Noble Lady

"Buyu, you saw it too, right?"

After getting on the carriage, Princess An Ning whispered to the maid beside her.

"I saw it, Princess." The maidservant named Fuyu nodded obediently. It was obvious that the Princess was definitely asking about the man who had been harassing Miss Xue.

"I heard Sister Xue was married and divorced. Do you know the details?"

Fu Yu shook her head, "I don't know the details, but I heard about it when the other maids in the palace were gossiping."

"What do you think."

"I heard that the eldest daughter of the Xue family was married to a Hanlin scholar before. His family has three generations of Hanlin scholars. However, his reputation is good, and he is not a decent person."

Princess An Ning was puzzled: "Why is it not authentic?"

Fu Yu hesitated and said, "...I only heard something before. It said that the man took his widowed cousin home, and the two of them committed adultery under the nose of his wife. He is not a good person."

Princess An Ning was instantly furious, "How could there be such a shameless person?!"

After saying this, she realized that the man was also wearing the robes of a seventh-rank civil servant and claimed to be a seventh-rank editor in the Hanlin Academy, and was harassing Sister Xue. Could it be that...

"That's the unfaithful man that Sister Xue kicked out before, right?"

"That should be the case." Fu Yu nodded and said, "Young Master Xue calls him Lord He. I remember that the man Miss Xue divorced was named He."

"This is simply outrageous!" Princess An Ning was angry.

After doing that kind of thing, the other party divorced him and he still had the nerve to come to Wu'an Marquis's Mansion to make trouble. How can he be so shameless!

"Fuyu, find two people to beat him up!"

Fu Yu was startled. "Princess, what are you doing? You didn't know the eldest daughter of the Xue family before, and you don't have such a deep friendship. Why are you standing up for her?"

Princess An Ning waved her hands. "You don't understand. Sister Xue is obviously a good person. A man named He speaks so arrogantly, and he's obviously not a decent person. He also did something worse than an animal. I will definitely teach him a lesson on behalf of Sister Xue."

Fu Yu quickly advised, "My Lady, what I mean is that you and Miss Xue have no close relationship, so you shouldn't go to such lengths to stand up for her."

"You don't understand this, don't you? My eldest brother was accompanied by his father to the north. You don't know what kind of person my eldest brother is, but how could I not know? He must trust the people in Wu'an Marquis Mansion very much, so he would let me interact with them."

"And remember what Big Brother said about not asking Sister Xue for help if you encounter any problems you can't solve? How is this any different from asking Sister Xue to entrust me to you?"

Princess An Ning said something else, and then urged Fuyu to find someone to beat He Minzhi.

Fu Yu’s mind was full of “What’s the difference between this and entrusting me to Sister Xue?” But she felt that something was not right, but the princess was pushing her too hard, so she didn’t have time to think about what was wrong.

By the time he reacted, the person he needed to beat had already been beaten.

……

At this time, he was in the carriage on the way back to He Mansion in shame.

"She's just a woman I don't want. Now that I've been reinstated, I'm already doing her a huge favor by coming to see her. How dare you treat her like that? Is she worthy of that?!"

He Minzhi was sulking in the car for a long time, but she couldn't get over it.

"It's all that good-for-nothing Sun Ping'an's fault. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a need for a dignified editor of the Hanlin Academy to personally come and embarrass himself in front of the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion."

This New Year, He Minzhi has been happily waiting for Sun Ping'an to spread the news about him and Xue Chenyu.

But there was no performance on New Year's Eve or the first day of the New Year, so he thought that maybe it was because of the New Year, and fewer people went to teahouses to drink and watch plays. The wealthy families all watched plays in their own theaters.

He thought about waiting for a while and contacted Sun Ping'an during this period. Sun Ping'an repeatedly assured him that he would definitely get the matter done for him.

This wait lasted until he was reinstated.

At the beginning of the new year, he was reinstated. Although he was busy during those days, he had no time to take care of this matter.

By the time he had time, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month had passed. Only then did he realize that there was no news about the thing he had been waiting for.

Then he tried to contact Sun Ping'an again, but found that he couldn't reach him.

Sun Ping'an clearly promised him and took the silver, but then he disappeared without a trace, as if a stone had sunk into the sea.

Today, He Minzhi specially found the inn where Sun Ping'an was staying, only to be told by the innkeeper that the guest dressed as a scholar had checked out and left around the eighth day of the New Year.

He Minzhi: "Asshole, that guy surnamed Sun tricked me! I'm afraid he must have been sent by Xue Chenyu!"

That was why he went to the Marquis of Wu'an's Mansion in anger.

did not expect.

Still couldn't see Xue Chenyu.

"This must all be Xue Chenyu's trick. I must not be fooled." He Minzhi said to himself.

When passing by the delicatessen, he saw the pig's head on the stall and remembered Ji Minrou's face of asking for this and that in the past two days.

"Driver, stop the car."

Upon hearing this, the coachman stopped the carriage on the side of the road.

He Minzhi instructed, "Go to the delicatessen shop across the street and buy some pig ears."

The driver took the money and left.

But what the coachman didn't know was that as soon as he got out of the carriage, someone else got on right after him.

He Minzhi heard footsteps coming and thought it was the driver. "Why are you here so quickly? Didn't I give you the money?"

Before he could finish his words, a fist as big as a sandbag came down on him in the face.

When the driver returned from shopping, He Minzhi in the carriage had been beaten to a pulp. ...

"This is outrageous! This is absolutely outrageous! ...hiss."

He Minzhi cursed and groaned in pain.

Ji Minrou, who had been waiting at the door with her big belly, saw him get out of the car secretively and hurried to meet him.

As a result, I saw a big pig head.

"Cousin?! How did you become like this?!"

He Minzhi was caught off guard and met her gaze, feeling embarrassed and annoyed. "What are you doing here? Didn't I tell you not to go out casually unless necessary? Don't you even look at your belly?"

Ji Minrou looked down at her belly and said aggrievedly, "Doctor Ke said that the baby has already reached a stable state, and he also said that I should be more active, which will help with future childbirth."

She used the doctor's words to shut He Minzhi up, and He Minzhi had to swallow back the words that were about to come out of his mouth to criticize her for running around.

"...Even if the doctor told you to move around, you shouldn't be standing outside alone. Have you ever seen a woman showing off with a big belly? It would be disgraceful if others saw her."

Ji Minrou was speechless after being confronted by him. She felt upset but couldn't refute him.

He had no choice but to ask, "Cousin, who gave you this injury? Who is so bold as to lay hands on an official like you? How can you go out and see people tomorrow when you're injured like this?"

"enough."

"Cousin, how can this be enough? We must find that man no matter what. I will definitely teach him a lesson for you."

"Enough, stop talking!" He Minzhi already felt embarrassed enough, and she kept chattering, so he naturally lost his patience.

The sudden roar frightened Ji Minrou so much that she froze.