There was an eerie silence in the hall.
Song Ruyue returned to her seat with a cold face. When she passed by someone, she looked at him and said, "Why are you still standing here like an idiot? Sit down and eat. Sit next to me. I'll see who dares to give you a cold shoulder!"
"Brother-in-law, come and sit in Wei Mo's seat."
Miss Qin Er did not shy away from it. She directly took Luo Qingzhou's hand and let him sit in her seat.
The mother and daughter stood on his left and right, protecting him in the middle.
Luo Yu on the opposite side saw the two people holding hands, his eyes suddenly shrank and his eyelids twitched a few times. It seemed that he just realized something at this moment, and a look of astonishment and weirdness appeared on his face.
After hearing what was said, and seeing Miss Qin's gentle and protective attitude towards him, Luo Yannian and Wang's faces suddenly changed.
After everyone was seated and there was silence for a moment, Luo Yannian coughed and said, "Brother Wen Zheng, do you have anything to announce tonight?"
Everyone's eyes turned to Qin Wen Zheng, who had a dignified look on his face.
Qin Wenzheng picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and a puzzled look appeared on his face: "No, what can I announce? Didn't you invite us to dinner? You don't have anything to announce, right?"
Luo Yannian was silent for a moment, and could only ask: "What's going on with Qingzhou and Ling Qianjin?"
Qin Wenzheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said with a strange look on his face: "What's going on? Brother Yannian, if you have something to say, just say it. I don't quite understand what you mean."
Luo Yannian picked up the wine pot and filled it for him personally. He stopped beating around the bush and asked directly, "Brother Wen Zheng, didn't Qing Zhou marry Jian Jia? Why didn't he bring Jian Jia with him tonight? What is his relationship with your second daughter now?"
Qin Wenzheng picked up the wine glass and said calmly, "Jianjia was not feeling well tonight, so she didn't come. Didn't I just say that? As for Qingzhou and Weimo, isn't their relationship obvious? Do you even need to ask?"
Luo Yannian frowned, looked at the couple again, and couldn't help but ask, "Brother Wen Zheng, can you explain their relationship more clearly?"
Qin Wenzheng picked up the wine glass, drank it all, looked at him and said, "Don't you understand the relationship between brother-in-law and sister-in-law?"
Luo Yannian was stunned when he heard this and fell silent.
Wang had a wooden face. She turned her head and glanced at Yang who was standing beside her.
Yang Ping'er immediately walked behind Luo Qingzhou and said with a smile on her face: "Qingzhou, are you so powerful now? You have become the head of the Qin Mansion? Do you have any happy news to tell Second Mother? You and Wei Mo... Haha, looking at your relationship, it doesn't seem like the relationship between brother-in-law and sister-in-law. We are all family. If there is any happy news, you must not hide it. Tell it out and let everyone be happy."
Luo Qingzhou didn't say anything.
He didn't know how to answer.
He could clearly feel the sharp gaze of his mother-in-law next to him. The hand under the table was less than three inches away from his thigh. The nails were very sharp and it seemed as if she wanted to strangle him.
He felt a little scared.
Miss Qin, who was sitting next to him, was calm and answered for him: "Second Madam, my brother-in-law and I are indeed not an ordinary sister-in-law and brother-in-law."
After these words were spoken, the hall fell silent again, and everyone looked at her.
Yang smiled and said, "Oh? Weimo, what is your relationship with Qingzhou?"
Miss Qin Er's lips curved slightly: "Friends, confidants, brother and sister, master and disciple, etc. My brother-in-law is talented and has helped me a lot. I regard him as my brother-in-law, a confidant and friend, and also as a brother and teacher. Our relationship is not comparable to that of an ordinary brother-in-law and sister-in-law."
Yang: “…”
Everyone else was silent.
Yang looked at the eldest lady's cold eyes and had to ask again with a thick face: "Wei Mo, that... Look at you, how can a sister-in-law hold her brother-in-law's hand so casually. Also, didn't your mother just say that you already have a lover? That lover is..."
This time, Miss Qin Er did not talk about other things. She smiled slightly, held the hand of the young man next to her, and said softly: "Isn't Wei Mo's sweetheart his brother-in-law? Isn't this relationship obvious? Do you even need to ask?"
Everyone in Chengguo Mansion: "..."
