The mistress is reborn, no one who bullies me can escape

Wang seemed to understand something, her face was shocked, and she asked in a trembling voice: "Yu...Hang, what do you mean?"

Zhao Yuhang's throat felt sore, and he closed his eyes, his heart aching as if it were cut by a knife. After a moment of silence, he slowly said, "Mom, you should stay in the ancestral hall.

I promise you... I will graduate from high school in two years at most. By then, I will find a job outside the school and take you away from this place of trouble."

He could give up his own future, but he could not ignore Jiang Niang and the children. They were innocent and should not be implicated.

After hearing this, Wang collapsed to the ground, her eyes filled with despair and pain.

She still couldn't believe that her son would change his mind at this critical moment. This made her feel extremely chilled.

He really has forgotten his mother after getting a wife! He has such a cruel heart!

"Yuhang, didn't you just promise me that you would take me away?" Wang's tears rolled down her cheeks, her voice choking, "You said you would be filial to me, is this how you are filial to me?"

How could he be filial to me? He was clearly trying to force me to death!

Zhao Yuhang didn't dare to look at Wang's eyes full of disappointment and sadness, and could only turn his head away silently.

Xue Jinhua said, "Mother, just stay in the ancestral hall. I will ask the chief patriarch to bring you home to reunite with us on the 15th of every month."

"Bah! Stop pretending here!" Wang scolded with disgust, "I know you must be extremely happy right now, and maybe even hope that I will die, but I tell you, I will never do as you wish..."

"Patriarch, it's getting late. You should make a decision quickly." Xue Jinhua reminded.

The chief patriarch nodded and said in a deep voice: "Since the verdict has been reached, Wang will be locked up in the ancestral hall. Except for the fifteenth day of every month when she can go home, she can only stay here and repent at other times."

After hearing this, Wang was still unwilling to give up and struggled to see Zhao Yuhang, but was stopped by two big men. Zhao Yuhang had already been pulled out of the room by Zhao Yuhao.

Everyone else left, only Xue Jinhua stayed.

Wang was so angry that her eyes turned red. Like a hungry wolf, she desperately pounced on Xue Jinhua, cursing viciously: "Xue Jinhua, all this is your fault... If it weren't for you, how could I be trapped in this hellhole! You bitch, I will definitely kill you..."

However, just when Wang was about to pounce, there was a crisp "pa" sound, and before she could react, Xue Jinhua slapped her to the ground without hesitation.

"You...you dare to hit me?"

Wang was shocked and covered her face. After a while, she came to her senses and was immediately furious. "Xue Jinhua, you are so bold! I am your mother-in-law, how dare you treat me like this! You are a traitor. I will let Yuxuan divorce you..."

Facing Wang's anger, Xue Jinhua seemed exceptionally calm. She sneered, "Mother, don't you understand at this point?"

"Understand what?" Wang's heart tightened, not knowing why.

Xue Jinhua smacked her lips twice and said sarcastically, "Mom, if it were me, I would have stopped making trouble a long time ago. You are locked up here not because of anything I did, but because you made an unforgivable mistake!

And as for what you said about letting Zhao Yuxuan divorce me...

If it was before, he might really do so, but now... I'm afraid he definitely won't do that.

Do you think Zhao Yuxuan doesn't know what happened in the past few days?"

Wang was stunned. Xue Jinhua's words were like a sharp knife piercing her heart.

"Mother, Zhao Yuxuan knows that you were taken away by the government, and he also knows that you were locked up in the ancestral hall, but mother thinks carefully, why didn't he come?"

"No... Impossible, you must be deceiving me. You didn't tell Yuxuan about the situation, right? You bitch, I will cut you into pieces..."

Wang rushed towards Xue Jinhua like a madman, but before she could touch Xue Jinhua, she collapsed to the ground.

The old lady of the former marquisate was now crawling at her feet like a puddle of mud. Xue Jinhua felt extremely happy.

Wang was puzzled. "Xue Jinhua, I usually treat you well. Why do you... treat me like this?"

"Not mean? Haha..." Xue Jinhua seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world, and said sarcastically, "Mom, when you say this, can you check your conscience? Ask yourself, have you ever treated me sincerely?"

