Chapter 1364 - 196, guarding
Lady Jiang thought about it and quickly agreed, "Yes, yes, you are more thoughtful, daughter. Mother will no longer call that little...ahem, anyway, mother will remember this and will change her ways, don’t worry!"
Chen Leyao sighed silently in her heart. No matter what, she had finally managed to get her younger brother out today.
Because of the price war, Chen Ji’s business had suffered greatly. The Wu family’s fueling the flames made things even worse for Chen Ji. However, when Chen Ruochu appeared safe and sound at Chen Ji Cloth Shop, some of the rumors instantly fell apart.
And somehow, from a certain point in time, the street urchins stopped singing their begging songs and instead spread a nursery rhyme called "The Affairs of Wu’s Family."
This nursery rhyme was particularly catchy; it was as if it depicted a well-praised drama of intrigue within a household. It covered everything from rightful heirs and step-daughters to the Little Concubine’s fights and the oppression from the stepmother. It even described the scandalous affairs of the rightful heir son in vivid detail, as if one had seen them with their own eyes.
People are naturally curious, some even crave for salacious news. This nursery rhyme fully satisfied everyone’s desire for sensation and within three days, it had spread throughout the entire Capital city, even wider than the previous Chen family scandal.
Under the impact of this rhyme, the Chen family and Lady Jiang finally became a thing of the past, and within less than seven days, no one mentioned it anymore.
Meanwhile, right in the eye of the storm, the Wu family found themselves the target of intentional slander as the Wu family of Jiangnan. The content of the nursery rhyme seemed to match the Wu family of Jiangnan exactly. A wife with two sons, a stepmother with a daughter—wasn’t this about Wu Jiangtao’s siblings and Lady Du’s daughter? Plus, the eldest son’s notorious reputation and Wu Jiangtao’s frequent visits to the brothels were well-known; at this point, who could question it?
Not only did the people of the Capital begin to believe the rhyme’s contents were true, but even the Wu family themselves started to believe it.
Lady Du sat stunned in her bedroom, fingers trembling and lips turning pale from blood loss.