The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Chapter 232 Settlement

The Liu family has been in a bad mood these days because of the letter from their hometown. Even if Changrong can be brought to justice in the end, it is not a glorious thing after all.

Nowadays, people pay attention to having a clean background and require that "there is no man breaking the law in the family." This family can be a small family in the household registration, or it can be extended to a clan.

If any illegal activities occur in a clan, it is extremely shameful, so most crimes committed by clan members are dealt with by the clan itself, so as to avoid going through the government and avoid having a bad reputation.

Liujiaping's good reputation has been established since Chen Cui obtained the archway. Over the years, it has grown to a certain scale.

The villagers are all proud of themselves and are proud to be from Liujiaping. People in the village say that it is much easier to marry off their daughters than in other villages, just for the honor.

Now that a bad apple like Liu Changrong has appeared, the whole pot of porridge is about to stink!

However, it is necessary to do so. If the case of Liu Changrong is not dealt with severely, more illegal acts will occur in the future. In the end, if the law has to give in to illegality, it means that the situation is already hopelessly bad!

Although Chen Cui does not have any deep feelings for Liujiaping, it is the hometown of the Changping brothers after all. It is where they were born and grew up. For people today, it is their roots.

Although their home in the capital also had ancestral halls built for worshipping their ancestors during festivals, for them, the foot of the mountain at Liujiaping was the burial place of their ancestors and it was their eternal hometown.

Although Chen Cui is a person without a hometown, she always has complicated feelings towards the orphanage where she grew up, and I believe Chang Ping and the others are the same.

However, Chen Cui did not allow herself to indulge in this emotion. After all, the people and things in her hometown were far away from her, and in front of her, there were more people and things occupying her time and energy and requiring her to deal with them.

The eldest daughter-in-law's due date is approaching. During the period of delivery and confinement, Chen Cui has to take care of the affairs at home and in the shop, and take good care of her eldest grandson. These are what Chen Cui should do as a mother-in-law and grandmother.

Although the eldest grandson Xuange is an obedient and worry-free child, he is still young after all and needs constant attention and care from adults. Changping had originally planned to start elementary school for the child this year, but Chen Cui thought he was too young and did not agree.

However, although Brother Xuan was not taught to write, he had already started to recite classics and famous poems at an early age. In this family, everyone can be his teacher, including his second aunt Zhang Hongjuan.

The reason why Chen Cui has to take on several jobs and does not share some of the responsibilities with her second daughter-in-law is because she is pregnant now and is expected to give birth in September.

Although it is still early in the pregnancy, the early stages of pregnancy are more dangerous and require more attention. With Chen Cui's intervention, even her and Suisui's teaching work has been changed to oral narration instead of personal demonstration.

Zhang Hongjuan also listened to the advice. Her family ran a clinic, so there was no shortage of doctors. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law also had a lot of experience to share. She absorbed a lot of useful knowledge from them and gained new insights and experiences about pregnancy and childbirth.

"It's really strange. Mom said the baby is only as big as a grape now. Isn't it too small?"

Zhang Hongjuan leaned on the couch, Chang'an stroked her belly with a gentle look on his face.

"Not small anymore. Think about it. He grew in my belly for ten months and was less than two feet long when he was born. Most of it was flesh and bone that grew in the late pregnancy. He was only a tiny bit bigger in the early pregnancy. If he had grown so big from the beginning, my belly wouldn't have been able to hold him!"

Zhang Hongjuan has already read the pregnancy books given to her by her mother and sister-in-law. When it comes to the gestation process, she knows a lot about it and can even use it to educate her husband.

"Here, mother told you to read it when you have nothing to do, so you don't make a fool of yourself by not knowing anything about it."

Zhang Hongjuan took a book and handed it to her husband: "Mom said that my eldest brother has read these books. No matter how he teaches his children, he often reads them. You have to follow his example. How we teach our children in the future depends on you!"

Zhang Hongjuan knew that her husband and brother-in-law admired her eldest uncle the most and listened to him the most, so she deliberately brought up her eldest uncle.

Changan really took the book and read it carefully. No wonder he saw that his elder brother was very good at taking care of and educating Brother Xuan. It turned out that it was because of reading these booklets. He must not fall behind and must study hard and educate his own children well in the future!

This couple of new parents started learning how to be parents and how to raise children before their child was born, but some families are helpless in the face of their children's rebellion!

After some investigation, Zhang Ruomei found out that the one who instigated her mother-in-law was her husband's concubine, Wang Deyi.

While she was upset and angry, she laid everything out directly in front of her husband. She was his concubine's daughter and his biological mother, and she would inevitably be held responsible no matter how she handled it, so she simply let him solve it himself.

Wang Hengzhi didn't expect that his eldest daughter, who seemed well-behaved and sensible in recent years, would do this to him at this time.

Although this was just a thought, and she didn't have the ability to do anything inappropriate, it was inappropriate to have even a thought.

He felt that he and his wife had made a mistake in giving the child to a friend. If it weren't for the careful education over the past few years, the child would still be just a country girl and would not have the ladylike demeanor that everyone praises her for today.

It was these so-called honors that made this girl have thoughts that she shouldn't have. She even dared to covet the prince and dream of marrying into the royal family!

Fortunately, she is young and has limited knowledge, so she can only instigate her grandmother to talk about things. If she was bolder and dared to really take action to achieve her goal, it would be really irreparable.

Should we say that it is really like her roots, like mother, like daughter, this is inherited by blood, he thought of the cousin who dared to climb the bed at a young age, and a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes!

Wang Hengzhi vowed to be a loyal minister. The emperor was now in his prime, and even with the relationship with the Zhang family, he would not try to get close to the fourth and seventh princes born to Concubine Shu so early, let alone marry them.

Wang Hengzhi was thankful that his silly daughter was not too timid and had not done anything indecent. He still had time to clean up the matter and ensure that no clues would be revealed!

Zhang Ruomei didn't know what Wang Hengzhi said to his daughter and mother, but the two of them finally behaved themselves.

The mother-in-law retreated back to her yard, where she stayed quietly to “recuperate” from her illness, and never dared to come out to cause trouble again.

The marriage of the eldest daughter of a concubine was also quickly arranged by her husband. The marriage was to the second son of a fifth-rank official, which was not considered a disgrace to her. From then on, she could only embroider her dowry in her own yard and was not allowed to go out at will!