The families of the military generals also glanced at the two of them from time to time.
Influenced by their husbands, these women were straightforward by nature, and they truly despised Madam Liang's filthy tricks.
They looked at Lu Zhiyi as though she were some hopeless dupe, their eyes full of sympathy.
Madam Liang noticed everyone's looks too. Although she had no idea why they were looking at her like that, their gazes made her deeply uncomfortable.
Whenever someone looked at her, she glared right back!
Lu Zhiyi also noticed the way everyone was looking at her.
What had she done to make everyone look at her as though she were a dupe?
She could not figure it out!
Guagua: [Host, I haven't finished yet.]
Song Yaoyao: [Go on!]
Guagua: [Madam Liang wants to trick Lu Zhiyi into settling her marriage to Liang Feiyu before General Lu returns.
If she doesn't get the marriage settled, Madam Liang fears that once General Lu returns and investigates everything they've done, the marriage will go up in smoke.
Also, they've already prepared the betrothal gifts. They're just afraid General Lu will discover the trick hidden in them.]
Song Yaoyao: [What? Even the betrothal gifts are fishy?
Hurry up and tell me what's going on!]
Guagua: [There's a huge trick behind the betrothal gifts Madam Liang prepared.
There's hardly any jade or jewelry among them. Everything she prepared is gold and silver.
Two thousand taels of gold and sixty thousand taels of silver.
Doesn't that sound like a generous betrothal gift?
Yes, at first hearing, it certainly sounds generous enough, but all of it is fake.
Madam Liang specifically hired someone to make a batch of fake gold and silver ingots.
The gold and silver ingots are hollow in the middle, filled with sand