Quick Wear: Don't Follow the Plot and Feel Good

Chapter 112 My Mother is a Love-sick Person

Xu Minqiu's mother, Jia Yuyao, was the daughter of a Duke of Guo. The Duke of Guo had only one son and one daughter, and they doted on the daughter since she was young, giving her everything she wanted.

When Jia Yuyao was 16 years old, she fell in love with Xu Zhizhang, a Jinshi of the current dynasty. Despite her family's opposition, she vowed to marry him, even threatening to die.

Xu Zhizhang, driven by his own career and fame, forced his first wife to death and married Jia Yuyao. He even used her mother's family connections to gain a firm foothold in the capital without being exiled, becoming a fifth-rank official.

Xu Zhizhang's ex-wife died, but left behind a daughter, Xu Niannian.

Perhaps because he felt guilty towards his ex-wife and Xu Niannian, he always casually spoke of his ex-wife's good points, implying that if she hadn't wanted to marry Jia Yuyao, she wouldn't have committed suicide to fulfill his wish. His ex-wife played an indispensable role in his current situation.

Ex-wife: What bad luck!

Xu Zhizhang's lukewarm attitude towards Jia Yuyao made Jia Yuyao even more determined to please Xu Niannian. She thought that by pleasing Xu Niannian, she could make Xu Zhizhang fall in love with her completely.

To this end, he did not hesitate to abuse his own daughter Xu Minqiu.

This thing should have belonged to Xu Minqiu, but Xu Niannian said she liked it, so she gave it to her; even the thing that the Duke's Mansion gave to Xu Minqiu was given to her.

Xu Minqiu once went back to her maternal grandparents' home to complain. The Duke's couple scolded Jia Yuyao severely.

"Fool! How could I have given birth to such a shameless daughter like you? You are willing to be lowly and curry favor with the Xu family, so why do you force your daughter to beg for alms? If you dare to bully Minqiu again, you will never be allowed to return to the Duke's Mansion again!"

When she got home, Jia Yuyao vented her anger on Xu Minqiu, locking her in the room and not letting her go out, and taking Xu Niannian to parties every day.

In this way, Jia Yuyao turned 14. The emperor issued an edict, requiring Xu Minqiu to marry the prince as his concubine.

Xu Niannian also wanted to be the Crown Princess. So on the eve of the wedding, Jia Yuyao secretly replaced her daughter with a poor scholar and married Xu Niannian to the Crown Prince's mansion.

On the wedding night, the prince discovered that the Xu family had secretly replaced the original with the new one. He was furious and reported it to the emperor. As a result, the Xu family won the title of "Candy Crush".

Including Xu Minqiu, who is already married.

Fortunately, the emperor valued the Duke's Mansion, so my maternal grandfather's family was not implicated. However, from then on, they lost the emperor's favor and gradually faded out of the center of power.

"I want Xu Zhizhang to go back to where he came from. And my love-brained wife, if she likes him, let her follow Xu Zhizhang back to his hometown!"

"As you wish," said the ginger and disappeared.

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The Emperor had just issued an imperial decree that day. His original intention was to marry the Crown Prince to the Duke's Mansion, as both parties were his most valued and could better support the Crown Prince.

Unfortunately, Duke Jia only had one son and one daughter. His daughter was so stupid that she married a Jinshi (a successful candidate in the imperial examination). His son only had two grandchildren.

So he set his sights on Xu Minqiu. The emperor had already sent people to inquire about her, and found that Xu Minqiu and the Duke's wife had a very similar style of doing things: dignified and generous, yet no less masculine. She was completely different from her mother, Jia Yuyao.

So the marriage was granted directly.

As soon as the person announcing the decree left, Xu Niannian's eyes filled with tears. "Mother, I don't want to marry that poor scholar. I want to marry the prince and become the queen in the future!"

"Okay, okay, mother loves you the most and will naturally help you." Jia Yuyao agreed quickly.

"Mother, disobeying the imperial order is a serious crime that will lead to the extermination of nine generations of your family. Have you thought about it?" Sheng Jiang said.

"What do you mean by disobeying the imperial order? The imperial edict says she's the granddaughter of the Duke's Mansion, but it doesn't say which one. Speaking of which, Nian Nian is also my daughter, and she's also the granddaughter of the Duke's Mansion. Why can't she marry?"

Ginger: Idiot!

Two days later, Sheng Jiang found Jia Yuyao and said, "Mother, I went out today and saw my father and my eldest sister going to Guihua Lane together. I heard there is a tofu beauty there who looks very similar to my eldest sister's biological mother."

Jia Yuyao couldn't sit still anymore. Her head started buzzing when she heard the words "Tofu Xishi".

It turns out that Xu Zhizhang's first wife was a tofu seller. At that time, Xu Zhizhang was born in a poor family and had little money. It was his wife who saved the money she earned from selling tofu to help him study for the imperial examinations.

