Qian Haitong said angrily:
"You shameless bitches, no wonder Ye Lanyin divorced her husband!"
"She was a slut and she felt proud of it!"
"No matter what, I'm taking this bitch back with me today, and you have no right to stop me."
"She was born a member of the Qian family, and she will die a member of the Qian family!"
As he spoke, he reached out, grabbed Lin Muya from the ground, and dragged her toward the door.
Lin Muya cried and begged for no, but Qian Tonghai was too strong, and she was no match for him.
The old lady became anxious and quickly called out:
"Tonghai, don't get too agitated. Let's talk this out."
"We didn't want things to turn out this way either."
Upon hearing this, Qian Tonghai stopped what he was doing and looked at the old lady with a cold gaze.
"Your family is shameless, doing all sorts of shady things like stealing chickens and dogs all day long."
"You still have the nerve to negotiate with me?"
The Marquis of Zhenbei was about to get angry, but the old lady stopped him.
She walked tremblingly to Qian Tonghai's side.
"Tonghai, look how adorable this child is. If you treat him with care, he will definitely treat you like his own father."
"Blood ties...blood ties are secondary."
Upon hearing the old lady's words, Qian Tonghai was so disgusted that he spat out a mouthful of saliva.
"Pah!"
"Is blood relation secondary?"
"Ye Lanyin's children were so sincere to you back then, but have you ever been sincere to her?"
"Perhaps you're trying to persuade me so you can team up with Lin Muya and seize our Qian family's assets!"
The old lady was afraid that Qian Tonghai would hit her daughter again, so she reached out to pull her daughter away.
As if he knew, Qian Tonghai grabbed Lin Muya.
The old lady's hand froze in mid-air.
"Tonghai, we're family after all."
“Muya is my daughter. She did something wrong, and as her mother, I will definitely discipline her properly.”
"She has been trying to have a child with you all along, but now she's just using the wrong methods."
"Since you finally had a child, and the child came from her womb, why do you have to worry about whose child it is?"
"If you really want to blame someone, then blame Ye Lanyin. It's all her fault."
"It all started with the 100,000 taels of silver she gave to Muya."
Qian Tonghai was so shocked by this old woman that he almost vomited blood.
He couldn't utter a single word.
"According to you, the one who is most wrong is you. Ye Lanyin only gave her 100,000 taels of silver, but you gave her a life!"
“You gave birth to her, but didn’t educate her properly, letting her become that adulterer’s mistress, while you kept a lover yourself, and now you’re even protecting her. It’s all your fault, you stinking old hag.”
"And you too!" he said, pointing to Zou Shuang'er, the concubine behind the Marquis of Zhenbei.
"She used to be on good terms with you and often brought you into the mansion."
"I never imagined he was out sharing his secrets. He's a mistress, yet he doesn't forget to harm his own sister-in-law!"
Zou Shuang'er's eyes turned bloodshot with anger.
She stood there for as long as he had been cursing his mistress, and she was so angry that she was breathing rapidly.
She clenched her fists: "What does her keeping a lover have to do with me? Aren't you at fault?"
"What did I do wrong?" Qian Tonghai gritted his teeth. "So, according to you, she kept a lover for my own good, so that I could discover my own problems and raise the child of her lover?"
"And then thank her for continuing the Qian family line, and finally hand over the family fortune to someone else?"
A woman obeys her father at home, her husband after marriage, and her son after her husband's death.
As a fellow man, and being selfish and self-serving, it was naturally impossible for the Marquis of Zhenbei to believe that Qian Tonghai was wrong.
But Lin Muya is his sister, and she has connections with the Marquis's mansion.
The Marquis's mansion is now gleaming outside, but overgrown with weeds inside, and its reputation has long since declined.
If Lin Muya's matter were to implicate them again, the Marquis's mansion would likely face utter ruin.
“Mother, Muya is no longer a member of the Marquis’s family. Her name has been removed from the family register. She is now a member of the Qian family.”
"elder brother--"
"Dehong—"
The old lady looked at her son with tears in her eyes, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Lin Muya broke down in tears, holding her child and feeling helpless.
After hearing this, Qian Tonghai glanced at the Marquis of Zhenbei.
He then pulled Lin Muya closer to him.
"Get back there!"
Lin Muya cried and refused to go back, clutching the gate of the Marquis's mansion tightly with one hand.
"No, I won't go back, Mother, please save me."
"He'll kill me, Mother..."
The old lady stood inside the door, reaching out to grab Lin Muya from afar. Watching her daughter being dragged away, she closed her eyes and fainted.
"mother."
"Mother-in-law".
"grandmother."
The group hurriedly helped the old lady up and took her back to Yufutang.
After settling the old lady in, Zou Wanqing sat at the birthday banquet table, looking at the dishes on the table, and clenched her fists tightly.
"mother."
Just then, Lin Shiming walked back from outside.
Looking at her son, who had been listless lately, Zou Shuang'er felt something was off, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
"Shiming, it's your sister's birthday today, where were you?"
Lin Shiming sat in the chair without saying a word.
Zou Shuang'er suddenly remembered something, and her expression changed drastically.
"You went to Dong'an Street again?"
Lin Shiming nodded.
"Shiming, I am your birth mother. What are you trying to do by going there every day?"
"If you're so eager to follow Ye Lanyin, then go and acknowledge her as your mother. I'd like to see if she'll accept you as her son!"
She's so angry!
What an ungrateful child!
This is unbearable!
She wouldn't accept the life of a noblewoman in a mistress's household; why would she want this worthless status as the mistress of a noble family!
It's not as good as when we were outside.
At least her son is obedient, she and her husband are loving, and someone else is raising her son for her. All she needs to do every day is look beautiful.
But now that she's become the matriarch, and her two children are raised by her side, they've become a burden!
He did not do well in the imperial examination.
The martial arts examination has no end!
Even her clever daughter couldn't do anything about it.
“If my mother really wanted me, I would have gone long ago.”
“When Mother was alive, she never scolded us like you did.”
"Both are birthday banquets, but Lin Wanwan's banquet is packed with guests, a full Manchu-Han feast, and filled with laughter and joy."
"But here we are deserted, with simple meals and constant quarrels."
"Weren't you told that my sister was a blessed person, possessing thousands of years of culture? Why didn't she bring us any benefits?"
"On the contrary, you say Lin Wanwan is a jinx, but after her divorce, her life is getting better and better every day."
Zou Shuang'er's neck turned red with anger when she heard her son praising Ye Lanyin in such a way.
"What do you know?"
"She stole all those things from the Marquis's mansion."
"Everything she has today belongs to the Marquis's mansion. How could a divorced woman have so much money to buy such a large mansion?"
The Marquis of Zhenbei, who was standing not far away, heard Lin Shiming's words and suddenly ran out.
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