"Son! What on earth have you been hiding from us? Tell your parents the truth!" Mrs. Zhou asked anxiously.

Zhou Hongbai kept silent, kneeling there motionless like a pine or cypress, and turned a deaf ear to what Mrs. Zhou said.

"Son, your parents are old and can't stand the blow!"

"Tell me what you did wrong and apologize to the old lady. There is still a chance of turning things around."

Madam Zhou tightly grasped her handkerchief, a few tears fell, and she looked at the old lady with a bitter smile on her face: "Madam, it's my fault for not teaching my son well that he made such a mistake!"

"Madam, if you want to punish him, punish me too. I doted on him since he was little, which is why he got into trouble when he grew up."

The old lady frowned, with a sneer on her lips: "You don't even know what your son has done wrong, and you're here to plead for him."

"Aren't you spoiling me?"

"It's so sad that he has a mother like you."

Mrs. Zhou's breath was choked, and then she felt so ashamed that her heavily made-up face immediately turned red.

She stammered and argued: "After all, he is my son..."

"As a mother, how can I not love my son?"

The old lady's face was calm, and her tone was full of contempt for Mrs. Zhou.

"Mrs. Zhou, if you don't know how to teach your son, don't give birth to him. It will only hurt both of us."

The old lady said to Liu Ruyu, "Yu'er, tell Madam Zhou what you saw in Nanfeng Pavilion."

The smile on Liu Ruyu's lips deepened, and she recounted what happened in Nanfeng Pavilion.

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhou gritted her teeth and glared at Zhou Hongbai, her eyes looking as if they were about to pop out of their sockets: "Rebellious son, how could you do such an unethical thing!"

"Are you doing this to me and your father?"

Mrs. Zhou's eyes were bloodshot and she slapped Zhou Hongbai in anger.

She looked at Liu Yingying again, with deep hatred in her eyes: "Liu Yingying, did you force Hong Bai to do this?"

"You vicious woman, you shall not die a hapless death!"

"When Hongbai insisted on marrying you, I knew you would bring bad luck to Hongbai!"

Liu Yingying raised her eyes to look at Madam Zhou, biting her lips tightly, and then a sneer appeared on her lips: "Old woman, what qualifications do you have to teach me a lesson?"

"I am the second daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion. How can I allow a country woman like you to speak ill of me here?"

"If your son hadn't married me, would he have been able to rise to prominence?"

"After all, isn't it your son who is marrying above his station?"

"Don't think that everything your son has now is the result of his hard work? You are too naive. If he hadn't been well-fed, he would still be the poor boy he was before!"

"How can I be qualified to be the son-in-law of the young lady of the Xiangfu?"

Zhou Hongbai was a son-in-law who married into the family. He had good looks, was tactful and honest, and came from a poor village, so he made a living in the capital.

It happened that one time, Liu Yingying was attacked, and Zhou Hongbai acted as a hero to save the beauty. Coupled with his face that was loved by women, Liu Yingying immediately developed a liking for him.

Later, when Liu Yingying reached the age to get married, the old prime minister wanted to force her to marry a young man from a noble family who had countless concubines in his mansion.

She didn't want to be a pawn, so she claimed that she fell in love with Zhou Hongbai at first sight, and Zhou Hongbai was willing to marry into her family.

At first the old prime minister was unwilling and put him in solitary confinement. Liu Yingying was young and hot-tempered at that time and did not want to compromise, so she staged a drama of making a scene three times and threatening to hang herself to put pressure on the old prime minister.

Later, the old prime minister became afraid of her and agreed to let Zhou Hongbai marry into the prime minister's family. In this way, a country boy transformed himself into a virtuous son-in-law of the prime minister's mansion and became a phoenix.

After entering the mansion, Zhou Hongbai began to show his brilliance in business. He managed the business of the prime minister's mansion in an orderly manner and opened restaurants of all sizes throughout the capital. Under his management, the restaurants that were originally unpopular became increasingly popular with customers, and were even on the verge of overshadowing the No. 1 restaurant. The old prime minister also thought that he had picked up a treasure and became more and more satisfied with Zhou Hong. Therefore, the old prime minister used his connections to find a supervisor at the Hanlin Temple for him to be the principal!

No one expected that although Zhou Hongbai was born in the countryside, he had an extremely smart mind. He could thrive in the Hanlin Temple, which was full of experts and fiercely competitive. What's more amazing was that the articles he wrote were in no way inferior to those of the young men of prominent families who had received a good education since childhood. This made the old prime minister believe that Zhou Hongbai was a pearl covered in dust, and his value would be revealed as long as he wiped it well.

The old prime minister would never have thought that the person he favored was now kneeling on the ground, not saying a word in response to questions from his mother-in-law and his own mother.

I still acted as if I was indeed wrong, but I was right.

When his wife was maliciously scolded by her own mother, he shouted: "Mom, stop talking!"

"Without Yingying, you would still be a country woman. How could you wear silk and satin and live a life of luxury?"

"Not only are you not grateful to her, you're also insulting her!"

"As for the fact that it was me who came up with this idea, not her, if you want to blame someone, just blame me! This has nothing to do with Yingying!"

"You...you rebellious son!"

"Pa!" Zhou Hongbai was slapped in the face again, leaving two palm prints on his face, making him look funny.

"You are disrespecting your own mother for a woman! You are such an unfilial son!"

"I am going to kill you!"

Mrs. Zhou showed the image of a fierce country woman. Her face was hideous and terrifying. She stared at Zhou Hongbai's face, as if she wanted to torture him to death.

"Okay, this is not your home. This is not the place for you to teach your son a lesson."

"If you want to teach me a lesson, go back home and teach me a lesson instead of embarrassing the Xiangfu here!"

The old lady looked at Liu Yingying and said slowly: "You chose your husband, you must stay with him for a hundred years even if you cry!"

Liu Yingying said calmly: "Mom, I will definitely divorce him!"

Zhou Hongbai suddenly grabbed Liu Yingying's shoulders, his tone full of surprise, and it took him a while to squeeze out the words from his throat: "Yingying, do you want to divorce me?"

"why?"

"If I did something wrong, I can fix it!"

Liu Yingying had no expression on her face. She pulled her lower lip and said, "What else can be changed about a waste?"

"If I were you, I would just die. Why would I have the nerve to live in this world?"

Zhou Hongbai was a little puzzled: "Yingying, do you hate me?"

Liu Yingying pushed him away, stood up and said condescendingly: "From the moment you became impotent, I hated you!"

"I wonder all the time why Liu Qinqin married better than me, why her husband is so outstanding and loves his wife so much! Why, after she died, her husband didn't remarry! This makes me very jealous of her. We are both ladies of the Prime Minister's Mansion, why does she live a better life than me! And why do I live such a miserable life!"

"You are the one who caused all this! Zhou Hongbai, I will never forgive you in my life!"

Liu Yingying was filled with anger. She pushed down Mrs. Zhou who was standing in front of her and turned away.

Zhou Hongbai collapsed and cried, "Yingying, don't abandon me!"

"I really love you! Don't leave me! Wuuuuu!"

Seeing this, Liu Ruyu snorted coldly and helped the old lady leave.

……

Tufu's Mansion.

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