Chapter 142 Divorce
Going to die?
Min Mei suppressed the little expectation in her heart and went to see her father.
"The doctor said you are not well? Dad, please wait a moment and put on your shroud or something before you leave."
Min Tai: “…”
Is she trying to piss him off to death? "Evil girl!"
He scolded his daughter breathlessly, "Are you so eager for me to die? I'm your father, your real father!"
"Look at what you said."
Min Mei poured herself a cup of tea and said, "If you were not my biological father, why did you abuse my mother so much? If my uncle came, wouldn't he have beaten you to death?"
Her mother rarely mentioned her uncles to her.
It was only said that the cousin in Ningguo Mansion was very powerful, the eldest uncle in Rongguo Mansion was a bit of a mess, and the second uncle was a bit pedantic.
The powerful ones are beyond the reach of mother and daughter, and the pedantic ones will ignore them, but the mixed ones...
When she asked her uncle for help to beat up the people she had wanted to beat up for a long time, her uncle laughed and said that she was a bit like him.
Her mother originally didn't agree with her doing this, but after hearing what her uncle said, her mother simply let it go.
“…I didn’t abuse your mother!”
Min Tai was afraid of Jia She, so he could only reiterate that he did not abuse you, "I just locked you up in the backyard..."
“Oh~”
Min Mei nodded, "Isn't locking you up in the backyard considered abuse? Fine, I'll tell my uncle to keep you locked up like this from now on!"
Having said that, she turned around and wanted to leave.
Min Tai was startled. "Slow down, Mei Jie'er, what do you mean by this?"
"Hmm~" Min Mei seemed to be indifferent and said: "My uncle wants you to divorce my mother. My mother said that she couldn't bear to leave me and Bo Ge'er. My uncle also said that the descendants of the Duke's Mansion could not be controlled by a small border town official family? He also said that my mother was bullied by you because she didn't have a bit of wolf nature. Otherwise, with the Duke's Mansion's dowry and the people who came with the dowry, she would not be locked up in the backyard so easily by you."
Min Tai: “…”
He was speechless.
"My eldest uncle also said to my mother, what did the Min family have before she married? It was only with her dowry that the family was able to rise little by little."
Min Mei looked at her father and said, "That is to say, the Min family has never raised me and my brother. Even if we take the case to Governor Zhang, the Jia family will win."
At this point, she seemed to remember something. "Oh, Dad, you don't know yet, do you? Governor Zhang probably doesn't dare to take the daughter of the Min family as a concubine. My aunt married Uncle Lin, who was a former top scholar. When she heard what my brother said about me, she was furious and wrote a letter to his wife, asking her to take care of her old man. If she can't do it, don't blame her for finding someone to help her."
“…”
Min Tai was simply stunned.
Of course he knew that his brother-in-law was not only popular with the retired emperor, but also with the emperor.
Otherwise, he would not have been able to work as the Salt Inspector for several years.
Originally, he also wanted to build a relationship, but he was good at literature while he was good at martial arts.
Most of the confusing letter is incomprehensible.
Only then did we slowly lose contact.
Unexpectedly...
"What you said... is it true?"
If my sister-in-law really took action, Lord Zhang would probably hate their family to death.
"You don't believe it? Then wait until your niece's injury is healed, and then you and your uncle can send her over to see if they will accept her!"
Min Tai: “…”
This daughter is a jerk!
Min Tai was heartbroken and had no idea how he could have given birth to such a daughter.
Obviously, he is a handsome man, and no matter what he does, he will always give people a way out, and Jia Zhen is also gentle and kind...
"But I don't think you have a chance."
Min Mei smiled at him, "Didn't you say that being locked up in the backyard isn't abuse? It just so happens that I see you can't bear to divorce my mother, so why don't you report an illness and live in that abandoned garden with your favorite Nie.
Oh, by the way, you should live the same way my mother and I lived back then."
“…”
Min Tai was so shocked that his face turned pale. "You... evil girl! I am your father, where is your filial piety? Do you still want to get married?"
"A father is kind and a son is filial. A father's kindness comes first, and a son's filial piety comes second. If a father is not kind..., the son will flee to another place!"
Min Mei's voice was vicious. "This is one of the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues. There is also a sentence in it: the husband is the bond of the wife. If the husband is not upright, the wife can remarry. Since the Min family and you are reluctant to give up the big tree of the Duke's Mansion and don't want to divorce my mother, then why can't my mother confine you to the abandoned garden in the backyard?"
Min Tai: “…”
He didn't know how to refute it.
He only heard that the ruler is the leader of the ministers, the father is the leader of the sons, and the husband is the leader of the wife. Others... It is said that there are some, but normally, don't people ignore them? "Mei Jie'er, didn't Dad let you all out?"
