Chapter 448 - Dishonored: A Good Show in the Gold Store (2/2)
Ling Rui’er flew into a frenzy and said to the coachman behind her with her teeth clenched.
The coachman was good at martial arts, so he came up with a whip and beat it to the crowd. With only a blow, the people in front of him were thrown out, and some were unluckily hit to the pedestal of the column. They covered their aching heads and tried standing up. However, the container behind shook, and some golden and jade utensils on it shook and clanged…
“Hurry up! Hold on to the container over there.” The shopkeeper’s countenance changed with a scare. And he had no time to argue with Ling Rui’er any longer, but shouted his shop a.s.sistants to help it. But before the shop a.s.sistants rushed to hold on to the container, the golden and jade utensils could not keep still and fell down one by one. And accidentally, some of them smashed on a fallen person’s head. Immediately, the head was. .h.i.t with blood flowing down.
The person had just sat up, but fell down again with a scream.
Looking at the man’s blood gus.h.i.+ng down and lying there unconscious, making it hard to know whether he was. .h.i.t to death, the shopkeeper and his a.s.sistants fell on the ground with fear; the rest of the people were startled first, and then escaped from the store with screams. “Someone is killed! Come on! Someone is killed here!”
“Someone is dead! Someone is. .h.i.t to death!”
“A woman has killed someone here.”
People outside didn’t know what was happening inside. Seeing so many people rus.h.i.+ng out of the store, a person outside pulled one of them and asked hurriedly, “What happened inside?”
“A woman got out of this carriage, went inside and killed a man. He is still lying… lying inside. And the woman is still in… The lying… lying person…”
Perhaps the man was too panicked to speak coherently, as he tried to shake off the hand which grabbed his sleeve.
A woman in that carriage? Everyone’s eyes fell on the carriage parked at the door. Someone recognized it as the carriage of King Chu’s Manor and whispered: “The people of King Chu’s Manor.”
“Yes, the people of King Chu’s Manor!”
“The woman of King Chu’s Manor is lying inside with a man, and someone is killed by a smash…” All the people were shocked, but their greater gossip enthusiasm was aroused. Then, an imaginative picture was formed that a woman of King Chu’s Manor took a carriage to have a private date with a man in the store, but for some unknown reasons, they had a quarrel, and then, the woman killed the man.
Such an erotic story happened in the gold store, which drove a ma.s.s of excited spectators to gather at the door again, because they wanted to see clearly who the woman of the King Chu’s Manor was.
The public remarks were so powerful that people on the street all guessed and blocked at the door. Before they entered the store, Ling Rui’er took her maidservants to go out, and the coachman opened the way for her. His whip beat mercilessly to the crowd. Ling Rui’er realized that something was strange, so she just wanted to leave there as soon as possible.
“Get out of the way.” Seeing more and more people at the door, the coachman shouted anxiously.
Seeing his whip beating, the pedestrians retreated subconsciously. But a voice came from the crowd, “How can it be Consort Chu?” The voice was so loud that all the people heard it.
Immediately, different voices came from different places rang, “Consort Chu has affairs with a man, and even injured people. How is that possible?”
“How is that not possible? Who knows if Consort Chu did it because of being treated coldly by King Chu…”
“But even though she had a private meet with a man, she cannot kill people. Can a king’s consort be so profligate?” The words sounded extremely unpleasant to ears. No matter how Ling Rui’er tried to pretend, the words still spread to her ears.
“Who said it?” Ling Rui’er stood and asked coldly.
Seeing Ling Rui’er burst with anger, no one dared to reply in the crowd. But some jeers were heard here and there. And then, the crowd dispersed in an uproar.
A few words came from the distance, “Dare to do, but did not dare to admit! It seems that this king’s consort has no gut indeed.”
“What kind of man had such bad luck that this king’s consort took a fancy to him? See, he died of his l.u.s.t now!”
Sarcastic remarks came one after another. But for the constraint of her status, Ling Rui’er would have gone mad at that time.
“My Lady, My Lady, please don’t get angry. Let’s go back first.” Xiangyun knew it was inappropriate at this time, so she pulled Ling Rui’er to the carriage.
“I, I can hardly swallow it.” Ling Rui’er said with hatred.
“My Lady, there must be someone plotting on this matter. We should go back and find out who it is. But it is not suitable for you to be here now.” Xiangyun persuaded.
Ling Rui’er also knew that she could not stay there any longer. Gossips filled the air. The more she stayed, the more gossips about her would appear. So she gritted her teeth and did not say anything more. Then, she turned around, about to leave.
“My Lady, My Lady, please wait! How can you leave now? My Lady, please spare our lives. Those things, those things are smashed by the people at your order!”
Ling Rui’er wanted to gloss it over, but the shopkeeper did not agree and rushed out with a few shop a.s.sistants. Some held the horse, some knelt in front of her, and even a guy lay on the ground to block her way and screamed loudly, which attracted more lookers-on.
They were acting insanely. But Ling Rui’er had no way to deal with them now, but had to bite the back teeth to said to Xiangyun, “Give them tael notes!”
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