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Chapter 1303: Heart Eyes (Part 1303) [Seeking monthly votes]

Cui Xiong had great respect for this grandfather whom he had never met.

"I want you because..."

Reason told Cui Xiong that it was impossible for him to be adopted, but Ermi's expression was so strange that he had to abandon reason and think.

Cui Mi nodded affirmatively: "It's just what you think."

Cui Xiong's Adam's apple rolled, and he swallowed hard, muttering, "Impossible? He deliberately angered my father?"

This guess seems more credible.

Why did the grandfather adopt them as his own brothers when there was nothing wrong?
The brothers and sisters of my uncle’s lineage are my maternal grandfather’s grandchildren.

"It seems that it is because my cousin and his friends do not have the qualifications to practice..."

Cui Mi said the problem was not complicated.

Cui Xiong: "...Father won't agree. Even if he agrees, grandparents and the elders in the clan won't agree."

Even if grandparents prefer cousins ​​and have always been cold to their brothers, it does not mean that they will let their grandchildren be adopted by others as grandchildren. The Cui family is not so poor! It is unreasonable and Cui Xiong did not take it seriously.

Take a peek and see the whole leopard.

This detail also shows that the relationship between the father-in-law and the son-in-law is very bad.

Cui Xiao and Cui Zhi are not the only ones who fail to handle the relationship between father-in-law and son-in-law well.
Cui Zhi himself also has a daughter.

Cui Zhi loves his daughter the most.

The eldest daughter stayed for another three years after her coming of age, and was ready to get married at the age of 18. The dowry alone took out 40% of Cui Zhi's private treasury, plus the items she had accumulated since she was born, a true wedding of ten miles. However, the son-in-law was not the one Cui Zhi had carefully selected.

I was not satisfied with my son-in-law back then, and I hate him to death today!
"My two gentlemen, please save my master."

Not long after Cui Xiong and Cui Mi sat down to reminisce about the past, someone came hurriedly. Just as Cui Xiong was about to scold him, the person suddenly fell to his knees with a plop. When he raised his head, it was a stranger.

Cui Xiong asked: "Who are you from?"

Cui Mi had some impression of this face: "It's from the Yuan family."

To be precise, he is the confidant of Yuan Jia Xiaolang.

"Why are you so flustered? Is there something wrong?"

As soon as Cui Mi reminded him, Cui Xiong roughly guessed it.

The only family of Yuan who had close contact with Cui was the one that the eldest sister married into. Cui Xiong thought that something must have happened to his elder sister, so he sat up straight and asked the person who came: "Tell me slowly, what rescue? Is it my elder sister or my brother-in-law who is in trouble?"

Either way, it's deadly.

Cui Mi walked forward calmly and helped the man up.

In just a few breaths, his expression changed from relaxed, solemn, gloomy, to angry. The fingers holding the visitor's wrist kept tightening, leaving purple finger marks in an instant. The servant cried out in pain, and Cui Mi came to his senses and let go: "Go on!"

The servant wiped his tears and said, "Our Lord was beaten to death."

Who dares to kill the young master of the Yuan family?

Cui Xiong stood up suddenly and said, "You lead the way quickly."

He walked fast and didn't notice the embarrassment and confusion on the servant's face. He finally gritted his teeth and led the way. Cui Mi followed slowly with a cold face. The Yuan family was not a small family in the southwestern Qi Kingdom. The eldest son of the Yuan family was outstanding among the younger generation. The "Langzhu" mentioned by the servant was his fifth youngest brother. The two brothers didn't have much contact with Yuan Wulang. They heard that their father's favorite marriage candidate was Yuan Dalang, but in the end it didn't know how it became Yuan Wulang.

Before meeting his brother-in-law, countless possibilities flashed through Cui Xiong's mind, but he never expected to see his father here.

To be precise, it was the father holding the sword.

Cui Xiong stopped, not knowing whether he should step over the threshold.

"Why is father here?"

Also, where is my brother-in-law?

The room was in a turmoil, with a few low tables toppled over and a faint scent of powder floating in the air. Yuan Dalang, who had only met him a few times, stood in front of his father, and the two of them were in a confrontation. In the corner behind Yuan Dalang, Cui Xiong finally saw his disheveled brother-in-law and... two women with dishevelled hair, shivering.

This posture, no matter how you look at it, looks like catching someone cheating.

When Cui Xiong and the other man arrived, the Yuan brothers looked even worse.

He glared at the servant.

Asked him to find help, he brought two people with the surname Cui?

The Cui brothers have already arrived, and it is too late to say anything now. Yuan Dalang said, "You two Cui brothers have come at the right time. Please persuade your father not to get angry. Anger is harmful to your health. No matter how big the matter is, the two families can sit down and discuss it. Why bother to brandish swords? If someone gets hurt, won't it damage the harmony between the two families?"

Cui Xiong didn't care about the conflict with his father.

"Father, what are you doing?"

Cui Zhi refused to answer and turned to Yuan Wulang in the corner.

