Even if Sun Jue was very reluctant in his heart, he could only accept his uncle's proposal and write his name on the document of "separating property and living separately" with his wife.

There is really no way, and he doesn't want to end up in such an embarrassing situation, but Sun Wenqian said it well, that is, he wants to bring his children back to Hangzhou now, will his father let him? Will the Cao family be willing?

It is true that he is the father of Sun Li and Sun Xian, but can he really go to the yamen to accuse his wife of abduction? Thinking of the word "Yamen", Sun Jue only felt that his legs and stomach were turning tendons, how could he be willing to move forward?

Not to mention, with his current embarrassment, what qualifications does he have to fight a lawsuit with the Cao family.

The Sun family, in the capital, has become a big joke.

Sun Li thirteen, Sun Xian eleven, one will end up in a few years, and the other will participate in the inner court election, and they have all reached the age of saying goodbye. was dragged down by Sun Jue's father, and the two children had to suffer some gossip.

Instead of bringing it back to Hangzhou, it is better to stay in the capital and be sheltered by the Cao family.

No matter what, their brothers and sisters are all surnamed Sun, if the ancestors bless the glorious lintel, then it is also the Sun family who has a long face.

Sun Jue entered the Yamen and suffered a great sin, and now his waist is not as hard as in the past. Not to mention anything else, even the Cao family brothers' accounts of 10,000 and 500 taels, he can't pay them off.

Now, in the name of "dissecting property and living separately", it is good to liquidate the thirty hectares of land in Cao Hao's hands.

According to Cao Fu's meaning, Sun Jue lost more than 10,000 taels of silver to the Cao family, plus Cao Ying's dowry, and Sun Jue had nothing to do with the thirty-hectare small village in Tongzhou.

But Sun Jue still counted on this Zhuangzi to have some money left, he has now lost his official position, and originally wanted to follow his uncle and mother back to Hangzhou, but Sun Wencheng has already sent a letter, saying that he is not allowed to return to Hangzhou.

A man wants a face, and a tree wants bark.

Although there are no secrets in the officialdom, but after all, the capital and Hangzhou are far away, even if there are some shadowy gossip, as long as Sun Jue does not go back, the Sun family can support me.

Sun Jue went back, such a big living person, how could he hide it in a word.

All of a sudden, Sun Jue became a lonely ghost, unable to stay in the capital, unable to return to Hangzhou, miserable and miserable.

Or An's distressed son, remembering that there was a cousin who was an official in Xuzhou, so he discussed with Sun Wenqian, took Sun Jue south, and sent him to Xuzhou to live for a few years.

Sun Wenqian knows that his brother's temper is the most face-saving thing. Sun Jue has lost the face of the Sun family this time, if he really takes his nephew back to Hangzhou, he is afraid that he will not be able to enter the gate, and he will have to be "cleaned up the door".

Even if Cao Ying returns to Cao's house with a few children, Sun Jue always needs someone to take care of her. Among his three concubines, the Liang family was Cao Hao's dowry and followed Cao Ying, but the Xie family and the Wen family were going to leave Beijing with Sun Jue.

This trip to Xuzhou, to say the least, will take three or two years, even if you take refuge with relatives, you have to bring enough money to have confidence.

Sun Jue and a few of them, they are really lacking in confidence at the moment. Not to mention the addition of the yamen with all the money in his hands, he also lost the debts of the Cao and Li families.

Sun Jue's idea fell to Tongzhou Xiaozhuang, so at the suggestion of his uncle, he talked to the Cao family about the conditions.

Thirty hectares of fertile land, converted into silver, there are two thousand taels; The Sun family's house is in a good place, the yard is quite spacious, and with the furniture, it can also be worth two or three thousand taels; The small village outside the Sun family city also has nearly 20 hectares of land.

What he meant was that he thought that he would not have the face to go back to the capital in his life, so it would be better to push these industries to the Cao family and bring more money with him. In the future, these properties will still be under the names of Cao Ying and Sun Li, their mother and son, can he not support his son when he has no money to spend?

But he didn't want to think about it, Cao Hao had suffered a loss.

Xiao Zhuang didn't say that the Cao family didn't take advantage of him by converting the silver at the market price, but he had to deduct the silver that Sun Jue borrowed from the Cao family brothers first. For the remainder there were eight thousand six hundred taels of silver left.

The 8,600 taels of silver, Sun Jue, Cao Ying and his wife were half each, and each of them was 4,300 taels. But when Cao Ying got married, Cao Yin once gave his niece a shop in Hangzhou City to do industry, and later Sun Jue went to Beijing, and the silver was not enough to spend, so he sold his wife's dowry shop and got 2,500 taels of silver.

For this reason, Sun Jue's share of the silver money had to be deducted from the original two thousand five hundred taels, which could be regarded as making up for his wife's dowry.

The house of the Sun family is not an ancestral property, but was purchased by Sun Jue after he entered Beijing, and half of the purchase capital was Cao Ying's dowry. This house is under Cao Ying's name, which just makes up for the softness of her being treated by her husband.

