Master Zhou, who has always boasted of being a scholarly family and has a clean family style, sighed in his heart, how could this be, nondescript things will keep appearing in his home, he doesn't understand, his daughter-in-law is like this, and now even the girl is so shameless, he suddenly has a very heavy sense of frustration, what is wrong with this family?

But he had to deal with Guo Xingquan first, settled down, and sneered: "Oh, it turned out to be your concubine, then what she said can't be counted." ”

"What?! Don't count? Guo Xingquan screamed, pushed Yan Xi forward two steps, and suddenly pointed at Mrs. Zhou and said, "Then let your wife say it!" Mrs. Zhou, you say, did your Zhou family take one hundred taels of gold from me Guo Xingquan? ”

Mrs. Zhou? Own wife? How so? Master Zhou's head boomed, and his face was full of surprise: "Shulan, what's going on?" What the hell are you hiding from me? He faintly felt that something was wrong, and his whole body trembled slightly.

Mrs. Zhou, who had been silent for a long time, did not answer Master Zhou, stood up coldly, walked in front of Guo Xingquan, and sneered: "One hundred taels of gold? Do you deserve it too? ”

"What did you say?!" At this time, it was Guo Xingquan's turn to face suddenly changed, and he pointed at Mrs. Zhou and stammered a little and said, "Mrs. Zhou, you ...... What do you mean? ”

"Hmph, a hundred taels of gold, you can really open your mouth. No! ”

"Are you saying you're going to break your word?"

"I only promised you thirty taels." Mrs. Zhou raised her head and said coldly, strangely, there was a look of openness on her face.

"Hehe, Mrs. Zhou, this time is different from the past, you don't know the current situation, thirty taels, what are you calling Huazi?"

"Shulan, what thirty taels? Why did you promise to give him thirty taels of gold? That's a lot of money! Master Zhou asked nervously with a frown.

Mrs. Zhou turned her head and smiled sadly at her husband, this smile hid a lot of secrets, and it was complicated to make Mr. Zhou's heart tremble.

"Mrs. Zhou, you can think clearly, we have talked about it before."

"I regretted it." Mrs. Zhou didn't even look at him: "I won't give you a penny." ”

"Wait, wait" Master Zhou interrupted their conversation and asked, "What have you two talked about between you?" You must speak to me clearly today. Guo Xingquan, you have a life-saving grace for me, our Zhou family has never treated you badly, you left the Zhou family by yourself a year ago, why are you so aggressive? ”

"Hahahaha......" Guo Xingquan laughed wildly: "Master Zhou, you are really a fool when you die." Your wife is not an ordinary person, she manages the family in an orderly manner, so that you don't even have a concubine for a rich man like you. I'm not mortal. ”

"What are you talking about?"

Guo Xingquan smiled coldly: "Eleven years ago, how did Magpie Xi die? Well? Mrs. Chow. He deliberately dragged out the last note, staring at Mrs. Zhou's pale face with slanted eyes.

Zhou Fu, who was standing at the door, was shocked when he heard him mention this matter.

"It was suicide, it was she who jumped into the lotus pond by herself." Mrs. Zhou replied coldly, but her voice became more and more nervous.

"Then why did she jump into the lotus pond?"

"How do I know?" Her throat was tight, her heart was beating violently, and when she saw Guo Xingquan walking into the Zhou family in a menacing manner, she knew that the debt of more than ten years ago could no longer be hidden.

Magpie? Master Zhou frowned, glanced at the cigarette pouch on the cigarette stick lying on the table, and his heart twitched, he also wanted to understand how that young, energetic life suddenly drowned in the lotus pond, and what did his wife do in this incident?

"Mrs. Zhou, back then, I Guo Xingquan was also yin by you, you took advantage of my drunkenness and gave the magpie joy to my house, saying that it was for me to be my wife......

"You talk nonsense, when did I say that?" Mrs. Zhou's face became ugly, raised her willow eyebrows, and said angrily.

"Yanxi can testify. Joy Goose! You said! Guo Xingquan pulled Yan Xi, who had shrunk in the corner.

Master Zhou and Zhou Fu suddenly seemed to understand something, and everyone's eyes were focused on Yan Xi.

"Yanxi, you say, what's going on? Say it. ”

"Mrs., Mrs......" Yanxi grabbed Mrs. Zhou in panic and shook her arm, like a drowning person.

"Let me tell me, now that I have nothing to hide." A resolute smile appeared on the corner of Mrs. Zhou's mouth, she didn't seem to care anymore, she was tired of it, so many years of conscience condemnation, Guo Xingquan's blackmail, made her feel extremely tired.

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Mrs. Zhou opened her mouth and said eloquently, "It was the night before the Mid-Autumn Festival eleven years ago...... and everyone's thoughts were taken to that distant night......

The bright moon is in the sky, the bright moonlight is sprinkled with a lot of silver light, the flowers and leaves in the courtyard seem to be quietly sitting with the moonlight in the dialogue of light and shadow, the autumn insects are low, and the frogs are singing.

In Mr. Zhou's special study, the dim yellow light softly envelops the whole room, reflecting the people and things in the room with great romance and tenderness. Waiting to sit down was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old Juanxiu girl, Quexi, and behind her stood the tall Master Zhou.

He bent over, held her hand, and was writing a poem on a piece of paper:

"Knock on the three watches at night and go to sleep, the wind moves the shadow of the clothes, it is suspected that the confinement is coming to the frost, and Wushan should not waste a dream."

