Rebirth: Making a Fortune in Ancient Times

Faced with her mother-in-law's murderous gaze, Ah Zhe's wife lowered her head and her lips moved, but no one heard what she was saying.

Seeing her like this, Aunt Li was furious. She looked around but couldn't find anything suitable. She took off one shoe, held it in her hand, and quickly walked a few steps to A-Zhe's wife. Grabbing her hair, she started slapping the shoe across her face repeatedly. Her expression was frantic. A-Zhe's wife, unable to break free from her mother-in-law's grip on her hair, could only try to swat away the shoe soles with her hands, while simultaneously letting out pig-like screams.

The eldest daughter-in-law, Zhou, and the second daughter-in-law, Mu, exchanged worried glances at the scene before them. They wanted to go up and pull the people away, but they were afraid of upsetting their mother-in-law, so they stood there without daring to move.

"stop fighting!"

In the end, Ah Zhe couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to pull his mother away.

“Mother, let her go. From now on, we will go our separate ways and have nothing to do with each other.”

"No, my dear husband, I beg you, please don't divorce me. I know I was wrong. Please forgive me this once. I'll serve you every day from now on. Brother Zhe, Brother Zhe, I'll never do it again. I'll still have your children. I'll serve you every day. Please forgive me just this once. If you divorce me, our children will be motherless. Can you bear to see them leave their mother at such a young age? Waaah... Waaah..."

Taking advantage of the situation, A-Zhe's wife hugged A-Zhe's leg, her lips swollen and red, and cried out that although she liked to move her things back to her parents' home, she knew what kind of people her brothers and sisters-in-law were, and that if she were divorced and sent back home, her life would definitely be difficult. In order to win A-Zhe back, she even used the nicknames she used to call him in private.

Ah Zhe forcefully pushed her hand away and said coldly.

“Go ahead and leave. Don’t you always like to go back to your parents’ home? This time, you can just stay there and don’t have to come back. If you’re lucky, you can remarry and earn some more dowry for your good brother. Then your mother won’t have raised you for nothing.”

After finishing speaking, he turned to his eldest uncle and several other uncles and said...

"Today, I ask all the elders to be my witnesses. I am divorcing Wang Qingcao. From now on, we will not be related to each other in marriage. My son is illiterate, so I ask my uncle to help me write the divorce papers."

"Sigh, Ah Sheng, go home and get your writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone." Ah Zhe's uncle sighed, not offering any advice, but directly instructing his son to go back and get the things.

At this moment, A Zhe's two children seemed to understand that something serious had happened in their family, and they stood beside their mother, wailing loudly. It was heartbreaking to see, but thinking about what that daughter-in-law had done was truly chilling.

No matter how much Ah Zhe's wife cried and begged, the divorce papers were still written. She was allowed to take her dowry with her, and the Li family would give her five taels of silver as a settlement allowance. From then on, the two were even.

Looking at the silver ingot in front of him, Wang Qingcao, who had originally decided not to put her fingerprint on the divorce agreement, wavered.

After the people in the courtyard dispersed, Wang Qingcao had already packed her things. She had two large bundles containing her clothes for all four seasons, five taels of silver that she had just received, her savings over the years, and a few pieces of jewelry. That was all she had left.

All of these things were acquired after she married into the Li family. When she got married, her family only gave her a bedding, a wooden basin, two pillowcases, and a set of clothes to wear that day. That was all.

"The bedding is too big, I won't take it for now. I'll have my brother come and get it later." As she was leaving, Wang Qingcao turned back to the two women who had come to see her off and said this.

"Mother, don't go. Mother..." Suddenly, two children, one eight years old and the other five, ran out of the main room, crying as they ran towards Wang Qingcao. But they were quickly caught by Aunt Li Er, who grabbed their arms.

“She’s not your mother, just pretend she’s dead.” Aunt Li spat in Wang Qingcao’s direction, then dragged the two crying and struggling children into the house.

"Mother...Mother...Don't go...Mother, take me with you, I'll go with you. Ah...I want my mother." The child's cries came from the house, his voice hoarse from crying.

Wang Qingcao didn't have a good relationship with her two sisters-in-law, but seeing the two children crying so miserably, the two sisters-in-law couldn't help but shed tears of heartache.

"Third sister-in-law, why did you do this? Third brother has always been devoted to you. No matter what Mother says, he always puts you first. How could you bear to do such a thing? Tell me, if Ah Sheng hadn't happened to be there, would you have even been able to see your third brother?"

"I didn't know the medicine was so effective. If I had known it would be so good, I would have saved one for him." Wang Qingcao murmured as she finally uttered these words.

"you……"

"you……"

The two sisters-in-law pointed at her, so angry they couldn't say a word. Wang Qingcao waited for a while, and seeing that the two sisters-in-law had nothing more to say, she picked up her bundle and prepared to leave.

Don't you want to say a few words to your child?

In the end, the second sister-in-law couldn't hold back any longer and called out from behind.

“The child is with his grandparents and his biological father, so I have nothing to worry about. Children will get used to crying after a couple of days. Tell the child that I will always be their mother.”

After saying that, he turned and walked away with an air of nonchalance.

The two sisters-in-law stared in disbelief at her clean and efficient back view.

"She's usually the most shrewd when it comes to getting a bargain. If there's anything good in the house, she'll take it all to her own room. She always prioritizes the two children when there's food. How come she's so confused about this? She just puts the children down without a second thought, without any concern for them?"

The second sister-in-law wiped away tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve and sighed.

"Sigh, I've only just realized what my sister-in-law is thinking!" the eldest sister-in-law sighed.

The second sister-in-law turned her head to look at her in confusion, waiting for her to say something next.

“My sister-in-law doesn’t consider any of us as family, including A-Zhe. In her eyes, her own family and her two children are her true family. Right now, the two children are with us, but in her eyes, it’s not like they’re separated from their own flesh and blood. Instead, she thinks we’re helping her raise the children, and she’s even getting a bargain. Didn’t you hear what she just said? She’ll always be the children’s mother. Who knows, she might come back and take the children away at any time.”

"No way!" The second sister-in-law found the eldest sister-in-law's explanation too absurd, but upon closer reflection, it all seemed to make sense. And what was that thing she just said? She showed no remorse or heartache whatsoever for A-Zhe losing an arm.

Watching the figure gradually disappear into the distance, the two sisters-in-law remained silent. Their third sister-in-law had done so much for her family; they wondered if she would be accepted by her notoriously shrewish sister-in-law when she returned home.