Aunt Chen is back from the world of cultivation

Joe's father also agreed:

"Yes, if you give Yuan Ge'er to her, she will definitely agree!"

Now they no longer dared to think that they could use Yuan Ge'er to gain benefits from the Qin family after the divorce.

Nothing is more important than my son's future.

How could their teachers and friends really concentrate on their studies when they were subjected to such terrible torture every day?

What's more, she always took advantage of her teachers and friends. If she became disabled, her future would be ruined.

The next day, seeing Zhenniang coming over, Father Qiao said humbly:

"Daughter-in-law, I know you want to divorce your teacher, but you can't bear to part with Yuan Ge'er. We agree to give Yuan Ge'er to you. Can you please let your teacher go?"

Fearing that she would vent her anger on Teacher Qiao again, Qiao didn't dare to speak up in person this time, and her father did it instead.

However, when Zhenniang heard this, she didn't even pause, but raised her eyebrows and rushed towards Qiao Shiyou with great momentum. Without saying anything, she slapped Qiao Shiyou in the face, knocking him to the ground, and cursed with her hands on her waist:

"Okay, Mr. Qiao, I'm doing this for your own good, but now you don't even want my son anymore and you insist on divorcing me! You're really becoming more and more crazy and hopeless!"

"Come here, bring a rope. I must teach him a thought-provoking lesson today!"

So, Teacher Qiao was tied up again.

This time, Zhenniang didn't even use an embroidery needle to torture him. Instead, she directly covered his mouth and nose with a piece of white paper and poured water on him.

Before long, Teacher Qiao was about to suffocate and began to struggle desperately.

However, Zhenniang sat on him and held him down so tightly that he couldn't even turn over, let alone get rid of the paper on his mouth and nose that was blocking his breathing.

Qiao's father and mother were very anxious and begged:

"Niang Zhen! Please don't torture him like this, he's going to suffocate to death!"

Zhenniang turned back and looked at the two of them impatiently:

"Shut up! It's so noisy!"

The servants understood what he meant and tied up and gagged the two men again, forcing them to watch.

Soon, Teacher Qiao's face turned purple and he started rolling his eyes. Only then did Zhenniang slowly remove the paper from his face.

Teacher Qiao was breathing hard and deeply.

When he recovered, Zhenniang covered his mouth and nose with the paper again.

The torture of suffocation and near-death happened again.

This happened over ten times until Master Qiao fainted completely, and only then did Zhenniang show mercy and let him go.

This time, when Qiao woke up, he burst into tears and begged his parents:

"Dad, Mom! Please! Help me get a divorce! No matter what the cost, I want a divorce! Otherwise, she will kill me one day!"

They all understood that doing it for his own good was just an excuse, and Qin Zhenniang just wanted to torture him in various ways.

She would never let him go easily unless she got enough benefits.

"We said we would give Yuan Ge'er to her, but she still refused to agree. What else can we do?"

Mother Qiao said helplessly.

Teacher Qiao thought very clearly:

"Yes, compensate her for her dowry. She must be mad at us for spending her dowry!"

Hearing this, both Qiao's father and mother were in a dilemma:

"Then...how much compensation will it cost? How can we afford to pay her so much?"

The deficit filled by Zhenniang is probably about seven or eight thousand taels now.

Teacher Qiao gritted his teeth and said:

"I'll sell all the gifts I received when I passed the imperial examination, including my house, shop, and land, to give her back! Mother, give her your dowry as well!"

After all, Qiao Shiyou’s great-grandfather was a prefect, and his ancestors had left some family assets.

However, many of them are fixed assets, and we can only make a living by relying on the income from their output, and we dare not sell them for cash easily.

If you take all those out and add the dowry from Qiao Shiyou's mother, it will indeed make up for the money that Zhenniang once spent on them.

Father Qiao hesitated:

"That would be like draining out all our savings. Then our family wouldn't even have a place to live. What should we do?"

Qiao Shiyou said:

"At worst I can just rent a house to live in. As long as I pass the imperial examination, everything will be fine!"

Father Qiao was a little hesitant.

Even if you lose your grandson, as long as you have a son, you can still have another one.

But he is already forty years old and fully understands how hard it is to make money and how difficult it is to accumulate wealth.

My teacher and friend was the last one in the imperial examination this time. Having lost the support of the Qin family, he has no money or connections to seek guidance from a famous teacher. Who knows how many years it will take for him to pass the imperial examination and become a Jinshi.

Moreover, one cannot start making money just by passing the imperial examination. One has to climb to an official position that can make money before one can really start to reap benefits.

Do they have to live in poverty during this long period of time?

The result of Qiao's father's indecision was that in the next two days, Qiao was tortured many times by Zhenniang under various pretexts. On the third night, Qiao became incontinent, convulsed, and foamed at the mouth.

The Qin family's doctor was invited over again. After taking the pulse, he sighed twice and said to Zhenniang with a smile:

"Miss, please be careful. If you play like this too many times, it will hurt your son-in-law's brain. After all, you are a scholar and you have to rely on your brain to make a living."

Upon hearing this, Father Qiao became very nervous:

"Doctor, what do you mean?"

Teacher Qiao’s brain is the hope for the Qiao family’s turnaround, so no accidents can happen.

