How did the promised redemption villain become marriage first and love later?

Gongsun Wenyu was the first to react, and asked, "Then why did Zhou Zheng, the butler at that time, help Butler Xu? The two of them had never known each other before, and Butler Xu was just a child at that time."

Shen Lianyun glanced at Butler Xu, smiled slightly, and said: "Then I have to ask Butler Xu why he still goes to Zhou Zheng's house every three to five days to wipe people's bodies and feet, and treat people with care. Fruit delivery steamed cake."

Butler Xu was holding back what he said before, but when he heard Shen Lianyun's words, he suddenly picked up the table and chair not far away and threw it to pieces.

The surrounding servants looked puzzled.

Er Gouzi hurried over and said anxiously: "Housekeeper Xu, is this woman slandering you? I know that this woman has deep thoughts and speaks to the point of pain. Just wait, I'll tear her mouth apart!"

As soon as the voice fell, he rolled up his sleeves and rushed forward, but was stopped by Gongsun Wenyu, who said: "I can't tell that our housekeeper Xu is also an affectionate type, and he is used to picking people since he was in his teens and 20s." , Butler Zhou Zheng would actually cheat for personal gain because of you, but it's unexpected that our Butler Xu has been so affectionate for so many years."

I thought it was just a simple master and apprentice, but I didn't expect that it would be such an unbearable relationship from Gongsun Wenyu's mouth.

Er Danzi's face changed from confusion at the beginning to surprise. He looked down at Butler Xu, and finally decided to respect his own heart. He waved his fist and said, "You kid, what nonsense are you talking about? People, if you have any evidence, just pour dirty water on people at will!"

Gongsun Wenyu shrugged, picked up the account book that Shen Lianyun put down just now, flipped through it casually and said, "I guess Zhou Zheng bought housekeeper Xu back then. Of course, I believe that Miss Shen would not say these things for nothing. This ...should be regarded as evidence, right?"

While speaking, Gongsun Wenyu took out a contract from the booklet.

What this contract is written is not a contract of sale, but a marriage contract.

"The contract of sale was managed by Zhou Zheng. When he left, he was already suffering from a lot of illnesses. Lianyun guessed that he might have forgotten that the marriage contract was included in the booklet of the contract of sale, so he forgot to take it with him when he left."

"It just so happened that Lianyun was doing the accounting. It was such a coincidence that I saw it all over again, so after carefully sorting out the accounts over the years, there must be a proper explanation for the ins and outs."

There was an uproar around, even Er Gouzi couldn't believe it.

"Steward Xu, you and Steward Zhou..." Er Gouzi was dumbfounded. It was rumored that Butler Zhou was a sloppy-dressed butler who behaved extremely badly, and he pretended to be a dog in front of outsiders. Such a person, Steward Xu how can...

Butler Xu sighed, he knew that other things could be denied and justified, but as long as the marriage contract was presented, all words would be useless.

He said: "Yes, Zhou Zheng and I are husband and wife."

Gongsun Liangyu was a little puzzled, "Although our entire family of cultivators advocates male and female couples becoming Taoists, there is no express rule that men and women cannot form Taoist couples. Why did the housekeeper hide this matter?"

"Because..." Butler Xu gritted his teeth, "He's a beast!"

*

Steward Xu doesn't have a full name, he only has a nickname, and his family calls him Goudan.

From the beginning of his memory, he knew that this family has eaten the last meal without the next meal. Even if the father and mother go out to farm every day, God is not good, and the harvest is not optimistic every year.

Later, younger brothers and sisters were added to the family, and together with him and his father and mother, there were six people in the family who had to eat, but there was a locust plague that year, and the farmers had no harvest.

In desperation, Goudan could only go to Le Tan to find a job.

Le Tan City is not far from where they are plowing the fields. Every time my father and mother go out to go to the market, they will go to Le Tan.

Goudan put on straw sandals with several holes, got up early and rushed to Letan with his sister who still needed milk on his back.

As soon as he entered the city, he looked at the clean clothes of every pedestrian around him, and at his own clothes with dozens of patches, and couldn't help feeling depressed.

The bun shop next to it was steaming, Goudan breathed on his frozen hands, swallowed, tightened the basket behind him and walked forward.

He was so hungry, and the younger sister behind him kept crying, but no one stopped to look at them.

At this moment, a figure landed in front of him.

