Chapter 137 Chapter 137 Jin Shiyue
A major event occurred in the capital: Jinning County Lady Jin Shiyue and Attendant Scholar Yang Xu divorced.
It is said that Yang Xu and Jin Shiyue have a good relationship. After being married for many years, she only has him as her husband, and she has never married another man even if she only has a son.
Jin Shiyue was nearly thirty years old and was pregnant again. It was supposed to be a great joyous event, but due to an accident, she miscarried the baby and almost died!
When Princess Jinning learned about this, she took the divorce letter and went to the house in person to take her precious son back home.
Later, when Yang Xu went to beg for mercy again, the Prince of Jinning's Mansion didn't even open the door.
After Shen Xuan knew about this, he went to the Jinning Palace as soon as possible. As soon as I arrived at the gate of the palace, I saw Yang Xu standing outside the gate.
This time, when Shen Xuan saw Yang Xu, he didn't even stop, but walked around him and entered the palace.
At the beginning, he brought Jin Shiyue and Yang Xu together, thinking that the two were in love with each other and were a match made in heaven. He didn't expect this to be the outcome, which made him feel very regretful and guilty.
Jin Shiyue became good friends with him and invested a lot in this relationship. However, Yang Xu always had reservations and was unwilling to give up fame and fortune and leave the capital for Jin Shiyue, so this was the ending!
Jin Shiyue was lying in bed at this time to recuperate after giving birth. She looked pale and thinner than before, and seemed to be frail.
Seeing Shen Xuan coming, he forced himself to sit up. Shen Xuan quickly went over and held him down and said, "Why do we have to be so particular about what's going on between you and me? You should have a good rest and get well first!"
"Okay." Jin Shiyue's eyes were sore and she shed two lines of tears. She lay down following Shen Xuan's words.
He suffered a miscarriage this time and suffered great losses. It was only because Princess Jinning invited several imperial doctors from the palace that his life was saved. However, the imperial physician said that given his physical condition, he would not be able to have children in the future.
"Stop crying, be careful not to get sick in the future." Shen Xuan took a handkerchief to help him wipe his tears: "It's better for you to move back to the palace now. With the princess taking care of you, you don't have to worry about other things, just focus on recuperating."
"Okay." Jin Shiyue nodded, and after hesitating for a while, she asked again: "Is Xu Lang... still outside the mansion?"
"Yes." Chen Xuan was silent for a while before saying, "I didn't want to ask because I was afraid it would bring up your sad memories. What happened to your miscarriage this time? Why was the princess so angry that she directly took the divorce letter?"
"Alas..." Jin Shiyue sighed, looking as pale as death, and said, "It was my mother-in-law who was causing trouble. Seeing that I was pregnant, she brought a few beautiful maids to my house and deliberately stuffed people into Xulang's room."
"At that time, Xu Lang was still in the court. I was so angry that I couldn't hold it back, so I started arguing with her. As a result, the servants on both sides started fighting and accidentally hit my stomach, which led to this result..."
Shen Xuan was shocked when he heard this. He didn't expect that this was the case behind the incident. No wonder Princess Jinning was so angry that she wanted Jin Shiyue to divorce, and she didn't even let Yang Xu in through the gate of the palace!
"What do you think about this?" Shen Xuan hesitated for a while before asking.
"Me?" Jin Shiyue smiled bitterly and said with a pale face, "Let's divorce. I'm tired too. Xulang is the only son. The Yang family will never allow him to have no biological heirs."
"But I don't have the magnanimity to watch him take someone else as a concubine. After the divorce, we can go our separate ways. He goes his way, and I go mine. It's a relief for everyone!"
As Jin Shiyue spoke, her expression was calm and she looked as if she was completely heartbroken.
He has been married to Yang Xu for ten years and has a nine-year-old son. Although she still has love for Yang Xu in her heart, she is ultimately frustrated by the trivialities that she can never get rid of.
"It's fine." Shen Xuan said with a long sigh.
It's a good thing that Jin Shiyue can think it through. He is afraid that the other party will endure it blindly like before, which makes people wonder how to persuade him.
It was said that Yang Xu stood outside the palace for several days but still failed to see Jin Shiyue.
The news spread like wildfire, and some pedantic old ministers in the court even jumped out and said that as an official, he was acting like a fussy girl to the prince because he was greedy for the wealth of the palace, which was disgraceful to a man!
