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Chapter 546 Retirement

Jiao Lianyu and Aunt Huang were still guessing what happened to Jiao Zhifu's visit to Mrs. Jiao two days ago, and before their mother and son figured it out, the whole family knew about it.

"Retirement? What exactly is the master thinking? This back and forth..." Aunt Huang didn't care to wipe the sweat from her forehead, and kept walking back and forth in the room, happy on the one hand and worried on the other.

Waving his hand to let the young man who reported the news retreat to the door to guard, Jiao Lianyu sat up with pain and leaned on the bed. Being engaged to Qiu Jingyuan, a criminal minister's daughter, has advantages and disadvantages, but this is the first thing that was explained by the superiors.

"Since the master wants to retire, he should have prevented Madam from proposing marriage in the first place. Such a toss will damage your reputation." Aunt Huang sat down on a chair when she was tired from walking. She is used to following her son's advice when encountering important matters. , could not help but continue: "Do you think there is something tricky in this?"

Jiao Lianyu quickly went through the events of the past few days in her mind, and found no omissions or abnormalities. The previous rumors, no matter whether they were in the mansion or outside, were not sent by her own people, even if the wife went to check, she would not be able to find out. out.

"If my father blamed my mother for taking my marriage, my mother should have come forward for the resignation, instead of asking my aunt to bring the official media to see Mrs. Qiu." Jiao Lianyu was sure that something happened that she didn't know .

Two quarters of an hour later, Aunt Huang left, but she saw a servant carrying water into the inner room, waited on Jiao Lianyu to drink the water, and then said in a low voice: "Master just sent the news that Madam Qiu gave Zhan Feiyu posted."

"You mean it was Zhan Feiyu's handwriting?" Shocked, Jiao Lianyu straightened up and hissed in pain because of the wound, but at the moment he couldn't care less, and asked with a gloomy expression, "It's Zhan Feiyu Messed up? Could it be that father will backtrack on his promise!"

Zhan Feiyu had the grace to save Jiao Lianyu's life. After all, He Nuan didn't have the medicine to ban Longwei. Jiao Lianyu was probably stabbed to death by Li Li's knife.

The magistrate Jiao has been an official for many years, but he still has the nobility and integrity of a literati. If Zhan Feiyu got involved with the grace of saving his life, it would be normal for the magistrate Jiao to agree to retire.

After all, the prefect Jiao didn't like the marriage at the beginning, Mrs. Jiao was the one who cut it off first, and now that she has an honest reason to withdraw the marriage, the prefect Jiao must follow the trend.

"Zhan Feiyu wrote a letter to Zhifu Jiao before, but it's a pity that Zhifu Jiao burned it after reading it. No one knows what was written in the letter." The servant continued to answer in a low voice, because the person who sent the letter was He Sheng, So their people did not dare to snatch it.

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On the second day, the front hall of the other courtyard.

As soon as you step into the yard, you can smell the strong scent of snake repellent. Fortunately, the smell is not unpleasant, a bit like a strong sandalwood scent.

After the maid who delivered the tea retreated, the gray-haired Aunt Jiao asked with a smile, "I knew Jingzhen would come over, I should have gone back to stay for one night yesterday, and go out with you in the morning."

"I'm sorry to trouble you, sister-in-law, to make this trip." Mrs. Jiao said a few polite words with a smile.

Although he is an elder, he is a cousin after all, and the magistrate Jiao has no choice but to ask Mrs. Jiao to withdraw from the marriage. Anyway, this status is more suitable than Aunt Huang.

The prefect of Jiao is the highest official in the Jiao family. Aunt Jiao knows about the conflict between the two grandnephews of her natal family, but at her age, even if it is for the sake of her children and grandchildren, she will not interfere with the prefect Jiao without courtesy. chores.

Regardless of whether it is Jiao Lianping or Jiao Lianyu who inherits the Jiao family in the future, they are her nephews to Aunt Jiao, as long as they get along well.

Aunt Jiao glanced outside the door again, but saw that the serving maids were all standing under the steps, as long as the voices in the room were not loud, the maids would never hear them, so she felt relieved and continued: "This marriage It's really inappropriate."

If Mrs. Jiao, the niece and daughter-in-law, took advantage of the concubine's marriage, Mrs. Jiao would not believe it. Jingzhen was also from everyone. If she wanted to deal with the concubine, Jiao Lianyu would not live to be three years old. She would not do anything for the first 20 years. Why bother to play tricks when the bastard has become a climate.

Knowing that the aunt was trying to test it, Madam Jiao was naturally not afraid of the rumors outside, she raised the corners of her mouth and smiled, and replied slowly.

"No matter what the master says, he is a fourth-rank magistrate, but the marriage between Jiao Lianyu and Miss Qiu's family was rumored in the streets and alleys overnight, and he knelt down in front of the master and begged. The matter has come to an end and we can't ruin the reputation of the girl's family, otherwise it will be true." I want to force an innocent little girl to death, so I am the beauty of being a aunt."

