Duke Rong did not expect that after the ancestral hall was opened, in front of the clan leader and elders, Chen Yu took out the divorce letter drafted by the lawyer.
In front of Chen Yu was the document that registered the concubine's son under his name, but this divorce letter was pushed in front of him.
Chen Yu smiled slightly at Duke Rong and said politely and distantly, "We have all signed the documents in front of us. What do you think?"
Duke Rong was a little stunned by her sudden smile. After seeing that it was a divorce letter, he couldn't tell whether he was angry or disappointed.
After all, this woman, whom he had always despised or ignored, had been with him for decades. Now, she took the initiative to propose a divorce without any regrets. She didn't just talk about it, but really moved away and prepared the documents.
While he felt somewhat disappointed, he was also angry that Chen Yu had caught him off guard in such an occasion, and that it was obvious that he was trying to force him to sign.
On the other hand, he found it funny. Did she think that he would still be attached to her and not sign the divorce agreement?
But on second thought, this woman might just be afraid of the threats he made a few days ago.
Now this woman was just looking at him quietly, waiting for him to sign. It seemed that if he didn't put pen to paper, she wouldn't put pen to paper either. Duke Rong sighed in his heart, it finally came to this.
So he picked up the pen and quickly signed his name on the divorce papers.
Chen Yu seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and quickly wrote his name on the document. After both parties stamped it, they exchanged the documents, and it seemed that both of them were satisfied with the one in their hands.
No one expected Shen Yu's son to suddenly appear, and he also had a document in his hand. He greeted his parents and the clan elders according to the rules before saying, "Congratulations, father! Congratulations, mother!"
One of his parents got the divorce they had longed for, and the other got the son they had always wanted, helping him to find his ancestral home. I think both of them got what they wanted.
He took out the document in his hand, laughed at himself, and said, "Father, I want to leave the Rongguo Mansion from now on, and I also want to sever my father-son relationship with you from now on. I don't need to cause you any more trouble with a useless child like me."
Duke Rong was quite surprised, but he didn't want to lose face in front of the clan leader and elders, so he said to his eldest son, "Have you thought it through? If I put down my pen, not only will you lose the title of Flower and Bird Young Master, but you won't even have a chance to share in the name of the Rong Mansion."
The eldest son smiled sadly again and said, "I have given up the idea. I will not use the name of Rongguo Mansion. Don't worry, Duke."
Duke Rong was stunned and took a closer look at the letter of severance. The writing format might have been copied from somewhere, and there were no obvious mistakes in the wording. It simply stated that the father-son relationship was severed from then on.
He felt indescribable in his heart, thinking that the child was probably hurt by him and came here to vent his anger, but he also felt that it might not be a bad thing. If a playboy like him stayed in Rongguo Mansion, he would be a trouble for his brother in the future.
Why bother raising such a useless brother who only knows how to spend money? Perhaps it would be a good thing for Rou'er and her son to get rid of this child.
Having already made up his mind, he sneered at his eldest son and said, "Have you really thought it through? Don't be angry with your father and wait for him to sign before you kneel down and beg him to change his mind."
The eldest son said, "No."
Upon seeing this, Duke Rong put pen to paper, then bowed to the clan leader and elders and said, "As you can see, from today on, I have a new legitimate son. I have severed all ties with my former wife and eldest son. From now on, they will have no further connection with the Rongguo Mansion. Please bear witness to this."
After hearing his words, Chen Yu also stood up and bowed gracefully, saying to the elders, "That's right. Please bear witness."
She handed her divorce letter and her son's severance letter to the clan leader and other elders. She and her son each ground ink and handed the pen, and took the initiative to ask everyone to add their names as witnesses.
Duke Rong laughed secretly when he saw this and said, "Do these two idiots really think that others will treat them like pearls and gems and be reluctant to let them go? Now they are acting like this?"
After Chen Yu and her son took the divorce papers and the severance papers and returned to their own house, the two people who had been silent all the way suddenly smiled at each other, and gradually the laughter became louder and more cheerful.
Chen Yu smiled and said, "Just as my younger sister said, from now on, the sky is high and the sea is vast, the birds are flying, the grass is growing, the fish are leaping, and the butterflies are dancing. I am free."
The eldest son also laughed, but tears came out of his eyes: "I have been stupid for decades, and I have been useless for decades. From now on, I want to be a good person..."
But Lihua led someone in from the courtyard gate. The eldest son saw that it was his wife and the child. He looked at him angrily and said, "Why don't you tell me, don't you want to keep us mother and child? Are you going to abandon your wife like your father did?"
Do you know how many places I searched and how many people I asked before I finally found my husband, the father of my child!"
The eldest son's tears seemed to disappear instantly when he saw his wife and child. He scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "It's my husband's fault. He's been confused these past few days and thought you wouldn't follow me..."
He added, “I have nothing now. It is impossible for me to become a prince or a duke, and I don’t even have the slightest connection with the Rongguo Mansion.
I am an uneducated and unskilled layman. If you don't want to follow me anymore, I can sign a divorce agreement or a divorce letter for you."
The eldest son's wife rushed over and said angrily, "Do you think that when I followed you, you were no longer an unlearned and unskilled layman?
I just like your sweet words to make me happy. Life is short, and I just want to live happily in this life. What's wrong with you being an ordinary person? You can just say a few words to make people happy, but now you are so infuriating. "
Then I saw Lihua ordering people to open the gate, and many people were moving things in.
The eldest son asked, "What happened?"
His wife said: "My dowry and the things in our courtyard, as well as the private property under your name, I brought them all here today since there are not many people in the mansion since the ancestral hall is open today.
The eldest son said, "I have no intention of taking anything from the Rongguo Mansion."
His wife said, "Okay, we won't take it. When Duke Rong returns everything he stole from you and gave to Dong Rou'er and her son, we'll return these things.
I want the extra portion, too."
When the two of them said this, they looked at Shen Yu a little embarrassedly. Shen Yu asked them to settle down as a family of three first.
After they left, she looked at Lihua and asked, "Have I had any illness this month?"
Lihua said, "Not yet."
Chen Yuxi said: "The strange doctor said that the longer the time interval is, the better it is."
Lihua said, "Just say that good times are yet to come!"
After hearing this, Chen Yu became worried again and said, "How can we, mother, son and daughter-in-law, live a good life together when we are all confused?"
Lihua thought about it carefully and said comfortingly, "We still have our little grandson, so it's not like there's no hope."
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