"Ms. sir, why are you back?" Shen Xiu saw Wei Yan and went to greet him.
The couple hadn't seen each other for more than half a year, and Shen Xiu felt that Wei Yan had a more calm temperament all over his body. He was no longer the frail and delicate scholar before.
Wei Yan smiled and said: "Mr. Meng went out. I remembered that in the past few years, I have never spent a good Double Ninth Festival with you, so I came back from Fucheng. However, something happened on the way and I was delayed for a long time, so I came back at this time
return."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Shen Xiu with a smile and said, "I will stay in the house for a few days this time and spend a good holiday with you."
During the Chinese New Year, Wei Yan came back late from Fucheng. By the time he came back, it was already the end of the twelfth lunar month.
There are a lot of things to do during the Chinese New Year, and the couple doesn't have much time to spend together. They spend more time dealing with the New Year guests.
When there was no need to entertain guests at home, Wei Yan had to leave for Fucheng.
Before Wei Yan left, he felt a little sorry for Shen Xiu. He finally came back but didn't even have time to talk to her.
This time when Mr. Meng went out, Wei Yan declined Mr. Meng's invitation. Instead of following him to visit old friends, he planned to return to the county town to spend a few days with Shen Xiu.
The couple talked while walking. Although they reunited after a long separation, people were coming and going on the street. Both of them suppressed their emotions and even kept a distance from each other physically.
After finally returning to the house, Shen Xiu just locked the door and fell into a warm embrace.
Shen Xiu hugged Wei Yan quietly for a while, then looked up at Wei Yan and said, "Ms. sir, you seem to have lost weight. Are you just focusing on studying these days?"
Wei Yan put Shen Xiu's right hand to his mouth, kissed the fingers one by one, and said with a smile: "With a lady like you, how can I dare to ignore my body. But I think you seem to have lost weight."
"That's because I've grown taller." Shen Xiu stretched out his hand to compare with Wei Yan, "I used to only reach your shoulders, but now I'm almost at your chin."
The couple sat there for a while, then Wei Yan said, "Axiu, come back to Fucheng with me!"
A trace of surprise flashed across Shen Xiu's face, "Go back to Fucheng?"
"Yes, follow me back to Fucheng." Wei Yan nodded solemnly and said, "I have two thousand taels of silver on hand now, which should be enough for you to open an embroidery shop in Fucheng."
Two thousand taels of silver, Shen Xiu was shocked, "Ms. sir, where did you get so much silver?"
Wei Yan said calmly: "I told you not to be upset."
Shen Xiu nodded, "Speak quickly."
Wei Yan said slowly: "Before I took the college entrance examination, I got to know a very talented kid from a family. He was determined to get the first place in the college entrance examination early on. Later he learned that I had won the first place in the county examination and the prefecture examination.
After that, he regarded me as his rival."
"On the eve of the college exam, he asked his servant to give me two thousand taels of silver so that I could perform a little abnormally during the college exam."
Wei Yan said: "I have never agreed to this kind of thing before. But I thought of the letter you wrote last time, and I guess your situation in the county is not very good. So I accepted the money."
"Ms. sir, how could you do this?" Shen Xiu's eyes were red at that time, "Do you know what you are giving up? That's a small three yuan!"
When Shen Xiu knew that Wei Yan had not won three yuan in a row, Shen Xiu thought it was due to the gathering of masters during the academy examination, but she did not expect that Wei Yan had given up this honor on his own initiative.
However, Wei Yan was very open-minded, "So what if I'm little Sanyuan? I study so hard just to make my family live a better life. Now I just need to give up a little fame and I can take you to Fucheng. I think
worth."
He didn't know what difficulties Shen Xiu was facing. Shen Xiu didn't want to talk about it, so he didn't ask. But he couldn't pretend that nothing happened. That was not what a husband should do.
Shen Xiu was moved and at the same time extremely regretful.
Wei Yan had already reached this point, so she felt that there was no need to hide anything from him, so she told everything in detail.
When Shen Xiu was halfway through speaking, Wei Yan's face slowly darkened. He did not expect that Shen Xiu would encounter entanglement from Magistrate Zhen.
"I thought about it a lot, and in order to cut off the idea of Magistrate Zhen, I had to find a girl who looked similar to me. I also knew it was wrong, but I really had no better way at the time."
When Wei Yan heard this, he took a deep breath and said, "You did something wrong in this matter, and you shouldn't let Qiao Meier suffer on your behalf. But it's not your fault, it should be me. I had known it would happen."
For this kind of thing, I should have brought you to Fucheng as soon as possible."
Shen Xiudao: "It has nothing to do with you, no one would have thought that something like this would happen."
Both husband and wife took the blame on themselves and took the initiative to admit their mistakes.
In the end, Shen Xiu couldn't resist Wei Yan and admitted that it was his fault.
Afterwards, Wei Yan said directly: "I want to pay a visit to Magistrate Zhen tomorrow."
Shen Xiu said nervously: "My lord, what are you going to do? This matter has been resolved, and Magistrate Zhen no longer bothers me anymore."
Wei Yan smiled lightly and said: "It's nothing. Don't worry, I just heard that Magistrate Zhen has a good official reputation and I just want to meet him."
Of course Shen Xiu didn't believe his reason. If Wei Yan had said this before she made it clear, she would still believe it. But after telling the truth, how could Wei Yan not have any grudges against Magistrate Zhen.
She wanted to stop Wei Yan, but Wei Yan was the kind of person who once made up his mind, it was difficult to change his mind.
Shen Xiu tried his best but failed to persuade the other party to give up this idea.
Early the next morning, after Wei Yan was dressed neatly, he went to the county government office to visit Magistrate Zhen.
Shen Xiu hesitated all night yesterday. In order to prevent Wei Yan from going to see Magistrate Zhen, she even thought about the idea of drugging him.
But she knew Wei Yan's temperament best. She could stop him for a while, but she couldn't stop him forever.
But she was worried about Wei Yan. Although Magistrate Zhen did something very unethical in this matter, he was the head of a county after all, and Wei Yan was still just a scholar.
If Magistrate Zhen uses his power to suppress others, Wei Yan will be the one who suffers.
So after Wei Yan left, Shen Xiu was really uneasy and even regretted telling Wei Yan the truth.
At this moment, Wei Yan was waiting in the flower hall of the county government office.
Magistrate Zhen was currently reviewing a case and had no time to see him, so he asked the master to invite him to the flower hall.
In fact, Magistrate Zhen already knew the reason for Wei Yan's visit the moment he saw Wei Yan's invitation.
He originally wanted to find an excuse to avoid it, but when he saw the small hairpin on the greeting card, he hesitated.
He also wanted to know what kind of person it was that could make Shen Xiu reject him again and again and allow the great scholar Mr. Meng to accept him as his disciple.
It was this curiosity that gave Magistrate Zhen the idea to meet Wei Yan.