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Chapter 86 Bear the humiliation and bear the burden
Baizhi's words became a seal.

After Gu Xuan was frozen and starved to death for three days, her wooden head finally reacted and she decided to endure the humiliation and beg for mercy from Tang Zhao first, and then find an opportunity to escape.

Bai Zhi was so excited that she kept chanting Buddha's name. It was worth it that she had said so many indirect words to Miss Seventh. Miss Seventh finally got it!

Baizhi hurriedly told Dongmei about this.

During these three days, Baizhi and Dongmei established a deep friendship, because Dongmei always secretly gave her fried chicken, fried beans and many other snacks she had never heard of in the middle of the night, so that Baizhi never went hungry.

When Dongmei heard that Gu Xuan had behaved herself, she patted the snack crumbs on her hands and said, "Wait, I'll go tell our girl."

Baizhi looked expectantly at Dongmei as she walked towards the front yard.

"Oh? Behaved now? I underestimated her." Tang Zhao thought Gu Xuan would beg for mercy on the first day.

In fact, Gu Xuan did not want to beg for mercy, but she caught a fever due to the cold on the first day and was unconscious for a whole day and night. Qiuyu went to the woodshed with the mentality of taking advantage of the situation and finally gave Gu Xuan a few injections to reduce her fever.

Dongmei thought it was a trivial matter and did not report it to Tang Zhao. It was only when she heard her daughter talk about it that she remembered it.

Tang Zhao twitched his lips, "Be careful, a fever can be fatal."

If it were in modern times, even if Gu Xuan's fever reached 40 degrees, Tang Zhao would not care for her and would be a brave man to go to the hospital for an IV drip for a week, but that was not possible in Dayu.

Princess Xuan repeatedly warned her husband to spare Gu Xuan's life.

Dongmei nodded honestly.

Tang Zhao gave a sweet reward, "Alright, please invite Miss Seven to the main courtyard for lunch."

Dongmei went downstairs, and not long after, Gu Xuan came back half supported and half helped.

She sat at the dining table and asked fiercely, "Where's the food?"

Tang Zhao tapped his index finger slowly on the table.

Gu Xuan held her rumbling stomach and said, "Fifth sister-in-law, isn't the food ready yet?"

Although her expression was still unconvinced and her tone made people want to slap her, she was kind enough to add a name. Tang Zhao reluctantly nodded and said, "Serve the food."

Xia Mo led a group of servants in one after another. Gu Xuan looked at them eagerly, and when the food was served, she picked up the chopsticks and was about to eat.

Tang Zhao reached out and grabbed her chopsticks in mid-air.

Gu Xuan glared, "What are you doing?"

Tang Zhao: "You're eating it because I told you to?"

Gu Xuan: "In the Meng family, my grandmother always lets me eat first."

Tang Zhao: "Oh."

Gu Xuan's chopsticks were firmly clamped. She could see the delicious food but couldn't eat it. Her stomach, which had been hungry for three days, was on the verge of collapse. "Tang Zhao!"

"Dongmei, take Miss Seven back to the woodshed!"

Dongmei wrapped up the half-eaten chicken clavicle and stuffed it back into her arms. She walked forward, grabbed Gu Xuan's throat and walked out.

Gu Xuan grabbed the dining table with both hands and begged for mercy, "Fifth sister-in-law, Fifth sister-in-law, I was wrong!"

Tang Zhao said nothing.

"What Fifth Sister-in-law said is true. Sister should wait for Fifth Sister-in-law to speak before picking up her chopsticks."

Tang Zhao waved his hand, Dongmei understood and let go of her arm, and Gu Xuan covered her neck and coughed continuously.

"Be good," Tang Zhao handed her a piece of sweet and sour pork, "eat."

Gu Xuan stopped coughing, looked at the piece of meat on the plate for a while, and finally picked it up and ate it without any backbone.

Then Gu Xuan discovered that it was really, really delicious.

Gu Xuan carefully stretched out her chopsticks, and seeing that Tang Zhao was concentrating on gnawing on the ribs and didn't even glance at her, she immediately plucked up the courage to pick up the dishes.

Delicious! This is delicious, and that is delicious too! Everything on this table is delicious!

Gu Xuan ate until her belly was full, and suddenly she felt that living in Bidanyuan was not without benefits.

"After eating, go and copy the Sage's Instructions five times to digest the food."

