Seeing Fan busy packing clothes, Lin Shikang wrote a letter of divorce and asked Fang Lei to deliver it to Yuan Yajing.
At this time, Yuan Yajing had just given birth to a daughter. The midwife handed the child to Fang Lei and told him some precautions.
Yuan Yajing had just given birth, and Fang Lei couldn't see her, so he asked the midwife to give Yuan Yajing the letter of divorce.
Yuan Yajing had already guessed this would be the outcome the moment she was pushed down, but recalling all the past events, she still couldn't help but burst into tears.
She really liked Lin Shih-kang.
Yuan Yajing was a woman married out of the family. If she hadn't been divorced, she would have had a chance to live. But now that Lin Shikang has divorced her, she is a daughter of the Yuan family. Lin Shikang has cleared his name, and she is doomed!
This is not just a letter of divorce, but also a death warrant!
Yuan Yajing's tears fell like beads from a broken string.
"Karma! This is my karma! Haha..."
Yuan Yajing laughed and cried at the same time. She thought of He Yuyan's biological father. Back then, she followed her father Yuan Weimin's arrangement to marry He Liang, framed the He family, and caused the He family to be destroyed. Today, she was abandoned by Lin Shikang. This is her retribution!
The people of Ganning County are terrified of the Yuan family, which shows how ruthless they are! Now Yuan Yajing is lying in bed weeping bitterly, but no one sympathizes with her; they would rather she were dead!
Fang Lei took the child to Lin Shikang, who looked at the wrinkled little figure and felt a mix of emotions.
"Another money-loser! A jinx, can't even give birth to a son!" Madam Fan cursed and swore when she learned that it was another daughter.
The sharp sound frightened the child and made him cry.
Lin Shikang also wanted a son, but Er Ya and San Ya went with Yang Cui, so it was as if they didn't have any children. He only had one child, Da Ya, which was really too few.
He sighed and said, "Go find a wet nurse for the child."
I had originally planned to leave immediately, but the arrival of the child forced me to postpone it.
They could no longer stay at the county government office, so they packed their things and found an inn in the county town to stay in.
Lin Shikang wanted to leave this place, so he found a wet nurse who could come with them, but as soon as she heard that she was leaving, no one was willing to do it!
Lin Shikang had no choice but to raise the price, which once reached two hundred taels of silver. He said he could pay immediately and promised to send someone back to her next spring.
Upon hearing that the wet nurse would be given two hundred taels of silver, Madam Fan jumped up and down in a panic: "Two hundred taels!! How can a wretched girl be worth so much money? If all else fails, just leave the child here and let them raise her for now. Give them some money, and when she's older in a couple of years, we can send someone to pick her up! Two hundred taels? Why don't we just rob her?"
Madam Fan didn't like girls to begin with, and since this child was born to Yuan Yajing, she was convinced that Lin Shikang's loss of his official position was due to the Yuan family's involvement! She liked the child even less.
Immediately afterwards, Madam Fan added: "It's another matter whether such a young child can endure the journey. Two hundred taels, don't let it go to waste!"
Lin Shikang hesitated.
His mother's words were unpleasant to hear, but they made some sense.
They have traveled a long way, their child is newborn and weak, and they are exhausted from the long journey; they may not be able to make it.
After much deliberation, Lin Shikang told the wet nurse that he would give her thirty taels of silver to take good care of the child, and that they would come to pick him up in two years at most, at which time he would give her another one hundred taels of silver as a thank-you fee.
The wet nurse's family was poor, otherwise she wouldn't have come out to breastfeed other people's children. Upon hearing the conditions, she agreed without hesitation.
After settling the children in, Lin Shikang and the others set off and left.
Meng Ruyan had been waiting for a long time outside the city gate.
Upon seeing Meng Ruyan, Madam Fan's eyes lit up. She remembered that this girl was also a wealthy woman and that she liked her son.
Now that this girl is here, and looking at the expressions on her son's and Meng Ruyan's faces, something's definitely up with them!
So many rich and beautiful girls like her son!
Fan felt a strong sense of pride!
………
Cen Xiao also planned to leave. Now that there were still some follow-up matters in Ganning County to be handed over to the new county magistrate and Cen Xiao's deputy, it was time for him to go back.
At the crossroads outside the city, they saw Lin Shikang's carriage.
Dao Ba said, "That's not the way back to Wan'an at all. They're probably heading to Kyoto."
Dao San laughed and said, "If you ask me, Lin Shikang is really capable. So many stupid women have fallen for him one after another."
"Pah! What a heartless, spineless bastard who only knows how to live off women, and so many women are throwing themselves at him, he's blind! I, Lao Ba, am wise and mighty, upright and strong, rich and powerful, yet I can't even get a wife! It's truly outrageous!" Dao Ba said angrily.
Dao San laughed unkindly: "What's the use of being thick? Who told you to be ugly?"
"Roughness is certainly useful! But you chopsticks can't understand the joy of us 'rough people'."
"Who's the chopsticks? Which eye of yours saw me as chopsticks?" Dao San was annoyed.
Cen Xiao couldn't bear to look at those two anymore, so he rode his horse towards Wan'an...
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