Chapter 264: Falling Sick
Why was the maid carried out?
That day, Yanran hid there and listened.
I heard a doctor say that it was because I drank too much contraceptive soup.
There is mercury in the contraceptive soup.
Mercury is a poisonous substance. If the maid drank bowl after bowl of contraceptive soup, there would be no way she could survive.
Yanran felt sad, and at the same time felt grief-stricken for the loss of a rabbit, but was also glad that Zheng Xiu had not returned home during this period of time.
If he didn't return home, Yanran wouldn't have to serve him, let alone drink the contraceptive soup that made her tremble with fear.
But he came back soon.
Not long after he came back, he asked Yanran to serve him.
Yanran trembled with fear and knelt down in front of Zheng Xiu for the first time. Her face was filled with sorrow as she pleaded, "Master... Master, can you please go to the Madam's room?"
Before she could finish her next words, Zheng Xiu's face changed. He thought Yanran was so bold that she dared to reject him.
Although he didn't treat Yanran very well in the past, he would always give her some new gadgets and beautiful jewelry.
Whenever he returned home, Yanran would often be the one to serve him.
This always makes people mistakenly believe that Yanran may have some place in his heart.
But Yanran was just begging him to go to Ling Qiu's mansion today.
He kicked Yanran away, his eyes filled with anger, and started beating her with a stick.
"Bitch!"
"It's your blessing that I'm willing to sleep with you. Who the hell do you think you are? How dare you refuse me here?"
"Well! You, a nobody but a slave, have actually caused such a scene that you dare to persuade your master!"
He was so tender and affectionate when he was in Yanran's bed, and he said almost the most beautiful love words in the world.
It was as if Yanran was his favorite girl.
It seems like he really has deep feelings for Yanran.
But now he was merciless when he beat people.
When he beat Yanran until she was covered in bruises, he saw tears in her eyes and disheveled hair. However, her face was so beautiful that he actually felt a bit of romantic thoughts in his mind.
He forced Yanran onto his bed and stepped on her tenderly.
For him, as long as the other party can please him, it doesn’t matter what method is used or whether it will hurt the other party. What does it have to do with him as the master?
As a concubine and a servant, Yanran only needs to please him.
As for Yanran's dignity and health, they were never within his consideration.
Yanran's skin was bleeding, and at this time, Cuiliu brought her a bowl of contraceptive soup, which was sent by Ling Qiu.
Yanran knelt at Cuiliu's feet, crying sadly, grabbing the hem of Cuiliu's skirt and begging desperately. She trembled and shook her head, "Cuiliu, please help me beg the young lady, I... I don't want to drink this..."
"I don't want to drink this!"
Cui Liu frowned, the disgust in her eyes becoming more and more obvious, "Auntie, you are talking nonsense again. How can I drink this contraceptive soup or not?"
"Now that the young lady has not yet given birth to a child, do you want to give birth to a bastard first and make the entire Zheng family a laughing stock?"
The huge hat that fell on her made Yanran breathless.
Her face was filled with sorrow, her thin body still trembling. "No... I... I can stop serving the young master from now on. As long as the young mistress takes me in, I'll be your slave or maid. But I don't want to drink the contraceptive soup anymore!"
"Sister Cui Liu, what you saw that day, drinking the contraceptive soup will kill you!"
“I don’t want to die!”
She just wants to live.
Even if it means lingering on without dignity.
But living like this is better than dying directly.
Cui Liu frowned even tighter and put down the contraceptive soup. "Auntie, please don't say such ignorant things."
"It's fine if you embarrass this servant, but why embarrass the young lady?"
"You are the young master's concubine. If the young mistress takes you in as a servant, what will others say about her? Those who don't know her might think she's jealous and can't even tolerate a concubine!"
"Auntie, that maid will die if she drinks the comb. It's because she is weak and she is not motivated. Auntie, you are strong, unlike her."
Cui Liu even laughed as she spoke, not caring at all about the lives lost before her eyes. "Before the young lady got married, I served her."
"When the young lady was still married, there were several concubines and step-sisters in the family, and no one died after drinking the contraceptive soup. You are worrying too much."
Is she too pessimistic?
Yanran looked confused.
She saw with her own eyes the maid's body being carried out.
But I did see with my own eyes that there were several illegitimate young masters in this mansion.
For a moment, Yanran didn't know what to say.
Cui Liu then urged, "Auntie, drink this contraceptive soup quickly. After that, you still have to teach people how to embroider."
Yanran's face was numb. She endured the pain in her body with shaking hands, and drank the bowl of contraceptive soup with a tightly frown.
Looking at Cui Liu's expression, she even wondered if Cui Liu would force her to drink the bowl of contraceptive soup if she refused?
The next time she finished serving Zheng Xiu, another bowl of contraceptive soup was brought to her. When extreme fear drove her not to drink it, Cui Liu pinched her chin impatiently and poured the bowl of contraceptive soup into her mouth.
After giving her the contraceptive soup, she continued to teach people embroidery.
Fortunately, Zheng Xiu might have gotten tired of Yanran again, so he took in a new concubine and did not enter Yanran's room for several months.
Yanran finally got a chance to catch her breath.
Although she is not as strong as before, she can at least continue to teach the maids embroidery with peace of mind.
With her as their master, the embroidery skills of all the women in the mansion quickly became more sophisticated.
Even Ling Qiu, whose embroidery in the past was just mediocre and could not be called good or bad, could now embroider lifelike flowers.
Ling Qiu was very happy and invited Yanran to eat in the same room with him.
Yanran's face is still a little pale.
Ling Qiu, however, seemed to be oblivious, still smiling as she pulled Yanran aside to chat about daily life. "Sister, your embroidery is really good, but I wonder if you have any hidden skills. If you could teach me everything you know, everyone in the mansion would be grateful to you."
Yanran shook her head.
Will everyone in the mansion be grateful to her?
She doesn't know.
She only knew that even if she taught them a lot, those people would still call her a vixen and a slut behind her back.
She didn't know what she had done wrong and why she had to suffer such humiliation.
But from the day she became a concubine, she had already lost her dignity.
But what’s even more terrifying is yet to come.
One day, Zheng Xiu ran into her and felt a sense of novelty again.
He began to ask her to serve him again.
This went on for several days in a row, and I drank bowl after bowl of contraceptive soup.
Yanran felt more and more pain and her face became paler.
However, Zheng Xiu felt that she looked like a sick beauty and began to favor her more and more without restraint.
Yanran soon fell ill.
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