Due to the 'escape', it was not convenient to bring more servants. Only Ying's husband, Arong, was also in Shanghai, so she came with her alone. At night, Hong Ying took care of the housework and arranged for An Lan and Mr. An Jiang.
The two brothers were still arguing: I want to sleep with my mother tonight, I want to sleep with my mother!
Hong Ying said with a smile: Okay, my mother will go to see if my sisters are asleep. Whoever is good and falls asleep first, my mother will sleep with them.
An Lan and An Jiang each fell asleep on the bed.
Hong Ying came to Dongmei and Qiumei's room. The two sisters were very excited because their mother was back today, so they were still awake.
Hong Ying sat on the edge of their bed, and the two girls cuddled next to Hong Ying.
Hong Ying took off a pair of jewel-encrusted rings on her hands and put one on each of them. She held their hands and said, "Mom, I really like these two beautiful girls more and more. These rings belong to you."
The betrothal gift my father gave me will look better on you.
Dongmei and Qiumei said coquettishly: Mom is so kind, thank you, Mom.
Hong Ying said again: You are all grown up girls. From now on, you should be more restrained in front of outsiders. Remember, in life, it is always the woman who suffers. Our Liu family is also a wealthy family now. You are the ladies of our family, and you should be girls.
My mother-in-law is waiting on me, but it is a pity that in this world, everyone is running around, bringing slaves with them, but it will be a burden, which will cause suffering to both of you.
Dongmei said: The most miserable thing in the world is a child without a mother. As long as we are with our mother every day, we will not be able to bear the suffering and we will be happy.
Qiu Mei also echoed: Yes, Mom, please don't leave without saying a word again. We don't know where you have gone and we are worried. You don't know that An Lan and An Jiang both cried hoarsely that day.
Hong Ying's eyes turned red, but she restrained herself. After chatting with her daughters for half an hour, she went to An Lan's room, where An Lan was reading the little book "Sun Wukong Makes a Trouble in the Sky". Hong Ying asked with a smile: Lan Lan
What book are you reading?
An Lan pointed at the little man and wrote: Mom, look, how powerful Sun Wukong is. When I grow up, I will also make a big splash in the sky like Sun Wukong.
Hong Ying touched An Lan's head and said with a smile: Lan Lan is so good and smart. When my Lanlan grows up, she will definitely be more powerful than Sun Wukong.
An Lan was praised by her mother and said excitedly: Mom, can you sleep with me today?
Hong Ying thought for a while and said, "I'll go see my brother first and coax him to sleep, and then I'll come and sleep with you."
Hong Ying went to her mother-in-law's room and put An Jiang to sleep. Liu Yongniang took Hong Ying and said: Ah Ying, tell my mother the truth, where have you been these past few days? My mother won't blame you if you tell her.
Hong Ying was really pestered, so she could only kneel down to her mother-in-law and said: Mom, my daughter-in-law is unfilial, please forgive me, I really can't say it.
Hong Ying left her mother-in-law's room and returned to An Lan's room. Mother and son were lying side by side on the bed. Hong Ying hummed a tune until An Lan fell asleep, then quietly got out of bed and walked to Liu Yong's room.
Liu Yong has been waiting for Hong Ying. Ever since Hong Ying came in today, Liu Yong has been holding back and not asking. He was waiting for Hong Ying to explain to him.
Hong Ying entered and exited, went to the kitchen to get a basin of hot water, and took it to the room to soak Liu Yong's feet.
Liu Yong soaked his feet with an expressionless expression, and took the cloth to wipe his feet, but he snatched it away, wiped his feet himself, got on the bed and sat cross-legged, staring blankly at Hong Ying and said: Today you have to tell me
Tell me clearly, where have you been and what have you been doing these past few days?
Hong Ying suddenly knelt down in front of Liu Yong.
Liu Yong looked at Hong Ying in surprise and said: What are you doing?
Hong Ying bit his lip, his heart pounded, and he said: Master, I'm sorry, please, please don't ask again. Or please let me leave you and let me live.
Liu Yong suppressed his emotions and asked: Hong Ying, although we have been married not long ago, we are still husband and wife. What happened to you during these days? Can't you even tell me in front of me? You have to give me an explanation.
