The Daily Life of a Down-on-Hard-Life Medicine Girl Supporting Her Family

Chapter 53 Wu Yuanping Divorces His Wife

"Xiao Chunyu, what do you mean?" Wu Yuanping glared at Xiao Chunyu: "Where are you going to carry all these bags and packages?"

“I have already informed Madam that due to the hot weather, I will take the children to stay at the estate for a while.”

Now, Madam Wu is a concubine, and Chunyu no longer calls her "mother." Her real mother-in-law has long since become a memorial tablet.

The poor woman was overjoyed to find out she was pregnant when she left, and tears streamed down her face. She held Mama's hand, wanting to say something but unable to speak. She gestured for Mama to bring her a jewelry box. Later, Mama told her that it was specially prepared by the madam for her, the newly arrived daughter-in-law.

Less than 100 days after his mother-in-law passed away, his father-in-law remarried.

Thinking about Wu Yuanping's actions and her father-in-law's heartlessness, she suddenly understood the principle that if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked and the middle beam will collapse.

With such a heartless father, how good can his son be?
If it weren't for the midwife's efforts to save her during childbirth out of consideration for her second sister, she would have already become a memorial tablet, and the child in her arms would have been a motherless child, whose life would have been incredibly miserable.

"Nonsense! Don't you know that the anniversary of Mother's death is just a few days away? The mourning period isn't over yet, and you're already running around everywhere? Is this how the Xiao family raises its children?"

“My Xiao family has excellent family traditions.” You can talk about her, but you can’t talk about her family: “At least, my Xiao family’s traditions do not allow taking a concubine during the mourning period, let alone marrying a second wife during the mourning period.”

"You..." Wu Yuanping was so embarrassed by her retort that her face turned red: "What's wrong with taking a concubine? You can't have any more children, but you can't leave me without an heir, can you? Who do you think you are? Do you still think you're the eldest daughter of the Xiao family? With a grandfather who is a head of the household?"

"Wu Yuanping, your despicable nature has been completely exposed." Xiao Chunyu sneered, "A person like you truly doesn't deserve to have descendants!"

"You bitch, how dare you curse me."

Wu Yuanping rushed forward and grabbed Xiao Chunyu's hair.

"Second Young Master, you mustn't!" Seeing this, Granny Ma rushed over and pulled him away. "Second Young Mistress is still holding the young lady in her arms. Let go quickly, or you'll drop her."

"She's just a money-loser, what young lady? I don't care."

"Even tigers don't eat their cubs, Wu Yuanping, you're worse than an animal." Originally intending to take things slowly, Xiao Chunyu had reached her limit: "I want a divorce."

"Oh ho, divorce?" Wu Yuanping sneered, "Your Xiao family members are either dead, exiled, or have rolled back to Shu. You, all alone, without my Wu family, you can't even afford to eat. And you still want a divorce? Let me tell you, I've put up with you for too long. I'm going to divorce my wife!"

Divorce?

"You are jealous, unfilial, and have a serious illness. You have three out of the seven grounds for divorce. Bring me pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. I want to divorce you."

"Wu Yuanping, how dare you!"

Xiao Chunyu was so angry that she was trembling all over!
She was too impulsive!

What she wanted was a divorce. With a divorce, she could take all of her dowry. The Xiao family wouldn't confiscate her property when they raided it. With this dowry, she could raise Panpan well and also openly support her family in Shu.

However, a divorced wife cannot take her dowry with her.

If she is divorced, she will truly be left with no way out.

"Someone come and bring me pen, ink, paper, and inkstone."

Wu Yuanping disregarded any marital affection. It just so happened that he had lost two thousand taels of silver gambling and had nowhere to fill the hole. Xiao's dowry still contained many good items, and that shop could be sold for one or two thousand taels of silver.

He wrote the letter of divorce with remarkable ease.

"Wu Yuanping, you are utterly heartless!" Xiao Chunyu's heart was bleeding. This wasn't the life she wanted, but it was certainly her own choice. She wanted to slap herself; how blind she had been back then!
"Miss……"

Granny Zhou, Mo Lan, and Jian Lan were all stunned. What should they do?
"Let's go to the village first."

Anyway, she won't accept this letter of divorce today.

"Xiao Chunyu, take your letter of divorce before you leave." Wu Yuanping said, "Men, stop her. She is not allowed to take a single step out before I finish writing the letter of divorce."

Immediately, servants stepped forward and blocked the way out for Xiao Chunyu and her servant.

"Second Young Master, you can't do this." Granny Ma felt the Wu family's heartlessness once more: "Second Young Mistress has just finished her postpartum confinement. She was your lawfully wedded wife, brought home with great pomp and circumstance, Second Young Master..."

"You old hag, get out!" Wu Yuanping kicked Granny Ma in the leg. "You've gone too far! Don't you even know who your master is?"

"Second Young Master..." Granny Ma was kicked to the ground. Looking at the man she had watched grow up with his ferocious face, she suddenly found it funny: it's really not worth risking your life for such a person.

"Granny Ma, how are you?" Jianlan quickly stepped forward to help her up: "Granny Ma..."

"I'm fine." Granny Ma whispered to Jianlan, "Quickly think of a way, the second young mistress won't be able to survive if she's divorced."

She felt so sorry for the second young mistress.

But what could Jianlan do?

He couldn't leave; Wu Yuanping was still writing a letter of divorce.

"Miss?"

Granny Zhou and Mo Lan shielded Xiao Chunyu and her daughter behind them, their faces also filled with anxiety: "Miss, what should we do?"

"I underestimated the wickedness of human nature." Xiao Chunyu laughed angrily: "It doesn't matter. Since they won't let me live, I'll take a gamble."

A letter of divorce was stuffed into Xiao Chunyu's arms. The four of them—no, including a one-month-old baby girl—were chased out of the mansion by the Wu family's servants. She couldn't take any of the clothes or other belongings she had packed with her.

"Miss, what should we do? Where can we go?"

Granny Zhou had lived to a ripe old age, and this was the first time she had ever encountered such a heartless person.

“Granny, you take Panpan with you…” Xiao Chunyu thought for a moment, “How about this, Granny, you, Jianlan, and Heilan take Panpan to the Qiu residence to ask for an audience with Madam Qiu and Miss Qiu. Please take good care of Panpan for me.”

The only people she could think of were Madam Qiu and Miss Qiu. She wouldn't go to any of the Xiao family's in-laws because she knew they were all avoiding the Xiao family at this time. They wouldn't understand the suffering she had gone through, and would instead criticize her for not cherishing her blessings.

The capital city is neither too big nor too small. She refused to believe that her in-laws would not know that she had given birth to Panpan.

Only Madam Qiu and Miss Qiu came to see her. What does this tell us?
People come and go; the good deeds my grandfather did vanished with his passing.

"Miss, what about you? Where are you going?"

The Xiao family was raided and exiled. The young lady had no family to go to, so they entrusted her to them. What were they planning to do?
“Miss, why don’t you take this old servant and Jianlan and Molan and we go together to ask Madam Qiu for some travel expenses, and we’ll also go to Shu to find the old lady.” Granny Zhou said, “Miss, as long as the green hills remain, there’s no fear of running out of firewood. You must think more positively.”

(End of this chapter)