"Xian'er, Xue'er, come and listen to it too." After eating, Zhou Bo Erniang Saburo came to the study with the elders to discuss the matter of Miss Liu. San Lang was still a little surprised, he had never participated in or audited the affairs of the family before.

Entering the study, Du Shi took a rough look, this rebuilt study, the layout of every place is exquisite, it seems that his son is really making a comeback. She couldn't help but sigh softly with a little smugness: "Bo Ge'er, it's hard for you." ”

"It's not difficult to have Xuejian to help you, but Xian'er has always taken care of the people inside and out, and Xue'er serves the people, which is really not easy." Zhou Bo pulled out a faint smile slightly.

"Snow sees this child, alas, it's also a good one." Du Shi recalled the praise of Erniang and Qi Niang Balang last night, and couldn't help but shake his head, "It's also a rare good boy." ”

Seeing that the conversation had entered the topic, Sanni and the others silently served the tea, and then silently took the maids to all withdraw. After they withdrew, Aunt Feng preemptively said, "Alas, this Yatong will arrive in two days," and subconsciously paused, and then said, "How is this good?" ”

When she left Beijing, Liu Yatong said that she would take care of them all the way back, because it was close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhou Shangyi and others were anxious, so they proposed to take the first step, and invited Liu Yatong's mother and daughter to come to the countryside to live, which had the meaning of discussing family affairs.

Zhou Bo didn't know about it, and couldn't help but be stunned: "What? ”

"Originally, when we came back this time, Yatong was going to come back with us, for fear that we would not be comfortable on the road, and said that she would help take care of it." Speaking of Liu Yadan, Du Shi's brows deepened, and he sighed deeply, yesterday he only heard Erniang tell the story of Xuejian, but he didn't have time to tell them that Liu Yatong would come to Pingshan Village in two days.

Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather has gradually cooled, but Zhou Bo's forehead is still soaked with fine sweat, his hands can't help but twist together, and the joints of his fingers are gradually red and white.

Sunlight came in through the window, but there was no trace of warmth.

At this time, what is Yukimi doing?

There was silence in the study for a moment, Erniang paused, then put down the teacup in her hand, her eyes were slightly red, and she said softly: "Sister Liu is known as a virtuous person, I'm afraid it's better to say something, Xue Jian...... Although Xue Jian looks weak, she is a little stubborn, not to mention, she ...... She's not easy to ......."

Thinking of the woman who always smiled softly and calmly yesterday, did she ever think that the person she was waiting for and hoping for had married someone else? Aunt Zhao shook her head: "Miss Liu is generous, but she came here for the sake of ......, but now we are in such a scene...... alas, I don't know how sad and sad it will be." ”

Although he was talking about things related to himself, Zhou Bo couldn't sit down anymore, he was only thinking now, if this Miss Liu family came over, what would happen to Xue Jian?

"But ......" Without waiting for Erniang to finish speaking, Du Shi glanced at her and said in a low voice: "Yatong is older than you according to her age, people have never abandoned the past three years, every time I think of her, my mother has a little more love and pity in her heart, I always feel that the child is really a good example, our Zhou family can't stand her!" ”

After Du Shi finished speaking, Aunt Feng immediately opened her mouth and continued: "No, last time my sister was sick, how rare that medicine primer was, in the end, it was the Liu family who begged people from all over the world to ask for it." ”

Zhou Bo frowned and looked at Du Shi. Although I heard these words several times a day yesterday, I thought about the hardships of my father and mother at the beginning, and in order to protect my brothers and sisters, I really suffered countless sins, and I secretly swore countless times that I would never let them suffer the slightest grievance.

It's just that he really didn't expect that the quiet flower-like Miss Liu would be waiting for him all the time, taking care of his parents, and wasting his time.

San Lang had been sitting quietly, and couldn't help but get up and say: "On this occasion today, Xue'er shouldn't have said much, but Xue'er has a sentence, and he still doesn't vomit and is unhappy!" Zhou Shangyi gave a hand, "You can say it." ”

"In order to save the eldest brother, my sister-in-law went to Daqingshan alone to save the eldest brother's life; Later, he gave the eldest brother a joy, rushed to get married, and saved the eldest brother's leg. If there is no sister-in-law, so to speak, now all of us do not have today's comfortable days. ”

Du Shi smiled reluctantly, looked at Zhou Bo for a while and said, "We didn't say that Xue Jian was bad, this girl is really valuable, but the origin is unknown...... Don't talk about this, just talk about Liu Jiayatong, originally our Zhou family was Gao Pan when they first discussed marriage, but then before the dowry, this happened. I thought that the Liu family would clear up the relationship early, who would have thought that the Liu family would not say a word, Yatong came over several times to take care of the mother, and during the mother's illness, she personally cooked medicine and served tea, and she was ...... for the mother's heart."

Du Shi raised his head and smiled reluctantly, if it weren't for the Zhou family's catastrophe, I'm afraid Zhou Bo and Liu Yatong would have been married. Now, she has been waiting for him for a year, not only because of her age, but also because of her reputation as a girl.

On the whole, in the past two years, although Zhou Shangyi has not been punished, he has not suffered less, or the Liu family has been dredged up, the Zhou family's silver has long been copied, and it is their sister's private silver that flows into the prison like a thin stream, so that Zhou Shangyi is not sick, no disaster and no accident in prison, and finally Wang has to work hard from the cold and dark, and he has to make a big deal out of the big money, and change the stand-in to go in, so he has to get out......

