"The eldest lady is in the account room, Mrs. He, do you want the villain to go to the account for you?" The old man deliberately bent over slightly to make himself look a little shorter than her.

Glancing at him contemptuously, Mrs. He pretended to wave the handkerchief in her hand and gently covered her nose, as if there was some unbearable smell on the old man's body.

"No need, I'll just go to the account office to find her, you can get busy." After speaking, he didn't care about the people behind him, and walked straight to the house.

Mother Zhang and the three of them cautiously and politely walked towards the carriageway: "Miss, we have arrived." ”

As soon as the curtain door was lifted, Han Linger was the first to jump out of the car, helped Chu Qingruo get out of the car, and then took over the burden in Zhou's mother's hand and helped her down.

The old porter retreated to the door, turned his head and saw Chu Qingruo getting off the carriage with an animal he had never seen before, and asked Zhang's mother suspiciously: "......Who is this?" ”

Mother Zhang was afraid that Mrs. He hadn't gone far yet, so she lowered her voice and said to him: "Uncle Liu, this is Chu Qingruo, the real eldest lady of our Chu Mansion!" ”

Uncle Liu was surprised, it turned out that this was the eldest lady Chu Qingruo who had been told that she was raised outside! Hurriedly stepped forward and respectfully saluted Chu Qingruo: "Slave Liu Yi has seen the eldest lady!" ”

Chu Qingruo hurriedly helped him up, "Uncle Liu, you don't have to make this big gift, please get up quickly." ”

Although Uncle Liu is a disciple, he is still in his fifties after all, and Chu Qingruo already knows with a light help that the temperament of this eldest lady who has just come back is very different from that of the young master who dragged the oil bottle.

is a generous and kind master who can treat his subordinates, if she inherits the Chu Mansion in the future, they will be blessed to be subordinates, Liu Bo thought to himself, so his attitude towards Chu Qingruo became more and more respectful.

Chu Qingruo walked slowly to the bottom of the gate, looked up at the plaque that read: "Chu Mansion", raised his eyes and looked at the familiar pavilions and pavilions inside the door, and couldn't help but think a lot......

"Say! Do you know what's wrong? ”

A ring ruler made of boxwood hit her palm hard.

Tears swirled in the eyes of the young Chu Qingruo, but she was stubborn and refused to let it drip down. "My daughter doesn't know what the sin is! Please Daddy make it clear! ”

"You! You, you disobedient and unfilial thing. Okay, don't learn, but learn your mother's immortal temperament, right? ”

Chu Wenxuan, who was furious, raised the ring ruler and gave her another slap on the head.

The young Chu Qingruo was dizzy and dizzy after being beaten, and his whole body was in pain, and he couldn't hold it for a while and fell to the ground.

"You're on my knees! You bastard! Let me ask you, who taught you to call the new lady Lady Xiulian? ”

"She is not my mother, why is it for her daughter to call her Mrs. Xiulian?"

Stubborn, she propped up her weak body, straightened her back and knelt down again, trying to make herself look stronger, and at the same time pulled up her sleeves and wiped her tears, and replied with a serious face.

"You!" Chu Wenxuan was deeply angered by her seemingly obedient, but in fact silent protest.

In the face of his daughter's provocation of his majesty as a father, he couldn't help but feel angry again, raised his hand and slapped her hard.

After a period of numbness on her immature little face, accompanied by a hot burning sensation, a clear slap mark appeared on her little face. She felt her ears roar, as if something was bulging outward.

Then she was horrified to find that her ear seemed to be unable to hear the surrounding sounds clearly.

Chu Qingruo covered her beaten face aggrievedly, looked up at her father, who had become hideous because of anger, and was both aggrieved and frightened in her heart, endured and endured, and finally tears fell uncontrollably.

Mother, if you were here, my father would not marry the bride, and Ruo'er would not be beaten by my father because of the bride today. Mother, come and take Ruo'er away.

If you don't like your father, don't like the bride, don't like this home without you, come and save Ruo'er!

In fact, Chu Qingruo's father was very good-looking.

When he wasn't angry, he had a fair, well-defined face, and those talking eyes shining like stars in the sky. The high bridge of his nose and thin lips make him look gentle and elegant.

It's a pity that long-term alcoholism and irritable temper have ruined my father's gentleness and elegance. In his rage, he looked extremely fierce and scary, which made Chu Qingruo tremble and walk on thin ice.

Seeing her covering her face and shedding tears, Chu Wenxuan, who was in a trance, seemed to see the shadow of his wife, Li Yuanyuan, who had been dead for many years.

Li Yuanyuan was originally the daughter of a talented woman in a small village in Guangling County, but her family was poor but she was born with a beautiful appearance.

Under the influence of her father, Li Yuanyuan was already a well-known talented woman in ten miles and eight towns before she reached her death, and she was the first choice for the children of local scholars to marry.

