He brandished the contract, his eyes blazing with fury, "It's all the Lei family's fault! This contract was signed exactly like the one they signed before!"
He dared not blame the emperor, so he transferred all his anger to Lei Nianren, cursing him without holding back and insulting Lei's ancestors for eighteen generations.
Zhou Shuqin was completely confused. How did this involve the Lei family again?
Zhou Jingxian briefly recounted what had happened in the palace. After he finished speaking, Zhou Shuqin was stunned, and her face turned green. After Zhou Jingxian left, she had people spread the word that a message had been found inside a fish's belly in their home!
She looked at her father, who was cursing and spitting as he spoke, and her face turned even greener. How should she tell her father?
Just then, the servant who had discovered the white silk earlier returned excitedly from outside. Upon seeing the two of them, he smiled even more broadly and boasted to Zhou Shuqin, "Miss, now probably half the city knows about the miracle of our family delivering a message through the belly of a fish!"
The air fell silent instantly. Zhou Jingxian, who hadn't yet vented his anger, froze and looked at Zhou Shuqin, "What...what does he mean?"
"Didn't Miss tell me to spread the word that we found white silk in our house? She even said the more people who know, the better!"
The servant hadn't yet noticed the awkward atmosphere, but he soon realized it.
Snap!
A loud slap echoed from the living room.
"I just escaped death, and now you're trying to send me to the guillotine?"
Zhou Jingxian was furious. Not to mention him, his entire Zhou family could be ruined by this!
Zhou Shuqin knew the seriousness of the matter, but she had never been beaten before, especially in front of the servants. Her heart was instantly filled with grievance.
"I was just trying to help you!"
She had no idea things would turn out this way. If she had known the emperor would use this as a pretext, she would never have allowed it to be spread!
When Zhou Shuqin said that, Zhou Jingxian remembered how stupid he had been when he excitedly ran to negotiate with someone with the white silk in his hand, and he hated himself for being so stupid!
When he had nowhere to vent his anger, his eyes fell on the bewildered servant.
Yes! It's all this servant's fault!
That day, the Zhou family mansion echoed with the dull thud of sticks striking flesh and cries of agony for mercy.
When a person with blood on their buttocks was thrown out, a crowd gathered to watch.
Human joys and sorrows are not shared; one side may be attacked while the other rejoices.
When Su Xiu heard the rumors about the message being delivered through the belly of a fish, he almost jumped up. Heaven rewards those who persevere; his painstaking efforts had finally been discovered!
One day, Chuanwen went out for a stroll and sat down to drink tea at a herbal tea stall with Wenxue. They heard shouting and cursing from afar, and the two of them curiously craned their necks to look.
"What kind of family does this? Are they trying to kill us? They beat a perfectly healthy person like this. Do they want my family line to end?"
A slightly overweight woman sat on the street, spitting as she slapped her thigh and cried, attracting a crowd of onlookers.
"Even if they are rich, they can't treat people like this! Their young lady sent my son out to spread some lousy message carried by a fish, and then she turned her back on us and beat my son until he was covered in blood!"
The woman slapped her thigh while wiping snot and tears from her face.
"What kind of message is delivered through the belly of a fish?"
Amidst the commotion, a clear female voice asked, and the woman opened her eyes to see a remarkably beautiful and wealthy young lady. She wiped her face and said, "It's about the white silk letter found inside a fish that everyone's been talking about lately, saying that a princess's descendant has come to the capital! Because of this, my son was beaten bloody and thrown out!"
Uh... This exceptionally beautiful and wealthy young lady is Chuanwen. She was too far away to listen to the conversation properly, so she brought Wenxue over and squeezed into the crowd, cracking sunflower seeds in her hand.
Hearing the woman's words, Chuanwen felt a pang of regret. "Such a good opportunity was given to someone else. If the emperor hadn't forbade speaking out, I would have been the one to discover the white silk!"
"Then why did they beat your son?"
Chuanwen asked, puzzled. Those around him also wondered, "Yes, isn't this a good thing?"
"Who knows? I bet they're just feeling guilty and plotting something. Maybe they're the ones who stuffed the white silk into the fish's belly! Otherwise, why would they have my son running around spreading the news?"
The woman was crying her eyes out.
"My poor, foolish son thought he'd get some reward money, but he got beaten up like this instead. How are we supposed to live now!"
People began to discuss and speculate whether this was really a conspiracy.
Chuanwen knew that the feng shui master just wanted to become a member of the royal family and didn't have any other ulterior motives, but she wasn't sure if the person who spread the news had any ulterior motives, so she started digging into the gossip.
[The white silk was discovered by Zhou Shuqin's family... Hahaha! No wonder they were about to beat someone up; that emperor, that big liar, completely fooled Zhou's father!]
Wenxue perked up her ears as soon as she heard Zhou Shuqin's name, but what was the story behind the emperor fooling Zhou's father?
Wenxue wanted to hear, but Chuanwen was sometimes so frustrating, always leaving things unsaid.
The old man Chen, the Minister of Works, who was passing by, paused and looked around, as if he had heard Wen's thoughts.
His eyes lit up when he saw a group of people gathered not far away. Hehe! It must be there. Where there's excitement, there's Chuanwen. Conversely, where Chuanwen is, there's excitement!
Old Chen walked over quickly, and before he even saw Chuanwen, he spotted the Minister of Justice and several other officials acting suspiciously outside the crowd.
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