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Hong Ying lowered his head and said: I'm sorry for the Liu family, I'm sorry for Sister Yuhui, and I'm sorry for you. But in troubled times, people don't know what to do. In Prince Du's prison, I figured it out. I want to live for myself.
Liu Yong still couldn't understand and said: You...what do you mean?
Hong Ying kowtowed and said: Master, please stop asking, please let me live and let me go.
Liu Yong said angrily: No, if you don't make your words clear today, don't even think about leaving here.
Liu Yong got out of bed with bare feet and bolted the door to his room.
Hong Ying knelt on the ground and refused to get up. Liu Yong ignored her and went to bed alone to lie down and sulk.
Seeing that Liu Yong refused to let go, Hong Ying had to get up and lay down on the floor. Both of them tossed and turned all night and could not sleep.
Early the next morning, Hong Ying got up to take care of the housework. Except for Liu Yong, no one in the family knew that Hong Ying wanted to leave the Liu family. Liu Yong was in a complicated mood. She was grateful for Hong Ying's contribution to the Liu family and even cared for her father before his death. It was the Liu family
The debt owed to her was also Yu Hui's dying wish. However, after more than a year of getting along as husband and wife, Hong Ying's good friend Liu Yong saw it, and naturally the love between husband and wife developed. From the bottom of his heart, he couldn't bear to let Hong Ying leave the Liu family.
. She had found such a good in-law for her, and her adopted brother had good looks and good character, but she just refused to marry her. Now Hong Ying suddenly and cruelly proposed to leave. Liu Yong was both worried about her reasons and angry that she didn't.
Be willing to tell the truth to yourself.
Liu Yong angrily ignored Hong Ying and refused to allow her to leave the house. Hong Ying was not in a hurry and did not make any fuss. She continued to do housework and take care of the children during the day. At night, the couple closed the door and kept saying the same words over and over again.
In the past few days, Liu Qing was always absent-minded, and he hesitated to speak when he met Liu Yong several times.
Liu Yong noticed something strange and asked Liu Qing privately: Do you have something to say to me?
Liu Qingwei: Brother, if there is something, I don’t know whether I should say it or not?
Liu Yong looked stern and said: If you have anything to say, just say it!
Liu Ting said: After I came to Shanghai with my sister-in-law, she asked me to leave her alone. In fact, I was a little worried and kept following her secretly to prevent any accidents. That day, I saw my sister-in-law and Qiu Qiu at the Shiliupu Pier.
The boss whispered, and then the two of them went one after another, and I don’t know where they went.
Hearing this, Liu Yong's heart was hit hard. He never expected that the truth would be so unbearable. Liu Yong recalled Hong Ying's words. When he was living in troubled times, she asked him to give him a way out. That was what she meant!
Liu Yong felt hatred and pain in his heart. One was his wife and the other was his sworn brother. If they were really affectionate, then Hong Ying would have cuckolded him instead of marrying him when she was still a eldest girl. Now that she has become the Liu family's wife,
Son? By doing this, the Liu family is disgraced. Where can they put their own face?
Liu Yong went into the kitchen and pulled Hong Ying to the study. He became angry and pointed at Hong Ying and said: You shameless thing, if you want to leave, I will let you go now. Don't be embarrassed here and ruin the Liu family's family style.
I will write a letter of divorce right now.
Hong Ying's eyes were a little wet, he took out a piece of paper and said: I have prepared the divorce letter for you, you just need to stamp it and sign it.
Liu Yong was so angry that he took a look at the divorce letter, stamped it, threw it to Hong Ying, and said coldly: As you wish. Then he slammed the door and left.
Hong Ying held the divorce letter, sighed silently, and carefully put it away. Afraid of being sad, she did not dare to say hello to her mother-in-law and children, and quietly left Hengshun Foreign Company.
Liu Yong estimated that Hong Ying had left before returning to Matheson. He was afraid that his mother would be angry when she found out about this and that the children would be sad, so he lied and said that her mother was ill. Hong Sheng took Hong Ying back to Jili Village to serve her mother.
Time was short, so she didn't have time to say hello to everyone. Liu Yong's mother didn't have any doubts. She just sighed: When I came out from the Song family, her mother was still in good health. Why did she suddenly get sick when she said she was sick? Alas, as people get older, they become sick.
