Qiao Ziming's face was gloomy.
beg?
I thought Su Muxi was usually gentle and sensible, but I never expected her to be so domineering in private!
"Mother, please rest well. Your son is going to see what gives Su Muxi the right to control the medicinal herbs in the storeroom and prevent others from using them!"
After saying that, he left angrily.
As Jiang watched Qiao Ziming's departing figure, a slight smile curved her red lips.
"Ha! Didn't she want to resign? Today, let her wish come true!"
But Qiaohui hesitated and said, "Madam, will the young master really divorce the young mistress? After all, the Marquis values the young mistress very much and will not allow the young master to divorce his wife."
Jiang smoothed a stray hair from her temple and said nonchalantly, "The Marquis is not here now. When he returns in half a month, the deed will be done. Can he still force Zimo to marry Su Muxi?"
On the other side, Su Muxi had just finished calculating the accounts when she saw Qiao Ziming kick the door open and storm in.
Her delicate, willow-leaf-shaped eyebrows furrowed instantly.
Looking at the door that had been kicked open, he said coldly, "Young Master, your leg is healed now, don't you know how to use it?"
Qiao Ziming stared at Su Muxi's face, making no attempt to hide the disgust in his eyes. "Su Muxi, don't think that just because you cured my leg you can do whatever you want in the Marquis's mansion! I ask you, why did you lock up the medicinal herbs in the storeroom?! Just because the servants respectfully call you Young Madam, do you really think you are?!"
Su Muxi said good-naturedly, "I also hope I'm not. How about you divorce me tonight, Your Highness? I promise to leave this manor immediately and never get in Your Highness's way again!"
The birthmark on her face brought her ridicule from many people.
But now she feels fortunate.
It's really good that Qiao Ziming dislikes her; otherwise, she was afraid that Qiao Ziming would be lusting after her beauty and wouldn't let her leave.
Looking at Su Muxi's unrepentant attitude, Qiao Ziming said coldly, "Do you think I really won't divorce you? In the State of Qi, filial piety is the most important virtue. You are so disrespectful to your mother, I can easily divorce you for one of the seven grounds for divorce!"
Su Muxi sneered inwardly.
She had clearly treated the Qiao family well, yet in the end, they all came to disgust her!
"Qiao Ziming, ask yourself honestly, how have I treated your family these past three years! I didn't want any title, I was willing to leave so that you and Princess Chang Le could be together, and you're not grateful to me, fine, but you could have given me a divorce agreement so we could part amicably, but instead you threatened me with divorce?!"
As she spoke, Su Muxi looked at Qiao Ziming's legs and said sarcastically, "Is this how you treat your benefactor?!"
After saying that, without giving Qiao Ziming a chance to speak, Su Muxi threw the ledger on the table into Qiao Ziming's arms.
"If you want to divorce me, then go ahead, but before you do, you'd better pay me back the money you owe me over the past three years!"
Qiao Ziming opened the ledger with suspicion, and his expression grew increasingly grim as he looked at the entries.
"How can it be so much?! It actually costs seventeen thousand eight hundred and forty taels of silver?!"
Although his father held the title of Marquis of Anyang and was also the powerful Minister of War, his total salary for three years did not even amount to ten thousand taels.
But the cost of the medicinal herbs alone is over ten thousand taels?!
Seeing Qiao Ziming's incredulous expression, Su Muxi chuckled, "What? Does the young master think that ordinary liniment can heal your leg? Or that ordinary flour can remove the scars on your sister's face? And that the medicine you used to treat your mother was just ordinary radishes? If the young master suspects there's something wrong with these ledgers, he can take them and look at them at his leisure, or he can have someone check them. Anyway, I have another copy here, so I'm not afraid that the young master will just destroy it and deny everything!"
Hearing Su Muxi say this, Qiao Ziming blushed, which was rare for him.
He had always known that the medicinal herbs used in the mansion were obtained from Su Muxi's dowry shop, but he never imagined that these herbs would be so precious.
Even though the commonly used medicinal herbs weren't too expensive, the cumulative effect was still an amount he couldn't afford...
I'll pay you back the money I owe you, just give me two days!
Qiao Ziming was a prodigy since childhood, and now that he has risen again, his pride has naturally returned.
Therefore, he would never do something like refusing to pay back money he owes!
Su Muxi smiled slightly, "Alright, then I'll give the young master two days. Otherwise, if word gets out and outsiders hear, they'll think the Marquis of Anyang's family is abusing their power and coveting the bride's dowry!"
"Hmph! Don't worry, it definitely won't be a problem for you!"
After saying this in a cold voice, Qiao Ziming immediately turned and left.
Looking at the mockery in Su Muxi's eyes, he actually felt a little ashamed of himself.
But after leaving Luoxia Courtyard, he realized that he hadn't asked Su Muxi for the ginseng.
The pent-up anger in my chest hadn't been released yet, and instead, I've only made myself even angrier.
He strode out of the mansion and headed to the nearest pharmacy. Unexpectedly, he spent fifty taels of silver just to buy two ginseng roots.
"Shopkeeper, how much silver do you sell ginseng that's a hundred years old?"
The shopkeeper chuckled, "Young master, you jest. Centuries-old ginseng is a rare find in the capital, and I've never even seen one before! If I truly possessed such a ginseng, I would never part with it for sale. It is a priceless treasure, capable of saving lives in critical moments!"
Qiao Ziming's eyes were unfathomable. He thanked her and slowly left, but the arrogance that had surrounded him vanished in an instant.
In the ledger that Su Muxi gave him, the price of a century-old ginseng was listed as one thousand taels of silver.
In the past three years, the family has used three 100-year-old ginseng roots for his mother. He didn't examine the ginseng from other years in detail, but he figured they should be cheaper than what this pharmacy sells.
He initially thought Su Muxi was making unreasonable demands.
But now it seems that Su Muxi not only asked for less, but was also too generous!
They were even willing to give their mother a century-old ginseng that could save her life to help her recover...
Jiang waited in the courtyard for a long time, but Qiao Ziming did not return. She sent someone to inquire, but unexpectedly heard that Qiao Ziming had left the mansion.
Qiao Zixi laughed and said, "Brother must have gone to the Su family to talk to Su Xing about divorcing his wife!"
Madam Jiang looked disdainful. "Your brother is the heir apparent to the Marquis of Anyang. Su Xing is merely a minor official in the Imperial Medical Academy. Why would we need to inform him about the divorce?!"
Qiao Zixi thought for a long time before speaking again, "Perhaps brother doesn't want people to gossip? After all, it was Su Muxi who healed your leg. If you suddenly divorce her, people who don't know the truth will inevitably gossip. So, brother went to the Su residence to shut Su Xing up?"
However, just as Qiao Zixi finished speaking, Qiao Zimo's voice rang out from outside the door.
"I think we should shut you up first! Don't ever mention divorcing me again. I will not divorce Su Muxi!"
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