"Let me out quickly, is there anyone here?"
"Mom and Dad, I beg you, please let me go..."
"Wuwuwu...someone please let me out..."
From the red lacquer coffin, a woman's faint sobbing could be heard.
Ming Yiqian's expression changed!
He glanced at Zhou Zuoshu and the Zhou family, then stepped forward and pushed the coffin lid open with a palm.
A young girl wearing a wedding dress and wearing gaudy bridal makeup appeared.
Ming Yiqian showed displeasure. Having left home for many years at a young age, he was more experienced than ordinary people. He recognized at a glance that this was a ghost marriage.
And it is expressly prohibited by Beichen law!
The Imperial College, a prestigious place for teaching and educating people, actually did such a rebellious thing!
It’s really outrageous!
"Dr. Zhou, how do you want to explain this?"
"Don't tell me, this is just a joke!"
Ming Yiqian snorted coldly, cut the rope that bound the girl, and left the ancestral hall.
Everyone in the Zhou family knelt on the ground in fear.
Zhou Zuoshu broke out in a cold sweat and stammered, not knowing how to explain.
After a long pause, he trembled and said, "Your Highness, I...I didn't want to do this, but I had no choice but to do it in order to preserve the reputation of the Zhou Mansion."
He entered the official career through studying, and reputation is more important than anything else.
Zhou Zuoshu struggled for a while, then simply threw in the towel, "Your Highness, my daughter is madly in love with a scholar. She even defied her parents and planned to elope with him a while ago."
"It just so happened that my wife discovered it in time and locked it up in the courtyard."
"Unfortunately, the scholar didn't wait for my daughter and was hit and killed by a carriage on his way home."
"That scholar's family threatened us to marry our daughter off to them."
"If it's true, we must spread this matter to the whole city!"
"For the sake of the Zhou family's reputation, I have no choice but to marry my daughter off to them."
Zhou Zuoshu sighed.
He is a lowly official of the seventh rank, and his words carry little weight. If the news of his daughter eloping with a man spreads, how will outsiders view the Zhou family and the doctors of the Imperial College?
They will definitely scold him for not educating his children well and saying he is not worthy of serving in the Imperial College.
It will also affect the life events of several children in the family.
Mrs. Zhou and the Zhou family children behind her also nodded repeatedly. If she didn't marry him, it would bring trouble to the Zhou family.
Even if they didn't really elope, it would be bad for their reputation if it got out.
Ming Yiqian didn't expect that there was such a hidden secret.
But! That’s not a reason for a living person to marry someone in the afterlife!
"Dr. Zhou, if you have any questions, you can file a complaint with the Dali Temple in Yihe, Jingzhao Prefecture. If all else fails, you can also inform the Censor-in-Chief."
"As long as you report it to the authorities, are you still afraid of ordinary educated people?"
"It's amazing that you can think of marrying a living person in the afterlife."
"Aren't you afraid that this will get out and you'll lose your job?"
Ming Yiqian had a wooden face, not knowing what this person was thinking.
Zhou Zuoshu's face turned red and white, and he nodded repeatedly.
At this time.
Zhou Xinlian, the youngest daughter of the Zhou family, came down from the coffin and cried, "Dad and Mom, I don't know Mr. Bai at all, and I don't like him at all."
"It was him. He repeatedly invited my daughter to write poetry, but she refused every time. Finally, he threatened to commit suicide."
"My daughter agreed to meet him only because she didn't want anyone to die."
"Everything is not what you think!"
Zhou Xinlian's words overturned the judgment of everyone present.
Ming Yiqian raised his eyebrows and turned around again.
After looking at my younger sister, I realized that there is something fishy going on here.
"What?"
"That scholar has been pestering you time and time again, Lian'er, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Mrs. Zhou burst into tears and almost fainted.
"I've told you so many times, but you won't listen. I can't do anything about it."
Zhou Xinlian sobbed softly, and the strange makeup on her face was a little blurred by her tears.
It looks a bit scary.
Mrs. Zhou hurriedly held her daughter in her arms.
"Alas, it was Dad and Mom who wronged you."
"Don't worry, Lian'er. Dad will go to the Dali Temple today to seek justice for you."
Zhou Zuoshu felt a pang of regret.
If it weren't for the Second Prince and the Fourth Princess, I would have been separated from my daughter.
He hurriedly thanked Ming Yiqian and Ming Xin.
"Wuwuwu..." Zhou Xinlian fell asleep in Mrs. Zhou's arms.
Today's ordeal had exhausted her energy.
Mrs. Zhou and Zhou Xinlian's two sisters supported Zhou Xinlian, nodded to Zhou Zuoshu and Ming Yiqian, and retreated first.
"Second Prince, Fourth Princess, thank you very much for today."
Zhou Zuoshu thanked him again.
The butler led the way and took Ming Xin and Ming Yiqian to the front hall to sit down.
Serve up good tea and snacks together.
Zhou Zuoshu asked someone to call his daughter's personal maid over.
"Xiao Cui, tell me the story of the young lady in detail from the beginning."
Xiao Cui stood in the middle of the hall, her eyes red as she said, "Two months ago, the young lady attended the Autumn Harvest Banquet hosted by Miss Lin, and on the way back she ran into Mr. Bai."
"At that time, Mr. Bai was being beaten by thugs on the street and couldn't get up."
"The young lady was kind-hearted. She asked the groom to help Mr. Bai up and gave him two taels of silver for medical treatment."
"Who knew? I thought we'd say goodbye."
"I didn't expect that Mr. Bai had found out where the young lady lived. He slipped the thank-you letter to me while I was out buying something for her."
"I didn't think much of it. I thought Mr. Bai was a man who would repay a favor."
"But since then, he has been blocking the way outside the mansion, saying he wants to thank the young lady in person."
"The young lady was so frightened that she couldn't sleep at night and didn't go out for two whole months."
"But Mr. Bai refused to give up. He asked his servants to deliver the letter and harassed the young lady repeatedly."
"The young lady was so angry that she cried many times. Until half a month ago, Mr. Bai sent a message saying that if the young lady didn't see him, he would commit suicide."
"The young lady was kind-hearted and feared he might actually commit suicide, so she decided to take some guards to check. The master knows everything that happened afterwards..."
Xiao Cui cried and told the whole story in detail.
What a lady liking a scholar, that’s all bullshit!
It was clearly that scholar who harassed the young lady! When harassment failed, he even threatened her!
“Bang!”
"That's outrageous!"
Zhou Zuoshu was extremely angry. He had no idea that his daughter was being harassed by such a scoundrel.
A slap landed heavily on the table.
"Hey, kindness can't be given casually."
"Especially, you can't give it to a poor man. They will be very confident that they like him."
Mingxin spoke with a mature look, using the principles she had learned from reading storybooks for many years.
Ming Yiqian ruffled his little sister's hair and said with a faint smile, "What the emperor said makes sense."
"Just from the words, I can probably guess about 70% of it. Mr. Bai hasn't even met Miss Zhou, but he's obsessed with meeting Miss Bai."
"I'm afraid the real purpose is to see Dr. Zhou's wealth or status and power."
A seventh-rank official is still very important in front of ordinary people.
After finding out his address, he naturally knew that Zhou's father was a doctor of the Imperial College.
Combined with the fact that Mr. Bai is a scholar...
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