Chapter 42: A nest of snakes and rats!

"Did General Lu not receive the old man's letter?" Song Fu stroked his beard and looked at Lu Zhenting with bright eyes, "The old man requests you to recognize Lin Guniang as your adopted younger sister, and our Song family will add a dowry, and she will marry directly from the Lu Mansion in a grand manner, marrying into our Song family." "I do not agree to this marriage." Lu Zhenting did not want to recognize Lin Jiaojiao as his younger sister. Originally, he was not very clear about his feelings for Lin Jiaojiao, but Guo Shi was a sharp-eyed person and immediately saw that he was interested in Lin Jiaojiao.

Since Guo Shi saw through it, he just said it clearly, and he felt much more comfortable in his heart. It was just that he didn't know if Lin Jiaojiao liked him.

"The marriage of my Song family is not up to you to agree." Song Fu said angrily, "Don't think that because you grew up with my son, the old man will let such a good daughter-in-law be let to you."

"It is precisely because I grew up with Shijie that I do not agree to this marriage. May I ask Uncle and Aunt, have you asked Shijie for his opinion?" Lu Zhenting issued a soul-searching question, "Have you asked Lin Guniang if she likes Shijie?"

"Like or not, it doesn't matter the most. Feelings can be cultivated later, right, Husband?" Song Mu looked up at Song Fu, one hand wrapped around Song Fu's arm. Her eyes were full of smiles, but there was a trace of an eye knife hidden in the smile that was not easily detected.

"Yes, yes." Song Fu nodded, "What about you, General Lu? Do you think Lin Guniang doesn't like Shijie, but will like you, a flirtatious general who sends women to his own mansion every day?"

"I have not..." Lu Zhenting wanted to defend himself, but it seemed he was indeed like this, often doing things like fighting injustices and saving beauties. However, later, he released these women one by one and never interfered with their marriages.

Even if many women liked him, no amount of liking could compare to his long-term absence from home.

Although there were women who followed him to the battlefield, they were all sent away by him. Men could follow him to the battlefield, but women did not have this ability to kill enemies. On the contrary, if women went to the battlefield, he would have more concerns, affecting combat.

But besides saving women, he had also saved many men. If saving women was a crime, then when he saved men, they never suspected him of having a cut-sleeve habit?

"Tsk." Guo Shi clicked her tongue in disgust.

Su Chunyan watched from the side and felt depressed. What was there to fight over a concubine of a brother-in-law? But in front of Lu Zhenting, she didn't dare to say anything bad about Lin Jiaojiao at all. That look just now was enough to make her worry about her image in Lu Zhenting's heart being damaged.

Su Hongtu also didn't understand. He snorted coldly and said to Pei Aosong in a deep voice, "Aosong, since someone wants to fight for that concubine of yours, you should hurry up and release the household register of her ugly baby, so that people can fight like clams and cranes."

"Bah! Who are you calling an ugly baby!" Guo Shi spat on the ground, "Your Su family is a nest of snakes and rats. A bad bamboo produces a bad shoot. You swapped someone else's fat baby and didn't say it, but instead blamed your own bloodline descendants for being ugly!"

"Village woman, what are you saying?" Pei Mansion Old Madam tapped the ground with her cane. She was afraid that this matter would be known by her brother, so she angrily told her to shut up, "Shut up! Truly, a dog's mouth can't spit out ivory. A person like you is not worthy of being a wet nurse for my Pei Mansion's child!"

Song Mu immediately answered, "That's just right. You don't use her, so our Song family will hire her. After all, the child still needs a wet nurse to feed him. Later, we will go to the Ministry of Revenue to register the child and let him change his surname to Song."

"Since you want this monster so much, the old man will let you have it," Su Hongtu narrowed his eyes and said, "Who knows who that concubine had intercourse with to give birth to it."

Guo Shi wanted to curse as soon as she heard it, but Lu Zhenting pressed her down.

Prime Minister's Wife spoke, "Aosong, why don't you hurry up and write a Letter of Release for Concubine, and that evil child's household register. I don't think there is any need for them to stay in the Pei Mansion."

"Yes." Pei Aosong was reluctant, but after all, his father-in-law's family was right there, and he would need his father-in-law's help in his official career in the future, so he had to respond.

Su Wanqiu in his arms said gently, "Husband, my father's words have his reasons. Since General Lu and Uncle Song both like Sister, we should be willing to help others, let Sister walk out of the Pei Mansion, and choose her future husband herself."

Su Wanqiu's words sounded pleasant, but they were like a dagger stabbing into Pei Aosong's heart.

"Good, I will take you back to the mansion first, let the House Physician look at your leg injury, and then go to the study to write the Letter of Release for Concubine." Pei Aosong bit the last few words very hard, as if these words had a blood feud with him.

Finally, he remembered that today was the child's full-month banquet. When entering the mansion, he greeted the guests, "Welcome everyone for giving face to come to the mansion to attend my child's full-month banquet. Pei has not entertained you well, everyone eat and drink well."

After experiencing such a mess in the morning, the guests didn't feel like they were here for the full-month banquet at all. One by one, they looked at each other, and I don't know who started it, "There is something at home today, Lord Pei, I still need to go home to handle affairs."

Pei Aosong's face was a bit ugly, but after the things that happened all morning, his face had been lost, and it didn't matter if the noble guests came to attend the full-month banquet or not.

He scanned the guests, and not many had the heart to stay here for the full-month banquet.

However, the polite words on the surface still had to be said, "Okay, since there is something at home that needs to be handled urgently, I cannot force you to stay. Please feel free."

In a moment, everyone left their full-month gifts and then said goodbye to him. Not long after, the only ones left in front of the Pei Mansion were the Su family, Song Fu and Song Mu, as well as Lu Zhenting and the wet nurse Guo Shi holding Pei Tiezhu.

Song Fu looked left and right, and to avoid Pei Aosong mistakenly thinking they were here for the full-month banquet, he clarified loudly, "We will return to the mansion naturally after getting the Letter of Release for Concubine and the household registers of Lin Guniang and her child."

"Okay, please follow me." Pei Aosong could only let them into the Pei Mansion.

Su Hongtu snorted, "My grandson's full-month banquet, it doesn't matter if others don't give face, but I, the biological grandfather, must accompany my grandson well, so that others won't think he has no support and be bullied in the future."

Su Wanqiu was moved and wet her eye sockets, "Thank you, Father."

"Sister, our Su family will always be the solid backing for you and your little nephew." Su Chunyan acted like a loving sister, but when she spoke, her eyes always glanced toward Lu Zhenting, hoping to have a chance to be alone with him in the Pei Mansion.

"Let's go in together," Lu Zhenting patted Guo Shi's shoulder, "Pack up all of Lin Guniang's things and bring them back."

So, a group of people entered the Pei Mansion.

On the other side, Lin Jiaojiao followed the horse team to the Dali Temple. Led by the official, she walked to the public hall, where two teams of officials holding eight-foot-long wooden sticks stood.

Sitting on the case seat in the public hall was a trial official she had never met before, Dali Temple Assistant Minister Feng Jun. Below the public hall were two middle-aged couples kneeling in rags.

"Criminal woman Lin Jiaojiao, why don't you kneel down yet?" Dali Temple Assistant Minister Feng Jun suddenly slapped the gavel on the table, almost scaring Lin Jiaojiao. ===== CHAPTER 43 =====