The daily struggles of divorced women in ancient times

Xia Mianwan felt relieved and just lay down and fell asleep.

The next morning, officers and soldiers came to take them away. This time, there were many old acquaintances among those exiled. They were taken to the city gate, and Zheng Xiaoqi and Zheng Xiaocheng were also taken with them.

"Miss, Miss." At this time, Cui'er's voice came from a distance.

Xia Mianwan saw Cui'er and hurried over, "Cui'er, are you okay?"

Cui Er said with red eyes: "Miss, the mistress wants to come and save you, but the master doesn't agree."

Xia Mianwan had been prepared for this and was not too surprised. "Cui'er, what about you? Have you settled down?"

Cui Er held back her tears and nodded, "I've settled down. Liu Er, Shu Hua, I and I have rented a house in Dashuijing Lane on the back street of Qianmen. If there is any news about the master and the son-in-law in the future, I think I can let the young lady know."

The next morning, the palace received an order: the Zheng family followed the prince's line to plot a rebellion, but considering that the second master of the Zheng family, Zheng Tingzhang, had made meritorious reports, he was spared the death penalty, his property was confiscated and he was exiled 3,000 miles away, and he was never allowed to return to Beijing. Considering that the old master Zheng had made contributions to the country, and Zheng Tingyan, Zheng Tingyu, and Zheng Xiaoyun had fallen off a cliff and died on the battlefield. The Zheng family was only exiled to the north and spared from being sent to the army.

When Old Mrs. Zheng received the imperial edict, she staggered a few steps.

Xia Mianwan had asked Old Madam Zheng for the key to the warehouse before the imperial edict came. Now, she was taking advantage of the chaos to put things in the warehouse into the space. Xia Mianwan had no time to see what was in the boxes. She just stuffed things into the space. When she saw that she had almost finished collecting, Xia Mianwan closed the warehouse.

Afterwards, Xia Mianwan and her group were taken away, and Xia Mianwan's twins, a boy and a girl, were also sent to her.

Arriving at the prison, Xia Mianwan secretly took a look around. Only the first and third wives were imprisoned this time. Old Master Zheng had three sons, the eldest Zheng Tingyan, the second Zheng Tingzhang, and the third Zheng Tingyu. The first and third wives were the legitimate sons of Old Madam Zheng, and the second wife was born to Old Master Zheng's concubine. Zheng Tingyan and his wife Zhou had two sons, the eldest son Zheng Xiaoyun, Xia Mianwan's husband, and the youngest son Zheng Xiaoqi. Zheng Tingyu and his wife Zhu had a son and a daughter, Zheng Xiaocheng and Zheng Lingwan, both of whom were not married yet.

This time, Mrs. Zheng, Mrs. Zhou, Mrs. Zhu, Mrs. Zhu (Zheng Xiaoqi's new wife), Zheng Lingwan, Xia Mianwan and Xia Mianwan's two children, Chen'er and Yu'er, were locked up in the women's prison.

Zheng Xiaoqi and Zheng Xiaocheng were imprisoned in the men's prison.

The women in the family were all panicked and looked sad.

In the second half of the night, Xia Mianwan saw that everyone still looked sad, so he hurriedly took out a few meat buns from the space and secretly distributed them to everyone.

"Old lady, mother, nothing is certain yet. We must not panic at this moment. Falling off a cliff does not necessarily mean there is no chance of survival. We have to survive as long as we have a lifeline." Xia Mianwan calmly told everyone what he was thinking.

After listening to what Xia Mianwan said, Mrs. Zheng fell into deep thought. After a while, she held Xia Mianwan's hand and said, "Mianwan is right. Nothing is certain yet. Our Zheng family is a meritorious official. The emperor did not kill us all. What's more, we still have brothers and sisters, Xiaoqi and Xiaocheng. We must conserve our strength at this time. The road of exile is so long. Without any preparation, we may not even make it to the north."

After all, Zhou was the mistress of a family. Seeing what Old Madam Zheng had said, she gathered her thoughts, took a deep breath and said, "Mother is right. We must conserve our energy and walk to the north. If the master and Yun'er can come back, our family will have a chance to reunite."

Zhu also recovered at this time. Yes, it was just exile. Although her husband was missing, her children were still there. As long as they could reach the north safely, everything would be fine.

"You're right."

Once the women understood what was going on, they quickly ate the meat buns.

"The news came too suddenly, and I was not fully prepared. However, it should be enough for us to reach the North alive. But after all, it is exile, and we must change our thinking. The road may be difficult, so we will stay with the old lady, Brother Chen, and Sister Yu." Xia Mianwan continued.

Zhou then took Xia Mianwan's hand and said, "Good child, thanks to your preparation, otherwise, we don't know what will happen. Don't worry, as long as we can work together, we will definitely reach the north safely."

Xia Mianwan nodded, and seeing that Zheng Lingwan was still a little depressed, she patted Zheng Lingwan's hand.

Zheng Lingwan felt Xia Mianwan's comfort and quickly smiled at her.

The two little kids, Chen Ge'er and Yu Jie'er, stood next to Xia Mianwan without crying or making any noise. Xia Mianwan felt very soft-hearted when she saw the two little kids.

In the middle of the night, when everyone was asleep, Xia Mianwan carefully counted the available silver in the space and found that there were a total of 100,000 taels and 5,000 taels of gold.

We will leave tomorrow and there will be time for our relatives to see us off. Cui'er will prepare her luggage so that she will have the opportunity to take out her things and use them.

Xia Mianwan sighed and said, "You don't have to do this."

Cui Er said with tears in her eyes: "The young lady has been very kind to us. This is the only thing we can do for her."

Xia Mianwan thought for a while and nodded helplessly, "The mountains are high and the waters are long, you must take care of yourself."

"Yes!" Cui'er nodded with tears in her eyes, and then handed the two bundles she had prepared to Xia Mianwan.

"Miss, there are a few sets of clothes, some food and common pills in there, as well as two hundred taels of silver for you to keep for your journey." Cui'er said.

Xia Mianwan quickly refused when he heard this, saying, "The money is for you to live on, why did you give it all to me?"

Cui Er stopped Xia Mianwan and said, "Miss has always been very good to us. We have saved enough money to live on over the years. Miss, this is a difficult time, so please don't be polite to me. This is the decision of the three of us."

Xia Mianwan looked at the sincerity in Cui'er's eyes, nodded and said, "I understand. If I can come back, I will never let you be bullied."

"Ok!"

The Zheng family is such a big family, but no one came to see them off.

Everyone looked around in panic, thinking this was a dangerous place, and were about to leave when a luxurious carriage stopped in front of them.

The woman who got off the car in brocade clothes and jade pendants was the second wife of the Zheng family.