Wang Qingyuan hadn't been here for more than two months, and he hadn't even sent a letter. Qi Ning wanted to inquire and had nowhere to ask, and he was afraid that something would happen to him, so he sat in the store and looked at the pedestrians on the street from the door in a daze after he was busy every day.

One day, Master Zhou brought people to dinner, and when Qi Ning delivered the food, he listened to their comments with bad looks, and when the prince was abolished, he was locked up. The prince's mother-in-law, the queen Wang, was also imprisoned in the cold palace, and the queen's entire family was arrested.

Master Zhou lowered his voice and said to the people at the same table: "I heard that the prince rebelled, and he killed the king during the palace banquet, and was taken down on the spot by the third prince with people. ”

"I heard that the reason why the prince killed the king was because he framed the eldest son of the emperor and his mother in his early years, and the prince seems to have some collusion with Yanyun." Another said.

"I heard that the crown prince and one of the emperor's favorite concubines were unclear, and the emperor knew about it, and he was afraid that he would be deposed so he killed the king." Several people talked about the gossip they had heard.

Qi Ning felt faintly uneasy in her heart, she felt that these things might be related to Wang Qingyuan, she had always looked at him like an ordinary person, and she didn't know what his identity was, so don't be involved.

This year is the twenty-sixth year of Jianning, and I heard that Emperor Dajing had eight sons, and the eldest son was beheaded because of something in his early years, and the prince was the second prince. There are many rumors about the royal Mi Xin folk, and it is difficult to distinguish the true from the fake.

As for the abolition of the crown prince, the queen's cold palace has little to do with the common people, as long as there is no war, the common people should eat a few meals a day, but the officialdom says that there is no turmoil, and many people will be implicated.

After a month, all the chickens and ducks on the mountain had run all over the mountain, and out of two hundred ducks, one hundred and ninety-seven had survived, and one hundred and ninety-six chickens had survived. It seems that Qi Zhong is really very concerned.

Seeing Qi Ning nodding with satisfaction, Qi Zhong's heart was completely put down, his father scolded him last time when he came to give him something alone, and told him that if the girl didn't want him anymore, they wouldn't care about him anymore, Qi Zhong's essence is not bad, that is, the environment shapes people, and he just learns badly from those slippery subordinates in the original master's house.

Qi Ning helped clean the duck shed and chicken shed on Zhushan for a day before returning to the city with Qi Fugui.

Back at the shop, just after eating, Aunt Qi followed Qi Ning into the backyard. Qi Ning has always eaten at the same table in the hall with everyone, and when she was eating, she found that Aunt Qi was absent-minded and seemed to have something on her mind.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Qi Ning sat on a chair in the living room and looked at Aunt Qi who was looking down and pulling the placket of her clothes.

"Girl, today Qi Zhong and his father came back and said, Qi Zhong wants to marry Qiao Niang, I, I want to ask what you mean?"

"Qiao Niang?"

"Yes, I have long seen that Qi Zhong seems to have some interest in Qiao Niang, and often rushes to help her work, and I will understand as soon as his father comes back today."

"I don't disagree, but do you know why Qiao Niang was divorced by her husband's family in the first place, right?" Qiao Niang was abandoned because she had not had children for four or five years after getting married.

"Yes, she said it herself. But my bastard son recognized her, and begged his father for it, and I really had no choice but to beg the girl to get a charter. ”

"What did Qiao Niang say?"

"I didn't ask her." Aunt Qi didn't want her son to marry someone who couldn't have children, but she couldn't bear it and the old man agreed, so she came to ask Qi Ning.

"You go and call her over, I'll ask her what she means first, other people's families don't want to, and your family is still in discord."

Aunt Qi hurriedly went to the kitchen and called Qiao Niang to come over, Qiao Niang followed Aunt Qi in crampedly, stood at the door and bowed her head: "What did the girl tell me to do?" She rarely comes to the backyard, Qi Ning does everything by herself, and if she has something, she also asks Han Dong to come, and today she suddenly called her, which scared her for a while.

"Qi Zhong asked Aunt Qi to come and ask me to marry you today, I want to ask what you mean."

"Ahh I, I ......." Qiao Niang blushed to her neck, she was married once, how could she not see what Qi Zhong meant, but she didn't dare to hope to marry again, because she couldn't have children.

