The Fourth Lady novel Chapter 114

Su Qingyan knew what Luo Bing was thinking in her heart. In addition to the previous Su Qingyan's behavior, she definitely was still worried about Qingyan being laughed at during the Dragon Gate Banquet. Even if she held the imperial edict from Hongjia Emperor in her hands now, she probably still wouldn't believe it, until she sees Qingyan's expression face to face.

"Mother, I'm already grown up." Qingyan looked to Luo Bing and reluctantly said, "No need to worry about this daughter's matters." Qingyan intimately hugged Luo Bing.

Luo Bing patted Qingyan in her arms, "Yan'er, these years, must been difficult for you."

When Qingyan looked to Luo Bing, she shook her head, "Your daughter doesn't feel slighted."

"Father, mother, something terrible happened!" Su Qingyu quickly ran up before them, "The news of the Second Prince finding women in an tavern* has already spread through the entire capital. Most importantly, second brother seems to have been involved as well."

(*T/N: The author has quite a few inconsistencies throughout the novel....it's hard to keep up. They'd wrote restaurant last chapter, but tavern is fairly similar.)

When Qingyan heard this news, she inwardly smiled. Tsk, Murong Jingxuan's arrangements were faster than she'd imagined.

"What does this have to do with me!" Su Yun looked to Su Qingyu and spoke in irritation.

The matter of Xuanyuan Yufan asking to marry Su Qingyan during the imperial court session a few days ago, he still vividly remembered. Now, he had this kind of situation happen to him, serves him right!

"But that girl is the Miss Sun we brought back from the battlefield!" Su Qingyu panicked and blurted these words out.

Hearing Su Qingyu's words, Su Yun creased his brows.

Qingyan, pretending to not know anything, spoke, "Miss Sun? Elder brother, could it be that you brought back a sister-in-law, and didn't let me know?"

"Yan'er....." Luo Bing anxiously spoke, "Don't say nonsense."

Su Yun and Luo Bing saw the curious look on Qingyan's face and could only tell her everything that happened. But what they didn't know was that Qingyan had already heard everything from Sun Bimeng. Furthermore, she even knew Sun Bimeng's ambition of wanting to marry into the Su manor.

"Father, why don't we go see? After all, she was brought back by you guys." Qingyan looked to Su Yun and reluctantly said, despite also wanting to know what the situation was like right now.

Su Yun glanced at Qingyan, this matter he certainly needed to personally step in. After all, that woman was brought back by them.

Su Yun thought for a moment, then headed out together with Su Qingyan and Luo Bing. Their destination was precisely the meeting place of Xuanyuan Yufan and Su Qingming from earlier.

On the way, they naturally ran into Su Ming and Ning Siyao. However, the two sides only met face to face and didn't say anything.

Arriving at the tavern, as soon as they pushed open the room door, the peculiar odor filled the air. Lying on the bed, a woman's slender arm dangled to the side, and on the other side, Sun Bimeng was sitting there holding the blanket, not making a single sound.

Xuanyuan Yufan saw the people that entered from the door, and could only pretend to be calm. Right now, wanting to escape was an impossible thing. Furthermore, the matter of him finding a woman seemed to have already spread throughout the entire capital.

"Greeting Second Prince." When they saw Xuanyuan Yufan, they respectfully greeted him.

Xuanyuan Yufan didn't want to see them right now, but seeing their appearance, he couldn't refuse either.

"This unfilial son, just what did you do?!" Su Ming slapped Su Qingming across the face, and precisely because of this slap, Su Qingming was thoroughly awake.

Su Qingming looked at the crowd before him, then glanced to the two women lying on the bed again, not knowing what had happened either. When he directed his gaze at Xuanyuan Yufan, he found that Xuanyuan Yufan was also frowning.

Su Qingming in a fit of anger, could only push all the responsibilities onto Sun Bimeng. He pointed to her and disdainfully spoke, "It's all your fault, you little wench. If it wasn't for you seducing us, how could we have become like this?"

Sun Bimeng looked to Su Qingming, softly sobbing as she spoke, "Young master, don't slander me. I'm merely a girl that sells her skills. If it wasn't for you forcibly kidnapping me here, why would I even appear here without a reason."

Su Yun listened to Sun Bimeng's words, frowning. Sun Bimeng didn't ask him for him, nor did she say she knew Su Yun, as if Su Yun was like an unrelated stranger before her.

Su Yun naturally wouldn't be happy for this matter to fall on his head, but Su Qingming didn't plan on letting Su Yun off the hook like this.

"Uncle, you brought this woman back to the capital just to seduce us?" Su Qingming looked to Su Yun in discontent, "Uncle sure brought back a good woman."

Hearing Su Qingming's words, Su Ming furrowed his brows and looked to Su Yun. And Su Yun momentarily didn't know how to explain either. At that moment, Sun Bimeng slowly spoke, "General Su saved me, I'm grateful in my heart. But you can't waste General Su's good intentions either."

Ning Siyao listened to Sun Bimeng's words and coldly laughed, "Could it be that you weren't able to seduce elder brother, so you wanted to seduce my son, you little whore." She walked up next to the bed and gave Sun Bimeng a slap. "Tell me, is it Su Qingyan that instructed you to do this?!"

"Second aunt, sure is calculating, this Miss Sun and I don't even know each other, where do those words come from?" Su Qingyan looked to Ning Siyao and chillingly spoke, "Second aunt, don't wrongly accuse me and my parents."

Ning Siyao turned around and looked at Su Qingyan resentfully. She pointed to Qingyan and screamed, "If it wasn't you, how could our Ming'er have end up as such?!"

"Second aunt, right now, second brother is openly sleeping around with other people with the Second Prince here, what does it have to do with me!" Su Qingyan unhesitantly countered, "Second aunt don't lose your rationale."

Ning Siyao slapped aside Qingyan's hand at once. She originally wanted to give Su Qingyan a slap, but Qingyan was pulled into Luo Bing's arms. "Ning Siyao, do you think our family are all easy to bully?" Luo Bing scolded by her full name.

Ning Siyao listened to Luo Bing's words and retracted her hand, "Luo Bing, since that's the case, then I'll trouble you to properly watch your own daughter."

"Ning Siyao, my daughter, I naturally will discipline." Luo Bing replied with a cold snort.

Perhaps, because Ning Siyao was afraid of Luo Bing's status, she didn't continue to speak further. Su Yun then came out with the words, "Second (younger) brother, later, after we return to the manor, we'll settle the accounts and split the family."

Hearing Su Yun's words, Ning Siyao turned her gaze to Su Ming. Su Ming didn't think that Su Yun would put forward this kind of condition. As for Su Qingyan, she furthermore didn't expect that her father would actually mention splitting the family.

Although splitting the family was something that would happen sooner or later, Su Yun mentioning it now, was probably because of bitter disappointment.

Su Ming seeing Su Yun's determined look, momentarily didn't know what to say either.