The Abandoned Wife’s Rebirth - Chap 91
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Wu Ruo ignored the various looks coming from all four sides and eight directions, and looked at Ba Se with a calm expression.
Wu Shi never thought that Wu Ruo would actually do this sort of thing that offended public morals, and hurriedly took advantage of the opportunity to jeer sarcastically at Wu Ruo: “Tsk, how shameless! Actually going to an inn to rendezvous with someone else. Last night, they must’ve been fucked boneless by another man.”
Wu Shi deliberately didn’t name any names. Everyone knew who he was talking about anyway.
“You, shut up!” Wu Anyi angrily chided.
He had seen with his own eyes what had happened and he also knew who Ba Se had marital relations with. That’s why he didn’t want to stir trouble with the Eastern main estate after they had just ‘mended’ relations with the Northern main estate.
Wu Shi was scolded without understanding the reason for it: “Erge, what’s with you?”
Didn’t hisergehate Wu Ruo too? Why didn’t he let Wu Shi speak?
“If you don’t know the truth of the situation, then don’t speak carelessly about it.” Wu Anyi paid attention to the expressions on the Eastern main estate’s side as he spoke.
Wu Ruo glanced at Wu Shi and sneered: “Ba Se, I think you’ve gotten the wrong person…”
“How could I have gotten the wrong person?” Ba Se still believed, to this point, that he’d had marital relations with Wu Ruo: “Xiao-Ruo, did you forget how passionate you were last night? Your legs were wrapped around my waist, and you couldn’t stop asking me to do it harder. You even wanted me to leave marks all over your body. That place of yours was so small and tight, it was so lovely…”
He said these words shamelessly, without regard for the situation that he was in, he simply said these words aloud.
“You fucking bastard!” An infuriated voice howled from amongst those of the Eastern main estate. Following that, a dark grey silhouette rushed toward Ba Se and landed a punch directly on him.
Ba Se was in so much pain that he immediately curled up his body.
And the one who had struck him was the fourth master of the Eastern main estate, Wu Qiansu, who was also Wu Sheng and Wu Xia’s father.
“I’llbeat an animal like you to death!” Wu Qiansu punched Ba Se across the face once more, full of anguish and fury. After that, he drew his longjianpreparing to kill Ba Se.
“Fourth Master, please wait a moment.” Wu Bofang’s steward held Wu Qiansu back.
How could the current Wu Qiansu listen to anyone else’s mollifications?
“Get out of my way!”
Ever since his youngest son left Zuiyue Restaurant last night, he had still yet to return home. Wu Qiansu had sent people to look for him but they were all unable to find anything. He didn’t know if Wu Xia might have done something silly either. At the thought that his youngest son might have sought an early end somewhere out there, Wu Qiansu’s heart ached to death and he wanted nothing more than to hack at Ba Se with a thousand strikes into thousands of pieces.
“Fourth Master, please calm down!” Wu Bofang’s steward hurriedly dragged Wu Qiansu to a corner.
Those who were ignorant wondered: “That man called Ba Se clearly claimed to have marital relations with Wu Qianqing’s son, but why is Wu Qiansu having such a huge reaction?”
“Then you must not know. Last night, the one who actually had marital relations with Ba Se was Wu Qiansu’s youngest son, Wu Xia.”
“Ah? What exactly happened?”
Those who knew what had happened immediately explained last night’s events once over. Very quickly, everyone in the Wu estate found out about last night’s matter between Ba Se and Wu Xia. Even if Wu Qiansu hadn’t rushed forth to beat Ba Se, the matter couldn’t have remained hidden. Because last night, there had simply been too many witnesses to the scene of Ba Se and Wu Xia’s lovemaking. It was impossible to silence them all.
After everyone caught wind of the matter, they all felt that Wu Xia had gotten what he’d deserved. If he hadn’t schemed to harm someone else, would it have ended in him getting fucked by another man himself?
Wu Shi heard others discussing the matter from last night and pursed his lips. In his heart, he thought: Wu Ruo was really too lucky. Things had already gotten that far and he’d still managed to dodge it.
