Chapter 2025: People's Speculations
At this moment, the people who had gathered around the teahouse saw that the teahouse was surrounded by people from the government, and they all came to watch the fun, and more and more people came.
After hearing Gu Xin's blunt reprimand for Lu Ni, the gossip fire in everyone's eyes became stronger, and they didn't even think about why someone died in the teahouse.
The affairs of the Zhenguogong Mansion were known to everyone in the capital, and they had many versions of the story.
The old men and women who were as old as the Zhenguogong had seen with their own eyes how the Zhenguogong married his wife with a grand ceremony. At that time, Lu Zheng's mother, Zhou, was the daughter of a merchant in a small place, so the people paid great attention to her. After all, Zhou was from a group like them and married into the Zhenguogong Mansion, which was extremely rich, and she was loved by the most handsome man in the capital, the Zhenguogong.
As a result, only five years later, Zhou died. Before the 77th day of her death, the Zhenguogong turned around and married his childhood sweetheart, the noble lady of the Lin family.
Then the daughter of the original wife married a poor scholar, and the son of the original wife, who was also the eldest grandson of the Lu family, was sent to his hometown in Yuzhou for recuperation due to poor health.
At that time, the gossip of the people in the capital was divided into three camps.
The first camp felt that Zhou was a commoner, and her children were as unlucky as her, and could not compare with the children of the noble lady of the Lin family. These people just couldn't stand others doing well. We are all common people. You can marry into a rich family, but I can't. It's right that you don't live well.
The second camp felt that Zhou was from a small family, and because of her outstanding appearance, she won the heart of the Duke of Zhenguo. The Duke of Zhenguo was greedy for novelty for a while, and finally found that he had no talent and only good looks, and he was not as good as his childhood sweethearts who were well matched. As for the two children, they were quite pitiful, but all this was fate. From the moment you were born, your life appeared in the book of life and death of the King of Hell, and it couldn't be changed at all.
The third camp had the most people. They speculated that the Duke of Zhenguo and Lin were childhood sweethearts. Maybe this was spread by the Lin family, not that they were engaged since childhood, so the Lu family would not come to clarify anything because of this. Why did the Lin family spread the rumor of childhood sweethearts? It was because Lin was in love with the Duke of Zhenguo. But the Duke of Zhenguo had no romantic feelings for Lin. On his way back to Beijing from the war, he met Zhou. Because of Zhou's appearance and Zhou's talent. People from small towns are not necessarily untalented. The Zhou family is also a wealthy businessman in Qingzhou. Master Zhou traveled all over the country and discovered peppers, enriching the people's dinner tables. Mrs. Zhou is also a female doctor who studied under a master. How bad can a daughter taught by such a couple be?
They believed that the Duke of Zhenguo and Zhou were in love, and Lin couldn't stand the blow. After being locked up at home for two years, she came out again and made trouble, which led to the breakdown of their relationship. Therefore, Zhou was depressed. After all, the two finally got along well and had a child. Lin must have bribed the people in the Duke's Mansion to poison Zhou. The prince was lucky enough to survive, but Zhou was ultimately a beauty with a short life.
As for why the Duke of Zhenguo married Lin, everyone believed that the Duke of Zhenguo was probably moved by Lin's passion and wanted to find a mother for his two children, so he accepted Lin.
Of course, these were all the people's guesses at the time.
The experiences of Lu Xue and Lu Zheng later made everyone despise Lin again. This was obviously to tame the children of the original wife and praise her own children!