After saying that, he hurriedly left with a few servants and a matchmaker, his back view showing a few disheveled figures.
Grandma Ye and Ye Daquan were all dumbfounded.
Grandma Ye exclaimed in surprise, "What's going on? This Zheng Kai, why does he seem like he doesn't want to marry me?"
Ye Caiping scoffed, "Mother, don't you understand? The magistrate's wife doesn't want me to be her brother's wife, but rather she wants to be the magistrate's concubine! This couple, one playing the good cop and the other the bad cop, are trying to smoke out field mice."
Old Mrs. Ye and Ye Daquan's expressions all changed.
Smoking field mice is something every villager has done before.
When you want to catch field mice, you light a fire to smoke out their burrows. The mice can't stand the smoke, so the stupid ones will dart out of the burrow where the fire was lit, while the clever ones will escape from the burrow at the other end.
The magistrate's wife first used the analogy of ugly gourds and cracked dates to force Ye Caiping to marry Zheng Kai. She then established herself as a jealous woman who forbade Ye Caiping from having any contact with the magistrate.
When Ye Caiping is pushed to the limit, she will act rashly and without thinking.
Moreover, the magistrate's wife's actions would have aroused rebellious and vengeful feelings in any normal person, just as Granny Zhao said.
At that time, whether Ye Caiping is desperate, vengeful, or both, she will take the initiative to throw herself into Magistrate Lu's arms.
She would then willingly marry into the Lu family, hoping to get revenge or bring down the magistrate's wife.
But all of this was actually a scheme within a scheme orchestrated by the magistrate and his wife.
One plays the bad cop, and the other plays the good cop.
Yesterday, Magistrate Lu, who should have avoided suspicion, came to see her anyway. He changed his carriage but not his coachman. When Granny Zhao and the villagers realized that it was the magistrate, she had a suspicion.
When they were stopped from leaving the city that morning, she was already 80% certain. And then Magistrate Lu came along to play the hero... haha, he couldn't hide it anymore!
Fearing she wouldn't take the bait, Zheng Kai would force her to come knocking!
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