The fast-traveling girl has no feelings for her

Chapter 85
No.15 Chapters——Bad words and gossip can kill people

Dark clouds gathered over Jinling City, and as the dark clouds piled up, scattered light rain began to fall everywhere in the city.

Gradually, the raindrops became heavier and heavier, and it hurt a little bit when it hit the person's head.

In several tea sheds along the street, many passers-by took shelter from the rain.

The tea lady pursed her lips and greeted with a smile, "Guest officers, this autumn rain won't stop for a while, why don't you come in and have a cup of hot tea?"

These people went into these tea sheds to take shelter from the rain. They looked at the fine fishing nets outside. Unable to resist the tea lady's enthusiastic invitation, they all sat down inside and ordered pots of the cheapest Tieguanyin.

While waiting for tea, this group of people who did not know each other chatted casually.

Everyone was talking about their own gossip, but when they were talking, the topic turned to the "corruption cleansing order" that has been raging in the city for the past few days.

This "Corruption Cleansing Order", as the name suggests, is a decree from the holy order to clean up corrupt officials in the country, and to clean up the government and discipline.

In the teahouse, an old man couldn't help but stroking his beard and said with a smile, "In my opinion, the current sage is really a sage! This 'corruption order' came at the right time. If those moths are not caught, no matter how high Lou can also teach them to be bored!"

One person responded, "Extremely, this 'corruption cleansing order' has only been issued for five days. Do you think how many corrupt officials, large and small, have been arrested in Jinling City? One by one beheaded and sent to prison If you don’t catch them again, how long will these people be rampant!”

"When you said that, I remembered something. I heard people say that no one dares to go there at night at Caishikou. It is said that there are ghosts wandering around at night. It's scary!"

A strong man heard the words and yelled, "What ghosts and ghosts? People die when they die. Where do ghosts come from? According to me, those corrupt officials should be beheaded. Kill him and see if he is still alive." Be greedy or not! Kill if you are greedy, this is a joy!"

After everyone talked about the beheading for a while, someone in the audience suddenly said, "Have you ever heard of the eldest lady of the Lin family who lived in the house of Mr. Lin, the former Minister of Household Affairs?"

The strong man from before raised his eyebrows, and suddenly became interested.

"What's the eldest lady of the Lin family? I've never heard of it. Tell me, is the eldest lady handsome?"

The speaker gave the strong man a blank look, then looked at the others and said, "I've heard people say that since Master Lin passed away, this young lady of the Lin family has been very strange."

Someone asked curiously, "What kind of trick?"

"You haven't heard of it? Then let me talk about two things first. One thing is that the eldest lady of the Lin family never cried at Master Lin's funeral, not even on the day Master Lin gave a big funeral. I haven't cried before, the whole person seems to have no soul, everyone looks the same, it's very weird."

One person couldn't help interjecting, "It's not weird, I'm afraid it's sad to the bone, right? I heard that some people can't cry on their faces when their loved ones have a big funeral, and their hearts are dripping with blood! The matter of mourning Son, how many people cry for the living to see..."

Before the man finished speaking, he was interrupted by another person, "Can you please stop interrupting? There are so many of us waiting for this gentleman to speak! Sir, please ignore this man and continue talking about yourself."

The person who brought up the topic continued, "The second thing is that Miss Lin went to Chaoyang Gate to knock on the Dengwen drum. Everyone knows that Miss Lin went to beat the Dengwen drum to avenge her father, but you guys Do you know that after Miss Lin entered the palace, many people along the way, such as maids and eunuchs, died for no apparent reason after meeting her!"

When everyone heard this, they felt a chill rising from behind their backs.

This young lady of the Lin family sounds a little weird!
What's the matter with this good-looking person who died when she touched him?
The person who spoke deliberately lowered his voice, "I also heard something from the palace. The servant of the household department and my lord, have you all heard about it?"

Everyone nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. Your name is still well-known in Jinling City.

It's just that I heard that a few days ago, I didn't know why I offended the Holy Majesty, and it seemed that I was shot to death.These days, He Mansion still hangs white silk around the house and is doing funerals.

