In the hall of the Zhang family, Huai'an did not come often, but it was the first time to come at night. In a place in the northeast corner, there is a small oil lamp, flickering and flashing, is emitting a faint light, the hall is empty, only Zhang's father sits on the top of the square table, looking at Huai'an against the light.

"Father-in-law, I'll take Yixi back." Huai'an bowed his waist and said respectfully to Father Zhang.

Zhang's father did not reply, only motioned for Huai'an to sit down, and asked someone to pour wine, and poured three glasses in a row, Huai'an didn't know the reason, but he didn't dare to be disobedient, so he also drank three glasses in a row.

"It's cold and early in the night, Yixi has already slept, only the two of us are left to talk, what has the virtuous son-in-law been busy with lately?" Zhang's father also poured himself a glass of wine and drank it himself.

Huai'an didn't know why, so he told everything about the recent incident.

Zhang's father, who was against the light, couldn't see his joy and anger even more clearly, and only held the empty wine glass with his right hand, unwilling to let go for a long time.

"Gone?" After listening to Huai'an's words, Zhang's father lowered his voice and asked again.

Huai Anxin tightened, couldn't help but panic, lowered his head and glanced up, the face was even more invisible, and he said in a snort, "It's gone..." ”

Hahaha, Zhang's father laughed, as if he had encountered something funny, this laugh scared Huai'an, and he didn't know what to do, so he panicked.

"Since you got married in May, I haven't thought about taking care of your private affairs, and since you are here today, I should also be a regular elder and take care of it. Can Yixi get along with you in harmony? Father Zhang asked again.

Huai'an replied, "The lady pities me, there is nothing wrong." ”

"Yixi can do something wrong, something that violates your family's rules." Father Zhang asked again.

Huai'an was frightened, got up, and said, "There is nothing wrong with the lady, if the father-in-law hears any rumors, it must be Huai'an's and let the lady down." ”

"What did Yixi do to offend his mother?"

··· Huai'an didn't know what to reply, only shook his head.

"Huh." Father Zhang snorted, slapped his right hand on the wine glass, and slapped the wine glass to pieces. "Rumors? You are impenetrable, if it weren't for people to bump into it, who would have thought that you, a person who had just married a bride, would think about recruiting a side house. Are you worthy of your wife who just passed through the door, and the child in her womb? ”

Huai'an was frightened, knelt down subconsciously, and cried and said, "It's me who I'm sorry for Yixi." ”

"Daddy." Together with Huai'an's crying, there was also the sound of Mrs. Zhang coming from behind the screen, hugging her father and crying.

Zhang's mother, who came out next, pointed to Zhang's father's head and scolded, "You dead old man, why are you so ruthless, I knew that this was such a thing, I shouldn't have let Yixi hear it, how can she live this day." As he spoke, he also cried, and after crying, he went over and pointed to Huai'an and said, "When you come, we don't treat each other politely, but why do you treat Yixi of my family like this." ”

Yixi heard his mother scolding Huai'an, and cried even more fiercely.

Father Zhang didn't want Yixi to know these things, but instead of letting her be kept in the dark and deceived by this person for a while, and waiting for the aunt to enter the house, she would know that she was crying, it was better to let her know now, and force that Huai'an conscience to find out and break this thought.

Father Zhang patted Yixi on the back and comforted, "It's okay, there is a father who is in charge of you." After a while, he said to Yinan who was in a daze, "Help your sister in and sleep in your room tonight." ”

Seeing Yixi go to the backyard, Huai'an was also anxious, kneeling and moving two steps forward, but was stopped by Zhang's mother again, preventing him from approaching his daughter.

"You go too, I'll be enough alone." Zhang's father said to Zhang's mother again.

"Father-in-law, I was wrong, I was dizzy for a while, and I didn't take into account Yixi's mood." Huai'an begged for mercy.

Father Zhang got up and went to the cabinet next to him and took a rag, wrapped the fragments of the wine glass with blood, walked to Huai'an's side, handed the fragments to Huai'an, and said, "Our five girls, each of them is a treasure in the palm of my hand, I married Yixi to you, not to let you treat her like this." You take back the fragments of this wine glass, and when it breaks over there, you come back again, and I will treat you with good wine. ”

"Father-in-law, I..." If this choice was so easy, Huai'an would not hesitate so far.

"What, you can't give up?" Father Zhang snatched the fragment back, and shouted to the mother-in-law waiting outside, "Come on, send off guests." ”

Huai'an was really panicked now, and hurriedly said, "I'll break it!" I'm going to break it! ”

"We have also heard about you and Zhou Ling'er a few years ago, and I thought that after so many years, you came to welcome Yixi into the door again, so I didn't care about this matter with you. But what are you doing now, getting involved with a woman who has just died of her husband, you can afford to lose this person, and my Zhang family still has to have some face and live in this white city. When Zhang's father saw Huai'an change his words, he persuaded him bitterly.

"I was wrong." Huai'an wiped the tears from his face and got up and said.

"Tomorrow, I will send some people to bring back Yixi's living belongings, and let her live at her mother's house for a while, and when your side is completely broken, we will discuss going back." If there is persuasion, there will also be threat.

