"Illegal origin?" Nanny Gu glanced at Old Madam Chu, but she didn't seem to want to stop her, so she continued to ask, "What do you mean by illegal origin?"

Mother Su said anxiously, "The Fifth Miss has a store called Yunzhi Embroidery Manor, right?"

Chu Jinyao has a store? The girls in the yard immediately looked at Old Madam Chu. How come they didn't know about this?

Mother Su stole a glance at the people standing in the yard who looked like the Queen Mother and the Fairy Maidens. On the top step stood an old lady, probably the ancestor of the Marquis's Mansion. Beside this ancestor stood many young wives, probably the younger generation of the Marquis's Mansion. The ones with their hair combed were the wives and concubines, and the ones without their hair combed were the granddaughters. On the other side stood a noble woman, whose clothes were more dazzling than those of Mrs. Chu. Su's mother guessed that this should be the lady from the Prince's Mansion that Chu Jinmiao mentioned.

To be honest, Su's mother was greatly surprised when she saw Chu Jinyao. Chu Jinyao actually looked like this? If she hadn't been warned in advance, Su's mother would not have dared to recognize her even if she met her on the street. Chu Jinyao stood in the corridor with her hands in her hands, her black hair like clouds, her lips red and her teeth white, her aura dignified and inviolable, even more eye-catching than the authentic young lady from the Marquis' Mansion next to her. Su's mother was surprised and also felt jealous. When she saw other nobles, no matter how rich they were, Su's mother would not dare to have other thoughts. But seeing Chu Jinyao, who had been yelling since childhood, become like this, it was hard to accept.

Su's mother looked around and found that except for a few girls who looked surprised, the princess in the center did not show any strange expression. After all, she is the queen of the Prince's Mansion and has seen everything. It's just an embroidery mansion. Maybe the Princess of the County will find it inexplicable.

Su's mother tried harder and said, "It's not surprising that the girls have a shop under their names, but do you know where this shop came from?"

"Where did it come from?" The third young lady stood in the crowd and couldn't help but whisper, "Where else could it come from? Wasn't it given by my grandmother and father?"

Su's mother heard it with her sharp ears. She shook her head exaggeratedly and said, "No. This shop is not the property of the old masters of the Marquis' Mansion. The real shopkeeper of the embroidery manor is surnamed Wei and has nothing to do with the Marquis' Mansion. This embroidery manor was bought by the big shopkeeper Wei for free and the fifth young lady bought it."

Old Madam Chu listened for a long time, but after hearing such ignorant words, she sneered and said, "I was wondering what it was, it turned out to be these. The Princess of Buman County said that I knew these things a long time ago. I also know that their shopkeeper gives dividends to the fifth young lady every month."

"Oh?" The Princess was very curious, "Dividends are no different from other things. It can't be done without trustworthy people. Why did Shopkeeper Wei give dividends to the Fifth Miss for free?"

"It's a long story." Old Madam Chu thought that these people were only so capable. She was disdainful in her heart and explained to the Princess without much care, "Last year, the Fifth Miss saved a child on the street. These things were sent as thank-you gifts."

Old Madam Chu had selfish motives and wanted to conceal the fact that the Crown Prince had made friends with their family, so she just passed the matter over. When the Princess heard this, she had many doubts.

She had also dealt with the store manager. Whose shopkeeper would use the store dividends as a thank-you gift? This was too expensive, even if it was a life-saving favor. The Princess was skeptical and felt more and more that the Changxing Marquis's Mansion was playing tricks.

Father Su stood awkwardly. He was not good at speaking and now he was so frightened that he didn't know where to put his hands and feet. Mother Su looked down on Father Su's cowardly behavior, so she pushed Father Su away, sat on the ground and cried, pretending to be strong: "I thought it was a life-saving grace at first, and secretly told her father that Fifth Miss had finally gotten what she wanted after suffering so much, and it was worth it for us to raise her. But when we came to the city to visit relatives these few days, we heard the shop assistants say that their shopkeeper Wei did this to learn from the rich old men who spent thousands of gold to win the smile of beautiful women. It is obvious that Shopkeeper Wei did this for other reasons!"

