After giving up being the wife of a powerful official, Ling Yunlu became a concubine

Zhao Jingyan was very embarrassed. He didn't know why he spent so much money.

He also secretly complained in his heart, wondering why his sister-in-law said this in front of the family.

"Brother, how can you only care about yourself? It's okay for my brother and I to suffer a little, but you can't let father and mother suffer with us, right?"

Zhao Jingyao complained while flipping the dishes on the table with chopsticks.

Zhao Jingyan glanced at his sister-in-law who was sitting there eating as if nothing had happened, and felt disgusted.

My eldest sister-in-law’s family has more than a dozen workshops, and she has no brothers or sisters, so aren’t they all hers?

Since his sister-in-law and elder brother have no children, they will definitely rely on his children for support in the future. Doesn't this mean that all the wealth of the Jia family belongs to him?

But the sister-in-law held back and refused to take it out, and a hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.

"Okay, okay, isn't it good to have steamed buns and porridge? In the past, when there was a famine, there was nothing to eat! How long have you been in the capital? Have you forgotten the old days?"

Zhao's mother was reluctant to see her promising second son being criticized, so she tried to smooth things over.

"I don't want to eat anymore!" Zhao Jingyao threw down her chopsticks and left. Zhao Jinghuan also threw down her chopsticks and ran after her.

Seeing the children leave one after another, Zhao's mother put down the steamed bun in her hand. She was so used to living a good life that it was really hard for her to swallow it.

Jia Mingzhu swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth with great effort and sneered to himself.

Tastes bad? The hard part is yet to come. This is just the beginning!

Zhao Jingyan returned to the room with a gloomy face. Shen Yunchu was eating cakes and chatting with Chunxiang.

"Husband, come quickly and try the cakes my mother brought. You have to say that the cakes from the old-fashioned brands are still the best."

Zhao Jingyan saw that the food on the table was untouched. "Are you dissatisfied with the Zhao family's food?"

Shen Yunchu didn't notice Zhao Jingyan's ugly face.

"It's not tasty in the first place. In our Shen Mansion, even dogs eat better than this."

"You mean that our Zhao family eats worse than the dogs in the Shen Mansion?"

Zhao Jingyan just felt a fire in his heart and was eager to find a place to vent it.

He walked up, snatched the pastry from Shen Yunchu's hand, and threw it to the ground.

"If you think the food at the Zhao family is not good, then go back to your Shen family!"

Shen Yunchu was dumbfounded. This was the first time that Zhao Jingyan got so angry at her.

"Master, the lady is still pregnant with the little master!" Chunxiang hurriedly advised.

"You are not a slave and have no right to speak here. Get out!"

Chunxiang felt extremely ashamed when she saw her usually gentle son-in-law scolding her like that. She covered her face with a handkerchief and ran out crying.

"She is my maid, why are you so fierce? What have I done to you? Are you looking for trouble?"

Shen Yunchu was so angry that she was out of breath. She covered her stomach and tried to sit up.

"If my mother-in-law hadn't insisted on asking my father to return your one thousand taels, why would my sister-in-law target me like this?"

"I spent your dowry. I will make money to pay you back in the future. Is it necessary to cry to my mother-in-law?"

"You are so kind and gentle to me, but you cry to my mother-in-law about how I spent your dowry. Didn't you spend all that on me voluntarily? Shen Yunchu, I just realized today that you are such a hypocritical woman."

"I didn't. I spent it on you voluntarily. But my mother said that if there is no written document for the division of the family property, it is not considered a division of the family property, and the expenses should be paid by the public."

Shen Yunchu explained hurriedly.

"Don't I know? It seems that you are looking forward to my breaking up with my parents. It turns out that you are such a heartless and ungrateful person who doesn't recognize your relatives. I really misjudged you!"

After saying that, Zhao Jingyan kicked the bedpost and stormed out angrily.

Shen Yunchu was so angry that she cried beside the bed.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She struggled to get down from the ground and started packing her bags.

"Madam, what are you doing?" Seeing that something was wrong, Xia Xiang hurriedly stepped forward to stop them.

"Go home, I want to go home, call Xia Xiang, let's go back to the Shen Mansion!"

Shen Yunchu held her stomach and sat on the chair. She felt a pain in her stomach.

Xia Xiang noticed that something was wrong with Shen Yunchu, "Madam, how about I ask the doctor to come and take a look? You shouldn't move around right now."

At this moment, Shen Yunchu was curled up in pain, unable to speak.

Xia Xiang then hurried out to find a doctor.

Zhao Jingyan ran out in anger, but calmed down after being blown by the cold wind.

He touched his empty stomach and went to the restaurant he had frequented before.

He ordered a plate of peanuts and two taels of wine and started drinking alone.

"Have you heard? Someone got a set of test questions, which are said to be the predicted test questions for this autumn exam."

There were a few students sitting nearby, talking in low voices.

"Is this true? They said they had a prediction a while ago, but after I paid all the money, they said they didn't have any more!"

This student looks a bit fierce and more like a butcher.

"You too? Me too. I shouldn't make any mistakes this time. I looked at the test questions and they are different from previous years."

The student who spoke first lowered his voice and said, "I heard that it was that guy Gao Yucheng who did it."

"Gao Yucheng? Is he the uneducated playboy from the family of Minister Gao of the Ministry of Personnel? Is he lying?"

"I'm going to go take a look later. There's still more than a month until the autumn exam. The sooner I get the predicted questions, the greater my chances of passing. It's also because we have a good relationship that I'm telling you. If others want to go, I won't take them with me."

Zhao Jingyan ate peanuts and drank the wine in his glass calmly.

Seeing a few people paying the bill and turning into a small alley together, he hurriedly followed them.

Several people came to a remote house, and the leader knocked on the door three times.

A head popped out, looked the few people up and down, questioned them a few questions, and then let them in.

After waiting for a while, Zhao Jingyan stuck his head out, saw that there was no one around, and quietly walked to the door.

The courtyard wall was very high, and through the crack in the door I could only see the empty courtyard and could not hear any sound.

He couldn't help but pace back and forth for a few steps.

He was worried that it was a honey trap, but he was also worried that if it was real, he would miss the test.

"Brother, are you here to see the test questions as well?"

Zhao Jingyan turned around in fright, only to see a man wearing green brocade and holding a folding fan standing behind him.

The visitor's gentle and refined appearance suddenly made Zhao Jingyan feel favorable towards him.

He bowed to the other party and asked, "Brother, who are you?"

"My last name is Fang, and I am a scholar from Baichuan Academy. I heard that Brother Gao has a topic prediction here, so I wanted to come and see it."

Mr. Fang reached out and knocked on the courtyard door, and someone inside immediately opened it.

Obviously, this man was familiar with the people inside, and the person who opened the door let him in without asking any questions.

"Brother, don't you want to join us? Outsiders can't easily come in here."

Mr. Fang stepped into the yard and turned to look at Zhao Jingyan.

Zhao Jingyan hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and followed him in.