Chapter 1720 - 1715: Get Lost as Far as You Can!

"We?" Mrs. Jin furrowed her brows.

"Yes, you and Mr. Mu!" Qin Xianglan replied.

"What do you want?"

"Five hundred silver notes!" Qin Xianglan met Mrs. Jin’s gaze and said to her.

"Five hundred? Are you insane? Or stupid? Or do you think I’m insane?" Mrs. Jin’s voice had changed.

Five hundred liang, enough for an average person to live a lifetime.

If in the countryside, it’s enough to buy land and become not a small landlord.

Where does Qin Xianglan get the nerve to ask for five hundred liang?

"I’m not insane, not stupid! Neither are you! Mr. Mu has been a dock steward for so long, I don’t believe you can’t come up with five hundred liang!" Qin Xianglan replied.

"I may have five hundred liang, but why should I give them to you?" Mrs. Jin chuckled.

"Because of the news I know!" Qin Xianglan replied.

"You, a woman who can’t even be found, how can you know news that even I don’t know?

Let me tell you, I’m not easily threatened, you’d better leave the Old Mu Family as soon as possible!

Don’t wait for me to make a move, or you won’t be able to keep even your life!" Mrs. Jin threatened Qin Xianglan.

"Mr. Mu has an affair with the County Magistrate’s concubine, and there’s a secret pregnancy; Ruan Xiao Jiao’s unborn child isn’t the County Magistrate’s!" Qin Xianglan said calmly.

"You..." Mrs. Jin’s face instantly turned ashen.

But she quickly regained her composure.

"You’re lying! Ruan Xiao Jiao’s unborn child is clearly the County Magistrate’s. You’re spreading such rumors, aren’t you afraid of being torn apart by horses?"

Regarding major issues, Mrs. Jin wasn’t dumb enough to undermine Mu Dade.

After all, if Mu Dade falls, her two daughters’ marriages will be off.

No matter how bad she might be, she wouldn’t be that foolish!

"Hehe, whether it’s a joke, Sister Jin knows for herself! Moreover, this isn’t the news I’m asking five hundred liang for!" Qin Xianglan said naturally.

She had already taken hold of Mrs. Jin.

And in front of Mrs. Jin, she revealed her ’fox’s tail’!

Therefore, she had to get five hundred liang of silver from Mrs. Jin.

Otherwise, she’d disgrace herself for bargaining with a tiger!

"You... Do you think I’m a fool?" Mrs. Jin still wouldn’t admit.

"Sister Jin, you don’t need to admit to this matter. After all, what’s false cannot become true, and what’s true cannot become false!

I’m saying this to make you weigh whether or not to give me those five hundred liang. Of course, if you give them to me, I guarantee you will not regret today’s decision!

If you don’t... I swear you will regret it!" Qin Xianglan said.

Mrs. Jin narrowed her eyes, her thoughts swirling.

She couldn’t make up her mind, because Qin Xianglan’s words were true.

The unborn child in Ruan Xiao Jiao’s belly must be Mu Dade’s.

This matter can’t be leaked, or it won’t just be Mu Dade and Ruan Xiao Jiao who suffer; she and her daughter would also be buried alongside them.

"I’ll give you the money, but your news must satisfy me!" Mrs. Jin said.

"Of course! But you must swear an oath!" Qin Xianglan said.

"Swear an oath?"

"Yes, I’m not stupid. If I take the money and leave first, and you have someone snatch the money back, what am I to do?" Qin Xianglan said.

"So..."

"You only need to swear to heaven, that if the news I provide is worth five hundred liang, then swear on Mu Dandan and Mu Yingying that if you break your vow, misfortune will befall them!" Qin Xianglan said.

Qin Xianglan, having mixed in the Old Mu Family for so long, surely knew who Mrs. Jin cared about.

Mrs. Jin had only two daughters, whom she treated like treasures.

She absolutely wouldn’t let anything happen to them.

Mrs. Jin said nothing, unwilling to use her daughters for the oath.

But if she didn’t speak, her daughters’ situations could become even more difficult.

In the end, she compromised.

She thought, after all, it’s just a loss of five hundred liang.

As long as Mu Dade’s current position remained, five hundred liang would be gone in the blink of an eye.

"Alright, I promise you!" Mrs. Jin said.

"Give me half of the money first!" Qin Xianglan said.

"Qin Xianglan, don’t push your luck; this isn’t your place to call the shots!" Mrs. Jin said angrily.

It had been a long time since anyone dared to threaten her like this.

Except for that dead girl, Mu Shuangshuang, that wench!

"Sister Jin, I only want my own guarantee! And let me tell you another piece of news: I’m pregnant with Mu Danian’s child!" Qin Xianglan said.

"You..."

"Yes, just as you think, I also don’t want Mr. Mu and Ruan Xiao Jiao’s affairs exposed to others, after all, I’m considered half a person of the Old Mu Family!"

Qin Xianglan didn’t tell Mrs. Jin that she was pregnant with Mu Dade’s child.

Because she knew, once spoken openly.

Mrs. Jin would certainly exhaust all efforts to have her life.

Now, saying it’s Mu Danian’s child, even if she leaves, she’d at most think there’s a bastard child in her belly.

Mrs. Jin might even laugh at her!

"Alright!" Mrs. Jin handed two hundred silver notes to Qin Xianglan.

"I’ve done what I should, now it’s your turn!" Mrs. Jin said.

Only then did Qin Xianglan speak, "Mu Dazhong and Mu Danian have taken advantage of Mr. Mu’s busyness with Miss Dan Dan’s marriage and have collected quite a sum from merchants at the dock.

Even letting some who smuggle salt, pass by unchallenged. Now, both have pocketed quite a lot, prepared to leave early tomorrow morning, under the guise of visiting people who came for the banquet!

When the government finds out, it’s Mr. Mu who will take all the blame!"

"They..."

Mrs. Jin, feeling tense, her eyes painful.

She hadn’t thought those two useless ones would dare to betray the inside!

"Those damned things! How dare they... Have their consciences been eaten by dogs?" Mrs. Jin cursed!

"Sister Jin, is this news worth five hundred liang?" Qin Xianglan asked.

"You are ruthless! Although you’ve carried Mu Danian’s child, you still put him on the executioner’s block yourself, you really are..."

"Sister Jin, I know what you want to say, but this is something beyond my control! Back then, Mu Danian forced me, making me pregnant with his illegitimate child, but children are innocent, and I don’t want to die with him, so I can only leave with the child!

I swear, once I leave, I will never return to this county, not even stay in Qianzhou Prefecture!"

Qianzhou Prefecture, under which several counties are governed, Qin Xianglan’s words meant she’d never bother Mrs. Jin again.

Mrs. Jin thought for a moment in her heart, then handed Qin Xianglan the remaining three hundred silver notes.

"I hope one day, you don’t regret leaving Mu Danian’s bastard!" Mrs. Jin said.

"Certainly not!" Qin Xianglan replied.

In fact, she returned the sentiment to Mrs. Jin in her heart.

Hoping she wouldn’t regret letting her and her unborn child go today!

"Get lost, as far as possible, and never let me see you again in this lifetime!" Mrs. Jin said.

"Now that I have money, I will leave as far as possible! Thank you, Sister Jin!" Qin Xianglan said to Mrs. Jin.