Chapter 283 The Sucker
Qi family.
It’s the Qi family again.
This is the consequence of a failed assassination attempt.
Weeds cannot be completely removed; they will grow again with the spring breeze.
It's not a pleasant feeling to have someone hold a handle on you, and people will talk about you from time to time.
Qi Caiwei found it very irritating and didn't even have the courage to refute it.
But this time it was Jiang Zijin who stood up. She argued confidently, "The assassination has nothing to do with the Qi family. Perhaps General Lu's political enemies disliked you and hired someone to kill you. After all, your Lu family embezzled military funds and made money from the national crisis. There are many people who want to kill you."
Qi Caiwei nodded repeatedly in agreement, "That's right, there are so many people who hate your Lu family. If you want to blame someone, blame your father who made a fortune from the national crisis..."
“Pah…”
“Pah…”
Before they could react, they were slapped twice in the face.
After slapping someone, Xiuxiu stepped back and felt something strange on her hand. She raised the hand that had just hit someone and looked at it.
"Damn, there's so much powder, it's all stuck to my hands."
"Puff~~"
Little Miaomiao, who was drinking water from a small kettle, spat out a mouthful of water.
My aunt was so funny that I couldn’t help myself.
Looking at Qi Caiwei's face again, there was a big slap mark on her face which was covered with thick powder.
Very eye-catching.
The little girl laughed so hard that she almost got a stitch in the side.
You deserve it. It's your fault for slandering your grandfather.
If she had as good skills as her aunt, she would also go up and slap her twice.
"You...you dare to hit me." Qi Caiwei covered her face, her eyes bloodshot.
"Beating you is not a light punishment. Uncle Lu was framed and was wrongly accused. If you continue to gossip about him, I will cut off your tongues." Xiuxiu wanted to slap her just now.
I can no longer tolerate it.
Qi Caiwei looked at her raised hand again, shrank her neck, and took a few steps back.
Just shut up.
Jiang Zijin's eyes were red, and she looked at Jiang Yunze pitifully, "Daddy...she hit me..."
This woman is too arrogant. She even dares to break into someone's house and beat them up.
"Daddy, take a look." Jiang Yunze hurried forward and checked his daughter's face.
Half of her face was red and swollen.
Qi Caiwei's face is hard to describe.
Although the mother and daughter deliberately pick on people's sore spots, this move was too cruel.
He looked at Lu Qingyao and said, "Look at the bad company you've formed. No wonder you've made Miaomiao so naughty."
"What does this have to do with Xiuxiu and Miaomiao? When the child was born, you refused to even see her and rushed to accuse me of a crime and drive me out of the capital. Now she doesn't recognize you and is estranged from you. Why did you bother to give her a bad reputation? Is this the kind of father you are?"
"Besides, as long as we haven't divorced, I'm still the Jiang family's mistress. It's just disciplining a concubine, so a slap in the face wouldn't be considered a minor punishment."
She looked at Qi Caiwei with cold eyes and a warning in her tone, "Qi, we both know whether your father, Minister Qi, has had a hand in the Lu family's transformation. If you continue to slander my father, you and your daughter will be like this coffee table..."
"Bang……"
Lu Qingyao slapped the coffee table beside her.
The coffee table cracked instantly.
It broke into several pieces.
When A Niang was angry, Jiang Ziyan had already carried his sister to her side.
He hadn't seen his mother like this for a long time.
My grandfather's family has been wronged enough, and now Emperor Xuan is still dragging his feet and not making it public.
The Lu family has suffered so much injustice.
Now the Qi mother and daughter mentioned my grandfather without knowing the consequences. My mother didn't kill them with one blow, but just endured it.
However, this palm strike did scare Jiang Yunze and Old Madam Jiang.
Lu Qingyao has been married into the Jiang family for more than ten years. Although they occasionally quarrel, they have never fought.
Everyone says she is the daughter of a general, but she is also gentle and virtuous.
Almost no one knew she had this skill.
Jiang Yunze always thought that she only knew some fancy moves, but now he thinks that he underestimated her.
He gave in a step and said, "I can divorce you, and I can let you take Miaomiao away, but you have to exchange those accounts and letters."
As for children, their surname is always Jiang. No matter where they go, they are descendants of the Jiang family. This will never change.
What he is most anxious about now is the evidence in his hands.
Lu Qingyao will take care of the child and the Jiangzhou lineage.
But if the accounts fall into the hands of others, it’s hard to say.
It's always a thunder.
He had to get it back to see what that stupid woman Qi Caiwei had done in Jiangzhou and whether it would implicate him.
If it implicates him, it will also implicate the Jiang family.
Then keeping this person would be a disaster.