The Sun family's Zhuangzi outside the city is the property of the Sun family's capital, and the "property analysis" is properly under the name of the Sun family's grandson, which is used as the maintenance expenses of Cao Ying and Liang and the upbringing of Sun Li's brothers and sisters.

In the end, Sun Jue only got 1,800 taels of silver.

As for the four thousand taels of silver owed to the Li family, he didn't think about paying it back; Li Nai felt ashamed, and he didn't think about urging it, but he was vague.

Only Li Cheng was frightened for two months, and now he looks back to settle the account, but he finds that he has lost a lot of money.

Thirty hectares of Zhuangzi in exchange for five thousand taels of silver, and a pair of twins.

If the second room is broken, the family is the father's, as for the third uncle, the body is not good, and whether he can stand or not is two words.

Now that the second room has been inherited, my father's family business is less than half.

When no one was around, he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, unable to tell whether he regretted it or not. At the same time, he was faintly afraid that his grandfather's letter had urged him to return to Suzhou.

Come to think of it, I was disappointed in him, otherwise I wouldn't have easily changed my mind about keeping him in Beijing...... * Cao family, Dongfu.

Looking at Sun Jue's personal letter sent by Sun Wenqian, Sun Wenqian's guarantee with Li Nai, and the Cao family brothers along with the signed document of "separation of property and separate residence", Cao Ying burst into tears.

At this moment, she is still the wife of the Sun family, but she is no longer attached to her husband as before, but is in charge of the door.

She hurriedly bowed down, choked up and said, "My nephew and daughter-in-law are not filial, which makes the fourth uncle feel bad." ”

Sun Wenqian sighed and said to Sun Li, who was standing next to him, "Don't help your mother up quickly." ”

After Cao Ying put away the paperwork and wiped his face, Sun Wen Qiancai said: "The ship of the Internal Affairs Office has been ordered, and Ming'er will leave Beijing." Your mother-in-law, why don't you go over and take a look. I don't know when I can see this farewell. ”

Cao Ying is not a cold-blooded person, and now her wishes have come true, and she has never thought of really "breaking off" with the Sun family, after all, it is her "husband". Before her death, she was the grandmother of the Sun family; After her death, she will also be buried in the ancestral grave of the Sun family.

"Yes, but I didn't expect to go in such a hurry." When Cao Ying said this, she instructed her son: "Go and talk to your second brother and sister, tell them to change their clothes, and go to your grandmother to say goodbye in a while." ”

When Sun Li heard this, he took a closer look at his mother, and saw that she had no other embarrassment except for the redness of her eyes, so he nodded and withdrew.

Sun Wenqian hesitated for a moment and asked the doubts in his heart: "Niece and daughter-in-law, in the future, your nephew will not be in Beijing, and it will not be easy for you to be a woman and a few children." I don't know, what does the in-law wife mean, can she continue to live in her mother's house? ”

Cao Ying shook her head and said, "I won't live in my mother's house, and when Li'er's body is better, I'll go home to live." Li'er is also older now, and her nephew and daughter-in-law will count on him in the future. ”

Sun Wenqian nodded and said, "Yes, no matter how good your relatives' family is, it's not as good as your own family." The nephew is confused, but the eldest brother is not confused. He has always loved Li'er, the eldest grandson, and has never said a word to you, the eldest daughter-in-law. You should also be relieved, don't complain about the Sun family because of your nephew. Even if they are Li'er, they will have to rely on the Cao family in the future, and the last one who can rely on them is the Sun family. "In the end, it was already a little solemn.

Seeing him like this, Cao Ying also said with a straight face: "Fourth uncle, rest assured, my nephew and daughter-in-law are daughters-in-law and daughters-in-law, and they still know the word 'filial piety', so they don't dare to complain about their in-laws." ”

Sun Wenqian disagreed, if this nephew and daughter-in-law really knew "filial piety", then there would be no "other residence" and An would be half dead...... Not to mention how Cao Ying took Sun Li, Sun Chu, and Sun Xian to follow Sun Wenqian to the Li family to bid farewell to An's family, not to mention how An's family was reluctant to give up his eldest grandson, how Sun Jue used crutches and wanted to make a fuss, and was finally driven out by Li Nai and others.

In the blink of an eye, it was time to say.

When the Sun family boarded the boat and went south, the Cao Xiang brothers were black-faced gods, and they refused to put down their bodies to say goodbye, so they had to take Cao Hao, a "good old man", to take his nephew Sun Li and the Li family's father and son to send the Sun family's carriage to Tongzhou.

Seeing that no one from the Cao family's East Mansion came, Sun Wenqian muttered in his heart.

After all, Cao Ying came from Dongfu, and those people in Dongfu were Sun Li's uncles. If they are angry with Sun Li because of the Sun family, then don't think about it anymore.

Although Cao Hao is the most prominent person among the Cao family brothers, but in the end, whether he can take care of Sun Li, the nephew, is still two words.

