Chapter 32 Chapter Twelve

Liu Yuwei went to Hankou, but Hao Keshi still didn't give up, grabbed the second wife and the young master and refused to let her go, deducted the second wife's "recuperation" fee for two months, and forced the second wife and the young master to take turns to serve her She "rehabilitated".The Fourth Wife and the Eighth Wife couldn't stand it anymore, so they invited old Mr. Chang from the city to show Hao Keshi his "injury".Mr. Chang looked at it and said, the eldest wife was not hurt, but she was a little angry.When Hao Keshi heard this, he became even more angry, and called Mr. Chang a quack doctor, and didn't even notice her internal injuries.Mr. Chang had no choice but to follow Hao Keshi's wishes and prescribed some medicines for internal injuries to Hao Keshi, but when he went out, he told the fourth wife and eighth wife that they should not take the medicine even if they were caught. not good.The fourth wife and the eighth wife were not willing to agree, they agreed in front of Mr. Chang, turned around, paid money from the public account to grab the medicine, boiled several large bowls every day, and forced Hao Keshi to drink.Hao Keshi held his nose and drank it twice at first, but then he refused to drink again, saying that the fourth wife and the eighth wife had no good intentions, and they didn't know what they had done in the medicine!The fourth wife and the eighth wife sang and quarreled with Hao Keshi, scaring the second wife who was the subject of the incident and didn't know what to do...

The Hao mansion was noisy, but the outside world was surprisingly quiet.Old General Hao and Hao Baochuan never saw each other, and the front line in Jiangbei was always in a stalemate.Liu Anjie originally said that he would go to the south of the Yangtze River to rest and recuperate, but now he changed his mind and led a new second division to stay in the north of the Yangtze River.Old General Hao didn't withdraw either, and openly accepted a sixteen-year-old middle school student as his eleventh concubine in Baisha Port, a small town by the river, and held a large banquet.The "Dajiang Times" funded by Hao Baochuan in Jiangbei continuously published lace news under the title "The old warlord's flag wins and he wins a new love, but the poor tender flower has no choice but to fall into the clutches of the devil".

The eldest young master was already disheartened by Hao Keshi's bullying, and he accidentally read the lace news of "Dajiang Times", and felt even more ashamed, so he sighed and said to Nan Rulin: "Liu Yuwei and Hao Keshi fell out and left. It's okay, if you don't leave, there will be another eleventh girl who is only sixteen years old, and I don't know what to say! If the old man brings this milky eleventh girl home again, it will be even more lively. With Liu Yuwei's temper, why don't you let the old man and the eleven mothers get off the stage face to face?"

When the young master said these words, Nan Rulin was thinking boredly in the moon gate of the four-in courtyard, holding the "Nara" that Liu Yuwei gave her in her hand, comparing the similarities and differences between Liu Yuwei and Nora.Hearing what the young master said, he leaned against the moon gate, looked at the sad face of the young master firmly and said: "In my opinion, it's better if Liu Yuwei doesn't leave. If she's here, Hao Keshi's arrogance must be so strong." Restrain yourself. Even if your old man comes back, there is nothing you can do about her." Looking at "Nara" in his hand, he was stunned for a moment, and then said to the young master: "I used to admire you the most, but now it is Liu Yuwei who admires the most. "

The eldest young master smiled wryly, "Ten Niang, I know you think I'm soft, but you don't know my difficulties. Think about it, if I'm as tough as Yuwei and walk away, my mother won't be punished. My aunt was tortured to death? Yuwei and I came back this time to make my mother happy, but I never thought that we would make such a big mistake, how can we justify it?" Nan Rulin rolled "Nara" into a tube shape and tapped it in her hand, "I don't blame you for staying, but I blame you for not helping your mother fight Hao Keshi. The fourth wife and the eighth wife can't see it. If you go down and dare to punish Hao Ke, why don't you dare? If you tell you to serve her, you will serve her. Your mother was crushed by her, so are you also crushed by her? Didn't you beat the chief executive back then? What? Why did you lose to this old witch today?"