Wang's eyes were wandering and she didn't dare to look Xue Jinhua in the eye.

"From the moment I married into the Zhao family, you began to covet my dowry, didn't you?"

"Nonsense...Who is coveting your dowry?"

"Isn't it clear in your heart whether I'm talking nonsense or not?"

Xue Jinhua looked coldly at her gorgeous clothes, her face as pale as ice, becoming even colder.

"With your Zhao family's insignificant assets, do you think you can wear this piece of brocade worth a thousand gold?

Can you afford to eat fresh fish that needs to be iced every day and shipped thousands of miles from the south?

Whether it's the inexhaustible supply of ice in summer or the nanmu charcoal worth more than gold in winter, which one do you think is not dependent on my dowry?"

Although the Zhao family was a marquisate at the time, it was nothing more than an empty shell that looked good but was useless.

In fact, it has been riddled with holes and rotten... It looks prosperous on the surface, but in fact it is heavily in debt.

The wealthy and powerful families, having lost their source of livelihood, still have to struggle to maintain their extravagant lifestyle.

What else can he do except covet her dowry?

Wang was filled with shame and indignation, and was furious. "Since you have married into the Zhao family, you are a member of the Zhao family, and your dowry naturally belongs to the Zhao family.

Besides, when I spent your dowry, was there any pressure on me?

Isn't that what you wanted to do? Why are you complaining now?"

If a person has no shame, then he is truly invincible.

If you are concerned about your daughter-in-law's dowry, you will be laughed at by the whole world.

However, the Zhao family was just the opposite. Not only did they not feel ashamed of it, but they were proud of it.

Wang's reaction was expected, because in her previous life, the reason why she was willing to spend her dowry was simply to please Zhao Yuxuan.

"It's fine to spend this dowry, it's just a thing outside of one's body, but you should never spend my dowry with a clear conscience and hide the matter of Xue Qing'er.

You want Xue Qing'er to marry into the family and let Fan Ge'er be adopted, and then when Zhao Yuxuan becomes successful, you will kick me out. Do you really think I'm a fool?

"I treat the Zhao family sincerely, but what about you? It would be fine if you didn't appreciate it, but why do you still tease and scheme against me?"

It turns out that she knew everything!

Wang's face tensed up, and she suddenly realized, "So, you have been pretending to be nice to me all these years?"

"What does it matter if I pretend to be nice? I thought it was not your fault, and I thought if you behaved yourself, I would at most not make things difficult for you. But as soon as my aunt arrived in Kyoto, you and I started to plot together, to calculate my dowry, and even tried to take my life."

Looking at her ferocious face, Wang suddenly realized that Xue Jinhua would definitely not let her go easily this time.

She was really scared, and quickly begged for mercy: "Jinhua, I was wrong... I really know I was wrong, please forgive me, I promise that after I get out, I will behave myself and will never cause trouble for you again."

"Mom, you'd better save your energy. Everything you have done in the Zhao family over the years has damaged your virtue and brought disaster to your descendants. Now the ancestors of the Zhao family are enshrined in this ancestral hall. They will slowly settle accounts with you."

The cold wind, like a ghost, blew in through the broken window of the ancestral hall, making people feel cold on their backs.

Wang was a timid person to begin with, and after hearing what Xue Jinhua said, she subconsciously looked around. There was a scent of mist filling the air from under the spirit tablets, and in the dim light... the spirit tablets seemed to come alive and began to twist.

Wang felt a chill down her spine and turned pale with fear. “You… you are scaring me…”

"Serve it."

Yinghua walked out slowly from the back of the mourning hall. Seeing the bowl of black medicine in Yinghua's hand, Wang was horrified. She stretched out her hand and pointed at Xue Jinhua tremblingly, "Xue Jinhua, what...what are you going to do?"

"Mom, do you think you can get away with it after hearing what I said?"

Wang's face turned pale and she cursed madly: "Xue Jinhua, you vicious woman, what on earth do you want to do? Save..."

Before she uttered the word "life", Wang's mouth was pinched tightly by Yinghua, and then the black medicine was poured into her head all at once.