Seeing her impatience, Miao's also worried she had said too much. Just when her mood had been good, thoughts of Shen Songming turning unfavorable came to mind, so she no longer dwelled on it. Asking what she'd like for lunch, she called her daughter-in-law to prepare the meal.
Sun Xiujin pondered for a while and gradually unraveled the trickiness within. Li Baoxiang had said Zhao Junchao was Pei Wenli's brother-in-law, implying the match made last year by Old Pei's House was for the legal wife's family affair. The family they had engaged with supposedly had connections within the County Government Office, and there were discussions about how a family with the reputation of the Pei's could make such a favorable match.
After this marriage alliance was formed, Pei Wenli entered the next examination and was titled as a Scholar. At that time, she had heard people speculating that it was the in-laws who had pulled strings for him.
