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Chapter 2229: Chapter 2229: The Truth (3)
Huang Ke felt bitterness he couldn’t express, but he also knew that the urgent matter wasn’t to dwell on this, so he immediately took people upstairs.
Before long, a house servant carried two people down and quickly left. Of course, both were covered, body and head.
Even so, someone had seen it just now, and one of them was specifically arranged by Shu Luo, causing those watching the spectacle to become extremely excited, gossiping nonstop.
"Shut up, what nonsense are you spouting?" Huang Ke shouted at the crowd, "Slander the Gu Family again, and do you believe..."
"What slander?" a middle-aged man in the crowd waved his hand, "I didn’t sleep the whole night last night; the sounds from my room were getting louder and louder. If you don’t want people to talk, then don’t do it! The Gu Family? Isn’t that the Minister’s family? Is this how they behave?"
"Yes, that’s right." Some middle-aged women in the crowd nodded, one with a particularly loud voice, "Back then, the Gu Family married the eldest daughter of the Shu Family. But, Gu Sheng favored his concubine and mistreated his wife, and later even expelled the eldest son from the family, claiming the eldest son insulted his stepmother?"
Chinese aunties have always had a knack for gossip, and their prowess in spreading it is formidable. This transcends time, for instance, right now, a crowd of aunties had gathered at the inn’s entrance, gossiping fervently.
"Is that true?" Another aunty joined in, "That Zou Qiuyue is much older than the former Gu eldest son. Besides, how old was Gu eldest son back then?"
"Ugh!" The woman spat, "Shameless is right here. That’s nothing more than a scheme by the current Chief of Staff’s wife to pave the way for her son."
"How do you know this so well?" Two more aunties squeezed in, practically radiating the word ’gossip’ on their faces.
"My niece’s sister-in-law’s third aunt’s son works in Beijing; he delivers vegetables to the Minister Office. A while ago, that Chief of Staff’s wife was sent back, not because she was sick, but because she was caught in the act having an affair with her cousin Deng Da. Now, the Gu Family’s little master, Gu Che, isn’t even a blood relative of the Gu Family. He’s an illegitimate son of that cousin. They want to transform the Gu Family into the Deng Family..."
"Oh my, is that so?" The group of aunties exclaimed in unison.
The man who initially stirred everyone’s gossip interest stepped back, leaving the gossip battlefield to those middle-aged aunties.
"Really, there’s not a single good thing about the Gu Family." An old lady with a vegetable basket chimed in, "My husband worked for them before. That Gu Family is so stingy..."
"Ah, now it makes sense. The father-in-law and daughter-in-law blatantly booking a room together. So who knows, maybe Gu Che is that father-in-law’s..."
"That would be hilarious. Your own son suddenly becomes your brother?"
"Exactly, how could they face anyone? Hahaha..."
"With the family’s reputation so sullied, does the Emperor care?"
Yang Ruxin and Gu Qingheng sat in a carriage not far away, watching it all with a composed demeanor.
Although Gu Qingheng’s expression was calm, beneath those calm eyes was a turbulent storm.
Yang Ruxin reached out and patted Gu Qingheng’s hand: "Don’t worry, we’ll deal with the Gu Family slowly, like cutting meat with a dull knife."