This man named Zhao Hu was notorious; the villagers nearby, regardless of gender or age, would avoid him at all costs.
To put it bluntly, the man was somewhat insane, treating the villagers kindly when he wasn't having an episode. But if he did have an outbreak, today he'd smash one family's door, tomorrow another family's windows. If you dared to confront him, he'd only become more aggressive next time.
Such a person, no one in the village wanted to live nearby, and they had no choice but to pool money to move his house farther away, to prevent his madness from causing harm to the villagers.
Therefore, even though he was over forty, he hadn't gotten a wife.
Now that someone had sent him a wife as beautiful as a flower and as delicate as jade, he was naturally drooling with desire. As for the woman's pair of children, at worst he could just sell them, as surely he would be unable to care for them.
He couldn't even provide for himself, let alone raise children.