Especially the maids and servants, including Xiaohe and other maids who used to bully Xiaodie and always treated him as an outsider, were all stunned by the news.
I thought that if he married into the Qin family, he would suffer humiliation and be treated like a slave by everyone in the Qin family. This was the case for other people's sons-in-law, but what was going on now
This young man unexpectedly transformed himself into the head of the Qin family. Even the second young lady of the Qin family fell in love with him!
Of course, the one who was even more shocked and uneasy was Luo Yu.
After being stunned for a moment, he finally couldn't help but speak: "Qingzhou, how can you be worthy of...your wife by doing this to Miss Qin Er?"
Luo Qingzhou did not answer.
Miss Qin Er, who was standing beside him, held his hand with a slightly cold expression and answered for him again: "This matter has been agreed by my sister. Wei Mo likes my brother-in-law, and it doesn't seem to be contradictory to whether my brother-in-law is worthy of my sister? Second Young Master, even if my sister and I serve my brother-in-law together, it seems to have nothing to do with you, right?"
Luo Yu: “…”
Wang, who was sitting next to him, had a gloomy face and held his slightly trembling hand under the table.
Luo Yu looked ugly, and her facial muscles twitched constantly. She tried to force out a smile to maintain her dignity and pride, but she couldn't. Her mind was blank, and her words kept echoing: "My sister and I... serve my brother-in-law together... serve my brother-in-law together..."
"Let's eat."
Luo Yannian had a complicated expression and continued to pour wine for Qin Wenzhen.
Wang held her son's shaking hand, a sinister look flashed in her eyes, and she said gloomily, "Second Miss Qin is good at talking, no wonder she is known as the most talented woman in Mo City. But my Yu'er is just concerned about his brother and asked him a question casually. There is no need for Second Miss Qin to be so rude, right?"
Qin Weimo smiled faintly: "Aunt, compared to your attitude when you regretted the engagement, Weimo's attitude now is already very good."
After these words were spoken, the hall fell into silence again.
Wang sneered, "Second Miss Qin, it seems that you are very satisfied with this son-in-law of our Chengguo Mansion, right?"
Qin Weimo didn't care about her sarcasm at all, and said with a smile on his face: "Of course I am satisfied, thank you aunt for giving us your brother-in-law. As for what aunt said about the illegitimate son-in-law, no one in our Qin family cares about this identity, and my sister and I don't care about it either. I just hope that aunt and Uncle Luo will not regret it when the time comes."
Wang snorted coldly upon hearing this and was about to make a few more sarcastic remarks, but thinking of her status, she had to hold back.
"Brother Wen Zheng, I'll toast you a glass."
Luo Yannian picked up the wine glass.
Qin Wenzheng clinked his glass with him, raised his head and drank it all, then suddenly said: "By the way, Brother Yannian, I came here today to trouble you with another matter."
Luo Yannian put down his wine glass and said with a smile, "Brother Wen Zheng, just give me your orders."
Qin Wenzheng pointed to a person who was protected by his wife and daughter and said, "Qingzhou will take part in the autumn exam next year. We need his birth certificate, as well as Brother Yannian's written statement and seal to prove that he is from my Great Yanmo City and your Chengguo Mansion. Since Qingzhou has married into our family, some information needs to be changed. I hope Brother Yannian will give the things to me tonight and let me keep them. This should be no problem, right?"
Luo Yannian was silent for a moment, picked up the wine pot, filled it for him, and said with a smile: "No problem, it's my duty."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the Qin family felt relieved.
Luo Yannian raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "Brother Wen Zheng, I have prepared the identity documents and seals. Since Qingzhou has married into the family, these things must be handed over to Brother Wen Zheng for safekeeping. If Brother Wen Zheng wants to help him change his surname and name, then do it as soon as possible, so as not to delay the exam. If there is anything else you need, come to Chengguo Mansion to find me as soon as possible."
As he spoke, he pulled out a letter in an envelope from his sleeve and handed it to him.
Qin Wen Zheng hurriedly took it in his hand, pulled out the document from the envelope, unfolded it and read it carefully word by word, then took another look at the seal of Chengguo Mansion, then carefully folded it again and put it back into the envelope.
Then, he stuffed the envelope into his chest, and then he said with a bow, "Thank you, Brother Yannian, but it seems that there is still one thing missing. Can you also give me the birth certificate from the village? I won't be able to register for the autumn exam without it."
