Chapter 304 Do you have illegitimate children?
After Mo Ziyuan left, Gongshu Zhi returned to the restaurant.
He glared at Qin Jinzhi, "You just sold her like that!"
Qin Jinzhi nodded, "It sold for a good price."
Gongshu Zhiqi sat down and drank tea voraciously.
Qin Jinzhi said with a grin, "You should be secretly happy. It's not easy to find a blind beauty like her."
Gongshu Zhi slammed his fist on the table in anger, "If you get angry again, I won't go back to the capital with you!"
Qin Jinzhi raised an eyebrow, "Really?"
Gongshu Zhi glared at her: "What do you mean, 'really'!"
Qin Jinzhi smiled and said, "Come back to Beijing with me."
Gongshu Zhi turned around and said, "I keep my word. What's this talk of 'real' and 'fake'?"
Qin Jinzhi tapped the table, "You're already willing to come back to the capital with me, why make Aunt Ziyuan make a wasted trip?"
Gongshu Zhi turned to look at Qin Jinzhi, "Doesn't marrying a wife require making money? Are you suggesting I make her come back with me to live in that dilapidated blacksmith shop?"
Qin Jinzhi pouted, "Didn't you say your blacksmith shop was doing very well?"
Gongshu Zhi said bluntly, "Anyway, you have to prepare betrothal gifts for me then, so that I don't have to go to the Mo family to propose marriage and those old geezers will find fault with me."
Qin Jinzhi said with a look of disdain, "If I remember correctly, I'm the junior."
Gongshu Zhi immediately said, "Ziyi and I kowtowed to the ground together. He is my own brother, his father is my father, and his daughter is my daughter. What's wrong with you preparing some betrothal gifts for your father?"
Qin Jinzhi scratched her head. "Are you speaking human language?"
Gongshu Zhi ignored him, pushed open the door and strode out, "Waiter, get me the most expensive private room, and prepare a meal for me."
When the waiter came up, Gongshu Zhi pointed to Qin Jinzhi behind him.
"My daughter paid."
Qin Jinzhi rolled her eyes.
In the middle of the night, Si Sha woke up and saw Qin Jinzhi sitting by her bedside reading a book.
She sat up, somewhat saddened. "Lingdang, I hurt you."
When Qin Jinzhi saw that she was awake, she smiled and asked, "Are you hungry?"
Si Sha's stomach was rumbling.
Qin Jinzhi picked up the pastries from the bedside and placed them in front of her.
"Eat."
Quadra's cheeks were stretched bulging.
While eating, he said, "Mask, kill."
Qin Jinzhi patted his little head. "Okay, if you see him again, kill him."
The group rested for two days.
In the past two days, half of the wealthy merchants in Yangzhou have had their homes raided.
These businessmen had intricate connections with numerous officials.
Yet no one dared to make a move.
Moreover, wealthy merchants in all sixteen prefectures and counties south of the Yangtze River had their homes confiscated.
The Zhao family took advantage of the situation to acquire many properties.
Other merchants in Jiangnan also quickly began to act.
Meanwhile, the owners of Yangzhou's largest brothels were shut down.
The followers of the Blissful Heaven were executed at the execution ground.
So many missing women in Jiangnan were trafficked by them.
Princess Zhenguo, while passing through Jiangnan, accidentally learned that a cult was being eradicated with swift and decisive action.
The sixteen prefectures south of the Yangtze River were temporarily taken over by the Zhenbei Army.
Once the Thousand Birds Bureaus in each state have completed their construction, they will be taken over by the Thousand Birds Bureaus.
At the same time, the imperial court promulgated new laws and regulations.
Those who traffic in people shall be punished by dismemberment.
That is, to be executed by slow slicing.
Their descendants were put into slavery and could never be released.
The Zhenbei Army temporarily placed the rescued women in the underground palace and sent the victims back to their hometowns in batches.
Princess Jinzhi's name quickly became famous in Jiangnan.