After being impeached, Yang Xu returned home and never visited the house again.
Not long after, Jin Shiyue personally sent a letter to Yang Xu, and he signed the divorce letter and officially divorced Jin Shiyue...
The Prince of Jinning's mansion only has Jin Shiyue, the precious son. If they take him back to the mansion, they will naturally have to take the son he gave birth to away as well.
The old man of the Yang family originally jumped out to oppose this matter, saying that he wanted to take the child back to the Yang family and give him to Mrs. Yang to raise.
Yang Xu was the first to object, saying that Jin Shiyue had been the only one taking care of the child since he was born, and that Madam Yang had never even looked at the child many times and had little affection for him, let alone raising him.
He was the one who finally made the final decision on the matter. He asked the Prince of Jinning to take the child back and changed the surname Yang to Jin. Only then did the two families come to an end.
When Jin Shiyue married Yang Xu, she brought a large dowry with her.
This time, because it was the Jinning Palace that proposed the divorce first, according to the law, half of the dowry should remain in the Yang family. But Yang Xu didn't want a penny and just let Jin Shiyue take everything back.
The Yang family was a noble family that lived on salaries from the imperial court and had no property.
But thanks to Jin Shiyue, a wealthy man in the capital, who often gave gifts to his family during the holidays, the Yang family has lived a comfortable life in recent years. The fabrics of the clothes that Mrs. Yang wears when she goes out are of better quality, and there are many more headwear in the room.
However, all these riches and gifts given as filial piety for more than ten years were not enough to win Mrs. Yang's heart. She was actually the happiest person when the two families divorced.
She disliked Jin Shiyue as her husband from the bottom of her heart. She felt that if Jin Shiyue had not hooked up with her, Yang Xu, with his top three grades, would have been able to marry a talented girl from a prominent family! I’m afraid he already has both a son and a daughter now!
As soon as the divorce agreement was approved by the government, Mrs. Yang began to attend banquets everywhere, hoping to find a second wife for Yang Xu, so that she could give birth to a son to carry on the Yang family line.
However, she did not expect that after attending several banquets, there were not as many distinguished ladies to choose from as Mrs. Yang had imagined. On the contrary, when they heard that she wanted to find a second wife for Yang Xu, the masters who had been quite enthusiastic about her turned cold one by one.
Yang Xu now holds the position of fifth-rank imperial tutor and is highly appreciated by Emperor Wu of Jin. He is considered a leader among his peers.
However, his position as imperial tutor was that of an honest official, and he had no real power. Apart from his salary and rewards from the emperor, he could not make any money.
If the Yang family was a prominent family in the capital with ancestral assets, then Yang Xu's position as second wife would surely be very popular. However, where does such a noble family get the money?
For any woman with outstanding conditions, which one of them doesn't have many suitors lining up to propose marriage to her?
Because of her divorce from Jin Shiyue, Madam Yang had a reputation as a nasty mother-in-law. A woman with ambition would naturally not want to become a second wife and suffer.
Mrs. Yang even looked down upon those who were not in good condition.
As a result of the back and forth exchanges, many families with beautiful daughters would avoid Madam Yang as soon as they saw her!
That day, Madam Yang went to attend a banquet at the home of Lord He, the Minister of Rites, with whom she had always been on good terms.
Mrs. He, who was always very enthusiastic, just said hello and disappeared today.
Madam Yang sent someone to ask, and the housekeeper in the mansion came to apologize, saying that the banquet was too busy and Madam He could not spare the time, so he asked Madam Yang to do as she pleased at home.
The banquet was still a long way from starting, and Madam Yang had nothing to do, so she looked for the familiar concubines from the past, but she didn't see any of them.
Some of the merchants and wives of small families wanted to talk to her, but Madam Yang was arrogant and felt that their talk was vulgar and she looked down on them, so she just wandered around the garden alone.
She walked with two maids and came to a remote courtyard.
Seeing that the road ahead was blocked, Madam Yang wanted to turn back, but suddenly she heard a familiar voice coming from the yard. It was Madam He's!
Mrs. Yang was delighted and immediately stopped and walked towards the yard.
Madam Yang walked to the gate of the courtyard in two steps. Just as she was about to step into the courtyard, she heard Madam He's voice saying, "Madam Yang was looking for me just now. It was hard for the steward to get rid of her. She is really annoying!"
