Chapter 55: Aftermath (2)
When Tang Jian came into the room, Qu Ning was talking to Mrs. Yun Jiang Juan, who was not yet divorced.
She glanced at Tang Key with a smile, nodded as a greeting, but did not stand up and take her hand and sit beside her as before.
Tang Jian was a little timid and found a place to sit down, Qu Ning and Mrs. Yun talked, from the content to the attitude, they didn't hide it from her at all, and they were very frank.
Tang Jian listened to their conversation and listened a little dumbfounded.
"Master Yun is gone, and there are many discussions outside, even if someone wants to save him, they can't save him." Qu Ning said.
This is someone who means something.
Jiang Juan didn't understand it very well, but she knew that Master Yun himself had been involved in some political wrestling, and the stain on the woman's head became the most bargaining chip when those people wanted to deliberately mess with him.
Qu Ning looked at her and was still a little confused, and said with a smile: "According to our young marshal, he is in prison and is just around the corner." The person surnamed Yun was stunned by the woman, and she relied on Miss Lin for everything, asked her to be a translator for him, let her match him, and let her be in charge of the family's money, and Miss Lin was a weak woman in the end, and she was very powerful in the nest, and she really came to the critical and slow moment, but she only thought about self-preservation, regardless of the life or death of Master Yun.
This confession, the evidence shook out, and it was good that the person surnamed Yun could save his life.
"There's only one thing, you have to think about it yourself," Qu Ning carefully looked at Jiang Juan's clothes: Qu Ning was actually not hard-hearted, but although she felt that Jiang Juan was pitiful, she still didn't help the other party at all, she didn't want to raise a waste. However, Jiang Juan's life is really difficult, Master Yun's child support for her has not been given in the morning, and Jiang Juan's daily expenses are maintained by barely doing some embroidery work on her own.
Qu Ning went to get the list, a faint pity appeared in his eyes, he glanced at Jiang Juan and said, "I won't show you anything else related to government affairs, but this list is something that Master Yun gave to Miss Lin." Take a look. ”
Jiang Juan took it in a daze, looking at the dazzling list on it, and hatred gradually appeared in her eyes.
Her hand holding the list trembled slightly: "I have been married to him for almost ten years, and when the family promised to marry, what he gave me was only a dowry of more than 20 silver dollars, and those things were the most difficult time, and I never thought about exchanging them for money......
How many times the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court forced her to hide in Tibet, hiding in the cellar, only having a bowl of water to drink for two or three days, and feeling hungry and her stomach burning. She carried such a difficult day alone.
What did Miss Lin do?
Now any of the items on this list are much more expensive than all the ones he has ever given her!
Why?
Qu Ning glanced at her: "What I want to tell you is this matter." If you want to divorce the surnamed Yun, it is the first case in so many years. If you just want to 'resolve grievances and release knots, let alone hate each other, say goodbye to each other, and be happy in each life', then this judgment should be very fast, after all, the surname Yun has entered, and he is the party at fault. She leaned closer, her voice lowering, "But are you willing?" The most difficult days, you survived for him, now you have done nothing wrong, but you have to leave the house, you have lost the most haode years, how do you protect your future life? Most of the family property surnamed Yun will be confiscated, but there are always exceptions, don't you want to fight for this part? After all, these are the compensation you deserve. ”
Jiang Juan suddenly raised her head, her eyes burning, as if she had seen a new world.
"Young lady," she licked her dry lips, her voice word-for-word with difficulty, but gradually smoothed out, evidently determined, "what you say, how I do." Anyway, no matter how bad it is, it's not as bad as when I wanted to kill myself. ”
Qu Ning glanced at her deeply: "Even if this process of seeking justice will be protracted, and you may even be under tremendous pressure and scolded by a bunch of people?" "It's okay to yujian. Those corrupt Confucians, those royalists, those old-fashioned factions, and even some women who only know the "three obedience and four virtues" will spit on and even want to get rid of Jiang Juan as soon as possible, and even in the courtroom, the judge may not be fair - after all, the current judge is still a man. The current lawmakers are still men.
Jiang Juan shook her head heavily: "I'm not afraid of those. Her eyes gradually lit up, "When you told me about the 'China Women's Rights Protection Association', I already understood." What you really want to help is not just me, but more women who are still in ignorance and sleep. I just don't want to...... More people, going through the kind of despair that I have experienced again, I just think that when there are men like my grandson in the future who want to abandon their wives again, they can think twice. ”
Qu Ning finally smiled and nodded: "Then you have taken the part about marriage in this book and copied it, and now that you are familiar with it, let's discuss the next step of divorce." ”
Jiang Juan took a thick appointment and left, Qu Ning called someone to serve tea at this time, and glanced at Tang Jian lightly: "Why is the third sister here today?" "The tone was light, gentle, as if nothing had happened.
