Chapter 222: Counter-accusation
Madam Cai was choked by Gu Taohua and was speechless.
She glared at Gu Taohua, looking down on this young girl.
Gu Taohua's words made many onlookers sigh.
She was right. For a pregnant woman, if she had an upset stomach, she would not go to see a doctor first, but would argue with Taohua Dessert instead. This was very strange no matter how one thought about it.
What's more, the young lady of the Zheng family and Gu Taohua have not gotten along since childhood.
Probably, after marrying into a wealthy family, she learned the secrets of inner household calculations and used them on Gu Taohua.
"There is indeed a woman named Xu Zaohua in Qinghe Bay who married the eldest son of Mr. Zheng from Pingchuan County." said someone who knew the inside story.
"How could a family like the Zheng family be willing to marry a girl from the countryside?" someone expressed doubt.
"There is a reason for this. The eldest son of the Zheng family has been weak since he was born. Which rich girl would be willing to marry him? Not long after the Xu family girl got married, the eldest son of the Zheng family passed away. Now she is pregnant with the eldest son of the Zheng family's posthumous child. Miss Taohua is right. Logically, she should be extremely precious. Why didn't she rush to see a doctor when she had a stomachache but instead argued with Taohua Dessert here? If you say she didn't deliberately cause trouble for Taohua Dessert, I don't believe it."
The discussions of these two spectators reached everyone's ears.
Many people began to stand on Gu Taohua's side.
"Mammy said Xu Zaohua got an upset stomach after eating my hazelnut pastry, which made me think that all this was Xu Zaohua deliberately framing me because she didn't like me." Gu Taohua was quite satisfied with her publicity campaign, and said, "Of course, this is all my experience of dealing with Xu Zaohua since childhood, or I may have guessed wrong. If Xu Zaohua really got an upset stomach after eating my hazelnut pastry, I am willing to bow to her and apologize."
Madam Cai felt that things were beginning to go in a direction she had not expected, and she wanted to pull things back to a situation that was in her favor, so she said, "It is precisely because I sent someone to invite the doctor that I came to Taohua Dessert to ask for an explanation. If my young mistress is fine, everything will be fine. But if my young mistress is pregnant, and Master and Madam investigate, Taohua Dessert will not be able to escape."
Now that she had been brought here, Nanny Cai insisted that Xu Zaohua had an upset stomach from eating hazelnut crisps.
Gu Taohua was too lazy to listen to Madam Cai's nonsense. She put her hands on her waist and shouted in the direction where the Zheng family's carriage was parked, "Xu Zaohua, do you dare to come out and argue with me?"
Xu Zaohua sat in the carriage holding her stomach.
Naturally, she didn't dare to get off the carriage and confront Gu Taohua.
If she angered Gu Taohua and gave her a heavy blow in the stomach, she would never be able to turn things around in the Zheng family in her life.
At this moment, she just wanted to escape from the dispute between Aunt Cai and Taohua Dessert.
She felt a little regretful for instigating Aunt Cai to cause trouble for Peach Blossom Dessert.
The only thing to be thankful for now is that He Chao did not come out.
"Forget it, forget it, Ma'am, please come back. The hazelnut pastry from Peach Blossom Dessert and I are incompatible, so I'll just consider myself unlucky." Xu Zaohua showed a tired face through the curtain of the carriage and waved to Ma'am Cai.
Madam Cai felt ashamed of herself for being so lowly.
Now that the show has begun, how could she admit defeat?
What's more, her main purpose was to force He Chao away.
Madam Cai no longer dwelled on the issue of hazelnut pastry, but instead said to Gu Taohua: "Why don't you dare ask Manager He to come out and answer? Are you afraid that he is at the Zheng family..."
"Thief, I finally caught you."
Before Madam Cai could finish her words, she was knocked down by someone who suddenly appeared from the crowd.
Gu Taohua widened her eyes, stunned by this sudden turn of events.
Is the Zheng family’s nanny a thief?
The person who knocked down Aunt Cai had his back to Gu Taohua.
Gu Taohua couldn't see his face, but from the back she could tell he was a young man.
