Hua Mian let the coachman stop the carriage, and she leaned out of the window to call out to the villager Wang Laoda who was calling for her master.
Before the coachman could ask, Wang Laoda rushed his donkey cart to Qin Junyao's carriage. "Madam Yao, hurry back and take a look. Your father is clamoring to divorce your mother."
"My father wants to divorce my mother?" Qin Junyao looked out the window and asked Wang Laoda with some surprise.
"Yes, hurry back and take a look."
Wang Laoda didn't know why Qin's father wanted to divorce his wife. He just saw that the villagers were all going to the Qin family to watch the excitement. He remembered seeing Qin Junyao's carriage earlier and thought that coming to tell her would be a good deed.
Qin's father wanting to divorce his wife was more important than inspecting the protective forest. Qin Junyao had the carriage turn back towards the village. Halfway there, she met a servant from the Qin family looking for her and learned that the matter was true.
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"Second brother, let me go."
"You brat, how dare you lift my leg? Let go! You've gotten strong enough to dare touch your father's leg."
"What are you all looking at? Are you waiting to laugh at me? I knew you were waiting to laugh at me."
Qin Junyao entered the courtyard and saw the villagers gathered at the main entrance. Qin's second uncle was holding Qin's father's shoulders, and Qin Da Niu was holding Qin's father's legs, trying to carry him inside. Su Dan Novel Network.
Sister-in-law Zhang Da Ni stood with an unfriendly expression opposite a young woman. Third sister-in-law Sheng Yi Ning was supporting Qin's mother, who was trembling uncontrollably, ready to administer acupuncture at any moment if Qin's mother couldn't hold on.
"Sister-in-law, where is she from?" Qin Junyao saw the situation in the courtyard clearly and went to Zhang Da Ni's side first, asking the stranger in front of her.
Zhang Da Ni touched her visibly pregnant belly. "Yao Yao is here." After speaking, she snorted at the woman, "From the pleasure house."
Qin Junyao raised her hand to call Hua Yu over and instructed her a few words, then pulled Zhang Da Ni, and asked Sheng Yi Ning to help Qin's mother into the house. Hua Yu would arrange for the villagers in the courtyard and at the entrance.
"This is outrageous! I am your eldest brother. Let go of me, let go!" Qin's father was carried into the main hall and sat in a chair. Qin's second uncle stood behind Qin's father, only pressing his shoulders to make him unable to move.
When she was in the courtyard, Qin Junyao could smell alcohol. As she entered the house, the smell of alcohol was even stronger.
She knew Qin's father was fond of drinking. Five years ago, when Zhang Da Ni had a difficult birth, Qin's father chose to save the child at the expense of the mother. After that, Qin's grandmother and Qin's second uncle discussed removing Qin's father from the position of village chief.
Qin's grandmother always planned ten steps ahead. She realized her eldest son was not fit to be a village chief, so she wanted to remove the village chief she had helped get into power.
Using Zhang Da Ni's incident as an excuse, her son made his mother unhappy, so it was not unreasonable for the mother to ask her son to resign as village chief and return home to serve her.
After Qin's father stepped down, Qin's second uncle found connections and had Hou Xing Wang, the eldest grandson of the Hou family, become the village chief. To this day, Hou Xing Wang has been a well-liked village chief by the villagers.
Life is unpredictable. Four years ago, Grandpa Hou passed away. Qin's grandmother, as agreed, took out the marriage contract Grandpa Hou had given her and showed it to the Qin and Hou families.
The Hou family didn't react much, but Qin's father made a big fuss. Qin's grandmother, too lazy to deal with him, directly became a "manager" for the folk band, leading the folk band to gain fame everywhere.
After Qin's grandmother left, Qin's father started drinking heavily, visiting brothels, and keeping a mistress.
However, because a woman from a flower house wanted to divorce his wife and remarry, this was the first time.
Qin's grandmother had left instructions when she left: whoever dared to bring a concubine into the house, she would take a cleaver and chop them up like little chicks.
