The two Xiao sisters and Gu Shaoqing had been waiting in the dense forest for a long time to ensure that everything went smoothly.
Gu Shaoqing opened the curtain of the carriage and saw Liu lying unconscious inside. He smiled coldly and asked the woman dressed as a cook next to him, "Did you see her drink the bowl of medicine with your own eyes?"
The cook said hurriedly, "Madam didn't suspect anything. She drank it in front of me. The effect of the medicine will take effect in a few hours. The fetus in the belly will definitely not survive!"
Gu Shaoqing nodded and gave the cook a heavy money bag as hush money.
Xiao Ruqin felt half relieved. As long as the fetus in Liu's belly could not be saved, they would no longer be a threat.
"Young Master, if Old Madam Xu doesn't see Liu for a long time while worshipping Buddha, I'm afraid she will send someone to look for her. What are you going to do with Liu next?" Xiao Ruqin asked.
Given Liu's status as Marquis Liu's wife, as soon as someone discovered she was missing, they would report it to Old Madam Xu. If they didn't act quickly, they would probably be found by the guards at Marquis Gu's mansion.
"Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. There is no turning back for us either." Xiao Ruyun saw clearly, "We are using this Buddhist ceremony to prevent Liu from ever returning to the Marquis' Mansion. If we want this to not be exposed, we have to keep it a secret so that not a single drop of water can leak out."
"What are you afraid of? Liu's child cannot be saved. Just find a place for fun and sell her off. Even if someone investigates, they can't trace it back to me." Gu Shaoqing was proud, and he was sure of victory. "Even if Liu wanted to escape, she couldn't escape from that lowly place."
"Shaoqing, you are really thoughtful." Xiao Ruqin said to Gu Shaoqing with a smile, "After dealing with Liu, the big ones will be gone, and the small ones will naturally have to be suppressed. You are the son of the Marquis's mansion and will inherit the Marquis's mansion in the future. Shen Qingqiu will not be able to climb over your head!"
She was very good at pleasing people, especially after she said these words, Gu Shaoqing felt very comfortable.
"Of course, then isn't Shen Qingqiu a bastard?" Gu Shaoqing sneered, "I am the bloodline of the Gu family, and this mansion will be mine sooner or later. Am I still afraid of a bastard?"
Before he could finish his words, he saw the cook who had left before come back, running back with a terrified look on her face.
There was a horse-drawn carriage following closely behind, going so fast that it seemed like it was going to hit the cook to death! Upon closer inspection, the man driving the horse was actually Shen Qingqiu! "Stop chasing, stop chasing!" the cook shouted hurriedly. How could she run faster than a horse with her body? It was also her bad luck that Shen Qingqiu saw her halfway when she turned back. There was no other way to go back, so she had to go back to the dense forest.
“If you don’t tell me the truth about where you took my mother, I’ll have this fast horse run you over!” Shen Qingqiu whipped the carriage again and shouted sternly.
Gu Shaoqing saw Shen Qingqiu driving a carriage alone from a distance, and he was immediately sure that she had come alone. An idea flashed through his mind, and he just wanted to get rid of the mother and son together.
The cook ran back to Gu Shaoqing, and Shen Qingqiu also chased to their carriage, and immediately jumped off the carriage with a frown.
"Gu Shaoqing, you ordered someone to kidnap my mother! How is she now?"
Gu Shaoqing did not stop him, as he was sure that Shen Qingqiu coming alone would not cause any trouble, and was even thinking of selling the mother and son together.
"The person is still alive, but the baby in her belly is gone."
His tone was calm, as if he was not the one who killed the fetus in Liu's belly.
"Get out of my way! If anything happens to my mother, I'll pay you back tenfold!"
Shen Qingqiu pushed him away, hurriedly got on the carriage, and secretly took out a pill from his pocket and gave it to Liu, which at least could protect the lives of Liu and the fetus in her belly.
Gu Shaoqing and the others were unaware of Shen Qingqiu's little trick, and when she got off the carriage, her little face was filled with anger and rage.
"Gu Shaoqing! What hatred do you have against my mother that you want to deal with her so viciously!" Shen Qingqiu scolded him angrily, "You planted spies in my mother's inner room, knocked out Mother Chen, and kidnapped my mother. Now you are not even going to let go of the unborn child in my mother's belly! Are you still a human being?"
"If you want to blame someone, blame Liu and the baby in her belly for blocking Shaoqing's way!" Xiao Ruqin narrowed her eyes. She had long disliked Liu and her daughter, and she took this opportunity to vent her anger. "If you two had known better and handed over the textile factory to Shaoqing, and gave him all the money and power, how could we have suffered so much?"
"Why should the textile factory be handed over to Gu Shaoqing?" Shen Qingqiu was so angry that he laughed, "This is the textile factory that my mother built. She put so much effort into it. Gu Shaoqing is neither good enough nor bad enough, but he wants to take advantage of it?"
Shen Qingqiu threw himself on the ground with a fierce “Pah” sound, not caring how dark Gu Shaoqing’s face had turned, and pointed his spearhead directly at him.
"Your position as the crown prince was given to you by the Marquis. Could it be that this ruthless person was also brought up by the Marquis's mansion? You have harmed the Marquis's wife! You have harmed the Marquis's only child! I have never seen anyone as ungrateful as you!"
