The words spoken by Cui Qingrou on the day of the wedding ceremony quickly spread, and the influential families in the capital heard mixed reviews. Some praised the Cui family's upbringing, lauding the Cui family girl as virtuous and of good character, while others sneered in private that she couldn't have children of her own and treasured someone else's; others sympathized with her, thinking she was planning for her future, seizing an opportunity to curry favor with her husband's family…
No matter what they thought privately, they repeatedly cautioned their own children that when dealing with the Mo family siblings in the future, they must not be perfunctory or careless, and certainly not offend like the Hu family girl did, otherwise they would be punished severely according to family law.
The Musings and actions of these irrelevant people were, of course, unknown to the Mo family, and even if they knew, they would have simply laughed it off.
