Zeng Yi stared at Cai Wei, still shaking his head, "The news of my suspension pending trial, I think my sister already knows, if I am still stubborn, I am afraid that I will be dismissed and investigated." ”

Cai Wei suddenly became anxious for him, "Then what are you doing when you take the time to see me at such a critical time?" It's a pity that I'm a woman, and I can't help my brother with anything? ”

Zeng Yi suddenly lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Actually, only Sister Zhou can help me get out of this bad luck right now." ”

Cai Wei couldn't help but be surprised, she was just a weak girl, how could she have such great ability, did Brother Zeng want her to ask Concubine Yingchuan?

But Yan Qin entered the imperial capital by the vassal king because of the Yongjia Emperor, and took away his nephew's dragon chair, fearing that the later vassal kings would learn from him, and then tried his best to limit the rights of the vassal king. As for the two county kings, King Yingchuan and King Linchuan, because they are the sons of Prince Xianyide, they are even more closely guarded by Empress Dowager Sun, and they have no authority at all. It was she who begged the concubine, but I was afraid that the concubine would not be able to help.

"Please also ask Brother Zeng to speak clearly?" Cai Wei suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart.

Zeng Yi took a few deep breaths, but he still felt unspeakable, and after a long silence, he slowly took out a scroll of things from his arms, put it on the stone table in the pavilion, and slowly pushed it in front of Cai Wei.

Cai Wei's heart trembled, she had seen such a thing before, so she picked up the parchment roll, untied the red ribbon that was tied with it, and unfolded it to see, sure enough, it was her dowry list.

When her father prepared a dowry for her that day, he did not hide it from her, and after drawing up the dowry list, he gave her a look at it one by one, but did not explain to her in detail why it was arranged, but only told her that the dowry list was in four copies, one was given to the Meizhou government for the record, one was given to her grandmother, one was entrusted to a very credible relative for safekeeping, and the last one was given to Mrs. Zeng as a token of her marriage to the Zeng family.

But now, the elder brother of the Zeng family suddenly took out the "token" of her Zhou family and put it in front of him, what does this mean?

Could it be—

Did he want to return this "token" to himself? Cai Wei really didn't dare, and she didn't want to believe in this possibility. She looked at Zeng Yi's eyes fixedly, and said in a trembling voice: "Brother Zeng, please forgive my little sister for being stupid, I still can't understand what you mean, please tell me directly!" ”

"My sister still remembers that on the night of the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, I mentioned to my sister about the changes in my family, but I didn't talk about it in detail at that time. I wonder if my sister is still willing to listen to me? ”

Although Cai Wei wondered why he suddenly turned to this topic, she still nodded.

I heard Zeng Yi say: "My father only had one younger brother, who was born from my step-grandmother. More than four years ago, not long after my father received Uncle Zhou's obituary, my second uncle sent a letter from his hometown in Huayin saying that my step-grandmother was seriously ill and asked my father to invite a famous doctor from Chang'an City to come back to visit. My father invited a famous doctor to rush back to take a look, and saw that my step-grandmother had only been sick for many years, and she was a little out of breath and was not nervous, so she had urgent official business to report, and my father rushed back by car overnight, despite the fact that the road was slippery on a snowy night. ”

"I didn't want to be difficult to walk on the mountain road, but the car overturned halfway through, my father fell from the car, although the injury was not serious, but he was infected with a very severe wind cold, and he had to force himself to handle official business in the hospital bed, and the result was ......"

"After my father died, my mother and I returned to our hometown. I didn't know that my step-grandmother had just looked at it before, and everyone was still able to get by, but at this time, when she saw my father gone, she suddenly had a hard time. Instigated a girl beside her to come to my father's shrine when the tribesmen came to worship before my father's spirit, and suddenly jumped out and hugged my mother, accusing my father of raping her when he came back earlier, and saying that she already had my father's flesh and blood in her womb, and asked my mother to give her a name. ”

"My mother was already sad because of my father's death, and suddenly I heard this girl say that she was raped by her father, and she was even more struck by lightning, and she fainted immediately. I was so busy taking care of my mother that I didn't want to wait for my step-grandmother to call me over in the evening, and they had already convicted my father. ”

"My good grandmother insisted that my father had raped my mother and maid, and that such a person who corrupted the door and insulted his ancestors could not be buried in the ancestral grave of my great-family under any circumstances. Naturally, I refused to agree, and when I saw that the patriarch was also on my side, I begged the patriarch to uphold justice, but the patriarch actually said that this was all my father's, and it should be so. At that time, I didn't know that the patriarch had already received a lot of benefits from my second uncle, and he was complicit with them. ”

Cai Wei really couldn't imagine that there were such black-hearted people in the world, and they didn't even let go of the reputation of the dead? Uncle Zeng has passed away, and he has to pour such a large basin of sewage on him. He hurriedly asked, "What about later?" ”

