Hearing this, Qingdai had no choice but to suppress her anger, her brows still furrowed. "This old woman's every word is a slander against you, young lady. It's probably bad for your reputation."
When Feng's mother first went to the end of Shanghe Village to cause trouble, she and Danfeng already knew about the entanglement between their daughter and the Feng family, and they felt sorry for their daughter.
But this is not Shanghe Village, but Qingshui County. The restaurants are packed with customers. Nowadays, those dining in the restaurants include not only people from Qingshui County, but also many people from Tangshan Prefecture. Who knows, this might reach Uncle Zhou's mouth.
Uncle Zhou often keeps in touch with the old prince. If the old prince misunderstands the girl, it might cause trouble again.
"No rush, let's see first." Su Hua shook her head, her expression unchanged. "It's just a little mudslinging. From Shanghe Village to Tangshan Prefecture, we've been smeared a lot of mudslinging, this is just another one."
Now that she has accepted this body, the original owner's past is her past.
Feng Zicai was the apple of his mother's eye. For more than ten years, she had only hoped that he would pass the imperial examination with flying colors. Now, the gambling debt of two hundred taels of silver was like a sharp blade hanging over their heads. After failing to make connections in Shanghe Village several times, she became angry and threw a tantrum at the restaurant, which was exactly the kind of thing she was capable of.
Moreover, given the extent of the uproar caused by Feng's mother, it's impossible that Feng Zicai wasn't there.
Su Hua raised her eyes and glanced around in the huge crowd. "Qingdai, look around for any trace of Feng Zicai."
"Yes." Qingdai clasped her hands in response, touched the carriage shaft with her toes, and leaped out.
Su Hua closed her eyes and leaned against the car door. The crying and chatter from the front rushed into her ears like a tide. If the Su family wanted to move up the social ladder, similar incidents would only increase in the future. If Su Erhu wanted to manage the restaurant well, he had to learn how to handle these kinds of things.
Today, Feng's mother can give him a chance to practice.
At the restaurant entrance, the group of customers reacted as if they were in a boiling oil pan when they saw Feng's mother sitting on the ground, crying and wailing pitifully.
"No wonder the restaurant staff always kept quiet when asked about the young owner's marital status. It turns out he was already betrothed to someone."
"An engagement is not child's play; it is a matter witnessed by heaven and earth and formally agreed upon in writing. How can you just renege on it like that? That would be far too impolite!"
"Truly, you can know a person's face but not their heart! I heard that the young owner of Su's Restaurant is not only good-looking and a great cook, but also the most talented woman in Tangshan Prefecture. But what use is talent to such a heartless and ungrateful person? She's nothing but a gilded exterior and a rotten core!"
"That's right. At such a young age, she can be so ruthless to her childhood sweetheart and mother-in-law. Wouldn't she have absolutely no empathy for us guests? What if we offend her one day? Would she poison our food?"
"My God! If this is really poison, we're all going to die! I just bought a silver card membership, it has 500 taels of silver in it! Refund! Refund me now..."
Madam Feng collapsed to the ground, her ears perked up. She heard the crowd's attitude shift from initially scolding Su Hua to demanding a refund from the restaurant, and she was immediately delighted.
Tears streamed down her face as she wiped them away, and her sobs echoed throughout Tongxin Alley. "Hua'er, please, for the sake of how good I've always been to you, come out and say something to me, okay? I absolutely refuse to believe that you are truly such a heartless and cruel person..."
At the restaurant entrance, the waiters were already so angry that their chests were heaving.
Wang Ergou, even more furious, rolled up his sleeves, ready to charge forward, "That old hag, I'll tear her mouth apart, so she can stop spewing filth at people every day..."
"Ergou! Wait a minute." Su Erhu raised his hand to grab the man and shook his head. "If you rush up now, you'll only play right into her hands, and then we'll be in the wrong even if we're in the right."
Wang Ergou wasn't stupid; it was just that Madam Feng's words were so infuriating that being stopped like this made him a bit more sober. "Master, what do we do now? Are we just going to let her keep smearing the young lady here?"
Su Erhu didn't say anything, but just quietly watched Feng's mother crying until she stopped crying completely.
Fang waved his sleeve, signaling two servants to help the woman up. "Aunt Feng has been so worried about your son these past few days. She just slit her throat and hanged herself. She's still weak. If something were to happen to her while she's lying on the ground, wouldn't it be impossible to explain?"
Upon hearing this, everyone looked towards the woman's neck.
Upon closer inspection, a brownish-red scar was visible in the center of the woman's neck, directly below her chin.
The guests, who had been chattering, suddenly fell silent. Was it because the son had slit his own throat and hanged himself?
Didn't this woman say that her son was an exceptional man, devoted only to Su Ji's young master and the classics? If that's the case, how could she have driven her own mother to slit her own throat and hang herself?
Madam Feng had intended to close her eyes and faint before the restaurant staff made their move, but upon hearing Su Erhu's words, her joy suddenly choked her.
He hurriedly opened his half-closed eyes and covered the scar on his neck. "What are you saying, Erhu? What do you mean by hanging yourself?! It was just an accidental bump."
After saying that, she looked up at the man's back and asked, "Where is Hua? I've treated her so well, does she really not want to come out and see me?"
Su Erhu looked at the woman with a half-smile, not dwelling on the matter of suicide, but raising his voice, "When Aunt Feng broke off the engagement, she personally declared that your son and my sister were completely cut off, with no further relationship whatsoever, and that if they met again, they would be strangers. Now, why does she keep saying she wants to see my sister?"
Mrs. Feng was completely taken aback when he directly admitted to the engagement, and she was speechless for a moment, "I, when did I..."
However, Su Erhu didn't give her a chance to explain and cut her off, "Aunt Feng just claimed that she treats my sister well, but how so? Has she ever given her a single needle or thread, or a single meal over the years?"
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