bookrandom Chapter 556 The Villainous Female Supporting Character Who Impersonated the Tyrant's Savior 11
Chapter 556 The Villainous Female Supporting Character Who Impersonated the Tyrant's Savior 11
"Life and death are minor matters, but loss of purity is a major one."
Zheng Qingwan frowned, glanced at Zheng Baozhu, and said coldly.
Then he glanced sideways at Zheng Kangquan beside him.
“Father, if I were her, I would have hanged myself long ago to preserve my honor. I would never have come back alive to damage the family’s reputation. She is too selfish. If we keep her, what will outsiders think of the women of the Zheng family? How will the unmarried girls in the clan get married?”
"Furthermore, in order to return to the Zheng family, she actually brought people to coerce Father. She is truly unfilial! However, since there are outsiders present, it would seem heartless for the Zheng family not to express their stance. Since she insists on returning, Father, why don't you change her name and register her under Aunt Xu's name, saying that she is Aunt Xu's cousin? In the future, arrange for her to marry a scholar who has come to the capital. If you can let her leave the Zheng family, Father will have done more than enough to treat her well."
Zheng Kangquan wholeheartedly agreed with Zheng Qingwan's words.
With Xia Xiang, this menace, around, if we don't acknowledge Zheng Baozhu now, we'll likely have a hard time getting past him tonight.
He could only accept the brat's fate for now and teach her a lesson later. Whether she lived or died after that was entirely up to him.
Zheng Kangquan nodded, as if that was how things were arranged, completely disregarding Zheng Baozhu's thoughts.
"Idiot, what are you standing there for! Get over here right now!"
"You're back, so what are you doing bothering Prime Minister Xia? Are you ashamed enough that you were kidnapped by bandits for half a year? In the middle of the night, an unmarried girl brings a man home. Have you forgotten all the virtues and precepts you've learned about women? I think you've been in those kinds of places for too long and have forgotten the propriety and shame of a proper lady! Go back and kneel in the ancestral hall for me!"
Zheng Kangquan angrily rebuked Zheng Baozhu, venting his anger on her.
Zheng Baozhu's eyes dimmed instantly, her heart filled with despair. The last glimmer of hope she held for her father was completely extinguished; no one in the Zheng family wanted her to return home, not even her own father.
She really has no home anymore.
The bandits who kidnapped her didn't want her dead, but her father did.
If she goes back, she'll probably die suddenly without anyone knowing.
After reprimanding Zheng Baozhu, Zheng Kangquan turned to Xia Xizhi and said,
"Prime Minister Xia, this is my family matter, please do not meddle. Prime Minister Xia, do not forget that your corruption case has only just ended. If you cause trouble again now, His Majesty may not be so lenient with you. My family matter has nothing to do with you, Prime Minister, you have no need to get involved. My wife was viciously murdered, and I did not see you tonight. Please take care, Prime Minister, I will not see you off."
This means that if Xia Xizhi doesn't meddle in other people's business, he won't pursue the matter of Xia Xizhi having his wife killed, and will pretend that nothing happened.
Xia Xizhi smiled.
It seems Zheng Kangquan hasn't grasped the current situation. She's a notorious traitor; who can reason with her?
He almost blurted out the name "Han Xing" but swallowed it back down. He was mainly afraid that if he uttered "Han Xing," Minister Zheng's head would be on the chopping block...
The two words that were about to come out were quickly reversed. He coughed lightly, preparing to call out to Nightshade.
Han Xing suddenly drew her sword...
Xia Xizhi:!
She just coughed once!
Zheng Kangquan's face turned green instantly. He quickly backed away and shouted, his voice cracking with fear.
"and many more!"
A single cough and the person next to you will kill you!
This treacherous official is so arrogant!
He dared to kill even court officials!
Has this become utterly lawless?!
"Prime Minister Xia, let's talk this out! Let's talk this out! Tell me what you want, and I'll do it!"
