Early the next morning, Li Zhen slowly walked to the east room where the eldest sister lived, only to see the eldest sister sitting by the window, looking intently at a leafy osmanthus outside the window, her mood was very low, her face was haggard, and she could see that she had not slept all night.

"Sister"

Li Zhen called her in a low voice, walked in front of her and sat down, Li Quan sighed and smiled reluctantly: "You don't have to worry about anything, I have long been mentally prepared, but I hate myself for being blind and marrying such a despicable man, and I feel sad in my heart." ”

"Maybe it's because officialdom has changed him. Li Zhen comforted the eldest sister.

Li Quan shook his head, "He is a very deep city, and he actually wears a mask on his wife for so many years, in fact, when we came to Luoyang last year, he began to show a lustful side, and went to the Qinglou with his fellow villagers every day to drink flower wine, I thought it was the townspeople who brought him badly, so I ⊥ him to interact with He Zhizhang and others, but people didn't pay attention to him later, but he said that because I was a businessman, he put the responsibility on me, I actually know very well in my heart, his fame and fortune are too heavy, and he took refuge in Wu Sansi, and was hated by He Zhizhang. ”

Li Zhen was silent, he thought that the eldest sister was busy with business and was confused about Cao Wen's affairs, but he didn't expect that the eldest sister was like Ming Spiegel in her heart, Li Zhen thought that he would send Cao Wen to Gao Yanfu's mansion, but within a few days, Cao Wen jumped to Wu Sansi, which made Gao Yanfu very disappointed, but it was not easy to say it to himself.

The more he thought about Li Zhen, the more sorry he felt in his heart, he whispered to Li Quan: "Maybe I am also responsible for the matter of the maid, I shouldn't have forced him to drive the maid away." ”

"Don't say that"

Li Quan glanced at his brother reproachfully, "A person has become a thief, how can he blame others for reporting to the official? Do you think he really likes that maid? She was just a means to get rid of me by that person, at that time, he was already fighting Wu Sansi's daughter's idea, have you forgotten? He was injured by a leopard, who sent him back?"

Li Zhen also remembered that it was indeed Wu Dingxiang who sent Cao Wen back, which showed that Wu Dingxiang was interested in Cao Wen at that time, with Cao Wen's shrewdness, how could he not see it, so he hooked up with the maid Li'er during the period of recuperation, and it is very likely that he had already calculated a plan and used the weakness of the eldest sister to implement his plan

"This person is really scheming, no wonder Wu Sansi will take a fancy to him. Li Zhen couldn't help but sigh.

"We don't talk about him anymore"

Li Quan said something to her brother, and her mood was a little better, she smiled: "Without him, I can devote myself to business, you don't think my sister is a businessman."

Li Zhen shook his head, "How come?"

Li Quan turned around and took out a letter from the cabinet, handed it to Li Zhen and said: "This is a letter written to me two days ago, inviting me to go to Chang'an to do Hu Fan business with her, I was still a little hesitant, now I am just relieved, I am ready to leave for Chang'an tomorrow." ”

Li Zhen frowned, "Why does my sister have to go to Chang'an, isn't it good to be in Luoyang?"

Li Quan gently stroked his head, his eyes were moist, "Sister doesn't want to leave you, but...... I want to forget what was sad. ”

"Don't say it, I know, I'll send my sister to Chang'an tomorrow. ”

Li Quan smiled, "No need, you are busy with official business now, I can go by myself, I still have to go to Lingzhou Manor to live for a while, look at my grapes, your eldest sister is not as useless as you think." ”

After speaking, Li Quan thumped his legs, which were a little numb, got up and said, "I'll go see the child and clean it up by the way." ”

At noon, Zhao Qiuniang sent a letter, which was a divorce letter written by Cao Wen to Li Quan.

I hope that after the lady is separated, she will comb her temples again, sweep her eyebrows, and choose the lord of high-ranking officials. Resolve grievances and release knots, and don't hate each other, one is separate and two are wide, and everyone is happy. ‘

Li Quan sneered, the divorce papers were still written so wildly, no matter how well they were written, they couldn't hide his ugly nature.

On the side, Zhao Qiuniang looked at Li Quan worriedly, wondering if she could withstand such a blow, but Li Quan was very calm and asked, "Qiuniang, what should I do?"

Zhao Qiuniang pointed to the two divorce documents and said: "You only need to sign on them, draw a handprint, keep one for yourself, and give him the other, and the matter is over." ”

"Okay, I'll sign it. ”

Li Quan picked up the pen, signed his name, and pressed his handprint on the divorce paper, and the moment he pressed the handprint, tears suddenly welled up from her eyes, falling in a plop, Li Quan turned around and ran towards the house.

Zhao Qiuniang hurriedly got up to chase after her, but Li Zhen grabbed her, shook her head and said, "Let her go, just cry for her." ”

Zhao Qiuniang sighed, sat down slowly, and said to Li Zhen in a low voice: "It's the divorce letter sent by Wu Sansi's housekeeper, it seems that you are right, Cao Wen is indeed going to marry Wu Sansi's daughter." ”

Li Zhen sneered, "He may not like Wu Lilac, he only likes fame and fortune, and likes the backstage of Wu Sansi." ”

"Yes, your eldest sister told me yesterday that she had known that there would be such a day, and she wanted to do her best to save her marriage before selling the liquor store, but it was a pity that she worked so hard to become a successful liquor store. ”

"Sai Wen's loss of the horse, I don't know if it's a blessing, my eldest sister is a very capable person, without Cao Wen's burden, I believe she will do better, and I will do my best to help her

Li Zhen also secretly made up his mind, he wanted to do his best to help his eldest sister get out of the shadow of divorce as soon as possible.

"What, your eldest sister and brother-in-law are divorced?"

