The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1080: Not a Hint of Rumor Leaked

Chapter 1080: Chapter 1080: Not a Hint of Rumor Leaked

After his father came out from the magistrate’s residence, he hadn’t spoken a word, and must have been extremely angry in his heart.

If someone were to complain to his ear at this time, it’s very possible that in a fit of rage, his father could throw out their entire family.

Therefore, he quickly dragged his wife to a corner to hide away.

"Why are you covering my mouth, have I said something wrong? It’s all because of your father’s rotten idea, and look at us now, trying to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice!" Madam Zhou raised her hand and forcefully swatted away her husband’s hand.

If she had known, she wouldn’t have listened to that good-for-nothing old man and directly gone to the magistrate’s residence to call off the marriage, maybe that could have been successful.

Instead, not only did they fail to cancel the engagement, but they also let the magistrate’s residence grab hold of the Zhou family’s weak spot, and turned around to threaten them considerably.

Now look what’s happened, her good son will have to be ruined by the hands of that lowly Ninth Miss from the magistrate’s residence.

Just thinking about it made her feel so much pain in her heart that she truly wanted to go on a killing spree!

"If you don’t want to be thrown out, then talk less,"

Old Master Zhou glared at her, warning her in a cold voice.

Did she think he didn’t want to speak, or feel resentful? But what use was there in complaining now?

Moreover, although his father had given the suggestion, those words were spread by the servants they had instructed. In the end, they were also at fault. Why didn’t they think that they could be discovered by the magistrate?

"I..."

Madam Zhou opened her mouth, but ultimately, she could only take a deep breath.

"So what do you say we should do now, with things having turned out this way?"

She was supposed to bring in an unsullied daughter-in-law, and on top of that, because the Ninth Miss was the magistrate’s daughter, they would have to respect and pamper her every day!

Just thinking about living like that, she felt she couldn’t carry on at all.

Especially in front of other people, the matter had already been noisily spread around; if they eventually got married, wouldn’t everyone know that the Zhou family brought in such a thing?

"Anyway, I don’t care, that woman is absolutely not marrying our Liang’er!"

"Otherwise, what do you suggest we do?"

It was the first time Old Master Zhou raised his voice to his wife.

"Will you go to the magistrate’s wife or the magistrate himself? Do you think they will agree to call off the marriage? The situation has already been made so bad, our family has clearly already offended the magistrate! Going there now and saying anything is useless. If this marriage happens, then so be it, but if it doesn’t, do you think our family will have good days in the future?

Do you think the magistrate will sit by and let us slander his reputation out there?"

Thinking back, it was too risky to follow his father’s suggestion to spread the affair of the magistrate’s Ninth Miss.

If it hadn’t blown up so badly, to the point that the Ninth Miss couldn’t marry into any other family except the Zhou’s, perhaps the magistrate would have flipped out on the spot. No wonder they couldn’t see the magistrate.

It would have been strange for him to want to see their family.

"It’s not us who ruined their reputation; it was his own daughter who did it..." Madam Zhou muttered resentfully under her breath, unwilling to accept this.

"Even if the Ninth Miss did something foolish, they kept it tightly concealed, without any hint of it leaking," Old Master Zhou interrupted his wife.

Suddenly, he thought of something and couldn’t help but frown, turning to look at his wife.