Jiao Niang's Medical Sutra

Chapter 12 The Zhou Family

In the middle of June, the people sent by Mr. Cheng to Bingzhou sent back news, proving that what Banqin said was true.

"It was hit by thunder and half of it was burned down. The Taoist temple over there was scattered, and I thought people were kidnapped by kidnappers. I'm afraid we will pursue the Taoist priests and they all ran away." Master Cheng put the letter on the proof table, and told the people in the house said the man.

At this time Mrs. Cheng and Mrs. Cheng Er and his wife were there.

Everyone looked a little strange, as if they didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

"Where's the Zhou family?" Mrs. Cheng asked.

"I haven't replied yet." Mr. Cheng said, "I don't know if I didn't receive it or I ignored it."

"I'm afraid they don't know even if I ask." Mrs. Cheng said, looking at Mrs. Cheng, "At the beginning, the old lady of the Zhou family made offerings to the Taoist temple, and the family members were not very happy."

Not to mention secretly burying a large sum of money in the Taoist temple, let alone the people of the Zhou family, otherwise, once Mrs. Zhou died, the money would definitely be taken back.

Mrs. Cheng nodded and thanked the sister-in-law for her explanation.

"Since it's confirmed, let's take good care of it." Mr. Cheng said.

Everyone responded yes, and they dispersed.

Mrs. Cheng went back to her room, took off her make-up and took a nap, while being served by the maid, she was thinking about what she had just heard.

Since getting married, she first served her in-laws at home for three years, and then went to live with her husband in Bingzhou after giving birth to a daughter. At that time, the fool had already been raised in a Taoist temple. Bingzhou lived for four or five years, but this idiot never appeared in his life, as if he didn't exist.

But not appearing does not mean that it does not exist, as long as it exists, it will always appear.

"Is the Zhou family rich?" she asked.

I remember hearing from my parents that the ancestors of the Zhou family were from Shaanxi and Bianzhou, and they became officials in Beijing and were also military officials. They are incomparable to their scholarly families.

At that time, as the dead wife's natal family, the people they sent to meet were extremely vulgar.

"Very rich." The woman combing her hair said hastily.

Mrs. Cheng took a look at her.

"You know better than I do." She said flatly.

With the return of that fool these days, even though she knew that Mrs. Cheng was not happy, the servant woman still couldn't bear to talk about Mrs. Zhou's old affairs in private.

This woman combing her hair was brought by Mrs. Cheng Er from her natal family.

The hair combing woman bowed her head in embarrassment.

"How can you be rich?" Mrs. Cheng asked.

Seeing that Madam did not blame her, she was relieved.

"Ma'am, among other things, do you know how generous the dowry was when Mrs. Zhou... Mrs. Zhou married?" she said.

Mrs. Cheng gave the woman a sideways look.

Nonsense, does her stepwife still go to check on her ex's dowry?

The woman's face was embarrassing, isn't that bad, and what the servants said in private was even worse.

"...When Mrs. Zhou entered the door, it was a beautiful scene, gold and silver jewelry, cloth and silk, two shops in good parts of the city, two shops in the suburbs with good harvests..."

"..The Zhou family sent people to our Jiangzhou City half a year in advance to carefully select..."

"..I still remember that Mrs. Zhou had just passed away, and the old lady was in charge of a dowry. I heard from the ladies in charge that the harvest from one shop alone was enough to cover our family's expenses for half a year..."

That is a dowry that is real money and can make money.

Think about the dowry of today's wife...

After all, noble families in non-capital places cannot compare.

The woman who combed her hair picked up what she could say.

Mrs. Cheng gritted her teeth secretly, so what, so what if the dowry is rich, it is nothing when she closes her eyes.

but…

The harvest of a shop is enough for half a year's expenses?

"Then these shops and Zhuangzi are all managed by the master?" She suddenly thought of something and asked.

With so much income, how come the family has never seen it before?

Could it be that those green girls and thirteen girls are all supported by this income?

"No, no." The maid knew what his wife was thinking at a glance, and hurriedly said, "It's with the eldest lady."

Madam?

Mrs. Cheng took off a hairpin and slowly placed it on the table.

"How come sister-in-law never said that?" She laughed.

Although the families are not separated, all parties have accounts for food and clothing. Now the mother-in-law doesn't care about the housework, and the sister-in-law presides over the middle feeding.

"After all, it's the dowry of the first one. I'm afraid that speaking of it, Madam, you should be taboo." The maid said.

