Chen Jingzhi cleared his throat and asked Kang Zi to speak carefully.

Kangzi knelt on the ground and came to the ins and outs one by one. After finishing speaking, Chu Wenhong and Dong Ge'er knelt down together, crying and asking the eldest master to sentence Dong Lin to divorce his wife.

Chen Jingzhi asked them to step aside first, and then announced the little evil girl for questioning.

When the little evil girl saw Chen Jingzhi, she didn't bow down and didn't salute, she raised her head high, and pointed her nostrils at him arrogantly: "Hmph, Chen County Order, they are bullying me with a lot of people, and my father and eldest brother will be there in a while." If you have anything to say, ask me when they come. ”

Chu Qingruo smiled secretly, this evil girl didn't know how to die when she arrived in the court, if it was another county order today, Chu Qingruo might still need to worry about it, but this Chen Jingzhi in front of her, she was the most familiar. Jealousy is like hatred, justice and integrity, and not afraid of power. This little wicked girl talks to him like this, I am afraid that the punishment of the mouth is indispensable.

Who knows, to her surprise, Chen Jingzhi not only did not slap her mouth, but even took a chair for her to sit down and announced her retirement!

Chu Qingruo was a little angry now.

Could it be that over the years, this Chen Jingzhi has also become a villain who tends to be inflammatory?

After retreating from the hall, a servant hid in the crowd and quietly beckoned to Chu Qingruo.

Chu Qingruo was surprised, and walked over quietly, and heard the official lower his voice and said: "Mrs. Fu, the old man has an invitation in the back hall, please don't alarm others, go alone." ”

After thinking for a while, she nodded without hesitation, glanced at the people in the hall again, quietly hid in the crowd of onlookers at the door, and followed him to the back hall.

In the back hall, a mahogany table, two mahogany chairs on the left and right, and above the case, there is a pair of words that fly and dance: "self-denial and dedication"

Chen Jingzhi was facing the painting with his hands behind his back, and stood with his back to Chu Qingruo.

"Lord Chen, I haven't seen you for many years, it turns out that you still recognize the little girl."

Hearing the sarcasm in her words, Chen Jingzhi's body shook and slowly turned around: "Mrs. Fu, don't come unharmed?" The next official gave his wife a gift! So saying, he knelt down and saluted her.

Chu Qingruo didn't stop him, but walked to the mahogany chair in the hall and sat down.

Now he is a villain who tends to be inflammatory, and he is no longer the person who is not afraid of power and is admirable, he is a third-grade wife in the imperial court, how can he not stand the visit of him as a seven-grade sesame official?

Chen Jingzhi saw that she didn't mean to stop her at all, so he had to really kneel down and salute her: "The subordinate didn't know that the general's wife had arrived, and he missed the welcome, and he hoped that the lady would forgive him." ”

Chu Qingruo didn't speak, only quietly observed him, and saw that he even had old official uniforms, and the furnishings in the back hall were also the simplest, with two stools, a desk, a pair of words, and two pots of flowers, without any extravagance, I really couldn't believe that he judged the changes between the two.

"Lord Chen, please get up." The doubts in my heart are doubts, but I still said coldly.

Chen Jingzhi stood up, and a pair of small eyes kept looking at her: "What is the relationship between the person who complained in this hall and Mrs.?" ”

"My cousin."

"Oh? How does Madame want me to decide the case? Squinting his eyes, Chen Jingzhi asked cautiously.

"Handle it impartially, impartially."

When Chen Jingzhi heard this, he laughed: "Good, good, rare, rare." ”

Seeing Chu Qingruo's doubts, he couldn't help but smile and said: "The old man is still afraid that now that you have become the general's wife and the long-lived royal sister, you will become like others, put on a good show, and bully others!" Unexpectedly, Qingruo, you are still the same as before, nothing has changed, hahaha. ”

"I haven't changed, but I don't know if you've changed, Master Chen?" Chu Qingruo was not happy with his praise at all.

"Do you think the old man has changed?" Chen Jingzhi seems to have something to say. "Madam, the old man implores Madame not to embarrass the Zhang family for the time being."

Chu Qingruo was angry: "Why? Isn't it that Lord Chen wants me, and I can't buy your old face? ”

Chen Jingzhi laughed: "Non-yes, non-yes." Madame trusts the old man? ”

"I used to believe it, but now I ...... I don't know if I should believe it or not! "Chu Qingruo spoke very directly, there was no need to save face for him.

Chen Jingzhi was not annoyed: "Madame said yes, but the lower official still wants to ask the lady to agree to the lower official's request." For the reason, please forgive the officials for the inconvenience. Madame only needs to believe that these four words have never been forgotten in the hearts of the lower officials! As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the four words hanging in the hall: self-denial and public service.

Chu Qingruo hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to choose to believe him: "Okay, then the little girl will wait and see!" ”

Chen Jingzhi breathed a sigh of relief as if he had been amnestied, and was about to say something when he heard a commotion in the foreign hall.

The two looked at each other, Chen Jingzhi bowed his hand to her, and hurriedly went to the front hall, and Chu Qingruo also quietly returned to the front hall under the guidance of the official who led the way just now.

When he came to the front hall, Chu Qingruo, who was standing beside Xu Yong Kangzi, saw the door of the public hall, and the people who were originally watching were dispersed.

In its place was a large group of thugs led by an old man and a young man.

