The waiter arrogantly scolded those gossipers and sent them away. When he turned around, he saw the shopkeeper looking at him.
He turned pale with fright.
He was so nervous that he hesitated, "Boss, I hurt a customer. Did I cause trouble for our restaurant?"
By the time he got to the end, he was almost crying.
He has to support his family and can't lose this job!
The shopkeeper looked at him with a smile, "Don't be nervous, you did a good job! Not only will I not fine you your monthly salary, I will also reward you with a hundred coins!"
The waiter, whose eyes were red with anxiety, was stunned for a moment.
He looked at the shopkeeper in surprise and pointed at his nose, "Shopkeeper, are you going to reward me with a hundred coins?"
The shopkeeper nodded, pretending to be indignant. "I'm also an admirer of the old general! The Zhu family has guarded the border for generations, protecting countless people. How dare they slander the old general and his daughter?"
He patted the waiter on the shoulder and encouraged him, "If anyone keeps talking nonsense in our restaurant, just keep scolding them. Don't be afraid. If they dare to hit anyone, we'll report them to the police and make them pay for it!"
The waiter was immediately excited when he was recognized by the shopkeeper!
How wonderful it would be to defend his heroic benefactor, the old general, and to gain the appreciation of the shopkeeper, and perhaps even a little reward from time to time!
He will continue to scold those gossipers in the future!
Not only in the restaurant, even if he heard his neighbors gossiping, he would curse!
He was not afraid of anything. Anyway, he had the officials to make the decision for him. He did not believe that those who insulted the empress behind her back would dare to confront him in court!
"Boss, I'm so glad you don't object to my cursing. The old general is a hero. Let's swear to defend him and the queen to the death!"
He clenched his fists and beat his chest, extremely excited.
The shopkeeper looked at his silly look and laughed again.
very nice.
Although there are fools among the people who don't care about the truth and only love to spread gossip maliciously, there are also rational, sober and lovely people!
Worthy of praise! ...
Similar conversations are taking place not only in this restaurant, but also in other places.
Some people spread rumors and maliciously talked about the Queen Mother and the Zhu family. Naturally, there were people who clearly pointed out the doubts and cursed those who gossiped.
Just recently, in a newly opened silk shop, the proprietress kicked out a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who had maliciously talked about the affair between the Queen and Prince Jin, and cursed the Queen for being shameless and having a bastard before marriage.
"Shut your stinky mouths!"
The graceful proprietress stood at the door of her silk shop with her hands on her hips, pointing at the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who were kicked out by her and cursing!
"You want to die, don't you? Go home and hang yourself, and don't take us innocent people with you! You two ignorant fools, do you know that slandering the Emperor and Empress is a serious crime? If you want to slander the Empress's innocence, go home and don't gossip about her in my shop!"
She was so fierce that she drove the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law out of the house and scolded them, but they didn't dare to fight back.
They said weakly, "We didn't spread this. Everyone was talking about it, and we just followed suit..."
The silk shop owner sneered, "You just believe everything they say? You're women yourselves, don't you feel sympathy when you slander the Empress? The Empress is the mother of a country, and it's so easy for people to slander her. A single false rumor can ruin her. So if you offend someone tomorrow, and someone slanders you, saying they saw you sneaking around while your husband was out, and you spread the story everywhere with all sorts of details, how are you going to live?"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law both looked pale.
They whispered, "How can you say that? We are upright and honest. No one can produce evidence that we are cheating. We are not afraid of rumors..."
The silk shop owner chuckled coldly. "So what you're saying is that the Empress has lost her integrity? Who among you who are slandering her can produce evidence that the Fifth Young Master of the Zhu Family is her biological son?"
The proprietress took a look at the young daughter-in-law among the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
She laughed and said, "You slandered the Empress with just a few unfounded rumors, didn't you? I can make such unfounded rumors, too!"
She pointed at the young daughter-in-law and said, "Today I insist on saying that your son was secretly born to you and your father-in-law, and that he is actually your husband's brother. Find me some evidence to prove that your son is not your father-in-law's. Can you prove it?"
"..." The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at each other, and their faces suddenly turned pale.
The proprietress looked at them and sneered, "Look, spreading rumors is just a matter of words, how easy is that? Just keep spreading these malicious slanders against me. Sooner or later, retribution will come back upon you!"
"..."The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were so shocked that their legs and feet became weak.
They shouldn't go out and talk nonsense...
They knew they were wrong!
Hearing the discussion around them, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law turned around and found that other people on the street were pointing at them. They immediately covered their faces with their sleeves in embarrassment and quickly ran out of the crowd.
After the silk shop owner drove the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law away, she looked at the crowd of onlookers.
She raised her voice, "I believe in General Zhu's character. He's a hero of steel, and the daughter he raised will definitely be well-behaved! He would never do such a thing as raising his daughter's bastard as his own son! He would never marry his unfaithful daughter off to the king he serves!"
Her eyes were red as she shouted, "So the old general is innocent! The Empress is also innocent! The fifth son of the Zhu family is definitely the old general and the old lady's son! These rumors in the capital must be because the emperor killed the Prince of Jin for the sake of justice, and the remnants of the Prince of Jin are taking revenge on the emperor! The emperor was so righteous that he killed his own brother to protect us ordinary people. How could we be used by the remnants of the Prince of Jin? And then they turn around and slander the emperor and the Empress?"
Some people in the crowd scoffed at her words, but there were also more people applauding and cheering for her!
"Boss, you're right. Just because of what you said, I have to come and take care of your business!"
"That's right, I believe in the old general just like the boss lady! The Zhu family's reputation is clean, and the Queen definitely can't have had an affair with the Prince of Jin and produced an illegitimate child! The boss lady and I are of the same mind, and I'm buying a piece of cloth too!"
"I want to buy it too. The boss lady is so thorough in her dealings, she definitely won't cheat anyone!"
As a result, onlookers flocked into the silk shop, holding up silver to buy silk and cloth.
When the proprietress saw this scene, she curled her lips subtly.
Like the shopkeeper and the cook before, she was also a loyal subordinate who followed the orders of the emperor and the old general to infiltrate the crowd to protect the reputation of the queen.
Isn't it just to criticize those gossipy women?
What she loves most! Isn't it changing public opinion? She's good at it!
Now, she has successfully completed the task.
Zhu Xuanyuan, the eldest son of the Zhu family, who had already received the task, arrived outside the silk shop on a tall horse an hour later.
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