After Transmigration, I Snag a Stunning Bigwig as My Husband

Chapter 1185 - 15: Journey to the Southern Border (Part 4)

After listening to Qin Lanlan talk about how she got married, Chu Shun’s anger toward Young Master Xia had already faded by seventy to eighty percent.He can even mistake people, so it looks like he doesn’t care that much about his wife.

But Qin Hanhan’s anger toward Young Master Xia was still there.

Her cousin used to be such a gentle person, and after marrying into the Xia Family her temper’s turned this bad—clearly Young Master Xia must have pissed her off plenty!

Young Master Xia: "..."

Her cousin is gentle?

He’s several degrees gentler than her cousin!

Young Master Xia was too furious to speak.

Qin Lanlan held onto Qin Hanhan, looked at Chu Shun and asked, "Is he the Heir of Duke Jingguo of Daqi, my cousin’s husband?"

Chu Shun’s whole body exuded noble airs; that kind of nobility was really rare to see.

Daqi’s etiquette and morals were very strict, and Qin Lanlan knew that. After marrying into the Xia Family, borrowing their influence, it became easier for her to inquire about news from Daqi.

Qin Hanhan nodded.

Qin Lanlan just couldn’t figure it out.

Why is her cousin not dressed like a daughter of the Southern Border, yet her cousin’s husband is?

Qin Hanhan was too embarrassed to say it.

She really couldn’t bring herself to say her own husband was jealous.

"Sometimes his brain doesn’t work very well," Qin Hanhan said in a low voice.

"..."

Qin Lanlan held Qin Hanhan’s hand. In front of Chu Shun, she couldn’t say she was reluctant to let Qin Hanhan marry off to Daqi, but that was what she had always thought in her heart.

Now that Qin Hanhan was saying Chu Shun’s brain wasn’t too good, Qin Lanlan felt even more distressed for her cousin.

"So this time you came back to the Southern Border to bring him home and treat his head?" Qin Lanlan asked softly.

"..."

Qin Hanhan was dumbfounded.

How did the topic get twisted like this?

Chu Shun looked over, and Qin Hanhan hurriedly changed the subject. "We came back to look for the Method of Gu Poison to detoxify the Unity Gu."

Qin Lanlan frowned.

She figured Qin Hanhan was afraid Chu Shun would get angry, so she didn’t mention the issue of his brain being sick.

Qin Lanlan looked at Qin Hanhan and asked, "The Unity Gu can actually be undone?"

People of the Southern Border were good at using parasites.

Qin Lanlan and Qin Hanhan had grown up together. Her understanding of Gu Worms wasn’t as deep as Qin Hanhan’s, but it wasn’t far behind either.

Qin Hanhan said with some melancholy, "I don’t know either, but I heard my father say that everything in this world counteracts something else. If poison can be used, it can be cured."

She believed the Unity Gu could be undone; it was just that very few people knew the detoxification methods.

Qin Hanhan was the Heir of Marquis Jing Country’s wife. For her and the Heir of Duke Jingguo of Daqi to go all the way to the Southern Border, the person afflicted by the Unity Gu must be someone of very unusual status.

The Unity Gu means two lives tied to one death.

Could it be that the person who’d been given the parasite had had a change of heart and was now trying to find a way to undo it?

Qin Lanlan couldn’t really help in this matter. Just then the wet nurse came over carrying the child, and Qin Lanlan coaxed the baby while Qin Hanhan held the little hand and said, "Cousin, his brows and eyes really look like yours."

As she spoke, she took off the Jade Pendant she always carried and gave it to her nephew as a meeting gift.

She hadn’t known her cousin was in the Xia Family, and even less that she had a nephew. The Jade Pendant was quite valuable, but she still felt it was not thoughtful enough. She planned to bring another present for her nephew the next day.

Seeing how much she liked the child, Qin Lanlan looked at her and said, "You’ve been married for three years. Don’t tell me you still haven’t had a child?"

"I have," Qin Hanhan replied.

"A boy or a girl?" Qin Lanlan asked excitedly.

"One son and one daughter."

"..."

Qin Lanlan was dying of envy. She and her cousin had married around the same time—she might’ve even married a little earlier—yet her cousin already had both a son and a daughter.

Qin Lanlan glared at Young Master Xia.

Young Master Xia: "..."

How was this his fault?

If she hadn’t refused to consummate the marriage for so long, he’d definitely have had both a son and a daughter by now.

Qin Lanlan realized it wasn’t fair to blame Young Master Xia for this. She turned to Qin Hanhan and said, "I don’t know how to undo the Unity Gu either, but there’s a Mr. Tao about a hundred li from here."

"He’s very old and has seen a lot. Maybe he knows something about the Unity Gu."

Qin Hanhan nodded and decided to go pay Mr. Tao a visit.

Qin Lanlan couldn’t bear to part with her cousin and wanted her to stay at the Xia Family.

Qin Hanhan declined. She was afraid Young Master Xia and Chu Shun would get into another fight and really come to blows.

