Published at 22nd of November 2020 1:26 pm

Chapter 87 Shameless

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In the painting hall, Sima Ray stepped over the threshold to discover that the little eunuch who had just led the way was nowhere to be found. The secluded and remote painting hall was surrounded by an intoxicating fragrance, and it seemed to be luring people’s lust. Sima Ray was feeling uncomfortable in his chest. He realized that he had been set up, and he wanted to leave. However, his legs were already powerless.

There seemed to be a lot of tranquillizing fragrance in the infatuation fragrance. Sima Ray’s sight was getting more and more blurred. He only saw a pair of hands that were slowly closing the painting hall door. He tried to struggle, so that Liu Bao who was waiting outside could come and save him, but he didn’t even have the power to shout. His eyelids were as heavy as lead, and he lost his consciousness eventually.

He was awakened by some loud screams.

“Oh my goodness, it’s sister Qin and the Third Prince!”

“It’s so shameless!”

“They actually do ‘that’ in a place like this!”

The unmarried noble girls were saying what only the country women would say. Some younger girls who couldn’t watch the scene anymore had already ran off. Through the carved windows, Qin Yunuan was able to see the situation in the hall clearly.

Qin Yunzhuang, who said that she was going to change her clothes in the painting hall, had her hair all messed up like catkins after being torn by the wind. She was half naked, and the crowd was able to see her bare chest. The autumn skirt she deliberately prepared for the poetry fiesta today was down to her ankles. Her fine long legs were exposed to the air, and there was something at her crotch.

Qin Yunzhuang looked as if she were drunk and confused, like a girl who fell in love. As for Sima Ray who was lying on her, his clothes had been completely torn apart, and his strong back muscles were clearly seen. The heat in his crotch seemed to be reminding him that he had been set up.

Such a sexy scene had made many daughters of the officials blush.

Shangguan Yee was a little surprised. Such a scene seemed somewhat unexpected to her. She looked at Qin Yunuan subconsciously, and saw a vicious and murderous look in her indifferent glance. She immediately understood that no wonder how vicious she was, she was nothing compared to the daughter of a concubine of the mansion of Grand Commandant.

The commotion here alarmed Liu Bao who was waiting outside. He hurried over and saw the scene dumbfounded. He quickly stepped forward and dressed his master who was still unable to move. On the other hand, Qin Yunzhuang was not that lucky. Everyone was looking at the half-naked Qin Yunzhuang as if she were a juggling monkey.

The unrelated people had been driven away. The only people staying were Shangguan Yee who first discovered the scene and Qin Yunuan who was a relative to Qin Yunzhuang.

Later, Empress Chen was also notified and came. Although she came a bit late, as soon as she saw Sima Ray’s disheveled clothes and the tightly shut door of the painting hall, she knew what had happened. She slapped on Sima Ray’s face and scolded, “You are useless thing.”

Meanwhile in the painting hall, Qin Yunuan was picking up Qin Yunzhuang’s scattered clothes one by one. Many of them had been torn, leaving strips as long as an arm.

“What had happened here between sister and the Third Prince was quite fierce.” Qin Yunuan folded the clothes neatly and put them in front of Qin Yunzhuang. But Qin Yunuan had no intention to put them on for her.

Qin Yunzhuang didn’t like Qin Yunuan’s look at her at the moment, as if she were looking at a prey caught up in a trap, or she were mocking an unscrupulous adulteress.

Qin Yunzhuang’s face was beautiful and pleasant. When she was angry, it glowed with a pretty crimson.

“You did it.” If Qin Yunzhuang still had the strength, she would have definitely reached out and grabbed Qin Yunuan’s neck, and buried her with the innocence of herself. “No, no,” Qin Yunzhuang was back to her mind, “It’s not you. You don’t have the ability to bribe all the maidens and eunuchs outside the painting hall.”

“Yes, I did it,” Qin Yunuan admitted boldly, “Aren’t I helping you, elder sister? You have always had a thing for the Third Prince. I’m just helping you here to show my gratitude for you taking care of me all these years. As for the maidens and eunuchs, you still don’t know about it right? They were all settled by your used-to bestie, Shangguan Yee. It’s just that her ideas are too childish. Having you two caught for adultery is a way more direct than just having you two privately seeing each other. All I need to do is to prepare the fragrance in the painting hall in advance. I’d love to do this kind of small effort.”

“Qin Yunuan, you are vicious woman.” Under the traction of hatred, Qin Yunzhuang managed to raise her bruised hand with all her strength. Before she could even wave it, Qin Yunuan softly caught it in her palm.

“Yes, I am vicious,” Qin Yunuan’s eyes suddenly became bloodshot and scary, “but compared to Dou, who added chronic arsenic to my mother’s soup six years ago, I am not vicious enough.”

Qin Yunzhuang suddenly opened her eyes wide, “What… what are you talking about?”

“Qin Yunzhuang, don’t act innocent anymore. Don’t deny it, as you personally bring the soup several times. When my mother saw that it was you, she would drink it all to please you, even though she felt unwell. Qin Yunzhuang, you have always been good at acting, to be innocent, kind, and fair. Now that they are all torn off, are you still trying to act it?”

