In the courtyard, the women were sitting and chatting, none of them interested in drinking tea.
As soon as Cheng Wanwan came out, everyone gathered around to ask.
"Is Miss Lin okay?"
"Would you like to ask the doctor to come and take a look?"
"Why did he suddenly fall into the water? What happened?"
Cheng Wanwan said quietly: "Everyone, please be patient and sit down."
She sat down on the main seat and turned to look at Wei Hongying who was serving tea beside her. "Go, close the courtyard door. You guard the door and no one is allowed in."
Wei Hongying nodded: "Yes."
The faces of the ladies and ladies suddenly changed, and they didn't know what was going on.
Mrs. Zheng forced a smile: "Sui Ruren, what are you doing? It feels weird to close the door in the clear day."
The other ladies also felt strange, but did not dare to speak.
After all, among everyone present, the person with the highest status is Sui Ruren, followed by Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Zheng. They should remain silent.
"All ladies and gentlemen, we are all persons of high status. We closed the courtyard door to save some face for a certain lady." Cheng Wanwan looked slightly cold, "It was not an accident that Miss Lin fell into the water just now, but someone secretly pushed her."
As soon as these words came out, the whole audience was stunned.
All the ladies and ladies immediately looked at each other, and finally, their eyes focused on the ladies on the same boat as Miss Lin.
The ladies suddenly panicked.
"not me."
"I don't."
"I have no grievances with Miss Lin. How could I do such a thing?"
All the ladies denied it, and everyone had similar expressions. If Cheng Wanwan didn't know who it was, they would all be deceived by this Miss Zheng.
Mrs. Zheng spoke with difficulty: "Sui Ruren, we are all familiar friends, and these girls are all handkerchiefs. How could they do such a thing? I think Miss Lin misunderstood."
Mrs. Qian echoed: "Yes, it must be a misunderstanding. Someone may have accidentally bumped into it."
"Is it a misunderstanding? You know the lady who did it!" Cheng Wanwan's face was full of coldness, "I can't care about any grudges between you and Miss Lin, but you should never do it. Take action in Dahe Village! I'm going to tell you the ugly story first. Dahe Village is the territory of my Sui Ru people. Anyone who causes trouble and does evil in my territory and engages in some backdoor tricks such as frame-ups, calculations, and murders will follow me. Sui Ruren is against you!"
"Although I am just a child with no real power, I am still a seventh-rank official after all. The largest official within a few dozen miles is only a seventh-rank county magistrate. I also have some friendship with these county magistrates. I don't want to be secretly slipped by the county magistrate, so just Don't do anything disgusting here!"
Her sharp words made the courtyard suddenly quiet.
These ladies and ladies had gotten along with Cheng Wanwan twice, and they all found Sui Ru to be approachable and without any pretensions.
But at this moment, they knew that they were wrong. The clay figurines were even very angry, let alone the Sui Ru people who had been personally conferred by the Holy One.
I don't know who it was that was so bold as to do something under Sui Ruren's nose, and they were also implicated.
"Sorry, I just got a little emotional." Cheng Wanwan's face softened, "It's almost time for lunch, I asked the girl to take you to have a meal. It is a unique lotus banquet in Dahe Village. I hope all the ladies and ladies will forget that just now unhappy."
She clapped her hands, and Wei Hongying, who was guarding outside, opened the courtyard door and walked in.
Wei Hongying was standing at the door and could clearly hear the sounds in the yard. Although she heard it, she did not show it on her face at all. She respectfully invited all the ladies to go to the Daheyan canteen to have dinner.
Mrs. Zhao had already been notified of Cheng Wanwan’s banquet with the lady, and she had reorganized everything here. Although it was still not as exquisite as the restaurants in the city, this was the best that the old Zhao family could offer. Something.
The ladies didn't want to find fault with each other, so they sat down with different thoughts.
"Hey, Miss Zheng, what's wrong with you? You look so pale?"
A lady next to me suddenly exclaimed.
Mrs. Zheng looked up, wasn't it? Her unlucky daughter had a pale face. Wasn't this showing her own weakness?
She stood up and said with a smile: "My daughter has always been timid. She must have been frightened. Come on, mother will take you over there to wash your face."
Mrs. Zheng took her daughter to a secluded place, and her expression suddenly changed: "Why, are you afraid that others won't be able to tell that you pushed that girl from the Lin family down?"
Miss Zheng's face turned even paler: "No, I don't...Mom, I want to go back."
"You are really worthless!" Mrs. Zheng said coldly, "If you leave at this time, others will think that you are guilty, and the debt will be settled on you. Take a deep breath, adjust your emotions, and don't look like you are dying again. Live like this and don’t ruin the reputation of our Zheng family.”
Miss Zheng bit her lower lip and said, "I don't understand now why Mom asked me to push Miss Lin down..."
"Because her surname is Lin, I asked someone to inquire about it. The Lin family is a wealthy family in the capital, and the head of the Lin family is the Taifu of the dynasty. If your brother becomes the son-in-law of the Lin family, with the Taifu as his backer, what do you think our Zheng family is? Isn't it possible to go up a little bit?" Mrs. Zheng's voice was low, "Originally, Miss Lin fell into the water, but your brother came to the rescue, and the man and woman hugged each other in the water. Miss Lin's reputation was naturally ruined, and she had to marry us. The Zheng family came... It's all because of the Sui Ru people who interfered and ruined my good deeds! The only good thing is that no one saw that it was the Zheng family girl who took action, so we still have a chance..."
She glared at her daughter and said, "Let's go, go have a meal, look normal, and don't let anyone notice."
After the mother and daughter finished speaking, they walked towards the dining place together.
And behind this wall, a figure came out.
This figure held a nursing child in her arms. The child fell asleep while eating, and she quickly pulled down her clothes.
"Good guy, you are already so rich, and you still want to climb up..." Mrs. Sun couldn't believe it, "What is a Taifu? Is he very powerful? More powerful than the county magistrate?"
She was just hiding here to feed her breasts, but she didn't expect to hear such secret news.
No, she had to have a good chat with the women and old ladies in the village. The gossip of the wealthy family would be in vain.
Although a group of noble ladies experienced a little accident, when the delicious food was served, everyone quickly forgot the unpleasantness just now.
They are all people who are not short of money, but they have never eaten food like this. It tastes very fragrant and has a unique flavor. When they left, some ladies even bought some extra lotus roots to take back.
Cheng Wanwan stood at the entrance of the village and sent everyone away.
There were originally some other entertainment activities, but because something happened, they had to be abandoned hastily.
When she was walking back, she passed by the big locust tree and saw a large group of women surrounding Mrs. Sun, all of them full of gossip.
She thought that Mr. Sun was bragging again that he was destined to be Wenquxing's son. As a result, she heard words such as "Mrs. Zheng", "Miss Zheng", "Miss Lin" and "falling into the water".
