She couldn't just tell him that Feng Han was a fake eunuch.
Until matters on his end had been settled, telling no one was the safest course.
Su Qiao thought for a moment. "Actually, Zhou Tianyou and Xia Xiaodie pledged themselves to each other long ago."
"What?"
"Xia Xiaodie? Hasn't she already married?"
The Su Family was startled.
Su Qiao said calmly, "Madam Zhou didn't like Xia Xiaodie, so she plotted behind the scenes and had Xia Xiaodie married off."
"But Zhou Tianyou was devoted to Xia Xiaodie. The reason Zhou Tianyou didn't do well on the exam this time was that Xia Xiaodie had married someone else, leaving him so distraught that he failed."
"The morning I went to the prefectural city, I went up the mountain to gather herbs and saw two people tugging at each other outside the village."
"Something like that happened?"
Everyone was stunned.
Zhou Tianyou had actually tracked her all the way to the village?
After they had more or less digested the news, Su Qiao continued, "Madam Zhou sent someone to propose, so Zhou Tianyou probably doesn't know about it at all."
"Once he finds out, he'll definitely make a scene. If the marriage falls through, we'll be the ones to suffer for it, and my reputation will be ruined too."
"Qiao'er is right. Since that Young Master Zhou has such an unclear relationship with Xia Xiaodie, we'd better not get involved."
On this matter, the old madam had, unusually, taken Su Qiao's side.
The others said nothing, carefully weighing the news they had just heard.
Su Qiao looked at Old Master Xia. "Besides, the only reason Madam Zhou wants her son to marry me is that she sees our Su Family as being close to that person. If not for that, she