Chapter 1366 - 196, guarding_4
Wu Zhengqing gave him a cold look and flung off his plump arm, throwing out a sentence, "You think I want to follow you? If it wasn’t for the fact that your affair is being sung about all over the streets, I wouldn’t bother!"
Wu Jiangtao had been staying in the brothel; how could he have heard any of this? It wasn’t that the women there hadn’t heard of it, but everybody guessed that the nursery rhyme being sung was about the Wu family of Jiangnan, so none of them had mentioned it in front of him.
"That woman, she’s dead! Allegedly, she drowned herself in the lake, and her fiancé has already taken the case to the Yamen, claiming she was taken and murdered after her virtue was stolen."
Listening to Wu Zhengqing’s words, Wu Jiangtao blinked blankly and quickly clarified, "No, no, I didn’t kill her! She must have jumped into the lake and committed suicide on her own! Her fiancé? Right, the one who ruined her must definitely be her fiancé!"
Having understood the situation, Wu Zhengqing felt somewhat relieved. Initially, when he heard the nursery rhyme being spread outside, he didn’t take it seriously, but later on, when a messenger from the Second Prince arrived saying their family might be facing a big trouble, he then believed it.
But now Wu Zhengqing was no longer afraid; as long as the woman was alive when Wu Jiangtao left, and it wasn’t Wu Jiangtao who killed her, it would be figured out. As to whether or not she committed suicide out of shame, that had nothing to do with their Wu Family. Why didn’t she agree to become a concubine? Had she become one, wouldn’t all these troubles be avoided?
While no longer worried, Wu Zhengqing still planned to personally visit the Second Prince to explain the matter clearly; otherwise their family’s reputation could be destroyed later over this incident.
Just as he stood up to head to the residence of the Second Prince, Lady Du stormed in like a madwoman with Wu Hanyu, who was crying pitifully like a pear blossom bathed in the rain.