Old Madam Chu's eyelids were heavy. She jumped and quickly stopped Su's mother: "You dirty old woman, what are you talking about?"

Su's mother slapped the ground and cried: "Don't think I'm not nice, ladies, please judge, is it true what I said? Otherwise, who would cut their own meat and do such a thing?"

The little maid hiding behind the pillar could not help but whisper to her companions. The princess felt a pang in her heart. What Mrs. Chu said just now was unclear, and now listening to this crazy woman, it seemed to be true.

Mrs. Chu was immediately furious. This involved a woman's reputation, how could she talk nonsense? She was about to order the two lunatics to be beaten out, but Mother Su was lying on the ground crying, saying "My poor son" over and over again. Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, Chu Jinyao took the initiative to hold down Old Madam Chu's arm and said, "Grandma, please let the person go down first. I want to talk to her."

Old Madam Chu held back her anger and temporarily asked Nanny Gu to wait with others.

Chu Jinyao looked at Mother Su, who was lying on the ground and trembling like a fool. This was her adoptive mother who had raised her for thirteen years. Until two years ago, she still called these two people her father and mother. Chu Jinmiao's voice was surprisingly calm: "You are just empty-mouthed, don't just accuse others. You are slandering me, do you have any evidence? You said you heard it from the waiter in the store, but how could an ordinary waiter know the gossip of Wei the shopkeeper? You can't just make up whatever you want, and now you come to make trouble in front of the distinguished guests."

Su's mother was stunned, and immediately hit her chest and cried out: "I raised You have been raising me for thirteen years, and you actually slander me like this. I have suffered so much for so many years, and I would rather go hungry than feed you, but in the end you still blame me. You say that I slandered you, but Manager Wei has the same idea, you don’t know it yourself, and you still insist that it is not true?"

Chu Jinyao was caught red-handed and said angrily: "Don’t make up stories about the manager of the Wei family here, why don’t you produce evidence!"

"What evidence can you produce about the thoughts of this man and woman? You are just a person to judge, do the Wei family treat you so well, is it because of this idea? Do you still need to find evidence?"

This is simply nonsense, there is no evidence, and there is no proof, just relying on one's mouth, "I think this and that", and you can make up such nonsense out of nothing. However, although the terrible Su's mother spoke vulgarly, she did hit the soft spot of a woman's reputation. Nowadays, etiquette is strict and people are very harsh on a woman's reputation. If someone takes a fancy to her and the news spreads outside, people will not blame the man, but will only accuse the woman of not respecting herself, even though she did nothing wrong. Now Su's mother is making a fuss. She can't produce any evidence or reason, but in the ears of others, it is Chu Jinyao who is wrong.

It is too easy to destroy a woman's reputation. Even if it is just a rumor, even if the husband's family trusts the woman more, they will break off the engagement with the woman for the sake of face and to avoid suspicion.

This is what the Princess of the County is thinking now.

Although the Princess of the County found today's incident strange, their family is a royal palace. Such a noble family has many innocent women to choose from. Why would she choose a daughter-in-law with an unclear background? This old woman might have been talking nonsense and throwing dirty water on Chu Jinyao, but... what if?

If it was the old princess who came today, there would still be room for this matter to turn around, but the Princess of the County did not like Chu Jinyao in the first place. After hearing this, she immediately changed her mind and felt that this matter needed to be discussed again.

When Mrs. Chu saw the Princess of the County's face, her heart sank. She quickly signaled to Madam Gu: "You are talking nonsense. Take them out!"

Mother Su rolled on the ground, "Oh, they are going to be tortured into confessing. How dare a dignified marquis's mansion do it but not admit it..."

Chu Jinyao could not help it and shouted in a cold voice: "It's all fake, how long do you plan to keep pretending? Do you really think I don't know what you are thinking?"