His daughter has the support of her elder brother-in-law, so she is no longer someone he can afford to offend.
Min Tai could only give in. "It wasn't my idea that your aunt and her friends got so mad and beat you up. Didn't you see that dad almost kicked her today to avenge your mom? You can't do this to me?
And you're going to get married, if you ruin your reputation like this, who will be willing to marry you?"
"...So you're still worried that I won't be able to get married?"
Min Mei smiled, "If what you mean by marrying into a good family is marrying into the Min family, then I might as well not marry."
She is not afraid of a bad reputation.
She was afraid that if her reputation was too good, she would meet a man like her father in the future.
"I just want to let those people know that they can marry me, but don't try to bully me."
Min Tai: “…”
What should he do when his daughter refuses to listen? "For the sake of our relationship as father and daughter, you have two options now."
Min Mei gave her father an unusually bright smile, "One is to divorce my mother and let me and Bo Ge'er go with my mother. The other is what I just said, to go to the abandoned garden, and from now on, every blade of grass, every piece of paper, even water, must be bought with silver. Without silver... two bowls of porridge a day that is enough to reflect a person's shadow, to keep from starving to death, what do you think?"
"You...you can't do this to me."
Min Tai is going crazy.
If his brother-in-law had said this to him, he would have been more accepting.
"I raised you..."
"Even this house was bought by my mother with her dowry."
Min Mei interrupted him, "Your salary is 45 taels of silver a year, and you also get 45 hu of rice, but if you add them all up, is that enough for you to support a housekeeper, an accountant, a doorman, and a servant? Let me calculate how many people there are together?"
She held up her fingers and counted for her father, "There are two stewards, one for the head steward, one for the doorman, one for the cleaner, five in total, and four servants, nine in total, not to mention you have to keep two horses."
Raising a horse is more expensive than raising a person.
When she was a child, her mother never avoided her when she was the housekeeper.
Min Mei knew that horses were more valuable than people.
"These are only the ones from the outer courtyard, not the ones from the inner courtyard." Min Mei looked at her father, "Dad, how can you say that you raised us? If we really want to settle the accounts, it's still my mother who raised you and those traitors."
At this point, she was already angry, "Okay, I also know that you won't choose to divorce, I'd better tell my uncle directly and send you to the abandoned garden to live with Second Mother!"
Having said that, she walked out without stopping at all.
Seeing his daughter crossing the threshold and really about to run away, Min Tai panicked, "Mei Jie'er, I choose, I choose."
It's so hot today, there's no way there's ice in the abandoned garden. He's injured so badly that the rotten flesh on his buttocks will become rotten and maggoty in a few days.
Min Tai has seen people die from maggots.
The insect crawls...
He shuddered, "Call your mother and I'll talk to her myself."
One night of marriage means a hundred days of love, and a hundred days of marriage is as deep as the sea!
He didn't have the ruthlessness to kill Niangniang at the beginning. Given Niangniang's temperament... maybe there was still room for change.
“Wait!”
Min Mei went to find her mother.
Not long after, Jia Zhen arrived at the room where Min Tai was recuperating.
"My dear~"
The sound of Min Tai calling his wife seemed to have a hook.
This is how he used to call his wife.
At that time, they were newlyweds.
Be happy every day.
His wife was delighted, and so was he.
Every day he looked forward to getting off duty and going home early.
When did it start to change?
Tears welled up in Min Tai's eyes. "Please don't leave me, I really know I was wrong."
As a man, everyone makes mistakes.
"Give me another chance, and I will make it up to you."
As long as my wife can forgive him, nothing else will matter.
"From now on, if you tell me to go east, I will never go west."
If he had known that his brother-in-law had this attitude towards his wife, he would never treat her like this!
Min Tai blamed Jia She in his heart, "We should live a good life as husband and wife. Mei Jie'er is getting older, and her reputation is more important!"
Jia Zhen: “…”
"My dear~~"
"Since you don't want to divorce, then go to the abandoned garden!"
If she forgave him, how could she justify herself for having to endure the days in the abandoned garden? How could she justify her daughter for having to endure the hardships with her?
I feel even more sorry for my son who risked all kinds of dangers and traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to seek help.
Her two children are so good, she has to live up to them.
My eldest brother beat up everyone in the Min family. How could those people in the Min family not bear a grudge? If there is no chance, it's fine. If there is a chance, they will definitely retaliate.
Jia Jin didn't dare to gamble, nor did she want to gamble.
She wants to go back to Beijing, she has to go back to Beijing.
