allonlinenovel Chapter 448: Divorce Case (3)
Chapter 448: Divorce Case (3)
The person who spoke was Shuying, and naturally he received instructions from his own mistress.
Liu was a little timid at first, but seeing her son's disappointing appearance, she couldn't sit still any longer. After Shuying called out, she took her son's concubine out.
After straightening her hair, which was combed fairly neatly, she glared at Mrs. Xie fiercely. Then she knelt down and made an awkward gesture to the county magistrate in the hall, and said:
"My Lord, please grant them a divorce."
She pulled the pink-dressed concubine towards her with a smug look on her face, and continued with a smile:
"Our Yan'er is already pregnant. She has been drinking vinegar as if it were sugar water recently. It's obvious that she is pregnant with a son. As long as I am alive, I will never allow Yan'er to be sold!
After my son divorces this Qian, my family will immediately make Xiuer his legal wife."
"Mom! I don't agree!"
Li Dazhuang stood up from the ground anxiously, with a bruise on his forehead, and kept emphasizing that he disagreed, but his words seemed to become weaker and weaker.
Seeing her son so angry, Liu raised her hand and almost pointed at his nose.
"Look at what you look like now? You're begging a woman for her. I'm ashamed of you!
What's the point of having her if she can't give birth to a son? Just divorce her now!"
"It's too late. I have already sentenced Qian to divorce her husband, but the result is the same. Take this divorce letter and you two can leave now."
Wu Yong gritted his teeth and endured the noise made by the mother and daughter. He had the urge to chase them out several times, but he held back.
He is the people's father and mother official. There will be more troubles in the future, so he must hone his ability to endure.
When Liu heard this, she immediately became unhappy. She just as she was about to shout "Ah" she was choked back by the killing stick that the yamen runner showed.
Seeing that there was no way to stop her with force, she simply fell to the ground and began to cry and sing, slapping the ground with her hands rhythmically. She howled and talked about how difficult it was for her, a widow, to raise her son.
Shangguan Qingyue couldn't help but frown. Since she was a child, what she hated most was the crying and singing of country women.
Seeing this, Xuanyuan Yan directly pulled the other party out of the county government office. It was not until the two of them walked out of the county government office gate that he explained:
"That mother and son can't do anything, so the divorce is a foregone conclusion. The matter has been settled, and you have gotten over a bad thing. Why don't we go find a restaurant to have a good meal?"
After hearing this, Shangguan Qingyue's brows not only relaxed, but her eyes also turned into crescents.
She nodded happily, holding the other person's hand and swaying back and forth happily, and when she walked to the back, she jumped up and down like a child who had not yet grown up.
Shuying and Xuansi followed from a distance, both with comfortable smiles on their faces. Seeing someone selling candied haws on the street, Xuansi picked up a bunch of big and red ones and handed them to the little girl beside him.
The vendor selling candied haws saw that the man was as tall as a hill but had a gentle side, so he smiled and complimented him:
"This big brother is so thoughtful. Your wife is so lucky!"
Shuying had just put a big red candied haws into her mouth, and when she heard this, she almost swallowed it whole.
She chewed it hastily for a few times, swallowing it without even spitting out the core. Just as she was about to explain it to the vendor, Xuan Si pulled her sleeve.
"Hurry up, the masters have chosen a place, let's not lose them."
Then, the little girl had to run to a restaurant with a bitter face, her clothes being pulled by her.
……
The divorce cases mainly in Xiangxue Village soon became a hot topic in the village, and some elders in the village bluntly said that the world was going downhill.
They have lived for most of their lives, and have never heard of more than a dozen families divorcing at the same time, and they have almost never heard of any family divorcing.
In their opinion, it is normal for a couple to have some bumps in their lives. If they want to divorce at the first sign of unhappiness, wouldn't that be a mess? !
However, Li Shoucai was just the opposite. If his body allowed it, he would have loved to drink a few bowls of pear blossom wine to celebrate!
When Zhang saw that her old man finally had a smile on his face, she felt relieved.
However, I felt very sad when I thought about those children who were sold to be maids and servants.
The women who had successfully divorced were now crying silently in the workshop.
Their employer had given them two days off because of their divorce, and now they had a lot of work to do, so even though they felt very uncomfortable, they did not stop working.
Others didn't say much, because if they encountered such a thing, they would probably go crazy.
You go through ten months of pregnancy and risk your life to give birth to a child, and then you work so hard to raise the child, but in the end the child is sold by his father. Who can bear this?
As a result, the atmosphere in the workshop was very depressing, and in the end it was almost suffocating.
Just when everyone was about to give up their work, there was a sudden shout of surprise and excitement from outside:
"Chunxiang, Xiuniang, Aliu, Danier... come out quickly, there is great news!"
Mrs. Li almost jogged all the way to the workshop. Her heart was filled with pride. Her precious daughter was so capable!
All the female workers in the workshop hurriedly put down their work and ran to the yard. They saw Li holding a stack of papers and waving them back and forth excitedly.
Xie forced a smile and asked first:
"Sister Li, what good news is this? It's really hard for us sisters to be happy nowadays."
Li looked around and saw that everyone who was supposed to be here had arrived. He cleared his throat and said excitedly:
"Do you know what that piece of paper in my hand is?
—A contract of sale.”
Seeing that no one responded, she continued:
"Oh, that's your child's indenture! The one who bought your child was actually our Qingyue!"
"What? Sister Li, what did you say? Did I not hear you clearly?"
"Yes, yes, yes, Boss, tell me again, what is this paper?"
……
Although these women kept talking and no one could hear clearly, tears had already fallen from their eyes. Some of them were so nervous that they collapsed on the ground.
Li suppressed the bitterness in her heart and raised her voice again and said loudly:
"My daughter has bought your child, and these are the indentures. She has placed the child in a safe place and will come to you soon.
However, my daughter bought this indenture with real money, so I can’t just give it back to you for nothing.”
Her word "but" made the women who were crying with joy feel nervous, and one of them couldn't help but say:
"But I can't afford 150 taels of silver. I only have 10 taels of silver in my hand. What should I do?
Woohoo, what should I do..."
“If you can’t pay it off all at once, you can pay it back slowly. As long as you work hard in the workshop, it will take three to five years at most.
Unless you don’t want to do that.”
Li did not soften her heart just because she felt sorry for the other party. Her daughter's money did not come from the wind, and she did not want her daughter to be a soft-hearted goody-goody.