"What else could I be thinking? I'm doing this for your own good!"

Chu Jinyao sneered: "How dare you say that? You are probably doing this for your own daughter."

Chu Jinmiaozhi was standing aside watching the show with satisfaction, but Chu Jinyao suddenly turned on her. Chu Jinmiao was startled and said quickly: "You can't clean it yourself, so don't drag me into it. You just kept saying that you wanted evidence, and now you are talking, where is the evidence?"

"Shut up." Chu Jinyao glanced at Chu Jinmiao very impolitely and said, "You haven't wiped the wall dust off your skirt yet."

The girls who were watching the excitement immediately turned their heads to look at Chu Jinmiao's skirt. The third girl quietly bumped the sixth girl's arm and whispered: "Look at that piece, it seems to have been rubbed on." The

sixth girl shook her head and signaled the third girl not to speak. Chu Jinmiao panicked. She wanted to look at the hem of her skirt, but she was afraid of leaving a handle, so she held back. She retorted unyieldingly, "I don't know when I got some dust on my skirt, but what does that prove? I don't even know them, what does it have to do with me?"

"If it's not related, why are you in such a hurry to distance yourself from them?" Chu Jinyao said, "No one said you had any relationship with them, you were the one who jumped out to clarify."

Seeing that the commotion was really out of control, Mrs. Chu interrupted, "Okay, don't say anything, I will have someone investigate the details of this matter, and I will give a fair explanation at that time."

The third girl sneered, obviously not taking it seriously. With how much Mrs. Chu valued Chu Jinyao, she would naturally cover up this matter in every possible way. Can the result of the investigation be trusted?

Madam Chu said to the Princess, "Please come inside and sit down. I will tell you the whole story later."

The Princess nodded hesitantly. She was also the head of the family, and she was very skeptical about what Madam Chu said. But since she was in the Marquis's Mansion, the Princess had to give Madam Chu face. After she nodded, she asked someone to help her go back to the house. Madam Chu breathed a sigh of relief.

Let's ignore the culprit for the moment. The most urgent thing now was to convince the Princess and let her agree not to care about the matter. Madam

Chu only cared about interests and didn't care about the truth.

Before entering the house, Yang Qixia said casually, "The fifth lady is so lucky to have a grandmother who protects her like this."

After hearing this, the Princess's face became even paler.

When Su's father and mother saw that the people from the Marquis' Mansion were going to drag them down, they immediately started to yell. Su's father, who was as sharp-tongued as a gourd, couldn't help but yell: "We came here with good intentions to report the news, not only are you not grateful, but now you want to torture us into confessing?"

Su's mother even rolled around in the yard, shouting at the top of her voice: "They are lynching innocent people, is there still law?"

Chu Jinyao was so angry that her hands were shaking. She knew that if she really let people drag Su's father and mother down today, no matter what the final result was, she would not be able to explain it. If the result is bad, others will say that she deserves it. If the result is good, these people will also say in a sinister tone: "She bought the mouth for complaining." It was

really an unprovoked disaster. Chu Jinyao watched Su's mother's clumsy and ugly performance quietly. She closed her eyes and suddenly said to Nanny Gu: "Nanny, please stop it. I have a clear conscience. If I have anything to say, I can say it in front of everyone."

Nanny Gu advised: "Girl, they are just a group of crude farmers. Why do you have to condescend to talk to them?"

"Even if they are farmers, they raised me after all. In the past, I would have to call them father and mother."

Nanny Gu froze when she heard this: "Girl..."

"Madam, don't be upset. This is the truth. There is nothing wrong with it." Chu Jinyao said, "Please move aside first. I will talk to them."

Madam Gu was in great trouble. She took a half step back and looked up to see what Madam Chu was saying.

Chu Jinyao was already standing in front of Su's mother. Su's mother was lying on the ground and vomiting. When Chu Jinyao stood in front, Su's mother was lying down while Chu Jinyao stood up. No matter how thick-skinned Su's mother was, she couldn't stand it anymore and got up from the ground embarrassedly.

