However, she was not the one who inquired about the news in Mrs. Gu's yard.
Murong lowered her eyelids and glanced at Mrs. Gu from the corner of her eyes.
She thought fiercely, if it were really her fault, Mrs. Gu wouldn't be able to escape!
Mrs. Gu knelt down steadily, without squinting her eyes, looking very magnanimous.
"From Lao Jiu's family!" Mrs. Gu shouted angrily.
Murong trembled, took two steps forward on her knees, and said in a trembling voice: "Old Master."
Old Mrs. Gu said gloomily: "Boss' wife, come and ask her."
He looked impatient to talk to her any more.
Murong thought mockingly to herself that she had fallen to this level and was not even worthy of being questioned.
"Yes, old man."
Mrs. Gu bowed, stood up and stood in front of Murong, and said solemnly: "Nine younger brothers and sisters, I will ask, you will tell.
This is at home, and we are all family members. It doesn’t matter if we say the wrong thing. The key is that we can’t stop saying it and we can’t tell lies. Do you understand?"
Murong's palms were red from being pinched by her nails. She looked at Gu Yilan with her last glimmer of hope.
"Husband, Yi Lan, are you just going to watch me being bullied and plotted against? Do you really not care about me?"
Gu Yilan looked at her indifferently, without sadness or joy, as if she was just an insignificant outsider.
"How silly." Gu Fenglin commented.
Murong's eyelids twitched, and she completely looked away from Gu Yilan, looking at Mrs. Gu fiercely, with a strange smile: "Sister-in-law, you ask."
Mrs. Gu saw the threat in her eyes, but didn't care: "Did you ask Ah Yue to send the information she learned back to Muhou Mansion?"
"No!" Murong denied flatly.
Mrs. Gu sighed: "Did you tell the Muhou Mansion that Mu Yunhan is actually Zhao Hongru's daughter?"
"No!" Murong sneered: "Sister-in-law, why didn't you ask me how I learned that Mu Yunhan was going to challenge Mu Yao?"
Mrs. Gu said calmly: "Where did you learn that Mu Yunhan was going to challenge Mu Yao?"
Murong stared at her: "Don't you know?"
Mrs. Gu shook her head and whispered softly: "Jiujiejiu, you are so... forcing me to do nothing."
She clapped her hands, and several servants bowed their heads and walked in one after another.
The first one was none other than Mrs. Shen who had sent a letter to Mrs. Gu that day.
Mrs. Shen knelt down on the ground in panic and said loudly: "This slave is an errand in the old master's yard. Madam Ninth gave the slave twenty taels of gold and asked her to find out why the old master summoned Mu Yunhan..."
"That day, when I heard Mu Yunhan said that he wanted to challenge Mu Yao, I quickly told Madam Ninth about it."
"You are talking nonsense!" Murong was furious: "You are clearly my sister-in-law's wife, how dare you spit on others?"
She looked at Old Mrs. Gu: "Old Mrs., this is my eldest sister-in-law. That day this bitch came over to tell my eldest sister-in-law, and my eldest sister-in-law told me the news..."
Mrs. Shen shrank and whispered: "Madam Ninth said at that time that if this matter was discovered, she would blame the eldest lady..."
"You're talking nonsense!" Murong rushed over to fight Mrs. Shen, but she didn't know what she thought of before she retreated again, holding her belly and hissing: "I was wronged!"
Mrs. Gu never had any mood swings and calmly asked someone to place a small bundle on the ground.
Inside the baggage were twenty ounces of gold. The gold ingots were cast in the shape of a crabapple, with the word "MU" cast underneath.
It is the gold ingot that Murong usually uses to reward people and decorate the facade. (To be continued)