Chapter 505 Medicinal Wine
"Zaohua, you are so young and so rich, haven't you thought about finding another one?" Xu Zaohua continued to pour wine and asked.
Xu Zaohua was furious.
She wanted to find it, but how dare she?
Listen, this is what an unmarried girl would say. In her opinion, Xu Zaohua is going crazy because no one has proposed to her and she is missing a man.
Gu Taohua did it on purpose.
Sure enough, as soon as Gu Taohua finished speaking, all the ladies in the room looked at Xu Zaohua.
"Zaohua, what are you talking about? Your mother makes so much money in business, why doesn't she find another man?" Xu Zaohua kicked the ball to Tong Huaqiong, who is also a widow.
Gu Taohua sighed and said, "My mother is different from you. We have a bunch of burdens who are all grown up. Which young man would be willing to be the father of us brothers and sisters?"
Gu Taohua's loud words made the ladies at the table twitch their lips.
But it is understandable. People in the countryside are not as bound by rules and regulations as people in the city. Remarriage and second marriage are normal.
Gu Taohua glanced at Xu Zaohua and continued, "But you are different. You are only eighteen years old, as young as a flower. Your mother said that if your conditions were in our Qinghewan, the matchmaker would be able to break the door of your house. In addition, you can give birth to a son, so even if you get married for the second time, the betrothal gift will be the same as the first time. Are you willing to be a widow for Mr. Zheng and be delayed?"
Everyone looked at Xu Zaohua with different eyes.
My goodness, what mother would arrange her daughter like this?
Everyone knows that Xu Zaohua's marriage to the Zheng family is a sign of marrying up, and even if the eldest son of the Zheng family is gone, it will not affect her status as the eldest lady.
Who will recognize her if she leaves the Zheng family?
Xu Zaohua hated Gu Taohua so much that she said, "If you keep saying that, I'll tear your mouth apart."
Gu Taohua said, "I was just saying it casually, why are you still angry? You are the eldest lady of the Zheng family, why are you as ignorant as Qinghewan? Come on, let me toast you a glass, just consider it my apology."
Xu Zaohua hated it most when people said that she was a country girl from Qinghewan and had no vision. Gu Taohua was really hurt.
"Madam Zheng, Sister Taohua is ignorant. She has already apologized to you. Please forgive her for my sake." Lian Hengruo turned his head and said as he toasted the ladies at the table next to him.
Xu Zaohua had no choice but to drink Gu Taohua's wine with hatred.
At this time, in order to ease the atmosphere, someone's wife joked to Xu Zaohua: "You and Heng Ruo may be sisters-in-law in the future."
Everyone smiled, knowing that it was about the engagement between the Second Miss Lian and the Second Young Master Zheng.
While listening to the opera, Hua hinted that Zheng Lian'er's marriage was a done deal, otherwise the lady would not have dared to say it.
Lian Hengruo and Xu Zaohua were unhappy after hearing this.
If Lian Hengruo didn't want to marry the second son of the Zheng family, Xu Zaohua didn't want to let Lian Hengruo enter the house.
Lian Hengruo thought that she and Xu Zaohua originally had a common goal. If Xu Zaohua came to inform her, she would naturally find ways to ruin this marriage. It was just that Xu Zaohua wanted to use this marriage to plot against her.
Then don't blame her for being rude.
Her people told her that Gu Ruinian was being taken away by his second brother and hiding in his stepmother's room.
Very good, catch them all.
Gu Taohua continued to act like an ignorant country girl, sitting in front of Xu Zaohua and chattering from their childhood fights to who was more handsome when they grew up. Xu Zaohua chased Gu Taohua away several times, but Gu Taohua clung to Xu Zaohua like a dog-skin plaster.
Xu Zaohua was furious. What happened to Gu Taohua? She just didn't understand what people were saying.
She wasn't like this before!
In her opinion, Gu Taohua was deliberately humiliating her.
Xu Zaohua was extremely angry, but she couldn't fight back in front of the ladies. What's more, Magistrate Liu's mother was sitting at the next table. She was a big shot in the Gu family, and she was afraid of offending the magistrate's mother by confronting Gu Taohua in person.
