The Legitimate Daughter Returns: The Real Daughter is Reborn

Chapter 200 Making do

 “Mrs.?”

Qin Xiu raised her eyes to look at him, pointed to a seat aside, and motioned for him to sit down.

Zhou Mingsheng has not seen Qin Xiu like this for an unknown amount of time. The last time seemed to be before coming to the capital.

 He sat down nervously.

 Before my **** even touched the stool, I heard a sound being slapped on the table.

Zhou Mingsheng trembled and quickly stood up again.

"Madam, don't be so angry with yourself. If I do anything wrong, just scold me."

 “I asked you to sit down.”

Qin Xiu breathed out from her nose, and Zhou Mingsheng had no choice but to sit down tremblingly.

 But while sitting, he paid attention to Qin Xiu's reaction.

 Fortunately, Qin Xiu didn't scare him again this time.

 After Zhou Mingsheng sat down, he reached out to lift Qin Xiu's hand, worried that she might have hurt him just now.

 “Madam, does your hand hurt?”

“You still care about my hand pain? Let me ask you, have you still had any contact with Liu He?”

Qin Xiu looked at Zhou Mingsheng, and the latter's eyes flickered.

Since Qin Xiu couldn't see Zhou Mingsheng's reaction since he was sleeping next to her, he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.

 She believed in Zhou Mingsheng too much before and didn't notice it.

Now that he was reminded, Qin Xiu didn't know why Zhou Mingsheng had indeed lied to him.

 “Madam, this matter...”

“Zhou Mingsheng, do you still remember what you promised me when we got married?”

Zhou Mingsheng was stunned, how could he forget.

The first time he met Qin Xiu was at the funeral of Qin Xiu's parents.

Uncle Qin Xiu paid someone to go to mourning. He went there to earn some money for medicine for his seriously ill mother.

After the funeral, Zhou Mingsheng also heard a lot about Qin Xiu’s parents.

It is said that Qin Xiu’s parents encountered a natural disaster on their way back and both died.

Uncle Qin Xiu took Qin Xiu in, but in fact he wanted to get the money left by Qin Xiu's parents.

 At the funeral, Qin Xiu did not cry from beginning to end.

The ones crying are all people hired by Uncle Qin Xiu with money, such as Zhou Mingsheng.

Worried that he wouldn’t be able to cry, Zhou Mingsheng specially prepared chili pepper water and wiped some on his eyes once the tears disappeared.

 The effect is pretty good.

　Until the funeral was over, Zhou Mingsheng received his reward from Uncle Qin Xiu.

 A full fifty copper coins.

 He counted the coins again and again before carefully putting the coins away.

 Looking up, he saw Qin Xiu standing not far away.

The scene where he was counting money just now was watched by everyone who thought about it.

 “Are you short of money?”

Qin Xiu’s hoarse voice sounded.

Zhou Mingsheng stared at Qin Xiu's red and swollen eyes for a long time, and suddenly realized that it wasn't that Qin Xiu wasn't crying, but that she seemed to have cried enough.

"What's the meaning?"

Zhou Mingsheng covered the copper coin on his chest and looked at Qin Xiu warily.

It's not that he thinks Qin Xiu will come up to grab it, but it's just a habit.

This money is his mother's life-saving money, so he doesn't dare to be careless.

"Why else are you crying for someone who has nothing to do with you?" Qin Xiu raised her eyes and looked not far away, where her parents were buried, "Even I, the daughter, didn't cry, but you cried very vigorously. "

Zhou Mingsheng was speechless for a moment, but if he could make money, why should he care so much.

Just as he was about to explain something to Qin Xiu, a familiar aunt ran over and said, "Mingsheng, please go back and take a look. Your mother fainted again!"

Zhou Mingsheng’s face changed drastically and he hurriedly ran towards home.

 When I arrived, the doctor was already treating my mother.

He took out the copper coins from his arms and gave them to the doctor. "I have money, please save my mother."

The doctor had a look of helplessness on his face, "I've told you about your mother's illness a long time ago. If it can't be cured, she can only rely on medicine to survive. Just count how many days she can survive."

The fifty copper coins were still used to buy medicine.

 But my mother's health continued to deteriorate day by day.

Perhaps knowing that her time was short, Zhou’s mother’s only wish was to see her son get married before she died.

 But even if Zhou Mingsheng was willing to marry, no one would marry their daughter to him.

 Until that day, Qin Xiu stood in front of Zhou Mingsheng again.

"I heard that you are getting married. It just so happens that I also want to get married. How about we make do with it?"

Zhou Mingsheng agreed in a daze.

 No matter what Qin Xiu's reason was for marrying him, Zhou Mingsheng was grateful to Qin Xiu.

On the wedding day, Zhou Mingsheng swore to Qin Xiu in front of his mother's bed that no matter what happened in his life, he would treat Qin Xiu well and would not let her suffer any injustice.

 After his mother passed away, he and Qin Xiu depended on each other, and they went from being two strangers to what they are now.

It wasn’t until the three-year filial piety period expired and he decided to go to Beijing to take the exam that he knew why Qin Xiu was willing to marry him in the first place.

Qin Xiu's uncle wanted to marry Qin Xiu to a small businessman. Qin Xiu was not willing, and her uncle did not force her. He just told Qin Xiu that as long as she married within seven days, he would not let her marry a small businessman.

At that time, Zhou Mingsheng happened to be asking for marriage, so Qin Xiu chose him.

Even though she was taking advantage of her, after marrying into the Zhou family, Qin Xiu took good care of Zhou's mother and did her best for Zhou Mingsheng.

In order to pay for traveling to Beijing, Qin Xiu also begged his uncle and borrowed a sum of money from him.

Uncle Qin Xiu was indeed greedy for money and swallowed the money left by Qin Xiu’s parents.

But seeing that Qin Xiu had no intention of asking for it, she had a little bit of conscience and lent Qin Xiu money.

On the way to the capital, Zhou Mingsheng often thought in his heart that he must get ahead and let Qin Xiu live a good life.

What he didn't tell Qin Xiu was that he fell in love with her the first time he saw her.

 But he was poor and had a seriously ill mother to support, so how could he dare to like her?

 Even, Zhou Mingsheng's heart almost stopped when he heard that Qin Xiu was willing to marry him.

 “Madam, I...”

Zhou Mingsheng looked into Qin Xiu's eyes, and the guilt in his heart emerged layer by layer.

 But the next moment, Liu He's words also appeared in his mind.

 His palms couldn't help but clenched.

“Mr. sir, no matter what happens, you have to speak out so that we can face it together, right?”

This sentence completely relieved Zhou Mingsheng, and he told everything about Liu He looking for him.

After hearing the reason, Qin Xiu almost jumped up.

"Zhou Mingsheng, are you stupid? That's a matter of killing the nine tribes!" Qin Xiu quickly lowered his voice after shouting, "Do you believe what he said? I said you were a nerd before, but I didn't expect you It’s really getting more and more nerdy!”

Qin Xiu stood up, paced back and forth in the room, and looked at Zhou Mingsheng with a look of disdain.

 She knew that Zhou Mingsheng had suffered a lot during his more than half a year in the capital.

The students at Qiming Academy looked down on him. In order not to worry her, he had to bear it all by himself and make money to support the family.

Qin Xiu stopped, thinking of Liu Qin's words.

"Mingsheng, you must not promise Liu He. I will find someone to find a solution for this matter. Anyway, there is still some time before spring, so don't worry."

 (End of this chapter)