Chapter 35: The Profligate Lady (7) The Ice Sea is in the Town...
For several days in a row, the iceberg sea put up a sign in the town, which brought a lot of bad luck.
Burning paper money is one way, and another is to help people break off an engagement.
Things like breaking off an engagement should normally be done by the matchmaker.
But the matchmakers are all very realistic. No one wants to get involved in such a face-slapping thing, not to mention that they will often get angry at the person whose engagement was rejected, and they may become the scapegoat.
Liu Binghai took on a business of breaking off an engagement from the Zhao family.
The Zhao family is a wealthy family in the town engaged in the cotton spinning business. Some time ago, they were engaged to the daughter of the Li family. Later, they heard that the daughter of the Li family was not very well-educated and had an unclear affair with another man, so they wanted to send someone to cancel the engagement.
The matchmaker naturally didn't want to take on this job, so the task fell to Liu Binghai.
She knocked on the door of Li's house. The manager opened the door and was stunned when he saw her.
Liu Binghai was already accustomed to this expression, and not wanting to delay any further, he went straight to the point, "Is Master Li here?"
Although the steward was reluctant, he heard that this matter concerned the marriage of the Li family's daughter, so he could not delay any longer. He led her to the front yard in a listless manner and said, "Wait here, I'll call the master out."
The Li couple were a kind-looking middle-aged couple. When they saw the drifting ice sea, they did not show strong disgust like other people.
But he paused, wondering why this woman suddenly came to him.
Considering that she has been having bad luck recently, she couldn't help but feel nervous.
Liu Binghai stood in the courtyard, not wanting to waste time, and said bluntly, "The Zhao family said they want to break off the engagement with you and asked me to tell them."
Then he explained the cause and effect in detail again.
The Li couple had never seen the world, so when they heard this, they were immediately shocked, especially Mrs. Li, who almost fainted.
He staggered, his hands trembling as he pointed at the drifting ice sea.
The Li family master was so shocked that he didn't know what to do. Liu Binghai said calmly, "Please return the deposit and betrothal gifts."
These words were like adding fuel to the fire. The Li couple became even more furious after hearing them. If it weren't for the guests being there, they would have wanted to spit on this unlucky woman.
"Mother, what's going on?" Li's daughter heard the noise in the front yard and couldn't help but come out to ask.
Liu Binghai raised his eyes and met the daughter of the Li family. She was truly a beauty so beautiful that the moon and flowers would shame them.
Mrs. Li didn't care about the guests anymore. She was overwhelmed with grief and pointed at the sea of drifting ice. She was so angry that she almost fainted.
Suddenly, the front yard was in turmoil. Several maids who had just heard the gossip whispered to each other, "I heard that our young lady's engagement was broken off."
"Ah, is it true?"
"Right..."
When the girl's words reached the ears of the Li family's daughter, she was stunned at first, then looked at her mother who was so angry that she patted her chest and asked in disbelief, "Mother, is this true?"
Mrs. Li looked back at her beloved daughter whom she had raised with all her heart. She was so young and in the prime of her life, but her engagement was broken off and she had such an ugly reputation. How could she live her life in the future?
The tears in Mrs. Li's eyes said it all. The Li family's daughter bit her lip and asked tearfully, "Is there a reason?"
After saying this, his glass-like eyes swept back and forth between his mother and Liu Binghai. He stumbled over and asked, "Sister Yun, is there a reason?"
The call of "Sister Yun" made the guests in the front hall stunned for a moment.
Madam Li cried angrily, "Why are you still asking the reason? I'm afraid it's not this woman's bad luck that has been brought upon you."
After saying that, he asked Liu Binghaidao, "Tell me, why did you harm my daughter like this?"
The Li family was in an uproar. The lady just cried but didn't say anything. The personal maid of Li's daughter disagreed. The two little girls surrounded them and started to scold Liu Binghai one after another.
Liu Binghai said calmly, "I'm just here to pass on a message."
"Spreading a message! Spreading a message is spreading bad luck!" The maid Xiaolan was furious. She protected her master and said angrily, "My master has always loved and pitied herself since she was a child. How could she be so shameless like you!"
She knew her master, so how could he do something unclean that would be disliked by others? It must be that this woman brought bad luck upon him!
After saying that, the maid turned around, fetched a basin of cold water from the house, and poured it over the drifting ice sea.
The sun is scorching, so pouring some cold water on me is no big deal.
But the temperature difference was too great, and her pores were originally open. When this basin of cold water hit her head, Liu Binghai felt as if her forehead exploded. In a daze, it felt as if someone was holding something up against her head, and it hurt like a needle.
She frowned slightly and let the water flow slowly down her forehead.
Then the maid said, "Shameless thing!"
As the maid spoke, she felt so much love for her master that she almost burst into tears.
The incident happened suddenly and the commotion in the front yard was so intense that no one cared about the guests in the front hall.
Zhang Ruochen stood at the entrance of the main hall, looking at the woman, who was drenched like a drowned rat by the Hakka family, standing in the yard in a daze.
