Lucky husband

Zhao Chengze's grandfather and father admired Zhang Anhao very much, and they were both officials of the six ministries. They often invited Zhang Anhao and his son to Zhao's house when they were resting.

The last time Zhao Chengze's father mentioned this matter in a letter to him, he never expected that this resigned boss would suddenly appear in the little Changping County under his jurisdiction.

Not daring to delay, Zhao Chengze hurried out to receive the elder himself.

The concierge followed behind Zhao Chengze, worried that he had turned away the honored guest of the lord, and was worried that the lord would punish him later.

Zhang Anhao, Mr. Dehui, was standing at the side door of the backyard of the county government office together with the boy Wenzhu. Uncle Fu was sent by him to look for a house. He planned to live in Changping County for a while. A good house can be bought, or a small yard can be rented if there is no suitable long-term lease.

Seeing Zhao Chengze coming out to greet him in person, Mr. Dehui nodded in satisfaction: "You know the etiquette."

Zhao Chengze smiled wryly, and welcomed Mr. Dehui into the county office with a polite manner.

The concierge became even more terrified. He didn't dare to breathe loudly until his lord and the elegant old gentleman had left. It seemed that he would not be punished this time.

The concierge did nothing wrong, so of course Zhao Chengze would not punish him. It was the first time for Mr. Dehui to come to Changping County. The concierge was right not to let him in if he didn’t know him. I will settle accounts with him.

The two walked through the backyard to the front yamen. Zhang Anhao asked Zhao Chengze a lot of questions about Changping County, and Zhao Chengze also asked Zhang Anhao about the situation in the capital.

After talking for a long time, Zhang Anhao said one of the reasons why he came here to find Zhao Chengze: "I passed by Changping County on this trip, and I think your place is pretty good, and I plan to live here for a while. Do you have a courtyard with a better location?" Recommend it to me?"

"Uncle Zhang, do you want to live in Changping County?" Zhao Chengze was surprised. He thought Zhang Anhao was just passing by, but he didn't expect him to stay.

"Why, you kid don't welcome me?" Zhang Anhao looked at Zhao Chengze pretending to be angry.

"No, no, I'm too happy. With you in Changping County, I feel like I've put a big rock in my heart. I'm so at ease. I'm not afraid of anything." Zhao Chengze spoke from his heart, the legend has arrived Beside him is his familiar uncle, so why not welcome him.

Zhang Anhao took a sip of warm tea, and said slowly: "I decided to stay here because there is a kid who caught my eye. I plan to take a disciple to teach him, and you should be your parent. , I’m a bad old man, and I brought a housekeeper and a servant, but I can’t help you much.”

When Zhang Anhao said this, Zhao Chengze was even more surprised. Uncle Zhang had never accepted a disciple in the capital for so many years, and the only one he personally taught was his own son, Zhang Xiuyuan, who is only 39 years old and is the right servant of the Ministry of Punishment.

Unexpectedly, at this age, Uncle Zhang actually wants to accept apprentices. Now Zhao Chengze wants to see who is lucky enough to get his Uncle Zhang's favor, and also wants to see what the outstanding young people in Changping County look like.

"Come on, just tell me if you have a recommendation for a house in a good location." Zhang Anhao didn't want to talk about the matter of recruiting apprentices, and he didn't want to say it now that he hadn't written his horoscope yet.

"Uncle Zhang, if you don't mind, you can live in the backyard of my county government. There are still several empty yards, you can choose whatever you want." Zhao Chengze suggested secretly.

"Live behind your county office?" Zhang Anhao glanced at Zhao Chengze with disgust, "Your wife is in the capital with a child, so she won't be able to come here for a while, and your backyard is probably more chaotic than a pig's nest, so I won't go. "

Zhao Chengze smiled awkwardly. There was no hostess to take care of the backyard. Although it wasn't as messy as Zhang Anhao said, it was really not neat, and the men didn't notice so many details.

Zhang Anhao once again disliked Zhao Chengze: "Forget it, seeing that you can't come up with any good suggestions, I'd better let Uncle Fu look for it slowly."

Money is hard to buy. I knew it earlier. Zhao Chengze regretted that he was in a hurry when he took office. If he took his wife and walked slowly, he would not have been separated from his wife and children for so long, and now he would not be disgusted by Uncle Zhang.

But a woman's childbirth is a big event, and the wife is pregnant and gives birth in the capital, so it is more reassuring to have a mother to take care of him.

