"Reason? Reason..." Lu Yan suddenly lost his voice. He found that he had no way to divorce his wife!
According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there are seven grounds for divorce and three grounds for not divorcing.
Disobeying parents, being childless, adultery, jealousy, serious illness, talking too much, and theft are the seven grounds for divorce.
Did Qin Wan disobey her parents? After eight years of marriage, she managed the family residence in perfect order. Who in the capital didn't know how virtuous she was?
No children? How can you say you have no children when you haven't consummated the marriage yet?
jealous?
Qin Wan openly refused to accept Bai Wanyi as his equal wife yesterday, but agreed to take her as a concubine. Jealousy was not involved.
What Lu Yan didn't know was that the maid he met last night had now become his concubine.
Qin Wan had never committed the other offenses.
Three things that should not be abandoned: marrying someone but having nowhere to go, mourning for three years, and being poor at first but rich later.
As long as the Qin family was still around, Qin Wan was certainly not left without a home, but she had mourned for Lu Yan's mother for three years, so she was naturally among the three people who would not be abandoned.
The Marquis's family was poor before and rich after. Although he had never been poor, he wanted to divorce his wife and marry another one after making great contributions. The impeachment of the censor would make him suffer.
Qin Wan looked at Lu Yan with undisguised sarcasm in her eyes. The Marquis' Mansion was really of the same lineage. Yesterday she thought Lu Linglong was stupid for saying such things in public. She didn't expect that Lu Yan would come and question her again today.
Qin Wan asked Zhen Zhen to find someone to fix the door. Then, looking at the silent Lu Yan, she pointed across from her and said, "If you are all right, my Lord, I have something to discuss with you. How do you think that is?"
Lu Yan lifted his skirt and sat down opposite Qin Wan, and asked stiffly, "What's the matter?"
"It's about yesterday's account books." Qin Wan pushed the account books next to her over. "What I showed you yesterday were the account books for my mother-in-law's courtyard when she was alive, as well as the account books for the past two weeks of the Marquis's residence. These are the total accounts for the past eight years. Please review them, Marquis."
There are eight account books, one for each year, recording the monthly expenses of the Marquis' Mansion that year. Although there are no detailed information, it can be seen that the Marquis' Mansion has huge expenses and suffers deficits every year.
Qin Wan picked up the teacup and gently scraped off the tea foam. "The Marquis said yesterday that he would compensate me. I wonder if that's true or not?"
Without even looking up, Lu Yan said, "Of course it's true."
He put down the account book in his hand and picked up the account book for the last year. After seeing the deficit on it, he thought about it and immediately regretted it.
Qin Wan didn't miss his expression and sneered, "It doesn't matter if you don't have money, you can write an IOU."
Lu Yan took a deep breath, closed the account book and said, "Tell me a number, and I will raise the money for you as soon as possible."
"Thirty thousand taels of silver." Qin Wan raised her hand and Tao Yao presented her with pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Qin Wan looked at Lu Yan with a smile and said, "My Lord, please write me an IOU."
"Okay." Lu Yan suppressed his anger and wrote the IOU. Looking at the thirty thousand taels of silver on the IOU, he felt that he had been wronged. He picked up the account book and said, "I'm going to take it back and take a closer look."
Qin Wancai wasn't afraid of him checking the accounts: "This is just the general ledger for eight years. I'll have someone send the detailed account books for these eight years to the Marquis's study. You can ask the accountant to check the accounts carefully."
"There is another thing I want to let the Marquis know." Qin Wan glanced at Zigui.
Zigui immediately held up two books and said, "This is a list of part of the young lady's dowry. These are the decorative items that the old lady and the young ladies and masters from various places have taken away over the past few years. The young lady said that the fabrics and jewelry have been worn and used, so that's fine, but these decorative items need to be taken back."
Lu Yan didn't expect that the Marquis' Mansion would not only use Qin Wan's dowry to fill the hole, but also use her dowry to decorate the facade!