Gu Shaoqing's face had already darkened as he was pointed at and scolded by a ten-year-old child.
Especially after knowing that Shen Qingqiu was chasing after them alone, and hearing what he said, it seemed that there was no big movement in the Gu family, Gu Shaoqing felt even less afraid. In this remote place, it would be better to send one more person to be sold! Who could have imagined that the missing marquis' wife and daughter would become prostitutes ridden by thousands of people overnight? Just thinking about it, Gu Shaoqing felt relieved.
So he had no scruples anymore. He sneered and said, "If the baby in your mother's belly is really Uncle Jiu's, once it is born, it will endanger my position as the heir of the Marquis' Mansion. It's not legitimate for me to occupy this position, so naturally I have to remove all obstacles that prevent me from taking charge of the Marquis' Mansion!"
"What do you mean by that?" Shen Qingqiu glared.
She looked at Gu Shaoqing and laughed out loud with some unknown expression.
"In order to secure his position as the heir to the Marquis's mansion, I secretly drugged Uncle Jiu! Uncle Jiu will never have children in his lifetime! Then how could your mother possibly get pregnant with Uncle Jiu's child? Who knows if your mother cheated on her husband after her second marriage? I prevented this bastard from giving birth, which can be considered as rectifying the Gu family's family tradition!"
Gu Shaoqing laughed loudly, then looked at Shen Qingqiu and said, "I can't wait for the bastard in your mother's belly to be born and snatch the Marquis' Mansion from me, right?"
Shen Qingqiu felt sick when he heard Gu Shaoqing's high-sounding excuses for himself.
"You don't want to be the prince, but you do such things that are worse than pigs and dogs. I think the Marquis is blind to let you be the prince of this mansion!"
"How can what he gave me be the same as what I took from him?" Gu Shaoqing's voice was a little cold. "I drugged him back then so that Uncle Jiu would be infertile and have no successor! Now I'm giving Liu the abortion drug to prevent future troubles!"
These words made people tremble with fear, but Gu Shaoqing kept his eyes fixed on Shen Qingqiu.
"Originally, I was going to sell Liu off after she had an abortion. Now that you know everything, I will make you and your son suffer a fate worse than death! Even if you want to be a prostitute, we can both become prostitutes together!"
He approached Shen Qingqiu step by step, with some ruthlessness in his eyes.
"You dare!"
Before he could do anything to Shen Qingqiu, the curtain of Shen Qingqiu's carriage was lifted, and several guards from the Gu Mansion immediately surrounded the dense forest.
This change made Gu Shaoqing stunned on the spot. Even the Xiao sisters beside him panicked and hurriedly bowed.
"Hello, Old Lady Xu!"
Old Madam Xu was sitting in the carriage. She had been hiding in the compartment of the carriage and had not been discovered by Gu Shaoqing and the others. This was Shen Qingqiu's idea. Otherwise, how could she have heard those words from Gu Shaoqing himself? Old Madam Xu was so angry that she slammed her cane on the ground several times. She was really choking with anger and was very sad! "Your uncle treated you well. When you had no children, he chose you from among your many cousins to be the prince of the Marquis' Mansion. But you! You made so many mistakes behind my back and even drugged your uncle! Your heart is taken away by a dog!"
Gu Shaoqing was so shocked that he broke out in a cold sweat. He immediately clasped his hands and bowed his head to admit his mistake.
"Old Madam, I was confused for a moment. After all, one's own children cannot be compared with other people's children. I am afraid that outsiders will say that I am not worthy of the title of the crown prince. After all, I am also the young master of the Marquis' Mansion. How can I let outsiders criticize me?"
When the old lady heard this, she was so angry that her face darkened: "You still don't repent! The position of the crown prince was given to you by your uncle, and the Liu family's textile factory was also for you to hone your skills, but you are greedy and want to swallow an elephant! The Gu family has been noble for generations, how could such an evil person as you appear!"
Gu Shaoqing was scolded so badly that his face turned pale and his nose and mouth were not the same, and he was full of anger.
"Should my father have taken the knife for Uncle Jiu? If it wasn't for Uncle Jiu, would my father have died? Do you think that I will stop hating him if you give me the title of Crown Prince?"
One life for another, isn't this the position of the prince what he deserves? Gu Shaoqing didn't say this, but he gnashed his teeth in hatred in his heart.
Talking about the past events, Old Lady Xu was a little dazed. She had already lost a son and didn't want her family to be in turmoil again.
"Then you shouldn't have drugged your Uncle Nine and made him infertile! You want him to have no children or grandchildren!"
Old Madam Xu heard it all clearly and no longer had the same fondness for Gu Shaoqing as before.
Not only did he give Gu Yong a drug that would kill his offspring, but he also gave Liu abortion drugs and wanted to sell her as a prostitute. What a cruel, cold-blooded person he must be! How could such a person be her grandson! At this time, Shen Qingqiu walked up to Old Madam Xu and pressed her with his hand, appearing to be very well-behaved.
"Old lady, my mother is still in the carriage and has not woken up yet. Let's go back to the mansion to find a doctor to see her. I'm worried about my mother--"
Old Lady Xu saw that the child was well-behaved and sensible, so she touched her head.
"He's a good and sensible child."
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