I Am This Type of Woman

88.1

"Run! Run!"

The fine horse galloped down the street, pedestrians on the streets scurried to make way, wondering this time which noble family's son was in a bad mood and went to run a fast horse to vent.

Rich people did not shrink at the fine of a hundred liangs for speeding horses in the city. The world of rich people was not what ordinary people like them could understand.

Shi Jin rode out of the city, he searched around but could not find his sister's trace. He turned back and asked the guards on the city gate, "Have the female prisoners heading to The Western left the city?"

The one he asked was a new guard, being asked by someone with an imposing air and dressed in luxurious brocade, he hurriedly replied, "It has left two shichens ago."

"Two shichens ago?" Shi Jin grabbed the guard's lapel, "They said the prisoners were going at wu shi?"

"Gong..... Gongzi, that's not what zaixia was told." The gongzi was as mad as a lunatic, the guard was afraid to make him angrier, he very carefully said, "The paperwork zaixia received from the upper says the batch of female prisoners for The Western were to depart on the first quarter of chen shi."

* Wu shi 午时 = 11 am – 1 pm. Chen shi 辰时 = 7 – 9 am, first quarter of chen shi = 7 am.

"Chen shi......" Shi Jin released the guard in a daze, the earth instantly felt like spinning under his feet.

"Master!" At that moment Shi family guards finally caught up with him, "Master Minister said to return immediately."

"Get lost!" Shi Jin kicked the guard closest to him, he looked as if he had lost his soul. After staring coldly at the guards for some time he said, "All of you go back, I am going out."

"Gongzi....." The guards he kicked climbed up from the ground, hurriedly said, "The Minister said gongzi is not to be impulsive, whatever gongzi says and does affect the whole clan."

Apart from Shi Chonghai's lineage, Shi clan had many other branches, all of them were living under his wing. If Shi Chonghai fell, everyone fell with him.

Trembling all over, Shi Jin laughed a bitter laugh. He led his horse into the city without looking back at the guards.

Since he was born Father had been telling him that the clan was on top of everything. His eldest sister was married to the Crown Prince, the second sister was brought up rotten by his parents. He himself had to follow his father's every wish to the letter, otherwise he would be called unfilial, because he would have put Shi family's glory and wealth at risk.

Carrying the burden of the clan was too tiring.

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Walking into the loud and noisy crowd in the city, among people coming and going around him, Shi Jin felt choked and breathless.

A little girl was on the side of the road with her hand clasped in her father's. She was clamouring for her father to carry her, the father bent down and whispered something, then took the little girl in his arms. Little girl wrapped her arms around his neck happily, the dimples on her cheeks were really cute.

This..... this was how a family should be, right?

Shi Jin stood without moving, only until the pair of father and daughter were far that he withdrew his eyes. He turned around and saw an elderly woman selling silk flowers. Compassion suddenly surged in his heart, he took out a handful of money to buy the entire basket of silk flowers.

T/N – This old woman selling silk flower is from Chapter 63. Ban Hua and Rong Xia met her when they were fooling around on a date on the street.

"How come gongzi is alone today?" The old woman handed him the basket while smiling gently, "Your fiancee is not with you?"