After sending away the Lin family members, Liu Yun started to vent her dissatisfaction: "Bah, what the hell, a bunch of guys who rely on their elders to support their elders. I think in the entire Lin family, only the head of the Lin family is a sensible person."
"Who says it isn't?"
Mrs. Zhou had just looked at everything carefully, and now she couldn't help complaining: "When my sister-in-law and brother were in danger, these people never came to see me. Now that my sister-in-law has become a celebrity in front of the county magistrate, they all come to ask for help."
Well, that fourth uncle of the Lin family just now is probably hiding something in his heart."
Hearing this, Chu Nanzhi carefully placed the salt shaker on the table. Thinking of the complicated expression on his fourth uncle Lin Fen's face when he left, he couldn't help but laugh and joke: "My sister is very good at observing words and emotions."
"Sister-in-law, please stop making fun of me."
Zhou laughed warmly with her cheeks flushed, and then said:
"My sister-in-law is in prison these days and probably doesn't know what's going on outside. Yesterday, Saburo went home and told the slave family that a group of thieves went to the west of the city the night before yesterday and smashed a newly opened restaurant to pieces. The owner of the restaurant was the fourth Lin family member.
My uncle's eldest son, Saburo and his colleagues spent a whole day investigating yesterday and found nothing. Everyone knows that his sister-in-law is an expert in solving cases. The slave family guessed that he wanted his sister-in-law to investigate this matter for him.
"
"I see."
Chu Nanzhi was immediately enlightened, and when she heard that the newly opened restaurant had been smashed, she also felt faintly uneasy.
Staring at the indignant Liu Yun and his wife, Chu Nanzhi pretended to be calm and sighed softly: "It's strange, why are the Lin family members thinking about doing business now?"
"What's so strange about this."
Chu Wenbi curled his lips: "As the head of the Lin family just said, now and then, in recent years, the taxes and miscellaneous taxes have been heavy. The court was afraid that it would not be able to collect the taxes, so it relaxed its policies and even opened the sea trade routes.
Nowadays, many nobles who are hopeless are starting to make plans, and the wife and sister-in-law of the county magistrate have now opened rouge shops in Dongshi."
"There's still this thing."
Chu Nanzhi couldn't help but smile.
Seeing that it was almost noon, she wanted to rush back to Chu's house early to talk about the fish pond, so she quickly got up and told everyone: "Mother, Shu Yang, please tidy up the house for me, and I'll go collect it."
Please lock it back in the market."
"That will take a lot of time."
Mrs. Zhou hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Sister-in-law, please stop fussing. I opened a lock at home a few days ago. You can take it over and use it first. I'll go and fix it in the afternoon."
"That's great. My sister-in-law won't be polite to you about this. I'll give you the locked money."
Chu Nanzhi readily accepted her proposal. She was in a hurry, and it was a problem for her family to have lunch at home.
But when she mentioned the locked money, Mrs. Zhou was not happy: "It's such a small thing, sister-in-law, don't argue with the slave family. Sister-in-law, Aunt Liu, you guys will go to the house to get it later."
"I'll go get it. I won't bother Sister Zhou to go through any more trouble."
Liu Shuyang had long heard from her mother-in-law that there was a kind-hearted neighbor next door to her eldest sister and brother-in-law's house, but she didn't expect him to be so caring. In comparison, she felt ashamed, so she volunteered and quickly led Mrs. Zhou out to get the lock.
Waiting for the room to clear up, Chu Nanzhi suddenly remembered that there were three wild ginsengs locked in the cabinet in the back room. She immediately went in and opened the cabinet, and found that the wild ginseng was still lying in the cabinet safe and sound. She sighed secretly and took out the wild ginseng.
When he arrived at the hall and the salt shaker, he put the jewelry in one place, looked at Liu Yun and his wife and said slowly:
"Let's leave this porcelain with my mother first. I'll take a few pieces of jewelry to A Xiang, and I'll take some wild ginseng to nourish my father and Da Lang."
The wild ginseng Liu Yun I took last time has been stewed for two pieces to Lin Jinxiao and his son-in-law. Now I really don’t dare to put expensive things in the house. Since I don’t like to keep these jewelry, they are just to exchange for some silver in the future. Thinking of Chu
Nan Xiang and Li Shi took it upon themselves to give her jewelry to Han Shaochuan, which just made up for the poor girl.
After hearing what she said, Chu Wenbi became a little worried: "It's okay to take the jewelry and ginseng over there, but don't leave this porcelain at home, in case that prodigal kid steals it for gambling again."
"Father, please stop guarding Shu Yang everywhere."
Chu Nanzhi interrupted him with some dissatisfaction, and looked outside the yard carefully: "He himself feels humbled by joining our family, and you always look down on him. If this continues, even if he wants to repent, he will still be punished by you.
Isolated to the point of shame.”
"that is."
Liu Yun curled her lips and rolled her eyes at Chu Wenbi angrily.
Lin Jinxiao also rarely defended his son-in-law at this time: "Father-in-law might as well listen to my wife. I see that my brother-in-law has calmed down a lot recently. He must have sincerely regretted it this time."
Chu Wenbi didn't expect that even Lin Jinxiao, who looked down on his adopted son-in-law the most, would come out to speak for him. For a moment, he began to wonder in his heart: Could it be that he was really wrong?
Among the several sons-in-law, he believed what the eldest son-in-law said the most. Now that he had spoken, he had to put aside his prejudices and said with a relieved smile: "Okay, I will listen to you and your wife this time. I won't be careful about Shu Yang's behavior in the future."
What a little bastard."
Several people looked at each other and smiled.
Although the words were still a bit unpleasant, Chu Nanzhi's attitude had changed a lot, which made Chu Nanzhi feel happy.
She glanced at Lin Jinxiao secretly again, and his gentle expression looked even more charming today.
For some reason, she always felt that this guy had been a little too well-behaved in recent days. He just let Zhu Youan take care of him in prison. Today, he did not hesitate to offend the elders of the clan to defend himself. It was as if he had become a different person.
This really made her feel flattered.
"Is it possible that he has thoughts about me?"
Chu Nanzhi muttered to himself silently, and unknowingly thought about sleeping with him in his arms a few days ago. She thought about it more and more in a daze, and finally felt ashamed.
While he was still hesitating, he heard Lin Jinxiao's voice ringing in his ears: "Let's go."
Hearing the voice, she raised her eyes and looked around, only to see Liu Shuyang had taken the door lock and was looking at her blankly.
"Sister, what's wrong with you?"
Liu Shuyang looked at her uneasy look and couldn't help but asked curiously: "Did Mrs. Chen steal anything else?"
"Ah, no, no."
Chu Nanzhi quickly looked back and answered in a panic.
Liu Yun also noticed that something was wrong with her. While cleaning up the porcelain and jewelry on the table, she complained dissatisfiedly: "Da Zhi, what are you thinking about? You are so distracted that Shu Yang called you several times."
"Yes, yes?"
Chu Nanzhi asked back hesitantly, his eyes wandering towards the family, and finally bumped into Lin Jinxiao.
The two looked at each other quietly, and Lin Jinxiao's mouth suddenly showed a faint and comfortable smile: "When you are tired, go back to your mother-in-law's house and have a good rest for a few days."
When he saw her in the morning, he realized that this woman had something hidden in her heart. No matter how much Hu Maoxi valued her, he would never give her fifty taels of silver for no reason.
I'm afraid her past few days in prison have not been peaceful.