After rebirth, I became a national teacher

"You call the household expenses a trivial matter?"

Kong Shuya naturally heard his anger.

I felt wronged and angry.

She was used to exchanging wits with officials from various ministries who came to the Ministry of Revenue to collect expenses, and she was no longer the type to swallow her anger in silence when facing men.

Hearing this, his face turned cold and he said:

"Compared with the Ministry of Revenue, which involves thousands of officials and staff and more than a dozen government offices, aren't these minor household affairs trivial matters?"

"Things have their priorities. I take care of state affairs first, then family affairs. What's wrong with that?"

Yan Qingzhi, who was always eloquent, was unable to find the right words to refute his wife.

Does he dare to say that the internal affairs of his Yan Mansion are more important than the government affairs of the Ministry of Revenue?

But he also felt suffocated in his heart. After thinking for a while, he said coldly:

"Okay, okay! Since you, Kong, are a busy person and can't take care of the trivial matters in the mansion, then leave all the affairs of the mansion to Li!"

Li was an old concubine who had always followed him.

Kong Shuya was stunned when she heard this, her eyes full of hurt:

"You actually want to ask a concubine to manage the household?"

According to the deeply rooted concept, for a wife, having a concubine as a housekeeper is as shameful as for a man to be cuckolded.

Yan Qingzhi sneered:

"You can't take care of it yourself, and your home is no longer like a home. What's wrong with your husband letting someone else take charge of the household affairs?"

Because Kong Shuya was busy with the Ministry of Revenue and could not take care of the household chores, the two had had more than one argument.

When Kong Shuya thought about the huge amount of official business waiting for her tomorrow and looked at her unreasonable husband in front of her, she felt extremely tired.

Just make it clear all at once.

"It was you who told me to do a good job as a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue, and said you would divorce me if I didn't do it well! I listened to you and tried my best to gain a foothold in the Ministry of Revenue and be a good doctor in the Ministry of Revenue! Now, I am busy with official duties and have no time to take care of my family, so you blame me and even use your concubine to manage the household affairs to humiliate me!"

"These days are so boring!"

She didn't understand. Her husband was obviously in an important position and knew how busy and important the affairs of the court were and how he couldn't be distracted. So why was he so harsh on her at this critical moment?

She has obviously been trying very hard to take care of the family, so why doesn't he understand her at all?

Being a wife is so tiring.

Su Ci Fu, General Hui Ming and others, when they had free time after their shifts, would read books and play the piano, practice swordplay and horse riding. They would also go to the Southern Capital in groups of three or five to look for delicious food, beautiful jewelry, interesting things, or even take a night cruise on the river, listening to music and drinking for fun.

Whenever she had a little free time, she would rush back home to inquire about the many people and things in the mansion.

Apart from that, there is no time for fun or rest.

Even though she worked so hard, her husband still didn't care about her at all.

In this case, it would be better to be more comfortable with a divorce.

Anyway, her son Yunger is grown up and can start his own business.

She had her own dowry, fields, shops and yards, and worked as a Langzhong official in the Ministry of Revenue. She had both power and money.

She no longer needed to rely on her husband to live.

If I didn't have family burdens, I wouldn't say my life would be much more carefree, but at least I wouldn't have so many worries as I do now.

Thinking this way, I actually felt that getting a divorce was really a good thing.

Her expression gradually calmed down, and her tone became calm:

"Yan Qingzhi, since you are so dissatisfied with me, I am tired too. We might as well get divorced directly to avoid some farce of favoring a concubine and abandoning a wife, which would bring shame to Yun Ge'er and make it difficult for us to meet in the same court in the future."

Hearing this, Yan Qingzhi was stunned.

When he saw the lady's expression change from anger and grievance to calm, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

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If a person suddenly goes from being angry to being calm, it can only be because he is frustrated.

I swear to God, he was just using the fact that his concubine was the head of the household to scare his wife who no longer cared about the family, so why did she suddenly want a divorce?

"No! I don't agree to divorce!"

He was too embarrassed to explain and could only express his stance immediately and forcefully.

How could he, a second-rank official, be divorced by others!

Moreover, his wife has a good family background and is capable. She is now the deputy director of the Ministry of Revenue in the court. He would be crazy to divorce such a wife.

However, Kong Shuya did not intend to say more to him.

"The Ministry of Revenue is busy with official business right now, and I have to go to court tomorrow. I don't have time to argue with you. Let's talk after the government office closes."

After saying that, he went to the bathroom without any reluctance.

Not long after, he came back, all wet and fell asleep.

On the contrary, Yan Qingzhi felt extremely uncomfortable seeing his wife sleeping so soundly without any worries after she had just said such an earth-shattering thing.

He tossed and turned for most of the night before he fell asleep.

When I woke up, my wife had already gone to the yamen to report for duty.

Later, he didn't go home for many days in a row.

He thought that his wife was busy with work at the government office and it would be inappropriate to disturb her with household matters, so he decided to wait until the twelfth lunar month when she had a day off before going to see her.

By that time, she would have probably calmed down.

He then went to pick her up personally and she went down the stairs.

Unexpectedly, on the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, he specially trimmed his beard, changed into particularly smart clothes, and took the warm sedan chair to pick someone up, but was told that his wife had left work an hour ago.

It is said that he is going to spend the New Year with Lord Xiao Yan who is handling a case in Anqing Prefecture.

Yan Qingzhi was stunned.

It is said that the Ministry of Revenue has an extra ten days of holiday after the New Year because of the overtime work before. Adding to the original Spring Festival holiday, does it mean that the lady will not be back until twenty days later?

Then...then how is he going to spend this New Year?

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In addition to Madam Yan and Kong Shuya, there was also Zhou Sanmei from the Imperial Household Department.

She was the lost woman whom Chen Qingzhu had rescued when he encountered a kidnapper outside the city of Nandu more than a year ago at the beginning of his journey.

She and the other two were all despised by their husbands and had nowhere to go but to the Cihang Temple that was pointed out by the immortal who saved them. Later, they worked at the Salesian Hall.

Zhou Sanmei is quick and skillful, and very down-to-earth and motivated.

Later, when Zhenniang and Moniang came to teach, she always seized every opportunity to learn.

Later, the territory under Chen Qingzhu's rule expanded and he hired many female officials. Many of the original female Taoist priests in Cihang Temple became female officials and clerks.

Because of her good performance, Zhou Sanmei was promoted by Huijing to be the manager of the Salesian Hall, an official position equivalent to the director of the Salesian Bureau.

Now, she has a two-room official residence in the Salesian Bureau where she can live freely.

He also received a monthly salary of two taels of silver, and at the end of the year, he received another twenty-four taels of silver for maintaining his integrity.

Adding the monthly salary and rewards she had saved at Cihang Temple, she already had more than sixty taels of silver.

Ever since she was given the official residence, she has often thought:

She has so much money and her own house. How happy she would be if her daughter Niuniu was with her.

Especially when she saw the girls in the Salesian Church who were about the same age as Niu Niu, wearing new cotton-padded jackets, eating an egg every day, and having special teachers to teach them how to read and write, and then thinking about the life Niu Niu had spent at home, she felt particularly tormented.

After thinking about it for more than a month, she finally plucked up the courage to ask Huijing for leave.

She wants to take advantage of the Spring Festival holiday to go back to her husband's home and bring her daughter Niuniu to live with her!