A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

Miss Shen seemed to have discussed it with Sha Yanyao, so when the two of them spoke to the lady, they were both very calm in the face of the lady's roar and hysteria.

Mrs. Shen also came over and made a big fuss, saying that Sha Yanyao was ungrateful and that the Sha family treated them and their daughter badly. When she found out that the two had already discussed and were determined to separate, she sat on the ground and burst into tears without caring about her image at all.

Finally, knowing that it was irreversible, Mrs. Shen wiped away her tears, quickly got up from the ground, and said to Sha Yanyao: "Since you are going to separate, the inheritance left by my old Shen must be returned to my family."

The lady suddenly jumped up and yelled at Mrs. Shen, "You are shameless! Your family married a barren woman into our family. After so long, she hasn't even laid an egg, and now you want to extort money from us. The property left by your wife has long been taken back by you, who used to ask us for money all day long."

Mrs. Shen was not to be outdone and said, "Don't think I don't know about the dirty deeds of your family. You even dared to wipe out the Ji family of the Shanghai underworld, and now you are doing it to our family."

The lady was furious when she heard this and pointed at her and yelled, "You are slandering me and talking nonsense."

Seeing that the two were about to fight, Sha Yanyao quickly walked between them and said to Mrs. Shen, "Don't worry, mother-in-law, I won't treat Fengshu unfairly."

The wife was unwilling to hear this and said, "Okay, since you want to divide the property, then take back the betrothal gifts we gave you. The betrothal gifts we gave you alone are enough for you and your daughter to live on for three lifetimes. You are still not satisfied. You have been married to my family for so long and haven't even laid an egg. And you still want money. Shameless! Bah!"

The curse was so vicious that even Miss Shen felt embarrassed. She pulled Mrs. Shen and walked out of the door directly.

During those two days, Miss Shen took leave from school. Guier wanted to visit the Shen family, but was afraid that the lady would stop her.

On Sunday, just as she was about to go find Miss Shen under the pretext of going out for fun, she was stopped by Sha Yanyao.

Sha Yanyao brought her to his and Miss Shen's room and took out two large boxes from a cabinet. They were filled with Miss Shen's jewelry, including diamonds, jade, agate, pearls, corals, and of course, most of them were gold and silver.

Sha Yanyao said to Guier, "Take Ah Cheng with you and deliver these two boxes of jewelry to Fengshu. Tell her that you can ask someone to come over and take away her clothes or anything she wants."

Gui'er hesitated for a moment, but still asked the question in her heart: "Brother, are you willing to give up your sister-in-law? You used to like your sister-in-law very much."

Sha Yanyao smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, in the past, but I've been married to her for such a long time, and I've realized that her heart is never with me. Or maybe I haven't really understood her. Continuing like this would be very painful for both of us. But she is a good woman, I'm sure of that."

After a pause, he continued, "Please tell her that my mother is very tight-lipped about money. I don't have much money on hand, so I'll give her 50,000 yuan first. I'll pay her more later when I have more money."

In fact, although Sha Yanyao and Miss Shen quarreled from time to time, in her opinion, in this era, especially after seeing so many marriages of the Marshal and his wife, and Mr. Song and Mrs. Song, the marriage between Sha Yanyao and Miss Shen was already very beautiful in her opinion.

However, Miss Shen is a simple, progressive-minded romantic who has never experienced the hardships of life. If she stays in the Sha family, she will be exposed to a lot of darkness and have to endure humiliation, which should be very painful for her.

Gui'er brought Ah Cheng and came to the Shen Mansion with two jewelry boxes. When Mrs. Shen learned that Miss Shen had left behind so many valuable jewelry at the Sha Mansion, she scolded her again, and took Gui'er's jewelry box with both hands and took it to her room to store it.

As soon as Mrs. Shen left, Miss Shen pulled Gui'er close and asked affectionately, "How have you been at school these days?"

Gui'er said, "School is still the same. Sister Fengshu, when will you come back to class?"

When Miss Shen heard Gui'er change her tune and no longer call her sister-in-law, she looked a little lonely. Gui'er took the opportunity to say, "When I came here, my brother asked me to tell you that mother is very tight-lipped about money and he can't spend much. I'll give you 50,000 yuan first, and the rest will be given to you when I can move it later."

Miss Shen smiled and said, "He is a good man."

Gui'er sighed and said, "My brother just said you're a good person. If you're both good people, why can't you get along?"

Miss Shen smiled bitterly and said, "You'll understand when you grow up."

Later, I heard that one day when Gui'er was in school, Sha Yanyao and Miss Shen went to go through the divorce procedures and they really got divorced.

Ever since Sha Yanyao got divorced, Yulan had been hanging around him all day, bringing him food, drinks, and newspapers. Dingxiang said to Guier, "Now the servants are saying that Miss Yulan is probably planning to become your sister-in-law, and she's just about to get into bed with him."

Gui'er smiled and said nothing. She knew that Yulan might have made a wrong idea. Although she was declared to be an adopted daughter and was provided with good food and drink, to the lady and Sha Yanyao, she was just a prostitute used to entertain Director Wang.

In fact, his wife was already helping Sha Yanyao find a new marriage partner. If she didn't have any connections in Nanjing, even if she tried her best to socialize, people would not pay much attention to her because Sha Yanyao was just a newcomer to the government and a second-time bride.

Finally, she finally gave up and said that when she returned to Jiangcheng during the holidays, she would pick the best among all the rich girls in the city, as if she could save face by saying this.

Gui'er, however, was secretly delighted when she heard the words "she will go back to Jiangcheng during the holidays".

She goes to school every day now and actually has no access to any information, so naturally she has no reason to call Song Xichen. She wrote a letter to Taohua once, but Taohua replied saying that everything was fine and that the third concubine also cared about Guier very much, so they read the letter written by Guier together. This obviously told Guier that the third concubine would check the letter. Fortunately, Guier was cautious and did not mention the matter of Wu Dahua and Wu Dafu in the letter. After that, she only sent things back, but she didn't know whether this thing would eventually reach Taohua's hands, so she simply didn't send it later.

Yulan also longed to return to Jiangcheng. She felt that as long as she returned to Jiangcheng and entered the Marshal's Mansion, she would be the Marshal's official adopted daughter. She would pester Guier from time to time, asking Guier to tell her about the people in the mansion. She was most interested in Marshal Sha's situation.