Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Divorce.

Zhu Yinluan's slightly scattered consciousness gathered in an instant. She even thought she had heard it wrong, so she asked, "What did you say?"

Mingya hurriedly repeated, "Someone from the Zhu family is here to ask you to come over."

Zhu Yinluan took a long time to react. How did it come to the point of divorce? No, were they really going to divorce?

This medicine was really powerful. After taking it, she felt uncomfortable and her hands and feet were a little weak. Zhu Yinluan used her other hand to support her head and asked Ming Ya, "Are you really going to divorce, or are you just arguing?"

If there was noise, she didn't want to go over.

It's almost the end of the year, and the weather is getting colder. It looks like it's going to rain again tonight, and the wind is howling very hard outside.

"I asked her, and she said they really wanted to divorce, and asked the elders of each family to be witnesses."

Zhu Yinluan asked about the time and looked at the sky, "It's so late?"

Ming Ya, "The Luo family is here, I'm afraid this time..."

"Is my husband back?" she asked.

"Miss, you don't look well." After Zhu Yinluan sat up straight, Mingya noticed that her face was abnormally pale.

"It's okay." Zhu Yinluan waved her hand.

"Is my husband back?"

"No." Mingya told her that the old woman Dao Wei Ruzhuo was already there.

She paused, thinking of the look Wei Ruzhuo gave her elder sister when she returned that day, and the bowl of hangover soup that she had prepared herself and then poured out.

"Since my husband has gone..." She knew it was not good, but she still wanted to be willful for once.

"Go outside and tell them that I'm not feeling well and I'm afraid I can't be there."

Mingya nodded, asked Jiaohui and the little maid to take care of Zhu Yinluan, and then asked her if she wanted to find a doctor.

Zhu Yinluan shook her head, "No need." Her symptoms were caused by the medicine she took, so there was no way she could ask a doctor to expose her.

But not long after Mingya went out, the old woman actually followed her in.

No matter who was present, he didn't greet them. He just grabbed Zhu Yinluan and scolded her, "Miss San, the eldest lady is in trouble. As a member of the Zhu family, how can you not go and support the eldest lady?"

"I'm not feeling well." Zhu Yinluan broke free from her hand.

The old woman's hands were too strong and it hurt her hand so much.

Mingya asked her to let go, but she pretended not to hear and dragged Zhu Yinluan outside.

At this time, Jiaohui moved forward, and no one knew how she did it, but she poked the old woman somewhere.

The old woman cried out in pain, holding her stomach, and cursed Jiaohui as a bitch. When she saw the birthmark on her face, she said she was ugly and tried to pounce on her and hit her.

Zhu Yinluan looked at the farce in front of her, pulled Jiaohui who was blocking the way in front of her behind her, sighed, and said to stop it, "Okay."

"My eldest sister's matter is important. Let's go find her first." She asked the maid to lead the way.

The old woman kept complaining for a long time, glaring at Jiaohui behind Zhu Yinluan.

Fearing that the old woman would continue to be relentless and take advantage of her mother's power to bully others at the Zhu family, she kept Jiaohui.

It was already late, so she wanted to tell Mrs. Pang before leaving. However, before she sent anyone, the old woman said that Mrs. Pang already knew.

Zhu Yinluan paused, then couldn't help but laugh at herself in her heart, it turned out that it was her mother-in-law's instruction.

No wonder the old woman was even more unruly than usual. She went straight into the inner room and dragged her out.

She said that even though this woman was rampant in the past, she at least considered the inside and outside. How could she be so unscrupulous today?

Zhu Yinluan pinched her eyebrows and felt very uncomfortable.

Ming Ya looked at her pale face and was really worried, "Miss, what's wrong with you?"

"How about I go find a doctor for you?"

"Never mind. My hand just hurts from being pinched. I feel a little upset. It's nothing serious."

After saying this, Zhu Yinluan closed her eyes and pretended to take a nap. The carriage was driving very fast and soon arrived at Zhu's house.

It really had come to the point of divorce. Many elders from the Zhu family came, and so did the Luo family. People from the two families sat opposite each other, the atmosphere was tense and the situation was very deadlocked.

Despite the crowd, Zhu Yinluan still saw her husband at a glance. The person next to her was standing next to her eldest sister, looking at her eldest sister with concern, and he was completely unaware that his wife had arrived.

It was only after being reminded by others that Wei Ruzhuo cast a glance over, and it was just a cursory glance.

Zhu Yinluan felt sad and uncomfortable. She didn't know if it was the effect of the medicine, but her nose tip felt sore, but she forced herself to hold it back.

Just as she expected, her arrival here did not cause much waves.

She was just a married concubine's daughter. Even if she had glory on her face, it was just because she bore her husband's surname from the Wei family.

Wei Ruzhuo, the head of the Wei family, is here, so it doesn’t matter whether she comes or not, she’s just here to make up the numbers.

When the people from the Luo family saw her coming, they could hardly hide their contempt, and the elders from the Zhu family didn't even look at her for a few seconds before looking away.

After paying her respects, Zhu Yinluan stood beside Wei Ruzhuo. She called him "husband", but he just nodded without looking at her, nor did he notice that she looked unhappy.

