I trade in both worlds

"Be, be an official?" Xu Xu's face was full of disbelief: "Yang Erzhu can be an official? What kind of official? Where? I don't know, Aunt Ju, where did you hear about it?"

Aunt Ju did not hide the disdain in her eyes: "I was collecting firewood in the mountains that day and accidentally heard your eldest brother and his family talking about it. Didn't anyone in their family tell you?"

Xu Xu shook her head, her mind was blank: "I went back to my mother's house at the beginning of the month to take care of my mother, and I haven't seen them until now."

Aunt Ju frowned and sank her lips slightly: "Even your mother went there, they didn't go?"

Xu Xu looked sad: "No."

Aunt Ju's face was full of disdain and disgust: "The whole family is full of ruthless beasts, and they don't behave like human beings. It's better to let your family come over. I think they are probably planning something bad now, so you should be more careful."

Xu Xu was still thinking about Yang Erzhu's appointment as an official, and nodded randomly: "Aunt Ju, does anyone else in the village know that Yang Erzhu is an official?"

Aunt Ju thought about it and seemed to have not heard anyone discussing this matter. She leaned close to Xu Xu's ear and whispered, "The villagers probably don't know about this. No one has mentioned it. I just heard it accidentally. But recently their family has been eating meat every day, and their voices have been much louder than before."

"If Yang Erzhu really became an official, it would be a great honor for the family. Given his family's character, he would have flaunted it a long time ago. Now, either he is holding back bad things or he is not an official at all."

Xu Xu's face suddenly changed, and an unprecedented light burst out from his eyes. He lowered his eyelids to hide the emotions in his eyes: "I understand, thank you Aunt Ju."

Aunt Ju saw Xu Qinglin coming out and didn't continue: "Okay, you guys go ahead and do your work. If you need help, come and tell me."

After Xu Xu and Xu Qinglin thanked Aunt Ju, they walked towards Yang's house. As they walked, they told Xu Qinglin what Aunt Ju had said, and speculated, "Uncle Qinglin, if Yang Erzhu really became an official, do you think he would hide his marriage in order to marry into a wealthy family?"

In the eyes of outsiders, Yang Erzhu is a responsible and capable person. He used to work as a market clerk in Baiyang Town Market. His daily job was to maintain order in the market, which was also considered a public job.

But after living with him for several years, Xu Xu deeply understood that this was a sophisticated egoist who was trying to curry favor with the powerful and wealthy and trying every possible way to become an official.

The reason why Yang Erzhu married Xu Xu was simply because Xu Jizu had once been an aide to King Jing, now the emperor, and Zhang Yunxiang had been the queen's personal maid. He felt that the couple had resources and wanted the connections they had.

Who would have thought that Xu Jizu was just a marginal figure in Prince Jing's Palace back then, not to mention that he had been away from the palace for nearly 20 years, so how could he have any connections?

After three or four years of hard work, Yang Erzhu did not get what he wanted. In addition, Xu Jizu passed away, and the Xu family was no longer of much use to Yang Erzhu. His attitude towards Xu Xu immediately changed 180 degrees and became cold and indifferent.

Xu Qinglin frowned and said, "According to what you said, it is indeed possible. I wonder if Youyin and the others can find out anything."

At this time, Xu Youyin and Xu Jianli were squatting on the back window of the Yang family's main hall. There happened to be two piles of firewood there, and if you didn't look carefully, you really wouldn't notice that there was someone squatting here.

Early in the morning, someone who was on good terms with Li Lai Di came to report that Xu Xu had come with her family. Li Lai Di hurried Sister Yang to close the gate, and then the family sat in the main hall to discuss countermeasures.

Yang Laosan smoked his pipe and looked at Li Laidi with a sad face: "When your mother-in-law passed away, I asked you to go and see her, but you didn't go. If you had gone, we would have had time to make arrangements. Now you are in such a hurry, how are you going to deal with it?"

Li Laidi raised his eyelids and said, "Why go? We are going to retire anyway, so why bother with bad luck? You can go if you want, but now you blame me."

Yang Laosan tapped his pipe on the kang and glared at Li Laidi: "You..."

Yang Dazhu looked at his parents with disdain: "Dad, Mom, now is not the time to talk about this. How should we deal with this?"

Li Laidi said unhappily, "What do you mean by how to deal with it? Just divorce and it's over. Didn't your second brother send back the divorce letter?"

Yang Laosan tapped his pipe hard again: "Why divorce her? She did nothing wrong. If you had gone there before, we could have delayed the process and found some faults for her, and then we could have divorced her legitimately."

Li Laidi looked at Yang Laosan with disdain: "How can there be nothing wrong? She has been back for almost a month. Who knows what she has done and who she has met in this month."

The two people squatting outside the window were so angry at the shameless words that they clenched their fists tightly, their teeth chattered, and their eyes flashed with extreme anger.

This reason is indeed good. Some things are hard to tell whether they are true or false. However, thinking of the Xu family, Yang Lao San still hesitated: "The Xu family is very united. You are making up some unfounded charges. Be careful that they will come to your door and beat you up."

Li Laidi angrily cursed: "Idiot, my son is an official now, why are you still afraid of the Xu family? When the time comes, let my son send the Xu family to jail and leave."

"Besides, when my son marries his boss's daughter, he might even be promoted to a higher position. By then, we can rule the village, no, in the county. My son is a Beijing official, and the county magistrate won't be afraid of him, but he will be afraid of the Xu family."

Yang Lao San took a deep puff of his cigarette and said, "Your son hasn't married yet, so you have to keep Xu Xu's affair a secret, and put the Xu family in jail. Then your son's official position will be taken away."

Li Laidi suddenly became depressed: "Then what do you say we should do?"

Yang Dazhu looked at the two elders with glistening eyes: "Dad, actually Mom's method is not impossible. Just say that she has not returned to her husband's house for a month and is not a good wife. Then use the child to threaten her and ask her to accept the divorce letter and give her the child. Otherwise, she will never want to see the child again."

Before Yang Lao San could say anything, Li Laidi jumped out to refute: "No, keeping the child will only bring trouble. Will the child go to find Er Zhu when he grows up? If they do, will Er Zhu still be able to continue to be an official?"

What Li Laidi said was not without reason. Now, no matter what, it was not as important as Yang Erzhu's official position. Everything was centered on Yang Erzhu, but he couldn't do anything too much. Yang Laosan pondered and said, "What about the child? He is your grandson after all. Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. Don't mess around."

Li Laidi said disdainfully: "Sell them, find a broker to take them to the south to find a good family. After all, they are Yang family blood. We are also doing this for the good of the children. It is better to find a wealthy family without children than to suffer with Xu Xu."

Neither Xu Youyin nor Xu Jianli had expected the Yang family to be so shameless. They clenched their fists in anger. Xu Jianli was afraid that Xu Youyin would do something bad out of impulse, so he grabbed Xu Youyin's arm and shook his head.