Chapter 146: A Mistake
Fan Shuhui couldn't accept this result. Why should there be one more person in her and Dou Qiming's world of two?
However, Fan Shuhui's opposition did not receive support from everyone. Both her parents and Dou Qiming's parents felt that he should take the poor girl as his concubine.
Mrs. Fan even taught her not to be jealous, saying that she was just a concubine who could not give birth, and there was nothing to be intolerable about it.
Fan Shuhui had no choice but to accept this result. There was nothing she could do about it. The little girl had been carried into the mansion in a sedan chair by Dou Qiming and had become Dou Qiming's concubine.
Fan Shuhui could only comfort herself that Dou Qiming loved her, and that concubine was only supporting her out of pity for her.
Not long after, Fan Shuhui married Dou Qiming in red and green. They lived a harmonious life together and Fan Shuhui was very happy as a newlywed.
Of course, it would be better if Dou Qiming didn’t have a concubine.
Especially Aunt Xue, who became Dou Qiming's concubine after being injured for saving his life. Fan Shuhui would get mad every time she saw her.
Because she was unable to bear children, Dou Qiming showed her more pity and did not treat her badly in terms of food, clothing and other expenses, especially because she was the savior of Dou Qiming and Fan Shuhui.
Therefore, almost no one in the Dou family made things difficult for her. With the affluent life and Dou Qiming's gentleness and consideration, Aunt Xue, this flower, actually blossomed with a unique charm in the fertile soil of the Dou family.
Only then did Fan Shuhui realize that Aunt Xue was really pretty, delicate and fragile like a white lotus, which made people feel pity for her.
Of course Dou Qiming also discovered this, so he became even more caring and protective towards Aunt Xue.
Black flowers began to bloom in Fan Shuhui's heart, which was eaten away by jealousy, and she began to torture her concubine like some mistresses of the house.
But the more she did this, the more caring Dou Qiming became towards his concubine, and gradually cracks began to appear in the relationship between her and Dou Qiming.
This rift was showing signs of widening because Aunt Xue was pregnant. Although the doctor had diagnosed her with fertility problems at the beginning, he was not 100% sure that she could not have children.
This news was so sudden that Dou Shuhui was extremely angry, because her belly was not even moving yet, but she, a lowly concubine, got ahead of him.
Fan Shuhui was so angry that she was blinded by anger. As soon as she heard the news, she pulled out Aunt Xue and beat her up until the child died.
Fan Shuhui's behavior not only angered Dou Qiming, but also her parents-in-law disliked her. Indeed, it was not a good thing for a concubine to get pregnant before the mistress. But look at who that person was. Aunt Xue was the savior of both of them.
What's more, the doctor said that it was difficult to guarantee a smooth birth. After all, Aunt Xue had injured her body before, and it was already a fluke that she could get pregnant. Whether she could give birth safely depended on fate.
As a result, Fan Shuhui was so impatient that she couldn't tolerate a concubine, so she aborted the child. That child was her savior!
But the story is not over yet. After Aunt Xue had a miscarriage, she has been sick ever since and often had to ask doctors to see her for treatment. She changed doctors one after another, but her condition did not improve.
In the end, it was Madam Dou who took the initiative and invited the imperial physician to see the patient, hoping to cure Aunt Xue's illness at once.
Don't think about it anymore. This time, inviting the imperial physician caused a big trouble. When the imperial physician came to treat Aunt Xue, he felt that the concubine's face looked more and more familiar. After returning and thinking about it carefully, he suddenly remembered that Aunt Xue looked like the lost daughter of a nobleman.
Then this sentence was leaked out, and it spread from one person to ten people, and then to a hundred people, until it reached the ears of the nobleman. When the nobleman heard it, he became interested and wanted to meet Aunt Xue.
Then things turned out so dramatically. Aunt Xue was indeed the lost daughter of that noble lady. Who was that noble lady? She was the eldest princess's daughter, Princess Chengping.
The current emperor is his uncle. Princess Chengping had only this one daughter in her life. She was raised like a treasure since childhood. However, she got lost when she was three years old. Princess Chengping has been bedridden ever since. Over the years, people have been pretending to be her daughter and wanting to come to her house to claim recognition as her relative.
All were exposed one by one. Those who came to pretend to be the princess's daughter naturally did not have a good end. After repeated disappointments, Princess Chengping thought she would never see her daughter again in this life.
Unexpectedly, by some strange coincidence, the mother and daughter finally reunited. However, the daughter's situation was not good now. She had even fallen to become someone else's concubine.
The baby in her belly was also killed by the mistress, and she will never be able to have her own child again.
Princess Chengping felt heartbroken seeing her sick daughter. Not only did she take her daughter back to the princess's residence to recuperate, she also forcefully demanded that the Dou family give her an explanation.
What else could the Dou family do? They could not afford to bear the guilt of having offended the royal family. All they had to do was push Fan Shuhui out and demote her to a concubine, which would only alleviate Princess Chengping's anger by a third.
At the critical moment, it was the daughter who was adopted by Princess Chengping who spoke up. Her heart had already been conquered by Dou Qiming's gentleness and thoughtfulness, and she didn't want anything to happen to the Dou family.
So he came forward to ask for help from Princess Chengping. Princess Chengping was heartbroken to see her daughter like this. She knew that her daughter was infatuated with Dou Qiming, and that Dou Qiming did not have any major flaws in his behavior.
After thinking it over carefully, Princess Chengping decided to marry her daughter to him to fulfill her daughter's infatuation. Anyway, with her around, the Dou family could not treat her daughter badly. What's more, her daughter saved Dou Qiming's life and was once pregnant with a child for him. It was not right or right for the Dou family to be ungrateful.
The former concubine became Dou Qiming's wife, and Dou Qiming's former wife Fan Shuhui became a concubine, and the status of the two people was reversed.
This scene seemed absurd, but under the manipulation of the royal power, it became reasonable and logical. No one dared to question it. After all, this was tacitly agreed by the emperor. What else could others say?
Even if Fan Shuhui felt a thousand grievances, she had to swallow them. It was her own fault for wanting to abort the baby in the concubine's belly. If the baby in Aunt Xue's belly had not been aborted, Aunt Xue might never have had the chance to return to her ancestral home in her life.
No one could have imagined that things would turn out like this. Aunt Xue suddenly became a county lady and married into the Dou family in a bright red wedding dress, while Fan Shuhui, wearing a pink dress, knelt at the door to welcome the mistress into the house.
And this was never the only humiliating thing. All the tricks Fan Shuhui had used on Aunt Xue were now backfiring on her, and she was being tortured beyond words.
Dou Qiming felt very distressed when he saw her like this. After all, they were childhood sweethearts and he still had deep feelings for Fan Shuhui.
Dou Qiming personally went to the county lady to beg her to show mercy and spare Fan Shuhui.
The county lady agreed with a smile on her face, but then she felt unwell and lay in bed, unable to get up. This time even the imperial physician could not cure her.
Princess Chengping asked a Taoist priest to see her, and the priest came to the conclusion that the princess had been injured. If she wanted to recover from her illness, she had to find a woman with a good family background and a close relationship with her to serve as her substitute. She had to enter a Taoist temple and practice Taoism for ten years before she could resolve her crisis.
Under these conditions, Fan Shuhui became the county lord's substitute and was sent to the Taoist temple to practice.
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