"You only tell the truth, and if you will, I will fulfill you. If you don't want to, no one will dare to force you. ”

Aunt Qi stood aside and saw Qiao Niang's expression and knew that she was actually willing, and her heart suddenly cooled.

"I listen to the girl." For the happiness of the rest of her life, Qiao Niang mustered up the courage to come up with a sentence.

"Then you're willing. Hi, that's a good thing you're shy like that! Aunt Qi, the two of them are in love, I am willing to fulfill it, now it depends on what you and Uncle Qi mean. Qi Ning pushed the burden back to Aunt Qi, she was willing to fulfill them, but she couldn't ignore the feelings of other parents.

"Hey, since it's all like this, let's listen to the girl." Aunt Qi said weakly.

"Okay, you go and choose an auspicious day for the zodiac, clean up the room where Qi Zhong used to live and let them do it, and if you need money, come to me to get it." Let Qi Zhong rent a yard in Zhujia Village, and when they get married, Qiao Niang will follow him to live, and then take care of the chickens and ducks on Zhushan. ”

"Don't bother with that, just hang the house red, and let the two of them kowtow to the girl when the time comes." There is no reason for a slave to get married. Aunt Qi said resignedly.

"Then according to what you said, I still haven't been out of the cabinet and don't understand this, I'll give you twenty taels of silver, you make two new clothes for them, make a few new bedding, and watch and buy some peanut candy." The rest will be used by Qi Zhong to rent a yard and buy a guy's business. ”

After Qi Ning finished speaking, she helped up Aunt Qi and Qiao Niang, who kowtowed and thanked her, and went back to the house to take out six silver ingots of five taels and a few muslin cloths.

"These twenty taels of silver, Aunt Qi, you take it and look at it, these pieces of cloth and the remaining ten taels will be used as Qiaoniang's dowry, you can take it back and look at it."

Aunt Qi and Qiao Niang were so moved that they wanted to kneel down and kowtow again, Qi Ning sighed helplessly and stopped them helplessly, and sent them to work.

Qi Ning really can't get used to others kowtowing to her, although these people are nominally bought, but Qi Ning only treats them as subordinates, and does not treat them as slaves. They are paid every month, and at the end of the year, they are also given bonuses based on their personal performance. As long as they do things well, Qi Ning also hopes that they can all live well.

On the sixth day of the first month, Qi Fugui took Qi Zhong back in the afternoon, Qi Zhong and Qiao Niang picked it up, changed into a red wedding dress and kowtowed to Qi Ning, this time Qi Ning sat down and accepted the salute under the persuasion of Zhao and Aunt Qi.

After kowtowing, Qi Ning gave them a purse containing two taels of silver as a congratulatory gift, and gave Qiao Niang a silver hairpin, and let them go back to the cave room first.

After the evening closes, the whole family sat at two tables and had a drink, and the family affair was completed.

The reason why they got married in the middle of the afternoon, according to Zhao, was because Qiao Niang was married for the second time, and the eldest girl went out early in the morning when she got married, and the second marriage and the widow and widower remarried had to be dark in the evening.

The next day, Qi Zhong and Qiao Niang came over early in the morning to greet Qi Ning, and returned to Zhushan with the utensils Qi Ning had prepared for them.

This is also what Qi Ning told them a long time ago, they can't let the newlywed couple separate, let them rent a small yard in the village for the time being, Qi Zhong is worried about the chickens and ducks on the mountain, so he said that he will stay in the bamboo shed on the mountain at night to guard the door, and Qiao Niang will go up the mountain to work during the day.

Qi Ning planned to build a house at the foot of the mountain after the New Year, and when the time came, he would have a place to live, so he agreed.

In the following months, Wang Qingyuan has not heard from him. Let Qi Ning's heart be carried all the time, and listen carefully to the chatter of the guests who come to eat every day, wanting to know some useful information from it.

After a little snow in the middle of the night, Qi Ning stood under the porch, pinched his fingers and calculated, now it is the sixteenth day of the lunar month, and in the autumn I heard that the vegetable market in the capital killed many officials and relatives.

Qi Ning asked someone to inquire, but he didn't hear of anyone named Wang Qingyuan. She planned that if there was no news after the New Year, she would go to the capital to inquire in person.

Maybe he will be in the capital, and if he can't find out about the news, he will go to the nearby states and counties.

No matter what Wang Qingyuan does, as long as he can live well. If the fact of what he did is not working, persuade him to come back. It's also good for two people to do some business. After all, there is no life-threatening business to do.