Chapter 295 Death is beyond one’s control
The wedding banquet ended and the people concerned began to leave one after another.

"Where's the sixth girl? Where did Molan go again?"

Wang Ruofu began to gather all her children to get on the carriage, but after looking around, she was surprised to find that only Rulan, who was usually the most restless, was standing next to her, while Minglan and Molan were nowhere to be seen.

Seeing this, Rulan muttered softly:

"The sixth sister is hiding from people, and I don't know what the fourth sister is doing."

Wang Ruofu’s eyes widened upon hearing this.

She also suspected that Molan was not doing anything serious.

After all, with her vixen-like appearance and the people she interacted with here were all sons of powerful and wealthy people, she couldn't help but learn her mother's tricks and find people to flatter her.

"Hurry, hurry, Mama Liu!"

Wang Ruofu didn't want to lose face in such a situation, so she quickly said:
"Go look around quickly, ask the maids around, and find Molan back!"

But just as she finished her words, she saw Molan walking towards her with a look of hidden joy on her face.

"Where did you go? Why didn't you even bring a maid with you?" Wang Ruofu asked suspiciously.

"Madam, I just went to change my clothes."

"Really?"

Wang Ruofu immediately looked Molan up and down, and made sure that her clothes and hair were neat, then she felt relieved, but she still warned her:
"This place is different from the countryside. There are many rules here!"

Molan could see that Wang Ruofu didn't trust her, and she immediately felt very resentful. However, when she thought about her private meeting with Liang Han just now, she felt a little guilty, so she only dared to lower her head and said:
"Mo Er understands!"

"That's all I need to know." Wang Ruofu glanced at Molan briefly and stopped paying attention. Then she turned around to look at the guests who had already begun to leave, and muttered to herself:
"Why hasn't Ming come back yet? I'm worried."

Wang Ruofu had naturally heard Princess Yong's ridicule of Minglan just now, but because of her low status, she did not dare to get close to her (of course, she would not take the initiative to get close to her either).

Thinking of this, Minglan left the table halfway, perhaps she found a corner to secretly wipe away her tears.

!!!

Molan, who was standing by, heard it clearly. She felt very angry and bit her teeth secretly. Her slightly bulging chest rose and fell violently.

"So when I came back late, you worried that I was hooking up with someone, but when Minglan came back late, you worried about her instead?!"

They are all concubines' daughters. How can you, as the lady, be so prejudiced?
A while passed.

Minglan came back with a sad face.

Wang Ruofu was not surprised at all when she saw this. She just thought that she was still young and could not stand being teased in person by a noble lady like Princess Yong. So she said kindly,
"Sixth girl, you don't have to take this to heart."

Minglan was still thinking about Qi Heng. Suddenly, she was stunned for a moment when she heard Wang Ruofu's words of comfort. Then she nodded quickly and said:
"Yes, madam!"

Yang Wenyuan is here.

After successfully uniting a group of people to avenge himself for being forced to drink at his wedding banquet, he hid his achievements and fame and returned to the Marquis' Mansion with Hualan.

Then Hualan said that she would go to Yuqing Temple to fulfill her vow in a few days, and Yang Wenyuan naturally agreed.

Then he thought again, after all, the bulk of this matter was on him, so should he also fulfill a wish?
"Then find a good day and I'll go with you. After all, I'm also a great contributor!" Yang Wenyuan responded loudly.

Hua Lan immediately gave Yang Wenyuan a coquettish look.

"Virtue!"

In fact, I felt very happy about it.

The joys and sorrows of people are not connected.

When Gu Tingye ended the wonderful wedding night feeling refreshed and happy, and then this morning he ignored Xiao Qinshi's deflated look and led Yu Yanran to meet his parents-in-law.

same moment.

The Duke's Mansion of Qi.

"Tell me! Are you the middleman between the young master and the girl from the Sheng family, helping to connect them?"

Princess Pingning looked at Buwei who was kneeling on the ground with a cold expression and asked in a cold voice:
"Yesterday at the Ningyuan Marquis's Mansion, the young master disappeared as soon as he entered the mansion, and only came out when he was about to see the guests off, and he looked refreshed.

Tell me, was it you who instigated the meeting with the girl from the Sheng family?"

"No...no..." Buwei knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"You still dare to quibble?"

Princess Pingning was in no hurry to make a decision, and continued:

"If you don't dare to admit it, I will beat you to death!"

Bu Wei put his head on the ground when he heard this, and said in a panic:
"I am indeed not a villain! I hope the princess will understand!"

"What a clear lesson!"

Princess Pingning sneered:
"Do you think I don't know what happened before? Do you think you, a servant, can hide the truth under my nose?"