"You all think that this He-sama was killed because he offended the Holy Majesty, right? But I heard that that He-sama entered the Holy Majesty's imperial study with Miss Lin, and ended up with less than a cup of tea." After a while, the Holy Majesty ordered the general to be dragged down and killed! Tell me, is this strange or not?"

In fact, there were three people who entered the imperial study room at that time, and there was also a supervisory censor, Mr. Zheng. This person later left the imperial study room first and escaped the disaster.

But the person who spoke was using other people's money to discredit Miss Lin's family, so naturally he would not tell everyone this.

He saw that everyone's expressions changed, and they whispered about Miss Lin family one by one, most of them said something about "ghost possession", so he knew that his goal had been achieved.

At this time, the autumn rain outside the tea shed was a little less.

After the person put down the tea money, he excused himself to have something to do, bid farewell to everyone and left.

But in fact, he was going to the next crowded place to spread all the black information about Miss Lin's family as soon as possible.

Almost on the same day, all kinds of rumors about Miss Lin's family spread quietly in the teahouses, taverns, rice shops, and streets and alleys in Jinling City.

Time passed quietly, and a few days passed in a blink of an eye.

In the streets and alleys, the women who choose and wash vegetables are chatting about household chores.

When talking about their children's future marriages, they couldn't help but think of the spectacle in Jinling City a few days ago.

A woman with a mole on the corner of her mouth said, "When it comes to marrying a daughter, you see how lively it was outside the Lin Mansion a few days ago? People waiting to be matchmakers for Miss Lin can line up from the east to the west. But what about these days? Ghosts don’t even go to the door of their Lin’s house!”

"Yeah, I'm also wondering about this, why all those matchmakers seem to have disappeared all of a sudden, and I haven't heard that Miss Lin is betrothed to anyone?" One person was puzzled.

Another woman next to him interrupted and said to the person, "You don't know about this? The eldest lady of the Lin family, said to be the rich lady, is actually very nasty. I don't know who she has been fooling around with. Her body has long been gone." It’s impossible to do it! This matter is about to spread throughout Jinling City, who dares to go to her house to propose marriage? That means you are wearing a cuckold as soon as you get married!"

The man was shocked when he heard the words, "There is such a thing! Why haven't I heard of it? Where did you all find out?"

The woman with the black mole who started the conversation squinted at this person and said, "A relative of my family works in the Duke's mansion. This is what the noble ladies of the official family talked about when they chatted, saying After they finished, they also ordered the servants not to speak out, so can this matter be false?"

After hearing this, the man unconsciously believed most of it.

Yes, if this is not true, how did the ladies of the official family know?

If it's not true, why are they hiding it?
It seems that the dirty things about the eldest daughter of the Lin family are probably true.

But in a few days, various rumors about Miss Lin's family began to spread in the city, and people were talking about these things almost everywhere.

At first, the women of ordinary families only said that the young lady of the Lin family was undisciplined, and that she was a vulgar person who had fornication before marriage.At the end, some people said that Miss Lin's family was not only ignorant, but she was even heard that she was pregnant and beat her body!Didn't even know whose breed that kid was!

I heard that Mrs. Lin made many servants in her family disappear overnight in order to cover up this scandal!It's not obvious that she is covering up her own daughter's ugliness!
However, some people questioned whether the timing of the pregnancy and the disappearance of the servants of the Lin Mansion were consistent.

But right now, everyone is in the vortex of crazy rumors, and the more they spread, the more excited they become.

There are even those who have good things, even the specific time and place when the eldest lady of the Lin family climbed into bed with so-and-so and even those unsightly meeting scenes were recorded in words, and they were compiled into a book, even accompanied by illustrations. Come and sell in town.

As a result, the business of these books was extremely hot, and the books were sold out several times!

Rumors and rumors all over the city, coupled with the boost of public opinion, can make people burn their bones under the public opinion.

For a while, the reputation of Miss Lin's family in Jinling City was completely ugly, and it stinks!
At this time, in Jinling City, in the backyard of a certain high official's house, a group of beautifully dressed ladies were talking and laughing, having tea and snacks, and chatting.

They were all chatting about the young lady of the Lin family who had been on fire in Jinling City for the past few days.