Chu Jinyao faced Su's mother and said, "I called you mother in the past, so I endured whatever you did to me. Later, when I returned to the mansion, I didn't tell anyone because of your kindness in raising me. However, I respected you as my elders, but you just wanted me dead."

Su's mother was about to yell, but Chu Jinyao didn't give her the chance and continued, "Do you remember how you treated me when you were a child? In the dead of winter, you asked me to go to the river to wash clothes. My sister secretly brought me hot water, but you saw it and kicked me in front of me. You also punished me by not allowing me to eat for a day. . You asked me to go to the mountain to collect firewood before dawn, and when I came back, you kicked me away and scolded me for being lazy. And Su Sheng slept in bed all day, but you were blind and couldn't see him. "

Chu Jinyao choked up a little while speaking. She took a deep breath to hold it in, and looked at Su's mother sarcastically: "By the way, you are here to do such a big thing today, why didn't Su Sheng come? You must think that Su Sheng is a man who is going to take the imperial examination, so he can't show up in public and come to other people's homes to do these rogue activities. You have been biased against me since I was a child, and you either beat me or scolded me. I admit it. Who made me a girl? But I just realized now, You are not so cruel to all girls, only to me! You knew from the beginning that I was not your daughter, so you thought it was a favor to give me a meal, and it was a kindness not to torture me to death. But, when you tortured me like this, what kind of life did your biological daughter live in the Marquis' Mansion? She had fine clothes and food, and she had many servants. My parents and relatives really loved her as their daughter!"

Linglong felt uncomfortable and cried, "Miss..." Old Madam Chu beside her was furious: "How dare they treat you like this?"

Chu Jinyao finally said what she had been holding back for many years. She ignored the outsiders and continued, "You were the ones who deliberately replaced me in order to let your daughter live a good life. If it wasn't for my father's decision, I would have been kept in the dark by you all my life. Now that my father has found me, I will look forward to the future and I don't plan to care about the past. But now your daughter has lived a rich life and she is the fourth lady of the Changxing Marquis's Mansion. What else do you want? Why did you jump out and ruin my life? Do I owe you?"

Some people in the yard couldn't stand it anymore and turned their heads away, even the people in the Prince's Mansion couldn't bear to listen. For these noble ladies who couldn't even touch the ground, how could they imagine how terrible the underlying malice would be. The people around felt distressed, but Chu Jinyao, the person involved, was very calm. Her grievances and discomfort had long been exhausted.

Father Su and Mother Su were confronted by Chu Jinyao, and they retreated again and again, unable to say a word. And this was not the end. What was the point of settling the old accounts? The pain was in the past. What Chu Jinyao really wanted to settle with them was the current account.

Chu Jinyao suppressed her turbulent emotions and continued, "Because of you, I have lived a hard life outside for thirteen years, and the frostbite on my hands didn't heal for a whole winter. Because of you, my biological mother is not close to me, and she still has a grudge against me. And now, for Chu Jinmiao, you want to hurt me again? Why did you choose to enter the mansion today? Why did you choose to enter the mansion today? Why did you mention Xiu Manor under my name when you didn't say anything else? Without an insider to lead you, you two outsiders who don't even know the road, how could you get here? Your thoughts are obvious, you are just afraid that I will block the way of your own daughter, but you still say that it's all for my own good? "

After hearing Chu Jinyao's story about how she lived in the Su family, Zhao was shocked and surprised. She had lived in a wealthy family all her life, she was lazy and didn't know the difference between grains. She thought that although the Su family was in the countryside, they just had worse food and clothing, and the rest was no different from the Marquis' Mansion. Now after hearing what Chu Jinyao said, she realized how wrong she was.

Zhao's lips moved, wanting to say something, but she didn't have the chance to say it. She didn't know that Chu Jinyao had lived such a life in the past. If she knew, she would not neglect Chu Jinyao. When Zhao heard Chu Jinyao say that her biological mother was not close to her, she felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife. She couldn't help but tilt her head and cried.

