The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1075: Can’t Be Real

Chapter 1075: Chapter 1075: Can’t Be Real

I can’t believe it, the daughter-in-law that Madam Zhou had been longing for and boasting about constantly—could she really be such a person? If what was said just now is true, doesn’t that imply that Madam Zhou has been blind?

Upon hearing the maid’s words, Madam Zhou’s stern gaze swept over her.

Whether it’s true or not, there’s no smoke without fire. She must get to the bottom of this matter!

If this matter is true, how could their family’s Liang marry a woman who has lost her purity and moreover cannot bear children?

Although she had previously promised Ninth Miss that she would not pressure her to have children, she never really thought that Ninth Miss truly couldn’t bear any.

She had always assumed that, when Ninth Miss grew older, she would want to secure her own future by giving birth to a son without being urged to do so. Little did she know that things would turn out this way!

"Madam..."

"Let’s go home!"

For now, she could only return home and relay everything to her family members to make a decision.

...

Zhou family.

As Madam Zhou fiercely spoke her piece, the entire hall fell silent, as if even breathing sounds had disappeared.

"Everything you said is true?"

After what seemed like a long while, Elder Mr. Zhou finally regained his senses and hurriedly asked.

"Dad, everything is true. The way they tell it, with every little detail, could it even be fake?" Madam Zhou was already so angry that smoke seemed to be coming out of her nostrils.

All the way from outside to home, the more she thought about it, the more she felt it must be so. If Nine Miss were not like that, why would she ever need to marry into their Zhou family? Couldn’t she choose any other family she desired?

Especially after their Liang had failed the examinations, she thought this marriage proposal was certainly doomed.

Little did she know that after she merely mentioned it, the county magistrate’s family had personally set the wedding date.

Initially, she had felt proud, thinking her Liang was capable, only to realize that apart from her Liang, Nine Miss couldn’t marry anywhere else—her tarnished reputation meant she’d have to become a nun for life, didn’t it?

"This... You’re just hearing things, you can’t take it as the truth," Old Master Zhou was unwilling to believe it.

Because this marriage had already been completely set in stone, and to go back on it now would be nearly impossible.

If Nine Miss was really such a person, the Zhou family’s face would be completely lost, and he wouldn’t be able to face his ancestors even in death!

"How can it not be taken as true?" Madam Zhou’s eyes were wide with indignation.

"To know if this is true, we just need to send someone to inquire if Nine Miss’s maternal aunt is really dead, right? Didn’t they say last time that her aunt died from childbirth complications?"

It was for that reason she didn’t insist on what Nine Miss had said about having children or not.

"But I heard that Nine Miss’s aunt is still living quite well, not a single hair missing!"

"Really?"

Everyone hearing her words could only utter two words in response.

To marry someone off, to go as far as falsely claiming their own mother died—wasn’t that Nine Miss too frightening?

If the Zhou family ended up with such a daughter-in-law, how would they live out the rest of their days?

Could they even keep going?

Would the Zhou family not be ruined at the hands of Nine Miss?

"Dad, what should we do? Should I send someone to investigate?" Old Master Zhou asked Elder Mr. Zhou in a quiet voice.