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Chapter 1317: Like a Turtle in a Wishing Well (Part 1317) [Seeking a Monthly Ticket]

People really laugh when they are extremely speechless.

"What did you just say Cui Zhishan was doing right now?"

In the capital of the Kingdom of Qi, there is a hall in the residence of a high-ranking official.

If there were any former ministers of the State of Qi present, they would recognize that everyone present was their former colleague. Although they might not all hold high positions, they had one thing in common - these people all came from aristocratic families, had a good private relationship with Cui Zhi, and they advanced and retreated together.

They all regarded Cui Zhi as the leader of the aristocratic families, but they did not expect that the leader would play tricks on everyone at the critical moment!

This story began two hours ago.

The royal capital opened its gates in surrender, and Shen Tang took over the royal court.

They were very welcoming and gave them a big gift as soon as they arrived.

When I opened the gift, I immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

He had no idea how such a deadly thing could fall into Shen Tang's hands, and how she gave it to him as a "gift" to show him how to be powerful. After torture and screening, he failed to catch the spy, so he had no choice but to discuss with Cui Zhi to see what the next move should be.

They have to be anxious.

Before it even got dark, all eight gates of the royal capital were locked.

Don't ask, the only thing you need to know is that the curfew in King Kang's capital is at this time! However, people with discerning eyes think that this is a preparation to close the door and beat the dog, to round up people and kill them! Who to kill? For this question, people with guilty consciences dare not think about it, for fear that the butcher's knife will fall on their heads.

Everyone gathered here, only Cui Zhi was missing.

After waiting for a long time, Cui Zhi did not come, but the retainers sent to invite Cui Zhi came instead. At this time, they did not think that Cui Zhi was deliberately not coming, after all, Cui Zhi and they were on the same boat. But the retainers said that Cui Zhi was unwilling to come.

Their home is a mess now.

The doorman of Cui Zhi's mansion told the guests very apologetically that the master had an important matter and could not get away for the time being.

The servant was terrified when he heard this, and his brain almost went blank, fearing that Kangguo would use Cui as a chicken to scare the monkeys: [Please go in and tell them that my master has a matter of life and death and needs the Cui master to help make a decision. ]

The gatekeeper lowered his voice and said helplessly: [I dare not go in either. I am afraid that I will see something I shouldn’t see and my life will be in danger.]

The blood drained away from the servant's face.

Before leaving, he stuffed silver into the gatekeeper's pocket and used the money to pry open his mouth. The gatekeeper was entangled and helpless, so he revealed what was going on in the mansion - the eldest lady brought a few male favorites who were not presentable to the public to meet the parents, and wanted to divorce Yuan. The parents were so angry that they jumped up and down on the spot, and quarreled with their daughter in public. The more they quarreled, the more angry they were, and they said they would whip the male favorites...

The lady will definitely not agree.

The father and daughter started arguing.

You say something to me.

It starts with the story of how the mistress divorced her parents, causing the three sisters and brothers of the eldest lady to lose their mother's protection since childhood and be bullied and squeezed by the clan openly and secretly. The eldest lady talked about how she had to compromise, how she had to be cautious, how she had to force herself to understand her father, how she had to endure the longing for her mother, and that she lacked too much love, so was there anything wrong with her finding herself a few more male favorites who loved her?
Faced with his daughter's accusations, Cui Zhi felt even more aggrieved.

He is both a father and a mother. He is the head of the Cui family during the day and has to take care of three children at night. He has to take care of everything from life to study. Now he has to face such a heart-breaking question from his daughter? Did he not love her enough? It's okay for his daughter to have a male lover, but it's not okay to bring a male lover to a family dinner. As a man who has received an orthodox education, he can't accept an unknown person appearing in such a formal occasion! These male lovers were all sent out by him. These traitors actually deceived their superiors and subordinates!

The eldest and second sons were also caught up in the turmoil while trying to stop the fight.

The only person in the family who was not affected was the mistress.

The guests were dumbfounded.

For a moment, I didn't know whether I was shocked that such private information would be easily revealed by the gatekeeper, or I was shocked that Cui Zhi would waste his energy on such a thing at such a critical moment of the family earthquake. Gatekeeper: [...More than that, the lady wants a divorce. ]

Doorman: [Divorce?]

The gatekeeper said: [The parents disagree.]

To be precise, the divorce was agreed to, but what was not agreed to was that the daughter wanted to give the male favorite a status! Not a status of a concubine, but to make one of them the legal wife. This really made the pot explode, and the parents disagreed a thousand times. Either maintain the status quo, or find another son of a noble family who is equally matched as the legal wife. In short, she was not allowed to marry the concubine, and she was absolutely not allowed to make the concubine the legal wife!

The Cui family does not have this tradition!
The father and daughter are now arguing fiercely.

Therefore, Cui Zhi had no time to come out for the appointment.

