Four Hundred and Seventy-Nine: Ghost Marriage, Widowhood (2)

The stepmother admired her armor with contempt in her eyes.

"Mrs. Zhang has heard that the Liu Mansion does not have the person you want. If you continue to make trouble and bully the second branch of the Liu Mansion because there is no male heir in the mansion, this matter will never end. The Zhang family is also a prestigious family, as for you? What a nobody!"

The stepmother's words really made Mrs. Zhang angry and her face turned blue. She stared at the stepmother with eyes that seemed to be able to spit out venom.

She took a deep breath, clenched her fist secretly, and her long nails dug into the flesh of her palms, with a hint of a grim smile on her face.

"What does Mrs. Meng mean by this? Even if she ran to your house, it is clear that you kidnapped the young lady of our Zhang Mansion. Not to mention that your head of the family is not here, even if Liu Zhongqing is here, he has to give an explanation."

Mrs. Zhang mocked Gu Zhen in a yin-yang way, deliberately emphasizing the pronunciation of "Mrs. Meng".

Who among the noble ladies in Hejian didn't know the details of the stepmother Gu Zhen?

Her original husband was Meng Zhan from Cangzhou. After that, she was restless. After divorcing her husband Meng Zhan, she turned around and married her brother-in-law. I have never seen such a shameless woman.

A good woman should not marry twice, and a woman should not have two husbands. Why didn't the Liu clan arrest a woman like Gu Zhen who had lost her private morality and drown her in a pond?

When the stepmother Gu Zhen heard the address from Madam Zhang, her originally gloomy face became even uglier.

Madam Zhang thought she had the upper hand and couldn't help but feel proud.

"After this woman gets married, she should regard her husband as the sky and be faithful to him. This is the model of women and the first of women's virtues. I heard that when Madam Meng was still in Cangzhou, she was a restless person. That Meng Zhan did not divorce you in order to take care of the face of the two families, but the two parties divorced. I'm not saying anything too much, Madam Meng should really read the Four Books for Women and understand what is shame."

As soon as these words came out, the whole room was silent.

Madam Die secretly glanced at the stepmother's face, which was already too dark to look at.

The stepmother took a sip of tea and suppressed the anger rising in her heart.

The lady Zhang continued, "My daughter-in-law is restless and escaped without permission. This extremely evil girl has ruined the Zhang family's reputation for hundreds of years. We must naturally capture her and punish her. As for you, Madam Meng... I advise you that you are still a slut, and there are fewer things in other people's families... Ah!"

The stepmother leaned on the table,

and threw the teacup in her hand directly at Madam Zhang's face. Seeing her face splashed with tea and tea stains, the stepmother laughed heartily.

The room was silent, with only Madam Zhang's screams and the stepmother's sweet laughter like an oriole.

"I, Gu Zhen, come from a real aristocratic family. I am well-educated. You, a girl from a poor family who has fallen on hard times, can't make a comment." The stepmother took off her clothes and said proudly, "Zhang Zhaoshi, as a daughter who lost her father, you married Zhang's only son. You are indeed very successful. I can understand that you are from a low background, so you feel inferior and lowly. You regard your husband as heaven and earth. After all, the Four Books for Women are regarded as the criterion by the more inferior and low-minded women. Do you think I am right?"

Mrs. Zhang's eyes were fierce, and Jiang Nongqin, who sensed the murderous intention, reacted immediately.

She stepped forward to capture Mrs. Zhang. The people brought by Zhang's mansion had a wrong view and wanted to rescue her, but they were also subdued by the servants of Liu's mansion.

"Madam Zhang, why didn't you check what's going on in our Liu Mansion? Also, you have to remember one thing..." The stepmother walked up to Madam Zhang with an arrogant and domineering attitude, and pinched her chin with her armored fingers.

"Call me Madam Liu, and if you call me the wrong name, someone will die."

Madam Zhang was shocked and immediately understood why she had failed to send someone to the Liu Mansion to ask for Shangguan Wan.

When she heard the stepmother say that she wanted to kill someone, she was shocked, her heart was pounding, and her face turned pale.

"You dare?"

She didn't want to come and get the person herself, but Shangguan Wan left a divorce letter and ran away, which really slapped Zhang's face.

Zhang Zhao couldn't bear it anymore, so she came to get the person on the New Year's Day, and she also wanted to teach the Liu Mansion a lesson.

But she forgot that no matter what kind of monsters and demons they were, they were all shit in front of absolute power!

Since the Four Books for Women became popular in Hejian, Gu Zhen was excluded by a group of noble ladies, and they avoided her in any activities.

However, these noble ladies also forgot that Gu Zhen always liked to stay at home and didn't bother to communicate with them.

However, Gu Zhen's long absence gave everyone a misconception -

Liu She's wife Gu Zhen, a remarried daughter, a dirty woman who had experienced two husbands, was not qualified to be on an equal footing with them.

The stepmother asked in surprise, "Why don't I dare? I don't know who gave Madam Zhang the illusion that I didn't dare?"

After saying this, she suddenly pinched Madam Zhang's jaw and forced her to get closer to her.

The stepmother's red and plump lips uttered words that made the other person feel cold all over.

"She is just from a small family, so her horizons are limited. She has read some stupid Four Books for Women, which makes her already stupid brain even more stupid. If you don't believe me, you can go back and ask your husband. If I bring people to smash the door of your Zhang Mansion, will he dare to fight back? If you dare to fight, I will write the word Gu Zhen upside down!"

Releasing Zhang's jaw, Gu Zhen took out a handkerchief and wiped her hands carefully, as if she had touched something dirty.

She said casually, "She is indeed from a poor family, and she is very petty..."

Zhang was so angry that her face turned blue, but the hand playing the zither was like an eagle's claw, tightly holding her, and she couldn't break free.

"Mrs. Zhang is so proficient in the Four Books for Women. Can you tell me if a woman's body is seen by a strange man, should she die to atone for the crime?" The stepmother returned to the upper seat and leaned lazily on the bench. "I remember that before Mrs. Zhang got married, she made a living by sewing and often went out to deal with merchants in the show shop. One year she fell into the water and was rescued by a few passing villagers... Tsk tsk, I wonder how many green hats Mrs. Zhang has worn for your husband?"

The stepmother covered her lips with her sleeves, her eyes revealing some ill intentions.

"We can't keep this a secret. I'll go to the Zhang clan's patriarch tomorrow and ask him if a shameless woman like you should be arrested and thrown into a pond to preserve the Zhang clan's reputation. After all, dying of starvation is a minor matter, but losing one's chastity is a major matter. Madam Zhang should die to preserve her innocence."

Madam Zhang's face had turned pale, fearing that the stepmother would kill her.

Although she didn't think Gu Zhen would dare to do this, her life was too important to take risks.

"Send the guest out!"

The stepmother's expression suddenly darkened, and she waved her sleeves to send the guest out. She played the piano and invited the distinguished Madam Zhang out like she was catching a chicken.

Madam Die smiled and said, "Madam is really not afraid of trouble."

The stepmother squinted her eyes and said indifferently, "My brother-in-law is responsible for it, what should I be afraid of?"