Zhou Boyan wrote a letter to Qingshu and never mentioned the content of official business. It's the same this time. The beginning of the letter is the content of reporting peace, saying that he is all right. After that, I asked about the recent situation of the Qingshu sisters and brothers, and asked how good the house was. He also stated that he had not yet reached his destination when he wrote the letter, and that it would take three to five days to complete it. He told Sù Qingshu that he would write a second letter when he arrived at the place. Qing Shu replied to him after receiving the second letter, otherwise the letter would not have been delivered to him.

It's not too long, it's just a two-page letter. Qing Shu finished reading it for a while, and then sat and stayed for a while. It wasn't until Xiaoyu urged her to wash up and rest that she came back to her senses.

Nothing was said all night. On the second day, Qingshu handed the letter to Xiaojuan and asked Xiaoyu to send it to Qingyang. She dared to show it to Qingyang, because Zhou Boyan didn't write any meaty words in this letter. When the letter was sent away, she thought about it, and felt that there was nothing important for her to inquire about today, so she took the maid to the storehouse, picked up the fine fabric, and carried three horses back. One is a royal blue brocade, the other is a fine jet-black brocade, and the other is a dark green brocade.

Three brocades swung on the kang mattress, and Qing Shu took his own needlework and took out scissors from the basket.

Xiao Juan opened the three brocades one by one, and asked curiously, "Miss, are you going to make winter clothes for the young masters?" The colors of the three horses are all suitable for men, and it won't be long before the New Year, so she took it for granted that the young lady was going to make winter clothes for the four young masters. Because of the Chinese New Year last year, the young lady sewed new clothes for the four young masters by herself.

Qing Shu responded, and took a small piece of paper from the sewing basket to look at it. She memorized the size of five people's winter coats. Chen Qiaojiang, Qingyang, Qinghao, and Luo Xiaorong are all here, and she measured them before she went to the county seat. There is another person, she can't measure it with her own hands, but there are clothes left by him in the house.

Xiao Juan grabbed the corner of the blue brocade in her hand, and suddenly raised her head, "Miss, this is the color that Yan Gongzi likes." As she spoke, she seemed to understand something, and sneered.

Qing Shu knew what Xiao Juan was thinking, and she didn't look embarrassed at all, and said very normally, "That's to make clothes for Xiao Yang." She was right. Qingyang admires Zhou Boyan's brother very much, and some of Zhou Boyan's preferences have become his preferences. Zhou Boyan's clothes in spring, summer, autumn and winter are mostly royal blue, and there are basically no clothes of this color in his clothes in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and he is a little disappointed. No, a few days ago, I quietly told her sister that she hoped to have a dress of the same color as her brother. She agreed.

Xiaojuan stopped laughing, sighed, and didn't say anything else.

Although there is Xu Wuniang in the house, she will be responsible for the master's clothes all year round, and no one can be short, especially Qingyang and their small ones. But Qingshu still likes to sew New Year's clothes for his younger brother. She's already asked for four small opinions. Qingyang, Qinghao and Luo Xiaorong want to wear the same, new royal blue clothes. Chen Qiaojiang asked for dark green new clothes.

She felt that the color of Zhou Boyan's clothes was too monotonous, so this extra black material was prepared to make clothes for Zhou Boyan. She also thought about other colors, such as crescent white, such as deep purple, and thought of making one for him of each color. It's just that she is in charge of the house, and there are a lot of trivial things, and the time to sit down and do needlework with peace of mind is limited, so I'm afraid she can't do it. So he thought that she could come with inky black first, and if time permitted, she would make other colors of clothes for him.

She spread out the brocade material, measured and compared, and began to cut the material carefully and carefully. A piece of clothing has just been cut halfway, and someone has come to report it, and Yu Xiaoli and Yu Ya's aunt and nephew from the Yu family have come to give thank-you gifts. Without Yu Yun's name, she was naturally willing to see her, so she put down the scissors and went to meet the guests.

Yu Xiaoli and Yu Ya are not the kind of people who can speak well, let alone shoot people's sycophants. To put it bluntly, they belong to the kind of people who are very peaceful and honest. Qing Shu didn't hate such people, so he sat with Yu Xiaoli and Yu Ya for about two quarters of an hour. The two aunts and nephews were instructed by Second Mrs. Yu, one is to apologize for Yu Yun, and the other is to thank Qing Shu for taking care of them all the way.

This is not a New Year's Day, and the second lady Yu did not give heavy gifts, but she sent a few fruits, each of which was a basket. Qing Shu accepted it with a smile on her face, and personally sent Yu Xiaoli and Yu Ya out.

Yu Xiaoli and Xiaoya went back to report to Second Mrs. Yu. Second Mrs. Yu heard that Qing Shu accepted the baskets of fruits sent without refusing, and she had a smile on her face from beginning to end, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. She was really afraid that because of the brainless Yu Yun, Qingshu would hate her master. The girl from Xiucai's family still has some knowledge, and she feels that this is not enough, so she thinks about giving New Year's gifts. Their lives are not easy, but she must spend the money where she should spend, especially when Yun offends Qingshu when he goes out.

