Zhou and her husband embarked on the journey north to Beijing.

For Zhou, he was finally relieved and no longer had to worry about the affairs of the Shen family. He survived the hard years. For her, the position of the head of the Shen family was already a hot potato, so it would be better to lose it earlier.

"My husband, I finally figured it out. In a few days, we will be able to see the idiot, Ping'er, daughter-in-law, Yun'er, Yi'er, Dai'er..."

Zhou lived in Ninghua for more than a year, and the person became much older, no longer like a shrew, and he was implicit and restrained everywhere he went. It was not that she really wanted to do this, but she was just concerned about her identity as the "head of the Shen family" and the mother of the top scholar. She wanted face everywhere she went and was as polite as a lady in front of others.

Of course, the most important thing is that her son asked her for a fifth-grade imperial edict. Zhou felt that she was just like being an official. She did not look at the monks and Buddhas. For the sake of the court and her son's face, she also had to learn to be reserved.

But being reserved is still very difficult for her. It’s okay for a day or two. After ten or half a month, she felt uncomfortable all over. After three or five months, her true colors were revealed.

As the head of the Shen family, Zhou quarreled with Wang at home for three days and a big quarrel every five days. The two of them quarreled at the top of their voices, making them so bloody. As a result, when they turned around, Zhou, the "head of the family", had to manage the food, clothing, and daily life in the big room, which made her feel extremely unhappy.

After scolding, you have to be a father and mother. How good is this to be accomplished?

Later, Zhou became smarter in his studies and simply stopped arguing. It was not that he didn't want to argue, but that he was tired of arguing. He found that too much could not change the reality that his son was the top scholar and the high-ranking official. Instead of arguing with a "little scholar" wife, it was better to learn to be more like a lady and win more reputation for his son and the Shen family.

Zhou originally wanted the old lady Li to die sooner, so that she could be the leader of the family. However, when she found out that this family was not easy to become, she felt that the old lady was a great thing to live, and at least she could leave at any time because Li never admitted that she was the head of the Shen family.

In Li's mind, she never put down the burden of the Shen family. Unfortunately, Li can only be the old lady with the spiritual victory method at this moment, because she was so confused that she only talked about the great hero of the Shen family "Qilang" every day, and the poor old man who did not remember either of her husband or son.

Zhou went north, and the journey was no longer a small town along the road or a small inn next to the inn. He was worried every day that he would encounter bandits.

Once she was bitten by a snake for ten years, she was afraid of the well rope. Since Zhou encountered a bandit on her way to the capital and was almost abducted, she became aware of the journey. This time she set out to the north, in addition to staying in the official post with the guards and soldiers, she was escorted by brothers from the carriages along the way.

In addition, Zhou and Shen Mingjun also followed, one was Wulang Shen Yongqi, the second wife of the Shen family, and the other was Yang Wenzhao, the cousin of Shen Xi, a son of the Yang family; the other was Zhou Xian, the nephew of Zhou's mother's family, whom Zhou thought he should be trained to "do big things" with his son.

Among the three children, Shen Yongqi is the oldest, and is twenty years old this year. He just married his wife. He is the daughter of a small family in Ninghua. He is beautiful but has a bad family. If it were Li or Wang, he would never agree to Shen Yongqi marry such a woman, because Shen Yongqi is also Shen Xi's cousin.

In the past, Chen Xi was just the top scholar and a Hanlin official. Although he was famous, he did not have much real power. Among the three generations of the Shen family, the only ones who could marry some famous ladies in the county were the county.

However, Chen Xi served as the governor of the three provinces in the southeast coastal areas. As the third-rank right deputy censor, he coordinated the military and political power of the country and even led troops to fight bandits to make contributions. The Shen family's status in Ninghua suddenly improved. The magistrate no longer said that he would come to the door to send a gift to ask about his family during the New Year and the Festival, but he would visit him whenever he had time, asking about his well-being, and even searching for famous doctors for Li's illness, for fear of being too lazy to curry favor with him.

Under this situation, Shen Yongqi, who is in the age of marriage, is the most blessed.

Countless people heard that Shen Yongqi was going to marry a wife, so they introduced the ladies of Tingzhou Prefecture and nearby prefectures and counties, hoping to become in-laws with the Shen family.

But Shen Yongqi had long lost the protection of his parents. During the years, as his two brothers got married one after another, he was illiterate and had a low status, which made him feel very inferior. So he chose a daughter born to an old boy who looked quiet and beautiful, who knew a few words but had an average family background, and gave him the marriage.

Zhou's eldest granddaughter Xie Hengnu, who had just obtained the eldest granddaughter of the cabinet, as his daughter-in-law, and was arrogant. Shen Yongqi wanted to marry the daughter of a small family. She had different ideas from Wang and others, so she didn't need to add icing on the cake through marriage. So she chose to support Shen Yongqi and had a big fuss. She did not let the woman's family get a dowry, so she took a lot of money.

Not long after Shen Yongqi got married, the couple lived a harmonious life and had no intention of separation. Zhou went to Beijing and brought Shen Yongqi with him as Chen Xi’s previous instructions. Zhou took Shen Yongqi with him and his wife, Chen Kang, with her so that she could use someone on the way.

