Chapter 67 The Zhou Family
"Husband, what is the grudge between the young man and those people?"
As soon as Song Che climbed onto the passenger boat, Shen Wenjun ran over and asked.
"The young man has knocked out a few teeth, and he doesn't speak very well, and I don't know why I asked for a long time......"
"Huh? It's so serious! Why don't you bring him on the boat, and let's take him all the way to the city for healing. ”
"Uh...... Madame rest assured, the young man is strong-blooded, and he will be cured in a few days, and I have given him some silver taels, and I have also scared off the group of evil servants, and this matter will not ferment again. ”
"Humph! I really don't know which evil servant it is, even a child can do it...... With such a minion, the family will be doomed sooner or later. ”
"yes, yes...... "Your mother's house will be finished sooner or later."
Song Che suddenly pointed to the river bay: "Madam, look, the harbor has arrived, and it is so angry." ”
Shen Wenjun stepped on the bow of the boat again and looked at it with interest, "That's natural, this is the Qiantang River, but unfortunately it's summer now, and the tide is much gentler, if it is before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the rolling Qiantang tide will shake the city of Hangzhou!" ”
The passenger ship slowly returned to port.
"Masaaki! I've seen Yazhao! Shen Wenjun didn't wait for the boat to get closer, so he waved towards the dock.
A woman dressed in emerald green clothes, standing by the wharf in the wind, sometimes sparing her hair, stretching her pink neck left and right in anticipation, she didn't have a telescope, of course she couldn't see Shen Wenjun.
When the passenger ship arrived at the dock, the boat boss and the sailor lowered the gangway and fixed the anchor before beckoning Song Che and Shen Wenjun to disembark.
"Masaaki!" Shen Wenjun rushed off the boat.
Zhou Yazhao heard the greeting and saw Shen Wenjun, and also rushed forward to greet him, two women of the same age, holding hands and smiling like silver bells.
"Yazhao, I haven't seen you for two years, and you've become more and more beautiful." Shen Wenjun said with a smile.
Zhou Yazhao smiled and said nothing, and pulled Shen Wenjun's face, his eyes were full of spoiling.
"Hello." Song Che smiled and stepped forward to say hello.
Zhou Yazhao was a little puzzled.
"By the way, let me introduce to you, his name is Song Che, and he is my husband." Shen Wenjun held Song Che's arm, his face flushed.
Zhou Yazhao covered his mouth in shock, clenched his fist and gently smashed it at Shen Wenjun, made a gesture of "love each other", and gave Song Che a thumbs up.
My wife's best friend turned out to be a dumb girl?
In terms of figure and appearance, she is no worse than Shen Wenjun, but unfortunately she is a disabled person.
"This is Yazhao, Zhou Yazhao, she and I are the best in the Zhou family." Shen Wenjun and Song Che introduced.
Song Che smiled and asked, "I don't know if it's my sister or my sister?" ”
Zhou Yazhao covered his mouth and laughed.
Song Che scratched his head, "Aren't they?" ”
"Yazhao is the youngest daughter of the old lady, in terms of seniority, you and I have to call her an aunt," Shen Wenjun took Zhou Yazhao's hand again: "Yazhao and I were born in the same year and month, and the days are only one day apart, we are of the same age, we are aunts and nephews in terms of generation, in fact, we are like sisters." ”
The old lady is seventy and three this year, although the old lady is deceased, the age should be about the same, if Zhou Yazhao and Shen Wenjun are also in their teens, then the old lady and the old lady were born in their fifties, men can still have children at the age of fifty, but women are already menopausal in their fifties, and even if they are lucky enough to conceive, they can't risk giving birth......
There was a carriage behind Zhou Yazhao, there was not a single servant, and then looking at her hands, they were much rougher than Shen Wenjun, which really did not match the identity of the daughter of a rich family-
There may be only one reason to explain all this, that is, Zhou Yazhao is not born to the old lady, but the concubine born to the little wife, and maybe she is not even a concubine.
You must know that a rich man has a group of wives and concubines in the house, and countless wild flowers outside the house.
Besides, she's still mute.
Alas, why is such a beautiful girl a mute?
Song Che asked the boat boss to help hire a carriage to carry the silk and others into the car, and Zhou Yazhao insisted on paying for the money when he gave the money.
Her pockets are not bulging, and they are all copper coins and broken silver, so she can't be very rich.
"Yazhao, how have you been doing all these years?" Shen Wenjun asked.
Zhou Yazhao smiled and nodded.
"Do you have a favorite Lang Jun? I'll be your matchmaker. Shen Wenjun asked again.
Zhou Yazhao blushed and shook his head.
"Hehehe...... Yazhao is so beautiful, if you want to marry your man, I'm afraid I'm going to break through the house, right? Shen Wenjun said with a smile.
A trace of sadness flashed in Zhou Yazhao's eyes, but the next moment the haze was swept away, and he was still smiling, either nodding or shaking his head.
Along the way, the two talked about everything, most of them were Shen Wenjun asked, and Zhou Yazhao gestured.
Song Che sat aside and took in the look of the mute woman, her smile was sometimes innocent, but most of it was fake.
Perhaps this is the common disease of the deaf and mute, who always hide their truest thoughts and grieve alone in the dead of night.
On the way to Zhou's house, Song Che asked for information about the members of the Zhou family again, so as not to enter the Grand View Garden and make a fuss-
Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Zhou have six children, the eldest son is called Zhou Cang, who died at the age of forty, and the wife of the big house, Zheng, has a son and a daughter under his knees, that is, Shen Wenjun's eldest cousin and eldest cousin. The son's name is Zhou Shijie, who is frail and sickly, and is congenitally deficient; The daughter's name is Zhou Hui, and she is married to a well-known shoe merchant in Hangzhou;
The mother and son of the big house are in charge of the three Zhou firms.
The second son is called Zhou Gui, who is amorous and amorous, has seven or eight wives and concubines, and his wife Wang has two twin sons, namely Zhou Shaolong and Zhou Shaohu, the two of them perfectly inherited their father's nature, Shaolong and Shaohu, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling;
The father and son of the second room are in charge of the five Zhou firms.
The third son is named Zhou Pu, his wife died early, and he has a son named Zhou Tianci. This father and son are amazing, and they can be regarded as the mainstay of the Zhou family.
Zhou Pu is in charge of Zhou's ten commercial firms, and although his son Zhou Tianci is not in business, he is the chief academician of Hangzhou's "Lingyin Academy".
The second daughter is her mother-in-law, Zhou Yumei, who married into the Shen family in Suzhou.
The youngest daughter is called Zhou Yuping, who married far away to Jingzhou, and her husband is a transfer envoy to Jingzhou and a local financial official;
As for Zhou Yazhao, Xu took into account her birth, Shen Wenjun didn't say much, but nine times out of ten she guessed the same as Song Che, she was the illegitimate daughter of the old lady who was impulsive and outside.
The above is only direct blood, some collateral cousins, distant cousins, if you really have to calculate it carefully, a few pairs of hands are not enough.
The older people are, the more afraid of loneliness, the old lady has been widowed for many years, and her daughter's marriage is like cutting her heart, so several children and grandchildren naturally want to stay by her side.
What the old lady thought was that the family was reunited and happy, so the sons did not divide the family, and all lived in the Zhou house.
However, the old man is not as good as a day, and one day he will go west and leave such a large sub-industry, who will succeed the master's family?
The family affection that blood is thicker than water is really vulnerable before the family wealth.