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Chapter 244 Slap
The so-called happy few sad.

While almost the entire Tianchang County, especially the squires in Tianchang County were smiling and discussing how to hold a feast to celebrate this great event, the most famous squire in Tianchang County, Jiang Guangda's house, was gloomy.

"Master, is it really the only way to do this?" Mrs. Jiang asked with a broken voice, her eyes red and swollen from crying.

"Other than that, do you think I have other ways to go?" Mr. Jiang had a look of lovelessness on his face, "I said earlier that this county magistrate is not easy to mess with, so you must listen. Nine After the lady framed him, Erlang went again. And you really didn’t know about the fact that Erlang bought the jailer and killed Jiang’s mother’s son? He knew everything, but he didn’t say anything. For the sake of the thousand strings, the second is that the New Year’s Eve doesn’t want to cause any more troubles, and the third is that he deliberately indulges, and wants to see what else he can do! As a result, Erlang really lived up to his expectations and came up with four ideas. The idea of ​​spreading rumors to smear the magistrate of the county! He even wrote letters to the prefect of Yangzhou and the governor of Yangzhou to frame him. Do you think the magistrate of the county may let him go again for such behavior?"

"However, Erlang didn't do this alone, and there was another person who did more—"

"Do you think the magistrate doesn't know? He knows it very well! It's just that Erlang is easier to deal with than that person. Naturally, he has to take care of Erlang first, and then deal with that person wholeheartedly. Just wait and see. Before long, that person will definitely not have any good fruit to eat."

"But Erlang is too pitiful—"

"Don't mention Erlang to me anymore! Why is he pitiful? He asked for it! He will become like this, and you are all used to it!" Master Jiang couldn't bear it and shouted angrily.

Mrs. Jiang trembled from his sudden outburst of anger, and immediately fell silent.

Seeing this, Mr. Jiang sighed again: "Hey, you are used to him, but I am not the same? Today's fruit is the cause we planted yesterday. The bitter fruit we planted by ourselves, I swallow it myself, I admit it! The big deal, In the future, our Jiang family will fall into the bottom rank among the gentry in Tianchang County. day!"

"When will we have to wait for this day?" Mrs. Jiang asked choked up.

"I don't know." Master Jiang replied, his voice was full of exhaustion and regret.

There is also a depressing atmosphere in Gu's house far away in Chang'an.

"Wow wow wow..."

There was a sudden cry of a baby, forming a duet with the chirping of cicadas outside the window, making people upset.Mu Hao ran out of the window and yelled: "Why are you crying? If you don't sleep all day long, you know how to cry. Take her out to me, and bring her back when you stop crying!"

"Keep your voice down! That's your own daughter, why are you so impatient with her?" Gu Wenhua taught her in a low voice.

"What's wrong with me being impatient with her? That's better than you not caring about her at all! Have you ever looked at her when the child is so big, have you ever teased her for a day? Now you know to accuse me , do you have the qualifications?" Mu Hao immediately retorted.

Gu Wenhua made a serious face: "Forget it, I won't tell you anymore." Then he stood up and walked out.

"Where are you going? Are you going to meet those coquettish vixens again?" Mu Hao ran after her.

Gu Wenhua paused: "What nonsense are you talking about? How can there be any vixen?"

"Oh, until now, you still want to hide it? Your Gu family has been passed down for several generations, and you are the only male left in this generation, and I didn't give birth to a son for you, and now I can't even give birth to you. Would your family not try to find another woman to have a son for you?" Mu Hao sneered, "It's a pity, if that hadn't happened, you must have taken in several concubines one after another, right? But no Coincidentally, at this time, my father became a dignified fifth-rank Guide general! This is an official position personally conferred by a saint, and I have also suddenly become an official wife. You ordinary merchants, how dare you offend our Mu family? So now, you can only secretly raise people outside, and when a son is born and rice is cooked, I can only accept their mother and child. Do you think so?"

As she said that, she laughed even colder: "Just dream, you! Let me tell you, I will never agree to other women entering the house to snatch my position. Give me a son born to another woman! As long as you dare to do it, I will go to my father and let him rule you!"

