Shocking Mountain Moon

Chapter 56 Prime Minister's Residence
As the saying goes, good news doesn’t travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles. The rumors outside not only reached the old lady’s ears, but also quickly spread throughout the Bo’s Mansion.

The Qiuxuan sisters made an appointment to go to Lengxiangju.

"Girl, four girls are here."

"Please come in." Qiu Heng put down the incense in his hand and walked out.

She was covered in fragrance, which filled the noses of Qiuxuan and the other three.

Qiu Xuan looked at Qiu Heng's expression and was relieved to see that she looked calm. "Is Sixth Sister making incense?"

Qiu Heng invited the four people to sit down: "I am making incense. I have three kinds of incense that need to be made quickly. I promised someone."

"Didn't she agree to be the concubine of Lord Yuan?" Qiu Fu asked with a stern face.

"Fourth sister——" Qiu Ying tugged at Qiu Fu's sleeve and carefully looked at Qiu Heng's reaction.

Qiu Fu shook off Qiu Ying's hand and said, "Sixth sister, are you stupid? Are you going to make incense for a concubine of a corrupt official? Do you know what the people outside call Mr. Yuan? They call him Yuan the Thief!"

"I didn't think so much." Facing Qiu Fu's questioning, Qiu Heng lowered her eyes slightly, "I heard from my grandfather that Lord Yuan's family wanted the incense I made, so I went."

"Grandfather..." When Qiu Fu mentioned Earl Yongqing, her anger towards Qiu Heng was suppressed all at once.

Qiu Heng looked at the girl with raised eyebrows and asked softly, "Can you sisters disobey grandfather's words?"

Not only will she not cover up for Earl Yongqing, she will also take this opportunity to alert the four people.

Their grandfather is not a mountain to protect them, but a rock that will crush them to pieces and make them die young.

Qiu Fu was stumped by Qiu Heng's words.

The first person she thought of was her elder sister.

The eldest sister was my grandfather’s eldest granddaughter. She made a fuss and cried as soon as my grandfather gave the order, but in the end she still had to enter the palace.

Now that it’s the sixth sister’s turn, what can we do?

What about her in the future?
A chill ran down my spine, and my anger turned into fear.

Qiu Fu was not the only one who had this thought. Qiu Xuan's face turned pale as she thought of the marriage that she had narrowly escaped.

Her eyes swept across the faces of her sisters. They were all equally young, equally beautiful, and had the same grandfather.

There is no difference between them, and misfortune can strike them at any time and randomly.

But there is nowhere to hide.

Qiu Xuan felt desperate as she could no longer say the words she originally wanted to say to comfort Qiu Heng.

"Sisters, would you like to eat red bean cake?" Qiu Heng spoke, breaking the suffocating silence.

Qiu Fu refused without hesitation: "No!"

Eat, eat, eat. How can I have the mood to eat when things are like this?

Qiu Heng seemed not to hear and stuffed the red bean cake into everyone's hands.

"Fangzhou has just made it, and it tastes the best. Sisters, try it. I added more sugar this time."

Qiu Xuan stared at the red bean cake and took the first bite.

It is indeed sweeter than what I have tasted before. The sweet, fragrant and soft taste dispels a lot of the panic that was growing like wildfire in my heart.

How nice it would be if time could stop here, and the sisters could eat sweet red bean cakes together and not head towards a bad future.

After leaving Lengxiangju, the four sisters hardly spoke a word and returned to their residences with their own thoughts.

The eldest wife specially called Qiu Fu over and warned her: "Don't go to Sixth Miss's place anymore in the future. She grew up in the countryside and is used to being free. She has no rules and she may cause a lot of jokes in the future."

Qiu Fu was panicking, and when she heard this, it was like sparks entering boiling oil. She immediately exploded: "Do you think Sixth Sister will lead me astray?"

The eldest wife frowned: "Why are you so bad-tempered, kid? Is what mother said wrong?"

"Shouldn't Sixth Sister listen to Grandfather? Without Grandfather, how could Sixth Sister be connected with the Yuan family?"

"Asshole, you even dare to make up stories about your grandfather. Do you still act like a noble lady?"

"What's the use of being a lady? I don't want her!" Qiu Fu ran away crying. The first wife and her daughter parted unhappily. On the second wife's side, Qiu Xuan leaned against her mother, her fingertips cold.

"Mom, I'm scared."

The second wife patted her daughter on the back and said, "Mother is arranging your marriage. When the time is right, tell your grandmother."

Qiu Xuan froze and looked at her mother nervously.

She wanted to ask, but was afraid to hear the answer.

The second wife refrained from speaking: "Mother can only promise you that if it works, you will be satisfied."

If nothing works out after I say it, and it makes my daughter upset for nothing, it’s better not to say anything.

Right now, everyone outside was speaking unkind words to the Sixth Miss, and Xuan'er and the others were also affected. It seemed that the moment she had been waiting for had arrived.

Lengxiang was in the middle, Qiuheng continued to arrange the incense materials, and Master Qiu San arrived.

"Heng'er, are you busy?"

"Well, what's up, father?"

Master Qiu San looked at Qiu Heng's reaction and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: It seems that Heng'er doesn't know the unpleasant words outside.

That’s good, that’s good, so you don’t feel unhappy when you hear it.

"It's okay. I just... I just dreamed about your mother." Master Qiu San suddenly had an idea.

"My mother?"

"Yes." Although it was made up, the sadness that Master Qiu San felt when he mentioned his wife was real. "Your mother said that you are the one she is most worried about... Daddy promised your mother that he would take good care of you. It doesn't matter if you never get married. Daddy can support you."

The Bo family is not poor. Although he does not have much income now, the property he will get when the family is divided in the future will not be small, enough to support a pair of children.

Let Heng'er know that if the worst happens, he is still there.

"I remember what my father said."

Qiu Heng brought out a square bamboo-patterned incense pendant: "This one is suitable for you."

Master Qiu San was overjoyed when he received the gift from his daughter and immediately replaced the sachet around his waist.

The next few days were relatively peaceful, but not long after, Qiu Heng received a message from the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Fang Rui, the granddaughter of Prime Minister Fang, invited the Qiu sisters to a small gathering at Prime Minister's residence.

In the past, the girl from the Qiu family would have been excited and happy to receive a letter from the Prime Minister's Mansion, but now she hesitated when seeing this letter.

"It's so hot, why don't we go?" Qiu Xuan looked at Qiu Heng as she said this.

At the birthday party for Princess Jiayi, Fang Rui was clearly unfriendly to Sixth Sister. Sending the invitation at this time might make the party a mess.

"It's really hot, second sister, you guys just stay at home. I've been feeling very depressed these days, so it's a good time to go out and get some fresh air." Qiu Heng's gaze fell on the elegant post for a long time.

She knew that there was no good banquet, but how could she miss the chance to step into the prime minister's mansion.

The interesting thing is that this opportunity was gained by her current notoriety, so it turned out that nothing she did was in vain.

"Go, why not go? It would seem like you're guilty if you don't go." Qiu Fu became stubborn.

In the end, all five girls of the Qiu family showed up at the flower banquet at the prime minister's residence.

"That's Miss Qiu Liu, right?"

"is her."

“I really can’t tell…”

Amid the low discussion, a voice rang out: "Some people are so shameless that they have the nerve to show up here."

When Qiu Heng heard the voice, she looked over and saw Cheng Susu standing next to Fang Rui, with undisguised contempt on her face.

Before Qiu Heng could speak, Qiu Fu stepped forward and asked in confusion: "Miss Fang, could the invitation we received be fake?"

(End of this chapter)