At noon, the weather cleared. He Angelica was fiddling with the mountain grass picked yesterday in front of the window, Zhenjing came over with a flower porcelain bowl, and said with a smile: "Xiaoyi, this is sent by Pang's mother in the kitchen, saying that it was ordered by the master, and the chicken soup was specially made to replenish your body." ”

It's raining red, did Taishan really send chicken soup? He Angelica smiled playfully and said: "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south, and the blessed life is immeasurable!" Taishan Shi is too true and really has a heart. Then she lifted the lid and laughed again, "You really look down on me, and you put ginseng." "It's true that this bowl of ginseng chicken soup is made with excellent ingredients, but it doesn't bring those really good soups.

In the small half bowl of original soup, half a bowl of water is mixed with it, and there are a few eye-catching ginseng whiskers floating on the soup, indicating that this is a bowl of "ginseng chicken soup". He Angelica stirred it with a soup spoon casually, and this time he couldn't help laughing, chicken head, chicken neck, chicken buttocks, chicken ribs, chicken skin...... As far as the eye could see, there was not a whole piece of flesh. I don't know who made such a bowl of soup, but it can be regarded as a talent, and if you send it to the account office to manage the accounts, you will definitely be able to be diligent and thrifty.

Zhenjing looked at He Angelica and didn't drink it, just stared at the chicken soup thoughtfully, and couldn't help but wonder: "You haven't eaten almost anything in the past two days, you have such a good chicken soup, why don't you drink it quickly?" ”

He Angelica beckoned Zhenjing to come over, pushed the chicken soup to her with a smile, and said, "Okay, Zhenjing, you drink it for me." Zhenjing was shocked, and waved his hand back again and again. He Angelica grabbed her, pressed her on the stool and said, "Drink it while it's hot!" I can't drink this chicken soup, but you can. ”

True Quiet Monster: "Why? Is this a great tonic? ”

He Angelica smiled slightly: "I am cold and weak, and I have a few external injuries, which I can't afford to make up." Now don't say it's chicken soup, you can't even touch an oil star, but this soup is 'thick and light', which is just right for you to drink on an empty stomach," Jian Zhenjing looked at the hot chicken soup with her mouth open, patted her on the back, and persuaded, "Aren't you hungry for two days, what are you waiting for now when you have something to eat?" Anyway, you won't be a Taoist aunt for the rest of your life, I'll take you away when I leave here, even if you break your vows and go out today. ”

"Hehe, Miss He, you not only instigated my junior sister to break the vows, but also planned to abduct her!"

At this moment, a voice came from outside the door, which frightened Zhenjing and stirred up, and immediately choked on the surging saliva and coughed.

He Angelica turned around and saw a long-haired Taoist girl about thirty years old standing at the door, her face was like a full moon, she was not angry and arrogant, and she was looking at herself for a moment. He Angelica also looked back at the visitor calmly, and guessed in his heart that she should be Zhenjing's senior sister Zhenzhu who was often on her lips in her previous life and present life. He Angelica has also heard some about the experience of Zhenzhu.

Zhenzhu was originally the daughter of a rice merchant, and her name was Qiu Ping. In the early years, there was a plague in the south, Qiu Ping's parents, brother and sister-in-law and sister were all incurable, and the surviving Qiu Ping pawned a few acres of rice shops and fields, and planned to take the spiritual seat of her parents and family back to her hometown in the north. Because the woman's road was not safe, she asked a dart master from the "Lutong Dart Bureau" to escort her.

On the way, the dart master gradually fell in love with her, and after being sent to the destination, he finally confided his heart and proposed to her. Qiu Ping was touched by his carefulness and thoughtfulness all the way, and she was already an orphan girl, and no parents would arrange a marriage for her, so she agreed to marry him.

Because his family is poor, and he is the eldest son in the family, he has many younger siblings, so Qiu Ping not only didn't want him to pay a dowry of one or two dollars, but also brought a dowry of three hundred taels of silver herself. But Qiu Ping agreed with the dart master that he would have a couple for the rest of his life, and he would not be able to take a concubine regardless of whether he was rich or poor in the future. The master agreed.

