Yutai Bi

Chapter 235 Negotiations 2
She wasn't pregnant.That night, she didn't drink Bizi Tang, but she didn't get pregnant.Cen Liuniang's heart bleeds because of Cen Sanniang's words.Don't go, the nanny urged, and the grandmother also told her to leave.Let's go, her chest is tight.

Seeing this situation, Mrs. Cen wanted to change the subject.Cen Zhibai, the person who suddenly remembered this incident, came.Instructed Tian's mother: "Ms. Zou has invited Sanniang as a middleman, and wants to reconcile. This matter needs to be decided by the second young master. You should go to the four-bedroom old house and ask the second young master to come back first."

When Cen Sanniang heard this, she also stood up, bowed respectfully to Mrs. Cen, and said, "Grandmother. The Zou family and the Du family are related by marriage. The Cen family is also my natal family. Mr. Zou entrusted him to the Duke of the country. Grandpa can't ignore it. I came today just to tell you about this matter. Zou's reconciliation with his second cousin is not a trivial matter, and it should be discussed carefully. You are not feeling well today, and your side concubine came to visit. San Niang I’m going home first. I’ll come back tomorrow to ask for your reply.”

She saluted all the ladies and walked away with the girls.

Madam Cen let out a long sigh.He said to Cen Liuniang and Qiniang: "It's rare for you sisters to meet each other, Qiniang, let's accompany Liuniang to your room to talk."

Cen Zhibai and Zou's reconciliation was decided by the elders after discussion.It is also inconvenient for Liu Niang and Qi Niang to be present.The two saluted and went to the water pavilion behind.

The daughter-in-laws also resigned contentedly after watching a good fight between the prince's side concubine and the wife of the Duke's mansion.

Only the eldest lady, the second lady and the fourth lady are left in the hall.

Mrs. Cen asked the second lady: "Mrs. Zou is your daughter-in-law. What do you think of this?"

The second lady had long since lost her mind, Zuo Gu said something else: "Let's wait for Erlang to come back and ask him."

Mrs. Cen knew that there was no way to talk to the second lady about this matter.All I could do was wait for Tian's mother to call Cen Zhibai back.

Cen Zhibai didn't dare to delay this time, he went directly to the four-bedroom old house, and Du Yansui met him in the study in the front yard.

Du Yansui glanced at Cen Zhibai, secretly surprised.

He remembered eating at home with Cen Zhibai and Zou's father and son a few months ago. Cen Zhibai was still Pianpian's son.

Now he is sluggish, his eyelids are swollen, he talks a lot, and his spirit is not good.

He said in embarrassment: "My family and the Zou family are related by marriage. Zou Yuanwai wrote a letter asking us to handle the Zou family's affairs on my behalf. I think it's not easy to ignore it for the sake of my sister. Second cousin, listen to me, you Now that you have a crush, why don't you be more generous, write a letter to release your wife, and reconcile with Zou Shi?"

"Reconcile? She wants to reconcile with me?" Cen Zhibai blinked, a little dazed.I thought to myself, so what my grandmother said was true, Zou wanted to make peace with herself.

Du Yansui sat down and confided in him: "I heard from Sanniang that Mrs. Zou has no real affection for you. First, she is used to the prosperity of Chang'an and doesn't like Longzhou. Second, I heard that there are quite a few people in your house. She is a beautiful girl, and one of them is pregnant. She has no children, and when a woman is jealous, she is even more homesick."

These few words were to the point, and Cen Zhibo immediately felt that Du Yansui did not mean to favor the Zou family.Be wary and go away, and snorted: "I know she won't go back to Longzhou. But my father only has one son, and my mother is in the hall. How can I disregard filial piety? As the saying goes, marry a chicken and follow the chicken, Zou only wants to I really want to go back to Chang'an, this is unfilial! Speaking of girls, which man doesn't have three wives and four concubines? She has committed seven crimes!"

The "seven outs" are: childlessness, adultery, neglect of uncles and aunts, tongue-in-cheek, theft, jealousy, and sickness.As long as the wife commits any of these, she may be divorced.

Zou wanted to go back to Chang'an to live a life of prosperity and ease.She refused to serve her mother and grandmother in Longzhou with her. She was jealous of her concubine, married for four years and had no son.Uncle, jealousy and childlessness are three things that have been committed in Qichuli!He can divorce his wife in a high-profile way, and he can ask the Zou family to get back the original dowry.

Yes, someone like Zou deserves to be thrown in her face with a letter of divorce from him, and let her be cast aside by the world!That's the way it should be done!

Du Yansui saw his complexion alternately sunny and cloudy, his hands tightly clenched into fists, and he looked like a cockfight for the last time, smiled and said in a low voice: "The Zou family and the Du family are in-laws. I'll call you cousin again. Sanniang and I are just connecting with each other and acting as mediators. We are all relatives, so if we have something to say, we can talk about it. Of course, you can divorce your wife in a high-profile manner and ask the Zou family to return the dowry. Now The meaning of the Zou family is that they want to be famous, they don’t want to accept the divorce papers, they want to ask for a piece of paper to release his wife, so that the Zou family can reconcile with you. The Zou family has a lot of money..."

Cen Zhibai understood.

The third room of the Cen family is not separated.When I came back, I paid 1 taels of silver in the public office, and the expenses for food and clothing were transferred from the public office.No property, no errands.How can I live on the little money from the public?When marrying the Zou family, the dowry gift was only 5000 taels of silver.The Zou family didn't care about the amount of the dowry at all, what they liked was that his father was an official in the court. The Zou family could not afford to refund the 5000 taels of dowry.How long will it take to get it in your hand?

