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Chapter 179 Come to the door

The Prince of Shoushan's Mansion.

The person in charge was splashed with tea.

"They're all a bunch of useless bastards! They can't even find a divorced woman!" The scolding voice carried outside through the doors and windows, still undiminished in its force.

"Please calm down, Your Highness. It's not that we've failed in our duties, but that woman surnamed Wen is not here. She only left a young maid to guard the gate." The steward explained, bowing. "I'll go again tomorrow. I'm sure I'll run into her."

"If you can't bring anyone by tomorrow, you won't have to do this job anymore," County Princess Liu Huanchun sneered.

"Princess, please calm down. You can't hurt yourself over someone like that," the maidservant gently advised. "It's not worth it."

"Not worth it? Then tell me, what have I been doing all these years?!" Liu Huanchun suddenly flew into a rage, gritting his teeth as he said, "Who in the entire capital doesn't know? We've been waiting for Prince Changliu until we were in our twenties, and he finally returned to the capital, only to get entangled with that abandoned woman! How can I tolerate this?!"

"That might not be the case. After all, the Prince of Changliu has no family background. The Princess probably felt that the jade pendant was useless to him, so she gave it to that man surnamed Wen." The maid tried her best to persuade her. "What kind of person is the Prince? He looks down on so many young maidens and noble ladies. Why would he want a withered flower like her?"

“I often visit the Princess. She knows my feelings for the Prince, so why doesn’t she give me that jade pendant?” Liu Huanchun wouldn’t listen to any advice. “Have you heard what people on the street are saying? They’re saying that the Princess intends to match her with the Prince, and that she’s been in the border region for seven years. Maybe she already had an affair with the Prince back then.”

Now that the Prince has returned, he must have begged the Eldest Princess to put on this act, to cover up the fact that the two of them had a long-standing affair. Otherwise, why would she abandon her comfortable position as the mistress of the Gong family and choose to divorce?!

As the saying goes, "suspicion breeds ghosts," just like the story of "seeing a snake in a cup," once suspicion arises, one's thoughts become unpredictable.

Liu Huanchun was indeed deeply in love, but unfortunately, it was all one-sided.

The falling flowers were willing, but the flowing water was indifferent. She waited in vain for the King of Changliu for so many years, always thinking that sincerity could move even the hardest heart, but she did not expect that he was a stubborn rock, unwilling to be moved by her in the slightest.

Until that day when she saw Wen Mingqian wearing the jade pendant that matched Ying Wuchou's at the Jiangxia Marquis's residence, all her love turned into resentment. She wished she could tear Wen Mingqian to pieces to vent her anger.

But she was still rational and knew she couldn't lose her temper in that situation.

So when she returned, she asked the steward to summon Wen Mingqian to the mansion so she could ask him in person.

The person in charge went to Wuqiu Nunnery, but Wen Mingqian was not there, which made her even angrier.

"It's not hard for the county magistrate to see her. As the saying goes, 'You can't hide from someone, but you can't hide from them.' She's currently living in a nunnery. We can just go there under the pretense of offering incense."

"It would be better if she were here, but even if she weren't, she could still give those nuns a warning on the way, telling them not to take her in there. Wouldn't that be a way of making an example of her?" At this moment, Liu Huanchun's wet nurse arrived. She was older and more thoughtful.

“Nanny, you’re right.” Liu Huanchun always listened to his nanny. “Why bother asking her to come? I’ll go find her myself!”

Sure enough, Liu Huanchun got up early the next day and went to Wuqiu Nunnery.

Wen Mingqian gets up very early every day, and today was no exception.

After breakfast, Sang Er was in the room preparing incense. She said, "It's the first month of the lunar year, so I'll go to the garden and pick a branch of plum blossoms to put in a vase. Otherwise, they'll all have faded in a few days, and we'll have to wait another year to see them again."

She put on her coat and went out, intending to pick plum blossoms in the southeast corner. Unexpectedly, she heard voices as soon as she reached the front, but Sang Er didn't pay much attention; there were always worshippers coming to offer incense here occasionally.

She deliberately avoided it and took a side path.

Unexpectedly, that group of people followed them.

"Hey, are you deaf or blind?! You didn't even greet our county princess when you saw her, you have no manners at all." Liu Huanchun's maid called out to Sang Er from behind.

When Sang Er turned around and saw them, she felt that they looked somewhat familiar, but not quite.

So he smiled and said, "I must be blind. I didn't see any of you. Please forgive me."

"Come here, our county princess has something to ask you," the maid ordered rudely.

Not wanting to cause trouble, Sang Er walked over.

Liu Huanchun looked her up and down and sneered, "What a pretty girl, she looks like Daji reincarnated. You two, mistress and servant, are just putting on a show. Do you think I can't see through you?"

Sang Er sensed something was amiss in these words and realized that these people had come with ill intentions and were clearly looking for trouble.

But she wasn't about to lose a verbal battle, so she pretended to be clueless and said, "I don't know what you mean by that. My wife and I are here in seclusion, practicing Buddhism and learning compassion."

The Buddhist saying goes: "The eyes are the sprouts of the heart; what is in the heart is what is seen." You all appear to me as kind and benevolent beings, like bodhisattvas, so why do you see me as a reincarnation of Daji, a fox spirit?

"How dare you! You actually dare to speak rudely to our county princess! Are you asking for a beating?" Liu Huanchun's maid immediately scolded.

"You certainly have a sharp tongue!" Liu Huanchun sneered. "Guards! She spoke rudely to this county princess; I'm going to teach her a lesson she won't forget. Strip her clothes off and tie her to this plum tree, let the cold wind wake her up!"

Wen Mingqian felt that Sang Er had been gone for a while and was wondering about it when Huixin came looking for him, panting, and said, "My lady, the county princess from the Prince of Shoushan's mansion has arrived. For some reason, she has detained Sang Er, saying that she doesn't know the rules and wants to teach her a lesson."

The abbot is not home today. Abbess Jing'an is trying to persuade them, but they won't listen.

"Okay, I'll go take a look." Wen Mingqian said, putting down what he was doing. "Aoshuang, you don't need to come with me, just stay inside!"

Although Wen Mingqian had never had any contact with this county princess, he still knew her general situation.

Knowing that this county princess was a devoted person, she was still unmarried in her mid-twenties because she was waiting for Ying Wuchou.

She was also at the banquet at the Jiangxia Marquis's residence that day. Wen Mingqian felt her extremely sinister gaze at that time, and he didn't expect her to come looking for him so soon.

However, judging from her methods, she is obviously naive. She just blatantly came to his door. Wen Mingqian has never been afraid of someone like her.

She was now eager to make a big scene, the more dramatic the better, and the fact that this county princess had delivered herself to her doorstep seemed like an extraordinary coincidence, just like the saying "enemies meet on a narrow road".

Even from a distance, Wen Mingqian could hear the arguing and knew that Master Jing'an was there. In addition, there was an exceptionally sharp female voice, which must be the county princess from the Shoushan Prince's Mansion.