kingnovel Chapter 296: Ugly in Appearance, Beautiful in Thoughts
Chapter 296: Ugly in Appearance, Beautiful in Thoughts
After all, Li Xia Xia is the only child in the Li family now, and everything in the Li family will belong to her. The sooner she is married home, the sooner she can get the priceless dowry.
She originally wanted to give in and see if there was any room for negotiation on this marriage.
But seeing the unnegotiable attitude on the Li family's faces, he couldn't help but clench his fists.
"Humph, you are just a merchant family. You look down on others just because you have some money. Just wait and see. I will make sure everyone in the capital knows what kind of people your Li family is! Your daughters will never be able to marry into a good family!"
"Whoosh!"
As soon as she finished speaking, there was a sound of breaking air and a dagger flew past her eyes.
"Bang!" The priceless vase beside her shattered.
"Mrs. Zhang, you must be familiar with the saying 'Misfortune comes from the mouth'. If you can't control your mouth, someone else will. If any rumors spread, you can try to see whether it is the broken vase that is more serious or your precious son who is more seriously injured."
"You! You threatened me!"
"That's right!" She admitted openly, "You can go and ask around. In addition to your Zhang family, there is another family in the capital that is even more powerful. Find out what happened to them, and you'll know whether you should keep your mouth shut or not."
As soon as she finished speaking, Mrs. Zhang's legs went weak. If it weren't for the maid supporting her, she would have fallen headfirst.
Of course she knew about the Beiling Zhang family.
I didn't expect it was her work.
Even when she got home, the fat on her face was still twitching.
"Mother! How is it?" Zhang He saw her coming back and hurried to greet her: "Mother, was Li Xiaxia overjoyed when she heard that the wedding date was moved up? Did she give you a few of those purple pearls directly?" He didn't notice his mother's extremely bad face at all, and continued: "If there are no purple ones, white ones will be fine! I knew that the bitch was stingy. That day at the auction, I asked her for the purple pearls, but she refused to give them to me. Today, she even refused to give me the white ones? I promised Lian'er."
"Madam! Madam!" The servants rushed forward in a panic and supported Madam Zhang who was about to faint on the ground.
Zhang He then looked up and saw that Mrs. Zhang's face was ashen and she was unconscious.
He frowned, waved his hand, and asked the servants to carry Madam Zhang back to the mansion.
"You little Li family! You actually made my mother faint from anger. Li Xia Xia, wait and see how I'm going to deal with you." He walked towards the Li family angrily.
Li Xia Xia was very happy to get rid of the Zhang family's marriage arrangement. She was instructing the housekeeper to prepare wine and food so that she could get drunk with Shang Ruoyi.
Then I heard a commotion at the door.
"Let me in! Do you know who I am? I am your young lady's future husband and the future master of the Li family. How dare you be so disrespectful? I will definitely punish you severely."
The servants of the Li family naturally knew that their young lady had called off the engagement with the man in front of them, so they naturally had no good face towards him: "Master, this is the Li family, not your Zhang family. Now that our young lady doesn't want to see you, how can you yell and scream in front of our Li family's door?"
"How dare you! How dare you speak to me like that? Do you know who I am?"
"Isn't it the scholar from the Zhang family?" The doorman said, "My young lady said that there are many scholars in the capital. What's so strange about that?"
"You!" He pointed at the servant with trembling fingers and said, "How shameful! I am a scholar, the future prime minister! How dare you disrespect me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw an object flying out from the yard and landed directly in his mouth.
"Puh, phuh, phuh!" Zhang He spat out what was in his mouth and saw clearly that it was actually a shoe.
A servant came forward and took the shoes off the ground. Zhang He's face turned pale when he saw this: "Li Xia Xia! How dare you attack me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shang Ruoyi and Li Xia Xia walked to the door. Ah Cheng followed behind him. Ah Cheng was wiping his hands. It was just unfortunate that the boy didn't like to wash his feet, so the smell was really bad.
Li Xia Xia looked at him, and the shyness in her eyes had long disappeared without a trace.
"Zhang He, what are you doing here?"
Zhang He heard this and his expression turned cold: "You're asking me this question. My mother fainted after she came back from your house. You must have made her sick because of your anger."
"I'm angry?" She sneered, "I don't have such profound skills to make your mother faint from anger. Who knows if it was you who made her angry?"
"Nonsense, how could I be angry with my mother?" He pouted: "It must be because you are too stingy that my mother got sick. I just asked you for a few Dongzhu, but you looked so stingy that you didn't even give me one."
"What do you think Dongzhu is? A mere trifle?" Shang Ruoyi sneered, "So in your eyes, Dongzhu is such a worthless thing."
"Your Li family originally raised Dongzhu, what's the difference between this and radishes and cabbages?"
Shang Ruoyi nodded after hearing this: "So that's how it is. So the things that our Li family sends to the palace every year for the Emperor and Empress to enjoy are all worthless things."
Zhang He knew he had said the wrong thing, and hurried to make amends: "That's not what I meant. I came here today to ask you why you made my mother faint. We in the Zhang family will never tolerate a woman like you who is disrespectful to her elders." He looked at the increasing number of neighbors and said loudly: "We in the Zhang family, a family of scholars, will never accept a woman who is disrespectful to her elders, unfilial to her parents-in-law, and behaves inappropriately."
He thought that as long as he said this, Li Xia Xia would immediately humble herself and admit her mistake to him. Unexpectedly, he really hit a wall today.
Li Xia Xia took a step forward, raised her chin slightly, and said with great momentum: "Your mother was fine when she left our Li family, why did she faint after returning to your Zhang family? She didn't faint at our house, why did you come to me? Also, didn't your mother tell you? We have canceled the marriage, and you actually claimed to be my fiancé in public. Who gave you the face?"
What? Cancel the engagement?
Why didn't he know?
Before he could react, Li Xia Xia threw a box to him: "This is the token exchanged between the two families when we got engaged. Now it is returned intact. I, Li Xia Xia, don't want to marry a scoundrel like you. You just read a few books and know a few words, but you don't take our Li family seriously. What? Do you think our Li family is marrying up? You are ugly, but you think beautifully. You don't have a big belly, but you have a big appetite. And you want ten purple oriental pearls. Shameless!"