Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

Just when she was about to go to sleep, she was disturbed again! Liu Rusi, who was seriously lacking in sleep, couldn't help but feel annoyed! But now she was staying at someone else's house, and the owner wanted to find her for something, so it would be unreasonable for her not to go...

"Mom will be gone for a while. Haohao, go to sleep obediently and wait for mom to come back." After comforting little Qin Hao to go to sleep first, Liu Rusi forced herself to wake up again.

After leaving the guest room, the butler Zhang who was waiting outside was impatient and spoke rudely. "Why are you so slow! The old lady is waiting!"

"You can go now." Liu Rusi smiled politely, suppressing her irritability due to lack of sleep.

Butler Zhang turned around and led the way, walking hurriedly in front. Liu Rusi was short and had small steps, so she had to jog from time to time to keep up.

The farm was very big. The guest house where they were staying temporarily was the outer house, while the old lady lived in the inner house. They followed the housekeeper Zhang and walked for nearly a quarter of an hour before they arrived at the old lady's yard.

The host's courtyard and the guest courtyard are clearly distinguished in status. Not to mention the changing scenery inside, even the neatly painted courtyard walls and the exquisitely carved gates show the difference.

Liu Rusi didn't care about the scenery and decorations, but the old lady called her in a hurry, and now asked her to wait outside! What does that mean?! Wasn't she in a hurry to let her come because she was worried about Mr. Zhang?

Butler Zhang hurried out again and said, "Hurry in and don't waste time! Speak tactfully, don't let the old lady get too anxious!"

This housekeeper was too rude. Liu Rusi couldn't tell how she felt, and she didn't want to care about it. In addition, she thought that the old man must have fainted because of the bad news, so she asked him to wait outside. She also tried her best to adjust her mood and not bump into others because of her irritability.

Walking into the main house in the courtyard, the house is divided into inner and outer rooms, and the outer room is separated by a screen with a landscape painting. Butler Zhang stood outside the screen, and Liu Rusi stopped and looked at him without anyone notifying her.

"Go in! The old lady is lying on the bed, and you don't want her to come out to see you!" Butler Zhang scolded.

Liu Rusi walked in expressionlessly, wondering why the housekeeper Zhang was so rude. Although she and Chu Shiyu had no relationship, in the eyes of the Zhang family, she should be someone from Prince Duan's side... Even if he only regarded her as a servant, he wouldn't scold her like this, right?

There were several maids standing on both sides of the inner room door behind the screen. Now the door was open, and inside there were many women and girls in luxurious clothes surrounding the bed. Outside stood three young men and a middle-aged man, all dressed in brocade clothes.

As soon as Liu Rusi walked in, twenty or thirty people in the room turned to look at her. Everyone had different emotions in their eyes, but the majority were unfriendly.

She sighed secretly. She came to report the "death". It was normal for other people to be unhappy. However, she could also sense from the corner of her eye that there was a boy of about sixteen or seventeen, and his eyes were filled with lust...

Many thoughts flashed through her mind in an instant. Liu Rusi stepped forward politely, bowed, and said, "I am honored to meet you all. I heard that you all are concerned about the safety of Mr. Zhang and have summoned me to inquire about him. I don't know much, but I will tell you everything I know."

The old man lying on the couch looked a little weak. He whispered a few words to the middle-aged woman next to him, and the middle-aged woman nodded and walked out.

There was no gentleness in the woman's eyes, and she said in an inexplicable tone: "I am the wife of Mr. Zhang Shiliang. May I ask what is your relationship with Prince Duan?"

Liu Rusi lowered her eyes slightly. She had already thought of an explanation for this: "My surname is Liu and my name is Rusi. My husband's surname is Qin and his name is Lie. Fortunately, my son has been favored by His Royal Highness Prince Duan and has been adopted as his adopted son."

Madam Zhang was slightly stunned. This kind of relationship was very subtle. It was hard to say whether he was close to Prince Duan. However, her attitude was still not very good. She even asked in a slightly gloomy tone: "Did you see Prince Duan and Master Zhang together when the flood flooded the city?"

Liu Rusi felt that there seemed to be something strange about this matter, but she had no idea at the moment, so she answered carefully: "When the flood submerged the city, I was resting in the guest house of the government office. I wonder if Prince Duan and Lord Zhang were together at the time."

"I don't know if they were together, then how did you know that Uncle Zhang had invited Prince Duan to the villa before?" Madam Zhang's face became even gloomier.

"Of course it was His Royal Highness Prince Duan who told me." Liu Rusi answered as a matter of course. In fact, Chu Shiyu didn't say anything. She just added that sentence to make it easier for him to come in.

