How did she end up with such a stupid sister, so stupid that it's almost embarrassing.

  Blocking her husband from entering the house, and having her maid serve him instead, is clearly telling her husband that she looks down on him and despises him. It's no wonder Zhao Lin is angry.

  She's already married, does she think she can still be on an equal footing with the second wife? She's even happy to take in a concubine for her husband, but a concubine is not the same as a servant girl, they have a proper contract and can't be easily beaten or scolded. If she were a bit more clever, with Lin Yu's intelligence, she wouldn't even have a place to stand in the Zhao household.

  She really thought that with the identity of Lin's daughter, she could do whatever she wanted. Zhao Lin stood up for a "reason" and she was wronged in the Zhao family, even the Lin family couldn't help her out.

  Lin Xiao asked: "What does the government plan to do?"

  Mu Zhi said with difficulty: "This time it's the second young lady who is not reasonable, and besides, the second young lady herself is willing to take a concubine, so it's not good for the house to say anything. Moreover, because of what happened last time, Zhao Gu Ye might have been holding a grudge in her heart."

  What Mu Zhi said last time was about Lin Ju and Zhao Lin's marriage not long ago.

  Because of Lin Xiang's reluctance to marry before the wedding, Mrs. Zhao was somewhat dissatisfied with Lin Xiang, so after the wedding, Mrs. Zhao's rules for this daughter-in-law were quite strict. After all, she was a girl from the Lin family, and Mrs. Zhao didn't dare do anything to her, at most letting her stand up straight morning and night, often reminding her what "womanly virtues" and "femininity" were.

  As a result, Lin Yu was timid and cowardly in the Lin family, but after marrying into the Zhao family, she became more confident. Within ten days of setting rules, she began to show off her authority, pointing at her mother-in-law and scolding: "You're just a lowly wet nurse, how dare you order me around."

  Mrs. Zhao was so angry that she pointed at her and stuttered "you, you, you" for half a day, then grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it over.

  Lin Xiao was unharmed, but had water splashed all over her body. She then got angry and pushed Mrs. Zhao forward, causing Mrs. Zhao to break her leg.

  At that time, Zhao Lin was preparing for the imperial examination. After hearing the news, he hurried back and then asked doctors for medicine, attended to his illness, and with anger attacking his heart, finally making himself ill as well. During the spring exam, he took the exam while being sick.

  Lin Ying said, Zhao Linming was obviously a top scholar material, but ended up being made into a second-class jinshi by Lin Yu, fortunately not a third-class tongjinshi, otherwise he would have been able to torment this daughter to death.

  Fortunately, Zhao Lin's later imperial examination was still quite good, and his final ranking was also relatively high, and he eventually entered the Hanlin Academy.

  After this incident, Zhao Lin was quite regretful for marrying such a wife. At the time of their engagement, he had been attracted to the Lin family's good reputation and its potential benefits to his own career advancement, and all the daughters of the Lin family who were already married were elegant and virtuous, but he did not expect that the one he married would be a defective product.

  He went to the Lin family, with a still somewhat polite attitude, and said: "At the time of our engagement, I thought it was a union between two good families, but I didn't know that the second young lady was so unwilling to marry into my Zhao family. Since our hearts are different, it's hard to be of one mind, let's quickly inform our relatives, each return to their own path, and I'll write a divorce letter, from now on we'll part ways and each live happily. Also, please don't worry, sir, all the blame is mine, Zhao will take responsibility for everything and clear up any misunderstandings outside." This means that he would take the responsibility of the divorce upon himself.

  Not only did Zhao Lin regret it, but Lin Ying also had some regrets.

  Lin Xiao had previously joked with him, saying that if he had a grudge against someone, he would raise a bad daughter and then marry her off to him, letting his daughter torment the other person. As it turned out, he didn't have any grievances with the Zhao family, but he still ended up marrying off a daughter who tormented them.

  Lin Ying was truly ashamed of the Zhao family, but this daughter had already been married off, and where could they return her now? It wouldn't sound good for their reputation.

