suspected wife

Yue Zhongyao inquired all the way.

The closer to Yizhou City, the heavier the footsteps.

The Qiao family in Yizhou is a real aristocratic family.

I heard that every family, regardless of whether they are old or young, can read and write.There are not many people who work in Beijing and other places.All the servants in the family can afford to live in a detached courtyard house with green bricks and tiles.

He is just a poor family.

If Jinniang had been in Yizhou, she might not have the chance to meet someone like herself.She deserved a better life.

Yue Zhongyao entered Yizhou City, but he didn't dare to come to the door rashly.I only found a clean inn to live in.It's too expensive to go to the room. I asked for a common bunk, which cost fifteen Wen per night.

I don't dare to eat in the store, and it would be very expensive to stir-fry a dish.I only spent a few pennies outside to buy a few dry biscuits, went into the store, asked for free hot water, and ate them.

After eating, Xun Xiaoer inquired about Qiao's house, hesitated for most of the night, and finally prepared four gifts and came to the door the next day.

Fortunately, after Lan came back with Qiao Jingkun, he rectified the servants and changed the concierge, otherwise, if Yue Zhongyao came to the door in such a poor way, the concierge would have coaxed him out long ago.

Yue Zhongyao entered Sanchun Hall smoothly.Faced with red-faced and red-faced, Lan's and Qiao's mother's questioning.

Facing Mrs. Qiao, who is now like a lady, she felt that the few bags of pastries she carried were too much to handle.

He didn't dare to look directly at Lan's side.

In his eyes, not to mention the present, at any time, the Lan family looks like the wife of a wealthy family.He didn't dare to look at the Lan family in the past, let alone the current Lan family.

When Lan's sent someone to call Qiao Mingjin.Yue Zhongyao pinched the shrunken purse at his waist and looked worried, his mind drifting away.

This trip has spent more than half of my limited savings.

Earlier, he only wanted to see his wife and daughter and have a quiet and complete year with them.But now that there is no money left in his purse, he is a bit stretched to eat and drink by himself, not to mention having to prepare New Year's gifts for Jinniang's relatives.

Yue Zhongyao frowned tightly.

It is only now that he knows what the phrase "don't panic when you have food in your hands" means.

He had no food in his hands, so he was flustered.

I knew earlier...

Had he known that he could still do something in the county prince's mansion and get a monthly salary before he came?Wife and daughter gone?

In Yue Zhongyao's mind, heaven and man are at war.

When Qiao Mingjin came in, he saw him fidgeting on the chair.

Qiao Mingjin was stunned at the entrance of the flower hall.

Ming Qi who was following her almost bumped into her back.

When he passed by her and saw Yue Zhongyao sitting in the hall, he snorted heavily, then passed Qiao Mingjin directly to sit down opposite Yue Zhongyao.

"How did you come?"

Ming Qi looked annoyed.Asked to Yue Zhongyao.

"How to talk!" Mother Qiao shouted.

Ming Qi glanced at Lan Shi who was seated above, then sat up straight with eyes downcast.

And Yue Zhongyao stood up and stretched his neck when the maid was pulling the curtain for the three of them.

At this moment, his eyes were fixed on Qiao Mingjin.Where can I hear what Ming Qi said.

Qiao Mingjin walked into the flower hall slowly, saw him standing in the middle of the flower hall with a look of bewilderment, smiled at him, and said, "When did you arrive?"

Yue Zhongyao seemed to heave a sigh of relief.He hurriedly replied: "I arrived yesterday afternoon. I didn't dare to come to the door when my body was dirty, so I stayed at the inn for one night."

Qiao Mingjin glanced at him after hearing this.

I am very clean.The beard is also clean-shaven, and it seems to be well-groomed.He has lost a lot of weight, but the skeleton is still there, and he is wrapped in a thick cotton coat, so he still looks very handsome.

The navy blue fabric on her body was very ordinary, and she was wrapped in a thick cotton coat, which was a bit out of place in this flower hall.Not to mention the mothers who served Lan and Qiao's mother.It's just that the maids around Qiao Mingjin all put on big woolen clothes.

Although good woolen clothes cannot be worn, clothes made of squirrel and rabbit wool can still be worn by servants with dignity.

The Qiao family has always lost face in Yizhou.The concierge has two woolen clothes to change and wash, so why wear such a heavy padded jacket?

"Sit down. But are you rested?"

Yue Zhongyao stared at Qiao Mingjin's face without blinking, and sat down on the chair in a daze after listening.

I already knew that Jinniang was good-looking, but I didn't expect Jinniang to be so good-looking.Sure enough, horses rely on saddles and people rely on clothes, and Jinniang felt wronged after following him.

Yue Zhongyao thought that he would save more money in the future, so that he could make clothes for Jinniang.

Just thinking about it, Qiao Mingjin asked again: "You are here at this time. But you don't plan to go back for the New Year?"

Yue Zhongyao stretched the hem of his clothes, looked at Qiao Mingjin and said, "Ten days after you left, I went back. I saved a nobleman in Beijing on the way, and I wasted some time. I heard that you went back to Yizhou. I want to come to you right away, but I don’t want that noble man whom I have given my hand to ask me to work in his mansion in Beijing. I thought, I’m still young, and I just wanted to fight hard, so I agreed. Before leaving , separated the family, and wanted to come to you and Wan'er first, to see you first, and then go to Beijing. I didn't expect that the nobleman sent someone to meet him on the way. I will go to Jingli first, and then go to Beijing. I asked him for leave, and I will go to his mansion to report after a year later. This is Yizhou, which is the first non-stop."

Lan's and Qiao's mother had heard this remark just now, but it was the first time for Qiao Mingjin and the three sisters to hear it.

