"How can anyone treat their own daughter like this? They're worse than animals."
From the crowd, a woman shouted something.
Soon, a chorus of condemnation arose, all cursing Wang Shi and Ye Zhengqing.
Wang was filled with hatred. After Ye Zhen returned from the manor unharmed, she thought of killing the old woman from the Marquis's mansion.
They found out that the person had returned to her hometown, so they sent people to her hometown to silence her. Unexpectedly, she ended up in Ye Zhen's hands.
In other words, Ye Zhen already knew that the Ye family was involved in the affairs of the manor.
Ye Zhen was just putting on an act with them during the previous homecoming and the banquet for bestowing honors.
What a despicable person.
Sure enough, she did have a problem.
Ye Zhen took in Wang's expression, but remained calm.
Previously, she thought that she was not yet capable of confronting the General's Mansion head-on, so she could only hide her strengths and take advantage of their unpreparedness to deliver a crushing blow.
But now, changing Yin Yue's fate is more important.
In this life, the Ye family will no longer be able to manipulate Yin Yue and the others at will, as the head of the family.
She bowed towards the back of the crowd, "Madam Wang."
People turned around following her gaze and saw that she was the wife of an official.
Accompanied by Xie Jinzhou, the woman stepped forward, greeted the Marquis of Zhongyong with a smile, and then looked at the crowd, saying, "I am from the family of Imperial Censor Wang. I heard that my cousin-in-law was being slandered, so I came to see for myself out of curiosity."
The cousin-in-law she mentioned was the Marquis of Zhongyong.
And she was the gossipy daughter-in-law that Old Madam Wang had mentioned.
Lou Tinglan was close to her cousin-in-law during her lifetime. After Lou Tinglan's death, the Marquis of Zhongyong maintained contact with the Wang family, and Madam Wang never changed her address to Lou Tinglan.
"As a result, I met Master Chongxu outside the door. I was just about to ask him how he had calculated my son's fortune back then, and why he hadn't been right at all. It turned out that he was a fake."
But I only hired him because I heard from the Ye family that he was very accurate in predicting fates.
She said somewhat angrily, "He once said that my son was a reincarnation of the God of Literature, destined to be a top scholar, and would definitely marry before he reached adulthood, which cheated me out of several hundred taels of silver."
My son always falls asleep while studying, and now he's twenty-one, but he still hasn't found a wife.
Her words confirmed to everyone that this person was indeed the Daoist Chongxu whom the Ye family had invited back then.
Wang did indeed find a fake Taoist priest who gave her daughter an extremely bad fate, using this as a pretext to send her away.
"You're talking nonsense. I never said any of that to you."
Wang retorted, "Master Chongxu went on a pilgrimage after giving his decree. My maid personally saw him off out of the city. You were invited by Ye Zhen to help her slander her parents."
"You didn't tell me, but when you invited the Taoist priest, didn't you go around saying that he was very effective?"
At the time, in order to pave the way for Ye Zhen's departure, the Wang couple did indeed tell others that Master Chongxu was extremely efficacious.
Wang was annoyed that Madam Wang was meddling in her affairs.
“I happened to want to have my son’s fortune told, so when I heard the news I sent someone to the Ye family to invite them. But I was too late. I only caught up with them when I went outside the city.”
Madam Wang laughed, "The fake Taoist priest then rode in my Wang family's carriage into the city. At that time, I happened to have other ladies as guests at my home. If you don't believe me, I can ask them to come and testify."
Every word she spoke was true, and Xie Tingzhou had found out about it, which is why he invited her here again today.
Wang looked at the fake Taoist priest suspiciously. The man knelt down as soon as he met her gaze. "They gave me a lot of money. I was thinking of saying some nice things, so I could earn as much as I could..."
The fake Taoist priest made no secret of anything, confessing everything about how much silver Wang had given him and how she had taught him to lie.
Wang's face flushed red, and she felt extremely resentful.
Some commoners spoke up, "They are an official family, and they can afford to raise their children. They don't have many children, so why would they send their daughter to the south?"
I really can't understand it. Even in poor families like ours, even if we only have one bite to eat left, we wouldn't easily abandon our own flesh and blood.
"This is really illogical. Could it be that it's not her child at all?"
"I heard that the Ye family has been living in the General's Mansion all these years, treating Miss Wantang there like a precious treasure..."
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