"Eat less of these hard-to-digest foods. Isn't a table of food enough for you?"
While the two were talking, Liu offered Yang a glass of wine and said to him, "My cousin wrote to me before saying that he had two children at home. Why didn't he bring them with him now?"
Yang Xiucai drank the wine and said, "I am ashamed to say that besides sending you things, I also wanted to continue my studies here. Let your sister-in-law's family take care of the child, and your sister-in-law and I will come here to test the waters first." After taking exams for more than ten years, he was always short of the final step. Yang Xiucai had been thinking about finding a good master again, but his wife had always disagreed with him spending money to study in a private school.
I don't know what happened this time. She, who was always stingy, not only did not object to me giving the rent of the old house to my cousin, but also supported me in selling the land at home to study.
Thinking of this, Yang Xiucai was also grateful, "Although your sister-in-law is a bit fierce, she is a good person, and she is also doing this for our family."
Liu nodded and toasted Yang Xiucai again. The brother and sister talked about many past events.
Finally, after leaving the table, Yang Xiucai took out the money bag from his waist and said, "This is the deed of your house sale, and this is the silver. You can compare it with the silver." Liu said, "I have nothing to distrust my cousin, but I can't accept it before now."
Yang Xiucai wanted to say more, but Liu continued, "My cousin has seen that I have no worries about food and drink in the backyard. Even if you give me these, I can't use them. But you have a big family. If you continue to study here, how much will it cost to rent a house?"
"What my sister-in-law said is right. You and I are brother and sister. Now that I am rich, I should help you."
Yang Xiucai stuttered when he heard this, "You...you heard it?"
Li Qiumei's voice must have been heard by everyone, and Yang Xiucai also understood Liu's expression. Scholars like him valued their reputation the most, and he immediately felt humiliated and wanted to leave. Liu pulled him aside and said, "Have you forgotten how your cousin helped me? When we were little, you pointed at me and said that we grew up together, and I was no worse than your own sister, and you said that you would never let me end up in a brothel."
"You took me for more than 200 miles to prevent my mother from taking me back. Cousin, if we could share hardships, why can't we share wealth?"
Yang Xiucai was also very moved by what he said. Seeing that he was still a little hesitant, Shen Qingqiu wiped his mouth and said, "Uncle, my mother has no family, and you are her only relative. Although the Shen family is rich, if there is a problem, my mother and I will have to rely on you in the future. If you don't even have a house in this place, how can we rely on you?"
This was enough to convince Yang Xiucai. He thought that his cousin was a concubine, and if she got old and lost favor and was driven out, she would have to have money to live on. So he would keep the money she gave him, and just think of it as saving for her.
Seeing that she had convinced him, Liu's face lit up. She felt that in this huge Shen family, besides the girl, she finally had a relative. "Cousin, come, have another drink..."
Gu Yong arrived at this time and saw the woman who used to either hang her head in fear or not even look at him, now had a smiling face and was pouring wine for a strange man.
Although Liu was born in a peasant family, she had a very good figure after working in the opera troupe, and had a pair of slender jade-like hands. Gu Yong's eyes gradually turned cold as he watched her, but he couldn't delay any longer. As long as he thought about how she had served Shen Bin, that drunkard, in the same way, he felt inexplicably unhappy.
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