Chapter 131 was bought by the Wu family.
Before selling rouge, Lady Liu was a courtesan in a brothel, a fact known to everyone in Cheng'an County. However, because Lady Liu was kind, no one cared about her past.
Madam Li trembled, gritting her teeth as she said, "You're lying! Didn't she run off with someone herself?!"
Madam Xu sneered, "What a coincidence, the man who bullied Madam Liu back then has come again, and he even told your master about it. Otherwise, why do you think he's been coming here so often lately!"
Madam Li was even more shocked by what she heard. She could no longer remain silent. "What? You told the master?!"
She quickly grabbed the hand of the maid beside her, "Quick! Let's go back to the manor!"
The people around her were pointing and whispering.
How could she be so vicious?
Madam Li lowered her head, got into the carriage, and immediately left.
As soon as Madam Li left, the street immediately became quiet.
Du Wanchun helped Zhang Qiuhe sit down to rest, comforting her as she said, "Sister Zhang, if you see something like this again, don't hold back. If you need to take action, then take action. Don't be afraid."
Zhang Qiuhe nodded, deeply grateful.
She cautiously asked Xu Niangzi beside her, "Will Lady Liu be alright?"
Madam Xu said slowly, "Don't worry, nothing will happen. Magistrate Li will protect her. If I hadn't spoken up today, and Madam Li had made a scene, people would have thought that Madam Liu had done something wrong. In fact, they don't know that Madam Li is the real culprit."
Aunt Zhou came in carrying two cups of tea. "From what you just said, it was Madam Li who did something wicked?"
The Third Prince strode over to her, took the teacup from her hand, and handed it to Madam Xu and Zhang Qiuhe.
Madam Xu took a sip of tea and said, "Yes, it was Madam Li who did the evil. I used to be from the same hometown as Madam Liu. Her family was a well-known local gentry, and they were a good match for Magistrate Li. The two families had arranged the marriage long ago and were just waiting for Magistrate Li to come and present the betrothal gifts after he took office."
"However, Madam Li took a fancy to Magistrate Li. But Magistrate Li was upright and refused to marry her. He only had eyes for Lady Liu. But later, Lady Liu's family encountered bandits and all ten or so members of the family were killed. Lady Liu and her sister went missing. Magistrate Li was depressed for a long time because of this and thought Lady Liu was dead."
"Madam Li took this opportunity to stay by his side. She thought that after two or three years, he would be able to marry her. Who knew that Magistrate Li wanted to resign and go to find Lady Liu. In her haste, Madam Li put something in his wine. After one night, she was pregnant with Young Master Li's son."
"In order to take responsibility for the child in her womb, Magistrate Li had no choice but to marry her."
Listening to this, Aunt Zhou sighed deeply, "Madam Liu is also a pitiful person."
“Who says otherwise?” Madam Xu continued, “Madam Liu didn’t actually disappear back then. After being bullied by those bandits, she and her sister were sold to a brothel. Later, her sister was bought by the Wu family in the capital. After some time, her sister redeemed her and gave her a sum of money, and she opened a rouge shop here.”
Madam Xu stood up, looked out the window towards the rouge shop, and continued, "Madam Liu has been doing business here for a year or two. She always avoids Magistrate Li and doesn't want to have anything to do with him. But just recently, she encountered a man who was the bandit who killed her family years ago."
"That person told her that back then, Madam Li gave a sum of money to those bandits, who then killed all the members of the Liu family, bullied Lady Liu, and sold her and her sister to a brothel, all in an attempt to break her up with Magistrate Li so that she could take over the position."
"How vicious!" Even the Third Prince, a man, couldn't bear to listen anymore.
A woman from a scholarly family, who clearly had a good husband, ended up with her family destroyed, her reputation ruined, and spent five or six years in a brothel in darkness.
Such a change would be unbearable for most people.
Du Wanchun sighed, "I never imagined that Madam Li was so vicious."
Aunt Zhou grabbed her hand and said, "Thank goodness, thank goodness you married into our Zhou family. If you had married into the Li family, I don't know what your life would have been like!"
Because of what happened with Du Wanchun, Young Master Li has long since become more disciplined and stopped indulging in debauchery, but he has also never married again.
Madam Li was both angry and anxious, and now that she was preoccupied with Magistrate Li's affairs, she had no time to think about him.
Du Wanchun hadn't seen them for a long time either.
At this moment, Zhou Ruiyuan suddenly asked, "You said that this Lady Liu's sister was redeemed by the Wu family in the capital. Which Wu family?"
Madam Xu laughed and said, "What Wu family is there in the capital? Isn't it just the maternal family of Consort Wu?"
Upon hearing this, both Aunt Zhou and the Third Prince's eyes lit up.
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