Seeing this, Second Aunt Lu frowned. How could he faint at the critical moment?
She covered her nose with a handkerchief and glanced at the stunned nurse. Her eyes fell on her hand, and her pupils shrank slightly. She immediately asked everyone who was not involved in the inner room to leave, and asked someone to ask Concubine Qi to leave the main courtyard. Only then did she look carefully at the nurse's hand: "What's in your hand?"
The nurse looked at her hands carefully: "It's blood, nothing else."
Aunt Lu saw clearly now that there seemed to be a silk thread wrapped around her finger, which suddenly looked like a bug and frightened her to death. She hurriedly said, "Go wash it quickly."
Second Aunt Lu then stopped the Wu family's maids and servants from shouting and yelling, and raised her hand to slap Mrs. Wu in the face.
"Madam!" The maids of the Wu family looked at Aunt Lu in shock. Before they could say anything, Madam Wu gasped and woke up.
The nurse woke Mrs. Wu up and said quickly, "Madam! Please go and see the young lady."
Mrs. Wu then remembered why she came here and hurried to the inner room.
The doctor had already checked Wu Ziya's pulse and prescribed medicine. When he saw Madam Wu coming in, he made way for her in front of the bed and looked around the room. Madam Wu was extremely panicked, not to mention her wet nurse. Only Aunt Lu who was standing by seemed relatively calm.
The doctor briefly explained the situation to Second Aunt Lu: "The child was lost, and Madam's condition is not good. Not only is she weak, but I'm afraid she won't be able to conceive in the future."
"How could she suddenly have a miscarriage?" Second Aunt Lu wondered. Although the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion was large, it had not been divided into branches. She lived in a side courtyard and knew that Wu Ziya would ask a doctor to take her pulse almost every day to confirm that the fetus was safe. If there was something wrong, she would have boiled medicine and made it known to everyone.
A healthy woman suddenly had a miscarriage...
Aunt Lu couldn't help but think of a conspiracy.
Since she thought so, Mrs. Wu naturally thought so too. She immediately called the people in the kitchen over and asked, "What did your wife eat today?"
The small kitchen had just enough food for today's breakfast and lunch, and also brought the recipes that Wu Ziya had used since she became pregnant.
The doctor checked everything and said, "There's nothing wrong. Madam has always eaten these, and her pulse is fine. Why she suddenly became so seriously ill is beyond my comprehension."
Madam Wu persisted, "Then take a look around this room. Is there anything amiss? Call the maidservants and anyone she came into contact with today. Have the doctor check them all! Is there anything on them that shouldn't be there?"
With such a big thing happening, Second Aunt Lu naturally cooperated fully. Even if Mrs. Wu overstepped her authority, she still made people obey her orders.
Soon, the maids and servants serving inside and outside the main courtyard of the Lu family filled the room. The doctor checked them one by one and said, "There is no problem."
Madam Wu had everyone leave when she suddenly heard the nurse say, "Madam Bai came by today. She had a strong scent on her body. Could it be musk mixed in?"
The doctor shook his head and said, "Musk needs to be used for a long time before it can cause infertility or miscarriage. If you only smell it occasionally, it won't cause any harm. Moreover, Madam Yu's pulse has always been strong. It's impossible that just smelling it would cause this."
Mrs. Wu didn't believe it, so she sent someone to look for Bai Wanyi again.
Aunt Lu's seemingly well-organized orders from Mrs. Wu actually skipped the most crucial point - she did not check the dead fetus.
She shook her head secretly, first drove out all the irrelevant maids and servants, and then ordered people to keep an eye on the maids and servants in the house who had come into contact with Wu Ziya.
Aunt Lu had already ordered people to surround the main courtyard, and Qi Jing had been sent back. Now, everyone who had seen the dead fetus was locked in a room.
Second Aunt Lu watched Madam Wu busying around, then sat there in a daze. She stepped forward and asked, "Madam Wu, what should we do with this stillborn baby?"
"Ah?" Mrs. Wu came back to her senses and suddenly remembered what she saw before she fainted. She felt dizzy, but no matter how much she didn't want to face it, she still had to deal with the matter.
She took a deep breath and was about to speak when Aunt Lu winked at her.
Mrs. Wu asked impatiently, "What's wrong?"
"Let's go out and talk." Aunt Lu said.
Mrs. Wu turned around and looked at her daughter who was lying unconscious on the bed, feeling really worried.
It was the nurse who persuaded her: "Madam, please go outside and tell her. The young lady is unconscious and doesn't know anything. If she hears something she shouldn't hear..."
"All right."
Mrs. Wu then took her people out. She was afraid that someone would hear them talking in the front hall, so she took them directly to the wing room. Aunt Lu and her people personally guarded the door of the wing room.
The only people in the room at this moment were Aunt Lu, Madam Wu, her trusted nanny, Wu Ziya's wet nurse, and the doctor.
The dead fetus was placed in the middle of the room. Mrs. Wu took one look and couldn't bear to look at it anymore.
Seeing this, Second Aunt Lu had no choice but to come herself. She asked the doctor, "Please take a closer look at why this child looks like this?"
The doctor's knowledge was limited, and after a careful examination, he couldn't find anything. The more he looked, the tighter his brows furrowed. "This is a fully formed male fetus. Judging from the condition, it must have died in the womb due to congenital deficiency. However, when I took the child's pulse before, it was always strong. Why did the child suddenly become like this? It's really puzzling."
Madam Wu suppressed her nausea and said, "Don't look at it, don't look at it, just bury it. Don't tell Yu'er to anyone!"
"Tell me what!"
Wu Ziya held onto the door frame and pushed the door open suddenly. When she saw the basin on the ground, she staggered over and took a clear look at the black and purple male fetus that had already taken shape. Her eyes rolled back and she fainted.
"Yu'er!" Madam Wu exclaimed, turning to stare at Aunt Lu: "How did she get here?"
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