New widow

"I will remember your words, I will be fine, I will definitely be fine." Xia Yun seemed to have sworn, Su Qiao looked at Xia Yun with loving eyes: "You will all be fine."

"Cousin, I will miss you." Song Zhen came over and hugged Xia Yun. Xia Yun hugged Song Zhen back: "I will miss you too."

"When I return to the capital, I will think of a way to let my grandmother and uncle come out of the Chen family. When the time comes, they will come back with us, and my sister will no longer have to miss them." Song Zhen's words made Xia Yun Smiling, if Song Zhen wants to think of a way, she can naturally think of it, but whether the Chen family lets it go or not depends on what the Chen family thinks.

When Wan'er knew that Su Qiao was going to take Song Zhen back to the capital, her eyes turned red from crying. She held Song Zhen's hand and talked a lot. Song Zhen said to her with a smile: "Don't cry like this, I'm not a girl." Whether I’m going back or not, and besides, I’ve left my cousin here, and my cousin is with you, just like I’m with you.”

"Sister Xia Yun is very good, but she is still different from you." Wan'er said coquettishly, and Xia Yun already smiled: "You can say this in front of me, and you are not afraid of making me angry."

Wan'er couldn't help but stick out her tongue and show a shy smile. Suqiao looked at them. The children's friendship was so sincere, but what she was about to face when she returned to Beijing was lies. And if she uncovered these lies, she would also encounter Many difficulties. But no matter how difficult it is, Su Qiao will do it.

Zhang Qing received the dismissal document and stayed in the city for a few days. After all, there were still several gentry families to visit, and the most important thing was that even if Zhang Qing was angry with the prefect, he still had to go to the prefect's Yamen to say goodbye.

The prefect saw Zhang Qing this time, which was different from the previous times. The prefect's face was full of joy, but he also said something about being reluctant to leave Zhang Qing. Zhang Qingxiao learned about the lies in the officialdom of the government. He only smiled and said: "Thanks to your care these days, I have learned a lot of things."

"You young man will inevitably do some wrong things. Fortunately, these wrong things are not too outrageous. In the future, when I go to the capital, I will visit you." Naturally, the prefect will not care about Zhang Qing. What, just say what you want to say.

Zhang Qing smiled, and did not argue with the prefect anymore, but said goodbye and went out. The prefect personally sent Zhang Qing out this time. The butler in the prefect's Yamen had been replaced, and he seemed to be more honest and honest than the original one. Zhang Qing glanced at the butler's face and knew that the governor had pushed the butler out last time as a scapegoat.

Sure enough, the prefect had been doing this for many years and was familiar with official affairs. It was ridiculous that he and Su Du originally thought they could convince the prefect, but they were afraid that the prefect was laughing at themselves.

The prefect saw Zhang Qing to the gate of the yamen. When Zhang Qing turned around to say goodbye, a carriage stopped in front of the yamen. The curtains were opened. Aunt Wu had already said to Zhang Qing: "Mr. Zhang, let's go to the yamen to look for you. Said you came to the prefect's Yamen."

Seeing Su Qiao's carriage, the look on the prefect's face suddenly became very ugly. Now that there was no one to protect him, Su Qiao's life was not in his own hands and could be rounded and flattened by himself.

Zhang Qing didn't expect that Su Qiao would come looking for him, so he couldn't help but groaned. Su Qiao lifted the car curtain and saw the prefect's ugly look. Su Qiao just smiled and said to Zhang Qing: "Master Zhang, we have to go back to Beijing too." , Let’s go together then.”

"So Mrs. Kuang is also going back to Beijing?" Zhang Qing said this doubtfully, then smiled and said: "That's great."

When he heard that Su Qiao was going back to Beijing, the prefect shouted loudly: "No."

"Sir, what you said is so strange. I was married in the capital, and I only came here for a short stay. Why can't I go back to the capital?" Suqiao looked at the prefect with a smile, and her words were thorny.

The prefect looked at Suqiao: "You."

"Do you really think that I am a concubine under your rule?" Su Qiao only said this lightly, and Aunt Wu had already laughed: "When the prefect goes to the capital to elect officials, you will know that the gate of the British Palace , but not everyone can get in.”

British government? The magistrate suddenly raised his head and looked at Su Qiao. Su Qiao smiled calmly: "Don't bully others."

After saying this, Su Qiao said to Zhang Qing: "Now that it's settled, I'll go back and pack my bags, and wait until that day to return to Beijing together."

"Okay!" Zhang Qing said loudly, watching Su Qiao's carriage leave, and then the prefect said: "She said, British Duke?"

"Ms. Kuang is indeed from the British Duke's family." After Zhang Qing finished speaking, he looked at the prefect: "Your Excellency, you must know that I got this job because of my merits, and this merit was to investigate the murder of the British Duke. Things get done.”

"I thought, I thought." The prefect read two sentences in succession, but did not say the following words. Zhang Qing still looked at the prefect: "Did your Excellency originally think that Lady Kuang was kicked out by the British government? So Kuang Your Excellency also ignores Mrs. Kuang, so you can bully an orphan widow unscrupulously."

Speaking of bullying an orphan widow, Zhang Qing's voice rose a little higher. The prefect looked at Zhang Qing and said, "I didn't think so."

"Whether Lord Shu thinks this way has nothing to do with me." After Zhang Qing finished speaking, he bowed to the prefect and turned to leave.

The magistrate's expression became extremely ugly, and then the magistrate snorted coldly from his nose. What does this mean? Master Kuang is standing in front of him anyway. He is just guilty of failing to control the people below him, and it is so minor that he does not need to be scolded. , I will only be told that I need to be cautious in doing things in the future.

When Su Qiao's carriage left the city, Su Qiao suddenly said to Aunt Wu: "Let's go and see Zhen'er's mother's grave."

After Song Zhen came back, she often visited Zhu's tomb, but Su Qiao never went there. Although Mother Wu was surprised, she still asked the coachman to go to Zhu's grave.

Zhu's cemetery is very simple, and the stone tablet on it does not contain a certain clan, but was erected by Song Zhen in her own name. The tomb of the loving mother Zhu was erected with her daughter weeping. There are no days of birth, only days of death. Because neither Song Zhen nor Nanny Wu, who came to help Song Zhen with the funeral, knew exactly when Zhu was born.

She only knew Zhu's approximate age. Suqiao looked at Zhu's tomb and whispered: "She was only in her early thirties when she died."

"She must have been eighteen when she was sent off to be married off." Nanny Wu tried hard to recall, and finally recalled Zhu's age when she was sent off to be married off.

"That's thirty-one years old." Su Qiao knelt down and reached out to touch the stone tablet. This woman, who was floating like duckweed, couldn't control her life, and she couldn't control who she married. She couldn't refuse Song An, because Song An was the master, and she couldn't refuse Song An. Wu's offer of marriage cannot be refused because Wu is the mistress.