After getting married, Qiu Ping used the dowry to set up a restaurant, running a business while taking care of her in-laws and siblings, without delay. The in-laws are full of praise for this daughter-in-law, and the sister-in-law also likes this sister-in-law, and often pesters her to teach her how to cook. The days are getting better and better, and the family is laughing and laughing all day long, and they are intimate.

Seven years later, the restaurant has changed from one to four, and the whole family has moved into a big house with a single family, but the mother-in-law has begun to become yin and yang, often throwing Qiu Ping's face and picking bones in eggs. After a few times, Qiu Ping guessed that her mother-in-law should want to hold her grandson.

In fact, in the years after getting married, Qiu Ping has been secretly using the local method of contraception, planning to have children when the business improves and the family conditions are better. Now everything is as he wished, the family has a land and a house, food and clothing are worry-free, and Qiu Ping is no longer using contraception, but is full of hope to give birth to a son and a half daughter as soon as possible, so that the old man can make fun of his grandson. She went to see the woman. Fang Qianjin's famous doctor, after taking medicine to replenish his body for a few months, went to worship Guanyin, but a slap didn't make a sound, and he mentioned to her husband a few times about having a child, but he was not very enthusiastic, and she was the only one who was in a hurry.

After a while, when the whole family was having dinner together, my husband suddenly said that something was announced. So, the whole family looked at him, and after some hesitation, he made things clear.

Half a year ago, on a dart trip, he rescued a village girl who was robbed by bandits. Because the situation was urgent, he not only saw her body, but also rode with her for two days. After being rescued, the village girl Hongli was very grateful to him and wanted to follow him wholeheartedly. He insisted on refusing, explaining that he had an agreement with his wife not to take a concubine for life. Hongli replied that she did not ask for fame, nor did she enter the door of his house, but only rented her a courtyard so that she could see him occasionally, and if he refused to ask her, she would immediately crash to death on the steps. He had no choice but to agree.

The husband paused for a moment, and Fang said again that when he went to see Hongli a few days ago, Hongli cried and locked herself in the room. After some questioning, I learned that she was pregnant. He thought to himself that if Hongli had a child out of wedlock, then the child would be an illegitimate child and would not be able to raise his head for the rest of his life. He couldn't bear it in his heart, so he wanted to take Hongli to his home, give her a name, and let the child have a father when he was born.

Qiu Ping listened expressionlessly, and then said slowly, husband and wife are one, her husband's child is her child, and after the child is born, she is willing to raise the child and treat it as her own. However, when she got married, the marriage certificate was clearly written in black and white, and her husband could not take a concubine, so this Hongli girl could not enter the house.

The husband immediately glanced at the mother-in-law with his eyes, so the mother-in-law opened her mouth and said, listening to the situation described by her son, that Hongli is also a good woman who is affectionate and righteous, and knows how to repay her kindness, and besides, she has added people to their family, how can she be left out. Besides, if the mother and son of the family are connected and take away her flesh and bones, isn't it equivalent to taking her life? Their family is a good family, and they can't do such a thing. Which man in the world does not have three wives and four concubines, and now his son is forced to accept a concubine in desperation, and he has to keep his promise. And the daughter-in-law is busy with the restaurant business every day, finding someone to come back to help her with housework, filial piety to her in-laws, serving her husband, giving birth to children, and the daughter-in-law herself has an intimate sister, isn't it a good thing to kill multiple birds with one stone? The daughter-in-law should be happy, but she can't learn from those jealous women who are sour and threaten her husband with any marriage certificate.

Qiu Ping suddenly realized that her husband had already made a line with her mother-in-law, and now he was having a showdown with her.

Looking at the eyes of the other people at the dinner table, it was clear that they had already known about it, and it turned out that this play was played for her alone. The heart suddenly fell into an ice cave, this is the in-laws who love her, this is the sister-in-law and brother-in-law who love her, how close they are to her on weekdays, but once the matter comes, they don't care about it, and immediately choose to stand on the side of their husbands.