Her face froze and she stopped, suddenly realizing that Mrs. He was talking about her! His face suddenly turned pale and blue, and his chest felt suffocated with anger.
However, what made her even more uncomfortable was yet to come. Suddenly, the voices of several other people were heard in the yard. They were all family members who were familiar to her in the past.
"Her family is just a noble family with ordinary financial situation. The Princess of Jinning brought so much dowry with her, but they divorced because she didn't have a son. What would happen if it happened to another family? Her mother-in-law is not someone who is easy to get along with."
"Although her son is a fifth-rank official, he is a humble government official. With such a background, it would be a good idea to marry him to a wealthy and powerful merchant family. I kindly introduced a marriage partner to her, but she despised the man for his lack of talent. A lady like that who is so good in every way would be the apple of your eye. Who would be willing to marry you as your second wife?"
"Isn't it? You still want to ask my Ling'er to be her son's second wife, but don't you even look at your own conditions?"
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Mrs. Yang felt a pain in her chest when she heard this. These people had always been very nice to her and had often praised Yang Xu's ability in front of her.
It was because she believed what they said that she thought of asking Xu'er to marry their daughter as his second wife. It was a mutually agreeable thing and everyone was happy!
Now look what has happened. I didn’t expect these people to say one thing in front of you and do another behind your back! He actually plotted this between her and Xu'er behind her back!
She has never been a person who can hold back, and after being slapped in the face like this, how could she hold it back?
He then walked straight to the courtyard, pushed open the door, pointed at the gossiping women inside and scolded them, "If you have anything to say, just say it in person. Don't gossip about others behind their backs like the gossipy women at the entrance of the village. You're making fun of us!"
Those concubines had no idea that they would be caught by Madam Yang even though they were talking in the corner, and they were terrified.
Provoked by Madam Yang, they didn't care about anything else and spoke immediately, "So it's Madam Yang? If you've heard it, you should know when to advance and when to retreat. You shouldn't rush to make someone your second wife!"
"Do you really think your son is such a treasure? With the little assets of the Yang family, he can't even catch up with the side branches of the aristocratic family. He speaks and acts like a poor man!"
"That's right. Don't you look at what you are wearing? I'm afraid they were all given to you by your ex-husband, Princess Jinning? Is it because the ex-husband of the Jinning Palace hasn't had enough and is thinking of eating from other families?"
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Madam Yang was facing five or six people alone. How could she win the argument?
She was so furious that she ignored all manners and started fighting with them herself!
"Someone come! Someone come! Madam Yang is beating someone up!"
It was such a great banquet, but the guests were fighting with each other. It was such a joke!
Even the host of the banquet, Madam He, had her clothes torn, and Madam Yang's hair and makeup were in disarray, with the hairpin on her head being ripped off...
Madam Yang lost her master and was asked to leave the He Mansion. She got on the carriage and went home crying.
This matter spread like wildfire and was exaggerated by others. For a time, the whole capital was discussing the fact that the Yang family had an evil mother-in-law.
There are even rumors that when Jin Shiyue was pregnant, the baby was aborted by Madam Yang. Combined with the fact that Princess Jinning insisted on divorcing the Yang family, the rumor became 90% true, and no one dared to become Yang Xu's second wife.
If we were to say who in the capital hated Madam Yang the most, apart from Princess Jinning, it would definitely be Jin Shiyue.
However, when Jin Shiyue heard about this, he did not feel relieved as he had imagined. Instead, he sighed deeply with mixed feelings in his heart.
After his divorce, he stayed in the palace for a while to recuperate, and his complexion improved a lot.
Chen Xuan was afraid that Jin Shiyue would have idle thoughts, so he urged him to open a jewelry shop. Now it is officially open for business, and after operating for a month or two, it is on the right track.
But the child was still young. Although he went back to the palace with him and changed his surname, he still missed his father often. According to the report from the attendant who took care of him, the child would secretly cry in bed with the quilt covering his face when no one was around at night.
Princess Jinning hated the Yang family, so she naturally didn't want anyone to mention the Yang family.
But Jin Shiyue felt sorry for the child, and after some ideological struggle, she wrote a letter to Yang Xu, inviting him to find an opportunity to visit the child to ease the child's longing for his father.
