Chapter 348
Several men in the crowd seize Qin Xin up and down with strange looked in their eyes, from her smooth, beautiful face to her slender neck all the way down but their eyes linger a little longer on her protruding breast and slender waist while also thinking about the various scandalous rumors of the second prince and her.
A short and fat man sighed with envy, “The second prince’s beloved concubine is indeed a peerless beauty. She is still young now, but in a few years, she will definitely become more charming. No wonder she can marry into two families.”
“Indeed!” Another man echoed, “You also have to think about it, this majestic second prince has seen countless beautiful women, but if she catches the second prince’s eye and treasures her, she is indeed an absolutely stunningly beautiful woman!”
The more these men talk the livelier the surrounding became, meanwhile, Qin Zeyu who was among the crowd, silently watched the scene as his eyes darkened.
If it weren’t for his sister’s quick response, she would be the one who would suffer in this dilemma now.
Whether he ordered the mother and son to be beaten away, or brought to talk to them into the mansion, it would still attract all kinds of speculation from these passersby, and once these rumors spread, they would only become more and more outrageous.
And it would always be the woman who would suffer!
Concurrently, when Xu Jinpeng heard that his wife was going to die, he became anxious and shouted, “Wife, I want wife!” He then madly rushed towards Qin Xin, trying to pull her sleeve, “Wife, come home with me!”
Ever since Qin Xin was reborn, she had been living a life of luxury and wealth in the Marquis mansion and never encountered such a demeaning scene in her life, so seeing the fool coming at her, her complexion contort as she shrieked in contempt and took several steps back.
Gu Jing hurriedly embraced Qin Xin’s slender shoulders and soothed her with a soft voice, “Don’t be afraid.”
Qin Xin’s body slightly trembled, looking very pitiful.
Fearing that this fool would offend the Second Prince, the guards no longer paid attention to Madam Zhang and quickly grabbed Xu Jinpeng. One guard grabbed Xu Jinpeng’s right arm while the other one grabbed his left arm, preventing him from going further.
The captain guard coldly said, “This is the Second Prince Mansion, not a place where you can act unruly and cause trouble! If you don’t leave, don’t blame us for being impolite”
Seeing that her son was being restrained, Madam Zhang got anxious and immediately jump up from the ground and waived the bride price again, “Whose causing trouble! I just want my daughter-in-law back!”
“I have the bride price letter to prove it.”
“I don’t care if my daughter-in-law is spoiled*, anyway, we country people doesn’t really care about that, after all, it’s not easy to save some money for a daughter-in-law, as long as the second prince returns the person to us.”
(*not virgin)
Feeling disgraced, Gu Jing’s eyes were as cold as a bottomless pool but with so many people watching, he could only suppress his anger.
“Xin’er, it’s okay.” He spoke warmly and soothingly as he wrapped his arms around Qin Xin.
Qin Xin felt a pain coming from her shoulder and was even more frightened, her face was paler, looking even more delicate.
She could only brace herself as she denied Madam Zhang, “The person on that bride price is not me!”
“Not you?” Madam Zhang laughed mockingly and announced Qin Xin’s birth date and eight characters again, “Li Erya, Xinchou, eight characters is Jiawu, Gengchen, and Jimao.”
Qin Xin: “!!!”
Others may not know whose eight characters those belong to, but Qin Xin herself knows these too well, causing her eyes to slightly shrank.
She and Qin Jiu were only two months apart when they were young, so they were raised as twins in the Li family, and each had their own household registration. Later, she was picked up by the Marquis’ servants, and ignorantly the household registration her parents gave to her was Qin Jiu’s!
Qin Xin, of course, could not admit it, biting the bullet, she said, “This is not my eight characters!”
“Don’t just take bride price and point it at me.”
Qin Xin raised her chin higher, and higher as she assured herself that no one could prove that these eight characters were hers.
“Captain Li, this is a prince’s mansion, and it’s not good to have just anyone make a scene here! Beat these two away!” Qin Xin pointed at Madam Zhang and her son in a condescending manner, and order the chief guard in a cold voice.
She inwardly felt both ashamed, angry, and resentful, feeling that the onlookers around were pointing at her making her wish to dig a hole in the ground and hide there. So, right now she just wants to get rid of the Xu mother and son quickly, and then make another long-term plan this time.
The guards immediately dragged Xu Jinpeng to the street while the latter struggled and loudly called his mother, Madam Zhang, on the other hand, got really worried seeing how the scene unfold and hurriedly chased her son as she pulled the guards and shouted again, “Murderer! Let go of my son right now! Let go of him!”
Amidst the uproar, a group of government officials ran towards the cause of the commotion, it was the officials from Jingzhao who came.
The bantou* and government guards hurriedly came to bow to Gu Jing, the bantou said, “Your Highness the Second Prince, someone went to Jingzhao to report to the magistrate just now, saying that there is a commotion here. Lord Hu ordered us to come and take a look.”
(*leader of the servants in the yamen)
As soon as Madam Zhang saw the bantou, as if seeing a savior, she immediately shouted, “Righteous official, we are not making any trouble. We are only here to take my son’s wife.”
“The son of heaven commits the same crime as the common people, how can he deny it now, can a prince forcibly rob the common’s people’s wife?”
The bantou felt his head was going to explode, especially since this involves the second prince so they don’t want to make this matter big, but this boorish country woman was simply seeking death, doesn’t she want to live?
At this time, the government guards were not idle either, they began to drive the people watching the excitement away when a thirty-six- or thirty-seven-year-old man wearing a brocade robe suddenly squeezed out of the crowd and shouted, “Excuse me, please excuse me!” with a look of anxiety.
“Jinpeng’s mother, so you’ve brought Jinpeng here.” Master Xu rushed towards Madam Zhang’s side, and almost immediately the couple quietly exchange glances.
Madam Zhang put on an expression as if she has been caught while Master Xu put on a scolding face and deliberately reprimanded Madam Zhang, “This is a private matter, what are you doing causing trouble, and have everyone know this? Don’t you think it is not embarrassing enough?!”
He then cupped his fist at the bantou and politely said , “Official, my surname is Xu and this is my wife and my son. Ai, I’m sorry to have disturbed you and the second prince.” As he said this, he secretly stuffed a few notes* to the bantou with his sleeve, and continued, “I believe this is only a small matter that we can talk about and there is no need to bother anyone. I think there must be some “misunderstanding’ that we can just clear up.”
(*money)
On the surface, it may look like he was saying this to the bantou but in fact this was said to Gu Jing.
Hearing Master Xu’s meaningful words, Gu Jing’s brows twitched.
So, this Xu family was only seeking some benefits.
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