"Husband, what is the grudge between the young man and those people?"
As soon as Song Che climbed onto the passenger ship, Shen Wenjun came over to ask.
"Young man has had several teeth knocked out and he doesn't speak fluently. I asked him for a long time but I still don't know why..."
"Ah? It's so serious! Why don't you bring him on board, and we'll take him all the way to the city for treatment."
"Uh... Madam, don't worry. The young man is still full of energy. He will recover in a few days. I have given him some money and scared off those evil servants. This matter will not get worse."
"Hmph! I really don't know which family's evil servant he is. He can even kill children... With such a servant, that family will be finished sooner or later."
"Yes, yes..." Your mother's family will be finished sooner or later.
Song Che suddenly pointed to the river bend: "Madam, look, the harbor has arrived, so lively."
Shen Wenjun stepped onto the bow of the boat again and started to visit with interest, "That's natural. This is the Qiantang River. Unfortunately, it's summer now and the tide is much gentler. What if the Qiantang tide comes and goes around the Mid-Autumn Festival and shakes the city of Hangzhou!" "
The passenger ship slowly returns to port.
"Yazhao! I saw Yazhao!" Shen Wenjun waved towards the dock before the boat came closer.
A woman in emerald green clothes stood on the edge of the pier facing the wind. She would sometimes let go of her hair and stretch her pink neck to look around. She didn't have a telescope, so of course she couldn't see Shen Wenjun.
When the passenger ship arrived at the pier, the ship's boss and the sailors lowered the gangway, fixed the anchor, and then called Song Che and Shen Wenjun to disembark.
"Ya Zhao!" Shen Wenjun rushed off the boat.
Zhou Yazhao heard the greeting and saw Shen Wenjun. He also ran forward to greet him. The two women of similar age held hands and smiled like silver bells.
"Yazhao, I haven't seen you for two years, and you have become even more beautiful." Shen Wenjun smiled.
Zhou Yazhao smiled without saying a word and tugged on Shen Wenjun's face, his eyes full of doting.
"Hello." Song Che stepped forward and greeted with a smile.
Zhou Yazhao was a little confused.
"By the way, let me introduce you. His name is Song Che, and he is my husband." Shen Wenjun held Song Che's arm with a blush on his face.
Zhou Yazhao covered his mouth in shock, then clenched his fist and lightly punched Shen Wenjun, making a "love each other" gesture, and gave Song Che a thumbs up.
My wife’s best friend is actually a mute girl?
In terms of figure and appearance, she is no worse than Shen Wenjun, but it is a pity that she is disabled.
"This is Yazhao, Zhou Yazhao, she is my best friend in the Zhou family." Shen Wenjun introduced to Song Che.
Song Che smiled and asked, "Is she a younger sister or older sister?"
Zhou Yazhao covered his mouth and laughed.
Song Che scratched his head, "Isn't it all?"
"Yazhao is the youngest daughter of the old lady. In terms of seniority, you and I have to call her aunt." Shen Wenjun took Zhou Yazhao's hand again: "Yazhao and I were born in the same year and month, and we are only one day apart. We are similar in age and are aunt and nephew in terms of seniority, but in fact we are just like sisters."
The old lady is thirty-three this year. Although the old lady is deceased, she should be about the same age. If Zhou Yazhao and Shen Wenjun are both in their twenties, then they were born when the old lady and the old lady were in their fifties. The man is in his fifties. You can still have children at the age of 50, but women in their fifties have already gone through menopause. Even if they are lucky enough to become pregnant, they cannot risk giving birth...
There is a carriage behind Zhou Yazhao, and there is not a single servant. Looking at her hands, they are much rougher than those of Shen Wenjun. They are really not suitable for the status of a wealthy daughter——
There may be only one reason to explain all this, and that is that Zhou Yazhao is not the old lady's biological child, but the concubine born to the concubine, perhaps not even a concubine.
You know, a rich man has many wives and concubines in the house, and there are countless wild flowers outside the house. If the wild flowers inadvertently form pearls, the children they bring home will have a lower status than some servants.
Besides, she is still mute.
Alas, why is such a beautiful girl mute?
Song Che asked the boat boss to help hire a carriage and load the silk and other materials into the carriage. When giving the money, Zhou Yazhao insisted on paying from his own pocket.
Her purse is not bulging, and it only contains coins and silver. She really can't be that rich.
"Yazhao, how have you been doing these past few years?" Shen Wenjun asked.
Zhou Yazhao smiled and nodded.
"Do you have a husband you like? I will be your matchmaker." Shen Wenjun asked again.
Zhou Yazhao blushed and shook his head.
"Hehehe... Yazhao is so beautiful. If a man wants to marry you, he will probably break up the family, right?" Shen Wenjun said with a smile.
A hint of sadness flashed in Zhou Yazhao's eyes, but the next moment the gloom swept away, and he still had the same smile, either nodding or shaking his head.
Along the way, the two talked about everything, mostly Shen Wenjun asked and Zhou Yazhao gestured.
Song Che sat aside and took in the mute girl's expression. Sometimes her smile was innocent, but most of it was fake.
Perhaps this is a common problem among deaf-mute people, who always hide their truest thoughts and grieve alone in the dead of night.
On the way to Zhou's house, Song Che asked some more information about the members of the Zhou family, so as not to make a fool of himself when he entered the Grand View Garden——
Old Taigong Zhou and Old Taijun had six children. The eldest son was named Zhou Cang, who died at the age of forty. The eldest wife, Mrs. Zheng, had a son and a daughter, who were Shen Wenjun's eldest cousin and eldest cousin. The son is Zhou Shijie, who is frail and sickly, and has congenital deficiencies; the daughter is Zhou Hui, who is married to a famous shoe merchant in Hangzhou;
Dafang's mother and son are in charge of Zhou's three businesses.
The second son is called Zhou Gui, he is a romantic man and has seven or eight wives and concubines. His wife, Wang, has two twin sons, namely Zhou Shaolong and Zhou Shaohu. The two perfectly inherited his father's nature, young dragon and young tiger, who eat, drink, whore and gamble;
Er Fang and his son are in charge of five Zhou businesses.
The third son is named Zhou Pu. His wife died early and they have a son named Zhou Tianci. This father and son pair are incredible, they can be regarded as the mainstay of the Zhou family.
Zhou Pu was in charge of ten trading houses of the Zhou family. Although his son Zhou Tianci was not in business, he was the chief academician of "Lingyin Academy" in Hangzhou. He was erudite and well-known in Jiangnan. He was only 25 years old.
The second daughter is the mother-in-law Zhou Yumei, who married into the Shen family in Suzhou.
The youngest daughter is Zhou Yuping, who married far away to Jingzhou. Her husband is the transfer envoy of Jingzhou and a local financial official;
As for Zhou Yazhao, Shen Wenjun didn't say much because of her birth, but most likely, Song Che had guessed exactly that she was an illegitimate daughter born out of an impulsive impulse.
The above are only direct blood relationships, some collateral cousins, and distant cousins. If you really want to count them carefully, you can't count them on a few hands.
As people get older, they become more afraid of loneliness. The old lady has been widowed for many years, and her daughter's marriage is a heartbreaking experience, so her children and grandchildren naturally have to stay with her.
What the old lady wanted was for her family to be reunited and happy, so her sons were not separated and all lived in Zhou's house.
However, the old man is getting worse day by day, and one day he will drive to the west. With such a big family property left behind, who will succeed the master?
Family love, which is thicker than water, is really vulnerable in the face of huge wealth.
