Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

To achieve this goal, Mr. Zhou also contacted his sister, Zhou Taiye and Zhou Taima's youngest daughter, Zhou Ergu.

Back when the Zhou family became the Duke of Zhenguo, Zhou Ergu, who was only in her twenties, always wanted to divorce and go home to remarry. However, Old Master Zhou kept suppressing her, saying that it would bring shame to the family. As a result, even though the Zhou family had become wealthy over the years, she was still living in the countryside with her despised villager husband.

Now, in order to get someone to help him seize the title, Master Zhou contacted Aunt Zhou, saying that if she helped him take the throne, he would definitely support her divorce in the future.

Although she is now in her thirties, a daughter of a duke in her thirties, even if she divorces and remarries, will definitely be better than her current husband. She can then have another son or daughter and still live happily without having to suffer in the countryside anymore.

When Aunt Zhou heard this, how could she not agree?

Her eldest brother, Master Zhou, listens to their father and won't help her. Now that her second brother is willing to help her, she naturally has to help him.

So he used the excuse that he had heard his father was ill and wanted to visit him to come to the capital.

The reason why Mr. Zhou asked Ms. Zhou for help was because he really couldn't find any more people.

He had finally found someone, but they had disappeared. Now, Master Zhou dared not look for them outside, fearing that not only would no one help him, but they would also swindle him out of the money he had painstakingly saved. Or, if the people outside were disloyal to him and told others about it, it would be even more terrifying. Before he could even start, the boss would find out.

So after thinking it over, Master Zhou decided to call Aunt Zhou over and arrange for her to do these things.

Since Zhou Ergu's interests are intertwined with his, she will definitely help him honestly. And once what she did is exposed, as long as she has no evidence, even if she confesses, he can deny it and say that Zhou Ergu is just throwing caution to the wind and trying to implicate him. In any case, it is much better than him taking action himself.

Although he has a wife and children, how could he let his wife and children do such a harmful thing? It would be best to let Zhou Ergu do it.

If he succeeds, he will keep his promise and be worthy of her; if he fails, she will be the one who suffers. At most, he will be implicated by Zhou Ergu and get into trouble. Anyway, his wife and children will be fine. After all, he can't risk his whole family for wealth and status.

Actually, he was just betting that if his plan failed, his brother would only blame him and wouldn't take his whole family to court and have them killed. After all, unless his parents were both dead, they would definitely stop his older brother from killing his whole family.

The only thing that bothered him was that Zhou Ergu didn't come to Beijing alone; Zhou Dagu's whole family also came to Beijing, as did Zhou Ergu's whole family.

Looking at the large group of people, Master Zhou was speechless. After all, with so many people around, it was inconvenient for him to take action. So he asked Aunt Zhou what was going on.

Aunt Zhou hurriedly explained to Uncle Zhou, "Second brother, this has nothing to do with me. It was my eldest brother who sent a message to my eldest sister and me, saying that Father was critically ill and asked us to come to Beijing to see Father one last time. When my eldest sister heard this, she brought her whole family. Then my family heard that my eldest sister had brought her whole family, and they insisted on coming too. I had no choice."

She was also unhappy that her husband's whole family was coming to the capital, since she was getting a divorce and didn't want the whole family to come with her. However, her second brother hadn't taken over yet, so she couldn't completely break ties with her husband's family. After all, if her second brother didn't succeed in taking over, she could still continue living in her previous husband's family.

You see, her eldest brother, like her father, opposed her divorce. So, if her second brother didn't take over, she would naturally have to stay in her husband's family. After all, even if she divorced herself, if her eldest brother didn't accept her, she wouldn't be able to find a new marriage in the capital. In that case, she would have neither her previous home nor a new one, which would be troublesome. So, Zhou Ergu hasn't broken ties with her husband's family yet.

When Master Zhou heard what Aunt Zhou said, he realized that this was the reason, and he couldn't help but curse Master Zhou for being nosy.

After Grandpa Zhou passes away, just send a letter to Aunt Zhou to say that Grandpa Zhou has passed away. Why do you have to tell them now?

—He didn't even consider that if Master Zhou hadn't brought this up, how would he explain Aunt Zhou coming to the capital alone? Now that Master Zhou has sent a letter, both Aunt Zhou and Aunt Zhou have come, which is quite normal.

Although Aunt Zhou felt resentful after her family became the Duke's, thinking that she was the Duke's daughter but was still living in the countryside, she eventually accepted her fate because she was getting old and her son was about to get married.

Unlike Zhou Ergu, who caused trouble in her husband's family in recent years, she has only tried to take advantage of her own family to make her own little family live a better life.

Previously, Old Master Zhou had sent Old Master Zhou back to his hometown to say that he wanted to build houses for his relatives, and he did. Naturally, he also built a large brick and tile house for his eldest daughter. He also bought them ten acres of land—land in the suburbs of Beijing is expensive, so buying ten acres was quite a lot—and registered it under Aunt Zhou's name as her dowry, so that they would have more land and could live a better life.

Over the years, with these ten acres of land, plus the land they already owned, the family has lived quite well each year. Although they can't afford to hire servants, they no longer need Aunt Zhou to work in the fields.

Of course, Zhou Dagu was not allowed to do much housework. She was only allowed to take care of her health. After all, as long as she was alive, her husband's family could get good things from the Duke's mansion through her connection with the Duke's mansion. If Zhou Dagu died, even if her child was the grandson of Old Master Zhou and the nephew of Master Zhou and Master Zhou, there would still be a layer between them.

Now that the family has ten more acres of land, even if Aunt Zhou doesn't do any work, the family still makes a profit. After all, the output of ten acres of land is much more than the cost of hiring a day laborer during the busy farming season.

In addition, during festivals, Aunt Zhou's family would send gifts to the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion in the capital. They would send local specialties from the countryside, which was at the request of Old Master Zhou. He told them not to buy things from the market, as they already had those. He suggested that they send some fruits and vegetables from their fields, which would save money for his son-in-law's family and was also good for the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion. After all, the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion also needed to buy vegetables and food, and sending some fruits and vegetables would save them some money on groceries, which was better than sending pastries as festival gifts.

Then the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion will reciprocate with gifts.

Instead of returning gifts like country eggs, they gave money directly, using cheap fruits and vegetables grown in the fields—after all, Aunt Zhou's family wouldn't go to the city to sell their produce, so for them, which they could grow at any time, the produce was naturally worthless—and exchanging it for copper coins was a good thing, essentially selling vegetables in disguise, and having someone else buy them all, unlike those families who went to the city to sell their produce, who had to carry it all back if they didn't sell it, which was very hard work.

This is another source of income for Aunt Zhou's family every year.

They wished there were more holidays so they could receive more return gifts. (End of Chapter)