Zeng Yi had already clenched his fists, "Later? The reason why they poured this basin of dirty water on my late father was to bring my mother and me into order. Seeing that my father's May Seven had passed, and he couldn't go into the ground for peace, I wanted to go back to Chang'an City to ask my father's colleagues and superiors for help, but I didn't know that the gate of the courtyard was guarded by my second uncle, and none of our people in the long house were allowed to go out. ”

"My mother and I were in a hurry, and my step-grandmother suddenly came to us, saying that it was not impossible to bury my father in the ancestral grave, but she had to promise one condition. My mother was overjoyed and asked her what it was, and she said that her personal maid could not be bullied by her father in vain, and asked her mother to accept her as a second room for her father, and said that for fear that our mother and son would bully her mother and son, she asked me to give up the inheritance of the long house, and from then on I went away, and gave all the land in the long house under my father's name to the son born by the maid, as the cost of support. ”

"This good life doesn't make sense, how can they know that the maid must have a son?" Although Cai Wei is indignant that women cannot inherit the family business like men, this is the case nowadays, except for a dowry, all the rest of the family business can only be inherited by men.

Zeng Yi's eyes showed a hint of resentment, "They just wanted to force my Changfang family property, what kind of maid gave birth to a child, just to have a name, if it weren't for my Zeng family in Huayin, it is also a big family, and our Changfang also has a lot of servants, they are afraid of making a bigger disturbance, but they are afraid that they will assassinate me and my mother." ”

"My mother and father have been married for many years, and I naturally hope that he can be buried as soon as possible, not to mention that I am a son of man. So my mother and son had no choice but to agree to them, and the next day I went to the county office to give the maid a paper for accepting a concubine, and signed an official deed stating that I was willing to give all my father's land property to the son born to my father's concubine, so that my father was finally buried in the ancestral grave. ”

"As soon as my father's funeral was over, I knew that my mother and I would definitely not be able to stay at Huayin Zeng's house anymore, but it happened that on the last day, one of my father's subordinates, Xu Shi, came to mourn with regard to the old love. I took the opportunity to say that I would take my mother to Luoyang for medical treatment, and despite my second uncle's obstruction, with the help of Xu Shishi, I left the old mansion of the Zeng family with a few servants. After staying in Chang'an for a few days, he went to Beijing to join his mother's relatives. ”

"When we were going east along the waterway, we were conspired by the boatman to take the silver taels we had with us. Two servants were hacked to death, and when we were about to take our lives, fortunately, an official ship came by, and my mother and I escaped, but in this accident, there were no two servants, only one silver ring. It was easy to get to the capital, and it took a lot of twists and turns to go to my cousin's house, and then my sister knew what happened next. ”

Cai Wei nodded, with a sympathetic meaning in her eyes, "Brother Zeng must have been studying hard night and night in the past few years, in order to be able to be named on the gold list, have an official and a half-job, and return to his hometown in fine clothes, so as to get justice for Uncle Zeng and himself!" ”

Zeng Yi stared at Cai Wei, his sister Wei was so kind and understood his mind so well, she could have had a wife like this, what regrets did her husband have, but-

But he wanted to cut off the fate between him and her with his own hands.

"What my sister said is true, I do think so, after I was appointed by the Holy Lord as a five-grade bachelor in the examination, I also thought that it would not be long before I would be able to take my mother back to my hometown, so that I could find out how they used that maid to slander my father back then, and then I wanted back what I deserved in the long house! But you know—"

After the initial high spirits and smooth sailing, what followed was being excluded, framed, wearing small shoes, and carrying the black pot for others! He is full of poetry and books, and he is talented, but in less than half a year, he can't even keep the black gauze hat on his head!

"My current predicament, I think Sister Wei already knows, I heard a colleague say that my punishment has been adjudicated, most likely is dismissal. I thought that I was powerless, and I didn't want to suddenly invite me to the house a few days ago, saying that he appreciated my talent, and also knew that I was framed by someone, and had suggested that the Holy Lord retry my dereliction of duty. ”

"I'm ecstatic, and I don't want Zuo Xiang to follow and say something again. His brother died early, leaving only a daughter, who was raised by him under his knees, as if he had come out, and now it is the period of the plum, he wants to ......" Zeng Yi said this, and he couldn't say it anymore.

Cai Wei said for him: "It must be Zuo Xiang's talent when he sees Brother Zeng, who is both talented and beautiful, and wants to marry that Miss Cui to his brother as his wife, yes or no?" ”

Zeng Yi looked away and nodded.

Cai Wei looked at the dowry list on the table, and said softly: "I can't imagine it anymore, it turns out that my great-brother came to see me today, not for anything else, but for the purpose of getting out of the marriage?" ”

Zeng Yi was also very uncomfortable in his heart, he didn't dare to look at Cai Wei anymore, got up and threw Cai Wei to the ground, and said: "It's me who is sorry for my sister, and I also ask my sister to read that I have a last resort, and I must fulfill it?" ”