Luo Yannian was stunned for a moment and asked, "A birth certificate from the village?"
Then, he looked at Wang and said, "Do you have that thing?"
Qin Wen Zheng's heart suddenly sank.
Wang's eyes gleamed, and she said expressionlessly, "Master, it seems not."
As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of everyone in the Qin family changed immediately.
Wang smiled and looked at Qin Wenzheng and said, "Sir Qin, the birth certificate should have been in Qingzhou's mother's hands. I don't know if she forgot it in the village or lost it somewhere. After entering the mansion, she didn't give it to us. We don't have it here."
Luo Qingzhou, who had been silent all this time, suddenly looked at her and said, "Madam, before my mother died, she told me that you took that thing away."
Wang narrowed her eyes, looked at him and said, "Qingzhou, your mother was groggy before she died, maybe she remembered it wrongly? How could she have given that thing to me for safekeeping? She knew that you were studying hard and would take the imperial examination in the future. That thing was like her lifeblood, so she must have kept it close to her. When she died, didn't you look for it on her body?"
Luo Qingzhou looked at her and said nothing more.
Miss Qin, who was sitting next to him, reached out and gently held his hand, and comforted him softly: "Brother-in-law, it's okay, we can go to the village to get a new one tomorrow. As long as someone in the village knows you..."
Having said this, she suddenly stopped talking and looked at the woman opposite her.
Wang showed a faint sneer at the corner of her mouth: "Yes, go to the village tomorrow to get a new one. It's very simple. As long as someone knows you, write a piece of paper in the presence of the village chief or the head of the village, and they draw a handprint, it will be fine."
When Miss Qin Er looked at her, her hands in her sleeves couldn't help but tremble, and her face suddenly turned paler.
Qin Wen Zheng’s face turned pale.
Song Ruyue's face was gloomy and she was shaking slightly with anger. She seemed to want to turn hostile and curse, but was afraid of making things even more out of control.
The atmosphere at the table suddenly became quiet and depressing.
No one spoke anymore.
Even Luo Yannian just lowered his head and drank silently.
Second Madam Yang seemed to want to make a joke, but after looking at Wang's expression, she became silent again.
Wang lowered her head to eat the food. Her expression suddenly became very relaxed. She smiled and said, "Eat the food, eat the food. Let's eat the food quickly."
Luo Yu, who was sitting next to her, seemed to have let out a sigh of relief. He raised his glass and said, "Qingzhou, come, second brother will toast you. I wish you success in the imperial examination next year!"
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of noisy footsteps outside.
Then, Wang Cheng hurried in with a look of panic on his face, and reported respectfully: "Master, Miss Xia Chan is coming in."
Luo Yannian frowned and said nothing.
Wang suddenly sneered and said, "Miss Xia Chan is a guard of the Qin residence. So what if she came in? Let her in. Can she kill people at will like she did that day?"
Wang Cheng looked up at her, his face pale, and his voice trembling, "Madam, she was holding a sack in her hand, and a bloody head just rolled out of the sack. The head seemed to be... was..."
Wang's eyelids jumped and she asked in a deep voice, "Whose is it?"
Wang Cheng’s face turned pale, his lips trembled, and he dared not speak.
Luo Yannian suddenly said with a gloomy face, "What can't be said? Tell me, whose head is it? If another person from my Chengguo Mansion dies in vain today, I will never let it go!"
Wang Cheng's legs went limp, and he knelt on the ground, lowering his head and trembling, "Master, Madam, the head was... burned a little, but... but from what I see, it looks like... looks like my cousin's head..."
Wang was stunned when she heard this: "Cousin... Cousin? Which cousin?"
After she finished speaking, she suddenly trembled, stood up with a pale face, her lips trembling, her face became a little ferocious, and she said in a trembling voice: "Speak! Which... Which cousin? Tell me quickly!"
The voice suddenly became sharp.
Luo Yu, who was standing next to him, was also startled and stood up.
There was dead silence in the hall.
Wang Cheng trembled all over and touched his head to the ground, saying in a trembling voice: "Madam, this is... this is Master Wang Zhao's... head."
“Buzz—”
As soon as this name came out, Wang's mind suddenly buzzed and went blank in an instant!
Then his body suddenly went limp and he fell down.