I'm reborn, only a fool would spoil you

The old lady was also extremely unhappy about the marriage between Gao Shu and Shen Yixiao.

For no other reason than that Gao Shu is a relative from Fu Yusu's maternal side.

Therefore, the old lady glanced at the two sisters Fu Yushu and Fu Yuzheng, and immediately expressed her opinion:

"My Xiao'er is a man of both literary and martial talents. When he marries a wife in the future, I will naturally choose a good one. I will not be interested in ugly ones."

Crooked and cracked melons and dates?

It goes without saying who this is referring to.

When Gao Shu heard this, she almost exploded with anger.

When Empress Gao heard this, she became so angry that her temples throbbed.

Fortunately, the old lady did not mention any names, so Empress Gao pretended not to know and even laughed along:

"Mr. Shen is so outstanding, the woman he marries must be one of the best. How can an ordinary woman be a match for him?"

At this point, Empress Gao was afraid that the old lady would say something even more outrageous, so she quickly changed the subject and forced her way elsewhere.

"Old Madam, this is your first time to spend the winter in the capital. Are you getting used to it? If you need anything, just let me know. I will send you whatever the palace has immediately."

This is purely a polite remark. Everyone knows that the Southwest Mu Mansion is wealthy and powerful, so how could they afford to let the old lady go?

Unexpectedly, the old lady glanced at Fu Yushu with an ambiguous look, and immediately snorted at Empress Gao:

"I have everything I need except a niece-in-law."

"If Empress Gao has a good candidate, please recommend her, so that someone won't try to force a girl who can't be married off from her family onto my nephew."

Queen Gao: ???

Why, why are we back to this topic again?

What's even more terrible is that from the old lady's tone, it seems that she is not rejecting Gao Shu, but Fu Yushu's family!

It's really terrible. The internal fight between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law has escalated to the point that even her niece Gao Shu has been... innocently implicated.

Gao Shu also heard this meaning from the old lady's words. She bit her lip in grievance and glared at Fu Yusu fiercely.

She thought to herself, Fu Yushuo and Fu Yuzheng are really jinxes. They even ruined her marriage!

No, no, she couldn't just sit there and wait for death, she couldn't.

But what can she do?

This made Gao Shu very anxious.

Just when everyone here was filled with anxiety, the old lady over there started to quarrel with Fu Yushu again.

The old lady glanced at Fu Yushu with an unhappy look on her face, and said to her in a blatant way, "Princess, keep an eye on your mother's dog, and don't let it bark everywhere."

Fu Yushu: ???

He was stunned for a moment, but as he was walking outside, he gave the old lady some face and said nothing.

Unexpectedly, she didn't say anything, but the old lady became more excited and challenged her even more:

"If I find out again, I'll have someone break your legs! She'll become a cripple, and then we'll see how she can still act like a slut!"

After hearing these words, Fu Yuzheng almost burst out laughing.

She knew that the "old lady" in front of her was a fake one, and was pretended by her brother-in-law. Where was the real old lady? She was still imprisoned in the small courtyard and couldn't even get out.

I have to say that this fake old lady’s acting is really good. She handled the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law very well. In front of the queen, a group of royal relatives and court ladies, she displayed the old lady’s vicious face vividly.

You know, the old lady can be so vicious in public, let alone in private?

I'm afraid they will become even more unscrupulous.

Furthermore, even though Fu Yushu was pregnant, the old lady didn't know how to restrain herself and kept making things difficult for Fu Yushu. She was really a piece of shit.

So, in an instant, all the labels of the old lady as "sarcastic", "old-fashioned", and "immoral" were confirmed.

At the same time, everyone unanimously agreed that in the previous mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflict, the unreasonable party must have been the old lady, not the gentle and generous Fu Yushu.

At the same time, everyone also understood why Mu Shaoheng stood firmly on the side of his wife instead of being blindly filial.

After this incident, public opinion completely turned to Fu Yusu's side.

The elderly ladies and mistresses of the other house were no exception. They all supported Fu Yushu and despised the immoral old lady.

Haha, the old lady who was imprisoned in the Mu Mansion at this moment probably never dreamed that the fact that she herself had not come to the palace would not prevent her reputation from further deteriorating.

This group of noble ladies merely showed contempt, but Gao Shu and Empress Gao were so furious that they wished they could stab the old lady to death immediately.

How could Empress Gao tolerate her own niece being insulted as a slut?

The insults were directed at her own family, how could Empress Gao tolerate it?

If she continues to endure this, Empress Gao will lose all face!

As a last resort, Empress Gao turned cold and said, "Old Madam, please be careful with your words. This is in the palace, and you cannot listen to dirty words."

The words "moral speech" and "dirty words" were like two slaps in the face for the old lady.

Although the "Old Lady" was used to being domineering, Empress Gao was the mother of a country after all, and she couldn't openly challenge her and curse back.

