Zhang 꽬 didn't even know how the knife appeared. She only felt a gust of wind passing by, and a silver object flew past her ear. She could even feel a cold chill.
"Ah!" A scream was heard, and the purse on the waist of the maid behind her was nailed to the wall not far away with a knife. The scream came from this maid.
"If we talk about private transactions, I'm afraid our Li family is far inferior to your Zhang family!"
"What do you mean?" Zhang Xiaoren said coldly, "Do you know how dangerous it was just now?"
"It won't be dangerous. Even if it gets scratched or the ear is cut off, I can put it back on." His sharp eyes penetrated the cold mask and made Zhang Xiaoren sweat profusely.
“As for what I just said.” He waved his hand, and Li Yin took the purse off the wall very tactfully.
"I think you understand what I mean after seeing what's in the purse."
The maid turned pale when she heard this.
Li Yin opened the purse and saw a jade pendant in it. The jade pendant had been broken into pieces. Li Yin pieced the jade pendant together and the words on it were clearly visible to everyone.
“This! This is!”
The words on the jade pendant are clearly visible, and there is a pair of mandarin ducks carved underneath.
In Beiling, every concubine would have such a jade pendant, but the words on it would follow the surname of the mistress.
"A jade pendant like this surely wouldn't belong to Master Zhang." Shang Ruoyi sneered, "She's obviously Master Zhang's concubine, but she's serving him. I wonder if he knows about it?" She glanced at the maid, and at one glance, the maid understood that this was her best chance to become Master Zhang's concubine.
She knelt down in front of Master Zhang with a plop: "Master, I am guilty, it is Master..."
"Shut up!" Zhang slapped her in the face, "Bitch! How dare you deceive Master 꿣! What crime should you be punished for?"
With just one sentence, he stopped the maid from saying anything.
The maid covered her face and said tearfully: "My dear, yes, yes..."
"What is it? Get to the back, I will deal with you when we get back home." Zhang 转's face turned pale. He had just said that Li Xia Xia had behaved inappropriately, but now he was slapped in the face by his own words.
She looked at the old man, apologizing: "It's my fault that I didn't control the servants well. They tricked the master into doing such a thing. I will punish them when I return to the mansion." She stood up and walked to Li Xia Xia, stretched out her hand and placed her hand in her palm, smiling and said: "Xia Xia, don't worry, as long as you marry into our Zhang family, I, as your mother-in-law, will not treat you badly. Besides, which man in this world doesn't have three wives and four concubines? Look at my servants, who can match your appearance? Even if He Er couldn't control himself, it was just a moment of greed. No one can shake the status of your Zhang family."
The expression on her face was sincere, but Li Xia Xia just felt a chill.
"Mr. Zhang." Shang Ruoyi moved Mr. Zhang's hand away, her eyes full of coldness: "Three wives and four concubines? A moment of lust? You actually think that what your son did is very common, it's really ridiculous. Also, compare the maids and servants around you with our Xia Xia, who do you think your Zhang family is? He is just a mere showman, daydreaming all day, dreaming of becoming a prime minister. You really treat your useless son as a dish. There are so many showmen in this world. If he can become a prime minister, Beiling will probably be destroyed."
Shang Ruoyi's words were merciless, and Zhang Ruo's face turned pale and blue, which was very interesting.
"You! How dare you speak of my son like that!"
"Why can't I say it?" Shang Ruoyi sneered, "Your Zhang family is just a poor family without any power or status. Our Li family is not a family that despises the poor and loves the rich. Because of this, we will consider it again and again and marry our daughter to your family. What is the result? Zhang Hegen is a low-class person who eats, drinks, gambles, and has many mistresses outside. You must know it very well. Why is our Li family pretending to be a family of scholars?"
After hearing these words, Zhang was speechless. He opened his mouth for half a second but didn't utter a single word.
"Also, go back and check, how many of your maids are still virgins? After you've checked, don't rush to make a decision, find a doctor first, and don't put anyone's life in danger." As soon as she finished speaking, Zhang Yuren trembled all over, her eyes fell on the maids behind her, they all lowered their heads, not daring to speak.
She knew in her heart that these lowly bastards were probably just as she said.
"Mr. Zhang, do you think you can accept the reason why our Li family canceled the engagement?" Shang Ruoyi picked up the teacup and took a sip. "If you don't want to cancel the engagement, it's not impossible. I will go directly to the government office and ask the prefect to make the decision. But by then, the whole Beiling will know what your son has done. In the future, not to mention the daughters of merchants, even the daughters of farmers will not marry into your Zhang family. After becoming notorious, I want to see if your precious son can still become a prime minister."
Zhang's chest rose and fell violently. After a while, she sat on the chair, her eyes full of resentment: "What do you want?"
"We have made it very clear to you at the beginning what we want. Our Li family proposed to cancel the engagement, and you just agreed. From now on, our two families will not interfere with each other and will be like strangers."
"What about the silver?"
"Silver? What silver?" Shang Ruoyi laughed secretly, thinking that Zhang Yu was talking about the 20,000 taels of silver given to Li Wenshan: "When has our Li family ever accepted silver from your family?"
"Back then, as an engagement gift, we paid Li Wenshan 20,000 taels of silver as a gift. Now that the marriage is cancelled, the silver should be returned to our Zhang family."
It is true.
"Do you have a written receipt?"
"Proof? What proof?"
Shang Ruoyi sneered: "Does the Zhang family think that we are easy to bully? The gift money of 20,000 taels of silver, and they don't even have a receipt? Since it is a gift money, it must be made public."
Since Li Wenshan gave the silver to his mistress, it meant that the engagement gift had not been accounted for. "You are asking us to return 20,000 taels of silver without any written evidence. Aren't you bullying us? If you ask for 200,000 taels, should we also return it to your Zhang family?"
Zhang's face turned red, and he didn't know how to refute.
"If it is true as what they said, that Li Wenshan had given me 20,000 taels of silver, then we should go and ask him to return it. Now he has left the Li family and set up his own business."
Zhang had naturally heard about the affairs of the Li family, but knowing that Li Wenshan and his son were both driven out of the Li family, she came in a hurry to propose marriage.
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