It was actually a coincidence that she learnt about the cause of death of her mother, Lady Yang. But because of this coincidence, Qin Yunuan finally knew why her mother was healthy after giving birth to Baochuan, but suddenly died within the next month.

“You… how did you know?” Qin Yunzhuang was a little panicked. These secrets happened long ago, and not many people know. Apart from Xiu Gu who was serving her and her mother, there was this Li Qiqi who asked to cooperate with herself and her mother using this secret. Li Qiqi?

“Li Qiqi? It’s her? Isn’t she already dead?”

“Huh, people die, but they could talk before they do,” Qin Yunuan looked at Qin Yunzhuang coldly, “if it had not been for you, Baochuan and I would not have been motherless. If it hadn’t been for you, father would not have neglected Baochuan for so many years. If it hadn’t been for you, Baochuan and I wouldn’t have to suffer so many miserable days.”

“You can’t blame me,” Qin Yunzhuang burst into tears, and her eyes were red, “It was all my mother. It had nothing to do with me. Actually, when the doctor diagnosed Concubine Yang’s veins, he said it was a daughter, so mother didn’t pay much attention. Who knew that it would be a boy. Actually, my mother….”

“Shut up!” Qin Yunuan stood up and looked at Qin Yunzhuang with a predominant attitude. She suddenly stepped forward, stretched out her hand and slapped Qin Yunzhuang with her full strength, “This, is for my mother.” Then she did it again to Qin Yunzhuang’s swollen face, “This, is for Baochuan.” For the last one, Qin Yunuan seemed to drain every last bit of her strength, “This, is for myself.”

After three slaps, Qin Yunzhuang’s face was already swollen. The clear five-finger print on her face was like a seal, smashing all the pride and highness she had.

At that time, there was the urge of a nanny outside the door.

“Third Miss Qin, has Grand Miss Qin got dressed yet? The Empress has some questions for her.”

Qin Yunuan looked at Qin Yunzhuang, who was a bit muddled after getting slapped. There was a bitter smile at the corner of Qin Yunzhuang’s mouth. There seemed to be a hint of provocation in her smile, as if she were saying, “You let your anger out beating me like this, but how would you explain it to the Empress?”

Qin Yunuan just took a few steps back, and suddenly took off the gold hairpin on her cross hair bun, and kneaded her hair till it was messy as a bunch of weeds. She hit herself against the door and shouted, “Elder sister, I won’t touch you if you don’t want me to. But it hurts that you push me.”

Just when Qin Yunzhuang was opening her eyes wide in shock, the door squeaked and was pushed open by the fat nanny who shouted outside. The fat nanny saw Qin Yunuan, who was falling in front of the door at first glance. The messy bun fitted to her face, and she acted well to be much aggrieved.

“Oh, Third Miss Qin, what’s going on?” The fat nanny had quite a good impression on Qin Yunuan, and she helped Qin Yunuan up kindly. It seemed that the little girl was shoved hard enough that there were prints on her body.

She took another look at Qin Yunzhuang, who was not even properly dressed. The fat nanny seemed to be disgusted. Nevertheless, when she saw the fingerprints on Qin Yunzhuang’s face, she couldn’t help asking, “What happened to Grand Miss Qin’s face?”

Qin Yunuan sighed and replied, “Elder sister was so ashamed that she slapped herself in the face fiercely. Yunuan tried to stop her, but I couldn’t. Instead, elder sister shoved me against the door.”

Huh, now that she did it, she knew it was shameful.

The fat nanny thought, but she still urged gently, “Alright, Grand Miss Qin. Now, the Empress is waiting. If you have anything to say, why don’t you say it to the Empress?” After that, she turned to order the two maidens waiting outside the door, “You two, come in and get Grand Miss Qin dressed.”

With the commanding tone, Qin Yunzhuang could no longer resist or struggle.

She knew clearly that it was no different from committing suicide to see the Empress under such situation.

The fat nanny turned and left after she finished her words. Qin Yunuan glanced at the set of goose-yellow gowns held by the maidens. Her glance only fell on Qin Yunzhuang for a short moment. The aggrieved look was long gone, what was instead were all sarcasm and ruthlessness.

“Elder sister, get changed.”

Qin Yunuan was relieved only after she came out of the Chuihua Gate outside the painting hall. The day when Li Qiqi told her about her mother’s death seemed to be echoing in her eardrum.

That day, Li Qiqi was in the prison. When Qin Yunuan was about to leave, Li Qiqi shouted that the Su Chenghai now was not the real Su Chenghai.

“Concubine Li, don’t play any tricks anymore. It’s too late for you to beg me and draw me over. After all, it’s not me who want to kill you. I guess she’s going to do it in the midnight tonight. Just take care of yourself.”

“There’s one more thing,” Li Qiqi was leaning against the cell gate and screaming, “There’s one more thing that Third Miss must be interested in. It’s about Concubine Yang.”

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