"Cui Zhishan is such a fickle bastard!" No matter how hard they tried, they could not imagine such an absurd reason. Was he trying to fool people? Was it more important to continue the family line or to care about who was in his daughter's room? Perhaps Cui Zhi was just taking advantage of the situation and deliberately not coming!
Guessed correctly, but no reward.

"But, but, what good does he get from doing this? He stabbed us in the back at the critical moment. Isn't he afraid of revenge in the future?"

Backstabbing them just hurts personal feelings.

But is he crazy for backstabbing the Aristocratic Group?
Someone gasped and gnashed his teeth, "Why are you afraid of revenge in the future? Cui might have secretly surrendered to Shen, and might even use us as a token of surrender, sacrificing us in exchange for the foundation of his Cui family! He has been so confident!"

Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain Cui Zhi's behavior.

Everyone looked gloomy when they thought of the evidence Shen Tang had given them.

Could it be that these evidences were given by Cui?
No, that's unlikely, and Cui doesn't have that ability.

Regardless of whether this matter had anything to do with Cui, they had already broken off relations with Cui. Although they were angry about being stabbed in the back, they could do nothing about it. It was difficult for them to unite and get rid of Cui now. Cui had found Shen Tang as their backer, so they could not touch him for the time being.

Just because you can’t move now doesn’t mean you can’t move in the future.

Cui, Cui Zhishan, we have a long way to go!

This matter did not cause any disturbance on the surface. The people who received Shen Tang's gifts did not dare to complain, and they did not make any small moves in private, for fear that Shen Tang would catch them and make them tremble with fear for several days.

The culprit behind all this had a rare day of free time, Bai Longyu was ready to stroll out of the city. She was too busy when she entered the city and had no time to take a good look outside. She rode her motorcycle slowly to the city gate, which was blocked.

Shen Tang could only jump off the mule and wait for the team to pass.

She stuffed a candy into her mouth, then stuffed a handful into the mouth of the motorcycle, and looked at the convoy curiously: "Whose family is this?"

With her super hearing, she could hear some snoring in the team.

The long, sad tune seems to contain endless grievances.

If the carriage was not exquisitely decorated, Shen Tang would have suspected that they were trafficking decent women. It is human nature to gossip and watch the fun. Common people may have no interest in family and national affairs, but when it comes to private gossip and things between men and women, their eyes will light up.

"I heard that she was a daughter of the Cui family who was divorced and sent back to her natal family."

Shen Tang subconsciously thought of the Cui family behind Cui Zhi.

After asking in detail, it turned out to be the same Cui.

"What happened that led to the point of divorce?"

Seeing that she looked unfamiliar and spoke with an accent from another place, the gossiper asked, "You don't know this? In the past few days, the number of Cui's daughters who have been divorced can be counted together. One of them was married for more than ten years and gave birth to seven children, but she was also divorced."

Shen Tang paused while chewing the maltose.

He asked, "There should be a reason for divorcing a wife, right?"

The busybody said, "Why do these superiors need a reason to do things? Cui Shi has also canceled several marriage proposals recently."

Cui just broke off the engagement, while the other party directly divorced his wife.

I don't know what happened to these families, but they broke up without any warning and acted as if they would never have anything to do with each other again. A girl named Cui couldn't stand the humiliation for no reason, so she hanged herself on the same day in her husband's house.

Speaking of this, the curious sighed. However, it is still possible to guess.

An old scholar in shabby clothes in the crowd whispered, "There is nothing new under the sun. Back then, the imperial consort of Cui family had to divorce the princess because of the conflict between the royal court and Cui family. I guess it will be the same this time."

It is not that the relationship between the two families will be good only if their descendants marry each other, but only if the relationship between the two families is good will the younger generations marry each other. Now that the relationship between the two families has deteriorated, if the women who marry into the other family are not divorced, it will not be easy for them to stay in an environment full of hostility in the future.

"If you don't leave, you might die of illness one day."

Everyone who heard this gasped.

"...This is too cruel. After all, she gave birth to our own children. If she kills them, won't they hate her?"

Ordinary people simply cannot imagine such an extreme situation.

"What are you hating? Don't you even look at your children's last names?"

"Oh, how pitiful! A distant relative of mine worked in your mansion. I heard that right after the daughter-in-law gave birth, her husband took the baby away and drove her out. Her screams of begging for mercy were really terrifying. Aren't you afraid of retribution?"

Driving a woman who had just given birth out of the house and throwing all her dowry out of the door was like not giving her a chance to live. If someone hadn't stopped her quickly, she would have hit her head against the doorpost.

Everyone was also more curious about what the contradiction was.

Why must he be so deadly?
Ordinary people don't know, but Shen Tang knows it very well. She even has to take half the responsibility for this matter. To verify the identity, everyone needs to get off the car and be checked. Shen Tang also saw the owner of the sobbing voice. He looked to be in his early twenties, with a haggard face, no decoration on his temples, and a lost soul. The other party couldn't stand the vague prying eyes around him, so he covered his face with a handkerchief, ashamed and angry.