Zhu Yinluan took a look and saw that Wei Ruzhuo was looking at her elder sister, or looking at Luo Xuan.

He was standing up for his elder sister, with a rare serious and angry look on his face.

She hadn't seen him like this for a long time...

No, to be precise, she hadn't seen Wei Ruzhuo show this expression in order to protect someone for a long, long time.

The woman was standing next to Luo Xuan, and next to her was the child.

The divorce agreement had actually been placed on top, and there was an official there as a witness. He was a good friend of the Zhu family and worked in the Ministry of Revenue.

Lord Luo asked, "Is there no room for discussion on this matter?"

Zhu Chentan was silent, so Madam Zhu argued for her, "Although our Zhu family is not a high-ranking family in the capital, we still have our own family traditions. How could we allow a prostitute to marry into our family? Let's stop this matter completely."

What is a kiln girl? Is that woman a kiln girl?

Zhu Yinluan looked over.

Luo Xuan spoke up at this time, "Fen Niang is not a brothel girl. She just helped the girls in the brothel to deliver rouge and powder. She is not a member of the brothel. Everything she did was to support me and her child."

"What innocent girl would go to a brothel? They may sound nice on the surface, but who knows what they are doing behind the scenes?"

This statement was not just a slap in the face to Luo Xuan alone, it was a slap in the face to the entire Luo family.

The expressions of Mrs. Luo and Lord Luo both turned unhappy.

Mr. Zhu pretended to scold Mrs. Zhu for talking nonsense.

Mrs. Zhu said tactfully, "I am also thinking about the reputation of the Zhu and Luo families. Even though this child looks like Luo Xuan, who knows if he is his offspring?"

The woman standing next to Luo Xuan couldn't help but argue. Her voice was very soft, her mouth was gentle and tender, and her eyes were full of tears. "Feng Ge'er is Xuan Lang's child, it's really..."

“If I can allow Brother Feng to marry into the family and be included in the family tree, I am willing to die to prove my innocence and not cause any trouble to the masters and ladies of the two families.” As she said this, she was about to bang her head against the wall in front of everyone.

Luo Xuan stopped her in time, took her in his arms and coaxed her.

He was very caring towards this woman, and it was obvious that there was deep affection between the two.

Zhu Yinluan noticed her elder sister, her fists clenched until her knuckles turned white, and if her eyes could turn into sharp blades, she would have pierced the woman who called herself Fen Niang hundreds of times.

While no one was paying attention, Mingya secretly approached Zhu Yinluan and told her the news she had heard when she came here.

This Fen Niang, whose real name is Ying Rufen, is Luo Xuan’s distant cousin.

The two knew each other a long time ago, and could almost be said to be childhood sweethearts.

But later, the Ying family was convicted and exiled, and most of their family members were sold. The women were not sent to brothels, but their status was devalued after all, and the two of them failed to succeed.

But who knew that they would get in touch again and even have a child. Seeing that the child had grown up and was about to go to school, they couldn't keep hiding him forever, so they wanted to find his ancestry and came to the Luo family.

No one is giving in now.

Zhu Yinluan listened silently, feeling mixed emotions.

She recalled something that happened a long time ago. At that time, her elder sister and Luo Xuan were on the long street in the capital, and Luo Xuan fell in love with her elder sister at first sight.

Everyone in the family said that it was because of the eldest sister's beauty that he could not forget it after one sight. The eldest sister often mentioned it in front of her to show off, saying that she was more beautiful than she was.

But in fact, what Luo Xuan liked was the similarities between the elder sister and Ying Rufen...

"That's enough." Lord Luo slammed the table and said.

Ying Rufen stopped crying and the scene became quiet.

Lord Luo asked Zhu Chentan, is there really no room for negotiation on this matter?

Zhu Chentan also said some nice words, saying that she was not up to the task of being the wife of the Luo family and could only "step down and let others take over."

Zhu Yinluan felt uneasy, and she didn't know why.

She didn't know what she was afraid of.

The eldest sister always quarreled with Luo Xuan before, crying over his going out for a drink, and complaining in her words, but from what Zhu Yinluan heard, she could still feel the eldest sister's love for Luo Xuan. Now she didn't even have the slightest reluctance to divorce.

Was it because he felt uncomfortable knowing Ying Rufen’s existence, causing their love to disappear into thin air, or was it because... something else?

Zhu Yinluan couldn't help but look at the teacup that Wei Ruzhuo took from the maid and placed next to her elder sister.

Her lips moved, then pursed tightly, "..."

"In that case, let's divorce. According to what the Zhu family said, it was our Luo family who did a bad job and wronged our daughter-in-law. All the dowry will be returned. We will give some extra land and farms to the Zhu family and declare to the public that it was Luo Xuan's fault. We will never harm the Zhu family. We also hope that the two families will get along and not break off their friendship."

How is it possible to say that there is no damage?

When a man and a woman divorce, it is the woman who suffers the most criticism.

But the matter was settled, and the two finally signed the divorce agreement under the witness of the elders of the Luo and Zhu families.

Zhu Yinluan watched the Luo family members leave, and she was about to ask Wei Ruzhuo if he wanted to leave too.

But Wei Ruzhuo asked her first, "Why are you here?"

The tone seemed to indicate that he didn't want her to come.