Chapter 558 Body Contract
Xu Miaomiao did not respond to Liu Juan's question in time. Instead, she saw that his eyes became even deeper and more fierce, as if he wanted to eat someone. For some reason, the air around them seemed to drop several degrees. However, Liu Juan did not care. She smiled sweetly and did not take Xu Miaomiao's appearance seriously at all.
"Do you really think I can't do anything to you?" Xu Miaomiao said as he stretched out his fingertips, gently stroked Liu Juan's cheek, landed on her neck, and pointed at the safety lock he was wearing.
"Madam Xu, I have not broken any law, done anything wrong, or violated my wife's code of conduct. What reason do you have to be rude to me? Even if it is you, if you say this to others, I'm afraid others won't accept it. I gave birth to a child for your family, and the child turned around and refused to recognize his mother as soon as it was born. I believe that no matter who hears about this, they will think it is your fault.
After Liu Juan finished speaking, she pretended to be pitiful, then looked at Xu Miaomiao with tears in her eyes, looked at him with a wronged tone, and said, "Madam Xu, you and I are both women, why do you have to embarrass me? You also understand that I just want to have a position in the Song Mansion so that I can live a better life in the second half of my life. Why do you have to target me like this?"
Xu Miaomiao heard this, watched the man in front of her act, and then whispered in his ear: "Do you know what kind of consequences we will bear if something happens to the Ninth Princess? Not only the people in the Song Mansion, but even you will be held responsible. Even your newborn child may be executed and buried with the Ninth Princess. What kind of determination have you made to dare to gamble on this matter?"
When Liu Juan heard this, her expression changed. She spread her hands indifferently and continued, "I have no official status, so how could I be a member of your family? I am just a temporary resident in your house. Besides, it has nothing to do with me whether the Song Mansion has any problems or not. After I came to the Song Mansion, one of you has given me a good face. You have always targeted me and excluded me. Why should I worry about the consequences for you?"
Hearing Liu Juan say this, Xu Miaomiao sneered, looked at him and said, "Madam Liu, you don't really think I can't do anything to you."
Liu Juan smiled sweetly, not taking Xu Miaomiao's words to heart at all. Xu Miaomiao took out a document from her chest, spread it out, and placed it in front of Liu Juan. Seeing the words on it, Liu Juan's pupils trembled and she immediately picked up the document and said, "How did this thing get here? Where did you get it from? How did you know? Madam Zhang promised me that she would tear this thing up."
What Xu Miaomiao held in her hand was the indenture that Liu Juan received when she was drafted into the army after being exiled. Someone in their family had committed a serious crime, so everyone would have such a document. However, his parents were already dead, so the document naturally did not exist. At that time, Madam Zhang used her private relationship to pay some money to the officials and bought Liu Juan. Unfortunately, the document was not returned. It was only after Xu Miaomiao found out where Liu Juan was and spent a lot of silver to get this thing.
Xu Miaomiao looked at him and said, "Madam Liu, you are guilty now. I advise you to be sensible. If you are accused of angering the Ninth Princess again, what will happen to you? What will your relationship be with our Song Mansion then?"
"Even if there is this contract, what does it matter? It is your Song Mansion that took me in."
"But we didn't know you were a criminal before. At most, you were charged with negligence. But you are different. Fugitives in our dynasty will be tortured to death."
"Impossible!" Upon hearing this, Liu Juan immediately tore up the document in her hand, looked at Xu Miaomiao and said, "My parents lived a cautious life, and finally got a small official position in the capital. I am also considered a noble lady, and I live a somewhat prestigious life. But just because I am too upright and dare not say anything about the gifts given by others, that person was inflexible and arbitrarily accused my father of a crime. My father worked diligently all his life, but in the end he ended up like this, exiled for life. What kind of concept is that?"
"He had long lost the confidence to live, but I couldn't. The two of them had already lived half their lives, and I was still so young, I couldn't let my youth go to waste, so I gave them a handful of medicine to free them both. Madam Zhang said she would take care of everything, and I would take her away when the time came. No one would know my true identity, and they all thought I was dead. She had promised me this contract, but he had already torn it up. Since he had lied to me too!"
Liu Juan said this with a hoarse voice. Xu Miaomiao frowned slightly at his appearance, but didn't say anything. Instead, she picked up the debris on the ground, looked at him and said, "Your whole family was exiled. You wanted to leave a way out for yourself, which should be right, but you shouldn't do this. I told you a long time ago that if Xu Qingshan recognized you as his sister, you would be able to live well in here, but you didn't want to."
"How can I stay!" Hearing this, she refuted Xu Miaomiao, staring at him with her eyes, and said, "Of course I want to, but Madam Zhang will be willing. She bought me here just to leave a child for the Xu family. If I don't get pregnant and give birth to a child for the Xu family, will Madam Zhang really let me stay here? He has my indenture in his hand, and I may be exposed at any time and anywhere. As a fugitive and a woman, how can I live for the rest of my life?"
Xu Miaomiao didn't take it seriously, and pursed his lips into a straight line. After waiting for a long time until Liu Juan on the other side had calmed down, she looked at him and said, "Liu Juan, your life is your own. No one forced you to become a certain kind of person. You can't blame others. Today's result is all due to you. You can complain about the unfairness of fate, but you have no right to ask others to treat you differently. Liu Niang has done her best for you. Even if Xu Qingshan doesn't like him, she has always tolerated you and has never confronted you. So you shouldn't threaten him with Ling'er."
"Besides, I have already concealed the matter of the Ninth Princess from you. It's nothing more than seeing that you are a woman and you are Xu Qingshan's child. But I also want to remind you that our Song Mansion is just a small family and can't afford such a big thing. You should find a good thing for yourself and leave quickly, otherwise I will drive you away later."
(End of this chapter)
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