The Hunter’s Lively Wife
Chapter 864 - Chapter 864 Chapter 864 Sowing Discord

Chapter 864: Chapter 864 Sowing Discord Chapter 864: Chapter 864 Sowing Discord Wan Da’an had now taken another concubine, a woman younger than Gu Hengniang, and one who had never borne children. Her figure also remained better-maintained than Gu Hengniang’s.

Ever since Wan Da’an had taken a concubine, he had never again stepped into Gu Hengniang’s room, and even the sight of Gu Hengniang seemed repellant to him. Gu Hengniang and her three daughters were treated like non-entities both inside and outside the Wan Family. Her daughters, too, were subjected to scorn alongside her. In private, Gu Hengniang had shed no small number of tears, all the while cursing Wan Ruyan as a malevolent spirit.

Had it not been for Wan Ruyan’s interference, her husband, Wan Da’an, would not have taken a concubine. On the one hand, while she cursed Wan Ruyan, on the other, Gu Hengniang harbored grievances against Su Yunjin in her heart.

All of her troubles today,

Gu Hengniang felt, were all Su Yunjin’s fault.

As Gu Hengniang resented Su Yunjin, Mrs. Zhang’s family still harbored itching hatred towards Su Yunjin and her husband, Gu Ya. Today, Su Yunjin and her husband, Gu Ya, had returned.

Mrs. Zhang looked at the faces of Su Yunjin and her husband, Gu Ya, and they were so dark with anger they seemed almost dripping with water. Why should Su Yunjin and her husband continue to prosper while she and her husband’s lives only worsened?

Xiaoshan and Xiangxiang were playing in the courtyard, and a flicker of scheming flashed through Mrs. Zhang’s eyes as she approached the two children.

Mrs. Zhang usually carried a frightening sternness in the Gu Family, especially towards Xiaoshan and Xiangxiang. Particularly after Mrs. Han had left, Mrs. Zhang spared no opportunity to scold the two children, calling them “brats born with a father but raised without a mother.” On a few occasions, when Xiaoshan and Xiangxiang accidentally touched Mrs. Zhang’s belongings, she beat them severely.

Had it not been for Mrs. An’s protection, who could tell how badly the children would have been beaten by Mrs. Zhang? Fearing Mrs. Zhang, the children would hide whenever they saw her.

Xiaoshan ran first, pulling his sister Xiangxiang along. They were but children with short legs, no match for Mrs. Zhang. They were intercepted by Mrs. Zhang, both shivering with fear, only to see Mrs. Zhang, for once, taking out two candies from her bosom, saying she wanted to give them to the children.

“What are you two running for? Your great-aunt here cares for you and wants to have a word, yet you two ungrateful brats are running away?”

Mrs. Zhang didn’t care whether Xiaoshan and Xiangxiang wanted the sweets or not; she generously stuffed the osmanthus candies into their hands. The two children were so frightened by Mrs. Zhang,

they were already shivering.

Holding the candies Mrs. Zhang had given them, neither dared to speak; they just stared with their big round eyes fixed on Mrs. Zhang, both with a look of wariness.

After giving the candies to the children, Mrs. Zhang put on a kind and friendly facade, and asked them, “Xiaoshan, Xiangxiang, come tell your great-aunt the truth, do you miss your mother since she’s been gone?”

No matter Mrs. Han’s many faults, and despite her general indifference and neglect towards Xiaoshan and Xiangxiang, in the end, Mrs. Han was indeed the children’s real mother.

When the name of Mrs. Han came up, both children couldn’t help but miss her. Thinking of Mrs. Han, Xiangxiang’s eyes instantly reddened, “Great-aunt, I miss mother, Xiangxiang misses mother.”

They hadn’t seen their mother for such a long time now.

The villagers all said their mother was a dishonorable woman who had run off with some stranger. Xiaoshan and Xiangxiang, both so young, didn’t understand what being ‘dishonorable’ meant, nor did they know what a ‘stranger’ was, but they knew that what those people were saying meant their mother had run off and wasn’t coming back.

The two children missed their mother.

Upon mentioning Mrs. Han, Xiaoshan and Xiangxiang instantly hung their heads. Xiangxiang had expressed her longing for Mrs. Han, and Xiaoshan, being a boy, missed her too but kept silent.

Seeing the children’s yearning for their mother, Mrs. Zhang was secretly pleased and continued, “Xiangxiang, Xiaoshan, do you know why your mother hasn’t come back?”

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