Gu Xuan was angry, "Whose family copied books to digest food?"

Tang Zhao: "Your house! Do you want to copy it?"

Gu Xuan wanted to raise her neck and yell that she would not copy it, but she remembered her plan of enduring humiliation and waiting for an opportunity to escape, so she swallowed her anger and said, "Copy it!"

Tang Zhao narrowed her eyes and asked Qiuyu to watch her copying. Qiuyu's eyes lit up, and she said something sarcastic while supervising Gu Xuan copying.

"Miss Seven's handwriting is truly unbearable to read! I'm not being pretentious, but it's not even as good as mine!"

Gu Xuan threw the pen down, "Then you write!"

Qiuyu immediately yelled, "Miss! Miss Seven threw her pen!"

Gu Xuan:.
Bah! The maidservant beside Tang Zhao is indeed not a good person.

Tang Zhao was so busy that he didn't even raise his head. "Let her pay for it."

Qiuyu rolled her eyes. "I heard that Miss Seven has two purple jade wolf-hair brushes, which are priceless. I'll go get them right away!"

Gu Xuan slammed the table, "How dare you!"

Qiuyu rolled her eyes at her. The girl's silence meant she agreed. With the girl's support, what was there for her to be afraid of?

Gu Xuan picked up the brush on the ground and ran over. "Is your maid a bandit? This broken brush has split hairs, and you actually want me to compensate you with a purple jade wolf hair brush?"

Tang Zhao said casually, "This pen is made of golden nanmu wood."

Gu Xuan: "Why don't you say it was made from the Yaochi fairy wood?"

Tang Zhao changed his words, "This pen is made of the fairy wood of Yaochi."

Gu Xuan was so angry that she almost passed out.

Qiuyu came running back, holding a wooden box decorated with fine brocade, and presented it to Tang Zhao like a treasure, "Look, young lady!"

Tang Zhao looked at the purple jade wolf-hair brush lying quietly in the brocade box, picked up one and casually hung it on the pen holder, "Continue copying."

Gu Xuan wanted to snatch the pen back, but after looking at Dongmei who was staring at her hungrily, she didn't dare to move and sat back in her chair holding her breath.

Qiuyu gave her the other purple jade wolf-hair brush.

Gu Xuan picked up the pen and started writing. No matter how sarcastic Qiuyu was, she never threw the pen.

Gu Xuan took the copied book to Tang Zhao for inspection.

Tang Zhao took a glance and said, "Recopy it!"

Gu Xuan fell down and asked, "Why?"

"Because your handwriting is ugly."

Gu Xuan was so angry that she wanted to curse, "I don't have to take the imperial examination, so what does it matter if my handwriting is ugly or beautiful? Tang Zhao, you are just deliberately torturing me!"

"That's right!" Tang Zhao never concealed his purpose. "Should I copy it?"

Gu Xuan was very resolute, "No plagiarism!"

Tang Zhao sneered, "Dongmei, teach Miss Seven how to do horse stance!"

Dongmei walked forward, picked up the person and walked out of the house.

Tang Zhao stopped him, "Let's do it inside the house."

Dongmei felt that she couldn't perform freely in the house, but she had to listen to the girl's orders, so she found a relatively empty corner and taught Gu Xuan how to do horse stance.

Gu Xuan was forced to squat with her legs apart, crying, "I don't want to do the horse stance, this position is too ugly!"

Dongmei used her hands to push the person down another three inches, then brought a basin of water and handed it to Gu Xuan.

Gu Xuan had never held anything heavier than a teacup in her life. She held a large basin of water, and her slender arms shook, spilling the water all over the floor.

Dongmei held the pot and added water with an expressionless face.

Gu Ci came in and was about to talk to Tang Zhao when he heard a pleading voice behind him, "Fifth brother, help me!"

When Gu Ci turned around, he was shocked by the miserable sight of Gu Xuan crying and holding a basin of water while doing horse stance in the corner.

Tang Zhao explained, "Seventh sister doesn't want to copy books, so I thought if she can't do well in literature, she can practice martial arts. This way, she won't be unable to fight back when her husband's family beats her after she gets married."

"Do you think what I said is right, my husband?"

Gu Ci glanced at Gu Xuan again and said subconsciously, "Yes!"

Zhao Zhao: Teach your sister a lesson to scare your brother, good!

(End of this chapter)