In the court of Shuntian Mansion, Liu Bo had already admitted his entrustment and signed the seal.

Once, Mrs. Zhang Si had another attack. Zhang Ruoxi beat her seriously and had her nose bleeding dripped on the ground. Miss Zhang Qi, who was only three years old, walked in and dipped her fingers in blood. She drew a red peony on the floor. That day in the yard, there was a pot of red peony blooming.

The three-year-old girl Zhang Qi used her tender paintings to make Mrs. Zhang Si live for seventeen years.

Zhang Ruoxi was overjoyed when he saw the peony painted by his daughter in blood. He never expected that a fool would have such talent. Although the daughters of the Zhang family were all good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, none of them could show their talent for painting at the age of three.

His daughter has never learned painting. If she trained her carefully, she might teach a talented woman.

From that day on, he took the time to teach his daughter to paint.

Zhang Ruoxi tried several times. When he locked up Mrs. Zhang Si and prevented her daughter from seeing her, her daughter refused to learn painting. But once she let Mrs. Zhang Si be by her side, her daughter would become very well-behaved and learn painting quietly.

He felt sorry for him again and again, but unfortunately this daughter was stupid, but she was still young and might get better slowly.

After Mrs. Zhang Si's illness was ill again, Zhang Ruoxi made a decision, and he claimed that Mrs. Zhang Si's death!

At that time, he had already become famous in the capital, and his virtues were praised by the world as his articles.

The ancestors of the Zhang family had great scholars like Mr. Fengyang, but their descendants valued their careers more. After a while, more officials in the Zhang family became officials, but fewer and fewer people were studying.

Nowadays, with Zhang Ruoxi, a descendant who has both a wise and literary reputation, it is rare.

At that time, Zhang Ruoxi had already faintly had the spirit of a literary leader.

For him, the biggest stain in his life is Mrs. Zhang Si.

A crazy and unfaithful woman!

Mrs. Zhang Si's mother and the late second wife of the Zhang family, the biological mother of Mr. Zhang Si, are twin sisters. This uncle married far away in Sichuan and her husband died early, and only Mrs. Zhang Si's daughter was the only daughter. Mrs. Zhang Si was sent to Hunan after Zhang Ruoxi, but not long after, the uncle died of illness.

Therefore, Mrs. Zhang Si’s family is far away in Sichuan, and there are no relatives anymore, only a few distant relatives, and they have long stopped contact.

The news of Mrs. Zhang Si's death was sent to Lotus Pond and Baoxiang Temple Front Street. When the two people from the mansions rushed over, Mrs. Zhang Si's body was already buried, and even the lid of the coffin was nailed.

Mrs. Zhang Si was weak and sick, so although the news of her death was suddenly spread, there was no doubt in each family. After all, she had been ill for many years.

Half a year later, Zhang Ruoxi retired and served as the head of Fengyang Academy. He took his daughter to live in the house in Shanshui Lane.

In the years that followed, everyone in the capital knew that Zhang Ruoxi's daughter inherited her mother's weakness and illness. She was raised in the deep boudoir and almost never came out for socializing.

But occasionally paintings are circulated, which is often amazing.

Although Zhang Shanchang's daughter is weak and sick, she is a rare talented woman. She can paint and will not be very sick. The reason why she doesn't come out for socializing is that she is noble by nature and does not associate with ordinary people.

Therefore, although the Zhang family knew what kind of disease Zhang Qi was, no one mentioned it. When outsiders asked, it was only four words: "weak and sickly". More than ten years have passed, and no one mentioned it or asked what kind of disease Zhang Qi was.

Mrs. Zhang Si has been living in the yard next to the Zhang family's house in Shanshui Lane, and has lived there for a full seventeen years.

Since Miss Zhang Qi's age 18, Mrs. Zhang Si urged Zhang Ruoxi to tell her daughter that she was a normal mother when she was not sick.

At the beginning, Zhang Ruoxi repeatedly pushed and delayed it, and after two years, Mrs. Zhang still did not wait for the news of her daughter's marriage.

Seeing that her daughter was getting older, Mrs. Zhang Si was very anxious. To her, this house was just a tiger's den. She had two children dead. She didn't know how long she could live. She wanted to find a support for her daughter in her lifetime, but that would never be Zhang Ruoxi.

"I won't let you stay by that beast." She said to her daughter again and again.

Unfortunately, my daughter only smiled sweetly at her.

Until one day, Mrs. Zhang Si gave Zhang Ruoxi an ultimatum: "Xiuxiu is already twenty years old. Other girls are as old as her and have already become children. When will you let Xiuxiu get married? Don't delay it anymore. I know you don't have a good intention and want Xiuxiu to be locked up here like me."

Zhang Ruoxi was furious and pointed at Mrs. Zhang Si's nose and cursed: "You **, don't you think you are not good enough? You want Xiuxiu to get married, just to spread the story of you and her so that everyone knows that my wife is a lunatic, my daughter is a fool, you have ulterior motives, I shouldn't have let you live until now because of Xiuxiu."

But Zhang Ruoxi did not expect that that night, Mrs. Zhang Si took Xiuxiu out of the yard while Uncle Liu was asleep.

Mrs. Zhang was imprisoned for many years and was already weak. As soon as she took Xiuxiu to Xibi Lane, she was caught up by Liu Bo and Huang Shan, and the mother and daughter were locked up again.

After this time, Zhang Ruoxi felt that the house was not safe enough, so he remembered the Yinyue Mountain House.

He often went to the Yanyue Mountain Room, and had known about the secret rooms and secret passages in Yaxuan for a long time.

So he took Mrs. Zhang Si and Xiuxiu to the Yanyue Mountain Room and locked them in the secret room.

When they entered the door, Mrs. Zhang Si and Xiuxiu were sitting in the same sedan chair. Therefore, everyone in the Yinyue Mountain House thought that only Miss Zhang Qi came this time, and there was no Miss Cai who had been there before.

However, the day after they moved in, Mrs. Zhang Si had an argument with Zhang Ruoxi again. Zhang Ruoxi finally made up his mind to let Mrs. Zhang Si disappear in this world from then on.

All this was done in a secret room. At that time, he asked Xiuxiu to draw in the studio, but Xiuxiu found a gecko on the wall of the studio. She was a childish person and actually started playing with the gecko. By chance, she followed the gecko and found a moving wooden board and took it away. She saw her father holding her mother and put it in a rope trap.

Zhang Ruoxi never knew that there was another entrance in this secret room. He was surprised and had to pretend to play games and let Xiuxiu close her eyes.
Chapter completed!