Chapter 288 Pei Yue is gone

When Wang cried, Shen Yangyang also cried loudly next door.

Zhou Xiaocheng wrote a letter of divorce to Pei Yue, but he held Pei Yue's hand and said, "Pei Yue, you and I have been married since we were young, and have walked through half of our lives together. If you pity me, why don't we grow old together?"

Pei Yue only said one sentence: "Let's get divorced!"

There was neither sadness nor joy on his face, he just said this sentence mechanically.

Zhou Xiaocheng burst into tears again. He didn't know why he was crying. He originally wanted to dump her and take Chen Yuanyuan and Zhou Yan away.

When he cried, Pei Yue just watched without saying a word. She used to try to comfort him, but now she doesn't.

After stuffing the divorce papers into her hands, pouring hot water for her and covering her with a blanket, Zhou Xiaocheng wiped away his tears, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good, now you are free, go find Jingchen and Tangtang, they will be filial to you."

Pei Yue took the divorce letter, read it several times, and said, "Write a new one, mention Jingchen and Tangtang, and it has nothing to do with you from now on."

Zhou Xiaocheng said bitterly: "They are all adults now, and they have nothing to do with me anymore."

"Write one. It will be really clean if you write it."

"Pei Yue, I can't write. I'm telling you, I can't write!"

Zhou Xiaocheng said angrily: "If you make unreasonable demands again, I will tear up your divorce agreement. We will fight to the death!"

Naturally, he didn't tear up her divorce papers and just strode out.

Wang and Shen were still crying in the west room, but not as loudly. They suppressed their tears and covered their heads with quilts.

Zhou Xiaocheng stood in the yard and said to the west room: "If you want to divorce, I will write you a divorce letter."

Perhaps it was because of the divorce from Pei Yue that the pain had passed. Now his heart was hardened to the extreme. It didn't matter if any of his wives, including Zhou Yan, left him. He didn't feel anything.

Wang and Shen’s crying stopped. If Pei Yue could go to Emperor Chen for divorce, who should they go to for divorce?

If they were in the Central Plains, they could still go home, but what should they do here?

For a long while, neither of them dared to cry anymore. Zhou Xiaocheng said, "I will find a way to give you some money, and you can go back to the Central Plains. Or you can beg Jingchen, beg Emperor Yan, and ask her to send you back to the Central Plains. If all else fails, you can beg Princess Bao Keke, and she will arrange land for you. You can grow food with your own hands and support yourself."

Wang didn't say a word. She had been a concubine for a long time and had become accustomed to being obedient, so she didn't dare to resist.

Shen Yangyang came out crying, opened the door, stood at the door, and said: "Master, I can only call you Master now. You asked us to farm to support ourselves. Have you ever asked yourself, you are a man, you have plenty of strength, why don't you farm to support your wife and children?"

"Since you married us, you should have given us a way to live, instead of treating us as concubines and tools to vent your anger when you are rich, and then getting rid of us when you are down and out."

"You may have good intentions and give us a way out, but have you ever thought about the fact that we are from the Central Plains and are thousands of miles away, how are you going to get us back?"

"You want me to farm? How can I, a lady from a wealthy family who has never been stained by the spring sun, farm?"

"If I can raise horses and farm, why should I follow you?"

"You can't just send us away with a divorce letter!"

Wang thought so too.

"I have no choice. Emperor Chen will not spare me. It will be hard for you to escape death if you follow me," Zhou Xiaocheng said, "Why not let you go?"

Shen Yangyang and Wang Shi were silent. Chen Yuanyuan said that Emperor Chen wanted to kill them all.

Zhou Xiaocheng asked, "Where's Yuanyuan?"

Shen Yangyang said: "She left, she said we would all die"

"What? She's gone?" Zhou Xiaocheng was panicking and yelled, "How could she leave? How could she leave after getting into trouble?"

Getting into trouble? Shen Yangyang and Wang Shi looked at him in confusion: "What trouble did Yuanyuan get into?"

Zhou Xiaocheng couldn't say it.

He sat dejectedly on the stone at the door. There was snow on the ground, but he didn't care.

