Meng Yan was worried. If his husband had learned some indeterminate news from their family, then he could not think that he didn't know anything.

So while he had not arrived at the He family and was resting in the inn, he personally cooked a few side dishes that his husband liked to eat through the inn kitchen. He brought it to the room, took a small pot of wine and said to Zhou Juren: "My husband, you are about to arrive in the next county. Tell me more about motherhood, what does she like on weekdays, what does she like and don't like, and what kind of personality do you have?"

"Mom is a very gentle person. I have never seen her get angry and like to wear red clothes... But the last time I saw my mother wearing red clothes was eight years ago." Zhou Juren said, showing a faint melancholy on her face, and when she recalled her mother's gentle smile, she felt even more sad.

Yang was very nice to him and took good care of him, but he was only thoughtful. He could not feel maternal love from Yang. Even under Yang's kind eyes, there were some things that made him very uncomfortable. If possible, he would rather stay with his mother forever.

After following his father to the Zhou family, the last time he saw his mother was three years ago. He had agreed that his father would live with Yang and his mother for three years. Logically speaking, he should have gone to his mother this year.

But the father said that his sister Caier grew up and was about to marry him, and he was about to get married. Can he still live with Yang for the past three years? After these three years, he will live with his mother for six consecutive years.

Although the words were said by his father, he knew that it must be Yang's idea, or he didn't know what method Yang used to make his father feel that it was necessary.

What my father said makes sense. If he followed the rules set before, he would go back to the Zhou family three years later. Fortunately, his sister was older and could not discuss with his father three years later.

The father felt sorry for the Yang family and daughter, and thought it was better, so he mentioned to his mother that the mother had always been gentle. Naturally, he had no objection, and there was no reason to object. Opposition means disregarding others' lives and death, so he agreed to let his father live for three more years and hold his sister's marriage during this period.

"Mr...." Meng Yan saw Zhou Juren distracted slightly and changed his voice softly.

Zhou Juren came to his senses and remembered Meng Yan’s previous question. He said: “As for the eldest sister-in-law, she is also an excellent person. She is loving to her brother and wife, which is enviable…”

Speaking of this, Zhou Juren looked at Meng Yan. There seemed to be something in his eyes that made Meng Yan a little uneasy.

Before he could think clearly, Zhou Juren continued: "You don't have to worry. Mom and brother and sister-in-law are both very good people and are easy to get along with. Don't be too deliberate, we are all a family. Don't be too polite, and don't be too restrictive."

When talking about the family, a trace of gloom flashed in Zhou Juren's eyes.

Meng Yan's heart skipped a beat and understood what the anxiety was just now.

When his husband mentioned his elder brother and sister-in-law, his eyes were full of admiration, and he seemed to feel a little regretful when he was looking at her. He admired his elder brother and sister-in-law's love, and his husband and wife could not say badly, but no matter how hard he worked, he seemed to have lost a little.

When I was in the Zhou family, there were also several young couples who often visited each other. There was a couple who communicated with each other so much that they were enviable. It seemed that they had a look and every move, but there was less tacit understanding between her and her husband.

She originally thought that this was because she was born into a military general's family. Although she also learned some piano, chess, calligraphy and painting in her boudoir, she was incomparable to those from the scholarly family, so it was difficult to achieve harmony between husband and wife, but later she observed that this was not the case.

She saw that some husbands were talented, and their wives were almost illiterate, but they were also kind-hearted.

Juren Zhou saw Meng Yan's strangeness, but at this moment he had no time to care about Meng Yan's mood, so he poured a glass of wine alone and drank it all in one go.

When he wanted to pour the second cup, Meng Yan took the lead, took the wine glass and said, "Mr. I'll give it to you."

Juren Zhou did not object and just drank two drinks.

Meng Yan then asked softly: "Mr. You seem a little unhappy. Can you tell me something?"

Juren Zhou was silent for a long time. Just when Meng Yan thought he wouldn't say anything, he suddenly said, "I have a friend who met while studying abroad. He... was convicted recently and was sentenced to death by Qiuhou."

"Qiu Hou asked for the killing." Meng Yan was shocked. What a serious crime, how could her husband know such a person?