"Brother-in-law, what is this doing?"

Looking at Yuan Wulang's appearance, Cui Xiong couldn't hold back his smile. Although he was unmarried, it didn't mean he didn't know anything. Looking at the situation in front of him, he knew that his brother-in-law was not a very clean person.

Yuan Wulang didn't dare to show up and hesitated.

Cui Xiong then saw that his hair crown had been cut off by a sharp sword, and there were bruises and sword marks on his face, with fear in his eyes. Needless to say, the "culprit" was the person next to him. Yuan Wulang's embarrassing performance made Yuan Dalang embarrassed. He said shamelessly: "My brother followed me to accompany the king, and Mr. Cui suddenly came to the house and drew his sword to bully me when he disagreed with me. Although the father-in-law and son-in-law are like father and son, and it is natural for a father to teach his son, he didn't come up to kill me..."

"Can your family bully my daughter, Cui Zhi?" Cui Zhi, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke up. "Why don't you go and ask your good brother what he did and said here!"

Yuan Dalang was a little embarrassed.

To put it bluntly, this is what happened in my younger brother's room, how can it be discussed in public? He turned his head away and said unnaturally: "It's just that the elders in the family pity my younger brother and worry that he will be left without anyone to take care of him, so they gave him two young maids to serve him. Mr. Cui and his wife are deeply in love, but they can't ask others to do the same. It's too much to ask..."

He thought Cui Zhi was angry because he accidentally saw his son-in-law playing with the maidservant... From a father's perspective, this matter is indeed worth getting angry about, but it's okay to be angry for a while, why draw a sword and hurt someone? This matter is common in every family.
If you do not allow your son-in-law to take a concubine, you should have made this agreement when choosing the son-in-law, instead of making a big fuss afterwards. This is so ungraceful!

What's more, Yuan Wulang didn't take a concubine.

The two maids had no official status and could not be considered concubines.

Cui Zhi sneered: "Do you want me to speak or do I want to speak?"

Yuan Wulang shuddered when he heard this, and buried his head behind the maid next to him, wishing he could crawl into the crack of the ground. Yuan Dalang felt something was wrong, but he calmed down and protected his own people first.

Cui Zhi said: "Okay, if you don't tell me, I will!"

He didn't know that his son-in-law was also here. After being offended by Cui Xiong, he wanted to ask about his daughter and son-in-law's recent situation.

As a result, he ran into his son-in-law having fun.

If he just wanted to have fun, he wouldn't be too angry. The elders of the Yuan family could send a maid to Yuan Wulang, and he could also send some clean and pleasant company to his daughter. If his daughter wanted to live with him, she could live with him. If she didn't want to live with him, she could divorce and go home. It wasn't a big deal. But then he heard Yuan Wulang say something stupid, and Cui Zhi drew his sword in anger.

Yuan Dalang glanced at his younger brother.

The younger brother lowered his head and shrank his neck guiltily.

This scene made Yuan Dalang feel uneasy.

As it turns out, it's not good.

Yuan Wulang’s original words were: […How can that little woman from the Cui family be as lovely as you two? She married in but had no children. Someone had her privately seen and said she couldn’t have children…She has a father like that, so she can’t even get divorced…You two should work harder and get pregnant for the master. When the baby is born, you can say it’s hers…What’s the point if she doesn’t agree? She has such a cowardly personality…]

He cannot divorce his wife, and his wife cannot get pregnant, so doesn't that mean he will be childless for the rest of his life? In the final analysis, it was her own fault.

[…Why must it be her birth? ]

[Guess how much dowry she has?] [If she has no children, Cui will ask for the dowry back. Mother has no choice but to do so...]

Cui Zhi couldn't listen any further after hearing this.

Yuan Dalang looked at his younger brother in the corner in disbelief.

The younger brother stammered, "...I don't want to do that either. If she could give birth, why would there be these annoying problems?"

A large family also has its troubles, which is that there is not enough money.

This dowry was very important to the Yuan family. The dowry Cui Zhi prepared for his daughter was not pots, pans, coffins, and bedding. Ninety percent of it was gold, silver, jewelry, shops, and fertile land. They were all high-quality assets, and their annual output was more than the entire Yuan family's net profit for two or three years.

There is no way Cui can take it back.

The couple had a good relationship at the beginning.

This situation has come to this point entirely because the other party is infertile.

"You can't let me die without an heir, right?"

Yuan Dalang held his forehead with his hand in despair, his face flushed with shame. It is far more shameful for a son-in-law to plot for the dowry than for the father-in-law to beat him up! This incident not only exposed the moral problems of the Yuan family, but also exposed their limited financial problems...

"I will definitely give an explanation to Mr. Cui about this matter." Yuan Dalang was angry, but he could not let Cui Zhi kill his younger brother. "Considering the long-term friendship between our two families, please forgive me, Mr. Cui."

Cui Zhi felt that his blood pressure was a little erratic.

"Big Bear, Two Elks, go get some pens and ink."