Qin's father struggled on the chair, and curses began to come out of his mouth. Qin Junyao frowned, picked up the water basin behind the door, and splashed it on Qin's father.
"Dad, are you awake?"
Water dripped from Qin's father's head. He was a bit stunned. His daughter dared to splash water on him.
"You."
*Clang*, the sound of the copper basin falling to the ground interrupted Qin's father's words.
"Dad, what are you doing?" Qin Junyao asked Qin's father again with a serious expression.
"What am I doing? I," Qin's father suddenly tried to stand up with force but was pushed back down by Qin's second uncle.
Qin's father slowly looked up and stared directly at Qin's second uncle's face. Qin Lin, in a daze, saw hatred in his elder brother's eyes.
He seemed to have suddenly grabbed a hot iron and released the hands holding Qin's father. After thinking for a moment, he called his daughter-in-law, Sheng Yi Ning, and walked out of the main hall, closing the door behind them.
"Ha, haha, hahaha." The closed door seemed to have triggered Qin's father's laughter, and he leaned on the chair, shaking with laughter.
Zhang Da Ni gently stroked Qin's mother's back, frowning. Qin Da Niu stood beside Qin's father, silent. Qin Junyao stood in place, waiting for Qin's father to calm down.
"I'm making a fuss?" Qin's father pointed at Qin Junyao. "So what if I'm making a fuss? Shouldn't I be making a fuss?"
"Ha, before I came here, I worked my fingers to the bone farming and making money, but where is the money? It all went to those two I picked up, for settling disputes and medical expenses."
"When I came here, I made money, and life got better. I, your father, became the village chief, bringing you glory," Qin's father said, slapping his own face.
"And then? Your grandmother, the son your grandmother picked up, said he could pull me down and pull me down."
"Those two adopted sons, one raised sheep that became sacrificial offerings for the emperor, the other went to acknowledge rich parents. What about me?"
Qin's father stood up and looked at the people in the room. He first pointed at Qin's mother. "And you, Qin Liu Shi, you got your name after marrying me."
"Dad," Qin Junyao spoke, trying to stop Qin's father from continuing.
Qin's mother turned to her daughter. "Let him speak, Junyao, let him speak."
"Of course, I have to speak," Qin's father wiped the water from his face with his sleeve. "You are capable now, with five or six benevolent halls opened, leading those people to mend clothes, farm, and raise chickens. Everyone calls you Madam Liu the Bodhisattva."
"As for me," Qin's father patted his chest forcefully. "Before, people called me Village Chief Qin. Now, hehe, now they call me Mr. Liu."
"Madam Yao's father, Da Niu's father."
"And they call Qin Yang Guan older brother, son of Old Madam Qin, hahaha."
Qin's father was clearly drunk again, his tongue stiff, and he mumbled incoherently about Zhang Da Ni opening a large restaurant in the northwestern city, and how Hou's family's small food stall back then had now become small restaurants in various places...
All in all, it was a complaint, complaining that others were living better and better, while he was struggling to hold his head up.
"Stop talking," Qin's mother said, taking a deep breath to stop Qin's father's nagging.
"Since you are so wronged, and this home is so unsatisfactory to you, then let us separate."
"Mother, I don't agree," Qin Da Niu said seriously, disagreeing with Qin's mother's decision.
Qin's mother ignored her eldest son and continued to speak to Qin's father. "Little Yu is not yet married. If you divorce your wife, it will not be good for your daughters' reputation. For nearly thirty years of marriage, I have done my best, and you have no reason to divorce me."
"However, I agree to a separation. We can discuss it in detail when you sober up."
After speaking, Qin's mother turned and left the main hall without looking back.
"Sober up from what? I'm not drunk. Come back, you come back."
Qin's father was taken away by Qin Da Niu to be settled. Qin Junyao and Zhang Da Ni wanted to talk to Qin's mother but were locked out. The two then went to Zhang Da Ni's room together.