Painting Doctor Jinhua

Chapter 118 Helping Yuan Rujing get a divorce

After Xiao Jinyu returned to the mansion, Fenghuang immediately reported to her an incident concerning the Fan family of Shunyang. Then, the two of them took Yuan Rujing to a more remote temple.

Petals were falling all over the temple, and even through the wall, one could hear the laughter of children.

"My dear husband, our children are already six or seven years old. When will you marry me?"

There was a soft and charming female voice.

"It will be soon. This time I have done a great service to the King of Shixing. The King has promised me that he will give me a proper official position. Besides, that woman Yuan has gone to the King of Shixing. I am afraid she will never be able to face returning to my Fan family. Maybe she will feel ashamed and commit suicide. Then I will marry you in a grand ceremony, and you can have the status of a second wife."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Rujing’s face turned pale.

"My lord, what if Yuan didn't commit suicide and came back?" The female voice seemed dissatisfied with the answer and asked again in a tender voice.

"Impossible. That woman from the Yuan family comes from a noble family and she values ​​her reputation the most. After something like this happened, even if she doesn't want to die, her paternal family can't bring themselves to let her live... Ah Rou, just wait a little longer. You've waited for so many years, why worry about waiting a few more days?"

"I can wait, but what about our son? We can't let our Lang'er be called a bastard all the time, right?"

There was silence in the courtyard for a long time. After Yuan Rujing waited in extreme disappointment, the man spoke, and said in an extremely gloomy voice: "If she doesn't commit suicide, then I ask Prince Shixing to give her a quick death! Anyway, most women who enter Prince Shixing's mansion will either be given away or die in the end!"

"Humph, my father asked me to marry that woman because she had an aunt who married into the Lanling Xiao family, and she was sworn brother to Xiao Luan. I thought that this woman must have something extraordinary to be able to be friends with Xiao Luan. But after so many years, this bitch has not helped me at all. I can't even get any news about Xiao Luan from her.

Otherwise, I wouldn’t be unable to get an official position until today, and would have to do those dirty things for King Shixing…”

As he said this, there was a bang and the gate suddenly opened.

Fenghuang covered her face and ran in aggressively, scaring the children in the yard so much that they burst into tears. The woman was even more frightened and hurriedly ran into the house with the children and hid.

The man wanted to escape, but the phoenix hooked his feet and he fell to the ground with a thud.

"Who are you? What do you want to do?"

"The prince sent me to take your life!"

"Your Majesty?" The man seemed incredulous and confirmed again, "Prince Shixing?"

"Yes!"

"No, it's impossible. I work for the prince. I am so loyal to him. Why would he want to take my life?"

"Then tell me, what have you done for the prince? What have you failed to do well?"

The man thought about it, and said in horror:

"The prince asked me to pass on the message to the monk Huiwei. Every time I did it, I used the opportunity to pay for incense to pass on the message to Huiwei. I even lost a lot of money for this!"

"I also helped the prince collect information about the farmers who escaped to the Buddhist temple. I also actively did that and registered those people. If you count them carefully, there are more than a thousand people, enough to train into a troop!"

"Also... I also need to help the prince search for some beautiful young ladies among the people and send them to the palace... including my wife and daughter..."

As he said this, a sharp light flashed before his eyes, and then there was a "snap" sound, and his face felt a burning pain.

The man's face was knocked crooked, and when he looked up again, he saw Yuan Rujing's face as pale as a lotus.

At this moment, the woman's eyes were flashing with a cold light of heartache and extreme disappointment, which was completely different from her usual elegance and gentleness!

"You actually helped King Shixing do so many unscrupulous things? You always talk about saints and sages in vain, Fan Yong, are you worthy of it?"

"You...why are you here?"

The man was horrified, his mind in a mess, until Xiao Jinyu walked into the villa and Fenghuang pulled the cloth off her face.

It seemed as if he suddenly understood.

"Were you trying to trick me just now? Who are you?"

Fenghuang sneered and said, "Who am I? I am the one who killed Chen Shuling, the King of Shixing. Do you want to try it too?"

