Chapter 261 Divorce and Remarry
Zhao Jue married Yue Niang for money, without any sincerity, and the wedding was not extravagant.
Apart from decorating the house with lights and setting up a new room and wedding hall, he simply spent money to hire some people to act as guests.
He is no longer the third master of the Duke's Mansion. He has no capable people around him and cannot send anyone to Yue Niang's ancestral home to investigate the truth.
He just confirmed before the wedding whether the boxes brought by Yue Niang contained her property.
Only after it was confirmed to be true did today's wedding take place.
But they don't have a marriage certificate yet.
The marriage certificate needs to be signed by the matchmaker and the officiant before it can take effect.
According to the Household Order of the Great Zhou Dynasty, all marriages must be officiated by grandparents or parents. If there are no grandparents or parents, the other relatives will officiate the marriage.
Yue Niang's grandparents and parents have passed away, and her other relatives are in her ancestral hometown and cannot officiate her wedding.
He was afraid that the night would be long and full of complications, so he wanted to marry Yue Niang as soon as possible and get the money in her hand.
Yue Niang also wanted to find a place to stay as soon as possible, so she agreed to his plan. The two of them got married first, and agreed that when they returned to her parents' home, they would go back to her ancestral home to pay homage to her parents and then ask her relatives to sign the marriage certificate.
This was just Zhao Jue's trick to deceive Yue Niang. He would make other plans after he got the money from Yue Niang.
Zhao Jue brought the wedding procession to bring Yue Niang back to the Zhao family for marriage.
The second wife was paralyzed in bed and did not attend.
The second master was wearing festive red clothes and sitting upright in the main seat, but there was no smile on his face.
Zhao Jue hid the house deed and sold everything that could be sold in the house.
He really couldn't raise enough money to redeem Yue Niang, so he went to the building to look for Yue Niang every day in a daze, but he couldn't see her every time.
No matter how much he pleaded, the brothel owner refused to give in.
On the fifth day, Yue Niang asked the brothel owner to give him a bag of silver.
He counted it and found a total of fifty-three taels of silver, which was all the silver Yue Niang had.
The brothel owner said, "Before Yue Niang left, she was still thinking about you. You were the one she was most worried about. She hated herself for not being free, so that you could forget her and take this money, start a business, and live a good life."
How could the Second Master possibly forget Yue Niang?
After these days, he has lost a lot of weight and looks haggard.
He looked at the bride in her bright red wedding gown. The loose gown seemed a little ill-fitting, making her figure look even more delicate. She seemed familiar to him inexplicably, like Yue Niang, whom he had been thinking about day and night.
The second master shuddered and suddenly woke up.
He is really getting senile.
How could his Yue Niang be the bride?
At this time, the ceremonial officer took out a mahogany ruler and was about to measure Zhao Jue.
Suddenly, a figure rushed in.
"Zhao Jue, you locked me up in the courtyard and didn't allow me to step out of it. It turned out that you wanted to divorce my wife and remarry." Shen Mingzhu's face was pale. The red in the room stung her eyes. Tears welled up in her eyes. "Either let her go, or make her a concubine, or we go to see the officials."
When she heard the news that Zhao Jue was getting married in the villa, she refused to believe it at all.
One is that Zhao Jue has not divorced her yet.
Secondly, with Zhao Jue’s current status, who would be willing to marry him?
Suddenly, she thought of how Zhao Jue abandoned Shen Qingtan and married her for power.
Then it is very likely that he will abandon her again for power.
Shen Mingzhu sent away the maid who was always with her, intending to find the right moment to escape from the villa. However, the person guarding the villa actually let her go.
She knew something was fishy, but in order to verify whether Zhao Jue had remarried, she didn't care about anything else and hurried to Zhao's house.
The joy in the mansion shattered the last glimmer of hope in her heart.
The thing she feared most finally happened.
"I'm so cruel! For this woman, I even ignored the child in my belly?" Shen Mingzhu looked at the bride standing beside Zhao Jue, hatred welling up in her heart. She suddenly rushed over and pulled off the red veil: "I want to see which vixen has seduced you into such a state that you forgot the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues."
Yue Niang's veil was torn off, and she screamed in fright. She subconsciously grabbed Zhao Jue's sleeve, seeking his protection.
Zhao Jue protected Yue Niang reflexively.
Yue Niang looked at Shen Mingzhu and asked, "Sanlang, what's going on?"
Zhao Jue explained, "Yu Niang, she didn't treat my mother well and was disrespectful to her elders. She committed the seven grounds for divorce, so I divorced her. But she refused to give up and kept pestering me."
These words were like a sharp knife piercing Shen Mingzhu's heart.
Shen Mingzhu looked at Zhao Jue, whose face was full of tenderness. He carefully protected Yue Niang as if he was holding a treasure.
He gave his tenderness to Shen Qingtan and Yue Niang.
But I never gave it to her.
How sad.
Zhao Jue looked at her coldly: "Have you had enough of this?"
Shen Mingzhu looked at Zhao Jue with a terrifying look. His eyes were full of warning, warning her that if she continued to make trouble, he would divorce her.
Realizing this, Shen Mingzhu developed hatred towards Zhao Jue and hated his ruthlessness.
She looked at the second master beside her, wanting him to say something fair, but she saw that the second master had stood up at some point, staring at Yue Niang with his eyes wide open.
The second master stared at Yue Niang. She leaned in Zhao Jue's arms, revealing half of her pretty face.
This face had thousands of expressions in front of him, and each expression fascinated him.
This face had appeared in his dreams thousands of times, and each time it was unforgettable.
Even if it turned into ashes, he would be able to recognize it.
But at this moment, he didn't dare to admit it.
How could his Yue Niang marry Zhao Jue?
How could Zhao Jue marry Yue Niang?
The Second Master subconsciously walked over and stared at Yue Niang's face without blinking, but he said to Zhao Jue: "Jue'er, who is she? What's her name?"
Zhao Jue vaguely felt that something was wrong with the Second Master. Seeing him staring at Yue Niang, he calmly moved sideways to block his sight.
He frowned, his expression slightly displeased: "Dad, she is Yu Niang, my wife..."
With a "slap", the second master raised his hand and slapped Zhao Jue hard.
P.S. My dears, I will update one chapter for now. There will be more updates later, but it will be a little later. Go to sleep first and don’t wait. You can read it when you wake up tomorrow morning. Good night~
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