Huai'an knew that he didn't pay attention, and he snorted for a while, but he still didn't dare to say anything, so he had to deal with the things one by one, and went home with a lantern.

Early the next morning, Huai'an went to the Lilac Garden as usual, and walked around the Huan Garden, but the affairs that he couldn't be busy with in the past seemed to have slipped away, making Huai'an unable to deal with himself for a while.

Finally, when the sun set, another guy said, "Boss, Mrs. Zhou sent someone to call you over." ”

Finally going to go, Huai'an took a carriage, drove to the eastern suburbs, entered the courtyard from the side door, and immediately a woman came to follow, and when she saw Huai'an, she ran over and hugged her tightly.

"Brother Huai'an, didn't you say you would come to eat with me at noon?" The woman in her arms was coquettish, and Huai An raised the corners of her mouth helplessly.

Huai'an took the woman's hand and went to the hall, and when he saw the table full of dishes, he couldn't help but think of the days when he was still in the northwest courtyard, waiting for his father to come back for dinner, how good it would be if everything could stay at that time.

Huai'an's brother was willing to have dinner at his own place, and the woman was naturally happy, seeing that Huai'an was sitting for a long time and refused to move his chopsticks, he put some dishes he liked to eat into his bowl, but he didn't want him to get up and come over, hugged the woman, and said with some crying, "Ling'er, we can't do this anymore." ”

"Huh, Brother Huai'an, what can't be done..." The woman also panicked, she felt that something was wrong today, and she didn't want him to say goodbye to her.

··· Huai'an didn't speak, the woman panicked even more, big tears flowed out of her eyes, soaking a piece, "Brother Huai'an, is Ling'er not well-behaved?" Obviously yesterday was fine, why are we separating again today. ”

"It's me who I'm sorry for you." Huai'an looked up at the beam of the room and was distracted, thinking that there was a foot of white silk there to lure him.

Huai'an still left, and the food on the table didn't move, so he turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

Zhou Ling'er was left alone in the house crying. After crying for a long time, even the tears dried up, and the old father came back from outside, drunk, and saw that the lights in the hall were not lit, so he casually asked, "Have you changed your hexagram again?" I told you not to provoke him anymore, don't splash my old face, and you two won't be able to do it. ”

When Zhou Ling'er was in the depths of her sadness and had nowhere to vent, when she saw that this drunkard was still ridiculing herself, she couldn't help but get angry, pointed to the old father's nose and said, "What kind of face do you have!" Who sent me to his house to raise me without skin and face, let you pick it up, you came to pick it up again, and now you still feel that you have a face? ”

"I..." After drinking too much wine, my tongue is not as good as usual, and I am scolded, and I don't have anyone to fight back.

"What am I, I!"

"You, I don't care about you anymore, it's up to you whether you live or die." Dr. Zhou got angry and went to sleep in his room with the flask on his back.

Zhou Ling'er saw the dishes on the table, and the more she looked at it, the more unsatisfactory she became, so she simply overturned it, didn't eat anyone, and went to sleep on the bed.

A few days later, the lobbyist of the Zhou family came again, Zhou Linger didn't treat him well, just pretended to be in harmony with him, and wanted to get the support of the Zhou family, but he didn't expect that he was also a useless person, he only knew how to calm things.

doesn't want to see you, Zhou Linger still has to get up and dress up and entertain people. After all, the Zhou family is the only relationship that Ling'er can rely on now, even if it is only a distant relationship, Ling'er is vaguely aware that his father has what they want, so that he has to treat each other politely.

It's just that Yao Gongzi, who has not been seen for a long time, is neither as elegant as usual, nor as calm as usual, sitting on the chair, and trying to say something a few times.

"Cousin Hua, how are you doing?" Zhou Linger took a sip of tea and looked at Yao Hua with a smile.

Yao Hua waved his hand and said weakly, "It's almost the same as before." ”

"But what's the trouble?" Zhou Ling'er asked.

Yao Hua was embarrassed to say that he only picked out an unimportant thing to talk about when he was drunk some time ago.

Zhou Linger wanted to know what happened to Huai'an, but Yao Hua was only thinking about how to make up for the face lost some time ago.

When chatting, naturally sometimes there will be a little skewed, talking about irrelevant people, Zhou Ling'er said with a smile, "Cousin Hua's shop in the eastern suburbs, presumably it shouldn't be busy, the Wang Dongjia, who has always been working against you, has been causing trouble recently, I'm afraid it won't end so easily for a while." ”

Yao Hua hadn't noticed what was going on outside because he had been frustrated with his own affairs recently, and when he heard Zhou Ling'er say this, he asked anxiously, "What did he do?" ”

"Cousin Hua, I don't know, everyone in the eastern suburbs knows about it, and the Wang Dongjia of Bihua Pavilion has been involved in a life lawsuit, and the government is sending people to look for it everywhere these days. It's strange that the notice hasn't been posted yet. Zhou Linger covered her mouth and said.

He really didn't know that Zhou Ling'er suddenly remembered another person, and she might not know it, but it was available.