Chapter 137 Getting Pregnant

Sheng Huai'an was brought back to the Sheng residence. His miserable appearance made the servants afraid to look at him for long, and they remained silent in fear.

Yu Shu, who had been serving in the study, was deathly pale and looked as if she might faint at any moment.

As Sheng Huai'an's concubine, her goal was always to become Sheng Huai'an's mistress. From then on, she could live a life of luxury with Sheng Huai'an, and the children she bore would be half masters.

But now Sheng Huai'an is ruined.

From now on, we can't have sex anymore!

Would someone as useless as her still keep a concubine?

Is that possible?

Yu Shu felt increasingly desperate the more she thought about it.

Just when she was feeling anxious, she received a letter from a mysterious person. The letter contained only one word: pregnant.

pregnant?

Pregnant?

Oh, right!

Yu Shu's eyes lit up, and she immediately understood the key point.

She went to Fu'an in a great hurry.

"Now that Second Master is crippled, I want to get pregnant with his child as soon as possible. Fu'an, you'll help me, right?"

Fu'an was taken aback: "Second Master is crippled, how can you be pregnant?"

Their eyes met.

Yu Shu stared straight at him with a firm gaze, and Fu An, not being slow-witted, immediately understood what Yu Shu meant.

She wanted his child.

Sheng Huai'an is ruined, isn't that perfect?

If Yu Shu were to be diagnosed with pregnancy at this time, the child in her womb would be Sheng Huai'an's only heir!

“We are all people living in this world. Don’t you want your child to become a master, pass the imperial examination, and become a person of high status?” Yu Shu asked enticingly.

Fu'an was very tempted, but no matter how tempted he was, he could only refuse helplessly: "I found out where Yinzhu is, and I love her... I want to go find her."

"Yinzhu has already been taken as a concubine by the Second Master, and you still want her?"

Fu An smiled憨厚ly: "I've only found out where she is, I haven't proposed to her yet. I'm just a servant, it's my good fortune that she's willing to be with me."

As soon as he said that, Yu Shu knew that asking him for "help" was impossible.

Her eyes darkened, and she felt a pang of envy for Yinzhu, with whom she had little interaction.

But what could she do? As a maidservant, she was confined to the inner quarters, and finding a suitable person to conceive with was no easy task.

If not handled properly, it can easily lead to problems.

Fu An then said, "However, if you don't mind changing to someone else, I can make the connection for you and cover for you."

“Of course I can!” Yu Shu’s eyes lit up.

She said, "I don't care who the father of the child is. It's just a matter of a few nights. I can bear with it and it will pass."

"Just one thing: try your best to find someone outside the manor, preferably someone who looks somewhat like Sheng Huai'an, and have him meet me with his face covered."

"Oh, and you also need to bribe a doctor to tell Jia that I'm already pregnant. Once I've received better treatment, I can figure out how to get pregnant later."

"If the months don't match, I'll pretend to slip and fall when I give birth, and say it's premature."

“If I don’t make Jia take me seriously, I’m afraid she might do something stupid, hate me, and sell me out.”

Yu Shu contacted Fu An earlier because it would be convenient.

Now that Fu'an is going to help her, she naturally hopes that her plan will go perfectly, so she makes more demands.

Fu'an readily agreed: "Don't worry, I'll take care of it. From now on, your child will be my nephew. If you become successful because of your son, just don't forget me. If you do forget, it doesn't matter, my brother will remember for you."

This is a subtle hint to Yu Shu: don't burn bridges after you've served your purpose, and remember to give her a kickback.

Yu Shu smiled slightly: "Don't worry."

A mutually beneficial arrangement, where both parties benefit, is naturally desirable.

With interests at stake, the relationship will not break down for the time being.

We'll talk about the future later.

Seizing the opportunity at hand is the most important thing.

...

Everything went smoothly for Yu Shu, but Sheng Huai'an's situation was very bad.

