Jiang Zhengming sighed dejectedly, "Why didn't you tell me earlier that the family was short of money? We could have kept fewer servants in the manor, and since the estate wasn't producing anything, we could have used fewer people."
Jiang Zhengming knew, of course, that Su's illness was very expensive when she was alive. As for Su's family members trying to take advantage of her, he never asked about it, because Su was spending her dowry money.
Yang took out a handkerchief and dabbed it at the corner of her eye, then secretly glanced at Jiang Zhengming with her seductive eyes.
“My husband makes it easy for you to say. If I were to sell the maids in my sisters’ courtyards and upset them, they would be talking badly about me to you every day.”
Jiang Zhengming sat on the small couch, holding his forehead with both hands, trying to think of a solution.
A moment later, he had his steward and the concubine who was now in charge of the household, who was also Zheng, the birth mother of his eldest son Jiang Qingjian, summoned to the study. The three of them talked in the study for a full hour.
He immediately announced that Zheng would be made his principal wife and that she should sell off all the extra servants in the household.
When Yang learned the news, she was struck dumb. She had been gentle and kind, and her relationship with Jiang Zhengming had just improved a little. Now, Zheng had been promoted to be the head of the household.
With red-rimmed eyes, she went to see Jiang Zhengming, crying heartbrokenly, and asked, "My lord, my love for you is as deep as the sea, why do you treat me like this?"
Jiang Zhengming sighed, "I had no choice but to do this. Yue'er has broken with the Jiang family, Jiao'er is crippled, and the other concubine daughters are still young. The only one we can rely on now is Qingjian. If he doesn't have the status of a legitimate son, how will he establish himself in the capital?"
Given his current official position, he wouldn't be able to find a woman he could rely on even if he wanted to remarry.
The household is short of money and cannot afford to take another marriage.
Seeing Jiang Zhengming's resolute attitude, Yang covered her face and ran back to her room, where she collapsed onto the bed and cried uncontrollably.
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