She tried her best to keep them apart, but in the end Qin Lanlan kept trying desperately to push the two of them together. "Let my husband take you there in a couple of days."

Qin Hanhan couldn’t bring herself to refuse her cousin’s kindness, so she had to agree.

Since it was so rare to reunite with her cousin, Qin Hanhan stayed two extra days. She didn’t live in the Xia Family, but she spent more than half her time there.

Once the Xia Family girl found out that Chu Shun was Eldest Young Madam Xia’s cousin’s husband, she gave up on that idea.

It was just that she’d reached a marriageable age, and Mr. Xia and Mrs. Xia were looking for a husband for her. She wanted to pick one she found pleasing to the eye herself.

After half a month of looking, Chu Shun was the best-looking of them all.

She had only started to feel spring stirrings because she thought Chu Shun was a Southern Border Person. Once she learned he was from Daqi—and the Heir of Marquis Jingguo at that—she dropped the idea.

She didn’t want to marry that far away, much less become someone’s concubine.

When the two days were up, Qin Hanhan said goodbye to her cousin.

The two cousins were reluctant to part and agreed that on their way back to Daqi, they’d visit the Xia Family again to see her.

Young Master Xia took them to find Mr. Tao.

Halfway there, Young Master Xia was chatting idly with Chu Shun. With a brotherly, heart-to-heart tone, he said, "You don’t sound like someone whose brain is sick. Could it be some kind of hidden illness?"

Chu Shun: "..."

The smile on Chu Shun’s face froze.

Whose brain is sick?!

Your brain is sick!

Chu Shun glared at him. "Who told you I’m brain-sick?"

"My wife said your wife told her," Young Master Xia sold out both Qin Hanhan and Qin Lanlan in one breath.

He didn’t even realize anything was wrong, and comforted Chu Shun instead. "Don’t worry, we have lots of people in the Southern Border with excellent Medical Skill. Any kind of strange hidden illness can be cured."

Chu Shun was so mad he didn’t even have the strength to be angry anymore.

Finding a chance when they were alone, Chu Shun tightened his arm around Qin Hanhan’s waist and said, "To stop that Xia girl from wanting to marry me, you still can’t go around saying I’m brain-sick!"

Qin Hanhan: "..."

When had she ever said he was brain-sick?

She was just about to refute him, then vaguely remembered what she’d actually said.

The corners of Qin Hanhan’s mouth twitched uncontrollably. She glared at Chu Shun. "How is that my fault?!"

"If it’s not your fault, is it mine?" Chu Shun ground out between his teeth.

"Of course it’s yours!" Qin Hanhan snorted.

"My cousin asked why you were wearing Southern Border clothes when I wasn’t. I couldn’t explain it, so I said sometimes your head isn’t quite right."

"She misunderstood."

"..."

Chu Shun was speechless.

He could only comfort himself with the thought that they wouldn’t be staying long in the Southern Border—let them misunderstand if they wanted.

He was just very displeased with that look of concern Young Master Xia kept throwing his way every now and then. Chu Shun’s palms actually itched to punch him.

When it came to stabbing people in the heart with words, Chu Shun and his brothers were real experts.

He patted Young Master Xia on the shoulder and said, "How did you end up in this state? Is there not a single person in the Xia Family who’s on your side?"

Whoosh.

That was a dagger stabbing straight into Young Master Xia’s heart.

Young Master Xia sighed. "Don’t even bring it up. My father’s just dying for me to bring home a shrew."

"At first my mother was still on my side, so it wasn’t that miserable."

"But then Lanlan gave me a son, and my mother’s on her side now too."

"Is there anyone more miserable than me?"

Chu Shun actually felt a bit sorry for him.

That feeling of losing favor the moment you had a son—he’d been through that himself.

But if we’re talking about who’s the most miserable, Young Master Xia didn’t even make the ranking.

Who could be more miserable than Prince NanAn?

Even Xie Jingchen, with his two fathers-in-law and two big brothers-in-law, couldn’t compare.

Before he left home, Prince NanAn had just gotten to the bottom of the matter with the broken engagement Jade Pendant from back then.

He’d learned that the Jade Pendant sent back to break off the engagement had been returned to Prince NanAn Mansion by Nie Yao, only to be intercepted by Prince NanAn halfway. Prince NanAn had rushed off to question Prince NanAn over it.

Prince NanAn looked at him and said, "If I hadn’t intercepted that Jade Pendant, would you have been able to marry Yaoyao?"

"This is how you thank your father?"

Prince NanAn had nearly fainted from fury on the spot.

He couldn’t faint, though, and had to obediently say, "Thank you, Father, for going to such lengths to scheme against me back then."

Prince NanAn: "..."

Being set up and still having to say thank you—can you get more miserable than that?

After hearing about Prince NanAn, Young Master Xia said, moved, "Hearing you say all that makes me feel a lot better."

Chu Shun: "..."