So the "old lady" deliberately admitted defeat and kept silent.

Seeing this, Queen Gao breathed a sigh of relief.

Gao Shu was still furious, and glared at the "old lady" fiercely, thinking:

"Just wait, old woman. The more you look down on me, the more I will marry Shen Yixiao and piss you off to death!"

You wait and I wait!

Just you wait——!

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In a blink of an eye, the New Year's Eve palace banquet was over, and Gao Shu returned to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion in a huff.

Because of the old lady's insult of "slut", Gao Shu had cried silently for several times, so much so that when she returned to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, her eyes were red.

On the way to his yard, he passed by the ancestral hall.

Glancing at the ancestral hall from afar, Gao Shu missed her mother who was imprisoned inside so much.

"Mom, it's New Year's Eve. I'm afraid you can't even have a hot meal of dumplings, right?"

When saying this, Gao Shu choked up uncontrollably.

Finally, she could not hold back any longer, so she wiped her tears and quietly went to the small kitchen. While the cooks went back to their rooms to rest, she secretly packed a plate of dumplings, put them in a food box, and took it to the ancestral hall to give to her mother.

But the ancestral hall is a place where people are detained. How can one enter and exit at will?

Four maids were guarding the door. They glanced at Gao Shu and pouted, "Miss, we advise you to go back. The old lady has ordered that no visitors are allowed."

"But tonight is New Year's Eve. Can't we, mother and daughter, see each other?" Gao Shu took out the eldest lady's money and scolded angrily.

The old women just rolled their eyes and ignored her.

Gao Shu had no choice but to pull out a red gold hairpin from her head and hand it over, saying in a gentle voice:

"This is a hairpin made of pure gold, made by Elder Fei. It is worth at least one thousand taels of silver. As long as you reunite us mother and daughter tonight, this hairpin will be yours."

Hearing this, the old woman closest to Gao Shu was delighted, and hurriedly took it over as if she was afraid that she would go back on her word.

Seeing this, Gao Shu knew that it was done, so she picked up the food box and was about to push the door of the ancestral hall.

Unexpectedly, the other three women blocked Gao Shu's way and stretched out their hands, asking, "Where are ours?"

The implication was that it was not enough to just give one to that old woman, but that each of the three of them had to have one.

Gao Shu: ???

"How can this be? Didn't we agree that the gold hairpin would be divided equally among the four of you?" Gao Shu argued.

But the three old women were not willing to agree. Seeing that Gao Shu was unwilling to give it, they simply took action - each of them grabbed a red gold hairpin.

In a blink of an eye, he forcibly pulled out the three hairpins on Gao Shu's hair.

One of them is the main force for hair tying.

So, in an instant, Gao Shu's beautiful hair lost its support and cascaded down, hanging in disarray on her chest and back, becoming messy in the biting west wind.

Gao Shu was completely terrified.

How dare they, how dare they...rob?

Is there still a distinction between master and servant? !

If it were in the past, Gao Shu would have punished them to death, but where was the authority that Gao Shu had today? There was nothing she could do except swallow the humiliation.

Fortunately, those old women kept their word and opened the door of the ancestral hall for her with a creak.

Seeing that her goal had been achieved, Gao Shu stopped talking and quickly slipped in with the food box.

At this time, the maids stroked the red gold hairpins in their hands and reminded her, "Young lady, we will only give you a quarter of an hour to visit."

Just a quarter of an hour?

Gao Shu spent four thousand taels of silver on four red gold hairpins, but she only got a quarter of an hour in return?

Gao Shu was extremely angry.

"Why, you're not happy? Then just give me half a quarter of an hour!" the four old women shouted.

Gao Shu: ???

Well, what a bunch of slaves.

Gao Shu knew that she couldn't win the argument, so she stopped arguing, swallowed her anger, and quickly walked into the ancestral hall with the food box.

As soon as she walked in, Gao Shu was stunned.

Oh my God, it’s only been a few months since we last saw each other, and I wonder how her mother has been tortured.

The always graceful and elegant wife of Duke Zhenguo, Lin, was actually wearing a tattered cotton jacket.

You read it right, it’s a tattered cotton jacket!

It was a horrible weather with ice and snow, and the ancestral hall was dark and damp. How could a tattered cotton jacket keep out the cold?

What’s worse is that there isn’t even a brazier.

Lady Lin, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, had to kneel on the freezing cold ground and kowtow to her ancestors to ask for forgiveness. One can imagine how much suffering she had endured since the beginning of winter.

Gao Shu couldn't bear it any longer, she rushed forward to hug her mother, and burst into tears.

Lady Lin, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, was shocked.

Slowly turning her head and seeing her daughter's face, Lin couldn't help herself and hugged her daughter, and they both burst into tears.