Sun Jue was quite moved, earlier he was jealous of Cao Hao, and he couldn't look at it horizontally and vertically. Now the world is hot and cold, but I can see that it is true and false, but it is much stronger than the snobbish brothers-in-law in Dongfu.

In his ears, there seems to be Cao Hao's advice to persuade him to drink less alcohol in his early years: "Brother-in-law, it is better to drink in front of future generations." The capital is a place of right and wrong, even if friends are close friends, there must be three points of clarity on the wine table, so as to save trouble from the mouth and ignite the fire. ”

Now, how can the word "repentance" be clearly explained?

Excited, he pulled Cao Hao's arm and almost wanted to cry: "In the early years, I hated Fu Ruo's young talent, and I didn't have half a good word, even if Fu Ruo mentioned something to me, I didn't know good people's hearts." Now, I know that Fu Ruo treats people sincerely......"

Cao Hao was numb by him, and wanted to shake off his hand, and then thought of Sun Li next to him.

Seeing Sun Li pursing his lips and standing aside, Cao Hao remembered the scene when he saw Sun Jue for the first time in Jiangning City in his early years. The teenager has a clear and arrogant look in his eyes, and there is no current turbidity.

Whose fault is it that has come to this point?

Could it be that the ancestral grave of the Sun family is not good, and the children are not good? Time is like water, what changes people's hearts.

Cao Hao sighed in his heart and said to Sun Jue: "The mountains are high and the waters are far away, and my brother-in-law cherishes everything." ”

On Li Nai's side, he had to step forward and say a few other words, until the subordinate officials of the Internal Affairs Office came to urge, and Sun Jue helped An Shi to get on the boat and waved goodbye to everyone.

On the side of Tongzhou Wharf, there are mostly ships from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there happened to be one from Suzhou today, and there was the deceased Li Nai's person on board. Li Nai took his son and went to see him.

Cao Hao and Sun Li did not leave immediately, and watched the boat taken by the Sun family go away.

From beginning to end, Sun Jue didn't look at Sun Li or tell a word.

Sun Li's face was pale, and his eyes darkened. Even if he complains about his father, he does not want to be rejected by his parents.

Seeing this, Cao Hao touched his head and said, "Your father is not complaining that you stayed with your mother, but he feels embarrassed to talk to you. You know him, he loves face the most, it's not that he doesn't want you as a son. ”

Even if he doesn't like Sun Jue, Cao Hao will not say bad things about him in front of the child. After all, it is a lie for a child to be caught between his parents and have no hurt in his heart.

Sun Li looked at the shadow of the boat that gradually disappeared in the distance, and finally his eyes turned red, and he said in a low voice: "Who wants to send him, but my mother forced me to come." ”

is obviously a half-grown child, but because of the family change, Yue Yi is silent, which is really distressing.

Cao Hao also saw that he had a hard mouth, and he didn't expose it, but said lightly: "No matter what mistakes your parents have, the grace of birth and nurturing must not be forgotten." You're too old to know what to do. Know that your father is your father and that you are you. It is his fault that your father is unkind to you; But you can't be unfilial, or else it's your loss. ”

In this society that pays attention to the way of Confucius and Mencius, the saying "all good and filial piety come first, and all evil silver is the first" is the basic requirement for secular men and women.

Sun Li is determined to take the career of the imperial examination, after all, he must respect the rites and teachings, and he must not do anything bad at all, so that his life can be smooth.

It is too far to say these truths, among which Cao Hao's selfishness is not to want the child to have any shadows in his heart because of his parents. For this nephew, before this incident, he had a mediocre impression and did not feel close.

After two months of contact, he saw that this nephew's surname was Chunliang, and he was a good boy who was filial and sensible, so he felt a little more distressed, and he didn't want his surname to change because of his family.

The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, and the edge of the sword comes from the sharpening.

Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of people who have experienced ups and downs; However, how many cynical people have a good end?

Sun Li raised his head, asked with red eyes: "Uncle, the fourth uncle and the fifth uncle all resent their father, doesn't the uncle hate?" ”

There was one sentence that he didn't ask. Since everyone is so disgusted with his father, and he also has his father's blood in his veins, how can he not be ashamed.

Cao Hao saw his worried appearance and said, "You know that your fourth and fifth uncles resent your father, and you should also know the reason." If your father is a stranger, who will think about resentment or hatred? It's just because he wronged your mother and your brothers and sisters that everyone blames him, and in the final analysis, it is because they feel sorry for your mother and son. Your mother has worked hard all these years, and she will be filial to your mother in the future...... On your father's side, you don't have to worry about it, your grandfather and grandmother are here. In the world, the hearts of parents are the same......"

It is rare for the two nephews and uncles to have a time to say something considerate, from Tongzhou to the capital, but they talked all the way.

Sun Li's eyes gradually cleared, and Cao Hao relaxed his heart.

Looking at the withered yellow willow trees by the city gate in the distance, Cao Hao silently calculated that the holy car was about to return to Beijing.

It seems that it will not be cheaper to have the idea of meeting Gu Na with him, and when Brother Jiu comes back......

(To be continued)