Chapter 003: Looking up and down, left and right, no cavities
Chen Heng really wanted to take a bath, as she had rolled around in the mountains and was frightened physically and mentally, but it was too late now, so she just washed her face and neck, unbuttoned her collar and wiped it clean.
The next moment, she took out a small cloth bag from her bosom, opened it and saw two silver notes worth one hundred taels inside.
This was given to the original owner by his parents when he was born.
Although the Shen family was not wealthy in Nanming County, they had been doing philanthropic deeds since their grandfather's generation, and had been doing so for decades. They were respected by the common people, and the imperial court presented them with a plaque that read "A Family of Great Kindness." The several medicine shops they opened also made considerable profits every year.
Anyone who wants to marry the second daughter will only get a small dowry and two hundred silver coins.
Being so stingy was a thorn in the original owner's heart, but Chen Heng breathed a sigh of relief. In the Great Cong Dynasty, two hundred silver coins were nothing to the rich, but for the common people, it was several years' income.
Put your purse back safely on your chest, life is precious, live it up to the fullest.
If Xie Jian was a famous official, she would definitely cling to his golden thighs, but Xie Jian was a treacherous official with heinous crimes and no humanity. Shen Heng thought it would be better to distance herself from him and live on her own. Once she had a clear understanding of this era and the surrounding environment, she could get a divorce letter, or even a divorce letter. She didn't care. With two hundred taels of silver, she could at least live a good life.
She glanced at her casually and her smile froze on her face. She didn't know when Xie Jian was standing behind her, and his youthful and handsome face looked at her with confusion.
"It's late, go to bed." Chen Heng subconsciously wanted to smile politely, but fortunately she stopped herself in time. She shouldn't even have said this. The original owner used to just lower her head and sleep over him.
Xie Jian felt that the woman in front of him had changed a little from before, but he didn't care at all. He took off his own sweat towel and began to wash his face.
Chen Heng breathed a sigh of relief, took off her outer clothes and hung them on the bedside truss, put her slippers neatly on the bed, and then got on the bed. After a while, the place next to her sagged.
Fortunately, I didn't have a quilt.
Although the weather turns cooler in the first two months of autumn, one thin quilt per person is enough.
The future treacherous minister was sleeping next to her. Although he was only fifteen years old, a half-grown young man and no longer a child, Shen Da thought she would not be able to fall asleep, but her body was too tired and she was thinking about so many things that she fell asleep in a short while.
At this moment, Xie Jian opened his eyes and glared at the woman beside him unhappily. She was snoring? This was the first time in two years that he had noticed her snoring. Although it was mild, it kept him awake. It seemed she was very tired today.
After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, Chen Heng suddenly woke up and stared at the curtains on the top of the bed for a long time. She dreamed of what happened in the evening and wondered: the original owner clearly only had two hundred taels of silver, but the man said she had one thousand taels?
He also said that it was Xie Jian who let it slip that the original owner had a dowry of one thousand taels of silver when she married him.
Looking sideways at the sleeping boy, Xie Jian was a man of few words in the original owner's mind. Even though he was able to hold the top position in the world of treacherous ministers, Shen Heng did not believe that he was a person who would let slip anything.
Did Xie Jian say this on purpose to let that man seduce the original owner?
Damn, the original owner was so pitiful, unloved by his parents, and married off to the Xie family on his behalf. No matter how much they looked down on him, or even cursed him, they schemed like this...
Curse? The curse the original owner cast on the Xie family was the trigger for Xie Jian to plot against her.
It's like seeing someone who has a hard life but still works hard to live, and you just say, "Why are you still living when you're so poor?" How can others not hate you?
The original owner was also a tough person. The curse didn't last for just one or two days, but for two whole years.
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