The eldest young master's eyes fell on a small tree in front of him, hesitantly said: "This... this is different. The chief is the chief, and the aunt is the aunt. If you are in a stalemate, I am afraid that my mother will be in trouble, and... I am also afraid that Yuwei and I will be cut off. I have another idea when I come back this time—I didn’t want to tell anyone, now, it’s okay to talk to you in private now, that is... just to improve the relationship with this family. " Nan Rulin didn't expect that apart from being attached to her mother and second wife, the eldest young master still had thoughts of reconciling with the family, so she asked, "Do you regret the past?"

The eldest young master shook his head and said, "I don't regret it, I just want to make peace with my family. It is said that the family does not bully outsiders." Nan Rulin asked: "Who is bullying you?" The young master leaned against the small tree, and let out a long breath: "It's hard to explain in one word, Ten Niang! You don't know if you haven't been outside, and it's hard to mess around! There are some things that you won't believe even if you tell them..." Nan Rulin smiled: "Just say what you say, and I'll believe it if it's well-founded."

The eldest young master just said that after being expelled from the university in Beijing, he didn't apply for a job for a whole year, so he and Liu Yuwei lived a life full of food and hunger, and then found something to do, but they were always unsatisfactory.At any rate, I worked as an engineer on the Hankou Railway, but I relied on the old man's face—I didn't know it at first, and I really thought I was great.As soon as the chief said the truth, he was naturally ashamed and dared not tell Liu Yuwei.Now, Director Gao Jiu, there is a vacancy in the position of director, so he looks for the director again, wanting to fill it.But the director said that the old man had already left a message, and he could only give him a bowl of rice to eat, as long as he was not hungry to death, but it was absolutely impossible to reuse it...

Nan Rulin understood: "Do you want the old man to help you?" The young master blushed and nodded: "The old man can help if he wants to. Our director was once the old man's military supply director..." Nan Rulin was puzzled: "Why do you want to be the director so much?" The young master said in a low voice: "If you are... as a director, you will get an extra salary of one hundred and eighty..." Nan Rulin laughed. At first she laughed normally, and then she laughed so hard that she burst into tears, and the "Nara" in her hand fell to her feet.Nan Rulin felt that the young master was ridiculous. When he left home, he was so decisive and called his old man a feudal warlord, but today he begged the old man for a salary of one hundred and eighty yuan.Then he said: "Young master, I didn't mean you. If I had known today, why bother to do it in the first place! A good horse doesn't eat grass - don't say that there is no grass to eat, even if there is grass to eat, it won't eat it."

The young master blushed even harder: "Shi Niang, I... I just thought about it casually, no... I might not really ask my father." But just after saying this, he asked again, "Shi Niang, you... You mean, the old man won't...won't help me?" Nan Rulin withdrew the smile on her face, and said solemnly: "I'm not sure, even if the old man helps you, you will be ashamed. Think about it, if the old man is only sixteen years old in front of you Eleven Niang scolded you in front of you, scolding you as a murderer, where will you put your face? Besides, Hao Keshi’s anger has not subsided, and he will be a hindrance, you don’t know it!”

