The whole family died tragically? The eldest daughter is the most powerful in the capital after her

Beijing.

Qingya Lane, Ou family.

"Bah." A woman cursed, "In our Ou family, we only divorce, never divorce by agreement."

She pointed at the pregnant woman and said in an aggressive tone, "The Lin family's daughter has not been pregnant for five years since she entered the family. Sister Qin has a clean family background. Now that she is pregnant, it is not too much for her to enter the family as a co-wife. But you are unwilling to do so and want to divorce."

"The Lin family actually raised such a jealous daughter. If this gets out, which wealthy and powerful family would dare to marry your daughter? Not to mention the concubine daughter who has no marriage proposal, even the eighth daughter who is engaged to the Duke of Zhenguo will be implicated."

"Even if she is promoted to a concubine, she is just a concubine after all. You don't need to take it to heart. Now that you are pregnant, don't go back and forth. The most urgent thing is to stay at home and take care of the baby."

The old woman looked at Sun Rong who was standing beside her and said with a smile, "My dear, please quickly persuade Xue'er. There is no man in the world who does not take concubines. There is no mistress who does not have the tolerance to tolerate others."

"I think the elders don't want to let the couple divorce. Please help persuade them."

The elders of the Lin family looked at each other, and the oldest one stood up and said, "Brother Yuan, ordinary families still take concubines, not to mention that your son-in-law has a promising future. Don't worry about trivial matters, or you will regret it for the rest of your life..."

“Father…” Lin Ruoxue knelt down in front of Lin Shiyuan and Sun Rong with a plop, tears streaming down her face. “Father, mother, please allow me to divorce. I will bind my head and go to the mountains to be a nun. I will not bring shame to the Lin family, nor will I hinder my sisters’ future.”

"My son." Sun Rong felt so distressed that she burst into tears. She looked at Lin Shiyuan with tearful eyes and said, "Master, let Xue'er get a divorce."

Lin Shiyuan pondered, "Xue'er, is there really no way back except through divorce?"

He paused, sighed, and said, "She's just a concubine anyway. If you don't like her, wait until she gives birth and then find someone to sell her to."

"Father, that girl is not from a good family, but the daughter of a criminal. She lives at home only because she is a distant relative of my mother-in-law. She was supposed to go to the south to get married this winter, but she never expected that..."

Lin Ruoxue didn't care about the presence of a foreign man. She rolled up her sleeves, revealing several bruises that caught everyone's eyes, causing bursts of sighs.

"In order to take the daughter of a criminal as his concubine, he repeatedly beat her, regardless of her pregnancy. For the sake of her brothers and sisters, she endured it in silence."

She tightly grasped her father's hand, begging, "Father, is it true that only your daughter's death can bring relief and save our family?"

"How dare that boy humiliate my son like this." Sun Rong shouted angrily, "Divorce, we must divorce."

There was a squeak.

The door was opened, Ou He hurried over, bowed with both hands, "Father-in-law, mother-in-law, Xue'er is the first wife I married, so we can't divorce. Qin Niang is pregnant with my child, so naturally she has to come in."

"My Lin family will never share a husband with the daughter of a guilty minister. Considering that He Ge's son has little luck, we can let the mother go and keep the son." Sun Rong said angrily, unable to hide the anger on her face. "Otherwise, my Lin family will submit a petition to the school, and He Ge'er will make his own choice."

She helped her daughter up, the pain in her eyes lingering.

"How can you, the Lin family, be so arrogant and unreasonable? Qin Niang was willing to be my concubine and gave birth to my children. How could I betray her? Being my co-wife is already unfair to her. How could you do such a shameless thing?"

Ou He was certain that the Lin family would not divorce, and continued to speak wildly, "It is a foregone conclusion that Qin Niang will enter the mansion as a concubine. If Xue'er doesn't want to, she can only get a divorce letter from me and leave the house as an abandoned woman."

"Xue'er, you are about to give birth in a month, please don't cause trouble and make everyone panic. Even if you don't care about the baby in your belly, don't you consider Xiao Ba?"

"Are you threatening me?" Lin Ruoxue gritted her teeth and stared at Ou He. Her face was pale, her whole body was shaking, and hatred was surging in her eyes.

Ou He was unmoved and sneered, "Xue'er, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. As the wife, you have no tolerance for others and are not as virtuous as you used to be."

"What is virtuous?"

A sudden and gentle female voice sounded, and everyone looked up with different expressions.

younger sister? !

There was a flash of panic in Lin Ruoxue's eyes, and she closed her eyes in despair. Her eighth sister was naive and romantic, ignorant of the ways of the world, and she was probably powerless to divorce him.

She forced a wry smile, her eyes empty, like a doll abandoned by the world.

"Xuan'er, this is not the place you should come to."

Sun Rong knew her little daughter's temper, so she quickly walked over to her side and tried to persuade her to leave.

"Mother, I will save my sister from the tiger's den."

Lin Ruoxuan's voice was very soft, but Sun Rong heard it clearly. She raised her hand in the air and suddenly withdrew it.

She knew Lin Ruoxuan best. She seemed weak and helpless, timid and cowardly on weekdays, but once she made up her mind, no one could change it.

He is the kind of person who won't turn back until he hits the wall.

Now that my youngest daughter has an idea, even if I don't let her speak it out now, she will find a chance to express it in the future, so I might as well tell her everything today.

Lin Ruoxuan bowed to the two family elders and said, "My dear elders, my Lin family is a family of scholars and a noble family. My eldest sister married the young man from the Ou family and suffered a lot of grievances. It would be fine if he didn't feel sorry for her, but he wanted to marry the daughter of a criminal and humiliate my Lin family. This is unkind."

She glanced at the head maid Luqiao behind her, who always had a faint smile on her face.

Luqiao walked up to Ou He and slapped him mercilessly.

"How dare you hit me, you slut."

Ou He covered his right cheek, then came to his senses, became angry and raised his hand to slap Lu Qiao.

A group of guards rushed in and quickly controlled Ou He.

"You bastards, I am a scholar of the dynasty. You dare to disrespect me. You are simply rebelling against the heaven."

Ou He shouted loudly, and the servant who was suppressing him behind him not only did not loosen his grip, but instead increased his strength, fearing that he would go crazy again.

Seeing that he couldn't break free, Ou He cursed, "Lin Ruoxuan, you are being unreasonable, a mad dog, a shrew."

All kinds of unpleasant words came out of Ou He's mouth one after another.

Snapped!

Luqiao raised her hand and slapped him again.

"Five years ago, when the young master of the Ou family asked to marry the eldest sister, he swore that he would never let her down and would never take a concubine. He also made a lofty promise to be together for the rest of their lives."

"Now, that woman has been in the palace for seven years. I'm afraid she has been secretly having an affair with the young man from the Ou family. As everyone knows, the wives of criminals should be made official prostitutes or exiled to the frontier. The Ou family has been harboring the daughter of a criminal and defying the law. This is disloyal. They have also forced their pregnant wife to accept the daughter of a criminal as a concubine. This is unjust."

Lin Ruoxuan's cold voice was so sonorous and powerful that it silenced the elders of the Ou family.

"Your Lin family is really powerful. Ask around in the capital and you will find out which women in the family are pregnant and are not allowed to take concubines for their husbands, fearing that their husbands will be lonely. But your Lin family does the opposite and asks your husbands to remain chaste for you. Could it be that the women of the Lin family are more precious than the ladies and princesses in the palace?"