No longer useful.
The dinner on this day was cooked by a foreign chef. Because Liu Yong was depressed, the atmosphere at the dinner table was cold. But An Lan didn't like it. Liu Yong's wife gave him a mouthful of food, and he chewed it a few times before spitting it out and shouting.
He said: It’s not delicious. It’s not as delicious as what Mom makes.
An Jiang heard this and cried for his mother.
Liu Yong was upset, slapped his chopsticks on the table, and yelled at the two children: What are you yelling at? You don’t like eating!
Dongmei and Yinqiu were too afraid to speak. Liu Yongniang said angrily to Liu Yong: Okay, why are you angry at the child? Why did the child offend you?
Liu Yong snorted and said: Why don't you care about your mother? It's not her biological child, so she will feel distressed?
As soon as these words came out, Liu Yongniang, Dongmei, and Qiumei were all surprised. They didn't know why Liu Yong said such words today.
Liu Yong threw down his chopsticks and said: I'm full.
Liu Yongniang felt something strange. After everyone finished eating, she immediately asked her son to ask.
Liu Yongniang said with a straight face: Ah Yong, you must tell me the truth, where did Hong Ying go?
Liu Yong knew that he couldn't hide it, so he deliberately wrote in a nonchalant way: It's going to rain and my mother is getting married. She didn't want to stay at Liu's house anymore and left.
Liu Yong looked at his mother's face as he spoke. He thought her mother would be furious, but Liu Yong's mother just shook her head gently and said calmly: You can deceive others but you can't deceive me. You don't have to coax me, I don't believe it, Hong Ying can't
Do this kind of thing.
Liu Yong said sadly: It's absolutely true. She asked me for a divorce letter last night, and I granted her permission. What's the point of not caring about someone?
Liu Yongniang repeated: I said, Hong Ying has been in my family for 16.7 years. If she didn't want to stay in the Liu family, she would have left long ago. She is not such a person. Ah Yong, you are so confused! Go find her for me.
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Liu Yong's mother insisted that Liu Yong chase her, but Liu Yong couldn't tell her troubles, so she could only take Liu Qing out to pretend to deal with her mother. After half a month, Liu Yong lied that he couldn't find Hong Ying, and even went to Jili Village to look for her.
However, when she was nowhere to be seen, Liu Yongniang gave up, but she would still complain about her son from time to time and scold him for being stupid.
Although Liu Yong always thinks about Hong Ying, his business in Nanxun is now closed, and he is wondering whether he can find a new world in Shanghai.
Liu Yong chatted with Zhang Songxian, Gu Shousong and others.
Liu Yong suggested: Now that the war in Nanxun is tense, I heard that the official village set up by the Taiping Army has been withdrawn, and the cocoon farmers cannot sell their spring cocoons this season, so they can only make earthen silk and keep it at home. Can we put all these earthen silk?
Receive it from Shanghai and process it into 'Jili Gan Jing' in Shanghai?
As we all know, soon after the cocoons are harvested, the silkworm chrysalises will break out into moths after half a month. Therefore, once the cocoons cannot be sold, silkworm farmers must process them into earthen silk themselves. However, the quality of earthen silk varies. If you want to achieve the "Ji Li Qian Jing"
"The varieties must be re-sorted and then made into wire diameters by professional workshops.
Gu Shousong high-fived and said, "Wonderful, if it can be done, we won't have to go back to Nanxun, and we can still open a silk shop in Shanghai to do business."
Zhang Songxian thought for a moment and said: Good or bad, it is not difficult to recruit workers and teach in Shanghai. The difficulty is that the native silk cannot be transported to Shanghai through the long-haired checkpoint.
Liu Yong said: No matter how difficult it is, this broken Silk Road must be rebuilt, otherwise the foreign markets will be occupied by Japanese raw silk, and it will take a lot of effort to recapture it!
Everyone discussed and discussed, focusing on how to transport native silk to Shanghai, but in the end there was no result.
Zhang Songxian said: This matter needs to be discussed in the long term. Everyone should go back and show their talents. If they can come up with a solution, Nanxun Silk Industry will remember him for his contribution. This chapter has been completed!