Queen's Development

Chapter 72 Getting Married
In the evening, as soon as Yuzhi returned to the inner house, Second Lady Xu came over to ask Yuzhi for tea dinner.

Yuzhi laughed hurriedly and said: "Same as before, take out some of the prepared meals and send them to her."

She worried that because Qingcha was placed under house arrest, other people's attitudes towards Qingcha would also change.

After Second Lady Xu left, Yu Zhi changed her clothes and went back to the main room to serve Lin Jia with dinner.

After dinner, Lin Jia read the files in the inner study.

Yuzhi was originally waiting on the sidelines, but when she heard Ah Chi and Ah Qing talking in the corridor outside, she quickly walked out and asked Ah Chi in a low voice, "Go and investigate Wang Qingyu, how is the investigation?"

Achi laughed in a low voice and said, "Yu Zhi, it's better for you. I went to the neighbors of Wang Qingyu's house to inquire, only to find out that Wang Qingyu's father died early, and the widow's mother took Wang Qingyu, two younger brothers and one younger sister with her. It's not easy, so Wang Qingyu is very filial to his mother, and he is also very kind to his younger siblings, if we want to take care of Wang Qingyu, we should start from here!"

After hearing this, Yuzhi raised her eyes to look at the East Wing, and said in a low voice, "I'll leave this matter to you, you go to interrogate Wang Qingyu!"

Qingcha has been pregnant for more than a month, and she and Wang Qingyu are divided or united, and the truth must come to light sooner, and there should be no further delay.

Although Yuzhi advocated that Qingcha should completely sever ties with Wang Qingyu, and then go to Mama Jin's village to give birth to the child, but now Qingcha refuses to listen to Yuzhi, and Yuzhi can't do anything about it.

There are two lamps with glass shades hanging under the corridor. Under the bright and clean lights, Ah Chi's delicate face is full of smiles: "Don't worry, I will be able to judge the results tonight!"

Yuzhi hurriedly knelt and said "thank you", watched Achi go out, and then went back to her room to wait on him.

Lin Jia still focused on looking at the stack of files on the desk. Some time ago, Lin Jia and Hu Yingzhi went to inspect the water conservancy facilities in various townships, and found a problem - now is the time when spring is slack every year, and many poor people in Zhao County Farmers borrow usury from landlords and gentry to buy seeds, and then buy grain after the autumn harvest to repay the usury. However, in this case, some poor farmers will not be able to repay the usury in the end, so they can only use land to pay off debts or sell their children. Even a family committed suicide or lived on the streets, and some simply took refuge in the Salvation Church.

He discussed this issue with Yang Xin, He Lianshan, and Hu Yingzhi, and together they came up with a solution, that is, the county government would lend money or grain to farmers at very low interest, and the farmers would repay the government after harvesting the grain. , In this way, the peasants will be free from usury and exploitation by the landlords and gentry.

Lin Jia thinks this is a good idea, but she still has some doubts, and has been thinking about it for the past few days.

After Yu Zhi went back, she looked at the western gold chiming clock on the museum shelf, and found that it was almost Xu time, so she hurriedly reminded: "My lord, it's time for you to take a walk!"

Lin Jia listened to Yu Zhi's words very much, so she took Yu Zhi to the backyard for a walk.

While walking, Yuzhi saw that Lin Jia seemed to have something on her mind, so she tried to ask, "Is your lord on your mind?"

Lin Jia then told Yuzhi about her plan.

Upon hearing this, Yuzhi immediately clapped her hands and laughed, saying, "My lord, that's very kind!"

Her family used to have a piece of land, just to support the family and provide for her brother to study. The family was struggling, especially when it was spring planting time, her mother wanted to sell her for a few taels of silver to buy seeds.

Yuzhi thought about it for a while, and said again: "Although this method is good, but I'm worried..."

Lin Jia looked at Yuzhi, saw a trace of hesitation on Yuzhi's face under the moonlight, and asked, "What are you worried about?"

Yuzhi picked up a snow-white thorn rose, stroked the soft petals, organized her words, and then said slowly: "The premise of the smooth implementation of the method that your lord said is that the officials at all levels in charge of this matter are in charge Under your absolute control, otherwise it is possible that your idea is a good thing, but the people borrow money from the government, and the officials take advantage of it layer by layer. In this case, you clearly want to do good things, but the people will scold you behind your back!"

She raised her head and looked at Lin Jia with a smile: "My lord, this is called 'The scriptures are good scriptures, but it's a pity that the monk with a crooked mouth read them crookedly'!"

When Lin Jia heard this, it was as if he was enlightened. He always thought that this method was very good, but he always felt that there might be some flaws. He did not expect to be pointed out by Yuzhi.

He looked at Yuzhi, and found that in the moonlight, Yuzhi's green temples were like clouds, her small face was snow-white and crystal clear, her eyebrows were picturesque, as beautiful as an elf under the moon.

Yuzhi asked softly: "Sir, when do you think this method will be carried out?"

She looked at Lin Jia, waiting for Lin Jia's answer.

Lin Jia bowed her head and said, "I will eliminate the Salvation Sect, and then control the appointment and dismissal of officials at all levels in Zhaoxian County. This is a good time to carry out this method!"

Yuzhi squinted her eyes and laughed, a pair of cute dimples appearing and disappearing on her face: "I think so too!"

Lin Jia's heart beat a little faster, she silently looked away, looked at the dark ball of privet in front of her under the moonlight, and sighed softly.

As soon as Yuzhi put Lin Jia to sleep, Ah Chi and Ah Qing came over.

