The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 77

Chapter 77: 77 Oaths

No sooner had the county magistrate left than Huang Zhong arrived.

“Marquis! Marquis!”

“How come it’s just you? Where’s the child?”

“Almost been swindled! The Gu Family deceived us!” Huang Zhong told the story of how the Gu Family had sent a decoy, “Luckily, we ran into brother Xiaoshun, otherwise we would have made a mistake again!”

The Marquis was livid. Very well, these people were asking for death! He would deal with them later!

“Are you deaf when I ask you something?” The Marquis glared at Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong sneered, wasn’t he hesitant about recognizing the child at first? Why was he so anxious now?

Huang Zhong took out a lifelike wooden carving from his bosom: “Brother Xiaoshun gave it to me, he said this is the young miss!”

The last wooden carving had been given to the head of the courtyard’s old mother, and then Gu Xiaoshun carved a new one, which had not yet been presented to Gu Jiao.

Having learned his lesson, Huang Zhong didn’t reveal the truth to Gu Xiaoshun but simply said that his master had received Gu Jiao’s favor and wanted to invite her to the town to thank her.

Gu Xiaoshun, afraid that they would make the same mistake again, presented him with the carving.

The Marquis was struck by a sense of familiarity looking at the wooden carving.

“There’s something missing.” Huang Zhong fumbled in his bosom, took out a small patch, and pasted it onto the left face of the wooden carving, “Brother Xiaoshun said, the young miss has a red birthmark on her face.”

A red birthmark…

The Marquis finally realized why the wooden carving looked familiar. Wasn’t it the same wretched girl whom he had just ordered to be arrested?

“Did you get it wrong?” The Marquis frowned.

“Absolutely no mistake this time!” Huang Zhong had confirmed with the villagers and it was indeed the child from the Gu Family’s third branch!

The Marquis felt as if he had been struck by a thunderclap; he began to wobble unsteadily.

Noticing the oddness of his master, Huang Zhong asked worriedly, “Marquis, what’s wrong? You wouldn’t despise the young miss because of her facial flaw, right? Brother Xiaoshun said that although she has a birthmark, she doesn’t look bad at all!”

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; Xiaoshun never thought his sister was ugly.

Just as Huang Zhong was waiting for the Marquis to respond, in the next second, the Marquis had disappeared!

Naturally, the Marquis went after Gu Jiao. He had no idea that the wretched girl was the one he had been looking for!

What had he done?

He had personally sent her to prison!

Whether she could be recognized or not was one thing; it would even be difficult to collect her blood for the medicine now!

When the Marquis arrived at the county government, the county magistrate and his men had just arrived.

Earlier, his identity had been revealed in order to gain the county magistrate’s obedience. Now, when the county magistrate saw him, he hurriedly greeted him. However, the Marquis didn’t even spare him a glance and walked straight to the carriage holding Gu Jiao and the other.

An unexpected thing happened; the carriage was empty, not a single figure inside!

The Marquis glared: “Where are they?”

The county magistrate was also taken aback. Right, where had they gone? He had seen her get onto the carriage with the child, they had not stopped along the way. How did they just disappear?

Could that girl be some hidden expert?

Wiping the cold sweat from his brow, the county magistrate said: “I, I have been negligent. I will immediately send people to catch her and give her severe punishment! Let her dare to run away again!”

A mere ninth-ranked official, daring to severely punish the lineage of the Marquis Residence? The Marquis berated: “You dog official! Even children you arrest! And give severe punishment! Can’t you soar to the heaven?”

With a stupefied expression, the county magistrate said, “Wasn’t… Wasn’t it you who ordered me to arrest them?”

The Marquis kicked him: “Just because I told you to arrest them, you did? Who is the real parent of the people? You don’t stand up for the people and instead curry favor with the powerful. What use are you?”