When Jiang Muxia stood up, the women sitting there fell silent. Although Liu Ying was there, they didn't dare to laugh at her openly. But the excitement they couldn't hide in their expressions made them look very ugly.

Liu Ying sipped her tea in small sips, her eyes casually sweeping over everyone, she sneered in her heart, but the corners of her lips rose even more.

The wanton laughter was getting closer and closer. Before Jiang Muxia reached the gate of the courtyard, he saw the woman who made the sound.

Seeing her dress, Jiang Muxia's contempt grew. The Cao family was a wealthy merchant family after all. Even if she was from a side branch, a woman who could marry the second-in-command of a county must have some connections and abilities.

But judging from her clothes, she looked like the daughter of a nouveau riche who had never seen the world.

She was dressed in red and green, and her hair was tied up high with a pair of hairpins and hairpins of different styles, which jingled when she walked. She took two steps at a time, perhaps because she was afraid that the hairpins would hit her face if she walked too fast. She wore a pair of exquisite coral bead hairpins on her head, which she threw and got tangled with the gilded hairpins next to her. The two maids behind her were busy trying to help her untie them, but she cursed and called the maids stupid and foolish. When she entered the door, she angrily tore off the tangled jewelry and threw it into the maids' arms.

It didn't matter that she pulled it, the hair bun fell down all of a sudden. Cao was so angry that she slapped the waitress in the face.

With disheveled hair, she looks like a mad woman.

She looked like a mad rooster at this moment, which made Caiyun who was following Jiang Muxia laugh out loud.

Jiang Muxia looked back at her and made a gesture to silence her.

Then he quickly walked forward to greet Cao.

"Hello, Mrs. Lou, do you need any help?"

Cao turned her head and lifted her hair to reveal her face. This time Jiang Muxia could finally see her face clearly.

She took a step back in shock, turned her eyes away, bit her lips, exhaled secretly, and tried to hold back the laughter that was about to burst out. Even so, she still felt the flesh on her face trembling.

When Caiyun behind her was about to laugh out loud, Qinghong covered her mouth with her hand, pinched Caiyun's forearm hard, and signaled her with her eyes not to cause trouble for Jiang Muxia.

Jiang Muxia finally figured out why Liu Ying looked down on this person. Liu Ying was the wife of a prefect and a princess herself. It was too cheap for her to argue with such a vulgar and reckless woman.

"Qinghong, go to our yard and prepare some clean water."

Qinghong ran quickly towards the Bamboo Forest Garden. Caiyun bit her lip and sobbed, kneeling down before her, saying something that she could not understand, and then ran away behind Qinghong.

Jiang Muxia accidentally saw her shoulders shaking like a sieve, she shook her head, she was at the age where she couldn't hold it in any longer, it was better for her to leave.

She turned her gaze to Cao's face. The light from the courtyard gate illuminated Cao's face clearly. She had thick makeup on her face, and her cheeks were painted red. It was like two round pink circles painted symmetrically on a white wall, with two red, shiny lines painted in the middle of the circles.

What a funny and weird face.

Without waiting for Cao to get angry, she said to the two maids, "Come with me, sisters, and help your wife clean up."

Cao was furious and pointed at Jiang Muxia and started to curse, "Who the hell are you? How dare you talk to me..."

Jiang Muxia walked up to her and slapped her, the crisp sound echoing throughout the air.

Cao was stunned for a moment, then jumped up, pointed at her and started cursing again.

"I advise you to think it over carefully. There will be a price to pay for scolding me. If you are not convinced, let's go to the front yard and find the landlord to argue with him."

"You..." Cao had already guessed her identity and looked down on her. She had slapped her for no reason and thought she had the evidence, so she was ready to make a scene.

She didn't expect that this ignorant little girl would actually bring out the landlord's book.

