Little Cui and Du had their heads lowered. After hearing the words of the melon-eating crowd, they wanted to find a hole in the ground to hide themselves.
How could Mrs. Shen not know why they came to plead guilty? After all, the Duke of Guo said at the beginning that they had done something to ruin her reputation. Shen Wan insisted on letting the Duke of Guo explain, just to make them more It's just embarrassing.
They only regret now that they were not more cautious and should have let others spread the rumor instead of letting the servants in their own palace spread it.
In fact, they were wronged because it was not them who planned all this, but Lao Cui.
A few days ago, Mrs. Du went to the Duke's Mansion to visit her aunt and sister-in-law. The three of them got together, and Mrs. Du talked about Cui Feng being expelled from Qingyun Academy. Mrs. Du was very unjust for her son, and even more so when she mentioned Song Ziling. She was so filled with hatred that she even scolded Shen Wan. As soon as she scolded Shen Wan, both old and young Cui remembered their old grudges, but they still couldn't swallow their breath. Remembering that Mrs. Lin died of illness, old Cui felt a pang in her heart. The plan was to spread their assumptions and ruin Shen Wan's reputation so that she would not be able to hold her head high in the future.
The old Cui family was the one who devised the plan, and the young Cui family and Du family were the implementers. On that day, they found a few confidants and asked them to spread the rumors. The content of those rumors was that Shen Wan killed Song Heng and Song Heng. It was because Shen Wan was making peace with him that he had no shame to take him with him in the imperial city, so he asked Ying to go to Muyun Mountain. If he didn't go to Muyun Mountain, he would not die. Also, Shen Wan saw that Song Heng would not be able to come back. , not only dominated the General's Mansion, but also killed Lin.
After the rumor spread for a few days, almost everyone believed it, and another rumor came out that Shen Wan was having an affair with the accountant. Although they didn't know who spread the rumor, they still went to add fuel to the flames and let the people in the house know it. Someone, pretending to be from Izumo Villa, went to say that he saw Shen Wan and the accountant having a tryst in the backyard! If he saw the accountant tipped into Shen Wan's yard in the middle of the night, he wanted to use this to make Shen Wan unable to turn over. It would be best It made her unable to survive.
When they learned that many people in the imperial city had believed the rumor and were still scolding Shen Wan, they all felt a breath of bad breath and felt very happy. However, they had not been happy for a few days before they were caught and brought to plead guilty. However, Lao Cui, who was the initiator of the plan, did not come because she was the wife of the Duke of Guo. The Duke wanted to save the last layer of his face, so he let the two younger generations take the responsibility.
Chen Guogong's face turned dark, he cupped his hands and said to Shen Wan: "It's all because of my lax management of the family. I'm here to apologize to you." After saying that, Chen Guogong, who was over sixty years old, bowed to Shen Wan.
Thinking that he has lived for more than sixty years, apart from the Queen Mother and the ladies in the palace, this is the first time for him to bend over to a woman, and he is still a junior.
Although he felt embarrassed, there was nothing he could do. If he didn't do enough, the emperor would be even more angry.
Seeing this, Chen Yuanwei also hurriedly raised his hands to Shen Wan and bent down to salute.
Shen Wan said hurriedly: "My lord, please don't do this."
This is what makes people spread rumors, but it is not the young Cui family and the Du family's turn to pay tribute to her and apologize to her.
Today was really the most embarrassing moment in his life. When he was about to go to court today, the emperor called him and Cui Shilang out. In front of all the civil and military officials, he threw the confessions of the servants in their faces. Above. It is said that the two families maliciously spread rumors and slander the widow of General Zhenguo. Not only do they want to force the death of the wife of the third grade of Gaoming, who was personally conferred by the imperial court, but they also want to bring shame to the General Zhenguo's mansion and make General Zhenguo even die. An Sheng also said that their hearts are worth killing.
He and Cui Shilang read the confession and repeatedly begged for mercy. They only said that they did not know about the matter and that they would restrain their families and bring people to the house to apologize. Of course, they did not know about the matter.
Even so, the emperor still reprimanded them so hard that they couldn't hold their heads up. He also punished them for being lax in managing the family and fined them one year's salary.
Cui Shilang also held up his hands and said: "Cui is not strict in running the family, so I apologize to my wife here."
When the crowd saw this, they all said, "Mrs. Song's face is really great! Even the Duke of the country has to bend down to apologize to her!"
"is not that right?"
"However, this Duke of Chen's house is not a good person. Why would he take the initiative to apologize to Mrs. Song in such a lowly manner?"
"Yes! These two ladies are still carrying thorn sticks and kneeling on the ground to plead guilty. They don't want to see anyone anymore!"
"I'm afraid someone forced them to come and apologize to Mrs. Song!"
"Who?"
The person who said that pointed to the sky.
The people who were eating melons looked at the sky and had an epiphany. Who else could be there other than Tianzi?
The crowd couldn't help but sigh in their hearts, "Mrs. Song's reputation is so great! Even a rumor can make the emperor take action."