The middle-aged man at the side said: "Brother, it's impossible..."

Madam Zhang immediately turned around and glared at him, interrupting him, then turned to Liu Rusi and asked, "You haven't seen Master Zhang since the flood flooded the city?"

"I've never seen that. Many people disappeared when the flood came. Many of Prince Duan's guards disappeared right before my eyes..." Liu Rusi's face showed sadness and fear.

Madam Zhang looked her up and down, unable to tell if her expression was fake or not, and then asked, "How did you get out of Xingzhou City?"

Did they swim out? Or did they fly out? Liu Rusi hid the strange feeling in her heart and just recalled: "We were tied together with a rope and swam out together."

Upon hearing this, Madam Zhang seemed a little confused, but she didn't ask any more questions. She retreated back to the inner room and sat down on the couch, whispering with the old lady.

The two women who managed the household were whispering to each other, and the twenty or so people around them did not dare to interrupt, so most of them looked Liu Rusi up and down, and their eyes changed subtly as they looked at her for a long time. Some people showed curiosity and admiration, while others showed contempt. The middle-aged man seemed to have a disdainful expression, but he kept glancing at her.

The eyes of the boy who was about sixteen or seventeen at the beginning became more and more unscrupulous. He looked at her face before, but now he was staring at her chest... Liu Rusi was sensitive to eye contact, and the boy's lustful gaze was like a poisonous insect, making her feel uncomfortable all over!

"Excuse me for bothering you, but do you have anything important to tell me? My young son was frightened today, and I don't want him to leave for too long." Liu Rusi took the initiative to ask. She was very tired and didn't have the energy to play Tai Chi with these people.

Everyone turned to stare at her. A young woman standing there sneered and said in a loud voice, as if she was talking to herself: "Where did this country woman come from? She doesn't know any manners at all."

Liu Rusi narrowed her eyes slightly. She couldn't help but feel a little irritable due to lack of sleep, but she managed to suppress it.

"Didn't you hear her call herself a commoner? She must be the wife of some rough commoner. She said that her son has Prince Duan as his godfather. I'm afraid she wants to climb up the social ladder with this face?" The other older woman had an even more contemptuous look on her face, and jealousy was revealed in her eyes as she stared at her appearance.

"Could it be that she and her son have even managed to get close to Prince Duan? Her methods are truly powerful!" A young girl looked at her with a puzzled expression. Rather than jealousy, it seemed that she wanted to learn more.

Madam Zhang snorted and scolded the girls, "They are nothing but good-for-nothings! Why don't you learn from your elder sister? She gave birth to a little prince in the second year after entering the Kangwang Palace, and now she has been made a concubine. Girls from big families like us should learn to be virtuous and supportive of our husbands and children, not learn these seductive tricks!"

Liu Rusi laughed out of anger. These people were just accusing her of something they were not interested in. She finally understood why the Zhang family was so arrogant. It turned out that one of their daughters was the concubine of Prince Kang, and their backer was Prince Kang.

Yes, she had no status, and it was nothing for her son to be adopted by Prince Duan. The daughter of the Zhao family gave birth to a biological son for Prince Kang! During this period of time, Liu Rusi also understood that Prince Kang could be said to be Chu Shiyu's biggest rival. If we talk about the power behind him, he is more than a little stronger than Chu Shiyu.

"Hey, what are you laughing at? No one here will appreciate your flirtation." The older woman went straight to Liu Rusi and lectured her.

Which eye of yours can tell that she is flirting? Liu Rusi was speechless at the woman's ability to read facial expressions.

However, Liu Rusi's lips were still curled, but her almond-shaped eyes turned and fell on the boy of sixteen or seventeen, glancing at his lower abdomen vaguely...

The woman and others followed her gaze and looked at the boy, but the boy did not react, and then he moved his gaze away from Liu Rusi, and the sleeves of his clothes suddenly lifted up his lower abdomen...

Most of the people blushed and hurriedly avoided his sight. The young man finally reacted and stepped back a few steps to hide behind the table in the room.

And the woman felt like she was slapped in the face! She just said that no one here would buy it!

However, the boy was the eldest son of the family, so the woman could not blame him. Her face turned red with anger and shame, and she glared at Liu Rusi fiercely!

Liu Rusi was still smiling, but her contemptuous look spoke for itself.

"You shameless vixen!" The woman was furious. She turned to Madam Zhang and complained, "Madam! This bitch is seducing the young master!"

Mrs. Zhang was naturally displeased. The boy was her own son. What mother would like a coquettish bitch to seduce her own child? However, she was proud of her status and would not lose her composure easily. Besides, Liu Rusi was not from their house. She could be unkind to him, but she had no right to punish him.