A few days later, the group boarded a ship and left Yangzhou.
At the same time, the palace also received a letter sent back by Qin Jinzhi.
The emperor, beaming with delight, took the letter to the empress's palace.
Qin Jinzhi has been away for so many days, and all the letters she has sent back have been to the Empress.
Finally, today it says on it: "To the Imperial Ancestor Father".
Looking at the emperor's beaming face, Eunuch Hong said, "The princess still thinks of you more than anything else."
The emperor agreed, but said, "You mustn't let my wife hear you say that. I'm afraid she'll get jealous. Never mind, I'll go with her."
The Empress looked at the Emperor, wondering what he was so pleased with.
The emperor asked, "You really won't watch it with me?"
The Empress rolled her eyes. Apart from the letter Qin Jinzhi sent back to the capital, her people reported back along the way.
The emperor happily opened the letter, but the smile on his face only lasted for a moment.
"That little bastard! I'll beat her to a pulp when she gets back!"
The emperor slammed the letter onto the table.
Eunuch Hong was startled. "Your Majesty, please calm down!"
The Empress frowned at him. "What did Jinzhi do to offend you this time?"
The emperor walked up to the empress with the letter in his hand. "Look at this! What kind of nonsense is this?! She actually asked me if I have any illegitimate children outside the marriage!"
The Empress looked up at him and asked, "You have another son outside?"
The emperor immediately shouted, "What a load of rubbish son! Hong Dequan, issue me a decree that this scoundrel get back here!"
Eunuch Hong looked at the Empress.
The Empress snatched the letter away, "If you don't have it, then you don't have it! What are you shouting about?"
However, Qin Jinzhi's letter was indeed only a few words long.
Do you have any illegitimate children?
In a quiet courtyard, the masked man and the woman beside him entered a secret room.
The secret room was dimly lit, and a person dressed in a black cloak sat inside.
The masked man took off his mask and walked to her side.
"younger sister."
The woman in the black cloak simply spoke, "Hongying."
The woman behind the masked man immediately stepped forward.
"Hongying greets the princess."
The man in the black cloak spoke again, "Come forward."
Hongying immediately got up and stepped forward.
The moment she stood still, the woman slapped her face to the side.
"I asked you to assist your brother, and this is how you do it?"
Hongying immediately knelt on the ground, "Princess, please forgive me!"
The voice from the black-cloak was cold: "If there's a next time, you'll know the consequences."
Hongying trembled. "Hongying will remember this."
The masked man said, "Sister, don't blame Hongying. It was all my idea. I just didn't expect Qin Jinzhi to dare to mobilize troops without authorization."
The man in the black cloak sneered, "Unauthorized troop deployment? That army was personally mobilized by that person."
The masked man frowned. "Impossible. There was no order from the capital to transfer the Zhenbei Army to Jiangnan."
The man in the black cloak said calmly, "What if this army had been in Jiangnan from the beginning?"
The masked man suddenly realized something, "You mean the Zhenbei Army that went south of the Yangtze River at the beginning didn't return to the capital?"
The man in the black cloak touched his wrist. "Brother, I told you, Qin Jinzhi isn't so easy to deal with. She managed to wipe out the Shen family, who had been entrenched in Jiangnan for so many years. How could you believe that such a small trap could catch her?"
The masked man's face darkened. "She actually set her sights on Jiangnan so early."
The voice from the black-cloak was cold, "If you were a man, you would surely have the countenance of an emperor. Brother, you underestimated your enemy. Now you have alerted them, not only losing Yangzhou, a place to amass wealth, but Qin Jinzhi has also taken notice of you. If you make another move, you will only be able to strike once and for all."
The masked man nodded. "I promise your sister I will never act rashly again."
The man in the black cloak said, "Brother, please stay here for now. Let me think about what happens next."
"good."
The man in the black cloak walked out of the house through a secret passage.
A horse-drawn carriage was waiting at the back gate.
She got into the carriage.
His voice was cold.
"waste!"
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