So what if I traveled through time? I'll continue to roll in another place

Tang Shuyi had long since gone from his previous panic and helplessness to numbness and dullness. He ate and lived mechanically, fighting desperately like a trapped beast, resisting the Ministry of Personnel's death sentence on his official career.

The Tang family still lived in the Qiu family's yard. The comings and goings of Tang's mother and others often attracted the neighbors' sidelong glances or criticisms. The old shrew was not reluctant to quarrel with them verbally, and there was often chaos at home and outside.

The officers from the Censorate and Fengtian Prefecture came to investigate and collect evidence. Tang Shuyi insisted that he did not beat Qiu Zhe, but that Qiu Zhe was old and had poor eyesight, and he went out to drink with Zhou Yao in the evening and accidentally fell and injured himself.

He even claimed that the arsonist was Qiu Shunci, and reported that Qiu Shunci was insane and that she had almost killed her entire family by setting fire to their home. He was determined to distort the truth and portray himself as an innocent person who had been wronged.

The lawsuit was full of twists and turns, and the neighbors had no idea what exactly happened to the Qiu family. There was no surveillance inside the Qiu family. The Qiu and Tang families each insisted on their own story, and the dispute did not produce any result.

Qiu Shunci in the Xiao family has already woken up, but she is coughing very badly. When Qiu Zhu learned that her daughter had woken up, she asked the servants to carry her to go and see her injuries in person.

"Shunci, daddy was wrong. Daddy is useless and failed to protect you." Qiu couldn't help but shed tears again as he looked at his weak daughter.

"Daddy... cough cough, I want... I want... to break off all ties with the Tang family." Qiu Shunci couldn't stop coughing, but tried to express his wish clearly.

"Of course! When you get better, Daddy will make sure you leave that den of tigers and wolves!" Qiu helped his daughter to calm down and made promises repeatedly.

"No...no..., Daddy, this must be done immediately, tomorrow, no, today." Qiu Shunci's attitude was very firm.

"Dad, I'm afraid my body is not going to make it... If I delay any longer, I'm afraid I'll still be the Tang family's daughter-in-law until I die." She looked at her father with tears in her eyes.

"If I am buried in the Tang family's ancestral tomb after I die, I won't have peace even as a ghost!" Her face was pale and haggard, and she looked like a female ghost who had sat up in shock from a tomb.

"And my daughter, Xianjie'er, I must save her. If I die, even if she is sent to a temple to be a nun, it is better than following a father like that!" Qiu Shunci's pale face showed a strange look, and Xiao Yueshan was a little scared when he saw it. It was like a last burst of energy...

"Okay, okay! Let's open the ancestral hall and get divorced now!" Qiu Zhuo, who had been honest all his life, made such a big decision for the first time.

"No, if we divorce by reconciliation, opening the ancestral hall and inviting the elders to talk and negotiate, I don't want to listen to their clichés anymore, I must separate from the Tang family as quickly as possible. Father, let's report to the police directly! I want to break off all ties with the Tang family!" Qiu Shunci had made up his mind, he spoke angrily and anxiously, and couldn't help coughing again.

She no longer wanted to be ruled by her father who was pedantic and dogmatic. She was about to die, so why should she be afraid of losing face? She only hated that she didn't do it decisively or quickly enough!

Qiu Zhuo immediately agreed, asked the servant to help him change his clothes and set off immediately.

Qiu Shunci's waist was hit by a wooden beam and his lower body temporarily lost consciousness. Xiao Yueshan thought of the wooden chair with poles that Zhou Yao used when he pretended to be sick, so he and Du Juan Shutong helped Qiu Shunci onto the wooden chair. The servant carried Qiu Shunci and they rushed to the Fengtian government office together.

When he arrived at Fengtian Prefecture, Qiu had his right hand broken, which he bandaged and hung aside, using only his left hand to beat the drum. He was dressed neatly but looked disheveled, which attracted many people to watch and discuss.

Qiu Shunci sat in a sedan chair without a veil, dressed in plain clothes and without any makeup, showing her physical and mental pain to the world without any hesitation.

Xiao Yueshan was an outsider and it was inconvenient for him to continue interfering in the Qiu family's affairs, so he put on a veil and watched outside with the people.

The drum sounded, and the prefect Liang Ji came out to attend the court session.

Normally, there had never been a single beating of the drum to complain about grievances in months and years. But in the past month, there had been two such beatings. Liang Ji didn't know what kind of trouble had come to him this time.

