bayedsolid Chapter 128 It’s all someone else’s fault!
Chapter 128 It’s all someone else’s fault!
Just then, early in the morning, the chattering voices of several cousins could be heard outside Zhao Tao's room:
"I heard that Ye Ze is back. The Ye family invited all the clan members to a banquet yesterday evening. Tsk tsk."
"He is now a great general, and he is in his prime. It is useless for us to be jealous. It is a pity for Zhao. She was originally destined to be the general's wife. What a pity. Do you think that when Ye Ze returns to the capital to receive the reward, will he ask for a title of imperial lady for his wife?"
"That's for sure. He loves his wife so much..."
"It's no secret that Zhao had a miscarriage. Her cousin never came to see her once. It's a pity that she had run to the end of the village to visit her cousin before."
"Puchi, hahaha... You don't know yet, right? She was turned away every time she went there before. Her cousin doesn't want to see her at all."
Zhao Tao, who was lying on the bed with lifeless eyes looking up at the sky, uh... looking at the roof, wanted to die immediately after hearing this. Tears silently rolled down her eyes. What on earth was she trying to do? Why was she so obsessed that she had to exchange marriages with Zhao Li?
The Shen family is a den of wolves and tigers. How long has it been since she got married, and her body has been ruined like this?
Shen Wenren hadn't even passed the county exam, so how could she expect him to be the top scorer? Ha! Not only had all the money she had spent on his education gone to waste, but she also lost her child!
Zhao Tao wiped her tears, feeling extremely wronged. If you don't have the ability, don't act like a scholar all the time! Who are you showing off to?
It's all Zhao Youfu's fault. Just because you are my father, can you change my fate? If you didn't want me to compete with Zhao Li and marry a scholar, would I have exchanged my marriage with Zhao Li? Would I have married Shen Wenren? !
Zhao Tao was almost driven mad with anger, her chest heaving violently and tears falling uncontrollably. She bit her lips unwillingly and cursed everyone indiscriminately in her heart.
Especially Zhao Li, who was cursed by her thousands of times. She lived in her house and enjoyed the love of her mother-in-law and husband. Why did Zhao Li have the right!!!
In short, the fault is everyone else's, Zhao Tao is not at fault! She is the victim, and everyone owes her!
This shouldn't be the case. This shouldn't be the case. She is the general's wife. How can she give it to others so easily?
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Zhao family,
Just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Qian asked craftsmen to repair the roof of his house. He had only moved back home for more than a month.
After deducting the money used for repairing the house from the silver that Zhao Youliang sent back twice, there was still more than 100 taels left. He was originally planning to build a brick and tile house, but was delayed by some trivial matters.
In the evening, after dinner, the family went back to the house to rest as usual. However, just as they lay down on the bed, the gate of the courtyard was suddenly slammed loudly by someone, and the whole family lost their sleepiness immediately.
Who would knock on the door in the middle of the night? Could it be someone from the second house again? Thinking of this, Zhou suddenly felt unhappy. Will they ever stop?
"Who is it?" Zhou quickly put on her clothes and walked into the yard. The brothers Zhao Qian and Zhao Gong also came out.
"Mom, let me go open the door." Zhao Qian said in a muffled voice.
"Okay..." Zhou agreed, turned around and went into the main room to light the oil lamp.
Then, Zhao Qian's surprised voice came from the gate: "Dad? Why is it you? Come in quickly."
When Zhao Gong heard his elder brother's words, he rushed over to greet him, "Dad! Dad is back, Mom, it's Dad who is back!"
"What? The boss is back?" Zhou walked out of the main room in a daze, and saw the familiar man striding towards her. The man was obviously much stronger and walked with a breeze.
"What's wrong? Are you stunned?" Zhao Youliang looked at Zhou with some amusement.
Zhou: “…”
"Dad?" Zhao Guoer and her sister-in-law Liu also got up. Liu quickly poured warm water for her father-in-law and handed it to him, "Dad, drink some water to moisten your throat first. Are you hungry? I'll go get you some food."
"No, no, stop working. I just came back from dinner." Zhao Youliang waved his hand.
Seeing that everything was normal at home, he felt much more at ease. He spoke a few more words to the children and let them go back to their room to rest.
Zhao Qian and his companions obediently left the main room, leaving the space to his parents.
Seeing that Zhou had remained silent, Zhao Youliang could not help but frown, "Why aren't you happy that your man is back? Didn't you miss me?"
Thinking of what Zhao Youliang had told her in the letter, Zhou's face turned red and she quickly changed the subject, "Why did you come back so suddenly? Did the battle at the border end?"
"It's too early." Zhao Youliang didn't explain much, but asked about his family again, "Did something happen at home? Why do you look unhappy?"
"It's all because of your good brother!" Thinking of what the second wife said, Zhou felt upset and simply told them everything that had happened at home in the past few days.
"The kid from the Shen family failed the imperial examination, and caused Sister Tao to lose her child. Then your good brother blamed us, saying that our Li'er stole Sister Tao's good marriage, and asked our family to pay them money to compensate them. He even threatened me with Li'er's life experience, and said that if I didn't give it, they would make trouble in front of my daughter. If I wasn't worried about Li'er..." As she spoke, Zhou's tears fell involuntarily.
"What?" Zhao Youliang's eyes widened. "What did mother say? Mother won't care about them?"
Zhou wiped her tears and snorted coldly, "You don't know what your mother is like, when has she ever spoken in favor of our family?"
Zhao Youliang was so angry that he paced back and forth in the hall in frustration, "No, I'll go over and tell them!"
"Oh, it's late at night, you'd better not go." Zhou grabbed Zhao Youliang and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow." The people from the second wife came to make trouble every day in the past few days. Zhou was almost driven to nervous breakdown by them. Whenever she thought about meeting the people from the second wife, she felt resistance in her heart.
"Alas!" Zhao Youliang sat dejectedly at the table. How could he not know Zhao Youfu's temper? He was a man who only took advantage and never suffered any loss! He always wanted to suppress him, the eldest brother. This time, he suffered such a big loss in his daughter's marriage. How could he let it go?
No, it was his fault as the eldest brother that he made them eat. They made it happen by themselves. They even dared to shamelessly come to Zhou and his family to ask for compensation? Ha!
Even if Zhao Youliang went to reason with them tomorrow, what would happen? After he left, the couple from the second house would still cause trouble for the family, and there was no way to avoid it.
After a while, Zhao Youliang said in a deep voice: "Our daughter has grown up and is married. It's time for us to tell her about her life story."
When Zhou heard this, her tears fell even harder, as if she was about to lose her daughter.
Zhao Youliang also felt uncomfortable, but instead of letting the people from the second house tell Zhao Li the truth with bad intentions, it would be better for them to tell her in person.
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