Immediately his knees went weak and he knelt in the main hall of the Duke's Mansion.
"Father-in-law, please spare my life. I, I was just possessed by a ghost for a moment. I know I was wrong. Please give me a chance. I will definitely turn over a new leaf and become a new man."
"For a while? You can hold on for a long time, for several years. It's really pitiful for your mother." Shen Zhang said as he sat next to them.
"You're still turning over a new leaf? Can you really cleanse yourself?"
Zhang Mian looked at Chen Zhang, a flash of jealousy in his eyes, which quickly turned into pity.
"My uncle was born a child of destiny, how could he understand the hardships of a family like ours?"
"No matter how hard it is, I would never think of poisoning the mother who raised me!"
"Then what can I do? I am very grateful to my mother for raising me and supporting my education, but sometimes, I would rather she didn't support me in that way..."
"You really are the type who eats with your bowl in hand and curses at your mother when you put it down. When you were spending the money your mother earned with your classmates, you didn't even think about how dirty it was."
Chen Cong glanced at his brother and said, "Why bother saying so much to him? For a person like him, no matter how much you say, he won't think he's wrong."
Shen Liao had no intention of saying more. He asked someone to present the divorce agreement that had been prepared long ago. "Sign it. Otherwise, I will hand over this evidence to the Ministry of Justice."
Zhang Mian picked it up and looked at it. "No, I won't sign it. If you go to the Ministry of Justice to sue me, Chen Yao will also be implicated."
"What a joke." Shen Cong glanced at him, "My Shen family can't even protect our own women?"
Zhang Mian was shocked that Shen Cong and Shen Zhang would actually speak up for Shen Yao. Wasn't it said that these brothers and sisters had a bad relationship with Shen Yao?
Seeing that he was still not writing, Shen Liao called out calmly, "Come here!"
"Master."
"Take this and go to the Ministry of Justice to report the case." He pulled off the jade pendant from his waist and handed it to the butler.
"No!" Zhang Mian saw this and hurriedly picked up the pen, "I'll sign, I'll sign!"
When he walked out of the Marquis' Mansion, he was followed by the mansion's servants.
They all went to pack Chen Yao's dowry.
By the time the Shen family's servants had packed up their things, the whole capital knew that the eldest daughter of the Shen family had divorced.
Shen Liao sent Zhang Mian to the Ministry of Justice prison.
Zhang was left at the Shen family and moved into the courtyard where her mother had lived before.
In order to leave a good reputation for her daughter, Chen Yao did not go to live in a farm in the suburbs, but went to Changyue Temple to accompany Tu Qingyue.
No one specifically made things difficult for her, and she had a daughter being raised in the Duke's Mansion, so her life was naturally not as miserable as Tu Qingyue's.
But for Chen Yao, who was used to luxury, nothing was right.
She couldn't hate her own daughter, so she could only hate Tu Qingyu more and more. However, Tu Qingyu and her three children were getting better and better. Every time she stayed in the Zen room with many people in one room, she hated Tu Qingyu so much that she couldn't sleep.
This hatred made her unable to eat or sleep well, and even when she faced the Buddha every day, she became more and more gloomy.
In the end, Zhang died in the nunnery when she was ten years old.
Chen Cong got engaged to Yang Yuanyuan at the age of sixteen, got married at the age of seventeen, and took people to publish the Siku Quanshu at the age of eighteen.
At the age of nineteen, he was sent to serve as a prefect. He invented cement, built roads and dams, and his contributions will be remembered for generations to come.
Shen Zhang was no less impressive. He became a Jinshi at the age of fifteen and had been in the Hanlin Academy for a year when the war broke out at the border.
He petitioned to switch from civil service to military service. At first, no one trusted him, as they thought it would be a joke for him, a civil servant who had passed the imperial examination, to go to war.
Unexpectedly, he started from a low-level soldier and became a captain of a thousand men in just one month. The next month, he took the few soldiers under his command and took the head of the enemy general from among tens of thousands of enemy troops.
From then on, he became famous in one battle and started his life as a legendary general.
After Shen Liao's death, Shen Chen divided the Marquisate, but Lan Yuerong did not follow him.
He was in poor health to begin with, and without anyone to discipline him, he ate everything, regardless of whether it was meat or vegetables. Within two years, he died of a stroke.
Just like in his previous life, Shen Liao died at the age of fifty-five.
Before he died, he took the initiative to divide Shen Chen away.
Since he was the eldest son, in addition to the ancestral property, the family's money was divided into three parts, with Shen Chen, Shen Cong and Shen Zhang each receiving one part.
Another portion was given to Lan Yuerong as compensation for her marrying into the Shen family.
Tell her that if she doesn't want to live with Chen Chen, she can divorce him.
Lan Yuerong knelt on the ground with tears streaming down her face. "No, I don't want it. Mother has been very good to me over the years. Even my biological mother hasn't been as good as me. I don't want a divorce. I want to live with her."
After the divorce, I can no longer come to pay my respects to my mother.
"Then...you stay with your mother."
After Shen Liao finished speaking, he looked at his other three children and said, "I don't have any requirements. Just be good to your mother... take care of her, obey her, and treat her well..."
Shen Cong nodded repeatedly while crying, "Yes, we will, Father, we will treat Mother well... Father, please don't leave... Father..."
"You two should go out first. I want to be alone with your mother for a while..."
Knowing how deeply in love their parents were, all the children obediently left.
Chen Liao held Tu Qingyu's hand and said, "Qingyu... from now on, be good and do what you want to do. I'm sorry, I didn't accompany you to see the scenery of the world. I know... you like it."
He is too busy and has too many responsibilities.
It was only in the last two years that he stepped down after his two brothers had established a firm foothold in the court.
He took Tu Qingyu traveling around for several years, but he still felt it was not enough.
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