New widow

"I won't hide it from you. Because of this, I was beaten by the old minister." When Butler Qiu said this, he seemed to think of the pain of the stick hitting his body for forty or fifty years. I have never tasted what a stick feels like, and now I taste it again.

"My father said it when he was still alive, saying that it was because our family was poor that he had to send you to the Minister's Mansion, and your monthly money was also sent home to support the family. Later, when my father married my mother, It's still the betrothal gift given by your uncle. I often tell our siblings that we should be grateful to you." Mrs. Chu's words were sincere. Butler Qiu couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and Magistrate Chu couldn't sit still. His wife was What do you mean, you have to support this butler? Then where should I put my face?

So Magistrate Chu coughed lightly and wanted to tell Mrs. Chu that some things could only be done with the permission of her husband. Mrs. Chu heard her husband's cough and knew what he was thinking, so Mrs. Chu said to Butler Qiu: "As long as I can do it, uncle, you can just say it."

"I wonder if my niece-in-law can go to the Shangshu's Mansion and ask for a favor from the old Minister, allowing us to take some belongings and leave the Shangshu's Mansion." Butler Qiu then turned to Mrs. Chu and said very sincerely.

Chu Zhixian wished he could cut ties with Butler Qiu. When he heard Butler Qiu's words, Chu Zhixian's expression turned ugly.

Mrs. Chu had been married to him for more than ten years, so she certainly knew what her husband's expression meant, so Mrs. Chu thought about it for a long time before saying to Butler Qiu: "Uncle, normally, we should..."

"This matter cannot be agreed." Chu Zhixian had already said this coldly. Hearing Chu Zhixian's words, Butler Qiu was inevitably disappointed. Then Butler Qiu said: "I also know that this will definitely be difficult for my niece and son-in-law. , then let me ask you one more thing."

"Say it!" Mrs. Chu no longer looked at her husband, and Chu Zhixian had tightly grasped the armrest of the chair and clenched his teeth. His wife knew what she was talking about. How dare she, how dare she ?

"I have your two nephews at home, please take them away." Butler Qiu's words made Mrs. Chu sigh in relief, and then Mrs. Chu said: "My sister-in-law, have you..."

"I was sold by the official. I don't know where it was sold to." Butler Qiu knew that he couldn't hide it, so he simply said it. When the county magistrate heard that he was going to take in a child of a death row prisoner, he stood up and wanted to stop it. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Chu had already said : "I am their aunt, this is what I should do."

"Shut up!" Chu Zhixian didn't care much and yelled. Mrs. Chu had already looked at her husband: "I know what you are going to say, but their two children are not implicated. They are following their uncle. Uncle is already old, so naturally it will not be possible." , then follow me, at least I will have a piece of food for them, and later on, I will buy them a property in other places, marry them, have children, and extend their bloodline."

"Then do you know who they are? I am an official in the early days, how can I accept such an entrustment." Chu Zhixian was unwilling to agree, but Mrs. Chu sneered: "I was an official in the early days, you are now Are you going to show off to me? When I married you, you were just a poor scholar from a foreign country. My uncle thought you were a good person, so he promised me to you. When you married me, you were just renting me. After living in those two shabby houses for a few days, you wrote from your hometown, thanking my uncle and my brother for buying me a dowry. My dowry was worth three or four hundred taels of silver. I followed you back home, used the money to renovate the house, and bought another house. Only after cultivating several acres of land can you study for ten years and pass the exam. Now that you have obtained an official position, you despise me!"

Everything Mrs. Chu said was true, but in the ears of Chu Zhixian, it all sounded like a murderous knife, so Chu Zhixian sneered: "It is said that when you marry a chicken, you will follow the chicken, and if you marry a dog, you will follow the dog. A woman gives her dowry to her husband." Studying is your duty, but now, you regard all this as a favor?"

Mrs. Chu didn't expect her husband to beat him up like this. She was stunned for a long time before saying, "Then tell me, what should I do?"

"My uncle gave you one hundred taels of silver as a dowry, so now we will add half of it, one hundred and fifty taels of silver, to give to your uncle so that he can raise the two children. After all, these two children are named Qiu. , it’s better here.” Zhixian Chu quickly calculated in his mind, and Mrs. Chu almost fell backwards in anger: “Okay, okay, you have to cancel the kindness of so many years with one hundred and fifty taels of silver, then Where are my parents’ graves?”

"If you encounter something like this, if you don't leave quickly, why do you have to visit the grave here?" Chu Zhixian asked, and Mrs. Chu nodded: "So, you don't allow me to go in and see my brother?"

"But what's good to see is just a death row prisoner. Besides, if you go to see him, he may ask you to save him when he sees that you have become an official's wife, but you can't save him." Chu Zhixian said It's a fact. Not to mention Mrs. Chu, even Chu Zhi County has no ability to rescue Qiu Da.

When Butler Qiu heard the couple arguing in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh: "That's it, that's it!"

"Uncle!" Mrs. Chu called, and Butler Qiu smiled at Mrs. Chu: "I know you are thinking of me, but times have changed and things are different now."

"Uncle, me," Mrs. Chu wanted to say that she still remembered those graces, but Mrs. Chu looked at Chu Zhixian, but she couldn't say those words.

"You don't have to feel bad." Butler Qiu comforted Mrs. Chu in turn: "I stayed with the old minister, following his ups and downs in officialdom, and I have never seen anything happen." After saying that, Butler Qiu said to Chu Zhixian: "I only hope you can Remember my niece’s kindness in giving her dowry to help you study, and treat her well.”

Could County Magistrate Chu not be able to treat Mrs. Chu well? He could only nod his head to Butler Qiu, who then said to Mrs. Chu: "I'm leaving, I'm leaving. You have to keep a thin line in everything, otherwise just like now, if you think you can do everything, who knows? But the family was destroyed.”

Mrs. Chu was frightened when she heard the words "family and family destroyed", but Butler Qiu had already walked out in a hurry. Mrs. Chu then turned back to Zhixian Chu and said, "I know you don't want to, but you also want it, and you also want it..."

"What do I want?" Chu Zhixian interrupted Mrs. Chu: "What do I want to do? What I said is very clear. Your uncle also knows the meaning of my words. You and I are going to take office, don't we? Why don’t you have to bring two more burdens with you?”

"My parents died too early, and my brother and I depended on each other for our lives. In terms of love and reason, I should also..."