Chapter 61: When I Wake Up
At this time, Master Kong stepped forward to help Zou Chongyu and said to Tang Ren: "The matter has come to this, and it doesn't matter if the truth is not true." My family has decided to rebuild the old friendship with the Zou family, Qingqiu will marry Zou Mansion soon, Tang Gongzi, my Kong family can't stand you, I will compensate you 5,000 taels of gold as an apology, and when Qingqiu wakes up, she will also return the treasure that she received from you to you. β
Seeing this scene, Da Ru sighed, immediately said goodbye to Tang Ren, flicked his sleeves, and left.
Tang Ren knew that the general trend had gone, but he was still struggling: "Master Kong, you arrange it like this, can you take care of Qingqiu's feelings?" Don't you know why she is the way she is today? β
Master Kong: "She won't cost her whole family's life for her own selfish feelings, and you won't do this to us, will you?" β
Tang Ren was stunned, he couldn't answer the question.
He didn't know how to answer.
In the evening, the depressed Zou Chongyu returned home, and Master Zou read from his mind what happened in the Confucian Mansion during the day, and he was surprised in his heart: If Kong Qingqiu really returned the treasure to Tang Ren, wouldn't his plans for the past few days be nullified? Not only will he marry a daughter-in-law who doesn't even have his heart, but he will also offend a young man who may become a thousand households in the future?
This must not happen.
So, he activated his newly developed shadow son by Kong Qingqiu's side recently-her handmaid.
This servant girl was doing her own small business outside the master's house, Kong Qingqiu knew about it, but she hid it for her and didn't let Master Kong know.
After Zou Qianhu learned about this, the maidservant was pinched by him.
Zou Qianhu asked the maidservant to light a special incense in Kong Qingqiu's house at the unitary time three days later, and then went to Tang Ren and told him that Kong Qingqiu asked him to meet him in the boudoir.
Tang Ren was really fooled, and with the help of the maidservant, he sneaked into Kong Qingqiu's room.
Kong Qingqiu and his parents and brother finished dinner and returned to the room, but saw Tang Ren who was waiting for him here.
Tang Ren felt the divine power of the treasure book and knew that it was Qingqiu who had returned, he didn't look back, but said slowly: "Since you have decided, then I have nothing to say." This book is my wedding gift to you. I will leave early tomorrow morning, and from now on the end of the world is far away, you take care of yourself. β
Kong Qingqiu's heart was extremely bitter, she stretched out her hand, wanted to say something, but couldn't say anything.
"I'm sorry." She said.
Tang Ren: "Don't tell me I'm sorry. The whole thing was originally my wishful thinking, the first I started, the cage I brought you into. Right now, since I already know that you have the words of the matchmaker, and it is also your duty to keep the contract as a businessman, you have nothing to be sorry for me. β
After a pause, he turned his head, looked deeply into Kong Qingqiu's eyes, and asked, "It's just, do you really want to marry that kind of person?" Do you know what he is plotting, and yet you have to give him an account of yourself? β
Kong Qingqiu didn't look at him.
She lowered her head and shed a few tears on the embroidered robe, and the begonia-colored material immediately showed a few shades of red.
Tang Ren took a few steps forward and asked, "Or are you, like your parents, just plotting for his family's power?" You don't care what the character of the person you marry is? Don't care if he shares your heart? β
Kong Qingqiu suddenly raised his head and said categorically: "No, it's not like this!" β
Just at this glance, Kong Qingqiu was defeated by the grievances and depression in her heart, and her eyes softened.
Tang Ren stepped forward quickly and helped her.
"What's wrong with you!" Tang Ren gently helped her to sit on the chair.
"You're like this, how can I leave with confidence...... Come, take a sip of saliva and slow down. After speaking, Tang Ren poured out a cup of water from the teapot on the table and handed it to Jin Miaomiao.
The copper incense burner on the table is full of smoke, exuding a refreshing fragrance.
"I remember that the incense you used before didn't seem to smell like this......" Before he finished speaking, Tang Ren also shook his forehead, as if he had also entered a state of dizziness.
"What's going on......" Before he could finish speaking, Kong Qingqiu had already buried his face in the socket of his neck.
The embrace is warm, eager and warm.
She was fighting hard about what to do, but her hands and feet didn't seem to listen.
Kong Qingqiu and Tang Ren hugged each other and poured into the weft tent, their emotions as ambiguous as the green smoke around them.
Suddenly, the door was kicked open, and Zou Chongyu rushed in first
"What are you doing here!"
Since the marriage with Kong Qingqiu was confirmed, Zou Chongyu would wait for Qingqiu to talk to him in the Confucian Mansion every day in the afternoon.
But Kong Qingqiu has always avoided it.
On this day, Zou Chongyu's father, Zou Qianhu, asked him to try to take Qingqiu out for a walk after dinner, maybe this would make Qingqiu happier.
The Zou family's small house that followed Zou Chongyu into the door was also temporarily added by Zou Qianhu, saying that he was "worried" that the young couple would be crowded when they visited the night market.
A group of people flocked to Kong Qingqiu's courtyard lively, only to see her personal maid standing in front of the closed door and pacing back and forth anxiously.
Zou Chongyu: "What's wrong with you?" Where's your young lady? β
The maid panicked, "I'...... I...... My Miss, Miss...... She's not there! β
But there was movement in the room.
Zou Chongyu was suspicious, stepped forward and pushed the maid away, and kicked the door open.
The moment the door was opened, the house was full of spring, Zou Chongyu was ashamed and annoyed, and immediately stepped forward to push the two away.
This was followed by a tidal wave of crowds rushing up.
Kong Qingqiu was pulled, pushed, and slapped to the ground.
But her mind was in a state of chaos, and she couldn't organize her limbs to resist effectively, and she couldn't even say a word.
She watched as she was stuffed into a rough cage.
Then came the earth-shattering whirring and whirlwind-whirring shaking.
She and Tang Ren were carried out of the courtyard.
As soon as they got out of the yard, Kong Qingqiu saw Master Kong and Mrs. Kong going crazy and wanted to step forward and pull her down, but they were kicked and pushed to the ground by Zou Chongyu's little servant.
Kong Dalang pounced on him to save Tang Ren, but Zou Chongyu directly kicked him away.
Kong Qingqiu and Tang Ren were carried out of the Confucian Mansion, and along the way, the Zou family shouted loudly how the two of them "carried" their fiancΓ©s.
Agitated passers-by threw countless stones and rotten leaves at the two.
The two of them could not say a word, only heard the sound of water hitting the levee getting closer and louder.
When they arrived at the shore, Zou Qianhu appeared.
He looked coldly at the disheveled two people in the cage, and said loudly: "My Zou family treats your Kong family wholeheartedly, regardless of past suspicions, in order to fulfill my father's last wishes, but also to fulfill the promise of our Zou and Kong families." Unexpectedly, you, Kong Qingqiu, the daughter of a merchant family, actually did such a thing behind your fiancΓ©'s back! It's disgusting! β
"Disgusting!"
"Shameless!"
Passers-by chimed in.
Zou Qianhu continued: "Today, I want to exercise my duty as a thousand households, sentence you two to sink into the pond, and let the world know what the price of treachery is!" β
As a result, Kong Qingqiu felt a lightness all over his body, followed by a sharp pain and a piercing coldness.
She was thrown into the river.
The icy river quickly flooded her chest, abdomen, mouth and nose.