The basin of water was poured suddenly, and Liu Binghai couldn't open his eyes. His eyes were tightly closed. Looking from afar, he looked very pitiful.
The host was still asking, "Just tell me, what exactly did they say was wrong with my daughter?"
The Li family no longer cares about face. Today, this woman came to cancel the engagement. Tomorrow, I'm afraid the whole town will know this embarrassing news.
If they don't find out the reason, the old couple will probably not be able to rest in peace even in the grave.
Liu Binghai wiped the water off his face, and the needle-like pain on his head became more intense.
She endured the pain on her forehead, fearing that she would further upset the Li family, so she simply said, "They just said that Huan'er was not very well behaved..."
Before he could finish, another basin of cold water fell from the sky, and this one was even colder than the previous one.
Huan'er's name is Li Zhihuan. She is the girl whose engagement was broken off, and the one who splashed water on her is her maid, Xiaolan.
Xiaolan poured all her resentment towards the Zhao family onto Liu Binghai, angrily saying, "The Zhao family bullies others by abusing their power! Young Master Zhao is fickle and is shifting the blame onto my master. He truly has no conscience, and he even chose a wretch like you to break off the engagement. This is truly a disgrace to our Li family!"
Breaking off an engagement is a thankless job.
Not to mention a notorious woman like Liu Binghai, even if you send a good person, you will always be blamed and get into trouble.
Now that Liu Binghai came with a bad reputation, the Li family was unwilling to let her go. They vented all their hatred on her.
Madam Li was sobbing and speechless, but Xiaolan remained calm and protected her master. She pointed at Liu Binghai and cursed, "Damn! It must be your bad luck that has spread to my master, damn!"
Liu Binghai listened to them venting silently.
I had expected this before coming here. As long as I can make some money, I'll just let them scold me.
While listening, she wiped her face. The cold water dissipated and the water droplets on her eyelashes gradually became thinner. She opened her eyes slightly, tilted her head, and saw a familiar person standing in the main hall.
He was standing there, looking over here motionlessly.
And she was dejected, like a drowned rat...
Liu Binghai's heart suddenly sank.
Mrs. Li cried enough and finally said, "You are ruining people... You woman are ruining people..."
The cold air behind him gradually spread, and Liu Binghai's consciousness gradually became chaotic.
She didn't know why, but she felt that the world was blurry. She couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong among the people in front of her.
"I have delivered my message, and now you understand it, so I am leaving."
After saying that, she turned and walked towards the main entrance. She was in a daze and felt as if someone had drilled a hole in the top of her head.
"Come back! Don't even think about leaving until you've made your point. How much money have you taken from the Zhao family to commit such a wicked act? You're going to kill my daughter!"
She had just walked to the gate of the yard, opened it, and before she could take a step out, she was pulled back.
"Shameless woman!" The insults continued.
Zhang Ruochen frowned and watched, his ten fingers trembling, his fists half-clenched, but ultimately not clenched.
Is this woman stupid? Where has the prestige she used to have when competing with him gone?
Now he has fallen to the point of having to make a living by relying on bad luck. He has been humiliated like this, and he doesn't even know how to fight back.
His back teeth ached from biting them, and he felt a surge of inexplicable anger stuck in his chest, with nowhere to vent.
In the past, this woman was very arrogant in the teahouse, but when she left the house with the divorce letter that day, she was still holding her back high.
Now, being humiliated like this, he remained silent.
Liu Binghai was pulled back and looked at the Li family with a cold face.
He must be very happy to be ridiculed like this in front of him.
Haha, Liu Binghai sneered in his heart and really didn't want to resist anymore.
He probably likes to see himself looking so miserable.
Blocking her escape route, destroying her livelihood, and making things difficult for her, isn't it just to see her become infamous and have no way out today?
He must be satisfied, haha.
Liu Binghai stood in the courtyard, his arm supported by a Li family maid. He suddenly raised his head and looked coldly at Zhang Ruochen in the main hall.
He had walked out of the hall and stood in the main courtyard, looking at her with calm and cold eyes.
The girl who insulted her turned around to look at the main hall, saw Master Zhang, and her eyes immediately became wet.
"You are an unfaithful woman who helps the Zhao family to bully my young lady. You are truly a den of scum." After saying that, as if the cold water was not enough, the maid picked up a bucket of waste water for watering flowers and poured it directly over Liu Binghai's head.
"Today, I will teach you a lesson on behalf of my master and Master Zhang."
There was a disgusting stench in the wastewater. Liu Binghai trembled and was almost suffocated by the smell.
The combination of the cold water and the smell made it impossible for her to breathe properly.
All I could see was a look of contempt, and all kinds of insults were within reach.
Zhang Ruochen looked at her with a frown on his face, wishing he could rush up and swing his arm to give the woman a hard slap.
Liu Binghai opened her eyes, and the little girl's face in front of her was a little blurry. The cold water was so strong that in addition to the headache, she suddenly felt cold all over and her hairs suddenly stood up.
Under normal circumstances, with her temper, she could have slapped the girl with just one slap.
Today...that's all.
