Chapter 3 Disfigurement
The family was kicked out. When Mrs. Cao woke up, she cried heartbrokenly. She wanted to stay put and was beaten. She lay on the ground and screamed, which attracted many people from the village to watch the fun. people.
Xia Zihan sat on a tree stump by the roadside with Sister Ying in her arms, glaring at the dying Cao Zian, who was as breathless as a silk thread, and her heart was full of hatred, wishing that he would die soon.
Back then, if he hadn't been colluding with her stepmother to ruin her reputation, she, Xia Zihan, wouldn't be in such a miserable state today.
At that time, she was the second daughter of the Xia family, the daughter of a wealthy family, and the only descendant of the Chu family. No one from the Cao family was worthy of carrying her shoes.
But she was actually plotted by her stepmother and Cao Zian to marry Cao Zian.
If Cao Zian could live up to his expectations and live a poorer and more ordinary life, she wouldn't care.
She is not afraid of hardship or suffering. Even if her life is poor, it doesn't matter to her. The most important thing is that the husband and wife are of the same mind and the family is harmonious, so that they can live happily for a long time.
But Cao Zian is a lazy, gambling, drunk and violent scoundrel.
As soon as she married into the Cao family, Cao Zian started planning her dowry.
Seeing that Cao Zian had no good intentions, she became more thoughtful and secretly hid the two hundred taels of silver at the bottom of the box that her father gave her behind her stepmother's back.
Cao Zian carried her behind his back and rummaged for several days but couldn't find the silver. Seeing that she really had no money, he secretly took a pair of gold-winged vases from her dowry behind her back and took them to the town to be deceived.
As a result, the pawnshop said that the gold bottle was gold-plated and was only worth two taels of silver.
The gold vase that was thought to be worth forty taels of silver could only be worth two taels of silver.
Cao Zian was ridiculed by others, and after holding back her anger, she dug out all her dowry when she got home and took it to the town for inspection.
Turns out, it was all fake.
It was then that she realized that the dowry her stepmother had bought for her was all fake and none of it was genuine. The dowry, which was thought to be worth more than 10,000 taels of silver, turned out to be worth only 200 taels of silver.
Cao Zian was so angry that he beat her severely if he caught her.
It was winter and the stove was burning in the house, so Cao Zian kicked her into the stove.
She was caught off guard and threw herself face first into the stove.
When Nuan Yu and Nuan Xiang came over, they were shocked and rushed over, but they couldn't save her in time.
Her beautiful face was burned and her appearance was completely disfigured.
Later, Cao Zian disliked her ugly appearance, so when she was recovering from her injuries, he used strong methods to take Nuanyu and Nuanxiang into the house.
After she recovered from her injury, she became angry when she thought about the fake calligraphy, paintings and antiques in her dowry.
Taking the two hundred taels of silver, he rented a carriage and traveled for six days and nights to Jiangning City to question his stepmother Xu at the Xia family.
The dowry Xu bought for her was fake. If this news spread, Xu's reputation in Jiangning City would be completely ruined.
She couldn't run away from someone with a bad reputation for treating his first wife's legitimate daughter harshly.
As a result, after seeing Mrs. Xu, Mrs. Xu sneered and said, "I think it is a waste to give you a dowry of two hundred taels of silver. Don't forget that you were raised by the Chu family. You are the Chu family, not the Chu family." Xia family." Then he mocked her for her disfigurement and said she deserved it.
Finally, a few rough envoys and women were sent to escort her back.
(End of chapter)