I'm reborn, only a fool would spoil you

Lady Lin, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, has many worries one after another.

Gao Shu was transported back to the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion in a horse-drawn carriage. Lin had just sat down and hadn't even warmed up the armchair when the wife of the Duke Rong and the Crown Prince Cheng Dingyu came to the mansion and demanded that the engagement be cancelled.

When Lin heard this, he became furious.

"It's just a wasp sting. Once the swelling subsides, apply some snow cream. How much will it affect your appearance? Is it so cold and indifferent that you'd cancel the engagement?"

Her daughter is the victim. It was good enough that she didn't blame Master Cheng for "not saying a word of comfort as her fiancé". Why are they turning the tables and coming to cancel the engagement?

Are you shameless?

Lin slammed the teacup on the high table with a bang.

The wife of Duke Rong also placed the teacup heavily on the high table and sneered:

"The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo is really good at avoiding the main point. What does it have to do with disfigurement? It is Miss Gao who has lost her moral integrity. She dared to run into the yard wearing only a bellyband and let a group of foreign men see her naked body!"

"what?"

Lin was extremely shocked and hurried to her daughter's room to question the maid Hongyan what was going on.

When Lin learned that what her in-laws said was true, she felt a splitting headache and hurriedly asked her mother-in-law, Madam Gao, to come out and take charge.

Madam Gao is a highly respected person and she is also the mother of the current queen. Lady Rong is indeed restrained and dares not act presumptuously.

Madam Gao sat on the main seat, twirling her Buddhist beads, and said:

"Don't worry, my dear relatives. Shu'er has her own reasons for what happened. It can't be considered as a moral flaw."

"How about this? We'll add 30% to the dowry, and your youngest son can end his exile and be transferred back to Beijing this year, and get promoted to a higher level. What do you think?"

This condition is tempting.

Being an official in other places is so hard, how can it be as good and decent as being an official in Beijing. Even if it is a transfer to the same level, the wife of the Duke of Rong would be happy, not to mention that she can be promoted to a higher level!

Compared with Prince Cheng, Lady Rongguo is more partial to her youngest son, so how could she not respond?

It’s just a pity for Master Cheng.

"Mother, didn't you say at home that you would definitely call off the marriage and never let your son be cuckolded?"

"Why do you change your mind when it comes to your brother? Do you have to be so partial?"

"I won't do it..."

"The son of a woman who has lost her virginity and been seen naked by others should not..."

The wife of Duke Rong dragged her stubborn son to say goodbye. As Master Cheng walked through the corridor and the garden, he shouted all the way, attracting the attention of countless maids and servants. It was not until Master Cheng was dragged onto the carriage and driven away that they finally had some peace and quiet.

Madam Gao looked at Lin coldly and said, "After Gao Shu recovers from her illness, she will be confined to her room for two months. She will kneel on the washboard for half an hour in the morning, and then copy the "Female Rules" and "Female Training" a thousand times each, and reflect on her mistakes behind closed doors."

Lin was shocked. Copy it a thousand times each?

Even if you spread it out every day, you would still have to copy 30,000 words a day.

Aren’t your hands going to be sore?

What's more, you have to kneel on the washboard for half an hour, which will hurt your knees!

Just as Mrs. Lin was about to plead for her daughter, she was glared at by Old Madam Gao and was so frightened that she dared not say a word.

Old Madam Gao did not visit Gao Shu, which showed her resolute attitude.

——Even if there was a reason, it is definitely not well-mannered for an unmarried girl to dare to run out without clothes on!

——What's more, Gao Shu is usually arrogant and domineering, and her temper needs to be tamed.

——If I don’t polish it now, will I have to wait for my mother-in-law to come and discuss and set the rules after I get married?

Mrs. Lin, a mother who doted on her child since childhood, could not understand the painstaking efforts of Mrs. Gao. All she felt was the old lady's ruthlessness!

"Old hag, you didn't give birth to your own child, so you just don't know how to feel sorry for him!"

That night, Lin cursed the "old hag" in her heart all night long, tossing and turning, disturbing the Duke Zhenguo's sleep.