"Do not--"

The man let out a shrill scream, then turned his gaze towards Yuan Rujing. He crawled over like a dog, tugged at the corner of Yuan Rujing's clothes and begged:

"A Jing, we are husband and wife, stop making trouble. Where did you find this person from? He is so scary. Stop making trouble. Let's go home, okay?"

"Do I still have a place in that family? Or, when you gave me and Ayuan to King Shixing, did you treat Ayuan as your daughter?"

"I... I had no choice, Ajing. You know, I have been seeking official positions everywhere for so many years, but my Fan family has been suppressed everywhere. I can't hold my head up in front of those young men from aristocratic families. Only King Shixing... said he was willing to use me and give me a chance..."

"So you helped him to do all these evil things and do these unscrupulous things?"

Yuan Rujing shouted and sneered, "If you want to be an official, then you should participate in the examination of the eight states with your own ability. Now even if you are from a poor family, you can enter the officialdom through the examination. As a child of an aristocratic family, you are not motivated to make progress, but only want to gain fame through recommendations from others or by buying an official position.

In order to achieve their own goals, they don't hesitate to work with the evildoers and collude with them!"

Having said this, Yuan Rujing closed her eyes, as if she had made up her mind.

"Fan Yong, let's get divorced!"

"What did you say?" The man looked up, unable to believe it.

"Let's get a divorce! You can also take your mistress and illegitimate child back home and give them a formal status. Since you have already let me down, don't let down another one!"

As soon as Yuan Rujing finished speaking, the woman hiding in the house unexpectedly ran out with her child in her hand, kowtowed to Yuan Rujing and said in gratitude: "Thank you for your help, madam! Thank you for your help!"

"What are you doing? You are a slave woman, how can you be the main wife? I will give you the status of a concubine, that's enough!" The man said, and looked at Yuan Rujing flatteringly, "Rujing, stop it, she is just a slave, I bought her because I felt sorry for her. If you don't mind, I will give her the status of a concubine, and you will still be the mistress, okay?"

After hearing this, Yuan Rujing opened her eyes wide in disbelief, staring at this man with extreme disappointment, as if she had never seen him clearly in the past twenty years.

The woman next to the man looked even paler and her heart was dead.

At this time, Xiao Jinyu came in and said to Yuan Rujing:

"Aunt Rujing, now you have a clear understanding of this kind of man, right?"

The man's gaze turned to Xiao Jinyu. Seeing her face that was similar to Xiao Luan, a hint of flattery and lust appeared in the man's eyes.

"Xiao's Aluan? You're back? Back then, I only saw you from afar, but you've been engraved in my heart for twenty years. I never thought that you would actually return to the State of Chen..."

As he spoke, he actually tried to stand up, but was knocked down by a punch from Phoenix.

Blood gushed out of the man's nose. He wiped it with his hand, looked carefully, and was so frightened that he screamed and almost fainted.

"Phoenix, stop talking nonsense to him, take out those Saeki papers, and let him write down his testimony and put his fingerprints on it!"

"Yes!"

Phoenix took out a stack of Saeki paper and placed it in front of the man:

Two of them are the divorce agreements between Yuan Rujing and Fan Yong!

The rest is his confession of the evil things he did for King Siheung!

"Let him write the confession himself. Make it clear and write down everything he has done for King Shixing!" Xiao Jinyu said.

"No, I can't write it. If I write it, King Shixing will definitely destroy my entire family. I can't write this confession!"

"If you don't write, I will kill you now!"

Fenghuang took out a knife and was about to chop him down. The man was so frightened that he immediately covered his head and became a coward.

"I'll write it, I'll write it right away!"

Seeing several pieces of Saeki paper on the ground, Fan Yong was puzzled.

“Why do you need to write so many?”

"If I tell you to write, you write!"

"Yes Yes!"

"You have to sign the divorce agreement, too!"

Phoenix gestured with the knife again.

"I sign, I sign!"

Having said that, he signed the divorce papers without any hesitation, and after signing, he handed it to Fenghuang very respectfully.

Seeing the man who was even more fragile than a woman, the disappointment and coldness in Yuan Rujing's eyes grew stronger and stronger, until it finally turned into a sad and relieved smile.