Yu Shan didn't recognize this person, but this woman actually knew that she had been engaged to Zheng Lin. Could she also be from Suzhou? But didn't this woman know that in the end, it wasn't her who married Zheng Lin, but Yu Chan?
Before Su Yushan could explain, the woman had already moved closer, looking at the child in her arms and praising him repeatedly.
"Your daughter looks just like you, they're practically identical!"
Upon hearing this, Yu Chan's face turned pale!
Madam Zheng's expression changed, but she couldn't lash out. She forced a smile and said, "You're mistaken. It was Yu Chan who was engaged to Lin'er, and it was Yu Chan who married Lin'er. Yu Shan is my granddaughter's aunt."
The woman then noticed Yu Chan standing to the side and felt something was amiss. "No way? I couldn't possibly be mistaken! I was there at the engagement banquet when your two families got engaged!"
Just then, Zheng Lin entered the house. He personally helped an old lady into the room, saying that she was his maternal grandmother and wanted to see the children.
Upon seeing Zheng Lin, the woman grabbed him and questioned, "Lin'er, wasn't Yu Shan your betrothed back then? How come you've married Yu Chan now?"
Zheng Lin frowned, thinking to himself, "Why does this relative have to bring up such a sensitive topic? Asking such a question in public! Yu Shan must be very embarrassed, and Yu Chan must be feeling bad too."
He subconsciously looked at Yu Chan, then glanced at Yu Shan, and for a moment he didn't know how to explain.
At that moment, Yu Chan's face flushed red, and she was extremely embarrassed. If Zheng Lin told the truth, wouldn't she be unable to even lift her head?
To ease the awkward atmosphere, Madam Zheng spoke first, "The person who was engaged to Lin'er was indeed Yu Chan. The young couple is already married, there's no mistake."
Hearing his mother's tone, Zheng Lin understood immediately and said cooperatively, "It's Yu Chan, Auntie, you've got it wrong."
Everyone said so, and the great-aunt became even more confused. Fearing that she would say something inappropriate again, Madam Zheng asked her to leave, saying that she would take her to a side room where the other relatives were waiting.
After everyone left, the room became a little quieter. Zheng Lin's maternal grandmother, worried that her two sisters were unhappy, kindly comforted them.
"Outsiders don't know the inside story. They only know that Lin'er married a daughter of the Su family, but they don't know who Lin'er married, which is why they made a fool of themselves. It's her life, and other people's opinions don't count. Don't take it to heart and don't stoop to her level."
This matter is indeed strange, and Yu Shan will not hold it against her.
Zheng Lin lying was unexpected for Yu Chan. She guessed that Zheng Lin might have chosen to lie to avoid embarrassing his sister.
What should have been a happy moment was disrupted by this disturbance, leaving her with mixed feelings and feeling very uncomfortable.
After the maternal grandmother finished looking at the child, she was helped out by Zheng Lin and went to the side room.
The guests began to take their seats one after another. Yu Shan's arrival was too sudden. There were so many guests today that the Zheng family had not been able to prepare a private room for her in advance, so she had to sit at the same table with the other guests.
There were two tables set up in the room, occupied by close relatives. To prevent her great-aunt from gossiping, Madam Zheng had specifically arranged for her to sit at the other table, separate from Yu Shan. But she actually switched places with someone else, deliberately sitting next to Su Yu Shan, and clicked her tongue in disapproval.
"I always thought you two were a couple! It's such a pity you didn't marry Lin'er. Look how successful the Zheng family's business is now. If you had married into the family, you would have been a wealthy lady who never had to worry about food or clothing!"
Zheng Lin had just called her "aunt," proving that the woman was indeed from Suzhou. However, Yu Shan wasn't familiar with her and didn't want to chat with her, yet she couldn't ignore her, so she just gave a soft "hmm."
"My husband is great now."
"No matter how good they are, they can't be better than the Zheng family. The Zheng family is in the gold business; they're adorned in gold and jewels, and they'll never have to worry about money for the rest of their lives," my great-aunt boasted with considerable pride.
"My eldest grandson is a good man; he passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi. My youngest granddaughter is engaged to Lin'er's younger brother. I heard that on the day of the engagement, the gold jewelry alone weighed two jin (1 kg)! The Zheng family is truly generous!"
Su Yushan, not wanting to compare herself to others, smiled and praised, "Then your granddaughter is truly blessed."
Yunfang couldn't stand the woman's boasting and retorted, "What's gold? All the porcelain ornaments in our master's room are enamel!"
My great-aunt shook her head and chuckled as if she had heard a joke. "Although I'm old, I still know quite a lot. Enamelware is something reserved for the imperial court; how could an ordinary family possibly have it?"
“Ordinary families certainly wouldn’t have that, but the husband my mistress married is no ordinary person.”
"What? Could it be that she married into the palace?"
Su Yushan coughed lightly, signaling Yunfang not to get angry with this person. Yunfang, however, didn't want Yushan to suffer any injustice and was determined to stand up for her.
"No, but she has relatives in the palace."
The great-aunt scoffed, "What relatives could a Han Chinese woman like her have in the palace?"
With her chin slightly raised, Yunfang chuckled and said, "The Emperor and Consort Xi in the palace are my master's parents-in-law. What kind of relatives do you think they are?"
Upon hearing this, the people nearby looked over in surprise, "Could it be that your husband is the son of Consort Xi, the Fourth Prince?"
Consort Xi only had one son, so everyone naturally thought of the Fourth Prince. Upon hearing this, the maternal aunt covered her mouth and laughed:
"What right does a Han woman have to marry a prince? This girl is treating us like fools!"
The great-aunt didn't take it seriously at all, while another woman beside her guessed, "I heard that the Fourth Prince's concubine is a Han woman. Could it be this woman in front of us?"
It felt terrible to be talked about by everyone, so Yu Shan could only laugh awkwardly, which was considered an admission of guilt.
"You're actually a prince's concubine?" The great-aunt looked at Yu Shan with surprise, then exclaimed with a smile:
"The fortune teller said back then that you two sisters had good fates, one rich and the other noble. Now one married into a merchant family and the other entered the royal family. That fortune teller was right!"
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