Chapter 3 Blame
"Sign the divorce agreement, and from now on, you and I will have nothing to do with each other. I, Jiang Qingning, will take my things and get out of your Anping Marquis's Mansion immediately!"
"You, you, you are so outrageous! How could my Anping Marquis's Mansion have such an unfaithful, unfilial, and unkind daughter-in-law like you? This is truly unfortunate for my Anping Marquis' Mansion!"
Jiang Qingning curled his lips indifferently and loosened his grip on the crutch. The latter was immediately thrown backward by the sudden loss of strength.
"Mother!"
Xun Chen hurriedly stepped forward to support Old Madam Xun, and glanced at Jiang Qingning with his eyes filled with anger.
"Xun Jiang, is this how you treat your mother-in-law?
You really can't even compare to one of Qingyi's fingers!"
Old Madam Xun stood firm, stroking her chest in fear. When she heard what Xun Chen said, she immediately had an idea in her mind.
She looked at Xun Chen sadly and said, "Son, is this how you allow your daughter-in-law to bully your mother?
She was always contradictory and unfilial, so her mother sent her to a Taoist temple to practice Buddhism in order to teach her etiquette and filial piety.
Who knew she would actually trick you into taking her back? Look at her, she seems to have learned a little bit of etiquette and filial piety. Why is my life so miserable?
"I was unfaithful and unfilial, and I didn't know how to observe the rules of filial piety. That's why you forced me to be divorced by my husband and imprisoned me in a Taoist temple for three years.
I can't go home to see my son, and you've taught him to be unable to distinguish right from wrong. Is this your revenge?"
Jiang Qingning sneered, his words and actions were extremely defiant.
"Xun Jiang!" Xun Chen shouted angrily.
"I have a name. My surname is Jiang and my given name is Qingning. I am the daughter of the eldest son of the Jiang family. My father and brother are both generals guarding the border for the country. I am not an appendage that your Xun family can bully at will!" Jiang Qingning growled.
Xun Chen was surprised: "How did you become like this? Come! Send my wife back to rest. Let's leave today's incident at that. It won't happen again."
"Madam, please go back."
The two maids looked at each other, turned into the room, and walked up to Jiang Qingning.
"You are not allowed to touch my young lady!" Zi Su walked into the study and protected Jiang Qingning.
"You little bitch, you have no right to speak here!"
There was a sinister look in Matron Liu's eyes as she stepped forward and slapped Zi Su in the face.
"ah!"
Zi Su was hit so hard that her face turned sideways, and she almost fell down while covering her face. It can be seen how much strength Liu Ma Ma used.
Jiang Qingning raised his hand to support Zi Su, but the anger in his eyes could not be hidden.
"I, Jiang Qingning's maidservant, have no right to be tortured by you!"
As soon as Zi Su stood firm, Jiang Qingning let go of her hand, stepped in front of Madam Liu, and slapped her hard in the face.
“Bang!”
In an instant, the study was in chaos.
"Why don't you catch her for me? You are such a rebel!"
The old lady of the Anping Earl was furious and felt sorry for her dowry nanny, so she shouted loudly.
"I wonder who dares to touch me!"
Jiang Qingning waved them away, his eyes piercing Xun Chen, "I'm not kidding you. Today, you must divorce."
"Otherwise, I will file a complaint with the Emperor in the palace. Xun Chen, don't forget that although my father and brother offended the powerful, they were generals who returned to the capital after a great victory in the northern border. My Jiang family's eldest branch still has an unissued imperial edict hanging over its head!"
Xun Chen's voice froze just as he was about to open his mouth to scold, but he couldn't stop the anger in his heart. His cowardly chest heaved up and down, and it ached slightly.
No matter what he did, he always felt guilty.
Somehow, Xun Chen became unusually quiet.
Old Madam Xun paused for a while and then laughed angrily.
"Without my son and the protection of the Anping Marquis's Mansion, where will you go back to?
Don't forget that you were driven out of the Jiang family eight years ago, and your father and brother were exiled and have been unable to return to the capital ever since. How can you continue to take advantage of Qiao Qian? "
Xun Chen was exhausted and extremely puzzled: "It's just a matter of spilling a bowl of rice...why do you really take it so seriously?"
It wasn't an accidental overturn. Rather, when she was serving him the food, he personally overturned the bowl with an expressionless face and stood up and left.
During this time, she only said one sentence: "Husband, Li Qiye, please try it quickly. The Longjing shrimp I made this time should taste right."
The next moment, the sound of crackling fragments was heard.
"Sorry, my hand slipped."
"It's okay, I'll get another bowl for my husband."
"No need, I'm going to eat at my mother's house."
"Daddy, Mo Li is going too. Aunt Qingyi will definitely be there too. Mo Li wants to eat the egg custard Aunt Qingyi made!"
"Don't bother your aunt with everything. You're not willing to do the work for the servants."
The father and son stood up and left together. The sound of their conversation drifted back to Jiang Qingning's ears with the wind.
Jiang Qingning picked up the Longjing shrimp with chopsticks and put it into his mouth.
Well, it’s better than what my master, whose ancestors have been imperial chefs for generations, can do.
During these three months, the father and son always said that the Longjing shrimp she made tasted wrong.
From being willing to take a bite at the beginning to being perfunctory later on, not even willing to give a perfunctory answer.
For three whole months, she consulted countless chefs in Beijing, learned from them, and tasted their food, just to make this one dish, hoping to use it to break the frozen relationship between the family members.
Until yesterday, everyone praised her cooking skills, and the chefs all praised her for being able to enter the palace and become the imperial chef for the imperial concubine who loves Longjing shrimp.
"Even though our relationship as husband and wife was weak, we could still maintain our composure. But when did you start to change?"
Jiang Qingning's voice was calm, causing ripples in Xun Chen's heart.
Xun Chen's brows were cold and his whole body was filled with anger.
He warned with a cold face: "After marriage, obey the husband; the husband is the leader of the wife.
The last thing you should do is question your husband."
"Jiang Qingning, you've crossed the line."
Zi Su stood behind his master with a pale face, but the incident that happened to the Jiang family eight years ago emerged in his mind.
In order to save the Jiang family from danger, Jiang Qingning was forced to marry Xun Chen, who was far away from the capital at that time, in advance under the coercion of all the elders of the Jiang family.
But the matter happened suddenly, the wedding preparations were hastily made, and the groom was not present, so Jiang Qingning completed the wedding alone.
A wedding sedan, a matchmaker, no one to see the bride off, no one to welcome her.
At that time, my father and brother were exiled, and my mother fainted from crying many times. My seven-year-old sister was so dependent on her parents that my father and brother had no choice but to take them to Lingnan to take up their posts.
As for Jiang Qingning, she was betrothed to Xun Chen and was going to get married the following year, so she was kept in the capital and raised by Old Madam Jiang.
But Mrs. Jiang was determined to find a well-educated and well-mannered wife for her son Jiang Baichuan, a military general.
How could she like the military generals who wielded swords and guns for generations, and the eldest daughter of the Xiao family, how could she like the children born to her mother, especially when her maternal grandfather was a "criminal".
Old Madam Jiang would rather live in the suburbs of Beijing for a long time to practice cultivation than come back to see her. She has never even assigned a nanny to help.
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