"Little brother, isn't he from Le Tancheng?" The man had two beards, was wearing a blue robe, and held a feather fan in his hand. He was not tall but very thin.

Goudan raised his dirty head, his messy hair was tangled together, his eyes were bright, and then he nodded, "There is a locust plague in the farmland, and there is no rice to eat at home. I came out to find a job."

The man smiled and gave Goudan two buns from the bun shop beside him, and said, "I treat you to eat these two."

Goudan saw that Baozi swallowed, but he still didn't take the bun. He said, "Uncle, is there a place to do some work here? I may take your food today, but I will still be hungry tomorrow, I think Find a job, at least my sister will not be hungry."

The baby in the basket behind her was crying loudly, there was no rice at home, my mother didn't even have milk, and my younger sister had been hungry for a long time.

The man knelt down, wiped the dirt off his face, and said with a smile: "Yes, uncle has a job as a servant in a rich family. If you want to go, uncle can introduce you, but my sister is too young." I can't take it with me."

"Uncle, I'll just let my sister go home!" Goudan was very happy, thinking that there are still many good people in this world.

The man looked at him and said, "No problem, but we have to sign a contract, and the big families have to sell their lives to enter."

"Okay, uncle." Goudan smiled and showed a row of white teeth. He really needed this job so much. He couldn't read, so he looked at the two pieces of paper in his hand and just asked, "Uncle, why did you sign two pieces of paper?" share?"

"Of course it's one for me."

Without doubting him, Goudan pressed his fingerprints on the two contracts.

After taking the silver from the deed of sale, he hurried home and let his father, mother and younger siblings who hadn't eaten rice for a long time have a full meal before resigning.

The Goudan who entered the Gongsun Mansion was renamed Xu Yiyan.

He said, "God, from now on you will be a servant of Gongsun's family, so you will naturally have a nice name. From now on, your name will be Xu Yiyan."

Goudan didn't dare to disobey, so he complied naturally.

For a long time afterwards, the man taught him to read and write, and taught him to make beads for the ledger.

He thought that the servants of Gongsun's family were treated like this.

But until one day, he was bullied by other young servants, and the young servant said, "It's just because of my infidelity with Steward Zhou that I can read and write again! Which big family can buy it for the young servant?" Paper, ink and pen?"

Only then did Goudan realize that the pens, inks, papers and inkstones he was studying were all bought by Housekeeper Zhou.

At that moment, he went to ask Steward Zhou, but he just said: "I will give you all the things you are interested in, and you can return it to me slowly when you grow up."

Goudan thought that "repaying slowly when he grows up" meant to repay all that Steward Zhou had paid to him over the years in the form of taels of silver.

So he nodded and said, "Okay, Steward Zhou."

A warm palm was placed on top of his head, and then a sigh was heard.

Goudan didn't know what Steward Zhou was sighing about, but since then he has a new goal.

That is to make money, earn a lot of silver, and return it to Butler Zhou in the future.

But that year's locust plague was so severe that the family soon ran out of money to buy rice, so he handed over a letter and asked Goudan to think of a way.

Goudan thought, Butler Zhou must have a solution.

Sure enough, Steward Zhou was able to give him 50 taels a month, and he recorded the figures of these taels in the booklet one by one, and when he grew up, he should return it to Steward Zhou.

After many years, Steward Zhou broke his leg due to an accident. He heard from the Patriarch that he was indeed old enough to retire, so he gave him severance pay.

Over the years, Steward Zhou has not saved any silver taels, so naturally he has no way to buy any house outside.

After spending the severance pay, they can only live on the streets.

But because of Butler Zhou's departure, Goudan has become the successor of Butler Zhou, and everyone praises Butler Zhou.

He sorted out the accounts that housekeeper Zhou had before, and every ambiguous amount was exactly the same as the account book that he recorded, and he probably understood it in his heart.

Then he searched for a long time, and finally found Butler Zhou in an alley on the street of Letan. He was lying in the haystack with a broken bowl next to it. There was still some rotten food in the bowl. There is a dog eating from his bowl.

"Butler Zhou." Goudan stood in front of him, and he said, "I finally found you."

Looking at the thin figure in the past, he stretched out his hand, and a light fell on his palm, like the last redemption.

Zhou Zheng, who was lying in the haystack, slowly opened his eyes. The young man in front of him was no longer the immature look he used to be. He looked at his figure carefully, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, and said, "What are you doing here?"

