Southern Yan Kingdom, 14 years of Tianshun.

In winter, everything is silent.

Suzhou Mansion, Jiang Mansion.

The main room is brightly lit, and the cast bronze gilt tiger beast smoke curls on the smoke cage in the northwest corner of the room.

At the top sat a gray-clothed man with a haggard face, a sad face, and gray hair. The next is an old woman wearing a crimson peony tufted flower gown, a gray-purple crane-patterned horse-faced skirt, and holding a rosary. At the bottom of the hall knelt two young men knelt on the mat.

The slightly longer man raised his head and said: "Father, the matter has come to this point, no longer increase manpower and material resources to find it, it is important to cause trouble in vain, or take care of your health!" ”

"I'll kill you, a disloyal and unfilial brute, that's your own brother!" The man in gray leaned over and looked at each other angrily.

"Father, mother only gave birth to me and my second brother, how can there be other brothers and sisters!" Jiang Hongjian, the uncle of Jiangfu, said with a little grievance.

Jiang Hongsheng, the second master in green clothes, glanced at the eldest brother from the corner of his eye, and stopped talking.

"Son, you son of ......" Master Jiang walked to the uncle's side excitedly, suddenly turned around again, his eyes breathed fire, and looked at the old woman fiercely: "And you, you poisonous woman, I must divorce you, divorce you!" ”

The old woman's hand holding the rosary froze, and she laughed angrily.

"Master, you're going to divorce me, for the sake of those two sluts, ha...... Ha ......, miss my Zhou, the dignified daughter of the Hou Mansion of Annan, rich and glorious, and a jade household in Kinmen. When I married you with ten miles of red makeup, I was filial to the second elder for you, I raised two sons for you, and I had to support dozens of people up and down your Jiang family, what was wrong with me, you want to divorce me? Jiang Zhen, you have forgotten what you promised me when you married me. Zhou said with a hideous face.

"Yes, when I first married you, I promised you not to accept two colors. But Jinxin is not, if it weren't for the flying disaster, if it wasn't for your father's secret instructions, she would be my Jiang Zhentang's upright wife now. Jiang Zhen seemed to be a little unbearable and closed his eyes slightly.

"I am grateful to you for marrying me when the Jiang family was in the most difficult time, and I also thank you for your dedication over the years. Why did I marry you back then, you know better than anyone else, those tricks of yours ......" He gritted his teeth and remained silent for a long time.

"I think I've endured it for the sake of both children. But you shouldn't have done anything to them, they threatened you at all. Hongyuan is not on the family tree, and he will not earn a cent of the family property with your two sons in the future, what else do you want, what else do you want! It's so vicious, you woman...... Too vicious. Old lady Jiang screamed hoarsely, her eyes bloodshot.

"Gratitude, I have been married to you for more than thirty years, and you said that you are grateful to me. She is your wife, so what am I, what am I...... Don't...... Hahaha...... Don't think about it for the rest of your life! What I can't get, no one can think of. Jiang Zhen, I'm ruthless, what can you do with me? If you want to leave me, you don't have the guts. If it weren't for my Annan Hou Mansion, you Jiang Zhen would be able to have today, and she Xu Jinxin would be able to survive until now? ”

Jiang Zhen sat down in his chair, his face full of pain.

Zhou Yu's eyebrows were raised, and he sneered and said: "I did it, I sold that pair of sluts, so what?" To tell you the truth, the Hou Mansion of Annan is not something you can afford to provoke, and it is easy to kill two cheap lives. I'm just watching our husband and wife for decades and letting them live. ”

Jiang Zhen gritted his teeth and said: "You call them a way to live, they are orphans and widows, penniless, how can you let them live!" ”

Zhou Yujing picked up the blue and white tea bowl in his hand, took a bite of it, and the Buddha bead in his left hand turned faster.

"If I don't sell them, it will be difficult to wait for you Jiang Zhen to welcome people into the door one day; Waiting for you to spoil your concubine and kill your wife, ungrateful. ”

Jiang Zhen only felt cold to the bone, and the hand holding the back of the chair trembled involuntarily, and said lightly: "What do you want?" ”

"What do I want? Jiang Zhen, I have been married to you for more than 30 years, what do I want, do you not understand in your heart. If you hadn't forced me to do this, how would I have killed me. Zhou Yuyan had sadness in his eyes, turned his face to his eldest son and said, "Hongjian, tell your father!" ”

Jiang Hongjian cleared his throat and said, "Father, mother's meaning, the ancestors are long gone, and this family should be divided." The second uncle's family has more than a dozen people, and they have been attached to us for many years. Mother gave the house in Liukou Hutong to the second uncle, the house in Wujin, and a big garden, and the family can live enough.

Jiang Hongjian looked at his father's face as he spoke, hesitated for a moment, and said: "The furniture, furnishings, and tea bowls and saucers used in daily life are all newly bought by my mother from her private house. The ancestral land of the Jiang family cannot be divided, and half of the annual rent is given to the second uncle's family. The shops and Zhuangzi left by the ancestors were also sold out back then, and all that existed in our house was the mother's dowry, and there was nothing to share. ”

Jiang Hongjian saw his mother's sharp gaze looking at him, and involuntarily shrank his body: "Mother gave a small village in the western suburbs of her dowry to the second uncle, which is counted as compensation." The rest of the Jade Xuan is your father's private property, and it is also a tight loss every year. At the second uncle's place, his mother gave him 5,000 taels of silver, and privately subsidized 5,000 taels as a settlement fee. ”

"My mother has negotiated with my second uncle, and the title deed, money, etc., are all handed over steadily. The second uncle took half of the things in the Jiang family's treasury first, and the second uncle had moved to a new house yesterday. Jiang Hongjian finished speaking in one breath, only to feel cold sweat on his back.