Ah Qing happily handed over Wang Qingyu's signed confession to Yu Zhi, and then said: "Sister Yu Zhi, I threatened with Wang Qingyu's mother and younger siblings, and Wang Qingyu confessed everything. It turns out that before our lord came to Zhao County One month later, Princess Li learned of the news, and first sent a housekeeper named Zhu over to buy Wang Qingyu and ask him to help Princess Li! Wang Qingyu has already agreed, and the news from Princess Li will come later. He will inform us!"

Yuzhi nodded, and read the confession at a glance.

After watching it, she felt a little uncomfortable.

Yuzhi originally thought that Wang Qingyu would have even the slightest affection for Qingcha, but Wang Qingyu confessed that he was purely to use Qingcha.

After closing the confession, Yu Zhi picked out those who don't need money to be obedient, said a few words of praise to Ah Chi, and said: "I will report this to the Lord tomorrow, thanks to Ah Chi!"

Achi laughed too.

After settling down here, Yuzhi went to the East Wing to find tea.

Qingcha was eating a plate of cherries that Yuzhi brought her, when she saw Yuzhi coming in, she threw the cherry on the table and sat there silently.

In fact, she still hated Yuzhi a little in her heart. If Yuzhi didn't come out to stop her last night, the adults would treat her as Yuzhi and sleep. In the morning, the adults would have to admit that when her child is born, she will be the heir of the Great Zhou royal family. Brother Qingyu will also be happy when the time comes...

It's all Yuzhi, which ruins everything!
Yuzhi knew that Qingcha was against her, so she handed Wang Qingyu's confession in front of Qingcha: "This is the confession signed by Wang Qingyu, take a look!"

Qingcha didn't raise her head, and said coldly, "You know I don't know how to read!"

Yuzhi hated iron for being weak, so she picked up the confession and read it word by word.

After reading, she looked up at Qingcha and found that Qingcha's eyes were full of tears. She couldn't help but soften her heart and said softly: "What are your plans? If you want to break up with Wang Qingyu, I will report to my lord and send you to Mother Jin's house." Chuang Tzu, give birth to the child, and we will see your plan later."

Qingcha wiped away her tears, and said stubbornly: "I am already Brother Wang's person, so I naturally want to marry Brother Wang, you should report to the lord, and let the lord decide for me?"

Yuzhi looked up at Qingcha, her eyes were cold: "Are you sure?"

Qingcha nodded: "I'm sure."

Yuzhi felt extremely uncomfortable, just about to speak to persuade Qingcha, but Qingcha said: "Don't worry about my affairs, you don't have a man yourself, you don't know how good a man is!"

Yuzhi: "..."

She took a deep breath, resisting the urge to drink tea to wake her up, and said, "I'll give you half an hour, think about it carefully, and I'll come back in half an hour!"

Coming out of the East Wing, Yuzhi felt that her nose was itchy, she reached out to touch it, and found that it was tears—it turned out that she was crying unconsciously.

Yuzhi took a bath and made herself refreshed before going to see Qingcha again.

This time Qingcha was even more determined: "I'm already pregnant with Brother Wang's child. From now on, I will be Brother Wang's man, and I will die as Brother Wang's ghost. Except for Brother Wang, I will not marry anyone!"

Yuzhi couldn't help but said: "How do you know that you won't meet a better man in the future?"

Qingcha has a plausible saying: "A strong woman does not serve a second husband!"

Yuzhi: "..." When you secretly wanted to sleep in the adult's bed, why didn't you think "a strong woman does not serve a second husband"?
But Qingcha is her sister, she had no choice but to swallow this sentence, not to hurt Qingcha's heart.

The next day, Lin Jia listened to Yu Zhi's report, and said calmly: "Since they love you, why should we beat the mandarin ducks!"

To Lin Jia, Wang Qingyu and Qingcha were like dust in Nanmo. He was worried that Yuzhi would feel uncomfortable, so he said, "Go to the account and pay 80 taels of silver, and let Qingcha get married decently!"

Yuzhi was overjoyed when she heard the words, and answered "Yes" with a smile.

She didn't bother, and after withdrawing the 80 taels of silver, she went to discuss with Qingcha.

Qingcha doesn't understand anything, knowing that Yuzhi does things properly and is never greedy, so she confidently leaves this matter to Yuzhi to handle.

Yuzhi took out ten taels of silver from her own savings, gathered enough 90 taels of silver, 40 taels for Qingcha's dowry, and 50 taels of silver notes for Qingcha's private money, and worked tirelessly to prepare for Qingcha's wedding.

In order to add face to Qingcha, Yuzhi specially begs Lin Jia to let Qingcha marry from the house of the county government office.

Three days later, Qingcha wore a red wedding dress and covered her head with a red hijab, and was picked up by Wang Qingyu's greeters from the county government house in a sedan chair.

After Qingcha got married, Yuzhi looked at the empty bedroom and felt empty in her heart.

This time Qingcha got married, apart from the newlyweds, the happiest person was Lin Jia——Yuzhi is like a mother chicken, there are always countless loves to give away, before Lin Jia had to share Yuzhi with Qingcha Therefore, he is often secretly jealous; now that Qingcha is married, thinking that Yuzhi will belong to him alone, Lin Jia feels refreshed and high-spirited, and can't wait to laugh three times.

While Lin Jia was rejoicing, she became even more determined at every step.

Seeing that Yuzhi was a little depressed, he took the opportunity to say: "The county government is busy with business and has accumulated a lot of cases, why don't you change into a servant's attire and accompany me every day to look at the files, handle the cases, and arrange for the outside study All kinds of trifles!"

Yuzhi thought for a while, then looked at Lin Jia with clear apricot eyes: "Is there any murder?"

Lin Jiaxiu narrowed her long eyes slightly: "Yes."

Yuzhi's eyes sparkled: "Okay, I'll follow you to have a look!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Yuzhi passed by, there were new cases - people came to report one after another, saying that her daughter was missing!

(End of this chapter)