Yuan Dalang immediately realized that something was wrong and stepped forward to stop it.

"Mr. Cui, why is it so?"

Cui Zhi sneered, "Why do you say that? Get out of the way!"

She immediately wrote a divorce letter with radical language, which was just short of cursing and pointing at the person, and threw it in front of Yuan Wulang for him to sign.

"My sister-in-law may not agree."

Cui Zhi is too arbitrary and domineering!

"That's none of your business."

Yuan Wulang stared at the paper for a long time, then suddenly jumped up like a fish thrown into hot oil, veins popping out on his forehead, and said angrily, "Why? You, the daughter of the Cui family, were in the wrong first, why do you treat me like this? Do you think your daughter is just infertile? She's still having an affair with a wild man, and I didn't say anything to her!"

Cui Mi couldn't help it, so he stepped forward and pushed him away.

"Don't slander my sister!"

"What slander?" Yuan Wulang was so angry that he was about to cry. He pointed at his own eyes and said, "I saw it clearly with my own eyes! She didn't choose the son-in-law your father liked, but chose me. Isn't there something fishy here?"

Cui Xiong: “???”

Yuan Dalang: “???”

Yuan Wulang realized what he had said and couldn't help but slap himself. His regret was evident in his expression. He said, "I am not the only one who made a mistake. Either we should all get fifty lashes, or just pretend nothing happened. Why did you hit me?"

Cui Xiong looked at his father, who had a subtle expression on his face.

Cui Zhi took a deep breath: "Who is that person?"

"She seems to be a believer of the Eternal Life Church... She makes donations every month..." Yuan Wulang simply gave up everything. It was indeed wrong for him to calculate Cui's dowry, but Cui's daughter was not completely innocent either. He would be embarrassed together with her. "They have been in contact for a while."

When Cui Zhi heard the words "Eternal Life Church", his expression became interesting.

Yuan Dalang almost broke his voice and it was trembling.

Incredulously, he asked, "You've been dating... for a while?"

Why haven’t you mentioned it yet?
Yuan Wulang chuckled and said, "...They were in contact before they got married...I once saw them talking and laughing outside the temple."

He was also shocked when he got engaged to Cui.

There was no way that Miss Cui didn't know that he liked to play.

A young son who is a bit philandering and has no inheritance rights, isn't he chosen just to control her? Even if she has been having affairs with other men after marriage, and it's unclear, he can't say a word.

This pattern is not uncommon in this circle.

As long as the couple has accomplished the important task of continuing their family line, it is not shocking for them to have a few lovers in private, as long as they do not make a big fuss and stick to the bottom line - the bottom line is that the bloodlines of their children are not mixed.

Brother Cui Xiong swallowed and looked at his father.

I hope the other party can come up with an idea.

Speaking of giving alms, their elder sister did have this habit, usually on the first and fifteenth day of every month. She also had close contacts with several believers in the Eternal Life Church. Yuan Wulang was afraid that the father and his two sons would not believe it, so he said, "In order to develop more believers in the inner house, the Eternal Life Church specially raised beautiful servants and maids to trick them into donating more money... Did you know that?"

Cui Xiong was upset: "You know it very well!"

Yuan Wulang said: "Mother is..."

He had played with these people before, so he naturally knew the inside story.

But before he could finish his words, Yuan Dalang quickly covered his mouth with his hands.

The Cui family's father and son: "..."

Yuan Wulang used all his strength to pry open Dalang's fingers, allowing him to breathe: "... Most of these people are slaves."

Of course it was impossible for a slave to become Cui Zhi's son-in-law.

That's why he chose himself to be the scapegoat.

Yuan Dalang didn't want to listen anymore.

If they continue talking, both families will lose face.

"Mr. Cui, how about...giving each of us fifty lashes?"

Cui didn't mention that their family coveted the dowry, and they didn't care about Cui's daughter's private life. So the two families just pretended nothing happened?
Cui Mi said: "Don't worry, I have to listen to what my sister has to say. I can't let you guys say everything..."

Yuan Dalang smiled awkwardly: "That's fine."

This farce started with a bang but ended with a stinker.

"Er Moose, what do you know?"

Cui Zhi used a firm tone.

Cui Mi didn't know where to start for a moment.

The three siblings are getting older, and there are differences between men and women. They are not as close as they were when they were young. In addition, the future is uncertain, so Cui Mi doesn't know much about his sister's future. Just now, he had a brief contact with Yuan Wulang, and he saw some fragments. Yuan Wulang saw his sister talking and laughing with someone, and that person's appearance... His appearance is exactly the same as the young scholar in front of his grandmother's grave...

That is to say-

The young man Yuan Wulang saw was actually his grandfather?

Cui Xiong said angrily: "Then he slandered my sister's reputation?"

Isn't this just a misunderstanding?
It was a misunderstanding on my sister's part, Yuan Wulang is really bad!

Cui Mi whispered, “Not really.”

Cui Xiong raised his butt and sat back down: "Huh?"