"Then you can think about it, once you go back, it will be even more difficult to break away in the future, the Yuan family has not helped you, and it will only drag you back in the future, and I will not let the Yuan family point fingers, when you decide to go back one day, it will be when you leave my house."

"Does it have to be like this?"

"Definitely, this is my principle, I don't like your father and mother, and I don't like the Yuan family, and I don't want to get involved."

"I'm not going back."

Yuan Jiaqi seemed to have made up his mind, if Qiao Mai let go, he might have a moment of soft-heartedness.

But let him choose between Qiao Mai and the family, he chose Qiao Mai.

He also came here to hear Qiao Mai's thoughts, even if she didn't want to, then he wouldn't recognize the Yuan family if he died.

The next day, the Yuan family rejected the Yuan patriarch, and he asked angrily:

"Why? We've all bowed to you like this, why don't you want to? ”

"Because I don't want to leave Qiao's house."

"Did Qiao Niang say something?"

"She doesn't like the Yuan family, and she doesn't want to receive anyone from the Yuan family in the future, if I go back, I won't be able to go back to the Qiao family."

"Then it's just time to go back to our village, and our Yuan family will study together for you."

"I'm all raised now, and I still use you to provide for it?"

"So what do you say? We are all dependent on you, as long as you come back. ”

"No, I won't leave Qiao's house even if I die."

"Then I'll go find her."

Patriarch Yuan wanted to go to Qiao Mai to theorize, but Yuan Jiaqi stopped him.

"That's okay, then you give her back what I have eaten, used, and spent at her house over the years, and I'll follow you."

"Much, how much?"

"More than 10,000 taels"

"What?"

Patriarch Yuan took a few steps back, not to mention ten thousand taels, they couldn't take out a thousand taels.

"My lady cultivated me, and it took countless silver taels to get to where I am now, if you let me go back, I will go back, don't say that she is uncomfortable, even I don't want to be this white-eyed wolf, you go back, if there is something in the clan in the future, I can help as appropriate."

"It's all good things, how can you change the hexagram?"

"How did I change my mind? I only said that as long as my wife agreed, but how could my mother agree to this? ”

"You, alas!"

Patriarch Yuan walked away angrily, but before leaving, he turned around and looked at Yuan Jiaqi.

"Remember what you said, help as appropriate?"

"Of course, I won't forget."

Finally sent away, the Yuan family took a long breath, Qiao Mai looked at this scene from afar, and shook his head, he was still not ruthless enough, and he was still a little indecisive in doing things.

Just when she was stunned, the door of Jixiangyuan was knocked again.

Since the Yuan family won the top spot, this door has never been quiet, and someone knocks every day.

Qiao Mai stood in an inconspicuous position and watched, and the mother-in-law opened the door a little impatiently.

Immediately, her brows furrowed, it turned out to be the Jiang family of Qingzhu Village, what is this here for? The Yuan family was moved, what does it have to do with them?

Is this here to climb relatives? Or do you also want to call the Fengyun brothers back?

Think about her fire, who the hell are they?

When he was poor, he occupied other people's houses and sold other people's children, but now that he sees that it is profitable, he comes back cheekily and stammers.

Qiao Mai calmed his face, walked over directly, and stopped them at the gate of the courtyard, without letting them in.

"If there's a fart, let it go, or don't blame me for being unkind."

"Qiao Niangzi, we are here today, not what we mean, but what we mean by the patriarch of the Jiang clan."

Qiao Mai glanced at the people behind them, "I put down a sentence, if you want to take away the children of your family, you can pay back the silver I spent on them in the past four years, and it depends on whether the children are willing, as long as they are unwilling, you can't take them away if you have the money, and if it doesn't help us to fight a lawsuit, I will accompany you to the end!" ”

At this time, the patriarch of the Jiang clan walked out from behind, and he saluted Qiao Mai.

"I am the patriarch of the Jiang family, the two children's property was occupied, and they were sold by their own uncle, I only found out afterwards, I wanted to say a word for the children, but I heard that they like to be here with you, so I stopped thinking about it, but my Jiang family has punished the children's grandfather and uncle, and the real estate title deeds are also kept for them, as the head of the family, I still hope that they will return to their roots."

"Then excuse me, after four years, why haven't you come for a long time, and only now?"

"The main thing is that the children are still young, and they can't work when they come back."

"So this is using me to raise them for four years?"

"It's not a use, right?"

"You are the patriarch, even if you are for the good of your two children, why didn't you take them back to your home earlier, why did you raise them in my family for four years?"

The Jiang family patriarch was speechless by Qiao Mai's words, and she snorted coldly.

"The two children have two hundred taels per person every year, which is one thousand six hundred taels for four years, and more than ten taels per person per month for eating and drinking, according to ten taels, two hundred and forty taels a year, nine hundred and sixty taels for four years, ten sets of clothes for four seasons, at least two taels of silver for a pair of clothes, and one pen, ink, paper, and inkstone will be counted as one hundred taels in recent years."

The Jiang family patriarch's face turned green when he heard this, "Lady Qiao, you are a good person who has done good deeds and accumulated virtues, how can you count it like this." ”

"Ahh

"You, you!"

"I don't have three thousand taels of silver, I want to come and lead people to dream! I tell you, the further you go, the more money you get, huh! ”

Qiao Mai turned around and left, and the mother-in-law glared at them fiercely, immediately closed the door, and scolded them in a low voice.

"Stinky and shameless, heartless stuff."

Yuan Jiaqi didn't leave in the living room, and kept watching this scene, it seemed that the lady had been wandering around with money, but in fact, she didn't want the two children to go back, and used this as an excuse to embarrass them.

It's been four years, and they have a relationship, and after they go back, whether these two people will be sent to the academy or whether they will be treated well is unknown, no matter how good it is, how can there be a good Qiao family.

It's just that Qiao Mai didn't go back to the backyard, but went to find the Fengyun brothers.

They were in class at this time, and when they saw Qiao Mai come in, the old gentleman told them to stop reading.

Qiao Mai came to the Fengyun brothers, "The Jiang family in Qingzhu Village is here, is it to take you back, saying that your father and mother are your two sons, pointing to you to give them the glorious lintel, my mother respects your opinions, if you want to go back, my mother will not embarrass them, if you don't want to go, they will come to find it again, you tell them yourself?" ”

"Mother, we don't go back, we are mother's sons, the Jiang family is not only my father's son, nor is there only me and Yun'er's two grandsons, our departure does not affect them anything, my father and mother are buried in the ancestral grave of the Jiang family, my brother and I secretly go back every year to fill in the soil and burn paper for them, we want to be the sons of our mother."

"Good boy, now that you have made up your mind, when they come back, tell them, right?"

"Good mother."

Qiao Mai walked out of the house, and the old gentleman asked them to continue reading, and he came out and asked.

"Listen to you, do you want them to go back?"

"If the Jiang family is sincere and brings silver, I will let them go and use the silver to talk about things, I also want to see the attitude of the Jiang family, in the end, it is the blood of the Jiang family, and their father and mother are gone, I don't want them to go back, it's not a reason, what do you say?"

"My old man can look at it, you have been as good to them as you are to your own in the past four years, or even better than your own children, are you willing to let them go like this?"

"Let's look at the attitude of the Jiang family first"

"I plan to let the Fengyun brothers end next year, they are not smart and young, if they don't leave your house, I want them to take the exam every other year."

"Well, sir, I don't have any opinion on it."

(End of chapter)