Zhai County Magistrate also came to visit, and then said: "The layout of this yard is good. Although the alley is small, it is convenient for people to go in and out to buy some small things."
Xia Xia came over with half of his body leaning on Xia Rui's body, panting: "Back then, Zhou Yin fell behind this small door. Brother Yan met him and saved him."
Old Zhou Tou and Qian could not help but look at the small door, and remained silent for a while.
Patriarch Xia and others also looked at the small door and remained silent. In fact, Xia Yan had already let go of his step-heir back then, but he just had to wait for Xia Xin to get married.
But she can't bring those fields from the clan to marry, so the clan discussed Xia Xin's dowry with Xia Yan. They worked hard for many years, and finally Xia Yan agreed to leave a field for the clan, and the remaining two with this house. handed over to the heirs.
The other two fields he bought outside were Xia Xin's dowry.
However, at the stall where Xia Xin started talking about kissing, Zhou Yin fell down here.
Xia Xia and Man Bao said: "Your father is not bad, he stayed after he was rescued, carrying water and firewood for the family every day, and doing some rough work, the most important thing is that he can read and write."
Although he didn't know much and couldn't write well, and the written characters were crooked and ugly, but Xia Yan was very happy, so he began to teach Zhou Yin how to read and write.
Xia Xia said in a low voice, "Your father is very smart. Your grandfather said that he memorized many articles after memorizing them several times. He is smarter than many of the students he taught."
Old Zhou Tou was refreshed and nodded again and again, "My second brother has been clever since he was a child, and Man Bao is most like her own father in this respect."
Qian also nodded.
Xia Xia nodded approvingly.
The patriarch Xia on the side also secretly said: It is because of this that Xia Yan went back on what he had agreed to, procrastinating procrastinating to Xia Xin, and finally letting go of the adoption.
Zhou Yin stayed at Xia's house and helped Xia Yan buy some more land. He deliberately avoided Hongtian Village to buy it, and bought it next to the two lands, which happened to be connected with the previous two lands.
Zhou Yin also helped Xia Yan spend all his savings to buy a shop in the county seat, which was directly recorded in Xia Xin's name. Not only that, Xia Yan also wanted to sell the house at that time, and then exchanged it for two small shops. For some houses, one was reserved for the heir, and the other was given to Xia Xin as a dowry.
In those few years, Xia Yan can be said to have completely ruined the agreement with the clan. The two sides were at war, but the clan didn't agree.
Patriarch Xia knew that Zhou Yin's handwriting was behind all this, and the Xia clan suffered a lot from Zhou Yin's hands back then. That's why they didn't start to count these family properties until Zhou Yin left without hearing from him for two years.
It is also because of this that he now makes more concessions to Zhou Man. He feels that she is very similar to Zhou Yin. If she gets mixed up and is an official, the Xia family will not be worth the loss.
Patriarch Xia looked at the alley outside the small gate, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Perhaps it was God's will. Zhou Yin, who was seriously ill and had no money, was lying down nowhere, just outside the gate of Xia's house.
Qian patted on the doorpost of the back door, leaned there in a daze, Man Bao came up to support her and regained consciousness, holding her hand and turned to go back to the house.
When Xia Yi sent his daughter-in-law to the gate of the prison and came back crying, Man Bao had already visited both the front and back yards.
She said to Xia Yi not too politely: "Don't be too anxious, Uncle Yi, just clean up in the next two days, move all the things that need to be moved, and then we will come in and clean up."
She turned her head to Patriarch Xia and said, "Our husband is here to visit friends this time, and he wants to take us on a study tour, so we will accompany Mr. Attendant to participate in some literature and poetry meetings in the past two days, and we will come to take over the house after we finish attending." , when the time comes, I will go back to the clan to sacrifice with Uncle Yi, how does the patriarch feel?"
Patriarch Xia understood Zhou Man's words, he wanted him to watch Xia Yi move, otherwise what would she say when she participated in the poetry meeting...
Patriarch Xia just thought of this, and Man Bao was already smiling and said: "By the way, Patriarch, didn't you say that the fifth brother and the seventh brother are studying in the county school? Do you want to invite them to participate in the literary meeting with us?"
Because of his prejudice against Zhou Yin, patriarch Xia immediately refused, "They haven't reached home yet, so they are not in a hurry to participate in the literary and poetry clubs, let alone they have to go to school now."
Man Bao expressed his regret.
When Man Bao and the others left, the tears on Xia Yi's face hadn't dried yet, and now the man who used to be quite arrogant could only cry.
After sending all the outsiders away, patriarch Xia said irritably, "Why are you crying? If you hadn't indulged your daughter-in-law to mess around, how could today's disaster have happened?"
"But the patriarch, it was agreed that this house is for me, and I am the closest person to Uncle Yan..."
"You have Xia Man again, no, is there Zhou Man?" Patriarch Xia said: "That is his granddaughter!"
"But her surname is not Xia!"
"She will have a child named Xia in the future, and she will go back to worship the ancestors later. She and the Zhou family want the ancestors to write their handwriting." Patriarch Xia paused and said: "Hurry up and take the children to clean up, in two days Just move back to the village."
Xia Yi sat down on the steps and said shamelessly, "If I don't move, I wonder if she dares to throw me out?"
Patriarch Xia was so angry that he reached out and slapped the table, "Are you stupid? She can't throw you out, but she can detain your wife. If you don't move for a month, she will detain you." Daughter-in-law for one month, if you don't move for a year, she will detain your daughter-in-law for a year, do you still want your daughter-in-law?"
After all, he looked at the three terrified teenagers and said, "Do you still want your mother, why don't you persuade your father?"
The three of them pulled Xia Yi and cried, "Father, let's move back, they are officials, we can't beat them."
Xia Yi held his head weakly and angrily and cried.
Patriarch Xia sighed and said: "Okay, this is fate, you and Zhou Yin's father and daughter committed a conflict, think about it when you were suppressed and beaten by Zhou Yin, who said Zhou Yin was wrong?" Neighbors in the neighborhood, even people in the village and clan all praised Zhou Yin for his righteousness and love, and in the end, everything is not yours."
"Zhou Yin was a beggar taken in by your Uncle Yan back then, he could do this, let alone his daughter is now a fifth-rank official, do you know how old a fifth-rank official is?" Patriarch Xia tried to persuade and threaten at the same time. : "That's an official older than the county magistrate. Haven't you seen that magistrate Zhai treats her with more courtesy?"
Xia Yi shouted: "Being an official can bully the common people?"
Patriarch Xia said slowly: "Then can you fight an official?"
Xia Yi choked to death on a single sentence, he was speechless for a while, and finally he hugged his head and stopped talking.
He waited for two days and wandered around the gate of the prison every day. The prison guard didn't stop him from going in to see his wife, but he didn't let her go. It was said that his wife had offended the county magistrate Zhai. It hasn't been sentenced yet. Why? Can you let it go
Xia Yi's daughter-in-law was almost scared to death living in the prison. She cried when she saw Xia Yi. In two days, she lost a lot of weight, and her dark circles appeared under her eyes.
Xia Yi had no choice, and after two days of resistance, he still took his children to pack up their things and prepare to move.