A small tuft of hair on the back of Huang Mengling's head disappeared, revealing a bald spot the size of a copper coin.
The girl trembled with fear: "Is this, is this alopecia areata?"
Ye Zhou was discussing something with the old housekeeper. The old housekeeper suggested that the maids and nannies around Huang Mengling should be left alone. From his observation, none of them were loyal to their master. They were all wicked and used to bullying others. They were truly like their masters, like their servants.
They had previously followed Huang Mengling simply because Huang Mengling and her mother had always been in power, and following them offered them many benefits and benefits. Furthermore, some of the scheming maids around them also had some ulterior motives. Huang Mengling's marriage to Ye Zhou, coupled with her connection to the royal family, had made these people jealous, hoping for the opportunity to emulate their master...
Now Huang Mengling is basically under house arrest, and there is no more money to be made outside. She will never see Xuanyuan Hao, Ye Zhou, Tie Ren, Prince Qing, Prince Yu, and other people who make people blush and their hearts beat fast again. There is no chance anymore. But these careless maids and servants can live in peace and work hard just for the monthly salary? This is not the duty of good people.
The old housekeeper meant to let these "her own people" continue to serve her. It had only been four or five months, and many of them had become slack. If it went on for a while longer, the situation would become chaotic without them having to take action.
Ye Zhou said, "Alright. I don't want anything to do with her dowry, but money talks, and I can't let her continue to cause trouble for the Emperor and Empress. Even if we can't get a divorce, she's still my wife, and I can't afford to lose face. Let's destroy all the dowry under her name."
The old housekeeper quickly agreed and thought to himself: According to recent information, these dowries did not originally belong to this mother and daughter.
He also thought that fortunately it didn't take long for this lady to be placed under house arrest. She was the wife of a duke, and he, as a housekeeper, was anxious every day, fearing that the Duke of Xiangguo's Mansion would be disgraced one day.
Ye Zhou had been blinded by a single leaf before, but now, listening to the old housekeeper's words, even if they were euphemistic, he understood them. Alas, others could see it clearly, but he himself was completely unaware.
How could he and Xuanyuan Hao fall for such a person? Then he thought, his eldest brother grew up alone, unloved by his father and mother. He must have been lacking love. But his own parents' love for him was probably just a lack of heart.
Then he thought again, what Xuanyuan Hao did was not right, because this was Ye Zhou's wife, but he subconsciously felt sorry for Xuanyuan Hao.
After all, his elder brother had done so much for him and always protected him, so naturally, he was determined to follow him. And what had Huang Mengling done? She aborted his child and falsely accused him of favoring a concubine and neglecting his wife.
Another servant came to report that Huang Mengling had lost her hair and wanted to see her mother. Ye Zhou wanted to say, "Shouldn't we go see a doctor?" After all, he didn't want to bother with her affairs now. If she wanted to see him, she could go.
He had his own worries, too. A few days ago, the court doctor announced that Tang was pregnant. He hadn't expected to have children under these circumstances, and inevitably, he thought of the fetus Huang Mengling had aborted. He was overwhelmed with emotion. But forget it, now that he had one, he couldn't just throw it away. Although he had always hoped the eldest legitimate child would be born first, given the current situation, that was unlikely. He wanted nothing more to do with Huang Mengling, but since they couldn't divorce, how could he possibly have legitimate children?
Xuanyuan Hao really protected her. At that time, she acted like a concubine was favored over his wife. I'm afraid Xuanyuan Hao wanted to protect her and take her into the harem.
When he found out that he didn't favor his concubine over his wife, and thought it was just a quarrel between the couple, and that she was pregnant, he was determined not to divorce. "Brother, have you forgotten that she was flirting with you?"
The miscarriage was kept secret from him and Zhang Ru, and he and Zhang Ru had discussed it beforehand. Only he, Zhang Ru, Tie Ren, the housekeeper, the palace doctor and the people in the palace thought that she had intended to have a miscarriage, but outsiders might not think so.
Although the leg can be healed, if the news of miscarriage gets out, most people will not believe that a mother would kill her fetus and end her own offspring. Moreover, they cannot reveal His Majesty Xuanyuan Hao and expose the royal scandal. Then this matter plus the punishment of kneeling and stripping off clothes cannot be explained, and Ye Zhou's reputation of favoring his concubine and neglecting his wife will probably not be erased.
This matter could only be a quarrel between the young couple, whether it was about the leg or the fetus, and it was over. But even so, Xuanyuan Hao wouldn't allow a divorce and let them live a good life? So, in the eldest brother's heart, it was he who was attracted to her, and he misunderstood that Huang Mengling was a good sister-in-law? Sigh.
Huang Mengling saw her mother and waited for her attendants to leave before she could not help but exclaim, "Mom, that bitch Zhang Ru must have done this to me!"
But unexpectedly, her mother sighed and said, "Ling'er, I can't say anything else, but this shouldn't be the case. Come over and help me take off my hair."
When Huang Mengling saw the seven or eight hairless patches on her mother's head, she was stunned: "How could this happen?"
"Maybe it's a family tradition. At first, applying some medicine was effective, but now it's useless. I can only use a wig to cover it up."
Huang Mengling couldn't help but dejectedly ask: "Does my father know?"
A mother knows a daughter best. Huang Mengling knew what she was asking, so she said, "I've kept it a secret from your father, but after the medicine stopped working a couple of years ago, I couldn't hide it anymore. It's an illness, not something to be ashamed of. Yet, he despises it and even deliberately married two women with long black hair to mock me. He even said it was a good thing those two bitches washed his eyes."
Huang Mengling was disheartened. She had suffered a great blow in the past two days. After the miscarriage, she was now struggling to conceive. She was worried about having children, and she had this hidden illness. She was really too smart and deserved it. If she had known this, Ye Zhou would have treated her well. She would have lived a peaceful life as the Duke's wife. It would not have been a good thing if the child had been born. Now she wanted to turn back, but she wondered if she could...
Not long after, news spread in the capital that Mrs. Ye of Duke Xiangguo sold her three dowry shops and bought a thousand-mile horse for her husband's favor, giving it to Duke Xiangguo Ye Zhou.
It was also said that Ye Zhou had confiscated the steed and confiscated it, saying that it was wasted on the imperial court. Even if it wasn't used as a warhorse, it could be used for the 800-mile express route. Everyone said the couple must have reconciled.
Xuanyuan Hao heard about this and asked Ye Zhou about it. Ye Zhou replied, "It is true. I have already handed over the horse."
Xuanyuan Hao didn't even look up as he reviewed the memorial. He simply said, "Then stop thinking about divorcing your wife and live a good life."
Ye Zhou returned home and made three promises to Huang Mengling: he would guarantee Huang Mengling's position as the legal wife and her lifelong food and clothing; Huang Mengling would live peacefully in the rear house and would no longer do anything that would bring shame to the Duke of Xiangguo's Mansion; from then on, the two would be nominally husband and wife, and anything that required the legal wife to do would be done by the concubine, so they would not have to get tired of each other and put on a show in front of others.
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