Aunt Chen is back from the world of cultivation

Zhou Sanmei’s husband’s home was not too far from Nandu. It took a day’s walk on the official road, and then another half day’s ride by horse carriage or ox cart to get there.

Zhou Sanmei's husband's family was considered wealthy in the village. They owned dozens of acres of land and a large courtyard with twelve rooms.

However, Zhou San's brother-in-law's family also has a large population, with three brothers and more than a dozen people in total.

When Zhou Sanmei first got married, she thought this house was so big and luxurious that it seemed even out of her reach for her family which only had a thatched house.

Because of this, she has always been somewhat ashamed in her husband's family.

But now it seems that this house is small and dilapidated and is not worth mentioning.

At this moment, her inner anxiety dissipated a lot.

When she raised her hand to knock on the door, she appeared to be quite calm.

The person who opened the door was my third brother's wife. She was holding a broom and seemed to be sweeping the yard.

Like every winter before, she was wearing a patched cotton jacket, her face was red from the cold, and her hands were cracked all over, just like old tree bark.

I haven't seen you for more than a year, and you seem to have aged a lot.

"You are...who are you looking for?"

Her third sister-in-law originally came to answer the door casually, but suddenly saw a woman with a plump face, wearing a neat and thick cotton robe. The other party had a tall figure and a very neat and capable temperament. It was obvious that she came from a wealthy family.

The momentum of her words suddenly weakened a lot.

Only then did Zhou Sanmei realize that the other party didn't seem to recognize her.

It’s only been over a year since we last saw each other, has she really changed that much?

"Third sister-in-law, it's me, Zhou Sanmei."

Her third sister-in-law looked at her carefully for a long time, and then said in horror:

"You...were you not killed by the bandits? Are you a human or a ghost?"

Only then did Zhou Sanmei realize that this was what her husband had told her whereabouts when he came home.

However, she did not have time to explain to her third sister-in-law, because a thin figure who was squatting by the well washing sweet potatoes in the yard heard her voice, stood up in shock and looked over here.

Zhou Sanmei recognized her immediately; it was her daughter Niuniu!

Although Niuniu is already seven years old, she is still as thin and short as when she left home.

From a distance, you could see that her little face and hands were covered with purple frostbite.

Zhou Sanmei's heart suddenly felt as painful as if it were stabbed by a needle. She rushed past her third sister-in-law and rushed to the yard, choking with sobs and shouting:

"Niuniu! Mom is back!"

Niu Niu, who was stunned, finally confirmed that it was her mother. She immediately shouted "Mom" excitedly and ran into Zhou Sanmei's arms.

"Mom, you're not dead! That's great! Mom!"

The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried bitterly.

This commotion brought the whole family out.

Zhou Sanmei saw that next to her husband stood a woman in her early twenties, holding a child who looked to be about seven or eight months old.

The child was fair and chubby, forming a sharp contrast with her Niuniu.

Apparently, her husband married this woman not long after he returned, so she had not been back for more than a year before they had such a big child.

"Who is she?"

Zhou Sanmei asked in a pretended angry tone.

Her husband didn't say anything, but the woman holding the child frowned and said in a sharp voice:

"I was married to the Zhang family in a formal ceremony, and I even gave birth to a son for the second brother Zhang! Since you have lost your virginity, you should just get out of the Zhang family!"

It seems that her husband has already told his new partner about what happened to his ex-wife.

From the moment her husband abandoned her, Zhou Sanmei no longer wanted to be his wife.

Now her husband has remarried, which is exactly what she wants.

She looked at her former husband with red eyes and said:

"Okay! I can get out of the Zhang family, but I want to take my daughter Niuniu with me!"

No one in the Zhang family expected that Zhou Sanmei, who used to be afraid to even speak loudly, would become so tough.

However, they were not afraid of her as a woman.

Her father-in-law, Old Man Zhang, spoke first:

"Niuniu is the flesh and blood of our Zhang family. You want to take her away? No way!"

The woman holding the child also said:

"That's right. She's already seven years old. Even if she's sold as a child bride, she can get five or six taels of silver! Why should I let you take her away for nothing?"

Zhou Sanmei took Niuniu in her arms and hugged her tightly, hiding the fear that subconsciously arose in her heart, and looked at the Zhang family members with great momentum:

"Why? Just because Zhang Erlang divorced his wife and married someone else, he would be punished with thirty lashes of the cane and a year in prison if he were to go to the government office!"

"If you let me take Niuniu away, I will sign a divorce agreement with you and nothing like this will happen. Otherwise, don't blame me for not caring about our years of love and for sending you to jail during the Chinese New Year!"

She was so imposing that everyone in the Zhang family felt uneasy.

Old man Zhang was still unconvinced:

"Can the government interfere in other people's family affairs?"

"Besides, a mere woman dared to sue her husband for treason. She deserves to be beaten to death!"

Zhou Sanmei looked coldly at the Zhang family who stood on the opposite side of her and treated her as a public enemy, and said coldly:

"The one who rules Nandu now is the God of Du'e, a female immortal who has many female officials under her."

"If you don't believe me, you can just try and see if it's me or Zhang Erlang who gets the stick and sits in jail!"

These words made the Zhang family, especially Zhang Erlang, feel even more guilty.

He had heard from others that the merchant who ran a rice shop in the town had a daughter who took the examination to become a female official, and that when the land was divided, a female official came to their village.

They were very surprised at the time as to how a woman could be an official.

Now it seems that it should be just as Zhou Sanmei said, because the God of Du'e is a female fairy, he was able to go against all odds and recruit so many women to be officials.

In this case, given the Zhang family's situation, they are really not sure how the government will rule.

Nandu is now under the nose of the "Son of Heaven" Du'e Shenzun.

"Da Lang, go find Mr. Wu in the village and ask him if what Zhou Sanmei said is true!"

Old man Zhang ordered.

Mr. Wu's house was not far from the Zhang family's. Zhang Dalang quickly finished asking questions and came back, whispering a few words in the old man Zhang's ear.

Old man Zhang's face turned very ugly.

It turns out that what Zhou Sanmei said was actually true!

It seems that if he doesn't want his son to go to jail, and doesn't want to give up his second daughter-in-law who has already given birth to a grandson, he can only let Zhou Sanmei take his granddaughter away this week.

——Anyway, their family didn’t own any land, and this granddaughter didn’t make any contribution.

In the end, Zhou Sanmei did not reveal her identity as a female official in Nandu City. She only said that she had found a wealthy family in Nandu to work as a nanny.

After some bargaining with the Zhang family, he took his daughter Niuniu away with a letter of divorce and "all his savings" of three taels of silver.

At this time, the Zhang family did not know what they had lost.

Three years later, a neighbor who went to the next county for business came back and said that Zhou Sanmei had become the county magistrate of the neighboring county. He regretted his decision so much that his intestines turned green.