After all, she should endure some humiliation for the task of breaking off the engagement. The Zhao family sent her here just to be scolded.
If you take someone else's money, you naturally have to bear the anger for them. If you can't bear the anger today, I'm afraid that tomorrow the Li family will go to the Zhao family to make a big fuss.
Even if you take the money for nothing, you might have to return it.
Besides, the original owner had done some bad things in her correspondence with her lover.
Now, let’s just pay off the debt.
Seeing that the Li family had almost finished scolding, Liu Binghai moved his arms, pushed Xiaolan away, and asked lightly, "Are you done scolding?"
The voice was soft, completely different from his usual style.
The water used for watering the flowers was mixed with manure, and now when it was poured on her face, her pretty face became disheveled, and all her former pride was gone.
Xiaolan looked at the drifting ice sea angrily.
"After I finished scolding him, I left."
After saying that, she walked towards the courtyard gate again. The gate was open, and golden light shone from outside.
The sun was about to set, and the setting sun shone through the crack in the door, reflecting thin rays of light as thin as a cicada's wing. It was beautiful, but it gave her a headache.
Liu Binghai held the door frame with one hand and pushed the gate open with the other.
The light from outside filled in completely.
My head hurts even more...
Just as she was about to leave the Li family, the little girl refused to give in and teamed up with another maid to surround Liu Binghai, with eagle-like anger in her eyes.
"You are not allowed to leave. You must kneel down and admit your mistake to my young lady on behalf of that Zhao guy, and then you can leave!"
Liu Binghai frowned.
"You took their money and came here to ward off evil, didn't you? You took the blame for them, so you should apologize for them. Kneel down and kowtow ten times to my young lady, and I will make the master forgive the Zhao family and cancel this engagement. Otherwise, I will go to the Zhao family tomorrow and make a scene, letting everyone in town know what a fickle and heartless man the young master of the Zhao family is!"
Xiaolan is quick-witted, straightforward and tough. She stopped Liu Binghai with just a few words.
Her headache was about to explode. She held the door frame with one hand and turned to Xiaolan and said, "Girl, don't go too far."
Xiaolan didn't care about that. She glared at him and said, "You said you'd kneel, or not?"
Hehe... No matter how unbearable she is in the icy sea, she still can't do something like kneeling down.
At worst, we can just return the money to the Zhao family.
Ignoring the little girl, Liu Binghai turned around and was about to leave. Xiaolan said again, "If you don't want to kneel, you can just take a few slaps from me! Otherwise, my young lady will find it hard to swallow this grievance today!"
Before Liu Binghai could react, the little girl had already raised her arm.
Zhang Ruochen was watching from the main hall, his brows knitted into a big knot. He watched her being humiliated, scolded, and splashed with feces without saying a word. He felt like there was something stuck in his throat, like a fishbone, and he couldn't let go of the hatred in his heart.
If she betrayed him, she would only humiliate him.
Now that he is bullied by others, he can't even fight back.
Are you really a fool?
Where had all the arrogance that he normally used gone?
So he is the only one who should be bullied by her in this life?
Seeing that the little girl was about to slap Liu Binghai in the face, Zhang Ruochen took a step forward and walked out of the front hall, wanting to rush over to stop her.
Before she could make a move, another pair of strong hands appeared at the door and grabbed Xiaolan's wrist.
She screamed in pain, looked at the person outside the door, frowned and called out, "Mr. He."
He Chuanxiong held Xiaolan's wrist and looked at her unmoved, "Girl, don't be branded as a shrew. It will be hard for you to get married in the future."
The tone was light but very powerful, which made Xiaolan's maid pout. Her wrist was held in mid-air, unable to move up or down.
After a while, He Chuanxiong relaxed his strength, and the maid's wrist slowly fell. She looked at He Chuanxiong with an unwilling look on her face, but said nothing more.
Zhang Ruochen had walked from the main hall to the front yard and looked at He Chuanxiong who had suddenly appeared.
He Chuanxiong also saw him, and bowed to him, "Master Zhang."
Liu Binghai didn't look back, one hand still holding the door frame, and his left foot had already stepped out of the Li family's gate.
Zhang Ruochen saw that her palm was wrapped in thick white gauze, and blood seemed to be seeping out of the palm.
The whole person was shaky, as if he had suffered a disaster.
He Chuanxiong asked in a low voice, "Is there anything wrong?"
Liu Binghai shook his head.
"Then let's go."
A little beggar was standing outside the courtyard gate, looking at her eagerly. When he saw her come out, he rushed over and asked, "Sister, how are you?"
Liu Binghai didn't want to pay any attention to this little beggar who came from nowhere...
But the little mole followed her around like a follower who couldn't be driven away, "You can't get into trouble. If you get into trouble, my big brother Zhan will be heartbroken..."
Zhan Haotian...
When Zhang Ruochen heard the name, his eyes were like an eagle's, and he stood still in the front yard of the Li family.
This woman, despite living such a miserable life, refused to admit her faults or acknowledge any of his mistakes.
Have you really made up your mind to be with that guy named Zhan?
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