Juren Zhou felt sad again when he remembered what he said in his letters from several friends.

When he left Yancheng in a hurry, he felt a little guilty. Li Zhengjie, Xiao Xin, Guo Huan, and Chu Chaohui, the five of them were good friends. If it weren't for the literati who didn't like to be sworn brothers, they might have become brothers of the opposite sex like the heroes in the storytelling, and they would not ask for birth on the same day of the same year, month of the same month, but hoped that they would die on the same day of the same year, month of the same month, and they would read together, recite poems and couples together, travel around the mountains and rivers, and even talk about major events in the court. They could talk about everything.

Later, Guo Huan brought one of his cousins ​​Cheng Boyu into their small circle. Although he felt that Cheng Boyu seemed a little different from them, his fame and a few words were inseparable from how to get fame and fortune, and how to find a good idea after passing the exam, etc., Cheng Boyu's talent was also excellent, and it would be okay to have a little flaw, but he was probably not a fellow person. After several times, Cheng Boyu gradually became a little distant and integrated into another circle. After all, there were a lot of scholars in Yancheng.

They didn't care, they didn't plan to do each other, and they knew each other, but occasionally they gathered together, but some time ago, the Cheng family was involved in the greed of the river that was causing a lot of controversy in the court.

It is said that Cheng Boyu's father was one of the main culprits, and the Cheng family was searched. Cheng Boyu was treated as an accomplice because he had helped his father a little, and the father and son were put into prison together.

That day, Guo Huan and a few friends came to find him, saying that the Cheng family was wronged and hoped that he would help.

What can he do? He didn't even know Cheng Boyu's father. He heard the corruption case in the river in the teahouse. How could he know whether he was wronged or not? Even if he knew, he had no official position or title, how could he seek justice? Of course, if they were a scholar, they were all juren, and if they jointly signed up to petition where they could ask the yamen to review the case, he wouldn't mind with Guo Huan and the others.

But Guo Huan said that this was useless and he had to ask the important officials in the court for help.

Among all of our relatives, there is only one who has the largest official position and is capable of helping, his brother-in-law, Lian Yufeng.

Guo Huan said that as long as Prince Ding can help, the Cheng family’s grievances will definitely be cleared.

He is a scholar. He has never been involved in the officialdom and does not understand the matter in the officialdom very well, but he also knows that this matter is extraordinary. How could he investigate the case just because of a person's words? He himself doesn't understand how the Cheng family is involved, whether it is wronged or not. How can he speak to Prince Ding?

Guo Huan pulled several friends and kept saying that the Cheng family was so wronged that it was pushed to be a scapegoat, but after all, it was just empty talk. He was confused and didn't understand how wronged the Cheng family was. Who was the real guilty?

I can't tell Ding Wang that the son of the Cheng family is his friend's cousin and his friend. The friend said that the Cheng family was definitely wronged. So he also guaranteed that the Cheng family was absolutely wronged and hoped that the Prince Ding would help to review the case.

Isn't this a joke? How could he speak? Even if he spoke, Prince Ding would not pay attention to him. On the day he got married, Prince Ding's mansion just sent someone to send a generous gift, and the prince and the princess never showed up.

He would also have kissed him and met Prince Ding at the Meng family that day. After a meeting, he hadn't even said a few words. How could he make such a request?

Unfortunately, Guo Huan and the others said that human life is at stake and that any method must be used, and they cannot be saved by death.

He really couldn't refuse, but he couldn't respond.

I originally wanted to find an opportunity to mention it to Prince Ding. It would be fine if I did my best, but he had never even been able to enter the door of Prince Ding's Mansion. How could I mention it?

They could only rely on their own wife Meng Yan, a newlywed couple. Although their relationship was good, they were not as good as talking about anything. They tossed and turned that day, Meng Yan couldn't sleep, and the couple talked for a while.

Meng Yan told her relationship with her princess and sister, and he knew that it was impossible to plead with her, and it was difficult to meet Prince Ding.

Most people won't see him.

Because he could not explain to Guo Yin and the others, his mentor passed away just now. He gave him an excuse and asked Shutong to leave a letter to Guo Huan and the others, briefly explaining the reason why he could not help, and left in a hurry.

