Night has fallen, but the Luyanggang County government office is still brightly lit.
The officers wanted to go home early, but they were temporarily called back to duty, and it was because of a lowly okiya prostitute. They had many complaints in their hearts, but they were afraid of the power of the newly appointed county magistrate.
I didn't dare to show my depression on my face, so I had to force myself to cheer up and deal with it seriously.
Not long after, Zhang Yan, the geisha's ex-husband, was brought.
Lin Jinxiao was sitting upright in the hall. He glanced under the dim light and saw a well-mannered pink scholar. The anger in his heart suddenly rose again. He hit the desk with a heavy hammer and shouted angrily:
"Zhang Yan, you are also a well-educated poet, why did you break your promise and abandon your wife Zhang Wu?"
"Replying to your lord, because she was born in a wealthy family, my mother is unwilling to accept her. It is hard to break her mother's destiny, so I have to give her a divorce certificate."
Zhang Yan replied calmly.
It was the first time that the county magistrate was so interested in a brothel girl that he even called him to the county office in the middle of the night to try the case in person. It was really ridiculous.
"Since it is hard to break your mother's destiny, why did you lure Zhang Wu to redeem her life in the first place?"
Lin Jinxiao looked at him with eyes as sharp as a falcon: "She is a good person since she has been awarded a good document. You are a scumbag, cheating money and sex. You have simply insulted my reputation as a scholar."
What kind of scumbag?
Zhang Yan and all the government officials were stunned when they heard this.
Before everyone could recover, Lin Jinxiao shouted angrily again: "Drag this ungrateful scumbag out and beat him up again."
"Sir, why are you like this? The worst thing is that I can just take him back."
As soon as Zhang Yan finished speaking, the guards forcibly dragged him out and gave him a slap in the face. His screams of pain echoed throughout the county government office.
After getting down from the fifty-level board, Zhang Yan was already bruised and bruised. He was dragged in by the guards and weakly begged for mercy: "Sir, I know my sin."
Lin Jinxiao nodded with satisfaction: "Now that you know your crime, I will not embarrass you anymore. I will take Zhang Wu back immediately and live a peaceful life in the future. If you dare to do such treacherous things again, I will never give you mercy.
"
"yes."
Zhang Yan responded submissively, looked at him cautiously, and asked tentatively: "I'm sorry for asking, but I wonder what adults mean by a scumbag?"
"That's what a scumbag is."
When he thought that he was in the same category as such ungrateful people, Lin Jinxiao's face suddenly darkened, and he said a few words coldly and cryptically: "Go and check it yourself."
Then he left the hall, got up and left angrily, and moved to the back hall.
Lying alone on the cold soft bed, savoring the faint fragrance of his lips, Lin Jinxiao couldn't help but brush the corners of his lips.
After leaving for just a moment, he began to miss her deeply.
But since she still resisted a little and agreed to divorce, the most basic respect should be left to her.
She comforted the babies very well, which made him feel at ease.
It seems that from now on I will have to live alone in this county government office.
And she already knew her true intention, but she was completely unaware of what her true intention was.
She just refused to mention it. Could it be that she was pretending to be someone else?
I heard that the restaurant where she opened the restaurant was provided by Zhao Taigong. This woman also persuaded herself to win over the enlightened gentry and speak for Zhao Taigong. Could it be that she had fallen in love with the old man?
"How can you be so blind?"
Lin Jinxiao turned over in disbelief.
Although Taigong Zhao was said to be as wealthy as his country, he was still an old man who was about to die half of his body. It would not be worth it to surrender to that old guy just for money.
She is so smart and determined, she would never do such a superficial thing.
Lin Jinxiao searched carefully in his mind again, thinking of Wei Ziqing and the dead County Magistrate Zhu Yue of Haikang County, but these were of no importance. Finally, he suddenly thought of a person:
That Baiyu person from the Xie royal family.
"lecher."
This sounds much kinder than a scumbag.
I don’t know what kind of past happened between the two of them.
It seems like we need to investigate this person carefully.
In the Lin family's old house, the quadruplets and Liu Yun's mother and daughter had been following Chu Nanzhi, and they didn't know how the conversation between her and Lin Jinxiao went.
Liu Yun felt confused when she heard Sang Kun said that her son-in-law had returned to the county government office.
Why did my daughter go to the study and my son-in-law ran away from home?
Liu Yun called her daughter to the main bedroom with some worry. The mother and daughter sat on the edge of the bed. Liu Yun put on a serious attitude and asked slowly: "Da Zhi, how are you and Dalang doing?"
What did you say?"
Thinking of what happened in the study, Chu Nanzhi pursed her lips in embarrassment.
I had told the pretty boy so many things, trying to get him to let himself go and boldly pursue what he wanted, but he actually kissed me forcefully.
This damn scumbag.
Looking at Liu Yun's eager eyes, Chu Nanzhi could only respond quietly: "It's nothing. I returned the marriage contract to him and he tore it up."
Liu Yun immediately understood what her son-in-law meant, and hesitantly took out the marriage contract from her son-in-law and handed it to her daughter.
Chu Nanzhi took it and looked at it, then her face suddenly darkened: "What does he mean?"
"I still don't understand what this means. He destroyed the marriage contract between me and your mother-in-law because he wanted me to stop using this marriage contract to bind the relationship between you two."
After a pause, Liu Yun continued with a deep expression: "And he gave me this marriage contract written by himself, just to unilaterally prove that he is willing to be the son-in-law of my Chu family, and he also hopes that our family can
Don't worry, no matter what happens in the future, he will never abandon our Chu family."
Chu Nanzhi frowned and nodded, feeling slightly confused in his heart: Didn't he create a prison for himself?
"The pretty boy has a lot of guts."
Chu Nanzhi muttered something in a low voice. Listening to her unclear tone, Liu Yun asked dissatisfiedly: "Da Zhi, what are you talking about?"
"fine."
Chu Nanzhi smiled with a slightly stiff expression.
Liu Yun continued: "Da Zhi, I think you are worrying too much. Da Lang doesn't have that girl from the Chang family in his heart at all. The marriage with the Chang family was just arranged by Mr. Chang. He did not care about the relationship between his master and his disciples."
Only if you don't mind disobeying will you accept it."
Chu Nanzhi did remember that Lin Jinxiao did explain this matter, but when they talked about it at that time, she had a perfunctory attitude and didn't pay attention to him.
Although Liu Yun didn't want to forcefully interfere in the relationship between the two now, she wanted to make it clear to her daughter what she needed to say.
"Da Zhi, don't be confused. I know Dalang's temperament quite well. He was born in such an unfortunate family since he was a child. Although he has a cold temperament, he never really cares about the people he cares about.
He knows how to treat others poorly, and he is a real person, not a talker. He would rather do more than say more."
Liu Yun grabbed her slender hand tightly and said with a sincere face: "Think about it, if he doesn't have you in his heart, why would he do so much for you? He gave you his house, money and land, and he still violated the clan.
The elders do not want to accept concubines."
She silently glanced at the marriage contract in her hand: "If he really cares about that girl from the Chang family, you were the one who clearly proposed the divorce. He can just marry her with peace of mind. Why does he have to write another contract?
You don’t leave yourself a way out.”
Listening to Liu Yun's subtle insights, Chu Nanzhi suddenly became enlightened, as if he had figured out something.