When Li Zhen calmly told Di Yan the news, she was still stunned, "How could this be?

Li Zhen poured her a glass of wine, "Why do I have to lie to you about this kind of thing, don't be surprised, that person will soon become Wu Sansi's fast son-in-law." ”

Di Yan just sobered up from the extreme shock, although it is normal for Tang people to divorce, but in her life, she rarely heard of a divorce between husband and wife, and she still knew the eldest sister of Quan, although Di Yan was angry because Li Quan didn't like her, but at this moment, she was full of sympathy for Li Quan in her heart.

She said angrily: "This kind of man who abandoned his wife in order to climb the high branches is really despicable and shameless, and I hope that he will be punished by evil." ”

Li Zhen raised his wine glass and drank it all, and said with a little sadness: "My eldest sister went to Chang'an early this morning, I don't know when I will see her?"

Di Yan didn't know how to comfort him, she poured Li Zhen a glass of wine, and said softly: "Chang'an is actually not far away, when you go to Chang'an on a mission, won't you have a chance to meet your eldest sister?"

"This is too"

Li Zhen said with a smile: "She went to Chang'an to do business again, I believe she can do something big, and I hope that one day her career will get bigger and bigger, and she will come back to Luoyang." ”

"How are your things now, I mean the expansion of the internal guard?" Di Yan didn't want to make Li Zhen even more sad, so she diverted the topic.

Li Zhen nodded, "Today's holy decree has been issued, the military department is making a specific plan, it is estimated that in two or three days, it will be officially implemented, I still decided to follow your advice and recommend Lu Jin as a general, the wine fat man is not qualified, wait a little longer."

The two were talking, only to hear the sound of rapid running from the other side of the stairs, Li Zhen turned around, only to see Jiuzhi running up sweating profusely, looking east and west to find something

"Here," Li Zhen waved at him angrily.

Jiuzhi saw them, hurriedly ran over, and said with a smile: "It turns out that Miss Di is also here, I'm really embarrassed?"

"What's the matter?" Li Zhen asked him.

Jiuzhi hurriedly whispered: "My father is here, and your head of the family is also here, and he said that he has something important to look for you." ”

The head of the Li family in Dunhuang is Li Jin, Li Zhen doesn't deal with him much, although he doesn't have a bad feeling for him, but he doesn't have a good impression of him, but Li Jin is anxious to see him as soon as he arrives, and he doesn't know what is important?

"What about Li Pan, did he go to see the head of the house?"

"He's talking to the head of the house, or I'll tell him you have something to do now, and I'll talk about it another day?" said Jiuzhi hesitantly.

At this time, Di Yan said: "Brother Li, since the head of the family is here, you still can't be too rude, you go and see him, I'll come to you another day." ”

Li Zhen really didn't want to see any family master, he originally had a very weak family concept, and now the matter of the eldest sister made him upset, how could he have any thoughts? But after thinking about it, he also felt that Di Yan said it well, even if it was out of courtesy, he should go to meet him and listen to what important things Li Jin had.

"Okay"

Li Zhen drank all the wine in the cup, made an appointment with Di Yan for the next meeting, and then got up and went downstairs with Jiuzhi.

Jiuzhi's father and Li Jin, the head of the Li family, temporarily live in the small house that Jiuzhi bought newly, the Li family has a house in Chang'an, but there is no house in Luoyang, but the Li family in Longxi has a mansion covering an area of ten acres in Luoyang, which is specially for the clansmen to live in Luoyang when they come to Luoyang to do business, Dunhuang Li is a branch of the Li family in Longxi, and Li Jin can also live in the Li family's mansion.

It's just that Li Jin was anxious to see Li Zhen, so he temporarily lived in Jiuzhi's mansion, and in the lobby, Li Jin was chatting with Jiuzhi's father, Jiu Yuanzheng, and Li Pan was also sitting aside

He is in his early forties this year, and is a famous butcher in Dunhuang, in the Han and Tang dynasties, most of the butchers were wealthy people, such as Fan Hao in the early Han Dynasty, Zhang Fei in the late Han Dynasty, and the town of Guanxi in the novel, etc., are all from the butcher.

Of course, Jiuzhi's family background is also good, but he is more partial to his younger son, and most of his property is left to his younger son, that is, Jiuzhi's younger brother, but he is more harsh on his eldest son, Jiuzhi, who basically didn't get any family property, and he relied entirely on his own hard work to earn money, and he also got a good future.

This made Jiu Yuanzheng secretly regret it, he always thought that the eldest son was not as good as the second son, but now it seems that the eldest son is much more productive than the younger son who killed pigs and sheep with him at home, and he was actually promoted to the captain of the internal guard, which really made him proud.

It is precisely for this reason that when the wine expedition spoke to Li Jin, who was usually high-minded, his waist was much straighter.

"It's rare for the head of the family to come to the capital, why don't you stay for a few more days? I'm going to leave tomorrow, it's too hasty."

"I mainly went to Longxi this time to participate in the Zhongyuan clan festival, I came to Luoyang just to see Ah Zhen, if I stay a few more days, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with the clan sacrifice, I can only wait for the next time I have time to come to Luoyang. ”

"Ah Zhen is good, he has been different since he was a child, people say that he is good at four years old, this is not bad at all, I said to his grandfather when he was three years old, at that time I said, your grandson is extraordinary, and the future is limitless, now it seems that I am not wrong at all haha"

Jiu Yuanzheng laughed heartily, but Li Jin was a little embarrassed, didn't this mean that the Li family had seen the wrong person? He had to smile reluctantly and didn't say a word.

At this time, Jiu Zhi and Li Zhen walked in briskly one after the other, and Jiu Yuanzheng laughed and said, "They are here."