Jiang Zhen leaned back on the Taishi's chair, his eyes were closed, his hands tightly grasped the handle of the chair, and his muscles burst out, and he hated: "Good, good, good...... What a daughter of the Hou Mansion, what a wealth and glory, Zhou Yuyan, I have forgotten all these years that you also shed the blood of the Hou Mansion of Annan. ”

Zhou's hand that plucked the Buddha beads suddenly paused, slowly got up, walked to Jiang Zhen's side, and said with a gentle expression: "Master, I forced you to give you a shi, and forced the second brother to divide the mansion, all for this family, for our two sons." Over the years, the second brother's family has eaten, and what they have used is not our big house. The master's one-year Fenglu is only enough for the second brother's family to chew for a year. This will be separated, but also so that the master can be simpler in the future. ”

Zhou sighed for a long time, and said softly: "Now the house is vacant a lot, and the scenery is good in winter, don't you love the plum blossoms the most, just plant a patch of plum trees in the yard, let's look at the flowers and enjoy the scenery, tease and tease the grandchildren, and live a quiet life for a few years." As long as you are willing to live a good life with me, what do you want, I am not satisfied? ”

Jiang Hongjian and Jiang Hongsheng glanced at each other, lowered their heads again, and sighed in unison, and the hall was suddenly quiet.

Jiang Zhen never looked at Zhou with his eyes closed, as if he had fallen asleep, only a trace of emotion was leaked from his heaving chest.

After a long time, Zhou didn't get a reply, so he returned to his chair awkwardly, looked at the two sons kneeling on the ground, and said: "I'm old, and this family can't move, while I still have a few years to live, I want to live a good life with your father." From tomorrow onwards, let the housekeeper of the Hongsheng family. ”

Jiang Hongsheng raised his head violently and said busily: "Mother, how does this make her ......?"

Zhou raised his hand and stopped his youngest son from speaking: "Gu's knowledge is gifted, and your father took a fancy to you and asked for it." The person he can see will not be bad, and I am the most relieved to hand over this home to her. ”

Zhou Shi looked at Jiang Zhen's face with his spare eyes and said, "Although your sister-in-law is virtuous, she doesn't read much and doesn't know a few words. The two sisters Xinyue and Xinyu are not small, and they will slowly look at each other, and Yuan Qing's marriage is even more sloppy, these are all major events in the house, which is enough for her to work for a few years! ”

Jiang Hongsheng couldn't hide the surprise in his heart, but he didn't care about the eldest brother kneeling on the side, and nodded modestly.

The corners of Jiang Hongjian's mouth twitched slightly, but he didn't make a sound, still kneeling with his eyebrows lowered and his eyes down, motionless.

Zhou raised his eyebrows, and continued: "Hongjian is the eldest son, although he can't write or martial arts, he has some advantages in business, and he has worked hard to take care of the family's shop over the years. Mother has a rice shop in her hand, and she doesn't make any money, so she gives it to you. ”

Jiang Hongjian was secretly happy in his heart, but he didn't move on his face.

"Hongsheng has survived all these years, and now he has finally come out, your father is the same person, you can't run away from a Zhizhou, and when the time comes, your mother will ask your uncle to help you in Beijing, spend some silver, find a rich place to stay for two years, and then slowly rise."

The brothers glanced at each other, and they both saw joy in each other's eyes: "Everything is arranged by mother!" ”

Zhou looked at his two sons with satisfaction and sighed: "Okay, you all go down, it's night, and there will be business tomorrow." ”

"Wait a minute" Jiang Zhen suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Since your mother has arranged everything, I have nothing to say." I am Jiang Xing's own brother, and the two of you brothers will look at my thin face in the future and take care of it more, and it will not be in vain for our father and son. From tomorrow, I will move back to the old house of the Jiang family in Qingyang Town, the four girls can't speak, and their bodies are weak, so they will accompany me to the countryside to recuperate for a while, which not only relieves my boredom, but also saves your eyes. ”

"Father!" The brothers shouted in unison.

"It's okay, the master likes to be quiet, so I'll accompany the master to live in the old house for a few days, although it's a little off, but it's still quiet." Zhou replied happily.

"Hmph, I can't afford your company. Zhou Yujing, I have been married to you for decades, and I have always respected you, and you are in charge of everything in the house. Now that you have forced me to come here, your scheming is even more ruthless than back then, but I can't divorce you. You're not wrong, I, Jiang Zhen, have no ability or guts, the Hou Mansion of Annan is high and powerful, I couldn't afford to mess with it before, and now I can't afford to mess with it! ”

Jiang Zhen smiled miserably, his eyes were full of sadness: "That's it, that's it, I can't afford to provoke it, I can still afford to hide." From now on, I don't want to see you again, so that when I see you, I can't sleep at night! "Anyway, he snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves and walked away!

"Jiang Zhen, you hate me so much, you don't care about the relationship between husband and wife for decades?" Zhou Yuyan shouted in shock.

Jiang Zhen paused, did not look back, and said word by word: "Zhou Yujing, I never hate you, I only hate myself!" ”

After finishing speaking, his feet had already stepped out of the house, and there was a crisp loud sound behind him, Jiang Zhen didn't hear it, but walked faster. The tall back under the moonlight bent slightly, looking extremely lonely and lonely.

"Mother......" The brothers looked at the debris on the ground and cried out in unison.

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