Chapter 134 Let You Be Both a Leader and a Protagonist

Sun didn't expect to be slapped in the face and then driven out by Xu.

She stood at the door of Xu's house, watching the gate slam shut, and her heart trembled.

She had been figuring out Xu's preferences almost every day in the past few years, so how could she not see that she was really annoyed this time and really wanted to break up with her.

It would be fine if she just cut off all ties with him. She would just be looking for another scapegoat.

But all the benefits she gained from Xu over the years...how could she have the money to pay back Xu?

The Liu family was so poor that they could not even take out five hundred taels from the treasury to support servants, and they had only a few maids and old women in each room.

She returned home with a sad face and went to her mother-in-law Pang's room again.

When Mrs. Pang saw the slap mark on her face, she just rolled her eyes and laughed at her for being incompetent.

"Okay, I'll go to the Xu family tomorrow. I don't believe that the Xu family won't even give me face."

At worst, the candidate for marriage could be changed from a girl born from a concubine's family to a girl born from a legitimate family.

If Xu is still unhappy, it is not impossible to let the eldest son's second daughter marry into the Xu family.

As long as you marry the daughter of their eldest son, you must give them a sufficient betrothal gift!

After sending Sun away, Pang had already begun to calculate in her mind how much dowry she should ask for.

The legitimate daughter of their Liu family is extremely valuable.

Mrs. Pang had been planning for the whole night, but when Mrs. Xu arrived at Xu's house early the next morning, she was so angry when she heard her shameless words that she almost resorted to violence again.

"Yesterday I gave Sun Yingxia a deadline of this afternoon. Since your family has made it clear that they want to cheat me, I will file a complaint with the authorities now."

Xu asked the nanny beside her to drive away Pang, who came with the betrothal gift list. Then, ignoring Pang's finally ugly face, she changed her clothes and went straight to Shuntian Mansion with the list.

With Cuizhu around, Lu Xinran was almost the first to learn that Xu did not give the Liu family any face at all, and immediately went to Shuntian Prefecture after driving Pang out of the house.

She quickly asked Tracy to help her change her clothes, and then went to the Pei courtyard. Together with Lu Xinlan and the two younger sisters from the second house, she hurried out the door and headed straight for Shuntian Mansion.

When they arrived, the court had already begun. Xu was standing in the middle of the room, taking the list from the nanny and then stepping forward to hand it to the official.

"Your Excellency, please be wise. In the past four years, the second wife of the Minister of Guanglu Temple, Ms. Sun, has found various excuses to cheat me out of tens of thousands of taels of silver for clothing, furs, and other items.

"Here is the IOU written by Sun to me. I beg you to help me get these things back."

Xu was never short of money, so when Sun complained, she sent emergency clothing to Liu's house without thinking twice.

Originally, she had offered to give these things, but Sun Shi insisted on signing a document, saying that she had borrowed these from the escorts, and that she would repay them in silver or other items of equivalent value when the family had financial resources in the future.

All year round, every time Sun received some benefit from her, he would hypocritically write a written receipt.

This is also why Xu had the confidence to sue the officials.

Lu Xinran looked at the thick stack of documents and felt very happy.

Sun was now afraid that he might break his thigh.

If she had been shameless enough to take advantage before, she wouldn't be in the trouble now.

In the court, Song Junyan looked at the documents handed to him one by one, and suddenly a sentence Lu Xinran said flashed through his mind.

Does this person catch the rain with his head when it rains?

Otherwise, why is my head full of water?

"Go and tell the second wife of the Guanglu Temple Minister, Mrs. Sun, to come to Shuntian Mansion."

"Yes, sir."

Sun arrived very quickly. Her right eyelid had been twitching since she woke up this morning. She had originally been feeling lucky, thinking that Xu would give her some face since her mother-in-law came in person. However, she had not expected that Xu would be so enraged that she would come directly to file a complaint.

Before she left, she was scolded by Mrs. Pang. She was worried. Thinking of the IOUs she had written over the years, she didn't want to slap her thigh, but wanted to slap herself twice more.

A lot of people had already gathered outside the court. They had all heard that it was another case of officials suing other officials, and had come specifically to watch the excitement.

Lu Xinran looked at Sun's pale face and sighed in his heart.

[You are always trying to take advantage of others and still think you are noble. Now you know you are doomed? ]

[You actually want to marry your illegitimate daughter to Madam Xu's son? ]

[Where does the Liu family get the confidence to think that all the girls in their house are so expensive? ]

[Using a daughter born out of wedlock to form an alliance, are the Liu family sure this won't humiliate the Xu family?]

Sun's face turned pale and she wanted to turn around and shout "Shut up".

But when she met Xu's fiery gaze, she quickly turned her head away and bowed to Song Junyan in panic.

There is no difficulty in trying this case. The IOU is clearly written. Now that the debt is being pursued, Sun and the Liu family behind her must repay it.

"Mrs. Liu Er, were you the one who signed these IOUs?"

He pointed to the IOUs in his hand: "Nineteen in total."

Sun's body swayed slightly, and the thought of slapping herself popped up again.

She responded in a low, dry voice, "Yes, it was established by me."

"Well, just acknowledge these documents. Madam Xu, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, wants to take back these properties. I want to ask you when you will return them?"

Sun's body swayed again. Her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law in the mansion had no idea that all the clothes and property she had asked for before had been written in the form of IOUs.

She was so flustered that she didn't know what to do. The noisy discussions behind her suddenly became infinitely louder, as if everyone was shouting in her ears.

Her head was buzzing, her vision gradually went dark, her body became paralyzed and she passed out.

Xu snorted in disgust. He was so irresponsible and yet he had the nerve to despise her!

"Sir, in the past few years, Sun has come to my house to ask for clothes and property, all at the behest of her mother-in-law, Pang. Since she is unconscious and cannot give you an answer, I beg you to send Guanglu Temple Madam Pang to Shuntian Mansion."

Her words instantly excited the onlookers, and Lu Xinran even had endless expectations in her heart.

[Pass it here, pass it here, let's see if the Pang family can still say those shameless words in court. ]

[Today, she went to the Xu family and even brought a betrothal gift list with her, asking them to bring the betrothal gift list she had written to ask for the girl in their house to marry her.]

[Is the Liu family crazy because of poverty? They are even selling their daughter.]

The more Lu Xinran looked at it, the more surprised he became. [Even though they were extremely poor, they still had to keep so many concubines and live in agony. This Liu Mansion should be the one with the most mistresses among all the mansions in the capital, right?]

[Does she think of herself as a pig, or do she think raising pigs is easy, that they can survive by feeding them pig food, and then when they grow up they can be traded for money? Tsk, giving a man a betrothal gift list, I've never seen anything like this before. ]