Chapter 44 [VIP]
The main point of Mi Yao's walk was participation. After walking a few steps and looking at the trees and lake, she left the kids behind and went to Zhen Jing's yard.
As Mi Yao entered, she saw Zhen Jing standing up to greet her, her face still showing a lingering contemplation. She immediately asked, "Sister-in-law, is this because your brother is feeling distressed after seeing Qiu Niang, or have you channeled your anger into thinking about how to get rid of Qiu Niang?"
Mi Yao's words made Zhen Jing's eyes widen. She looked outside first, and only felt relieved when she didn't see Yu Shaoyang return.
"If I hadn't witnessed your ruthlessness towards Qiu Niang, I would have let it go this time."
Seeing Qiu Niang so frightened that she didn't even dare to cry, and the cowardly sight of the mother and son covering their mouths, everything became unbearable.
Zhen Jing originally wanted to keep it a secret from Mi Yao, after all, Mi Yao was Yu Shaoyang's biological sister, not her own sister. If their conversation were relayed to Yu Shaoyang, she would be the one who suffered.
But when Mi Yao asked her the obvious question, she found an outlet for all her pent-up words.
After subtly pointing out Yu Shaoyang's misunderstanding of her, Zhen Jing sighed and said, "Although I am not as kind as my husband thinks, I am not a bad person either. At first, I sympathized with Qiu Niang and her son, but after discovering their intentions, how could I still feel sympathy?"
Mi Yao could tell that Liang Xiaolang's way of addressing her was wrong the moment they met; how could she not have noticed?
When she was in the capital, she sensed that Qiu Niang had ill intentions, so she could at least hide or hint to the elders of the Liang family to restrain the mother and son. But once she arrived in Yizhou, she was determined to stick to the couple.
"Now when I think back to Qiu Niang saying she was happy that I was pregnant, I feel like she was cursing me from the bottom of her heart. If it weren't for me being an obstacle, her intentions would have been more likely to come true."
Thinking of this, she was even more unwilling to let Qiu Niang and her son take advantage of her. Even if Yu Shaoyang found out that she was not as good as he thought, she would still have to bring the mother and son back to the capital.
"Instead of worrying about these women who are clinging to you while you're heavily pregnant, sister-in-law should just tell brother what she thinks."
Upon hearing Zhen Jing's plan to have her wet nurse find someone to intimidate the mother and child, thus scaring them away, they realized that Zhen Jing was about to do something similar.
Mi Yao thought it was troublesome. If they found a reliable person, it would be fine. But if they found an unreliable person, the mother and son didn't know how much longer they would have to stay in Yizhou.
“Let’s go out and see how my brother treats that mother and child.”
After saying that, seeing Zhen Jing's hesitation, Mi Yao smiled and said, "Does my brother think he is a fool? If he is not a fool, he can see through the thoughts of the mother and son. And he can see through their thoughts and treat them gently. Is this gentleness kindness or a way to settle his mistress?"
Mi Yao's words were like a wake-up call, and the confusion in Zhen Jing's eyes immediately turned into anger.
If Qiu Niang's previous behavior was relatively discreet, now that she's followed him all the way to Yizhou, even a fool could guess what she meant.
At this moment, Zhen Jing didn't want Yu Shaoyang to discover that she wasn't as considerate and compliant as she seemed. Instead, she angrily headed to the inn where Qiu Niang was staying, wanting to see how Yu Shaoyang would treat the mother and son.
“If he only pitied his friend’s orphan and did nothing or say anything out of line, why would Qiu Niang and her son be so persistent with us?”
Zhen Jing had always thought that marrying Yu Shaoyang was the best thing ever, but recently she discovered that he had a lot of problems, such as his kidneys. She was full of doubts but was afraid of ruining his image of her, so she was too embarrassed to discuss it with him.
"Yes, flies don't land on eggs without cracks."
Mi Yao, thinking the matter was trivial, fanned the flames from the sidelines.
When they arrived at their destination, Zhen Jing, fearing she might see something she didn't want to see in the inn, first patted her belly to comfort herself: "Baby, close your eyes and cover your ears first. After Mother deals with that wretch, I'll talk to you and sing to you."
