The little sister is a troublemaker

Chapter 163: Merchant Women Are Not Appearing on the Stage

On the other side, in the Minister of Rites' Mansion, Zhang Zheng was punished and confined for three months. Now he can only stay in the mansion and cannot go anywhere.

Guo smashed another set of the latest tea set. Zhang Zheng frowned. This was his favorite set of tea set recently.

"Why are you so angry? Is being angry useful?"

Seeing his expression, Guo became even angrier. "You are so careless. Your hat is almost gone, yet you are still so calm."

"The Prime Minister said he would help me. It's only a matter of time. Why are you in such a hurry?"

Guo's triangular eyes glared at him, making her already mean face look even uglier. Zhang Zheng simply turned his face away, thinking out of sight, out of mind.

Others said he was a playboy, and they brought concubines into the room one by one. They didn't realize that there was such a tigress and a demon at home, and he would be sorry for his eyes if he didn't find some young and beautiful ones.

"Sooner or later, when will it be? Now the imperial examination has been taken over by that old bastard Li Cong. Look today, his son has entered the palace to be the emperor's teacher. Can't you see that? The regent is obviously trying to support the Li family and oppose the prime minister, and you are still drinking tea leisurely. I really don't know what you are thinking."

Zhang Zheng got angry, "Then what can I do? Don't you know I can't go out now?"

"But I can't just do nothing. I have to go find that little bitch Zhang Ruomei. Her last name is Zhang. How can she have the nerve to do this when her father-in-law took away her own father's job?"

Zhang Zheng looked at her steadily with his narrow eyes, "Don't cause trouble for me. The Prime Minister told me to be quiet recently. If you dare to cause trouble for me, hmph."

"It's you who's incarcerated, not me. I'm a woman, why can't I go out?"

"Husband and wife are one!" Zhang Zheng shouted. He really regretted it now. Why did he marry such a she-devil? She was so rude.

If he had not needed money to pave the way for himself back then, he would never have married the daughter of a merchant of low status. Now she is really becoming even more unpresentable.

Especially the way she taught her little daughter Zhang Youruo, she didn't have the demeanor of a lady from a rich family. She was born out of sheer luck, and she spoiled her little daughter too much, and didn't teach her well. Of course, she herself didn't understand the rules of a rich family, so what could she teach? It's fine if she didn't understand, but she didn't even know to ask some maids to come over, oh.

"Husband and wife are one? You're saying that now. In all these years, when have you ever considered me your wife? You've only stepped into my room a few times, but your heart has long been seduced by those little goblins in the backyard. Humph, you still say husband and wife are one? Bah."

Zhang Zhengqi pointed at her with trembling hands, "You...you...a shrew, a shrew."

Guo had stopped pretending in front of Zhang Zheng. "What's wrong with a shrew? You married her in a formal ceremony. You relied on our family's money to get to your current position. What's the matter? Do you dislike me now?"

Zhang Zheng was most angry about this. He would always bring it up. His eyes were sinister. "Yes, I used your family's money to open up some connections, but over the years, your family has also relied on me, the Shangshu, to bully others and gain benefits. I have already paid back what I owe you. The next time I hear these words from you, be careful or I'll divorce you."

When Guo heard this, she could no longer bear it and scratched Zhang Zheng's face with her claws, "You heartless man, you want to divorce me, you still want to divorce me, you damned bastard... I have spent money and effort for you, and in the end you still want to divorce me, is there any justice in the world?"

Zhang Zheng didn't expect Guo to attack directly. He was scratched without paying attention. When he reacted, his face was already burning. He dodged Guo's attack again and again, "Someone come... Someone come..."

The servants in the mansion naturally heard the noise here, but no one dared to step forward. Seeing the master and the mistress fighting, even if they went up to help separate them, they probably wouldn't end up well.

Finally, the housekeeper came and ordered the servants to pull Guo away. Seeing Guo with disheveled hair, the housekeeper couldn't bear it. After all, she was the wife of an official, but her behavior was really...

The housekeeper supported Zhang Zheng, who was covered in wounds. Zhang Zheng was so angry that he slapped Guo on the face. He seemed to be still not satisfied and slapped her twice more. "You... are just a shrew."

Then he turned away, leaving Guo in a daze. After a while, she reacted, "Old man, you dare to hit me...ah...you bastard...our family has contributed money and effort to you to get to your current position. You have a high status now, and you dare to hit me...ah..."

There were bursts of ghostly howling and wolves making the Zhang Mansion noisy for the whole day, making the servants laugh at it.

"Master, why do you have to quarrel with Madam like this? You are making a fool of yourself for no reason." The housekeeper is an old man in the mansion and can say a few words in front of Zhang Zheng.

The court doctor was applying medicine to Zhang Zheng at the moment, and he grimaced in pain. "I was the one who wanted to quarrel with her. You know her temper. Hey, I regret it now. A merchant's daughter is really not presentable. Look at her shrewish appearance. Which official's wife is like her?"

"It's useless to regret now. You have endured it all these years. Why do you have to quarrel with her at this critical moment?"

Zhang Zheng sighed, "I don't want to either, but this bitch is really...Butler, do you think the Prime Minister will really protect me?"

The butler looked respectful. "Of course. On the one hand, the master has been serving the prime minister for so many years. Even if he has no merit, he has worked hard. How can the prime minister ignore you? On the other hand, you are the power that the prime minister has cultivated with great difficulty. Your position in the court is also very important. Of course, he does not want to lose it easily. So rest assured, the prime minister will not ignore you."

Zhang Zheng naturally understood this, but he still felt uneasy. "Has Ruomei come to visit recently?"

The housekeeper didn't react at first to who this Ruomei was. He was stunned for a moment before he remembered that she was the concubine's daughter who married into the Taifu's Mansion that year. Now she seemed to have been canonized as a third-rank lady.

"Not yet."

"Hmph, he is really an ungrateful idiot. He went back to Kyoto and didn't even come home. His father never came to see him. A child born by an aunt is a child born by an aunt after all. Even if she marries well, she is still not presentable." Zhang Zheng now hates merchants. Zhang Ruomei's aunt is also a merchant girl.

The housekeeper lowered his head, his expression unchanged, "The master said in person that he would sever the father-daughter relationship. I guess... he doesn't dare to come to the door."

"Whether she dares not to come or is unwilling to come, she has the blood of my Zhang family flowing in her body after all." Zhang Zheng's eyes were full of calculations. He had experienced ups and downs in officialdom for many years and understood best the principle that one should not put all eggs in one basket. If it's on the prime minister's side...this might also be a way out.