Chapter 59 059 [Update 2] Madam Yun gave birth to you...
Yun Sheng woke up slowly. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and opened them. She saw Xie Zhan standing quietly behind her.
Her daughter was still asleep beside her. She carefully lifted the quilt, put on her shoes and got out of bed.
Perhaps hearing her movement, a man's hoarse voice suddenly rang out in the room.
"woke up?"
As he spoke, Xie Zhan slowly turned around.
Yun Sheng suddenly patted her head in annoyance. How could her daughter fall asleep so easily last night when she was trying to coax her?
Their eyes met in the air. Yun Sheng saw the red and dry corners of Xie Zhan's eyes and his tired brows. She pursed her lips and asked, "Did Xie Zhan not sleep all night?"
"Now that you're awake, pack your things and return home with me."
Yun Sheng froze. "My Lord, are you kidding me?"
She curled her lips and laughed self-deprecatingly, "Now that the Marquis knows, I've married someone else and have a daughter. As the saying goes, a good woman never remarries. How could the Marquis's mansion still have room for a woman like me? Even if the Marquis wants to take me back, what about A-Man? Or... is the Marquis going to seize another woman's wife again?"
"Shut up. As long as I don't let you go, you will always be my woman."
She kept talking about marrying someone else or marrying again. Xie Zhan thought that Yun Sheng really wanted to make him die of anger.
Yun Sheng clenched her fists. She truly wanted to remind Xie Zhan over and over again that she was no longer innocent, now married to another man. Given the strict rules of the Marquisate, and Xie Zhan's pride, how could he bow his head?
Even if he was unwilling, he could only let go and make it happen.
Besides, Yun Sheng didn’t think that Xie Zhan loved her that much or couldn’t bear to leave her. He just didn’t expect that she would fake her death and escape to provoke his anger.
A man of his stature was deceived by a weak woman. He felt humiliated and wanted to get it back from her.
Xie Zhan strode forward, tightly grasping Yun Sheng's shoulders, and spoke with difficulty, "What you worry about will not happen. I am the head of the family, and not even the old lady can rule over me. As for A-Man... A-Man is just a little girl. Do you think the Marquisate can't support her?"
Yun Sheng opened his eyes wide and leaned back.
She trembled with her lips and opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
What the hell was Xie Zhan talking about? He didn't know that Ah Man was his own flesh and blood, yet he said he wanted to take her home and raise her together?
Yun Sheng looked dazed. She pinched her palm hard and felt that she didn't recognize the man in front of her. She couldn't guess what Xie Zhan was thinking for a moment.
Why on earth would he do that?
Xie Zhan frowned and stared at Yun Sheng: "So, do you still have concerns?"
It would be better for her to say something he likes to hear, otherwise Xie Zhan doesn't know whether he will go back on his word and force her back to Chang'an against her will.
Ah Sheng, Ah Sheng, please don't let me down.
Yun Sheng was absent-minded. She suddenly shook her head and muttered to herself, "No, the Marquis will think that I am ungrateful. I hope you can return soon. I am a weakling and now married to someone else. I am not worthy of serving the Marquis anymore."
"Xie Yunshi." Xie Zhan's deep eyes were almost filled with hostility. He was very angry with Yun Sheng.
Yun Sheng pursed her lips and began to reason, "Since the Marquis has already married the princess, they must be deeply in love. Why would you bring me back and cause trouble for the princess? I know you're annoyed that I faked my own death and ran away, causing you to lose face. But I'm just an insignificant concubine. The Marquis is in a high position and has no shortage of wives and concubines to serve him. Why bother to make things difficult for me?"
"Who told you that I married a princess?" Xie Zhan gritted his teeth.
He let out a long breath, his face suddenly calmed down, and he glanced sideways: "This marquis has not yet married, and he has only had one concubine in his room."
"Hear me clearly, I have never married a princess."
Yun Sheng was bewildered. She clearly remembered that when she was about to leave, Xie Zhan and Princess Anle's wedding was approaching. The princess had always been fond of Xie Zhan and would definitely not take the initiative to cancel the engagement. Could it be that... Xie Zhan had disobeyed the imperial order and offended the royal family?
Disobeying the imperial order is a capital crime punishable by the death of nine generations of the clan.
Xie Zhan did not marry the princess, and Yun Sheng was confused for a moment. Since they met again, his various behaviors made her unable to see through or guess.
