Chapter Fifty: Rescue on Long Street

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  And Li Bo Tian has a little-known hobby, which is that he likes children.

  In an era with a more open social atmosphere, ancient officials and nobles would often raise beautiful young boys in their homes, known as "娈｜童". Once these "娈｜童" reached a certain age, they would be provided for people to indulge in carnal pleasure. Ancient poetry and literature have numerous records of such behavior. Qing Jin had occasionally come across this information on Baidu before he traveled through time.

  Never thought that such a thing would happen in real life, Qingjin didn't know until after crossing over to this lifetime that the great aristocratic families also had such practices of raising children as playthings, and it's all thanks to Li Botian.

  That was after she had married Long Hanyuan as a concubine, and the Empress Ying didn't know why she was abandoned by Emperor Ming. It was exposed after Li Botian was retaliated against.

  Li Bo Tian had a fondness for catamites, and among the nobles of the capital city, there were also those who kept catamites. This was not a big deal, but Li Bo Tian was even more abnormal. After playing with ordinary catamites sent from all over, he became dissatisfied with these ordinary catamites and began to reach out to some younger sons or collateral branches of small families in the capital city, threatening and enticing them to secretly send their beautiful young boys to his mansion for him to indulge in.

  Those small families initially refused to submit, but the favor of the Empress was at its peak. Those small families that refused Li Bo Tian would suffer devastating revenge, and in order to avoid destruction, those small families had no choice but to submit. Gradually, some small families, for the sake of benefit, even took the initiative to offer their more handsome younger sons from side branches... This also made Li Bo Tian's ambition grow bigger... He gradually became dissatisfied with those low-born illegitimate sons or beautiful young men from side branches...

  But Li Botian, although spoiled, was extremely good at reading the situation and knew who could be easily bullied and who couldn't be provoked at all. As a result, he had never offended anyone who shouldn't be messed with, which also made Li Botian's perverted hobby little known to others, of course, this did not include the reborn Gu Qingyu.

  During this time, Qingjin was busy arranging her own marriage. If she hadn't asked Yuanyang today, Qingjin would have almost forgotten. In her past life, she didn't consider Ningxuan as a younger brother at all, only knowing that after Ningxuan followed Gu Qingyao and the others out during this time period, he completely changed into a different person when he came back - violent-tempered, easily irritated, isolated and gloomy.

  She didn't understand her brother's sudden change at the time, and thought that Gu Ningxuan was being spoiled by their mother, Junshi, to the point of becoming more and more arrogant. She had also pretended to be kind and visited Gu Ningxuan several times, until she married Long Han yuan a few years later, when the Empress lost favor and exposed the scandalous affairs of the Empress's brother, Li Botian, in the palace.

  After Li Bo Tian's affair was exposed, Qing Jin suddenly remembered that her younger brother had met Li Bo Tian when he was young and had stayed overnight at the Li residence. It was only after that night that her brother became gloomy and indifferent.

  She was already regretting her past actions at that time. She wanted to avenge her brother, but someone had taken a step ahead and annihilated the entire Li family, and later it was the turn of Jun Shi being divorced...and so on. Jun Shi being divorced, her maternal grandfather sent a letter. She seemed to have caught some connection, she frowned. In her past life, there didn't seem to be this incident of her maternal grandfather sending a letter, but in her past life, her relationship with Jun Shi didn't seem as close as it was now, and suddenly an absurd idea popped up in her mind...

  But what's most important now is not thinking about this. Regardless of whether the Li family massacre and Junshi are related, what she needs to do now is prevent her brother from being implicated by Li Botian.

  She didn't know when Li Botian had that perverted idea, but she knew that if Li Botian really had that perverted idea about her brother, the current Anji Houfu was absolutely not within Li Botian's need to consider the situation and be cautious. She thought that in her previous life, Ning Xuan had gone out with Gu Qingyao, and somehow ended up running into this Li Botian.

  Last time, Ning Xuan also went out with Gu Qingyao and unexpectedly ran into Long Han Yuan's group. She almost got killed by Long Han Yuan's guards. This time, if she hadn't asked Yuanyang, or didn't remember this matter, then wouldn't her brother still be...

  At this thought, Qingjin's eyes gleamed with a fierce light as she lashed out at the horse's rump with all her might, urging it to go even faster. To her, Gu Ningxuan was her own brother, and in her past life, she had been indifferent to him, viewing him as an enemy who had stolen their mother's love. As a result, she had always been cold and detached when it came to his affairs. However, in this lifetime, although she hadn't said anything out loud, she had long since acknowledged Gu Ningxuan as her own brother. How could she possibly allow her own brother to be humiliated?

  Li Bo Tian, if you dare to touch a single hair on my brother's head, I, Gu Qing Jin, will make sure that for the rest of your life, you'll be unable to live and unable to die.

  Sometimes, death is the most merciful thing!

  Thinking so, he whipped the horse's buttocks twice with all his might. The horse under him sped up even faster. Wearing a red garment, with an aura of murder and killing, like a malevolent spirit from hell, people on the street gave way to him from afar.

  Straining his mind to think of things from his past life, recalling the conflicts between Gu Ningxuan and Li Botian, he suddenly remembered that it was at Jufu Building. With this thought, he urged his horse to gallop towards Jufu Building.

