Upon hearing Zhao Ziqi mention the children, Xu Shao strode to the table in the room, grabbed a teacup, and smashed it at Zhao Ziqi, shouting, "You still care about children? You're their father, what have you done for them? Three children, when have you ever cared about what books they're reading or what homework they're doing? You're using the children to blackmail me now, have you no shame?"
Zhao Ziqi was so frightened that she stood leaning against the door frame. After looking closely, her legs trembled slightly, and she said in a trembling voice, "You're crazy, you're crazy!"
Xu Shao could no longer contain her anger and shouted, "Yes, I'm crazy. I should have gone crazy a long time ago. Back then, neither my parents nor my family agreed to my marriage to you. They all said you weren't a good match. What did you say to me? You said you would be with me for life, you said you would love me well, and that we would take care of the children together. You also said you would teach the children to read and watch them pass the imperial examinations. What did you do? Huh? Tell me, what did you do?"
Xu Shao, holding onto the edge of the table, approached Zhao Ziqi step by step, sneered a few times, and said, "You say you love me, you say you want to love the child well, but you don't love anyone, you only love yourself. You watched me being humiliated by your good mother, you watched me being laughed at by your younger brother and his wife. They laughed at me for finding a good-for-nothing husband, they laughed at my child for having an irresponsible father."
When Xu Shao got to the point of her sadness, her eyes reddened. Pointing at Zhao Ziqi, she said, "Zhao Ziqi, I was so blind. I listened to your sweet words and fell for your tricks. Don't worry, I won't let you treat me like a monkey like before. Face? What is that? I'll put aside my face and I'm not afraid of anything. Just wait and see how I turn this place upside down."
Seeing Zhao Ziqi trembling, Xu Shao's disgust intensified. She frowned and said, "Just tell me the whole story, don't hide anything. Zhao Ziqi, if I find out you're hiding something, just watch how I deal with you. So you were just taking advantage of the fact that I still have some sincerity and expectations for you, trying to deceive me and play me. Now I'm telling you, I'm not doing this for anything else, I'm doing this for my three children, and I won't be as foolish as before."
Sometimes, a person's rise to prominence, whether in thought or action, happens in an instant. Unfortunately, Zhao Ziqi happened to witness Xu Shao's rise and rose to power right in front of him.
Seeing Xu Shao like this, Zhao Ziqi dared not tell the truth anymore. She just gripped the door frame tightly, clenched her teeth, and refused to speak.
Xu Shao said to the people outside, "Lock the courtyard gate and take our young master to the wing room in the backyard. I want to see just how tough our young master really is."
Hearing someone opening the door outside, Zhao Ziqi turned to Xu Shao and said, "Xu Shao, how can you treat your husband like this? We are husband and wife, and no matter what, you will always have to rely on me to make a living in the future."
Xu Shao curled her lips and said coldly, "Rely on you? Rely on you, can you give me food or money to spend? I've been married to you for twenty years, what good has it done me by relying on you? On the contrary, you coaxed me into emptying my dowry. You and your family have been living off my dowry and drinking my blood all these years, living a carefree life. Let me tell you, Zhao Ziqi, you will not take a single penny from me in the future. Don't even mention buying this or that, even if you run up a penny for wine outside, I will not give you any more money."
Money is Zhao Ziqi's biggest weakness. He spends money like water, but he only spends and never earns. His monthly allowance of a few dozen taels of silver is not enough to cover his drinking expenses. Moreover, he also keeps a nice girl in a brothel.
But Zhao Ziqi didn't dare say anything else at this moment. He was terrified by Xu Shao's calm expression. The door opened, and he rushed out, knocking the old woman who opened the door to the ground. He ran towards the courtyard gate.
The courtyard gate was already locked. Zhao Ziqi had practiced kung fu with his elders when he was young, but he wasn't good at enduring hardship, so he gave it up early. Over the years, wine and women had completely ruined his health. If he were in good health, he could have simply put aside his pride and climbed over the two trees by the wall, or even jumped over it. Unfortunately, he couldn't.
Xu Shao came out of the house and, by the light of the lamppost in the yard, watched the man anxiously jumping around trying to get the gatekeeper to open the door. She felt a wave of sadness. This was the man she had painstakingly married, the man she was supposed to spend her whole life with. This kind of marital relationship made her feel increasingly hopeless.
Just then, someone knocked on the courtyard gate from the outside. Zhao Ziqi immediately felt relieved and quickly asked the old woman guarding the gate to open it.
Xu Shao no longer wanted to listen to Zhao Ziqi and said to the nanny beside her, "Open the door. It's probably Xing Ge'er who's here by now."
The person who came was indeed Zhao Sixing. After opening the door, he saw Zhao Ziqi, bowed to him, and said, "It's good that Father is here. I have some things to say to Father and Mother. Please come to Mother's room."
Zhao Ziqi absolutely did not want to enter Xu Shao's room again. He already had a phobia of Xu Shao's house and now wanted to stay far away from it and never come back.
Seeing that Zhao Ziqi was unwilling to enter the room, Zhao Sixing said, "Father, since you are unwilling to enter the room, I can only regret that what I am about to say may offend Grandmother."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Ziqi stared at Zhao Sixing with somewhat cloudy eyes for a while. Looking at her son's calm face, Zhao Ziqi felt extremely unfamiliar. When did her son grow up to be like this?
Xu Shao stood at the doorway and said loudly to Zhao Sixing, "Since your father doesn't care, you can just stand here and say it. Since they themselves don't feel ashamed, we don't need to be afraid of being ashamed either."
How could Zhao Ziqi dare to let Zhao Sixing say such things so openly in front of the servants? She quickly grabbed Zhao Sixing's sleeve and led him into the room.
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