"Okay, I'll give you all." Lu Qingyao took the two boxes, one big and one small, from Xier.
By now, she knows Jiang Yunze very well.
This person is selfish and narrow-minded.
He relied on his widowed mother's laundry and studied hard for more than ten years to get to where he is today.
He will never allow anyone to influence his career.
After seeing the accounts in the wooden box, Jiang Yunze and Qi Caiwei, mother and daughter, finally felt relieved.
Jiang Yunze immediately asked someone to take out the divorce documents that had been prepared in advance.
After being bombarded by court officials these days, he had long wanted to cut off all ties with the Lu family.
He had been waiting for this day, waiting for Lu Qingyao to come in person and ask for a divorce.
This divorce must be initiated by Lu Qingyao.
Otherwise, those censors would have accused him of being ungrateful and heartless.
Those old guys who are conservative and conservative can talk a living person to death and even open the coffin of a dead person.
He's had enough.
However, Lu Qingyao did not sign the divorce agreement.
Instead, he took out the deed from another small box and said, "Divorce is fine, but when will you move out of this house?"
"What house are we moving to?" Qi Caiwei, her daughter and Old Lady Jiang asked in unison.
Seeing Jiang Yunze's expression suddenly change, he remained silent.
Qi Caiwei suddenly felt something was wrong and asked, "My husband, what's going on? Why is the deed to this house in her hands?"
At first, she thought the Jiang family was of low status and poor, but after seeing this house, she felt that it might not be as bad as she thought.
Although the house is not big, it is in a good location and not far from the imperial city.
Now looking at his expression, does it mean that the house does not belong to the Jiang family?
Come to think of it, Jiang Yunze at that time could not afford such a house, even if he borrowed money, he probably couldn't buy it.
Madam Jiang also looked at her son, "Aze, what's going on?"
Even now, she can't recognize a few words.
Not to mention looking at any contract.
She knew that Lu Qingyao had taken away all the dowry, leaving only the business she had originally managed for Aze.
Aze had a salary, land, shops, and rewards in the past. His wife and concubine also used their dowries to subsidize a lot of household expenses.
My son is not the kind of person who would take the initiative to ask for a dowry from his wife, but he doesn’t want it, but she does.
Isn’t it right to respect your mother-in-law?
These noble ladies from wealthy families have too much money to spend.
If you don't want it, you might end up like Lu Qingyao and lose all your dowry.
Rather than giving it to outsiders, it is better to give it to her. After all, it will all be left to children and grandchildren in the end.
Logically, this house should have been under the son's name long ago.
She pushed her son and said, "Son, please speak up. How come the house deed is in Lu Qingyao's hands?"
Lu Qingyao put away the contract and said leisurely, "Let me tell you..."
"This house was specially bought for me as my dowry by my father. The title deed is naturally in my hands. Not only this house, but also every brick, blade of grass, and tree in it, and even the tables, chairs, and benches you are sitting on now, are all my dowry. After Jiang Yunze and I divorce, you will move out of here."
Jiang Yunze lowered his eyes and said nothing, his face as black as the bottom of a pot.
After a long silence, he finally spoke: "Lu Qingyao, we have signed a contract."
Lu Qingyao sneered, "Contract? You are so shameless to say that."
"Who said you couldn't take my dowry on our wedding night? Even if you bought this house from me, half of every salary you receive from now on will go into my name. I just want to ask you, where did that half go?"
"And don't forget, we signed a blank deed. To save on the property tax, the deed wasn't submitted to the government for stamping, so it's invalid. According to the official documents, the house is still under my name. I have the right to dispose of it, whether it's sold or demolished."
Jiang Yunze was speechless, with beads of sweat on his forehead.
As an official, how could he not know that a deed without the official seal is invalid?
This matter cannot even be brought to the attention of the government.
The imperial court has issued a clear order prohibiting private real estate transactions, as this is a form of tax evasion.
If it gets out, it means he broke the law knowingly and he is never in the right.
I was careless.
At first, I never thought that the Lu family would fall, let alone divorce Lu Qingyao.
He thought that since they were married, his wife's dowry would naturally belong to the Jiang family sooner or later. No matter what, she would leave it to her two sons. He signed the contract with her just to make her happy.
I didn't expect her to be so heartless.
He has lived in this house for more than ten years. Asking him to move out now is like cutting flesh out of his body.
How could he bear to do that?
You can buy a new house, but in this location, buy a house like this.
Not everyone is willing to sell it, and it will cost a lot of money.
The Jiang family can't afford this money now.
Old Mrs. Jiang finally understood that the house was not under her son's name at all.
