Chapter 325 Retribution Came Too Quickly
Du Wanchun was not in a hurry. She raised her eyes and smiled, saying, "If the former prefect wants to keep us at his residence, then I will not stand on ceremony."
The former prefect was furious and stormed off.
After leaving the front yard, he found a servant in the house and said, "Go quickly to the Zhou family and tell them that Manager Du is in our Yuan family. She said she has agreed to give a thousand taels of gold to our Xuzhou County for disaster relief. Tell them to send the gold."
The servant quickly replied, "Yes, sir."
His eyes sparkled at the thought of so much gold.
However, he never expected that he would keep someone he shouldn't have.
Before the messenger had even left Xuzhou Prefecture, his carriage broke down on the road. When he wanted to change to another carriage, he discovered that he had no food left.
He was in a hurry to get back and wanted to buy some dry food before continuing his journey. But as soon as he arrived at the steamed bun shop, a tile fell from the roof beam.
The servant was knocked unconscious by the blow, and the passersby around didn't know who he was, so they had to take him to a pharmacy.
The former prefect was still waiting for the Zhou family to send gold, but little did he know that the message about wanting gold had never even reached the Zhou family.
Du Wanchun was in the former prefectural government, and the former prefectural governor did not dare to do anything to her, treating her to good food and lodging every day.
However, things started to go strange at the Yuan family mansion after Du Wanchun arrived.
That day, the former prefect was happily playing with his two daughters in the courtyard. While waiting for news from the Zhou family, he sent people to lock Du Wanchun up in the former residence.
As night fell, a woman's cries suddenly echoed from the Yuan residence.
The woman was the third concubine in the household, and she was three months pregnant. She was cherished by the former prefect.
Upon hearing the shouts, the former prefect quickly summoned a doctor.
The noise woke everyone in the mansion. Du Wanchun heard the noise and followed them to the third concubine's courtyard.
At this moment, the doctor arrived, and they slowly made their way to the third concubine's room.
The former prefect was waiting anxiously at the gate.
Du Wanchun approached him and asked, "Lord Yuan, what has happened?"
The former prefect's face was full of worry. "My wife is pregnant, and she suddenly started bleeding in the middle of the night."
Du Wanchun looked up into the room and said, "Bleeding? That's definitely a big deal."
As she spoke, she glanced at Prefect Yuan and said slowly, "Prefect Yuan, your eyes are dark and you don't look well. You should see a doctor. Don't hurt yourself while doing disaster relief."
The former prefect was slightly taken aback by her words, not expecting her to flatter him so much. He quickly replied, "That's true. I'll have the doctor take a look at me later."
He had barely finished speaking when the doctor came out of the room.
"grown ups."
The doctor lowered his head, stammering and unable to utter a single word.
Upon seeing his expression, the former prefect sat down heavily on the ground and asked, "Did Third Madam have a miscarriage?"
The doctor shook his head and said, "No, it wasn't a miscarriage."
Upon hearing this, the former prefect's face immediately lit up with joy. "It wasn't a miscarriage. Why do you look so pale? You startled me."
He said this, let out a long sigh of relief, and sat up.
However, the doctor's next words completely shocked him: "Sir, Third Aunt did not miscarry, because she was never pregnant. Her spotting is because she started menstruating."
"What? Menstruation?" the former prefect exclaimed in surprise. "You mean she wasn't pregnant at all?"
The doctor nodded.
The former prefect was furious and strode into the room of the third concubine.
The third concubine climbed off the bed and knelt down, saying, "Master, I don't know what happened. Two months ago, I clearly saw that she was pregnant, but somehow it turned out to be a false pregnancy."
Actually, she had been nauseous for the first two months, and thought she was pregnant, so she didn't see a doctor, which is why she's like this.
Upon hearing this, the former prefect became so angry that he felt dizzy and collapsed. His servants rushed forward and carried him into his own room.
The former prefect was just a poor scholar who later passed the imperial examination with high honors and married Yan, the daughter of a fourth-rank official in the capital. He rose from a minor official to the current prefect of a prefecture.
Since becoming the prefect, he abandoned his first wife in the inner quarters because she had not conceived in the five years they had been married. He used her infertility as a pretext to take concubines like crazy.
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