At the same time in Wangcheng.

Lan Family Manor.

Although the temperature in City A dropped sharply due to a cold front moving south, it is still far lower than that in Wangcheng.

Wangcheng is now covered with thick snow.

Except for the necessary paths in the manor, which had been cleared of snow by the servants, the rest of the place was covered in silver white.

The old lady was wearing a thick coat and standing on the balcony of her room, looking at the snow scene outside.

"You've been standing here looking for a long time. Go inside. Lan Zheng and the others are not at home now. You're freezing. No one else will feel sorry for you except me, an old man like me."

The old master came out and persuaded his wife to go back to her room.

The old lady said: "Even if Lan Zheng and the others were at home, they wouldn't feel sorry for me."

As she spoke, she sighed heavily and said to her husband beside her, "Looking at the silver-white garden, I remembered when my grandchildren were young. They were not afraid of the cold and insisted on playing in the snow outside, making snowmen and having snowball fights. They had a lot of fun and it was very lively."

"Today, the snow scene remains the same, and the snow is still as thick, but there are fewer children making snowmen and having snowball fights. Now that the children have grown up, they will be separated from us. I really wish they would never grow up."

If the children had not grown up, their Lan family would not have fallen apart.

Her two sons, daughter-in-law and second grandson will not go in.

The old couple hired the best lawyers for their imprisoned son and daughter-in-law, but after learning the whole story of the case, those lawyers politely declined the old couple's request. No matter how much money the old couple offered, they refused to be defense lawyers for Lan Zhiping and others.

The head of the Lan family has solid evidence. Second and Third Master Lan are destined to not escape legal punishment. Once they take such a lawsuit, not only will they lose, but they will also offend the head of the Lan family. Why bother?

Even the Hei family suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the head of the Lan family.

The head of the Lan family is still the local emperor of Wangcheng. He is not overbearing, but he has accumulated power for a long time, and everyone respects and fears him.

Since they can't make friends with him, no one wants to offend Lan Rui.

No good lawyer was willing to defend Lan Zhiping and his friends, which made the old lady, who was already blaming her eldest son's family, even more angry.

The eldest son was blamed for killing his two younger sons.

"Now that our son has entered old age, you come to sigh and say that you don't want your child to grow up. It's too late." The old patriarch sighed. Wasn't he the same?

The current situation is not what he wants to see, but he has to face it.

Not only did he have to face the situation where his eldest son sent his two younger sons to jail, but also those young people in the clan who had some abilities were almost completely emptied out by his eldest son. They were either sent to jail or fired and kicked out of the Lan Group.

Moreover, the eldest son also told him that the clan rules of the Lan family would be abolished. If the clan members behaved themselves in the future, Lan Rui would be willing to provide them with job opportunities. He also wanted to rely on the Lan Group for support as before, but that was impossible.

Don't tell him that the Lan Group belongs to the entire Lan family. When Lan Rui took over the Lan Group, the Lan family did not have such a large territory as it does today. Moreover, the Lan Group has always been their direct lineage. It's just that the ancestors, out of concern for brotherhood and kinship, have family rules and support so many clan members.

Now, Lan Rui just wants to take back the property of his ancestors and doesn't want to support idle people anymore.

If anyone in the clan has any complaints, they can go and complain to the ancestor. Lan Rui is not afraid that the ancestor will get up from the underworld in the middle of the night to scold him.

He thought that if his ancestors knew that the situation would be like this today, they would definitely regret it.

Lan Rui is tough and unsympathetic. The old patriarch is old and soft-hearted, so he doesn't have Lan Rui's toughness. The old patriarch is very troubled by the crying, accusations and resentment of the clan members. He can't help but blame his eldest son for being too cruel and one-size-fits-all.

"Yesterday was Mu Zhiyuan's wedding day, right?"

The old lady suddenly said.

The eldest son and his wife left home early and rushed to City A to attend Mu Zhiyuan's wedding.

"Um."

"Mu Qing and Ye Junbo's wedding is scheduled for the 26th, and their wedding is almost here. Now, good things are happening to them one after another, and they are happy every day, as a couple. But my son is locked up, and I can't even see him now."

Lan Erye and Lan Zhiping have not been sentenced yet, so their families cannot see them and can only see their lawyers.

"That means Mu Zhiyuan and Mr. Xu are truly newlyweds. They held their wedding before the Chinese New Year, and Qingqing is pregnant, so they held the wedding early to avoid being unable to wear wedding clothes when her belly gets too big."

"Old woman, I feel resentment too, but... can I really blame the eldest brother's family? Strictly speaking, they are just fighting back."

The old lady said bitterly, "I just want to hate them. I want to hate them. I hate them so much. If they were more low-key, I would feel better. But I hate them for showing off their happiness so ostentatiously!"

Even if they didn't deliberately show off their happiness, nor did they show it in Wangcheng, the old lady was just trying to justify herself.

"Have someone prepare some flashy gifts. We're also packing up and heading to City A to propose to Xu Susu on Lan Zheng's behalf."

The old lady couldn’t even wait until the New Year.

She deliberately didn't want her eldest son and his family to have a happy and relaxing New Year.

I deliberately wanted to upset that family.

The old patriarch was silent for a moment, then said, "Why not wait until after the New Year? The weather is cold now, and we are old, so we can't afford to go back and forth."

"Who said we have to go back and forth? Let's go there now and wait until Mu Qing and Ye Junbo hold their wedding. Then we'll come back. We are Mu Qing's grandparents. Don't we have the right to attend her wedding?"

The old lady no longer calls her Qingqing affectionately.

Anyway, she doesn't like her eldest son's family of four.

"The more they dislike seeing us, the more we have to hang out in front of them every day."

"I'll be happy if I propose marriage to the Xu family, force Lan Zheng to marry Xu Susu, and make things difficult for them, so that they can't even have a peaceful New Year."

What the old lady wants to do now is to make life difficult for her eldest son and his family.

After Susu got married, she had plenty of ways to alienate the relationship between Lan Zheng and Susu, causing the couple to quarrel every day.

The old patriarch sighed, "Why is it like this?"

The old lady didn't know what she was thinking about. Her eyes were red and she choked with sobs: "Yes, why is it like this? I was fine before..."

She wanted to make things difficult for her eldest son's family and didn't want them to have an easy time. It was just that as an old mother, she felt sorry for her two younger sons.

If she could, why would she be willing to do so?

Even if Lan Rui is not close to his biological mother, they are still mother and son.