Chapter 3 Daughter from outside the family

Qingzhou Guard, the residence of the Qin commander.

Someone squinted at the gate of Qin's Mansion and rushed inside.

The person who came was a man, in his mid-twenties, wearing a vermilion flowered brocade robe, with a gold hairpin on his head, but he could no longer hold back his angry hair.

"Uncle, uncle! What's wrong with you? But what happened?!"

"What happened?" The uncle made a strange sound and did not answer. He kept asking questions.

"Is your commander at home?!"

Luo Chong is the brother-in-law of the commander Qin Guanzhong and the only brother of Mrs. Qin Luo.

He is not a good-natured master, but this is the first time he has rushed into the house in such a rage.

The concierge said, "The master is not at home," and quickly sent someone to the main courtyard to tell his wife that his uncle had come in a rage.

The boy quickly headed towards the inner courtyard.

When the news was passed and they entered the inner courtyard, Mrs. Qin, Luo Shi, was sitting on the imperial chair with her arms propped up and her eyes half closed, talking to several commanding colleagues in the guard station and the wives who were in charge of the affairs.

Several ladies had heard that she was in poor health recently, so they chose an auspicious day to visit her.

Luo's body was already weak. When she gave birth to her legitimate son, it was difficult to give birth, and she barely escaped from the hands of the Lord of Hell. After that, she suffered from serious and minor illnesses and lived in seclusion.

She rarely went out of the house to attend social events with the officials' female relatives, but she was the wife of a serious third-rank official, and Commander Qin loved his wife as much as he loved her. It was well known to the world that even if she didn't go out, people would come to visit her.

When the news came, the movement outside the Chuihua Gate also came.

With Luo Chong's temperament like this, Luo Shi had no choice but to ask people to stop Luo Chong from messing around, and at the same time arranged for several colleagues to let Mr. Qian's wife drink tea in a side room to avoid him.

The ladies of the officials were all sensible people. Seeing that something was going on at Luo's side, they all took the initiative to avoid the side room without her having to say anything.

As soon as they passed by, Luo Chong entered the courtyard.

Luo Shi supported the maid and came to greet him, "Why are you so anxious?"

Luo Chong raised his eyes and saw his sister's sick face, and became even more angry. When he entered the hall, he couldn't help but said.

"My sister gave birth to a child for the man named Qin, and took charge of the middle school, which dragged down her family's health. She usually can't even go out of the house. The man named Qin is actually very good. He is very good outside!"

The more he talked, the angrier he became, and he slapped the Eight Immortals table with his hand, causing the cups and saucers to clink on the table.

Luo Shi was startled, "What are you talking about? What happened to your brother-in-law?"

Luo Chong snorted heavily and his face twisted a bit.

"Sister, do you know that he has a family outside, in Zhucheng County!"

Before he finished speaking, Luo Shi's eyes widened, his feet swayed, he could no longer stand still, and he leaned on a flower stand nearby.

"how come.?!"

When Qin Guanzhong arrived home, he found that the door of the mansion was wide open and the outer courtyard was in chaos.

His eyelids twitched when he saw the porter running over and asked sharply.

"What happened?"

"The master is back?! My uncle lost his temper for some reason. He broke into the house and ran to the main courtyard. He is looking for his wife to tell her!"

Qin Guanzhong didn't expect Luo Chong to come, but he was relieved. He had been an official for many years and had offended countless people. As long as his enemies were not seeking revenge, Japanese pirates came ashore, and the government arrested people, it was not a big deal.

Regardless, Qin Guanzhong hurried to the main courtyard.

Unexpectedly, Luo Chong heard the news as soon as he arrived in the courtyard, and sneered three times when he saw him.

"Commander Qin, you came at just the right time! Just make it clear to my sister yourself!"

"say what?"

Qin Guanzhong didn't understand what happened, but when he saw his wife's face turning pale and looking like she was about to faint, his heart skipped a beat.

He stretched out his hand to help, but Luo Shi waved his hand away coldly.

Qin Guanzhong was stunned.

All the servants had retreated, and there were only three people left behind the closed door.

Luo Chong sneered, "What are you talking about? You said you had a family in Zhucheng, but you lied to my sister for more than ten years! Everyone in the world thinks that you, Commander Qin, are a rare good man in the world, but I didn't expect you to be like this.

What a duplicitous behavior!"