Qing Shu didn't know about the second lady's sorrow. She didn't go out for several days, and she basically did needlework except for the trivial things in the house.

On the fourth day, Luo San, who had gone out to find out the news, finally came back. He not only went to the county seat of Dexian County, but also went to the hometown of the Zhu family before moving to Dexian County, and thoroughly explored the bottom of the Zhu family.

Master Zhu was not originally from the county seat of Dexian, but a businessman from Linxian County. Any family, even if it is a brother, is easy to turn against each other in the face of interests. The Zhu family has been in business for five generations, and has prospered and declined in the local area, with ups and downs, and when it comes to the generation of Master Zhu, the status of the Zhu family is not up or down in the local area, but fortunately, it is solid and rich.

Among the brothers, Master Zhu is the most business-minded figure. But because his biological mother was born in a Qinglou, his grandfather didn't like him, so he restricted him everywhere and didn't give him a chance to take the lead. When he reached the age of marrying a wife, he himself fell in love with a young lady in the family of a local small official surnamed Zhang, and wanted to marry, so he begged the elders in the family to fulfill it. No, the eccentric grandfather sent a matchmaker to Zhang's house, only saying that he was asking for the grandson of the Zhu family, but he did not specify which grandson of the Zhu family it was.

The Zhang family also fell in love with Master Zhu, so they hinted at Master Zhu before and asked Master Zhu to come to the door to propose marriage. Therefore, the Zhang family thought that the Zhu family was a relative of Master Zhu, and agreed after discussing the details. In this way, the Zhu and Zhang families set up a family affair for their children, and said that they would visit the church to marry in three months.

A few days later, the truth was revealed, but it was a foregone conclusion. This kind of thing is not fun, so the Zhang family can only swallow this breath, and Master Zhu can only swallow blood and tears in his stomach. Three months later, Miss Zhang married Mr. Zhu's brother, and Mr. Zhu couldn't win against his grandfather, so he married the daughter of a small family. The seeds of irreconcilable contradictions have been planted, just waiting for the years to urge them to sprout and swell.

Master Zhu's wife is not in good health, and her lord's status in the Zhu family is not high, and the concubines often stumble on her, so she frowns all day long. After giving birth to a son (Zhu Zhicheng) and a daughter (Zhu Qianbi), she went at a young age.

At this time, Master Zhu's mother hanged herself because she failed to protect her daughter-in-law, felt sorry for her son, and had been guilty of bad crimes for many years. It was only five days before and after, and Master Zhu had no wife and no mother.

Master Zhu was sad and angry, and contradicted his grandfather. As a result, the three of them were swept out of the house, and his cowardly father didn't say a word and let them be kicked out.

My grandfather knew that people were terrible and was afraid of being poked in the back, so although he didn't look down on Master Zhu, he didn't do anything perfectly. When he swept Master Zhu's father and son out of the house, he gave one hundred taels of silver.

Master Zhu was angry and did not admit his mistakes, did not bow his head, did not look back, took the silver and took a son and a daughter to live. The children were still young and needed someone to take care of them, so he bought a mother-in-law and came back. But even so, in order to make a living, he doesn't have a home at all during the day, and his mother-in-law will give birth to demon moths if he is not in charge of the house. He understood this very well, and soon married the step-Muro-Ning clan.

Ning, the younger sister of Lady Xiao. Ning was married, but because he met someone unladylike, he lived a miserable life, and was abused by his husband. The Ning family has a very high status in their local area and acts very hard. The old Ning family loved his daughter very much, regardless of the fearful words of people, he made the decision to let his daughter reconcile and leave, and then took his daughter back to Ningfu.

Although Ning has never given birth to children, he has been married after all. Therefore, she always felt inferior and could not hold her head up in front of others. With this kind of inferiority complex, she didn't dare to go to people, and stayed at home all day long.

At this time, it was the time when Master Zhu lost his wife for a year. He inquired about the gentleness, loveliness and kindness of the Ning family, coupled with the influence of the Ning family in the local area, after several calculations, he mustered up the courage to send a matchmaker to propose marriage.

Someone asked to marry Heli's daughter, and she was still a stepfamily, so she was a wife. Old Ning didn't think about it for long, so he gave Ning to Master Zhu.

Master Zhu became the son-in-law of the Ning family, and with the Ning family as a backer, his worth immediately soared. has been suppressed by the Zhu family before, he can't do anything, and he has always been in a state of nothingness. At this time, with the help of Ning's virtuous family, the family does not need him to worry about it. Therefore, he let go of his hands and feet to open a shop, and the business is getting better and better. In ten years, his shops have grown from one to four, and all of them are profitable.

