Chapter 5: Plum Blossom Pride
"How could it be her?" Lu Changqing's eyebrows were twisted into the shape of the Chinese character "川".
Why did the destined person have to be Fang? He had just reprimanded Fang. If he asked her for help now, that woman would definitely humiliate him to the utmost.
But Miao Yan's illness cannot be delayed. It would be more painful for him to watch his beloved suffer than to let her die.
Xiuqiu knelt down and kowtowed: "I shouldn't have said that! The young lady told me not to tell anyone about this, but I let it slip. I deserve to die!"
Lu Changqing was silent for a moment, then asked, "Did the spirit bird in Medicine King Valley really say that Fang's heart blood alone could cure Miao Yan's heart disease?"
Xiuqiu said, "If it is not absolutely true, even if I have a hundred guts, I will not dare to disrespect the Second Madam!"
"Miao Yan already knew about this?"
Hydrangea nodded with tears in her eyes.
Lu Changqing looked at Xu Miaoyan's sleeping face and found her more lovable and respectable: in order not to hurt Fang, she had kept it a secret from him and was willing to suffer from heart disease every day.
"You stay here to look after your young lady. I'll go get her medicine." After the man said this, he lifted his robe and stood up. His handsome figure disappeared at the door.
A family dinner ended in a bad mood because Xu Miaoyan suddenly suffered a heart attack. Fang Qianxue went back to Meihuaao without eating a few bites.
It was just the beginning of spring, and the red plum trees in the yard had not yet withered. She leaned against the window and looked at the red plum trees in the moonlight, thinking that those plum trees were planted by Lu Changqing himself when she first married into the Xu family.
"Madam, the Second Master is here!" Suiqiong trotted in, her face filled with joy.
Fang Qianxue was not excited at all, and said calmly: "Please come in."
Lu Changqing walked in and shook off the coldness on his cloak.
Fang Qianxue did not stand up to take the cloak from him as she did before, so he had to hand the cloak to the maid.
"Suiqiong, go get some hot water. I'll stay here tonight."
"Yes!" The little maid lowered her head and retreated.
"Second Master, how come you have time to come here tonight?" Fang Qianxue was still leaning on the couch in front of the window, looking up and glancing at him.
Lu Changqing was just thirty years old, the best age for a man. He was handsome and had unrestrained manners. She had fallen in love with him at first sight.
In the past five years, the couple has never had a quarrel and they have had children like ordinary couples. He once held his newborn babies Yuaner and Yaoer in his arms and was genuinely happy.
The word love is annoying.
"We haven't been together for a long time since you fell ill a few years ago," Lu Changqing sat down on the couch opposite her, holding his wife's hand, and said gently, "I think about it carefully, I have neglected you during this period of time."
Fang Qianxue has been in love with him for a long time and cannot help herself. As long as he shows a little kindness, the woman will definitely give her her heart's blood to him.
"I'm a little uncomfortable with what the Second Master said today." Fang Qianxue lowered her eyes, with a gleam in the corner of her eyes.
Years ago, she was so sad about the Fang family's affairs that she developed a cough. Instead of saying a word of comfort, Lu Changqing moved to the study room on the pretext of being busy with official duties. Later, something happened to his eldest brother in Jiangning... He went to Jiangning.
From then on, she knew that this man was cold-hearted at heart. Even if she devoted her heart and soul to him and took care of the housework, he might just regard her as a burden and hope to die of illness.
"Qianxue, we've been apart for so long, don't you miss me?" Lu Changqing held her hand with one hand and touched Fang Qianxue's cheek with the other hand, "I was too harsh that day, let me make it up to you tonight."
Fang Qianxue pulled her hand back and said, "Second Master, if you have anything to say, why not just say it."
She had awakened and knew what he was here for today.
Originally, when she was under house arrest, Lu Changqing came to please her again in order to ask for blood for Xu Miaoyan. After a night of tenderness between the two, Fang Qianxue foolishly agreed to have her blood taken.
Who would have thought that the iron nail for drawing blood from her heart was as thick as a little finger and three inches long. It pierced into her heart every morning. Fang Qianxue was in excruciating pain and pulled Lu Changqing's hand to beg him to let her go, but the man said that it was just to draw three drops of blood and he would let her go after a month, and asked her not to be pretentious.
As a result, less than a month later, just after twenty days, Fang Qianxue could not bear the torture and committed suicide.
She is indeed the cannon fodder and the original wife.
"What? You and I are husband and wife, isn't it normal for me to come to your room?" Lu Changqing looked a little annoyed when he saw her withdraw her hand.
This woman, I had to humble myself to sleep with her, but she still had a cold face. It was really unbearable!
"You and I are husband and wife, we should be honest with each other," Fang Qianxue lowered her head and shook the tea that had already cooled down. "Second Master's heart is now on Miss Xu, why don't you sleep with her tonight?"
"..." Lu Changqing was choked, clenched his fists and forced himself to calm down, "Why do you have such a strong hostility towards her? There is no physical intimacy between Miao Yan and me, and she is not as casual as you think. If it is not a formal marriage, she will not agree."
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