Yun Sheng lowered his eyes with a complicated expression.
Seeing that she remained silent, Xie Zhan turned and left, leaving behind a final sentence: "This Marquis's patience is limited. You know your own limits. Don't make this Marquis angry again."
Yun Sheng looked back at her daughter, then she put her daughter's hand on hers and couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.
The door opened and the personal guard was already waiting under the eaves.
Xie Zhan frowned when he didn't see Bai Yuanbao. "Where did Bai Yuanbao go?"
The guard said respectfully, "My Lord, Chief Steward Bai left for town early this morning and said he would be back soon."
"Hmm," Xie Zhan asked softly, and asked as he walked, "How's that man?"
"He kept shouting and clamoring all night, wanting to see Madam Yun. Maybe he got tired and didn't make any noise until dawn."
As soon as the guard replied, he felt a chill coming from his master.
"Lead the way, I will go meet him."
The door suddenly creaked, waking Wang Wenshu, who was lying on the desk, up immediately.
He straightened up and looked up.
The bright sunlight shone in, making Wang Wenshu squint his eyes. After he calmed down and adjusted himself, he could see the person clearly.
It was the man who had been entangled with Yun Sheng last night.
Wang Wenshu pursed his lips. He had learned everything from the chatterbox servant who called himself an old slave last night, and he pieced together the truth himself.
The man before him was the renowned Marquis of Dingbei. Even though he had never been to Chang'an, he knew of his reputation. After all, three generations of the Xie family had served in the military. Without the Xie family and the Dingbei Army, Beiting would have been captured by the Tujue people long ago.
It can be said that if the Dingbei Army had not guarded the border, the people would not be able to live and work in peace and contentment today.
Wang Wenshu studied hard day and night in order to become an official in the future, serving the court like the Marquis of Dingbei and worrying about the people's livelihood.
It was rumored that such a righteous man would force a weak woman to be his concubine. This was not what a gentleman should do. Wang Wenshu was in a daze for a while, not knowing whether it was because of the character of Marquis Dingbei or Yun Sheng's experience.
Yun Sheng may have found a way to escape. A'man is also the daughter of Marquis Xie. Now that Marquis Dingbei has come, he must be looking for her and her daughter to take them back.
But Yun Sheng didn't want to, which is why she allowed Lord Xie to misunderstand her last night. They are a family of three and have a lovely daughter.
Wang Wenshu clenched his fists. Since she didn't want to go back, he would protect her even if it cost him his life.
After a night of tossing and turning, and not having had any tea, his voice was a little haggard: "What happened to Sheng Niang and A Man, Lord Xie?"
"Are you worthy of calling me Sheng Niang? You don't know what life and death is." Xie Zhan glanced at her coldly and looked at Wang Wenshu carefully.
He has red lips, white teeth, delicate features, and looks like a poor scholar with a pale face.
Too weak to handle anything.
Both his appearance and temperament are quite similar to those of Xie Qingyuan and the Duke of Pingyang.
Xie Zhan frowned unhappily. Could it be that she just likes this?
"Sheng Niang is my wife, how can I not be worthy of calling her that?" Wang Wenshu faced Xie Zhan.
"On the contrary, Lord Marquis, you have nothing to do with Sheng Niang anymore. What are you trying to do by breaking into a private house at night? Even if you are an official appointed by the court, you cannot be so lawless. You cannot..."
Before Wang Wenshu could finish his words, Xie Zhan grabbed his clothes and strangled him by the neck.
His face was flushed red, he was gasping for breath and had difficulty breathing.
Xie Zhan watched coldly, his phoenix eyes filled with disdain: "Noisy."
"Your wife? That's ridiculous. She's my wife in life and my ghost in death. What does that have to do with you?"
Wang Wenshu was so angry that his eyes widened. It was no wonder that Yun Sheng could no longer tolerate his unreasonable behavior and tried his best to escape from the cage.
Xie Zhan suddenly drew his sword, his face expressionless as he said calmly, "Tell me, after I kill you, will Ah Sheng still remember you at all?"
He seemed to be talking to himself: "I will definitely not remember, I will forget you completely."
Wang Wenshu raised his hand, pointed at Xie Zhan's nose, and cursed, "Oh, Lord Xie really knows how to...deceive himself. Come on, kill me and make Sheng Niang feel guilty and miss me forever. Doesn't Lord Xie know that the living can never be better than the dead? What's more, you killed this man with your own hands, you killed the biological father of Sheng Niang's daughter with your own hands. Aren't you afraid that Sheng Niang will hate you forever?"
