The Princess Wei Yang (106+)

Chapter 117 - Confrontation in the Golden Hall - Part 2

1 Grounds for divorce (Seven outs) (七出之条) : In ancient China, there are 7 grounds for which men can divorce their wife, namely: disobedient to the in-laws, childless, jealousy, adultery, disease, theft and talking too much. https://collaborativechinesechat.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/7-grounds-for-divorce-%E4%B8%83%E5%87%BA%E4%B9%8B%E6%9D%A1-in-ancient-china/ This website is a good one that explain the grounds accompanied by a hilarious clip of court hearing for divorce

Chenqie: literal translation - your concubine, means "I"Jiang Nan knew that Li Wei Yang would attack with full force, thus he has been controlling his temper all this time, but right now, his fingers seems to be stabbing into his palm, but he is unable to move due to being tied up, otherwise he would have already slashed at Li Wei Yang with his sword! He turned his head, angry to the core: "Li Wei Yang, you are full of nonsense!"

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Meanwhile his father, Jiang Xu, was forced to press down his anger, crying injustice and kneeling on the ground, tilting his head to look at the Emperor to explain: "Your majesty, your majesty, this is just these two yatous' side of the story, Wei Yang this child has always been narrowed minded. Everyone has always put filial duty first, rulers have used filial duty to administer a country, this is the first time that your loyal subject has seen someone complains about their principal mother in front of everyone. This loyal subject do not know why she has such a grudge against my family, originally I did not want to argue against this junior but what she is saying is too extreme, Bixia, you must not be misled by her!"

With the hat of not respecting the main mother, pressuring one until they can't breathe, Li Wei Yang sneered coldly and said: "Bixia, Wei Yang of course understand the principle of filial duty! Ever since Wei Yang has returned home, I have been visiting mother daily to pay my respects, having never been late once! Afterwards, in front of grandmother (maternal) I have also said that Mother's illness is serious and cannot be moved but you all insisted on taking her away, did you forget? I am speaking of the principle of human relations but Mother did not understand! Uncle (maternal), Wei Yang dare ask a question, showing filial obedience to one's mother-in-law, is this not the principle of being a daughter-in-law? Is it not the responsibility of the main mother to raise the children born from concubines with kindness? It is not the duty of the main wife to treat concubines well? Forgive my frank words, but not only was Mother harsh to the concubines, but on numerous occasions, harmed Father's offspring, even paying her respects to grandmother (paternal) was only occasional! No matter whether it is Bixia or the princes present, they are all someone who place importance on filial duty and offspring. Putting yourself in these shoes, I ask, who would dare to marry this kind of woman? Such woman, disrespectful of elders, unkind to children, excessively jealous, has committed the grounds for divorce1. For my Li family, this is a disaster that can wipe out the clan! For the palace, if the dynasty is unfortunate, then it would be a repeat of the disastrous end of the previous' dynasty's envy!"
At the end of Li Wei Yang's words, Duke's Furen has already became furious, her face extremely red, trembling and unable to speak! Jiang Xu roared angrily: "Nonsense! Seeing that you are young and unlearned, I couldn't bear to blame you but I didn't think that you would be full of nonsense, slandering the Jiangs like this, besides, after speaking for half a day, it has nothing to do with the case at all..."

Li Wei Yang didn't even glance at him and said loudly: "Bixia, every matter has a cause and therefore there must be consequences, it is precisely because my family has this rift that it caused this scandal! In reality, today Wei Yang went to the other courtyard to bring fifth sister to Doctor Lu for her illness, fourth young master originally wanted to kidnap Wei Yang for revenge, who knew that he would kidnap Fifth Sister by mistake, if it was not for Wei Yang and Official Yao reaching in time, fifth sister's innocence would have been ruined! Not only this, fourth young master has been ordered by Bixia to reflect in isolation yet he is moving about and forcibly kidnapping an official's daughter, this is no longer a family matter, this is violating state law! This is disobeying the royal edict!"

Jiang Xu has never thought that Li Wei Yang is actually so eloquent and immediately said: "Li Wei Yang! Whether Jiang Nan has committed wrong, Bixia naturally is clear on this, it is not up to you to cut in!"

Li Wei Yang looked at him and said slowly: "Uncle, no matter how glib you are, you cannot change the universal truth! The old adage goes: heaven, earth, king, family, teacher. King is in front of family, Bixia expanded territories, making great effort to create a prosperous society, a model of a wise ruler. The Jiangs' are, at high, the center of the court, at low, hold the position of the general, yet you do not consider the relationship between the Jiangs' and Lis' and for selfish reasons, set up a vicious scheme to ruin a girl's reputation, to trap me into disgrace! Not to speak of violence, but trying to manipulate his majesty into the palm of your hands, you don't even understand the basic of loyalty, what gives you the right to speak of filial duty?"