Chu Zhongtian smiled wryly and said, "Madam, you know our daughter's temperament. Once she has chosen someone, she won't change him no matter how bad he is. Do you want her to remarry?"
Qin Wanru also looked bitter: "Although Chu Yan has never said why she chose such a good-for-nothing, do you think we parents don't know? She's worried that if she brings in someone too strong and capable, he might covet our Chu family's business, and then she'll be caught in the middle and have a hard time. She's thinking of us so much, how can I, as her mother, not think of her too? I have to raise Zu'an to be more like a normal person, which is why I'm so strict with him every time."
Chu Zhongtian suddenly realized: "So that's one reason why Madam is so strict with him."
“Of course,” Qin Wanru rolled her eyes. “Otherwise, would I have let him copy the family precepts? Can just anyone copy the Chu family precepts? It’s to let him know that I’ve already treated him as a member of the Chu family, and to encourage him to reform himself and work hard in the future.”
"But I heard you let Cheng Shouping copy it too. Do you consider him one of your own?" Chu Zhongtian asked.
"Pah, I just don't like him, that's all," Qin Wanru said, her anger rising as she recalled how Cheng Shouping had led a bunch of slutty women to him with a fawning smile, asking her to help the master choose concubines. "Besides, a hundred articles is just too many. If I don't get help, Zu'an couldn't finish copying them even if he stayed up all night."
"I didn't expect you to be so considerate, Madam," Chu Zhongtian laughed, but after hesitating for a moment, he couldn't help but say, "But Zu'an has always been a bit slow-witted. With his aptitude, he may not be able to appreciate your good intentions."
Qin Wanru: "..."
She also realized that there was a high probability... no, it definitely would be like that, otherwise that guy wouldn't have become the city's notorious good-for-nothing.
"How about I play the good cop and give him a hint?" Chu Zhongtian suggested tentatively.
Qin Wanru pretended to hesitate for a moment before finally humming in agreement: "Why don't you bring some snacks with you, so as not to seem too abrupt?"
"Okay." Chu Zhongtian smiled. Everyone said he had married a shrew and looked down on him for being afraid of his wife, but only he knew that his wife was a typical woman with a sharp tongue but a soft heart, much better than those scheming, scheming women outside.
He had a servant carry a box of pastries, and then went to the quiet room. He saw a figure writing furiously in the window and nodded with satisfaction: "A promising young man."
"You must be tired from copying, take a break first. Chu Yan's mother asked me to bring you some..." Chu Zhongtian pushed open the door and entered, but his smile froze halfway through his sentence. He was shocked to find that Cheng Shouping was the only one in the quiet room, while Zu An was nowhere to be seen.
Cheng Shouping excitedly rushed over and hugged his leg, tears streaming down his face: "Master, you really haven't forgotten me! All those years of diligently serving you haven't been in vain. You even brought me food in the middle of the night. Master, I'm so touched."
Chu Zhongtian suppressed the urge to kick him away and asked, trying to control his temper, "Where is the son-in-law?"
As if a painful memory had been stirred up, Cheng Shouping burst into tears: "My son-in-law came and took a look around, and when he saw so many words of the family rules, he dumped them all on me, leaving me to copy them all by myself. My lord, my hands are about to break from copying them."
Since Zuan wasn't here, he sold him out without hesitation.
"Outrageous! This is simply outrageous!" Even a kind-hearted man like Chu Zhongtian was a little angry, especially when he thought about how his wife had put in so much effort, only to have this guy completely disregard it. He became even more annoyed.
He turned to confront Zu An, but suddenly frowned and looked back at Cheng Shouping, who was following beside him: "What are you doing here?"
"I...I'll take you to find the son-in-law." Cheng Shouping was somewhat impressed with his own cleverness. He had found a perfect reason so quickly, which would allow him to avoid being punished according to family law and also get closer to the master. He was simply a genius.
Chu Zhongtian snorted: "No need, I can go by myself, you can continue copying." It was this guy who spread the story of his wife pulling his ear back then, otherwise he wouldn't have been laughed at by the whole city for being henpecked, so looking at him made him a little angry.
Cheng Shouping's eyes widened: "???"
Master, have you really stopped loving me? Master, what did I do wrong? Master…
Fortunately, the master left the food box; it seems he still cares about me.
Meanwhile, in his room, Zuan was enduring the pain when he suddenly noticed a message coming from the keyboard:
Chu Zhongtian's anger level increased by 283!
Huh, what's wrong with my cheap father-in-law? Even a kind-hearted man like him is angry?
Just then, an angry figure burst in: "You really are here, kid!"
"Greetings, Father-in-law," Zu An said, looking as if he were struggling to get out of bed. "I hope you will forgive me, Father-in-law, that I am injured and unable to get up to perform the proper greetings..."
Upon hearing the words "father-in-law," Chu Zhongtian's eyelids twitched. He felt an unease about those two words, but he immediately noticed another sentence the other person uttered and was startled: "You're injured?"
“Hmm~” Zuan looked at him with a wronged expression.
Chu Zhongtian quickly examined him: "You're so badly injured! How did you get hurt?"
Zu An thought to himself that most of his injuries had been healed by Ji Dengtu's elixir. If it had been like that at the beginning, it would have scared you to death: "I don't know either. Just now, a man in black suddenly jumped out on the road and beat me up. If the guards in the manor hadn't been alerted, I probably would have been dead."
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