Wu Baozhang has always had a grudge against Zhou Shaojin. She would be very active in doing things to make things difficult for Zhou Shaojin, but she would never do such an embarrassing thing as complaining to Zhou Shaojin even if she was beaten to death.
After hearing what Zhou Shaojin said, Wu Baozhang's tears stopped immediately.
"How long have you been married to the Cheng family?" She glanced at Zhou Shaojin and looked down on him. "Even if I tell you, can you help me solve it?"
If necessary, Zhou Shaojin didn't want to have any more contact with Wu Baozhang.
Seeing Wu Baozhang's arrogant attitude, she was even more unwilling to pay attention to him. She simply stood up and said lightly: "In this case, I will send someone to take you to Xinglin Hutong to meet my sister-in-law." Then, without waiting for Wu Baozhang to say anything, she ordered "Show him away" and got up and left the flower hall.
"You!" Wu Baozhang's face turned red with anger.
Not wanting to complain to Zhou Shaojin is one thing, but being kicked out by Zhou Shaojin is another.
She took a few steps forward and wanted to say something to Zhou Shaojin, but before she could say anything, she was stopped by a nanny who was smiling but not smiling. She said, "Grandma Nuo, you heard what the madam said. Madam Yuan is not someone who is easy to talk to. Maybe you will ask to come to our old lady in the end. If I were you, I would not offend our madam, otherwise you might not even be able to see the old lady!"
Wu Baozhang recognized this as Nanny Shang who was beside Zhou Shaojin.
She was so angry that she gnashed her teeth and wanted to refute the old woman, but she saw that the maids and servants serving in the flower hall all looked at her with contempt, while she only brought one maid with her, and this maid was taken away by the Cheng family's maid because of the rules.
Wu Baozhang's nails dug into his flesh, and he managed to swallow his anger. He quickly left Chaoyang Gate and headed towards Xinglin Hutong.
Zhou Shaojin has returned to Tingxiangyuan.
Mrs. Guo held out her finger to Yun'er and teased him to pinch her finger, while she asked, "What is Nuo's wife doing here?"
"She didn't say anything." Zhou Shaojin sat down on the kang. Yun Ge'er kicked his legs to grab his mother-in-law's fingers and said with a smile, "Maybe I'm too young, some things are hard to tell me, so I went to Xinglin Hutong."
Mrs. Guo nodded and said no more about it.
After hearing what Wu Baozhang said, Yuan was surprised for a long time before she came to her senses. She asked Wu Baozhang as if to confirm: "You said that Brother Nuo kept a woman outside, and even bought a house for that woman in the alley next door... This, this is not possible, right? How old is Brother Nuo this year?"
The problem is, she learned that Cheng Wen didn't have much money to give to his mistress, so how could Cheng Nuo have money to buy a house for her? Even the house that Cheng Wen and his family live in now was bought with part of the money borrowed from Cheng Chi.
Yuan was very suspicious.
Wu Baozhang started crying again when he saw this: "Aunt, you don't know that he has made several deals since the beginning of spring and earned several thousand taels of silver..."
She didn't care that Cheng Nuo had a woman, but Cheng Nuo kept that woman outside without her approval, and even gave her money - she had been married to the Cheng family for so many years, and except for the money from the public treasury, Cheng Nuo had never given her a penny in private. She couldn't stand it.
At this moment, Wu Baozhang suddenly began to understand Mrs. Wen.
Why should I give the things that I should be enjoying to that bitch outside
Yuan felt uneasy when she heard this.
She hates those who keep mistresses outside the most.
Cheng Wen was like this, and Cheng Nuo, at such a young age, would follow suit!
She immediately said, "Don't worry about this matter. I'll ask your father-in-law first. This is your family affair after all. It's not good for me to interfere too much. I'd better listen to what your father-in-law says!"
"Listen to my father-in-law?!" Wu Baozhang wiped his tears with a handkerchief and said, "A son should not blame his father. But you are not someone else. You know better than me what my father-in-law did. Listen to my father-in-law. What can he say? Otherwise, how can I shamelessly come to my aunt..."
Yuan thought Wu Baozhang had done a good job in this matter, so she asked Wu Baozhang: "Do you know the details of that woman?"
"I know." Wu Baozhang was angry because he knew it. He said, "The woman's surname is Kang. Because she is the sixth child in the family, everyone calls her Kang Liuniang. She is the daughter of a merchant family in Hui County. Her parents died when she was young, and she grew up with her grandmother. Their family has several silk shops in Xizhimen, right next to our tea shop. It is the property of her great uncle's family and is managed by her second cousin. Last year, her second cousin's wife gave birth to a son, so she asked her to take care of the confinement. After a few visits, she hooked her husband and coaxed him to buy her a house in a hutong not far from our house. Although it is only one-story, it cost nearly one thousand taels of silver..."
However, in just a few sentences, Wu Baozhang mentioned twice that Cheng Nuo bought a house for the woman named Kang.
I'm afraid she's not sad that Cheng Nuo has found a new love, but she's heartbroken that the money in her pocket has gone into someone else's pocket
This is another Mrs. Wen.
If you are not from the same family, you will not enter the same door.
Yuan was complaining in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. She said in a gentle voice, "It would be best if your father-in-law could come forward in this matter. After all, I am your sister-in-law, and there are some things that I can't say to your father-in-law. I think it's better for you to go back first, calm down, and don't make a fuss. After I discuss it with your uncle, we can decide what to do."
