A Complete Explanation of the Negative Textbooks for the Imperial Examination

 Divorce his wife to marry another. Introduction to new lady

    After Xiao Jing Duo came out of Xiao Ying’s study, he still felt resentful.

    Without the slightest smile on his face, he walked quickly towards the backyard. The maids on both sides of the corridor wanted to greet him, but when they saw his face, they were all startled, and quickly lowered their heads and dared not speak again.

    When Xiao Jing Duo walked back to the vicinity of Qingze Courtyard, he heard Second Aunt Xiao’s voice coming from the courtyard.

    Qiu Ju was guarding timidly in front of the courtyard. When she saw Xiao Jing Duo, she said with tears in her eyes, “Lang Jun, Madam, she…”

    Xiao Jing Duo pursed his lips. He passed Qiu Ju and walked towards the main room.

    Second Aunt Xiao’s voice in the house was sharp and harsh: “Oh, sister-in-law, why do you live in such a poor place? Aren’t you Madam Hou? How come you don’t live as well as me?”

    “Oh yes,” Second Aunt Xiao covered her mouth and let out a malicious laugh, “I almost forgot. You have been divorced by my cousin!” On the plain low table, there was a letter of divorce.

    Zhao Xiu Lan burst into tears, and her handkerchief was wet. She didn’t want to listen to Second Aunt Xiao anymore, but Second Aunt Xiao ruthlessly dug out her wound and stepped on it. “If my mother didn’t mention it by accident, I wouldn’t even know that you are no longer a member of the Xiao family. What’s the use of having a good son? In the end, it’s not raising a son for someone else. She’s about to enter the door. At that time, not only the position of Madam Hou does not belong to you, but even your precious son will call another mother!”

    “Shut up!” Zhao Xiu Lan covered her ears and roared sternly.

    Seeing Zhao Xiu Lan like this, Second Aunt Xiao was extremely happy. Who let Zhao Xiu Lan get in first when they got engaged and robbed her of the position of the eldest daughter-in-law? Now that Zhao Xiu Lan’s position of Madam Hou has been robbed by others, it is really unpleasant not to repay her. Second Aunt Xiao wanted to laugh up to the sky. What she couldn’t get, Zhao Xiu Lan couldn’t get either!

   “What’s the matter? You are nameless now. So no one will tell you…” Second Aunt Xiao wanted to ridicule a few more words, but she heard a cold and chilling voice from behind. This cold tone, even in the daytime, makes people tremble.

    “Shut up and leave my mother’s yard.”

    Xiao Jing Duo stood at the door against the light. Second Aunt Xiao couldn’t see his expression, but she was still stunned by his posture. Second Aunt Xiao secretly scolded this evildoer. How could Xiao Jing Duo look like a ghost who came to claim her life?!

    Second Aunt panicked in her heart, but she felt that it would be too shameful to leave like this. She didn’t know what to do until she heard Xiao Jing Duo roaring, “Get out!”

   Now Second Aunt Xiao no longer pays attention to her face. Her calf is weak, but this does not delay her slipping away. After running to the yard as if escaping, Second Aunt Xiao still feels that she can’t let go, so she shakes her handkerchief hard. She said wickedly: “Unfortunate! Sparrows are sparrows, don’t try to fly up the branches, or even if you do, you won’t be able to bear the good things!”

    After speaking, she quickly twisted her waist and left.

    In the Gao Shou Tang, the old lady and Xue Lan were also discussing this matter.

    “You said the second daughter-in-law went to Zhao’s place to make trouble?” The old lady grabbed Xue Lan’s hand and asked anxiously.

    “Yes.” Xue Lan said, “Second Madam… It’s too urgent. We and the Wu family are getting married soon. Now is a critical juncture. We mustn’t make any trouble.”

    “I understand what you mean. The news that Dalang once married a wife must not be known to anyone, especially the Wu family.” The old lady was embarrassed to see her niece make such a scandal, “I will discipline this idiot well. Wait until she comes back to see. I will rip her skin off!”

    Xue Lan smiled softly but did not stop her. She continued to beat the old lady’s legs: “Actually, it’s okay for the Wu family to know. After all, Da Lang Jun still lives in the mansion. Well, that one is still alive and well. The new lady will know sooner or later. The marriage of nobles is all about the good of two surnames. The purpose of marrying the Wu family’s daughter is to raise the family status of Hou Ye and sell well in front of the royal Rong family. This marriage is far from what one or two people are willing to or not. It is the Wu family’s, and even the Cui family’s instigation. Otherwise, how could an aristocratic family with eyes above the top marry a commoner?”

