The Lunar New Year's Eve at the Marquis of Lin'an's residence was destined to be anything but peaceful.
"Tell me! What exactly happened?"
Madam Chen sat high in the main hall, her face contorted with anger, and slammed her hand on the table, roaring furiously.
All the male members of the side hall mansion withdrew, leaving only the female members of the Marquis's family who were the elders.
At that time, Lu Changping and Yuqing knelt one after the other in the side hall.
Lu Changping's face was somewhat pale, and Yu Qing's forehead was covered in large beads of sweat, her face extremely pale, as if she were dressed in white mourning clothes.
Second Madam Ding Wanyue was closest to Old Madam Chen. She gently patted the old lady's back and said, "Mother, please don't get angry. Getting angry will harm your health."
Then, she looked down at the two kneeling servants and raised her voice, "Yuqing, tell me what exactly happened."
If you dare to lie, I'll give you a beating and then sell you off.
Upon hearing this, Yuqing, who was kneeling on the ground, began to tremble unconsciously.
A moment later, she kowtowed heavily, tears welling up in her eyes.
She replied in a hoarse voice, "Replying to Madam, this servant truly does not know!"
Yuqing was right. She and Lu Changping went to the Marquis of Anchang's residence and found Qu Zikun very easily, and they also got their handkerchief back without any problems.
She thought that with the simple carriage and their hats, it would be impossible for anyone to recognize them.
Unexpectedly, within just a few days, news spread throughout the new capital that the Anchang Marquis's mansion was making preparations for a wedding for their fourth son, Qu Zikun.
The woman in the rumor is none other than Lu Changping, who is now kneeling on the ground with her.
At first, it seemed like a joke, and rumors were flying everywhere, but now the news has become even more outrageous.
It is said that the two met in the past, and now that the young lady has returned to the Marquis's mansion, she wants to marry the fourth son of the Marquis of Anchang, but it has become a pipe dream.
They completely transformed Qu Zikun from a playboy into a deeply affectionate man through rumors.
They even portrayed the Lin'an Marquis's residence as the stick that broke up a loving couple.
Upon hearing this, Ding Wanyue was immediately enraged. She had thought that Yuqing would be too intimidated to stand up to her and would immediately blurt out the truth.
Now look what's happened! They didn't even get the question out, and instead, the eldest son's family has become a laughingstock!
She said, "Then tell me everything you know!"
Yuqing then truthfully reported when she met Qu Zikun and why she went to the Marquis of Anchang's residence.
After hearing Yuqing's words, Old Madam Chen was so angry that she trembled.
Upon seeing this, Madam Xuan Yinglan quickly gave Old Madam Chen one of the heart-nourishing pills she carried with her.
Xuan Yinglan comes from a military family and is very efficient in both speech and action.
After she finished doing all this, she turned to look at the two of them, saying, "So it turns out that the rumors circulating outside are actually true."
They secretly exchanged gifts, and she became pregnant.
"Is there absolutely no injustice involved?"
If Madam Chen hadn't taken some heart-nourishing pills upon hearing this, she probably would have fainted from anger by now.
Yuqing looked terrified, crawled a few steps forward, and vehemently denied it, "Madam, the rumors of illicit relations and pregnancy are all false accusations against Miss."
"Miss and Young Master Qu have only met twice, how could things have come to this!"
According to the dates, it was indeed as Yuqing said, especially since the two had only met for the first time half a month ago.
You can't just meet someone and immediately start having sex; only prostitutes would do something like that!
Just as Madam Chen and Madam Chen's expressions softened somewhat.
The First Madam said, "Then please invite the doctor into the mansion and tell him that the New Year's feast was plentiful and he had too much food to eat."
After the pulse diagnosis and treatment, the doctor's words can silence the gossip.
Upon hearing this, Madam Chen's expression finally softened.
But then Lu Changping said something that made her feel as if she were standing next to a fire, her heart being scorched, in the dead of winter.
"There's no need to call a doctor, I am indeed pregnant."
It's been almost two months.
These words were like a thunderbolt, leaving everyone present stunned and seeing stars.
The first to object was Yuqing, who shook her head so hard it was almost like a rattle drum. "Impossible! When Miss goes out of the manor, the maids follow her. How could she possibly have the opportunity to do such a thing!"
Lu Changping sighed, "I met him on the street, before you came to serve me."
After that, whenever we met, I would send you away to buy things, so you wouldn't notice.
Now it was Yuqing's turn to be dumbfounded. She recalled the time Lu Changping mentioned, and the time when she was sent away to buy things, and it matched up perfectly.
After recovering, Madam Chen instructed her maid to have a trusted doctor from the household summoned.
The doctor arrived late, first bowing, and then, after learning that he was taking the pulse of the kneeling person, he had a pretty good idea of what was going on based on the rumors circulating in the new capital over the past few days.
However, when he took Lu Changping's pulse, an incense stick's worth of time had passed, which still puzzled him.
The doctor stood up and said, "The young lady's pulse is peculiar. It looks like a slippery pulse, but we cannot determine whether it is a pregnancy pulse."
Upon hearing this, Lu Changping breathed a sigh of relief.
She took a medicine before coming to the side hall. This medicine was provided by Qu Zikun, who said that after taking it, she would find out that she had symptoms of pregnancy, but in fact it was a false pregnancy.
Then the doctor added, "But based on what the young lady said, and considering her pulse, we can tentatively conclude that it is a pregnancy pulse."
Given the situation, Old Madam Chen could only sigh inwardly, "Doctor, I don't want to hear about this anywhere else."
Those who come to the Marquis's residence for medical treatment naturally understand some of the intricacies of high society.
The doctor bent down to look at the shoe tips, not daring to look down and glance at the person out of the corner of his eye. He said, "Of course, I will keep my mouth shut."
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