Chapter 164 Miss Qingling, please drink your medicine
Everyone: "..."
They thought Yao Qingling was going to argue fiercely and resist, but instead they assumed that they had offended her.
Is Yao Qingling really that strange?
Everyone was momentarily stumped by her question.
Qingling used to give Ma Shi some face and didn't expose her hypocrisy to her face, but now she doesn't give her any face at all.
"Aunt, you used to tell others that you pitied me for losing my parents at such a young age and raised me like your own daughter..." Qingling said with downcast eyes and a wronged expression, sounding pitiful.
As soon as the words were spoken, some people couldn't help but show a complex expression.
Everyone has eyes; they all know how well this aunt has handled things.
However, because she was the wife of a marquis, everyone respected her and dared not say anything.
Ms. Ma was very uncomfortable, her eyes darting around, but what did this have to do with her pregnancy?
Ma spoke up: "Don't talk nonsense—"
Qingling's voice drowned out hers: "Back then, when the Grand Princess and Aunt were discussing the marriage, the Grand Princess once said, 'The Lady of the Marquis is kind and righteous, raising Qingling so well.' This shows that the Grand Princess trusted Aunt very much, and afterwards, she would ask Aunt to come and discuss anything."
"My aunt visited the Duke's mansion several times, and the Grand Princess tried her best to meet her needs. This is all in return for your 'devoted care' of me."
"But now, my aunt keeps saying that I fooled the Grand Princess and the Duke's mansion. Shouldn't my aunt also bear the consequences for her responsibility to raise children? Aren't you deceiving them too?"
"My aunt accused me of misconduct, saying I had an affair with a man. If I were promiscuous, how could my aunt, a person of good upbringing, have raised someone like me?"
Yao Qingling's long speech made Madam Ma panic, and she couldn't find any words to suppress her.
Ma Peizhen said, "Everyone is different. My aunt raised so many children, did they all behave badly?"
"Exactly." Madam Ma came to her senses. "Yao Qingling, you have a restless spirit in your bones. You did something shameful and now you're blaming me?"
Yao Qingqi didn't want to be associated with the words "fickle and promiscuous," as she wasn't married yet.
She said, "Yao Qingling, we are not the same as you. My brothers and sisters and I are all children of our mother and father. Although our maternal grandparents' family did not have high official ranks, they still worked in the government. But you only have half of the Yao family's blood in you."
This implies that Qingling's mother's status is not high enough.
Qingling's mother was a female doctor, and being a doctor meant dealing with filth every day, which was always considered a lowly profession.
Moreover, Qingling's mother was a woman from the southwestern border region, where women were said to be bold and unrestrained, and would directly express their love to any man they fancied.
Yao Qingling's parents got married without a matchmaker back then.
Qing Ling's eyes suddenly turned cold as she stared at Yao Qingqi.
His gaze was as cold as an ice blade, as if he wanted to skin her alive.
Yao Qingqi was intimidated by her gaze, but with so many people around, could Yao Qingling still kill her?
Yao Qingqi rolled her eyes, turned her head away, and assumed that her status was superior to hers.
Lou Yue was furious and couldn't take it anymore; she was going to tear her mouth apart!
Qingling grabbed Louyue's arm and said coldly, "Ignore her."
She will remember all these words and make them return all the benefits they received from her parents!
But if you make a move at this point, you're just handing them a knife.
Lou Yue will be beaten to death by them.
Qingling swallowed hard, suppressing her anger, but her voice became even colder.
She said, "What kind of person your aunt's child is is important to the Marquis's mansion, but it's not important to the Grand Princess at all. She only believes in the humiliation she suffered, doesn't she?"
Ma opened her mouth, but had no answer.
At this moment, Marquis Zhongyong spoke up, instructing his maid to prepare abortifacient medicine to get rid of this wretched child.
At this moment, he was certain that the child didn't belong to some important person, so why bring the child into the world? Was he just waiting to be ridiculed?
If no child is born in the Marquis's mansion, then nothing will happen.
The old lady frowned and glanced at her son.
But since it was her son who said it, she didn't stop him.
This child was born when we were in the new mansion; he is an illegitimate child and should not be kept.
If we had discovered it earlier and given her the abortifacient sooner, she wouldn't have had to suffer like this.
The old lady lowered her eyes and turned the prayer beads around and around.
Everyone felt that it was better to abort the bastard child.
Especially Madam Ma, whose original intention was to imprison Yao Qingling, who was going to die sooner or later anyway, and even if the child was born, it wouldn't live long.
The abortifacient was prepared quickly.
It should be said that Madam Ma was prepared, as a maidservant brought up the medicine.
"Miss Qingling, please drink your medicine."
The maid who delivered the medicine was the same head maid who had brought Qingling from Mulan Courtyard.
She looked at Qingling, a malicious and excited glint in her eyes.
The old women also came in.
If Yao Qingling didn't drink the medicine willingly, they would force her to swallow it!
Before the old women could even touch Qingling's clothes, Louyue and Heyin blocked their way.
We will not allow Yao Qingling to suffer any harm.
But they had no martial arts training, so they couldn't be stopped. However, He Yin took out a silver needle and quickly and accurately stabbed it into the hand of an old woman.
"Ah!" the old woman cried out, her hand trembling uncontrollably. "My hand, my hand!"
Before He Yin could have the needle removed, Lou Yue said on her behalf, "I advise you not to remove the needle. If you do, your hand might be ruined."
This startled the old women and maids.
Marquis Zhongyong was furious and slammed his fist on the table: "Yao Qingling, you've gone too far and dare to resist!"
"Let's see how long you can hold out!" He then summoned in even more servants.
"Who dares to touch me!" Yao Qingling said coldly, her eyebrows furrowed, as she swept her gaze across the crowd. "I am carrying the child of the royal Lian family and the Duke's Zhan family. Even though I have divorced Master Zhan, he still carries royal blood."
Princess Deyang, the eldest grand princess, was the late emperor's sister and held great prestige within the royal family. Even after her marriage, she maintained a significant influence within the imperial clan.
She valued Zhan Xingzhuo highly, but Zhan Xingzhuo currently had no children and was in Luozhou, making this child seem special.
Marquis Zhongyong was wary and frowned as he pondered the pros and cons.
Since she is Master Zhan's child, let her marry again.
But he couldn't guarantee that this was the Zhan family's bloodline. What if Yao Qingling was lying to protect the child?
At this moment, Madam Ma spoke coldly: "You say it is so? Even Master Zhan himself doesn't believe it."
"You're pregnant with his child, yet you insist on divorce. Isn't that contradictory? Who would believe you?"
No woman would insist on leaving her husband's family while pregnant.
Unless she has something to hide.
Yao Qingling chose to fake it herself. She was secretive and tried to humiliate Zhan Xingzhuo in order to get a divorce, probably because she was afraid that her pregnancy with an illegitimate child would be exposed.
Since they believed it was an illegitimate child, they didn't care whether it was Zhan Xingzhuo's offspring or not.
The fetus died in the womb, and after the baby was born, it was thrown into a mass grave, leaving no one to verify the story.
Ma coldly ordered, "Do it."
Several strong men quickly subdued Lou Yue and He Yin, while the old women held Qing Ling's shoulders and the maid pinched Qing Ling's chin, bringing the bowl close to her lips.
Just then, a loud voice came from outside: "Lord Marquis, Lady Marquis, we have guests visiting!"
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