usatvline Chapter 139 CFV Ch.139 Embezzlement (2)
Chapter 139 CFV Ch.139 Embezzlement (2)
The brocade curtain embroidered with cranes and chrysanthemums were raised and Qin Zhun entered in a large stride. Mrs. Su took two steps forward and was about to complain as soon as she opened her mouth. “Marquis...”
“Slap!”
Qin Zhun raised his hand and slapped Mrs. Su’s face hard, causing her face to turn to the side.
A clear hand mark could be seen on the left side of her face, and her cheek was swelling up rapidly. A few strands of hair had fallen down to her cheek.
The slap from earlier was so crisp and loud that it stunned Granny Zhao and the maids behind the curtain.
Qin Zhun’s face was blue with anger and he rebuked her angrily, “Repulsive!”
Qin Zhun felt like his dignity had all been lost.
He was drinking with some noblemen in a restaurant earlier when someone in the next seat over began chattering about the Yunguang case, saying that other things were involved in the Yunguang case as well, that some ladies of a marquis’ household were fooled by her, sending her houses and silver. Among them was the wife of the Zhongyi Marquis who misappropriated her sister-in-law’s dowry in order to please the heretical practitioner Yunguang. At that time, Qin Zhun was so ashamed that he rushed home before he could dig a hole in the ground and hide in it out of shame.
“Xin’er is really too bold. She was the one who wanted to bribe Yunguang but she had no silver of her own, that was why she secretly embezzled Sister-in-Law’s dowry.”
“Xin’er?” Qin Zhun frowned in confusion.
Mrs. Su spilled all the beans about Qin Xin bribing Yunguang to boast about her good fortune in front of Empress Dowager Liu, talking all the way to the part where she was demoted by Empress Dowager Liu into a concubine today.
Qin Zhun was shocked. He didn’t expect so many things to happen at home after going out for only half a day.
“The empress dowager really reduced Xin’er to a concubine?” Qin Zhun couldn’t help but ask.
Mrs. Su nodded. The more she thought about it, the more upset she felt. “Lord Marquis, Qin Xin actually dared to enlist the help of a heretical practitioner. She was getting what she paid for!”
Even though Qin Xin was the one who did such a stupid thing, the one who had to suffer for it was her and their second branch family!
Whether these were self-incurred troubles or not, Qin Zhun was already confused.
The reason he wanted to cozy up with the second prince is so their marquis family could have a princess consort in the family tree. But now that Qin Xin had been reduced from a consort to a concubine, the situation was very different.
To put it bluntly, the relative of a concubine is no proper relative!
Qin Zhun frowned deeply and paced back and forth distractedly. He even forgot to question Mrs. Su about the misappropriation of the dowry for a while.