Qiao Mingjin was still digesting the news, when Ming Qi next to him said loudly: "Is your family really separated? Did your mother-in-law get into trouble?"

Mother Qiao stood up angrily and shouted, "Why are you talking to your brother-in-law? No matter how old or young, I went to the family study for nothing! When your father comes back, let's see if he can deal with you!"

Ming Qi was so drunk that he shrank his head, and muttered softly: "What kind of brother-in-law is he?"

Ming Qi really lived a hard life with Qiao Mingjin.

When Qiao Mingjin was carrying a load and was being strangled by the rope until her shoulders were blistered and bleeding, she hated that brother-in-law the most.

Every time we meet each other, if you don't talk loudly, you won't give him a good face anyway.

Qiao Mingjin glanced at Ming Qi reassuringly, and then at Qiao's mother.Only then did Mother Qiao relax.He kept staring at Ming Qi all the time, fearing that she would say something big or small again.

Qiao Mingjin looked at Yue Zhongyao: "The family is really separated?"

Yue Zhongyao nodded heavily: "I told my dad that I don't know when I can come back. In the future, I will give ten taels of silver pension money a year. Anyway, I'm not here. It's the same as whether I don't share it. Dad looked for it before I left. The patriarch made a document."

Qiao Mingjin glanced at him, and said again: "Since you are not at home, it doesn't matter whether you are at home or not, why did you decide to separate? You don't want anything, do you?"

Yue Zhongyao glanced at Qiao Mingjin unexpectedly.Did someone send her a letter?

Qiao Mingjin didn't know he thought so.

She just knows Wu Shi, and Wu Shi won't do things that are not profitable.

And Yue Zhongyao had to have an opportunity to separate the family, otherwise it would not be easy to make such a determination, and it was the eve of his leaving and marrying Xiaoman.

Yue Zhongyao quickly glanced at Lan's side, and then said to Qiao Mingjin: "After you left, Mother said that she wanted to move to your yard. Find someone to ask for the key to your yard... I want to split up, Mother won't bother my cousin and sister-in-law any more... Besides, you also want to separate... I don't want anything, and I left half of the money in my hand with the family before I left..."

Qiao Mingjin thought to herself that it was so.

If he wants to divide the family wealth, the Sun family and the Yu family probably won't do it.They wished that Yue Zhongyao would not be around, and they could get money for the family.The family can save a ration, and the output of the field is only shared by her two families.

Lan Shi glanced at Yue Zhongyao.He shook his head almost invisibly.

Fortunately, this person is not too stupid and filial, and he is not hopeless.As long as he is separated from his family, people can still live.

If not, she would definitely let him and Jin Niang live their own lives separately.

Even if she compensated Qiao Mingjin with a generous dowry, she still felt that she had treated the eldest granddaughter badly.

She has met so many people in the clan these days, which family's eldest granddaughter married to a farmer's family in the countryside who couldn't get enough?

When others asked about her family's Jinniang's husband's family, she was too embarrassed to ask.

When Qiao's father, Ming Jue and Ming Heng from the outer court got the news and arrived.He also questioned Yue Zhongyao well.

Yue Zhongyao was so questioned by his father-in-law that his head almost fell to the ground.

When Father Qiao learned of the family he was going to work for, he asked him about his plans.

Yue Zhongyao then replied: "The king of Anjun is in charge of the imperial guard camp in the middle of the capital. Although I am only serving as his bodyguard now, as long as I persevere, I may be able to squeeze into the imperial guard camp to earn a stable income. ...I think, I want to wait until I can gain a firm foothold in Beijing, so I will take the two of them to Beijing..."

After hearing this, Qiao's father asked, "Aren't you going back to Qingchuan?"

Yue Zhongyao shook his head: "I may not return to Qingchuan in the next few years."

After hearing this, Father Qiao asked again: "How much is your monthly salary? Where do you take the two of them to live in Beijing? Is there a place to house them?"

Yue Zhongyao stammered: "Wait, wait, after I've worked as a job in Beijing for a year and a half and saved up some silver taels, then... I'll rent a small courtyard in Beijing to house their wives. I have three taels a month." Monthly salary, eating and drinking in the county prince's mansion, you can always save some money for a year..."

Looking up, he inadvertently saw the jade belt on Father Qiao's waist and the sachets and jade pendants hanging on both sides, and lowered his head even lower.

Father Qiao looked at the clumsy black and gray cotton shoes on his feet, then glanced at the waterproof and snowproof moccasin boots on the feet of his two sons, and sighed.

As the next head of the Qiao family, his daughter married a farmer with no land or property.I can't find any other patriarch's eldest daughter whose husband's family background is like this.

Now he felt that the marriage arrangement for Ming Yu was a bit hasty.

Maybe after the new year, I can write a letter to call Zhou Yaozu to Yizhou?

Yizhou has outstanding people, and it is very easy to find a great Confucian to guide him in his homework.You can't let this second daughter marry a sour scholar and spend her whole life working hard for the family, right?

Can't be worse than the eldest daughter.

Father Qiao glanced at the daughters and fixed his eyes on Ming Qi.

This little daughter's marriage must be carefully considered.

Otherwise, when he was socializing outside, he would not be able to speak up when asked which family his son-in-law belonged to.

Others have glamorous son-in-laws to accompany them in the wine, if his son-in-law is too unpopular, it will be a bit embarrassing.

Qiao's father also had no intention of talking too much with Yue Zhongyao.

Get up and say to him: "Come with me to the study."

After speaking, he walked out with his hands behind his back.

Yue Zhongyao glanced at Qiao Mingjin awkwardly, and wanted to ask Wan'er about it.Seeing Father Qiao staring at him, he hurriedly followed. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

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