This made Ye Zhou furious. He looked at her for a long time, suppressing his anger and asked, "Why do you want to leave so badly? What do you want to do after you leave?"
Tang Miao said, "I'll go to Jiangnan, find a place where no one knows me, and buy a small house to live in."
She glanced at Ye Zhou, hesitated for a moment and then said, "Let's buy a small snack shop... and eat... and stare blankly on rainy days, and sleep in when the weather is sunny..." Her voice became smaller and smaller, but the corners of her mouth curled up.
Ye Zhou looked at her, stunned for a moment before asking, "Why are you going to Jiangnan?"
Tang Miao whispered softly, "On West Market Street, the North and South Merchants have caravans heading south every first and fifteenth day of every month, transporting goods and passengers."
Good, that's great. I've figured out how to go. Ye Zhou's gaze turned a few degrees colder: "Where are Ye Feng and Ye Qiu?"
Tang Miao was silent for a while, then said, "If they miss me, they can come and see me. If they are too far away to come, they can just write to me." She paused and continued, "They are grown up now, not just children anymore. A mother like me can't give them anything anymore. On the contrary, my bad reputation will only bring trouble to them."
In the past, she was the "favored concubine" in the saying "favoring the concubine and destroying the wife", and now she is the "evildoer" in the saying "evildoers will be punished by evildoers".
Ye Zhou was speechless for a long time after hearing this.
She was a girl from a good family. If she hadn't been implicated by Huang Mengling and him, she wouldn't have had this reputation. Normally, he felt that he had been cheated by Huang Mengling, but in fact, she and her two children also suffered from this reputation.
Ye Zhou didn't know how to dissuade her from leaving. The person who usually looked timid and obedient now looked very twisted.
Tang Miao was already calculating in his mind that if he had to buy a set of public headgear of the same quality outside, it would cost at least several thousand taels. Since he was going to give him several sets, let's count it as three sets, which would be almost ten thousand taels. The money Ye Zhou gave him was more than the money he had saved for more than ten years.
Ye Zhou is such a good man! He put the money in his pocket and went to get the silver first. He bowed to Ye Zhou and said, "Duke, I will go to the public office to withdraw the silver first."
Ye Zhou was really... a money-grubber! He was greedy and timid, what good was that! He was useless, and now he couldn't even be gentle and obedient!
Call two secret guards and follow this good-for-nothing woman from the moment you leave the house. How can she possibly cause any trouble?
Tang Miao didn't expect that there would be an unexpected surprise. She went to the accounting office to withdraw money and said she wanted to use 10,000 taels to buy hair accessories. The accounting office actually asked her if it was enough.
Ye Zhou had already instructed the housekeeper to have Tang choose several sets of head ornaments. Anything from coral and tortoise shell, ruby and jade, pearl and kingfisher feathers, gold and silver, and enamel was fine. He told her to buy them all.
The housekeeper thought that if he wanted to buy something from outside according to this order, it would cost at least 20,000 or 30,000 taels. The accountant received the instructions and now, when he saw Tang, he said, "I'm afraid 10,000 taels is not enough. How about 30,000?"
Tang Miao blurted out: "Too many."
The accountant thought of a compromise: "Then, how about taking 25,000 taels?"
Tang Miao didn't dare to think about it, and generously added another 5,000 taels to his expectation: "Take 15,000 taels is enough."
Then he specifically asked the accountant to ask for smaller denominations. Tang Miao felt happy when he received five silver notes totaling 15,000 taels. Since he had received his severance pay and the severance paperwork, he went straight to the study to find Ye Zhou.
As soon as I entered, I thanked him first. Ye Zhou was so angry that he took tens of thousands of taels before he thought of thanking me. He asked, "How much did you take?"
Tang Miao was happy: "Fifteen thousand."
Ye Zhou was stunned: You are still timid.
Tang Miao asked again about the severance paperwork. Ye Zhou said, "Go find the housekeeper."
Tang Miao bowed earnestly to Ye Zhou: "Duke, may you be safe, healthy, happy and harmonious."
Seeing this, Ye Zhou was stunned for a moment before saying, "Aren't you going to say goodbye to Ye Feng and Ye Qiu?"
"No, I've said everything I needed to say to them these past two days, and I've also left a letter for them."
Tang Miao found the housekeeper, who handed her some documents. After looking through them, she found no documents regarding dismissal or divorce of concubines, but there was a household registration with her name on it.
Tang Miao was a little confused, and the housekeeper said embarrassedly: "This is different from the divorce."
Tang Miao thought: That's right, just like the servants in the mansion, if their indentures were living indentures, they would naturally become invalid when the expiration date came. They would then be free again.
If it's a death indenture, like a servant like a house child, if you're willing to release them, you can exchange the death indenture for a civilian household registration. After the indenture is cancelled, you can either destroy it or keep it yourself.
The important thing is to have an independent civilian household registration. Now she already has it, she is very satisfied with the independent household registration in her hand. It is still very troublesome to apply for it by herself. Ye Zhou is indeed a good person.
She returned to her own yard, packed the banknotes, household registration, a few sets of clothes and two pairs of shoes into a bag, took off all her jewelry and placed them on the dressing table, then found the simplest silver hairpin to tidy up her hair, looked around the room deeply, and left.
But the Jiangnan that Tang Miao had always dreamed of became out of reach.
She was rejected by the Nanbei Trading Company because their rule was not to take single women along.
Undeterred, Tang Miao approached the Yangui Trading Company, but was rejected. He then approached the Jincheng Escort Agency, but was rejected. He then approached the Southern Goods to the North Merchants Group, but was rejected. He then approached the Jiangnan Guild Hall, but was rejected.
Tang Miao was confused.
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