Chapter 435: Trick the Wife

Xu Wan was moved by him and her eyes were filled with tears. She suppressed her tears and chuckled, "You don't know my father. He is the easiest person in our family to control. He is afraid that decades of business will be ruined, and he is especially afraid of falling out with me, so I dare to argue with him a few times. Others are not like that. Liu and the others are like dead pigs that are not afraid of boiling water. Even if I win the argument, it won't solve the fundamental problem, so I especially don't like to meet them."

In this era, especially in the capital, interpersonal relationships are complicated. She does not have the courage to sever ties with her natal family, and does not want both the Zong and Xu families to be criticized because of her.

Even if her husband's family obeys her in everything.

Zong Zhao noticed her attitude and said, "Then let Liu not be seated and just have dinner with your father."

Xu Wan was confused: "Is this... so direct? Although Liu is a successor, she is still the wife of the principal wife. When her daughter returns to her parents' home, why don't you let her, the legal mother, sit at the table?"

Zong Zhao decided: "We will throw this difficult matter back to your father to choose, and let him know our attitude. That Liu has treated you harshly for many years, and you need to learn a lesson."

Xu Wan thought for a moment and replied, "Then let my father make it difficult. I think he will definitely choose you. Note, not us, but you. As for Liu, he can tell others that she doesn't want to come, or that she has something going on at home, or that..."

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"Liu is ill and cannot come out to receive her daughter and son-in-law. Tomorrow, on the second day of the first lunar month, the old man will be waiting at the door in person to welcome the general and the eldest lady home."

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After sending off the servant from the Xu family who brought the message, Xu Wan silently raised her thumbs.

She said to Zong Zhao, "My father is the one who is willing to take the risk. This reason leaves no room for doubt. It not only meets your requirements, but also keeps people from knowing that we are not on good terms with the Liu family. It's brilliant."

Zong Zhao said coldly: "If it happens once a year, ordinary people will not easily get suspicious; if it happens every year, then everyone will know it clearly."

Xu Wan asked again: "Then every year when he lets me go back, he will make Liu sick first?"

Zong Zhao said: "This is the only choice he has."

Minister Xu knows best what is important. He will not abandon the Zong family for the sake of Liu. Even if the Duke of Jin's Mansion puts pressure on him, he will choose the Zong family without hesitation.

Xu Wan chuckled: "I can already imagine how angry my father will be, but when he sees you tomorrow, I think he will still be grinning."

Zong Zhao observed her quietly. Originally, he didn't want to acknowledge Minister Xu as his father-in-law because that man treated her badly, very badly.

But she didn't seem to want to sever ties with the Xu family. Maybe she still cared about family ties, so he changed his mind according to her. Since Minister Xu wanted to be their relative, he should act like a relative and pay back everything he owed her.

At night, there are still two small quilts.

But Zong Zhao had already pushed his quilt to the head of the bed, lifted Xu Wan's quilt and jumped in.

"Ah... Zong Zhao... what are you doing?" Xu Wan looked at the enlarged face in front of her and was so frightened that her heart stopped for a second.

What a reckless behavior.

It doesn't fit his character at all!

Zong Zhao covered her body and made his request directly: "I want to sleep in the same bed with you. I don't want to sleep alone."

Xu Wan blinked and smiled: "You have improved again. You can actually say such words. Before, I had to take the initiative to say it."

When Zong Zhao heard that she agreed, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, he lowered his head and kissed her smooth forehead, then rubbed her neck and said, "I like you."

Xu Wan's neck was a little itchy from being rubbed by him. She said with a smile, "I know, I know. You've said it many times. Is this the only thing you can say?"

Zong Zhao turned to kiss her lips and said firmly again: "I like you."

Xu Wan blushed at this. Who would be chased for confessions all the time? Isn't it true that you only confess once and never again?

But Zong Zhao seemed to take these words as a confession of his heart, and he said them every few kisses, making her dizzy and her body as soft as a pool of water. Occasionally, she would hear Zong Zhao asking her how she had lived in the Xu family in the past, who were around her, and how they treated her.

Xu Wan didn't remember what she said. After he kissed her on the ear with his breath hot, he left a few words and went to the bathroom.

She calmed her rapid breathing, looked down to see the ambiguous marks on her body, and quickly pulled the quilt up to cover her almost half-naked body.

Just now, Zong Zhao seemed to have said: "Tomorrow night."

Tomorrow night...

What to do tomorrow night?

Xu Wan thought about it and realized that he had given the children an extra half month of policy study during the day, and also said that there was no room for relatives at home to go, so what they were going to do next... was to consummate their marriage?

Thinking of this, she felt her whole body was hot, especially the places on her body that he had touched, all became hot...

After Zong Zhao came back, he pulled back the quilt that he had pushed to the head of the bed and slept in the same bed with her obediently.

Xu Wan really couldn't help laughing out loud.

Oh my God, how did he manage to be so lovable and pitiful at the same time?

This idiot.

The next day was the second day of the Chinese New Year.

Xu Wan originally wanted to leave at 9:00 p.m., but Zong Zhao said there was no need to rush. As a result, it was delayed until noon, when he led Xu Wan to the carriage and set off back to the Xu family.

Minister Xu had been waiting at the door for a long time, but no one showed up. Neighbors passing by couldn't help but talk about it:

"Minister Xu must have been waiting at the door all morning. Who is he waiting for? Why is he so solemn?"

"Haha, I know who made him wait so long. The second day of the Lunar New Year is the day to go back to one's parents' home to pay New Year's greetings. It must be General Zong who will come."

"It seems that the Xu family is not well received by the general. My father-in-law has been waiting here for the whole morning, and no one from the Zong family has come. I guess they look down on his family."

"I heard that it was because Minister Xu treated his eldest daughter badly that she became estranged from him. Think about it, General Zong hadn't returned from his service at that time, and the old lady of the Zong family was from a merchant family. For the eldest daughter of the Xu family, marrying into the Zong family was not just marrying down, but exile."

Xu Wan almost laughed out loud when she heard the exile word right after she arrived. Seeing that Zong Zhao looked unhappy, she quickly advised, "Good family, good family, our family is great. Don't listen to their nonsense. Even if you don't come back, the Marquis' Mansion is a good place to go. Look, I've become fat and plump since I came to our family."

In fact, she was not much fatter. She was just on the thin side. She was just thinner when she was in the Xu family. And because she ate poorly at that time, she was still pale and thin at the age of seventeen or eighteen. She didn't look like a noble lady raised by a famous family.

Zong Zhao became even angrier when he thought about it. He pulled her out of the car and prepared to vent his anger on his wife.