  Lin's family persuaded and reconciled, then went to Zhao's wife to apologize, finally asked the King of Yue's mansion to mediate, only to let the divorce matter pass.

  The Lin family had someone bring Lin Xiang back to the Duke's estate, then found three aunts who took turns re-teaching Lin Xiang her duties as a daughter-in-law.

  Lin Xue returned home after finishing her studies and was indeed well-behaved towards Zhao Lin and Madame Zhao, but she came up with another plan - refusing to let her husband enter the house, instead having her maid serve Zhao Lin.

  Lin Di: "......"

  For this concubine, Lin Xuan was really speechless. If she were Zhao Lin, she would also want to take a second wife.

  Mrs. Mu said, "The old lady and the second and third ladies are not very willing to manage her anymore. It's actually the fourth young lady who, being her own sister-in-law, has sent a personal maid to the Zhao family to instruct the second young lady, also with the intention of keeping an eye on that new aunt."

  Lin Tan sighed, Lin Wei and Shi Zhong didn't even look up to her, let alone listen to her nonsense.

  She said: "Find a nanny in the palace and send her to the Lin family, find one who is strict, let her teach Second Miss well."

  If Lin Xiao didn't let go of her cleverness and learn to be more obedient, no one would be able to save her. Sometimes Lin Yi also found it hard to understand - the Lin family clearly had no one with such a temperament, so who did she take after? That merchant woman who was imprisoned in the Zhuangzi?

  Mu Zhi said: "I think the second young lady is too close to Miss Jin. I heard that after the second young lady got married, she wouldn't listen to anyone's words, but whenever something happened, she would let people go to the Zhongshan Hou Mansion to ask Miss Jin what to do."

  Miss Lin is now a discarded straw of the Lin family, and even outsiders know that the Lin family will no longer care about Lin Jian. Only the second missus doesn't know this and still listens to Miss Lin's words.

  Lin Da said: "She felt unappreciated in the Lin family, only Lin Wei seemed to be thinking of her all the time, so she naturally got close to Lin Wei." To put it bluntly, Lin Wei is actually brainless.

  Muzhi personally went to select a few maids and sent them to the Zhao family. The maids bestowed by the Empress were not ordinary, with such maids in charge, even if the new daughter-in-law was a treacherous person, she would not be able to stir up any major trouble.

  It was only after Mu Zhu returned that she let out a sigh and said to Lin Xiao: "The new madam of the Zhao family is indeed very proper, her every move is respectful, and she doesn't show any disrespect towards Second Miss, instead it's as if she truly respects her mistress."

  But because of this, it's actually more worrisome. If she were truly cunning, men might not necessarily like her, but if she were honest and virtuous, she would be more likely to evoke men's sympathy. Someone like the new daughter-in-law is truly intelligent.

  Mu Zhuang continued: "However, the Zhao family is not completely ignorant. Madam Zhao has guaranteed that no matter what Second Miss's temperament is like, the eldest son must first come out of Second Miss's belly."

  The Zhao family has already given the Lin family enough face by doing this much.

  Lin Xiang did things to this extent, not even allowing Zhao Lin to enter the house. Who knows when she can give birth to a son? The Zhao family is just letting Concubine Master have a child, and the Lin family cannot say anything about it.

  Lin Daodao said, "Zhao Lin and this Mrs. Zhao are also clever people." The more the concubine acted out, the more lenient they were towards her, and the deeper the Lin family's guilt towards them became, so their compensation to them was even greater afterwards, which was better than being petty and quarrelsome with the Lin family like before.

  Besides, when it comes to the inheritance of descendants, as long as one's brain is not addled and the legitimate wife is not infertile, no one would allow a concubine's child to be born first, in order to avoid future conflicts between legitimate and illegitimate children, fratricidal strife, and the destruction of the family foundation. Even if Madam Zhao doesn't say anything, the Zhao family will definitely not let Concubine Lin give birth to a son, not for Lin's sake, but for the sake of their own family's legacy.

  But she said it out loud, just to let the Lin family know her feelings.