The old man was in his fifties, wearing a brown coat of fine workmanship, a hat of the same color, a piece of fine jade inlaid in the middle of the hat, a square face, hanging eyes, thin lips, a mustache, and a shrewd face.

One less than thirty is dressed in an elegant white short back, with a hairpin carved from mutton fat and white jade on his bun, wearing a heroic coat made of fine fabrics, with a Chinese face, sparse eyebrows and fine eyes, a straight and pointed nose, and a thin lip with evil spirits.

These two people are Donglin's daughter-in-law's father and eldest brother, Zhang Shi'an and his eldest son, Zhang Fulong.

Zhang Shi'an pointed at Chu Wenhong and Dong Ge'er and scolded: "You straight thief, you have joined my Zhang family, you are born as a member of my Zhang family, and death is the ghost of my Zhang family, Lao Tzu actually ate a bowl of white rice for you?" You and your poor ghost old lady, eat our Zhang family, drink our Zhang family, and even want to divorce my daughter? I'll fuck your eighteen-generation ancestors! ”

The scolding was so ugly that Xu Yong couldn't help but clench his fists and gurgle.

Before he could have a seizure, he heard Zhang Fulong stand up again, and said in a strange manner: "Hey...... Dad, since ancient times, marriage has emphasized a love for me, since the twisted melon is not sweet, then we are not strong. ”

Zhang Shi'an hurriedly said: "What? Isn't it cheap for the two of them? ”

Zhang Fulong: "Dad, don't be impatient. Then he took a step forward, stretched out his hand to the right, and a little man came up and handed him an abacus. He took the abacus in his hand, crackled his fingers, and then smiled maliciously and said to Dong Ge'er, who was still kneeling in the hall:

"In this way, Brother Dong, I won't embarrass you two. As for you, tell your mother to return the things that my sister married back to the beginning. Then, you and your mother lived in my house for a total of one year and nine months, three meals a day, plus room fees, and money for servants. Okay, I'll count you as one or two pieces of silver a day.

Also, my sister is an innocent yellow flower girl who married you, and now her body is broken, and she can't marry any good people if she wants to remarry. So, she is twenty years old now, and I count her as seventy years old, which is fifty years. Every year, I count her food and clothing as 500 taels, that is...... Twenty-five thousand taels. And that's not even counting the baby in the womb. ”

Dong Ge'er gritted his teeth and almost wanted to cry: "I haven't had sex with her for a long time, where is the child?" ”

Zhang Fulong laughed: "Okay, even if you don't have children, you reconcile with her, she has no children by her side, so you always have to find someone to support her for the elderly, right?" It is a matter of time before a child is adopted, so the cost of this child is naturally counted on your head! If you don't reconcile with her, will she have to keep the festival and live alone? Right? He turned his head and glanced at Zhang Shi'an and the little evil girl proudly, and raised his head.

The father and daughter said in unison and proudly: "That's it!" ”

Xu Yong couldn't bear it anymore and just wanted to step forward, but was stopped by Chu Qingruo: "It's okay, Uncle Xu, let them say, it's okay to settle this account clearly." ”

Zhang Fulong gave a thumbs up to Chu Qingruo: "Huh~~ It's still this lady who is sensible!" Our Zhang family is not unreasonable, right, since the husband and wife can't do it, then the account should be calculated or calculated clearly! ”

Chu Qingruo smiled silently.

Zhang Fulong continued: "For the sake of this lady, in this way, the child's money will be exempted for you, and our Zhang family will suffer a loss." In this case, you only need to ......" The amount is too big, he knocked on the abacus again, and split the horn: "You only need to give us another 25,635 taels, this matter, forget it, you will be separated and separated, and when the daughter is older, the mother's family will not be able to manage it." ”

"Are you done?" After listening to him, Chu Qingruo spoke. "If you're done, it's my turn. I don't think you're doing the right thing. ”

Zhang Fulong's face sank: "What's wrong?" ”

Chu Qingruo also took a step forward and confronted him: "First of all, we didn't say that we wanted to reconcile, we wanted to divorce our wives!" ”

Zhang Fulong glared and wanted to attack, but was pushed back by Chu Qingruo: "Huh? Just now I said that your Zhang family is not an unreasonable family, and I didn't interrupt you when you spoke, but now it's my turn to speak, but you reasonable people don't let me speak or what? ”

Zhang Fulong was deflated, so he had to shut his mouth stupidly, crossed his waist angrily, and listened to her.

"Secondly, my aunt and cousin have not lived in vain in your Zhang family for a year and nine months, and my cousin helps you make accounts every day, so I have delayed the homework of the scientific examination, and we will also calculate this account."

After speaking, before Zhang Fulong could react, Kang Zi had already stepped forward and snatched the abacus in his hand and handed it to Chu Qingruo.

Chu Qingruo also knocked the abacus crackling: "Now the monthly money of an account clerk is fifteen taels or three cents a month, so let's calculate fifteen taels."

Although our Dong Ge'er is a man, he is a famous talent, and the time spent in your house as a bookkeeper delayed his scientific examination as an official. We count him as twenty years old now, and he can be an official for thirty years. If he is a seventh-grade official, he will earn 100 taels of silver a month, and 1,200 taels of silver a year.

In this case, counting the silver of the bookkeeper, it will be 36,315 taels of silver, and after deducting the money you just calculated, your Zhang family will give us 10,680 taels of silver. That's it, let's just forget it, who called us Dong Ge'er a man? Man, if you suffer, you will suffer, forget it. ”