Zhang Anhao went to the county office. Apart from inquiring about the house, he mainly wanted to tell Zhao Chengze that he was here, and he had nothing special to look for him. Too much waiting will affect Zhao Chengze's handling of official affairs.

The backyard he entered through the door, when Zhang Anhao left the county government office, he walked through the front door of the county government office.

At that time, Li Chengshi happened to have something to discuss with Zhao Chengze. He glanced at Zhang Anhao's profile out of the corner of his eye. He felt that this person looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Standing on the spot and thinking for a while, Li Chengshi still didn't think of it, he shook his head and went into the room to find Zhao Chengze, put this look behind his head and reported the business.

Because Zhao Chengze wanted to thoroughly investigate the population of Changping County, he decided to cancel the rest in the middle of this month. Mu will be reduced from two days to one day.

Originally, Li Chengli planned to ask Li Chengshi to write the divorce letter when his third brother Xiu Mu came back in the middle of the month, but Li Chengshi did not reply, and the divorce letter could only be postponed.

Qian Xinghua from Qiantan Village had a good few days at Qian's house. This time, she did not directly hand over the food she brought back to Mrs. Qian. All the things Li's family brought back, including food, were moved into the room, and a strong lock was found to lock the door.

It is impossible for Qian Xinghua to not give anything when she lives in her mother’s house. She only sends her rations to the kitchen every day before cooking. If she wants to eat meat, she pays to go to the butcher to cut it. Two or three taels of meat.

In this way, her natal family can't say that she eats free food and doesn't give her enough food.

In fact, this time when Qian Xinghua was sent back, Mrs. Qian had given up on her and would not discipline her like last time. Qian Xinghua's worries were unnecessary.

Therefore, her behavior made her elder brother and fourth younger brother dissatisfied with her - a woman who was abandoned and returned to her natal family was still so arrogant in her natal family, she really thought they were taking advantage of her.

Qian Xinghua didn't care what the Qian family thought, she was planning the money and food in her hands, and waited for Li Chengli to send the divorce letter, and then she could immediately go to a matchmaker to arrange another marriage for her.

However, Qian Xinghua waited until two or three days after Xiumu's time passed, and Qian Xinghua didn't wait for Li Chengli to come. She became impatient and decided to go to Shanghe Village to ask Li Chengli what he meant.

Passing by the big pagoda tree in the center of Shanghe Village, Qian Xinghua was stopped by the aunt under the tree: "Mr. Li Qian, why are you returning to the village from outside alone?"

After Qian Xinghua was sent back to her natal family last time, she became much more peaceful when she returned to Li's house. She seldom went to chat with these women and daughters-in-law under the big locust tree in the center of the village. She would rather lie at home after finishing her homework. sleep well.

The rest of the Li family are not talkative people, so the villagers still don't know that Li Chengli sent Qian Xinghua away again, and they all think that she feels that the weather is hot now and she doesn't want to go out.

Qian Xinghua stared, and said dissatisfiedly: "Hey, don't talk nonsense, I am no longer Li Qian, I have gone back to my natal family, didn't the Li family tell you?"

"This Li Chengli is interesting. When he asked me to leave Qian Xinghua, he said it so simply. When I really left, they didn't explain it clearly in the village. They were still waiting for others to call me Li Qianshi. It's really ridiculous."

"I, Qian Xinghua, don't turn back. Li Chengli don't want me to go back to Li's house..."

Qian Xinghua was in front of these daughter-in-laws, and she talked about the fact that she and Li Chengli had separated, and the eyes of the daughter-in-laws were green, and they surrounded her and asked what was going on.

In Shanghe Village, Qian Xinghua still didn't dare to talk nonsense, she used Li Chengli's set of rhetoric: "If we can't get along, we can't get along and we can't get along, then we will separate. It's as simple as that, nothing else."

Can't get along?But don't be kidding, country people don't pay so much attention to marrying a wife. The two of them have been husband and wife for more than ten years, and their son and daughter are so old now, there is no reason why they can't get along now.

"Whether it fits or not, just let it go. The one in my family and I quarrel often. If we quarrel, let it go. Don't think about it."

"That's right, let's make do with it. My old man has a very stubborn temper and insists that we all listen to him. If you say that, I can't get along with him."

"Men are all the same. The Li family has split up again. You don't have a mother-in-law over your head, so there is no big conflict."