Lu Yan didn't even look at it, not taking it seriously at all. It was just a decoration, how much use could it have? He said, "Just take it back. Now that I'm back, there's absolutely no reason for me to use your dowry."
"I feel relieved when you say that." Qin Wan smiled and gestured to Zigui to go and collect all the things.
Lu Yan was afraid that she would take out something else to ask for, so he immediately stood up and said, "I'll go pay my respects to Grandmother."
After Qin Wan finished speaking, she didn't want to keep him any longer. She nodded and watched him leave.
Tao Yao looked at the broken door with a look of heartache: "This is silver again! This is too much!"
Qin Wan chuckled and said, "We're all leaving, it doesn't matter."
"But the door also needs to be repaired." Tao Yao was still indignant. Someone came to replace the door, but she was reluctant to spend money. If she replaced it with a better door, wouldn't it be a bargain for others after they left?
Tao Yao pointed at the broken door hinge and said, "Just fix it! What are you replacing? Did the money just blown away by the wind? If you don't manage the household, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are! You're just causing trouble day by day!"
Taoyao was repairing the door, and when Lu Yan arrived at Old Lady Lu's yard, Zigui was packing up with his men.
Old Lady Lu was so angry that her liver ached. Seeing Lu Yan, she quickly grabbed his hand and complained: "Look at that Qin Wan! Huh? If I don't let her get a divorce, she'll come and torment me. How unfilial, so unfilial!"
Lu Yan was also angry, but when he remembered that he had promised Qin Wan to take the things away, he quickly helped Old Lady Lu into the inner room and said, "Grandma, I will buy you something better."
The two sat down on the couch, and Lu Yan poured a cup of tea for Old Lady Lu: "Have some tea to calm down."
Zigui came forward and pointed at the double-sided embroidered screen made of nanmu wood with golden threads on the table and said, "My Lord, this is also our young lady's dowry."
Old Lady Lu threw the teacup in anger: "She is still the daughter-in-law of my Lu family! As a grandmother, I can't even bear to give her a screen!"
Zigui was respectful and polite but refused to give in: "When the young lady married, the mansion was very simple. The young lady said that since it was a mansion, it must look like a mansion, so she used her dowry to help the old lady maintain her reputation."
"Now that the Marquis has returned home, if the old lady's room is still using the young lady's dowry, I'm afraid that if word gets out that the Marquis is spending his wife's dowry, it will be detrimental to his future. Therefore, it is better to take it back."
"This time, the Marquis has received a large reward. He will surely be able to buy the old lady a more respectable ornament."
Zigui's arguments were well-reasoned and Old Lady Lu was at a loss for words to refute them.
The grandparents and grandchildren watched helplessly as the luxuriously decorated house was emptied in an instant.
Old Lady Lu slumped on the couch, too exhausted to speak. She couldn't understand why she was still so angry. Hadn't they consummated their marriage yesterday? "Look at this, look at this, Qin Wan really doesn't know how to appreciate my kindness!"
Lu Yan frowned and said, "Why not get a divorce? Even though I'll be impeached by the censor and it will hinder my career, it doesn't matter. Wanyi will help me."
The gunpowder recipe that Bai Wanyi came up with was actually not perfect. They experimented at the border for several years before it was stabilized. He didn't even dare to say what happened because of the gunpowder recipe. Fortunately, he was the only one in power at the border and suppressed the news, otherwise... Whenever Lu Yan thought about this, he broke out in a cold sweat.
On the way back, Bai Wanyi told him that there were many things that could be made with this gunpowder. Although she had exchanged her military merits for the position of co-wife, she still had many good things that she had not taken out. What would money mean to her at that time?
Lu Yan believed that as long as Bai Wanyi handed over what she had, not to mention an official position, even the title of Duke would be a piece of cake!
How could Old Lady Lu agree to that!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
