Chapter 26: Rumors
"The son knows, it's just that Yu'er dreamed of the Reclining Buddha Temple, but why did her mother let her practice in the nunnery at home?" Zhou Yi's voice was faint, but with a hint of questioning. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Listening to Zhou Yi's voice, Zhou Huaiyu concluded that Zhou Yi had no feelings for the Yan family or the Su family.
"At the beginning of the period, I also planned to let Yu'er go to the Reclining Buddha Temple, after all, it was the Bodhisattva's guidance, but your sister-in-law took pity on Yu'er for her young age, if she went to the Reclining Buddha Temple to cultivate and endure hardships, she couldn't bear it, so she simply let Yu'er forget it at home, if there is a Buddha in her heart, where is it not the same?"
Su Shi raised his eyes and glanced at Yan, with mockery in his eyes.
The old thing took her favor, of course, to speak for her.
"Why are you here today?" Yan was already weak-hearted, and explained to his favorite concubine like this, but he was already extremely impatient in his heart, and his tone began to become bad.
Zhou Yi was silent for a few breaths, and suddenly sighed heavily.
Yan's face suddenly sank, "What are you sighing for, what's the displeasure you say, your father is not at home, who are you showing like this!" The voice was higher and higher, and by the last sentence was an angry rebuke.
Zhou Huaiyu hurriedly took two steps back and buried his head deeply.
The third son of the Zhou family, it seems that this third son is the most liked by the old marquis.
"Mother, in the next dynasty today, Lord Chen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate informed his son that there have been rumors in Beijing in the past two days that the old lady of Wu'an Houfu ruthlessly forced her granddaughter to become a nun just because of a dream, so everyone said that the Zhou family is ruthless and disregards family affection."
Yan immediately slapped the couch table, "Fart, my Zhou family has a relationship with the Buddha, this is in accordance with the guidance of the Buddha, is it slandered by others at will?" I don't take my Wu'an Hou Mansion in my eyes! ”
Zhou Yi ignored her and continued: "My father and two brothers fought bravely on the battlefield to kill the enemy, and their military exploits were outstanding. Lord Chen had a personal relationship with his son, and when he heard the news, he quickly informed his son. But the son thought, since Lord Chen knows about it, presumably the other imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate also know it, but I am afraid that someone has already handed the emperor an excerpt in the early court today. ”
After Zhou Yi finished speaking, Yan and Su's faces immediately changed greatly.
Yan was no longer confident, gloomy with a hint of trepidation, "What do you want to say!" ”
This concubine talked at length about her for a long time, and finally moved out all the saints today, what kind of ghost do you want to say.
Only then did Zhou Yi raise his eyes and look at Yan.
"Mother, father and two brothers are in a lot of difficulties and dangers on the battlefield, we are in Beijing, we can't help them, the only way is not to hold them back, if Yu'er is allowed to become a nun today, once the news spreads, it will become a sure thing, and the emperor will be furious when he hears that our Zhou family is so unkind, and he will be angry with the Zhou family, so as to anger his father and brother, and even recall them to be dismissed."
Zhou Yi narrated plainly, but it was terrifying in the ears of Yan and Su.
Although they are women and don't understand these court things, they deeply understand that everything they get today is because of their husband, because of the title of Marquis of Wu'an.
If one day the title is gone, and their husbands are no longer generals, what difference will they have from those merchants on the roadside and those farmers in the countryside?
Yan thought of the field work in the depths of her memory, and Su thought of the poverty and embarrassment that she deliberately ignored, and at the same time trembled fiercely.
Death can't go back to those days!
Yan Shi didn't hold it anymore, and asked anxiously: "Third child, what do you say!" Su Shi also clutched his handkerchief, waiting for Zhou Yi's answer.
Zhou Huaiyu raised his head slightly, and when he saw such a scene, he lowered his head again.
It seems that the Yan family is the mother, and the Su family is pressing Zhou Yi as the sister-in-law, but as long as Zhou Yi thinks about it, he can bluff them in three or two sentences.
She had indeed intended to use this trick from the beginning.
She explained to her grandmother that later in the evening, she began to let people spread rumors in the streets and alleys that "the old lady of Wu'an Houfu, Yan, is not kind, and forced her granddaughter to leave the house because of a dream", and then spread some more, such as "The Zhou family is ruthless", "The Zhou family is unkind and unjust, greedy for wealth" and so on, which can be played at will.
Once the rumors spread, the grandmother can come to the door and ask to see her granddaughter.
But Zhou Huaiyu confessed that he must not enter the mansion, he must be outside the mansion.
No matter what the Song family says, it is also the maiden family of the former Mrs. Wu'anhou, and no matter how arrogant the Zhou family is, they dare not blatantly embarrass it. Otherwise, it would not be like the previous life, which took years of planning, and finally let the original owner marry into the Su family in every possible way, and it was only after a year that the net was completely closed.
Therefore, Yan's only way is to let her go out of the house and explain it in person.
At that time, she said again righteously, saying that she was indeed ready to go to the Reclining Buddha Temple, but it was not a monk, let alone persecution by her grandmother, but she volunteered to fulfill her filial piety.
It's bound to leave right now!
As soon as she arrives at Wat Pho, everything is up to her. If the Yan family and the Su family forced her to come back, she only had to bite herself to death before she had finished her filial piety, and she needed to continue to stay in the mountains and practice penance, what could they do?
It's just that now Zhou Yi suddenly intervened, and he didn't know what would happen.
She forgot that in ancient times, there was a difficult official position called the Imperial Inspectorate, and the department was called the Metropolitan Procuratorate. To put it bluntly, the supervising imperial history complained to the emperor, and the emperor still believed it.
At least on the surface, it is believed.
As soon as the rumors come out, the forces opposite to the Zhou family will of course also be dispatched.
Zhou Yi said that when he went down to the court today, Chen Yushi told him about it, so what he said about the emperor receiving excerpts was pure nonsense.
The imperial history complaint is not to listen to the wind or rain, but it must be done after mastering a certain amount of evidence.
Therefore, someone will definitely come to Zhou's house to check. Although she hasn't really started cultivating yet, the whole house knows about the Yan family's order to build a nunnery for her, which is absolutely true.
Zhou Yi didn't need to ask, he would get the news from the third wife.
"Mother has given an order, let Yu'er in the nunnery to cultivate, if it suddenly stops at this time, it will definitely not be appropriate, for today's plan, only continue to let Yu'er worship the Buddha in the nunnery, let the girls in the family make a post, invite the nobles in Beijing to come to the house to play, and then Yu'er will come out to show her face, the so-called rumors of forcing Yu'er to become a monk will naturally be broken." Zhou Yi had this light tone from beginning to end, and in just a few words, he set a path for everyone.
Zhou Huaiyu's hanging fingers shook.
Zhou Yi's strategy is indeed good, but that is for the Zhou family.
She didn't believe that Zhou Yi couldn't see the Yan family and the Su family's plan, but this was none of his business, not the Zhou family's business, and even such a plan was beneficial to the Zhou family and him, so he acquiesced.
She still has to be trapped here and marry into the Su family a year later.
Moreover, as long as this turmoil passes, presumably the Su clan will guard her more strictly, and she will have no chance.
Zhou Huaiyu breathed a sigh of relief.
Grandmother, when are you coming?