   “What commoner, my son is Marquis!” In just a few days, the old lady couldn’t listen to talking about her lineage. She said unhappily, “My Xiao Ying is good-looking and can lead troops to fight! Anyone who marries my son is a catch!”

    Xue Lan just smiled. She was noncommittal. After the old lady finished her anger, she still couldn’t help asking the question she had been unable to figure out: “Xue Lan, why did you write a divorce letter for Zhao Shi? Wouldn’t it be better to directly demote her to a concubine?”

    “How can this happen? Demoting the wife to be a concubine would be subjected to two years of prison. Hou Ye will have to be an official in the court in the future. How can he leave such a blemish?” Xue Lan replied.

    “Then…” The old lady still felt uneasy in her heart, “Is Xiao Ying divorcing his wife and marrying another?”

    Before, the old lady had been in contact with people from the market, so she naturally didn’t know the many rules of concubinage. But I clearly know that if my family has a wife, but still proposes to someone else, this will be punished by the county government. Xiao Ying has already married Zhao Xiu Lan. Although Zhao Xiu Lan is not worthy of the current Xiao family, after all, she is the wife.

    Xue Lan pursed her lips and smiled. She said in a very gentle tone: “That’s why Hou Ye has to write a letter of divorce for the Zhao family, or else you will end up demoting his wife and marrying another, although in fact it is. But as long as there is no trouble outside, no one will know about this incident in our family, isn’t that the case? Even if someone asks in the future, we can push it down to Zhao Shi, saying that Hou Ye had written her a divorce letter, and the marriage of the Wu family was decided later. The truth of this matter, the specific timing of divorce and marriage, as long as we don’t say it, who else will deliberately pick it up and mess up  with the founder of the country, Marquis Dingyong?”

   Xiao Ying made up his mind to distort the facts and take advantage of the time difference. As for the time on the divorce letter, he had already asked someone to go to the government to take care of it.

    Although the Old Lady knew that this was the best way at the moment, she still felt uneasy. She sighed: “If only Zhao Xiu Lan died, there wouldn’t be so many troubles.” Xue Lan also felt it was a pity. It was the best time, but unfortunately, Xiao Jing Duo saw it through. They originally planned to go back to the mansion and then start, but Xiao Jing Duo insisted on living with Zhao Xiu Lan. So they didn’t have the opportunity to start. And this little man seems to have a lot of insights into medical theory. Xue Lan didn’t dare to make a fuss about medicine. They could only choose the stupidest way, the divorce.

    Gao Shou Tang fell silent. After a long time, Old Lady’s old voice sounded: “Do you think Duo’er will blame us?”

    “How can it be? On the one hand is , the abandoned commoner biological mother, and on the other is the prosperous Hou Ye father, Lang Jun will not so stupid.”

    “What will Duo’er do in the future?”

    “If the new lady is willing to admit him, then the Da Lang Jun will be recorded in the name of the lady and counted as the heir. If the new lady doesn’t want to… Lang Jun will be the son of Hou Ye who stayed in his hometown. Although he has become a concubine lineage, we will not treat him lightly. He will be no different from the legitimate son, so Da Lang Jun will not care.”

    …

    Qingze Courtyard.

    Xiao Jing Duo stood in the cold wind with his hands behind his back. He did not move for a long time.

    Qiu Ju quietly stood behind Xiao Jing Duo.

    “Mother is still crying?”

    “Well, the slave persuaded Madam. But she can’t listen.”

    Xiao Jing Duo raised his head and looked at the high blue sky, feeling so dazed for the first time.

    Why did it become like this? Overnight, his father changed. His grandmother changed, and all the relatives around him became disgusting, chilling down the spine.

    At the inn, if Xiao Jing Duo hadn’t understood pharmacology, Zhao Xiu Lan would have died on the way. After all, according to ordinary people’s thinking, good medicine is bitter and good for the disease. When Zhao Xiu Lan complained about the bitterness of the medicine, most people would persuade her to drink the medicine. Who would have thought that the bitterness of the medicine was due to being poisoned? Xiao Jing Duo was extremely fortunate that he knew some medical principles, and only then rescued his mother from the gate of hell.

    But in the end, the real culprit of poisoning was actually his biological father.

   “He has no heart and lungs. In order to climb up, he will do whatever he can to get rid of his wife. So what should he do with his eldest son? Should I be raised as a concubine son whose biological mother is unknown, or should I just be killed to avoid future troubles?”

