Chapter 384 The Child Is Gone
Seeing her husband frown, Mei Qingyun smiled even more: "It's nothing, it's just that I haven't seen you all day and I missed you terribly, so I came here. It hurts me so much that you spoke to me like that."
Upon hearing this, Lord Wei's heart skipped a beat. His intuition told him that this crazy woman must have done something, otherwise, given her personality, she would not have taken the initiative to come to him and say such things.
Lord Wei stopped beating around the bush and went straight to the point: "What good deed have you done?"
Mei Qingyun looked completely innocent: "Husband, you are mistaken. What could a weak woman like me do? I just missed you and came to see you."
After hearing this, Lord Wei thought carefully about his family affairs. Everything had been fine at home recently, and there shouldn't be any troubles. He looked at her with a probing gaze. Seeing her innocent expression, it seemed that she really hadn't done anything wrong. But given the previous experience, he felt that she was holding back some big move.
"Husband, don't be nervous. I really just came to see you."
Mei Qingyun paused as she spoke, and seeing her husband looking at her incredulously, she said to him in a gentle tone, "Also, I wanted to check on you, my husband. I was thinking that you must be very sad because you just lost another child, so I came to comfort you and encourage you to think more positively."
She spoke slowly and softly, without a trace of sadness or regret, but rather with a strong sense of malice and a desire to watch the drama unfold.
Upon hearing this, Lord Wei's expression changed drastically: "What did you say?!"
He originally had five children: four sons and one daughter. The first three sons died young, leaving one son and one daughter. The son was born to Mei Qingyun's personal maid and registered under Mei Qingyun's name. He was raised by Mei Qingyun from birth. The daughter was born to another concubine.
Although the first three sons died young due to illness, accidents, or because their mothers had difficult childbirth and the labor was too long, the children suffocated and died shortly after birth, and the mothers also died in childbirth.
But he knew it was Mei Qingyun's scheme. The gentle and virtuous principal wife had sent so many tonics to the concubine while she was pregnant, making the pregnant woman obese and causing the fetus to be too large to deliver easily. He didn't notice at first, but only realized it when the child was about to be born. This kind of tactic was common in the power struggles within the inner quarters of the household, gaining a good reputation while achieving one's goals.
As for the unborn child, a concubine was pregnant, seven months along, but tragically drowned, resulting in the deaths of both mother and child. This was not a simple accident, but a calculated one, and the culprit was none other than Mei Qingyun.
Knowing that this madwoman was psychologically twisted—infertile herself but not allowing others to bear children—he would always try to manipulate things. The only two people who didn't were the madwoman's personal maid, whom she had taken as a concubine, and Qin'er's birth mother. So, after each encounter, he would have someone send a bowl of contraceptive soup to the concubine. As long as she didn't get pregnant, this wouldn't happen. Therefore, when no one was pregnant, there would be no murders in the inner quarters.
Now he only has two children left. Either his son is gone, or his daughter is gone. His son is registered under Mei Qingyun's name, and Mei Qingyun wouldn't harm this child, so it must be his daughter who is gone.
My daughter is usually very well-behaved, and my aunt is honest and law-abiding. What could possibly bother this crazy woman?
Mei Qingyun admired the change in his expression and asked softly, "So, my husband doesn't know yet? I thought a servant had already told him. But it's normal that you don't know, it just happened not long ago."
Lord Wei stepped forward, grabbed her shoulders, and questioned her through gritted teeth, "Qin'er is usually well-behaved and sensible. What did she do to offend you?"
Faced with his angry questioning, Mei Qingyun remained calm and replied gently, "Husband, who told you it was Qin'er's? I like Qin'er quite a bit. I even called her over to teach her today. When I came to find you just now, I had her aunt take her to bed."
Upon hearing this, Lord Wei's heart tightened, and he asked in a trembling voice, "That's Xu'er? Even if Xu'er wasn't born to you, he's been raised by you since he was a child. How could you do this?"
As he spoke, a dull ache shot through his heart, and a chill crept up from the soles of his feet, chilling him to the bone. Xu'er was his only son; the Wei family had only Xu'er left as their sole heir. He never imagined that this madwoman would even harm the child she had raised herself.
Mei Qingyun didn't reply. She just quietly watched him grieve, his despair, and his resentment. She watched as he slowly loosened his shoulders, swayed, and took a step back before regaining his balance.
At this moment, Mei Qingyun seemed to find his dazed and confused appearance amusing, and covered her mouth with a soft laugh.
Lord Wei narrowed his eyes with a pained expression, then suddenly opened them, his eyes red-rimmed, and questioned, "Mei Qingyun, I truly underestimated your limits. You crazy woman have no limits at all. The most beautiful woman in the capital back then, whose talent was no less than that of men, and who was well-versed in the classics, yet you have done such a vicious thing. My mother has never mistreated you, how could you bear to let her lose her only grandson at such a young age?"
Mei Qingyun smiled nonchalantly, offering a condescending attempt to soothe his despair: "Husband, you've misunderstood. It's not Xu'er. Xu'er is still alive and well. I'm counting on him to take care of me in my old age. How could I possibly harm him?"
Upon hearing this, Lord Wei breathed a sigh of relief, feeling as if he had finally come back to life.
Seeing this, Mei Qingyun continued, "It's Aunt Wang. She recently had a miscarriage. In order to get pregnant and please her husband, and to have a child to rely on, she secretly poured out the contraceptive soup her husband gave her. She finally got pregnant, but she fell and lost the baby. The doctor said the baby was already two months old. It's such a pity."
After she finished speaking, she sighed softly, seemingly feeling sorry for Aunt Wang.
Upon hearing this, Lord Wei was shocked. He hadn't expected that Concubine Wang would dare to secretly throw away the contraceptive soup. But what shocked him even more was that this madwoman knew about Concubine Wang throwing away the contraceptive soup. Not only did she know, but she also knew that Concubine Wang was pregnant. Even he hadn't known about Concubine Wang's pregnancy.
He frowned deeply, his eyes filled with complex emotions as he looked at the woman before him, and angrily questioned, "I always make them drink contraceptive soup afterward. Since you knew that Aunt Wang was doing this kind of thing, why didn't you stop her?"
Mei Qingyun looked at him angrily cursing her, feeling completely innocent: "What do you mean by that, husband? Didn't you say before that I can't have children myself and I can't stop others from having children? Now I feel that what you said back then was quite right. Besides, you only have one son and one daughter, and your offspring are few. So I thought that it would be good if Aunt Wang could have children for you, so I didn't stop her."
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