Chapter 41 I'm Really Pregnant Again, and I Really Have a Miscarriage
When Mother Gu saw that Gu Cheng'an and Gu Chengyan had both come, she felt more confident. Now that her sons were here, she still had someone to rely on.
For the sake of his two sons, the Marquis would not divorce her.
"Dad, you can't convict mother based on just two words from a concubine." Gu Chengyan frowned and looked at Marquis Anyang with a firm gaze.
Dad has always been smart, so how come he has been bewitched to this point by a woman now that he's old?
"The evidence is conclusive. Stop making excuses for her." Marquis Anyang's face remained ashen, and he was not moved at all.
Gu Chengyan was very thoughtful and had brought a doctor to examine the cakes before coming. The cakes themselves were not poisonous, but had been coated with safflower powder.
His mother has been the marquis's wife for many years and has seen all the secrets of the inner chamber. She wouldn't be so stupid as to hand the evidence over to someone else.
It could only be Baoling, that lowly maid, crying "stop thief" herself.
She deliberately lost the child and framed Gu's mother.
Or maybe she wasn't pregnant at all?
Gu Chengyan's sharp eyes instantly shot towards Bao Ling, and he asked coldly: "Aunt Bao, since you ate the cake, why didn't you finish it and leave a piece behind?"
Baoling was suddenly startled. How could this Third Young Master observe things so meticulously?
She took a deep breath and calmed herself down. She couldn't panic at this moment. If she showed her true colors, everything would be ruined and she would be in trouble.
"I...I was feeling thirsty at the time, so I gave it to Xiaotao."
"Aunt Bao was having some snacks at Tingxue Pavilion, but she took them away when she left. If she was thirsty, why didn't she drink some tea?"
"Instead, you want to give the leftover snacks to Xiaotao to put away? This doesn't make sense either morally or logically." Gu Chengyan pressed on, his words sharp as knives.
"I was eating while walking back." Beads of sweat appeared on Baoling's forehead and her eyes were wandering.
"Aunt did it on purpose, right?" Gu Chengyan pointed out incisively.
Chu Ruohan said, "What Third Brother said is indeed illogical. Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, so how could Baoling be willing to hurt her own child?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Baoling immediately covered her face and cried, as if she had really suffered great injustice and hurt.
He kept shouting, "My Lord, what's the point of me living? I'd rather die and put an end to it all. I can also avoid being slandered and suspected by others."
When Marquis Anyang saw this, his heart ached. He stretched out his arms and hugged Baoling's trembling body tightly in his arms.
At the same time, he turned his head abruptly and glared at Gu Chengyan with wide eyes.
He yelled at the top of his lungs, "Gu Chengyan, you've read so much of the sage's books that you've become a dog. You wantonly framed Baoling without any evidence. Do you still see me as your father?"
Gu Chengyan's lips curled slightly, and he remained calm and composed, saying calmly, "Then let the other doctors examine her together to prove Aunt Bao's innocence."
Baoling panicked instantly. She had taken the medicine given by the wet nurse, which caused her to have symptoms of false pregnancy and abortion.
Will other doctors find out?
Chu Ruohan looked at Baoling's panicked expression, and then looked at Gu Chengyan's confident expression.
I laughed in my heart with disdain: Check it out, just check it out...
Gu Chengyan will satisfy you with the result.
In fact, Baoling was really pregnant again, but she and Xiaotao were both young and ignorant of medical knowledge, so they had no idea that Baoling was really pregnant again.
During those days, Baoling was tormented by Gu's mother and Wang Ma every day. She would fall asleep as soon as she returned to Zizhuxuan and had no time to care about anything else.
This was also thanks to Doctor Qian. When Doctor Qian passed by Baoling on the day he entered the mansion, he saw that she was pregnant.
This gave Chu Ruohan the opportunity to use a real child as a fake child to deal a heavy blow to Gu's mother.
As for the two bowls of medicine that the wet nurse gave Baoling, one bowl was sugar water, and the other half was just a pregnancy-maintaining medicine with a small amount of safflower and musk added.
She had disposed of the medicine residue completely, leaving no trace. No matter how they checked or how many doctors they called, Baoling had a miscarriage.
The rose cake was indeed non-toxic; it was safflower powder that Baoling had applied herself...
Qin Fang did a good job. The doctor Qian he found is really a skilled doctor. Once the matter is settled, he will definitely be rewarded handsomely.
After several doctors examined the patient, the results were consistent.
Baoling casually placed one hand on her stomach, wondering to herself: Is this medicine really that powerful? It's so powerful that even the imperial physician was kept in the dark.
After Anyang Hou learned the result, he turned around abruptly, pointed his finger directly at Gu Chengyan's nose, and cursed.
"Rebellious son, what else do you have to say?"
Gu Chengyan was shocked. He had just asked Nanny Wang and was sure that his mother really did not poison Baoling.
His originally gentle eyes instantly turned vicious and shot towards Baoling like a sharp arrow. Could it be that she really was so cruel as to abandon the baby in her belly in order to overthrow her mother?
All the evidence was before her eyes, and Gu's mother had no way to defend herself.
Gu Chengan, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly knelt on his knees and pleaded, "Dad, even though Mom did something wrong, she gave birth to me and my third brother. Even if she didn't have any merits, she still worked hard."
"The princess is pregnant now. If word gets out that her mother-in-law has been divorced, how will outsiders view our Anyang Marquisate?"
Marquis Anyang looked hesitant, his brows furrowed, and he was in a dilemma.
He looked at Gu Cheng'an, then at Baoling, who was standing beside him with a look of grievance on her face, and all the little details of his youth with Gu's mother emerged in his mind.
There was a hint of hesitation and longing in his eyes...
Baoling noticed the hesitation of Marquis Anyang and felt anxious, but she did not dare to speak rashly. She could only look at him with resentful eyes.
Things have come to this point. If she can't get the Marquis to divorce her cruelly, will she still have a chance to survive when that vicious woman turns against her?
"My Lord..."
Bao Ling was interrupted by Chu Ruohan just as she opened her mouth, "Father, I have something to tell you, but I'm not sure if I should tell you."
"Speak." At this moment, Marquis Anyang felt very confused and his chest was stuffy.
"There was a servant on the farm who went mad and injured Nanny Wang. The mother-in-law ordered him to be beaten to death, but the steward couldn't bear it and came to me for help."
"I secretly protected her, but who knew she wasn't really crazy..."
Chu Ruohan raised her eyes slightly and looked calmly at Gu's mother behind Gu Chengyan. Gu's mother's hands unconsciously clenched the corner of her clothes, and she felt a panic in her heart.
"Let her tell the rest herself!" Chu Ruohan said softly.
Everyone's eyes followed the figure that slowly walked in.
The old woman had a hunched back and a hunched body. Her face was old and haggard, and half of her face was covered with burns, making her unrecognizable.
But the remaining half of the face looked very familiar to Marquis Anyang.
The old woman fell to her knees with a thud, and her forehead hit the ground heavily, making a dull sound.
Marquis Anyang frowned, his eyes full of doubt, and hesitantly asked, "Who are you? Chunxi?"
Chunxi raised her head and said, "My Lord, you still remember me." Her voice was hoarse and cold.
His cloudy eyes looked at Mother Gu, as if they were poisoned, filled with hatred and resentment that kept rolling around.
"Madam Hou, do you still remember Aunt Sun?"
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