Even if the county magistrate's mother was not there, there was still Widow Tong sitting there. Widow Tong was a person who did not care about food or meat. She would be even more embarrassed if she revealed that she liked Gu Jingzhe.
Gu Taohua used her skills as a good plaster. In addition to talking about the bad things in Qinghe Bay, she also kept toasting Xu Zaohua.
Xu Zaohua drank several cups in a row.
"Zaohua, think about it, we grew up together, there is no need to treat each other as enemies, why don't we make peace this time." Gu Taohua said while chewing on a chicken leg.
Xu Zaohua thought with disdain, who can help you turn hostility into friendship? We will be enemies until death.
but......
Xu Zaohua rolled her eyes and was secretly delighted. The opportunity had come.
Gu Taohua, this is not my fault. You were the one who came up to me.
Xu Zaohua filled the wine cup, used her sleeve as a fingernail to quickly dip it in and then took it out, and said to Gu Taohua with a smile: "Taohua, what are you talking about? We don't have any hatred to begin with. Those bumps are just misunderstandings. I treat you as my sister."
Gu Taohua cursed in her heart, damn it, who is your sister.
But he changed his words readily and said, "Sister Zaohua, then we are reconciled."
Who can't act?
Xu Zaohua handed Gu Taohua a glass of wine and said, "I have done things wrong in the past. Consider this glass of wine as my apology to my younger sister."
Gu Taohua took the wine.
Tong Huaqiong told her that no matter what Xu Zaohua gave her, she should not eat or drink it.
How to proceed to the next step without eating or drinking?
Just as Gu Taohua put the wine into the glass, Han suddenly shouted, "Isn't that the eldest young lady of the Zheng family?"
Xu Zaohua turned around and Gu Taohua quickly poured the wine into her sleeves.
Tong Huaqiong put a whole sponge in her sleeve just in case.
Then he quickly poured half a glass of wine into the glass.
Seeing Han calling her, Xu Zaohua stood up slowly and walked to Han's side.
Han took Xu Zaohua's hand and said, "The eldest young lady of the Zheng family is a good woman. She is able to keep her husband's job at such a young age. I told my son that I want to get a memorial archway for you."
Because Han was widowed at a young age, she sympathized with other young widows.
Xu Zaohua was happy to hear Han say this.
If she had the memorial archway issued by the imperial court, her position in the Zheng family would be more secure.
Anyway, it is impossible for her to marry again in this life, so she might as well use the imperial archway to crush all the people in the Zheng family.
Xu Zaohua was so happy that she didn't even notice Tong Huaqiong who was sitting next to Han. Instead, she called her aunt and toasted her with a glass of wine.
Tong Huaqiong drank the wine offered by Xu Zaohua, thinking that this plastic relationship was only worth a glass of wine.
Xu Zaohua exchanged a few words with Han and returned to her seat. Seeing that Gu Taohua had drunk most of the wine in her glass, she felt as refreshed as if she had drunk iced mung bean soup on a summer day.
Gu Taohua has fair skin, the kind of person whose face turns red when she touches alcohol. Xu Zaohua glanced at Gu Taohua's face, which looked like it was dyed with morning glow, and felt even happier.
It seems that her medicinal wine is working.
Gu Taohua was completely unaware and kept chattering with Xu Zaohua.
Xu Zaohua changed her impatience, listened with a smile, and picked up some food for Gu Taohua attentively.
Now that they have put down their weapons, she has to be a good sister, even if it's just a fake one.
Xu Zaohua glanced at Lian Hengruo who was trying to please Hua.
Lian Hengruo was so petite that any man could hold her down, and there was no need to give her drugged wine in advance.
This is also the result of the discussion between Xu Zaohua, the Second Young Master Lian, and Gu Ruinian today.
If Lian Heng was raised by my mother, the mother and daughter would be used to using tricks in the inner house. They might be more skilled in using medicinal wine than she is. It would be bad if she found out.
Originally, I thought her medicinal wine would not be used, but it was used on Gu Taohua without any waste.
Gu Taohua is so strong that she can beat an old sow to death. Most adult men cannot get close to her.
She feels weak all over after taking the medicinal wine. Let's see how she exerts her strength.
Xu Zaohua was extremely glad that she brought the medicine with her just in case.