The old lady of the Zhou family's surname is Wu. Because her eldest son and second son competed for her, her family had good food, clothing, housing and transportation after becoming rich. She began to gain weight in middle age. When she got older, she became a chubby old lady.

Old Mrs. Wu was talking to her daughter-in-law Mao, and Mao's eyebrows were frowning.

She understood what her mother-in-law said. She was preparing her for her mentally and preparing to let Zhou Qi run away later.

My mother-in-law always emphasized that at most, Zhou Qi should leave for one month and come back after one month.

But Mao listened to his mother-in-law and did not want her husband to leave.

Zhou Qi is an old man. The old lady loves this son the most, but the old lady also knows that blindly suffering will cause the relationship between the children to be unbalanced. She tries to do everything in a good way. Zhou Qi is a bit useless, and the two brothers must need more money to take care of, but it is not easy for two sons to make money. The old lady still tries to restrain her third son from spending too much.

This time, he really had to pay too much money. Old Mrs. Wu was a little worried that her eldest son and second son would be angry. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she might run back to beat Zhou Qi, so she wanted to hide outside Zhou Qi's area to avoid the limelight.

Will the compensation of nearly 100,000 taels of silver be so angry that he broke Zhou Qi's leg?

Mrs. Wu couldn't sleep when she thought of the amount of money these days, so she thought of asking Zhou Qi to leave. At first, the old man disagreed with letting Zhou Qi run away, but now she has let go and agreed to let Zhou Qi avoid it for ten or twenty days. Now Mrs. Wu is preparing to talk about this with her daughter-in-law Mao.

Although Zhou Qi was ignorant, he was still a slut. He looked at his wife Mao like a bell. The two had no children for seven years. Zhou Qi never thought about taking a concubine. When Mrs. Wu spoke, she still shouted that she already had a grandson and didn't worry about Mao's belly, she wouldn't take a concubine anyway.

If it weren't for being reluctant to part with his wife, Zhou Qi might have developed a bad habit earlier. For example, a few years ago, Zhou Qi was taken to the gambling house in Jian'an Mansion. He had been there once and stayed there for three days and three nights. After coming out, Mao burst into tears and was unwilling to pay attention to Zhou Qi. Seeing Mao's appearance, Zhou Qi refused the invitation and refused to go to the gambling house.

Zhou Qi is still hesitating now, and Old Lady Wu wants Mao to persuade him too.

Mao felt that leaving was not good, and he couldn't say why it was not good. He hesitantly said, "Will this not good? If the eldest brother and the second brother come back and don't see their husbands, would they be even more angry?"

Old Mrs. Wu's face darkened and she said unhappily: "Three sons put you in the tip of their hearts. You haven't had a baby for so many years and have protected you like an eyeball. Now you're leaving for a month, don't you want to?"

After saying this, Mao's face turned red. She couldn't tell why it was not good to leave. If her mother-in-law continued to say this, she would no longer care about her husband.

Mao finally asked in a low voice: "Just leave for a month?"

"Oh." Old Mrs. Wu knew that Mao had almost agreed, and said with a smile, "At most, you can book a place later. When the person leaves, you will write a letter to ask the third son to come back."

As the two talked, they heard from the servant that Zhou Qi was back and brought Lin Zhao, the second daughter of the county magistrate.

Old Mrs. Wu said, "Let's go, let's take a look."

Mao had not been pregnant for many years, and having a baby became her heart problem. When she saw Zhaozhao, Mao liked it very much and kept trying to let her eat more refreshments.

Qian Baoer, Lin Zhao, Sun Zheng and Zhou Qi and his group came back. After entering the county town, they separated. Zhou Qi and Zhao Zhao went to the backyard of the county government office so that the Lin family would not worry. After that, Zhou Qi brought the little girl to the Zhou family.

When we arrived at the Zhou family, it was almost time to eat. Zhaozhao only picked up a piece of pastry to eat. This way, he would not miss Mao's kindness and would not eat too much, so he would not be able to eat dinner later.

Old Master Zhou asked, "How did Miss Lin Er meet the third son?"

"Miss Qian and I went to Tonghua Village and met Uncle Zhou in Tonghua Village."

Old Mrs. Wu said, "I said why can't I see anyone all day? It turns out that I've been there."