"Madam Zhang, I was just standing outside from the beginning to the end, and never came one step closer, but I don't know how I caused misunderstanding among you all... Since I am an eyesore to you all, why don't you let me go back to the guest house first." Liu Rusi lowered her eyes and lowered her head, suppressing the temper that had just come up accidentally.

But the woman who had just been embarrassed didn't want to let her off easily, and said maliciously: "Since you know you are an eyesore, why don't you just get out of the villa, so as not to be an eyesore again tomorrow!"

Madam Zhang frowned and thought about it. She also wanted to chase them away, but after all, they were Prince Duan's men. Even if Prince Kang was behind them, they still had to respect Prince Duan on the surface. Not receiving them was one thing, but receiving them in and then chasing them away would be a loss of face for Prince Duan.

Liu Rusi's anger was growing. Wasn't it for today's food and shelter that she had been busy running around? Just for this basic need, she had to stand here and endure their insults...

She had lived under someone else's roof before. Her parents sent her to a year-round boarding school when she was ten years old. But after she was admitted to a key high school, she had normal winter and summer vacations. For normal students, these were the best days, but for her, it was the opposite. She had nowhere to go...

Her parents only gave her the minimum living allowance, which was barely enough for her tuition and food. She was not talented enough, and despite her hard work, she was only occasionally offered scholarships... and because she had parents, and both of them were not poor, she could not receive scholarships...

During the summer vacation between junior high school and high school, she was not yet 16 and could not work. In order to find a place to live, she went to see her parents separately. Her mother did not even want to let her enter the new house and directly drove her away.

Her father took her in, but the mistress of the house hated her so much that from the first day she moved in, all the housework fell on her. What she couldn't stand the most was that her 13-year-old half-brother was so precocious that she lost several pieces of her underwear...

But she couldn't complain, and there was no one to complain to...if she made any criticism, the hostess would scold her harshly.

And her father… was still like he was before she was ten years old, living a life of debauchery, drinking outside almost every night, and hardly ever sobering up at home… and sometimes even beating her when he got drunk. But this was fair, the mistress would be beaten just like the younger brother.

She couldn't endure the two-month vacation. After only one month, she ran to the school she was going to report to and begged the teacher there to let her live on campus in advance. The school did not agree, but the male teacher was willing to "kindly" take her in...

"What's wrong with you? I told you to go back to the guest house first! Do you still want to stay here and seduce people?" The woman pushed her angrily.

Liu Rusi was caught off guard when she was distracted and was pushed to the ground. The sudden change in body position would cause her blood pressure to change, and she was already exhausted and weak, and her eyes went dark and she fainted...

There was a sudden chaos in Old Madam Zhang's room. Fortunately, there was a doctor nearby who was treating the old lady. He confirmed that she just fainted due to exhaustion, so no one paid any attention to it. They just hoped that nothing would happen and that Prince Duan would find an excuse to make trouble.

Madam Zhang pointed to a few maids and asked them to help Liu Rusi back to the guest house.

As soon as Liu Rusi was helped out of the door, the eldest son of the eldest house said to Madam Zhang, "It's very late now. I have to go back and rest early."

After saying this, Zhang's son hurried out. Madam Zhang quickly chased him into the yard, pulled her son to a corner, frowned and scolded him, "Don't I know what you are thinking? Your wife will be married at the end of the year!"

Zhang Dizi shook his hand impatiently and said, "I didn't say I won't marry you!"

Mrs. Zhang was not angry when she was thrown away. She grabbed her son again and said, "Mother, what I mean is that woman is a country peasant, several years older than you, and has given birth to a child. What's so good about her? Your fiancée is in her prime, comes from a famous family, and is pretty..."

"This is incomparable! It's so bland in comparison..." Zhang Dizi felt hot just thinking about that figure and was so impatient that he wanted to throw his hands away.

Madam Zhang still held her son's struggling hand tightly and said anxiously, "If she really was a powerless mother, I would let you go, but look at her like that, how many men can stand her? Son, do you think that Prince Duan and her are innocent?"

Zhang Dizi calmed down after hearing this. He put himself in her shoes. Just standing there made him feel hot. He felt that there was no man in the world who would not feel itchy...

"Have you figured it out? She is most likely Prince Duan's woman. Although she is nothing more than a plaything, we can ignore her, but we must not let anyone touch her! If you touch her, if Prince Duan finds out... then not only Prince Kang, but even the Emperor can't protect you!"

Zhang Dizi plucked a handful of leaves beside him and said unwillingly, "What if she is not Prince Duan's woman?"

"It's up to you, but don't get close to her before you are sure, otherwise we will be in danger of our lives!" Mrs. Zhang warned.