"I will treat you the way you treat me. What reputation? I do have a good reputation, but not only did I end up being a coward, I almost made Mei Jie'er a concubine, and Bo Ge'er experienced the ups and downs of life at such a young age."
Jia Zhen's voice was extremely cold, "Min Tai, I didn't kill you right away because I was considering the reputation of my two children. I don't want them to have a murderer mother."
Big brother is right, her father risked his life to earn the title of Duke because he wanted his descendants to live a good life.
But she...
She is unfilial! "I'll ask you one last time, do you want to divorce or go to the abandoned garden?"
"...and...divorce!"
Min Tai cried.
But if he doesn't divorce, death will be waiting for him.
My eldest brother-in-law has the ability to make him die of illness, and he may even blame his death on the Nie family or my eldest brother and others.
By then, the whole family will be finished.
Even if someone says in the future that his death was suspicious and related to the Jia family, it will be of no use to him.
"I'm getting a divorce!"
"good!"
Jia Zhen was satisfied. "I will have my uncle and his family brought here, and then invite people from the government office to come."
At this point, she thought of something else, "Oh, by the way, in addition to the two children, there is also my dowry. You brothers have spent a lot of it in order to get promoted over the years, so you have to give it all back to me."
That was given to her by her father.
"If you can't pay it back, you can use your house, land, or shop as collateral."
Min Tai: “…”
He looked at his wife, who had never argued with him in the past, and saw her leaving so decisively, with an uncontrollable twist on her face.
…
Beijing, Rongguo Mansion.
Jia Zheng endured a few days in the ancestral hall, but he couldn't hold on any longer and fell ill.
Whenever he closed his eyes, he seemed to see his father, who was looking at him coldly.
Sometimes, I can also see my younger sister Jia Lan. They are only two months apart in age. When they were younger, my father used to hold one in each arm and play with them.
Before she died, my sister wrote to him, asking him to take care of her nephews and nieces, but...
Jia Zheng could not remember what his brother-in-law looked like, but when he closed his eyes, he could sometimes see his sister and a headless man, holding hands and coming to find him.
And two nephews...
While Jia Zheng was in a daze, he heard his mother and Doctor Wang talking, and then heard them leave. He couldn't control his panic in his heart.
He didn't dare close his eyes alone.
When they were in the ancestral hall, Wang was as guilty as he was.
Besides, he no longer believed her.
Now that he had come out of the ancestral hall, Jia Zheng wished he had someone by his side.
"Someone, someone~"
He opened his mouth slightly and murmured, "Brother, I'm here."
Jia Zheng's heart skipped a beat, thinking Jia Lan had come again, and he quickly rolled onto the couch, "No, no, don't come over here, don't come over here, please, don't come over here."
As he spoke, he was still waving his hands around, as if he wanted to drive someone away.
Jia Min watched quietly, tears in her eyes.
What about my biological sister? Even if they are not born by the same mother, they have the same father! How could she be so cruel? When Jia Min first found out, she was very sad.
She wanted to prepare some things for her niece Lan Zhi and go see her in person. However, just as she left the house, Lan Zhi had to leave Beijing urgently because of military situation.
Without her parents and brother, what was Lanzhi thinking as a girl, burning down her own home to join the army? If it were her Daiyu...
Jia Min couldn't even dare to think about it!
"Min~Min'er?"
Jia Zheng was so frightened that he dared not sleep. After trying hard to wake himself up, he saw that it was his sister Jia Min. He felt as if all his bones had been pulled out of him and he collapsed on the bed. "What's wrong with me? Am I sick?"
There are no curtains in the ancestral hall.
Even though I used mugwort, there were still mosquitoes.
He was bitten on the forehead, ears, chin and back of his hands.
I can't scratch it. The more I scratch, the more itchy it becomes.
"Hmm~"
Jia Min nodded gently, "Dad and elder sister are looking for you?"
Jia Zheng: “…”
His eyes showed horror, as if he couldn't understand how such words could come out of his own sister's mouth.
"I, I, I don't know."
"...Yes! You know nothing."
That's what's most hateful!
Jia Min's eyes were filled with deep anger. "You are so innocent. You are a gentleman. You were deceived by your second sister-in-law and the Wang family, so you wrote that irreversible letter."
That's it!
Jia Zheng looked at his sister and wanted to cry.
He really knows nothing, why does everyone blame him?
"Second brother, in your heart, there is only you, and the rest of us...are nothing."
Jia Min stood up, turned around and left.
She put herself in her eldest sister's shoes, feeling that she was going to die and if she entrusted her child to her, her second brother would not be able to take care of it.
He will leave everything to his second sister-in-law, and her children will probably have a life more miserable than coptis chinensis.
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