I saw the woman on the white stone guardrail of the stone arch bridge, one foot hanging on the river, the other foot hanging on the bridge board of the stone arch bridge, one hand holding the small stone lion carved on the white stone guardrail, and the other hand pointed to the surrounding crowd, wide-eyed and angrily reprimanded: "You all retreat for me!" Don't come here! Otherwise, I'll jump right from here! ”

The crowd around them was talking, they didn't know this woman, they all thought that this woman was trying to threaten her mother's family to achieve the purpose of getting out of the marriage, but today I haven't heard anyone want to do a happy event, and I haven't heard the sound of suona, it's just strange.

Suddenly, a man squeezed out of the crowd like a rocky mountain, stood at the foot of the bridge, and shouted at the woman, "You crazy woman! Get me down! Don't embarrass me here! ”

That man was none other than Cheng Zhenzhi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites who had just taken the position four years ago, and he was recommended by the prime minister to sit in the position of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites. In this way, the woman wearing the wedding dress on the bridge should not be someone else, but his original wife Zhou.

When Zhou saw that Cheng Zhenzhi was coming, he seemed to be completely stunned, and directly hugged the white stone guardrail and cried, as if he was grieving like a dead dear relative, snot and tears flowed all over his face, and from time to time he also pounded the white stone guardrail with his hands, as if he had been wronged and wanted to ask for someone to ask for.

Cheng Zhenzhi saw Zhou crying, but did not come down, so he wanted to go up to the stone arch bridge to drag Zhou off the white stone guardrail, Zhou saw that Cheng Zhenzhi was about to walk to the bridge, pointed at Cheng Zhenzhi and screamed: "You retreat for me!" ”

As he spoke, Zhou leaned back against the bridge, as if he was about to fall.

When Cheng Zhenzhi saw Zhou's like that, there was no way. If it is in the Cheng Mansion, it is always possible for the Zhou family to make any trouble, even if they want to die, they don't have to stop it, and if they die, they will find a piece of land to bury it.

Cheng Zhenzhi was in front of outsiders, and it was not easy to say cruel words to force the Zhou family to seek death, so he persuaded with kind words: "Madam, it's not safe there, you can come down from there, we can talk about it when we have something to say home, it's not good when so many people make trouble, as the saying goes, 'family ugliness should not be publicized'." If you continue to make trouble, I'm afraid it's not only you, but even my reputation is not good, how can you make me an official in the court. The two of us have been husband and wife for eight years, and you have to think about me as a husband. I love you, come down quickly, you will only make the relatives hurt and the enemies happy. ”

Cheng Zhenzhi's speaking skills are very good, those outsiders are confused that Cheng Zhenzhi really loves Zhou, and some discerning people see that Cheng Zhenzhi is threatening Zhou not to come nonsense, and how could Zhou himself not know?

But that Zhou still didn't follow Cheng Zhenzhi, and cried with all his strength: "Cheng Zhenzhi, I refused so many good family affairs at the beginning, just to be with you." originally thought that life after marriage should be that the mandarin ducks live and fly together, and the two are not separated. But what about you? What did you do to me! Zhou's crying appearance on the guardrail is a little too distressing.

But Cheng Zhenzhi stood under the bridge with a little unchanged face, just silently watched Zhou make trouble on the bridge. Anyway, in Cheng Zhenzhi's opinion, he has already persuaded Zhou, if Zhou doesn't listen, and then blindly seeks death, she will go, and no one will say that he Cheng Zhenzhi is unkind.

If the Zhou family dies, there is a trace of purity left in the house, and he can straighten out his beloved concubine, and he will lose a lot of expenses, which is what makes Cheng Zhenzhi a little happy, but he can't show it, and he has to pretend to be affectionate, which is really embarrassing for Cheng Zhenzhi, a cold person.

Zhou slightly let go of the hand that had just grasped the little stone lion on the white stone guardrail, and sat there with his head lowered, like a flower that had just been struck by a violent storm and wilted.

Zhou first sighed, and then said slowly: "Cheng Zhenzhi, I have been married to you for eight years, eight years. At the beginning, it was still like that, but I didn't want it to be like this now, and I really responded to that sentence - 'I will be afraid of fear, and I will be afraid of women.'" Will be happy, the woman will be abandoned to'. I have lived a hard life with you, and I tried my best to send you to this position, and you ended up treating me like this, you are so ruthless! ”

Later, that Zhou told the story of his youth and Cheng Zhenzhi.

That Zhou family was originally the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Jizhou, and her family was rich and wealthy, and she was also very prestigious in the state, not to mention that other merchants respected their Zhou family, and even the magistrates respected them.

When she first met Cheng Zhenzhi, Cheng Zhenzhi was still a poor scholar.

That day, she went to the jewelry store to pick up new jewelry, and when she came out, she saw Cheng Zhenzhi. Cheng Zhenzhi is handsome and has an extraordinary bearing, but he has no money, he was begging the stall owner to give him a stack of papers on credit at the roadside stall that day, but the stall owner refused, because who knows if this poor scholar can repay the money. If you can't pay it back, you will lose even the capital, so you won't even give a piece of paper to Cheng Zhenzhi on credit.

Zhou saw that Cheng Zhenzhi was handsome, so he paid for the stack of paper for Cheng Zhenzhi, and also asked Cheng Zhenzhi's identity.

