"If this is true, then these powerful families are really messed up, aren't they? Their daughters don't dare raise their children, so they just give them to their parents to raise. Every day, they call their children "brothers" as if nothing happened. This is too unbelievable. Even a storybook wouldn't dare to write about it..."
"If this is true, it's really outrageous. It would shock my entire family."
The waiter who came over with a plate of food rolled his eyes when he heard these people talking.
"This sounds fake, okay?"
He slammed the dish down on the table and said angrily, "You guys are so bold! You dare to spread such a rumor that could cost you your life! Do you think the toad blood is just for show? How can the toad blood still be there after the baby is born?"
"cough."
Being suddenly confronted, several diners touched their noses in embarrassment.
They were just drunk and didn't think straight, so they were talking about this kind of thing in a crowded place, trying to show off their presence...
However, they had to refute what the waiter said.
They looked at the waiter meaningfully.
"Little Second Brother, you're still too naive. If a woman simply wants to deceive others, she can paint her own toad blood. You said we don't have the ability to see through anything, so with the naked eye, who can tell from a distance whether her toad blood is real or painted?"
The waiter was looked down upon by them and was very dissatisfied.
He rolled up his sleeves and argued with them, "You are naive! That's the Empress. She's going to marry the Emperor. Would the palace only take a look at her virginity and not check if she's innocent? If the Empress wasn't innocent, she would have been beaten to death during the inspection!"
Several diners continued to shake their heads.
They said, "Little Second Brother, you don't understand this! I heard that the Zhu family has connections and bribed the palace maids, so the Empress was able to enter the palace smoothly."
They sneered and sighed, "Alas, this is the joy of power! Their power is beyond our imagination. They can even treat the emperor of a country as a fool and fool him!"
When the waiter heard this, he rolled his eyes to the sky.
He glanced at these gossiping men with disdain.
"If General Zhu had truly fooled the Emperor, how could the Zhu family have remained safe and sound for so many years? A jar of wine would have wiped out your brains, right? Let me ask you, even if the Empress could bribe the maids to get away with it, how could she have deceived the Emperor on their wedding night? The Emperor, the groom, doesn't even know whether she's innocent or not."
He sneered, "Even if ordinary men like you discovered your wives' innocence on your wedding night, none of you would be able to tolerate it. How could the Emperor tolerate it? He has been married to the Queen for several years. If the Queen was really not innocent, he would have found an excuse to banish her to the cold palace long ago, right? It wouldn't be surprising if he secretly killed her!"
As soon as the waiter finished speaking, he was stared at meaningfully by several diners.
The waiter glared at them and asked, "Why are you looking at me?"
Several diners said with a smile, "Little Brother, you haven't married yet, have you?"
The waiter blushed immediately.
Several diners lowered their voices and said, "Hey, you're not married yet, so it's no surprise that you don't know these things! New brides are shy and always want to put out all the candles before entering the bridal chamber! Once the candles are out, how can you tell if the person lying on the bed is a lady or a maid?"
They sighed, "Those wealthy families really know how to have fun! First, they tenderly hold the groom's arm and drink glass after glass until he's drunk. Then, they blow out the candles, and in the dark, they find a clean maid to take their place in the bridal chamber. It's so easy!"
The waiter was stunned when he heard this.
It seems...it seems to make some sense.
He scratched his head, feeling that he couldn't win the argument with these people, and turned around to leave.
After taking two steps, he realized something was wrong, so he went back to the table and argued with a few diners.
“I still think it’s a rumor!”
He said, "Then explain to me, General Zhu, knowing full well that his daughter and the Prince of Jin were a couple and had a child, why didn't he allow his daughter to become the Prince of Jin's consort? Instead, he resorted to trickery and risked the execution of his entire family by sending his daughter into the palace? Isn't this a thankless task?"
Several diners looked at each other.
They lowered their voices and said to the waiter, "How many people in this world don't want to be emperor? If you don't want it, can't others also want it?"
When the waiter heard this, he couldn't stand it anymore!
They are slandering General Zhu for wanting to rebel and become emperor, and even selling his daughter in order to become emperor!
That's bullshit!
Their family fled from outside the Great Wall, and the old general guarding the border is their benefactor!
He would not allow anyone to slander his benefactor!
He was in a bad temper and picked up the wine jug on the table and smashed it on the head of the person who was speaking!
"I'm going to beat you to death, you bastard who's full of bullshit! The old general is so powerful. If he wanted to be a traitor, he would have turned Daning upside down with his ability! He's a loyal minister. He has no ambitions for the throne. He's innocent! His daughter, the Empress, is also innocent! I'm going to beat you to death for talking nonsense!"
The diners who were hit were all stunned. What was going on?
He felt something cold on his head, and when he touched it, his hands were covered in blood!
He suddenly jumped up in anger, "You dare to fight with the guests, I will beat you to death today!"
The waiter was not intimidated at all. He stood with his hands on his hips and acted even more arrogantly than him. "Come on, beat me to death! As long as you don't beat me to death, as long as I have a breath left, I will crawl to the government to report it! I will see whether the officials will find me guilty or sentence you who slandered the Empress and the old general to death!"
"!" The diner was stunned and then his face turned pale.
He really doesn't dare to make a big deal out of this matter. If he does, he'll be finished and go to jail!
He was so scared that his legs went weak, how could he dare to be mean to the waiter again?
"Go, go, go, hurry up!"
He covered his broken head and quickly pulled his companions away in shame.
The waiter, like a victorious rooster, chased them to the door of the store and cursed them arrogantly, "Are you scared now? If you have the guts, come and curse me again, why are you running away..."
Behind the restaurant counter, the new owner and the chef looked at each other, trying not to laugh.
They are not ordinary people.
They are soldiers who serve the emperor and General Zhu loyally.
The emperor had anticipated the impending doom in the capital a few days earlier. So, after consulting with the old general, he selected a thousand of the most loyal soldiers from the barracks and secretly infiltrated various restaurants and teahouses in the capital under various identities. Even some of the street vendors were their men.
Their mission was to, when rumors slandering the Empress appeared in the capital, use their identities as unrelated passersby to reason with the ignorant people who believed the rumors and change public opinion.
But who would have known that before they even had a chance to go on stage today, this waiter got ahead of them and spontaneously ran over to beat someone up!
The shopkeeper and the cook couldn't help but laugh and were very relieved.
Look, how popular their old general is!
They don't even need to take action. Countless people in the society will stand up and roll up their sleeves to protect the old general and the queen!
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