"Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Qizhe has a cold personality, but he cares a lot about Meng girl. Whether they succeed or not depends on themselves. We don't need to worry too much about them." Yu Mengshan comforted.
Song tucked the corner of the quilt and lay down, saying, "You are right. Qi Zhe has always made his own decisions. I think too much."
The next day, after breakfast, Yu Ruhai said in front of the first and second wives, "Meng girl, my Yu family has treated you well. Although you sold yourself at the beginning, my Yu family has never treated you as a slave. You wanted to destroy your birth contract, and I granted your wish. Now you want to change back to your birth contract, which is not in line with my Yu family. After all, you are a person of an outsider. No matter how well my Yu family treats you, we can't keep you. Forget it, I won't force you to stay."
As soon as Yu Ruhai said this, the faces of the Yu family members changed. No one expected that Grandpa Yu would take the initiative to ask Yu Jiao to change her citizenship deed back and leave the Yu family.
Thinking that the good life now was all because of Meng Yujiao, if she left, the old lady would be rude and partial to the third wife, and the first wife might go back to the way she was before. Zhang Shi from the first wife was so anxious that she couldn't help but said, "Dad, this can't happen. Yujiao is a member of my Yu family. How can you chase her away?"
Yu Zhou glanced at Zhang and said in a serious tone, "What do you mean your father drove her away? She wanted to change her birth certificate herself!"
Zhang quickly winked at Song and whispered, "Yu Jiao is from your second house, Chun Niang, you have to stop her."
Song Chun went to see Yu Jiao and opened her mouth to persuade her, but Yu Jiao shook her head at her. Seeing that she had made up her mind, Song had to swallow her words.
"It's good that the old man agrees. Please follow me to the county government to change the household registration deed back." Yu Jiao said.
Yu Ruhai agreed immediately, which was rare to see someone so readily.
Yu Zhixing drove a horse-drawn carriage and took the two of them to Mengjia Village to find the village head. Yu Jiao spent two cents to ask the village head to go to the county government to testify and explain the situation. County Magistrate Gao was quite familiar with the Yu family. After hearing the whole story, he quickly crossed out Yu Jiao's deed from the Yu family's household register.
When they were about to add Yu Jiao's deed back to Liu Sanniang's household register, Yu Jiao said, "County Magistrate Gao, I want to start my own household."
Magistrate Gao put down his pen and asked, "Do you want to live somewhere else?"
Yu Jiao nodded.
County Magistrate Gao said, "You have a living mother and brothers. According to Taiyan's law, if parents are still alive, they will be exiled for three years if they live in a different household. Moreover, you are a woman who has to register separately and have no parents or brothers to rely on. Do you know how difficult life is?"
Yu Jiao knew that Magistrate Gao had good intentions when he said this, so she said, "I want to do business in the future. I heard that businessmen have to be deposed. My younger brother is studying in the county school. He may pass the imperial examination and become an official in the future. I don't want to implicate my family, so I hope Magistrate Gao will help me."
"You, a woman, actually want to do business?" It was very rare for a woman to do business and set up her own business. County Magistrate Gao said a few more words because he had high hopes for Yu Qizhe. He remembered that an imperial guard who was on good terms with Yu Qizhe came to the county government office in person to help Meng Yujiao change her name to Yu Qizhe's wife in the Yu family's household register.
Magistrate Gao thought for a moment and then said, "While parents are still alive, children cannot separate. If you want to set up a new family, you need not only your parents' consent, but also land."
"My mother has agreed. I will bring her to the county government office later. As for the land..." Yu Jiao took out a stack of land deeds from her sleeve, "Are these enough?"
County Magistrate Gao took it, looked through it, his eyes suddenly widened, and after a rough calculation, he found that the land was several hundred acres. With so much land, he could become a landlord.
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