"Although the second kid from the Li family doesn't talk much, he doesn't beat or scold women, and he is willing to work. In a few years, you two will marry your daughters, and then bring your daughter-in-law in. It will be time for you to enjoy your blessings. Why are you making trouble with him?"

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These daughters-in-law and women talk to each other, as if they are trying to persuade Qian Xinghua not to fight with Li Chengli, but in fact they just want to know what happened to Li Chengli and Qian Xinghua, and the two actually got into a fight and wanted to divorce degree.

Yes, because what Qian Xinghua said was that the two could not survive and separate, and it seemed that Qian Xinghua did not make any particularly serious mistakes, so everyone acquiesced that Qian Xinghua's separation meant reconciliation.

How could Qian Xinghua fail to see that these women and daughters-in-law were trying to persuade her on the surface, but in fact they just wanted to see a joke, so she said disdainfully: "Cut, Li Chengli is just begging me, and I won't live with him anymore." Useless days."

Everyone was talking in a few words. At this time, Mrs. Li got the news and came from Li's house. She saw Qian Xinghua standing among the group of women and daughters-in-law, and walked over to her coldly and asked her, "Mr. Qian, What are you doing here?"

Qian Xinghua was also rude: "Grandma Li, you still have the nerve to ask me, who swore to let me go before, but still haven't given me the paperwork, what does your Li family mean?"

Listening to Qian Xinghua calling Mrs. Li as Mrs. Li, the elderly woman in Shanghe Village looked at her with something else in her eyes. They are all her elders, but she shouldn't call Mrs. Li like this out of reason.

When she walked over just now, Mrs. Li heard other people advise Qian Xinghua not to be impulsive, reconciliation is not a trivial matter, a man has a bad temper and a woman has to be tolerant.

Mrs. Li couldn't see Qian Xinghua's nostrils being higher than her eyes, and she couldn't see her slandering her son and telling the truth in front of everyone: "You think our Li family doesn't want to divorce you, a hapless woman, right? Because my third son Xiumu didn't come back this time, let him write a letter of divorce and send it to your Qian family on the day my third son comes back next time."

Divorce?Is it to divorce his wife, not to divorce?

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who were talking around Qian Xinghua just now shut up and quietly watched the pair who would no longer be mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quarrel.

At the beginning, Qian Xinghua chose to be divorced and then took away the things of Li's family, but she kept saying that she was reconciled with Li Chengli, but she was suddenly exposed by Li's old lady, which made her blush.

Being divorced is her own choice, she has already moved the things of the Li family away, if she regrets killing her, it is not impossible to say Heli, but thinking of Mrs Li's methods and Li Chengli's threat, she closed the door. Shut up, anyway, she didn't say whether she was reconciled or divorced just now, these people have misunderstood themselves, so they can't blame her.

If she insists that she is Heli, and if she really offends the old woman, she will tell what she has done, and her idea of ​​finding someone better to marry may not be easy to realize.

In fact, Qian Xinghua herself knew that she did not do well in some things, but she couldn't restrain herself from treating the two girls badly, because she disliked the two girls in her heart, and even had a kind of hatred for them.

The reason for this kind of hatred is very complicated. It may be because she and her sister-in-law Bai Xiuhe married into the Li family back then, and they became pregnant one after another. She felt that she couldn't stand up in the Li family, and she might be rejected by her mother-in-law.

In short, when she treated the two girls more and more badly, she formed a habit, taking it for granted that she should not and need not be nice to the two daughters.

If Li Chengli had discovered Qian Xinghua's idea at the beginning and enlightened her in a timely manner, maybe it would not have developed like this in the end, but Li Chengli is a man who can't speak, and Qian Xinghua himself is not very pleasing. The estrangement and conflicts between mother and daughter have accumulated more and more, which finally led to this result.

When Mrs. Li didn't accept it, Qian Xinghua glanced at her mouth and walked aside.

Old Madam Li frowned as she looked at the direction she was walking, and scolded, "Mr. Qian, where are you going?"

"I'm going to see my son." Speaking of Li Mingcai, Qian Xinghua puffed out her chest, and she was proud of giving birth to Mingcai.

Old Madam Li gave her a blank look: "Tomorrow I will go to Lao Tongsheng's place to learn how to read. You are not at home. You are not a member of our Shanghe Village now. Don't come to Shanghe Village if you have nothing to do!"

Unable to find an excuse to go to Li's house, Qian Xinghua muttered a few words, and left Shanghe Village in dismay.

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