Chapter 95 Thrown into the thieves den

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Su Qingyan suddenly felt a chill rush up his body. He turned to look behind him but did not see anyone. He couldn't help but be a little confused. He quickly turned his attention to Yun Xi who had been silent in the background.

"You are the girl's husband? Listening to what Xiao Dong just said, you shouted … your wife was going to have a baby?"

Xia Yuqing hearing that wiped the drool that just flowed out and looked at Yunxi nervously. From one glance she could tell that the second master was a shrewd person, he wasn't like those bandits, so easily fooled!

"Um … that's right."

"If she is your wife, how can you not know that she has only been pregnant for around four months? Women are pregnant for ten months. How can she give birth only after four? Why did you call for birth? Are you really her husband? Looking at how thin you are with your dainty limbs and childish appearance, it looks like … "

After being so aggressively questioned by Su Qingyan, Yun Xi was caught off guard. Before she could respond, she heard Xia Yuqing say: "He is not!"

Everyone's attention moved to Xia Yuqing's body. Yun Xi's face turned pale and he looked at Xia Yuqing with disbelief.

Xia Yuqing did not have a trace of confusion, she said firmly, "He is indeed not my husband, but he is the father of the child in my belly."

"Oh, what's going on?" Xia Yuqing's words, however, raised Su Qingyan's interest a little causing him to raise his eyebrows.

A few straight-headed people on the side apparently begun to misunderstand. The young man was not the girl's husband, but the biological father of the child in the girl's womb? Could it be that the girl was actually married to someone else, but was cheating on her husband? Then after getting knocked up, they eloped?

With this in mind, everyone not only expressed a bit of sympathy for the man given the green hat*, but also began to cast condemnation on the cheating couple they brought back.

* given the green hat means being cheated on

Xia Yuqing was so busy making up lies she didn't realize what she pointed out. But Yun Xi could feel the stares and his heart had begun to regret. Why had he gotten himself in this mess?

Fortunately, Xia Yuqing quickly recovered. She coughed and said sadly: "You older brothers have no idea. I grew up with Xi'er from an early age, we are childhood friends. We both came from scholarly families. The relationship between our parents were also very good. Although I am a few years older than Xi Er, from a young age we were already arranged to get married. Being inseparable since childhood, we have identified each other as soul mates. We just did not expect… "

Speaking to this point, Xia Yuqing sobbed twice and said pitifully: "The business of Xi'er's family failed in the past two years and their family's way of life has also fallen short. My father and mother… looking at Xi's family's decline, did not feel that our families were suitable, thus was no longer willing to let me be with him. "

"How can your father and mother do this?" These robbers were all poor and the thing they hate most was the kind of people who looked down on the poor and loved the rich. Hearing this, someone had already began to curse.

What Xia Yuqing wanted was exactly this effect. She pinched down hard on her thigh and her eyes suddenly became red: "My father and mother opposed us being together and insisted on cancelling the engagement, but I refused no matter what. I swore that I would be with Xi Er for life. With no choice, my father and mother decided to put this matter aside. After a little half a year, Xier and I thought they had given up. Yet six months later, my father and mother wanted to force me to marry another family's son again. "

"Your father and mother really… what happened after?" Wu Jun couldn't bear the suspense and anxiously urged Xia Yuqing to continue.

"Later, Xier and I were forced with no other choice and thought…" Xia Yuqing twisted her handkerchief pretending to display a shameful look and shouted, "That if raw rice became cooked rice* then father and mother can no longer object."

* can't undo things that have already happened

So that's it! The crowd suddenly realized that it wasn't a cheating couple eloping, instead it was going against their parents' order. For their true love, they decided to get pregnant before marriage, to cook the raw rice! All of a sudden, everyone's gaze changed from scorn to sympathy. Alas, this couple is really unfortunate!

"Then after your father and mother knew you were pregnant, did they promised to keep you together?" Xiao San couldn't help asking this. He was originally a scholar. Although he was forced into this life of plundering he still had the spirit of a literati remaining in his bones. What was most enviable in ordinary times is this kind of beautiful love story. Now with a living example in front of himself, how can he suppress his curiosity?

"Then…" Xia Yuqing snorted twice and wiped the tears in the corners of her eyes and said sadly, "I became pregnant. I told my father and mother about this hoping they would support me and Xier. Who would expect that my parents would not allow us to be together instead they became angered…. and also tried to force me to remove the child and have me marry another person."