Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside-Chapter 823: Known Throughout the City

Lady Mei, being incredibly clever, immediately ordered her thugs, "Go drag that wretch Han Xiao to me!"

"Yes." Five thugs quickly left, armed with knives and sticks, heading to Han Xiao’s room to seize her.

However, there wasn’t even a shadow of Han Xiao in the room, and all valuable gold and silver jewelry were gone. She had run away!

The thugs hurried back to report to Lady Mei.

Upon hearing this, Lady Mei was so angry that she trembled, "Ungrateful wretch, ungrateful wretch! I treated you well for nothing!"

If it wasn’t for Lady Mei once considering Han Xiao’s mother as a sister, she would have never adopted Han Xiao and Han Xiao would have starved to death long ago.

In reality, Lady Mei saw that Han Xiao was growing up beautiful and found out Han Xiao’s mother had passed away, her father had already died, and Han Xiao’s legitimate mother disliked her. Therefore, she quickly found Han Xiao’s legitimate mother and expressed her desire to adopt Han Xiao.

Han Xiao’s legitimate mother, unwilling to see Han Xiao, quickly agreed.

Lady Mei thus obtained Han Xiao, a top entertainer, without spending a single copper coin.

Once Han Xiao grew up, Lady Mei made her entertain guests, earning herself a lot of money through Han Xiao.

Lady Mei ruined Han Xiao’s entire life yet considered herself Han Xiao’s foster mother, believing Han Xiao would ensure her retirement. As she aged, she began making Han Xiao manage things in Chunfeng Pavilion.

Han Xiao did well, not making a single mistake for five years.

However, this was all Han Xiao’s facade, merely to gain Lady Mei’s trust for a future revenge!

Gu Jinli, upon learning Han Xiao’s background, had Qin San Lang’s men locate Han Xiao and they conspired today’s incident.

The one-armed man guarding the corner gate was Han Xiao’s lover, treating Han Xiao extremely well, not minding her past, and Han Xiao wasn’t bothered by his disability. Now they had taken their years of savings, along with the silver notes from Gu Jinli, and the new identification Qin San Lang helped them obtain, leaving He’an Prefecture.

"Lady, what should we do now?" Chunfeng Pavilion’s housekeeper asked, overwhelmed with worry.

Before Lady Mei could speak, Qian Chengcai rushed over, shouting urgently upon seeing Lady Mei, "Lady Mei, quick, quick, fetch a doctor, my cousin has fainted!"

Seeing Lady Mei surrounded by a group of thugs, he hastily called them, "Quickly, go to the backyard and seize those prostitutes Mu Dan and Shuixian. Damn it, they’re killing us!"

The two sentences left Lady Mei sitting collapsed on the ground, speechless, pointing at Qian Chengcai... Fool, truly a fool. Others could barely hide such things, yet he ran out yelling, and now he has ruined both the Gu Family and Chunfeng Pavilion.

The guests heard Qian Chengcai’s words, recalled Young Master Gao and the others’ remarks, and snapped, no longer afraid of Chunfeng Pavilion’s thugs, they swarmed out towards the pavilion’s entrance, "Everyone, run! Chunfeng Pavilion is dangerous now, there’s venereal disease!"

The guests fled crazily towards the main gate, even the prostitutes at Chunfeng Pavilion wanted to escape.

Although there were more than thirty thugs, the guests came from well-off families, including sons of affluent households, scholars, students, the thugs dared not really injure them, merely tried to stop them, but ultimately had to watch them leave.

As a result, a spectacle occurred on the street where Chunfeng Pavilion was located; a group of disheveled, barefooted, wild-haired men, some wrapped in bedding, dashed out as if chased by ghosts, sprinting wildly down the street, stopping only when they reached the end.

People on the street were dumbfounded.

"What’s going on? Is Chunfeng Pavilion haunted? Why are these dead spirits driven out so early? They usually sleep till noon before leaving."

"Who knows, maybe there’s a fire at Chunfeng Pavilion."

"What fire? There’s no smoke."

People on the street started speculating, and they hadn’t guessed long when screams were heard from afar, the people gathered in front of Chunfeng Pavilion’s entrance couldn’t hear clearly and urgently moved towards the street.

Before reaching the street, they overheard someone asking, "Is it true what you said? A Flower Fairy brought from Jiangnan to Chunfeng Pavilion has venereal disease, and Lord Lai’s benefactor’s descendant also slept with the diseased Flower Fairy?"

The fleeing guests nodded, cursing, "Of course it’s true, we’re scared to death. The one who slept with the diseased prostitute is Gu Chengxian, that damned man is supposed to sit for the exam in a few days, the scholars competing with him are doomed!"

Upon hearing this, families with members about to take the exam couldn’t bear it, cursing Gu Chengxian for not controlling his lust, shouting around, "Anyone with scholars going for the exam, hurry with me to the Prefecture Government Office to beat the drum and petition, we must have Lord Magistrate strip Gu Chengxian of his exam eligibility, we can’t let him harm other scholars!" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

People nearby nodded, "Yes, yes, we should go to the Prefecture Government Office to beat the drum and petition, have Lord Magistrate strip Gu Chengxian of his exam eligibility."

The street was bustling, people ran about spreading the news, fearing they’d miss a family whose member was taking the exam and risk them getting infected by Gu Chengxian.

Shopkeepers on the roadside reminded Chunfeng Pavilion’s guests, "Everyone quickly go to the clinic, see a doctor, if something happens, it’ll be disastrous."

Having heard, Chunfeng Pavilion’s guests ran wildly to various clinics inside the Prefecture City.

On the way, they encountered many pedestrians, each looking at them as if they were madmen.

Curious, passersby asked, and those in the know explained, this was told from one to ten, ten to a hundred, within just an hour, the news of Gu Chengxian sleeping with a diseased Flower Fairy spread throughout the city.

Gu Jinli sat in the attic of a tavern, watching the guests rush from Chunfeng Pavilion then to medical clinics, almost laughing herself to madness, wanting to tell them although venereal disease is terrifying, without intimate contact it’s not easily transmitted.

However, letting those despicable men who sleep with women in brothels learn a lesson isn’t bad.

Seeing her laugh so excessively, Qin San Lang cautioned, "Keep it down, if you laugh until you choke, it’ll be uncomfortable."

Gu Jinli didn’t care, she wanted to laugh.

Qin San Lang could only join her.

After laughing, Gu Jinli asked Qin San Lang, "Have you eaten enough?"

Qin San Lang nodded, "Yes, I’ve eaten enough."

Last night they sneaked over, once the plan succeeded, they returned to the residence, came over early today, and after breakfast, Chunfeng Pavilion’s guests rushed out.

Gu Jinli patted her hands, stood up, adjusted her big fur hat, said, "Let’s go, let’s head to the Prefecture Government Office for more excitement."

To avoid being recognized by Old Gu Family people, she was dressed as a young man.

The weather remained cold so, though Gu Jinli’s figure was now that of a young woman, the heavy winter clothing and fur hat concealed her feminine traits, at a glance she genuinely looked like a young man.

It’s just that this young man looked too handsome.