It was also a creation to make people, that year she went to Beijing with her parents to play, and was taken by Chu Wenxuan, who was still a student at the time, and was shocked. Chu Wenxuan, who fell in love with Li Yuanyuan at first sight, ignored the opposition of his family, and chased him all the way to Guangling.

After nine months of hard pursuit, he finally got the approval of the old father-in-law and married his only daughter, Li Yuanyuan, to him. After the two got married, they returned to the capital together.

At the beginning, Li Yuanyuan had an elegant and virtuous temperament, and she was the daughter of a talented woman, quite literate. At that time, the Chu family was not wealthy, and life was a little hard, but the two of them chanted poems all day long, tasting wine and plums, and the life was also delicious.

But later, since Chu Qingruo was born, the family's expenses have become larger and larger, and the deep affection between the two in the past has gradually been consumed in the ordinary quarrels over firewood, rice, oil, salt and trivial family matters.

In addition to studying hard every day and night, Chu Wenxuan also had to go to some children's academies and do some errands during the day, but the silver taels he earned were pitiful.

He was increasingly overwhelmed by the huge expenses required by his family, and his temper was getting worse and worse day by day. Often drunk, wild suspicions.

He always felt that he had to prepare for the exam and make money to support his family, he was busy on all fours, and he had no time to spend more time with his beautiful wife.

Intellectually, Chu Wenxuan, who is a scholarly family, can't go against Sven to ask his wife in person because of his face. At the same time, he was afraid that he would really ask something, and he wouldn't know how to deal with himself at that time.

But holding it in his heart and not asking, Chu Wenxuan always felt that he would have been cuckolded without his knowledge.

Once the seeds of doubt have taken root and sprouted in the heart, they are difficult to remove. It seems that things that can't be said or said like this quietly took root in his heart.

So, suspicious of dark ghosts, he began to chase the shadow in the wind, borrowed wine to kill his sorrows, and even punched and kicked his wife when he was very drunk.

But after waking up, he regretted his behavior, and after waking up, the third watch ran to hug his sleeping wife and daughter in the middle of the night and cried bitterly.

It's useless to scold yourself, I'm sorry for their mother and daughter, I can't let their wives and daughters live a good life, and when I talk about excitement, I will slap myself seventeen or eighteen times.

often woke up his wife and daughter in his sleep, and frightened the young Chu Qingruo to cry non-stop.

But a few days after he repented, he reverted, got drunk again, and beat up their mother and daughter. Then after waking up, he hugged his head and cried, gambled and repented, and the cycle continued.

In the end, every time he came back drunk, Li Yuanyuan took Xiaoqingruo to hide in the old lady's room. I didn't dare to go back to my room for a few days.

Fortunately, the old lady was a sensible person who tried her best to protect their mother and daughter, so that their mother and daughter could have a few quiet days.

The old lady has beaten and scolded Chu Wenxuan for such a ridiculous behavior, and even asked for family law. But Chu Wenxuan still had the courage to admit his mistakes when he was sober, and he was drunk and refused to change his ways.

If the angry old lady hadn't seen that he was her own son, she would have killed him, and she would have died early and had already been reborn!

Fortunately, Chu Wenxuan is not really so useless, after the imperial examination, Chu Wenxuan, who is nearly thirty years old, was finally admitted to the Jinshi. After receiving the imperial book and becoming the head of Nanshan Academy, the life of the Chu family can be regarded as slowly becoming richer.

Although life has improved, Li Yuanyuan's heart for him has become more and more cold. Every day, he just guards the child as his duty, locks himself in the backyard and does not leave the house, weeps every day, and has no love to deliver to him.

Chu Wenxuan, who couldn't stand the coldness, finally got along with his daughter secretly with the help of a junior academician. That junior academician is his current father-in-law Cao Yonglian, and his daughter is the current Mrs. Chu, Cao Xiulian.

It stands to reason that Cao Xiulian is also a miserable person.

Inheriting the delicate and elegant appearance of her academician father, and growing a tall figure with her mother, Cao Xiulian is also one of the best small jasper in the scholarly family in Beijing.

In the early years, she married a husband and was a child of a well-off family, but she was a gambler, and she was also suffering in beating and scolding all day long.

But her temperament is different from Li Yuanyuan, she is quite strong and has some means.

Hiding from everyone in her husband's family, she quietly transferred the family's silver taels, and told her husband that she couldn't come up with the money to pay off the gambling debts, so that the donkey rolled (usury) forced the debt alive and was seriously injured.

Later, because Cao Xiulian had no money to treat her, she died of illness.

After her husband died, she sued the donkeys for rolling on a piece of paper, and while asking for murder to pay for her life, she secretly took out a sum of money and gave the donkeys to roll to pay her husband's debts.

The two parties agreed: the donkey rolled and gave her the debt to pay off, and she had nothing to do with it again, and she also settled the lawsuit and no longer pursued it.

The donkeys rolled and took back the money, and settled the lawsuit, but they couldn't ask for it, so they took the money and left happily.