"You are simply unreasonable!" Gu Wenhua gave her a cold look, then shook his hands and left.

After walking out of the yard, he rushed forward for dozens of steps in one breath, and then slowly stopped.

He raised his head again, looked at the blue sky and white clouds above his head, slowly closed his eyes, and said in his mouth: "The bright white horse, in the valley of the sky, has a bunch of grass, and its person is like jade."

"You'd better forget about her!"

A deep voice came from behind, Gu Wenhua was startled, and quickly turned around, only to find that it was Gu Yuan, the owner of the Gu family.

He quickly lowered his head: "Father."

"Have you quarreled with your wife again?" Gu Yuan asked.

"Where is it that I am arguing with her? It is obvious that she is making trouble for no reason." Gu Wenhua whispered.

"Isn't it normal for a woman to have a petty temper? Besides, she didn't have such a temper before, but why did you tolerate her and take care of her before, but now you are so impatient that you don't even want to stay with her any longer?"

"I..." Gu Wenhua let out a sigh, "I'm not feeling well these few days."

"Is it because the Mu family was given an official?" Gu Yuan asked.

Gu Wenhua froze.

Gu Yan said again: "This time, Mr. Cui Liulang has made a great contribution. The Mu family and the Wei family are all meritorious officials. It is common sense for the saints to be rewarded. It's just that you are not angry in your heart. They are all relatives. Why do the Mu family and the Wei family both Being supported by them, now the scenery is boundless, but only our family is ignored and left far behind by them, isn't it?"

"Son... yes." Gu Wenhua gritted his teeth and nodded.

"You don't even think about what you did to them before!" Gu Yan snorted, "It's not like you haven't seen the narrow-mindedness of that couple before. If it weren't for the fact that your daughter-in-law is also from the Mu family, you would treat us Can you still live in peace now? The Jiang family, the most prestigious country gentry in Tianchang County, you know what happened to them, right? They paid the most money, made the most contributions, and even received the saint’s reward However, they wanted to grit their teeth and return the reward, using this in exchange for the life of their son, and in the blink of an eye, they were downgraded from the leader among the gentry in Tianchang County to the lowest rank. Forced them to give back the glory they got willingly, you How do you think the family feels now?"

"Life is better than death." Gu Wenhua whispered.

"And compared to them, how do you feel about your current situation?"

"Slightly better than them."

"Be a little bit better? They can choose to ignore you and our family, that is already the greatest kindness to our family!" Gu Yan said angrily, "You are now begging yourself not to join that couple again Your eyes! Once you enter, your fate will be miserable!"

"But, I..."

"Don't be so. Since you chose to give up her and marry Mrs. Mu Er, you have to be responsible for your choice. From now on, you two can live a good life together! As long as your daughter-in-law stays with us for a day, then they will I will turn a blind eye to us. As for the inheritance of the family... I am already discussing it with your father-in-law. After a year or two, when they return to Chang'an after their term of office expires, and with her consent, I will give it to you. Take a concubine in a serious manner, and sell her after giving birth to a son."

"Father!" Gu Wenhua exclaimed in disbelief.

Gu Yan looked at him coldly: "Otherwise, what else do you want? Do you think you can get rid of her in this life? You just give up on this heart! Live in Ansheng, do what you should do, and live your life in peace. Just go on smoothly. As for that person, don't think about it anymore, she is not someone you are qualified to think about. "

Gu Wenhua's face was full of pain.

"Father, you said that if I hadn't—"

"Not at the beginning. You have already made a choice, so you have to follow the path you have chosen. There are no ifs in the world. If you go wrong, you go wrong, and you can't look back." Gu Yan said coldly, " By the way, little lady, I will ask someone to take her to your mother, and let your mother raise her in the future! You can spend more time with your wife when you have time. Why is it so cold between husband and wife? I think they are also looking forward to it. I look forward to seeing you loving and harmonious."

Love and harmony?Is it still possible?
As Gu Wenhua thought about it, his legs suddenly went limp, and he was unable to lean against a big tree next to him.

He raised his head and looked at the blue sky and the white clouds. He didn't know whether it was his illusion or what. He saw a flowery smile slowly blooming in the sky, which was too beautiful to behold.

