Chapter 57 I'm Hers

"Okay." Lu Qiniang agreed without hesitation, "Thank you for your help."

"No trouble."

Zhang Heyao couldn't help but feel jealous when he heard the familiarity in the conversation between the two.

Lu Qinniang, actually got so close to such a man!

Lu Qiniang glanced at Zhang Heyao and walked into the side room.

When he came out again, he was holding two tablets, which were the tablets of Zhang Heyao's parents.

Everyone was stunned.

Zhang Heyao gritted his teeth and said, "Are you going to use my parents to threaten me?"

Everyone thought so, including Erya, except Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan quietly walked over to Daya and whispered to her, "Go in and pack your things. Take only your clothes and belongings. Don't take anything from the Zhang family. Also, take your mother's chickens and pigs. I'll think of a way. This is a bit tricky."

Daya nodded repeatedly and went in holding Sanya's hand.

Erya jumped up and cursed, "You're not a thief, so why are you feeling guilty? If you've done your best for my mother, why would you be afraid of seeing your parents' tablets? Aren't you afraid your parents will crawl out of the ground in the middle of the night to find you, an ungrateful thing?"

"Er Ya, it's done." Lu Qiniang stopped her, "You go in and pack your things with your elder sister. You have the most stuff, so pack it quickly. No, wait——"

She walked up to Zhang Heyao with the tablet in her hand and said calmly, "Brother, do you want to keep the tablet for my parents or should I take it away?"

"How can I let you take my parents' tablets away? Sun Shun, help me take it!"

Sun Shun walked forward and took the tablet from Lu Qiniang.

He didn't dare look at Lu Qiniang's face.

Lu Qiniang smiled at him and said, "When you left, you were like a bean sprout. Now you have grown taller and stronger. Take good care of your grandmother in the future. She has suffered a lot."

Sun Shun lowered his head and nodded vigorously.

"Take your grandmother back with you, and I'll come visit her when I'm free."

"Abandoned mother, come and live in my house." Grandma Sun said again.

Lu Qiniang smiled and shook her head, then walked up to Zhang Heyao and said, "Brother, I only have one request."

Zhang Heyao remained silent.

Why does she make demands on me?

"You can't divorce me - I still have three maids, and they will get married in the future, so let's divorce. You can't write about my faults, because it will affect the marriages of my three maids."

"Divorce? You and I don't even have a marriage certificate. We're not husband and wife in name, nor in reality. How can we divorce?"

"Oh, so that's what's going on. I'm relieved then." Lu Qiniang nodded. "Then it seems there's nothing else to worry about, except for one thing—"

“Snap—”

Zhang Heyao was slapped.

He covered his face, his eyes almost spitting fire, gritted his teeth and spoke word by word: "Lu Qi Niang, you dare to hit me!"

Xiao Yan's eyes were calm, as if all this was within his expectations.

"Brother, I'm sorry." Lu Qiniang said, "I know you're a high-ranking official now, and I'm guilty of beating you. You let someone take me to be punished, and I admit my guilt. But if I don't vent my anger for Erya, she'll never be able to get over this."

"You, you--" Zhang Heyao's face turned red with anger.

At this time, Xiao Yan stepped forward and said, "Go in and pack your things. Lord Zhang is an official appointed by the court, why would he be so picky with his sister? It's just a trivial matter between siblings, why bother the government?"

Zhang Heyao looked at him steadily, "What's your relationship with her?"

"Master-servant relationship." Xiao Yan said.

"When did she become your servant?"

"Master Zhang has misunderstood. I belong to her. I, along with everything I have, belong to her."

Zhang Heyao gritted his teeth and said nothing.

For a long time, he has developed the habit of being restrained when dealing with people he cannot control and in uncertain situations, and he will make mistakes if he speaks too much.

"Go ahead." Xiao Yan said to Lu Qiniang gently, "Pack your things first. I'll find someone to help take care of the chickens and pigs later."

"Okay, thank you for your help. But I'll be quick..."

"I should do it. I'll help you clean up."

Half an hour later, Lu Qiniang put all the things on the cart and asked her three daughters to sit on it, but none of them wanted to.

"Xiao Yan, sit on it. You're not feeling well. I'll push you."

Xiao Yan also shook his head, "Let's go."

"Let's go!" Erya shouted loudly, half of her face still red and swollen, but she still held the piece of meat in her hand. She spat fiercely in Zhang Heyao's direction, "Let's go back to our own house and stew the meat!"

Zhang Heyao watched them leave, and Ah Huang followed them with his tail wagging, and they went away together.

It was as if there were two villains fighting in his heart.

One said that this was perfect, as Lu Qinniang would not bring up the marriage again in the future, and he had solved his worries.

Originally, he wanted to keep Lu Qin Niang, but now seeing her like that, it only made him feel disgusted, so it would be better for her to leave.

But the other one said, how can we let her go?

She's with another man.

I don't know what Xiao Yan meant by that.

Seeing Lu Qiniang's current state, Xiao Yan wouldn't be attracted to her, but why was there such ambiguity in his words?

Is Xiao Yan targeting me?

But there was no conflict between him and me. In fact, I had only met him once from afar before.

At that time, Xiao Yan was high and mighty, and he was like an ant.

Is it because he feels that he has become rich now, so he feels unfair?

Or did Xiao Yan have something going on with Princess Zhaoyang?

The two of them should know each other, after all, Xiao Yan has been in the northwest for many years.

After this thought came to his mind, Zhang Heyao did not feel angry about his wife having an affair with someone else, but instead felt a faint excitement.

If that's the case, he might be able to take advantage of this ambiguity in the future.

If he could get something on Song Mingzhen, he would have more initiative in this marriage.

As for Lu Qiniang, he had long forgotten about her.

Zhang Heyao's thoughts were interrupted when Sun Shun asked whether he wanted to put the tablet back.

"Put it back. Go buy me some incense, candles, and paper money, and prepare some offerings."

"yes."

Sun Shun put the tablet back and came out and asked, "Master Zhang, there are offerings and incense in the room..."

"Then let everyone go. I'll go in and kowtow to my parents."

"yes."

Sun Shun drove everyone away, and the whole courtyard suddenly became quiet.

Zhang Heyao kowtowed to his parents' tablets first. "Dad, Mom, I haven't let you down. I'm now a third-rank official. I'll ask the court for a posthumous title for you. If your spirits are in the afterlife, please bless me to get what I wish for."

After coming out of the wing room, he walked into the main house.

The room was spotless and the layout was not much different from when he was there.

On the bookshelf against the wall, there are still the books he used in the past.

Lu Qi Niang didn't sell it...

There was a row of clay dolls on the windowsill. They were the ones he gave to Lu Qin's mother when he was a child. There were eight in a set. He remembered it clearly.

Now there are only six, those two might have been broken?

On the kang table stood a bowl of brown sugar eggs that had long gone cold. It had been delicious in the past, but now it looked like bloody corpses floating in the water, eerie and scary.

Zhang Heyao suddenly became furious and raised his hand to knock over the bowl of eggs.

The brown sugar water flowed down the kang table onto the kang, wetting the bedding.

"Lu Qi Niang!" Zhang Heyao said fiercely, "You will regret this!"

She is his!

As long as he doesn't give up on her, she will never leave him!