Chapter 48 Yan Chaonian Sues the Jiang Family

“Master of Chaojinfang?”

Yan Chaonian came out of the Bo’s Mansion and met Jiang Wencheng who had been waiting at the door. God knows how shocked he was when he learned from others that Yan was the owner of Chaojinfang whom he had been looking for in the southwest.

It was hard to tell whether it was anger or shock, but what followed was a surge of rage. Yan, she had been making a fool of herself.

Yan Chaonian looked at him sideways, “Why, do you want to buy brocade?”

“Yan, you are awesome, is this your revenge on me?”

Yan Chaonian sneered, “I’ll say it again, if you are sick, go get treatment.”

Before Jiang Wencheng could say anything, his bodyguard Li Liang stepped forward to block his way. Yan Chaonian got into the car and drove away.

“Crazy, crazy, that bitch is crazy.”

The old lady of the Jiang family was very angry when she returned home. She threw the teacup at hand and even ripped off the jade necklace from her neck and was about to throw it. The servants around her hurriedly took it away. A necklace of this quality was not cheap and had to be compensated.

“Didn’t you say this was your dowry? Isn’t it your Jia family’s stuff? Why is it Yan’s?”

The old lady’s eyes were sharp. Last year on her birthday, Jia Ruzhen brought the box to her and said that the Jia family had spent a lot of effort to find it. She thought that Jia Ruzhen was sensible.

Yan’s dowry should have been managed by her, but her good son insisted that Jia Ruzhen should take care of it, saying that she was good at business and could make more money, which could be used as a betrothal gift to Yuan’er in the future?
How is the result?

“I was wondering how a lowly Jianghu girl like you could get such a good thing. Even if you have a bit of power in Feiying Fort, you can’t buy such a good thing. Who are you? You are just a thief.”

“I was so blind to let you, a shameless woman, come in and tarnish the reputation of my mansion.”

Today she suffered the greatest humiliation in her life, all thanks to this lowly woman of the underworld.

Jia Ruzhen was not someone who was easy to bully, so she didn’t care when she heard her words were so harsh. “I have no sense of shame, so what kind of good thing are you?”

“Yan Shi is a good daughter-in-law. Is she good enough for you?”

“Your man doesn’t want you, and he’s traveling around with his beautiful concubine all day. You feel lonely in the middle of the night, so you snatch your grandson and raise him in front of you. You say you love your grandson, but I think you just snatched him and raised him like a cat or a dog.”

“I am shameless, but you were the first to disrespect your elders.”

The old lady was so angry that her face turned red and her neck became thick. She tore off all her disguise and almost pointed at Jia Ruzhen’s nose and insulted her, saying that she had no shame, that she seduced Jiang Wencheng knowing that he was married, and that she was engaging in prostitution without a matchmaker. After all, she was vulgar, ignorant and shameful, and she was also aggressive and domineering. She said she would divorce her immediately.

Jia Ruzhen was so angry that she lost her mind. She didn’t understand the rules of the wealthy families, but she was very good at boxing and kicking. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been so fascinated by Jiang Wencheng with her heroic figure. She immediately lifted the hem of her skirt and kicked the old lady in the heart, sending her flying and causing her to spit out blood.

“You want to divorce me? You think I’m that loser from the Yan family!”

This is what Jiang Wencheng saw when he came back. His mother was kicked half to death by the wife he had married with so much effort. She was so angry that she slapped Jia Ruzhen in the face. This completely pissed off Jia Ruzhen, who knocked Jiang Wencheng to the ground in a few seconds. She stared at Jiang Wencheng with bloodshot eyes, “That old woman said she wanted to divorce me. I tell you, the day I am divorced is the day your uncle’s family will be extinct.”

After saying that, he ran away. When Jiang Chongyuan came back and saw this scene, he was so scared that he trembled. He didn’t dare to get close to Jia Ruzhen. In his panic, he didn’t know what to do.

There was chaos in the Bo Mansion, but Yan Chaonian had not received the news yet. She was playing with her son in the mansion, and the mother and son were laughing happily.

Manager Wu had already found a lawyer and sent the written complaint to Yan Chaonian. After reading it, Yan Chaonian had only one request, “You can only win.”

The next morning, the ladies of each family in the city sent people to the government office to inquire about the news, to see if Yan Chaonian would really sue the Jiang family, and to wait and see this big drama.

When Manager Wu, representing Yan Chaonian, brought along Yan Chaonian’s dowry and struck the drum to report the incident, the enthusiasm of the onlookers was officially ignited.

“I sued, I really sued, that’s a great lawyer, and he hasn’t lost in the past three years.”

“This is the first time a divorced woman has sued her ex-husband’s family. I must watch it.”

“This is ridiculous. If this precedent is set, won’t divorced wives have grounds to sue their husbands in the future?”

“Why not sue? That’s someone else’s dowry. The way the husband’s family eats is too ugly.”

Soon, a conflict between men and women arose. Men felt that if they made mistakes and were divorced, how could they still think about dowry, so they all wanted to stay in their husband’s family.

Women believe that even if they can’t make it, the dowry must be taken away by the woman, and if the man forces the woman to stay, it is robbery and a shameless act.

There was already a quarrel outside the court before the court opened. Lord Zhang, who was in charge of the trial, had been reminded by Minister Pei last night that Madam Yuan’s dowry had already belonged to the court and must be taken back.

Soon, people from the Bo’s Mansion arrived. Jiang Wencheng got the news yesterday, and regardless of the pain from being beaten all over his body, he began to prepare to deal with today’s events. Now that the relationship has come to this point, he also wants to teach Yan Chaonian a lesson.

All the servants who served Yan Chaonian back then were found out, their confessions were confirmed, and they came in full force.

As soon as these people arrived, they insisted that Yan Chaonian intended to murder the child in Jia Ruzhen’s belly, which was why she was divorced. They all said in unison that their statements were well-founded. On the other hand, there were no witnesses on Yan Chaonian’s side. The situation changed. Many people talked about it, saying that Yan Chaonian was too vicious, and that the Bo’s Mansion was generous by not sending him to the authorities for investigation, so the dowry should not be returned.

Lawyer Niu gave each person a piece of paper and told them to ask questions. The person should write down the answer directly. It didn’t matter if they didn’t know how to write, as the people in the yamen could help them write it. If everyone gave the same answer, it would be concluded that the Bo family was right.

Lord Zhang naturally agreed. When Lawyer Niu asked questions one after another, the steward of the Bo Mansion began to sweat profusely. How could the temporary confession be flawless?

Sure enough, Lawyer Niu soon found out the loophole, “You said that it was Madam Yuan who deliberately poured oil on the ground, causing Madam Jiang to fall. You saw it with your own eyes when you were sweeping the floor.”

“You said the same thing. You can tell me everything, even the pattern of the oil bowl. But you can’t tell me whether Madam Yuan went out that day, when she went out and when she came back, or even what clothes Madam Yuan was wearing on the day of the crime.”

“You can’t explain anything clearly, but how can you judge that the oil was poured by Madam Yuan on purpose? Is it possible that it was accidental? Is it possible that it was not oil but tea? Is it possible that it didn’t happen at all? Is it possible?”