Chapter 544, Dribbling the Ball 22

Lord Shuyan squatted by the river and slowly put the lantern into the river with both hands.

The cool river surface is already filled with lotus lanterns.

As the lotus lantern went away, Zhou Qin silently made a wish in his heart, and then pulled the person up.

"Okay, let's go back."

There were more and more people on the street, and he was afraid that the crowd would crowd her.

But Shuyan Shangshen didn’t want to go back so early.

The atmosphere tonight is great, it should be a little local festival.

Seeing that she wasn't going back, Zhou Qin said, "Then let's go sit in a restaurant for a while."

That's okay.

"The slave family wants to eat crispy duck."

Zhou Qin smiled and stroked her hair lovingly, "Okay, but don't eat too much."

He finally discovered that this little Tongfang's appetite was up and down.

When I don’t vomit, I can eat a lot, but when I vomit, I don’t want to take a bite.

This way of eating is naturally not good.

But if a pregnant woman is unhappy, there is nothing she can do about it.

After arriving at the restaurant, they went to the private room on the third floor.

Because the fourth, fifth, sixth and third floors are reserved for distinguished guests, similar to VIPs, Zhou Qin usually does not go up to compete with guests for a seat.

The scenery on the third floor is also good and the line of sight is wide.

But coincidentally, the ladies who went to visit Zhou's family in the villa today also came over.

They came together as a group, and the private room they wanted was next door.

Maybe it was because the restaurant was very lively at night, so the ladies and gentlemen next door didn't have much scruples about what they said.

Zhou Qin's special private room has been specially treated.

Other private rooms couldn't hear their voices here, but they could hear the voices in other private rooms.

I just heard the young masters and ladies sitting next door talking together, "I'm really angry today. Let me tell you, although the young master of the Zhou family is rich, his quality is still much worse than that of our officials."

"That's right. I think Mrs. Zhou doesn't have any rules. She speaks and does things too casually. She doesn't have the manners of a housewife."

Shuyan was stunned when he heard this.

I didn’t expect that the ladies from these petty official families would be so vicious.

He actually dared to talk about his future mother-in-law.

Although Mrs. Zhou is indeed not as rigorous as an official's wife.

But it's not as bad as those little official ladies said.

And if they talk about their elders behind their backs like this, how can their quality be any better?

Shuyan Shang looked back at Zhou Qin, and saw Zhou Qin raising his head and sipping his teacup with a sarcastic expression on his face.

He knew that businessmen had always been looked down upon by officials.

But similarly, they are businessmen and look down on officials.

Are those so-called officials who treat money as nothing but money in the end relying on their official authority to make money?

Their merchants are at least talking about business. When they make money, they also pay for the goods, so they don't get it for free.

But what about those corrupt officials?

It is also disgusting to say that gold is dung, but secretly demand filial piety from others.

After Zhou Qin drank a cup of tea, he no longer thought about becoming in-laws with the ladies of those officials' families.

But his mentality is pretty good.

Not affected by those people, he still took Shuyan Shangshen to eat crispy duck before going back.

After the two returned, they slept in the same bed.

Zhou Qin hugged Xiao Tongfang, who was still asleep, and his mood improved again.

In fact, a small living room like this one in his house is very good.

Sometimes she is quiet, sometimes playful, sometimes naughty, but she never causes him any trouble.

She gets along sweetly with herself when she is at home.

When he goes out, he will also ask someone to deliver letters.

With her here, there is no need for a wife.

However, he still cared about his status.

——

Another month passed.

News finally came from the capital.

Zhou Qin sent people to investigate the scientific examination of Lu'er's mother's uncle, and finally found out.

It turns out that in those few years, Lu'er's uncle really came into second place.

Although he is not the top pick, his results are quite good.

That year, after Lu'er's uncle came second in the rankings, he was sent by the emperor to be a local official somewhere, starting from the bottom.

So they didn't even know that Lu'er's mother was sick in those years. Because she was far away from here, they didn't take it into consideration.

In addition, Li Xiucai gave them the impression that he was an honest person, so Lu'er's maternal grandfather's family never worried that anything would happen to their daughter.

Until this year, Uncle Lu'er was ready to be sent to their side after his three-year term came.

Zhou Qin was a little nervous when he learned that Lu'er's maternal grandfather's family wanted to come here to serve as an official.

After all, Uncle Lu'er is now going to be sent here as the prefect.

The largest official here is the fifth rank.

But the magistrate is from the fourth rank and is the largest official position here.

Zhou Qin felt a pain in his butt just thinking about it.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the matter should be resolved properly, so he went to Mrs. Zhou's place overnight.

Mrs. Zhou also didn't expect that the ancestral home of a small Tongfang family member was actually a fourth-rank official.

Her eyes widened in fear, "Here, you said Lu'er's uncle is a fourth-grade prefect?"

Zhou Qin nodded, "Yes, in one month, their whole family will come down. How can this be good?"

Mrs. Zhou was also panicked.

Most of their officials here are seventh-grade sesame officials.

The largest fifth grade was also transferred away years ago.

Now that a fourth-grade person has come down directly and can take care of everything here, Mrs. Zhou is naturally panicked.

She quickly suggested, "Otherwise, after Lu'er's uncle comes over, you can take the opportunity to go to his house to discuss it? Can you say that the matchmaker is getting married?"

Although Mrs. Zhou didn't know the relationship between Lu'er and her tenant.

But seeing how nervous his son was, I guess the prefect must have loved Lu'er.

Although she still felt that Lu'er was not worthy of her son.

But it’s not okay to let a cousin from the prefect’s family be the mistress. Isn't that a slap in the face of the prefect?

Even being a concubine would bring disgrace to someone's face.

So after all the calculations, I could only formally propose marriage to her.

Zhou Qin thought so too.

The reason why he came was to let his mother take care of it herself, so as not to make her unhappy in the future and cause discord between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Mrs. Zhou didn't know what her son was thinking, so she just thought he was really panicked and comforted him, "It's okay. Don't be afraid. Lu'er is already pregnant. She will show up in a few months. No matter how good the prefect's family is, they can't." Abort the child. Please prepare all the betrothal gifts, and when they arrive, we will propose marriage."

Zhou Qin laughed in his heart, but nodded like a trusting mother on his face, "Just listen to me."

Mrs. Zhou nodded, "Well, it's very late, go to bed."

Zhou Qin sighed and went back.

Shuyan Shangshen was in the room at this moment, and he didn't expect Lu'er's maternal uncle to actually become a high official.

The system updated the plot and said, "Shangshen, in fact, in the last life, Lu'er's maternal uncle was also a high official."

Lu'er died early back then, and when her uncle came back to make decisions for her, she was completely dead.

When her uncle learned that she had been killed, one body and two lives, he was so angry that he ordered the arrest of Zhou Qin and the murderous maid.

In the end, the maid was executed and Zhou Qin was also imprisoned.

Although Zhou Qin was not involved at this time, Lu'er's uncle was also very angry.

Anyone whose sister or niece is killed would be devastated.