Mrs. Jiao was stunned for a moment. At that time, she suspected that this was the rumor from the third house of the Qiu family. After all, it was better to marry Lianyu, the second son of the prefect's family, than to marry Xiang Changshou, the sick child.

"You mean that Lianyu begged you?" Aunt Jiao's expression was a little weird when she saw Mrs. Jiao nodded, and she couldn't help but said after a while, "I've wronged you like this."

Mrs. Jiao's reputation is not good now, and even Jiao Lianping was slandered by a group of noble scholars. Fortunately, Mrs. Jiao is a housewife, and Jiao Lianping is a dude, no matter how much these people fight for Jiao Lianyu, they will not be able to get in front of the mother and son.

"Sister-in-law, don't worry. The marriage of Jiao Lianyu is approved by the master no matter whether it is an appointment or withdrawal. After a while, Mrs. Qiu will come over. If there is any inconvenience, sister-in-law, just blame me." Mrs. Jiao added with a smile, no matter what I can't let my sister-in-law be this villain, after all, Qiu Jingyuan is also from the Qiu family.

The reason why Zhan Feiyu came a moment late was because Mrs. Qiu and the eldest daughter-in-law Hu Shi arrived, and Zhan Feiyu just went to the gate to greet them.

Hearing the movement outside, Mrs. Jiao and Aunt Jiao also got up and walked towards the door immediately. Aside from the identities of Mrs. Qiu and Zhan Feiyu, this is a matter of the Jiao family after all.

Although Mrs. Qiu and Mrs. Jiao had a good personal relationship, it was inevitable that they exchanged pleasantries, and everyone sat down again.

Gao Shi, who came here together, is sitting at the bottom. As an official media, it is reasonable to say that he is the most eloquent, but even if this meeting is confused, Gao Shi does not dare to speak easily.

Especially when he saw Zhan Feiyu, a little girl with a double bun, sitting on the main seat, and the one on the right was Mrs. Qiu, the second-rank imperial order, Gao Shi became more cautious, no matter what he heard for a while, What, she just needs to follow the orders of these nobles.

"In the final analysis, I was young and brought such trouble to the two ladies." Zhan Feiyu stood up and solemnly apologized to Mrs. Qiu and Mrs. Jiao, "Young Master doesn't want Mrs. Jiao to suffer innocent injustice, plus I can be regarded as saving my life to the Second Young Master, so I wrote a letter to Zhifu Jiao, hoping that Zhifu Jiao can withdraw the marriage..."

Mrs. Gao was stunned when she heard this, she dared to admit that the rumors about Mrs. Jiao Er and Ms. Qiu were not released by Mrs. Jiao. In order to clear up the innocence of her mother, the eldest son asked the little girl to "repay her kindness with kindness." " asked Zhifu Jiao to withdraw from the marriage. Since the marriage was withdrawn, there is no such thing as the mother-in-law using the marriage to manipulate the concubine.

Mrs. Gao understood, and glanced calmly at Mrs. Qiu, who was sitting in the main seat. She couldn't write two Qiu families, and the third family was defeated. I heard that she was the darling of the whole family, but now she has been engaged and divorced for no apparent reason, and I don't know if Mrs. Qiu will be displeased.

If Qiu Jingyuan is really a good girl, Mrs. Qiu will definitely protect her. Unfortunately, she is young, with vicious thoughts and cruel actions. If Mrs. Qiu hadn't wanted to protect the reputation of the Qiu family, she would not have come here today. , the left and right are all about the three bedrooms.

Zhan Feiyu took all the "crime" on himself, and made the Qiu family face. Mrs. Qiu was full of kindness, and smiled and said, "What do you know about a small family? After all, it's Lian Ping He was rushed to the doctor in a hurry."

Mrs. Jiao also echoed: "Madam is right. Only my incompetent son can do this absurd thing. The child has already started to study, but I am still like a kid. I don't have any rules for talking and doing things. Miss Zhan."

Mrs. Jiao didn't care about splashing dirty water on Jiao Lianping, and she didn't have a good reputation in Qianzhong Road, so there was not much to add.

Seeing this, Mrs. Gao also breathed a sigh of relief, otherwise this one would be the magistrate's wife, and the other would be the wife of the chief envoy. Gods would fight, and mortals would suffer. Gao was really afraid that he, a small official media, would be caught in the middle. Both parties have reached agreement.

After withdrawing the Geng post and also returning the tokens of each other, the marriage can be regarded as a settlement. Looking at the few people who had a happy conversation, Gao suddenly understood that he came here not only for the purpose of withdrawing the marriage, but also to make the marriage a reality. The whole story spread out.

(End of this chapter)