Seeing that someone was bowing to Qiuqiu, the others hurriedly began to kneel down as well.
Chiu Chiu quickly waved her hand and said, "Everyone, please rise! This princess is going to see a good show! You should all come with me!"
The people all stood up and looked at each other.
"The princess of all nations invited us to see a play, so of course we should go, right?"
"right!"
Everyone agreed and nodded in unison.
Princess Wanguo's status is so noble, who would dare disobey her orders?
Let alone watching a play, even if someone jumped into the lake, no one would dare disobey!
Everyone followed the princess's entourage towards the lake.
Not far from Hubei, Qiuqiu got off the carriage and asked the honor guard to wait for her there.
The people praised the princess from all over the world for being approachable and down-to-earth.
They all liked the princess very much.
The group followed Chiu Chiu to the lakeside.
Qi Jiating threw the two pig cages containing people into the lake one by one.
Xiao Zhenzhen can't swim, and she has already swallowed several mouthfuls of water.
Xiao Zhenzhen: "Help, help me—help..."
Before she could finish speaking, her head was submerged in water.
Qi Gaoming cried his heart out: "Mother, Mother—Father, please save Mother!"
A group of people gathered around, chattering amongst themselves.
"Hey, isn't that the mistress who's in charge? Why is she being drowned in a pig cage?"
"You don't know yet? This mistress has been having an affair for a long time, and even her two children aren't Lord Qi's!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, how pitiful! Lord Qi is so pitiful!"
"What's so pitiful about him? There's always a reason why someone is pitiful! If he hadn't kept a mistress outside the marriage, if he hadn't driven away his first wife, how could he have ended up like this?"
"Exactly! I think he deserved it!"
Qi Jiating looked at the large crowd gathered by the lake and didn't know where to put his face. He wished he could find a hole to crawl into.
Family scandals should not be aired in public.
He intended to resolve this family matter quietly, but unexpectedly it attracted so many onlookers.
One tells ten, ten tell a hundred.
Before long, the whole city will know.
At this moment, Qi Gaoming leaped into the lake and rescued the dying Xiao Zhenzhen.
The man who had been submerged in the pig cage struggled desperately to swim to the shore.
Qi Gaoming opened the pig cage for him, and he was spared from death.
Xiao Zhenzhen coughed violently, spitting out water from her mouth.
Qi Gaoming patted her back with concern and asked, "Mother, are you alright?"
Xiao Zhenzhen weakly shook her head and said, "It's nothing."
Qi Jiating originally wanted to run over and drown them in the pig cage again.
However, in full view of everyone, this is tantamount to disregarding human life.
As an official appointed by the imperial court, no matter how outrageous he was, he would not dare to commit violence in public.
So Qi Jia sighed in frustration and had no choice but to give up.
Some busybodies went up to Qi Jiating and asked, "Lord Qi, I heard that neither of the two children is yours. You've raised other people's children for nothing. Are you happy or surprised?"
Qi Jiating, his eyes blazing with rage, grabbed the man's collar and said, "Are you looking for death?"
The man quickly lay down on the ground and threw a tantrum, crying, "Lord Qi has killed someone! He's going to kill me!"
The adults pointed at Qi Jiating and scolded him, saying, "What a Qi Jiating! He can't even handle his own family affairs, so he takes it out on others. He's shameless!"
"Exactly! I think that's all he's capable of!"
Amidst the jeers and insults, Qi Jiating couldn't argue with the gossipers, so he had no choice but to leave.
It's all karma, karma!
[Let him treat my mother like that, now look what's happened!]
[They even wanted to replace me with Qi Jinlan. Luckily, I didn't let that happen.]
Qi Jiating quickly spread the news of his current wife being drowned in a pig cage throughout the streets and alleys of the capital.
Even Old Madam Qi, who rarely left her house, heard about it.
Old Madam Qi cried and wailed in despair.
Old Madam Qi exclaimed, "My God! How could you do this to me? Xiao Zhenzhen, how could you treat us like this? You are heartless bastards! You don't even have a grandson or granddaughter who are truly mine!"
Qi Jia entered the mansion dejectedly and heard his mother crying loudly.
He quickly ran over and covered Madam Qi's mouth.
Qi Jiating: "Mom, please stop shouting. If you keep shouting, everyone in the alley will hear you!"
Old Madam Qi gave Qi Jiating a resentful look and said, "Do you think they don't know? They're the ones who told me! I doubt anyone doesn't know about something this shameful!"
Qi Jiating: Yes, that's right! Everyone knows about his family's scandals now.
Qi Jiating, who always valued his reputation above all else, never imagined that one day his reputation would be repeatedly rubbed on the ground like this.
After Madam Qi had finished crying, she had her maid accompany her out.
The maid asked, puzzled, "Madam, where are you going at this hour?"
Old Madam Qi said irritably, "Let's go to the temple! I want to ask that abbot why he lied to me!"
The maid had no choice but to reply, "Yes, Madam!"
Madam Qi stormed into the temple in a rage.
The abbot of the temple is chanting sutras.
Old Madam Qi patiently waited for him to finish his work, then went over and yelled at the abbot, "Abbot, why did you lie to an old woman like me?"
The abbot looked at Madam Qi and said, "I wonder what you mean by this, benefactor?"
Madam Qi: "You said before that my Qi family's baby girl would be rich and powerful. But look at how my Qi family is declining and declining, and we're about to become a laughingstock. What else could you be but a liar?"
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