Chapter 913 Already Has a Fiancée
"Where was it sent?"
Upon hearing this, Aunt Qiu and the others all changed their expressions. It's no wonder they were panicked; the Wang family even dared to lay a hand on Qiu Zhiming.
He would be even more unscrupulous in attacking a lonely, helpless girl with no background whatsoever.
Ruan Xiaoyu shook her head guiltily and said in a muffled voice, "I...I don't know. Ding Cai didn't tell me, and I didn't ask him for details."
"Ask me now!"
As soon as Qiu Zhiming finished speaking, Qiu Linshan interrupted him: "No, it's been so long. If we suddenly call the Wang family to ask about that girl's whereabouts, we might alert them and they might even resort to violence against her."
Qiu Linshan's words made sense. Qiu Zhiming's face turned pale, and he angrily and worriedly punched the bed railing: "What do we do now?"
Qiu Linshan didn't speak, but turned to look at Ye Wanxi and the other person.
The others seemed to have thought of something as well, and all followed Qiu Linshan's gaze to look at Ye Wanxi.
"Does Miss Ye know..."
Ye Wanxi didn't answer immediately, but said to Qiu Zhiming, "Let me do a word divination for you. Your marriage line with her is still there, making you the only person here who is connected to her. Now, silently think about what you want to know and write a word for me."
Qiu Zhiming nodded hastily, thought for a moment, and then wrote down the character "rain".
"The character for 'rain' has a horizontal line at the top, a half-enclosed shape at the bottom, and is divided into two equal parts with two dots on each side. This indicates that the other party should be in a covered place. In the Five Elements, rain belongs to water, which means that the other party is probably traveling by water."
"Waterway?" The expressions of the Qiu family elders changed slightly. "You mean the Wang family plans to send her away by waterway?"
It's important to understand that with convenient transportation nowadays, waterways are no longer the first choice for people to travel. Nowadays, waterways are mostly used for transporting goods.
The Wang family arranged for the young lady to be sent away by water. If they had simply abandoned her to some distant place to fend for herself, that would have been fine. But if they had sold her directly to someone else, then…
Ye Wanxi's expression was also somewhat solemn: "The fact that the rain has fallen halfway down means that she hasn't been sent away yet. And judging from the location, the gap is located exactly in the south."
"South?" Mr. Qiu's eyes lit up slightly. "There is indeed a ferry crossing to the south of here!"
"What are we waiting for? Hurry up and go save them!" Qiu's mother was also an impatient person, and she immediately urged her husband to take action.
“Then A-Yang, take some men and go check it out right now. Miss Ye just said that the person is hidden in a covered place. Modern fleets all have basements under the cabins. Take your men and search that area thoroughly. Bring your fifth uncle with you; he has experience.”
The fifth uncle that Qiu's father mentioned was one of his trusted confidants who had traveled with him to many places in the early years.
The other party is a good swimmer and lives by the sea, so he knows the structure of various ships like the back of his hand.
In previous years, he was in charge of the Qiu family's water transport routes.
Brother Qiu understood his father's meaning and nodded. Before leaving, he reassured Qiu Zhiming, "Don't worry, just stay put. I promise I'll bring that girl back to you unharmed."
"Then I'll leave it to you, brother."
Brother Qiu hurriedly left the ward to take care of some business. Aunt Qiu, however, seemed to realize what was going on and leaned closer to Ye Wanxi, asking, "Wanxi, you did this on purpose, didn't you?"
Hearing her question, Ye Wanxi smiled and asked, "What on purpose?"
"They deliberately went through such a long and roundabout way to tell us about that girl's existence."
Otherwise, given their family's situation, with that brocade pouch already found, Ye Wanxi could have simply destroyed it and let the Wang family suffer the consequences.
With Wang Dingcai dead, the Qiu family will surely discover something is wrong, and if they investigate further, they will definitely be able to find these things.
By then, the poor girl who was innocently caught up in the conflict will probably have been sent to who-knows-where, and there is no doubt that she may have suffered an accident because of this incident.
Ye Wanxi did not deny it, and smiled and said, "I just don't want young people's pure feelings to be missed because of misunderstandings and conspiracies, and to regret it for the rest of their lives. I also don't want kind-hearted people to be innocently implicated and forced to bear the bitter consequences that they should not have to bear."
Of course, she was also a little curious whether the people in the room would develop prejudices against her after learning about the girl's defect and her unspeakable connection with the Wang family.
Fortunately, the Qiu family members were all quite understanding, especially Aunt Qiu. Perhaps because of their similar experiences, they resonated with each other. She was not dissatisfied that her son had fallen for a mute girl. Instead, she felt some pity and heartache for this girl she had never met before.
This pity and heartache allowed her to temporarily endure her son remaining bedridden, just to buy time so that Brother Qiu could safely bring him back.
Qiu Zhiming carries Ye Wanxi's amulet, so he won't be implicated in the "critical condition" by other patients in the hospital for a while, and can put it aside for the time being.
While Brother Qiu rushed off to rescue the person, Ye Wanxi glanced at Ruan Xiaoyu, whose eyes were darting around as she thought about how to tip off her lover. Her gaze flickered, and she suddenly asked, "Do you know that the person you like already has a fiancée?"
When the Qiu family members heard Ye Wanxi suddenly speak, they reflexively looked over. After noticing who she was asking, many of them had subtle expressions.
At first, Ruan Xiaoyu didn't realize that Ye Wanxi was talking to her. Only after noticing that everyone in the room was staring at her did she belatedly ask, "Wh...what?"
Qiu Linshan was the first to react, and with a hint of schadenfreude, she repeated for Ye Wanxi: "Miss Ye is asking you, do you know that the person you like already has a fiancée?"
“Fiancée?” Ruan Xiaoyu’s voice suddenly rose. “Impossible! How could Dingcai possibly have a fiancée? He said he only loves me, and he said… he said he would marry me after this. How could he…”
Aunt Qiu snorted coldly, saying sarcastically, "How many of the words spoken by a playboy can be true?"
She hadn't thought about it carefully before, but Ye Wanxi's reminder made her realize something was wrong.
No one knew the Wang family's character better than her. Putting aside her parents, they always treated Wang Dingcai, their only grandson, as their lifeblood, wishing they could lavish him with mountains of gold and silver.
Her younger brother was even more ridiculous; he was spoiled from a young age, arrogant, and had unrealistic ambitions.
Back then, he was juggling multiple relationships while dreaming of marrying a beautiful, wealthy woman from a rich family, who would provide for his food, clothing, and even support his mistresses.
(End of this chapter)
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