Fu Jingchen walked up to them expressionlessly. "What do you mean? Tenants should know their place. You've tormented my sister for twenty years, and you expect me to get along with you? Have you lost your minds and become too arrogant, or have I become too weak to lift a knife?"
"The Pei family is nothing but ants, daring to clamor in front of me. What right do you have to interfere in my marriage and control me? Do you think I'm a fool? Your Pei family has no power or influence, yet you try to control me out of filial piety? Have you seen what happened to Old Madam Fu? Don't mess with me, or I won't hesitate to destroy the Pei family."
"If you behave yourself, you'll die a little slower. If you harbor wicked schemes, you'll bring about your own destruction. My sister and I are long past the age where we need our parents' love. They don't need to pretend to care for us. We find it disgusting. You want to use me to curry favor with the Du family? You're quite cunning, but you're just asking for trouble."
"You severed ties cleanly back then, so don't keep entangled with us. You all know perfectly well whose children we siblings are!"
Pei Tai's face turned pale and then red, deeply embarrassed by the insult, but he still refused to give up Fu Jingchen, his pawn. "Even a divided family can reunite, let alone a severed ties? You have a misunderstanding about our Pei family, and I promise to treat you and your siblings well..."
Gu Wanwan interrupted his nonsense, "You're selling Chen and his sister, aren't you? Look at what your Pei family has now? The direct descendants of the five lower-ranking families are all avoiding you. You have no money, no power, and you don't even have a house. You look down on me? You don't know that I have more money than I can spend!"
Pei Danfeng shouted, "This is blatant capitalist behavior! I'm going to report you to the Pigeon Tail Society!"
Gu Wanwan laughed instead of getting angry, "I was just worried it wouldn't come. I'll take it all in one go. Go on, let's go now. You still have the nerve to provoke me? Your in-laws' house is about to be raided!"
Pei Danfeng retorted, "Do you think you own a special department? You can't just raid someone's house whenever you want!"
“I’m quite familiar with the special departments,” Gu Wanwan said succinctly.
“When the young master of the Gu family arrives and finds out you bullied his sister, your Pei family will be finished.” It was Shen Chunman who spoke. She disliked Old Madam Fu and Fu Yuzhong, and even more so the self-righteous Pei family. “Who rushes to claim kinship? You can’t use filial piety to manipulate people. You’ve never raised Jingchen. It’s not like Jingchen doesn’t have biological parents. Does he need your Pei family to make decisions for him? It’s as if your Pei family is so powerful that Jingchen can’t do without your help.”
"Where were you when Jingchen was suffering? What were you doing when Wan Ning was ignored and bullied by her stepmother? You immediately published a notice in the newspaper to sever ties with her because you thought Wan Ning had made a mistake. Now, just because the Du family has taken a liking to Jingchen, you want to leech off him again. Your Pei family is even more disgusting than Old Madam Fu!"
"You've never done anything for the Fu siblings, yet you want to use them to consolidate your Pei family's interests. Do you think the Fu siblings' biological parents are dead? With me as their adoptive mother, you won't succeed!"
"Wanwan is not a capitalist; you can't afford to mess with her background!"
The Pei family thought Shen Chun was just bragging. How could he be more powerful than the five lower families?
Fu Jingchen is truly ungrateful. He would rather call an uneducated, abandoned village woman his mother than become the true young master of the Pei family, thus trampling the Pei family's reputation underfoot.
They simply refused to believe that Fu Jingchen could resist the oppression of the Du family.
Rural people are used to being poor, and they are easily bribed with money.
After Du Lixue and her brother returned home, they told their parents about what had happened at the Pei family, exaggerating the details and focusing on smearing Gu Wanwan.
The elders of the Du family could not tolerate Gu Wanwan and Fu Jingchen's provocations and decided to teach them a lesson when the two families 'met'.
"Mom and Dad, teach Gu Wanwan a lesson for me, humiliate her family to death. I want them all to suffer in the Northwest, never to rise again, so they'll understand the consequences of trying to steal my man."
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