"It doesn't matter whether you say it or not, it doesn't matter whether you say it or not, anyway, today, I am going to beat you to death!"

"Drag him out and beat him!"

Following a stern shout from Princess Pingning, Buwei was immediately dragged out by the servants who had been waiting outside the door, and his hands were tied to a stool.

"Young Master! Young Master!"

Not wanting to see that Princess Pingning was serious, he immediately shouted:

"Young Master! Save me!"

"Mother, mother!"

Qi Heng responded and came over. He turned around and glanced at Bu Wei who was shouting at the top of his lungs in the courtyard. Then he hurriedly walked in and rushed into the house and loudly questioned Princess Pingning:
"Mother, what are you doing? Didn't he do anything wrong?"

Princess Pingning looked up at Qi Heng, then turned her head to the side:
"How dare he go behind my back and arrange for you to meet that girl from the Sheng family in private, and in the Ningyuan Marquis's mansion where the rich and powerful come and go. He even dared to deny it when I asked him. Since he refuses to admit it, I will beat him to death!"

"If we don't beat him to death today, the servants in the mansion will follow suit tomorrow and help deceive the superiors and the subordinates. Wouldn't that be rebellion against heaven?"

"Private meeting? I didn't have a private meeting."

Qi Heng knew that he must not admit this, otherwise his relationship with Minglan would not be successful, and asking Buwei to beg for mercy would be a pipe dream.

"No private meeting?"

Princess Pingning stood up and stared at Qi Heng, saying:

"Do you really think I'm dead, or are you blind? You dare to play tricks in front of Prince Yong's family. If the princess finds out, what kind of disaster will happen?"

"Just now, the princess wanted to cause trouble for the girl from the Sheng family, but I put her in a high position, so she couldn't lose face. But if she knew that you two got together right after, what would happen?"

"Beat him! Beat him to death!"

Qi Heng didn't know what happened at the banquet with the women. When he heard Princess Pingning say this, he was immediately startled. However, when he heard Buwei outside unable to shout out and could only scream hoarsely, he continued to plead:

"Mother, please forgive me! He is my confidant who grew up with me, and the only one in the mansion who can talk to me..."

Qi Heng prayed earnestly, and then suddenly heard a voice from outside:
"My lady, Buwei has passed away."

Hearing this, Princess Pingning looked outside the house in surprise, while Qi Heng's knees suddenly went weak, and then he forced himself to stand up and staggered all the way out of the house.

When he got close to Buwei's corpse, Qi Heng felt a black screen in front of his eyes when he saw the horrible appearance of Buwei's body. He was already very weak from fighting with his mother, Princess Pingning, and now seeing Buwei, his close friend who he had grown up with, lying dead in front of him, he fainted from exhaustion.

"Heng'er~!"

When Princess Pingning saw Qi Heng fall down, she immediately panicked and shouted for the servants to send Qi Heng back to his room. At the same time, she asked Nanny Li to take her token and go to the Imperial Medical Bureau to find a doctor.

After the usually quiet Duke Qi's Mansion became bustling with activity, the imperial physician also gave a diagnosis.

"Young Master has been exhausted both physically and mentally in recent days, and has encountered a series of surprises, just like a tired body that alternates between hot and cold. Now he has suddenly fallen seriously ill. I have prepared a prescription. He needs to rest in the mansion for ten months, and then he will be almost fully recovered."

The lights are shining.

In Qi Heng's bedroom, Princess Pingning looked at Qi Heng lying on the bed with a face full of worry and concern.

I have just fed him a bowl of medicine.

After a while.

Qi Heng woke up slowly.

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"Heng'er!"

Princess Pingning was sitting on a stool next to the bed. When she saw Qi Heng wake up, she quickly leaned over and asked:
"Are you feeling well? Would you like some food?"

After Qi Heng woke up, he half-straightened up and lay in a daze on the bed for a while. Then he seemed to be brought back to his senses by Princess Pingning's call. He immediately lifted the quilt without saying a word and was about to get out of bed.

"Heng'er, what are you doing?"

Princess Pingning repeatedly stopped her and said:
"You are still in poor health and have just taken medicine. It is time for you to rest well."

Qi Heng ignored Princess Pingning's words and put on his clothes, socks and shoes.
"I can't stay here any longer! I'm almost suffocating!"

Princess Pingning held Qi Heng's shoulder from behind:

"You don't want your parents anymore?"

Normally, when this sentence was brought up, Qi Heng would always obey it submissively. But at this moment, after suffering a series of blows, Qi Heng was silent for only a moment, and then turned to Princess Pingning and said:
"I have followed your wishes since I was a child. I dare not get close to you or cross your path. Only Buwei is my confidant. He respects me, loves me, and considers me in everything. Now that you have killed him, you have wiped out my heart as well!"

