Chapter 3, Chapter 3: Slapping the Male Lead in a Torture Novel, Hey!
Jiang Wei rushed back to Yunzhu Garden. Everything in the courtyard was as before. If he hadn't heard the baby crying, he wouldn't have believed that the baby had really been born.
Logically, it shouldn't have been eight months yet, so how could she suddenly be born prematurely?
"The eldest young master is back."
From a distance, the maid lifted the curtain and called out.
The moment Jiang Wei entered the room, Dan Ruo, who was guarding the outer room, stood up and bowed, saying, "Young Master."
Stepping inside, Jiang Wei smelled a slightly different scent of incense than usual. The aroma was somewhat mixed, and he couldn't help but cover his nose with his hand, frowning as he said, "Change this incense and go back to the old kind."
Danruo glanced at the incense burner. Wasn't this the incense she usually burned?
She stayed with Li Lianniang during childbirth and didn't sleep all night. She had just tried to lie down for a while but still couldn't fall asleep.
Upon hearing the sound, he went to fetch the incense burner without thinking.
Jiang Wei came to the bedside. Li Lianniang, who had just given birth, was lying on the bed, her face pale and her lips bloodless. Jiang Wei felt a sudden pang of pain in his heart. He sat down by the bed and took Li Lianniang's hand: "Lianniang."
Li Lianniang slowly opened her eyes and saw Jiang Wei's expressionless face.
Only when he got closer did I notice the handprint on his cheek.
Li Lianniang's expression shifted slightly, and she reached out to touch his cheek: "What's wrong?"
At the same time, Jiang Wei asked, "Why was she born prematurely when everything was fine?"
The two spoke almost simultaneously, but Li Lianniang's weak voice was completely drowned out by Jiang Wei's question.
Danruo held the incense burner. It would have been better if she hadn't brought this up, because her face immediately fell when it was mentioned. She started chattering away: "All the other servants in the manor know that the eldest young master went out with Miss Cui, but my young mistress didn't know. She only found out about it yesterday from two gossiping maids. I wonder if someone deliberately arranged this to harm my young mistress."
The Liu family physician advised the young mistress not to sit for long periods and to move around from time to time. Unexpectedly, while taking a walk in the garden to pick plum branches, she heard some upsetting news and her pregnancy was aggravated.
"Danruo".
"Shut up, you scoundrel."
Two voices rang out at the same time; the first was barely audible, while the second was full of anger.
Jiang Wei stood up from the bedside, exuding an aura that chilled people to the bone.
Danruo trembled with fright and knelt down, holding the incense burner.
Jiang Wei glanced at the kneeling maid and looked at Li Lianniang: "This is your servant, so outspoken and reckless in criticizing her master. How dare she!"
Li Lianniang was about to give birth and was in a very weak state. Her lips parted but she was about to utter a sound when Jiang Wei spoke again:
“As a servant, you have failed to serve your master properly, causing him to have a premature birth, yet you only care about shirking responsibility. Guards, drag him away and give him twenty strokes of the cane as a warning to others.”
Danruo turned pale with fright upon hearing the sound and kept kowtowing. The bruise on her forehead had not yet healed, and now there was a new injury: "This servant has not uttered a single falsehood. Please, young master, investigate thoroughly. Please, young master, investigate thoroughly."
Li Lianniang reached out and grabbed Jiang Wei's sleeve, her breath extremely unsteady, and said, "Husband, don't blame Danruo. It's my fault. I didn't discipline Danruo well. If you want to punish someone, punish me. It has nothing to do with Danruo."
Jiang Wei pulled his sleeve away and looked down at Li Lianniang: "If she wasn't acting on your orders, would she dare to speak so disrespectfully about her master? I've told you before, Tingyue is the daughter of my benefactor. Because she saved me, her father and brothers died. Accompanying her to the temple is also to light eternal lamps for her father and brothers."
"The reason why I say that I accompany other women on trips and sightseeing when I am a mother is because of this."
“I’m only selling this servant who dares to slander her master because of you.”
The sleeve was pulled away too quickly, and Li Lianniang felt a burning pain in her fingertips, but it was nothing compared to the sting of the words.
Her feeble defense: "No, that's not true."
