Patriarch, he doesn't want to take the imperial examinations

Ever since I came here, it's really hard for Meng to have a clean and peaceful life. Either this son will come to disturb you today, or the servant will come to make noise tomorrow. Throughout the year, from morning to night, chickens fly and dogs jump around, making a lot of noise.

He opened the door and came out of the house, he said angrily: "Your eldest and young mistress threw herself into the well, you told your uncle that you are always bothering me."

Ah Xing wiped the sweat off his face, and said awkwardly, "My lord, I haven't come back since I went out at noon, so I don't know who else to go to besides bothering you."

After speaking, he cried again: "Master, please go over and have a look, otherwise young mistress will really be hopeless."

Meng Zhen sighed: "Go find a ladder and go down the well to catch people, and then send someone to find your uncle."

Ah Xing responded, turned around and ran away.

Meng Zhen followed closely behind.

According to the memory of the original owner, Meng Zhen remembered some past events about Zhu Zhenmei.

Zhu Zhenmei quarreled with Meng Qing a lot on weekdays, and when the quarrel was the worst, she tried to seek life and death, but it was always just a show, to fool the servants, and it would not really hurt her life.

Therefore, Meng Zhen thought that Zhu Zhenmei's throwing into the well this time was mostly a trick, and she would really give up her life.

When he arrived at the East First Courtyard, someone had already set up a ladder to go down the well to catch people. He stood by the well and waited. I searched here several times, but I didn't find the young mistress, but found a big rock."

Meng Zhen frowned, it really made him guess right, it turned out that Zhu Zhenmei did not throw a stone into the well to seek death, but instead threw a stone into the well, deceiving people to panic.

It's just that since this person didn't throw himself into the well, where would he go?He sent people up and down the house, searched carefully inside and out, but still did not see anyone.

Did you go out of the house?Meng Zhen was thinking about it, and Meng Qing rushed over there in a hurry, and when he saw his father, he said: "Father, what's the matter, has anyone found it?"

Meng Zhen shook his head: "I didn't find it, most likely she went out of the mansion, you send some people to her mother's house to ask if she went there."

Meng Qing waved his hand: "You don't need to ask, you must have gone there." In the past when he quarreled with Zhu Zhenmei, Zhu Zhenmei was furious and they all went to her mother's house, and this time it will be no exception.He said a few words to his father, and asked people to go back to the house to rest quickly, and then went back to the room by himself.

Early the next morning, the family was sitting together having breakfast, when suddenly there was a noise in the courtyard, and then Ah Qing ran in, yelling non-stop:

"The master is not well. The eldest young mistress's natal family has come and said that they are looking for the eldest young master to ask for an explanation."

They were all startled, they hurriedly put down their bowls and chopsticks and came out of the room, just bumping into the people who came forward.

Those who came were Zhu Zhenmei's two older brothers: Big Brother Zhu and Second Brother Zhu.

Big Brother Zhu spoke first: "Meng Qing, my little sister came home last night, crying and saying that you were going to divorce her, what's going on?"

Meng Qing didn't beat around the bush, and said bluntly: "Zhu's sister has a tough personality, I can't control Meng Qing, so it's better to leave the book with a piece of paper, so as not to delay people's search for a good relationship."

Brother Zhu said unhappily: "I don't think it will delay your search for a good relationship. At the beginning, your business was difficult in Mengqing, and our Zhu family helped you a lot. Now that you have flourished, not only do you not feel grateful for the old kindness, but you are about to retire and be with me. I share the pain with my wife."

"You really are an unfamiliar wolf. You don't have any sense of gratitude. Saying that my sister is tough and her personality doesn't match is just an excuse for you to divorce your wife."

"You two have been married for seven years. Although my sister didn't give birth to a son and a half for you, it was hard work. Now you say you divorce your wife, and you don't care about the years of love between husband and wife, but my sister doesn't say anything. , we, as brothers, will never agree."

"Today I will ask you for an explanation. Either you will pick up my sister in person and never mention the matter of reconciliation. Or you will return my family's kindness immediately. After that, the two families will break up completely and never communicate with each other again."

"Repay your family's kindness immediately?" Meng Qing thought for a while, "How do you repay it?"

Zhu Laodao: "Giving half of your property to my sister is regarded as compensation for her seven years."

Meng Qing said: "I'm afraid it won't work, half of my property will be left to my father and my younger brother. If you come to ask for money today, I will not refuse to give you, but I can only give two tenths of my property , if there are too many, I should not respond. If you make trouble, I am not afraid of you, at worst, we will confront each other in court."

"I think you all know what kind of person your sister is. If I reveal her scandals, then you probably won't get any money."

After Meng Qing said this, Zhu Boss and Zhu Lao Er looked at each other, and quickly retracted their gazes, as if they had reached a consensus, they said in unison: "Okay, I will do as you said, two out of ten will be two out of ten." .”

The attitudes of the two changed very quickly, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that they were clearly here for money.

Seeing the two brothers of the Zhu family leaving with Meng Qing, Meng Zhen sat down on a stone bench under the tree.

He originally thought that Meng Qing and Zhu Zhenmei would have to entangle for a period of time at least to reconcile, but he didn't want the woman's two older brothers to come to ask for some money today, and the matter would be settled like this.