Qiu Ping is a tough woman, she insists on reiterating the terms of the marriage letter, and refuses to nod her head whether she is dead or alive. After such a stalemate for half a month, the in-laws' family changed their previous warmth, their faces were so cold that they could drop ice slag, and seeing her at home every day was like seeing a transparent gas and turning a blind eye.

On this day, she was busy in the restaurant for a day, and when she came home, she saw a woman with a big belly sitting next to her in-laws in the hall.

The mother-in-law routinely told her that the marriage certificate only said that her son was not allowed to take a concubine, and it was not written that she was not allowed to marry a flat wife. A good child of sex, filial and sensible, so he has made the decision to let his son marry Hongli as a flat wife, and he will give birth to a son in the future. Because Hongli is now a doppelganger, it is inconvenient to live outside, so she will first take her home to live, and after giving birth to a child, she will hold the wedding banquet together.

The mother-in-law reprimanded Qiu Ping, the woman should take her husband as the key link, focus on the family, and don't go to the restaurant to show her face in the future, let her hand over the business to the two uncles to take care of, and concentrate on helping Hongli have a baby at home in the future. Qiu Ping was dumbfounded, blaming her for showing her head, why didn't she say it when she couldn't open the pot when she was poor in the past.

Then, the woman in the seat stood up, bowed to Qiu Pingyingying, and said with two lines of tears, begging her sister to take her in. Without waiting for Qiu Ping to speak, her mother-in-law scolded nervously, and she didn't help her up quickly.

Three months later, Hongli had a miscarriage, crying and saying that she had eaten the sweet soup sent by Qiu Ping. The husband was furious, beat Qiu Ping violently, and then raised his pen to write a letter of resignation and threw it in Qiu Ping's face. In the letter of resignation, it was written that she committed the "disobedience to her parents, childlessness, and jealousy" in the "Seven Outs", and asked her to go out cleanly, and she was not allowed to leave immediately with anything, and she never got along with each other from then on.

Qiu Ping put away the letter of resignation, didn't cry or make trouble, and really didn't take a penny or anything, so she walked out of the door without looking back. The in-laws who used to treat her like her own daughter, the three uncles and sisters-in-law who were raised by her, didn't say a word to save her, and looked coldly at her with her long scattered hair, limping away step by step.

The next day, Ping does something amazing. She held the marriage letter seven years ago, the newly received letter of resignation, and a complaint, and sued her husband's family to the Zhenjiang County Government. It is said that the case was a sensation back then.

It has always been a practice in this dynasty that if a woman commits the "seven outs" and is abandoned by her husband's family, then the woman's dowry will be disposed of by the husband's family, and all or part of it will be distributed to the abandoned woman as the case may be. If the abandoned woman commits two or more of the "seven outs", the husband's family has the right to withhold all her dowry. However, if one of the spouses initiates reconciliation due to discord, then the woman's dowry, as well as the profit of the dowry after the marriage, belong to the woman.

The court opened five days later, and the new branch list and the county ordered Lord Lu to try it in person, and the husband's family spent a lot of money to invite the best teacher in Zhenjiang, while Qiu Ping defended herself.

After being promoted, the teacher talked eloquently, saying that Qiu Ping had committed the "seven outs" of disobedience to her parents, childlessness, jealousy, and suspicion of murdering her husband and heir, and it was reasonable to divorce her wife, and it was also a routine to withhold her dowry.

When it was Qiu Ping's turn to speak, she knelt straight on the ground and stated calmly that since ancient times, there have been "seven outs", but there are also "three no-gos". The woman was homeless and could not be divorced; Keeping filial piety for her in-laws for three years with her husband and not being divorced; He was poor before, but he was rich after marriage, and he couldn't be divorced. Now she meets two of the "three no-gos" and therefore cannot be suspended.

