On the second day, Gu Jingxing brought Zhong Yannian, the head of the Imperial Hospital, and Nanny Song, who was left behind by his deceased mother, to Danruo's farm.
After a thorough examination, Doctor Zhong was puzzled: "Madam is in good health. Let alone infertility, you have a constitution that is extremely easy to conceive."
However, Nanny Song saw something. She asked Gu Jingxing and Doctor Zhong to go out and asked Danruo in detail whether she had slept with her husband.
Danruo's face turned as red as a duck egg, and she nodded imperceptibly.
Nanny Song shook her head and mused quietly, "That shouldn't be the case."
Ask again: "Do you have a deep impression every time you have sex?"
"I don't know. It just felt like a dream. It was all blurry when I woke up."
Nanny Song believed that her judgment, based on decades of experience in the harem, would not be wrong, and she affirmed, "You are still a virgin. As for what you thought was sexual intercourse, it was probably an illusion under the influence of some drug."
Danruo's eyes were dull when he heard this. He forced himself to thank Nanny Song and asked Lily to give him the reward.
Doctor Zhong outside the door had been sent away by the emperor long ago. When he saw Nanny Song coming out, he hurried forward to ask. After Nanny Song told him the truth, he was shocked, and then filled with joy in his heart.
Gu Jingxing wanted to go in and say a few words to Danruo, but was stopped by Lily. "The master is in a bad mood and wants to be alone. I will definitely thank Master Zhong someday for inviting our master to see the lady today."
Gu Jingxing told Lily to comfort Danruo more and pay more attention to her condition. If she had any problems, she could go to the next door to find him at any time.
For three consecutive days, Dan Ruo did not leave the room, and Gu Jingxing was urged by Song Yu to return to the capital because he had not attended court for too long. He could only leave secret guards to guard outside the yard, pass on news to him every day, and at the same time let the secret guards check the situation on Du Jun's side.
He married a beautiful lady of noble birth, but he has been able to refrain from touching her for three years. There must be something shameful going on behind the scenes.
During these three days, Danruo read storybooks in the room and ate authentic game from the farm, feeling very comfortable.
She knew that the emperor of this world, Gu Jingxing, was just like his name, with a noble character since childhood and had never experienced the complicated struggle for the throne. Although the previous emperor had many concubines in the harem and there were many struggles, the previous emperor would never let anyone give birth to an heir.
Gu Jingxing was the son of the late emperor's beloved empress, and was raised by the late emperor since childhood. Everyone knew that he was the late emperor's Achilles' heel, and that if he touched the crown prince, his entire clan would be exterminated.
So when he discovered at the age of fifteen that he could not touch women, he informed the late emperor in time, but the late emperor still let him sit on the throne.
The late emperor then gave birth to Prince Rong with the empress dowager. The empress dowager was also the legitimate sister of the empress dowager, and had treated Gu Jingxing as her own son for so many years, so the late emperor was relieved to let the empress dowager give birth to the child.
Over the years, the late emperor and the empress dowager asked Gu Jingxing to marry some women to fill the harem and cover up his problems. However, after Gu Jingxing tried several times with palace maids, he felt that he could not delay a woman's life and refused.
So Dan Ruo was trying to improve Gu Jingxing's favorability while also making Gu Jingxing more disgusted with Du Jun.
The Du family has not been having a good time these three days.
Du Jun returned to the mansion and stated that he wanted to collect all of Shen Danruo's dowry. Although Wang was reluctant, she heard her son say that the emperor also knew about this. She knew that the emperor valued the moral character of officials the most, and she was afraid that it would affect her son's career, so she had no choice but to take out all her private money.
This was still not enough, because in the past three years, in addition to Chen Danruo's support for the public account, she had secretly given a lot to Su Yuniang and her son under other names, and she also subsidized her own daughter from time to time.
Now it turns out that there is still a shortfall of more than 20,000 taels of silver.
Du Jun got angry at Wang. He thought that if he returned the luxurious ornaments that belonged to Shen Danruo, their life would at most be a little more difficult. He didn't expect Wang to be so stupid.
He forced Wang to ask her sister and Su Yu Niang for money.
But two days later, his sister wrote back saying that she had no money. Instead, she repeatedly mentioned in the letter that in order to pay for her brother's education and the high betrothal gift, she had gone to work as a concubine in a wealthy family with nothing. Life was already difficult, so where would she get the money?
When Du Jun heard his sister mention the past, he knew that his mother had given his sister several thousand taels over the past three years, and that all of Mo Ge'er's expenses were covered by his family. Although he felt embarrassed, he no longer wanted his mother to ask his sister for the money back. He just wanted to send Mo Ge'er back secretly, but he was embarrassed to say it, so he wanted Wang to be the bad guy.
Su Yuniang, her mother and her two sons were plundered of all their private property of 5,000 taels of silver. In addition, some of the clothes and jewelry that were old and difficult to sell were kept, and the rest that could be sold were all sold. Even the money that was originally bought for thousands of taels was only recovered by 20% to 30% of the original investment.
Wang scolded Su Yu Niang and her son as prodigals, which was as unpleasant as it could be.
Su Yuniang felt that she was dressed more raggedly than the maids and was filled with resentment, but her only support was Du Jun and Wang, so she had to admit her mistakes and be humble.
This caused Du Jun to feel pity for her, and his admiration for Shen Danruo's beauty turned into disgust for causing him to lose face.
In the past, his cousin was living in the boudoir. Her family was wealthy and she was also outgoing, bright, free and easy. He promised that he would let Su Yuniang live a good life in the future. Only then did Su Yuniang feel relieved.
After all the trouble, he was still short of 18,000 taels of silver. Du Jun was too embarrassed to borrow from his colleagues, so he had to find a loan shark.
On the morning of the third day, the steward of the Shen Mansion checked the dowry for the whole morning. After making sure that everything was correct, he sealed the silver handed over by Du Jun and the returned items into the warehouse and sent his own Wu Ding to guard it.
Du Jun openly sent the steward of the Shen Mansion away at the gate and asked the servants to explain to the onlookers that the dowry was indeed correct.
Seeing the people talking about it, his reputation was on the rise. After all, it was common for men to take concubines, and it was okay to use the wife's dowry as long as it was not exposed. However, he was a civil servant, and many people were jealous of him for marrying Shen Danruo.
So this time he was attacked by his colleagues, and Chen Danruo changed from his previous naive and gullible self to become irritable and indifferent, which forced him not only to become penniless but also to owe usurious loans.
This time when Shen Danruo comes back, he will make sure that Shen Danruo gets pregnant with his child.
It is easier to control a woman once she has a child, as her dowry also comes from her family.
At the beginning, he was bewitched by Su Yuniang. What's wrong with a grown man sleeping with his wife? He married Liu Xing, and Su Yuniang didn't say anything.
At noon that day, Wang couldn't wait to get on the carriage to pick up Shen Danruo.
The mother-in-law came to pick him up, crying and singing, with such a humble attitude, and filial piety came first. Danruo naturally went back home.
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