Zhao Zhao still remembered what Zhou Qi said, pursed her lips and smiled, "Uncle Zhou has helped a lot."

The old man of the Zhou family said angrily, "What can he do? Haven't you started to build the river embankment and stone bridge yet? When the time comes, he will make trouble in the past."

Old Mrs. Wu didn't like to hear this, so she glared at her husband, "What are you talking nonsense?"

She then smiled at Lin Zhao, "Little girl, what has your Uncle Zhou helped?" She likes her younger son, and naturally likes to listen to people praise her younger son.

"Uncle Zhou is in Tonghua Village, so it makes the villagers feel at ease. This is the biggest function of Uncle Zhou." Zhao Zhao said, "Because the stone bridge and river embankment have not started to be built yet, the villagers are uneasy and worried that they can't afford to pay the money. My father told me that in the past, this bridge alone cost a lot of money. After two years of repairing, and the construction of this section of river embankment, it took a total of five years to build this section of river embankment. Jian'an Mansion thinks that the money is too much, and he can't afford to pay it for a while, and he is slowly repairing it. Now he has to build such a large section of river embankment in one breath and rebuild the stone arch bridge. Even if the villagers don't know how much money they should have, they are afraid that they can't take it out, and they are very uneasy."

Old Master Zhou was going to ignite dry tobacco, but when he heard Zhao Zhao's words, his hand shook and the dry tobacco pole fell to the ground with a clang.

"Why are you so irritable?" Old Mrs. Wu muttered. She watched the old man not moving and reached out to pick up the cigarette pole on the ground.

Like her father-in-law, Mao also had a pale face. She thought her husband shouldn't have left. Now Zhao Zhao's words directly pointed out the key point. Zhou Qi could not leave at all. Not to mention whether the county magistrate would let him leave. If Zhou Qi really left, I was afraid that the villagers would cause trouble.

Zhao Zhao looked at the old lady with no difference from before, but Mr. Zhou and Mao looked ugly all of a sudden. She couldn't help but frown. Could it be that she said something she shouldn't say? She looked at Zhou Qi hesitantly and shouted in a low voice: "Uncle Zhou."

Zhaozhao did not take care of his maid, and only knew Zhou Qi at Zhou's family, so he could only ask for help from Zhou Qi.

Zhou Qi glanced at the old man and his wife and knew that they understood, but my mother didn't understand yet. He said, "Miss Lin Er, don't worry, my father just thrusts. My wife is filial and worried that my father's situation will worsen. My mother is used to my father's hand thrusts."

The old lady glanced at the third son. When did her old man twitch his hands? Old lady Wu looked at Zhou Qi and felt that the third son's eyes were twitching. She asked Zhou Qi, "San Zi, what's wrong with you? Your eyelids are twitching?"

Mr. Zhou took the cigarette pole from his wife and knocked it on the table, attracting everyone's attention.

Zhao Zhao was still sitting in the hall. This little girl is a lady official. She can't tell her in front of her that Zhou Qi almost hid for a while. Mr. Zhou cleared his throat, "The third son was blinded. Let's have dinner first. Miss Lin Er was tired too. After finishing her meal earlier, she sent Miss Lin Er back to rest."

When Zhao Zhao was sent back to the county yard, the Zhou family held a small meeting. Only then did Mrs. Wu realize that her son was not having eyelid cramps at that time, but because she was reminding her not to say anything.

However, the old lady felt that the three of them were worried about it. "Everyone knows that our Zhou family has money. I ate vegetarian food and chanted Buddha's name again, and I also cultivated the golden body for the Bodhisattva. I also spent a lot of money that time. Although this time, the third son happily accepted it and had to pay the money, so he would not have to go to the county to block people."

"Why isn't it?" Zhou Qihou was very scared. "Now our family really can't take out the money, because the water from the Lanjiang River has not yet fallen, and we can't start building the river embankment and bridge. Although I don't do anything, I'm still called Mr. Zhou. If I leave, I'm afraid I'll be considered to be hiding debts and I'm unwilling to pay for it!"

Mao was also scared when he heard Zhou Qi's words. He stirred the handkerchief with both hands. Old Master Zhou sighed and said to his wife, "This time, the Lanjiang River broke down and destroyed the homes of many people. If the third son disappeared, the whole village would be anxious. Maybe he would come to our house to make trouble and ask for an explanation."

