"Miss, you were really amazing just now!" As soon as Li Xiu left, Chun Tao came up to him, smiling so hard that her eyes narrowed into slits. "Especially that line about 'thief who stole bacon'. I think his face turned green!"
Shen Weiwan patted Chuntao's shoulder and raised an eyebrow: "This is all thanks to your great help. 'How can the groom dress so well?' This question is clever, directly poking at his pitiful vanity."
Chun Tao puffed out her chest proudly: "Of course! Don't you see whose maid I am? How can I follow a young lady without some sense of propriety?"
As the two were talking, Shen Ruoruo came hurriedly with her maid, her face ashen, obviously having heard what had just happened. As soon as she saw Shen Weiwan, she asked harshly: "Shen Weiwan! What did you do to Mr. Li again?! He just ran out of the house in anger and said he would never come again!"
Shen Weiwan blinked, looking innocent: "Cousin, how could I dare to do anything to Mr. Li? He came here on his own, saying that he wanted to "clarify" some "private affair" with me, and I was scared by him."
"Clarify?" Shen Ruorou snorted coldly, "I think you are talking nonsense again, slandering him and me!"
"I slandered you?" Shen Weiwan pretended to be surprised. "Cousin, you can't say that. Young Master Li just admitted it himself. He said he was discussing with you how to 'control' me and how to divide the general's family property. Oh, by the way, he also said that you are 'greedy, but still smart' and asked me to learn more from you."
“You’re talking nonsense!” Shen Ruorou was so angry that she was shaking all over. “Li Xiu would never say such a thing!”
"Really?" Shen Weiwan tilted her head, "Maybe I heard it wrong. But cousin, Master Li has come to our house again and again, looking for me and you. I'm afraid it won't sound good if it gets out. Why don't you talk to your aunt and ask him not to come in the future to avoid any misunderstandings and ruin your reputation."
This remark hit Shen Ruorou's sore spot. She was already worried that the rumor that "she had an affair with Li Xiu" would spread. Now, after hearing what Shen Weiwan said, she was even more angry and anxious, but she couldn't produce any evidence to refute it.
"Chen Weiwan! You...you just wait for me!" Shen Ruoruo said harshly, turned around and left, her skirt sweeping across the gravel road, making a "rustling" sound, revealing a sense of embarrassment.
Looking at her back, Chun Tao couldn't help but complain: "Miss, look at her, she's like a cat whose tail has been stepped on."
Shen Weiwan smiled, but her eyes turned cold: "This is just the beginning. As for Li Xiu, I have already asked people to spread some 'news'. I guarantee that in a few days, he will become the most 'famous' person in the capital."
Chun Tao asked curiously, "What's the new news?"
Shen Weiwan leaned close to her and whispered a few words. After hearing this, Chun Tao was stunned at first, and then laughed out loud: "Miss, your trick is too amazing! If it really gets out, Li Xiu will be completely ashamed to face people!"
Shen Weiwan raised her eyebrows, and the corners of her mouth curled up in a "punishing" arc: "Too embarrassed to see people? This is the effect I want. If you dare to provoke me, you must be prepared to be socially dead by me."
She paused, looking towards the waterside pavilion. Xiao Yu was no longer there. For some reason, recalling the Seventh Prince's half-smile, she felt a strange throbbing in her heart.
"Let's go," Shen Weiwan shook her head, putting aside those chaotic thoughts, "Go back to the room to have some snacks, and by the way, listen to when the 'new rumors' outside can be spread into the general's mansion."
Chun Tao responded and followed Shen Weiwan back. The sunlight shone through the flower stand onto the two of them, casting long shadows. No one noticed that behind the rockery, a little maid was hunching her neck, memorizing every word she had just heard, preparing to go to Liu's courtyard to "report" in a moment.
Meanwhile, Li Xiu was limping back to his home, angrily throwing the teacup on the table to the ground. He couldn't understand why the "silly" daughter of the first wife, who had once been manipulated by others, had suddenly become so sharp-tongued and targeted him at every turn.
Just as he was getting restless, a servant's voice came from outside the door: "Master, this is bad! People outside are talking about...about you..."
"What did you tell me?!" Li Xiu asked unhappily.
The servant hesitated for a moment, then said, "It's being rumored that you...that the reason you keep going to the General's Mansion isn't because of Miss Shen, but...to see the guards! They also say that the last time you stopped Miss Shen in the garden, you actually wanted to...to ask her about the guards' birth dates..."
"Bullshit!" Li Xiu roared, almost fainting. "When did I ever say such a thing?!"
The servant shrank his neck in fear: "I don't know either, anyway, that's what people say... They also say that you... you actually like men, and you approached Miss Shen Er just to hide your identity..."
"Puff--" Li Xiu couldn't catch his breath, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and fell straight down.
At this moment, in the general's mansion, Shen Weiwan was biting a piece of sugared osmanthus cake, listening to Chuntao's excited report of the "new rumors" outside, and she almost choked with laughter.
"Miss, you didn't see it. Just now, the servant from the Li Mansion ran out to buy medicine for his injuries. His face was as red as the bottom of a pot!" Chun Tao laughed so hard that she slapped her thigh. "And there were people pointing fingers behind his back, saying he was a 'homosexual'!"
Shen Weiwan swallowed the cake in her mouth, took a sip of tea, and said slowly: "'Broken Sleeve'? This is just the beginning. Next, we have to make this rumor more 'realistic', and it would be best if he dared not even leave the house."
A sly glint flashed in her eyes. "Li Xiu, Li Xiu, in your previous life, you asked me to marry that cripple for you. In this life, I'll let you experience the feeling of being poked in the back and called a 'broken sleeve'. This is just the interest."
The sun was shining brightly, and the aroma of tea was lingering. Shen Weiwan leaned on the soft couch, looking at the flying catkins outside the window, a happy smile on her lips. In this life, she not only wanted to survive, but also to live beautifully, and trample all those who owed her under her feet!
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