Wu Bofang, who was coming over from Bojin Garden, heard the sounds of everyone’s discussions and frowned deeply. The night before, he had just gotten the Southern and Northern main estates to reconcile. Now, it was the Northern and Eastern main estates’ turn to kick up a fuss. This year, things were really going very poorly for the Wu family.
He couldn’t help recalling the results of the ceremony that had been held during the winter solstice. Could it be that the Wu family really had an unavoidable disaster?
Elder Rong and Elder Xian who were trailing behind him were also thinkingof the divination that they’d seen during the winter solstice.
Elder Xian asked: “Clan Leader, it really has been very difficult for our Wu family recently. Did you perhaps bring up the matter of our winter solstice divination to Lord State Tutor?”
Wu Bofang sighed: “Before the New Year, I already told Wu Yanlanabout this matter and asked him to relate it to the Lord State Tutor.”
Elder Rong said uncertainly: “Right now, so much time has already passed, has Lord State Tutor sent any news?”
Wu Bofang’s frown deepened: “As of today, I have yet to receive any news from Lord State Tutor. Perhaps his lordshipis preoccupied, and doesn’t have the time to oversee the matters of our side clan for now. Or maybe Wu Yanlan forgot to tell Lord State Tutor about this matter.
“For now, let’s not talk about this matter first. Right now, how are we going to resolve this situation between this Ba Se person and the Northern and Eastern main estates?”
Elder Rong and Elder Xian both sighed.
Wu Bofang walked over to Ba Se and said self-righteously: “Ba Se, if you hand over the antidote for theguparasite, I’ll pardon you from death.”
Ba Se endured the pain and coughed a few times. A streak of blood dripped from the corner of his mouth: “If you let me go right now and let me leave withXiao-Ruo, I’ll immediately hand the antidote over to you.”
Wu Bofang couldn’t help looking at Wu Ruo. Undeniably, the slimmer Wu Ruo really was a matchless beauty. Although he did resemble his mother a fair bit, his mother did not possess the elegance that he did. In terms of height, manner, confidence, heroic spirit, etc., Guan Tong fell short in every aspect compared to Wu Ruo.
Closely after, Wu Bofang received an icy and stern look from the man next to Wu Ruo. He hurriedly looked away: “Xiao-Ruo already has a husband, there’s no way he can leave with you.”
Ba Se snorted: “I’ve already had marital relations withXiao-Ruo, why can’t I take him with me?”
Wu Bofang’s expression darkened: “The one who had marital relations with you wasn’t him.”
Ba Se froze.
If it wasn’t Wu Ruo, then who was it?
He thought of himself having had sex with an ugly man whose name he didn’t even knowand felt disgusted throughout his entire body.
“You’re lying to me.” Ba Se didn’t believe it.
Wu Bofang laughed coldly: “It’s up to you whether you want to believe it or not. However, I’ll tell you this: we already found a shaman to cure theguparasite. It’s just that they won’t arrive in Gaoling City that quickly. If you have any sense in you, you’ll immediately cure theguparasite for the people from the Southern main estate. When everyone from the Southern main estate has been cured, I’ll immediately let you go. If you’re unwilling, then you can wait for those from the Eastern main estate to deal with you instead.”
He was telling the truth. The shaman that his acquaintance had invited was already on the journey here. It was only that they couldn’t be sure that the shaman would be able to cure the people of the Southern main estate of theguparasite.
Ba Se snorted: “If you really found a shaman, would you need me to cure them of theguparasites? Your words would only fool an idiot.”
Wu Bofang saw that he was unwilling and so, he didn’t speak to Ba Se any further. He just said to the people of the Eastern main estate: “Then, I’m handing this person over to all of you to deal with.”
When the steward who was currently holding Wu Qiansu back heard this, he immediately let go of Wu Qiansu.
Wu Qiansu held his longjianup high and rushed forth: “I’ll kill you, you filthy beast!”
Abruptly, a loud, rumbling sound came from the skies. Following closely, the ground trembled and the mountains shook, everyone hurried to steady themselves: “What’s going on?”
