After Rebirth, She Becomes the Revenge Queen
Chapter 70 - 069 She Must Be Very Satisfied with This Fiancé!

Chapter 70: Chapter 069 She Must Be Very Satisfied with This Fiancé!

What nonsense is this kid talking about?

What does it mean to wish Du Mingcheng a smooth divorce for all his life engagements?

Isn’t this cursing their Brother Cheng for a lifetime of marital woes?

The third Mrs. Du was truly at a loss for words. How did she just happen to run into this uncle and nephew duo?! One should be on duty in the camp, and the other should be in school, they shouldn’t be here!

One big, one small, she can’t provoke the big one, and she can’t provoke the small one either!

This is the little ancestor of the Liang Family!

Liang Chen is in his twenties, has been fighting in the northwest for years, and is the sole heir; he’s the precious treasure of the entire Liang Mansion!

Moreover, everyone in the capital city knows that Pei Zhan, because of his deep friendship with the Liang Brothers, protects this boy like his own son! Offending this boy is equivalent to offending the entire Liang Family and Pei Zhan!

So, can she reprimand this boy?

She cannot!

The third Mrs. Du clenched her hands tightly under her sleeve and, forcing herself to be calm, said, "Brother Xuan, what are you talking about? We were merely chatting here, and it was Mrs. Fu who happened to overhear and overreacted, shouting at me... Little Xuan Er, do you want to eat some pastry? Come, Third Aunt will take you inside to eat candy!"

Liang Xuan showed his white teeth, holding his cheeks on both sides: "Third Aunt, I have bad teeth, I can’t eat candy!"

The third Mrs. Du felt even more embarrassed. Seeing Pei Zhanding sitting speechlessly, she could only force a smile and said, "If you don’t eat candy, it’s fine, but don’t talk nonsense about what was said earlier. The engagement that the head of this house arranged, how could it just be canceled like that? I never said I wanted to call off the engagement just now, did I? Even if it were to be called off, wouldn’t it be the Fu Family who mentioned it first...?"

"Brother Xuan, pack up the fishing rod."

Before the third Mrs. Du could finish her sentence, Pei Zhan, holding the fishing rod, stood up.

His cold demeanor made the third Mrs. Du even more unable to stay calm!

What does he mean by this?

What is his attitude?

Her heart twitched as she watched the uncle and nephew leave with the fishing rods in hand, unable to utter a single word!

Even when Liang Xuan made a face at her, she couldn’t care to respond!

Liang Chen had already subtly mocked Du Su on the street with Cheng Chiren on that day, and today, with Pei Zhan here, given the friendship between their families, if she and Du Su intended to cancel the engagement with the Fu Family, it would certainly be relayed to the General Mansion, a consequence she couldn’t afford!

No, she’d better hurry down the mountain!

Stomping her foot, she rushed downhill!

"Third Madam!"

The remaining officials’ wives called after her, yet they couldn’t stop her from leaving!

From behind a distant tree, two people also quickly retreated down the mountain after witnessing the occurrence.

Liang Xuan turned his head three times in one step. Watching the crowd of women scatter, he asked Pei Zhan, "Fifth Uncle, why did she run away so fast?"

Pei Zhan handed the fishing gear to a guard and said, "Because if she doesn’t leave quickly, their third house will be in trouble."

"Ah?" Liang Xuan gaped.

As Pei Zhan resumed walking, Liang Xuan curiously asked, "Will they really cancel the engagement with the Fu Family?"

Pei Zhan, calm and with an unchanged expression, looked ahead to where Fu Zhen was listening to Mrs. Fu speak: "Of course not."

Liang Xuan was right, before the third Mrs. Du and the others arrived, he and his nephew were already there. Everything they discussed was heard by Pei Zhan without missing a word. Initially, he didn’t know whose young lady was engaged to Du Mingcheng’s family—no matter whose family it was, what Du’s family did wasn’t right, was it?

Of course, he didn’t want to meddle in such affairs.

But then unexpectedly, they mentioned Mrs. Fu, and she just burst out!

He really didn’t expect that.

That girl mentioned she was engaged the other day, but the person she was engaged to was actually the Du family’s boy!

To be honest, he did suspect that whether the girl fooled him about the Liang Family’s incident at night or her story about the alley murder case were lies. He had checked all the criminal records in the Ministry of Justice for those years, and nothing of the sort occurred, let alone any rumors after a supposed crime.

But then, Pei Zhan also didn’t have definitive evidence to prove she was lying.

Since the Du family made a marital alliance with them, voluntarily too, they must have an explanation for this matter.

And that girl, since she mentioned her engagement, she must be quite satisfied with this marriage, right? She must certainly be satisfied with Du Mingcheng as her fiancé, right?

Forget it!

In gratitude for her resolving the urgent issues of the Cheng family, he didn’t mind helping her.

That’s why he didn’t stop Liang Xuan from speaking.

Not only did he not stop him, but he even helped echo his sentiments.

What he wanted was for the third Mrs. Du to be scared and then dutifully fulfill the engagement, go to the Fu Family and propose, and complete the marriage rites with full formalities!

If the third Mrs. Du returns and doesn’t act within three days, he guarantees that on the fourth day, he’ll let the General Mansion know about this!

"But I think having a mother-in-law like the Third Aunt isn’t necessarily a good thing!"

Liang Xuan sighed.

"She’s meant to spend her life with her husband, not with her mother-in-law." Pei Zhan took his hand and glanced at the girl under the distant dragon juniper tree, who looked utterly shocked.

——With her skills, no mother-in-law in the world could bully her, right?

...

"Is it really a marriage arranged from infancy?!"

Beneath the dragon juniper tree, Fu Zhen was stunned after hearing this.

After Mrs. Fu angrily laid down words to the third Mrs. Du, she immediately took Fu Zhen by the hand, furiously left the lakeside, and came here.

"Yes!" Mrs. Fu, still not over her anger, said with reddened eyes, "Back then, when the northwest war had just begun, there was little surplus grain in the national treasury to help augment the troops in the northwest. Our National Guardian General was worried, and his grandfather was also a General, whom we called Old General Du!

"Old General Du had once met your maternal grandfather and considered him a cross-generational friend, so he found your maternal grandfather.

"Upon hearing the nation’s plight, your maternal grandfather donated twenty thousand taels of silver without hesitation, resolving Old General Du’s urgent need!

"Deeply grateful, Old General Du always wanted to return the favor, but the Ning Family lacked nothing. Just as he saw me, visiting my maternal home while pregnant, he thought of forming a good alliance between the two families.

"The Ning Family had no other children, so Old General Du arranged for you, in my belly, to be engaged to the child in the belly of his grandson’s wife at the time, which is the very third Mrs. Du we spoke of earlier.

"The third Mrs. Du later gave birth to a boy, and you were a girl, so this relationship turned into an engagement.

"We were in Jiangling at the time, they were in the capital city; later we moved to the capital, and they went on foreign assignments, so we never had a chance to meet.

"Though we haven’t met, both sides maintained correspondence over the years! Those letters, which your grandfather left to me, can all prove the existence of this engagement! I never thought they would be so despicable!"

As Mrs. Fu spoke, her eyes grew even redder!