The young master who was very assertive had no idea now. He looked at Nan Rulin in confusion and asked, "What should I do according to your suggestion? Or, I... I won't mention this matter, so I might as well go back to Hankou earlier?" Nan Rulin didn't know how to call the young master.According to her opinion, it is best for the young master not to return to Hankou for a while, even though the young master can no longer be hardened because of his regret, he can always talk to her.The young master is gentle, suave, and knowledgeable, she looks comfortable.Thinking about it again, Liu Yuwei has already arrived in Hankou, so the eldest and young master had to go back.If the young master doesn't come back, Liu Yuwei will really divorce the young master, and that will harm the young master.Then he said: "It's better to go back to Hankou as soon as possible, so that Liu Yuwei is not impatient. Compared with Liu Yuwei, the director and salary are always trivial matters. Without Liu Yuwei, you would just be the director and get a salary of three hundred and sixty. I'm afraid I'll regret it too!" The eldest young master looked at Nan Rulin hesitantly for a long time before nodding his head and saying: "You're right, then... then I won't see the old man, I'll leave as soon as possible." After a pause, he said, "Shi Niang , don't look at Liu Yuwei who is several years older than you, but she is actually not as good as you, you have your own ideas, and you are much calmer than Liu Yuwei." Nan Rulin shook her head: "Don't say that, I know that I am no match for Liu Yuwei, if Liu Yuwei dares to be Nora, I won't dare. I..." Nan Rulin almost wanted to tell the young master about herself and Yuan Jizhi again, but she still didn't dare.The Eldest Young Master is not the Seventh Young Master, she can't do anything wrong. The young master is also different this time from the day in the gazebo, there is no grief or passion.After listening to her words, he didn't reply, and he didn't say that he wanted her to be Nora, so he went to Hankou to find him. Nan Rulin couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, picked up the "Nora" under her feet, patted the dust on the book and sighed: "Young master, you really have to cherish your life, your blessings are not shared by everyone of……" The young master said indifferently: "What a blessing, being in love is one thing, living life is another. Liu Yuwei is a good person, but she is too strong..." After the conversation that day, the Eldest Young Master was really ready to leave, and wrote an express letter to Liu Yuwei in Hankou, asking Liu Yuwei to keep the Seventh Young Master and urge the Seventh Young Master to quit smoking when he arrived in Hankou in a few days.At home here, the second and fourth wives also hastily invited a tailor to make some new clothes for the young master and Liu Yuwei... However, no one expected that on the night before the eldest young master was leaving, old man Hao came back and brought the sixteen-year-old aunt eleven back home.This disturbed the young master's calm heart, so that he completely buried the young master later. The old man came back so suddenly that the young master couldn't hide even if he wanted to, so he had to bite the bullet and meet with his family.The old man said in front of his family that he came back this time to let the eleventh aunt recognize him, but privately told the young master that he came back only for the young master. Afterwards, the young master quietly told Nan Rulin that the old man had forgotten what happened six years ago and never mentioned it again. He didn't go into the scene between Liu Yuwei and Hao Keshi, and just laughed it off.He also said that although Liu Yuwei violated the family law by beating Hao Keshi, it was justifiable - after all, the second wife is the mother of the young master, and Liu Yuwei's mother-in-law. Liu Yuwei's courage to stand up for her mother-in-law is commendable!When it comes to future arrangements, the old man thinks that the young master really doesn't need to be that director—the young master has even beaten the chief executive, so being a small director would not be condescending?The old man wanted the eldest young master to be the government assistant of the military governor's mansion, and to be in charge of education, taxation, and civil affairs in the provincial capital. The young master asked Nan Rulin: "Ten Niang, do you think I will help you?" Nan Rulin knew that the old man had confiscated the last bit of the young master's backbone, and it was useless to say anything else, so she asked, "What do you think?" The young master was a little embarrassed, and said, "I haven't thought about it either! I told the old man, I want to think about it for three days." Nan Rulin smiled, "Actually, you've already thought about it..." Nan Rulin guessed correctly. Three days later, the announcement of the Eldest Young Master being appointed Assistant and the Third Young Master being promoted from Brigadier Commander to Teacher Commander was announced together.Old man Hao held a grand banquet at the most famous Xinmin Restaurant in the provincial capital, and toasted his two sons with his beautiful wife Eleven. Old man Hao said to the first young master and the third young master: "The ancients said: 'You can't avoid your relatives'. I raised you today, but I don't avoid your relatives. You two can help each other with civil and military skills. I am happy to be my right-hand man. The people of the whole province are also happy..." But at the same time that old man Hao said this, "Dajiang Times" published a current commentary titled "The old warlord raped the public opinion, the family will never last", reprimanding old man Hao for being autocratic and treating the entire province as Hao's mansion.The article also played up the fact that the young master beat the chief executive in Beijing as a bad deed. On the same day, "Ms. Liu Yuwei's Divorce Notice" was published in the Hankou newspaper. Liu Yuwei stated in the divorce notice: "Yu and Mr. Hao Deren married for the pursuit of freedom and happiness. Both parties are not tolerated by their respective feudal families. Today, Hao has violated his marriage vows and fell back into the feudal rut. Yu is heartbroken and decided to marry Hao." One cut in two..." A few days later, the Seventh Young Master came back from Hankou. In front of Nan Rulin, he said to the Eldest Young Master that when Liu Yuwei wrote the notice, she hid in her room crying and laughing, and even tore up the wedding photo taken with the Eldest Young Master. Pieces were strewn all over the place. The Eldest Young Master was very sad when he heard it, and looked at Nan Rulin and the Seventh Young Master, heaved a long sigh, and said something regretful again.Nan Rulin and the seventh young master couldn't say anything, so they could only persuade the young master to open up.