Ning is gentle and kind, and treats the children of Mrs. Zhu as if they were her own children, even if she later gave birth to a son (Zhu Zhiheng) and a daughter (Zhu Qianying). However, she was too inferior. found that Master Zhu fell in love with the maid who was waiting in the house, and she didn't dare to speak, so she let the maid climb onto Master Zhu's bed. Since then, there has been an extra Aunt Jane in the house.

Aunt Jian is a scheming person, and the coaxing Master Zhu stays in her house every day. Soon, she became pregnant, and after conceiving in October, she was lucky to give birth to a son, that is, the third young master Zhu Zhisheng.

Aunt Jian quietly made waves in the Zhu Mansion. The Ning family only knew how to take care of their four children, and they would not clean up Aunt Jian at all.

Before getting married, Zhu Qianbi said to Ning, "Mother, my daughter is very disappointed in you. She regarded the Ning family as her own mother, and hoped that her mother would be tougher and suppress Aunt Jane's arrogance. However, no matter how she persuaded her, her mother was still that cowardly mother, and she really couldn't stand it.

Zhu Zhicheng sighed at the cowardly Niang Ning after his mother almost lost her pregnancy. He found an excuse, left home with the pregnant lady in his womb, went to the uncle of Xiao Zhi County, and settled down in De County. Although he and his sister Zhu Qianbi are not born to the Ning family, they can compare their hearts to each other, and he and his sister respect the Ning family very much. Because of this, Mrs. Xiao does not dislike Zhu Zhicheng and Zhu Qianbi, and has always been very good to them. Therefore, Zhu Zhicheng trusted Mrs. Xiao and Lord Xiao and took refuge in him.

Zhu Zhicheng left home, Zhu Qianbi got married, and the two important children who helped the Ning family were gone, and the happiest one was Aunt Jane.

Within a few years, Master Zhu married his daughter Zhu Qianying, and the man was the Zhang family of Miss Zhang, who he did not marry. Fate made people, but the son of the Zhang family had a favorite girl, and despite the opposition of the elders in the family, he secretly had a skin-to-skin relationship with the girl he liked.

In order to make up for his regrets back then, Master Zhu persecuted the Zhang family. He asked the son of the Zhang family to break off the relationship with the girl he liked and marry her daughter.

At the same time, the Ning clan was rarely stiff. In order for her daughter to marry in the past and not be wronged, she insisted on withdrawing from the Zhang family's marriage. Zhu Qianying was sad, and coupled with the enlightenment of her sister Zhu Qianbi, she also agreed to withdraw from her family. After that, the Ning family forcibly withdrew from the Zhang family's marriage. After this incident, the relationship between the Ning family and Master Zhu became very bad, and once again gave Aunt Jian a chance to take advantage of the situation.

Because of Aunt Jane, Zhu Zhiheng has been disobedient to Master Zhu. Aunt Jian is getting more and more powerful, Zhu Zhiheng watched his mother being bullied by Aunt Jian from time to time, and there were more and more times when he disobeyed Master Zhu, so he became more and more disliked by Master Zhu.

The Zhu family had such an unpleasant thing as quitting their relatives; Master Zhu's brothers coveted Master Zhu's existing qiē and came over to stutter and calculate everywhere, annoying; It also happened that the Wu family in the county seat of Dexian County was selling their shop (it was when the Wu Mansion was facing fragmentation after the shop under the name of the Wu Mansion suffered a bizarre theft). Mr. Zhu, who is very business-minded, thought twice, moved his family to the county seat of Dexian County, and bought four shops from Wu Mansion to run them. As a result, he has eight shops.

Master Zhu's family background is quite solid, and with Lord Xiao's brother-in-law in the cover, Master Zhu quickly gained a firm foothold in the county seat of Dexian County. It's just that no matter how shrewd a person is, there are times when he is confused. If you are an individual, you will have shortcomings. No one is perfect. In the matter of Aunt Jane, he is a fool. In the absence of his attention, the dispute between the concubines in the palace had already begun, and it was one-sided. It's not the main room and the sister-in-law who are bullying people, but the aunt and the concubine who are bullying the main room and the sister-in-law.

Zhu Zhicheng probably saw it clearly, so he moved to the county seat of Dexian first. Even if Master Zhu moved his family later, Zhu Zhicheng did not live with his father and mother and lived his own small life.

Zhu Zhiheng probably saw some things, but he didn't see a qiē as clearly as his eldest brother Zhu Zhicheng. Moreover, he can't leave his mother alone.

In this way, Aunt Jian felt that Zhu Zhicheng was not a problem, and Zhu Zhiheng was the real stumbling block. Master Zhu has a lot of opinions about his eldest son Zhu Zhicheng, and the second son Zhu Zhiheng is the one who will get the Zhu family in the future. Except for Zhu Zhiheng, all the Qi Qi of the Zhu family will be her son Zhu Zhisheng in the future.

Therefore, Zhu Zhiheng was injured and rescued by Qing Shu, not because Lord Xiao was calculating Qing Shu, but it was indeed a coincidence.