Su's mother was questioned by Chu Jinyao repeatedly and was a little panicked. She brought up all these issues one by one. She had done everything according to Chu Jinmiao's arrangement. Mother Su did not dare to implicate Chu Jinmiao. She resisted the urge to look at her and replied, "It is our own business if you have complaints against us. Don't drag the matter onto others. What does this have to do with the fourth lady?"

Chu Jinyao laughed at herself, "You beat and scolded me, but you defended a strange woman you only met a few times. Sure enough, your own daughter is not the same. "

Chu Jinmiao stood far away as if it had nothing to do with her. After hearing this, she replied: "Chu Jinyao, be careful with your words. I don't know them. Don't associate these two country bumpkins with me."

Chu Jinyao looked at Su's father and mother sarcastically: "Did you hear that? You risked your lives to offend the rich and powerful for her, but she still thinks you are vulgar. You can get here thanks to Chu Jinmiao leading the way. Otherwise, how could her skirt be stained with wall dust?"

"Shut up!" Chu Jinmiao panicked and cursed, "What evidence do you have that you dare to slander people here? I don't know them at all. The dust on my skirt was rubbed off when I was walking just now."

"How dare you say that you have never been to the second gate and have never seen the three people from the Su family before?"

Chu Jinmiao gritted her teeth and said, "I dare."

Chu Jinyao and Chu Jinmiao were in a stalemate. The Princess of the County looked at them for a long time and said softly to Madam Chu, "Madam, the two young ladies in your family are very eloquent."

Madam Chu was embarrassed. The most important thing for a woman is to be gentle, and being eloquent is not an advantage. Rongning Hall was noisy, and suddenly a man ran in from outside the courtyard. When the man saw Su's father and mother, his face turned ashen with anger.

"Why are you here?" Su Hui was so angry that her teeth ached. She roughly pulled Su's mother's hand and was about to walk out. "I was wondering why you were acting weird recently. It turns out you came to bully Yaoyao. She's living a good life. Why don't you just let her go?"

Old Madam Chu frowned: "Who is this again? How come anyone can come into the backyard?"

The voices of Lin Xiyuan and Lin Xining were heard from outside, and the second young master also came with them.

"We brought her here." The second young master said, "I heard that there was a disturbance in the backyard, so I came here with the prince. When we passed by, we happened to see this woman begging at the gatehouse. I asked her about the people and things around the fifth sister, and she could tell me everything. The prince said that she really had something to report, so he brought her here."

The princess's expression eased a lot when she saw her son. She asked softly, "Yuan'er, why are you here?"

Lin Xiyuan didn't say anything. He looked at the mess in the yard and asked, "What happened?"

Su Hui pulled Su's mother out forcefully, "You should save your life." Forget it, you haven't seen Yaoyao since you were a child. Now that she has gone home, why are you still running here? It's embarrassing, come back with me!" Su Hui twisted her mother and said to Old Lady Chu and the Princess of the County, "I am Su Hui, the adopted sister of the fifth lady. My parents have a problem with their brains. They like to talk nonsense. They were like this in the village before. They have been crazy again in the past few days. Ladies, don't take it seriously."

It turned out that it was the daughter of this couple. The ladies present suddenly realized that since their daughter had come out to say it, it seemed that the couple was not in a clear mind. Madam Chu's expression relaxed, and she said, "After all the fuss, it turns out that it was a madman who said crazy things, and he even made it up about our Fifth Miss.

It's really an unprovoked disaster." The Princess of the County also relaxed her expression. Is she really crazy? Chu Jinmiao saw that something bad was going to happen, and she immediately hated Su Hui. She quickly pretended to be casual and said, "Is it a brain disease? But I see that they don't talk like sick people. As children, you can't say such words that curse your parents. I just saw that they were talking in an organized manner."