Shrewd wife of Lin brothers

This skill was something that was taught to Second Madam Lai by Su Wan. She told her that if she wanted to control the Lai family then she needed to weaken the pillars of unity of the Lai family. As long as the unity of the Lai family was broken sooner or later, the Lai family would fall into her hands.

And Second Madam Lai agreed with her, thus she asked Old Madam Ding to taunt and scold Old Madam Lai while at the same time egging Fourth Lai up.

" You…"

" What you? Aren't I speaking the truth? The three masters are your sons so you gave their wives and their concubines, a big dowry but when it came to your stepsons, you are shying away from taking out the money?" Old Madam Ding interrupted Old Madam Lai before she turned to look at Fourth Lai who looked stupefied with what was going on.

She then said, " Fourth Master, how many times have you put your life on the line? How many times have you put your neck on the front line to be chopped up for the Lai family and now look at this! Your stepmother is refusing to take money out for your wedding."

" I do admit that this marriage is something that you don't want but if you hand a big dowry to my daughter then everyone will believe that you have redeemed yourself by promising to take care of my daughter and no one will talk about you but if you hand her cheap dowry what do you think that others will think?

They will say that you are still acting haughty and don't forget that the reason my daughter did something so bad was because you toyed with her heart but she loves you a lot which is why she dares to do such a thing!"

She wiped her tears and then continued," We are only thinking of you, my daughter had already decided that she will donate more than five hundred taels to the temple where she prayed for you to pay attention to her, she will only keep five hundred taels if you don't believe her then you can check her body and trunks when she comes back and am I going to keep those things that you hand my daughter?

It will naturally come back to you."

Fourth Lai frowned as he turned to look at Old Madam Lai whose heart jumped up a little as she said, " Thats not what I meant! I meant to say that your daughter is not worthy of such respect."

" Pei! We will know whether or not my daughter is worthy if I take the matter to the county magistrate," she glared at Old Madam Lai and then pugged her chest confidently before saying, " Why did you not ask your biological sons to take care of this matter and instead asked your step son to take such a dangerous risk? Isn't it because you did not want your sons to be embarrassed?

After all your plan was to marry someone else right ?"

She sneered and then spat again, " But you did not ask your stepsons because you wanted to save them from trouble instead you asked your stepson to sleep with a county magistrate! Do you even know what it means to sleep with a county magistrate? That woman now has the authority to kill anyone. She could have easily blamed your stepson for something and then got him executed.

You did not want your sons to face such a tragedy which was why you pushed your stepson forward."

" In fact if not for my daughter feeling sorry for him, I would have refused to let her get married to your son. A stepmother like you will sooner or later get him killed, letting my daughter marry your son like this is equivalent to pushing her into a fire pit!"

" Look at you, this is the chance to redeem some of the lost reputations of your step son but you are refusing. If that is the case then we might as well not marry!"

Old Madam Lai was trembling with anger. This was the first time someone had threatened her like this, she felt ridiculous.

If it wasn't for the fact that she was afraid that her family would get entangled in trouble because of them targeting the county magistrate, she would have killed this woman!

At the same time, she was driving a wedge between her and Fourth Lai, though somewhere it was true that she could not withstand the thought of pushing her sons to the front line but that was because they were smarter than Fourth Lai who only knew how to play around all day long.

Inwardly she was quite dissatisfied with Fourth Lai. He was actually fooled by a woman like this, he not only took the initiative to touch her but he did so in the presence of everyone!

If he had done it inside the room, they could have blamed it on Madam Ding by saying that she was the one who wanted to cling onto their family and climb up the social ladder but it was Fourth Lai who took the matters in his hands!

There was no way she could explain this matter even if she wanted to!

Because of him this woman and her daughter were causing trouble for them.

What made her furious was that her own biological son's marriage was ruined as the daughter of the sixth-rank official returned the betrothal gifts and said that she could not marry their family.

Old Madam Lai was thinking of how to deal with Madam Ding but before she could do that, these two women caught her by the nose. Now even if she wanted to deal with them she had to be careful!

Who would have thought these two women would cause so much trouble? She had no idea that these women would create such a mess! Now she was really going to die from anger!