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, I've had someone bring Dr. Jiang along; he's in the car behind."
She originally thought that given how uncomfortable Zhen Jing was when she saw Qiu Niang, she would explain things to Yu Shaoyang after he returned home. Who knew that the couple liked each other so much that they would rather endure their discomfort than say something that would upset the other.
With her accompanying me this time.
"My lady, Hu Hu, what brings you here?"
Before Zhen Jing could even enter the guesthouse to look for someone, she heard Yu Shaoyang's cheerful voice.
Seeing Yu Shaoyang's beaming smile, Zhen Jing felt a tightness in her chest, a sense of foreboding washing over her.
In the past, she wouldn't have thought much of it, but after Mi Yao's saying that flies don't land on eggs without cracks, she couldn't help but wonder if he was so happy because he had gotten a good deal.
She stepped forward and slapped him hard on the shoulder.
"Have you forgotten what you promised me on our wedding day?"
After being brutally beaten by his wife for no reason, Yu Shaoyang's relaxed expression turned into one of bewilderment: "What did I promise?"
His cautious question earned him another slap from Zhen Jing, who slapped him across the face with tears in her eyes. "You've forgotten what you promised! I was wondering why Liang Dalang has so many friends, yet Liang Qiushi only bothers you and not others. Now it seems you must have hinted at something to her."
Yu Shaoyang was stunned by Zhen Jing's slap. Before he could ask anything, he saw Zhen Jing turn around and leave, saying that she was packing her things to go back to the Zhen family.
He was startled, no, he went to stop her.
"How could I possibly hint at anything to her? I'd rather avoid her than not. I've thought about it too."
Yu Shaoyang looked aggrieved. "It's true, the two elderly people have lost their only child, so we've taken good care of them. She thinks I seem easy to get along with. Secondly, my husband and I live alone without any elders to look after us, so they find it difficult to interact with us..."
As the conversation progressed, Yu Shaoyang finished speaking, and the couple stared at each other in a daze, simultaneously noticing a problem.
—?
"I thought you pitied them, my wife, and you even promised Liang Xiaolang to call you 'Auntie'?"
Yu Shaoyang said blankly.
“I will tolerate them, not because I patiently talk to Liang Xiaolang, and you are moved, holding my hand and reminiscing about the past, saying that when you first met me, you felt that I was the kindest woman in the world.”
As she spoke, the tears in Zhen Jing's eyes turned into a raging fire. She had already slapped him; that was just her personality, there was nothing to hide. "Now that I think about it, you often praised me for being gentle and kind, saying that you fell in love with me at first sight and wanted to marry me. Were you just lying on purpose? When you said that, I couldn't get angry with you, so I could only remain gentle, while you could go out and mess around, keeping mistresses like Qiu Niang and Dong Niang."
Although Zhen Jing wasn't exactly short-tempered when she was young, she wasn't exactly gentle either. When she first met Yu Shaoyang, she took a liking to him and naturally wanted to act like a demure and submissive young lady.
I thought we could pretend for a while and get to know each other better, but who knew we couldn't keep up the act forever.
The reason she couldn't finish filling the box was because Yu Shaoyang would praise her for being virtuous all the time.
She initially thought that Yu Shaoyang liked her so much that he thought she was perfect in every way, and that she had to keep pretending for his sake. But now she realized that these were just shackles that were imprisoning her and making her life more and more suffocating.
Thinking about it, Zhen Jing slapped him again. Since she was going back to her parents' home, she was determined to vent all her anger.
Yu Shaoyang cried out in pain and covered his face: "Wife, you're pregnant, don't get so worked up..."
"Why am I angry? It's all because of you!"
Zhen Jing clutched her chest, panting as she glared at Yu Shaoyang. "Don't you remember what you said to me on your wedding night? Let me tell you, you said you weren't lustful like your uncle and father, that you wouldn't take a concubine. Now it seems you really won't take a concubine. You're just entangled with a widow, trying to settle down as a mistress. Tell me, how did she and her orphan come to Yizhou? Did you send someone to deliver them?!"
