The daughter-in-law of the first assistant is a super prosperous husband, and the whole family is vy

Chapter 202

Before that, Zhou Ran decided to find someone to check and confirm whether Zhou Ying had created this rumor.

Originally, Zhou Ran wanted to go to Gou Sheng the next day and ask him to help her investigate. But after Ye Ximing came back, Zhou Ran realized that there was no need to bother. Ye Ximing had already investigated the matter.

In fact, this rumor has been circulating for some time, but because Ye Ximing is also one of the protagonists of the rumor, no one will bring this rumor to Ye Ximing. Ye Ximing has never heard of it, but today two petty officials are hiding aside and chatting. He didn't know about it until he heard it accidentally.

Ye Ximing immediately stood up and asked the two clerks where they heard it.

The two clerks were overheard gossiping, and they were embarrassed and uneasy. When they heard Ye Ximing asked, they didn't dare to hide it, so they hurriedly explained the matter clearly.

When Ye Ximing heard this, his first reaction was the same as Zhou Ran's. He also thought of Zhou Ying, so he asked someone to check it out.

It turned out that although this rumor was related to Zhou Ying, it was not actually Zhou Ying who spread it. The people who spread the rumor were Miss He San, the legitimate daughter of Mr. He of the Hanlin Academy, and Miss Liu Si, the concubine of General Liu's family. .

Miss He San and Miss Liu Si are famous in Beijing for spreading gossip.

Of course, these two people were able to spread this matter to this point without the help of Cui Yuzhu of Chengen's residence.

Ye Ximing originally wanted to resolve the matter by himself, but when he returned home, he realized that Zhou Ran and his family had heard about the rumor, so he stopped hiding it and told everyone everything he found.

"Has this Miss Cui been deceived by Zhou Ying?" Ms. Zhang guessed.

Ye Ximing said noncommittally: "Maybe."

Zhou Ran glanced at Ye Ximing.

"Even if Miss Cui was deceived, she shouldn't spread this rumor everywhere." Ye Erlang said.

Li nodded and agreed: "Erlang is right, Miss Cui is not a good person, we can't let her go like this."

Ms. Zhang frowned and said, "What if we don't let her go?"

If they were in the countryside, they could still come to the house and beat people up, but this was in the capital. They couldn't rush into the uncle's house and drag people out and beat them up.

Even if they have this intention, the uncle's mansion is not a country yard. They can rush in if they want.

"You should be able to report it to the official." Zhou Ran said not sure. It would be the easiest way for the government to come forward and take the matter to the government. However, she didn't know much about the laws of this era. She didn't know whether the government would do it. Never mind this kind of thing.

Zhang and others looked at Ye Ximing, "Can this kind of thing be reported to the government?" The government usually deals with major cases, right?

Ye Ximing nodded, "Okay, but the most the government can do is call people over to give them a warning."

Zhou Ran thought this was enough. What she wanted was for the government to come forward to clarify this rumor.

Li and others felt displeased.

Ye Ximing said: "Although it is just a warning, the consequences for boudoir ladies like them are also very serious."

Rich families attach great importance to reputation. For example, Cui Yuzhu and the others were sued to the government for gossiping before they even got married. If they didn't talk about their own marriages, even the marriages of their sisters at home would be affected.

After returning to the room, Zhou Ran and Ye Ximing were alone, and Zhou Ran said: "That Cui Yuzhu is targeting me, isn't it because he was deceived by Zhou Ying?" Ye Ximing nodded and told Cui Yuzhu that he had gone to Gaofu before doing these things. I told Zhou Ran about it.

Zhou Ran understood that Gao Rongyue wanted to plot against her, but she suffered a disaster. The Gao family unreasonably blamed themselves for this, so it was not surprising that they did something for it.

She had been on guard before, but there had been no movement from the Gao family. She thought that the Gao family would not take action, but she did not expect that the Gao family actually borrowed Cui Yuzhu's hand to do this.

Gao Rongyue's reputation was ruined after something happened, and they also wanted to ruin their own reputation.

It has to be said that this method is much kinder and smarter than the method Gao Rongyue used to deal with him before.

Even if Ye Ximing found out that Cui Yuzhu had been to Gaofu, they could guess that Gaofu was behind this matter, but Gaofu didn't take action from the beginning to the end. If they really wanted to pursue this matter, they couldn't hold Gaofu responsible. .

Zhou Ran felt that it was Mrs. Gao who should take action this time.

The next day, Ye Ximing and Zhou Ran went to Shuntian Mansion together and sued Cui Yuzhu, Miss He San and Miss Liu Si directly to Shuntian Mansion.

The governor of Shuntian Prefecture originally did not want to care about this matter and advised Ye Ximing and Zhou Ran to go to these houses to resolve it privately, but Ye Ximing was resolute and even brought out Taifu Yao.

Two days ago, Ye Ximing went to a banquet hosted by Taifu Yao. At the banquet, Taifu Yao was very friendly to Ye Ximing. After the banquet, Ye Ximing stayed to talk privately.

Now all the officials in the capital know that Ye Ximing is highly valued by Taifu Yao.

Compared with Uncle Cheng'en's Mansion, He's Family and General Liu's Mansion, Fu Yin did not want to offend Tai Fu Yao, so he had no choice but to go to court and ask the Yamen to summon Zhou Ying, Cui Yuzhu and other parties involved.

At this time, many people had gathered outside the court.

When Cui Yuzhu and others were brought to Shuntian Mansion, they all looked sad and angry. Cui Yuzhu did not expect that Zhou Ran would directly sue them to Shuntian Mansion.

Zhou Ying saw Zhou Ran and Ye Ximing standing in the hall, and then thought about the rumors during this period and felt a little guilty.

At first Cui Yuzhu refused to admit that she had spread rumors and ruined Zhou Ran's reputation, but Miss Liu Si and Miss He San could not withstand Mr. Fu Yin's repeated inquiries, so they quickly admitted the matter and told Cui Yuzhu After giving the confession, Ye Ximing presented the evidence he had found, and Cui Yuzhu finally admitted the matter.

"I admit that those words were spread by me, but I also wanted to seek justice for Aunt Ying."

Zhou Ran looked at her coldly and said, "You said you were seeking justice for Zhou Ying, but according to what we found, your relationship with Zhou Ying is not good. Why are you so kind-hearted all of a sudden?"

Cui Yuzhu lowered her eyes and said: "Although the relationship is not good, Aunt Ying is a member of our Uncle Cheng'en's house after all, and it is right for me to stand up for her."

Seeing that it was impossible for Cui Yuzhu to confess to Mrs. Gao, Zhou Ran changed the question, "You said you were standing up for Zhou Ying, but the rumors you spread to the outside world are all lies that confuse right and wrong. Do you know?"

Cui Yuzhu shook his head and said calmly: "I don't know, Aunt Ying told me these."

Zhou Ran looked at Zhou Ying and said, "Zhou Ying, what exactly happened back then, do you want to tell me clearly yourself or should I tell you?"

Zhou Ying bit her lip and looked at Zhou Ran with a pleading expression.

Seeing that she had no intention of speaking, Zhou Ran simply told the court everything that Zhou Ying and the Zhou family had done in the past. Even the Zhou family had severed ties with him and Zhou Ying's life experience was not concealed.