Jiang Wei's face was so dark it seemed to drip water, making the slap mark on his face even more prominent: "You weren't like this before. How come you're so scheming now, even willing to risk your life and the child to frame someone?"
Jiang Wei looked on with disappointment. "Now that you have a child and are a mother, you should be more open-minded and not spoil your child."
Danruo kowtowed until her face was covered in blood, but all she heard was the eldest young master blaming the young mistress for the mistake. Danruo panicked and crawled over to tug at Jiang Wei's clothes, "Young master, the young mistress didn't do anything, you can't blame her like this, ah—"
Jiang Wei kicked Dan Ruo in the chest and shouted towards the door, "Does my word no longer carry weight in Yunzhu Garden? Where is everyone?"
Several footsteps approached quickly, dragging Danruo outside. Danruo's cries for help echoed from the rafters.
Jiang Wei didn't look at Li Lianniang and walked away. He didn't understand how she had become like this. Because of his jealousy, she had used the child as a pretext and even arranged for the maid to imply that Tingyue had deliberately arranged for her to have a premature birth.
How could someone be so vicious?
"Husband, husband, spare Danruo, husband—"
Even after leaving the room, Danruo's screams still pounded in Li Lianniang's heart. She hurriedly threw off the covers, grabbed the bed rails with both hands, and struggled to get out of bed.
Chi Lan took her maid to the kitchen to fetch soup. Before she even reached Yunzhu Garden, she heard Danruo's screams and quickened her pace.
As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw Danruo being pressed onto a bench and beaten with a cane. "Stop! What's going on?"
The second-class maidservant quickly pulled her aside and whispered the whole story to her.
"this……"
The eldest son ordered the caning, and Chi Lan, seeing this, was anxious but helpless, and hurriedly went inside.
"Ah—Young Madam—"
The screams were ear-piercing, and the people outside looked at each other in dismay. Before long, Yunzhuyuan was in an uproar.
This is the area around Haitangju.
The delicate beauty had been gone for a while, and Zhao Xian was still lamenting that this wasn't modern times; such a natural beauty was truly rare.
Granny He hurried into the room with her hands clasped in front of her, her face grave. "Madam," she said, "something has happened at Yunzhu Garden."
With a snap, Zhao Xian's beautiful dream shattered.
"Something happened?"
What could possibly happen?
"A servant came to report that the eldest young mistress had fallen off the bed and was bleeding heavily."
Zhao Xian jumped up from the stool, almost crying out, "Doctor, doctor, quickly find a doctor!"
As she spoke, she lifted her skirt and ran outside. She had just given birth and was experiencing severe bleeding, which could be fatal.
Halfway there, Zhao Xian grabbed He Mama's arm: "Midwife, invite the midwife and the best imperial physician here, quickly, give the order immediately."
Granny He nodded. "This old servant has already given the orders, and the sedan chair is ready. Would Madam like to go?"
"Go, go."
On the way, Zhao Xian inquired about the reason in detail, but according to Granny He, the maid who came to deliver the message only said that after the eldest young master went to visit the young mistress, he punished Danruo. When Chi Lan entered the room again, she found that the eldest young mistress was bleeding heavily.
However, the servants did not know the specifics of what had happened.
They only said that the eldest son was angry.
Zhao Xian: You bastard!
She left Cui Tingyue behind, thinking that without a female supporting character around, the male and female leads in the tragic story wouldn't have any conflicts, thus reducing the chances of a dramatic, heartbreaking situation.
The bastard can even build his own crematorium, that's amazing.
Yunzhuyuan
As soon as Zhao Xian was helped down from the sedan chair by Granny He, the maid who had kowtowed to her and addressed her as Danruo rushed over, shouting:
"Madam, please save my young lady, please save my young lady."
The old woman carrying the sedan chair quickly pressed the person down, preventing her from touching Zhao Xian.
Looking at the maidservant of the tragic heroine, Zhao Xian remembered that the maidservant was very loyal, but impulsive, and it was this impulsiveness that ruined her.
In the book, after the death of the maid named Danruo, the female protagonist's resentment towards the male protagonist increases.
At this moment, Zhao Xian ignored her and hurriedly went into the house.
