TSBFL Chapter 74
Chapter 74.2: 嘴脸
‘Face / Features’ [Negative Connotation]
Thinking of this, Steward Zhou couldn’t help but look at Zhou Qing with a little more love in his eyes, and said in a warm voice, “It’s still Qing Erl who is attentive (have the heart).”
As Zhou Qing listened to the praise, the look on his face grew more and more complacent, only to quickly follow the example of those poor and pedantic scholars as he politely said, “It’s still uncle who taught me well, so that I can have this kind of achievement. In the future, this nephew will have to rely on uncle more, and I hope that uncle will not be stingy to teach or guide this nephew.”
Just as the two of them were talking, Zhou Qing’s wife served them another plate of fresh meat, and soon afterwards he went out submissively.
Zhou Qing looked at the woman’s back as she left and frowned with some dissatisfaction, he was usually not used to seeing this wife of his being blindly subservient, and now that his uncle was here, she was still have this uptight and unimpressive appearance, it was really too much of a disgrace for him.
Butler Zhou noticed his eyes, along with his gaze when he saw the woman who had just stepped out the door, could not help but frown, then thought of something, dissatisfied as he said: “You are not that young anymore, your wife, for all these years also did not give birth to a child for you, if it is not possible … ”
Zhou Qing listened to his uncle’s words, also understood the meaning behind, directly interface: “Uncle, I know. When I take over this shop and have money, I will marry another one that can bear children.”
Housekeeper Zhou’s original intention was just to let him and his wife work hard to add more fragrance to their Zhou family, but when he thought that when Zhou Qing got the shop and had a steady flow of money, what kind of wife would Zhou Qing want to marry that didn’t have one, he didn’t open his mouth and stop him, he tacitly approve to his nephew’s idea.
Outside the door, the woman had not gone far, listening to the movement, already having a little sallow complexiob emerged a few points of despair. After looking fixedly at the door of the room for a moment, she turned around and left.
Just as Zhou Qing and Butler Zhou were enjoying their wine, chatting merrily, gave free rain to their imagination about the beautiful life of getting the Chen Family’s small restaurant in the future, a thumping sound came from outside the door. That sound ringing in the slightly quiet space was like a drumstick hitting the hearts of the people, straight to the point of making their hearts thump.
“Who is it ah!” In the courtyard, the voice of a woman asking.
“We are the Yamen attendant, we have been ordered to come and ask your family’s Zhou Qing to make a trip to the Yamen. Open the door quickly, don’t delay everyone’s time!”
Hearing the ferocious voice outside, Zhou Qing, who had just been pleased with himself, drinking his wine, was now looking at his uncle with a face full of surprise, and said in some panic: “Uncle, what should we do? How did the officials come to my door? Did they know something and that’s why they came to my door to arrest me?”
Butler Zhou was much calmer than his nephew, he stroked his half-white beard, pondered a little, looked at Zhou Qing and said, “Don’t be anxious, it should be because you had a conflict with the people from that restaurant some time ago, and now that the restaurant had one incident after another. It was brought to the Yamen for questioning. They must have said something about the conflict between you two, and so there were officials coming over to look for you. Now they want to bring you over, they should just want to invite you over for questioning. You just need to remember that although you have an old grudge against the owner of that restaurant, you didn’t do anything.”
Zhou Qing’s originally incomparably flustered expression gradually settled down under his uncle’s reassurance, then looked at his own uncle and nodded heavily.
At the same time, the official outside the door had already shouted for them to open the door, and accompanied by the Zhou family’s wife, he gingerly came to Zhou Qing’s room’s door.
“Is Zhou Qing inside?” The official’s tone was not polite at all, and if one listened carefully, it even carried a few hints of pride.
“Yes, yes.” The woman’s obedient voice rang out, followed by a vigorous knock on the door.
Zhou Qing glanced in the direction of the room’s door, and in his heart, he couldn’t help but hate this damned woman for actually betraying him like this.
Butler Zhou, however, glanced at the doorway without a care in the world, then looked at his nephew, and said in a calm and composed way, “Go, remember what I told you.”
Hearing his uncle’s words, Zhou Qing’s heart settled down a lot. He nodded slightly, took a deep breath, and immediately after that, he came to the door, pulled the door open as soon as he could. He looked at the officials guarding the door, revealing a fawning expression, “Everyone, I’m Zhou Qing, I don’t know what the officials are looking for me for?”
That leading official scanned him up and down, and snorted amidst Zhou Qing’s gradually insistent smile, “My lord has an invitation, please come with us.”
“Yes, yes.”
Hearing the official’s impolite words, Zhou Qing didn’t dare to continue pursuing the matter, only looking at the expression of the several officials who were treating him with disrespect, a few threads of uneasiness gradually rose in his heart.
By the time Zhou Qing followed the officials to Yamen and saw Widow Xu and the others waiting inside, that uneasiness in his heart grew bigger and bigger, and he even had a vague feeling that he might not be able to go home properly this time.
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