Seeing this, Tang Zhaoyu couldn't help but speak: "Tang Wan, my mother is talking to you, are you deaf?"
Tang Wan's eyes were stern. "Madam, things are different now. It's time for my eldest sister to control her temper."
The eldest lady smiled and said, "Wanwan is right. Mother will definitely discipline Zhaoyu well in the future."
"Actually, Mother came here today to discuss something with you."
Tang Wan put down the teacup and looked at the eldest lady indifferently: "I wonder what this is about?"
"You know, the Tang family has spent a lot of money raising you over the years. Now that you've grown up and married a good husband, you should help support your family. You wouldn't want the foundation your father worked so hard to build to be destroyed in an instant, right?"
"So the eldest lady wanted to borrow money." Tang Wan mercilessly exposed their shame.
"How can this be called a loan? Isn't Third Aunt still living in the mansion? At most, it can be considered as a filial tribute from your daughter."
Tang Wan stared at her with interest: "I wonder how much the eldest lady wants to borrow?"
When the eldest lady heard that there was a chance, a smile immediately broke out on her face: "Not much, not much, just ten thousand taels."
"I'm so sorry, I don't have any extra money, so I'm afraid I can't lend it to you." She was shocked. The eldest lady was becoming more and more shameless. Ten thousand taels, was she really taking her for a sucker?
Even if a lion asks for too much, there should be a limit. To be so bold as to ask for so much, one's face is as thick as a city wall.
"The Qin Mansion is so big, and the ornaments alone are priceless. Can't you even come up with ten thousand taels?" Tang Zhaoyu was not as patient as her mother after all, and asked sarcastically.
"Of course. The General's family is poor and not one of those who embezzle or accept bribes. Naturally, they don't have any extra money. As for those ornaments, they were all gifts from the emperor. Do you want me to sell them to fill the hole in the Tang family?"
Seeing that she was so aggressive and refused to give in, the mother and daughter were at a loss and held their breath.
The eldest lady still wanted to try, so she took the initiative to offer a way out: "I guess you can't make the decision. Wait until Xuanzhi comes back, and we can have a simple meal together and discuss anything at the dinner table."
Seeing the greed in the eldest lady's eyes, Tang Wan refused without hesitation: "No need. I am the head of the family now. I naturally know whether there is money in the house."
Tang Zhaoyu ignored his mother's expression and snorted coldly, "Just you? You're not afraid of laughing yourself to death when you say that."
Tang Wan is just a concubine's daughter. Qin Xuanzhi would definitely not hand over all the matters in the mansion to her. She is really bragging to the sky. It is ridiculous. She can say anything just to save face.
She ignored the increasingly ugly expressions of the people present and sneered, her eyes revealing malice: "I see that the baby in your belly might be someone's bastard. Everyone in Shangjing knows that General Qin is not destined to have children."
"Tang Zhaoyu, be careful with your words."
Tang Zhaoyu looked at her a little crazily. She looked at Tang Wan's current clothes, food, and other expenses. It would be a lie to say that she was not jealous.
The Tang family is becoming increasingly impoverished, and she hasn't bought a piece of expensive jewelry for a long time. What she considers to be expensive jewelry is nothing in Tang Wan's eyes.
Why? Why could she live such a good life? She was just a lowly concubine's daughter before! Not even as good as one of her fingers.
The eldest lady just watched her talking nonsense with a smug look in her eyes, and had no intention of stopping her at all.
Tang Wan walked down from the main seat and slapped Tang Zhaoyu in the face, her voice faintly filled with anger: "Who do you think you are? My husband is a first-rank general who protects the country, and I am a first-rank imperial consort personally appointed by His Majesty. How dare you bark in front of me?"
Tang Zhaoyu couldn't hold it in an instant. She had never suffered physical pain in her life, let alone being slapped, even the palm of her hand had never been hit.
This was the first time he was slapped, and it was by the concubine whom he looked down upon before.
She was immediately furious and couldn't help but want to slap him back.
Seeing this, Tang Wan took the opportunity to slap her again. Seeing her precious daughter being beaten, the eldest lady finally opened her mouth, which seemed to be sewn shut: "Zhaoyu is your legitimate sister, why do you hit her?"
"My eldest sister has a mother, but it's worse than having no mother at all. She was born but not raised by her. She has no manners. I have no choice but to teach her that her mouth wasn't meant to spew shit, but to speak properly."
The eldest lady was angry, but she didn't dare to do anything too big. After all, things were different now, and this so-called concubine's daughter was no longer as easy to control as before.
But Tang Zhaoyu was not one to give up easily. She kept cursing, "I think the bastard in your belly is not meant to be with you. It will abort sooner or later."
"And that General Qin, you're really too mean. Sister, your husband is impotent, and you have to find another man to borrow sperm. It must be hard for you."
"It seems that Miss Tang knows this general very well."
A magnetic yet chilling male voice sounded from behind, and Tang Zhaoyu froze instantly.
She didn't expect that Qin Xuanzhi would come back at this time.
She turned around stiffly, only to see a stunning face.
The man in front of her was like a banished immortal. She froze in place for a moment and couldn't help asking, "Who are you?"
Qin Xuanzhi sneered, "This general is the ugly, shameless, impotent man you mentioned."
Tang Zhaoyu frantically tried to match the person before him with the one he imagined, but ultimately refused to admit it.
The eldest lady said a few flattering words: "Xuanzhi is indeed a handsome man. Mother is looking for you today because she has something to discuss with you."
Qin Xuanzhi looked puzzled. "My mother has long passed away. Madam, you are a little too shameless. If you are talking about mother-in-law, I remember Wanwan's biological mother, and she didn't look like you."
"And you, I don't know what your identity is to question my new wife and my child. It's really just like what my new wife said, a child born by a mother but not raised by her."
He usually looks gentle and has never spoken as harshly as he did today. Now that he is protecting Tang Wan, those unpleasant words come out of his mouth as if they are free.
Qin Xuanzhi was so good at arguing with the two of them that Tang Zhaoyu couldn't even get a word in. The two of them were demoted to being worthless, and they were kicked out of the house in disgrace without even being able to borrow any money.
Tang Wan finally vented her anger, but the Third Aunt had already stayed where she was, and it took her a long time to find her tone.
"This, this is the son-in-law?"
"Yes, mother." Tang Wan looked at her with a smile.
The Third Aunt finally understood why her daughter looked at her with a half-smile when she said her son-in-law was ugly. It turned out that her son-in-law was not too ugly, but too handsome. No wonder...
It wasn't until she finished her meal that she finally recovered.
Looking at the loving relationship between her daughter and son-in-law, she felt relieved. She did not disturb the young couple after dinner. No matter how Tang Wan and Qin Xuanzhi tried to persuade her to stay, she was unwilling to stay any longer and said goodbye and went back home.
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