The ancient mythical beast quickly wears a cruel and ruthless

Soon, the news that Zhao Wenchang demoted his wife to a concubine and favored his concubine over his wife spread throughout the capital.

Only the entire Zhao Mansion was completely unaware that they had fallen into the vortex.

In the palace.

The current emperor was sitting in the imperial study, listening to the reports of several imperial censors and frowning slightly, "My dear ministers, are you saying that Zhao Wenchang from the Ministry of Rites demoted his wife to a concubine and favored his concubine and killed his wife?"

"Yes, Your Majesty! His first wife was his faithful wife who had been with him through thick and thin!"

"When Zhao Wenchang was still a scholar, his first wife Ruan was diligent and frugal, filial to her mother-in-law, and helped her husband and daughter! It's really disheartening that she is being treated like this now!"

"Yes, now he is just a fifth-rank official of the Ministry of Rites, but he keeps saying that his first wife is just a merchant girl and is not worthy of him!"

"presumptuous!"

The emperor put down the memorial in his hand and said angrily, "This Zhao Wenchang is so bold, he is unworthy of being an official of the Ministry of Rites!"

When this emperor was still a prince, his biological mother, the late queen, passed away, and the favorite concubine was in power, from which he suffered greatly from childhood to adulthood.

That was because he had suffered enough from that favored concubine!

Therefore, what he hated most was his ministers' behavior of favoring concubines and neglecting their wives.

"Come here! Pass the order down. Zhao Wenchang is morally corrupt and unworthy of staying in the Ministry of Rites. He is demoted to a seventh-rank candidate and is waiting to be assigned abroad!"

Once these words were spoken, it was equivalent to directly cutting off his career in officialdom!

The seventh-rank candidate is a nominal position without any duties, and can only be appointed when there is a vacancy.

The only job he could be sent out to do was to become a county magistrate, with no hope of making a breakthrough in his life!

When the Ministry of Personnel conveyed this imperial edict to Zhao's residence, Zhao Wenchang was completely stunned!

It only took two hours from the time he said he would demote Ruan Xinyao to the time he received the imperial edict. How could he have been demoted?

Su Li, on his part, did not hesitate to praise Xiao Cui for her speed.

"Miss, I told you I can do the job for you, don't worry about me!"

Xiao Cui was proud that she first bribed the little beggar to spread the story that Zhao Wenchang demoted his wife to a concubine, favored the concubine and killed his wife, and then she went to find several imperial censors.

After receiving the silver, several imperial censors rushed to the palace to report to the current emperor.

Zhao Wenchang only reacted after the person who delivered the imperial edict left.

He hurried to find Zhao Ruxue, asking for some money to establish relations.

But how could Zhao Ruxue, who was still angry, pay attention to him, "Dad, I am just a concubine now, I can't help you, you should find your new wife!"

"Xue'er, Dad was confused for a moment! It's all Dad's fault! Your mother is still the principal wife of the Zhao family, and you are still Dad's legitimate daughter, okay?"

Zhao Wenchang also knew that he had done something wrong and angered the emperor, so he dared not mention demoting his wife to a concubine. "Dad promises you, I will only make Ah Miao my equal wife, and the other two will be concubines. What do you think?"

"Huh, that's pretty much it!"

Zhao Ruxue then took out 1000 taels of silver to help Zhao Wenchang with his relationship, "Whoever wants to manage this family can do so, I won't care!"

Apart from being good at spending money, this housekeeper has no practical benefits. Zhao Ruxue came to her senses and decided to be a hands-off manager like her mother.

Zhao Wenchang gave five hundred taels of silver to Aunt Miao, kept five hundred taels for himself and started to manage the affairs.

Unfortunately, the entire capital knew that he had offended the current emperor, and no one dared to get close to him.

Even if there is an official position to be assigned abroad, it will not be his turn.

Therefore, as a seventh-rank candidate, Zhao Wenchang also stopped receiving his monthly salary.

Time passed day by day, and Su Li hid in the yard of his original body and refused to go out.

Zhao Wenchang went out every day to reminisce with his former colleagues, hoping to find an opportunity to stay in the capital.

The daily expenses of the Zhao family are also a considerable expense.

In a blink of an eye, it was the hottest time of summer. Su Li lay leisurely in the house in his courtyard, using ice cubes to cool down.

The courtyard door was pushed open, and it was Aunt Miao.

Su Li continued to eat the frozen Tremella soup in his hand without even raising his eyelids.

"It's cool here, sister!"

Aunt Miao walked in gracefully in gorgeous clothes and looked at the large piece of ice in the middle of the room.

"If you have something to say, just say it. If you don't, get out!"

Because the tasks given by the client were rather poor, Su Li, who had no chance to go out, could only live a leisurely life every day. This made her very annoyed in the past month or two as she wanted to do more tasks.

Of course, it could also be due to the hot weather.

"Sister, it's like this. I know it's very hot this summer, but ice is a luxury item and is very expensive. I'm afraid it will be out of stock soon. Please be patient!"

As a new official, Aunt Miao was given the power of housekeeper, and the first thing she did was to withhold Ruan Xinyao's food.

The food delivered every day was clear soup with tofu and vegetables.

Su Li was too lazy to care, so he asked Xiao Cui to pour it out and go buy some ingredients and cook it in the small kitchen himself.

As for the ice, the entire Zhao family had never sent her any since the beginning of summer. Su Li had to spend money to buy them from outside!

Of course, all these things were obtained through the back door. The doorman at the back door had long been bribed by Xiao Cuihua with a large sum of money, and no one else knew about these things.

"Xiao Cui? Was our ice cube sent from the mansion?"

Su Li turned and asked Xiao Cui who was standing beside her.

"Miss, since the beginning of summer, I haven't seen any ice cubes delivered to your mansion. These ice cubes were bought by me with your personal money!"

Xiao Cui responded and said to Aunt Miao with a mocking look, "In order to save money, don't send those tofu and vegetables in the future! My young lady doesn't like them. It's noon now, and my young lady wants to take a nap. Please go out! Don't stay here and use my young lady's ice cubes to cool down!"

"you!"

Aunt Miao was furious. "Why does my sister still have money for herself? Now that I am the head of the family, my sister's money should be taken out and used together!"

"Huh? How shameless! Get lost!"

Su Li scolded Aunt Miao without even raising his eyelids.

Then, Xiao Cui shouted loudly, and several maids appeared at the door and drove out Aunt Miao and the servants she brought with her.

Aunt Miao was frightened by the big sticks in the hands of the maids and left in a huff.

After crying and making a fuss with Zhao Wenchang to no avail, she began to think of other ideas.

First of all, she reduced the servants' monthly salary by half, and there was no source of new clothes from the previous quarter.

After that, the food became worse and worse, and the servants actually ate mixed rice dumplings!

This is a world of difference compared to when Ruan Xinyao was in charge of the family!

The servants were unwilling to do so. Although they didn't say anything openly, they were secretly spreading gossip about the Zhao Mansion.

This made Zhao Wenchang, who went out to drink and party with his colleagues and wanted to buy on credit but was ridiculed, completely lose face!

However, there is no way around it. Aunt Miao was born into a poor family. She has no money and only a pretty face, but she can't turn any money into anything.