CHAPTER XLIV

Chen Shaoyou looked at Shang Yuyue in his arms, her face was a little pale because of the fright, the hand holding his neck was a little trembling, and a pair of eyes turned from confusion to infatuation after a short period of fright, he saw her and said, "Shaoyou." ”

Although there was no sound, just two words were enough for him to understand.

His cold face softened slightly, and then he saw her stand awkwardly in his arms, and then sneezed vigorously, and then one after the other, without stopping.

Seeing that her nose was red, his brows frowned slightly, and then he said, "Your dress smells of a fox." ”

The next moment, she blushed in embarrassment, and ran wildly into the yard without saying a word, sneezing incessantly, and she didn't even look at him.

Chen Shaoyou suddenly smiled.

He was just reminding her that her sneezing couldn't stop because her dress smelled of a fox, not a joke.

He followed Xiao Zi into the flower hall, and after a hot tea was served, Xiao Zi retreated.

As soon as Xiao Zi left on the front foot, the Qin family sisters and brothers came on the back foot.

Qin Rou looked at Chen Shaoyou, who was sitting and drinking tea, and called out with some hesitation: "Cousin." ”

Qin Jian also called in a low voice.

Chen Shaoyou raised his eyes and glanced at the two of them, his Gutan-like eyes couldn't see a trace of emotion, "Why didn't you come here instead of Luozhou?" ”

Qin Rou said: "Old Madam Chen is seriously ill, someone from the ancestral house asked her cousin to serve the sick, and my cousin went for a few days, and she didn't send back a word, and then I heard the green branch next to the eldest lady say that my cousin and aunt collided with the eldest lady, and also made the old lady Chen stunned, so she was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall, and it was three days and three nights at that time." ”

The teacup in Chen Shaoyou's hand was put down by him, his eyes were dark and dark, and he said, "Go on." ”

"After learning about this, my younger brother and I went to the ancestral house of the Chen family, and we were kicked out of the house by the eldest master without seeing my cousin."

Speaking of this, Qin Rou's eyes had a hint of hatred for the eldest master, and only after secretly calming down did he say: "On the way back, we were somehow caught into a carriage with human teeth, and after being taken to Lanzhou, because of the heavy rain, many mountains collapsed, and our carriage was hit by falling rocks. ”

Chen Shaoyou didn't speak, his fingers tapped on the table again and again.

"Later, we met Liu Shang."

Qin Rou's eyes were filled with monstrous embarrassment and humiliation, "You should know what happened later." ”

After a pause in his hand banging on the table, Chen Shaoyou looked at Qin Rou and said coldly and detachedly: "The matter of the Chen family, I will give you an explanation sooner or later." ”

Qin Rou is not stupid, their sister and brother were arrested by Renyazi as soon as they left the Chen family, it was definitely not an accident, but a premeditation, otherwise the people who captured them would not want to sell their sister and brother to Lanzhou, which is far away from Luozhou.

But what is Chen Jiamou?

Qin Rou smiled mockingly, at the beginning, when her cousin Tao took their sister and brother to marry into the Chen family, the Chen family was unwilling to take in their sister and brother.

But as soon as they heard that the forty dowries and 100,000 taels of silver that their cousin brought were left by their siblings' mothers, the Chen family's attitude changed, and they were courteous and flattering.

Tao's ancestral home is in Jinzhou, his parents died, he followed his uncle and aunt since he was a child, and his uncle's family took care of his family's business, but an accident, his uncle's family died in the fire, and only Tao escaped because he returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors.

Tao didn't know how to do business, so he had to sell his main business with the help of a few old slaves, and together with the property of his uncle's family, he sold a total of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and she was a weak woman with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, where did she dare to continue to stay in Jinzhou?

had to quietly follow a few loyal servants to Luozhou, which is more remote than Jinzhou.

Not long after settling in Luozhou, her distant cousin and cousin-in-law, who had always been close to her, found her with two children, and she responded to her cousin's deathbed request, and since then, the Qin family sisters and brothers have become her nieces and nephews.

It wasn't until the news came out that the old lady of the Chen family in Luozhou was going to marry a wife in the second room, that Qin Rou knew that the Tao family was actually the second daughter-in-law of the Chen family, but didn't the Chen family only have two sons?

Now the master of the Chen family is in charge, and the second master of the Chen family died of illness as early as when he was weak, where did he come from the second room now?

Later, she learned that Tao was indeed married to the late second master of the Chen family, but it was the eldest master of the Chen family who gave her the gift of husband and wife, and once Tao gave birth to an heir, it was the second master of the Chen family.

Uncle Chen has two rooms on his shoulders.

Although shoulder-to-shoulder things are not common in China, they are not impossible, but why did Tao agree to marry into the Chen family? It's still this kind of shoulder-to-shoulder marriage.

She once asked Tao, and Tao said lovingly: "My aunt has a rough life, I only wish to have a home, although the Chen family is not a good place, but after all, it can give my aunt a lifetime." ”

Tao wanted a dull life, but he never thought that the Chen family had fallen behind in recent years and began to fight her idea of a rich dowry.

Those dowries were purchased so generously by the Tao family in order to allow their siblings to stay in the Chen family.

Once their siblings disappeared and Tao was placed under house arrest, the dowry and 100,000 taels of silver would fall into the hands of the Chen family's big house.

Now, I'm afraid that those dowries have already changed hands, how can Chen Shaoyou explain to them?

"I just want my cousin to be safe."

Chen Shaoyou bowed lightly, "I will take my second aunt over after I take office, and she now knows your news in Liuzhou." ”

Qin Rou and Qin Jian's faces were both relaxed, and Qin Jian said, "You are different from the Chen family. ”

Chen Shaoyou glanced at him, "Let's talk about it." ”

"My sister said that you have a better conscience than the Chen family, so we fled to Liuzhou knowing that you were going to be an official here."

Chen Shaoyou took a sip of tea and looked at Qin Rou, who was a little unnatural, "You are very smart." ”

Qin Rou said: "I just think that the person that my cousin cherishes so much should not be a white-eyed wolf." ”

Chen Shaoyou didn't look at them, but said lightly: "Clean up, and follow me later." ”

"Okay."

Qin Rou took Qin Jian down without humility or arrogance, Chen Shaoyou couldn't help but think of the woman who often protected him in secret, and even when he was about to go to Beijing to take the exam, but the Chen family ignored him, he went to Beijing to take the exam, and all the money he came to Liuzhou was secretly stuffed into his baggage by her.

Such an indifferent woman actually entered the Chen family's ancestral house for the second time on the eve of his entry into Beijing to take the exam, just to say a word to him: "I have silver, if you are an official, those silver will borrow you to go to the top, and if you fall off the list, I will borrow you to engage in business." ”

Obviously, the second room where she lived was only half a walk away from the Chen family, but he had only seen her enter the Chen family's ancestral house during the tea ceremony on the second day of marriage, and that was the first time. I didn't expect to go to the ancestral house for the second time to say such a thing to him.