"You have been with Gongsun's family for so many years, yet they are still so ungrateful and ungrateful. They have been looking for you for a long time, and now they have finally found you." It was a paper-like person who memorized it, "I bought you a house, and you will live there from now on, and I will come to visit you whenever I have time."

"I'm no longer the housekeeper of the Gongsun family, so why do you..." Zhou Zheng hesitated to speak.

Goudan said calmly: "Yiyan has won Steward Zhou's assistance for many years, and this kindness must be repaid, not to mention that Yiyan has signed a marriage contract with Butler Zhou, why does Steward Zhou abandon a word and ignore it?"

"You..." Zhou Zheng was shocked.

That small, dirty face back then really melted into Zhou Zheng's heart, so his heart softened, and he tricked the illiterate into signing the marriage contract.

Now he is dying...

"Steward Zhou, now I am the housekeeper of the Gongsun Mansion. I have read all those deeds of prostitution. Is it really okay for you to include the deed of prostitution in the deed of prostitution?" The moonlight behind them pulled the two of them closer together. Very long, Goudan said as he walked, "I don't know if you asked me to sign the marriage contract as a joke back then, but Steward Zhou, you have kindness first, and you have already recognized you in your heart, even if you want to regret it , will not admit a word."

The long alley has no other traces except for the barking of dogs on both sides.

Late at night.

After walking for a long time, housekeeper Xu brought Zhou Zheng to the house he bought.

The house is not big, there are two tall trees on both sides of the gate, the door is freshly painted red, and there is a faint smell.Inside the house is a simple courtyard structure, with a boxy wooden table above the main hall.

"I know you love to write, so I specially sent someone to customize a wooden table for you, with pens, ink, paper and inkstones on it for you."

Goudan put Zhou Zheng on the wooden chair beside him, lit the candles, then squatted down and carefully looked at Zhou Zheng's feet.

The moment Goudan touched his ankle, Zhou Zheng frowned tightly.

He was not a person who couldn't bear pain, but this time the pain was so painful that people couldn't help but stiffen all over.

Goudan said: "I'm afraid it won't work if the wound heals the same as before. Butler Zhou, I'll make you a crutch as soon as I say it. I'll take care of you from now on."

Zhou Zheng looked at the boy, opened his mouth, and stopped talking.

For a long time after that, Goudan would add new things to their small house, and occasionally there would be some small gadgets on the market to make Zhou Zheng happy.

Over time, he also got used to living with a cane.

*

Shen Lianyun never thought that the result would be like this.

Thinking back carefully, what happened back then was most likely something that Gongsun Haoyan would have done.He killed them all, he would not be grateful to anyone who had been kind to him, and how could he buy a house for the housekeeper who used to be at home.

Butler Xu said: "That's the case with Steward Zhou. I did take the money from the Gongsun family. There is no doubt that I lost this bet. I am willing to leave the Gongsun family."

Gongsun Liangyu and Gongsun Wenyu naturally did not expect such a result.

It stands to reason that Gongsun's family has a lot of shops with land deeds in Letan, so how could they treat a housekeeper who has been serving the family all the year round so differently!

But looking back, the Gongsun family has indeed done all kinds of bad things in Le Tan these years, and this is the result of being riding on the head of the fifth-class family.

Butler Xu handed over the butler's token, knelt down and kowtowed three times, "Yiyan was originally a beggar, and he was born begging in the beginning. He was able to get his current status thanks to the care of Butler Zhou. Yiyan just wanted to fight for Steward Zhou's due. Yes, if this matter is wrong, then it is my fault, not Steward Zhou's."

After finishing speaking, he took out a sword from his waist and slashed fiercely towards his neck.

Fortunately, Gongsun Wenyu reacted quickly, and Steward Xu was an untrained person, so the sword in his hand was quickly taken away.

Gongsun Wenyu said: "Butler Xu doesn't have to be so impulsive. If there is indeed a reason for this, then death is not a crime."

Butler Xu raised the corners of his mouth, feeling a bit of bitterness in his heart.

Seeing this, Shen Lianyun lowered her eyes and said, "Take me to see Steward Zhou."

He looked at Shen Lianyun in surprise, trying to find out some clues, but he couldn't find any other emotions except seriousness.

At this point, Butler Xu nodded, "Okay, follow me."