Hou Jinhua hadn't expected to be scolded once again. She was both angry and embarrassed, her face flushing deep red as she clenched her teeth, not daring to make a sound.
In her heart, she deeply resented Gu Chengqiao. The matter of their daughter's marriage was something he could have quietly discussed at home with her, his wife. There was no need to bring it up with the old master, causing her to be scolded again.
Seeing that she was now behaving, Gu Guotai then said to his son, "Chengqiao, continue, what exactly did Lu Mingzhen say?"
"Lu Mingzhen said that his son, Lu Lingche's wedding was actually to fulfill a wish of his deceased eldest son; the one who married Lu Lingche was actually his eldest sister-in-law, and the two of them merely went through the motions without anything else happening. The child, as they declared today, is indeed not Lu Lingche's; it belongs to his elder brother, Lu Shengqing."