Chapter 48 Miscarriage
"Mother! I am innocent!" Xu Qingyue shouted loudly.
She has been living in extreme poverty ever since her dowry was taken away by Xu Qingyan. Now she is fined a year's salary. How is she going to live in the future?
In this matter, she had only given the hairpin to Lin Yanbang, and she had not participated in the design and frame-up. Wasn't her mother's punishment too harsh? At this time, Xu Qingyue's heart was filled with resentment.
But at this time, the Duke's wife was too lazy to pay attention to Xu Qingyue. After telling her about her punishment, she waved her hand and asked the servants to drive Xu Qingyue out of the yard.
This time, Xu Qingyue had harmed Jinyu to such an extent. If there was no evidence that Xu Qingyue was directly involved, she would have kicked Xu Qingyue out of the Duke's Mansion.
Xu Qingyue returned to her yard feeling aggrieved. She angrily yelled in the house, smashed a lot of things, and even took her anger out on the maid beside her.
"Madam, please don't smash it again. This jade vase is worth a lot of silver! We are already short of money now. If this vase is smashed again, there will be no valuable decorations in this room!" Fang Dong hugged the jade vase tightly and cried to persuade Xu Qingyue.
Originally, Xu Qingyue was extremely angry, but after hearing Fang Dong's words, she was still stunned for a moment.
"You said that the most valuable thing in my house now is this broken vase?" Xu Qingyue looked at Fang Dong in disbelief.
In the past, when she was still in the Xu Mansion, she had as many vases as possible like this and never took them seriously, but now it has become a treasure in her house?
Fang Dong nodded with tears in his eyes and said, "Madam, your dowry has not been returned, and you often manage servants in the Duke's Mansion, so your six hundred taels of dowry has been almost spent. Before this, there were still some valuable items in the house, but because you needed silver, you asked us to pawn a lot of things. Now there is really nothing valuable in the house, and this jade pot spring vase really can't be smashed anymore!"
After listening to Fang Dong's words, Xu Qingyue stopped what she was doing and slowly put down the vase in frustration. When she saw that there was nothing for her to drop, she felt so aggrieved that she laid on the table and burst into tears.
At this time, Pei Jingyuan on the other side had also finished his own affairs. Because he had previously arranged a marriage with the Chen family, he directly promised the third prince that he would help him raise the remaining silver to fill the hole.
Therefore, in order to gain the trust of the Third Prince, Pei Jingyuan stayed by the Third Prince's side to help him with his work these days.
After this matter was done, Pei Jingyuan did not return to the Duke's Mansion immediately, but took people directly to the Chen Mansion, intending to discuss the wedding date with the Chen Mansion. But who knew that when he arrived at the Chen Mansion, he found out that the Duke had helped him to cancel the marriage! Moreover, Chen Feifei had already been engaged to Pei Jingchuan's cousin Jiang Yulang!
This made Pei Jingyuan very angry, but it was his father, the Duke of England, who had withdrawn the case, and Jiang Yulang was more powerful than himself, so he could not afford to offend him. Therefore, he could not lose his temper and could only return home with a lot of anger.
Pei Jingyuan had a lot of resentment in his heart that he had no place to vent. When he just walked to the door of the house, he heard Xu Qingyue sobbing there.
"Why are you crying in broad daylight?" Pei Jingyuan said to Xu Qingyue in an unpleasant tone.
At this time, Pei Jingyuan was feeling upset, and hearing Xu Qingyue's crying made him even more depressed.
When Xu Qingyue heard Pei Jingyuan's scolding, she was already in a bad mood, and now she felt even more wronged.
Xu Qingyue raised her head in anger and shouted at Pei Jinyu: "Pei Jingyuan, you bastard! How dare you yell at me! It's ok for other people in the Duke's Mansion to bully me, but you are my husband, and now you don't help me and treat me like this!"
"Stop arguing! I'm feeling upset right now, don't bother me." Pei Jingyuan didn't want to argue with Xu Qingyue at this moment, so he glanced away, said a few words to her coldly, and was about to walk into the inner room.
