After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, Zhou Zhiyi pretended to ask casually, "Tell me, why are you so happy today?"
"The person I hate lost the position of principal wife. Do you think I should be happy, brother?"
Anyway, both the original owner and Zhou Qiongyue hated Xie Zixin, especially Zhou Qiongyue hated everything the original owner hated.
Zhou Qiongyue felt that if the original owner knew that Xie Zixin had been changed from a wife to a concubine, she would probably be very happy.
Zhou Zhiyi thought about it and knew who his sister was talking about.
He frowned and thought about the moments when his sister and Miss Xie were together. He thought for a long time, but he couldn't remember anything.
The main reason was that he was a man, and when he visited someone's house, he would stay in the front yard. He had no idea how the women in the backyard interacted with each other.
"You hate Xie Zixin from the Xuanping Marquis's Mansion? Why haven't I heard you say that before?"
Zhou Qiongyue replied confidently, "You didn't ask!"
"Then Fifth Brother will seriously ask you, did Xie Zixin bully you?"
Zhou Zhiquan looked extremely serious at this moment, as if he would rush out to avenge his sister as soon as Zhou Qiongyue nodded.
"I didn't bully her, except before her affair with my second cousin was exposed. She arrogantly came to me and declared her sovereignty, saying that His Highness told her that he only treated me as his sister.
I understood immediately. Now that she's a concubine, her previous behavior is a huge joke. Of course I'm happy."
Zhou Qiongyue said it casually, but Zhou Zhiyi and Zhou Zhiquan both felt distressed when they heard it. Others didn't know how much their sister loved the second prince in the past, but they both knew it.
At that time, my sister didn’t know how sad she felt when she heard these words!
Zhou Qiongyue was deeply moved when she saw the looks in her two brothers' eyes. "Don't look at me like that, you two. I don't like my second cousin anymore! Really! Really!"
Zhou Zhiyi touched his sister's head and said, "My cousin is not worthy of such a good sister like me!"
"Brother is right, my sister is very nice. As for my second cousin, just leave it to them! If you are really unhappy, my brother and I will find an opportunity to beat up Miss Xie's eldest brother next time."
Zhou Zhiquan fully agreed with his elder brother's words. In his mind, his sister was the best.
Zhou Qiongyue didn't want to leave such a sentimental scene. It would be a shame if the three of them burst into tears. She could only suppress her emotion and said jokingly, "Hahaha, Big Brother and Fifth Brother, you two are so kind.
Since you two are so kind, I have no way to repay you. I will help you buy a farm! You two can use your private savings to pay for it.
This was another reason why Zhou Qiongyue invited them to eat something delicious. How could the brothers, now that they were so old, not have any personal property?
Zhou Zhiyi thought his sister didn't know the rules of the Marquis' Mansion, so he explained seriously:
"We are not married yet, and even if we are married, we can still buy it under the wife's name. We have not divided the family, so we cannot have private property. If we buy it, it will be considered as the property of the Marquis' Mansion. Don't make a fuss about it."
"Just like what big brother said, if I have money, it's safer to keep it myself." Zhou Zhiquan was also afraid that his sister would do something stupid, so he followed his big brother's advice.
Zhou Qiongyue was too lazy to explain and showed her treasure to her two brothers, "Brother, have you forgotten that I have this?"
Zhou Zhiyi looked at the thing in his sister's hand and remembered that his sister had asked his grandfather for this during the spring hunt.
"I'll go back and get some money!" Zhou Zhiyi was not stupid, and she would certainly not let go of such an opportunity.
Zhou Zhiquan leaned over to take a look, his saliva almost dripping with envy.
Zhou Zhiquan asked whimsically, "What do you think, if I ask my grandfather for one of these, will he give it to me?"
Zhou Qiongyue couldn't help but hit him: "Fifth brother, you'd better think about this problem at night."
"Brother, look at my sister, she is mocking me." Zhou Zhiquan pinched his throat and looked at his elder brother Zhou Zhiyi, and said this in a delicate voice.
Zhou Zhiyi immediately reached out and slapped Zhou Zhiquan, "Speak properly, it's so disgusting that I almost vomited the delicious food I just ate."
When Zhou Qiongyue saw her fifth brother being beaten, she made a provocative face at him.
Zhou Zhiquan immediately pretended to hit Zhou Qiongyue, but Zhou Zhiyi habitually stood in front of his sister.
"Brother, you can't be too partial." Seeing that it was hopeless to bully his sister, Zhou Zhiquan could only shift his target to his eldest brother, hoping for fairness.
Zhou Zhiyi felt that he was not partial, but his heart was crooked from the beginning. "You are the brother, why are you bullying your sister?"
Seeing this, Zhou Zhiquan could only roll his eyes elegantly at his sister and excuse himself by saying, "Since you are my sister, I will not argue with you this time."
Zhou Qiongyue snorted in dissatisfaction. Zhou Zhiyi also found it funny to see his younger brothers and sisters like this. It was good and lively this way.
Afterward, the three siblings discussed the purchase of the farm in detail. Zhou Zhiyi and Zhou Zhiquan pooled their savings and decided to join forces to buy a farm with fertile land, register it in their sister's name, and later split it into two.
Zhou Qiongyue had originally thought that her eldest and fifth brothers wouldn't be able to come up with much money. After all, both in the past and now, the two brothers had given a lot of money to the original owner and her. But Zhou Zhiyi and Zhou Zhiquan actually managed to come up with 40,000 taels.
Zhou Qiongyue...it turns out that she is the only poor person in her family.
"How come you two are so rich?" Zhou Qiongyue was puzzled.
"We are both men, and the things we spend the most money on are pens, ink, paper, and inkstone. We usually save the money that mom and dad give us to buy these."
Zhou Zhiyi patiently explained to his sister.
Zhou Qiongyue also knew that every time her parents gave her brothers money to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones, they would also give her money to buy jewelry.
She and the original owner used the money to buy jewelry.
"Then what do you use?" Zhou Qiongyue couldn't help but be curious!
Zhou Zhiquan knew this and quickly explained: "Usually, what grandpa and father give us is enough. Occasionally, the Queen Aunt will also give us rewards. As long as we don't waste it or give it to friends, it's enough.
Of course, my brother and I also kept the particularly good ones.”
Zhou Qiongyue could only make a powerful gesture to them. She didn't expect that one of her two brothers could save money.
After discussing these things, Zhou Zhiyi and his brother went to the front yard with satisfaction. The next day, they sent someone to deliver the money they used to buy the farm to Zhou Qiongyue.
Zhou Qiongyue quickly collected the banknotes from her two brothers and put them in a separate place. Even siblings had to settle accounts clearly, so she would return the remaining money to her two brothers when the time came.
Everything is ready, just waiting for the emperor to announce the results of the spring hunt and for Jingzhao Prefecture to issue a notice to sell the fertile land.
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