"These two families weren't exactly good people to begin with, and now that they're together, it's even worse. Everyone knows something's not right."

"Luckily, the Du family got into trouble, otherwise eating their food would have caused problems. It's basically forced buying and selling!"

"What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Yunniang and Zhang were also curious, so they sat down at the table and listened to the discussions around them.

"Don't tell anyone else that I said it!" the man muttered mysteriously.

Everyone around fell silent. When listening to other people's stories, no one was uninterested; everyone loved to join in the fun.

"Du Yuntang was so angry last night that he almost died. We don't know if he's alive or dead now."

"I only found out about this because a friend of mine works as a servant at their house. I heard that Du Yuntang caught his young wife sleeping with someone else in the middle of the night... Oh my god, the world is going to the dogs. It was right there in that room, on that huge bed. It was so exciting."

"Everything outside is filled with ambiguous sounds."

Jiang Zhiyun had met the young mistress, Wei Yu.

I didn't expect something to happen so quickly! Something seems off!

"Moreover, the man who is with Madam Du Yuntang is a guard in General Xiao Su's army camp. I heard he's quite vigorous."

As soon as he said this, everyone around him burst into laughter.

"Wouldn't Du Yuntang be furious? Didn't that young mistress say he was famously doting on her?"

"That's right, now it's not just a joke, I heard he was so angry he had a heart attack and was barely hanging on. If he passes away like this, Du Yuntang's family will be in complete chaos."

"And... there's one more thing." At this moment, another person stepped forward, "You only know what's happening on the surface, but I know the inside story!"

"Inside story? There's an inside story behind this kind of thing?"

Everyone's ears perked up, waiting to hear what the so-called inside story was.

"Those of you who are all brawn and no brains can leave now, and those who don't understand shouldn't listen."

"I have something very important to say, it concerns the war in our Northwest."

The more they said this, the less anyone left; men and women, children and the elderly all stayed. After finishing one bowl of rice, they asked for another to continue eating.

Jiang Zhiyun is making a profit here!

They didn't care.

She wished everyone could stay at her freshman cafeteria all day, taking care of both breakfast and dinner.

The person stopped being mysterious.

He cleared his throat and said, "On the surface, it seems that Du Yuntang was angered to death by his mistress. But the key information actually lies with his mistress's godfather."

"Look, this person is related to Lord Xiao Su. Isn't Lord Xiao Su currently in a precarious situation on the battlefield? And he keeps sending reinforcements. Why doesn't Lord Xie have any reinforcements here?"

"Among us present, who didn't receive charity from Madam Jiang, and who didn't eat at her house? Moreover, General Xie has been sending reinforcements from the Northwest to the Southwest. Why are we targeting her with all this?"

"If you're not doing your job, you're just going to kick people out?"

Hearing this, Jiang Zhiyun felt good; finally, some discerning people could see the underlying tone.

He whispered to Zhang, "Mother, please prepare more porridge for everyone today, and put some meat in it as a token of our gratitude."

For several months since the start of the war, Yunniang has been distributing porridge.

She wasn't just giving away porridge for free; she was using the guise of being General Xie's family and the owner of the Xinsheng Restaurant, Madam Jiang, to distribute the porridge.

The word spread quickly, and everyone knew that the Xie family were all great philanthropists.

Sure enough, these people are saying it now:

"Look, while Master Xie is fighting a war, his wife, Lady Jiang, is here distributing porridge. And General Xiao Su is thinking of driving her away. Doesn't that threaten him?"

The group still didn't quite understand:

"These are two separate matters! What does this have to do with the Du family's troubles? Isn't this just nonsense?"

"That's right, that's right. What you're saying doesn't sound good at all. Don't talk nonsense. You'll be arrested and thrown in jail."

"Haha, I'm just stating the facts. Let me explain slowly! What's the rush?"

"Do you all remember the poppy incident from last time? That poppy field covered hundreds of acres. I heard that before that young mistress, Wei Yu, was arrested, she shouted at our county magistrate that the poppy field belonged to Du Yuntang! Du Yuntang was so angry that he beat her wildly. Oh my, it was terrifying. I just happened to be passing by and overheard it."

"Wei Yu said at the time that she had deliberately plotted against her."

"So, this deliberate scheming includes Xiao Su's subordinate who caught them in bed together, and this poppy. Oh dear, it's all a group of people. Du Yuntang claims that the young mistress instigated him to plant the poppy. They're just passing the buck."

"If that's really the case, think about it, it's all related to this little woman. General Xiao Su took down the young lady and the imperial merchant, tsk tsk, is it because he used poppies for his own purposes!"

"..."

People around were talking about it; this matter was indeed too profound.

It's not a conspiracy theory, but it just feels like it's impossible for everything to be related to General Xiao Su.

Even though he's on the battlefield, he still has guards coming and going in other people's private quarters.

How shameful!

After hearing this, Zhang asked Yunniang, "Is that really true?"

These things were revealed so easily, all because of rumors and gossip?

Yunniang felt that something was not quite real.

"I don't know. If Du Yuntang is dead... then it might be true." Jiang Zhiyun also felt somewhat confused.

This time, it feels like I didn't do anything, yet God is already on my side.

That's really strange.

Yunniang never imagined that her words would actually be considered golden at this moment.

Outside, there was someone dressed in white mourning clothes; it was Du Yuntang's concubine, Wei Yu, and next to her was someone who announced the mourning period.

Send an obituary to Jiang Zhiyun.

With a shout, Jiang Zhiyun rushed out to receive the notice, helped the person up, said a few words of comfort, and took the obituary.

By now, everyone in the neighborhood knew that Du Yuntang was dead.

Wei Yu left dressed in mourning clothes, leaving the rest of the restaurant staff speechless. Each person formed their own opinion.

Du Yuntang is dead...

Zhang felt a great sense of satisfaction: "Such a vicious person is finally dead. I really want to know how he died of anger!"

"They've always been against us, trying to make us penniless and dead. Luckily, Lord Lu Shao has been helping us recently, and we've also become capable ourselves. Otherwise, we would have been taken advantage of by these people long ago."

Jiang Zhiyun nodded and said, "I plan to ask Lu Shao what exactly happened."

Logically, things shouldn't go that smoothly.

Zhang told her to go by herself, and as for the restaurant, Zhang said she could manage it herself.

Yunniang ran out and heard people talking all the way.

There was much discussion and quite a stir. Most of it was about the Du family and the poppies.

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