Shen Tang suddenly lost the mood to serve Bai Longyu.

It was no use even if Moto used his head to butt her.

Jimo Qiu said: "This is not your highness's fault."

"I didn't kill Bo Ren, but Bo Ren died because of me. Their experiences were also indirectly influenced by me... The reason for divorcing Cui's daughters was not because they were not good enough, but because they were surnamed Cui, because they wanted to slap Cui Zhi... How could Cui Zhi be willing to be humiliated?"

Simply canceling the engagement is not enough of a response.

The simplest way is to give someone a taste of their own medicine.

Come on, hurt each other.

Shen Tang naturally couldn't sit idly by and watch this situation happen.

It can be considered as a little compensation for her.

Cui Zhi didn't expect Shen Tang to intervene in this matter.

Guessing her purpose in my heart.

Shen Tang wanted to ask Cui Zhi how he planned to deal with it. Was he going to remarry them as quickly as possible, or to ask the men in the clan to divorce the daughters of the other family? Cui Zhi had thought of both methods, but gave up both because of various concerns. It wasn't that he was soft-hearted, but he couldn't find a better and more suitable family than their ex-husbands in a short time. Wouldn't he be ridiculed for decades if he married down?

It is also unrealistic to force male children to divorce.

Cui Zhi didn't have many concubines, and even if he did, there were only one or two. When a couple spends more time together, their feelings are naturally deep and it is not easy to separate. Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you, so Cui Zhi naturally couldn't bear it.

Shen Tang explained his purpose: "If they want to remarry, I can grant them marriage. If they don't want to, I can also arrange for them to be remarried."

"Mr. Shen wants to grant marriage?"

"There are plenty of single men of marriageable age in Kangguo."

Cui Zhi was silent for a moment.

Marriage is about matching the social status of the two families, so Cui Zhi naturally wanted to expand the scope of selection to the Kangguo circle, but this was not easy to bring up.

It is easy to give people the impression that you have ulterior motives.

Since Shen Tang took the initiative to bring it up, the nature of the situation became completely different.

There is no longer any obstacle for the Cui family to integrate into Kangguo.

"But it must be voluntary, you can't be forced to voluntarily." Not everyone has a rebellious mentality, and they can get over it and remarry happily after being divorced by their in-laws. Shen Tang actually wanted to hold a blind date party, and it would be best if they were interested in each other, so as to avoid a blind marriage. However, her kindness was seen as unnecessary by others, and it was a great honor to be granted a marriage.

Cui Zhi agreed: "Of course."

The younger ones refused to remarry as they were still emotionally exhausted.

There is a guy in his early thirties who is interested.

Shen Tang took a look at the relationship between this person and Cui Zhi: "An old fox is an old fox, and he really doesn't let outsiders take away the wealth."

In terms of relationship, this woman is Cui Zhi's cousin.

Cui Zhi must have put a lot of effort into convincing her, right?
Cui Xiaodao: “That’s really not the case.”

This is the family tradition within the Cui family.

Or rather, this is the tone among all aristocratic families.

The love between husband and wife for many years is real, but the calculation of interests is also real. Her husband's family was unkind first, and she has already lost her family, dignity and honor, so she can't lose her future. Shen Tang personally agreed to the marriage, and even for her own face, she couldn't deal with it casually. Even if the couple didn't get along after marriage, Shen Tang would force the man to treat her well.

Shen Tang: "..."

Why does she feel that this plot is a little familiar? ? ?
The officials of Kangguo still care about Shen Tang personally, and from time to time they give him portraits of promising young men. Their backgrounds may not be very superior, but their external conditions, personalities, and talents are definitely impressive.

Shen Tang gave Cui Zhi a bunch of them.

The pile was so high that it formed a small hill, almost touching the beams of the house.

"Let your sister see them one by one."

Cui Zhi was rarely at a loss in his life.

"Any one of them will do?"

Shen Tang said unhappily: "I know you have plenty of strength and means, but a forced melon is not sweet. It is better for men and women to have affection for each other. Cast a wide net and you will always find someone that satisfies everyone..."

The exhaustive method can be applied at any time.

As expected, the news leaked.

Every family heard about this and their expressions were very interesting.

It felt like being slapped several times.

Of course, what was even more exciting than this was the scene of people losing their heads. Just like they divorced Cui's daughter without any warning, Shen Tang's troops also raided their house without any warning. However, the crime they brought was not the evidence they had used to send them back, but that they had lent money at high interest.

"Privately minting money, let's go for a walk."

"Innocent, I am innocent, I am innocent—"

The people who were dragged away shouted that they were innocent.

It was indeed unjust. Compared with the previous evidence, lending money was a minor crime, and it was done before Kangguo attacked. After breaking up with Cui, he tried his best to clean up the mess. How could there be new money being loaned?

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