The daily life of a concubine's daughter

Chapter 277 Writing a Divorce Letter

Shen looked down at him, eyes full of disappointment, and slapped himself in the face.

Shi Mingzhen was horrified, crawled on his knees, hugged her hands tightly, and choked up, "Mother! If you want to hit me, hit your son. He is useless. You are forcing your son to die by hitting yourself!"

Shen seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and seemed to be crying but not crying: "I hit myself because I deserve to be hit! I didn't do a good job as a mother, and I didn't educate you and your brother well. You are both right, and I am the one who is wrong! Let go!"

"It's my son's fault, it's my son's fault! If I want to tear up these paintings, I can do so. If I'm angry, I can just beat my son. Just don't hurt myself again."

Shi Mingzhen gradually loosened his hands and knelt down dejectedly, like a puppet with its soul possessed.

Shen couldn't bear to see him look so dead, so she raised her hand and slapped him in anger. She decided not to tear it anymore, took out a tinder to light the candlestick, and found the copper basin that Shi Mingzhen used to wash his face.

Throw all the paintings in and burn them one by one.

Shi Mingzhen stared blankly at the rising flames, which burned Shi Mingzhu's bright smiling face into ashes bit by bit.

It was as if the secret buried deep in his heart, which even he himself was unaware of, was dug out bit by bit, exposed to the sunlight, and then burned to ashes.

His eyes gradually became empty, and the dancing flames could not reflect a single ray of light in his eyes.

how could be?

How could he have any thoughts about the sister he had doted on for many years?

He just favors Zhuzhu a little more.

Since Shi Mingzhu was born, the whole family revolved around her, but there were too many brothers, and Zhuzhu had three older brothers, so there was even less attention on her.

So, he drew a picture for Zhuzhu every year. When he couldn't get his sister's attention, he would take out the painting and look at it to ease his jealousy a little.

Yes, yes, yes, that’s it.

This was his original intention for painting.

He just wanted to pamper his sister and didn't have any other dirty thoughts.

Zhuzhu was pure and beautiful, how could he possibly desecrate her? That was something only a beast could do!

His mother misunderstood him.

"Mother, mother misunderstood me." Shi Mingzhen muttered to himself as he became more and more determined the more he thought about it.

Shen sneered and said coldly: "Whether it is a misunderstanding or not, it is wrong for you to act like this. Shi Mingzhu can only be your sister.

From now on, you should treat Shi Yao the same way you treat Zhu Zhu, and think of Shi Yao the same way you think of Zhu Zhu. They are both your cousins, regardless of whether they are related or not. If you treat them differently, you are filthy, dirty, mean, and shameless!"

When Shi Mingzhen heard this, he suddenly shuddered as he compared the two people in his mind.

No, no, no, he hoped that Zhuzhu would be better than himself, but he also hoped that Shi Yao would be unlucky and stuck in the mire for her whole life, with no chance of turning over. How could he compare the two of them?

"Mother, there are differences between relatives and strangers. You don't have the same attitude towards Zhuzhu and my second sister..."

Shen became furious when she heard him argue, and slapped him again: "Rebellious son! You were different before, but you will be the same from now on!"

Shi Mingzhen pursed his lips, knowing that he had touched his mother's sore spot. Even if his mother wanted to favor Zhuzhu in the future, she would still treat everyone equally because of him.

Thinking that Zhuzhu lost favor because of him, he felt sorry for Zhuzhu.

The fifth brother, Shi Mingying, came hurriedly and pushed open the door, and saw Shen burning something. The third brother was covered in wounds and had a swollen cheek. He was kneeling beside the brazier, and the ground was covered with broken porcelain pieces.

His face changed, and he hurriedly helped Shi Mingzhen up, asking anxiously, "Mother, brother, what happened? What's burning? Brother, why are you kneeling on the ground?"

Shen ignored him and went to look through Shi Mingzhen's bookshelf, especially Shi Mingzhen's writings. She threw all the works related to Shi Mingzhu into the brazier and burned them.

Shi Mingying was frightened. Seeing that no one paid any attention to him, he dared not say a word. He silently found some medicine and applied it to his third brother.

Shen opened the drawer and saw some exquisite toys inside. At first she thought they were for her two grandsons, but after thinking about it, she felt something was wrong.

If it was for Yunxiao and Yunxing, why would it be placed in the study?

I’m afraid it wasn’t given to him by Shi Mingzhu, or he was planning to give it to Shi Mingzhu.

Shen sneered in her heart, what a rebellious son!

He just threw these things into the brazier.

Sure enough, a look of heartache flashed across Shi Mingzhen's eyes, and he lowered his eyes sadly.

Those were indeed given to him by Shi Mingzhu when he was a child.

All the brothers around have it.

We tried every possible means to confiscate the property, but failed. Unexpectedly, it was burned down by my mother.

It wasn't saved after all.

Shi Mingying recognized him and opened his mouth, but when he saw that his third brother didn't say anything, he closed his mouth, trembling with fear for a moment.

Shen turned the study upside down and burned everything that could be burned. The room was filled with smoke, which made people cough.

Shi Mingying was like a frightened quail. He shrank back to open the window, his calves trembling.

Finally, Shen called her two sons over, pushed the four treasures of the study in front of them, and said calmly, "Write, the divorce letter."

Shi Mingying suspected that he was hallucinating and looked at his third brother in confusion.

Shi Mingzhen knelt down again and said solemnly, "Mother, I cannot divorce you."

Shi Mingying finally understood that her mother had really said the word divorce, and she knelt down hurriedly, and asked in shock, "Mother, did my third sister-in-law and Qi Wan say something when they came to pay their respects this morning?

Don't listen to their one-sided words. It must be Qi Wan who instigated the third sister-in-law to divorce her! She is a troublemaker..."

Before he could finish, Shen raised the whip and whipped him.

Shi Mingying screamed twice, but she didn't dare to hide. She knelt straight and asked aggrievedly, "Why did mother hit me?"

Shen was so tired that she didn't want to explain anything. She just said one word: "Write!"

Seeing that her sons were stubborn and refused to write, she whipped them again, hitting both of them on the back.

After being whipped five times in a row, the two brothers realized that their mother was determined to let them divorce.

"I'll write it!" Shi Mingzhen suddenly stood up, grabbed the brush, licked the ink, and quickly wrote a divorce letter.

Shi Mingying was confused: "Third brother, you and your third sister-in-law are deeply in love, why are you getting divorced? Third brother, don't be impulsive!"

Shi Mingzhen did not answer and signed her name at the end of the divorce agreement.

He held the divorce papers in his hands, and in an instant, his heart felt like a big hole had been broken. A cold wind whistled past, and the chill that penetrated his heart spread throughout his body.

Shen took the divorce letter and whipped Shi Mingying again: "What are you dawdling about? Didn't you say you wanted to divorce Qi? Write it now!"

Shi Mingying didn't care about the conflict between his third brother and his wife. He pursed his lips and muttered, "But, but, my grandfather said that if I dare to divorce my wife, I will be erased from the family tree."

Shen sneered, "We are officials and nobles, and you are a merchant. Are you worthy of being included in the Shi family's genealogy? Don't you feel ashamed to be written in that family tree? What's the difference between you now and having your name erased?"

Shi Mingying's face turned pale and he wished he could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.

After a while, he mumbled something and wrote the divorce letter.

Shen took the two divorce letters, without even looking at them, and left angrily.