Xu Murui's sharp voice sounded, "But my mother wants me to marry an old man in her forties, a fat face and a fat head, and a lowly businessman! That Mr. Li is even older and ugly than my father. Why should I marry? Mom, how can you treat me like this?"

Just thinking about the ugly appearance of that man, she was so disgusting that she would vomit overnight dinner, let alone being pressed under her body by such a man, she couldn't stand it at all.

Li Fuqi looked at her with distress and reluctance, and finally said, "Mu Rui, you feel sorry for your mother, okay? How powerful is Duke Yao's Mansion is, you understand. There is no time left. Your brother can't get all the betrothal gifts and money. He really has to go to prison, be paraded in the streets, beheaded in public, that's your brother. Are you watching your brother die? "

Xu Murui's heart sank to the bottom of the valley and shouted loudly, "Well, do you have the heart to push me into the fire pit? What else does Mr. Li have besides being rich? I am the lady of the Hou Mansion, how can I marry a lowly businessman? I really want to marry Mr. Li, and I will never be able to raise my head again in this life. I will definitely be ridiculed by my former sisters for the rest of my life."

She is a lady from the official family. Even if Mu Enhou’s mansion is already in a downturn, she has grown up with all her spoils. Why should she commit herself to an old and ugly man as her second wife?

Xu Murui was arrogant all her life, and she could not withstand such a gap.

Seeing that she refused to compromise, Li Fuqiu knelt down and knelt down to her with a bent kneel. She actually kowtowed to her directly, and said in pain and sobbing, "Mu Rui, mom, please, is it good to save your brother's life? We can't really get tens of thousands of taels of silver from our Hou Mansion. If Fannie can have some solution, I won't let you marry Mr. Li."

"Just because you are an official lady, beautiful, literate and well-educated, Mr. Li is willing to pay so much money, and if anyone else is reluctant to pay so much."

"Mu Rui, listen to your mother's advice. Only when a man is older will he feel sorry for others. You are so beautiful and so smart and capable. With your means and mind, it is not normal to coax Mr. Li to wander around? Only when you have money can you live a better life. Mom begs you."

Li Fuqiu was devoted to her son, which made Xu Murui feel cold. Her heart hurt as if she had been stabbed by a needle. This is her mother. She can sacrifice everything for her son, including her most beloved daughter on weekdays.

"Not as good as my mother said? Mr. Li has four sons, each of whom is stronger than me. What else can I do if I get married? Mom, stop drawing a big cake for me. I don't believe what you said."

"If Mr. Li was really that good, would he not marry a wife for a year after his first wife died? Mom, don't kneel down to me anymore. I wouldn't marry a lowly businessman for my brother."

"This is a disaster caused by my brother himself and has nothing to do with me. Since he has done something wrong, he has to bear the price he should bear. Mom, I'm sorry, I can't help you with this. If you hate me in your heart, then hate me. I don't owe my brother anything."

Li Fuqi didn't expect her daughter to be so irritated. She was so angry that she trembled all over and felt so distressed that she was about to suffocate. Her tears fell like beads that kept wiping. She took out a sharp dagger in front of Xu Murui and pressed it against her neck.

"Mu Rui, do you want to force me to death? Is it because I die that you are willing to save your brother's life?"

She cried and shouted with a gaze, "If you want me to die, I will die for you now. It would be better if everyone is not alive. Anyway, I am so tired of living, so why are you still alive?"

Li Fu made a move and slashed hard towards the skin on her neck, and bright red blood penetrated.

"Mom, what are you doing? What should I do if you die? Do you want me and my brother to be mourned for you for three years? Why did you force me to this level?"

Xu Murui also knelt on the ground and burst into tears. Her mind was messy and she didn't understand how things could have developed into such a situation.

"Mom doesn't want to do this, but she's desperate, there's no way out. You understand? Mu Rui, I don't want you to die, nor do you want your brother to die, I don't know what to do?"

Li Fuli hugged Xu Murui, and burning tears slid down her cheeks and dripped on Xu Murui's neck.

Xu Murui bit her lips, and a severe pain came. She licked the blood beads on her lips, feeling confused, "Mom, give me some more time, I'll think of a way to see if I can get all the money. Don't agree to Mr. Li for now, there will definitely be a way. Please believe me."

She had an idea in her mind, and a fierce light burst out from her eyes.

"What method? Mu Rui, can you really take out such a large sum of money? Don't do stupid things."

Xu Murui felt a little bitter and desolate in her heart, "There will always be a solution. I'll give it a try first. If it really doesn't work, you can sell me to Mr. Li, and give me another day."

Li Fuqi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Her daughter was willing to get married, so her son would be saved. There was no need for her to force her so tightly.