  When Qing Jin rushed to the scene on horseback, there were already many people gathered outside Jufu Building. Qing Jin clearly heard a voice that belonged to Qing Yao say: "Seventh brother, you should apologize to this young master, after all...after all, we were in the wrong first and bumped into this young master..."

  Qing Jin sat on the horse, her eyes gazing past the crowd to see the situation clearly. She saw Gu Qing Yao standing in the crowd, her brother Gu Ning Xuan stubbornly standing by her side, while Gu Qing Xia and Gu Qing Qi stood timidly in an inconspicuous corner of the crowd.

  Among the crowd, after hearing Qing Yao's words, Gu Ning Xuan looked over with discontent, "Fourth sister, it wasn't me who bumped into him, it was clearly him, he bumped into me himself."

  "Hey, you little brat is indeed strong in words and weak in reason. You bumped into me, yet you say I came to bump into you? It seems that no one in your household has taught you anything. Since no one in your household has taught you, come on, take this little brat back home, I'll teach him a good lesson."

  Upon hearing this, Qingjin looked over and saw a young man of about twenty years old. Although he was quite good-looking, his flashy and lewd demeanor completely ruined it. This must be Li Botian.

  Qing Jin remained still on horseback, wanting to see what Gu Qing Yao would do.

  Among the crowd, Qingyao heard Li Botian's words and saw the evil slaves of the Li family approaching. Her heart was in a state of panic, and her eyes accusingly looked at Gu Ningxuan. Just by looking at this person, she knew he wasn't a good person. She had seen him deliberately walk to Seventh Brother's side and intentionally let Seventh Brother bump into him. She also wanted to help Seventh Brother get justice back, but they were all women on their side, while the other side had many people.

  Only by shifting the blame to Seventh Brother's body, after returning home, inform Grandmother, and then let Grandmother help Seventh Brother get justice from this person. However, Seventh Brother is now at odds with someone, Li Bo Tian is not a good person, she has already heard it from the surrounding people's discussions, this is just a temporary show of weakness, but Seventh Brother does not understand her kindness, and now he is even more turning his head to one side.

  Li Bo Tian saw Gu Qing Yao and Gu Ning Xuan's movements, a satisfied smile in his heart. He indeed intentionally let that little kid bump into him. As a noble family in the capital city, there were one or two good children like this, he was fortunate to be one of them, and he was better at playing than others.

  When these girls brought the boy into Jufu Building, he noticed it. Seeing the boy's small face was even more heart-wrenching, but seeing that these people were all dressed in good clothes, he was afraid of being unable to provoke a young master from a certain family, so he deliberately asked someone next to him to inquire about it, and it turned out that this boy was the legitimate son of the Anji Marquis's mansion in Beijing.

  The name of the Anguo Marquis Manor sounds good, but in reality it is just an unremarkable aristocratic family in the capital that has already fallen into decline. He is the younger brother of Emperor Ming's favorite concubine, so even if he were to take over as the heir of the Anguo Marquis Manor, what would be the point? Perhaps the Anguo Marquis Manor could only swallow its pride and remain silent. Moreover, in order to prevent the Anguo Marquis Manor from falling into further decline, they might even try to curry favor with him, thinking this way made his courage grow.

  As he saw the crowd preparing to leave, he came down from the stairs ahead of time and bumped into that boy. The scoundrel then falsely accused the boy of bumping into him. Unexpectedly, the boy's sister was quite sharp-tongued and immediately asked the child to apologize to him. However, the boy's temperament, which he had observed earlier, was definitely spoiled at home and would not take the initiative to admit his mistake... At this time, it was just right for him to borrow the situation and have his subordinates bring the boy back to the mansion, accomplishing a good deed. Later, even if the visitor from the Anji Hou Mansion came, he could say that he didn't know the boy was the son of the Anji Hou Mansion, that he was the younger brother of the Ming Emperor's concubine, Ying Fei, and the emperor's uncle-in-law. The Anji Hou Mansion wouldn't dare to cause trouble for him; in the best-case scenario, it would be like those small aristocratic families in the past, who might even try to curry favor with him...

  Looking at the girl's face of condemnation, the boy still refused to apologize, Li Tianbo was delighted in his heart, but on the surface, he pretended to be regretful. "This young lady, it seems that your brother is not willing to listen to you. Since your brother is not willing to apologize, don't blame me for taking him away and teaching him a lesson personally." As he spoke, the evil slaves behind him walked forward with ill intentions.

  Gu Ningxuan saw this scene and was also a little scared, after all, he was still a child. Seeing these people with ill intentions, but looking at that person, biting his lip, he clearly didn't bump into anyone, it was that man who bumped into him instead.

  Why didn't Fourth Sister believe him? She thought of what Gu Qingjin's maid, Yuanyuan, had said on the street last time. If Gu Qingjin were here, she should have believed him!

  Gu Ningxuan was not a foolish child, seeing the man's gaze towards himself made him inexplicably disgusted, and also the appearance of these evil slaves. Alright, he would apologize first, but after that, he must get justice back, thinking this way, just as he was about to open his mouth.

  On the other side, Li Botian saw that this kid was actually willing to apologize and thought it wouldn't do. If this kid apologized, how could he still have Ming Zhengda take him away? Although he was a spoiled rich kid, he still had some guts. In an instant, he moved over to Gu Ningxuan's side and stopped him from speaking up.