One of them couldn't help laughing and said, "I really don't know what Mrs. Lin is going to be in a hurry at home now. Before so many matchmakers came to her house, she still picked and picked which one was not happy, and which one was not happy. Now it's okay Oh, her Lin Mansion, there will never be a matchmaker in the future!"

"That's right, her daughter, Lin Shu, has such a bad reputation, worse than stinky ditches and dead rats! Even the beggars on the roadside, I'm afraid they don't want to marry this young lady of the Lin family!"

"Let me tell you, the reputation of my daughter's family is so bad, it's better to die and clean up!"

"Don't! If she goes to vote in Yuhu Lake, how will she drink the water from Yuhu Lake in the future!"

When the girls said this, there was another burst of laughter.

One of the older ladies held her body upright and said slowly while sipping tea, "If Luo Mengmeng doesn't let her know how good she is this time, I'm afraid she really thinks of herself as a third-rank madam. "

This noble lady has a very high status, and her husband is a high-ranking official in the court, who is highly regarded by the Holy Majesty.

It's just that although her husband is a first-rank official, she herself is only a third-rank wife.

Then Luo Mengmeng of the Lin Mansion is a widow whose husband has died. What qualifications do she have to crawl to her feet and be on an equal footing with her?
This time her daughter even went to beat the Dengwen Drum, which caused the Holy Majesty to clean up the city, and frightened them, the noble ladies, to tremble at home, for fear that the butcher's knife would fall on their own heads.

Now that the limelight of the "corruption cleansing order" has passed, they have suffered such torture, if they don't want to find a way to rule the Lin family's bitch mother and daughter, how can they swallow the anger in their hearts?
So those rumors that were first circulated among the public were intentionally released by their group.The purpose is to punish the mother and daughter of the Lin family and teach them to become street rats, and everyone shouts and beats them.

Right now, as soon as this high-ranking lady opened her mouth, someone immediately opened her mouth to hold onto her words, and went on to please her.

"That's to say, Luo Mengmeng didn't even have a son, and even killed her own husband, which shows that she was born with a hard life! How can such a person deserve the title of third-rank imperial wife?"

"That's right. I've heard that Luo Mengmeng's background is quite ordinary, as if he came from a merchant. The merchant's house smells like copper, so how can he teach him anything good?"

The noble ladies present all come from the top circles in Jinling City.

All of them were born in aristocratic families, noble families, and scholarly families, and they looked down on those small families below.

While this group of people were still happily chatting and joking, in the Lin Mansion, Mrs. Lin had not slept well for many days.

At first, she didn't pay much attention to the rumors outside.

But later on, this rumor was like a burning flame, with people constantly adding fuel to the fire. As a result, the fire grew stronger and stronger, and the flames spread higher and higher, and it completely burned my daughter's reputation alive. !

Mrs. Lin is sitting alone in the room and weeping.

At this time, her room was completely white, and she sat quietly on a chair by herself, her eye circles were red, and she stared blankly at the front.

The most important reputation of the daughter's family was ruined.

She knew her daughter would never marry again.

As a mother, she watched those people push her child to a dead end, but there was nothing she could do about it.

why?
Why is it not enough for those people to kill Zhengxian, but also want to kill their mother and daughter?

What crime did they do in their previous life to be treated like this?

The more Mrs. Lin thought about these things, the more her heart ached.

When Lin Shu came to Madam Lin's room and opened the door to enter, what she saw was Madam Lin's lost soul.

She silently walked to the latter, squatted down slowly, stretched out her hands and took the cold hand that Mrs. Lin placed on her knees into her palm.

Mrs. Lin's hand was slightly startled. Only then did she come back to her senses, lowered her head and saw her daughter.

"Mom, now I am a slave and I am a fish. We have no way out."

When Lin Shu said this, she raised her head. From her daughter's seemingly calm eyes, Mrs. Lin saw the indifference and murder and even the bloodthirsty hidden behind the calmness.

Lin Shu calmly held her hand and said, "Mother, leave the rest to me! Daughter, I swear to you that I will pay back a hundred times, a thousand times, all those who make our mother and daughter suffer. Give them back all the pain!"

(End of this chapter)