Chapter 34: At Most, I Can Grant You a Concubine's Status

The guards outside didn't pay any attention.

They just thought they were ignoring her, so they calmed down.

When Zhao Yingjun's mother Qu Shi sent someone to bring Qiao Jinzhi for questioning, they discovered she had already fainted for an unknown amount of time.

They hadn't questioned her yet.

Qu Shi, of course, couldn't let Qiao Jinzhi die like that, so she had the doctor who was attending Zhao Yingjun summoned to treat her.

Qiao Jinzhi's condition was still terrible; after the treatment, the doctor told Qu Shi that because of uncontrolled sexual activity, she would probably find it difficult to conceive in the future.

Qu Shi's brows knit into a knot.

Does this matter have anything to do with Qiao Jinzhi at all?

Either way.

She still intended to ask.

When Qiao Jinzhi woke up, Qu Shi immediately interrogated her: "Qiao Jinzhi, did you really give my second son that kind of illicit Medicine?"

"Madam, I didn't. I love the second Young Master so much, how could I do that to him? It must be, it must be that someone drugged the second Young Master."

Qiao Jinzhi said while crying.

Qu Shi slapped the table and said, "Enough, stop crying, shut up! No matter what, my second son turned out like this, and it's partly your fault. From today on, you go back to your family."

Her son still had some hope; she didn't want him to cause any more trouble.

Therefore, any woman who had that encounter with him—

She wouldn't keep any of them.

Qiao Jinzhi cried even louder.

She crawled over, grabbed Qu Shi's trouser leg, and said, "Madam, just keep me. I'm already the Young Master's person now; there might even be his child in my womb."

When Qiao Jinzhi said that, Qu Shi's expression froze.

She had been with her son for so long.

It might really be in her womb.

Qu Shi thought for a moment and said, "Then you may stay for now, but becoming a primary wife is impossible; at most you'll have the status of a concubine."

"Thank you, Madam, no, Mother Xie."

Qiao Jinzhi kowtowed one after another.

Qu Shi didn't want to see her, so she had the steward reassign her lodging and also assigned her a maid.

Of course, this was because she thought the child in her womb might be her own son's; if she hadn't become pregnant, she would never keep her.

Zhao Yingjun's condition was beyond any doctor's cure, so in the following days he never recovered; he was as if completely useless.

Because of that.

Zhao Yingjun became extremely furious, no longer cherishing the women he once favored; he either insulted them or beat them.

Qiao Jinzhi was protected by Qu Shi, otherwise she would have met the same fate.

Qu Shi feared that continuing this way would cause deaths, so she found someone to watch Zhao Yingjun and forbid him from causing trouble at home.

Zhao Yingjun constantly disliked her supervising him; the more she wouldn't allow it, the more he insisted.

It didn't work at home.

He went outside.

Qiao Sheng had long guessed it would turn out this way, so he had been waiting for him; when he got drunk and went berserk, he and Zhang San conspired to trap him.

Because her makeup skills were still pretty good.

The fake wounds looked as real as the genuine ones.

People eating upstairs and downstairs heard the commotion and came to see; they saw Zhang San and his men with faces full of injuries and heads covered in blood, while Zhao Yingjun kept throwing things at them, thinking he had really hurt them.

Someone originally intended to report it to the authorities.

Qiao Sheng said in the crowd, "Let's settle this privately; after all, it was just an accident."

She couldn't step forward; if Zhang San and his group went to the Yamen out of fear and got exposed, it would cause trouble.

And her goal had already been achieved.

The onlookers didn't know Zhao Yingjun, but the restaurant's waiter and the owner recognized him, and soon they contacted his family.

(End of chapter)