Xie Zhan's face changed drastically, and he suddenly pressed his sword against Wang Wenshu's neck, forcing a bloody mark: "This Marquis, it seems that you are really not afraid of death."
"My Lord, you can't kill him. You can't kill him, My Lord." Bai Yuanbao panted, pushed the door open and rushed in.
"This man cannot be killed. The Marquis cannot be killed."
If the Marquis really killed this man, I'm afraid Madam Yun would never forgive him in her life.
Bai Yuanbao didn't have time to explain anything else, and just shouted loudly: "That little girl is the Marquis's daughter, the apple of our Marquis's eye, and was born to you by Madam Yun."
"Mrs. Yun gave birth to you." He gasped and raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his face.
"You...what did you say?" The sword in Xie Zhan's hand fell to the ground with a clang.
His mind was blank, and there seemed to be no sound around him, only the sound of Xie Zhan's heartbeat that was getting faster and faster.
After a moment, he spoke again in a hoarse voice: "What did you say? That child...was born to me by Ah Sheng?"
"It's definitely true, my lord, don't worry, it can't be wrong."
Bai Yuanbao didn't dare to delay any longer and hurriedly told everyone what he had inquired in the town.
"That little girl is so old now. How could Madam Yiyun, with her personality, easily accept another man just after breaking up with the Marquis? That's why I became suspicious last night. This morning, I found a bun shop and casually asked about Madam Yun. She said that when she first arrived in town, she said she was a widow and was pregnant with her husband's child. When I heard that, what was there to understand?"
Xie Zhan looked dazed. The little girl was actually the daughter Yun Sheng gave birth to him, and Aman was his daughter.
His heart was swollen and hot. Xie Zhan had been jealous of Wang Wenshu all night. It turned out that he had become stupid and lost his previous judgment ability.
Yun Sheng gave birth to a daughter for him, and Xie Zhan's eyes suddenly felt a little sore.
Seeing Wang Wenshu's dodging gaze, he became even more furious. Xie Zhan sneered, "Who the hell do you think you are? How dare you want to be the father of this marquis's daughter?"
Wang Wenshu took a long breath and smiled bitterly. Even if he wanted to be A-Man's father, he didn't have the qualifications.
He also knew that this matter could not be concealed for long. Xie Hou could find out the whole story by just asking around. Wang Wenshu just didn't expect that his old servant could act so quickly.
"I am not qualified to be A-Man's father, but does Xie Hou have the qualifications?" Wang Wenshu asked coldly.
"I'd like to ask you, Lord Marquis, where was Marquis Xie when Sheng Niang was suffering with her pregnancy? When she was pregnant with Ah Man, she often had a poor appetite and vomited everything she ate, leaving only sour water in her stomach. Other women would gain weight during pregnancy, but she only lost weight because she couldn't eat.
She was so thin, yet her belly was growing bigger every day. Seeing her carry such a large belly was terrifying, but she never complained. During childbirth, the baby was so large that she couldn't deliver it, nearly causing a dystocia. I stood outside the delivery room, listening to her pain. "Does the Marquis know how helpless I was? Or does he know the pain Sheng Niang endured during childbirth?"
Wang Wenshu was unable to continue. He covered his face and sobbed, "Marquis Xie is completely unaware of all this, yet he so easily wants to take away the daughter Sheng Niang gave birth to with so much difficulty. Doesn't Marquis Xie feel that he's being cruel?"
Xie Zhan turned away, his hands trembling at his sides. Wang Wenshu's questions and accusations left him speechless.
He shook his body and walked out of the room like a zombie.
The warm sun shone on Xie Zhan, but he felt cold from head to toe.
It turns out that his Ah Sheng has suffered so much.
Difficult labor?
He almost lost her completely.
Xie Zhan stood in front of Yun Sheng's house. He raised his hand but did not knock on the door.
It wasn't until the door was pushed open from the inside that he came to his senses.
Yun Sheng met Xie Zhan's eyes and suddenly felt that he was different from before. His gaze was so hot that it seemed to suck her in completely.
"Don't move, let me hug you tightly."
Xie Zhan strode forward and held Yun Sheng tightly in his arms.
Yun Sheng's body stiffened. What was Xie Zhan doing?
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