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April 29th, early morning, in northern Jizhou, Xincheng County...

“Oh oh oh ~~”

A loud crow of roosters sounded in a low and dilapidated loess wall courtyard, announcing the coming of a new day. Then, a yawn started in a dilapidated and closed door...

"Ah~"

On a low stone bed, a messy Confucian scholar stretched his waist long and slowly opened his hazy eyes. He looked out the window at Chuyang, who was at noon, lifted up the patched bedding, shook his head and shouted loudly: "Madam, where are you? Why don't you come and serve to change clothes and wash your husband..."

"Squeak ~"

After a while, there was a harsh sound from the door. A woman wearing a thick dress, a belle suit, and a ribbon on her waist, slowly walked into the room with a basin of washing water. She placed the basin on a wooden table with cracks and turned to the Confucian scholar sitting on the bed.

"Sanlang, the face washing water has been brought, and bamboo grass (mouth rinsing and brushing supplies for poor families, fine salt and fine salt Liu Ce has not yet been sold in northern Hebei, including the toothpaste developed) is in a cup, you..."

"For your husband, you will change your clothes for me first..." The Confucian scholar said dissatisfiedly, "Where do you come from so many words? It's really hard to raise a woman, and the saints won't deceive me..."

When the woman heard this, she sighed softly, and had to take a piece of old clothes, Confucian robe with two patches on the bed, and come to the Confucian scholar.

"Hmph, really, I'll understand it after I say it a few times. If I delay this again next time, I will definitely take care of my family law..."

After a few dissatisfied words from Confucian scholar, he stood up and stretched out his arms, and asked the woman to put the white Confucian robe on her body...

After tying up the belt, the Confucian scholar lifted his lower clothes and looked at his feet, and suddenly said angrily: "Look, Wei Hu said a few times. You have to wear shoes and socks before changing clothes. Before I wear these shoes, you can put them on for me. Why are you so stupid? Why don't you put them on for Wei Hu?"

When the woman heard this, her body shook slightly, and then she whispered: "Sanlang, it's all mine..." After that, she quickly squatted down and took a pair of cloth shoes with two patches to the feet of the Confucian scholar, and gently lifted his feet to help him put them on.

This Confucian scholar's surname is Hu, with a single name of Qing, and he is the third child in his family, so he is called Hu Sanlang, who is twenty-five years old...

This woman is a child bride who has been with Hu Sanlang since childhood, Ji, at the age of nineteen.

Hu Qing's family was poor, but he was very noble. He felt talented and looked down on Ji's family, who took care of his daily life. He realized that one day he would be recruited by a noble family as a son-in-law who had become a son-in-law, and he was successful in succession. Jie Shi had a divorce letter to clear up all the relationship with Ji's family...

Unfortunately, the noble family did not come to visit him, and Hu Nu occupied Jizhou for more than ten years, which scared him, a Confucian scholar who was powerless, and was so timid that he was timid under Hu Nu's rule that he was timid. His former words of benevolence, righteousness and morality all turned into flattery, and even sent Ji to honor Hu Nu's generals to survive.

Even the Hu people, who have always been savage and have not been completely enlightened, could not bear to see this kind of behavior. When they saw Ji's thin appearance, they saw that her hands were thick calluses that had been working hard all year round, perhaps their conscience appeared. They did not move to her for the first time, but instead gave her a few liters of rice and put them back.

It was not until Liu Ce strongly recovered the entire Jizhou area and became a new ruler that the situation of the Hu Qing family changed, and it can be said that there was no change.

The change was that those fierce and fierce Hu people disappeared, replaced by the disciplined Far East soldiers. From the first day they were stationed in the county, they had no harm to the people in the county, and they just maintained the public order in Xincheng County. Hu Qing didn't have to live in fear every day, and returned to the daydreaming posture all day long...

There was no change because the family's situation did not change at all because of the arrival of Liu Ce's army, and it was still poor as usual. Not only did the scholars and nobles still not come to him to be the son-in-law of the dragon, but even the family often couldn't bear to lose money. The family of four (two daughters, Hu Jiao and Hu Xia) often went hungry, and it was all up to Ji to borrow food from his neighbors to make a living...

Is this the policy of Qin Mo or Liu Ce not in place? Not only that, there is only one reason. Hu Qing was lazy and used to serving Ji, and was used to the life of having clothes to reach out and food to open his mouth...

When men from other families in the county started to go out to work because of the need for manpower in various places, Hu Qing still hid at the door of his home and did not go out, and he kept walking in the two doors. He held the book all day and shook his head and recited the "Sage Decree". Moreover, Hu Qing himself often went out and did not allow Ji to go out. Unless he went out to borrow food, he could get his permission. Obviously, he looked like a macho style, but he was praised, and he was a standard sour Confucian style...

Under Ji's personal service, Hu Qing finished washing and rinsing, he looked at the only bronze mirror in the house with a broken corner. Then he sat at the table and asked Ji: "Madam, have the food ready? I am now hungry and weak..."

Ji said after hearing this, "Sanlang is here to take the food..."

After saying that, Ji walked out of the door and headed towards the kitchen. At this time, Hu Qing's daughters walked in and looked at his father timidly.

Hu Qing just glanced at them, and a trace of helplessness appeared on his face: "Go and go, go outside and play, and prepare meals for your father. Don't disturb me. How can you have a safe meal for your father like this?"

When the four-year-old Hu Xia heard this, she pulled the corner of her six-year-old sister's clothes, and the two slowly moved out of the door together...

"Hmph, Ji's belly is really not good. I haven't added any incense to my Hu family for so many years. How can I face my parents who are in the underworld after I die? It seems that I have to take a concubine..." Hu Qing kept feeling heartbroken, and his thoughts couldn't help but float to a beautiful woman he saw on the street that day, which was in line with his wife and concubine image.