"No, I can't sit still and wait for death any longer!"

"I used to listen to you in everything. If you didn't let me do something, I would immediately back off."

As he spoke more, Qi Heng's tone became more certain:

"If you won't let me, I will definitely be with Minglan. I will definitely be with her!"

"I...I will go to the Sheng family right now and propose marriage to them!"

After saying that, Qi Heng dodged Princess Pingning's hand and was about to leave without caring about anything.

"Then you want your father and I to die!" Princess Pingning shouted sternly from behind.

"Yuan Ruo, why do you think Rong Feiyan died?"

Qi Heng paused and turned to look at Princess Pingning. Princess Pingning then looked at Qi Heng with a slightly distraught look and continued:
"It's all because of you!"

Princess Pingning walked to the Arhat chair, leaned against the armrest and sat down, saying slowly:
"The Rong family has long been interested in marrying into my family. Concubine Rong even asked me to stay in the palace several times, and mentioned it openly and secretly. But I looked down on the Rong family because they were born as bricklayers, so I kept dragging my feet and refused to agree. Then..."

Princess Pingning turned to look at Qi Heng:

"Then you became a big star at the polo match and were seen by Princess Jiacheng of Prince Yong's residence. She immediately took a fancy to you and begged the Princess of Yong for help."

"Prince Yong and his wife are well-known in Bianjing for their love for their daughter. So within a few days, they came to me and wanted to marry into my family. I couldn't refuse and had to tell them the truth about the Rong family."

"As a result, the Rong Feiyan incident happened at that lantern festival."

Qi Heng looked incredulous and said:
"Is...was it Prince Yong who did it?"

"Who else could it be besides his family?"

Princess Pingning said with a bitter look on her face:
"For the sake of her sister, Concubine Rong begged the emperor to send out all the imperial guards, led by the only son of the Rong family. But even so, even if they turned Bianjing upside down, they couldn't find a single person, and someone even dumped her body in the street."

Princess Pingning asked Qi Heng:

"If you search the entire Bianjing city for such a family and power, who else can do it except Prince Yong?"

"You and the girl from the Sheng family had a reputation before, but I kept you at home afterwards, so the matter stopped. But now if the Yongwang family knows that you are still in contact with the girl from the Sheng family, even if they didn't care before, now..."

Princess Pingning looked at Qi Heng and said:
"Even Rong Feiyan has ended up in such a situation, let alone the daughter of a minor official? Yuan Ruo, isn't mother also trying to save the girl from the Sheng family?"

"His family insists that you become their son-in-law!"

"How dare his family be so bold and presumptuous? What about the government? Will they just let him do this without restraint?" Qi Heng asked puzzledly
"Whether the government knows about this or not, and what its attitude is, what does it matter at the moment?"

Princess Pingning said:
"Our family may seem prosperous on the surface, but it is only because of my old relationship with the palace. In recent years, your father has not been favored by the government. He was dismissed from his position in the salt administration and only received a nominal position..."

"Compared to the overwhelming power of King Yong, my family is no different from ordinary people."

"It's like this now, let alone in the future. By then, my family will be no different from fish on the chopping block."

"hehe."

Qi Heng suddenly laughed for no apparent reason, pointed at himself and said,
"In ancient times, there was Bao Si who made people laugh. Now, I am just a rude man, but I can cause such trouble."

After a moment of silence, Qi Heng suddenly looked at his mother, met Princess Pingning's gaze, and said calmly:
"Mother, as long as I die, King Yong will let our family go, right?"

"die?"

Princess Pingning looked stunned:

"Dead? What kind of death?"

Then she noticed the calmness on Qi Heng's face, and immediately realized what Qi Heng meant, and quickly stood up and said:
"Yuan Ruo, this is absolutely not allowed!"

"You are the only son of your father and I. Everything depends on you. If you die, how can your father and I live?"

"Besides..."

Princess Pingning said again:

"Besides, if you die, given the temperament of the Yong family, how can they not vent their anger on others?"

"Yep!"

Princess Pingning nodded repeatedly, looking at Qi Heng with hope in her eyes:

"Think about the girl from the Sheng family. Wouldn't she be blamed and suffer for this?"

Qi Heng's expression darkened. He stretched out his hands, spread them open, and looked around for a while with a wry smile:
"It turns out that I can't even decide my own death."

At this moment, a maid suddenly came from outside the house and said in a panic:

"Princess, the master's car is back!"

Princess Pingning glanced at him impatiently:
"I'm back, why are you panicking?"

Then the maid's words made the room suddenly silent.

"The car came back, but it was empty."

(End of this chapter)