Aunt Zhao saw that Zhou Bo hadn't spoken, so she said, "Brother Bo, you have something to say, what do you think?" ”

Zhou Shangyi put down the teacup and said angrily: "What can he think?" The order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, this Miss Liu family has no virtue, and has kept the festival for my Zhou family for three years, in the case of reasonableness and morality, our Zhou family must not be able to stand her! ”

"Daddy!" Zhou Bo was startled, lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "I promised Xue Jian that I would never fail her in this life, you, how do you let me explain to her?" At the beginning, for a girl who climbed into his bed, Xue Jian almost couldn't forgive him, but he still coaxed him for half a year before he changed his mind.

A trace of embarrassment also appeared on Du Shi's face, and he couldn't help but wet his eyes: "Son, then did you let your father and aunts bear the kindness of the Liu family?" In the past three years, how much relationship has your father-in-law secretly used, we were able to stuff the silver, so that your father suffered less guilt in it. Not to mention that Yatong came over in three or two days, shhh Do you let the Zhou family fall into an unkind and unjust situation because of you alone? ”

Zhou Bo was saddened by what she said, and his face also lost blood, and he gritted his teeth and said softly: "Xue Jian's temperament is that he would rather be broken than broken." She sacrificed a lot for her son, and it was his son who deceived her from the beginning to coax her to stay. There is no snow to see, and there is no Zhou family's brocade clothes and jade food carving gallery painting pillars today. Now, how can her son bear her? ”

"Good, good, good!" After a long while, Zhou Shangyi nodded and said: "This Liu family's love is owed by your father and your mother, and you should not pay it back!" We have no other way but to make up for it by being a cow and a horse for the Liu family. We have missed Miss for a few years, but there is no way to compensate, even if people want to fight and kill, it is also deserved, we have to bear it! ”

"Daddy!" Zhou Bobutong knelt in front of Zhou Shangyi, "Don't say that, let your son go to the Liu family as a cow and a horse, okay?" ”

"Miss Liu has been waiting for you for three years, but she wants you to be a cow and a horse?" Listening to the more he talked, the more unpleasant he became, Zhou Shangyi slapped the table: "People do your filial piety in front of your parents, but you are so ruthless, you want others to poke the backbone of the Zhou family and scold!" You unfilial son! ”

"Dad, don't be angry!" Erniang and San Lang saw that Zhou Shangyi was really angry, and they hurriedly knelt on the ground, "Big brother has no intention of disobeying his father!" ”

Zhou Bo raised his head, his face was full of gloom, and he said bitterly: "Xue Jian is affectionate and righteous to me, and he is as kind to the Zhou family as a mountain, and I deceived her first and promised her last, are you making me live with her for the rest of my life?" ”

Aunt Wang, who had never spoken, raised her head at this time and said softly: "The two little ladies are both the best, one will never give up, and the other is as kind as a mountain; The words of a parent, the life of a matchmaker. This is a good thing, it is the fate of our brother Bo, it is better to ......" she smiled slightly, "It's better to let Brother Bo marry Yatong as a flat wife, in this way, the two of them are big, and we have all the affection of both parties, and secondly, after Yatong passes the door, our family will not treat one side badly, both of them are treated the same, and it is better to make up for it a little, so okay?" ”

In ancient times, the flat wife was originally a thing that came out of the merchants, and the businessmen did business abroad all the year round, and the women they married abroad were also ordinary wives. Shinong industry and commerce, the status of merchants in ancient times was very low, and some businessmen did not distinguish between wives and wives, and they were very looked down upon in big families and the family of etiquette and righteousness that took into account their reputation, and it was considered to be a bad behavior.

Although the Zhou family is not a family with a particularly big difference between the concubines, it is not this kind of shallow small businessman, so there is no rule of equal wife.

In the country of Dashun, the flat wife who has entered the household law can be both big with the main wife, can go back to the ancestral house together, join the clan, and the flat wife does not need to give concubines to the main wife, and the children born are also children, and the children born to the main wife enjoy basically the same inheritance rights, but the flat wife still needs to call the main wife the eldest sister.

Like the Zhou family, Aunt Feng and others did not have the right to return to their ancestral home in the past, but this time the situation was special, so they would come back together. But after two days, the ancestral hall was reopened to comfort the ancestors, and they did not have their share.

Dashun also stipulates that ordinary wives also have the right to be listed on tombstones or ancestral tablets after death, or to fill the legal wife status after the death of the husband's first spouse, and to adopt the Ming media formal marriage ceremony equivalent to that of the official spouse in the process of marriage. In this way, it is not very aggrieved Miss Liu.

As soon as Aunt Wang's words came out, it was as if she woke up from a dream, and everyone nodded yes again and again. Several aunts even felt that the identity of this flat wife, but ordinary people couldn't ask for it, and they couldn't help but be envious.

Du Shi was still hesitating, "Yatong is a lady from an official family, I thought, how can there be a reason to be a flat wife?" ”

Zhou Bo said hurriedly: "Dad, Xuejian won't agree to it......"

Zhou Shangyi was dissatisfied, and glared at his son fiercely, "Although our Zhou family is sorry for the daughter-in-law first, but if she does this, she can't tolerate it, and she is not a reasonable person." If she really does what you say, she really thinks hard for the Zhou family, she will definitely understand the hardships of the Zhou family, and she can also live hand in hand with Miss Liu, stabilize the back house, and prosper the Zhou family! ”