"Mu Rui, don't hate your mother, you're so desperate. You little little sisters, you don't know what method you used to get all the fever, disfigure and rash. Those businessmen are not interested in seeing it, otherwise I wouldn't think about marrying those lowly merchants."

Regarding her mother's explanation, Xu Murui cursed a self-deprecating smile on the corner of her mouth. Isn't that the same?

"I have something to go first, mom, wait for my news."

With a glimmer of hope in her heart, she went directly to Prince Rui's mansion. She wanted to see Xiao Lince and even more wanted to get money from him. She was willing to serve her body, as long as Xiao Lince could be happy.

However, she still failed to enter Prince Rui's Mansion, let alone meet Xiao Lince.

"Miss Xu, our prince is ill and has no guests. Please go back."

Xu Murui was worried and tears burst out. She said to the butler humbly, "Butler, please tell the prince, ask him to lend me 30,000 taels of silver. I am willing to promise myself, and I will repay the prince even if I am a cow or a horse. Please give me a message for me."

When Uncle Wei heard her shameless words, he was so angry that he was like, "Miss Xu, please don't say such things again in the future. The prince has a fiancée. When his injury is healed, he will soon marry his future princess. You are shameless and recommending a pillow mat. Don't you think it's too down and too lowly?"

"There is not that much money in the Rui Mansion. I'm sorry that I can't lend you so much. Please go back and stop disturbing the prince's recovery."

Xu Murui's hope was extinguished again, and her humiliating tears kept turning around, "Butler, I want to talk to the prince in person, please let me in. If the prince rejects me, I will give up."

It was the first time that Wei Bo met such a shameless and shameless girl. He laughed furiously, "We in the Rui Palace really don't have that much money, let alone lend it to you. To put it bluntly, even if we have money to lend it to you, what will you pay for? I've said frankly, girl, your appearance is really not worth 30,000 taels of silver."

"If you want to get the money, you can exchange it for something of the same value!"

Xu Murui's face was pale and bloodless. Her whole body was as bright as an ice cellar. Her body kept trembling. The tiger fell into the sun and was bullied by a dog!

Could it be that because her father was unconscious, these people shouted at her and despised her as if it were mud? How could they do this?

With a full of humiliation, she swallowed her tears back into her stomach and whispered, "I'm sorry, I'm disturbing me, I'll leave now."

She has no exchange of anything of equal value, and if there is, she will not be here either.

Uncle Wei snorted from his nostrils, "Please don't come to the gate of Prince Rui's mansion again in the future. Our prince is a fiancée. It will cause unnecessary trouble because of you, and it will not be worth the loss. Our prince can't afford it!"

After Xu Murui left a long distance, she could no longer control herself and hid in a quiet alley and started crying in pain.

The bone-eroding hatred surged from the bottom of her heart. She clenched her fist and said hatefully in her heart, "Xu Muqing, I am incompatible with you, and I have an irreconcilable hatred with you. Please wait and see!"

Why did that vicious, black-hearted bitch force her to this level now? Why?

She was so tired of crying that she went directly to the Prime Minister's Mansion and knocked on the back door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, "Please help me find Mr. Zhang Mingxi."

The concierge was naturally unhappy. She endured her heartache and stuffed a piece of silver into the concierge's hand. "This little brother, I will give this letter to Zhang Mingxi, and he will naturally come out to see me. Please send me a letter."

She was very clear about what Zhang Mingxi had been obsessed with Xu Muqing during this period, otherwise she would not have come.

Sure enough, in less than a stick of incense, Zhang Mingxi came out of the back door with a serious expression and recognized Xu Murui at a glance.

"What are you asking me for?"

Xu Murui swallowed tears and pain into the deepest part of her heart, "Of course it's my cousin Xu Muqing. Mr. Zhang loves her because of hatred, tossing and turning, and scratching her heart and lungs? If I say, can I let Mr. Zhang get her, let her let you torture and torture from now on, would she be willing to do such a deal?"

"Let's find a place to sit down."

When Zhang Mingxi heard Xu Muqing's name, a bright light burst out from his eyes, frenzy and paranoid. After being frustrated again and again, he aroused a strong desire to conquer. He secretly vowed in his heart that he would sleep with Xu Muqing until she surrendered to him.

They found a quiet teahouse, asked for a private room that was no one disturbed, and sat down face to face.

Zhang Mingxi was too lazy to go around with Xu Murui and said straight to the point, "First talk about how you want to use to lure Xu Muqing into the bait, and what price I need to pay."

Xu Murui said her way, her bright eyes fluttered, and her voice spoke sweetly, "The condition is 30,000 taels of silver, I will help you sleep until Xu Muqing. Don't be stubborn, sometimes she is as cruel as a beast when she plots on people, but when she doesn't mess with her, she is really kind, and I can take advantage of her kindness."

