Lord Yang asked:
"So you went to follow Zhang Mother?"
"Yes."
After a pause, Liu Cuiying continued:
"A few days later, I saw my mother-in-law getting ready to go out again, so I secretly followed her.
She was so delighted that she never noticed me following her.
I followed her all the way to a small courtyard house.
When I saw her enter, I went into a teahouse not far from it.
I kept watching that courtyard house from the teahouse.
Only after more than two hours did she leave.
Not long after she left, I saw Shopkeeper Qian of the Fengqing Restaurant come out of that courtyard house.
I would be lying if I said I wasn't shocked. I never imagined Shopkeeper Qian and my mother-in-law were actually...
Afraid I might have made a mistake, I followed her several more times.
Each time her tryst ended, Shopkeeper Qian would leave that courtyard house a little while later.
That confirmed it. My mother-in-law's lover was Shopkeeper Qian."
The crowd erupted. There were probably very few people who did not know Shopkeeper Qian of the Fengqing Restaurant.
Shopkeeper Qian was in his forties and had married into his wife's family. His wife was the Liang Family's only daughter. Later, she had inherited the family estate and become the head of the Liang Family. Rumor had it that she was ruthless and decisive.
Shopkeeper Qian, however, was different from his wife. Everyone had a very favorable impression of him!
No matter whom he met, he always wore a warm smile and spoke kindly.
Though his wife was fierce and formidable, people said that Shopkeeper Qian and his wife were deeply devoted to each other.
They had also heard that Madam Qian, the head of the Liang Family, had suffered damage to her