Zhou learned from Cheng Zhenzhi's own mouth that day that his father was also a scholar, he read very well, and he also had his own opinions, but he didn't seem to have the life to be an official.

Cheng Zhenzhi is influenced by his father's culture, and he also likes to read, like the way of the so-called sages, and thinks that if a man has some ambition, he should enter the court as an official to ensure the peace and prosperity of the world.

Cheng Zhenzhi has not yet participated in a single imperial examination, and is preparing to participate in the quadrennial scientific examination next year, preparing to show his majestic strategy.

The Zhou family has also reached the age when it is time to marry, because of the reputation of the Zhou family in Jizhou, there is an endless stream of people who come to ask for relatives, but none of them are eye-catching by the Zhou family. Because after that encounter, Zhou only had Cheng Zhenzhi in his heart.

Zhou's father married his beloved daughter Zhou to the eldest son of the county official as his wife, but Zhou refused to live or die.

At the beginning, Zhou's father ignored Zhou's protests, and insisted on marrying Zhou's eldest son to the county official, never thinking that Zhou's would be found.

That night, the lights were turned off, and Zhou was ready to sleep. The nurse was troubled, and she went in to add another quilt to Zhou's.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the nurse pushed the door open, she saw a figure hanging on it in a daze. The nurse took a dimly lit lamp and took a closer look, the person was Zhou, she was going to hang herself by hanging herself, and there was a suicide note on the table, which began with a thank you for her parents' nurturing grace, and then talked about how much she was devoted to Cheng Zhenzhi, and finally said that if she couldn't fulfill her wish, she would only want to die.

Zhou's father couldn't resist Zhou's temperament, so he went to a private school outside the city and invited Cheng Zhenzhi to come to see how Cheng Zhenzhi's character was.

The servant hurriedly felt the private school outside the city from the city, and when he arrived at the private school, Cheng Zhenzhi was leading a group of children to read the "Three Character Classic".

Cheng Zhenzhi entered the hall of Zhou's house, Zhou's father was waiting for Cheng Zhenzhi in the hall, although Cheng Zhenzhi was wearing coarse linen clothes, but his bearing was extraordinary, coupled with a conversation later, Zhou's father thought that Cheng Zhenzhi might do something in the future, but he still refused to easily marry his daughter to Cheng Zhenzhi. Because no one can say for sure the future of this young man, Zhou's father is unwilling to easily compensate for the daughter he has raised with great difficulty.

That time, Zhenzhi met Zhou, the two met in private, in the small garden, there was Zhou's personal maid guarding, and others didn't know.

Cheng Zhenzhi is a scholar, he is a bit intelligent, he knows that Zhou is obsessed with him, so he said some sweet words to Zhou. Cheng Zhenzhi and Zhou said that when he saw Zhou as early as that day, he only thought about Zhou alone, and his father only married his mother in his life, he had the heart to learn from his father when he was a child, and he was only willing to live and fly with the person he loved, and Zhou was the lover that Cheng Zhenzhi was looking for to spend the rest of his life with.

When Zhou heard this, she was moved, she had grown so big, she had never heard any man say such touching words, and Zhou was originally devoted to Cheng Zhenzhi, so she naturally believed that Cheng Zhenzhi also liked herself.

Zhou was so happy, who didn't know that Cheng Zhenzhi's words were all thought out in advance, just to deceive her in exchange for Cheng Zhenzhi's future.

So, Zhou went to Zhou's father at every turn, and said all the good things for Cheng Zhenzhi, saying that Cheng Zhenzhi was affectionate and single-minded, and with Cheng Zhenzhi's true talent, the future could be expected.

If Zhou at that time saw himself looking so embarrassed on the stone arch bridge nine years later, I don't know how he would feel, and I don't know if he would say all the good things for Cheng Zhenzhi.

Zhou's father couldn't stand Zhou's annoyance several times a day, and Cheng Zhenzhi's temperament and conversation were extraordinary, so he agreed to Zhou's wish to marry Cheng Zhenzhi. It's just that there is a requirement, Cheng Zhenzhi is counted in the Zhou family, and he is the son-in-law of the inverted door.

Cheng Zhenzhi is unwilling from the bottom of his heart, a dignified man actually wants to join someone else's house to eat soft rice, but he knows that his family background is not good, if he doesn't be this inverted son-in-law, I'm afraid he can't even afford the paper he usually uses to write articles and copy books, so what is the future?

So, Cheng Zhenzhi swallowed his anger and entered the Zhou family to be the son-in-law of the inverted door.

The Zhou family began to think that they would be able to at least fight for the position of tribute by participating in the scientific examination in the coming year, but they didn't want to be brushed down in the township examination.

On this day, it is difficult to find a champion who works in Jishi Anbang, but the two-legged talent is running all over the ground.

So, the Zhou family didn't wait to see Cheng Zhenzhi, and they spoke coldly to Cheng Zhenzhi every day, sometimes they treated Cheng Zhenzhi harshly, and the clothes prepared for Cheng Zhenzhi during the New Year were not as good as the housekeeper of the Zhou house, where was there still an aunt from a big family, and those who didn't know thought they were servants in the Zhou house.

Because he didn't pass the exam, the Zhou family treated him like this, Cheng Zhenzhi had nothing to say, he could only endure it silently, no matter how bad his life in the Zhou family was, at least it was much better than the precarious days in a private school in the countryside.