Regardless of the side, when she married into her husband's family, her husband's family only had two thatched huts, and the whole family of six, from her father-in-law who was 60 years old to her sister-in-law who was 9 and a half years old, only relied on the five or six yuan earned by her husband's dart every month to eat. For half a month in a month, they can only drink gruel and gnaw chaff cakes, pawn winter clothes in summer and summer clothes in winter, there is no overnight food at home, and their in-laws and sisters-in-law are very hungry, and they have to dress up as beggars to go out to beg, and they are extremely poor.

And now, the husband's family has become a big family in Zhenjiang, with an industry of more than 2,000 taels of silver, eating delicacies from the mountains and seas every day, wearing silk and satin, wearing gold and jade agate, and being rich. These are completely in line with "being poor and lowly before, but rich and prosperous after marriage", so they can't divorce her.

Seven years ago, she brought the inheritance of 300 taels of silver left by her parents and brother to her husband's family as dowry, and agreed with her husband that "one couple for the rest of her life" and wrote in the marriage book that "no concubines will be accepted for life". After marriage, she served her in-laws at home, raised her younger siblings, and ran a restaurant business outside. It is ridiculous to say that she is "disobedient to her parents".

In the past seven years, my in-laws have been in good health, and they have eaten more than one meal; The two uncles were sent to the school to study for five years, and now they are able to write and martial arts, each of them manages two restaurants, and each has a good family; The sister-in-law is sixteen years old, and the female celebrity cooks, plays the piano and plays chess, and the people who come to the door to propose relatives have already broken through the threshold - and then to the threshold, the two thatched huts of the husband's family were replaced by a courtyard five years ago, and three years ago they were replaced by a large courtyard with five entrances and three exits, and this year they were replaced by a large house with a single family, occupying a whole alley. Even the threshold is not what it used to be, from a loess ditch that is often flooded to a three-inch-high red lacquered sour pear wood threshold.

Saying that she "disobeys her parents" might as well pass the whole neighborhood down the street here and confront her in person. Although there are many ungrateful and honest people in the world, justice is in the hearts of the people, and she does not believe that there is no one in her neighbors who is willing to speak fairly.

In addition, the "childless" in the "Seven Outs" regulations refers to the fact that the wife has no children after the age of 50, and she is only 24 years old this year, which is not included in this list. When she was poor, she and her husband had to sleep in a room with their brother-in-law and sister-in-law; When she was rich, her husband went to sleep in other women's rooms, and she was blamed for the "childlessness".

Finally, speaking of "jealousy" -

Three months ago, the husband took advantage of the text gap in the marriage book, and although he did not "take a concubine", he married back a "flat wife". The new lady entered the door with a four-month pregnancy, and her mother-in-law asked her to help the new lady have a baby, so she obeyed her mother-in-law's instructions and handed over all the business of the restaurant to the little uncle to take care of.

It's just that this new lady's belly is really strange, when I went to see it in the morning, it was pointed, and when I went to see it again at noon, it turned round, and yesterday it was as big as a watermelon, and today it is smaller.

She was worried about Mrs. Xin's health, so she invited Dr. Zhang to check Mrs. Xin's pulse, but Mrs. Xin closed the door and saw no one, saying that she had always only let Dr. Li see a doctor, and she couldn't trust the medical skills of other doctors. The next day, she invited Dr. Li, Dr. Zhang, and Dr. Ma to check the pulse of the new lady, but the new lady temporarily held up her seven-month-old belly and went out to burn incense. A few days later, there was news of the miscarriage of the new lady.

Qiu Ping sneered, since she said that she "murdered her husband and gentleman's heir", isn't that a murderous crime? Wouldn't it be too cheap to take a break from yourself, you should cut it with a knife.

It's just that before cutting off her head, can she take a look at the body of the seven-month-old baby boy who was "murdered" by herself? Can you send Dr. Li, who specializes in giving birth to the new lady, and ask the reason for the miscarriage? Can you let Wen Po touch it, the new lady's lower abdomen is still flat and smooth after the miscarriage?

Hearing this, the onlookers were in an uproar, and the faces of the husband's family were red, white, and blue.