The Duke of Zhenguo simply left her and went to sleep in his concubine's room, which made Lin even more angry and uncomfortable.

However, the next morning, even more explosive news reached Lin's ears.

——Last night, the old Princess of Nanjun and the Nanjun Princess' mother-in-law and daughter-in-law personally went to the Jingyang Marquis's Mansion to propose marriage to Gao Ni.

And the engagement process went very quickly.

It would have taken several months originally, but with just a word from Gao Ni, all government offices worked overtime to handle the matter, and the Nacai, Wenming and Najib were completed overnight!

Just waiting for the offer!

Lin is the legal mother and the mistress of the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion.

If they bypass her and directly choose Fu Yuzheng as their daughter-in-law, how would the Lin family save their dignity?

Do you still regard her as the mistress of the house?

what? !

Lin went to complain to the Duke of Zhenguo, who said impatiently:

"You didn't care about Ni'er's marriage in the first place, so isn't it good for someone to do the hard work for you?"

Lin went to her mother-in-law, Old Lady Gao, to complain. Old Lady Gao was delighted and said:

"My son is really good at seeing things. The old Princess of Nanjun is the aunt of the current emperor. With her help, his wife will have both face and dignity, and she can stand up straighter."

Lin: ...

In short, they all tend to be high in nickel!

Just because a bastard holds tremendous power, everything he does is right?

Where is the law of heaven? !

~

Gao Ni is truly a man of his words.

On the day when the eldest princess held a flower-viewing banquet, she asked Gao Ni, "When was the engagement? She didn't even know." Gao Ni replied, "Today."

Unexpectedly, that night, Gao Ni decided on the marriage in a high-profile manner, making Fu Yuzheng his real fiancée "today"!

Keep your word!

With the engagement document stamped by the government in hand, Fu Yuzheng felt relieved, as she was finally not having an affair without a matchmaker.

However, Fu Yuzheng always had a worry in her mind.

——The disappeared Liu Qing'er.

In the past few days, Fu Yuzheng sent Qiao Sheng to search all the major inns and B&Bs in the capital, but he still couldn't find this person.

"Where can I hide?" Fu Yuzheng sat in front of the open west window, holding her chin in her hand and thinking.

At this time, her elder sister Fu Yushu quietly came to the west window and knocked on her head with a round fan:

"What are you thinking about, so absorbed?"

"Hurry up and change into some going-out clothes. Come with mother and I to go shopping. My beloved sister, who just got engaged."

There is a custom in the Great Zhou Kingdom that after an engagement, new clothes and new jewelry must be prepared.

Even though Fu Yuzheng still had many brand new sets of clothes in her wardrobe and dressing table that had never been used, she still had to buy new ones.

Wishing for good luck.

The mother and her two daughters took a horse-drawn carriage and went straight to the most prosperous commercial street. After a round of shopping, they prepared all the new clothes. Tao Ying then took her daughter to Fengtouzhai to choose a Dongzhu headwear.

Fu Yushu was bending over and gently pulling her sister's earlobe to help her try on the Dongzhu earrings when a scream of "Murder!" suddenly came from the street.

Fu Yushu's hand trembled and hurt her sister, and she looked guilty.

Fu Yuzheng quickly raised her eyes and comforted her: "Sister, it's okay." She was even more surprised what happened on the street, so she stood up and walked to the window facing the street and looked out.

I saw an old madman hacking people in the street. He had already hacked down several women and children. Everyone was scared and ran away. The street fell into chaos.

Suddenly, he attacked an old lady.

The old lady escaped the disaster because a young girl rushed over, hugged her and blocked the knife for her and saved her.

But the little girl was hit on the shoulder and fell in a pool of blood with a scream.

When Fu Yuzheng saw the faces of the young woman and the old lady clearly, her whole face turned pale.

——That young woman turned out to be Liu Qing'er.

——That old lady was none other than her step-grandmother, Madam Fu.

In other words, in this life, Liu Qing'er is not only the daughter of her father's savior, but also the savior of her step-grandmother!

Liu Qing'er has... a double amulet!