So even if Xu Zhizhang forced his first wife to death, Jia Yuyao knew that he still had a place for his first wife in his heart.

After being married for nearly a decade, Xu Zhizhang had been embroiled in affairs of many women outside the Duke's Mansion, leaving her without protection. However, he never truly cared for any of them. No matter how many mistresses he had, he never brought them into the mansion. So, now, she was the only one in charge of the household.

She felt that as long as she, the wife, was still alive, the coquettish and slutty woman outside would not be able to cause any trouble. So, she turned a blind eye and decided to keep it out of sight and out of mind.

Now that I have Tofu Xishi...will Xu Zhizhang come back? Will his heart still be with me?

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Jia Yuyao immediately called over 20 servants and went to Guihua Lane together.

Ginger also went with him. How could we eat the melon if he didn’t go?

Jia Yuyao gave an order, and before the three men could react, a group of people captured Tofu Xishi.

"Paws!"

Just as the servant was about to take action, he heard Xu Zhizhang shout, "Stop!"

Xu Niannian came over and asked, "Mom, why are you here?"

Jia Yuyao shook her hand off and for the first time looked at her with a bad face, "If I hadn't come, how would I have known about the good things you two did?"

"Mother misunderstood. Dad helped this woman out of pity. Dad has nothing to do with her."

After saying that, he glanced at Xu Zhizhang.

Xu Zhizhang continued, "Yes, madam, how can this woman be compared with Nian Nian's first wife?"

"Really? She's not your mistress?" Jia Yuyao was so in love that she quickly believed it.

Someone in the crowd shouted, "Hey, I've seen Miss Xu's mother before. How come she looks exactly like this Tofu Beauty? Could it be that she didn't die back then?"

Jia Yuyao started to get angry again, and this time she didn't listen to anyone. "Hurry up and destroy that bitch's face! See if she dares to seduce my husband again!"

"Jia Yuyao, do you dare?! Do you believe I will divorce you?"

"Look at you. I've been married to you for 16 years, and I don't even have a concubine. Isn't that enough? In the entire capital, is there any woman as jealous as you?"

Jia Yuyao, "You want to divorce me? For something so shameful, you want to divorce me? Xu Zhizhang, if it weren't for my mother's family, do you think a kid like you from a remote village could have gained a foothold in the capital?"

She sat on the ground and cried loudly, her hair all messed up. She no longer looked like a lady from a noble family. "Okay! Xu Zhizhang, I never thought I was so blind to marry an ungrateful person like you!"

Xu Zhizhang didn't try to persuade her, nor did he say anything. He just looked at her coldly.

In fact, Xu Zhizhang had always handled things this way after they had been married for so many years. In the end, Jia Yuyao would still flatter him.

Soon, the news spread that the Duke's daughter had made a scene with her concubine in the street.

A group of people looked down on us with disdain, which really brought shame to the noble ladies of the capital!

The Duke's Mansion naturally also knew the news, and fearing that it would affect Xu Minqiu, they sent someone to take Sheng Jiang back.

"Is it mother who's here to vent my anger?" Jia Yuyao asked the visitor. It was the capable old nanny who served the Duke's wife.

"Miss, it's Madam who's here to take Miss back to the mansion for a while. She'll be sent back when the current situation is over."

"Why? Didn't mother send you to help me? How could this happen? Doesn't she love me the most?"

The old nanny said one last thing, "Miss, please forgive me for being so nosy. You are the eldest daughter of the Duke's Mansion, so naturally no one dares to bully you. But if you don't respect yourself, no one can help you."

Madam, I still say the same thing. If you divorce, you will naturally still be the eldest daughter of the Duke's Mansion. If you continue to be involved with the Xu family, I am afraid that the Duke's Mansion will not allow you to do whatever you want."

After saying that, the nanny took Jiang away.

Jia Yuyao fell to the ground, in disbelief. "Impossible! Mother can't possibly treat me like this. Yes, I want to go back to the Duke's Mansion! Chun Xing, pack up quickly, let's go to the Duke's Mansion!"

Xu Zhizhang had come during this time, wanting to see what goodies the Duke's Mansion had sent him this time. After all, whenever Jia Yuyao made a fool of herself, her family would come and criticize him, and then they would give their own daughter many expensive gifts to appease her.

Over the years, the total amount of money sent to him was almost tens of thousands of taels. In the end, wasn't it all handed over to him by Jia Yuyao?

But what happened this time? Did the Duke's Mansion not send anything? They just took their daughter away? Were they really going to give up on her?

Xu Zhizhang left with a grim expression on his face, without trying to comfort Jia Yuyao at all.

Jia Yuyao packed up and went to the Duke's Mansion, but was stopped outside the door.

"You bastard! How dare you not let me in!"

Jia Yuyao was furious.

