Someone chimed in:
"The moment Lady Li's dowry came up, the marchioness tried to trick your wife into the Marquis's Residence again. Who knows what she meant to do to her?"
"When Lady Li married into your household with a dowry procession stretching ten miles, plenty of people in Suyu City witnessed it. Your household really does devour people without even spitting out their bones!"
"Your household is truly impressive. A dowry procession stretching ten miles turned into five hundred taels of silver in just a few years.
Now that you've divorced Lady Li, are you planning to find another sucker?
Preferably another merchant's daughter who's easy to fool, so she'll marry you with another ten-mile dowry procession, and once you've seized her dowry, you can find an excuse to cast her aside?
Then you'll have another dowry in your pockets!
The beads of your scheming abacus are really clattering away!"
"If there's a first time, there'll be a second, and after a second, a third. Don't tell me your household plans to get rich off the heir's marriages?"
"The Marquis's Residence is truly terrifying!"
"Besides, was the marchioness a Sichuan Opera performer in her previous life? Nobody can match how fast she changes her face!
She was so overbearing just a moment ago, but the instant she saw her son return, she put on an entirely different face!"
"Exactly, exactly! Everyone here can testify to that!"
As Su Zhimin and the marchioness listened, their expressions grew exceedingly ugly.
Li Mo'er remained expressionless, but inwardly, she could not have been happier. This was exactly the effect she wanted. The bigger the uproar, the better-it would make it easier for her to put on her performance in a moment!
The marchioness glanced nervously at her son beside her. Seeing that