If you can get the Zou family to pay a large amount of money, this money is compensation for yourself, and you don't need to hand it over to the public... You can buy a beautiful girl with ten taels of silver. If you have money, you can buy it vigorously.With this compensation, he can still pay a large dowry to marry a daughter of everyone as his successor.The so-called harmony and separation means that the husband and wife are not in harmony with each other.Nothing to do with your reputation.

Cen Zhibai was moved, and approached Du Yansui: "How much is the Zou family willing to pay?"

Du Yansui said with a smile: "I just said that the second cousin is a smart person. If you divorce the Zou family, both sides will suffer. With the divorce, the Zou family has gained a reputation, and you have benefited, right?"

Cen Zhibai nodded again and again: "The Zou family wants to be famous, and I can make it happen. Brother-in-law, how much do you think the Zou family is willing to pay?"

Du Yansui smiled and said, "You tell me the number, and I will consider it for you."

Cen Zhibai stretched out a slap when he thought of Zou Yuanwai who was called Zou Wanwan.

"5 taels?" Du Yansui asked.

Cen Zhibai gritted his teeth and rolled his palms: "10 taels! As long as the Zou family pays 10 taels of silver, I'll make peace with you!"

Du Yansui breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "Second cousin is really accurate. As long as the outsider Zou is within [-] yuan, I can make the decision."

10 taels!When the Cen family married a girl, they only gave 5000 taels of silver to those who were born on the same day.Marrying a noble girl, 1 taels of dowry is considered generous.As long as you take care of yourself well, you will have no worries in this life.Cen Zhibai felt that reconciliation was more cost-effective than divorce.

Du Yansui took a pen and ink and said, "Write a letter to release your wife!"

The husband's family wrote a letter to release his wife, and Zou took it to the Yamen to file a record and make a book, and he was free.

Cen Zhibai wasn't stupid enough: "But money!"

Du Yansui smiled and said, "Accompanying Sanniang back to Longzhou is to sacrifice to her parents-in-law. It's not that she came here specially to be a middleman. Look at the date of this inscription. It was written by Yuan Wai Zou to Mrs. Zou when you returned to Longzhou. Yes, Mrs. Zou just gave it to us yesterday. We can only accept the letter. How can we carry the 10 taels of silver bill with us. Don’t you believe me?”

He took out the letter written by Zou Yuanwai, complete with seal and signature, and entrusted Du Yansui and Cen Sanniang with full authority to handle Zou's affairs.

Cen Zhibai took a closer look and found that it was indeed Zou Yuanwai's handwriting.Du Yansui has always kept his heart open to him, and has not favored Zou Shi.With the government as the guarantor, he felt at ease.

As soon as he picked up the pen, he wrote the letter to let his wife go.The general idea is that there is a discord with the Zou family, the man and the woman voluntarily reconcile, and from then on their respective marriages have nothing to do with each other.

Du Yansui sat beside him and ate tea leisurely, without urging him.In my heart, I hoped that Cen Zhibai would quickly sign and draw a deposit.

The less anxious he was, the more relieved Cen Zhibai was.

After he finished writing, he was only about to sign and press his fingerprints, when he suddenly remembered something: "Bao'er is my daughter! But she can't go with that woman."

Du Yansui sighed, there was no other way.They can only wait for the Zou family to leave the Cen family, and then pick up Bao'er in the name of the ancestral family, or pay more money from the Cen family to make Bao'er's life better.

"It's natural. The Zou family can only be grateful for how well the Cen family treated Bao'er." Du Yansui smiled.

Cen Zhibai breathed a sigh of relief: "What my brother-in-law said is true. Even if I reconcile with the Zou family, Bao'er is still the granddaughter of the Zou family. Presumably when Bao'er gets married in the future, the Zou family will also give her money to add makeup to her."

Hearing these words, Du Yansui immediately became disgusted.It turned out that Cen Zhibai was not thinking about the relationship between father and daughter, but was thinking about extorting money from the Zou family with his daughter.He thought to himself, the Cen family is over.With Zou Dalang's nature of eating people in the mall without spit out bones.It's no wonder if you don't come to Longzhou to vent your bad breath.

Just as Cen Zhibai was about to sign his name, there was a sudden commotion at the door.

Du Yansui frowned, walked out of the study and said angrily, "Who is making noise at the door!"

The four-bedroom old house is not big.Enter through the gate, bypassing the screen wall is the front yard.The study is on the right side of the main hall in the front yard.There was a noise at the door, and the sound came in.

The voice stopped, and a choking sound was faintly heard.

Mantou came over and said: "Mama Tian from the third bedroom of Cen's family is here. She just arrived, and the young lady came back. She was pulling her to talk at the door. Unexpectedly, Mama Tian suddenly made a fuss, and the guard covered her mouth and took her to the side. "

Seeing that Cen Sanniang's strategy of delaying the attack did not hold back Mother Tian.Du Yansui turned her head and saw that Cen Zhibai had also come out.He sighed secretly in his heart, this time was too bad, for a quarter of an hour at night, Cen Zhibai was coaxed into writing a letter to release his wife.

At this moment, Cen Sanniang came in with the girl around Zhaobi, and saw Cen Zhibai standing behind Du Yansui.She had already discussed with Du Yansui that one person would sing bad faces and the other would sing red faces. She pointed at Cen Zhibai angrily and said, "Master Tian and I were kind enough to be middlemen. Mother Tian was arguing that she wanted to see you, as if we put you away." It's like being locked up in the fourth room! This middle-aged man is so annoying. Hmph, go out and see for yourself!"

(End of this chapter)