Chapter 537: Chapter 537 Not at All Exciting Chapter 537: Chapter 537 Not at All Exciting Enter the house.
No sooner had Su Yunjin taken her seat than she looked at Gu Yan eagerly and asked, “Husband, tell me, what have you discovered?” Gu Yan also sat down opposite his little wife.
“Yunjin, it might really not have been Mrs. Han who did it.” Today, when Gu Yan made inquiries in the village, he asked many people, and all the answers indicated that Mrs. Han was not involved.
A month ago, Mrs. Han had almost stopped mingling with the women of the village and was scarcely seen, mostly leaving early and returning late.
She would go to the market during the day and not come back until dark. Mrs. Han’s unusual behavior led the villagers to believe she went to pick wild vegetables to sell at the market.
They didn’t suspect anything of Mrs. Han? Now that people heard Mrs. Han had run away with someone, they finally realized that her daily trips to the town were for seducing men.
Besides finding out that Mrs. Han had stopped mingling with the village women a month ago, Gu Yan also confirmed the Magistrate’s words: Mrs. Han indeed had no opportunity to spread rumors in the days leading up to her escape, as the villagers hadn’t seen her at all during that time, let alone heard her spread rumors.
Su Yunjin started to doubt yesterday whether this matter was related to Mrs. Han, and now that she had heard Gu Yan’s words, she was even more certain that Mrs. Han was not greatly involved.
“Husband, if it wasn’t Mrs. Han, who do you think it could be?” Su Yunjin prompted Gu Yan to speculate.
Gu Yan could only be certain that the person spreading rumors was not Mrs. Han, but as to who it might be, Gu Yan couldn’t say yet.
“Yunjin, give me a few more days, I believe I can definitely find the person who spread the rumors and tarnished your reputation.”
Gu Yan said with absolute certainty.
Finding the person who spread the rumors would not be difficult. Since the rumors were passed from mouth to mouth, all he needed to do was follow the trail, and he would surely find out who was responsible for spreading them.
There was a loud scream in the Gu Family courtyard. Mrs. Zhang was furious to see that three of the eggs she had hidden under the bed were missing, causing her a heartache.
She had painstakingly gathered those eggshells, and except for occasionally keeping a couple to nourish her sons, Gu Dabao and Gu Changshun, Mrs. Zhang herself couldn’t bear to eat them.
She was saving them to sell for money.
Who had the audacity to steal and eat her eggs? Mrs. Zhang immediately thought of her daughter-in-law, Wan Ruyan, and stormed into Wan Ruyan’s room.
What infuriated Mrs. Zhang even more was that Wan Ruyan had not only stolen her eggs but also pinched flour from her room to steam large white buns to eat.
“Ow, you fatherless, motherless thing, Wan Ruyan, you dare to steal my flour and eggs? Watch as I beat you to death.”
Rushing with force, Mrs. Zhang went to snatch the egg from Wan Ruyan’s hand, but Wan Ruyan quickly stuffed the egg into her mouth as Mrs. Zhang charged at her.
“Cough cough cough!” She coughed violently several times.
Watching the egg enter Wan Ruyan’s mouth, Mrs. Zhang was not only heartbroken, it was as if her heart was bleeding, “My egg, my egg, Wan Ruyan, you owe me, compensate me for my egg.”
After catching her breath, Wan Ruyan dodged while defiantly looking at Mrs. Zhang, “So I ate two of your damn eggs? Do you need to make such a fuss? Who cares? What’s the big deal? Eggs, such worthless things, we have plenty at the Wan Family, as many as you want.”
“Still talking back? Watch as I tear up your mouth.”
Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law clashed on the first day, scratching each other’s faces and pulling each other’s hair. It was a spectacular fight! Both Mrs. Zhang and Wan Ruyan ended up with numerous scratches on them.
Su Yunjin did not witness this magnificent drama, but she certainly would have laughed uncontrollably if she had. Seeing Mrs. Zhang, who had sinisterly plotted against her and Gu Yan, now married Wan Ruyan into the family, not only had she plotted against her own son, but she had also ensnared herself in the process.