The old lady said, "The county magistrate will definitely take care of it."

The old man looked at his wife and knew that she was just stubborn. This sentence was extremely guilty. He knocked on the table with a cigarette pole: "At that time, I'm afraid I can't control it, and the people in Tonghua Village might even carry Lord Lin on their backs. For example, when Lord Lin goes out to work hard, we will surround our Zhou family. In this house, how can we have so many silver bills... Once a quarrel starts, sometimes we can't control it, and there are too many people. What if someone takes advantage of the chaos to make trouble?"

The husband's description was too specific, and the old lady felt that the hair on her body was rising. Then she became scared and quickly said to her son, "Third son, your elder brother and the second brother are back when they are back. You will beat you up. Your father and I have to let them vent their anger first and then stop them. At most, let your two brothers not break your butt and trunk."

When Zhou Qi thought of his two brothers, he felt depressed and couldn't help but regret his actions at that time. "It's also a bad thing for me. I shouldn't have been obsessed with it at that time. I heard people talk nonsense and could turn the thin land into a good field. If I were not greedy, this would be fine."

After sighing, Zhou Qi was too lazy to think about what to do if his brothers came back. It was not now. It would be better to be frown when he was about to be beaten. What if the two brothers just gave money and didn't come back? So Zhou Qi took the initiative to change the topic and said enthusiastically, "By the way, is Miss Lin Er I brought here today very smart? Last time my father didn't believe what I said. Look, does it reveal a cleverness when speaking."

The little girl is indeed well educated, and she doesn't twist and twist when sitting on a chair, and is also very good at talking. However, Old Mrs. Wu likes this little girl not because of these, but thinks that what the little girl said avoided a disaster in the Zhou family.

After the old lady Wu finished chatting, she went to burn incense to the Buddha, kowtowed to the Buddha sincerely, clasped her hands together and chanted Amitabha Buddha quietly.

The old lady begged God and worshiped Buddha, while Zhou Qi whispered to his wife in the room.

Mao said: "If it weren't for Miss Lin Er today, I'm afraid you would leave Yunhe County early tomorrow morning."

Zhou Qi shook his head, "How could it be? I was still hesitating whether to leave, but I didn't pay attention."

Mao said, "Before you come back, my mother told me to let you hide, and I have already agreed."

Zhou Qi was shocked and murmured, "It's so dangerous." The couple looked at each other, and Zhou Qi said, "Madam, you don't love me, shouldn't you keep me?"

Mao said in a depressed voice: "I want you to stay, so I got up with a head, and my mother said I don't pity you."

Zhou Qi hugged his wife, but before he could remember to say a few soft words, Mao pushed her away.

"Don't hug me, I feel hot." Mao frowned and was unhappy with Zhou Qi holding her, "It just felt looser when it rained a few days ago."

"It's not hot this year." Zhou Qi said.

Mao was in a bad mood. He glanced at Zhou Qi, and Zhou Qi smiled and said, "Okay, okay, don't bother you. If you say you're so hot, it's hot!"

Mao was originally stern, but when he heard her husband's words, he burst into tears and felt a little embarrassed.

She didn't know what was going on. She had a bad temper recently and could barely suppress her in front of her mother-in-law. Zhou Qi loved her, so she was particularly willful. Mao thought, maybe it was because there was too much time, and he didn't wait for the reply from his elder brother and second brother, and when the money was given to the county government, he might be in a good mood.

Lin Zhao also arrived at home at this time and said to the gatekeeper's mother, "Dad hasn't come back yet, right?"

After receiving the affirmative answer from the old lady, Zhao Zhao said, "Dad is back and I'll say to Sister Shanhu, I'll go find Dad and have something to say to Dad."

After the old lady agreed, Zhaozhao went to Liu's place first and then went to find her brother and sister.

Since Lin Qingwei followed Master Cen to study, her reading was completely different from before. In Kyoto, she learned "The Four Women's Books" and some books like "The Book of Songs", while Cen Xueqing was different. She taught Lin Qingwei the serious "The Four Books" and also taught her to read eight-legged articles.

Before studying the eight-legged essay, Lin Qingwei felt that if the articles were made into eight-legged essays, wouldn’t it be less spiritual, but they are all craftsmanship articles.

