Chapter 70: The Lady Who Opened the Butcher's Shop
Chen Wenchao was ashamed and angry, is this slut crazy? Her own family is the most unworthy butcher in the merchant, she is not ashamed, and she has to say it in court, his reputation, his face, have ruined this slut.
"Back to Your Highness, the students are not strict in keeping the house, this slut ......"
Before Chen Wenchao finished speaking, the officials on the side shouted together: "Silence! ”
Chen Wenchao suddenly remembered that this was the public court, and the court official asked him to speak, so that he could speak.
Zhao Zhen glanced at him coldly and said to the Liu family: "Liu family, continue to speak." ”
A self-deprecating smile overflowed on Liu's lips, and she continued: "I am the only daughter in the family, and my father has always wanted to recruit money, and I know a lot about this matter in Tongzhou City, and Chen Wenchao is an apprentice in my shop, so I have known it for a long time. When my father came home, he would often mention him, saying that he was studious and motivated, and when he was in the shop, he would study when he had a little free time, and that he was humble and filial, in short, his father was very satisfied with him. My family is a small family, there is no big family, I often go to the shop to help since I was a child, and I also know Chen Wenchao. ”
Speaking of this, the ridicule on Liu's face was even stronger: "Although my family has some family business, but the family has been a butcher for generations, and there has been no scholar, so he has a lot of respect for scholars...... Hehe, I believed it and persuaded my father, concealed the official media, and married him. After getting married, I paid off the debts to his family, paid for his brother to marry a daughter-in-law, and bought a small village for his father to support his father. He didn't have to go to the shop to help anymore, so I invited the most famous gentleman in Tongzhou City to come to his house to make a western seat, so that he could study with peace of mind. He was also very competitive, and he was admitted to Xiucai in the second year after getting married, and since then, I have become a Xiucai lady. In the third year, my father left the west, and all the huge family business was given to me, I gave birth to my eldest son, and I was busy with business while taking care of the child, so that Chen Wenchao could concentrate on studying, I also built a book building for him. ”
The people outside the door sighed, this Chen family has burned high incense for several lifetimes, and he married such a rich daughter-in-law, changed his surname after two generations, and gave his father a pension to the end, no wonder he didn't dare to take a concubine, this business is all from the Liu family.
"Eight years ago, he said that he wanted to go out to study, increase experience, there is a family in Tongzhou City out of Jinshi, I asked people to inquire, the family of Jinshi also traveled abroad in the early years, so he was able to write an article on the management of floods during the imperial examination, popular, so I gave him 5,000 taels of silver, let the old servant Wang Bo, together with two martial arts families, accompany him to go out to study. It didn't take long for the two family members to escort Uncle Wang's coffin back, saying that Uncle Wang fell down the hill and died, although I felt strange at that time, but I didn't think about it, just worried about him, fortunately, it didn't take long for him to ask the merchant to bring a letter back, saying that he had bought two more small servants, and there were people waiting around him, so I didn't have to worry, I asked the merchant where he met him, and the merchant said that he was in Luoyang, and I knew that he had arrived in Henan. ”
The onlookers began to talk again, the dead Chen Niangzi seemed to be from Henan.
Shi Bing was in the crowd, and he said: "Chen Niangzi is a native of Mengjin, Henan, Mengjin is only fifty or sixty miles away from Luoyang City, and it is almost far from the capital to Tongzhou. ”
"Ah, this is very close, a day's journey, if you ride a horse, half a day back and forth."
"I heard that Luoyang is the ancient capital, and there are many scholars, if he wants to stay in Luoyang to study, his family will not doubt it."
In the courtyard, Liu's voice continued: "A year later, he came back, and the scholars who came to my house to learn the literature said that his knowledge had improved again, and I was also very happy." One day, my maid showed me a pair of socks, the socks were embroidered with a circle of bamboo leaves, this is not what I bought for him, nor does it look like I bought it, I still saw the embroidered on the man's socks for the first time, this sock was found when the maid sorted out the cage he brought back. So I asked him what was going on with the socks, and he said they were bought from a ready-to-wear shop in Luoyang......"
Liu suddenly turned his head to look at Chen Wenchao, with tears in his eyes: "You may have forgotten about this matter a long time ago, but I have always remembered it, and I have remembered it for eight years." It's like being fooled when I was buying something, and I spent an extra two taels of silver, this matter has long passed, and I don't care about the two taels of silver, but whenever someone says that they have been deceived, I will think of the two taels of silver, which is not a big deal, but I remember it. ”
"You're crazy, you jealous!" Chen Wenchao's eyes were fierce, and he squeezed out these words from between his teeth.
Liu ignored him and continued: "Soon after he came back, he came to the capital again, and later, he was admitted to the juren, and when he saw that I still went in and out of the pork shop at home every day, he felt indecent, and said several times that he wanted to change his career. Later, he simply lived in the capital and did not return to Tongzhou. I gritted my teeth, handed over the family's business to the big shopkeeper, brought my two sons to the capital, bought a house in Zhelu Lane, and lived with him until now. ”
There was a voice of abuse from the crowd outside: "I really have no conscience, you forgot where all the money you used to study, and it wasn't all from your wife who killed pigs and sold meat." ”
"Yes, opening a butcher shop is very profitable, and if my son can marry a butcher's wife, I won't be happy."
"Silence!" The officials in the courtyard shouted loudly again, and the voices of the people gradually became quieter.
Zhao Zhen cleared his throat and asked, "Except for those socks, haven't you found out that he has anything else to hide from you?" ”
Liu smiled bitterly and said: "Lord Qiyu, just four days ago, a young woman with two children suddenly came to the door, she kept saying that it was Chen Wenchao's wife, and she was blasted out of the door by the servant woman at home, and she cried at the mouth of Zhelu Lane, attracting many onlookers. So the little woman went out with her two sons, and drove the woman away, but ......"
Liu suddenly burst out laughing, and everyone inside and outside the courtyard was stunned by her sudden laughter, could this woman be really crazy.
Liu Shi laughed for a while and said: "But I saw the woman's two sons, they were a pair of twins, I saw them, it was like seeing my youngest son, when Kai Ge'er was a child, and the two of them were like carved out of the same mold." ”
Zhao Zhen couldn't help but look at the two teenagers kneeling on the side, the younger one was Chen Kai, the youngest son of the Liu family, at this time he also had tears in his eyes, but he was not surprised, obviously, before coming here, he had heard his mother talk about it.