Red Mansion Rebirth: Ghost Phoenix

Jia Min looked at her daughter expectantly.

Lin Daiyu choked up and said, "Mother, do you still remember? When I was a child, you taught me the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues, the Three Obediences and the Four Virtues.

"The husband is the leader of the wife, and a married woman should obey her husband.

"You are my mother, my father's wife, and the daughter-in-law of the Lin family. Shouldn't you focus on my father and me?

"Besides, why is it that after you and I left Rongguo Mansion, all my symptoms disappeared and you no longer stayed out of bed for three to five days?

"Mother, please don't be stubborn anymore!

"Just listen to your father and don't let them use you to harm others!"

Jia Min lowered her head in despair. After a long while, she said in a hoarse voice, "Yu'er, go out and play for a while. I have something to say to your father."

Lin Daiyu's face was full of disappointment and she looked at Lin Ruhai sadly.

Seeing her father nod, she stood up, wiped her tears and walked out.

Jia Min looked ashen, and sat on the bed for a long time before finally speaking with difficulty: "Then let's get a divorce."

Lin Ruhai lowered his eyes and slumped his shoulders: "Min'er, just for a family that doesn't cherish you, do you really not want your child anymore?"

"Yu'er is still young, and she will miss me for a while. But I am in the capital, and she can come to see me anytime." Jia Min said lightly, "She is likable, and you are on the rise, so you should choose a gentle second wife."

Lin Ruhai stood up, his face livid: "Rise to prominence? Jia, you think that I don't care about the life and death of your family for the sake of my own future, right?"

"Isn't it?" Jia Min looked at him blankly, "I went to help because it concerns Yuanchun's life!"

"If the Rongguo Mansion only cared about your niece's life, they should have asked you to find me and ask the prince to release your niece from the East Palace and return home!

"Now they are refusing to let the child leave the palace, and even sending her a small amount of money. What does that mean? Is it for the child's life?

"Tell me, is it just for the life of the child?"

Lin Ruhai asked her directly, "Jia, you are not a fool, you can figure it out!

"Wang Liang Di almost died in the Wang family! And because the Wang family tried to stop her from entering the palace, two lives have already been lost! This is a deadly feud!

"Even so, Wang Liang Di still promised to protect your niece and keep the Wang and Jia families prosperous.

"Isn't that enough? Is that not enough? What else do you want?

"Since Wang Liang Di couldn't get through, she forced you to get involved so that she could drag me down with her.

"As for whether this incident will cause me to be disliked by the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, whether it will cause Yu'er to be disliked by Wang Liangdi and Princess Ke, whether it will cause me to lose my job, and whether it will send the Lin family to the deep mountains and old forests, the dens of tigers and wolves -

"That has nothing to do with them. Jia, does that have nothing to do with you, too?!

"So, you said that your husband forced you to stand aside and not care about your niece's life or death for the sake of his own future. Do you have the nerve to say this?"

Jia Min's tears fell like beads from a broken string, she sobbed, "What can I do? My old mother, with white hair, is lying in bed, languishing in pain. She held my hand and asked me to do just this one thing..."

"Are you sure she will only ask you for this one thing?" Lin Ruhai asked back.

Jia Min bit her lip and lowered her head, crying.

Lin Ruhai stood up, exhausted: "Since you understand everything, there is no point in me saying more. I will go and write the divorce letter."

Turn around and leave.

Jia Min lowered her head, covered her face, and just cried.

When she started to cough from crying, her personal maid pushed the door open and brought her a cup of warm water: "Madam, take care of yourself."

Jia Min then raised her head with tearful eyes and asked in a hoarse voice, "Where are the master and the girl?"

"The master is in the study.

"Someone came to the princess's mansion just now and took the girl away. They said that County Master Zhai would take the princess and the girl to the princess's other courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing. There is a teacher who teaches painting there..."

The girl answered cautiously.

Jia Min burst into tears: "So, they took my Yu'er away and hid her!"

The girl lowered her head and said nothing.

Outside the door, Lin Ruhai's expression became more and more wooden.

The next afternoon, the news of Lin Ruhai and Jia Min's divorce was delivered to the main hall of Yichun Palace.

Wang Xifeng almost spilled the hot drink in her hand on her legs. She stood up and asked nervously, "What about Sister Lin? Where is she? Wasn't she taken away by the Jia family?"

"Sister Lin's last name is Lin, so it's impossible for her to follow Jia Min back to the Jia family." Xia Shouzhong comforted Wang Xifeng, asked her to sit back down, and then said slowly, "Let alone Sister Lin, even Jia Min didn't go back to Rongguo Mansion.

"She herself has real estate, shops and farms in the capital as a dowry. Several of her former concubines were sold off by Lord Lin, and now only two maids and their concubines are left.

"Early in the morning, when Mr. Lin went to the government office to record the files, Jia Shi quietly left the city with her servants and went to stay at a hot spring resort in the suburbs of Beijing.

"Except for Lord Lin who sent someone to tell us, no one else knows about this!"

Wang Xifeng didn't believe it: "The Rong and Ning mansions don't know either? Impossible! They must have planted spies around Jia Min!"

"I really don't know. Before leaving the Lin residence, Jia broke the legs of two servants and asked the housekeeper of the Lin family to help sell them far away." Xia Shouzhong sighed, "If you say Jia is smart, she can do such a stupid thing to ruin the future of her husband and daughter.

"But if you say she is just an idiot, how can she tell who the spy is at a glance, and can also make a prompt decision and leave it to Lord Lin to deal with..."

Wang Xifeng sneered, "Bullshit! She broke the legs of her companion, a servant of the Jia family, and yet she let the steward of the Lin residence sell her. Isn't this just shifting the blame?

"Tomorrow, relying on these two servants, Rongguo Mansion can fight with the Lin family for three months!"

Xia Shouzhong was stunned: "Not really... They have been married for ten years, and Lord Lin has never made things difficult for her..."

"I just asked you where Sister Lin is, but you haven't told me yet!" Wang Xifeng felt more and more uneasy.

Xia Shouzhong frowned, "I heard that after Lord Lin returned home yesterday, the couple had a quarrel, so Princess Yongning took Princess Zhai, our little princess, and Sister Lin to her villa in the suburbs of Beijing..."

Suburbs of Beijing!

"Look, what did I say? This is not to go to the dowry farm to hide away, this is to go to Sister Lin!" Wang Xifeng hurriedly ordered Jing Li, "Hurry up and go to the princess's villa and tell her what I said -

"Oh! Just say: The Queen is going to hold a ritual at the Da Ci'en Temple, so she should go back to the palace, fast for seven days, and then go burn some incense for her mother!"

Jing Li understood: "I will naturally bring Sister Lin and the princess to the palace 'by the way'!"

"Yes! Go quickly!" Wang Xifeng slammed the table!

Outside the window, Hongdou, who had heard the whole thing, opened her eyes wide, quietly moved away, and ran quickly to find Yuanchun.

Wu Jin squatted on the tree and looked at her. He tilted his head and meowed.

Wang Xifeng frowned in the room and looked back outside.