Wen Wan coaxed her again, and she spent a lot of time to persuade Yang's tears to stop.

Aunt Xie asked for a treasure from Mrs. Song to carry her. She was wandering around the yard. Seeing her eldest daughter-in-law coming out of the Song family's kitchen with red and swollen eyes, she hurriedly asked what was wrong.

Yang smiled and said it was okay. He helped his cousin's cousin's wife add firewood and was smoked.

Aunt Xie didn't think much about it.

This eldest daughter-in-law has always been a virtuous example of their family. She has been working hard for many years. Although she is not as good as her second wife, she is very kind-hearted and authentic in dealing with people.

Even if the second wife can make money, Aunt Xie still prefers a kind and down-to-earth daughter-in-law like a eldest wife. In the past, she had to hand it over to Yang if something happened in the countryside. She never had to worry about doing something wrong.

In Aunt Xie’s impression, Yang has always been filial to her parents-in-law, and her relationship with her boss Xie Zheng is also harmonious. She has not seen her young couple blush for so many years.

So Yang made up an excuse, and Aunt Xie would not think about the problem with the couple's relationship at all.

——

Today, the stewed chicken in this pot is enough. After it is cooked, Wenwan asked Song Fang to go next door to call uncle Xie, Xie Tao, Xie Tao's wife and a few young people to have dinner here, saying that it was the first time to stew donkey-hide gelatin, so that everyone could taste fresh.

At the dinner table, Xie Tao's wife discovered something wrong with Yang, but she didn't say anything about it in front of so many people.

After dinner, he took the excuse of going back to clean up the things he wanted at the stall and pulled Yang away early.

After returning to his own house, while his parents-in-law and uncle were not around, Xie Tao's wife asked, "What's wrong with my sister-in-law? Who bullies you?"

Yang shook his head and said no, his brother and sister were thinking too much.

Xie Tao's wife didn't believe it, "We have been sisters-in-law for many years. Can you hide it from my mother-in-law? How can you hide it from me?"

Yang was not happy to say it.

No matter how unhappy I feel, it is a private matter between myself and my husband. Telling it will only make people laugh.

Xie Tao's wife rolled her eyes, "I saw that my uncle had no smile on his face in and out these days. Have you two quarreled?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Yang said: "When did I argue with him?"

Xie Tao's wife was already curious about gossip. Seeing that Yang didn't speak, she quickly stopped thinking, "Okay, you are not happy to say it, I am not happy to ask, I am moving."

After stabilizing in the yard, Xie Tao and his wife were idle. Seeing Tian'er going out for a walk, they had already found a good stall in the vegetable market. They were preparing to go back to their old business and continue to do the fish and shrimp business.

Although I came to the capital to benefit from the grand uncle Xie Zheng's favor, with my uncle's current official rank, the meager salary was not enough to support the whole family.

Xie Tao's wife is the kind of person who will feel anxious if she doesn't get in for a day. She doesn't want her whole family to put her mouth on the side of her uncle's pot. She lived a day of worrying about her last meal. A few days ago, she urged Xie Tao to go out and make a move.

Before going to Beijing, my mother-in-law said that over the years, their second wife has paid a lot of money and strength to the uncle. Now that the uncle has made a fortune, it is time to compensate the second wife. There is no more. After going to Beijing, I took out 300 taels of silver to the couple to make trouble for themselves.

All the money was saved up by doing fish and shrimp business when I was in my hometown.

Three hundred taels are not a small number of pens.

In the next ten years, it would be impossible for their second wife to burn so much money on their uncle.

Xie Tao's wife recalled it. This was probably the only time she had married into the Xie family for so many years. She thought her mother-in-law was quite reasonable, generous, and good at being a human being.

Thinking that the shop was too expensive, the couple rented a stall first and started the business.

Xie Tao's wife is determined to make money and let her live a good life.

Yang is different. She devotes her whole heart to her husband Xie Zheng and her two children.

When she was at home, Yang thought she was very capable. She was good at everything in the fields and houses, and she could always do it better than anyone else.

When I arrived in the capital, I didn’t have to go to the fields anymore, so I naturally had less work. When I was free, I saw my husband busy and wanted to help him do something to spend his time. As a result, there was nothing she could do except do in washing and cooking.

The more Yang thought about this, the more he felt that he was useless.

——

At night, he lay on the bed with the light on the light. Wenwan told Song Wei about Yang's concerns during the day, and asked him to find an opportunity to find out Xie Zheng's words.

Wen Wan said: "When my brother and sister got married, she was green and tender, and she was also a good flower. However, the Xie family did not have the conditions to support her. She gave birth to two children and was busy all day long. After working hard for so many years, she was still young and could see where she could go. Xie was about to dislike her because of this, which was really disappointing."

As he said that, Wen Wan looked up to see the man who was holding her whole body, "Do you men all like to chew on tender grass?"

