Chapter 17 Buying His Life
Qin Mingzhu brought a few people to the outside of Yan Qingjiao's yard.
Before I got close, I could hear loud noises of smashing and banging coming from the yard.
She arranged for someone to knock on the door. After the gate opened, the nanny inside was startled when she saw Qin Mingzhu coming over. Then she hurriedly and respectfully asked, "Madam, why are you here?"
Qin Mingzhu took a look inside through the crack in the door. Two guards from the Governor's Mansion were protecting her on her left and right.
Yan Fengxiao sent this group of people to help on the surface, but in fact it was to protect the safety of Qin Mingzhu and the baby in her belly.
Qin Mingzhu said: "Tell your Third Miss that if you want to save people, let me in."
The nanny didn't dare to delay and trotted in to report. After the yard was quiet for a moment, the gate was soon opened to Qin Mingzhu and others.
She walked into the room and saw that it was in a mess. Yan Qingjiao's eyes were red and she was staring at Qin Mingzhu with anger.
"Why, you suddenly came here to see me make fun of you?"
Qin Mingzhu did not answer. Her eyes fell on a box in the corner that had not been packed yet.
The box looked very familiar. It was obviously one of the boxes that Yan Fengxiao sent to the Marquis' Mansion yesterday.
Yan Qingjiao frowned, and her originally pretty face looked a little distorted. "Why don't you say anything? Are you serious about helping me save people?"
Qin Mingzhu then looked at Yan Qingjiao and said, "Of course it's true. He's just a servant in the Marquis' Mansion. If I, the mistress of the house, want to release him, it's just a matter of a word."
Yan Qingjiao snorted coldly, "You're just a weasel paying New Year's greetings to a chicken. I don't think you have good intentions. No one in the Marquis' Mansion dares to disobey my mother's orders. If you release someone without her permission, my mother will definitely be the first one to deal with you when she finds out!"
Yan Qingjiao did have the right words to say this.
The old marquis of Dingyuan Marquisate also left behind loyal guards and subordinates. The power to mobilize these people is now in the hands of the old lady.
Moreover, Madam Yan also came from a noble family, being the daughter of the Grand Tutor.
Even though the old tutor had long since retired from the court and been buried, her elder sister was still an empress in the palace and was highly favored when she was young, so she also benefited from it.
Qin Mingzhu smiled faintly, "Mother has just experienced the pain of losing a child. I'm sure she won't want anything to happen to the baby in my belly. Even if she gets angry, she won't do anything to me. After all, she certainly doesn't want to be labeled a vicious woman. Miss Third, please think carefully about whether you want to agree to my terms."
Yan Qingjiao raised her chin and asked, "What are the conditions?"
"Return all the things you took from me before, and compensate me with 10,000 taels of silver, and I will have that servant released. What do you think, Miss Third?"
Yan Qingjiao opened her eyes wide in shock: "What did you say?"
She couldn't even believe her ears. Qin Mingzhu actually spoke so shamelessly.
She herself couldn't even remember how many good treasures she had gotten from Qin Mingzhu. How could it be possible for her to hand them all over!
Yan Qingjiao didn't want to admit it, and asked with a flickering look in her eyes: "I...what did I take from you?"
Qin Mingzhu opened the bill and read with lowered brows: "Two peony-decorated gold screens, a pair of jade bracelets, a gold-thread phoenix hairpin, white jade and agate earrings..."
She read out a series of things.
Looking around, almost half of the things in Yan Qingjiao's room, including what she wore on her head, were things that once belonged to Qin Mingzhu.
Who is Qin Mingzhu's mother?
Once the richest man in the city!
Although this is what they say, no one knows exactly how much wealth the other party has.
Huaiyang City was one of the richest cities in the Kingdom of Southern Yan. Qin Mingzhu's mother's father was already the richest man in the area. Later, her mother expanded the family business. Even the capital is now full of Qin family businesses.
It’s a pity that Qin Mingzhu’s mother was very cautious and she carefully hid many of her industries using other people’s names.
Therefore, the dowry that Qin Mingzhu brought when she married into the Marquis' Mansion could be said to be extremely rich, and each item was a treasure and worth a lot of money.
Of course, Yan Qingjiao could tell what was a good thing. Every time she went out to have afternoon tea with a group of rich ladies, she would run to Qin Mingzhu to pick out some jewelry and clothes.
She would even take away Qin Mingzhu's new clothes that she had not worn yet, without any hesitation.
Anyway, in her heart, Qin Mingzhu was gentle and easy to talk to. Basically, as long as she asked for something, the other party would never refuse.
After a long time, he got used to it and treated all of Qin Mingzhu's things as his own.
Yan Qingjiao was about to act like a rogue: "You said these things are yours, so they are yours?"
Qin Mingzhu took out another account book.
"My dowry is recorded. Many of the items I brought were handcrafted by master craftsmen and are one-of-a-kind. Do I need to invite these people over to appraise them?"
She raised the corners of her lips, not smiling.
After her parents passed away in her previous life, her life in the Marquis' Mansion became even more difficult.
Her mother was worried that she would be bullied because she had no support in the mansion, so she taught most of her property and secret recipes to the old lady and asked her to take care of Qin Mingzhu on her behalf.
Qin Mingzhu, who had just been married into the mansion for less than two years and had experienced the pain of losing her husband and son, was very fragile. She was completely controlled by Old Lady Yan, and it was like she was working hard for the mansion for nothing.
In her short life in her previous life, Qin Mingzhu had only to take care of her step-son and step-daughter, handle chores in the mansion on behalf of the old lady, and look after the backyard. She lived like a puppet in a cage.
Until she, this puppet, became a hindrance, useless, and completely abandoned by everyone like a piece of rubbish...
The only thing that belonged to her was an abandoned orphan she picked up from outside.
Thinking of this, Qin Mingzhu couldn't help but touch her lower abdomen and sighed again.
I feel happy and sad at the same time.
Yan Qingjiao's chest heaved and her mind was in a mess.
If she were to be given all that Qin Mingzhu said, she would have nothing.
Seeing that she was undecided, Qin Mingzhu said, "You are the daughter of the Marquis's Mansion. Even if you lose these savings, your mother will not let you suffer. The lost material possessions can be recovered sooner or later. But Qing'an's injuries are very serious. If the Third Miss does not make up her mind now, it will be too late..."
Yan Qingjiao wanted to struggle again: "I want to see my mother!"
"The old lady is still ill, and Doctor Zhou is treating her. If this matter gets to the old lady's ears, given her temper, the Third Miss will definitely know, and Qing An will surely die."
Yan Qingjiao's heart sank.
Now there seems to be only one way for her to go.
Agree to Qin Mingzhu's conditions and buy Qing'an's life!
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