Chapter 134 Pregnancy
Bai Qingyi dug her nails deep into her palms, using the pain to remind herself to stay awake.
"Madam, calm down!"
Xiao Tao, who was standing next to him, turned pale with fear and fell to his knees with a thud, his voice filled with tears.
"Mrs. Bai is weak. Please show mercy, Madam. Please forgive her this time..."
"Get out of here!"
Jiang Ruyi kicked Xiaotao away and glared at her with disgust.
"You're also a traitorous bastard. If you dare to say anything more, I'll beat you up too!"
She looked at the crisscrossing bloodstains on Bai Qingyi's back, and her forbearing yet still beautiful profile, and the jealousy in her heart was difficult to contain.
Why did this lowly cousin get any sympathy from Xun Chen?
How could she still have such an alluring face? And I had put so much effort into getting pregnant with this child, yet I still had to be on guard every day!
"Two hours, kneel for the full time!"
Jiang Ruyi dropped the whip and gave a cold order, then stroked his lower abdomen with a smug smile on his face.
"I'm going to take the pregnancy-maintaining medicine, so you just stay here and reflect on yourself!"
Jiang Ruyi stood up slowly with the help of her maid and walked towards the inner room. Before leaving, she gave Bai Qingyi a malicious look.
It was not until Jiang Ruyi's figure disappeared behind the bead curtain that Xiao Tao dared to get up and crawled to Bai Qingyi.
Looking at the bloody back, tears fell like beads from a broken string.
"Auntie, how are you? Does it hurt? I'll apply medicine to you right away..."
Her voice choked with sobs, and she frantically pulled out a small porcelain bottle from her bosom, which contained the secretly hidden golden wound medicine.
The cold powder touched the wound, causing a sharp pain, and Bai Qingyi's body tensed up again.
As Xiao Yao carefully spread the medicine, he couldn't help crying softly, "Madam is too much. She tortures you like this every day. When will this end?"
Bai Qingyi turned her head slightly and looked at Xiaotao's red eyes and distressed face.
In this cannibalistic mansion, Xiaotao is the only person who treats her sincerely.
She raised her hand and gently wiped away the tears on Xiaotao's face. Her voice was hoarse but unusually calm: "Don't cry, silly girl, this little injury won't kill you."
"But……"
Xiao Tao looked at the hideous wound and felt extremely heartbroken.
Bai Qingyi interrupted her, her eyes sharpening, and she lowered her voice to ask, "Xiao Tao, have you ever slacked off on what I asked you to do?"
Xiao Tao trembled all over, the blood color on her face instantly faded, and her eyes were filled with fear.
She subconsciously glanced around, making sure no one was paying attention, and then replied in a barely audible, trembling voice:
"No, I always follow Auntie's instructions and add that substance to the bowl of pregnancy-maintaining medicine that Madam drinks in the morning. I never dare to miss it once."
Bai Qingyi nodded in satisfaction after hearing this, and her voice became even lower: "Very good, remember to keep this to yourself. If a third person finds out, not only you, but also your parents and brother in the countryside will be in trouble."
Xiao Tao was so frightened that she trembled all over and nodded repeatedly, tears welling up in her eyes again: "I know, I dare not tell you even if I die, but Auntie, will the medicine really not be discovered? What if..."
"Nothing will happen."
Bai Qingyi's voice was firm and decisive: "That thing is colorless and tasteless and dissolves in water. Even the imperial physicians in the palace might not be able to detect it if it's mixed with pregnancy-preserving medicine."
"Besides..." She paused, a trace of deep hatred flashing in her eyes, "Jiang Ruyi, isn't she relying on this evil offspring to show off her power? Then let her raise him well, and raise him as big as possible!"
She also learned the truth about Jiang Ruyi's child by chance.
After Xun Chen had sex with Jiang Ruyi that day, Jiang Ruyi returned to her house and feared that she would not get pregnant on the first try, so she immediately took an extremely strong pregnancy-maintaining medicine.
If not, how could Jiang Ruyi turn a disaster into a blessing?
When she was praying quietly in the small Buddhist temple, her pregnancy pulse was diagnosed and she was taken in by the old lady of Anping as a treasure with great fanfare.
Completely cut off Bai Qingyi's last bit of hope.
Since Bai Qingyi is destined not to have her own children in this life.
So instead of letting Jiang Ruyi give birth to Xun Chen's child and let him ride on her head in the future, or letting that ungrateful Xun Moli, who is already registered under Jiang Ruyi's name, inherit everything, it is better to cut off the source of the problem.
Doesn’t Jiang Ruyi want to gain fame through her son?
She made her extremely precious, letting the child grow strong in her belly, so big that it would kill her at birth, or cripple her even if she didn't die.
At that time, in order to protect her grandson, the old lady of Anping will definitely choose to keep the younger one.
And Bai Qingyi, as the only woman with a status in the mansion and a gentle and virtuous woman, is naturally the most suitable person to raise the child.
As long as the child is in her hands, and she finds an opportunity to get rid of the troublesome Jiang Ruyi, she will be promoted to the second wife in no time.
Thinking of this, a hint of fanaticism flashed in Bai Qingyi's eyes, and the whip wound on her back seemed to be less painful.
She endured Jiang Ruyi's humiliation day after day just to wait for that fatal moment to come.
The inner room was filled with a faint medicinal fragrance.
Jiang Ruyi frowned and looked at the black bowl of pregnancy-maintaining medicine brought by the maid.
Ever since she became pregnant, this bitter medicine has become her daily nightmare.
"Madam, the medicine is ready. The imperial physician said that it must be taken while hot to be effective." The maid Chun Xing advised cautiously.
Jiang Ruyi waved her hand impatiently: "I know, let it go."
She picked up the medicine bowl and looked at her slightly swollen face reflected in the bowl, feeling even more annoyed.
The hardship of pregnancy and Xun Chen's increasing indifference made her feel uneasy.
She pinched her nose and was about to swallow the medicine when she caught a glimpse of a white figure outside the bead curtain, still kneeling upright with blood on its back.
A twisted sense of pleasure welled up in my heart.
She deliberately held the medicine bowl higher so that Bai Qingyi could see it clearly, and then she slowly drank the medicine.
The medicine was so bitter that Jiang Ruyi coughed a few times. Chun Xing quickly handed her some candied fruit.
She put one in her mouth to suppress the feeling of nausea, but her eyes were always fixed on Bai Qingyi outside the bead curtain.
Bai Qingyi lowered her head, as if she was unaware of everything.
However, from an angle that Jiang Ruyi couldn't see, the corners of her lips slowly curled up in an arc of expectation.
Bai Qingyi slowly closed her eyes, hiding the crazy hatred and burning ambition surging in her eyes under her drooping eyelashes.
Late at night, in Ningxiang Garden.
The light was dim, and Bai Qingyi was lying on the hard bed with a thin layer of fine cotton cloth covering her back.
Xiaotao was holding back tears as she carefully applied ointment to her wounded back.
"hiss……"
When the ointment touched the deepest wound, Bai Qingyi couldn't help but gasp.
"Auntie, please bear with it."
Xiao Tao's hands were shaking with pain, and she choked up, "I'm afraid this injury will leave a scar again. How could Madam be so harsh..."
She shuddered at the thought of the fierce whipping she had received during the day.
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