It was just a evasion. After that, I felt a little uneasy and ashamed of my friends. I didn’t know how to meet Guo Huan and the others in the future, so I was always worried after I came back.

Fortunately, the situation in the Zhou family has always been very complicated, and no one noticed his abnormality, and he thought he was upset because of Caier's marriage.

But now I suddenly received an urgent letter from Guo Huan, saying that Cheng Boyu and his father were sentenced to death.

Guo Huan's letter did not have any requests or anything else, so he simply told him that several of their friends were going to send Cheng Boyu the last trip, similar to the situation. The five of them have always been together in Yancheng. Should he come here too now?

Seeing Meng Yan wanting to ask, he looked like he didn't dare to ask, Zhou Juren sighed secretly and whispered: "My friend was involved in a case of greed. Several other friends said that he was wronged, but he was about to be executed."

Meng Yan stared at Zhou Juren with wide eyes, and didn't know what to say for a moment, so she could only hold Zhou Juren's hand to show comfort.

Juren Zhou was disappointed.

She didn't ask what was going on? As he expected, she was a smart woman who knew how to be the best for herself.

Because of the Zhou family's situation, he was caught between his biological mother and his father's other wife, and he learned about the complex psychology of women very early.

Know how smart women won't take things into consideration.

Just like Yang, he wanted to keep his father by his side for three more years, saying that it was for his sister's marriage, but in fact he wanted to see if he could have a child while he was still young. I heard that Yang had been worshiping Guanyin honestly and looking for various secret recipes for having children.

But her idea did not prove it, and she did not even directly ask her father to stay. Instead, she took advantage of her sister's marriage and raised the difficulties, so that her father would raise it herself, not take responsibility or owe favors.

Meng Yan now doesn’t ask, but she doesn’t want to help. After all, she doesn’t know his friends, so it’s better not to ask, and there’s no need to solve it if she doesn’t ask.

How could he not know about Meng Yan’s practices in the Zhou family?

I just thought that my family’s interpersonal relationships were complicated and that Meng Yan was wronged, so I couldn’t blame her.

But he was disappointed in his heart. What he hoped was that the couple would work together to face difficulties and bear them together. But Meng Yan obviously had no idea of ​​taking them together. She just wanted to protect herself in the best interests.

Well, let him bear it alone.

Meng Yan was sensitive to the fact that after drinking a meal, she seemed to be a little distant from her husband.

I was a little anxious, and I couldn't help but ask my mother to discuss countermeasures.

Ping's mother is a experienced person. Looking at Meng Yan who was a little anxious, she knew that Meng Yan really liked Zhou Juren, otherwise she would not insist on marrying a low marriage at the beginning. She thought for a while and said, "Miss, this world cannot be achieved in both worlds, and the relationship between husband and wife is the same. If you want the couple to be in love and talk about everything, you have to show twelve points of sincerity and help your son-in-law solve the difficulties. Even if you are powerless, you have to share the joys and sorrows together. Only in this way can you be respected. People's hearts can only be exchanged with people's hearts. You hope your son-in-law is good to you, but you have reservations about your son-in-law, which is not possible."

Meng Yan was stunned for a moment and murmured: "But my mother and second sister all said..."

Meng Yan didn't continue talking.

Ping's mother followed Mrs. Meng for decades and served Meng Xiaofu for a while. She also knew about these two people and knew how they would teach Meng Yan. She said sincerely: "What Madam and the Second Miss said are correct, but Miss, how are you doing now between the wife and the master? You and your son-in-law may not be as good as the master's wife, but you may be respectful to each other for the rest of your life, not like other couples."

"Mom Ping, haven't you advised me not to care too much before?" Meng Yan looked at Mom Ping with some resentment.

"Miss, I just do it according to the lady's wishes. Miss doesn't want to do too much to make me wronged. I can only help the lady not to be wronged." Ping's mother's voice was not filled with emotion, and she looked at Meng Yan, "Miss, if you have other ideas, it's still time to change."

"How to change?" Meng Yan seemed to be asking Ping's mother, and seemed to be asking herself.
Chapter completed!