The arrival of the Song family immediately made the alley boil.
Song Qiao stared at Hu Xu as if no one was around, and walked towards him step by step with determination.
"Why are you back? Didn't we agree to stay in the mountains first?" When Song Qiao came closer, Hu Xu discovered that there were tears in her eyes, and his heart suddenly ached.
I don’t know if she heard everything the old woman said.
Then he whispered to comfort her, "Don't be sad."
Song Qiao shook his head, "I'm not sad, I'm happy."
Just be happy.
Hu Xu thought of his previous bold words, and a surge of heat rushed to his head, making it difficult for him to speak.
"You just said..."
"I said, I agree." Song Qiao repeated, staring into his eyes.
Hu Xu was immediately overwhelmed with joy, his face lit up with radiance. He couldn't help but confirm, "Really?"
Song Qiao smiled and nodded.
"That's great...that's great!" Hu Xu was so happy that he didn't know what to do with his hands and feet. If there weren't other people around, he would have picked up Song Qiao.
Everyone was very happy to witness a happy event, and they all echoed, "Good, that's great!" Then they congratulated the two families.
Only two people looked unhappy and seemed out of place.
Song Qiao came to Madam Lu, stared at her for a long time, and asked, "If you weren't here to persuade me to marry and win over the Wei family for you, would you have come to see me?"
Mrs. Lu opened her mouth but could not answer.
The last bit of hope in Song Qiao's heart was completely shattered. She asked again, "Why not let Miss Lu arrange her own marriage?"
Mrs. Lu was even more unable to answer.
After waiting for a moment, Song Qiao calmly stated, "You abandoned me again." Then he softly said, "But I won't be sad about this anymore. This time, it's me who doesn't want you."
The surroundings fell silent, and everyone's eyes were on the mother and daughter.
Mrs. Lu only felt her hands and feet going numb, and her ears were sometimes dead silent and sometimes rumbling.
Song Qiao's few words came down lightly, but they were like a collapsing boulder, smashing her into pieces.
Father Song stepped forward and stood beside his daughter. He said to Madam Lu, "Gu Qiluo, do you still remember the agreement you made with me when we divorced?"
Mrs. Lu looked at the people around her and didn't dare to answer.
"When we divorced, we made it very clear. Once you sign the divorce papers and leave the Song family, you will no longer be a member of the Song family, much less Ah Qiao's mother. From now on, you will not have any contact with our Song family, let alone have any connection with us."
Song's father reiterated the agreement they had made when they divorced, and then asked, "Do you still remember what you agreed to?"
Of course Mrs. Lu remembered that it was what she once thought was the happiest moment in her life.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Father Song answered for her: "You said it, you couldn't ask for it more."
Song Qiao looked at his father in surprise, and his eyes then fell on Mrs. Lu.
Mrs. Lu turned her face away.
"For all these years, you have strictly abided by your promise and severed all ties with the Song family. Yet now you suddenly appear, attempting to interfere with my daughter's marriage. If I submit the divorce agreement to the government office and accuse you of breach of contract, I'm afraid the divorce agreement will be invalidated."
Aunt Hua coughed.
Father Song glanced at her and continued, "When the Song and Lu families get into trouble, I'll have no choice but to write another divorce letter and divorce you. If this gets out, your reputation and that of the Lu family will inevitably be damaged. Do you think the Lu family will still tolerate you then?"
Mrs. Lu looked at the man in front of her in astonishment. He had always been silent, dull, and even a little humble in front of her, but she didn't expect that he had such a cruel and indifferent side.
He and Lu Yu, these two men, have made her look at them with new eyes recently, as if she had mistaken them for each other before.
The old woman said to Song's father, "How dare you! If you dare to report to the authorities and ruin the reputation of my wife and master, you will never live in peace in this life."
"You have disturbed our entire family's peace." Father Song was not frightened by the mother-in-law's words. He looked at Mrs. Lu and brought up the past.
"Back then, your Gu family and our Song family were quite close. To support your two brothers' education, your parents took most of our family wealth and married you off. On top of that, they also provided your family with extra money every month. My parents were kind and, thinking we were family after all, never made a fuss about it. They also knew you were unhappy with this marriage, so they went along with everything you said. Even when you didn't want to tend the flowers or manage the household, they never forced us to do anything."
Father Song used those past events to pull Madam Lu out of her layers of gorgeous clothes and bring her back down to the commoner woman she once was, leaving her at a loss for what to do.
"Later, Lü Yu came to your family, hoping to reconcile with you. Your family, eager to climb up the social ladder, was determined to force me to divorce you. They even ignored the fact that my mother's mourning period had not yet ended and came to my house to pressure me. I agreed, with the only request being that you complete the mourning period for my mother."
This was the first time Song's father had mentioned these past events in public, and it was a shame for him. But he couldn't care less now. Gu Qiluo was so vain. If he exposed this matter today and hurt her reputation, she would not have the face to bother him again.
Father Song rebuked Madam Lu, "The Song family and I have done nothing wrong to you and your Gu family, and we've never considered asking for favors from your family. Let's just say this Ah Qiao is a way to offset all that. But not only are you ungrateful, but you're also ungrateful, disregarding blood ties and even trying to trick your own daughter into giving her away as a concubine. Are you still a human being?"
"I, I was forced to do so." Every word was like a whip, slapping Mrs. Lu's face, causing her burning pain.
The old woman saw that she seemed to be unable to stand steadily, so she quickly supported her.
"Whether you're forced into this or are you just vain and greedy, you know best when you've weighed the pros and cons." Father Song pulled Song Qiao away and said to her, "Today, once you leave this alley, don't consider yourself Qiao's mother anymore, and don't even think about interfering in Qiao's affairs. You're not worthy."
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