Chapter 500: How Much is the Bride Price?

"How do you know Yun Jue's name?" Mu Qing asked with a gloomy face.

Miss Du choked, her beautiful eyes filled with helplessness. "Didn't you just let it slip?"

From the beginning to the end, this was just a misunderstanding caused by Miss Du's playful mood.

After being released, she shook her aching wrist and hissed softly, "You're so ruthless even to a weak woman like me. After thinking about it, I think Master Yun Jue is more gentle. What a pity..."

It goes without saying what she regrets.

Hu Xiner felt uncomfortable after hearing this. Miss Du said on the surface that she came to apologize, but what she said and did was frivolous.

If she hadn't been pretty and a girl, she would have been hung up and beaten by now. How could she have had the chance to argue?

Moreover, Lu Yunjue is her family member, and his appearance is a scar in his heart. She doesn't want to hear others comment on Yunjue's appearance.

Then, her tone became cold: "Miss Du, if you don't have anything else, please go back. We will take care of the matter of the haunted house."

Miss Du refused to leave: "You don't seem to be unreasonable people, so why are you forcing Master Yun Jue to perform on the street alone?"

"This seems to have nothing to do with Miss Du." Mu Qing didn't want to say more to her.

Hu Xin'er also said, "Miss Du, please don't worry about our family affairs."

"What if I insist on intervening?" Miss Du raised her eyebrows and smiled, her beauty and heroism appearing at the same time, surprisingly without any sense of incongruity.

Mu Qing said unhappily, "Then don't blame me for being rude!"

Miss Du's eyes flickered as she chuckled, "Alright, then let's not discuss this topic. I don't need to investigate your identities or origins, but I must know one thing."

Mu Qing always felt that she had bad intentions, and looked at her coldly with pursed lips.

Miss Du then looked at Hu Xin'er and asked, "How old is Mr. Yun Jue? Is there any engagement? How much is the betrothal gift?"

"You really have bad intentions!" Mu Qing's eyes turned cold, but Hu Xiner held his hand and shook her head gently.

Miss Du also smiled and said, "If you don't let me go after your brother, then I can only go after your wife. She's quite lovely. As for you, you have a bad temper and you're not my cup of tea."

Mu Qing whispered, "Xin'er, she clearly has bad intentions."

He wanted to teach Miss Du a lesson.

Hu Xin'er felt that this young lady didn't seem like a bad person. She frowned slightly and said, "Miss Du, if you don't want to be taught a lesson by my husband, then go back as soon as possible. We are not in the mood to discuss these matters right now, and we will not disclose this information to you."

Miss Du wanted to say something, but she heard the little maid's call from far away in the alley.

Her expression changed slightly, revealing a hint of distress, and then she said helplessly: "I have to go on a blind date again, see you later!"

Seeing her back as light as a white crane as she walked away, Zhao Si's eyes showed a bit of envy: "Such excellent skills are in the body of a woman, she is really born in the wrong place."

"The other person's kung fu skills are the result of their own hard work. How can you say it was born in her body?" Hu Xiner retorted.

Zhao Si complained for himself: "Sister God of Wealth, we are on the same side. That female devil just teased you, can't I scold her for you?"

But this time, Hu Xin'er's eyes were indifferent, as if she had no emotion at all: "You are the most cunning and treacherous person. I dare not believe a single word you say."

She saw through Zhao Si's thoughts clearly. On the surface, this person said that he was scolding Miss Du on their behalf, but in reality? He was just scolding others while using their names to drag them into the water in case of any trouble.

When Zhao Si heard her say these words with an expressionless face, he suddenly realized that she was a little scared.

He held onto a glimmer of hope and said nonchalantly, "Sister God of Wealth, you saw it too. Miss Du just now wasn't trustworthy at all, and she was stingy. You absolutely can't believe what she says!"

"You mean, the whole thing about the haunted house was made up by her?" Hu Xiner still had no expression.

Zhao Si swallowed hard and nodded vigorously: "Yes! I have lived in Qingzhou for so long and have never heard of any haunted house."

Hu Xin'er suddenly snorted coldly: "You still haven't told the truth yet, you are simply stubborn and unyielding. Husband, do it!"

Three seconds later, a scream was heard in the alley.

Zhao Si covered his dislocated arm, tears streaming down his face as he cried out in pain: "I confess! I confess right now!"

Driven by pain, Zhao Si finally revealed the truth.

He defended himself, "Actually, I didn't mean to deceive you. I originally used this room to make up the numbers, but I didn't expect you to choose it..."

"You're a real business genius picking a haunted house to make up the numbers." Hu Xin'er sneered, "Tell me, how much commission did they give you?"

Zhao Si lowered his head in shame. "I know this isn't very kind, but isn't the rent very cheap? And the Wang family is in a hurry to sell it..."

The story began in the spring of this year. It turned out that the scholar from the Wang family took in a beautiful concubine and neglected his original wife since then.

The original wife takes care of the housework every day, but she can't help feeling resentful when she sees her husband having fun with others outside.

After the scholar got a beautiful concubine, he became more and more disdainful of his original wife, and soon the concubine became pregnant.

The original wife was very generous and brought her beautiful concubine into the house to take good care of her. She thought that this behavior would win the favor of her husband, but the scholar was unwilling to come home even though she was living a life of luxury outside.

Gradually, the neighbors laughed at her for not being able to keep a man, let alone a young and beautiful woman, even the prostitutes in the brothel could not compare to her.

Hu Xin'er couldn't help but feel uncomfortable when she heard this: "It's obviously the scholar who's wrong, why is everyone blaming the original wife?"

Zhao Si shrugged. "That's just how the world is. Actually, any woman would feel bad if she were ridiculed like that. It would be fine if she were just an ordinary woman, but the original wife was a decent lady from a good family. Her father was a teacher, so they came from a family of scholars, so..."

Therefore, the original wife could not swallow this humiliation and tried her best to bring her husband back.

Just at this moment, she accidentally fell into the charcoal brazier and her face was burned.

In extreme resentment, the original wife took advantage of the fact that the scholar was at home and killed her husband and concubine with her own hands, and then hanged herself.

Her biological son went out to study and when he came back he found his family broken up and everyone dead. He suppressed his grief and decided to sell the house.

Unfortunately, since then, rumors have spread that the Wang family mansion is haunted, and no one would take a second look at it no matter how low the price is.