Tang Jian just felt the alienation under her gentleness.
She bit her lip: "Sister-in-law, don't bother me, okay?" I...... I'm here today, and I went back that day to think about it, and I also felt that I had made a big mistake in what I had done. Sister-in-law, I'm just ......" she wanted to say and stopped.
Qu Ning glanced at her deeply, but she became more and more disappointed in her heart.
When will this third sister grow up? When will you be able to mature like an adult?
If Tang Jian really felt guilty, he really felt sorry for her, he should have come to daoqian a long time ago, there was no blood relationship between them, which in itself would be alienated. After all, only direct blood relatives may repeatedly and unconditionally tolerate and forgive a person.
"The third sister's apologies shouldn't be for me," Qu Ning sighed lightly, looking at her with gentle but alienated eyes, "I told you that day, I'm a new outsider, it really doesn't matter if you don't believe me." So, in fact, there is nothing to daoqian. But you have to think about it, if you say that no one in this family can believe such a thing, how sad and sad it must be for your brother who loves you to know? Your brother personally told me that in the future, when choosing a marriage for you, he will not focus on interests, and the first thing is to make you like it. ”
Tang Key's expression was shocked, and he muttered, "Will my brother be sad too......
Qu Ning glanced at her, and felt more and more helpless in his heart: How could Tang Shaoshuai not be sad? If he really knew that Tang Jian didn't even believe him at all, but he was just pretending to be a brother and sister, how could he not be sad? Although Tang Shaoshuai looks arrogant and cold, he is still alone. As long as it is a person, people's hearts are made of meat, not to mention that she can see that an iron-blooded man like Tang Shaoshuai actually has an extraordinarily hot heart. And Tang Jian is the relative he cares about very much.
But Tang Jian obviously didn't feel it at all.
Poor Young Marshal Tang, he is really ...... at home I don't have a real relative.
Qu Ning looked at Tang Key's expression, but another doubt surfaced in his heart: Some things will not come for no reason.
Tang Jian has developed this kind of personality that no one believes, is timid and suspicious, and is like a frightened bird, which should be related to her past experience. But she is a backhouse woman, according to Qu Ning's understanding, she has not experienced any major events, and the only major setback that may most likely change her character is probably her mother's early death.
But Tang Shaoshuai had already cleared out those culprits from the Tang family early on, and it stands to reason that the remaining people should not dare to make more moves for several years, and even if there are actions, they are at most some food, and small means in the portions, I am afraid that they will not even dare to squeeze her out. But Tang Jian was still raised crookedly. In this way, the most likely thing is that there is still some ...... about Mrs. Tang's death
Qu Ning was suddenly startled, and she was shocked, she was also frightened by her own speculation: Yes, only this possibility can make Tang Key become as suspicious as he is now. Otherwise, she would always be a young girl who would have admired and relied on male elders, such as her father and brother, instead of being afraid of cowardice like now.
When Mrs. Tang died, Tang Jian was only five years old, her brother was not at home, and her mother was seriously ill and lying in bed, dying for a long time. My mother-in-law is seriously ill, Tang Jian should be very worried, maybe ...... I've been in the room for the sick. But a five-year-old child may not be able to sit still, maybe in and out of the room, with the size of a five-year-old child, hide in any corner of the room, I'm afraid that he can hide well and not be discovered by adults who go in, right?
In Qu Ning's heart, a specific picture had already been sketched, she glanced at Tang Key quietly, and when she wanted to ask, she turned around her mouth, but she still didn't ask.
After so many years, she asked herself if she had the ability to untie the knot in Tang Key's heart. Take your time, as long as the guess she thinks is the truth, it won't be buried all the time.
***
In fact, there was one more person who was deeply affected by that banquet.
It was the French Minister Alice.
With her identity, she is also a celebrity in China, and in the French Concession, it is even more responsive.
Alice knew that day that the culprit of poisoning her own miscarriage was actually lipstick, and she couldn't wait to tear off the manufacturer that made lipstick, and when she returned home, she immediately collected all the lipsticks at home.
As soon as the French minister returned home that day, he saw his wife furious, and said to him only one sentence: "Richard, I will sue them until P&V goes bankrupt!" Richard, I tell you, if you don't help me and avenge our son, I'll go back to France by boat at once, and you'll be left alone in the Far East! ”
The French minister was stunned.
Alice, who has always been bright and tough, was already choked up when she talked about "son", and Zuihou was obviously ruthless, but she covered her face with a handkerchief, and she couldn't cry.
He hurriedly coaxed her for a while, helped her wipe away the snot and tears on her face, and hugged her, with a little firmness in his eyes: "Alice, don't cry." Tell me what happened, and I'm naturally on your side. ”