"Youâre right! If someone wants to marry my mom, they must have our consent!"
"With us here today, this wedding is not going to happen!"
"..."
They were unyielding.
Standing stiffly on stage, they made it impossible for the emcee to step down gracefully. The ceremony couldnât move forward. For a moment, the wedding came to a standstill.
This scene was witnessed by everyone around.
Among those in the inner circle, Li Weiguo, Song Tiancheng, and others were equally incensed, on the verge of cursing out loud.
"Whatâs gotten into these brats today? They keep calling her âMom,â but they never seemed so filial before."
"I feel like theyâre just here to cause trouble; thereâs something fishy going on!"
"Having these four as children is really bad luck!"
"Five years without providing for her, and now they suddenly show up, intending to ruin Old Zhangâs wedding!"
"..."
The elders all stared intently at the stage with unpleasant expressions on their faces.
The emcee might not know the inside story, but they did.
Previously, Jiang Daping and his brothers had completely neglected Feng Cuihua, never caring for her.
But today, all of a sudden, they were calling her âMomâ repeatedly, claiming it was their family matter. They seemed dead set on stopping the marriage.
It disgusted them once more.
But, frustratingly, they werenât entirely wrong in what they said.
Feng Cuihua was their biological mother, truly their own family. It indeed was an internal family matter.
However, disrupting the wedding in front of a large audience was just indecent.
If the marriage really couldnât happen, wouldnât Old Zhang be utterly humiliated?
Thinking of this, they all started to worry for Zhang Qingyuan.
ăAt the same time, inside the banquet hall.ă
Most of the dishes for the eighty tables were already served. But the guests attending the wedding had no appetite to eat. Everyoneâs gaze focused on the stage, on Jiang Daping and his brothers.
This was especially true for the court staff. There were nearly thirty of them, making up three tables.
Their attendance at the wedding was solely because Zhang Qingyuan had been so enthusiastic, personally delivering invitations to them at the courthouse. Moreover, Zhang Qingyuan often sat in on court sessions, so they had become familiar with him over time.
"Old Zhang... is this a wedding crashing?"
"It shouldnât be. I recognize those four; I was the clerk for their case when it was adjudicated."
"Iâve seen them too. They seem to be Old Lady Feng Cuihuaâs sons, right?"
"They want to make Old Zhang lose face in front of so many people."
"..."
The court staff, dressed in plain clothes, frowned and looked displeased. They worked at the court, and most of them were aware of this case.
Feng Cuihuaâs four sons had refused to provide for her, and they were sued. In the end, the sons were given a suspended sentence and were required to pay alimony regularly and spend time with her, among other things.
But unexpectedly, just a few days after the verdict was issued, these men were causing trouble at the wedding venue, trying to stop the marriage. The excuse they used was that they were "one family."
"Right, did anyone notice how many people are wearing formal suits today?"
Afterward, as different tables conversed, they couldnât help but look around the banquet hall.
The hall was spacious, with a staggering eighty tables arranged, and no seat was left empty. Nearly sixty tables were filled with people in formal suits and bow ties, looking very proper.
"Some of them seem to be lawyers. I recognize a couple, but not the rest," someone surveyed the room and shared their thoughts.
For Zhang Qingyuanâs wedding, the scale was indeed grand. Nearly six hundred guests in formal attire came to offer their congratulations. The key point was that these people were all in their thirties, not quite matching Zhang Qingyuanâs age.
It could only mean that Zhang Qingyuan was a truly influential figure with extensive social connections, exceedingly impressive.
Meanwhile, the occupants of these sixty tables of lawyers were unaware that they had caught the attention of the court staff.
They were also frowning, observing the deadlock occurring on stage.
"What exactly happened? Where did these four people come from? They seem to be the brideâs sons?"
"The parents want to marry, but the sons disagree? Could the wedding be called off?"
"Wasnât it said that Zhang Qingyuan is a very close friend of Qin Mu? These four causing trouble at the wedding must really be tired of living, like an old man hanging himself because heâs lived too long."
"Is it possible they donât know Qin Mu?"
"..."
Six hundred lawyers were whispering among themselves, watching and waiting.
In fact, they didnât know Zhang Qingyuan well. They were attending this wedding hoping to connect with Qin Mu and network.
But they hadnât expected to encounter four such "bold and reckless" individuals.
Just thinking about Qin Muâs past exploits made their scalps tingle. They began to mourn for these four in their hearts.
As lawyers, they considered themselves well-versed in the law, but they were still extremely cautious in front of Qin Mu, anxious not to cause any displeasure.
For instance, before attending this wedding, they had done a lot of homework to avoid any slip-ups.
But these four rash young men, like newborn calves unafraid of tigers, seemed to fear nothing at all, daring to publicly disrupt the ceremony.
ăIn the banquet hall, at one particular table.ă
"This is outrageous! These four have no shame at all!" Wang Dachui slammed the table furiously, exclaiming, "When we asked them to provide for her before, they were nowhere to be found. Now they suddenly speak so self-righteously, even playing the âguardianâ card!"
"They claim itâs their family matter? They didnât care about it before, and now they suddenly turn up to cause a commotion during the wedding?"