The Zhou family has a large system, and its ancestors once produced high-ranking officials. However, in recent years, because there have been no high-ranking officials, the family has gradually been forgotten.

Zhou Zi'ang was originally a branch of the Zhou family, but his father always insisted on supporting Zhou Zi'ang to study while he was still alive. However, his parents died early in an accident and he was too young to take charge of the family's property. All the property was unconditionally taken back by the Zhou family. He is

He grew up relying on family support.

Although he was born into a poor family, Zhou Ziang loved reading and had a talent for reading since he was a child. The patriarch of the Zhou family saw that he was smart and studious, so he paid for him to be sent to a private school in the countryside to study.

Zhou Ziang passed the scholar examination at the age of seventeen, passed the examination at the age of twenty, and ranked sixth in the second class of the palace examination.

Since then, the Zhou family has created another official who is tax-free and free from corvee. Even if he is not an official, he can still enjoy state subsidies and be qualified to guarantee local children.

Suddenly Zhou Ziang became the number one member of the Zhou family.

The clan leader felt that while Zhou Zi Ang Guang was honoring his ancestors, he also made a series of inappropriate actions.

Because Zhou Ziang is tax-free, he wanted to make the entire Zhou family's property and fields tax-free, and all properties should be recorded in Zhou Ziang's name. Zhou Ziang felt that this move by the patriarch of the Zhou family was inappropriate. He was a scholar, how could he do this?

Doing something that goes against your will is a violation of your integrity, so you should flatly refuse and not agree to it.

The patriarch of the Zhou clan felt that Zhou Ziang was a stubborn stone, he had the function of making gains but could not do things for his own good. Zhou Ziang's uprightness seemed to him to be simply ignorance and pedantry.

His Zhou family originally provided him with education just so that he could get ahead, and the Zhou family would also be able to prosper and become successful from now on. However, Zhou Ziang turned out to be stubborn, and he was so stubborn that he did not seek any benefits.

After the matter was rejected, the Zhou clan leader tried another way to get benefits from Zhou Ziang.

He went around collecting benefits and money from other children, and came forward to promise that Zhou Ziang could be their guarantor.

After Zhou Ziang learned about this matter, he not only disagreed, but also sternly refused, asking the Zhou clan chief to return the bribe, and made it clear that if he did this again, he would be strictly investigated and dealt with, and he would deal with it impartially and eliminate relatives with justice.

The patriarch of the Zhou family was completely angered. He said that the Zhou family had raised a white-eyed wolf. Now that he has become famous, he has forgotten his origins and is ungrateful. He is a sanctimonious hypocrite who only seeks fame and reputation. Not only does he not seek benefits for the family, but he also uses his own hands to finance his childhood.

His relatives who grew up said that he was not worthy of being an official, let alone a member of the Zhou clan, and they wanted to expel him from the family.

Zhou Ziang didn't want to be a member of such a family, so he agreed to be expelled from the family, and from then on he started his own family.

However, Mr. Zhou said loudly that he had supported Zhou Ziang through his upbringing and support over the years. If Zhou Ziang still had any conscience at all, he should repay Ms. Zhou for his upbringing over the years.

The Zhou family asked Zhou Ziang for ten years of silver and ten thousand dan of grain in return.

Therefore, for Zhou Ziang, who had just become an official, he was destitute, with only ten years of silver and ten thousand dan of grain. Such a large sum was simply extortion.

At that time, Zhou Ziang was just eating coarse grains and sleeping on straw mats. The Zhou family just wanted to seek high profits, but Zhou Ziang didn't want to have anything to do with the Zhou family anymore and didn't want to have any arrears, so he agreed.

"Because I was going to take up a post in Jizhou City at that time, the Holy Emperor intended to appoint a civil servant and a military officer to follow me. Zhou Zi'ang offered to follow me for twenty years, and only asked to be loaned ten years of salary and ten thousand loads of grain. From then on, he and

The Zhou family cuts it off in two and gets rid of the Zhou family completely."

Unexpectedly, Zhou Ziang had such a story. Ten years of silver and 100,000 dans of grain. For Zhou Ziang, a man who is upright and does not take the people's blessings, he will have to live in debt for many years in the future?

No wonder he, a decent official, was living in such a tight situation, even in poverty.

This time, she went from sympathy to admiration.

Although such a person is relatively poor, he has great ambitions despite his poverty. He straightens his back and lives an upright life. Such a person is truly a person with a great heart and righteousness in the world.

Therefore, with Zhou Ziang's current promotion, based on the salary at that time, he still owes almost three years of salary and ten thousand dans of grain. If converted into silver, he still owes about six to seven thousand taels of silver.

No wonder Zhou Ziang didn't mention marrying a wife because of his difficulties.

It was enough for him to endure hardship alone. Why did he have the right to marry a wife and have children? Why would he bother others to suffer hardships with him? As a man, he definitely didn't want Tang Si to suffer hardships with him.

"I see. It's really a pity to say it like this."

"I once advised him that there is no need to worry about my debt here, but he said that he is alone and wants material things, so he can pay off his debt as soon as possible."

Such a man is actually worth marrying, but he will have to suffer for a few years.

"Is it because of your eldest cousin's marriage that you were frowning just now?"

"Whoever is frowning, I am obviously smiling happily."

She just talked and said that she didn't feel confident.

Seeing that her little daughter had something on her mind, the Li family members said, "You are such a little girl, so big of a slap in the face. Could it be that because your eldest cousin cannot get married, you are starting to worry about yourself?"

Why is Li Juan such a gossip? She glared at him fiercely.

He cheerfully said to Qin Fengxi: "Look, I was told what was on my mind. I am so angry that I must have made arrangements for the little girl's marriage as soon as possible."

Qin Fengxi turned around and looked at her seriously.

At this moment, his eyes were the same as when he was in the corridor just now, looking at her with scorching and doubtful eyes until she lowered her head silently. When she was feeling sad in the corridor just now, she seemed to be thinking about her children.

feelings.

Now that Li Jue brought it out in front of Qin Fengxi, she felt very embarrassed and also found Li Jue very annoying.

"Why are you so annoying? You just talk nonsense."

"A little girl should get married when she reaches her age. What is there to be angry about?"

He always felt that she was still young. Was she old enough to get married? He thought he could keep her by his side for two more years.

When Qin Fengxi saw that she was really angry, she seemed to have been convinced by the Li family. Did she really want to get married?

He tightened his hands and then loosened them, but for a moment he didn't know how to speak or what to say. He picked up the tea cup on the table, only to find that the tea was cold.

He frowned slightly and whispered: "Ziqi, change the tea."

After changing the tea, Qin Fengxi held the tea but didn't want to drink it anymore. She put it down gently and looked at her and asked: "Is your grandmother looking for a candidate for you?"

"No, not really."

She came back from Tang's house and returned to Qin's house the next day. Tang was busy with other things, so she probably didn't have time.

He was silent for a moment and asked: "What do you want to marry?"

He thought that what he found for her would be better than what Tang's found for her.

Did he really want to marry her?

Maybe it was because Li Juan was angry with her, and she was filled with panic.
Chapter completed!