The relationship between the couple was not good to begin with. If it wasn't for the Cao family's face, Lou Xiaofeng would have fallen out with her long ago. She chased away every concubine who came to the house. She stared at Lou Xiaofeng like a thief. If she found a woman with him, the next moment the woman was beaten to death. Everyone in the county knew about her evil deeds.

As time went by, Lou Xiaofeng, who was disheartened, went home as soon as he resigned from his job and hid in the study. In the past four or five years, the two had never been in the same space together.

Lou Xiaofeng had already said that he would return home peacefully from now on. But if she dared to make trouble again, he would divorce her even if he had a falling out with the Cao family.

Therefore, Cao only dared to make trouble in her own courtyard. As long as Lou Xiaofeng didn't see her, he would ignore her.

Jiang Muxia wanted to take her to Lou Xiaofeng to reason with him, but she didn't dare.

She was afraid that Lou Xiaofeng would divorce her even if she continued to act like this. In her mind, a divorced woman was worthless and anyone could step on her. Her parents would not allow her to be divorced either. There had been precedents before her, which scared her. Throwing her into a lonely temple in the mountains would be worse than death for her.

Jiang Muxia glared at her and said coldly: "If you don't want to break up with me, then follow me. Look at yourself, do you still look like an official's wife? You look like an actor. Otherwise you will embarrass my wife." After that, she turned and left.

The maid looked at her and dared not move. Cao said angrily, "What are you looking at? Hurry up and catch up."

Several candles were lit in front of the bronze mirror. Cao sat down arrogantly and looked up. She was so scared that she exclaimed "Oh", pointed at the person in the mirror and asked stutteringly, "Is this me?"

"What else? Could it be a ghost?" Jiang Muxia rolled her eyes at her and motioned Qinghong to help her remove her makeup.

Cao had already rushed to the basin and splashed the water on her face. The sound of the water lasted for half an incense stick before she raised her head with red eyes.

The two maids beside her knelt on the ground, bent over and with their heads on the ground, trembling all over.

Cao wiped her face and threw the handkerchief over their heads, cursing, "I'll deal with you when I get home."

Qinghong deftly applied a fresh and lively makeup to her face, combed her hair into a bun, and spent a long time picking out suitable jewelry from her pile of messy jewelry.

Seeing this, Jiang Muxia asked, "What's missing?"

"Ma'am, a red headband."

Cao was unwilling to do so when she heard this, so Jiang Muxia stopped her and said, "If you still want to do the same thing as before, I won't stop you. In the end, it will be Master Bo and your Cao family who will lose face."

Cao was deflated and pouted her lips and retorted, "Anyway, I won't be grateful to you. What do you know as a country girl? The girls trained by the Madam are more useful."

"How can you be so ungrateful, woman..." Caiyun was so angry that she retorted.

"Caiyun." Jiang Muxia called her, stood up and urged, "Hurry up, don't let the ladies wait anxiously."

She took out a red ribbon and tied it around Cao's head. After examining her, she smiled and said, "Take off your coat."

Jiang Muxia ignored her objections and tore off Cao's green coat, revealing the bright red shirt underneath.

Wearing a shirt over another is really superfluous.

He reached out and pulled her up, then looked her over again. She was neat and tidy, and exuded the majesty of a mistress of a wealthy family.

As long as she doesn't speak, she is an admirable official's wife.

Cao looked through the bronze mirror and saw her new self, and she was very satisfied.

He turned around, glared at Jiang Muxia, stiffened his neck and shouted at her, "Okay, I can go now."

Then he walked out with the maid, and when he reached the door, he turned around and said a few words to Jiang Muxia, "Even if you helped me, I wouldn't thank you. It's your blessing that a stinking mud leg can help me. People of my status, even if I die, you are not worthy of being mentioned in the same breath with me."

After saying this, he walked away with his chest puffed out.

Jiang Muxia twitched the corners of his mouth and revealed a smile.

"Hey, this person..." Caiyun pointed at her back and called her an ungrateful person.

"Let's go too." Jiang Muxia straightened his clothes and said with a smile.

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