As soon as he sat down at the desk, the people in the court knelt down and said, "I, Qiu Zhuo, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, sued my son-in-law, Tang Shuyi, a doctor of the Five Classics, for beating his father-in-law, disrespecting his elders, and injuring his wife. There is discord in the family. I am here in court to sever ties with the Tang family!"

It's quite novel for a father-in-law to sue his son-in-law.

Normally, everyone thinks that divorce is not a decent thing. Even if the woman proposes a divorce, at most the right and wrong will be settled in the ancestral temple. It is very rare for the couple to divorce in court.

The people gathered around the court in three layers. In ancient times, there were no mobile phones, so people's entertainment activities were very limited. If the Fengtian government had such a trial, it would be like a sitcom or a reality show. Everyone was happy to join in the fun and have something to talk about when they got home.

Liang Ji slammed the gavel and said, "Bring the defendant Tang Shuyi to the court!"

The yamen runners had to go to Jincheng Lane to fetch Tang Shuyi, and they had to walk there and back, which took a very long time. The crowd watching the scene was still enthusiastic and talked a lot, and the snack vendors around were also doing business. Everyone ate, drank and chatted without feeling bored.

But Xiao Yueshan, who had adapted to the fast pace of modern life, waited until all the flowers had wilted before the bailiffs brought Tang Shuyi to the scene.

Not only did Tang Shuyi arrive, but also everyone in the Tang family, young and old, came.

As soon as Tang's mother saw Qiu Shunci, she subconsciously picked up her mother-in-law's money and said, "You evil woman are a disaster. You made my son lose his job as an official. Now you have the nerve to come to the government office to sue us! Bah! If I don't teach you a lesson today, you really think you are an official wife and a noble lady!"

As he was about to slap Qiu Shunci, Liang Ji would not tolerate her making trouble in the court. He slammed the gavel and said, "You bold bitch! How can you be so presumptuous in the court?"

The bailiffs came forward with their clubs. Tang's mother was so frightened that she shrank her neck and hid behind Tang Shuyi.

"Zhaolu Shuyi says: If one hits one's parents or siblings, if one hits another and causes injury, if one violates moral principles, if one plots to murder one's husband, or if one insults one's uncle or aunt, then one can terminate the relationship.

Now Tang Shuyi has beaten me, and violated the first article of the righteous divorce. I ask the government to rule that it is a righteous divorce. The way of husband and wife is that if there is righteousness, they will be together, and if there is no righteousness, they will be separated. Now there is no righteousness, why don't you leave?" Qiu Zhuo knelt in the court and said loudly to Liang Ji.

Now the Tang family, young and old, is still occupying the Qiu family, so naturally they are unwilling to give up this extinct family.

If Tang Shuyi was destined to be dismissed, they would be even more reluctant to give up the fat meat that had already been eaten. Who could be willing to vomit out what they had eaten?

"I don't agree! The union of the Tang and Qiu families is for the benefit of the ancestors and for the continuation of future generations. With the matchmaking of Mr. Ye, a scholar from the Hanlin Academy, I have a harmonious family life with my father-in-law, wife and daughter. How can I abandon this past life's cultivation and this life's destiny because of such a small matter?" Tang Shuyi decided to protect his marriage with the Qiu family at all costs. If he separated from the Qiu family, he would really have nothing.

"You!" Qiu Zhu was so angry at his shamelessness that he was speechless.

"It has long been established that you have assaulted me. The Ministry of Personnel, the Hanlin Academy, and the Fengtian Prefecture Office all have records of this. How can it be tampered with by your nonsense? Our Qiu family has severed all ties with you and we cannot deny it! Why are you still pestering me?"

Liang Ji still felt sorry for the Qiu family in his heart. He said: "According to the Zhaolu Commentary, the marriage is bound by law, and if it is broken, then they should be divorced. If they do not divorce, they should be sentenced to one year in prison. Since there is no separate letter for divorce, only one person will be punished, and both will be punished for not wanting to divorce. If both do not want to divorce, then the one who made the idea is the first, and the one who followed is the follower.

If the Tang family's act of breaking off ties with the enemy is already confirmed, and they insist on not breaking off ties with the enemy, they will be sentenced to one year in prison. Do you know that?!"

"I am familiar with the laws and I know it! My wife and I have a deep love and loyalty. I would rather go to jail than break off all ties with her!" Tang Shuyi kowtowed like crazy, ready to be a rogue to the end.