Chapter 73: Stealing chicken but losing rice
By the Little Mirror Lake.
Song Mingzhu stood beside Gu Yucheng, crying like a pear blossom in the rain, she said: "Zhao Yuling has already admitted that she framed Shen Suyun on her own initiative.
This matter has nothing to do with me, Prince, you must believe me."
Gu Yucheng looked gloomy and dismissed her explanation: "What does this have to do with me?"
He turned around and was about to leave, but Song Mingzhu suddenly grabbed his arm and said, "Prince, I really love you, so I don't want you to misunderstand me."
"release!"
Gu Yucheng hated being touched the most. He suddenly pulled his arm out and heard a scream.
Song Mingzhu leaned back and fell into the Mirror Lake behind her.
"Help...help!"
Song Mingzhu kept struggling in the lake and calling for help.
Gu Yucheng couldn't help but frown as he stood by the lake, but he had no intention of saving her.
Just then, there was a splash, and a white figure jumped into the lake and swam towards Song Mingzhu.
"Someone, help, the lady has fallen into the water."
A maid who was passing by discovered that Song Mingzhu had fallen into the water and immediately started shouting loudly.
The sound alarmed the people nearby, and they all came to watch.
Soon, Cheng Enbo and Zhou, who got the news, hurried over.
"Mingzhu, my daughter."
When Zhou ran over, she was so shocked by the scene in front of her that she stood there in a daze.
Her daughter was lying on the ground, soaking wet, and Shen Linchuan, also soaking wet, was pressing on her chest to rescue her.
She widened her eyes, suddenly rushed over, pushed Shen Linchuan away, picked up her daughter and shouted, "Mingzhu, Mingzhu."
Song Mingzhu spat out a few mouthfuls of water and woke up slowly. She looked at her mother and thought the plan had succeeded.
She said in a shy and timid tone: "Mother, it was Gu...Prince Gu who saved me."
"oops."
Someone in the crowd exclaimed, "Is Miss Song Second scared silly?
It was obviously this young master who saved you, so what does it have to do with the Crown Prince?"
The man asked curiously, "What's your name? Why haven't I seen you before?"
Before Shen Linchuan could answer, Song Shiwei's voice came over.
"Husband."
She walked quickly to Shen Linchuan and asked, "What happened? I heard that my sister fell into the water. Did you save her?"
Shen Linchuan replied: "I just passed by the lake and heard Sister Mingzhu shouting for help, so I rescued her."
The crowd watching was suddenly in an uproar. It turned out that the person who saved the second daughter of the Song family was actually Song Shiwei's husband.
"It was clearly my brother-in-law who saved her, so why did Miss Song say that it was Master Gu who saved her? Could it be that she is crazy about marrying Master Gu?"
No one present was stupid and they all noticed that Song Mingzhu's behavior was strange.
If it was really Prince Gu who saved her, he would have to marry her even if he didn't want to.
After all, the girl's reputation has been ruined.
When Song Mingzhu heard that it was Shen Linchuan who saved her, her face changed instantly.
She looked at the soaked Shen Linchuan with some horror, then looked at the clean Gu Yucheng, subconsciously shook her head and shouted in a state of collapse: "It's not like this, it's not like this."
The person who saved her was not Master Gu, but her brother-in-law Shen Linchuan. Song Mingzhu could not accept this result.
Zhou was extremely confused and she didn't know why things turned out like this.
She originally wanted her daughter to fall into the water and be rescued by Gu Yucheng, so that the marriage could be arranged, but Shen Linchuan ruined her plan.
She felt hatred and regret in her heart.
Uncle Cheng En already understood that his daughter's fall into the water must have been Zhou's plan.
He was furious but had to try his best to save his daughter's face and reputation.
He scolded, "Why are you crying? He is your brother-in-law and we are family. He saved you. You should be thankful."
Cheng Enbo bowed to the people around him and said, "I'm really sorry, my daughter fell into the water and was frightened, so she talked nonsense."
As he spoke, he walked to Shen Linchuan and introduced him to everyone, "This is my son-in-law Shen Linchuan.
Everyone knows that I have no children. Linchuan married my daughter Shi Wei, who is considered half my son.
He saved his own sister today, so our family won’t thank him for that.”
Shen Linchuan greeted everyone politely. This was the first time he held his head high and stood in front of everyone as the son-in-law of the Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion.
Everyone knew that Cheng Enbo wanted to use Shen Linchuan's identity as the son-in-law of the Song family to resolve the incident of Song Mingzhu falling into the water and preserve her reputation.
However, since ancient times, there have been many cases where the brother-in-law married his younger sister.
It would be difficult for the second young lady of the Song family to marry into a wealthy family.
Maybe this is what they call "stealing a chicken but losing the rice".
Song Mingzhu was sent back to her room, and the people who were watching the excitement around her also dispersed one after another. Gu Yucheng stood there with a gloomy expression.
Gu Tinglan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thanks to Sister Song's reminder, otherwise you would have been tricked."
It was Song Shiwei who asked her to pass a message to her brother, saying that he should be careful when being alone with Song Mingzhu and guard against being plotted against.
Gu Yucheng said nothing and just looked at Song Shiwei not far away.
After thinking about it, he chased after her and called out, "Miss Song."
Song Shiwei turned around and asked, "What's the matter, Prince?"
Gu Yucheng's eyebrows sank, he stared at her for a long time before asking, "Your husband saved your sister, aren't you worried at all?"
"worry about what?"
Song Shiwei shrugged and said, "Father said that we are all family.
To be honest, you should thank my husband. If he hadn't saved you, you would have married my sister."
Gu Yucheng just felt that Shen Linchuan's appearance was too coincidental.
It was obvious that Song Shiwei knew that Song Mingzhu wanted to plot against him, so she reminded him to be on guard.
What about Shen Linchuan?
Why did he act like a hero and save the beauty? Didn't he want to divorce Song Shiwei and marry Song Mingzhu?
But this woman didn't even have the slightest bit of guard.
Or maybe, she hopes Shen Linchuan and Song Mingzhu get together?
Gu Yucheng felt that he could not see through Song Shiwei. She was like a mystery, and he had never had such an interest in a woman.
He collected his thoughts and said, "Thank you."
Song Shiwei said: "No need to thank me, after all, Master Gu has helped me before."
In the pavilion not far away, Xiao Jingheng looked at Song Shiwei who was talking to Gu Yucheng.
His face turned half dark, and he angrily reached out and broke off a branch in front of him.
Qin Muyan walked over with a smile and asked, "What's wrong with this flower branch? Do you want to destroy it?"
"Out of the wall!"
Xiao Jingheng threw the branch in his hand to the ground, then turned around and sat down on the stone bench, his face gloomy as if he wanted to kill someone.
Qin Muyan clicked his tongue twice and poured a basin of cold water on him, saying, "Even if someone else's wife is cheating on you, what does it have to do with you? Your jealousy is really unreasonable!"