The doctor said:

"Don't you understand this? It's just that frequent choking can easily damage your brain."

Zhenniang didn't care at all and said righteously:

"If he can't be a good person, he might as well be a fool, so as not to harm the court and the people!"

Then he smiled gently at Mr. and Mrs. Qiao:

"Don't worry, Dad and Mom. If my teacher and friend become stupid, I will definitely take good care of you!"

She emphasized the word "good life" particularly strongly, as if she was sincere about it.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Qiao shuddered involuntarily.

As soon as Zhenniang and the doctor left, Qiao's father said firmly:

"Even if it means losing everything, we must divorce her!"

He finally understood that until they had vented their anger, Qin Zhenniang would continue to torture them in various ways.

If their teachers and friends were really tortured by her to the point of being stupid, their future would be ruined, and their entire family would fall into the hands of this vicious woman.

By then, with the gate closed and the Qin family's strong servants guarding the house, even if she tortured the two old people every day, who would come to uphold justice for them?

When that time comes, it will be too late to regret.

It is better to withdraw early, at least you can save your teachers and friends.

With the status of a juren, no matter how miserable they are, it is better than living in fear under Qin Zhenniang.

So, early the next morning, the three members of the Qiao family knelt in front of Zhen Niang.

"Mom and Dad, what are you doing? I can't afford it!" Zhen Niang said coldly.

Father Qiao said quickly:

"Daughter-in-law, we have wronged you in the past, and it is only right for us to kneel before you. Please spare our family, okay?"

Zhen Niang was unmoved:

"You have never done anything to wrong me. Why bother letting me go? I am determined to live in harmony with my fellow teachers!"

Father Qiao was afraid that Zhenniang would get mad again and make them lose the chance to speak, so he said quickly:

"We shouldn't have spent your dowry, and we shouldn't have asked teachers and friends to criticize you. We shouldn't have forced you to ask your parents for money and help!"

"We will give you our dowry as compensation, and we will also give you Yuan Ge'er. Can you please let our teacher go?"

Zhenniang said in a weird tone:

"Don't some people say that the money spent at home is all ancestral inheritance?"

"It's not ancestral property! It's not ancestral property! It's all your dowry. We will compensate you with real money even if it means losing everything we have!"

Zhen Niang then glanced at Teacher Qiao, shook her head and sighed:

"Oh, my husband, you are such a hopeless case!"

Teacher Qiao heard that her tone seemed to be relaxed, and hurriedly said:

"Yes, yes, I am a hopeless case and I have failed you! Please stop caring about me and let me be a dead wood!"

Zhenniang didn't say anything.

Qiao's mother also hurriedly advised:

"Mrs. Zhen, you are still young, beautiful, and wealthy. Why waste your time on a good-for-nothing like your teacher? He is not worth it!"

In order to have a smooth divorce, Qiao's mother tried her best to discredit her son.

Zhenniang said she would think about it.

This consideration took three days.

During this period, they would still tie up Teacher Qiao and his friends and "promote him" at will.

The three members of the Qiao family were miserable, but they did not dare to urge them.

Finally, on the morning of the fourth day, I got a positive answer from Zhenniang:

"Since your whole family is so unwelcoming to me, I have no choice but to divorce you."

"Let's ask the elders and the village head to come and draft the deed tomorrow. When the time comes, you must make it clear that it is you who want to divorce, and the things you give are to compensate for the dowry I put in. If anyone dares to play tricks, hmph..."

Having said that, he stood up and sneered, staring at the three people with a threatening look.

"I dare not, absolutely not!"

The three members of the Qiao family now just want to get rid of this plague god and escape from these hellish days, so they dare not play any tricks.

The next day, he was very honest in front of the clan elders, the village head and others.

After both parties had transferred all the compensation property, Zhenniang signed the divorce deed and went to the government office to record it.

After finally dissolving their marital relationship with Qin Zhenniang, Qiao Shiyou and others quickly found a pawnshop to rent a house and started moving out of the Qiao residence.

When the neighbors saw how the family behaved, they all shook their heads in regret when they came out to watch the fun.

"Master Qiao is such a jerk. Zhenniang is so devoted to him and strict with him, but he actually hates her. He would rather abandon his own son than to throw her out of the house!"

"Earlier he wrote to someone about how badly Zhenniang beat him. Today I saw him and he was walking very well. He didn't look like he had any injuries at all. It's obvious that he was deliberately slandering Zhenniang!"

"Alas, the two elders in the Qiao family are also unreasonable and indulge their son in misbehaving."

"Yes, but at least I still had some conscience and compensated Zhenniang for her dowry."

"I think that fellow teacher Qiao will regret it for the rest of his life!"

When Qiao's parents heard these words, they were so angry that their noses were crooked.

Qin Zhenniang snatched Yuan Ge'er away, ruined their family fortune, and even gained a good reputation. They became unreasonable!

If these words were to get out, the reputation of my teacher and friends would be completely ruined.

Fortunately, they have now obtained the divorce agreement, and Qin Zhenniang no longer has the right to beat and torture her teacher and friend as she did before. How could they not make a big scene before leaving, clarify the truth, and restore their family's reputation!