"Shu'er, my dear Shu'er, are you doing well?"

After crying for half a minute, Lin asked, and before her daughter could answer, she already knew the answer, because she saw her daughter's messy hair, without even a hairpin on it.

With such a difficult situation, how could life get any better?

Gao Shu was afraid that her mother would misunderstand, so she quickly explained: "Mother, when I came here, I was wearing four red gold hairpins. It was the gatekeeper at the entrance of the ancestral hall who was immoral and asked for them."

In other words, she was not so poor that she could not even afford a hairpin.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Lin felt even more heartbroken.

"Even the servants dare to bully you? Where is your father? Is he dead?"

She, as a mother, has lost her power, but Gao Shu's father, Duke Zhenguo, is still alive and well, and she doesn't care at all?

Hearing this, Gao Shu's eyes became even dimmer.

Alas, if her father was willing to support her, how could she be bullied to this extent by a few servants?

In fact, she hadn't even seen her father for several months since her mother was detained.

"Mother, every time I go to the study to pay my respects to father, he always... makes excuses not to see me." Gao Shu said with a sob.

After hearing this, Lin's eyes were filled with resentment: "Damn it!"

"Mom, let's not talk about sad things. Your daughter brought your favorite dumplings. Please eat them while they are hot." Gao Shu opened the lunch box and took out a stack of dumplings stuffed with mutton and green onions.

When she smelled the mutton, Lin immediately forgot about the damn Duke Zhenguo and started to eat it voraciously.

wolf?

You know, Lin used to be a woman who ate elegantly, but after being imprisoned for only a few months, she seemed to have become a different person, eating in a very rude manner.

When Gao Shu saw this, she realized even more how hard her mother's life had been in the past few months.

Tears started falling again.

"Don't cry, Shu'er, don't cry." After Lin was full, she wiped her mouth with her sleeve and said, "Mother will not hide it from you. Mother's life is not easy right now. I can't protect you for the time being."

As we were talking, we somehow ended up talking about my husband's family.

Lin touched her daughter's face and said:

"Mother can't choose a good in-law for you."

"Remember, you can't trust anyone else when it comes to your marriage, including your damn father. Only your grandmother can be trusted."

Unexpectedly, Gao Shu pouts when she hears this:

"Mom, please stop mentioning my grandmother. She has bad intentions. She actually wants to marry me off to my eldest cousin from my eldest uncle's family. Who would want to marry such a loser!"

Big cousin?

Is that Lin Yuzhi, the eldest son of her eldest brother from her mother’s side?

He is indeed a loser with no future.

Lin and Gao Shu are indeed mother and daughter. Lin also looked down on Lin Yuzhi and said with a pursed mouth: "Your eldest cousin is not good enough. You have to find someone with a great family background and use Gao Ni's power to find a way to marry a rich man."

"Mother, there is a candidate right now, the nephew of the old lady from the Southwest Mu Mansion, Shen Yixiao." Gao Shu blushed and said, "He, he likes my daughter. Today, my daughter accidentally fell in the palace, and he hugged me."

As soon as Lin heard it, she knew that the two were in love with each other.

Thinking of Shen Yixiao's identity, Lin was very satisfied and nodded, "Young Master Shen, not bad. It's a close relationship, so it's easy to get things done."

Gao Shu's face fell, and she said anxiously: "Mother, but... the old lady and Fu Yuzheng can't stand me and want to break up the couple."

what?

It was normal for Fu Yuzheng to be unhappy about her daughter marrying up, but how come the old lady didn't like her daughter? Lin's face darkened.

After thinking for a while, Lin held her daughter's face and asked seriously, "Shu'er, do you really like Shen Yixiao?"

Gao Shu nodded: "Yes, I will not marry anyone else in this life."

Lin nodded and said, "Okay, since you like him so much, you can just...make it a done deal."

Lin lowered her voice and spoke the following words in a volume that only Gao Shu could hear.

Gao Shu blushed and stammered, "Mom, is this okay?"

"We have no choice." Lin's eyes were full of determination.

At this moment, the gatekeeper came in and said, "Young lady, the quarter is up, please get out. If someone sees you, we will be punished too."

Gao Shu hasn't finished discussing with her mother yet, so how could she be willing to leave?

But the four old women would not tolerate her. In front of Lin, they rushed forward and dragged Gao Shu out.

Gao Shu was dragged out of the ancestral hall.

"You, you guys... are so outrageous!" Gao Shu was furious, but it was useless. She watched helplessly as the door of the ancestral hall closed and locked in front of her.

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《Notice》: Haha, the second update is here early, and it’s very long. This chapter has more than 4100 words, plus the 3000 words in the first update, a total of 7100 words have been updated today.

Zhuidu deserves praise!

It feels so good to have so many ideas flowing, and it’s so good to not be stuck in writing!