Gu Taohua was thinking that it was most likely someone hired by her second brother. Since Madam Cai had framed Taohua Dessert, then Taohua Dessert would frame her back.
Who else except her second brother could come up with such a dirty trick?
Aunt Cai was knocked down and fell to the ground. She was unable to recover for a long time. She struggled to get up and was furious.
Who dares to slander her as a thief?
Without waiting for Madam Cai to stand up, the young man took out a purse from Madam Cai's sleeve in front of everyone and asked Madam Cai, "Is this your purse?"
Madam Cai had never seen such a purse before.
The surprise on Aunt Cai's face was clearly seen by everyone as the result of her guilty conscience after the incident.
"You said you were a respectable nanny from a wealthy family, why did you do such sneaky things? It's so embarrassing. Three days ago, I came from the capital to Yanguan Town to visit relatives. My carriage broke down on the way, and you passed by and invited me to ride in your Zheng family's carriage. I thought you were a kind-hearted person, but I didn't expect you to give me a knockout drug and knock me out and steal my purse. I looked for you for two days and finally found you. Fortunately, my purse is still there, otherwise I would have been punished to kneel when I returned."
"I don't know you... who are you..."
He didn't even know this person, so how could he be so sure that she stole the money?
He also made up stories that were very convincing.
Because the incident happened suddenly, Madam Cai felt dizzy after her head was shoveled and she was unable to react for a while.
As soon as I opened my mouth, I realized that my mouth was broken and it was extremely painful, and I couldn't speak clearly.
She didn't know who put the purse in her sleeve, and how the young man pulled it out.
"You stole my money and you don't even dare to admit it to me?"
"Don't pretend to be so innocent. We can all see clearly that you took the purse out of your sleeve. This purse was embroidered for me by my mother. You can just take the money, but why did you take my purse? If I can't find my mother's things, my father will beat me to death."
"Oh, my five hundred taels of silver notes are gone. Madam, if you want to take my silver notes, just take the silver notes. Why did you take even the small change?"
The young man was firing on all cylinders, staring at Madam Cai with a pair of cold star-like eyes, not giving Madam Cai any chance to speak.
Aunt Cai secretly groaned.
This is a tough guy.
She had been in the Zheng family for many years and followed Madam Zheng to socialize with wealthy families. Judging from the young man's low-key clothes, they were made of fine silk from Suzhou and Hangzhou.
There were not many people in the whole Pingchuan County who could afford it. Even the Zheng family only cut one piece for the eldest son when he was buried.
This young man must have come from an unusual background.
No wonder Tong Guafu’s Peach Blossom Dessert swallowed up Sushiyuan, it turned out that it embraced a big thick leg.
It seems that this person is here to support Taohua Dessert.
"I don't know how this money bag appeared in my sleeve. I didn't steal the money."
Madam Cai took a deep breath and tried her best to defend herself.
There was a hint of begging for mercy in his tone.
"Your Excellency has mistaken me for someone else. How could I steal your purse?"
"A thief will naturally not admit that he is a thief." The young man raised his voice to the crowd, "You must be curious about why this nanny stole my money. I have found out everything. Her son lost money in gambling, and she wanted to pay off her son's gambling debts. When she saw me showing my money bag, she had evil intentions."
Everyone suddenly realized.
Wasn't it that Manager Feng of Sushiyuan was expelled from Sushiyuan because his adopted son gambled and stole the garden's money?
This nanny, like Shopkeeper Feng, took risks for her son.
"This nanny is so mean. Not only did she steal the silver, she also tried to extort it."
"Isn't it? Why did she pick Peach Blossom Dessert? Because Peach Blossom Dessert sells cakes and is easy to blackmail. Luckily this guy ran into her, otherwise Peach Blossom Dessert would be like shit that can't be washed away."
"There are all kinds of people. Some of them look decent, but they do all kinds of disgusting things like stealing and cheating."
Everyone pointed fingers at Madam Cai.
"My son didn't gamble." Aunt Cai defended herself in a panic.
Aunt Cai looked embarrassed and had no way of defending herself.