Qin Luo held her tightly. The guards from the Marquis's residence who were passing by recognized the two of them immediately.
He walked up to the two of them and greeted them politely.
"Greetings, young master! Greetings, young master!"
Qin Luo and Wu Hua were startled by the deep voice. Qin Luo stopped crying, stood up, and replied with a "hello."
Seeing that Qin Luo had just been crying, the guard asked her...
"Young master, has someone bullied you?"
He then pulled Wu Hua to look her over from left to right.
"Young Master, are you alright?"
Qin Luo and Wu Hua shook their heads to indicate no, exchanged a few pleasantries with them, and continued walking towards the Marquis's residence.
However, the people of the border town were too enthusiastic, and as soon as the two left, they approached the guards.
"Sir, those two young masters were bullied terribly just now..."
The guards were shocked. One was the young marquis's sworn brother, and the other was the marquis's adopted son.
Who on earth dared to bully the Marquis of Anding's family in Liyou City?
He looked at the messenger with a serious expression.
"Tell me, which bastard dares to bully our Marquis's son!"
The messenger was greatly alarmed.
"Young masters of the Marquis's mansion? Doesn't the Marquis's mansion only have one young marquis? How come there are two more young masters now!"
The guard looked smug upon hearing this, his tone even carrying a hint of boasting.
"The Marquis just recognized them yesterday, so now our Marquis's manor has three young masters! Let me tell you! These two children are quite something..."
As I was talking, I realized I had gone off-topic, so I got back to the main point.
"Let's not talk about that anymore. Tell me, who exactly bullied our young master?"
The messenger, thinking things were about to get interesting, recounted the whole story from beginning to end.
The guards were furious, cursing that they had never seen such a shameless person.
No sooner had Qin Luo and Wu Hua stepped into the Marquis's mansion than news of them being bullied by the Yingyuefang couple in the city spread throughout Liyou City.
Even Bai Shao's past affairs were all exposed.
Bai Shao, who was already pregnant when she entered the family, was originally pampered by the whole family.
I also saw my husband's dark face and my mother-in-law's methods.
When she gave birth, the old lady of the Ji family was already waiting outside the door with a group of people, looking very aggressive.
Seeing his mother's demeanor, Ji Xukai couldn't help but feel a renewed sense of doubt.
"Mother, what are you doing?"
The old lady gave him a disapproving look, then winked at the old woman beside her.
Let's go in and see how much longer it will take!
The old woman bowed and answered yes, then took the order and left.
Ji Xukai didn't understand what his mother was trying to do. She was usually perfectly fine, so why was she suddenly acting like a completely different person?
"Mother, Shao'er just drank the labor-inducing medicine, and the doctor said it will be a while before she gives birth. If you want to see your grandson, there's no rush. Why don't you go back to the courtyard first, and I'll bring the baby to you as soon as he's born?"
The old lady ignored him and went straight to the pavilion to sit down.
Ji Xukai also walked over and was about to sit down when the old lady suddenly spoke.
"Kneel down!"
Although Ji Xukai felt bewildered, he still knelt down as instructed.
"Mother, I don't know what I've done wrong?"
The old lady glanced at the room where Bai Shao was giving birth.
"This child, regardless of gender, must be brought into my room to be raised!"
Ji Xukai was very puzzled upon hearing this.
"Why? Are you worried that Shao'er won't be able to raise the child well? Then just hire a few more nannies. Why make you do all the work yourself?"
The old lady looked at her foolish son and sneered.
"Ha, you idiot, you probably don't know yet, do you? What your stupid wife said on the street today has been spread all over the place! In other people's eyes, you're just a piece of jade now, and you're still arguing here, aren't you ashamed!"
Ji Xukai wasn't at the scene of the carriage accident beforehand, and then he stayed with Bai Shao afterward, so he really didn't know what she had said.
The old lady, seeing his foolish and silly look, knew he hadn't heard a word.
"Your daughter, pregnant with your child, was shouting in the street about someone else's husband, claiming that the young master of the Marquis of Anding had killed her husband. She tried to use the people's condemnation to attack him, but none of them fell for it. Instead, they cursed her mercilessly!"
Bai Shao was a second wife, a fact that Ji Xukai already knew.
But she still thought of her deceased husband, a fact he was completely unaware of.
He was traveling as a merchant when a drought struck. On his way back, he encountered Bai Shao.
She, a frail woman, holding a wooden stick, was confronting the thugs who were trying to steal her food.
Seeing her trembling yet resolute gaze, Ji Xukai couldn't help but feel a surge of righteous indignation.
After he and his servants drove the refugees away, Bai Shao fainted in his arms.
Her last words before fainting were calling him "husband."
From then on, the two gradually developed feelings for each other, and eventually got married.
He didn't mind that Bai Shao was a widow, and Bai Shao didn't mind that he was a jinx to his wives.
The two have lived happily ever after, a marriage that everyone envies.
How did I inexplicably turn into green jade?
The old lady saw that he looked bewildered, but showed no sign of anger.
She was already angry, and now she was even angrier.
"Do you know that she also has a son who is over ten years old, whom she abandoned during the famine? She also took away tens of thousands of taels of family property, leaving only some grain and four hundred taels of silver notes for the child!"
Ji Xukai listened as his own mother delivered one shocking piece of news after another.
Some even doubted whether she had mistaken her for someone else, since Bai Shao had said that her family had been brutally murdered by bandits.
She was all alone, so how did a teenage son suddenly appear?
"Mother, must you have misheard? Spoon loves children so much! Ever since she became pregnant, she has been telling stories and singing nursery rhymes to the baby in her womb every day. How could she do such a wicked thing?"
He was still making that "spoon, spoon" sound, and the old lady wanted to slap him to death.
"That's not the only vicious thing she's done! She also disfigured her niece's face; it's said to have a huge scar that looks extremely horrifying!"
Upon hearing this, Qin Luo's face immediately flashed into Ji Xukai's mind.
"You said that girl has a scar on her face? Is she about fifteen or sixteen years old?"
"That's what people are saying outside. What? Have you seen that child?"
For some reason, Ji Xukai felt a pang of guilt.
"I saw it. When Shao'er had the accident, she said she was a female doctor and wanted to treat Shao'er!"
The first thing the old lady thought of was that it was a small world.
"So what did she do? She scolded the child on the spot and even said that he had killed her husband?"
As she spoke, she became unsettled, feeling that something overlapped between them.
After thinking for a moment, she suddenly stood up and shouted at the old woman beside her.
"Quickly, send someone to the Marquis of Anding's residence to deliver a visiting card, saying that the Ji family has always been well taken care of by the Marquis's residence, and today they are blessed with a newborn. They would like to donate 50,000 taels of silver to the border troops, as a way to add some meat to the soldiers' diet!"
Ji Xukai immediately stood up and stopped the person.
"Mother, please don't be impatient. If you're going to send the baby, wait until after the baby is born. Otherwise, if people ask about the gender, we won't be able to answer!"
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