Exile after Divorce? Empty the Scumbag Husband First!-Chapter 299 - 291: Wen Qiang Takes a Deep Breath and Heads Forward with Furrowed Brows
The steward listened, giving an awkward smile without saying a word. To be honest, he also felt the master was going too far.
Now, some people can’t even afford to eat, isn’t it a good thing that someone is selflessly providing porridge?
Cutting off people’s food is like cutting off their lifeline; no wonder those people are fighting the master.
If it were him, he would also want to fight desperately.
Wen Qiang understood her father well, and because Zong Jun was present, she was cautious not to speak too bluntly.
Anxious to change the topic, she asked the steward, "Where is Father at this moment?"
The steward pointed her to the courtyard closest to the Wen Mansion’s inner chambers.
"The master has been staying in this small house for the past two days, fearing those unruly people outside might break in. Initially, we wanted to help the master leave first, or have him make an appearance, but in this situation, Miss, you see, how could the master step out?"
Wen Qiang took a deep breath and headed there with a furrowed brow.
As she pushed open the door, before she could step inside, a figure suddenly rushed out, and grabbing her hand, bit down hard!
Wen Qiang cried out in pain, screaming as she broke free.
"Father!!"
It was Wen Yuan who had bitten her.
He looked at her with full terror on his face, as if he hadn’t fully regained his senses, shouting and resisting like he had lost his mind: "Who is it! Who is it!!"
Wen Qiang didn’t expect her father to be provoked into such a state, and he even had quite a few wounds on him.
"Father, it’s me! Qiang’er!"
Feeling a bit of heartache, Wen Qiang approached him slowly. Her voice seemed to bring Wen Yuan back to his senses after a while.
"Qiang’er?" He stood there in a daze, scrutinizing Wen Qiang carefully, then his expression suddenly became serious, pulling Wen Qiang to his side.
"Qiang’er, you finally came back!"
"I must tell you something. Do you know what happened to Father’s private vault?"
He widened his eyes, speaking with great expression, "In just the blink of an eye, so many things in the vault, so many things, suddenly disappeared! Do you understand? Just vanished into thin air!"
Seeing him dramatically open his arms wide, Wen Qiang frowned, unsure as she looked at her father, worried that he might have been scared senseless.
It couldn’t just be some unreasonable troublemakers that frightened him like this, could it?
She hesitated for a moment, wanting to snap her father back to reality.
But Wen Yuan acted like he hadn’t heard, shaking off her hand and continuing to speak!
"Father didn’t deceive you. Everything I’m saying is true; it all vanished as if in a blink. Do you think it’s haunted? Huh?"
"Two days ago, I sent Ayun to deliver a message to your Uncle Qin, now only your Uncle Qin can save us, can take me away from this hellish place! But Ayun has been missing all this time, you know Qiang’er, he disappeared!"
Wen Yuan, both angry and anxious, gripped Wen Qiang’s arm, trying desperately to convey the terrifying situation he faced.
Yet in his daughter’s eyes, all of this seemed peculiar.
Wen Qiang even began to suspect that her father might have been rattled into insanity!
Especially when he mentioned the private vault, recalling how sternly he had spoken when she insisted on keeping Zong Jun by her side.
"You keep someone like this by your side to get married, not listening to me and refusing to marry your Uncle Qin’s son!! In the future, not a penny of the Wen Family’s inheritance will be left for you!!"
Could Father’s current behavior be a pretense for her?
Fabricating some ghostly excuse! Who would believe that so much could just vanish! It’s either deceiving oneself or trying to fool a ghost.
Seeing this, Wen Qiang’s gaze sank, just as she was about to speak seriously to Wen Yuan, Wen Yuan suddenly spotted Zong Jun at the door.
Something clicked in his mind, and he quickly grabbed Wen Qiang’s wristbones, speaking with a sudden thought.
"Qiang’er, now the only person Father can trust is you!"
"The theft of the private vault, it’s not really haunted, there’s definitely someone behind it. And those outside, they spare no effort to block me, acting lawlessly, even the government officer can’t handle them, someone must be orchestrating this."
"Qiang’er, take Zong Jun, go see your Uncle Qin in person, tell him Father’s difficulties, persuade Uncle Qin to..."
"Father! What are you saying?"
He knew only too well that she hated going to the Qin Family, and he even wanted Zong Jun to go with her, who knows what schemes Father had in mind.
He might just attempt something against Zong Jun on the way, and Uncle Qin’s son, Qin Qian, is nothing but a frivolous rogue, the reason I refused to marry him at all costs before was because he is useless and a troublemaker, even an ugly man behaving obnoxiously.
Yet Father insists on making connections, forcing me to wed him; we’ve argued countless times over this as father and daughter.
Now it has come to this point, Wen Qiang instinctively felt that Father hadn’t given up his schemes, deceiving her wasn’t enough, now scheming against Zong Jun.
Instantly, her face stiffened, and she coldly flung off his hand and said with a cold expression.
"It’s impossible for me to go to the Qin Family!!"
"Wen Qiang, have you gone mad?! Don’t you see the situation we’re in? Those scoundrels are about to flatten the Wen Mansion! The private vault has been looted, we can’t even get out of the gate, if we don’t find someone to help us escape, our family will end up here!"
"Father, you have always been cunning, don’t think I don’t know what kind of mischief you are up to."
"Even though you fabricate such a poor excuse of property disappearance to fool me, I won’t hold it against you, but at this moment you want me to risk it to take Zong Jun to the Qin Family, is it because you want to separate Zong Jun and me, while forcing me to marry that scoundrel Qin Qian?!"
"Stop dreaming! I won’t fall for it!"
"And Father, no need to use such lame excuses that the private vault was ransacked, I came back just because I am your daughter and genuinely worried for you, returning from far away."
"But now you treat me so coldly, then you can handle this mess yourself!"
Finished speaking, she didn’t give Wen Yuan a chance to speak, and decisively left the Wen Mansion with Zong Jun.
Wen Yuan instinctively tried to catch up, but hadn’t run more than a couple of steps before he heard the faint curses from outside the mansion.
He instantly chickened out, without another word he ran back inside, hiding under the covers and suffering from the pain of his open wounds.
Wen Qiang did not hesitate to leave with Zong Jun, with her eyes turning red with anger, while Zong Jun could hear the calls from those outside the mansion, and couldn’t help but look at her and said.
"Does your father really wish to separate us? And those people outside, they wouldn’t be guarding there for no reason."
"There must be a deeper story behind those women distributing porridge, how about we..."
"Zong Jun!"
Wen Qiang did not want to hear any more of this, cut him off immediately, and directly asked, "I don’t want to be separated from you, and I don’t want to meddle in others’ affairs. Let’s just go back to Aunt." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
Zong Jun paused, still thinking about the happenings outside.