She wanted to use her two grandchildren as an excuse, and said kindly, "Qingyao, we've lived here for many years. You can't just chase us away and leave. After all, this is Feng'er and Yan'er's home. They are the legitimate sons of the Jiang family. After a hundred years, everything in the Jiang family, including this house, will be inherited by them. Why are you so heartless?"
Lu Qingyao said, "Old Madam, you don't have to worry about this. I will transfer the house to their brothers when they get married. But now, I just want to take back my own things. Why not?"
"You...how can you be so heartless? I'm already old, and you still want to torture me to death? Unless I die, don't even think about letting me leave this house." Old Mrs. Jiang stopped pretending and started to act like a troublemaker.
Lu Qingyao laughed. "Then I'll have no choice but to tear down all these houses and raise sheep, chickens, pigs, and cows here. If you don't mind, you can live with them. Isn't that how we lived in Taoxi Village?"
“You…you…you…”
Old Mrs. Jiang was so angry that she fell backwards, holding her chest and unable to utter a word for a long time.
The old face with wrinkles all over it was twisted with anger.
What she least wanted to hear now was Taoxi Village, and what she least wanted to see were people from Taoxi Village.
Those people had seen the mother and son at their most humble and embarrassing state.
Jiang Yunze slammed the table in anger.
Using the house he had lived in for so many years to raise pigs and sheep, how shameful! !
Don't let your colleagues laugh at you to death.
"Lu Qingyao, don't go too far. If you don't want to, then don't. Why do you have to humiliate my mother like this? Just move out, sign the divorce papers, and hand over the accounts." Jiang Yunze took the pen, signed his name without hesitation, and pressed his fingerprint.
He no longer cared about his face.
Taking Qi Caiwei's hand, he said softly, "Wei'er, I'm sorry for putting you and your mother through this. From now on, our family will have to live outside the city and buy a small house. We'll have to sell off some of our servants and only keep a few loyal ones. We'll also stop eating bird's nests and ginseng. We have to save our money."
Qi Caiwei was stunned and froze for a while.
He must be crazy. He actually wanted her to live a hard life outside the city and even sell her servants.
She is the daughter of the Shangshu family.
Could it be that without Lu Qingyao, the Jiang family would not be able to survive?
She just refuses to believe it.
"Lu Qingyao, at worst we can buy your house. Just name the price."
Jiang Zijin: ...
Ever since I came back, I have been helping my mother with the household. Although the Jiang family is not very wealthy, it is not to the point where we have to move out of the city as my father said.
He did this on purpose to scare A Niang.
But she didn't want to move anywhere else, so she had no choice but to buy it.
If Lu Qingyao keeps the title of legal wife, she would actually be at a loss. Money can be earned again if it is lost.
Lu Qingyao looked at Jiang Yunze's face and was too lazy to expose him.
Isn't it just that I don't want to spend money, but I want to buy this house...
She looked at her son and asked, "Yan'er, how much do you think our house should be sold for?"
Jiang Ziyan looked around and said, "Mother, this house, including these screens and furniture, is worth at least 25,000 taels of silver."
"You bastard, how can you be so disloyal?" Jiang Yunze was so angry that his chest hurt.
Twenty-five thousand taels, just go and rob him!
I have raised this son for seven or eight years, how come he has become an ungrateful person after just a few years away from his mother?
Jiang Ziyan cried out in injustice, "Dad, let's not talk about anything else, just this chair you're sitting on is made entirely of the finest golden nanmu wood. I imagine your mother must have spent a lot of money on it."
"Of course, I didn't want to sell it in the first place." Lu Qingyao nodded.
Xiuxiu also nodded, "Sister, why don't you not sell it? Miaomiao said she likes it very much."
Then everyone looked at little Jiang Miaomiao.
Jiang Miaomiao smacked her lips.
The scumbag father is simply the Phoenix Man in ancient times. He lives in his mother's house, uses the woman's dowry, and even uses the woman's dowry to support his mistress.
When a woman becomes useless, they will find some fault with her and kick her away.
How shameless.
"Mother, let's raise sheep in this yard, and also raise geese, lots and lots of geese. I like to stew big geese in an iron pot."
Jiang Miaomiao tilted her head back and counted on her fingers.
"Twenty sheep, ten geese, thirty chickens, ten pigs..."
"Enough! Buy it, we'll buy this house!" Qi Caiwei and Jiang Zijin gritted their teeth and replied at the same time.
Twenty-five thousand taels.
Qi Caiwei felt distressed, but there was nothing she could do.
If that doesn't work, she can sell a few shops and land, or else sell the farm that her mother gave her when she got married.
Jiang Miaomiao: ...
Wow! That’s good.
Someone has been cheated.
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