eurekapd Chapter 330 The Hero's Rescue Plan Fails
Chapter 330 The Hero's Rescue Plan Fails
Although the Crown Prince's wife thought this way, she also knew Feng Zizhou's personality. He was a reckless and unruly person. If she took it upon herself to choose a wife for him, she was afraid that the incident of running away from the wedding last year would be repeated.
So she and her two sisters-in-law decided to find a way to let Feng Zizhou and Gui Yuan meet more often and get to know each other better before making a decision.
The third young mistress also found a secluded opportunity to meet Gui Yuan, and she was extremely satisfied with her, wishing she could take her back to be her brother's wife right now.
Feng Zizhou knew nothing about these things. He wanted to go to the Si family to check on his cousins, but he couldn't go.
He also wanted to personally deliver Xia'er's birthday gift; Xia'er was two years old.
But it didn't work.
In the end, the servant could only deliver all the birthday gifts to the Si family, specifying that they were given to Xia'er personally.
Feng Zizhou was really bored, so he asked someone to tell his sister-in-law that he wanted to go shopping and see if there was anything he liked to buy for his mother so that she would be happy.
The Crown Prince's wife naturally agreed, and then asked the Third Young Mistress to tell Gui Yuan about Feng Zizhou's departure.
This is to encourage Guiyuan to take the initiative and arrange a chance encounter.
Upon hearing this, Gui Yuan's gentle face slowly darkened: "If chance encounters were useful, Fourth Young Master would have already taken a liking to me."
The maid asked nervously, "What does the young lady intend to do?"
Gui Yuan asked slowly and deliberately, "Have you arranged everything for those men I asked you to find last time?"
Fearing danger, the maidservant hurriedly said, "Miss, should we speak with the eldest young lady? What if those people have ill intentions, and Young Master Feng didn't come to our aid in time?"
Gui Yuan said coldly, "My sister is only thinking about marrying into the Crown Prince's palace. She spends all day writing love poems that she can't send out and embroidering mandarin ducks. How could she have time to care about my affairs? If I ask you to do something, then go ahead and make the arrangements. I know what I'm doing."
The maidservant truly couldn't understand. Her young mistress and the eldest young mistress were biological sisters, their bond as strong as if they were one since childhood. The eldest young mistress was more composed and always protected her mistress; how could her young mistress suddenly become estranged from her?
But she had no choice but to hurry up and arrange things for the young lady.
Gui Yuan went out the door, and when she was almost there, she went around to a slightly secluded alley and waited quietly.
When someone came to inform her that Feng Zizhou was coming, she pretended to fall to the ground, messing up her hair and clothes, and nervously looked at the thugs in front of her.
Those thugs were quite competent; they immediately acted like lecherous men, stepping forward to harass the young lady in front of them, and naturally, their words were not very clean either.
"Young lady, why are you out alone? Did you fall and hurt yourself? Oh, brother will be so worried."
"Brother will help you up. Come on... let brother take you home."
"This young lady is really hot, hehehe!"
Gui Yuan's eyes were full of disdain, but she pretended to be scared, secretly planning how she would throw herself into Feng Zizhou's arms and act pitiful when he arrived.
A furious shout rang out: "How dare you harass a respectable woman in broad daylight! I'm going to arrest you all!"
The thugs were all taken aback when they heard the voice. Why was this different from what they had planned?
Never mind, they agreed to act like this, so this is enough.
They exchanged glances and then scattered like birds and beasts.
Gui Yuan, lying on the ground, was stunned. It was different, so different!
She looked back, her face contorted with grief.
The plan was for Feng Zizhou to come, so why didn't we see Feng Zizhou? Instead, we saw Zhao Ning.
Zhao Ning rushed over, took off his vest, and draped it over Gui Yuan, asking with concern, "Is Yuan Yuan alright?"
What could Gui Yuan do? Her attempt to save the damsel in distress had failed, so she could only grit her teeth and pout, "It was terrifying! Thank goodness you came, Your Highness, otherwise I... otherwise I..."
Hearing this, Zhao Ning became even more furious. He patted her back and said, "Don't worry, it's alright! I'll have someone arrest them right now. They're completely lawless!"
"Ah! Don't..."
Zhao Ning turned around in confusion: "Why? They dared to do evil, so they should be punished. Don't worry, Yuanyuan, I will stand up for you!"
Gui Yuan was anxious. What could she say? She certainly couldn't tell the truth.
He could only sheepishly explain, "Don't go... County Princess, I... my reputation..."
Zhao Ning thought she was worried about ruining her reputation, and was both anxious and angry: "If you let them go so easily, who knows what they will do later! Besides, I came before they even met you, and I can vouch for your reputation!"
Gui Yuan calmed down a bit and hurriedly said, "Princess, I know you mean well. But as you said, they did nothing wrong. If they are arrested, they will only be reprimanded at most and then released. But my reputation will be tarnished because of this. Even with your guarantee, who knows what nasty things others will say."
She felt wronged, and Zhao Ning's mother agreed, trying to comfort Zhao Ning.
“Your Highness, Miss Gui is right. A young lady’s reputation is important. It’s better to avoid trouble.”
Only then did Zhao Ning give up indignantly.
Meanwhile, Feng Zizhou was walking this way when he saw two little children fighting crickets by the roadside. He couldn't help but stop and watch for a few more moments. He even tried to teach one of the children, which annoyed the other child, who cried out in protest.
The two families chased after him, and Feng Zizhou, not daring to linger, quickly ran away.
When they reached the alley entrance, they saw several guys who didn't look like good people running away as if they were being chased.
He rushed forward to check and heard a noise coming from the alley. He ran in and shouted.
"Who goes there? I am the Chief Justice of the Court of Judicial Review! Who dares to commit a crime under the Emperor's nose? Come out now, or don't blame me for being impolite!"
Upon hearing this voice, Zhao Ning impatiently stood up and rolled her eyes: "You call yourself the head of the Dali Temple? At this rate, everything will be cold by the time you arrive! I've already chased the bad guys away, and you're only just getting here?"
When Feng Zizhou saw that it was her, he breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward to ask, "What happened?"
Zhao Ning recounted the events in general terms: "Luckily, I was brave and fearless enough to scare them away, and Yuanyuan was unharmed!"
"Miss Gui, are you alright?"
Feng Zizhou glanced at Gui Yuan, who had already been helped up and tidied up, and without waiting for her reply, gave Zhao Ning a thumbs up.
"Zhao Ning did a good job. He stood up for what was right and helped those in need. Very good!"
Gui Yuan was initially pleased to hear Feng Zizhou's concern for her, and she tidied her hair, wanting to respond.
Unexpectedly, Feng Zizhou wasn't really concerned; he just asked casually and immediately went to talk to Zhao Ning.
She glanced at Feng Zizhou, then at Zhao Ning, a strange feeling rising within her.
She had this feeling when she saw the two of them together last time, and this time it was even more obvious!
Zhao Ning said nonchalantly, "Of course I'm good! Do you think everyone is like you? When it comes to serious matters, there's never anyone you can rely on!"