bag of jewelry worth thousands of gold now? Sima Xiangru, don't you get it by stealing it together with your husband and wife, right? "Because of those rumors about Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun, the county order is very clear about what the two of them are doing in Linqiong County, and the county order of Y County is very disdainful of Sima Xiangru's blatant calculation of Xia Xiyan for eating soft rice, and for Wang Ji, who is also the county order, to participate in the calculation of Xia Xiyan, in the end, he lost his official position, and he felt a little happy.

Their counties are adjacent to Linqiong County, but because there are not a few decent tycoons in the county, and all kinds of development are much inferior to Linqiong County, Wang Ji will always look high in the face of their county orders, but it has disgusted them for many years.

The reason why Linqiong County develops better than other counties depends on a few wealthy people led by Zhuo Wangsun, and they are better than their counties in Linqiong County, not to mention the commercial development driven by them.

He is envious of the fact that there is a big god of wealth like the Zhuo family in Linqiong County for a long time, when there is such a thing in Linqiong County, and the Zhuo family moves away to X County, he also feels that he is one step late in Y County, if he knows that Xia Xiyan has the idea of moving like this, then he will personally go to Linqiong County and invite him to settle in their Y County, so that he does not have to envy X County now.

"This bag of jewelry was sent to me by my wife after she returned to Zhuo's house!" Sima Xiangru saw that the county magistrate of Y County suspected him and Zhuo Wenjun, and was afraid that he would be disgraced and disgraced to tell the true source of gold and silver jewelry, the county magistrate listened to Sima Xiangru's words, and according to Sima Xiangru's big burden that was snatched away, after a little thought, he could think of Sima Xiangru's calculation of returning Zhuo Wenjun to Zhuo's family, which was not a gentleman's calculation at all, which made the county magistrate even more despissing Sima Xiangru, so although he did not let Sima Xiangru torture him again, he also asked the details of Sima Xiangru's burden being snatched away, and then said that he would send someone to investigate, sent Sima Xiangru away, and as soon as Sima Xiangru left on the front foot, the county magistrate of Y County brought some flattery and immediately wrote a letter to Xia Xiyan in X County about Sima Xiangru.

And Sima Xiangru was sent away, and waited for the results in Y County for the time being, but there was no news for several days, and when he went to ask, he learned that he couldn't trace down the robber, which made Sima Xiangru think that he was unlucky.

Sima Xiang jumped to his feet angrily, so he could only return to the small inn where he was temporarily staying, and took out a silver hairpin that he hid on his body to save his life from his arms.

"Fortunately, I had an extra heart to hide a few hairpins on my body, otherwise I would be penniless now!" Sima Xiangru was heartbroken and a little happy at the same time.

"It's just that I should continue to go north to Chang'an now, or go back to Y County and ask Zhuo Wenjun for help again?" Sima Xiangru looked at the only silver hairpin and hesitated, but after thinking about it for a night, Sima Xiangru, who was unwilling to live a frugal and shabby life, decided to go back to X County to contact Zhuo Wenjun and ask for another sum of money, but it was in vain because he couldn't enter X County, and spent some money, and the letter for help sent to Zhuo Wenjun was lost.

"Those damn liars!" Sima Xiangru touched the copper coin in his pocket and the copper coin he got from turning into a hairpin was reduced by half because of the letter delivery, and his teeth itched with hatred, but no matter how much he hated him, he had no choice but to contact Zhuo Wenjun, and had to give up this plan, and left outside X County to go north to Chang'an again.

***

Xia Xiyan received a letter from the county order of Y County when he handpicked the burden that he snatched back from Sima Xiangru, and knew that Sima Xiangru did not get good from him, so he couldn't help but smile and replied to him with a letter, and then reciprocated and prepared to go to Y County to make some investments.

"Father, are you in a good mood? But what good things happened? ”

According to Sima Xiangru's instructions, Zhuo Wenjun came to report to Xia Xiyan every day and brushed Xia Xiyan's favor, so as soon as he came in and saw Xia Xiyan smiling, he smiled and asked her what happened to her.