But Xu Qingyue was unwilling to let Pei Jingyuan just treat her perfunctorily, so she immediately stood up and chased after him.
"I've been bullied like this, and you don't even comfort me. You still treat me like this. Pei Jingyuan, how could I be so blind to marry you! I should have married your eldest brother, at least he knows how to love his wife!"
When Pei Jingyuan heard what Xu Qingyue said, he turned around and gave Xu Qingyue a loud slap in the face.
"If you regret it now, it's not too late. I'll give you a letter of divorce right away. You can take it to my eldest brother and see if he will still marry you!"
At this time, Xu Qingyue was covering the left side of her face that was hit by Pei Jingyuan. She was stunned for a long time before she reacted with shock.
"You hit me? Pei Jingyuan, you actually hit me! Now, are you eager to divorce me so that you can marry that merchant woman? You are a useless man who only wants to rely on women to get to the top!" Xu Qingyue said as he rushed towards Pei Jingyuan, beating him non-stop with his hands.
After being beaten by Xu Qingyue for a while, Pei Jingyuan became impatient, so he pushed Xu Qingyue back hard.
Xu Qingyue fell to the ground with a bang, and her head hit the leg of the table. She didn't even have the strength to scream. Blood was seen flowing from under her body.
Xu Qingyue's lips turned pale instantly. She held her stomach weakly and said with her mouth slightly opened: "My child... my child, please save the child..."
At this time, Pei Jingyuan realized that something had happened. He immediately ran to Xu Qingyue in a panic and squatted down, and said nervously: "Qingyue, are you okay? How do you feel now? I didn't mean to do that. I was just too irritated and pushed you by mistake. Are you okay..."
"Second Young Master, we need to call a doctor immediately!" Fang Dong said to Pei Jingyuan anxiously.
Pei Jingyuan finally reacted after hearing Fang Dong's words, and he shouted louder and louder: "Doctor... call the doctor! Doctor! Someone, go get the doctor!"
After a long while, the doctor came to Cuiyingxuan in a hurry.
"Second Young Master, Madam's life has been saved. As long as she takes good care of herself in the future, she will be able to recover slowly. But this... this baby in her belly... I'm afraid..." The doctor seemed to be hesitant to speak, and looked at Pei Jingyuan with embarrassment and a hint of sadness.
Pei Jingyuan certainly understood what the doctor meant. He suddenly felt as if he had lost something, and a chill seeped into his heart.
At this time, Xu Qingyue, who was lying on the bed, had fainted and did not hear the doctor's words. The dowry maid Fang Dong, who was standing beside her, was wiping the tears from her face.
"I understand." After a while, Pei Jingyuan reacted and sent the doctor out disappointedly.
The news of Xu Qingyue's miscarriage soon reached Liu Rumeng's ears. Now, she was under house arrest and could not go out. So, she called Pei Jingyuan over.
Liu Rumeng looked at Pei Jingyuan who was sitting next to her and said to him, "Since Xu Qingyue's child is gone, you should think about other things. Originally, I thought that if she could give birth to a child before the young master, it would be the eldest grandson of the Duke's Mansion, and the Duke would also look at you more. But now, her child is gone, and the dowry cannot be taken back. I heard that she has also caused the Duke's wife to dislike her. From this point of view, she is of no help to you."
Liu Rumeng glanced at Pei Jingyuan and continued in a cold voice: "Jingyuan, I think you should take this opportunity to give Xu Qingyue the sterilizing medicine. In the future, you can use her infertility as an excuse to demote her to a concubine and marry the daughter of a noble family."
Pei Jingyuan was horrified after hearing what Liu Rumeng said: "Mom, isn't it a bad idea to do this? If Qingyue knew about this, I'm afraid she would..."
Although Pei Jingyuan and Xu Qingyue have had some conflicts recently, he has never thought of doing this. After all, they once had feelings for each other.
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