Pei Yue divorced, Yuanyuan left, Jingchen and Tangtang abandoned him, and Yan'er was still unconscious.

After thinking for a long time, he stood up and went to find Bao Keke.

Bao Keke was making milk tea in the hall. At the table next to her, Xie Yong and Yu Shanhe were discussing and formulating a grassland management plan.

These days, Yushanhe has been working day and night with Baokeke officials to implement Kyushu's policies and guidelines, and to formulate a set of special grassland management measures based on the actual conditions of the grassland.

Bao Keke is very smart and is happy to leave these things to Xie Yong and Yu Shanhe.

While she was making milk tea, she kept looking at Xie Yong. Xie Yong couldn't ignore her gaze and looked up at her several times. Every time he looked at her, she responded with a sunny smile.

Xie Yong was helpless and ignored her.

Just then, someone outside spread the news: "Zhou Xiaocheng wants to see Prince Mingzhu."

Bao Keke knew Zhou Xiaocheng and had always been troubled by how to deal with him.

I didn't expect him to come to see me.

Bao Keke said directly: "Bring him in."

Zhou Xiaocheng was brought in and saw Xie Yong sitting behind the desk. When their eyes met, they both felt a little cold.

Xie Yong was not familiar with Zhou Xiaocheng before. He was fighting against the people of Nu Kingdom and Xiliang in Chang'an County. Zhou Shui said that the masked man of Nu Kingdom looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was for a while.

A few days ago, Zhou Shui said that he remembered that the masked man looked very much like Zhou Xiaocheng.

Xie Yong didn't tell Xie Yanyan because he was afraid of embarrassing his sister.

But he told Zhou Shaoyu, and Zhou Shaoyu said he would handle it.

When Zhou Xiaocheng came in, Bao Keke said, "You are an accomplice of the Mou Ri family who helped the tyrant. I didn't come to settle accounts with you, but you came to me?"

Zhou Xiaocheng did not deny it, but just said: "I am doing this for a living. I have to support my wife and children."

"Zhou Xiaocheng, you colluded with foreign countries and betrayed your family just for your wife and children. Do you think I'm a three-year-old child?" Bao Keke said impatiently, "Tell me, what do you want?"

"I can't survive. My wife and children are sick. I need food and medicine."

"No."

"How can there not be? You are the king!"

"Yes, I am the king of the grassland. I have food and medicine, but I don't owe you anything. If you don't have food, you can find a way yourself. You are not my father. Should I support you?"

"..." Zhou Xiaocheng thought for a moment and said, "You can ask me to do anything you need. I will lend you half a year's worth of food."

"No!"

"If I die on the grassland, you will not be free from responsibility!"

"Threatening me? Hahaha, do you think I'm a coward? You don't think that if you die on the grassland, Emperor Chen will come after me, right? Oh, I'm so scared!"

Speaking of fear, Pokoko smiled like a little fox, "If you die, Chen Di and Yan Di will just be relieved. You are alive and keep making trouble. It's very annoying, don't you understand?"

Bao Keke: "Will you die if you become an ordinary person? Others can support themselves with their own hands, so why can't you?"

Zhou Xiaocheng said that he had five wives and concubines and he needed to support them.

Bao Keke said it was simple, just keep as many as you can support, let the rest go and marry someone else!

"Anyway, there are plenty of men on the grassland. No matter how many wives you have, they can all be married to you."

Zhou Xiaocheng looked at her, and she looked at him unceremoniously.

Zhou Xiaocheng turned and left.

When he got home, he said to Wang and Shen Yangyang: "If you are willing to farm with me, you can stay. If not, I will give you a divorce letter."

Both expressed their willingness to stay.

The next morning, Pei Yue packed her luggage and pawned a bracelet at a pawn shop for 200 taels of silver.

This bracelet cost several thousand taels of silver when it was bought, and she doesn't feel bad about selling it for 200 taels now.

He found a cattle dealer on the grassland and asked them to take him to the holy mountain.

Before leaving, she went to the royal court, but did not go in. She stood outside and watched for a long time.

Gone.

(End of this chapter)