Wu Baozhang had no choice but to nod with tears in his eyes and return to Xizhimen.
The house was quiet. My father-in-law went to the tea shop and Cheng Nuo went to the teahouse.
Her personal maid was standing in front of the hanging flower gate, eagerly waiting for her.
Seeing her sedan chair stopped at the Chuihua Gate, he immediately walked forward.
Wu Baozhang gave her a calming look, and the two of them entered the inner room one after the other. Wu Baozhang asked the maid to help him change his clothes, and went to the inner room. Seeing that the servants were all in the outer room, he whispered, "How is it? Have you received any letters from Jinling City?"
On the day of Yun'er's third-day baptism ceremony, Cheng Nuo used the excuse of having business to not attend. Wu Baozhang was very happy and wanted to reward him, only to find out that he was at Kang Liuniang's place, helping Kang Liuniang find someone to fix the firewall.
She then discovered the affair between Cheng Nuo and Kang Liuniang.
She had long wanted to stop living with Cheng Nuo.
But it is one thing for her to no longer want it, but it is another thing for someone to covet her.
She immediately went to tell her father-in-law and said that since she had not given birth to a child for the Cheng family in all these years, she was willing to take in Sister Kang Liu and treat them as sisters in the future.
Cheng Wen was very surprised.
He had no idea about this matter, so he quickly sent his servant away and called Cheng Nuo back to ask.
As a result, Cheng Nuo refused to admit that he had an affair with Kang Liuniang, and said that the reason he knew Kang Liuniang was because Wu Baozhang had borrowed money from Kang's silk shop some time ago, and Kang's family came to him to pay it back. He kept apologizing to Kang's family. Kang's family knew that he was having a hard time, so they helped him to make some connections and introduced him to Kang's family's old friend who was in the tea business. Only then did he do several tea deals...
When the father-in-law heard that those profitable tea businesses were introduced by the Kang family, he immediately changed his mind. Not only did he say that she was suspicious, he also asked Cheng Nuo to invite the Kang family to dinner at home and introduce them to him to see if there were any other businesses that could be introduced to him. He also said that after doing business, he realized that there were many tricks in it. Without someone to guide the way, it would be like a blind man groping in the dark, and he didn't know when he would be able to enter this industry.
When that bastard Cheng Nuo heard this, he jumped for joy and immediately went to the Kang family, arranged for the Kang family's people to meet Cheng Wen, and even prepared to collect some money to follow the Kang family's people to the Western Regions as a gift... He didn't mention the matter of Cheng Nuo and Kang Liuniang at all.
Wu Baozhang decided to resolve the matter himself.
As a result, she sent a message to Kang Liuniang, but Kang Liuniang not only did not come, she also gave the message directly to Cheng Nuo. Cheng Nuo had a big fight with her over the message she sent to Kang Liujie, and has not come back until today.
She wrote a letter to her brother, hoping that he would ask her father to make the decision for her...
Wu Baozhang calculated the date and found that the letter from Jinling City should arrive in the next two days, so she sent her personal maid to the post station every day to check if there was any reply from her, so as to avoid it falling into the hands of Cheng Nuo or Cheng Wen. She went to Old Lady Guo and asked her to suppress Cheng Wen.
Unexpectedly, she didn’t see Mrs. Guo, but met Zhou Shaojin, the person she hated the most.
Thinking of this, Wu Baozhang felt a little depressed.
The maid thought that Wu Baozhang was worried that the letter from Nanjing would be delivered to Cheng Wen. Upon hearing this, she nodded continuously and took out two letters from her arms.
Why are there two letters
Wu Baozhang took the letter in confusion.
Judging from the handwriting, one letter was written by her brother and the other was written by Wu Xiu.
She thought about it and opened her brother's letter first.
Her brother mentioned the son born to her stepmother at the beginning of the article, saying that he was three years old this year and learned from a teacher. Both the teacher and her father were very pleased. Her father even said that their family depended on this son born to her stepmother. Then he told her that their father would be promoted to the governor of Shandong Province, a senior official of the third rank, because of his outstanding achievements in Jinling City. At this critical moment, he certainly didn't want anyone in the family to make trouble. He asked her to be patient in everything. It was just that he had a lover outside. She just had to turn a blind eye. What man would not flirt with others outside
Wu Baozhang crumpled up his brother's letter and threw it into the fire.
If every concubine was just for show, then where did Cheng Nuo's half-brothers come from
Why does Mrs. Wen go crazy from time to time
Because of his brother's letter, Wu Baozhang did not hold out much hope for a letter from his father.
Sure enough, her father's letter not only did not comfort her, but also scolded her. He said that she did not give birth to a son or daughter for Cheng Nuo, and the Cheng family was kind and forgiving by not divorcing her. She still wanted to divorce Cheng Nuo? Divorce is fine, but she will give her dowry to the Cheng family and go back to her hometown in Meizhou to farm and support herself. Not only that, her father also asked her to give Cheng Nuo a concubine and give birth to a son as soon as possible to inherit the family line...
Wu Baozhang threw the letter aside without finishing reading it.
People from my mother's family are totally unreliable.
She knew it in her heart, but she couldn't help but hope that they could be her support when something happened...
Wu Baozhang sat on the big kang by the window, holding back tears.
What should she do
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Hey guys, today's update.
I'm very sorry that the updates have been unstable in the past two days.
It will be fine in two days.
Tomorrow's update will be around twelve o'clock.
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※(To be continued)