"Madam, I'm innocent! Even if I were crazy, I wouldn't get entangled with Liang Qiushi. I find her annoying enough. I haven't driven them away because I was afraid you'd think I'm heartless..."
Yu Shaoyang's voice grew softer and softer as he spoke, but Zhen Jing only thought he wasn't ruthless enough and even suspected that he and Qiu Niang had been having an affair.
If he had known this would happen, he wouldn't have given the mother and son the opportunity to come to Yizhou.
“They will leave tomorrow. I just threatened Qiu Niang that if she doesn’t leave, I will have someone sell the mother and child by their feet.”
Yu Shaoyang said weakly.
He came alone without Zhen Jing so that he could easily make some threats. He was annoyed by the mother and son. Just as Mi Yao said, Liang Xiaolang was definitely an ugly kid.
Who would want to be hugged by an ugly child who has no blood relation to them, saying they treat him like their father?
His affection for Liang Dalang was enough to be used on the two elders of the Liang family. If Liang Xiaolang were raised by the two elders, he would take care of him in the future. But since he was with Qiu Niang, he had no intention of showing any pity.
After Yu Shaoyang finished speaking, he saw that Zhen Jing looked doubtful and clearly did not believe what he said. Yu Shaoyang said helplessly, "Of course I remember every word we said on our wedding night, but we said too much on our wedding night. I don't know which sentence you were referring to when I asked you."
As he spoke, Yu Shaoyang glanced at Mi Yao and her maids standing to the side.
Many private conversations between husband and wife cannot be shared with outsiders, even if the sister is not an outsider.
"You think they'll leave just because you threaten them?"
After Zhen Jing calmed down, she looked at the slap mark on Yu Shaoyang's face and felt a mix of satisfaction and regret. Why did they have to fight in the street? She should have vented her anger in private.
"I will send people to escort them onto the ship and leave. If they try anything funny along the way, just knock them out and throw them back."
Before he came to see Qiu Niang and her son, he asked about the conflict that had occurred in front of the Xiao residence. He knew that the mother and son were being aggressive, and he remembered all the words Liang Xiaolang had said.
So just now in the inn, he directly shook off Liang Xiaolang who was hugging his leg, saying that he was so young and full of wicked thoughts. He wouldn't even give a second glance to a child like that on the street, so how could he miss him?
Before Qiu Niang even opened her mouth while crying, he had already told her that she was unfaithful to her husband, that her family was in the capital but she had run off to Yizhou to harass strange men, and that he would write to the Liang and Qiu families to ask how to deal with such a woman.
“I originally planned to go to the backyard to talk to them about these things, so that you wouldn’t be soft-hearted and come to visit the two of them and find out something from the shopkeeper. But as soon as I saw them, I felt annoyed, especially Liang Qiushi, who cried all the time. She clearly took advantage of our family, but she still looked aggrieved. If it weren’t for the Liang family, she wouldn’t have been able to return safely after coming here.”
He only recently realized Qiu Niang's thoughts. Instead of being happy to have women, he felt disgusted. "Wife, I was wrong. If hitting me makes me feel better, then hit me. I was misled by what they said. If I had known you hated them, I would have found a way to make them disappear long ago."
Seeing that Yu Shaoyang's face, marked with a handprint, showed only grievance and regret, not the anger of being slapped in public, Zhen Jing believed him.
Even though she believed him, she still felt uneasy.
There's a kind of unpleasant feeling of venting anger but having the other half stuck inside.
"This is a misunderstanding, but did you lie to me about something else? You said you don't care about women and won't take a concubine, is it because you have kidney problems?"
Yu Shaoyang was taken aback. This was the first time he had heard his wife talk about kidney issues with him. He glanced at her protruding belly. If there was something wrong with his kidneys, how could she be pregnant?
"this……"
"Do you think I'm some clueless young lady? You say that it's not a good thing that Commander Xiao has good kidneys? Doesn't that mean you're jealous of his good kidneys because of your own shortcomings?"
Mi Yao, standing to the side, blinked. She hadn't expected that even without the male lead present, he could become a role model of a virtuous man during a marital argument.
Isn't the author giving him too much credit?
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