Demon King's Repayment - chapter 131
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Ding Yan looked directly at him with a calm gaze, “Husband, your Zhou family, the Zhongding family, pays the most attention to etiquette and education. On weekdays, when I go to the account room, I have to be separated by a curtain, and more than a dozen women are waiting by the side. Even so, there is still talk at home from time to time. Now that I have lived in this military camp for more than a year, I am not suitable to be the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family. You can give me a divorce paper and let me go.”
Zhou Deyun didn’t think of that, blushed and stomped his feet, “I… I don’t dislike you. If you go back with me, we’ll live in harmony as before.”
Ding Yan laughed out loud. She lowered her head and gently stroked the saber around her waist, “I ask you, do you know how I suddenly changed my soul with General Qiu?”
Zhou Deyun stammered, “I was listening to music at Miaoyin square that day and accidentally drank too much. When my family came to find me the next day, you were already General Qiu. My parents said that you lost your footing because you were frightened.”
“I didn’t lose my footing, I threw myself into the lake. It’s Linchun Lake in the back garden at home,” Ding Yan interrupted him suddenly.
“Threw, threw yourself into the lake?” Zhou Deyun was hit several times in a row and was almost dumbfounded, “Wife, our family is well-off, the servants are in groups and the relationship between you and me has always been very good. Why did you do that… Why?”
Zhou Deyun had no idea that his wife, who lived a happy life, would actually commit suicide in the lake. Not only him but Yuan Xiang and Qiu Yueming were puzzled. What kind of pressure would make such a strong woman choose to give up her life?
“Many people think that my life was very good because I married into the Zhou house of a famous family. My husband is romantic and has a good temper. Not only did he never take a concubine, he never hit me.” Ding Yan sat on the main seat. Speaking of the experience of being a woman as a man seems to sound a bit more uncomfortable, “Not only my husband, but my parents, I used to feel that I shouldn’t have any complaints.”
“But do you know how Mrs. Zhou, whom everyone admires, spends every day? My mother-in-law is old and wakes up very early. The Zhou family is very strict about etiquette, so I have to get up before the start of the day and wait outside my mother-in-law’s door early to greet her. However, as soon as my mother-in-law saw me, she had to scold me for half an hour, saying that occupying the position of her daughter-in-law delayed the incense of the Zhou family. It was a great sin, a very evil one. Sometimes when she got angry, she had to hit me in front of all the servants.”
When Zhou Deyun heard that, he felt uncomfortable and comforted, “Mother has a bad temper, but as children, we can’t say that the elders were at fault and we could only be patient.”
“Yes, as a daughter-in-law, how can I disobey her? Naturally, I could only endure a little bit. I used to think like this.” Ding Yan calmly told the past, “After listening to my mother-in-law’s reprimand, I needed to stand at the table and serve my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law with breakfast. They will be picky while eating. When they finish eating, I can go back to my room and have a quick meal alone. Then, I will let the servants go back and forth to deal with trivial chores, buy daily necessities, buy my sister-in-law’s dowry, socialize and punish wrong-doing servants, there were many more. After a little rest in the afternoon, I would go to the front hall, pull up the screen and meet the shopkeeper Zhuang from the shop Grange outside. During the evening meal, I have to go to my mother-in-law and do the same as in the morning, and my husband may return drunk in the middle of the night, and I have to get up and serve him carefully. “
Ding Yan smiled bitterly, “You may think it’s nothing, but the back house was a bit trivial. Which family’s daughter-in-law did not face that?”
“No, no, it’s not easy.” Yuan Xiang shook her head repeatedly, “If it was me, it would be impossible to do it.”
“These were not the hardest.” Ding Yan glanced at Yuan Xiang, “The hardest thing was that when I married into the Zhou’ family, the mansion was already empty. There was no shortage of extravagance. My father-in-law and mother-in-law didn’t know about the work affairs and my husband had to go to Fengyue. Who knows how many stumbles I’ve had. I’ve been walking on thin ice in recent years, planning carefully, integrating shops one by one, and clearing accounts one by one. Finally, I kept the family business, and slowly developed the family business to today’s level, so that the family can enjoy a better life and I can spend my days freely and easily. “
Zhou Deyun opened his mouth and couldn’t speak. For the first time, he realized that behind his unrestrained nature, it was his wife who was working hard and hardworking. And he actually took all that for granted.
“Day by day, I could only move in the small garden of the Zhou house. I can’t get out of the door and see the sky outside. However, no matter how hard I work and how well I do, no one will recognize my ability. They won’t praise a woman’s hard work in running the family and making money, as if these were all things that should be done. The elders always accuse, beat and scold me, the husband complains, and the subordinates often whisper behind my back and laugh at me for not being able to give birth. As long as I can’t give birth, no matter how well I do, I will still be an incompetent woman. ” Ding Yan lowered her head and clenched the hilt of the sword around her waist, “I once cried to my mother, but my mother told me that every woman went through that. Even if we have grievances, the only way is to endure. However, I don’t want to endure it.”
Qiu Yueming also frowned. He was trapped in the Zhou family’s backyard for a year, so knowing how depressed and aggrieved the family that demanded strict ethics was, he couldn’t help wondering whether he would let his wife live like that in the future.
“Once, in order to get rid of all this, I cowardly gave up my life. Thank God for giving me the opportunity to regret it. Now I know what I want and what kind of life I want to live.” Ding Yan’s voice reverberated in the empty hall and she looked directly at Zhou Deyun, “Husband, I won’t go back with you. Give me a divorce, and let’s forget about each other.”
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