Liuhe Town is very close to the county seat. Ye Xianwen and Qi Jiu went there by horse-drawn carriage and returned before dark.
Ye Jinghuai lay on the couch, looking at the marriage certificate his son had sent him, and a trace of color finally returned to his pale face.
"So your name is Qi Yanchang... that's a nice name." Ye Jinghuai looked at his son-in-law with a smile.
Ye Xianwen, standing to the side, said, "Father, when we were writing the marriage certificate at the yamen, Qi Jiu confessed honestly that he had been married before and had a thirteen-year-old daughter. However... after he was sentenced to exile, he divorced his wife, and his daughter was adopted by his brother."
Seeing the troubled look on this kid's face, as if he didn't want to marry his sister, Ye Xianwen felt annoyed.
Qi Jiu is not only an exiled prisoner, but he has also been divorced and has a daughter. Why should he look down on his sister?
His sister was a widow, but Qi Jiu wasn't much better off.
“I’ve heard him mention this before,” Ye Jinghuai said with a smile.
Qi Jiu had previously wanted to become his tutor, so of course he wanted to find out about Qi Jiu's background.
Qi Jiu was a native of the capital, born in the suburbs of Beijing. His parents were still alive, and he had nine brothers. He was the ninth brother because his elder brother committed a serious crime, which led to his exile.
That whole family was heartless; when their brother was exiled, not a single person offered him any help.
If someone were willing to help, Qi Jiu wouldn't be starving.
Ye Jinghuai dislikes families that don't care about family ties the most.
However, Qi Jiu seems to be a decent person.
He didn't ask Qi Jiu to give his daughter a good life; the Ye family would support their daughter and son-in-law. He only hoped his daughter could survive.
...
Ye Miaoyun was completely stunned when she saw the marriage certificate handed to her by the Hua family.
Just moments ago, she was cursing Jiang Mingtao, that bastard, but the next moment, her husband had changed to someone else.
"Mother... what's going on?" Ye Miaoyun asked hurriedly after regaining her senses.
“Your father thinks Qi Jiu is a good man, so he has arranged for you to marry him. Don’t worry, from now on you and Xianya will live in the Ye family. No one will drive you away. As long as we have food to eat, you will not go hungry,” Madam Hua said hurriedly.
"I just heard Xianya say that Jiang Mingtao is not dead."
Fearing that her daughter might still be thinking about that beast Jiang Mingtao, Hua quickly said, "Even if he's not dead, he would never acknowledge you as his first wife."
“My daughter is worried that he is still alive. According to the laws of the court, my daughter cannot remarry,” Ye Miaoyun quickly said.
"Don't worry, even if he's not dead, it won't affect your remarriage. Seven days ago, the Jiang family framed you for having an affair with Qi Jiu and kicked you out of the Jiang family. You are no longer their daughter-in-law."
"To prevent the Jiang family from going back on their word, your father made them sign a severance document that day. Those heartless bastards even demanded twenty taels of silver. They're worse than pigs and dogs..." Madam Hua couldn't hold back any longer and gave the Jiang family a good scolding. Only after she finished scolding them did she realize that her granddaughter was still sitting to the side.
“Xianya, your grandmother isn’t talking about you. You’ve severed all ties with the Jiang family and are no longer a member of their family,” Madam Hua quickly said.
"Grandmother, please feel free to scold them. If you can scold them to death, that would be even better," Jiang Xianya said with a smile.
This saves her the trouble of taking action herself.
Of course, even if she does nothing, the Jiang family will definitely suffer.
Before she left, she specifically observed the fortunes of the Jiang family members and discovered that they were plagued by bad luck and didn't have many good days left.
Of course, she also deserves credit for this.
While she was stewing chicken at the Jiang family's house today, she picked up some pebbles and buried them in the Jiang family's yard, setting up a simple formation that disturbed the feng shui of the Jiang family's house.
Over time, the people living there will experience bad luck and become susceptible to illness and misfortune.
She wants to use a dull knife to cut flesh, to cut these people until they can't bear the pain anymore, then destroy Jiang Mingtao and send the entire Jiang family to hell.
Bastards like them, who harbor evil intentions and even want to kill, deserve only to go to hell after they die.
As for which floor to go to?
It depends on her mood.
If you give the ghost messengers some benefits, you can get it done, but you don't know which ghost messenger you will summon when you perform the ritual.
“Miaoyun, Qi Jiu is a criminal exiled from the capital. He was previously married and had a daughter. Marrying him is indeed a disservice to you, but in order to get rid of that bastard Jiang Mingtao, this is the only way.”
As Hua Shi spoke, he took his daughter's hand and said, "Your father plans to move in a few days, leave Liuhe Town, and set up another school in another place. If... the school doesn't work out, then we'll do something else. We'll stay away from this place and away from the Jiang family. If no one bothers us in a few years, and you don't like Qi Jiu, then... we can get a divorce from him."
In other words, they would not force their daughter to become a real couple with Qi Jiu.
Marrying her daughter to him was merely a stopgap measure.
Of course, Qi Jiu couldn't carry anything on his shoulders or lift anything with his hands. He couldn't even support himself. He had neither food nor shelter. If he didn't become the Ye family's son-in-law, he would only starve to death on the streets.
The old man said it was a mutually beneficial arrangement, and they hadn't wronged anyone.
“Your father said that if you think Qi Jiu is good and want to be his real husband and wife, that’s fine too. You are still young, and Xianya will get married sooner or later. You can’t be left all alone and miserable…” Hua Shi said a lot while holding her daughter’s hand.
Little did they know that Ye Miaoyun was no longer the same person she used to be. After learning the truth, she only wanted to kill Jiang Mingtao.
Unfortunately, that bastard was an official, and she didn't want her daughter to go to Taiyi Gate, so she could only take it slowly.
Jiang Mingtao married a woman from a high-class family. Before he ruined them, he had no reason to object to her marrying Qi Jiu in order to save his own life.
Compared to that bastard Jiang Mingtao, she didn't think even Qi Jiu, who had been exiled, was inferior.
However, Ye Miaoyun no longer remembered what Qi Jiu looked like, so she went to see him in person.
Seeing her like this, Jiang Xianya felt relieved.
One cannot live in the past or dwell in hatred forever. Even if one seeks revenge, one should not let it prevent one from living a good life.
Watching Ye Miaoyun's departing figure, Jiang Xianya smiled and recalled some things from her past life.
As the junior sister of the Taiyi Sect, she rose to prominence and quickly surpassed her senior brothers and sisters, and was designated by her master as his successor.
That year, she was exactly twenty years old.
That same year, she followed her master down the mountain to offer sacrifices to the heavens for the dynasty, to eliminate the plague, and to save many people, becoming a "fairy" praised by the people of the capital.
The newly enthroned emperor, seeing her beauty and the future heir of the Taiyi Sect, and knowing that the Taiyi Sect had no rule against unmarried women, set his sights on her.
Putting aside the fact that he already has an empress, even if he didn't, the emperor isn't as good-looking as her senior and junior brothers, and he has a bunch of women in his harem. Why should she wrong herself?
Jiang Xianya deliberately used some tricks to frighten the emperor so much that he never dared to provoke her again.
That year, she was exactly twenty, and now... she's fourteen.
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