Xia Xiyan put away the letter from the county order of Y County, and asked someone to take away the burden of the big bag of gold and silver jewelry, and then took the lead and said to Zhuo Wenjun a little coldly, "It's okay." ”

Zhuo Wenjun saw that Xia Xiyan had been so cold and indifferent since she came back, and knew that Xia Xiyan was still angry with her, and at the same time, he felt uncomfortable, but when he saw the jewelry that Xia Xiyan let people take down, he unconsciously thought of the jewelry she secretly asked Lu Ru to send to Sima Xiangru, which made Zhuo Wenjun a little weak and couldn't face Xia Xiyan and wanted to go back, but when he stood up and opened his mouth to retreat, he was stopped by Xia Xiyan.

"You and I go out today!" Xia Xiyan didn't look at Zhuo Wenjun's words, and then when she saw the meal, she called someone to call Zhuo Wenshu and Zhuo Jun to have dinner together.

"Father!" Zhuo Wenshu screamed very affectionately and happily when she saw Xia Xiyan, Xia Xiyan saw that she had been facing Zhuo Wenjun coldly, and her face softened, smiled at Zhuo Wenshu, and then beckoned her to be her side.

"Sister!" After Zhuo Wenshu called Xia Xiyan, she saw Zhuo Wenjun, who had lost a lot of weight in the hall, but she didn't feel distressed, but went to see Xia Xiyan, and saw Xia Xiyan smiling and waving to her, and after being relieved, she was still angry at what Zhuo Wenjun had done at the beginning, so she called Zhuo Wenjun coldly, walked to Xia Xiyan and sat down, talked to Xia Xiyan, and didn't get along with Zhuo Wenjun like in the past, and said something about her daughter's family affectionately.

Zhuo Wenjun looked at her sister Zhuo Wenshu, who had always been close to her, and felt very sad in her heart, and then looked at Xia Xiyan's completely different looks at Zhuo Wenshu and her, and she was about to cry, but she also knew why they were so cold, she didn't dare to complain, but she sat with some self-pity and silently watched Zhuo Wenshu and Xia Xiyan's father and daughter talking closely.

"Father, my daughter has recently learned to make clothes with her embroidery girl, and when my daughter learns well, will she make a dress for her father?"

"Okay, my son is filial!" Xia Xiyan touched Zhuo Wenshu's head, said happily, and asked Zhuo Wenshu about her recent studies, and heard that she learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting very well, so she praised a few words, and then thought that she was almost 9 years old, and she married a little early in this era, so she opened her mouth to arrange for Zhuo Wenshu.

"When you pass your birthday, your father will hand over the inner house of the Zhuo family to you to take care of, your mother went early, and no one took you with you to teach you how to take care of the inner house, preside over the feed, now take the Zhuo family to you to practice, you will marry in the future as a housewife, and also manage the inner house of the husband's family, take care of your own dowry, this take care of the inner house and the dowry, there is a lot of knowledge in it, you don't understand anything, it is easy to be deceived and deceived in the future." Xia Xiyan's words made Zhuo Wenjun and Zhuo Wenshu a little surprised, they were not arranged to learn these things before, and they didn't know that they needed to learn, but now they know, one is happy, the other is sad.

Naturally, Zhuo Wenshu was happy, and felt that Xia Xiyan was thinking about her very much, and said sweet words to Xia Xiyan, which made Xia Xiyan very happy, and felt that her daughter was really her little padded jacket.

Sad, of course, it was Zhuo Wenjun, she was not arranged to study before, but now Xia Xiyan only arranged Zhuo Wenshu to study and ranked her outside.

"It seems that my father still hasn't forgiven me and doesn't treat me as a daughter! My father used to love me the most, but now he doesn't want to look at me. Zhuo Wenjun sat on the side and couldn't help crying, but he didn't want Xia Xiyan and Zhuo Wenshu to wipe it clean immediately when they saw it.

