The divine doctor's concubine emptied the palace and went into exile

Chapter 295 Breaking off the Engagement

Mrs. Zhang 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 by 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?" Mrs. Zhang said coldly, "Do you know how dangerous it was just now?"

"It won't be dangerous. Even if it is scratched or the ear is cut off, I can put it back on." His sharp eyes penetrated the cold mask, making Mrs. Zhang 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 after seeing what's in the purse, you'll understand what I mean."

The maid turned pale when she heard this.

Li Yin opened his purse and saw a jade pendant in it. The jade pendant had been broken into several pieces. Li Yin put the jade pendant back 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 be the same as the surname of the mistress.

"A jade pendant like this must not belong to the master of the Zhang family." Shang Ruoyi sneered: "She is obviously the concubine of Young Master Zhang, but she serves by the madam's side. I wonder if the madam knows about it?" She glanced at the maid, and at just one glance, the maid understood that this was her best chance to become the young master's concubine.

She knelt down in front of Madam Zhang with a plop: "Madam, I am guilty. It is the young master..."

"Shut up!" Madam Zhang slapped her, "Slut! How dare you deceive the young master! 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, "Madam, yes, yes..."

"What is it? Get to the back, I will deal with you when we get back home." Mrs. Zhang's face turned pale. She had just said that Li Xia Xia had behaved inappropriately, but now she was slapped in the face by her 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 it 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 lust. 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.

"Madam Zhang." Shang Ruoyi moved Madam 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. And, comparing the maids and servants around you with our Xia Xia, who do you think your Zhang family is? He is just a scholar, but you dream all day long and want to become a prime minister. You really treat your useless son as a dish. There are so many scholars in the world. If he can become a prime minister, Beiling will probably be destroyed."

Shang Ruoyi's words were merciless, and Mrs. Zhang's face turned pale and blue, which was very exciting.

"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 with no power or status. Our Li family is not a family that despises the poor and loves the rich. That's why we considered it again and again and decided to marry our daughter to your family. What's the result? Zhang He is simply a low-class person who eats, drinks, gambles and prostitutes. You must know how many concubines he has outside. Why are you pretending to be a scholarly family in our Li family?"

After hearing these words, Mrs. Zhang was speechless. She opened her mouth for a long time but could not 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, so as not to endanger their lives." As soon as she finished speaking, Madam Zhang 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.

"Madam 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. 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."

Mrs. 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 Madam from the beginning what we want. We, the Li family, propose to cancel the engagement, and you just agree. 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 Madam Zhang must be 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."

Sure enough.

"Do you have a written receipt?"

"Proof? What proof?"

Shang Ruoyi sneered, "Madam Zhang, do you think we are easy to bully? The gift money of 20,000 taels of silver, but there is not even a receipt? Since it is a gift money, it must be made public."

Since Li Wenshan gave the silver to his mistress, it means that the engagement gift was not clearly accounted for. "You are asking us to return 20,000 taels of silver without any written proof. Isn't Madam Zhang bullying us? If you ask for 200,000 taels, should we also return it to your Zhang family?"

Mrs. Zhang blushed and didn't know how to refute.

"If it is true as Madam said, that Li Wenshan has given 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."

Mrs. Zhang had naturally heard about the affairs of the Li family. It was because she knew that Li Wenshan and his son were both driven out of the Li family that she hurried to propose marriage.