Chapter 450: Execution
The wife of Weibei Marquis was born into a prominent family, had a rich dowry, and usually gave her son a lot of money. She was helpless when she heard this: "You!"
But Lady Weibei thought that her son was buying things for her, and it was all out of filial piety.
The wife of Weibei Marquis was no longer angry, and asked in a friendly manner: "Okay. How much silver? I'll have the maid give it to you."
Zhou Yunyi held up a four-finger gesture.
The wife of Weibei Marquis smiled when she saw it: "Four hundred taels, right? OK——"
Before she finished her words, Zhou Yunyi shook her arm and said, "Mom, it's not four hundred taels, it's four thousand taels."
He still had more than two thousand taels of private money, and if he asked his mother for another four thousand taels, he would be able to make up the difference.
Lady Weibei began to cough violently.
"Four, four thousand taels?!"
Although four thousand taels is not a huge sum of money for a family like them, but...what kind of warm jade costs four thousand taels? !
Isn't this just being taken advantage of? !
Mrs. Weibei felt that the warm jade in her hand was getting hotter and hotter. She coughed while stuffing the warm jade into Zhou Yunyi's hand, "Yunyi, you, cough cough cough, you go and take this warm jade away!"
Zhou Yunyi was so anxious that he didn't even bother to pat his mother on the back: "Mom, how can I return it? I am the legitimate son of the Marquis of Weibei. If I buy something and then return the money, wouldn't that make people laugh at me? Besides, this top-grade water mist warm jade is more expensive -"
Wife of Weibei Marquis coughed for a long time before she recovered from the cough. She looked at the warm jade in her hand, her hands trembling: "No, Yunyi, I know this warm jade is a rare thing, and the quality of this piece is indeed good. I know all this... But, if this warm jade is sold for two thousand taels, it's fine, but for four thousand taels... you're being ripped off!"
Zhou Yunyi didn't dare to say anything. This piece of warm jade was the smallest of the three pieces of warm jade, and its asking price was 1,500 taels, which was actually about the same as his mother's guess.
But the problem is, he didn't buy just one piece, but three pieces of warm jade, large, medium and small.
"Mother! You don't know, at that time, many of us were vying for this warm jade, so I spent more money." Zhou Yunyi tried to persuade the wife of Weibei Marquis, "Mother, I was thinking that Gong Qingniang, that copper-smelling dead girl, had a piece of warm jade, but you, the wife of Weibei Marquis, don't have one. How can that be justified?"
The wife of Weibei Marquis was softened by Zhou Yunyi's words and sighed, "Oh, you are really... an enemy!"
In the end, Lady Weibei Marquis had her maid take out four thousand taels of silver from her dressing table.
Zhou Yunyi happily put the four thousand taels of silver in his arms and kissed the wife of Weibei Marquis fiercely: "Mother, I know you love me the most!"
"Nonsense!" The wife of Marquis Weibei said angrily, but there was a smile in her eyes.
However, Zhou Yunyi hadn’t even spent one night with the four thousand taels of silver before Wang Jiajia, who was crying, knocked on the door of Weibei Marquis’s mansion and asked for it.
Wang Jiajia's brother was cheated in business and now the debt collectors have come to their door. Only then did the Wang family realize that their son had gotten into such a big trouble.
——He was charging interest and owed others a total of eight thousand taels.
Looking at his beloved crying, Zhou Yunyi gritted his teeth and gave all the 6,500 taels of silver in his hand to Wang Jiajia.
Wang Jiajia's eyes were full of tears: "Yilang, I will remember your kindness to me for the rest of my life... Don't worry, I will definitely pay back the six thousand five hundred taels of silver, just consider it as a loan from you."
Having said that, Wang Jiajia insisted on writing an IOU.
Zhou Yunyi was a little annoyed at first, but when he saw Wang Jiajia swearing that the money was a loan to him and writing an IOU, the slight grudge in his heart disappeared in an instant.
Zhou Yunyi even felt that his Jia Jia was indeed different from Gong Qingniang, that woman whose mind was only thinking about money!
After Zhou Yunyi sent Wang Jiajia away, he suddenly remembered something.
——He gave all the money to Wang Jiajia. Where will he get the money to repay Gong Qingniang tomorrow?
Zhou Yunyi frowned and thought for a long time, but finally convinced himself: "Forget it! Anyway, I have already written an IOU to that woman, with interest of one hundred taels of silver a day. She is hoping that I will pay her back in a few days!"
Zhou Yunyi put the matter behind him.
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In the past few days, all the major government offices have issued orders to execute the bandits who had been roaming around the suburbs of the capital and committed numerous crimes.
The wife of Marquis Jiang Tai and his second daughter, who had "colluded" with the bandits, were sentenced to be tattooed and exiled for 3,000 miles.
When the verdict came down, the divorce letter written by Jiang Taihou was also sent to the prison.
Madam Jiang Taihou and Cen Yuehua cried and begged the heavens, but no one cared.
An Ningxin felt very complicated when she learned that the bandit who had raped her was sentenced to immediate execution.
On the one hand, the nightmares she had been suffering from for many years could finally be completely dispelled.
Furthermore, no matter what, that man is Xiao Ancheng's biological father...
An Ningxin was very conflicted. Fan Pingfang understood An Ningxin's mentality very well. After all, her sister Ling also had a terrible father.
But, what can we do?
She will give both her love to her baby.
The so-called father had never educated her baby, nor had he ever loved her baby. All that was related to her baby was that most intangible blood.
What difference does it make whether you have such a father or not?
An Ningxin couldn't be as carefree as Fan Pingfang, but when the bandit was put into the car and taken to the vegetable market to be executed, An Ningxin still held little An Cheng's hand and walked to the side of a street where the execution vehicle passed, thus seeing the bandit off for the last time.
The scar-faced bandit actually spotted An Ningxin in the crowd.
His face was covered in dirt, but An Ningxin recognized the man who had once wandered into the depths of her nightmares.
The two looked at each other and An Ningxin's expression changed drastically.
Scarface mouthed two words to An Ningxin from a distance.
An Ningxin's face turned pale. She held Xiao Ancheng's hand tightly, turned around and left.
Scarface burst into laughter in the prison car.
Little An Cheng knew something vaguely. After returning to the courtyard, she carefully sat down next to An Ningxin and asked her softly, "Mom, will I be like Hao Ge'er in the future, a child without a father? Mom, don't be sad. Hao Ge'er and I will always be with you."
An Ningxin was stunned for a moment, and after a while she smiled with tears in her eyes and slowly nodded.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, and it is also the birthday of Yu Mingzhu, the most beloved eldest daughter of the Duke of Xin's mansion.
The Xinguo Mansion held a grand banquet for the eldest daughter and invited many people to celebrate her birthday.
Xingxing also received the invitation.
Not only that, Huai Ge'er also received the invitation.
So, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the brother and sister went to the Mansion of Duke Xin together to celebrate the birthday of Yu Mingzhu, a proud lady who was famous in the capital.