But when he remembered the situation that day, his face couldn't help but dim, just because the girl he liked was Zhen Luo.

Hu Qing was bored on the day of study. When the border troops of the Military Governor's Office turned back to Yong'an and went to rest. He was bored and went to watch it. He didn't want to run into the lotus-like girl Zhen Luo. In an instant, he felt that he had found true love, and he actually recited poems and courted him in the street like a mad dog. The ending was that he was almost taken torture by soldiers secretly protecting the female family in the "consolation camp" and tortured...

Later, when he learned that Zhen Luo had already thought of the young general named Zhuo Shaoyun, he insisted on "ah alas" at home all day long, thinking that Zhen Luo was worthy of it, how could he be combined with a lowly martial artist?

"Sanlang, the food is here..."

Ji's voice pulled Hu Qing's mind back to reality. Hu Qing calmed down his emotions, but saw that there was only a bowl of sweet potato porridge and three potatoes on the table. He couldn't help but look down. He asked Ji dissatisfiedly: "Madam, why are there only these today? There was rice porridge yesterday..."

Ji said after hearing this, "Sanlang, all you can eat at home is here, just keep it a little bit. The rice in the rice jar is empty..."

"Did you secretly hide the rice? I saw half a jar a few days ago?" Hu Qing asked with anger, "Why don't you go and cook it with me quickly. As a husband, you are a person who wants to do big things. How can you have the energy to study and be loyal to the court in the future?"

Ji hurriedly said, "Sanlang, it's really gone. Even if these sweet potato porridge and potatoes are gone after this meal, how could I hide it privately..." After saying that, a few tears fell from the corner of her eyes.

"You, hum..." Hu Qing snorted coldly when he heard this, "Why don't you borrow some rice from your neighbors? Would you be able to starve to death as your husband?"

Ji wiped his tears and said, "I have borrowed it several times. The neighbors have been gossiping secretly, so why are you embarrassed to speak again?"

"Okay, don't cry..." Hu Qing's face showed an impatient expression, "Anyway, no matter what method you use, you must make some rice and flour at night. I, Hu Qing, will be a person who will do great things in the future. I will be able to enjoy endless wealth and honor in the future. Humph, the wife is so short-lived..."

After scolding Ji, Hu Qing took the potatoes and handed them to her hands and ordered: "Why are you still standing there? Help Weifu peel off the skin. Don't let Weifu remind you anymore. It's true..." Then he buried his head and drank the sweet potato porridge, completely ignoring the situation of his two daughters swallowing saliva outside the window.

Ji could only silently endure the rudeness of her husband and helped him peel off all the three potato skins and put them in a dish. You must know that she and her two daughters have not eaten them yet...

After Hu Qing finished drinking the sweet potato porridge, Ji saw his expression improve, and took advantage of his time to get potatoes and said to him: "Sanlang, this is not a solution. The whole family cannot be hungry all the time. Gillian Axia is also growing up. I heard that the mine is recruiting documents and the salary is very high. Sanlang, you wrote a good handwriting. As long as you are willing to go, you will definitely subsidize your family with a lot of rice and grain..."

"Hmph, how could I do such a cheap job that Hu Qing can do? The mines are so dirty, will it defile the body and mind of our students? If you don't go, don't you go..." Hu Qing took a bite of the potato and shook his head and said.

Ji said again: "Since that's the case, a new cloth shop has been opened in the county town, and the shopkeeper is missing another account, so it's better..."

"Don't mention it again!" Hu Qing refused flatly, "I think Hu Qing is going to be a minister to worship the prime minister in the future. How can I be the account secretary of the merchants who are covered in stinking smells of money? Humph, it's ridiculous!"

"Since that's the case..." Ji's lips curled, and said nervously, "Ashiman, the head of the spiritual tribe in the suburbs, opened a breeding ranch, and was in urgent need of manpower to take care of cattle, sheep and livestock, especially women and children, and the treatment is quite generous. I want to be idle at home, so I might as well try it to subsidize my family. Is it good to take care of Ajiao and Axia at home?"

"It's just a mess!" Hu Qing suddenly stood up and pointed at Ji angrily and said, "How is it so natural for you, a woman, to show up in public? You have forgotten the teachings of the saints? How many times have you told you about the female legend as a husband? You dare to take the blame for the world?

Besides, who is Ashiman? A shameless Hu man, you actually work for a Hu girl? It's so cheap, let alone, how can you learn the way of a saint quietly and gain fame in the future if you leave? Don't go!"

"This is not possible, that is not possible. Could it be that we all starve to death?" Ji said crying, "Sanlang, even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about your two daughters, right? They can't eat a meal now.

Since the Military Supervisor took over Jizhou, the neighbors next door used to live a better life than us, but now they can still eat meat every now and then. Sanlang, just go out and have a look, don’t stay at home..."

"Okay, it's against you. You dare to teach you a lesson to be a husband..." Hu Qing was trembling when Ji said, "You, kneel down for me, be a husband, be a husband, be a husband today, teach you a lesson, kneel down, kneel down for me..."

Ji's body trembled, and instinctively covered her face and knelt on the ground and sobbed constantly. Her deep-rooted traditional thinking made her afraid to resist the authority of her husband and could only suffer all kinds of torture.

Hu Qing excitedly took off a very tough vine whip hanging behind the door, pointed at her and said, "What kind of military governor is just a martial artist. Everything he did is incompatible with the teachings of the saints. Do you have the face to mention him? I, I will beat you to death..."

"Ba~"

Hu Qing whipped Ji's back with a fierce whip. Ji immediately cried in pain, and then another whip passed by, and Ji's whip was lying on the ground and cried bitterly.

"Mom, don't hit my mother~"
Chapter completed!