"Who doesn't know your daughter went too far fooling around with another man, then came looking for my cousin to clean up the mess?"
"My cousin was foolish enough to fall for your scheme. Marrying your daughter was already a terrible injustice to him, yet you ran off with his money and eloped with another man-and that man even used my cousin's money to drink and carouse in brothels."
"If I were you, I'd have crawled into a crack in the ground when it happened and spared everyone else the trouble. How do you have the nerve to say both sides deserve fifty strokes of the rod?"
Jiang Chen snorted. "Because they're shameless. I don't know what's gotten into this year, but shameless people are everywhere."
Lin Shuangshuang wholeheartedly agreed. "And each one is more shameless than the last. What was it Yue'er said before... prenatal education? Seeing too many people like this is bad for prenatal education. Chen, are these your relatives?"
They were relatives, but cousins on the Liu Family's side.
The Qin Family and the Liu Family still kept in touch, but neither had had dealings with the Jiang Family for years.
They had only met this year at the banquets celebrating his marriage and his success in the imperial examinations.
Jiang Chen nodded. "Not particularly close, but relatives all the same. This fellow was only schemed against because he's too decent. Taichu, do you need me to teach these two scoundrels a lesson?"
"After all, we're relatives. Having men married to women like this as our brothers-in-law leaves a bad taste in our mouths, too."
Jiang Shuyue nodded furiously and picked up where Jiang Chen had left off. "People say a girl becomes different after marriage. They certainly weren't wrong."
"After getting married, I've truly witnessed