"Miss, please don't embarrass me. This is what the master and his wife want."

"What? Go in and report it again! I don't believe my parents really don't want me anymore."

"My lady, I have already made three trips."

At this time, Sheng Jiang was talking to the Duke's wife.

"Grandmother, the imperial decree has been issued, but mother is determined to have Xu Niannian marry the crown prince. If it were any other matter, it would be fine, but this imperial decree...disobeying it is fooling the royal family..."

"How ridiculous!" The Duke's wife slammed the table in anger. "I only have this pitiful granddaughter, and she still wants to humiliate me! Go, tell the Duke to go!"

The servant ran out.

Madam Jia took Sheng Jiang's hand and said, "My dear child, I knew your mother was a fool. I never thought she would commit suicide and drag us all down with her. Don't worry, you don't have to go back to your family. You can live in the Duke's Mansion. In a few months, you will come of age and get married. Both will be held at the Duke's Mansion."

This was exactly what Jiang wanted, and she nodded obediently.

When the Duke came back from court and heard what his wife said, he naturally had no doubts as he had always been henpecked.

"Now that she actually dares to have such a big idea, sooner or later our family will be implicated. It's better to write a letter of severance and get it stamped by the Beijing Guards. From now on, whether she lives or dies, it has nothing to do with us."

Outside the door, Jia Yuyao looked at the letter of severance in disbelief, "Dad, Mom, do you really not want your daughter anymore?"

"Go away!" Mrs. Jia suppressed her grief and didn't look at her. "You will be lucky in the future."

Jia Yuyao knelt and tugged at Madam Jia's clothes, but was pulled away. She walked in and closed the door, leaving her alone on the ground, crying bitterly, feeling that she had lost the most important thing.

Since she doesn't want her daughter anymore, she naturally won't care about her son-in-law's future.

The next day, Xu Zhizhang was found guilty and reported to the emperor, who dismissed him from his post, demoted him to a commoner, and sent him back to his hometown, with the intention of banning his family from officialdom for three generations.

His son Xu Minzhou often bullied others in school and was persuaded to leave by the teacher.

The family returned to their former poverty state.

Xu Zhizhang finally dropped his hypocritical mask and began to punch and kick Jia Yuyao. "You damn bitch! If you hadn't disobeyed the imperial order and dared to marry Nian Nian to the prince, your father-in-law and his family wouldn't have severed ties with us! You really want to die, so don't drag me down with you. Did you discuss this with me when you were trying to replace the original with the fake? How many lives do you have? How dare you disobey the imperial order?"

"There's still a chance. Hurry up and go to the Duke's Mansion and kneel at the gate until they forgive you! Otherwise, don't come back! Go quickly!"

Regardless of Jia Yuyao's injured body, he dragged her to the gate of the Duke's Mansion and hid behind to watch.

Ginger raised his eyebrows. How could such a thing be possible without a heavy rain?

I said hello to the sky. The sky, which was clear just now, was now covered with dark clouds. In less than a moment, it started to rain heavily.

The rain is falling, wow, it's definitely heavier than the day Yiping asked her father for money.

Under the blessing of heavy rain, Jia Yuyao lasted less than half an hour before fainting on the ground.

Xu Zhizhang saw that things were not going well and got up early and ran away.

When Jia Yuyao woke up, Xu Zhizhang had already run back to his hometown village.

How can you not want a wife?

Sheng Jiang sent Jia Yuyao back.

This marked the beginning of her life as a servant to the family. Washing clothes, cooking, lighting the fire and working in the fields, Xu Zhizhang would beat her if she didn't do her job properly, leaving her with no good flesh.

She asked her son for help, and Xu Minzhou said, "Mom, if you hadn't done anything wrong, our family wouldn't be like this. It's all your fault! Dad hit you, it must be your fault! Can you try to find the reason yourself?"

Jia Yuyao was so angry that she asked Xu Niannian for help again.

Xu Niannian beat her up again.

"Nian Nian, what's wrong with you? Have I been bad to you all these years?"

"Bitch! If it weren't for you, my mother wouldn't have been forced to death. How dare you say you're good to me? You deserve what you have today!"

Just like that, without the protection of the Duke's Mansion, Jia Yuyao was soon tortured to the point of being emaciated and dying.

Xu Zhizhang, who had no money to spend but couldn't put down his pride to make money, set his sights on Xu Niannian and sold her for ten taels of silver. He planned to marry another wife, but his son stole the money and gambled it away.

Xu Zhizhang was so angry that he beat Xu Minzhou to the ground and even killed him.

This scene happened to be witnessed by a neighbor, who reported it to the authorities and sentenced Xu Zhizhang to be executed in the autumn.

Without anyone to disrupt her, Xu Minqiu received so many gifts at her coming-of-age ceremony that her hands were cramped. She was successfully married to the prince and eventually became the queen of a country.