Song Wei chuckled and stared at her with warm eyes, "I forgot how did you marry into the Song family?"

The implication is that it is not that his old cow chews tender grass, but that the tender grass comes to his door on its own initiative.

Wen Wan couldn't help but feel guilty and hot when she heard him mentioning the events back then, "I, I just said it casually..."

His low laughter became more and more obvious, "I just marry you."

“…”

Wen Wan was so embarrassed that she ignored him and shrank herself into the quilt, pressing her cold hands on both cheeks, trying to lower the temperature as soon as possible.

The man's tight chest was pressed against her back and his chin was resting on her shoulders, as if he guessed the little wife's nonsense worry, and his tone of speech was unspeakable, "You are only nineteen years old now. When you are thirty years old, I am already forty-two. No matter how many years you push it back, you are a tender grass compared to me."

What he said made Wenwan feel shy even though she was a mother.

——

The next day, Song Wei and Xie Zheng went to the Hanlin Academy together.

The yard here is close to the yamen, so the two of them did not take a carriage and walked directly.

Song Wei spoke first, "I saw that you are not in good condition recently, are you worried?"

Xie Zheng smiled at him, "I have passed the palace examination, don't worry about failing the exam anymore. What else can I worry about?"

Song Wei said, "The Xu family is coming soon. At that time, we must arrange some things well. If it is convenient for brothers and sisters, I want to ask her to come and help."

Xie Zheng did not directly answer Song Wei, but instead asked an irrelevant question, "I heard that my third cousin asked for a place to enter Hongwenguan for his cousin's sister-in-law?"

Song Wei agreed.

Xie Zheng asked again: "You can recognize all the words in the third cousin's wife, you taught them one by one?"

Song Wei shook his head, "It's not all, before coming to the Song family, she had secretly learned it."

"Study secretly?"

"Yes, she will go to the village to learn eavesdrop."

Xie Zheng murmured, "No wonder..."

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just ask."

Xie Zheng lowered his eyelashes and thought of Yang.

When Song Wei was reminded in the provincial capital, he taught Yang to learn to recognize words after he returned home, but Yang was clumsy. He taught him the day before, but she forgot the next day.

Xie Zheng did not have the patience of Song Wei. After teaching for a few days, Yang still couldn't remember a single word. He simply used the excuse to go to Beijing to take the exam with a review, but never mentioned this again.

That day, Yang asked her to go out to buy something for him, but Yang made a mistake because he didn't recognize words.

Xie Zheng did not have an attack on the spot, let alone said no, but he had a different thought in his heart.

He didn't know who should blame this.

Was she not studying hard at the beginning? Or was he not teaching hard?

Song Wei sniffed a sign from his words, as if he had thought of something, and a hint of doting appeared on his lips: "Wanwan was very stupid when she learned to recognize words. She learned to eavesdrop in the village for two or three years, but only recognized a few words. Later, I taught her to write the same word. Every time she wrote it, she could turn into a different shape. After several years of hard work, she could recognize all the words. Nowadays, she only recognized words. She had not learned to say that she would recite poems and essays like others.

Xie Zheng was shocked.

A mute, in order to learn to recognize words, insisted on eavesdropping for two or three years, but she could only memorize silently and could not write them. In the end, she only learned a few words, but the little girl still enjoyed it.

Not to mention Yang, even he himself can't afford this kind of mind.

——

Song Wei's words made Xie Zhengdi enlightened. When he went home from the yamen at night, he did not stay in the study alone. Seeing that Yang had time, he pulled her in to teach.

Yang had a knot in his heart because he was illiterate and bought the wrong thing. This time, her husband showed his patience to teach him. She didn't dare to be distracted and tried her best to learn. Although she was still clumsy, Xie Zheng was not like when he was in his hometown before. He would teach her again if he didn't know how to do it once, and wouldn't do it for the third time twice.

——

After the Xu family came to get a job, the wedding date was scheduled for the twelfth lunar month.

Life is very fast, but fortunately, the embroidery shop has embroidered Song Fang's wedding dress, and as for the tasks she has already completed, she is almost done.

The Xu family is the general's mansion, and the betrothal gifts come from are numerous and expensive, all of which are packed in a box and cannot even pile up one ear room, so Wen Wan opened another one.

Xie Tao's wife was shocked by her eyes, "Be good, if you want to put so many betrothal gifts in our countryside, you can marry more than a hundred wives."

In the box where jewelry is packed, a handful of gold and silver jewelry can be seen with a random grab, which makes people dazzled.

Mrs. Song was a little worried and asked Song Wei: "There are so many betrothal gifts, how can we get the dowry?"

Song Wei said: "I'll buy some land for her and prepare a box of silver."

Song Fang is a high-married woman. Song Ma Zi doesn't want her daughter to be angry at her in-laws' house in the future, so she waved her hand, "We don't want any betrothal gifts from her son-in-law's house, and we will return as a dowry for her."
Chapter completed!