    Qiu Ju has nothing to say. She can only be silent.

    In the previous dynasties, there was a huge disparity between legitimate and concubine sons. The southern region was slightly better. But many big clans in the north were extremely harsh on their concubines and concubine sons. After years of wars and turbulence, the males continued to be exhausted. Now there are officials who refuted this ethos and asked the court to choose scholars regardless of their descendants, and the status of the concubines was slightly better.

    No matter what the status of the heir and the concubine son was, Xiao Jing Duo never cared about it previously. Because he is the eldest son, the heir, and a natural winner in the family, he will treat his younger brother kindly. So he doesn’t care what the outside world thinks of the concubine. But the world is ridiculous. He didn’t expect that he would worry about his identity so soon.

    It is absurd to change from a legitimate to a concubine lineage.

    Qiu Ju followed in silence with him. Finally, she couldn’t hold back her persuasion: “Lang Jun, you can’t be angry with the Marquis anymore.”

    Xiao Jing Duo could hardly believe what he heard: “What did you say?”

    “Lang Jun, don’t be angry. Just admit your mistake to Hou Ye tomorrow. If you please the Hou Ye more, you can live a good life in this Hou Fu. If your life is good, the wife can live a good life. “

    Xiao Jing Duo felt ridiculous. “You asked me to please him?”

    “Otherwise.” Qiu Ju also felt distressed for the miserable fate of the lady and young master, but what else could be done? “Lang Jun, you still don’t understand. The lowly people have no right to choose. They can only carefully speculate on their heart. No matter how unwilling they are, they have to endure until the high-ranking people are willing to give away a way to survive, and endure until they have a way back. You can retire. The slaves serve the masters. The youngers serve the elders. This is always the case. When you coax Hou Ye back, Hou Ye can help you find an official vacancy in the court in a few years. You can bear it now. Wait until you have an official position in the future and after a few years of business, you can take the lady to live with you after you have the ability to talk at home.”

    “So, my mother was insulted this time. Do we have to swallow this grievance?”

    “Yes, this is the only way. Our whole family has to rely on Hou Ye. In the future Lang Jun will have to rely on Hou Ye, and even rely on the help of his new wife. How can we compete with Hou Ye? Lang Jun, you have the pity of Hou Ye right now, maybe Hou Ye will see your face and treat my wife better.” Qiu Ju persuaded Xiao Jing Duo in a low voice, “Lang Jun, we have a low status, so we can only accept our fate.”

    Accept my fate? Xiao Jing Duo looked at the unreachable sky with a sarcastic smile.

    He will never surrender. He didn’t believe that Xiao Ying’s sympathy and support was the only road to success. Without Xiao Ying, he can still stand out and correct his mother’s name.

    A few months later, the entire Dingyong Hou Fu was plunged into a sea of ​​red. There were cheers and laughter everywhere.

    Xiao Jing Duo sat with Zhao Xiu Lan in the room, watching Zhao Xiu Lan bite her handkerchief and cry.

    Outside, there were loud drums and beautiful lanterns, but in this small courtyard with few people, the original wife was crying hopelessly.

    There was a burst of cheers outside the mansion, followed by the sound of firecrackers.

    Xiao Jing Duo knew that this was the arrival of the new wife Wu’s wedding carriage.

    The young Xiao Jing Duo was very angry at this. He could not wait to rush out to ruin the wedding. But he knew he couldn’t. The present him is far from being able to compete with his father.

    He swore to himself in his heart that in the future, he would do whatever it took to climb up to the status of a superior man so that no one in the world could humiliate him.

    However, until many, many years passed, when Xiao Jing Duo looked at the beacon in the sky from outside the fortress, he still couldn’t convince himself that he liked dusk.

    At that time, he was already successful, married and had children. He had everything a man could yearn for. Logically, there was nothing that could make him feel unhappy, but he didn’t like the time when the sky was dark.

    It was only later that he realized that his resistance to dusk began on the day Xiao Ying got married many years ago. The desperate cry of his mother and the sound of gongs and drums outside the mansion constituted an insurmountable nightmare in his youth.

    That was the beginning of his difficult boyhood, and the beginning of his journey to power.

    Just as a sword has two edges, so do things. The arrival of the Wu family is that double-edged sword.

    The author has something to say:

    [Warning!!! The stepmother is online. Please bring your medical kit, carry the nanny. The Hou Fu Copy mini-boss is about to appear.]

    [Special thanks: the heroine. Thanks to the hostess for a cameo without revealing her name or face]