The prefect could stop his mother from seeing Wei Fu and his friends for a while, but he couldn't stop them forever. They met at dinner time, and the prefect's wife kept her promise and personally steamed five large pork elbows for Wei Fu.

The prefect's family is simple, with only a mother, a wife, a son and him, a family of ten.

So there was no separate table. The prefect invited the prince to take the seat, and the prince humbly said, "Let the old lady take the seat!"

The old lady held the nanny's hand and sat down in the main seat in a very majestic manner without any courtesy. The prefect's forehead throbbed.

He was born into a poor family and his father died early. His mother raised him with great difficulty and paid for his studies. So after he passed the imperial examination, he basically ignored his mother. His mother, who was originally low-key, tolerant, hardworking and kind, suddenly seemed like a different person. His ex-wife couldn't stand his mother's pressure and hated his inaction. In addition, the two had no children, so she divorced him directly.

After finally getting married again, his mother still made things difficult for his wife. At first, his wife tolerated her for the sake of family harmony. However, his mother continued to make things difficult for his wife even after she became pregnant, and she finally exploded.

He was unwilling to let his wife leave, so he had to mediate between the two sides.

But as his official position became higher and higher, his mother not only liked to make things difficult for his wife and the servants at home, but also acted arrogantly towards everyone.

This is also the reason why he was unwilling to let the prince meet the old lady.

We had not originally planned to invite the old lady to dinner tonight, but now that she knew there were distinguished guests, how could she not show up?

She wanted to come and have dinner with us. The filial prefect couldn't possibly lock up her own mother and not let her out.

The prefect said with great shame, "Thank you, Your Highness the Crown Prince and the Princess, for your modesty."

The prince didn't care about this and said calmly, "It's okay."

However, Wei Fu had been staring at the old lady's back since she came out.

Previously, there was a maid standing behind the old lady, so everyone thought she was looking at the maid. Now the princess was staring at the back of the old lady. The prefect's wife followed Wei Fu's line of sight and saw nothing.

I couldn't help but ask, "What is the princess looking at?"

Su Rui didn't know what she was thinking about, and silently moved closer to Wei Fu.

Wei Fu retracted his gaze and said, "Nothing."

The ghost possessed by the old lady bared its teeth at Wei Fu, its eyes full of provocation.

She had also heard of Wei Fu's reputation.

The old lady spoke dignifiedly: "Isn't it inappropriate for the young princess to look around while being a guest at someone else's house?"

The prefect's wife frowned in annoyance: "Old Madam is getting confused again. The princess is not looking around."

"And even if the princess looked around, so what? Isn't it normal to look around when you arrive in a strange place?"

The old lady slammed the table and said, "Do you still see me as your mother?"

"You unfilial thing."

She looked at the prefect angrily and said, "If you still want to recognize me as your mother, divorce this bitch!"

The prefect's wife was also furious. She slammed the table even more fiercely, stood up and said to the prefect, "Give me the divorce letter, I'm leaving now. Who cares about your family?"

The prefect said with a headache: "Madam, my mother is ignorant, why are you also ignorant? The distinguished guest is still here."

Wei Fu frowned and said solemnly, "Sir, what you said is not correct."

"Why should sensible people give in to ignorant people?"

"Shouldn't we correct and educate those who don't understand?"

"Although the old lady is your mother, as the saying goes, one never stops learning. It is wrong for the old lady to be so cruel to Fu'er. She should be taught a lesson!"

"Isn't there something called the Three Obediences and Four Virtues? Fu'er vaguely remembers it being something like: obey your father at home, obey your husband at home, and obey your son after your husband dies."

"The old lady doesn't listen to you at all and doesn't follow the rules at all."

"So no matter what, it's the old lady who should learn, rather than asking the sensible people to be sensible and keep things quiet."

When the prefect's wife heard Wei Fu say this, tears welled up in her eyes and she looked at him with deep emotion.

Wei Fu's words about why sensible people should give way to ignorant people really touched her heart. She also wanted to live a good life. When she first got married, no matter how the old lady made things difficult for her, she simply wanted to exchange her sincerity for sincerity. Little did she know that some people simply had no heart.

It's just funny to talk about feelings with someone who has no heart.

When she was pregnant, the old lady tortured her, pretending to be sick every day and asking her to serve her.

If she was really sick, it would be fine if she just had to be served, but there were so many maids in the house, and the old lady still asked her to wash her clothes by hand in the middle of winter, and even deliberately urinated on herself to disgust her.

She was already six or seven months old at that time. She couldn't even squat and vomited while washing.

My hands also got frostbite.

But none of these could earn the old lady the slightest bit of heartache, and although her husband felt sorry for her, he could do nothing but advise her to be more patient and tell her how difficult it was for his mother to raise him.

In addition, he was very busy with official duties at that time and they had very little time to see each other every day. Many times, when the prefect came back, he was called over by the old lady's people. She was really exhausted physically and mentally.

Then one day, on her way to serve the old lady, she accidentally fell. The child almost died, but the fall also woke her up.

She knew that her husband was unreliable and the old lady was heartless.

She stopped serving the old lady because her fall frightened the prefect, so the prefect told her not to pay her respects to the old lady until she was out of confinement.

The old lady naturally refused to do so, and that was the first time the prefect had an argument with the old lady.

The magistrate's wife saw that the magistrate still had some feelings for her, and she didn't want her child to be without a father. It was difficult for women to survive in this world, otherwise she would have just taken the child and ran away secretly.

The prince also said: "My lord, filial piety is what we should do, but it does not mean foolish filial piety."

Although he didn't know the inside story, and this was someone else's family affair, he shouldn't have said anything, but when the old lady talked about Wei Fu and acted arrogantly in front of Wei Fu, he became unhappy.

Wei Fu's words had already been a revelation to the prefect, and now, after hearing what the Crown Prince said, the prefect stood up and bowed, saying, "Your Highness and the Princess are absolutely right. I was blinded by one thing."

He was only concerned about the peace in the inner house and always wanted to keep things quiet.

On one side is his mother who gave birth to him, and on the other side is his wife who feels very aggrieved.

Both women are very important to him, and he doesn't know who he should help. But the more he does this, the more everyone will be hurt.

"Someone come! Take the old lady to the Buddhist temple!"

The old lady slammed the table and stood up angrily: "How dare you! I am your mother. If you do this, I will go to the capital to file a complaint with the emperor and accuse you of being unfilial!"