The county ordered Lord Lu to immediately ask people to pass on Kong Hongli, Dr. Li and Wen Po. Soon after, the messenger came to report that Kong Hongli was nowhere to be found, and only Dr. Li and Wen Po were found. Dr. Li trembled and knelt on the ground, and after some interrogation by Lord Lu, Dr. Li confessed to receiving 60 taels of silver from Kong Hongli and helping Kong Hongli cheat with a fake pregnancy.

The onlookers were in an uproar again. Lord Lu was shocked and announced the verdict on the spot, the folk woman Qiu Ping did not commit any of the "seven outs", and she did not have to receive a letter of resignation from her husband's family. Qiu Ping's husband was ungrateful, violated the marriage agreement, not only married another daughter, but also abused his wife, and was sentenced to a heavy beating of 50 boards. Dr. Li helped people to deceive, which violated medical ethics, and was fined 60 taels of silver, and 20 boards, and he was not allowed to practice medicine from now on.

After Qiu Ping thanked her, she coldly proposed to reconcile with her husband.

As a result, Lord Lu sentenced Qiu Ping and her husband to reconcile and divorce, and four restaurants, one house, and 100 acres of land were all purchased by Qiu Ping's dowry, all of which belonged to Qiu Ping alone. All the people of the husband's family are not allowed to take away a single grass or tree from the house on the same day, and this matter is supervised by the county officials. From now on, the marriage of a man and a woman is not related to each other, and the man is not allowed to harass or infringe on the woman in any way.

After the incident, Qiu Ping pawned the restaurant and the house, intending to escape into the empty door. She was originally to the Buddha, but she couldn't give up her long hair, so she changed her face, assumed the name Xiangye, and went to the water business concept to become a Taoist aunt, and her legal name was Zhenzhu.

In his previous life, He Angelica listened to Zhenjing talk about Zhenzhu's deeds, and admired her decisiveness very much, and regarded her as an idol in his heart, but he didn't have the opportunity to see Zhenzhu himself, which was deeply regrettable. Just because, in the previous life, before He Angelica entered the Taoist temple, the true pearl had already left the Taoist temple.

It is said that it is because the Lu County Commander has been in love with Zhenzhu since the trial of the "Husband Case", and he actually chased her all the way to the Taoist temple, persuaded her to return to the vulgar, and was willing to marry her as his wife.

Other Taoist aunts overheard their conversation, and as a result, Zhenzhu's identity before she became a monk was exposed. The news spread like the wind in the Taoist temple, and in an instant everyone knew that Zhenzhu was the famous Qiu Ping who had a lawsuit with her husband's family, and she also knew that she had a net worth of 100 acres of land and 1,000 taels of silver.

The quiet place is no longer quiet, and the unbearable Zhenzhu left a book to Lu County, and the book said, "It's not a thousand sails, and I hate to meet when I am not married." I knew it was so stumbling, how could I not know each other at the beginning. Now it is all a dream before death, and the wind and frost have been dusty. Then he left the water business temple overnight, went to the Bodhi Nunnery to practice, and cut off his long hair, indicating his determination to enter the red dust again. In the end, Lu Xianling was in pain and left gloomily.

And in this life, for some reason, the rest of the story didn't happen at all. That Lu Xianling had never visited the Taoist temple, and Zhenzhu had not cut her hair to become a nun.

Yesterday, as soon as He Angelica heard that this "legendary figure" Zhenzhu was also in the Taoist temple, he tentatively asked Zhenjing a few words, but found that Zhenjing had no idea about Zhenzhu's true identity. Zhenjing also introduced to her that the senior sister's real name is Xiangye, and she is a native of Jinan, Shandong.

In front of him, the "idol" Sister Zhenzhu was standing outside the door, with a slight anger on her face, staring at He Angelica and asking, "Miss He, why do you want to lead my junior sister to open meat?" You're hurting her. ”

He Angelica's mind was racing, and then he smiled: "It's windy at the door, Master Zhenzhu, please come in and speak." ”