The female doctor Liu, who had been taken out by Jiang Wei to take care of Cui Tingyue before, arrived early this time.
He is taking Li Lianniang's pulse.
Through the curtain, Zhao Xian saw Li Lianniang's pale, bloodless face. She looked around but didn't see the dog.
The female doctor was inside, so she didn't disturb her.
He stepped out into the outer room and then said, "Go and fetch the dog... Young Master for me."
My wife knew about this terrible thing that happened to her and rushed over, but that bastard wasn't there.
Compared to giving birth yesterday, the constant screams in the room made her frown frequently, but she wasn't too worried. She was even glad that it wasn't her turn, since it was a normal plot in the book.
The house was eerily silent today, but it made her extremely anxious.
Could it be that her intervention caused the plot to change?
I remember in the book, Cui Tingyue went with Jiang Wei to visit the female protagonist of the tragic novel.
The female protagonist in the angst-filled novel had just given birth when the male protagonist pointed his finger at her and accused her of being scheming.
Because of premature birth, there have even been stories where the male protagonist in a tragic novel suspects that the child is not his.
Oh, so the original source of this rumor was also involved.
Snap—
Zhao Xian raised her hand and slapped herself.
Jiang Wei was summoned by a servant and saw this scene. He stopped in his tracks and exclaimed, "Mother!"
Granny He was standing to the side when she was startled. She was about to speak when Zhao Xian raised her hand to stop her.
Zhao Xian didn't even want to look at her eldest son; her gaze was fixed on the direction of the house.
Just then, the midwife and the doctor arrived.
The imperial physician who was summoned yesterday did not come. A maid whispered to Granny He, who then said in a low voice, "Madam, the imperial physician is unavailable, so we invited a highly skilled doctor from Jin'an."
Zhao Xian nodded and said to the old doctor and the midwife, "Please come quickly, you must save my daughter-in-law's life."
The midwife came yesterday and received a big reward. She knew that Madam Jiang was a good mother-in-law and did not show any displeasure because the child was a granddaughter.
Although she was puzzled—how could something have happened so soon after just one night—she didn't say anything rash.
She was both a midwife and a woman, so she went into the inner room first, while the old doctor had his maidservant go to make sure the pulse was taken.
Zhao Xian wanted to say that at this moment, there was no need to worry about the separation between men and women, saving lives was the priority, but she knew that times had changed and she could not speak these words rashly.
There was no sound in the inner room, and there was a soft couch next to her, but Zhao Xian couldn't sit still and couldn't help pacing back and forth.
"mother."
Snap—
Jiang Wei had just opened his mouth to shout when he was slapped across the face.
Zhao Xian had wanted to slap him for a long time, and she finally got the chance. "Why did Lian Niang suddenly have a massive hemorrhage? She just gave birth to your daughter, what did you do to her?"
Jiang Wei, who was restrained and polite from childhood, was always praised by others.
Having been slapped twice in one day, his brows furrowed, and his already expressionless face became even colder. He said in a stiff tone, "Your son did nothing to Lianniang."
"Didn't do anything? You left and she had this accident right after. Did she not want to live anymore and stab herself with a knife?"
Even if you're skilled at abusing fiction and engaging in cruelty, it doesn't warrant going after a new mother. Where's your morality? Where's your humanity?
Jiang Wei pursed his lips, wanting to speak several times, but found that he had no way to refute his mother's words.
He learned from the servants that Li Lianniang had an accident when he arrived.
It was suspected that he had punished Danruo, but he couldn't let the maid beat him because of her loose tongue.
Watching the maids come and go, sometimes taking out bloodstained clothes and handkerchiefs, sometimes fetching water.
"It's good that Lianniang is alright, but if something were to happen to her..." Zhao Xian glared at Jiang Wei.
"Madam, Brother Wei, is sister-in-law alright?"
Supported by her maid, Cui Tingyue stepped into Yunzhu Garden, her eyes filled with worry, and asked softly.
"Cough cough cough..." He had only said two words when he covered his mouth and coughed.
Before long, a blush appeared on her face from coughing.
Seeing this, Jiang Wei familiarly went to help Cui Tingyue and said with concern, "Why are you here if you're not feeling well? You've caught a cold, coughing so badly."
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