On this day, Jin Shiyue took her children to inspect the shop. When the carriage entered an alley, it was stopped by someone.
Jin Shiyue lifted the curtain and saw that the person who stopped the car was Yang Xu's personal servant.
The servant bowed to him and said, "My dear, the master has booked a private room in Guiyun Tower and asked me to wait here. He said that if you are willing, you can take the young master to see him.
Jin Shiyue took a deep breath, looked at the expectant eyes of the child beside her, nodded, and directed the carriage towards Guiyun Tower.
Arriving at the door of the private room, Jin Shiyue hesitated for a moment and pushed the door open.
After entering, he saw Yang Xu, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. He looked much more haggard than before.
"Father!" The child hadn't seen Yang Xu for a long time, and excitedly rushed up and hugged Yang Xu's waist.
"You're here?" Yang Xu touched the child's head and his eyes fell on Jin Shiyue. There seemed to be thousands of words in his eyes, but also a lot of helplessness.
"You look much better than before." Yang Xu looked Jin Shiyue up and down before nodding and saying, "Seeing that you are doing well, I feel relieved."
"It was the Yang family who tortured you before. Ultimately, it was all my fault. I couldn't control my mother and I shouldn't have insisted on marrying you."
Jin Shiyue's nose felt sore, and she said with tears in her eyes, "I found it myself. Now that it's over, let's not talk about the past anymore."
Yang Xu sighed and said, "My grandmother said you were a generous person, and it is true. It's a pity that your generosity is not worthy of my Yang family."
The two were silent for a while, until they heard the child yelling that he was hungry, and then they ordered a table and had a meal together.
After eating and drinking, Yang Xu asked someone to take the child to the street to play. After only himself and Jin Shiyue were left in the room, he said, "A long time ago, Brother Chen advised me to take you out to be an official, but I didn't listen to him."
Jin Shiyue was stunned when he heard this. He had never heard either Yang Xu or Shen Xuan mention this matter before. He only knew about it today when Yang Xu told him in person.
"Because of the conflict between you and your mother, I hesitated. But I was sent to a remote place, and I don't know when I can return to Beijing... I may only be a fifth-rank prefect in the local area for the rest of my life. I have ambitions in my heart, and I don't want to give up my future just like that. It's selfish of me."
Yang Xu spoke his thoughts so bluntly, and I don't know whether he was just giving up after the divorce or if he had done a lot of psychological preparation.
Jin Shiyue's face turned pale, and after a long silence, she said, "Why are you telling me all this today?"
"I am just like that. I am not worth your sadness. After you divorced me, you are more energetic than when you were with me." Yang Xu said, "I believe you have heard about my mother's affairs outside these days. In fact, even if this did not happen, I would never marry another person in this life."
"Also, I wrote to His Majesty last month, asking to leave the capital. His Majesty has assigned me to Qiongzhou these days, and I may leave next month." Yang Xu paused and said, "Qiongzhou is remote, and you and the child will be far away from me by then, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to see each other again. If you are willing, let the child write me a letter, and I will definitely reply when I see it."
Jin Shiyue clenched her fists, her fingers turning white. He never expected that Yang Xu would ask to leave Beijing at this time...
"What were you doing this morning?" He couldn't help but ask Yang Xu after holding it in for a long time.
"My obsession is too deep. If I hadn't been warned, I would never have let it go." Yang Xu said calmly, "I'm not saying this to win your favor. I just don't want to face the entanglement in Beijing anymore."
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When Jin Shiyue returned home, she was a little dazed.
Three days later, Emperor Wu of Jin ordered Yang Xu to go to Qiongzhou.
Everyone said that Yang Xu was impeached because of family affairs and was demoted by the emperor.
Madam Yang cried her heart out, and everyone in the capital made a laughing stock of her. Only Jin Shiyue knew that Yang Xu had asked to leave on his own initiative.
A month later, Yang Xu took a small bag and two personal servants and went to Qiongzhou to take up his post.
When the carriage reached the west city gate, Yang Xu couldn't help but lift the curtain and look towards the direction of the capital.
On the city wall, a familiar figure stood in the distance, hugging a half-grown child, watching his carriage go away...
Looking at the familiar figures, Yang Xu sighed, his throat choked, and he silently wished them peace and happiness in their lives, and a smooth and happy life...
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