On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

Chapter 173 He was forced!
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Li Shiyue only listened to half of the play and she got the feeling.

Li Qiutian and Li Wangming, who had gone out with Li Shiyue several times and met Liu Tan and Liu Shu many times, naturally felt that this play had a hidden meaning.

Li Qiutian and Li Wangming looked at the opera singers in the audience. They put down their chopsticks at the same time and made eye contact with Li Shiyue who was drinking soup with a spoon.

Li Shiyue looked at Li Wangming with his left eye, then at Li Qiutian with his right eye. When the two eyes met, the three of them looked at each other, and they all felt that something might happen today.

"Second Uncle, do you know who is the owner behind this Yue Lai Restaurant?"

Li Shiyue's question hit the nail on the head, but Li Wangming just came to the restaurant to book a room based on what his classmates said. He never thought of asking who the owner of the restaurant was.

Without Li Wangming saying anything, Li Shiyue knew from the expression on his face that he didn't know.

However, Li's mother and Zheng Mei Niang, who didn't know much about the affairs of the Zhenbei Palace, were a little surprised, "What are you three looking at?

Who cares who the boss is? We just pay for the meal.

I have it with me, don’t worry.”

Zheng Meiniang took out a purse from her chest and slammed it on the table. The purse made a muffled "bang" sound when it hit the table, instead of the "clatter" of copper coins. It was clear that the purse was filled with large pieces of silver.

Li Shiyue naturally would not say these things to Li's mother and Zheng Meiniang in public. Even though they were sitting in the box, the two wide-open windows were not a good place to talk about the secrets of the palace.

So, Li Shiyue said, "Aunt, it's okay. I also brought money. If..."

Before Li Shiyue finished speaking, the sound of gongs rang out again downstairs, and the actor dancing with long sleeves stopped. It was the same waiter again, who came out from backstage with a tray held high.

"Liu Dalang's reward in the Plum Blossom Room on the second floor: fifty taels of silver!"

After shouting three times, the waiter retreated and the actors on the stage started singing again.

Li Shiyue was listening from above. She felt that the singer's voice was two notes higher than before. He must be happy to get a reward later.

After all, this is fifty taels of silver!
The play then reached its first climax: when the rich businessman was away from home with his second son, his wife called the wife of his eldest son, born to his concubine, into the house to serve him, on the pretext that she was sick, and asked the eldest daughter-in-law to bring the child with her, saying that she missed her grandson.

How could the eldest son’s wife think too much?
She actually brought the child with her, but as soon as she entered the house, the eldest daughter-in-law was captured by the wife and forced to give a message to the eldest son, asking him to return home.

The eldest daughter-in-law refused, and the legal wife threatened her with the child. The eldest daughter-in-law had no choice but to write a letter saying that the child was sick and asked the eldest son to return home.

The play was getting very exciting. Not only the audience on the first floor, but even Li Shiyue and the others in the private room were discussing it enthusiastically.

Li Xiatian clenched her hands and said, "The eldest son's wife is too easy-going. She is not a proper mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. She goes whenever she is asked to go.

If you ask me, when the time comes, you should fight it to the death!

I don't believe that woman would really dare to harm the child!"

When Zheng Meiniang heard Li Xiatian say this, she stretched out her finger and tapped her forehead, "You, you only know how to fight and kill. He's your own child, how can a mother not be afraid?
If that woman really risked her life and killed the child, where would you let the eldest daughter-in-law go to cry?"

Li Xiatian was tapped on the forehead. She stuck out her tongue at Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian who were looking at her. She dared not say anything else, but her eyes were full of dissatisfaction.

"The eldest daughter-in-law is right. She should pretend to be nice to him first, and when the eldest son comes back and has someone to back her up, they can break out together."

This is what Li Qiutian thought, and she understood the eldest daughter-in-law's choice.

"Although the legal wife is not the eldest son's biological mother, she is also the legitimate mother according to etiquette and law. Even if the eldest son comes back, how can he get out with his wife and baby?

Could he kill his wife?"

Li Wangming said so. He had been educated in Confucianism since he was a child. He knew the relationship between the emperor, his subjects, and his sons the best. He pointed out the core of the problem Li Qiutian mentioned! "Stop talking and read on."

Li's mother's words stopped the discussion of several people. Everyone stopped talking and turned their full attention to the audience below.

The second climax of the play comes: the eldest son receives the letter outside, and immediately brings his men home, and when he arrives home he breaks right in.

He led his men and searched his wife's house thoroughly, and finally found his wife and child tied up in the woodshed.

Seeing the starving child and his wife covered in wounds, the eldest son could no longer bear it and killed his wife with a knife!
It happened that at this time, the rich businessman and his second son returned home.

"This, this matricide is against the law after all!"

Some audience members were deeply moved by this scene, and the noisy discussions could be heard directly on the second floor.

"What should I do?
If the rich businessman and the second son have not returned home yet, the eldest son should flee with his wife and children.

But this man is back, he can't kill his father and brother, right?"

After saying this, Li's mother stared at the stage intently, wanting to know how the next play would be performed.
Who would have thought that the actors would retreat backstage at this moment.

The same short man with white face paint came on stage and said he needed to change his costumes. The next and final act would begin in two quarters of an hour.

As soon as these words were spoken, the audience began throwing copper coins and silver ingots onto the stage.

The waiter who was holding the tray also came out from the backstage. He walked past more than a dozen tables of guests with the tray in his hand, shouting, "Ladies and gentlemen, please give me some favors and some money!"

Those who can afford to go out for entertainment during the holidays usually have some spare money.

Therefore, some copper coins and small change gradually appeared in the waiter's tray.

At this time, the door of the Furonghua private room on the second floor where Li Shiyue and his friends were staying was knocked. Li Wangming opened the door and saw a little girl, no more than seven or eight years old, standing at the door. She stood at the door holding a tray and bowed with a smile on her face, then said flatteringly: "Dear guest, please give us some money so that we can have a good meal.

I wish you great wealth, prosperity and longevity!"

Seeing such a little girl coming to ask for reward, not only Li Wangming, but even Li's mother and Zheng Meiniang felt pity for her and donated generously.

Then the little girl happily carried the copper coins and silver pieces in the tray to the next house.

While waiting for the last play to begin, Li Shiyue and his friends finally had the energy to taste the food on the table. However, no matter how delicious the food was, everyone still wanted to discuss how the play would end.

"Could it be that the rich businessman called the government to have the eldest son and his family thrown into jail?"

Li Xiatian said this while holding the bowl with some worry, and his eyebrows were wrinkled on his little face.

"But he did kill someone after all!"

Li Wangming said this.

"Uncle, there is a reason why the eldest son killed people. If he doesn't take action, his wife and children will be gone!

He was forced to do it!"

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