Imperial Censor Fu was furious: "People have come to me about this matter, and you're still putting on an act in front of me."
Madam Fu was unaware that Steward Sun had arrived, nor did she know what Steward Sun and Imperial Censor Fu had discussed, so naturally she was not afraid at this moment.
"I have already said that I did not know anything, why are you so angry, sir? Is there anything you can't explain to me?"
Imperial Censor Fu slammed his fist on the table: "You really didn't know about the falsification of Ziwu's dowry?"
After Imperial Censor Fu explained everything clearly, Madam Fu knew there was no longer any possibility of hiding it.
She knew her own abilities. She had managed the vast Fu family estate perfectly all these years without any mistakes. Now that it concerned her daughter's dowry, there shouldn't be any problems. How could it be fake?
The Imperial Censor Fu was also aware of this.
"Master only thinks about Ziwu being wronged, but doesn't he think about how she knew that revealing all this would affect me? She still did it. Doesn't she care about me, her mother?" Madam Fu roared, clutching her chest, a string of glistening pearls sliding down her somewhat aged face.
Imperial Censor Fu turned his head away, unable to bear it any longer: "It's clear that you were in the wrong first. If you hadn't sown the seeds, Ziwu would never have brought this to my attention."
"Is it my fault?" Madam Fu, abandoning her usual gentle demeanor, roared like a shrew in the street: "Is all this my fault? It's clearly her fault. She's been my nemesis since birth!"
"Slap!" Imperial Censor Fu, enraged, slapped her across the face. "Shut up! What nonsense are you spouting? Is this the kind of thing a mother should say?"
He was stern in his words, but his hand, which had been trembling after hitting Madam Fu, kept hanging down, though Madam Fu couldn't see it.
All she saw was her husband, with whom she had been loving for so many years, hitting her.
“Am I wrong? She’s just a wicked creature who came to collect a debt from me! When I was pregnant with her, everyone said I was having a son, and my mother’s family sent me a lot of good things to help me recover. I ate all of those things, no matter what they tasted, for her sake, but she was born a girl.”
"Fu Jingzhi, do you know how much I regret giving birth to her? Because of her, I ruined my health and can never have children again! If she weren't a wicked child, how could she have taken away my perfectly good son?"
Imperial Censor Fu looked at Madam Fu and said in a deep voice, "I have never blamed you for the matter of offspring. Whether it is Zige or Ziwu, I have never looked down on them for not being men."
"But your mother dislikes it!" Madam Fu interrupted him, saying angrily, "Back then, that wretched child was barely a month old when I knew I couldn't have any more children, so I thought about letting you take a concubine. We made a promise back then that you would never take a concubine in your life, but because of that wretched child, you're going to betray your vow!"
Imperial Censor Fu felt that Madam Fu was being unreasonable. He was not the kind of person who made promises easily. Since he had already agreed not to take a concubine, he would not go back on his word. Over the years, he had been living alone with Madam Fu. What more did Madam Fu want?
Yes, Madam Fu did consider arranging a concubine for Imperial Censor Fu to continue the family line, but Imperial Censor Fu refused.
Although the old lady was angry in the end, she didn't interfere much, and the matter was left unresolved. Many years later, the first person to bring it up was actually Madam Fu.
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