Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

Yang turned around in surprise and asked, "What are you doing here in public?"

Everyone looked outside the door, and a woman in her thirties came in and kowtowed to Qi Tong first: "Sir, I, the commoner Tian, ​​come to see you."

"Tian?"

"Sir, I am Yang's daughter."

"Tian, ​​what do you have to say?"

"Sir, I have something to say to my mother..."

Qi Tong gestured to her to speak.

Tian didn't dare to look up. She just went over and pulled Yang aside, and said helplessly, "Mom, please stop making trouble. I don't want to marry Gao Juren."

"Don't worry about it! If you don't marry him, who will you marry? That 40-50 year old Zhang Mazi or that dirt-poor Wu Xiuchun?"

Tian looked ashamed and helpless: "Anyway, I won't marry Gao Juren, even if you convince me, I won't marry him. Besides, he doesn't agree, so don't endanger his life anymore."

"If the king's law forbids it, then forget it. The king's law allows a man to marry another wife. What's the big deal..."

Tian was even more ashamed and annoyed: "Even if I am allowed to marry, it has to be someone's wish. He already has a wife, and they have been together for more than ten years. He doesn't want to marry another wife. Even if he reluctantly marries me, he won't take me seriously."

"Don't take him seriously. You will be the wife of a juren once you get married, isn't that enough..."

Although the two men walked to the corner and lowered their voices, since no one else in the hall spoke, their conversation was inevitably heard by many people in the hall.

"…But now even the prefect disagrees, and he is only charged with being unfilial. For such a small matter, he killed someone, and he will be stabbed to death in the future?"

Yang kept a sullen face and said nothing.

Qi Tong did not wait any longer and slammed the gavel: "Tian, ​​it is inconvenient to be in court. You and your son can talk after the court. Come, take Gao Chong to prison."

When Tian heard this, her face suddenly changed and she quickly grabbed her mother's sleeve and shook it: "Mom!"

Then he quickly knelt down and begged, "Sir, please don't put me in jail yet. My mother doesn't want Gao Juren to die."

As she said this, Tian turned around anxiously to look at Yang, her eyes full of anxiety and pleading.

Seeing that Yang didn't say anything, Qi Tong stopped waiting and said, "Okay, take her away."

"Sir," Yang finally said, "Please release Gao Zhong."

"Aren't you going to sue Gao Zhong for being unfilial?"

"No more suing."

"Gao Chong, as a scholar, disobeyed his mother's orders and even dared to be angry with his adoptive mother. You feel unfair about this, so it is in accordance with the law to punish him. You don't have to worry about it."

Yang said, "I have no concerns and will not sue. Please release Gao Zhong, sir."

Qi Tong said, "Okay. Gao Zhong, since Yang has withdrawn her complaint, I will forgive you. You should take good care of Yang in the future and don't make your adoptive mother unhappy again."

Gao Zhong's mood went through ups and downs. He was finally relieved when he heard Qi Tong let him go. He kowtowed to Qi Tong and said, "Thank you very much, sir. Gao Zhong will do his best to take care of Auntie in the future."

Qi slammed the gavel and left the court.

Tian helped Yang, who was still unhappy, out of the hall and looked back guiltily at Gao Zhong who was about to get up.

Gao Zhong was kneeling on the ground and couldn't get up. Qin Yunhe came over to help him up and reassured him: "Don't worry, I didn't report it to the education commissioner."

"Thank you, sir."

Qin Yunhe accompanied him out of the hall, and Gao Zhongcai bowed to Qin Yunhe again and said, "I am sorry for causing trouble to you, sir."

"It's okay. It's not your fault. Didn't you go and have a good talk with Yang after you returned?"

Gao Zhong smiled bitterly and said, "Why didn't you go? I knelt down. I told her that I would take care of her in her old age and see her to the end of her life, and that I didn't want half of the family wealth. I just asked her to stop making trouble. But she still disagreed and insisted that I marry Tian."

"You are unwilling to give up your family fortune to her?" Qin Yunhe was puzzled. "Why? If you give her half of the family fortune, it will belong to Tian family in the future. If she doesn't remarry, she can live a rich life. If she wants to remarry, she will have a generous dowry and the confidence to marry in glory. Isn't that good?"

Gao Chong still smiled bitterly: "How should I know? I thought she was making such a fuss because she wanted to give half of the family fortune to her biological daughter, but who knew that she didn't want the family fortune and insisted on letting Tian marry me.

What I didn't expect was that after I begged her twice, she came to the government office to file a complaint again, and even brought the adults along with her."

Qin Yunhe felt it was incredible. Wouldn't it be nice to leave half of the family property to his daughter? Why did he have to let his daughter marry Gao Chong?

Could it be that because she had said before that Gao Chong had a bright future, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that letting her daughter marry Gao Chong was the best outcome?

On the carriage back to Xunlin County, Yang scolded her daughter.

"...If you don't marry Gao, who else would you marry? Look at the families your brother has found for you. Is there any decent one?"

"...Although Zhang Mazi is a few years older, his family is relatively well-off. Although Wu Xiuchun's family is poor, she is a very honest person. Besides, my brother didn't say that I must marry those two people."

Yang said unhappily, "You are not forced to get married. That's what she meant, but you just can't see it. You have only been divorced and returned home for a few months, and they are already arranging for you to marry someone else? What's wrong with my eldest sister coming back to stay for a few days? It must be Chen who instigated it!"

"No, she didn't say anything."

Yang reached out and nodded at her: "Why are you as stupid as your father? Even if they don't want to drive you out of the house, why don't you marry someone so good? Gao Chong has already passed the imperial examination, and maybe he can pass the imperial examination next year, and he will be an official in the future.

You will be the legal wife as soon as you enter the house, and will be an official's wife in the future. Isn't that an endless blessing?

Besides, he has taken so much of my property, how can it be too much for me to just ask him to marry you?"

Tian was helpless: "Mother, the property originally belonged to the Gao family. Besides, Mr. Gao already has a wife and a grown-up son. Besides, didn't the prefect say that he doesn't agree to let him marry again? You can't really kill him because of this."

At this point, Yang also slowed down her tone, with a hint of regret: "What a pity! Gao Chong is an honest man with a great reputation. Alas - if I had known this would happen, I should have asked someone to marry you to him. At that time, he seemed so cowardly, and I never thought that he would have such a blessing..."

Then he pointed at his daughter in a bad mood and said, "You too, if you were a bit tougher I wouldn't have to go through so much trouble. Before, he said he would rather not have half of his fortune. If I wasn't afraid that you wouldn't be able to hold on to the money and would be cheated out of it, I would have agreed long ago.

No, I have to go back and find him. Since I can't marry you, it's good to leave half of the property to you."

Tian said hurriedly, "Mom, don't do this. That's the Gao family's money. If you take it, people will stab you in the back."

Yang said unhappily, "I'm sorry, why are you acting like your father? That half is the money the old man left for me to live on in my old age. Why should I be embarrassed to ask for it?"

Tian became even more anxious, and frantically grabbed her mother and begged, "Mom, please stop making trouble. Really, please stop making trouble. You also said that I can't hold on to the money. I really don't want it."

Tian was also complaining in her heart. Her mother's spine was almost broken from all the torture she had endured.

Yang pulled her arm back and said unhappily, "Oh, forget it..."