The people in the casino left, but Cao Xun didn't leave, and he got angry.
He kicked and smashed things in the house and cursed loudly. It was more like he was acting crazy than drunk.
Chen wanted to go up and stop him, but Xue Huan held her back. She picked up the spatula on the stove and used it as a self-defense tool, watching Cao Xun go crazy with cold eyes.
It would be fine if he was crazy, but if he dared to attack her and Chen, she would let him know why the flowers were so red.
She was not their daughter Cao Liu, and had no father-daughter feelings for Cao Xun. Now that they had severed their father-daughter relationship, she would not tolerate him in the slightest.
"You unfilial daughter! I fed and clothed you, raised you to this age, and this is how you repay me? Huh? You even dared to hide some private money behind my back?! Tell me, where did you get all that money?"
Cao Xun's face flushed red, and he stared at Xue Huan fiercely. He picked up a stool in his hand and pretended to hit her with it.
Xue Huan looked at him coldly: "How did you get it? Of course I earned it."
Cao Xun didn't care how she made her money. He was furious that she hadn't told him, the head of the family, how she'd made it! And Chen, that woman, had also kept it a secret from him! These two were truly outrageous!
Today he was going to teach these two women a lesson and let them know who was in charge of the Cao family!
"Earn? How can you earn so much? I think you must have done something dirty to get so much money! You bitch, you have completely disgraced my Cao family! I will beat you to death, you unfilial daughter!"
Cao Xun picked up a bench and threw it at Xue Huan.
"Liu'er!" Chen exclaimed, and without thinking, she pounced on her to block the attack for her.
Xue Huan frowned fiercely. If she hadn't pounced on him, she could have easily avoided the attack and made Cao Xun suffer. However, she pounced on him out of love for her daughter, so she couldn't blame her.
Seeing her face twitching in pain, Xue Huan felt truly angry. When Cao Xun hit her again, the spatula in his hand slipped out and hit his knee accurately.
Being hit on the knee will cause a knee jerk reaction. Cao Xun fell to his knees and fell forward to the ground. Xue Huan took Chen away in time.
"Mom, you go in first." Xue Huan said in a deep voice.
Chen endured the pain, looked at her husband lying on the ground, then looked at her daughter with a cold expression, and finally chose to stand on her daughter's side and went into the house.
With Chen away, Xue Huan had no scruples anymore. When Cao Xun got up, she stepped on his back. Cao Xun cried out, "Bitch! How dare you hit me—"
Xue Huan picked up a bench and clamped it around his neck, immobilizing him. Then she picked up a spatula and slapped him hard in the face. "This slap is for you hanging out all day drinking and gambling, squandering all my dowry! And all the hard-earned money that my mother and I worked so hard to earn!"
Bang!
"This slap is for not fulfilling your responsibilities as a husband and a father!"
Bang!
"This slap is for your complete lack of conscience. You actually wanted to sell your daughter to pay off your gambling debts!"
Bang!
"This slap is for the fatal blow you just struck at me and my mother."
After four slaps in a row, both sides of Cao Xun's face swelled up symmetrically.
The look in his eyes when he looked at Xue Huan was filled with resentment and hatred.
Xue Huan had no feelings for him, and his look couldn't scare her at all. She raised the spatula high and pretended to hit him in the face.
Cao Xun immediately became intimidated, closing his eyes and turning his head to the side.
Xue Huan sneered. Such a cowardly man would only act like a bully at home.
I don't even dare to fart when I go out.
She didn't expect to wake him up. These four slaps were just to seek some justice on behalf of the original Cao Liu.
Cao Xun was fooled for once and was furious. He yelled at her, "You bitch! Get out of here! This is the Cao family. Didn't you cut off all ties with me? Fine, then don't live in the Cao family anymore! I want to see what you can do after you get out! Don't come back to me if you have the guts!"
Xue Huan: You make it sound as if Cao Liu’s situation in the Cao family was very good before.
She called out to Chen in the room, "Mom, let's go."
Not hearing any response, Xue Huan thought that Chen was unwilling to go with her. When she went in, she found that Chen had fainted on the bed.
It must have been caused by Cao Xun’s attack just now.
Xue Huan immediately carried Chen on her back and hurried out of the Cao residence, heading to the clinic. "Doctor, please help me see how my mother is doing."
After examining him, the doctor on duty said that it was a fracture of the shoulder blade in the back.
Xue Huan clenched her fists. The blow was so strong that it broke Chen's shoulder blade, which showed how hard Cao Xun hit her. He must have wanted to beat her to death.
The hits she gave him just now were really light.
He should have been beaten so hard that his bones were broken and he couldn't move!
The doctor prescribed some medicine and reminded Xue Huan of some precautions. Xue Huan memorized them all and asked the staff at the clinic to carry Chen on a stretcher to an inn.
She had saved nearly a hundred taels of silver by copying books and completing quests. Of course, the bulk of it came from completing the quest to conquer Yuan Ji. She had previously paid off Cao Xun's gambling debt, which had cost her fifty taels. But being able to sever ties with him was well worth it.
It was impossible for her to go back to the Cao family, and the dozens of taels of silver she had were not enough to buy a house, so she could only find a broker to rent a house to live in.
But it’s impossible to rent a house in a short period of time, so I have to stay in an inn for a few days first.
Chen's injury requires good medicine every day, which is also a considerable expense.
After all, I am still short of money and I have to make a lot of money as soon as possible.
After the clinic's staff carried Chen into the room, Xue Huan thanked them and gave them a few coins as a reward.
The two accepted it and left happily.
Xue Huan gave the innkeeper some money and asked him to go to the pharmacy to get medicine for her. The waiter took the money and went there without hesitation.
After getting the medicine, he told Xue Huan that he could lend her a small stove to boil the medicine, but she would have to pay for the charcoal separately.
Living out here really does require money everywhere, but there's nothing you can do about it.
Xue Huan paid some money for the charcoal, borrowed a stove and medicine pots, and boiled medicine for Chen.
When Chen woke up, Xue Huan told her what happened.
Chen lay on the bed and couldn't help crying, both because of the physical pain and because a good family suddenly broke up.
She felt uneasy and confused. How would she live in the future?
Xue Huan held her hand, "Mom, don't worry. Now that we're divorced from Cao, our lives will only get better. Look, weren't we doing well during the time he was away? We had enough food and warm clothes, and could even have meat for a meal every now and then. Once he comes back, we won't have a peaceful life anymore."
Chen thought about it and agreed.
Indeed, even without her husband, she and her daughter could live a good life, but her thoughts had always imprisoned her and made her lack the courage to take that step of independence.
But now that she was forced to come out, she felt that maybe it wasn't as bad as she thought.
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