Chapter 70 The Lady Who Opens the Butcher's Shop
Chen Wenchao was embarrassed and angry. Is this bitch crazy? Her own family is the most popular butcher in the business. She doesn't feel embarrassed, and she has to tell her in court. His reputation and face have all been ruined by this bitch.
"Report to Your Highness, the student is not strict in his family, this bitch..."
Before Chen Wenchao finished speaking, the yamen runners beside him shouted: "Sujing!"
Chen Wenchao suddenly remembered that this was a court, and he could only speak if the officials asked him to speak.
Zhao Zhun looked at him coldly and said to Liu: "Mr. Liu, keep talking."
A self-deprecating smile appeared on Liu's lips. She continued: "I am the only daughter in the family. My father always wanted to hire a husband. I know a lot about this in Tongzhou City. Chen Wenchao was an apprentice in my shop, so I have known it for a long time. My father often mentioned him when he came home, saying that he was studious and motivated. When he was in the shop, he had to study when he had a little free time. He also said that he was humble and filial. In short, his father was very satisfied with him. My family is a small family, and there are no taboos from wealthy families. I often went to the shop to help since I was a child, and I also knew Chen Wenchao."
Speaking of this, the ridicule on Liu's face was even stronger: "Although my family has some family business, I have been butchers for generations and have never been a scholar. Therefore, I respect scholars very much. After a while, Chen Wenchao came to the eyes of his father. He agreed to marry into the imperial examination, but he also wanted to take the imperial examination. His father disagreed at first, so Chen Wenchao found me. He said he wanted to earn a set of phoenix crowns and robes for me. He said he didn't want me to live in this pork shop... Haha, I believed it, convinced my father, concealed it from the official media, and got married with him. After the marriage, I
He paid off his debts, paid for his brother's wife, and bought Xiaozhuangzi for his father's retirement. He didn't have to go to the shop to help, so I invited the most famous gentleman in Tongzhou to work as a mat in the house to study with peace of mind. He was also very committed. He passed the exam in the second year after his marriage, and since then, I became a scholar's wife. In the third year, my father left the country and gave me all the huge family business. I gave birth to the eldest son, and I was busy with business while taking care of the children. In order to make Chen Wenchao concentrate on studying, I also built a library for him."
The people outside the door were sighing. The Chen family had burned Gaoxiang for several lifetimes, but they actually married such a rich wife. After marrying into each other for two generations, they changed their surnames and even gave their father a caregiver to their parents for their death. No wonder he dared not take concubines. The business belongs to the Liu family.
"Eight years ago, he said he was going to study abroad and gain experience. A family in Tongzhou City had been a Jinshi. I asked me to ask. The Jinshi in that family also traveled abroad in their early years, so I wrote an article about managing floods during the imperial examination. It was popular. So I gave him five thousand taels of silver and asked his old servant Wang, along with two martial arts servants, to accompany him on study abroad. Not long after, the two servants actually escorted Wang's coffin back and said that Wang Wang fell to the hillside and died. Although I felt strange at that time, I didn't think about it carefully, but I was just worried about him. Fortunately, not long after, he asked the merchant to bring a letter back and said that he had bought two more servants and someone was waiting for him, so I didn't have to worry. I asked the merchant where he met him. The merchant said he was in Luoyang. Only then did I realize that he was in Henan."
The onlookers began to talk again. The dead Mrs. Chen seemed to be from Henan.
Shi Bing was in the crowd and said, "Miss Chen is from Mengjin, Henan. Mengjin is only fifty or sixty miles away from Luoyang City, which is about the same distance from the capital to Tongzhou."
"Ah, this is very close. If you ride a horse, you can go back and forth in half a day."
"I heard that Luoyang is an ancient capital and there are many scholars. If he wants to stay in Luoyang to study, his family will definitely not doubt it."
In the yard, Liu's voice continued: "A year later, he came back. The scholars who came to my house to learn literature all said that his knowledge had improved again, and I was very happy. One day, my maid showed me a pair of socks, and there was a circle of bamboo leaves embroidered on the socks. This was not bought by me, nor did it look like I bought it. I saw a man's socks for the first time. The socks were embroidered on the socks. The socks were discovered when the maid tidied them for him. So I asked him what was going on with the socks. He said he bought them in a garment shop in Luoyang..."
Liu suddenly turned his head to look at Chen Wenchao with tears in his eyes: "You may have forgotten this matter for a long time, but I have always remembered it for eight years. It was like being fooled when buying something and spending two taels of silver. This matter has long passed, and I don't care about the two taels of silver. But whenever someone says he is deceived, I will think of the two taels of silver. This is not a big deal, but I remember it."
"You are crazy, you jealous woman!" Chen Wenchao's eyes were fierce, and he squeezed out these words from his teeth.
Liu ignored him and continued, "Short after he came back, he came to the capital again. Later, he passed the imperial examination and saw that I still went to and from the pork shop at home every day, he felt indecent and said several times that I would change my career. Later, I simply lived in the capital and did not return to Tongzhou. I gritted my teeth and handed over the business at home to the shopkeeper. I brought my two sons to the capital, and built a house in Zhelu Lane, and lived with him until now."
There were swearing sounds from the crowd outside: "I really have no conscience. You forgot where the money you have for studying comes from? Isn't it all your wife got from killing pigs and selling meat."
"Yes, opening a butcher shop can make money. If my son can also marry a butcher's wife, I'm not too happy."
"Silent!" The yamen runners in the yard shouted loudly again, and the people's discussions gradually became less and less.
Zhao Zhun cleared his throat and asked, "Apart from those pair of socks, have you not noticed that he had anything else hidden from you?"
Liu smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, just four days ago, a young woman suddenly came to the door with her two children. She kept saying that it was Chen Wenchao's wife, who was kicked out by the servants at home. She cried at the entrance of Zhelu Lane, which attracted many people to watch. So the little woman took her two sons out and forced the woman away, but..."
Liu suddenly burst into laughter. Everyone inside and outside the courtyard were confused by her sudden laughter. Could this woman be really crazy?
Liu smiled for a while and said, "But I saw the woman's two sons, which were twins. When I saw them, it was like seeing my youngest son. When Kai Ge'er was a child, he was like carved from the same mold."
Chapter completed!