After Luo Chong finished speaking, Luo Shi started to tremble all over and looked at her husband.

Qin Guanzhong was really in a trance. He looked at Luo Chong in disbelief. The next moment, his expression turned cold and stern.

"How did you know? Who told you?!"

He has always been good-tempered and kind to his young wife and brother, so Luo Chong had the courage to break into Qin's house angrily like this. At this time, Qin Guanzhong's sudden serious and cold face made Luo Chong's heart tremble.

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But in the end, his anger outweighed his fear, he said straight away.

"If no one wants to know, you have to do nothing. I have sent people to inquire about it. Your foreign wife has lived in Zhucheng for more than ten years. Now that the foreign wife is dead, there is still a daughter left. How dare you say that the girl is not your daughter?!

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Qin Guanzhong was surprised, but he was not embarrassed by the scandal. Instead, his stern expression was full of doubts.

Just as he was about to say something, his wife beside him suddenly softened and fell on the Taishi chair.

"Jing Niang!"

"elder sister!"

Uncle Lang and Uncle were speechless for a moment, and both stepped forward to Luo Shi's chair.

Luo Shi hadn't completely fainted yet. She just looked at her husband of twenty years together in disbelief. She opened and closed her lips for a long time. She wanted to say something, but she didn't say it.

"Jing Niang, you, don't think too much." Qin Guanzhong's voice was trembling, and he was at a loss for the moment.

But Luo Shi just sneered.

"I thought that you and I were different from other people. This kind of thing would never happen to me. It turns out that after all, it's no different."

When Qin Guanzhong heard this, he immediately wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Luo Shi.

"If your wife is here, she should be brought into the house. If she is not there, your family should be brought back. After all, they are your blood relatives, aren't they?"

She smiled sadly, "I only have one son, Shen'er, and I couldn't give you a daughter. Since you already have a son and a daughter, there is no need to hide it."

After she finished speaking, she looked through the window to the side room where the ladies who came to visit her were staying.

She closed her eyes tiredly.

"I am not someone who cannot tolerate others. Please bring your daughter into the house and don't let others make excuses."

After Luo Shi finished speaking, he didn't want to look at her husband again, supported his shaky body, and returned to the inner room.

Qin Guanzhong closed his eyes tightly after hearing this, and after taking a breath, he suddenly opened them and stared at Luo Chong, his expression extremely serious.

"Tell me, who gave you the news?!"

*

Zhucheng County.

Qin Tian was really obedient and didn't go out again after his father left.

From time to time she thought about what she had experienced on the mountain that day, and she was still a little scared. In addition to her father's instructions, she stopped going to the teahouse on the street and read her old story books at home.

But there were only so many storybooks in total, and she had opened them all countless times.

Qin Tian was really bored, sitting on a short bamboo stool in the yard, feeding the rabbits with wilted shepherd's purse.

It was a long-eared gray rabbit that Qin Tian picked up last year when he went to the mountains to pick wild vegetables.

The original intention was to pick it up and take it home to eat, but the rabbit was too thin at that time, so Qin Tian raised it for a year.

The rabbit had turned into a fat rabbit with big ears. Qin Tian didn't find the opportunity to talk about it, so he simply gave it a name, which was a bit difficult to pronounce, and called it Hui Fei.

No one in Hui Fei thought so much about it, so he just picked up a piece of lettuce and started eating it.

When the old steward Qin Zhou came over, he found that his girl was in a daze watching Hui Fei eating vegetables.

Qin Zhou called her softly, "The ladies from the next door neighbors are gathering outside the door again to talk. It would be a relief for the girl to listen under our courtyard wall, right?"

Qin Tian laughed when he heard this and handed Hui Fei a root vegetable to hold on to.

She couldn't say anything. "After listening to it, the ladies have no new tricks," she said, and looked at the old steward with a smile. "Besides, I don't want to hear it coming from the corner of my head."

The old steward laughed awkwardly.

The speculation about their family's dealings with different neighbors is mostly unfounded.

"Girl, do you want to write a letter to Miss Li Er? It's been three months since they returned to their hometown."

He said Miss Li was the second daughter of the Li family, a tea merchant, who lived in this alley.

The girl had a gentle and polite temperament, and was not always gossiping like the neighbors. Qin Tian sometimes went to the obedient book with her.
To be continued...