Chapter 11 There is Someone Else in My Heart
Wen Ning gave all the five taels of silver to Chun Xing.
Chun Xing gasped and widened her eyes, "Sister Wen Ning, you, you and the Marquis... The Marquis..."
Wen Ning tapped her forehead gently, "What are you thinking about in your little head? It's more important to cure mother first."
Wen Ning asked Chun Xing's family to help buy some menstrual regulating medicine. She only needed to adjust the dosage and combination to make abortion medicine.
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In one of the small rooms in the management office in the northeast corner of the outer courtyard of the Marquis's mansion, Tang Zhu was lying on the kang, grimacing in pain, and every breath he took felt like a knife stabbing into his lungs.
Tangli held the medicine bowl in his hand and reluctantly poured it into his brother's mouthful.
Nanny Li was nagging at the side, "You're courting death! I told you not to mess with that slutty widow, but you wouldn't listen. Now look what you've been targeted by that living devil!"
Tang Zhu acted nonchalant and instead blamed Li Ma, "If you had listened to me and asked the old lady to give me that beautiful bride sooner, none of this would have happened!"
"You didn't see it..." He gestured with his hands, "that girl, she's incredibly beautiful."
After hearing this, Tangli shoved the medicine bowl into her brother's hand and glared at him, "Look how much you've been mesmerized! That bitch is just a bit more skilled. Otherwise, why would the Marquis, who always loves peace and quiet, suddenly start treating her like this? It's all because of her flirty face that she's always sneaking into the Marquis's room!"
Tang Zhu stiffened his neck, his face livid. "Why! Why! No matter how rich and powerful he is, there has to be a first come first served system! Now that he's brought Wen Ning into the courtyard, she must have been taken by him. A dignified marquis, he's trying to snatch a woman from me! What kind of master is he? He's just an ungrateful wolf who doesn't remember our kindness!"
Upon hearing this, Nanny Li quickly glanced out the door and cursed in a low voice, "It's already this late, and you're still thinking about that bitch. The steward has already started checking the kitchen accounts today. What do you think we should do? Tell me the truth. How much money have you embezzled from the Marquis' Mansion over the years? I'll have an idea."
Tang Zhu's eyes wandered, and after a long while he managed to stammer out a single sentence, "It's only... only a few thousand taels."
When Madam Li heard this, her expression changed. "Thousands of taels! Where's the money?"
"Cangxiang Garden, Ruanhong Pavilion, Zuixian Tower, and sometimes... sometimes I go to Qianjinfang."
Tang Zhu usually spends a lot of money and is quite lavish when he is outside. He is addicted to the feeling of being flattered as a "young master", and he is also addicted to gambling, so he spends money like water.
"You! You..." Nanny Li was so angry that she rushed forward and beat him. "Do you know that if he gives you more than a thousand taels, he can poison you to death in the mansion. If he hands you over to the authorities, he will be tortured to death by slicing. Your sister and I will be exiled to the frontier!"
After hearing this, Tangli's face instantly lost all color. She stepped forward to support Nanny Li, who was about to collapse on the ground, and said, "Mother!"
Tang Zhu lowered his head, a rare shiver flashed in his eyes, but in the next moment, the fire of unwillingness ignited again.
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In the small kitchen of Tingsongyuan, Wen Ning had already poured the prepared abortion medicine into the medicine pot. She stared at the bubbling soup, feeling indescribable.
Although Wen Ning has been running between the kitchen and Tingsongyuan these days, no trouble has come to him.
Tangli also took the initiative to make peace with her, saying that her mother and brother were both rough people and asked her not to take it to heart.
Wen Ning looked at Tangli as if she were looking at a peony in the fog, it was hard to determine her true nature, so she never said much in front of Tangli and just did her job well.
It was raining heavily outside the eaves tonight, the Marquis had finished his dinner, and most of the servants had gone out to find some quiet space.
Wen Ning was able to take this opportunity to make medicine for himself in the name of making medicine for the Marquis.
The medicinal juice gradually thickened and formed an inky vortex.
Tears couldn't stop falling into the medicine jar, and Wen Ning kept saying "I'm sorry" in her heart, I'm sorry for this little life.
After struggling, she still kept the medicine in her mouth. It was so bitter that the root of her tongue was numb.
She closed her eyes, her throat rolling, trying to swallow it hard. If she swallowed it, she would say goodbye to the child forever.
"Hmm..." Her stomach cramped, and she suddenly bent over and vomited all the medicine in her mouth.
Wen Ning picked up the remaining medicine and wanted to pour it into her mouth again, but her hand shook and the celadon bowl slipped from her fingers and shattered into pieces.
Wen Ning felt her eyes getting hot, and big tears rolled down her cheeks.
Why? Only one step left, is this God's will?
She is now without a father or mother, and this child is the only person in the world who is connected to her by blood. He carries her flesh and blood, curled up in the darkness and grows up.
Thinking of this, Wen Ning suddenly felt that she was so cruel. Why should an innocent child suffer such a hardship?
But if she didn't drink the abortion pill herself, there would be only two outcomes for her if she stayed in the Marquis' Mansion.
Or someone might find out and force you to have an abortion.
Either they could give birth to a child, but the child would become a new slave and they themselves would be sold.
If she didn't want either of the two, then before that, she could only redeem herself or escape from the Marquis' Mansion.
Therefore, she had better make the Marquis give up on her now. Otherwise, even if she escaped from the Marquis' Mansion, she would not be able to live in peace as long as the Marquis wanted to find her.
After Xie Jinglan finished his work, he couldn't help but go around to the small kitchen behind the ear room to see Wen Ning without waiting for her to bring him medicine.
Although he had refrained from touching her these days, a wild beast could not tolerate its prey appearing in front of it for long without baring its fangs.
Xie Jinglan was standing outside the door and happened to see Wen Ning, whose face was covered with tears and whose shoulders were trembling.
"Why? You spilled my medicine and you're crying so hard?"
Wen Ning was so frightened that her whole body trembled. She raised her head in panic and met Xie Jinglan's deep eyes.
He walked up to her and wiped away the remaining tears on her cheeks with his fingertips.
"Why are you crying?"
Wen Ning turned her face away, as if all her grievances wanted to find an outlet at this moment.
She blurted out without thinking carefully, "I remembered my childhood sweetheart before I married Liu Lang..."
It's Liu Lang again, and it's childhood sweetheart. What she meant was that although her husband died, she still had another man in her heart.
Xie Jinglan's face suddenly darkened, and a cold blade seemed to be unsheathed in his eyes. "Childhood sweetheart! What? You still want to marry your childhood sweetheart?"
Wen Ning instinctively took a step back and whispered, "He's a scholar. He promised to redeem me after he passed the imperial examination..."
Before she could finish her words, Xie Jinglan suddenly put his arms around her waist, trapped her in the corner of the kitchen, sealed her lips as she wanted to speak but couldn't, and swallowed up all her unfinished words.
Wen Ning was extremely frightened and reached out to push him away, but he gripped her body even tighter.
His kiss was hot and hard, as if punishing her for what she had just said.
The mulberry charcoal in the medicine furnace turned from bright white to dark red. She felt that her body was a little unsteady and she had to rely on his big hand to support her.
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