The reconciliation between Cui Anhua and Liu Shichu caused an uproar in the capital. After all, there were no rumors of their bad relationship before, and Liu Shichu was a very qualified matron and had a good reputation among the female relatives in the capital. So everyone is confused as to why they divorced.
Liu Shichu moved out of Cui Mansion early and moved into the house she had owned before, avoiding those people who tried their best to find out the inside story from her.
But there was always someone she couldn't avoid, and that was her parents' family.
Liu Shichu agreed to reconcile with Cui Anhua without communicating with his parents' family beforehand. The Liu family only found out after the reconciliation. Naturally, they were extremely shocked and hurriedly called Liu Shichu back to ask what was going on.
Liu Shichu's parents have passed away long ago. The person in charge of the Liu family now is her eldest brother Liu Jian. Although she is a concubine, she has a good relationship with Liu Jian and they have contact during the New Year. Therefore, Liu Shichu beheaded first and then divorced. , she really needs to go back and explain the situation clearly to her elder brother.
As soon as Liu Shichu returned to Liu's house, Liu Jian and his wife Wang were waiting for her. Seeing her come in, Liu Jian couldn't wait to ask: "What's the matter with you? Why did you just make peace with Cui Anhua?" Did Cui Anhua force you?"
"Brother, he didn't force me. Although he did propose the divorce, I don't want to continue living with him. Isn't this just right?" Liu Shichu quickly replied.
"What's good? Is reconciliation a trivial matter? Do you know how many people are watching your jokes now? You said that you have been married to Cui Anhua for twenty years, and you even have grandchildren, but Cui Anhua wants to He has lost his conscience by abandoning you!" Sister-in-law Wang said angrily.
Liu Shichu touched his smooth and delicate face and said, "Sister-in-law, why am I old? I am still young."
Mrs. Wang looked at her with a look of hatred on her face: "Can you listen to the point? The point is not whether you are old or not, but that he abandons you even if you have no fault at all. He is ungrateful and heartless!"
Seeing that his sister-in-law was really thinking about her, Liu Shichu hugged her arm and comforted her gently: "Sister-in-law, you don't have to fight for me. I get annoyed when I look at Cui Anhua. I usually wish he stayed in Liangzhou and never came back. This time He came back and wanted to make peace with me, but I breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that I was finally free and no longer had to face him."
Liu Jian looked at her radiant appearance at this time, without any sadness or resentment of ordinary women and divorced mothers, so he couldn't help but believe some of her words, but he still wanted to investigate: "You really don't have any feelings for him. Are you in love? Are you willing to divorce?"
"Of course! I am absolutely willing!" Liu Shichu nodded hurriedly, "I have long been impatient to take care of his large group of concubines and concubines."
"And I took the opportunity to ask for a lot of compensation from his family..." Liu Shichu said with a smile and a wink.
"You deserve compensation. You have worked as a cow and horse for the Cui family for twenty years. No amount of compensation is enough." Ms. Wang curled her lips and said, then worried, "Even if you get compensation, you will have to face it in the future." I'm afraid you won't be able to accept the unpleasant rumors outside."
Liu Shichu sneered: "What rumors am I afraid of? I'm not a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl. My skin has become much thicker, and my inner endurance is even stronger - you know, I have been a doctor for twenty years. Wife of a military commander, I have been mentally prepared to become a widow at any time for the past twenty years, so what do these rumors mean now?"
Wang and Liu Jian were relieved to see her thinking so wildly, but then they became worried about their nephew: "What about Cui Ying and his son?"
"Cui Ying even has a son and has entered the officialdom. How can his parents and Li affect him? At most, he will hear some unpleasant words, which will not affect him. Besides, I took the opportunity this time to let Cui Anhua divide the family and divide the family property. "I wonder how comfortable it will be for him to live a free life with the property he received. Why should we worry?" Liu Shichu said nonchalantly.
Liu Jian and Wang had complicated expressions after hearing this. Wang opened her mouth and finally held back a sentence: "You are very thoughtful. It is a good thing to separate the family in advance, so as to save Cui Anhua from marrying a new wife and giving birth to a new child." We want to fight for the family property.”
"That's right, that's why I decided to separate Cui Anhua's family once and for all." Liu Shichu said with a smile, feeling proud of his rainy day plan.
"Then you move back home. The yard you used to live in is still there. I'll have someone clean it for you." After Mrs. Wang understood the cause and effect of the matter, she began to worry about her future life.
The age gap between Liu Jian and Liu Shichu is a bit big. Liu Jian is seventeen or eighteen years old and Liu Shichu was just born. Liu Shichu's aunt is still Liu Jian's mother's confidant, so the brother and sister are not the direct descendants of ordinary people. Conflict.
Even when the Wang family married into the Liu family, Liu Shichu was taken over by the Wang family because Liu Shichu's aunt was too weak to take care of the children. Therefore, the Wang family basically treated this sister-in-law as her daughter and loved her. The relationship between her and her sister-in-law was very good.
"Sister-in-law, don't bother me. I have a house in Guihua Lane. It's nice for me to live there." Liu Shichu said quickly, where can I live alone when I go back to my parents' home?
"No! If you live alone outside after Li, others will definitely think that your mother's family dislikes you. You have to come back and live there to let others know that you still have your mother's family to support you." Liu Jian frowned and spoke to Liu seriously. Shi Chu said.
Liu Shichu was a little touched. This eldest brother was indeed very kind to her. She cut him off first and then made peace with him, and he rebelliously made peace with her. Instead of blaming her, he supported her and always thought of her. He was really a model of a good brother.
Faced with such good intentions, Liu Shichu could no longer say what he refused, so he could only say: "Then I will live here for a while, but I won't live for long. I will still have to move out by myself in the future. living."
Ms. Wang was annoyed with her: "Why are you moving? This is your mother's house. You can live there as long as you like! Isn't it possible that there are still people who want to drive you out?"
Liu Shichu hurriedly slapped her on the shoulder and said nice words to coax her, and then the aunt and sister-in-law started to have fun together again.
In this way, a major event like peace and separation, which would have caused earth-shaking turmoil in ordinary families, passed by so calmly in the Liu family.
Liu Shichu moved back to the Liu family for a while. The Liu family was much quieter than the Cui family. They had separated from Liu Jian's generation long ago. The only people who still live in the Liu family are Liu Jian's descendants.
Liu Jian had a very good relationship with the Wang family, so Liu Jian had no concubines and children, only two sons and two daughters born to the Wang family. The two daughters were already married, and the two sons had already married and had children.
The family relationship of the Liu family is not as complicated as that of the Cui family, and is much simpler, so Liu Shichu still lives very comfortably.
Cui Ying visited her several times and saw that her life was much happier than when she was at Cui's house. She even looked radiant and looked several years younger than before. He was completely relieved.
