My stepmother is here, all the rebellious sons and evildoers should kneel down!

Old Madam Lu happily agreed, and Lu Zhanyao also breathed a sigh of relief.

That night, he left the Lan Mansion and went straight to his benefactor's secret room.

"My mother... agreed to go to the Marquis's mansion for the banquet."

Lu Zhanyao said in a low voice.

The woman with the blue birthmark in front of him smiled slightly, as if everything had been expected.

"I am now doing everything according to your wishes. Please tell me... who you are? That will also help Zhan Yao calm down and serve you better."

As soon as Lu Zhanyao finished speaking, the woman smiled coldly.

The middle-aged woman beside her immediately scolded her coldly: "You think you want to know the master's identity? Your Lu family can be what it is today because of the master's grace! Otherwise, your mother, your sister, your aunt, and the descendants of the Lu family would have starved to death in the countryside long ago."

"But now I have even sacrificed my mother, don't I know how sacred the Lord is?"

Lu Zhanyao was unwilling to give up, and stared closely at the woman with a blue birthmark in front of him.

He understood that his life and the lives of everyone in the Lu family were now in the hands of this woman...

Even if he dies, Lu Zhanyao wants to die knowingly!

"It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that you hate Wen Qiqi, and I don't want to let Wen Fu go."

The woman said calmly: "As long as you know this, it is enough. Remember, let your mother pretend to be ignorant and drink the cup of tea in front of the old lady in the Marquis's Mansion!"

……

Lu Zhanyao felt disheartened.

After returning to the Lu Mansion, he made up some more lies and told Madam Lu that the old lady of the Marquis' Mansion did not like drinking tea. That day, he had to rush to drink the tea in front of the old lady of the Marquis' Mansion in order to win her favor.

"This is just a little thing, mother will remember it."

Old Madam Lu was extremely happy. Although her identity when she went to the Marquis' Mansion this time was fake, she could at least see the world.

"Well, mother, please remember this! The old lady of the Marquis's Mansion has always been generous. You came to visit her as her distant relative. If the old lady can get along well with you, she will definitely reward you handsomely. That day was Pei Fengjin's happy event, so mother will definitely not return empty-handed this time."

Old Madam Lu was a person who loved her children. In the past, all the money she used to put up such a grand ceremony at the Lu Mansion was from Wen Qiqi's dowry. After the Lu Mansion was ransacked and they experienced famine, they felt that money was even more precious.

Although I'm back in Kyoto now, I don't have much money on hand.

"Okay! Okay! Zhanyao, mother is just trying to save more dowry for your sister! Now all the money in our Lu family is guarded by Aunt Mei, and it's harder than climbing to the sky to ask her for some expenses!"

Mrs. Lu felt so angry when she talked about this.

"If your sister doesn't have a decent dowry, how can she marry decently? I'm not saying this to you, but you, as a brother, are no longer capable. I can only count on your sister Sheng Shi! You have to be more careful in the future. When Xingcheng comes back, talk to him about this matter!"

Old Madam Lu didn't notice at all that Lu Zhanyao's eyes were particularly complicated today.

"This money...can't all be kept by Aunt Mei. At least half should be given to Sheng Shi."

"mother!"

Lu Zhanyao finally couldn't bear it anymore.

If you don't say something now, you will never have the chance to say it again in the future.

"Mom, you have always valued my sister! Could it be that in your heart, Sheng Shi is really more desirable than me, your son?"

As soon as he said this, Madam Lu realized that there was something wrong with her words.

"Zhan Yao, why are you fighting with your sister? If you were an official in the court, it would be fine, and mother wouldn't say anything! But now... you won't have a chance in the future. Our Lu family must have a decent child! Your sister is better than you, and your temper... if you were half as powerful as Sheng Shi, you would have been able to subdue Wen Qiqi!"

Whenever Madam Lu thought about what happened at the Lu Mansion, she felt regretful.

"When Wen Qiqi first married into our Lu Mansion, she was easy to manage! She was simple and didn't think much, so she just followed whatever I, her mother-in-law, said!"

Madam Lu sighed, "Alas, in the end, you still can't control him! There is a saying among the country folks: a daughter-in-law is beaten and kneaded, and if you respect her, how can she be afraid of you?"

"When shall I pay my respects to her?"

Lu Zhanyao frowned, "She was marrying down, and I just wanted her not to notice what I was thinking. How could I have expected that she would become a completely different person later on."

Lu Zhanyao was telling the truth.

When Wen Qiqi first married into the Ruwen Mansion, he felt that Wen Qiqi was a well-educated and sensible person, so he thought that by talking to her more, he could brainwash her and make her give him all her money, support him wholeheartedly, be filial to Lu's mother, and subsidize the Lu family.

"She had already obediently accepted Xingcheng as her adopted son, and always followed my lead in everything! Later...it must have been because mother and Sheng Shi were too strong that she suddenly changed her temper!"

To this day, Lu Zhanyao can't help but complain.

Madam Lu swallowed her saliva and glared at him unhappily: "Don't blame your sister for everything. If you want to complain, just blame me."

"My son doesn't dare."

When Lu Zhanyao remembered that Old Lady Lu was going to the Marquis's Mansion, he stopped talking back. Old Lady Lu thought that her son was as weak and filial as ever, so she said, "Sheng Shi is more capable than you and can calm people down! If he was a son, our Lu Mansion wouldn't be in this situation today!"

Looking at his mother, a hint of annoyance appeared in Lu Zhanyao's eyes.

"Mom, you should go to bed early."

Walking out of Old Madam Lu's room, Lu Zhanyao almost bumped into Aunt Mei.

Suddenly, he was extremely angry and pulled Aunt Mei to a deserted place: "You are really capable now. You dare to eavesdrop on me talking to my mother."

"You promised me to save Xingcheng."

Aunt Mei was not convinced and lowered her voice and said, "Your mother and your sister have been spending money like water these days, and I have tolerated it, but what are you talking about by letting your mother go to the Marquis's mansion? So what if I eavesdropped? I am Xingcheng's biological mother, and I am the only one who is really worried about him!"

After saying this, Aunt Mei took out a handkerchief and kept wiping her tears.

Lu Zhanyao said in a confused manner, "He is your son, so he is not my son? The only person I can count on now is Xing Cheng. If I don't save him, can I count on you, a woman who can only cry?"

Aunt Mei looked at Lu Zhanyao with red eyes: "If you lie to me, I won't let you off easily."

"It doesn't matter whether I live this way or not, I can only go on like this!"

Lu Zhanyao's eyes were deep, and his lips were tightly pursed: "I'm telling you the truth. In order to save Xingcheng, I even... I even gave up my mother! If you make trouble again, don't blame me for not valuing our years of love!"

When Aunt Mei heard this, she shuddered with fear.

The anger in Lu Zhanyao's eyes was as intense as the night tonight...