Houmen's step-wife

Chapter 373 The Inner Thief (2)
Now that she heard Su Wan say that, she felt relieved.

Time passed quietly, and at some point in the capital, rumors about Mrs. Chu's domineering, jealous and intolerant rumors spread. At first, it was only spread in a small area, but gradually, the rumors became more and more widespread. And it was so vivid, as if they had seen it with their own eyes.

For example, the Tang sisters were young and beautiful. When they visited Mrs. Chu's mansion, they were spotted by His Majesty. His Majesty wanted to accept them as concubines, but Mrs. Chu became jealous and threatened them on the spot, saying Who wants to monopolize His Majesty, whoever seduces His Majesty is her enemy, and she will never show mercy, so that the Tang sisters can do it for themselves.

After the Tang sisters left, she was still not relieved, and deliberately framed them in front of His Majesty to contradict her and be disrespectful to her.

Although His Majesty also loves the Tang sisters, he still likes Mrs. Chu more. In addition, Mrs. Chu said a lot of bad things to them, which made His Majesty turn from liking them to loathing them, so he sent someone to punish the Tang sisters some.

Although this kind of speculation is far from the situation of the day, it is simply nonsense, but many details are vividly depicted, as if seeing it with one's own eyes.

For example, Su Wan's warning to Tang Lingyu was passed on almost verbatim.

Some of Su Wan's other words were also embellished and turned into a naked threat. Even the slap that Mrs. Yu slapped Tang Huiyu was also put on Su Wan's head by Zhang Guanli.

In the past few months, Su Wan's reputation has been very good, whether it is among the people or the aristocrats, but after such a publicity, although it does not have much impact on Su Wan's reputation, after all, this is just a private matter and has nothing to do with the common people. Everyone was just joining in the fun, but it also made many people have a bad impression of her.

For example, those pedantic and arrogant literati, and those noble ladies who have always claimed to be "virtuous and virtuous" and "tolerant", Su Wan is quite dissatisfied.

The literati were worrying unnecessarily, thinking that Mrs. Chu was too jealous and cruel, and felt that His Majesty should not favor her, otherwise, she would be another Su Daji in the future.

As for the virtuous women, they felt that Mrs. Chu had committed seven crimes and smeared women's faces by doing so.Although they dare not say it clearly, they often express their dissatisfaction with Mrs. Chu's behavior in private, and regard her as a negative example. General tolerance.

One day, at a banquet held by a group of honorable ladies who knew each other very well, all the ladies were talking, and they talked about Mrs. Chu again.

Mrs. Chu Guo is really topical, whether it is her identity, title, reputation, or her favorite, people are eager to talk about it.

A 30-year-old lady said: "Let me tell you, this woman just can't be jealous. Once she starts to be jealous, she will not be far from falling out of favor. Which man in the world likes a jealous woman?"

"It's true, she is so jealous and domineering, she can't even tolerate her own cousin, she will suffer sooner or later." A young lady said.

"That's not necessarily true. The favorite concubines of the past dynasties, such as Su Daji, Zhao Hede sisters, who are not jealous? Don't they still fascinate men dizzily." Someone retorted.

Another person sighed: "No wonder Your Majesty has not entered the harem for so long. It turns out that there is such a big jealousy jar by his side, and the competition for favor is not such a way to fight. He refused to share even a sip of soup. This is a pain for the palace. Ladies and gentlemen, on such a day, I don’t know when I will be tall.”

"I don't think it will be too long. Didn't Your Majesty still favor Lu Cairen some time ago? Now that he has taken a fancy to the Tang sisters again, I don't believe that Mrs. Chu will continue to be so exclusive. The empress and the four The concubine is not a vegetarian."

Speaking of Lu Cairen, a lady next to her tugged at her sleeve, then pouted in another direction, the lady who was speaking stopped talking awkwardly, but she forgot that Mrs. Wu Qingbo was also there .

Mrs. Wu Qingbo's Mrs. Ye just smiled lightly, seemingly indifferent, but in fact she was a little worried.

It has been almost half a month since the last time she left the palace, but she has not made up her mind to find Mrs. Chu, because she really has no idea.When she finally made up her mind to give it a try, the matter of the Tang sisters happened again. Naturally, she also heard what Su Wan said, and immediately hesitated even more.

Seeing that His Majesty never entered the harem, she became more and more anxious every day. At the same time, she did not go out to socialize or expand her network. After half a month, she lost several times.

After the banquet, on the way back by car, Mrs. Ye finally made up her mind to go to Mrs. Chu's mansion.

She still wants to give it a try, otherwise she is really not reconciled.

The rumors were always very exaggerated, many of them were embellished, taken out of context, not necessarily true, she couldn't shrink back just because she heard a few rumors.

What's more, this may not be an opportunity for her. She already knows how to make Mrs. Chu let go.

Mrs. Chu's Mansion.

In the past few days, Su Wan's mood was very bad, and even the atmosphere of the whole Hou Mansion was a little gloomy.

Su Wan was angry, not because of those rumors and accusations, but because there was an inner ghost in the house.

Otherwise, it is impossible for outsiders to know such details.

She didn't think it was Tang Lingyu or Yu Shi who said it. Tang Lingyu was too busy to take care of herself and had no chance to do this, and Yu Shi would definitely not do it.

Therefore, there must be internal thieves in the mansion.

When Su Wan talked to Tang Lingyu back then, the only ones who stayed by her side were her confidants, and no one else.

In fact, she doesn't really believe that they will betray her. She can trust Hanyu and Camellia. Even the plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemums chosen by Qiu's mother, as well as Yunqing and Yunbi, are also considered loyal. Back then, Luzhu Without Mo Lan, there were only six of them present.

Su Wan carefully recalled the usual words and deeds of the six people, and did not find anything wrong, and did not target them, and her attitude towards them did not change much.However, the people below were not so polite anymore, and they did a lot of investigation.

However, the six of them also knew that they were the most suspected, and they blamed themselves very much, and their mood was also a little depressed.

But Mother Qiu is different. Her mood will only be worse than that of Su Wan. After all, most of the people around Su Wan are arranged by her. , very diligently investigated this matter, except for Hanyu and Shancha, the other six people, including Lvzhu and Molan who were not there, were all taught a lesson by her, and interrogated again by herself, but in the end, they still did not investigate. If something went wrong, he began to investigate other servants.

(End of this chapter)