Mrs. Cheng Er felt uncomfortable, and she couldn't tell where she was uncomfortable.

Those dowries will belong to that fool sooner or later, she and her children will not be able to use them, but those proceeds...

The family's expenses are all in the hands of the elder sister-in-law, so the income naturally doesn't need to be shared between the big house and the second house, but...

She still felt uncomfortable somewhere.

It's been nine years since she was married, and she just found out about it, and it's thanks to that idiot!

If that fool never comes back, will she never know?

"Ma'am, the heat-relieving soup from the kitchen is here." A girl came in and asked.

Although the Cheng family is rich, they have always been frugal. They have three meals a day, extra meals for supper, and snacks are also fixed meals. In the recent hot summer, the eldest lady asked the kitchen to add heat-relieving soup, but she didn't use it herself, and only let the children eat it Well, the second wife naturally followed her sister-in-law, so there was no need.

But the maids should ask or they will come to ask.

Mrs. Cheng turned around.

"Here, I just want to use it," she said.

"Yes." The girl answered yes, turned around and left, and only after walking a few steps did she regain her senses.

What did the lady just say?

"Hey, Ma'am, did you say no?" She hurriedly asked the girl next to her in a low voice.

The girl yawned.

"Are you sleepy? Madam clearly said to use it." She said.

ah?Only then did the girl realize that she had heard correctly.

"It's really strange, how did Madam use it?" She laughed.

"Madam can use the things at home if she wants to, and if she doesn't need it, it's useless." The girl said lazily.

At this time, in the vast alleys of the capital city, in front of the high hanging gate of Zhou's house, a heroic boy of seventeen or eighteen years old was jumping off his horse.

The concierge ran out early, and four or five young men rushed to lead the horse.

The boy raised his hand and untied the money bag from his waist and threw it over.

"For your reward, go eat and drink." He shouted.

The boys scrambled for each other.

"Thank you Liulang!" They shouted in unison.

Saturday Lang laughed and went straight in.

The house of the Zhou family was remodeled according to the ancestral house in Shanbian Prefecture, especially the screen wall, which was dismantled and transported directly from home, and the money spent was equivalent to ten screen walls. Family list, known as Laoshan Zhou.

Liu Liulang strode into his yard. Under the eaves, sat a young man of similar age, with long eyebrows and thin eyes, wearing a long-sleeved gown. He was looking at the white porcelain Go board in front of him thoughtfully. The girl also looked at the chessboard and chattered.

"Qin Langjun, this is so boring, why not play backgammon." They said.

Hearing Liu Liulang's footsteps, everyone looked over, the two maids knelt up straight, and then bent over to salute.

The boy was still looking at the chessboard.

"Sangzi, why are you here today?" Saturday Lang flicked his sleeves and sat down cross-legged, using the chessboard as a proof, put his arms on it, and scrambled the chess pieces on it.

The teenager didn't care either.

"I'm so bored, I'm here to listen to interesting stories." He said.

"What's interesting about me here?" Saturday Lang asked.

"I heard that your uncle's house in Jiangzhou sent someone here?" the boy asked.

Saturday Lang looked at the two girls kneeling behind him, and the two girls lowered their heads guiltily.

"That family is indeed an interesting story." Liu Liulang said, reaching out to fiddle with the chess pieces.

"It's about your cousin." The boy said, "Why didn't you ask the Cheng family away?"

"What useless people have nothing to do with our Zhou family." Liu Liulang said, with disdain on his face, "At the beginning, my aunt didn't listen and insisted on keeping such a fool, harming others and herself, and wasting my grandmother's and grandfather's upbringing. It is against the benevolence of a woman to prevent her from dying early and reincarnating her, but to take care of her and feed her, since pigs can still eat meat, so what's the benefit of feeding a fool?"

The boy laughed.

"Liulang, your cousin who is not as good as a pig is raised in Bingzhou." He said, "People from the Cheng family are here to ask if you sent her back to Jiangzhou."

"Yes, how about they come to ask? Should we answer respectfully?" Liu Liulang looked at him and asked with a stare.

The young man looked at him and smiled, stretching out his hand and stroking his slender fingers across the chessboard.

"From Bingzhou to Jiangzhou." He said, "Your cousin was at Cheng's house. When your family didn't know, she went back by herself."

Saturday Lang looked at him, frowning slightly.

The boy stretched out his hand again to draw from one point to another on the chessboard.

"From Bingzhou to Jiangzhou, a young girl." He said with a smile, "Tell me, how does a useless person do it?"

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