The master and servant left quietly, and when they were in a deserted place, Xiaoxiang could no longer bear it.
"Madam, why don't you let me teach those gossipers a lesson?"
"After the lesson, so what?" Heng Youyi's eyes flashed with sarcasm, with a bitter smile on the corner of his lips, "It's not them who embarrassed me."
Xiaoxiang was stunned for a moment, but soon understood.
If the Marquis hadn't been so disrespectful to her young lady, she wouldn't have been treated so badly.
Now even a humble servant in the Marquis's mansion dared to slander her young lady behind her back.
"Miss, I feel sorry for you."
Xiaoxiang doesn't even want to call her Madam.
Heng Youyi smiled and said, "You'll get used to it."
Their Heng family needs the support of the Marquis' Mansion. If her own suffering can bring safety to her father and brother, it will be worth it.
Bluestone Lane
The guys carried the food into the house as Su Yin instructed. After everything was done, Su Xiaozhong and his wife came back, each carrying a lot of food in their hands.
Mother Su was very happy to see that everything was put in place.
Madam Xu and Su Baozhu helped Su Yin clean the furniture, while Su's mother and Granny Xu cooked in the kitchen.
Su Xiaozhong does some physical work. The whole family has a clear division of labor and no one is idle.
It was another busy day. The whole house was finally ready and every room was decorated.
In Su Yin's boudoir, the dressing table, wardrobe and everything were arranged, as well as tables and chairs for entertaining guests, tea sets, and soft couches for resting.
I cut a few blooming flowers from the garden, put them in a vase and placed it on the side of the dressing table, lighting up the whole room.
Su Yin looked at the bedroom she had decorated with her own hands with satisfaction. She could finally sleep comfortably.
Su Yin doesn't like to close the windows. She likes to keep them open to let the natural wind blow into the bedroom.
I opened the tightly closed windows and looked out, and saw Su Xiaozhong sitting on a stone bench in the courtyard with a chessboard next to him.
Su Yin walked out of the house, sat on the stone bench, took a look at the layout on the chessboard, picked up the black piece and put it down.
"Dad, what kind of person is Shunyi Hou in your eyes? Putting aside the previous things, tell me what kind of person he was in your previous memories?"
Su Xiaozhong dropped a piece and said, "He is a man of great talent, but he is narrow-minded and has a small vision."
"I was shopping with my aunt on the street today and heard something." Su Yin told the story that the stall owner had told her during the day.
After Su Xiaozhong heard this, his expression did not change much. "It is something he can do. There are many people like this among the dignitaries in Shangjing City."
"I also heard that the wife of Shunyi Marquis distributes porridge to the slums on the first and fifteenth day of every month and does good deeds. How much do you know about this marquis' wife?" Su Yin was very curious about what kind of person this marquis' wife would be.
Xu Lanzhi and Fu Wenlin are so crazy that I wonder what kind of role this legally married lady of the marquis will play under the various outrageous actions of this crazy couple.
If they killed Xu Lanzhi, they would definitely be on the opposite side of Shunyi Hou Fu Wenlin.
They must prepare for the situation in advance to avoid being beaten passively when facing Shunyi Hou.
"This Marquis' wife..."
He was really stumped by the question for a moment. Su Xiaozhong couldn't remember anything about the Marquis's wife.
After thinking carefully for a long time, Su Xiaozhong finally dug out information about Shunyi Hou's ex-wife from his memory.
"When my father took that position, Xu Lanzhi was already the first wife of Shunyi Marquis."
Su Yin had a "as expected" attitude towards this result.
She was not surprised at all to become a wife who has been with the emperor through thick and thin.
Judging from the constant little thoughts of that woman Xu Lanzhi and the high-profile pursuit of Xu Lanzhi by Shunyi Hou, it can be seen that Xu Lanzhi has a high status in Shunyi Hou's heart.
"Is this Marquis' wife dead or divorced now?"
Su Xiaozhong shook his head. "This wife of the Marquis is a pitiful person. The wife of the Marquis of Shunyi is of a lowly family. She is the daughter of a merchant from the famous Baixing Commercial Company in the Great Yong Dynasty. The Wan Sanye you met before is nothing compared to this one."
"There is a good story behind why Shunyi Marquis married the daughter of Baixing Commercial Bank. Back then, the Marquis' wife accidentally fell into the water, and Shunyi Marquis happened to pass by and rescued her. The two of them had physical contact."
"When the old lady of the Marquis' Mansion heard about this, she came to propose marriage, and this incident became a good story in Shangjing City."
Su Yin felt that the story was out of place, "What happened next?"
"Afterwards, it was heard that Baixing Commercial Bank was colluding with the enemy, selling the precious salt, tea and other items of the Great Yong Dynasty to the Great Rong Kingdom. Many letters with officials of the Great Rong Kingdom were found in the Heng family. All the Heng family members were imprisoned overnight, and all the men over the age of three were sentenced to be beheaded, and all the women were made prostitutes."
"The marquis' wife got married. The emperor pardoned the marquis' wife because she had made a meritorious report and sacrificed her relatives for the greater good. However, the marquis sent her to a nunnery to practice Buddhism. Later, the marquis married Xu Lanzhi. Xu Lanzhi naturally became the marquis' wife."
After listening to what his father said about his past life, Su Yin was completely stunned, but also felt it was normal.
Oh my god! Baixing Commercial Bank was destroyed, and it goes without saying what role Shunyi Hou played in it.
The entire Heng family is definitely the one being taken advantage of.
"Dad, all the money from Baixing Commercial Bank has been put into the national treasury, right?"
Su Xiaozhong shook his head. "On the surface, it was deposited into the national treasury, but most of it went into the emperor's private treasury."
Su Yin clicked her tongue twice, "This Shunyi Marquis is so vicious! In order to legitimately make money for the emperor, he directly wiped out the Yue family. The fact that this Shunyi Marquis was able to marry the daughter of the Heng family must have been something special from the beginning!"
Su Xiaozhong nodded in agreement. He actually had the same guess.
"There was a rumor that before the Shunyi Marquisate married the daughter of the Heng family, it had become a poor family and owed a lot of debts. When the Heng family married their daughter, they gave her many shops and fertile lands, all in the upper capital area."
"Since Shunyi Hou married the daughter of the Heng family, his career has started to go smoothly and he has gained the attention of the emperor."
"Those court officials who were at odds with Shunyi Marquis often used this incident to ridicule him. They said that he rose to power by relying on women, which was really unpleasant to hear."
“After I took that position, I still heard this sound.”
Su Yin looked disdainful and disgusted. "If that's true, then the daughter of the Heng family fell into the water, and Shunyi Hou rescued her. I'm afraid it was a trap set by Shunyi Hou for the Heng family's money. The Hou Mansion is in decline, and without money to manage, there is no official career to speak of."
"It's no exaggeration to say that he relied on his wife to rise again. Given Shunyi Hou's narrow-minded character, he must have hated his wife and wanted to erase this stain. The emperor happened to be short of money, so he took the opportunity to offer the heads of his father-in-law's family and money."
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