Quexi didn't know what was written on the paper, but Master Zhou read it while writing, which made her hazy feel that the poems were very beautiful, Master Zhou put down the pen, chuckled proudly, looked at her carefully, black hair, slightly curly bangs, two rows of eyelashes trembled slightly, because she was admiring the beautiful words on the paper, she liked these neat horizontal and vertical skimming too much, and said with selfless joy: "Master, your words are so beautiful, can you teach me?" ”

As soon as the words came out, she realized that she should not have asked such a thing, and she should not have sat in the master's chair, so she hurriedly stood up, lowered her head, pursed her lips, and stepped aside.

The corners of his mouth were lightly raised, looking at her with a beautiful smile, his smile was different from Zhou Fu and Zhou Gui, his smile was full of maturity, calmness, confidence, romance, charm, with a kind of tease that was bound to win, and the admiration and admiration for him in her eyes were self-evident. Her heart was pounding, and she wanted to run past him and out the door.

"Master, if it's okay, I'll go out first." She walked past him with a red face and walked out the door.

He grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back. "Master......" she looked at him in alarm, her eyes bright like a frightened fawn.

He ignored her panic, rolled her small body into his arms, kissed her gently, she was drunk by his kiss, and turned from panic to intoxication, her body slowly changed from stiff to relaxed, and the hands used to resist slowly climbed from his shoulders to his neck, and at this moment they fell in love, although this love was so asymmetrical, inappropriate, unsteady, unstable.

I don't know where the huge attraction came from, the more he kissed, the more emotional he became, and he didn't notice Mrs. Zhou standing outside the window trembling in the night......

He betrayed their vows, he said that he would be alone with her in his life, and he swore that he would not be emotional to any woman, but the way he looked at Magpie's eyes and his forgetful kiss all showed one thing, he was in love with Magpie.

In the following days, she silently arranged a conspiracy to get rid of her rival in love, she pointed her out to Zhou Fu, she spread rumors that she was inattentive and played with Master Zhou, and Master Zhou believed it. But the other person was angry, Yan Xi, crying and kneeling in front of Mrs. Zhou: "Mrs., you can't point out Quexi to Zhou Fu." You pointed her out to Zhou Fu, so what should I do? ”

"Oh?" At this time, Mrs. Zhou remembered that Yanxi had indeed liked Zhou Fu for many years, and if it was another girl, she could have refused a word, but Yanxi was her favorite girl and the most powerful assistant, so she had to think about it for her: "I was so angry that I forgot about it, but I said it and I couldn't take it back." ”

She wanted to help Yanxi up, but Yanxi couldn't live or die, crying loudly: "Mrs., no, you can't let Zhou Fu marry Quexi, I have been with you for so many years, there is no merit and hard work, madam, I don't ask for anything, I just hope you can match me and Zhou Fu, your great kindness, I will definitely repay you as a cow and a horse." As he spoke, he kowtowed to the ground again and again.

"But I asked Zhou Fu a long time ago, and he didn't want to." Mrs. Zhou said embarrassedly.

Yan Xi wiped her tears and snot, stared, tightened her lips, and said fiercely: "Madam, I have a way, as long as you nod." ”

"What's the solution?"

Yan Xi's eyes slipped slyly in his sockets, and said, "In addition to Master and Zhou Fu, there is another person who is interested in Quexi. Guo Xingquan! ”

Mrs. Zhou gasped: "He? What do you want to do? ”

"As long as Guo Xingquan marries Quexi before the wedding, and the raw rice is cooked into cooked rice, the wedding of Quexi and Zhou Fu will naturally be canceled, and Quexi will be dumb and eat Coptis chinensis, so he will accept his fate."

Mrs. Zhou immediately understood what she meant, looked at the grim look on Yanxi's face, and said with a chill in her heart: "She is your sister." ”

"I don't have such a shameless sister, she seduced the master, and bewitched Zhou Fu, seriously, madam, don't you hate her? You see that the old man has always been depressed and depressed these days, although he doesn't say it, but he must still be thinking about her in his heart. Yan Xi observed the expression on Mrs. Zhou's face, and saw that Mrs. Zhou really frowned, the jealousy in her eyes ignited, and immediately increased: "If she marries Zhou Fu, Zhou Fu is so valued by the old man that she will never leave the Zhou family, then she will always stay in the Zhou family, you think, the old man was also a merry boy when he was young, what if the old love with her is rekindled one day, then what can I do?" ”

These two sentences of hers really poked Mrs. Zhou's heart, yes, yes, in case, what if? Mrs. Zhou rubbed her hands together and paced back and forth in the room.

Yanxi continued: "Although Guo Xingquan is a scoundrel, but after all, he is not from the Zhou family, just leave, let's give him Quexi, and then give him a sum of money, so that they can fly away, isn't it forever troublesome?" ”

Mrs. Zhou was convinced, this is indeed a way to never suffer in the future. But after all, this is a thing that cannot be seen and put on the stage. Mrs. Zhou was reluctant to operate this kind of humiliating thing herself, she sat in front of the dresser, combed her sideburns a few times with a comb, and said quietly: "Be careful yourself." ”

Yan Xi immediately understood that Mrs. Zhou had agreed to implement this perfect plan by herself, and a vicious smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.