"Jiaojiao..." He whispered, and couldn't help stretching out his hand.

And the red lips on that smiling face opened slightly, and said two words to him - "Brother-in-law."

His movements stopped immediately, and his whole body became sluggish.
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The fact that Mr. Jiang exchanged his official position for his son's life caused quite a stir in Tianchang County.

And under the gaze of everyone, after Jiang Erlang was taken back to Tianchang County in disgrace, the Jiang family packed up and saluted, and moved to the countryside to reunite with Miss Jiang.

From then on, the surname Jiang no longer existed among the famous gentry in Tianchang County.

And Cui Pu has already lost the energy to take care of these trivial matters.

He's so busy.

After the news of the sweet potato harvest came, not only the gentry from the lower reaches of Tianchang County came to visit him in turn, begging him to develop the sweet potato to other towns too.Even the county magistrates of other nearby counties came to the door in person, hoping to enrich the grain production of the county while eating sweet potatoes.

Cui Pu was so entangled that he could only tell the truth—the sweet potato planting technology is not yet mature enough, and the sage also came to order them to plant another season with the help of the people sent by the Ministry of Household Industry. , After the technology is fully mature, it will start large-scale promotion.

However, the scope of the experiment will be expanded this time, but it is also limited to Tianchang County, and will not be spread to other counties within the year.

The other county magistrates, especially Huang Zhixian, who rejected Cui Pu last time, were extremely frustrated, but they could only walk away with their heads bowed.

Cui Pu devoted himself to planting sweet potatoes in the new season in full swing.And because the scope of planting has expanded to the entire Tianchang County this time, he has more things at hand, and he runs out almost blindly, and Mr. Wu and Mr. Zhang are almost exhausted and paralyzed, and there is almost no chance of even returning home. .

Running like this, time flies, and soon it will be the first ten days of August.

When Mu Jiaojiao got up early in the morning, Hongdou brought a bowl of fish porridge: "Ma'am, this is the fish they just caught in the river this morning. It's fresh! The servant girl sees that your complexion is not very good these days, and you don't seem to have much appetite. Just made this, you have a taste. If you like it, I will make it for you tomorrow."

"It's been a long time since I had fish porridge." Mu Jiaojiao took the bowl with a smile.It's just that when the slight fishy smell in the bowl penetrated into her nostrils, her stomach suddenly twisted, and she immediately turned her head and vomited.

Hongdou hurriedly grabbed the spittoon and gave it to her.

Mu Jiaojiao spat viciously until he could only spit out sour water, and finally stopped.

Hongdou turned pale with fright: "Lady, what's wrong with you? It's fine, why did you vomit? Haven't you been in good health these days?"

"I don't know." Mu Jiaojiao weakly shook his head.

Hongdou helped her to sit down on the imperial concubine's couch, and brought water to rinse her mouth.When she felt better, Hongdou looked at the fish porridge over there again: "My lady, do you still eat this?"

"I won't eat it. For some reason, the fishy smell is very unpleasant to me today." Mu Jiaojiao waved his hand.

"Oh, let me do something else, maidservant! Now that the autumn crabs are getting fat, how about I steam one for you? Make another bowl of white fungus and red date soup, and you won't be afraid of the cold."

Hearing her talking about autumn crabs, Mu Jiaojiao seemed to smell a fishy smell into his nostrils again, and immediately leaned over and vomited again.

"My lady, what's the matter with you! Even among those pregnant women who are pregnant with Liujia, there are few who vomit like you!" Hong Dou was almost frightened, and cried out in a crying voice.

Mu Jiaojiao's body froze suddenly.

She quickly straightened her upper body and rested her two fingers on the pulse gate of her right hand.Immediately, her face turned pale.

"Miss!" Hongdou's mind was blank now, and she immediately knelt down in front of her, "Miss, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me, please?"

At this time, Cui Pule walked in happily.Seeing this, he stepped forward with a concerned look on his face: "What are you doing?"

Mu Jiaojiao slowly turned his eyes to him, then raised his hand suddenly, and listened——

Snapped!
There was a shocking crisp sound, and five bright red fingerprints appeared on Cui Pu Ruyu's face.

(End of this chapter)