"Father! Sister! ”

Zhuo Jun was brought by his subordinates, and when he saw Xia Xiyan, he ran over happily, as if he wanted to fall into Xia Xiyan's arms, but he stopped when he saw Zhuo Wenjun sitting on the side halfway, and rushed to her side excitedly, and called her sister.

"Sister is back, Jun'er misses Sister so much!" Zhuo Jun fell into Zhuo Wenjun's arms, was hugged by Zhuo Wenjun and immediately said that he missed him, he saw Zhuo Wenjun who returned to Zhuo's house for the first time today, Zhuo Wenjun came back a few days ago, but he was arranged by Xia Xiyan I don't know, now I see the person he is most attached to, I immediately stuck to her and couldn't get down, and I kept talking to Zhuo Wenjun about not seeing Zhuo Wenjun for a few months, and missing Zhuo Wenjun.

Zhuo Jun's words warmed Zhuo Wenjun's heart, and he felt that only Zhuo Jun in this family was still thinking about her as before.

"Alright, Jun'er is ready, let's eat!" Xia Xiyan didn't stop Zhuo Jun when Zhuo Jun went to get close to Zhuo Wenjun, but waited for them to get close, saw that the time was not early, and then interrupted, and started to eat as a family.

"Sister, you seem to have lost a lot of weight, eat more meat!" Zhuo Jun sat aside to see Zhuo Wenjun, and saw that Zhuo Wenshu was sandwiching vegetables for Xia Xiyan, and after sandwiching Xia Xiyan first, he saw that Zhuo Wenjun seemed to be much thinner than he had seen before, and also sandwiched a piece of meat for her.

Zhuo Wenjun smiled at Zhuo Jun, and then took some dishes back to him, before lowering his head and taking a small bite of the meat in the bowl that was so delicious that she was about to cry.

She went back to Zhuo's house for a few days, and slowly felt that her treatment in Zhuo's mansion was different from the past, she didn't fill in new clothes every once in a while, and her daily meals were only a little better than that of the maids, these Zhuo Wenjun noticed that she knew that this kind of treatment could only be arranged by the head of the family, Xia Xiyan, and also knew that it was Xia Xiyan's punishment for her elopement and the previous loss of Zhuo's face, so she silently endured it.

Since eloping with Sima Xiangru, Zhuo Wenjun has not eaten much well, and even starved for a while, so after elopement, she actually didn't eat much of the various meat dishes she was tired of eating before. After returning to Zhuo's house, Xia Xiyan specially arranged that although Zhuo Wenjun could occasionally eat meat, it would not be too much and too delicious, so now Zhuo Jun sandwiched the meat for her to eat, which would make Zhuo Wenjun eat a little moved.

Xia Xiyan noticed that Zhuo Wenjun was eating meat and vegetables carefully, so she just looked at it, and saw that she only ate what Zhuo Jun gave her, and she didn't take the initiative to clip all kinds of meat and vegetables on the table by herself, and she didn't take the initiative to clip it for her, but Zhuo Wenshu saw Zhuo Wenjun like this, and then looked at her emaciated figure, she was angry with Xia Xiyan because of Zhuo Wenjun's elopement, and she didn't want to ignore Zhuo Wenjun's anger, but she was a little soft-hearted at this time, so she couldn't help but give her more meat dishes.

"Wen Shu!" Zhuo Wenjun looked at the extra meat and vegetables in the bowl, and then went to see that the person who was sandwiched was Zhuo Wenshu, who had always been cold to her, and was a little surprised.

"So thin, eat more to make up!" Zhuo Wenshu's voice was still indifferent, but the content of the words made Zhuo Wenjun almost cry when he heard it.

Xia Xiyan has been quietly watching their sisters and brothers interact, eating by themselves, occasionally serving dishes to Zhuo Jun and Zhuo Wenshu, but still not caring about Zhuo Wenjun.

Zhuo Wenjun saw it carefully, but he was sad but lowered his head and ate silently.

Xia Xiyan waited for the family to finish eating, sat in the house and rested for a while, before he asked the three sisters and brothers of the Zhuo family to go out with him.

"Okay, you all go to the Zhuo family's iron mine with me in the afternoon."