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Chapter 1754 The Country Girl Looked Down Upon 75
Li Yuanniang had already decided on her remarriage partner: Li San's sister-in-law's brother.

Grandma Li's family is wealthy, so she definitely won't take her salary. On the contrary, she'll give herself money to use. Isn't that great?

There's no need to worry about the low status of merchants. Whoever marries her will be a guest of honor, which will elevate their status. What's there to be afraid of?

Moreover, Grandma Li's family were merchants, unlike a villager who was vulgar and shallow. Therefore, Grandma Li's brother was the first choice.

As for Zhou Linlang's brothers, even if she had brothers of marriageable age, she wouldn't be interested. After all, they came from the countryside, and even if they were successful now, they would probably still be like the Cao family—vulgar and shallow-minded, not as good as Grandma Li's brothers.

Linlang was truly grateful that she didn't marry him. After all, if she had really been interested in her family, Linlang would have worried that marrying such a troublemaker would have turned the Zhou family upside down.

Back in the Prince's mansion, she would follow Madam Cao and Aunt Cao around, jumping up and down. Who would like someone like that?

But Li Yuanniang said she couldn't get a divorce without someone to back her up, because she couldn't leave her husband's family on her own—she only brought one maid and one nanny with her husband's family, how could they possibly fight against so many people from the Cao family?—her husband's family wouldn't agree to a divorce either, so she went to her brother.

The reason she didn't seek help from her father, Master Li, was because she knew he was a man who hated trouble and would definitely not stand up for her.

Her own brother, however, had long disliked the Cao family, so he would definitely help her if she asked for a divorce.

Sure enough, when Li Yuanniang mentioned this matter to Li Erlang, Li Erlang agreed to support her.

He had been forced to marry Cao by his aunt's threat of suicide, and he was already thoroughly disgusted with her. So when he heard that the Cao family was bullying his sister and not giving her her salary, it reminded him of the time when his aunt had taken his monthly allowance and given it to the Cao family. The old and new grudges surged up in his heart, and he naturally wanted to teach the Cao family a lesson.

So, after hearing his sister's request, Li Erlang, despite being a low-key person who didn't want to cause trouble, was very willing to help his sister.

So Li Erlang went to the Cao family and asked them to write a divorce agreement for his sister. He warned them that if they didn't, he would cause them trouble later.

The Cao family only wanted money and didn't dare to cause trouble. So when they heard Li Erlang's threat, they verbally agreed to write it down to appease Li Erlang, and then quickly sent someone to invite Aunt Cao to come and stop the matter.

They dared not defy Li Erlang, so they sought out someone who could subdue him to deal with the situation.

Only Aunt Cao could stop this, since Li Erlang dislikes Cao Shi. If Cao Shi were to come and stop it, she might not only fail to do so, but might even make things worse.

When Aunt Cao heard that her son had gone to her parents' home to force her nephew to divorce her daughter, she was furious and immediately rushed there. She knew that her relationship with her son was nearly broken because of the money she had taken from him to support her family and her later threat of suicide to force him to marry Cao Shi. So, when she came to her parents' home to stop this, she didn't dare to yell at Li Erlang for interfering in her maternal family's affairs. Instead, she threatened to kill herself, just like she had done before, to stop him from doing so.

When Li Yuanniang saw her aunt coming to ruin her plans, and even resorting to crying, making a scene, and threatening suicide, and seeing her brother losing ground and unable to hold on any longer, she launched a magical counterattack and also threatened suicide.

The magic attack worked, leaving Aunt Cao dumbfounded.

Li Yuanniang said, "If you dare to stop me, I dare to die. If word gets out, it will be that you forced a member of the imperial clan to death! You are just a concubine. If you forced a member of the imperial clan to death, I don't think you can live on. I don't believe you don't want to continue to enjoy wealth and honor, nor do I believe that your uncle's family doesn't want this wealth and honor anymore. After all, if you are gone, they will have nothing left."

Aunt Cao was at a loss when she saw her daughter say this, because she dared not gamble that her daughter would not really die. After all, if her daughter really died, the Imperial Clan Court might cause trouble for her. If she died, her maternal family would have no one to take care of her. After all, Li Erlang hated the Cao family. If he saw that she was dead, he might divorce Cao Shi, and then the Cao family would be completely without anyone to take care of them.

She felt that her daughter might really want to die, because her daughter was very agitated right now. If she didn't agree to the divorce, and her daughter got carried away with her emotions, she might really hang herself or smash her head against the wall and die.

When people are overcome by emotion, they can do anything. In her years at the Prince's mansion, she had seen people attempt suicide. Others thought the person was too afraid to die, but the person ended up banging their head against a wall and dying.

She was afraid her daughter would do the same, so she had no choice but to try to reason with her, saying, "Even if you divorce and go home, you'll still get married. It doesn't matter who you marry. I'll have your husband and his family give you your salary. Please stop making a fuss, okay?"

Li Yuanniang was already planning to marry into Li San's family and live a better life, so naturally she was unwilling. She made a huge fuss and insisted on a divorce, saying that Aunt Cao's nephew was vulgar and uncouth, just a country bumpkin, and she didn't like him.

Upon hearing this, Aunt Cao couldn't help but say, "Although your husband is from the countryside, isn't the eldest mistress's brother also from the countryside? Why doesn't your cousin look down on him? Why are you so nosy!"

When Li Yuanniang heard Aunt Cao compare her nephew to Linlang's brother, she jumped up several feet high and said, "What right does your nephew have to compare with my sister-in-law's brother? He is the heir of a duke. Moreover, although he comes from the countryside, he listens to his cousin very much. His cousin is the boss in their family, and she manages the household. If I received the same treatment in my uncle's family, I wouldn't say anything. But look at how your family treats me! They married a member of the imperial family like me, but they don't treat me well, and they don't even cherish me. Not only do they not let me manage the household, but they also don't give me my salary. How can such a family be qualified to compare with my sister-in-law's brother?!"

When Aunt Cao heard her daughter berate her family, she felt a pang of resentment towards them for being so ungrateful. She had arranged such a good marriage for them, why didn't they cherish it? Why didn't they just give her daughter her salary? They all owed their positions to her daughter, which brought them a considerable amount of money—enough to live comfortably in the capital. They were all wealthy, yet they still coveted her daughter's salary. Now, her daughter was making a huge fuss about divorce, and their wealth and status were about to vanish. How could they have been so foolish?

Previously, Aunt Cao did not know about her family's situation, so she believed their complaints of poverty and naturally gave them money when they asked for it.

But after her nephew married her daughter and became a concubine, the county magistrate's concubine received a salary of two hundred taels a year. Although it wasn't much, it was enough to live a decent life.

Although Aunt Cao was sold into the Prince's mansion at a very young age and had no concept of how much money a country person would spend in a year, two hundred taels should have been enough, and she was definitely not poor.

Since he's no longer poor, why does he still insist on coveting her daughter's money, causing her daughter to want a divorce? Isn't that just stupid?