After traveling to a country where women are king, I abandoned my husband and children

Chapter 173 Regret

Ms. Zheng's funeral was not a grand one, but there were a lot of jokes.

——Of course this refers to Zheng Ruonan’s stepfather.

Ge Fu's reminder was really timely. According to Zheng Ruonan, if she had not returned in time, her bed would have been sold by her stepfather.

——Her bed was her father's dowry. It was a handmade step-out bed made of old red sandalwood inherited from the family, and a famous woodworking master was hired. This bed alone is worth 100 million or 200 million. Normally, the bed should be sealed in the warehouse after her father's death, but her mother loved her and gave the bed to her daughter. Zheng Ruonan didn't like to live in the old house, so she didn't know that her stepfather had already asked someone to estimate the price of the bed. If it wasn't for the fact that it was expensive and difficult to move secretly, it would have disappeared without waiting for her mother's death.

Not only that, the bed was the most obvious. Although Zheng Ruonan's biological father's family was only civilians and had no status, they had been doing business for generations. When he got married, he brought a lot of good things as a dowry. It was difficult to sell the handmade step-out bed secretly, but a lot of shareholder calligraphy and paintings were sold.

Zheng Ruonan was impatient. She wanted to sue her stepfather in court, but Zhou Heng stopped her. The two of them went straight to the Zheng family elders, who then took out all the money from the sale of the dowry from her stepfather. Because some of it had already been spent, they had to take some from the family property that her half-sisters had received.

"I was furious at first, but after Zhou Heng explained the situation to me, I'm not angry at all." Zheng Ruonan pulled Ge Fu to a corner. Although she looked a little haggard, she was happy in her eyes. "Although I inherited this ancestral house, I can't kick my stepfather and half-sisters out for a while. After all, many of my sisters haven't married, and my brothers haven't married. It's reasonable for me to take care of them. But now that this has happened, I can kick them out openly. Especially my stepfather's two daughters. The other brothers and sisters can't make a fuss without my mother. It's no problem for me to help them get married and earn some fame."

Ge Fu frowned, "Are you sure? If I remember correctly, several of your mother's assistants were not honest."

Generally speaking, the internal struggles of the big families in Hengyang are not serious, but Zheng Ruonan's mother is a peculiar one. When she falls in love with a man, she is really desperate. If she meets a smart man, she will naturally take advantage of the favor to make money. But there are those who want to challenge Zheng Ruonan's status and want their daughter to overthrow the superior. Zheng Ruonan has even been poisoned.

In the whole Yaojing, the Zheng family is the only one with such a messy inner house.

Although the minister who poisoned the person has been sent to the police station, the rest are only slightly better than this.

After she said that, Zheng Ruonan became a little uncertain.

Ge Fu said carefully, "You should be careful. Compared with your stepfather, those ministers come and go more freely. Those who have children are fine, but those who don't... I'm afraid they will just give up."

In Yaojing, it is not uncommon for a minister to take away one's wealth.

Zheng Ruonan's heart tightened, "I'll find someone to keep an eye on them."

Just as I said this, something happened in the Zheng family’s backyard.

When Ge Fu followed Zheng Ruonan over, two men were fighting.

"You still don't admit it. I saw with my own eyes that you changed Xiao Niuniu's bracelet!" one of the plump middle-aged men said anxiously.

The other man was much younger, in his early thirties, very thin, with semi-long hair, and looked somewhat feminine. Hearing this, he defended himself, "Don't spit blood at me. I just thought the little girl was cute and teased her a little. When did I take her bracelet?"

"You have it!" Seeing Zheng Ruonan, the middle-aged man hurriedly said, "Miss, you've come at the right time. Ask someone to search him. He must have Xiao Niuniu's bracelet!"

The feminine man said with a look of dissatisfaction: "My wife just passed away, and the eldest lady is going to suppress us old people? I am not an official, unless it is a public security, procuratorial or judicial organ, no one is qualified to search me."

Do the same thing to me?

Zheng Ruonan sneered and said, "Someone, search for me!"

"You dare!" The feminine man's face changed drastically.

Zheng Ruonan said expressionlessly: "You are welcome to sue me for violating your personal freedom later."

Soon, the servant found a jade bracelet on the feminine man.

Seeing the jade bracelet, Zheng Ruonan was stunned.

She recognized this jade bracelet. When her father was still alive, there were about ten similar jade bracelets. It was said that they were made of the same piece of jade. Because the material was not the best, he kept it as a reward for his confidants.

The middle-aged man seemed to be afraid that he would seize the table, so he explained in a low voice: "This was given to me when the master was still alive. I was his servant at that time."

In other words, this man was originally his father's confidant, but he eventually became his mother's minister.

Zheng Ruonan knew her father. Although he was a little weak, he was not the kind of person who would push his wife away. So, either her mother fell in love with this middle-aged man, or he had some evil intentions.

She thought it should be the latter.

Because her mother's taste has remained the same for ten years, she always likes those similar faces.

This middle-aged man had no similarities in facial features with his father or his former self.

The feminine man was angry and scared at first, but when he saw Zheng Ruonan looking at the middle-aged man with murderous eyes, he immediately figured out the connection and laughed, "Miss, are you sure you want to help him? He is a scumbag who took advantage of his wife's drunkenness to climb into her bed!"

Zheng Ruonan was so angry that she was shaking all over, but Ge Fu just shook her head at her.

"Take the bracelet back and take good care of the child." Zheng Ruonan took a breath, suppressed the anger in her heart, and threw the bracelet to the middle-aged man.

It was not until they walked out of the yard that the tears in Zheng Ruonan's eyes became uncontrollable.

"I regret it." She said to Ge Fu, "I shouldn't have left the old house so early. I should have helped my father guard this place. You were right. It was never me who should leave."

Zheng Ruonan has always turned a blind eye to her mother, and therefore, she doesn't know much about her mother's backyard. Except for her stepfather, she may not be able to recognize other ministers when they walk on the street.

Even when asked how many brothers and sisters she had, she said she couldn't tell.

All she knew was that the stepfather had two daughters.

Ge Fu comforted her, "At least you were happy during those years you were away, and you don't have any losses now."

Zheng Ruonan gritted her teeth and said, "If I had known there was such a guy in my mother's backyard..." She should vent her anger for her father.

It was okay when her mother was alive, but after her mother died, she couldn't do anything to those ministers.