After learning it, I realized that writing eight-legged essays is a kind of training for thinking. Good eight-legged essays have their own strengths. They are so literary, and they feel like they are traveling with ancient people. They are full of knowledge and have their own thoughts on classics, which makes people applaud them; some people are passionate and ready to be an official...

Lin Qingwei often reads the article with the eight-legged essay, which made Lin Shengyan curious. Lin Qingwei smiled, "Brother, this article is written so well. I have been silent many times. I am still thinking about what kind of mood he was in the exam room at that time. It was so well written. Unfortunately, my father was too busy. Later, I would like to ask my father about the eight-legged essay that year and let him tell me."

Lin Qingwei likes eight-legged essays, so she broke them with her brother and talked about the good things about this article.

Lin Shengyan broke his legs and read books when he had more free time. Lin Qingwei is a beginner. Master Cen taught well, so he asked Lin Qingwei to follow suit. When explaining to Lin Shengyan, he also crushed the four books and explained them.

Lin Shengyan reads books during the day and has nothing to do. He doesn’t understand anything. He can listen to his sister at night and understands it at a glance. In this way, Lin Shengyan also tastes the taste of eight-legged articles and becomes interested in reading.

When his legs were still good, he followed his brothers from the eldest wife to attend class at the grandfather's family. The eldest wife Yuan family was the daughter of a high school. Unlike the Lin family, he only had a thin family. The Yuan family was lush and had a tribal school, so he followed his cousins ​​to study at the Yuan family.

When he was studying in the Yuan family, the Master studied every day. Lin Shengyan felt it was boring, but the Master didn't care at all. After half a year of attending, he was divided into two schools. Lin Shengyan played with those playboys, and since then, he has been dealing with the schoolwork.

Now looking at the words in "The Analects of Confucius", those words in the past thought they were hateful to memorize have become the saint's hard-working encouragement to learn, and the words contained the saint's thoughts.

Lin Shengyan liked the more he studied, and began to think about himself. When he tried to make annotations on his own in the book, his face suddenly turned red. His handwriting was so ugly that he was like a little spider with a disgusting face next to the saint's remarks.

So, at the beginning of this day, Lin Shengyan had an extra task, which was to practice calligraphy. During the day, Lin Shengyan reads books or practices calligraphy, and listens to Lin Qingwei's lectures at night. Over time, Lin Shengyan's impetuous temperament has faded a lot. He has learned to read well and regretted the nonsense he made back then.

Now when Zhao Zhao came here, he heard Lin Qingwei breaking the problem of doing eight-legged essays with Lin Shengyan.

The three of them studied together and set a rule that if there was nothing else, they would be used to study at the Xu hour every night, and Lin Zhao entered the room at the Xu hour.

Lin Shengyan and Lin Qingwei greeted Zhao Zhao for a few words and continued to study, but Zhao Zhao was not idle either. She did not study tonight, but took out a booklet and silently put what she learned from Sun Zheng during the day into her booklet.

While writing, Zhaozhao couldn't help but think about the situation when Sun Zheng was traveling at that time. No wonder he said that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. He is really a very powerful doctor. When Zhaozhao thought about it, he couldn't help looking at his brother and sister. Such a doctor shouldn't be much worse than that miracle doctor, right?

Going far away to the Western Regions and the East, maybe he also knows a doctor from a foreign country. Zhaozhao reluctantly suppresses his excitement, continues to make records, and will know until tomorrow.

The room was quiet, and occasionally a maid came in to cut the lamps, and she tiptoed to the point of disturbing a few people.

Half an hour later, Lin He came back, Zhaozhao put down the book and went to the study to find his father.

Lin He is very busy these days. After counting the losses in Tonghua Village, he spent half a day dealing with the affairs of the yamen every day and half a day walking around the Lanjiang River to see if there are any hidden dangers in other places.

Lin He saw Zhao Zhao standing at the door, jogging all the way, making her breathe heavily. One of her little hands was placed on the door frame. When he saw him, his almond eyes bent, and he shouted, "Dad!"

This sound made Lin He's heart melt, he waved to his little daughter, and said with a smile: "I saw Coral when I came back. Are you looking for me?"

The little girl nodded, "Dad, I met a doctor today, and he went to Tonghua Village..."
To be continued...