He remained unconscious, with a persistent high fever, and his body grew weaker and weaker, seemingly on his last breath.

For Jia, having a castrated son was better than having no son at all.

Fearing something might happen to Sheng Huai'an, she desperately sought any solution and even came up with the idea of ​​finding him a marriage partner to bring him good luck.

In Jia's view, the reason why Sheng Huai'an ended up in his current situation all started when he was kidnapped on his wedding day.

Since that day, everything has gone wrong for the mother and son, and they have been plagued by misfortune.

Following this logic, it would be best to let Sheng Huai'an get married smoothly.

But now he's in this state, not only embroiled in scandals but also unable to function as a man. Who would want to marry a man like that?

This time, Jia learned her lesson.

They gained self-awareness.

She didn't look for wealthy families or girls from modest backgrounds; instead, she secretly set her sights on reformed prostitutes.

In her view, a woman of the night has been seen by a thousand men for her jade-like arms and ten thousand men for her red lips. Once she has seen enough, she may lose interest in matters of love and not care whether a man can make her happy.

She might agree to marry Sheng Huai'an to bring him good luck, and then live a peaceful and honest life.

Furthermore, marrying a reformed prostitute has another advantage.

That means they don't want a betrothal gift!

In fact, the woman would even bring the gold and silver jewelry she had accumulated during her years in prostitution to the Sheng family mansion.

This greatly relieved their family's predicament.

That's killing two birds with one stone!

Madam Jia had a good plan, but she never considered whether her son could accept a woman of the night.

While she was searching for the right person, she also heard some great news.

Yu Shu is pregnant!

The doctor at Ping An Tang confirmed it, saying that the pulse was steady and strong, indicating it was most likely a boy!

At this, Jia almost burst into tears of joy!

However, this is not the end.

I don't know where I heard that the Jia family was looking for a reformed prostitute to marry Sheng Huai'an. Surprisingly, a peasant girl came to the door and offered herself up, saying that she was willing to marry Sheng Huai'an and did not care about his physical disability. She only needed the Sheng family to provide her with shelter from the wind and rain.

Faced with the choice between a courtesan and a virtuous peasant girl as her daughter-in-law, Jia Shi wasn't foolish enough to choose the latter.

After all, he's a clean person, and it sounds better than marrying a prostitute.

It doesn't matter if a peasant girl's family is poor and can't afford a dowry.

At worst, after marrying a peasant girl as his principal wife, he could take several prostitutes as concubines and have them bring their accumulated wealth to the Sheng family mansion. That would be the same thing!

Without hesitation, Jia agreed to the peasant girl's request and quickly selected a date, planning to arrange a simple wedding ceremony.

She was also willing to accept prostitutes who came to her door to become her concubines.

If she didn't want to, she cursed a couple of times and then let go.

...

Linfeng Hall.

Upon hearing about Jia's series of miraculous operations, Ye Mingzhu was utterly amazed.

Sheng Huai'an was castrated, and she secretly helped to do so.

Yu Shu's pregnancy was also deliberately orchestrated by her, in order to kick Sheng Huai'an when he was down and make his situation even worse.

However, Jia's decision to find a prostitute as a wife, and the peasant girl who came to Sheng Huai'an's door willing to bring him good fortune, were not arranged by her.

How could anyone be willing to marry Sheng Huai'an and ruin their life?

She couldn't understand it.

Ruixiang hesitated and said, "Madam, there is something I'm not sure if I should say."

Ye Mingzhu said, "Go ahead."

Ruixiang said, "Although I am not photographic, I do have some ability to remember faces."

"When that peasant girl came to the Sheng family to recommend herself, I happened to be returning from the shop after checking the accounts. I glanced at her from the carriage. But I didn't know anything about it and was in a hurry to get back to the mansion, so I didn't get off the carriage to find out the details."

"Now, recalling the situation carefully, that peasant woman might be someone we knew."