"And then they dismissed the original wife?" Although she asked, Lin Yuan had already guessed the outcome for that woman.
Lady Jin nodded, "Yes, they did. But she'd been married for over twenty years, and her parents had already passed away. Her brothers took her in, but she was ultimately a burden to the family, and they became distant. Less than a month after she was sent back home, she hanged herself."
Lin Yuan sighed; such was the tragedy of women. Mrs. Liu listened in shock, her hands fumbling and dropping the pastries without even realizing it.
Lady Jin continued, "That Shopkeeper Chen, he later married a young and beautiful girl himself. It's unclear whether his first wife really was behind the mischief, but none of his concubines got pregnant. However, within a year of this young girl's marriage, she gave birth to a chubby baby boy! Shopkeeper Chen was over the moon, grinning from ear to ear to anyone he met."