Can't help but sigh, money is really a good thing.

Five days later, Meng Qing and Zhu Zhenmei went through several formalities in the government, and their seven-year marriage was completely dissolved.

Since then, Meng Qing has rarely been at home, working back and forth between the county town and the grain stores on both sides of the capital.

Meng Hong takes Meng Che outside to play and stays away all day.There are fewer chickens and dogs in the house, and the ears of Mengzhen are indeed much cleaner.

In this way, another ten or so days passed, and soon the hot summer vacation at the Academy would be over.

On the eve of the start of school, it was rare for everyone to get together. During dinner, Meng Qing said something that shocked everyone.

Meng Qing said that he was engaged to a girl from the tailor shop, and the wedding will probably be held in September this year.

The atmosphere on the table suddenly froze, Meng Zhen and Meng Hong looked at Meng Qing at the same time, their faces were full of disbelief, this man has only been married for a month, and he is going to marry a new woman so soon?

It seems that what Zhu Zhenmei scolded that day was not bad, this Meng Qing probably divorced her poor wife because she saw her young and fresh, so that she could marry a newcomer.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhen and Meng Hong unconsciously showed indescribable contempt on their faces.

On the other hand, Meng Che, like a normal person, finished chewing the meat ball in his mouth and said, "Okay, big brother is going to marry a new sister-in-law again."

Meng Hong hurriedly stuffed another meat dumpling into his mouth, "Eat your meal quickly, there is class tomorrow, go to bed after eating."

Meng Che was gagged by the meat dumpling, so he stopped talking.

Meng Qing glanced at Meng Hong and said, "Second Brother, I'm too busy in the store here, and you are also a member of the Meng family, so you should come and take care of the business with me."

Meng Qing had talked to Meng Hong more than once before, asking him to come to the store to help manage the business, but Meng Hong was reluctant, saying that he had his own business to do and had no time to come and help him manage the business.

At that time, Nian Menghong was young and his temperament was not stable enough. Although he tried to persuade him, he didn't insist.

Now Meng Hong is 17 years old, and he should take care of the family at this age, so he once again persuaded him to come and help him manage the shop.

As expected, Meng Hong refused again, "Brother, isn't someone taking care of your business, and I have my own business to do, so I really don't have time to help you."

Hearing his words, Meng Qing was full of disdain: "Don't use this to prevaricate me, you are out of shape every day, besides eating and playing, there is no time anywhere."

Meng Hong hurriedly defended: "Brother's words really wronged me, I'm out of shape, so I can't take care of the restaurant business in the capital and county."

Hearing this, Meng Qing frowned unconsciously, how could he have forgotten this, Meng Hong did open two restaurants, and they managed them well.

After the separation of the family in the previous life, Meng Hong took Meng Che away and lived a very prosperous life.

"If that's the case, then you are busy with your own business, and you don't care about it for the time being. There is just one more thing I have to mention. Now that you are old enough, you should also consider your own marriage. I heard that some time ago One day, Matchmaker Cui told you about the girl from the Liu family. I have met that girl a few times, and she looks and has a good temperament. You can meet someone some other day so that you can settle the marriage."

"Ah..." Meng Hong, who was finally relieved when his elder brother told him that he didn't need to take care of the grain store business, suddenly heard his brother mention the matter of marriage, and immediately brought up the breath he had just taken.

Reluctantly said: "Brother, I'm only seventeen, don't be in such a hurry, at least let it go for two or three years."

Meng Qing immediately reprimanded: "Slow down, seventeen is not young. Look at the sons of the old Zhang family next door, who are the same age as you, and they already have two sons. What can they say?"

Meng Hong didn't care about his words, he thought to himself, can this person be the same as others?People get married and have children at the age of 17, so I don't necessarily have to be like this.

Could it be that this person is not a normal person when he grows up and does not get married or have children.

Thinking of this, Meng Hong, who has always been good-tempered, inevitably felt sulking, picked up the rice in front of him and slapped it twice, trying to suppress the sulking in his heart.

Just at this moment, Meng Che burped, put down the bowl and chopsticks, rubbed his chubby stomach, and said, "Father, elder brother, second brother, I'm full, and there's class tomorrow, so I'll go back and rest first."

As soon as the people in this room got up, Meng Hong quickly put down the bowls and chopsticks, and stood up, "I'm full too, I'll go with my fourth brother." After speaking, he dragged Meng Che away quickly.

Meng Qing shouted from behind: "Second brother, remember what brother told you, and brother will take you to meet that Liu family girl some other day, I guarantee you will be very satisfied."

In his previous life, Meng Hong married a girl from the Liu family at the age of 19. This boy was like this at the beginning, and he refused to marry a girl no matter what he said.

What happened later, after the two met a few times, they happily married each other.

Since I want to marry Miss Liu anyway, why not marry in earlier.Thinking this way, Meng Qing has already started planning and arranging for the two to meet and other matters.

He had no intention of eating, so he took a few mouthfuls casually, and said to his father: "Father, I'm full too, so I'll go back first, and you should rest earlier, don't stay up all night."

After everyone had left, Meng Zhen looked at the mess on the table, called the servants to clean up the dishes, then sat under the lamp and read a book for a while, then rested.