Jie teaches the Immortal Sweeping Heaven’s Cultivation of All Heavens

In Liu Dong's opinion, Liu Xuan was a troublemaker, and it was good that he left the Liu family.

Going off to rebel with others could implicate nine generations of your family.

Fortunately, he broke away from the family, thus saving the Liu family from extermination.

For this reason alone, Liu Dong decided to grant his wish and not expose his faked death.

Seven days later, "Liu Xuan" was buried, and Qin Shi, as his wife, was bound to be present.

Early in the morning, she rode in a carriage, following behind the funeral procession, to the ancestral graves of the Liu family outside the city.

The Liu family's ancestral graves are some distance from the town, and with the religious rites being performed, they won't be able to return to the town within a day.

Fortunately, there was a temple at the foot of the mountain where the ancestral graves were located, where the group could stay overnight.

Chunxi suddenly fell ill the day before she was to leave. Qin Shi told her to stay home and recuperate, and took the other maids with her.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chunxi packed up all of Qin's money and jewelry, and with Zhang San's cover, left the Liu residence to happily go find her sweetheart.

She thought she would live a good life, but she never imagined how secretive Liu Xuan's faked death and identity change were.

Apart from Liu Xuan, Princess Zhaohua, and Steward Yu, who were involved, this matter will definitely not be known to more people.

Steward Yu and his men are Princess Zhaohua's capable and loyal subordinates, and Princess Zhaohua will not let them "die" guarding the secret.

Zhang San was one of Liu Xuan's men, so naturally he wouldn't be silenced.

But what does Chunxi count for?
A mere maidservant dares to covet their princess's man?
Manager Yu had already mentally issued Chunxi a death sentence.

Liu Xuan didn't like Chunxi either. He looked down on even Qin Shi, let alone Qin Shi's maid.
Chunxi's fate was sealed long ago.

After receiving the money and jewelry, Liu Xuan handed Chunxi over to Steward Yu for handling.

That indifference earned a praise from Manager Yu.

No wonder he's someone chosen by his own princess; he's ruthless enough.

They can abandon their own family without any mercy.

This young master Liu is a man destined for great things.

When Qin returned home, she found that Chunxi was missing, and her dowry money was also gone. She immediately went to Liu Huan and asked him to send servants to look for Chunxi.

Unfortunately, we couldn't find them.

After discussing it with Qin, Liu Huan reported it to the authorities.

The officials eventually found Chunxi's body in the mass grave; there were signs of mating on her body.

The officials suspected that Chunxi had been having an affair with a man outside the family, and then, taking advantage of the chaos in the Liu family's mansion during the funeral, she stole Qin's dowry money and eloped with that man.

But the man wanted money. After getting the money, he felt that Chunxi was no longer useful, so he killed her and dumped her body in a mass grave.

Both Qin Shi and Liu Huan agreed with this statement.

The dowry money was lost, and Qin Shi had no way to recover it.

Fortunately, she still had her estate and shops, and the annual income was enough for her to live on.

Liu Tong knew exactly where the money had gone.

He went to the courtyard and found that Liu Xuan and Steward Yu's group had already left.

Liu Dong examined the clues and discovered that they had been gone for no more than two days.

If we chase after them now, we should be able to catch up.

But one night isn't enough.

He couldn't possibly disappear from the Liu family's sight for just a day or two.

The Liu family will be worried.

Liu Tong sighed and decided to let Liu Xuan and his group go for the time being.

After Liu Xuan was buried, Liu's father gradually accepted the truth, and his health gradually recovered.

A few months later, Qin gave birth to a daughter.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Liu were very open-minded and, seeing that Ms. Qin was young, they did not want her to remain a widow.

After discussing with the Qin family, the two decided to have Qin Shi observe a year of mourning for Liu Xuan.

A year later, the Qin family took Qin back and found her another suitable husband.

The two children born to Qin belonged to the Liu family and naturally stayed with them.

As for Qin's dowry, it was all left in the Liu family, to her two children. The Qin family was truly wealthy and had no shortage of money.

Those shops and estates weren't given to the Liu family, but to the Qin family's grandson.

The Qin family was able to prepare another dowry for Qin Shi.

Qin and Liu Xuan did not live together for very long, less than a year in total.

The two did not have a deep relationship.

Qin had no objection to remarrying, but she was reluctant to part with her two children.

Liu's mother promised that Qin could come back to visit the two children at any time.

Qin then agreed to remarry.

Out of a sense of indebtedness to Qin, Liu Qiu did a great deal of work in arranging her marriage.

Liu Dong helped Qin find a good match.

The man was a scholar who had some wealth and had been married before.

His wife died in childbirth, leaving behind a daughter.

Such conditions are neither good nor bad, but what Liu Dong values ​​is this person's character.

He is an honest and kind man with a gentle temperament. He has no ulterior motives and would never abandon his wife even if he became rich.

And he wouldn't look down on merchants.

How could Liu Dong know?
Wasn't he using hypnosis?
Is there anything more convenient than hypnosis for understanding a person's inner thoughts?
Liu Tong staged an accident to extort money from that scholar.

The scholar was worried that Liu Tong, such a young child, would be kidnapped by human traffickers, so he personally escorted Liu Tong home.

Liu Dong had calculated that her father would be home at this time, which was the perfect opportunity for the two to meet.

Mr. and Mrs. Liu were very grateful to the scholar. Mr. Liu received the scholar and discussed poetry and literature with him, and found that the scholar had a solid foundation of knowledge.

Father Liu: "If you participate in this year's provincial examination, you will surely pass."

The scholar was overjoyed upon hearing this and thanked Liu's father.

Liu's father and the Liu Family Academy were very famous in the area.

The scholar knew that Liu's father was a man of great talent and had once served as an official.

With Liu's father's words, the scholar knew that his chances of passing the provincial examination this time were practically guaranteed.

Liu's father inquired about the scholar's family situation, and then, a thought struck him. He said, "Your wife has been gone for two years. Shouldn't you remarry and take care of your parents and daughter?"

Upon hearing this, the scholar's heart stirred. What did Liu's father mean by this?
Father Liu: "My eldest daughter-in-law..."

After leaving the Liu family, the scholar was thinking about the Qin family that Liu's father had introduced to him.

Although Qin had been married before, she was actually a very good person.

Besides, he had been married before, so a widower and a widow are a perfect match!
Liu's father went to see Master Qin and told him about the scholar's situation.

Master Qin trusted Liu's father; otherwise, he wouldn't have been so determined to marry his daughter to Liu's father's son.

With Liu's father acting as matchmaker, the marriage between the scholar and Qin was arranged.

In September, the scholar participated in the provincial examination and, as expected, passed.

Although his ranking was relatively low, he still became a Juren (a successful candidate in the provincial-level imperial examinations).

Then came the wedding, and the scholar married Lady Qin.

The Qin family prepared another dowry for Qin Shi, which was naturally not as generous as the one she received when she married into the Liu family. It was less than one-third of the first dowry, but it was still quite a lot.

After the marriage, Liu's father recruited the scholar into his family's academy.

Qin was very fertile, and she became pregnant again only three months after marrying the scholar.

She gave birth to a son seven months later.

She had two more children in three years, and gave birth to five children for the scholar.

The scholar failed the imperial examination but was very satisfied with the results.

A loving couple, growing old together, and filial children and grandchildren...

This is every woman's wish. (End of Chapter)