Wu Ruo was held in Hei Xuanyi’s embrace by the other whose bright and crystal clear gaze was directed somewhere in the distance.
It was at this moment, countless silhouettes flew into the estate and rushed toward Ba Se. Taking advantage of this moment while everyone was still out of their senses, they chopped apart the iron chains that were on Ba Se’s limbs and speedily brought him out of the Wu estate.
Wu Qiansu saw that Ba Se was being rescued by someone and anxiously yelled: “Ba Se is getting rescued!”
The people of the Eastern main estate immediately summoned spirits and specters to chase after Ba Se and his rescuers.
Hei Xuanyi looked in the direction that Ba Se had left in and a cold glimmer flashed across his black gaze.
Ba Se’s people had already prepared an escape route ahead of time. They had also planned how to avoid the pursuit of the spirits and specters of the Wu family ahead of time. That was why, after leaving Gaoling City, they easily shook off the various spirits and specters that the Eastern main estate had let loose on them.
They only slowed down their pace after they had left the boundary of Gaoling City, hiding in a wooded mountain that was devoid of people.
“Young master, are you alright?”
Ba Se massaged his wrists that had been bound for a whole night and snorted coldly: “I’m fine, it’s just a pity that I didn’t manage to take Wu Ruo away with me.”
“Young master, we will have opportunities again in the future.”
Ba Se suddenly thought of what Wu Bofang had said and his eyebrows furrowed into a frown: “Do any of you know who I was with last night?”
“We heard the Wu family saying that the person who spent the night with masterlast night was Eastern main estate’s Wu Xia.”
“I clearly saw that it was Wu Ruo, how could it be Wu Xia?”
The bodyguard said: “Young master, you could’ve fallen to the Wu family’s illusory arts, that’s why you saw Wu Xia as Wu Ruo.”
“If that’s the case, there’s a chance that Wu Anshu was unable to get Wu Ruo to show up, so he found someone else as a replacement to foolme?” Ba Se’s expression darkened. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was likely: “Wu Anshu, you fucking dare to fool me? I wanted Wu Ruo, but you shoved such inferior goods to me? Do you think I, Ba Se, am so easy to fool around with? You better fucking remember this, there will definitely come a day that I, Ba Se, will clear this debt with you.”
The bodyguard looked at their surroundings: “Young master, it isn’t suitable to linger here, it would still be better to hurry and leave this place.”
Ba Se nodded his head, however, it was as if his body had been restrained by someone, he could not move.
He couldn’t help but be alarmed: “What’s going on?”
The bodyguards were in a similar situation as him. Not only could they not move their bodies, but they couldn’t even speak either.
Ba Se hurriedly chanted an incantation. The talismans on the clothes of the bodyguards flew out and aimed behind his body, but it was as if they hit the air, there was no effect whatsoever.
He anxiously said, angered: “Who is it pretending to be a god and messing with the supernatural? Show your face!”
Still, no one responded to him.
Following after, the lower hem of his clothes was lifted up and his pants were removed. Then, a cold breeze blew past his lower half and made him shiver involuntarily.
Ba Se thought that someone was controlling very powerfulguiandshento capture them. On top of that, he could be very sure that the other party was not someone from the Gaoling City Wu family. Currently, in the Wu family, there was no one powerful enough to avoid his talismans entirely.
“This junior doesn’t know how I might’ve offended you, senior. Could I invite you to come forth and meet me?”
In the end, still, no one responded to him. However, the little Ba Se in his lower half was seized by someone.
Ba Se saw that his family jewels had landed in someone else’s hands and finally betrayed a trace of fear: “What does Senior intend to do? Senior, in the future, I will have to rely on it to carry on my ancestral line, you absolutely must not injure it!”
The bodyguards by his side widened their eyes and could only watch as their master’s family jewels were twisted like fried dough twists, aggressively turning in a few circles. It scared them so much that they involuntarily tried to tighten their own legs together.
“Ah—!”
At once, a shrill, miserable, and bloodcurdling shriek came from the wooded mountain.
