Xie's mansion is not big, only a small garden.
Yun Chu and Yuan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law led a large group of ladies to go around the garden, but everyone was not interested.
A lady hesitated and said, "I heard that Mrs. Xie planted many jujube trees in the house. I wonder if the jujube trees are blooming this season?"
Yun Chu smiled and said, "Jujube flowers don't bloom until May at the earliest."
"It doesn't matter if it doesn't bloom. Let's go and have a look." Mrs. Hu cheered. "The jujube tree in Feng Shui means good descendants. Let's all get lucky."
The ladies' net worth and status are not as good as those of the eldest lady of the Yun family, so naturally they all followed suit.
Yuanshi said: "The jujube tree is planted at the southeast corner of the house. If you don't mind that the jujube tree is unworthy of appreciation, then let's go this way."
The group of people followed and walked to the southeast.
This place used to be a garden, and flowers were planted according to the season. Flower-viewing feasts were arranged every spring and autumn. This year, jujube trees were planted instead.
These are adult jujube trees purchased and transplanted from the suburbs of Beijing. Each tree is higher than the courtyard wall and has lush branches and leaves.
Mrs. Hu said: "It seems that the fruits will be available this year. Come to Xie's Mansion to ask Mrs. Xie for some dates to try."
Yun Chu said politely: "When the fruits are harvested, the Xie family will arrange for people to deliver them to various prefectures. Just don't think that the green dates are astringent."
"Hey, why do I seem to hear something?" A lady with relatively sensitive ears said, "In that direction."
Yuanshi looked at it: "That is a small courtyard in the Xie Mansion where no one lives. On weekdays, only the maid comes to clean it."
As she finished speaking, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and the sounds in the small courtyard were also blown over. The sounds were simply unbearable...
The expressions of all the female relatives all changed.
One of the ladies' husbands and Xie Jingyu were political enemies. They were both fifth-rank officials, and they both focused on the position on the fifth rank.
Although the Xie family has no advantage now, what if it happens?
She said: "This sound is so strange, go and see what it is."
She took the lead and walked that way.
Yunchu smiled.
She specifically reminded Xie Ping to add Mrs. Yuan to the banquet list, and Mrs. Yuan did not disappoint her.
How could Yuan, a woman in her forties or fifties, not be able to tell what the sound was about? She was so frightened when she saw Mrs. Yuan leading everyone in that direction.
Yun Chu gently pulled her mother-in-law and said in a low voice: "The servants of the Xie family are not so bold. They cannot do such things in broad daylight. If these ladies are not allowed to find out, they will not know how to talk about our Xie family in the future. Just go and check it out.”
This makes sense, and today is the old lady's birthday party. All the servants are busy preparing for the birthday party. It is impossible for anyone to have time to hide here and do anything casual.
There was nothing wrong in the first place, but if she kept it secret, it would be the end if someone gave the Xie family's back home a reputation of being a promiscuous woman.
Thinking of this, Yuan felt a lot more at ease. The key was that Yun Chu looked calm, and she seemed to have a backbone. She said with a smile, "I guess it's the wild cats causing trouble."
A group of more than ten people took a few steps to reach the uninhabited small courtyard.
After walking in, the voice became more obvious, making several young ladies who had just gotten married blush.
"This is the first time I've heard a wild cat call spring." Mrs. Yuan quickly walked up the steps and pushed open the door in front of her, "Just in time to see what kind of wild cat it is."
The door opened, and everyone could clearly see that on the couch in the room, a man and a woman were half-dressed and hugging each other.
When she saw the faces of the man and the woman clearly, Yuan stood frozen on the spot, her mind was like a thunder bomb, and she just wanted to faint immediately.
Some thin-skinned young women backed away.
Mrs. Yuan, who was in her thirties, had never seen anything before, so she immediately spoke loudly.
"Why is it Mr. Xie!"
"On the day of Mrs. Xie's birthday, what are Master Xie and the maid in the mansion doing hiding here?"
"I didn't see Mr. Xie at the birthday banquet. It turned out that he was having an affair with a servant. I didn't know anything about it. If he comes later... tsk tsk."
Many ladies looked at Xie Jingyu with disdain, and at the same time, they were full of sympathy for Yun Chu.
As if she couldn't believe it, Yun Chu stood there blankly, without any reaction at all, until Yuanshi pulled her.
Yuan's voice was trembling: "Chu, Chu'er, what should I do? What's the best way to be born..."
Yun Chu seemed to have finally recovered his thoughts, and quickly walked up the steps, bent down to pick up the clothes on the ground, and put them on Xie Jingyu and He.
She blocked the two of them, looked at the crowd and said: "Madams, you have misunderstood. This is not the maid of my Xie Mansion, but Aunt He. She is very good at singing. It was just now that I asked her to sing in the front yard to entertain, but her body Oops, she must have felt unwell during the journey, so her husband carried her here to take a nap..."
Yuan's trembling heart finally stabilized.
It is better to have sex with your aunt than to have sex with your maid.
She once again admired this daughter-in-law, who could think of a reason to resolve such a chaotic situation. The Xie family could not live without Yun Chu.
But this reason made the ladies present feel even more sympathetic to Yun Chu.
During the banquet, the husband and his aunt were hiding here and arguing with each other. This was completely ignoring the mistress of the house.
They had long heard that Mrs. Xie was infertile, and now she no longer even had the respect of her husband. You can imagine how sad this day is.
Mrs. Xie was obviously extremely sad, but she still had to stand up to protect the dignity of her husband and the Xie family. The apple of the Yun family's eye ended up in such a situation...
"Mrs. Xie probably still has a lot of things to deal with, so I'll take my leave first."
"Thank you for your busy work, Madam. We will meet again in the future."
A group of ladies all said goodbye with great eyesight.
When we walked to the front yard, the ladies who were still watching the show didn't understand what was going on and winked at each other, so everyone asked to leave.
When they arrived outside Xie's mansion, everyone dared to talk.
"You theatergoers in front of you don't know, but we caught Mr. Xie and an aunt doing that in the backyard."
"Why are you hiding and doing such a thing in broad daylight? Are you so impatient?"
"That aunt must be unparalleled in beauty, otherwise Mr. Xie wouldn't be so confused."
"When you say that, I think about it. That aunt looks a bit old and her appearance is not outstanding. She is far inferior to Mrs. Xie."
"It turns out that Mr. Xie likes older women..."
What happened in the back yard reached the old lady's ears. She was so angry that her ears rang and she almost fainted.
Mrs. Yun Lin's face was as gloomy as water, as if she was about to explode at any moment.
She only knows that there are Aunt Yu, Aunt Jiang, and Aunt Tao in the Xie Mansion. When did there be an additional Aunt He?
Xie Jingyu actually had sex with a maid in the backyard on the day of his birthday party, and asked her daughter, who was holding her hand, to help smooth things over.
How wronged her daughter must have been!
"Mom, go home first." Yun Chu personally escorted the Yun family out, "Sister-in-law, please persuade my mother, I'll be fine."
Liu Qianqian's eyes were full of worry.
Men of the Yun family can also take concubines, but taking concubines requires the nod of the head wife, and they will never have sex before that. This is completely disrespectful of the head wife.
The Yun family is here today, and Xie Jingyu dares to act like this. On weekdays, he still doesn’t know why he despises Yun Chu...
