Chapter 402 Unholy Alliance
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Hearing this conversation from inside the carriage, Mingzhu furrowed her brow slightly.
Yuwen You couldn’t bear to see Jiang Shanshan living in such misery, so he suggested she sell pots to distract herself… It sounded strange, as if Jiang Shanshan was someone to him. Ah, no, wasn’t this equivalent to announcing to everyone in the capital that Jiang Shanshan was his person?
Jiang Shanshan was someone who didn’t even look upon Yuwen Long favourably; would she accept? Mingzhu opened the carriage curtain slightly and looked outside.
Jiang Shanshan’s expression was like she had swallowed a fly, unable to swallow or spit it out. However, she wasn’t someone who backed down from adversity. She took a deep breath, lowered her eyes, and said, “It was indeed a misunderstanding.”
Zheng Momo frowned, “Who shamelessly claimed it was her own idea just now?”
“I misspoke; I didn’t mean that. This pot wasn’t my idea. I just thought it was good and wanted everyone in the capital to have good things, so I opened this shop. I didn’t think much about it.” Jiang Shanshan became more and more fluent as she spoke, and it really seemed like that was the case.
“Clap, clap.” Fu Mingzheng looked at the two of them, clapping lightly. “Very good, even spit out the saliva and could pick it back up to eat. Indeed, shamelessness knows no bounds. I’m inferior to you. Wolf County Prince, Lamentable Miss, you win!”
He gave these two nicknames to them, though he didn’t explain it explicitly, others understood. Several literate people in the crowd chuckled, and Jiang Shanshan’s handkerchief sisters looked at each other, their feelings very complicated.
It’s time! Mingzhu cleared her throat lightly and gave Su Lan a signal.
Su Lan got off the carriage and whispered a few words to several casually dressed guards from the mansion. The guards quickly disappeared into the crowd. Then someone in the crowd shouted loudly, “Cheater! Cheater! The Second Miss of Changxing Marquis’s Mansion is a cheater! She dares to sell a pot worth only a few coins for twenty taels of silver! How greedy can she be!”
“What talent and virtue? Deceiving the world for fame and fortune is the real deal!”
“Compensate! Compensate! Return the pot! Return the pot!”
“You don’t know, she made a lot of black-hearted money by selling those foreign things before, causing the deaths of many craftsmen! In the end, she even made her own brother take the blame for her! This woman’s heart is as black as it gets!”
Someone threw a rotten egg at Jiang Shanshan, starting it all. Rotten vegetables, small stones, and more followed. Jiang Shanshan, at this moment, displayed extraordinary agility and speed. She turned around calmly and ran backward, without even a scream or cry. She ran so fast that before Yuwen You could protect her, she had already run into the shop and ordered it to be closed.
Yuwen You stared blankly at the tightly closed shop door in a moment, then looked at himself, covered in rotten eggs and rotten vegetables. He took a deep breath, shouted angrily, “Who did this? How dare you ambush me? Arrest them and send them to the Five City Guards Office for treason!”
The crowd dispersed instantly. Only the people from Ying Wang’s Mansion and those brought by Yuwen You remained, as well as a few Jiang family servants and Jiang Shanshan’s handkerchief sisters who hadn’t managed to run inside.
“Fourth Brother, let’s go.” Mingzhu’s goal was to cut off Jiang Shanshan’s source of income and make her lose her last bit of reputation and foothold in the capital. Now that the goal had been achieved, there was no need to linger.
Fu Mingzheng glanced meaningfully at Yuwen You, chuckled, and turned away.
Yuwen You felt like his little scheme had been seen through by Fu Mingzheng, feeling a bit uncomfortable. He looked expectantly at Mingzhu’s carriage, hoping she would come down and mercilessly ridicule or scold him a few times, but from beginning to end, the carriage curtains remained tightly closed, and Mingzhu refused to even glance at him.
He was very disappointed, then very resentful. When he got his hands on the blueprints for the bed crossbow from Jiang Shanshan, hmph, whether it was Yuwen Chu, the Fu family, or the Min family, none of them would have good days!
The people from Ying Wang’s Mansion left in an instant, leaving only a few of Jiang Shanshan’s handkerchief sisters muttering quietly to each other, “What’s going on? Why did he say that?”
“Did Second Second Miss Jiang really do such a thing?”
“Is it Fu Mingzhu causing trouble, forcing Second Second Miss Jiang to back down?”
“What’s the real story? Let’s inquire about it when we go back. Didn’t the people from Ying Wang’s Mansion say that they gave away these pots as gifts during the Winter Solstice? They also have them in the northwest. Let’s ask around.”
After discussing for a while, the several noble ladies didn’t come to any conclusion. One of the youngest and most admiring noble ladies of Jiang Shanshan was unhappy, “Regardless, today was embarrassing to death. I’m leaving.” After saying that, she indeed left.
The remaining noble ladies hesitated for a moment, and one of them said, “I suddenly remembered that I have something to attend to at home, so I must leave.” And then she left too.
The two noble ladies who had been sent out to negotiate with Mingzhu laughed awkwardly and decided to ask Yuwen You, “Your Highness, what exactly happened today? We didn’t quite understand.”
Yuwen You smiled slightly, “It’s exactly what you saw. Everyone makes mistakes, and Shanshan is no exception. You also know that she made a mistake some time ago, causing a lot of money to be lost at home, and her third brother ended up in prison because of it, ruining his future. So, she was a bit anxious, and when one is anxious, it’s easy to make mistakes.”
The two noble ladies, hearing him mention Shanshan left and right with such familiarity and ambiguity in his tone, and directly concluding that it was Jiang Shanshan who had made the mistake, were too shocked to speak properly, stuttering, “This, this is…”
Yuwen You whispered, “Shanshan and the Wusun Princess are good sisters. In the future, I will treat the two of them equally.”
The two noble ladies couldn’t believe it, but they couldn’t not believe it either. After being in a daze for a while, they turned around and quickly left together.
Yuwen You suppressed his smile, walked over, and patted the door of the shop, “Second Miss Jiang, you can come out and discuss our debt problem now.”
Jiang Shanshan had just tidied herself up, ignoring Jiang Daiqi who was standing aside and constantly slapping his own ears. Upon hearing Yuwen You’s voice, a hint of fierceness flashed in her eyes. She gritted her teeth and said, “Open the door.”
Yuwen You walked in, smiled brightly at her, “You probably won’t be able to repay the money you owe me. What should we do? Ah, there’s something else I forgot to tell you. Your good friends have all left. They said they didn’t expect you to be this kind of person and felt embarrassed to associate with you.”
Jiang Shanshan looked at Yuwen You with a sinister gaze. She knew what Yuwen You wanted to do. He probably had his eye on the half blueprint of the bed crossbow that she left as collateral! So he didn’t hesitate to force her into a corner like this!
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