After Transmigration, I Snag a Stunning Bigwig as My Husband-Chapter 470 Awkward

The maids were all stunned.

They didn’t expect the purse they had been toying with for half a day contained a lock of black hair.

Xingxing guessed that the hair belonged to their young master’s real mother.

But Xique and the others didn’t think so.

The Prince was impossible to come to Qingqiu Garden.

So this purse definitely wasn’t the Prince’s.

There were only two possibilities for the purse hanging on a tree in Qingqiu Garden.

Either it was placed there to smear Lady Chi, accusing her of having an affair and giving the Prince a green hat.

Or it was hung there to curse Lady Chi.

All the maids, influenced by the old women in the mansion, unanimously thought it was the second possibility.

And they began to curse loudly.

"How could someone be so malicious? Our lady cannot even speak, and they are cursing her to die," Xique said angrily.

Caiju and Lu Qiao assisted Xique with the scolding.

Xingxing was also led astray by them.

Bewildered, she wondered if she might have remembered incorrectly?

Could this purse not belong to the Prince?

Lady Chi came out of the house and saw the maids gathered under the tree.

She stepped forward.

"Madam is here," Caiju said.

Xique quickly hid the purse behind her back.

Her action of hiding the item did not escape Lady Chi’s notice.

Lady Chi looked at her.

Xique understood Lady Chi’s intention and took out the purse, choking up as she said, "I don’t know who cursed you, Madam."

Lady Chi’s eyes fixed intensely on the purse.

Tears gradually welled up, blurring her vision.

No one was more familiar with that purse than she was.

It was the first purse she had ever made in her life.

She was ashamed to display it.

Yet he had treasured it to this day.

That year.

The pavilion ten miles away.

She bade him farewell.

She said that when they met again, she would give him the most beautiful purse in the world.

He said, even if the gift was ugly, the sentiment was profound.

As long as it was from her, it was the most beautiful in the world, worth cherishing for a lifetime.

He really had kept it.

Kept it for nineteen years.

Lady Chi felt a sourness in her nose, and tears could no longer be held back, sliding down her cheeks.

That shabby purse had made their Madam cry.

Xique puffed up her cheeks with anger.

"I’ll go burn it right away," she said, ready to run.

Lady Chi raised her hand to stop her.

Xique looked at her.

Lady Chi gestured something.

Xique’s eyes widened.

This... this purse...

Caiju gave Xique a push, "What did Madam say?"

"Madam said the purse is the Prince’s," Xique whispered.

Xingxing’s small face was full of surprise.

Xique held only a lousy purse in her hand.

The delicate one was in Lu Qiao’s hand. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Lady Chi actually recognized this shabby purse as the Prince’s?

How could she know?

Did she not rarely leave Qingqiu Garden and seldom see the Prince?

Xingxing sensed something was amiss.

Because Lady Chi knew too much.

Lady Chi gestured to ask Xique where the purse was found.

Xique raised her hand and pointed to the tree.

Lady Chi looked at the tree, her eyebrows furrowed.

How could it have been found on the tree?

The maids told her the Prince had lost a jade pendant and a purse, and the servants had searched all night.

Could it be the jade pendant she found that day was also something the Prince had dropped in Qingqiu Garden?

Xique restored the purse and then looked at Xingxing.

Xique was timid and didn’t dare to take the purse to the Prince.

When it came to courage, there was no maid in Prince Zhenbei Mansion braver than Xingxing.

"I’ll take it to the Prince," Xingxing took the purse and said.

Xingxing curtsied and took her leave, Xique saw her out.

On the way, Xingxing asked, "Did Lady Chi not take her medicine? Why can’t she speak?"

Xique, "..."

She was just about to ask Xingxing about this, but Xingxing beat her to it.

It’s the Heir’s wife who is treating Lady Chi, she should know very well.

Xique shook her head.

After chatting a few words, Xingxing left.

There were still maids looking for things in the garden, but much fewer than in the morning.

It was too hot, and after taking a chance, if the maids felt it was hopeless, they wouldn’t look further.

Xingxing held the purse as she headed toward the outer courtyard.

She had just reached outside the study when the Prince returned from court.

A servant stopped her.

"Do you have something?" the servant asked.

"I need to see the Prince," Xingxing said.

The servant looked at the approaching Prince, "Prince, the Heir’s wife’s maid is looking for you."

Xingxing, "..."

She turned and saw the Prince approaching.

Manager Li followed behind.

The Prince entered the study, Chief Steward Li said, "Come in."

Xingxing followed in.

After the Prince sat down, he asked Xingxing what she wanted from him.

Xingxing took out the purse from her arms, "Is this purse yours, Prince?"

The Prince frowned.

He looked towards Chief Steward Li.

Chief Steward Li felt his face sting.

He had led people searching all night and couldn’t find the purse, how come it was in the Heir’s wife’s maid’s hands?

"Where did you find the purse?" Chief Steward Li asked.

"The purse was hanging on a tree in Qingqiu Garden," Xingxing replied.

"It was discovered by a maid in Qingqiu Garden, but I climbed up to take it down."

Chief Steward Li, "..."

Really.

Chief Steward Li truly wanted to punch himself.

Why did he have to ask that additional question?

This maid was too honest, wasn’t she?

Didn’t she know how to speak more tactfully?!

Even though he didn’t look at the Prince, he could feel the Prince’s embarrassment.

A dignified Prince, hanging around on a tree in a concubine’s courtyard and being discovered was a blow to the Prince’s dignity.

No one spoke, the study was eerily quiet.

Xingxing looked at the Prince, then at Chief Steward Li.

She didn’t sense there was anything wrong with the words she said.

When asked, of course, she would speak the truth.

Being deceitful to the Prince also earned beatings.

Xingxing placed the purse on the desk, her face showing an expectant expression.

Chief Steward Li immediately recognized the expression as hoping for a reward.

This maid—

Why did he have the urge to reward her with a beating?

Chief Steward Li led Xingxing outside by the arm.

Xingxing, "..."

Xingxing was a bit dazed.

"Wasn’t there supposed to be a handsome reward?" Xingxing asked.

"..."

If it were any other maid, Chief Steward Li would really have struck.

The Heir’s wife’s maid was someone he couldn’t afford to provoke.

On behalf of the Prince, he rewarded Xingxing ten taels of silver. Xingxing specifically requested broken silver, fearing Xique and the others would have trouble splitting it.

Chief Steward Li asked Xingxing, "Did your fellows see what’s in the purse?"

Xingxing nodded lightly.

Chief Steward Li, curious about the purse’s contents, did not ask.

Knowing too much was not a good thing.

"Do not leak any information; otherwise, there will be severe punishment."

Xingxing nodded repeatedly.

Xingxing, happy with the reward, stepped outside, no one noticed a figure flash past the doorway.

After Xingxing departed, a maid quietly followed her, watching her enter Qingqiu Garden, she turned and headed toward Peony Garden.

Peony Garden.

Princess Nanzhang lay listlessly on the Imperial Concubine’s Couch.

She was trying to find a way to rescue Xie Jinyu.

Her daughter had been confined for so long.

"Commandery Princess, it seems the Prince’s lost item has been found," a maid said.

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