Qin Qian’s parents also left the magistrate’s office and got into a carriage and drove around the city a few times, waiting until no one noticed them at all before returning to the back door of the magistrate’s office. The master was waiting there and led them to Qin Qian.
“Qian’er!”
As soon as they entered and saw Qin Qian’s tragic state, Qin’s mother’s eyes reddened; she had hurt her body when she gave birth to Qin Qian, and she only had this one son.
“Mother, don’t be sad, I’m fine.”
He was all superficially injured, and the two imperial doctors had given him good medicine for the past few days, so he was already much better.
“What the hell is going on here? How did you ……”
Qin’s father wanted to ask him why he had defected to the Third Prince, but thinking of the guards outside, the latter words did not come out.
Qin Qian understood what he wanted to ask, “I blame my son for this, it was my son who couldn’t withstand the torture, that’s why ……”
“As long as you save your life, there is nothing wrong with defecting to the Third Prince, just does your aunt know about this?”
“Yes.”
“Why didn’t you send us a message if you knew?”
If they had been given a message, they would not have come so presumptuously, nor would they have made a scene at the magistrate’s office.
“No. ……”
Qin’s father reacted, “The person who went to deliver the letter to us should not be a magistrate, we have been fooled.”
At that time, when they heard the man say that Qin Qian couldn’t stand the torture and died, they were so grief-stricken that they didn’t think much about it, but now that they thought about it, if that man was a magistrate, he was sent by the county magistrate, how could he possibly say bad things about the county magistrate.
Qin’s mother’s face changed slightly, “If it wasn’t a magistrate, then who could have sent it?”
“It must be Song Wangyue.”
The mention of this name made Qin Qian grit his teeth, if it wasn’t for Song Wan Yue, he wouldn’t have suffered so much.
“That girl is scheming, she must have guessed something and sent someone to pretend to be a magistrate, father and mother, when you two go out, don’t go to aunt and the others, lest that little girl find out.”
……
“Hey, have you heard, Qin Qian didn’t die, he was hidden by someone.”
A man in a green shirt said to his fellow travelers as he walked.
“Ah? Not dead?”
The man walking with him was very surprised and his voice was very loud, “It can’t be, can it? If he’s not dead, why is the news of his death coming out of the magistrate’s office, and why are his parents rushing to the magistrate to make a fuss?”
“Just for show.”
“A play?”
“Of course, making a play for the old man to think that Qin Qian is dead and not pursuing the matter of him being poisoned.”
“It can’t be, can it?”
“How can’t you? The Qin family is in business and has plenty of money, it’s not easy to buy off the people in the county court, otherwise you say why Qin Qian’s parents made such a fuss at first, but then stopped after reading what the master wrote, and they wouldn’t let the old gentleman read that.”
“That’s true.”
……
When the person next to him heard this, he also nodded along and turned his head to speak to someone he knew well. But in an hour, word spread throughout Qingping County that Qin Qian had not died, but that the Qin family had paid off the people in the county court to hide him.
As for who the people in the county court were who had been bribed, it was naturally self-evident.
When the Third Prince heard the report from the guards, he was so angry that he shattered the tealight in his hand, “Rubbish, all of them are rubbish!”
The people in the room didn’t dare to let out their breath.
“Go, bring that Qin Qian’s parents to me ……”
“And why do you need to be ordinary with them, just a few dead people.”
The Duke of Qi walked in from outside.
The Third Prince’s remaining anger was still fresh, “A bunch of useless trash!”
The Duke of Qi gestured to the men waiting to put the broken pieces of porcelain away.
“That girl from the Song family is not easy to fool, she should have guessed that Qin Qian is not dead, and had people spread such rumours, just to force Qin Qian to ‘come back to life’.
“It’s just a girl, big deal ……”
The third prince was fierce.
“Yes, we have to get rid of her, but not now, we always have to get the formula in her hands first.”
……
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. I’ll ask someone to find out where they live and send them a message to come over at midnight.”
“You send someone quickly.”
……
Qin’s father and mother stayed in the backyard of the county courthouse for an hour, quietly came out of the back door, got into a carriage and found a place to stay that was farther away from the county courthouse. When they went upstairs, they heard the discussion about Qin Qian not being dead and were so shocked that their hearts jumped, wondering what had happened in this moment.
“Man ……”
Qin father tried desperately to steady his mind and pretended to casually inquire, “I just heard those people talking lively, what are they talking about?”
The mate gave them the rumors he had heard, and the two men let out a cold sweat of shock as they listened.
Once they had entered the room, the two closed the doors and windows, Qin’s mother slapped her hand on the table, “It must be that girl called Song Wan Yue again, she won’t stop until she forces Qian’er to death.”
“Master don’t forget, she is betrothed to Gu Yi, maybe Gu Yi has already told her her identity, naturally she won’t let go of Qian’er.”
“Impossible!”
Qin’s father spoke with conviction, “Gu Yi’s identity is a matter of his life and death, he would not tell a little girl, the reason why that girl did this, she should be certain that it was Qian’er who poisoned her.”
“Then what should we do?”
“Don’t worry, brother-in-law will surely contact us, everything will be discussed when we meet.”
Bam!
The door to the house was slammed open and a man rolled in.
“What man?”
Qin’s father shouted angrily.
A man then came in and apologized one after another, “Sorry, sorry, my friend had too much to drink and I didn’t hold him steady for a while.”
As he said that, he bent forward to help the man who rolled in, and the moment he bent over he put a note on the table, Qin father saw it, his heart moved and immediately covered it with his sleeve, but his mouth said with anger, “Be careful, don’t knock over the tables and chairs in my house.”
The man responded, helped the man up and walked out.
Father Qin followed him over and bolted the house shut, taking out the note from his sleeve, which was in Lady Qi’s handwriting, telling them to leave the inn a quarter of an hour before curfew and that someone would pick them up and take them to the dart board.
The two waited inside the house and walked outside a moment before curfew, the mate saw it and reminded them, “You two, it’s almost curfew, so if there’s nothing important, it’s better not to go out.”
“We’ll come out for some fresh air and go back in a while.”
The two men looked around and saw the man who had passed them the note waiting not far from the inn with his carriage, and walked quickly over to go up to it. The man whipped his whip and drove the carriage towards the dartboard, and before they got very far out, they heard a snap and the carriage sank violently.