The Regent's Tender Darling

Chen Qing sighed, feeling a little uncomfortable being seen through, and said: "The Zhu family said that after marrying the Chen family, they will give Brother Yu a good future, but... But I don't want to, I just want Brother Yu." Just live in peace for the rest of your life.”

"Did the second uncle talk to the Zhu family?" Although Lin Jiaojiao was asking the question, she was already sure when she said it.

Chen Qing didn't speak, just nodded.

Now there was nothing she didn't understand. It had been decided by the court that the Chen family's sons could not be officials. Even her eldest brother Lin Xingzhi only held an official position without any power.

This is not just targeting the Chen family.

Among the top ten chambers of commerce, apart from the Gu family, no other family is an official.

Moreover, the Gu family's Hubu Shangshu is now just an official position in name only. Otherwise, if something happened to the Hubu, Yan Sihan would not leave the Hubu Shangshu alone.

Nowadays, the Ministry of Household Affairs is headed by the Minister, and the Minister is just in name. This is Danan's way of keeping Gu Yunzheng.

The rule that merchants should not be officials was set by the late emperor. When merchants were officials, they not only had money but also power. The court had to guard against the best of both worlds.

When Sister Qing came this time, she was always making plans for Brother Yu. She asked Brother Yu to go to the capital in the name of seeking medical treatment. In addition to really seeing a doctor, she also wanted Brother Yu to stay away from Hangzhou.

"Jiaojiao... I have no choice, otherwise I wouldn't..." Chen Qing burst into tears and her voice became softer and softer.

She couldn't control her emotions for a while. Her brother Yu was still so young, and her father knew that brother Yu was not in good health, so he still forced him to study hard.

Several times Brother Yu was so tired that he fainted.

She saw these things with her eyes and felt pain in her heart, but she did not dare to tell anyone.

Her grandmother loved her, but she was too old to make things happen.

Not only was she afraid that her grandmother wouldn't be able to bear the excitement, but she also didn't dare to be the sinner who would disrupt the harmony in the family.

She still has Brother Yu to support. If she offends her family, what should she do to support Brother Yu...

Regarding Chen Qing's tears, Lin Jiaojiao felt an indescribable feeling in her heart. It turned out that there was so much pain inside the harmony on the surface.

She also knew the second uncle well, and it was hard to say whether his character was good or bad. It was because the second uncle saved Mr. Liu, who came from a scholarly family, that Mr. Liu married his precious daughter to the second uncle.

When she was young, she saw her second uncle slap her second aunt. During the quarrel, she heard her second uncle say that her second aunt was a hen that couldn't lay eggs and could not give birth to a son.

But outside, the second uncle said, what's the good thing about having a son? My daughter's family is very considerate.

At that time, she didn't like her second uncle very much.

Thinking of this, she gently put the handkerchief on Chen Qing's face and said while wiping her tears: "Sister Qing, let's go see Luo Luo first."

"Okay." Chen Qing hurriedly wiped away his tears, and within a moment, he returned to his usual gentle expression, but now it seemed that this gentleness was inevitably bitter.

Lin Jiaojiao then remembered that she had never seen Sister Qing cry before. Even when Sister Qing was beaten as the eldest sister because she and Chen Qian made mistakes, Sister Qing never shed a tear.

At that time, the second uncle's fight against his sister was much more serious than his fight against her and Chen Qian.

This led to her only impression of Sister Qing being gentle, and even...she sometimes felt that Sister Qing was like her mother.

When she came back this time, it seemed that she would never be able to go back to the old Chen family, or maybe she would never be able to go back to her childhood.