Chapter 154 Cause and Effect
Shopkeeper Liu's heart began to beat fast. Looking at the broken top-quality jade hairpin, he felt so heartbroken that it seemed as if bleeding.
"Oh, Madam Anping, this... this, this... this... my jade hairpin!"
Manager Liu's round face turned pale in an instant, and he wanted to fall to the ground with the jade hairpin. He picked it up carefully and put it in front of Jiang Ruyi.
"Mrs. Anping, look at this..."
"Isn't it just a jade hairpin? My Anping Marquis's Mansion can't afford it or what? Just put it on the Anping Marquis's account and pay for it later! Let me teach this little bitch a lesson first!"
When Shopkeeper Liu heard someone was paying, he immediately stopped talking and quietly hid aside. When he saw Jiang Qingning, his eyes lit up instantly.
Bai Qingyi felt terribly painful on her face, and she could hear Jiang Ruyi's demeaning words to her.
Half of her cheek became red and swollen at a speed visible to the naked eye. The clearly visible five finger marks were shocking, and a trickle of blood slowly flowed down the corner of her lips.
"ah!"
There were cries of surprise from the ladies all around, mixed with low voices and contemptuous looks.
"Oh my god, isn't this Lady Anping too fierce?"
"Hitting someone in public, especially a concubine, isn't that disgraceful?"
"Hush, keep your voice down. I'm the wife now. What's wrong with beating a concubine? Didn't you see that the concubine was trying to block the wife?"
"Tsk tsk, Madam Anping has a really hot temper. She's pregnant with a baby, and she's not afraid of miscarriage."
"Humph, look at her big belly, it's scary, is she pregnant with twins?"
"Look, isn't that the eldest daughter of the Jiang family? Why is she here?"
Jiang Ruyi listened to the gossip around her, turned her head suddenly, and saw Jiang Qingning standing not far away with a calm expression.
"Jiang Qingning?"
Jiang Ruyi's voice was angry, and her eyes seemed to be spitting fire. "What are you doing here? Are you here to laugh at me, or to see how this bitch seduces my husband?"
She held up her huge and scary belly like an enraged female beast, pointing her finger at Jiang Qingning with trembling hands, and then looked angrily at Bai Qingyi who was lying on the ground in a mess, covering her cheek and crying silently.
Jiang Qingning ignored Jiang Ruyi's shouting.
Her eyes fell on Jiang Ruyi's abdomen, her guesses gradually became clearer, and her brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
Bai Qingyi struggled to get up from the ground, and happened to meet Jiang Qingning's all-seeing eyes.
A huge fear instantly overwhelmed her.
no,
She must not let Jiang Qingning say it out.
Bai Qingyi almost used both her hands and feet to crawl to Jiang Ruyi's feet.
Regardless of the severe pain and humiliation on his face, he hugged Jiang Ruyi's legs tightly, raised his face covered with tears and fingerprints, and cried out:
"Madam, please calm down. This is all my fault. I don't know the rules. Please take care of yourself for the sake of the child in your belly. I'm leaving now!"
Outside the Jinyu Pavilion.
Xun Chen sat in the carriage with his eyes closed. Whenever he returned to the mansion, Jiang Ruyi would find all kinds of excuses such as stomachache to make him endure the disgust and accompany her. But his mother indulged Jiang Ruyi blindly and wronged herself.
Thinking of this, Xun Chen's face became extremely ugly, and he felt extremely regretful. He was already upset by He Ning's aggressiveness in the court and the emperor's delay.
He lowered his eyes in thought, but was attracted by the heated discussion outside the carriage.
When he heard the three words "Jiang Ruyi", his eyebrows jumped and an ominous premonition came to his mind.
He quickly got off the carriage, pushed through the crowd gathered at the door to watch the excitement, and strode in.
As soon as he stepped into the magnificent hall and walked up to the second floor, the scene before him was like a heavy hammer, hitting him hard in the face.
Jiang Ruyi was bulging with her belly, standing with her hands on her hips like a shrew, angrily cursing the man in front of her. Her face was full of harshness and ferocity, making him unable to recognize her.
Bai Qingyi was kneeling on the ground with half of her face swollen and red, blood at the corner of her mouth, her hair disheveled, and her clothes in disarray. She was hugging Jiang Ruyi's legs tightly and crying miserably.
Xun Chen felt countless gloating gazes around him.
He saw Jiang Qingning standing not far away with a cold expression.
Jiang Qingning looked at the scene in front of him coldly, like a condescending bystander.
"Husband?"
When Jiang Ruyi saw Xun Chen, she was frightened by the look of disgust on his face. Her arrogance instantly subsided and her voice trembled.
Bai Qingyi's whole body stiffened, and the hand holding Jiang Ruyi's leg loosened. She turned to look at Xun Chen, and her tears flowed even harder, but she didn't even dare to make a sound.
Xun Chen's chest heaved violently. He stared at Jiang Ruyi's belly, then glanced at Bai Qingyi who was in a mess on the ground. His eyes suddenly went dark.
"Jiang Ruyi, you are doing very well!"
Xun Chen's voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth. "You have completely disgraced the reputation of my Anping Marquis' Mansion. Why don't you get out of here!"
He roared, disregarding any etiquette, turned around abruptly, and rushed out of the gate of Jinyu Pavilion without looking back.
"Xun Chen, where are you going? Come back!"
Jiang Ruyi was filled with panic. Before she could take a step, a sudden severe pain in her abdomen made her eyes go black and she fell limply to the ground.
"lady!"
Bai Qingyi screamed and subconsciously wanted to reach out to help, but her hand froze halfway. A complicated light flashed in her eyes, and finally she watched Jiang Ruyi's heavy body fall to the ground.
“My stomach hurts!”
Jiang Ruyi curled up on the ground, a glaring, sticky pool of red spreading under her skirt.
The strong smell of blood instantly filled the air.
"Ah! Blood! It's blood!"
"Oh my God! Is she about to give birth?"
"Quick, call a doctor!"
"No, go get a midwife!"
The entire second floor of Jinyu Pavilion was instantly in chaos.
The screams and hurried footsteps mixed together, and the ladies were frightened and turned pale, and they all retreated to avoid it.
Bai Qingyi fell to the side, covering her red and swollen cheeks.
She looked at Jiang Ruyi, who was rolling on the ground in pain with blood gushing out from beneath her. The blood drained from her face and her body trembled uncontrollably.
Jiang Qingning calmly protected his two sisters behind him, blocking their view.
She whispered to Zhiqiu, who was trying to remain calm beside her, "Take Yuerou and Qingxi out through the side door and return home immediately."
Jiang Qingning clutched the corner of Jiang Qingning's clothes tightly, his body trembling slightly.
Jiang Qingning thought she was scared and was about to speak to comfort her.
She raised her face, her eyes filled with panic and confusion: "Sister, will she die? I heard that you had a heavy hemorrhage when you gave birth to Xun Moli. Was it more painful than hers? How did you get through it? Sister, I feel so sorry for you."
As she finished speaking, she was already choking with sobs, tears as big as beans fell to the ground, and she sobbed uncontrollably.
Jiang Qingning lowered her eyes and raised her hand to brush away a strand of stray hair from her temple.
She spoke softly, with a heart-wrenching calmness: "You reap what you sow. The path she chose has already determined its outcome."
"The fact that Sister is still alive today just proves that she is a blessed person, doesn't it?"
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