Zhang Mingxi has been plotted against by Xu Muqing many times, but now he no longer believes in the beautiful scenes of the future described by others. If he suppressed his heart and sneered, "It sounds quite tempting, but how can you make sure you will succeed?"

"Xu Muqing is as cunning as a fox. How many times have you plotted against her? Isn't she still doing well until now? What I want to see is that she falls into a trap, not your sweet words."

Xu Murui was anxious. Zhang Mingxi was her last hope. If even the woman in front of her was unwilling to believe her, she would be forced to marry someone old and ugly Li Yuanwai.

"Then how do you believe me?"

Zhang Mingxi picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, and said with a smile, "Of course I sent Xu Muqing to my bed, and I was so moved that I couldn't help myself. If you can do it, I won't lose your 30,000 taels of silver."

Over the years, he has earned a lot of money by relying on his casinos. For him, only 30,000 taels is just a sum of money that can be said to be too much or less.

If he could sleep until Xu Muqing was 30,000 taels of silver, by the time she got married, the dowry would definitely be much more than 30,000 taels. He could definitely make a profit in this deal, so he could naturally do it.

This is what Xu Murui wanted. An excited light surged in her eyes, "I hope you can do what you say and I will definitely send Xu Murui to your bed."

"But Zhang Mingxi, do you have to give me some deposit first? I also need money when I walk around."

Facing the greedy woman, a glimmer of disgust flashed through Zhang Mingxi's eyes, but he still took out a silver note of 100 taels from his pocket and gave it to her.

"Take it."

Xu Murui was as if she had been hungry for many days and suddenly saw the sweet and seductive flesh. Her eyes lit up. She took the silver notes and stuffed them into her hands with lightning speed.

"When will I sleep until Xu Muqing?"

Xu Murui said decisively and quickly, "I will definitely let you get what you want tonight, and please don't forget to promise me 30,000 taels of silver."

Zhang Mingxi took another sip of tea, got up and left, "Then I'll wait for your good news tonight. You'd better not let me down, otherwise, Xu Murui, you know my methods."

He had no choice to deal with Xu Muqing, but can he still have no choice to the ladies in the down-and-out Hou Mansion?

Xu Murui held the silver notes tightly, and tears came out. She couldn't help but feel sad for herself. When did she think even one hundred taels of silver feel very luxurious?

It was obvious that she had the support of the general's mansion in the past, and she had thirty taels of silver every month, not counting as making clothes, eating bird's nest and buying jewelry. All of this changed since Xu Murui fell into the water and became hot.

She put the silver notes carefully and wiped away her tears with a veil, walked out of the teahouse with a refreshing feeling.

On this day, Xu Murui did not take her maid to follow her, for fear that the matter she discussed with Zhang Mingxi would be betrayed by the maid, or that clues were found by Xu Muqing, the smart and cunning woman.

When she got home, she began to prepare.

Time passed quickly, and the sky gradually darkened. Xu Murui looked at the time on the hourglass, and a trace of vicious light flashed through her eyes.

By the evening, she went directly to General Weiyuan's mansion and found Xu Muqing with an anxious look on her face. "Muqing, please help me. My cousin is going to give birth. The midwife went to see her condition and felt it was very bad. You have good medical skills. Can you save my cousin?"

Xu Muqing was drinking tea and looked unmoved, "Which cousin is going to have a baby? Why don't I know?"

Xu Murui's eyes were filled with crystal tears, as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, "It's Huiyan, my cousin from my distant aunt's cousin, you have seen it before. Mu Qing, no matter what unpleasant things happened between us before, let's put them aside now, okay?"

"My cousin Huiyan is in danger now and she really needs your help. Her family is in business and has no good relationships. She can't hire a doctor with great medical skills. Can you be kind?"

Xu Muqing certainly knew what Xu Murui wanted to plot against her. She looked at Xu Murui, who was always thinking about plotting against her, and continued to say slowly, "Brother Zhining is still busy with the betrothal gifts proposed by Duke Yao Guo. Sister Murui, you are enthusiastic, go and take care of Huiyan's cousin's affairs first."

Xu Murui was so anxious that the veins on her forehead swelled. She stood up suddenly and stared at Xu Muqing aggressively, "Just say, can you save my cousin's life? Xu Muqing, even if there have been many unpleasant things between us, you don't need to hold a grudge like that. That's a pregnant woman, and it's very likely that she will have two lives!"

"Why are you doing so angry? I didn't say I won't save your cousin Huiyan. So where is she now?"

Xu Muqing finally let go and asked casually.

"Of course, it's also in the capital, which is about six miles away from here. Mu Qing, please pack up quickly and let's go."
To be continued...