Zhou was a little bit of treating Chen Kang as his daughter-in-law, and shouted casually. Chen Kang was well-educated and well-reasoned, and was extremely respectful to Zhou, the "major hero" who rose to the Shen family, and obeyed the rules.

Although Chen Kang did not marry Chen Xi, she brought a lot of glory to her parents' family when she married the Shen family. Her father failed many times and her children had just married mediocrely before, but she could let her youngest daughter marry the Shen family of Ninghua's prominent family, giving the Kang family a great face.

As for Zhou Xian, the nephew of the Zhou family, he was the son of the Zhou brother. He was nearly twenty years old and was clever. After Zhou returned to Ninghua County, every time he came to visit him, his aunt was the eldest and the shortest, and he described Zhou as the golden phoenix produced by the Zhou family, which made Zhou very happy. This time he finally had the opportunity to follow his aunt to the capital.

Although Zhou Xian had already got married and had children, he did not bring his female relatives by his side. He always revolved around Zhou, hoping to get the protection of his aunt.

Yang Wenzhao was the most dull and timid among the three people who followed Zhou's family to the capital. He was one year younger than Chen Xi and was unmarried... The Yang family had a certain reputation in the city. They wanted to marry Yang Wenzhao earlier, but they wanted Yang Wenzhao to try whether he could make achievements in the imperial examination.

As a result, Yang Wenzhao took the county exam three times in a row, but failed, so the Yang family gave up. Although the Yang Chen family was a little dirty before, Yang Wenzhao was the next nephew whom Chen Xi ordered to take to the capital to cultivate. Zhou followed Chen Xi's instructions and went to Changting County. The Yang family was very happy when they heard that Shen Mingjun and his wife were ruthless.

Yang Wenzhao's mother Yang Shen personally sent her son back to Ninghua County, saying that she was going back to her parents' home to visit her relatives, but in fact she sent her son to see Shen Mingjun and his wife, observing her words and expressions, and seeing how his family was treating her son. Later, she saw that Zhou had no discrimination, so she felt relieved. Before leaving, she repeatedly told her son to go to the capital to follow her cousin Chenxi to make a name for herself.

Yang Wenzhao is only sixteen years old now. Although the little slug has grown up, he has no opinion. He is pushed onto the carriage to the capital. He is worried all the way, thinking that he is being "trafficked" and hides in the room at night and dares not come out.

All the brothers escorted by the chariots and horse gangs were selected by Song Xiaocheng himself. The commercial layout of the southeast coast planned by Chen Xi is being improved. Neither Hui Niang nor Song Xiaocheng will return to Beijing for the time being.

Zhou had no one to talk to except her husband on the road, and the one who talked the most was Chen Xi.

As she grew older, Zhou cared more and more about her family, but the family she cared about was limited to her husband, son, grandson, daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law. As for her daughter, she was an outsider, let alone relatives who caused her trouble on weekdays.

"It's a pity that the Sun family's girls..."

This is also a sentence that Zhou often sighs about.

In the mind of Zhou, she could not let go of Hui Niang. The good sisters who had experienced hardships together worked together to find the value of life. However, if she wanted to be in the capital, she had a lot of trouble. The good sisters left. She always felt that this was a way to share hardships and hardships, and not a wealth of wealth. It was an eternal regret in her heart that she could live a good life with a high-ranking official.

Little did they know that Hui Niang had become her daughter-in-law at this time and even gave birth to a grandson for her. There might never be a day for them to meet each other.

After the group passed the Yangtze River, the atmosphere in the north began to become tense.

It was difficult for Xie Yuner and her party to go north to Beijing. Now the war in the northwest is getting tighter. Martial law has begun from the generation of Xuzhou, southern Zhili, and you can see the checkpoints set up by the government along the way.

The bustling Grand Canal seemed deserted at this time, and ships basically headed south from the north, and very few went north. Although the Zhou family sent people to inquire about what happened in the north, others usually used words such as "the north is not peaceful, so avoid it first when going south", which made the Zhou family feel a little worried.

"Hanwa'er has returned to Beijing a long time ago and is a high-ranking official in the capital. War has nothing to do with Hanwa'er. Yun'er and the others left early, so they should have returned to Beijing a long time ago. Hanwa'er reunited with their wife and children, but what about me..."

Zhou was very depressed. He thought he could return to the capital without any success. When he saw the person he had been thinking about day and night, he knew that before he arrived at the Central Plains, he found that this journey was particularly difficult.

Shen Mingjun persuaded: "He'er, Xiaolang's family is doing well, we are not in a hurry to go to Beijing. If something happens on the way, it will make Xiaolang embarrassed. I heard that if we have a few shortcomings and Xiaolang cannot be an official for many years and has to go home to follow the rules for us, we can't delay his future!"

Zhou gave her husband a blank look and said angrily: "Mr., why do you say all unlucky words? We are now an official family member, and I haven't seen how polite the people in Guanyi on the way to us? When we return to the capital, we will clean up our home again and we will not go back to Ninghua County in the future. We will be a person in the capital from now on. My husband thinks it's good?"

"But mother..."

Shen Mingjun obviously didn't want to follow his wife's advice.

"Are you mother or your wife and son closer? My husband has to make a choice. If you don't understand, you will go back to Ninghua County in the future and we will be separated from each other!" Zhou's family now has a royal decree and is much more confident. They no longer regard their husbands as their principles everywhere, and have their own persistence.

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