Zheng Kangquan felt a chill on his neck, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and begged for mercy.
He had only one thought in his mind: save his life first.
It's never too late to take revenge later!
The ghostly figure of Night Shadow flashed in front of Han Xing, stopping him in a second and pushing the hilt of his knife back.
In a low voice, he said, "Master is not in danger. Please calm down."
Han Xing paused for a moment and looked at Xia Xizhi.
Xia Xizhi's eyelids twitched, and she rubbed her forehead.
"Don't kill them yet."
I'll have to hold a meeting with them later.
She kills people the moment she opens her mouth; in a few days, she'll be all alone.
......
With Hanxing's sword being drawn from its sheath every now and then.
Zheng Kangquan nodded with a dark face, agreeing to give all the dowry brought by Zheng Baozhu's mother to Zheng Baozhu.
Zheng Baozhu found the old nanny who had accompanied her mother during her dowry years ago, and began to count the dowry items with the list in hand.
You wouldn't know unless you looked it up; you only found out about Zheng Baozhu after you looked into it.
Since her stepmother, Madam Guan, took over the household management, a third of the dowry jewelry her mother brought with her has been lost, as it was all secretly sold by Madam Guan.
No wonder her family was ordinary, yet she and Zheng Qingwan always managed to wear the latest fashions and jewelry; it turns out they were stealing her mother's dowry!
Furthermore, the money her mother brought as part of her dowry from the estate and shops, aside from the Zheng family's expenses, was all used to pay off her brother's gambling, drinking, and womanizing debts.
Every year, Guan would provide her younger brother with several thousand taels of silver, which was more than the Zheng family's expenses!
What angered Zheng Baozhu even more was that the eighteen loads of dowry that Guan had prepared for Zheng Qingwan were all dowries left to her by her mother. And the person she was about to marry was her fiancé whom she had been betrothed since childhood.
At this point, Zheng Baozhu finally understood.
The reason why Guan and Zheng Qingwan do not acknowledge her as the eldest daughter of the Zheng family is not because of any reputation, but because of the money left to her by her mother!
“Guan is dead, so I don’t want the parts she stole. I only want my mother’s estate and shops, the remaining jewelry, and Zheng Qingwan’s eighteen-batch dowry. Oh, and the servants my mother brought with her and my maids, I want to take them with me. If Father has no objection, then I will leave with them.”
Before Zheng Kangquan could speak, Zheng Qingwan could no longer sit still and jumped up.
"I disagree! That's my dowry. My wedding is in half a month, and you're taking it all away. How am I supposed to get married? Father, although the money belonged to my sister's mother, her mother is dead. Shouldn't all the money belong to our Zheng family? What right does she have to take it all? I..."
Xia Xizhi looked at Zheng Qingwan's greedy and insatiable face with great disgust.
Zheng Baozhu didn't even pursue the matter of her mother and the jewelry she had stolen over the years, yet she still dared to push her luck at this time.
Xia Xizhi coughed lightly, signaling Han Xing to draw his sword.
The cold star was not pulled out.
Night Shadow glanced sideways at Cold Star, his voice low and somber.
"Draw the sword."
Han Xing drew his sword with a whoosh.
Xia Xizhi:.......
Drawing a knife inside a room is much clearer than drawing it in the yard, and everyone present shuddered in fright.
Zheng Qingwan, who was still trying to argue, turned pale and shut her mouth in an instant, hiding behind Zheng Kang.
"Father, Father..."
Looking at the cold blade, Zheng Qingwan shivered, dared not say anything more, and began to feign pitifulness.
"Sister, please have pity on your younger sister."
“My sister has lost her mother, and now if she loses her dowry, how will the Zhao family view her? She's getting married in half a month, and without a dowry to rely on, her life will be very difficult. Sister, at least you still have those shops and estates, and you still have your uncle to help you; your life won't be too bad. Just give them to me. If you don't want to, then I'll have no choice but to hang myself and follow our mother, sob sob sob…”