When Hongli heard someone call his name, he responded in confusion, but seeing no one, he tilted his head and looked at Qian Shengyan with a puzzled expression: "Mother, is someone calling Hongli?"
"It seems so." Qian Shengyan frowned. That sound was sharp and thin, and it even sounded a little eerie.
Suddenly, for some reason, a sense of panic welled up inside her. Almost instinctively, Qian Shengyan protected the two children and tried to turn back: "Let's not go to the fields today. I suddenly remembered something. Let's go back..."
"Hongli! Hongli!"
Screams drew closer, the woman's cries growing increasingly shrill, sounding like a vengeful ghost.
Even the most composed Hongli was still just a four-year-old child. Startled, he immediately grabbed Qian Shengyan's leg and cried out, "Who is it, Mother? Who is this?"
"Don't be afraid, it's alright." Qian Shengyan frowned. Fortunately, she always brought a group of people with her when she went out. Qingxue and Lvliu had already called Xiaoshunzi and the others to surround the front and block the people coming.
It was the Nian family.
This was the first time Qian Shengyan had seen her since the Nian family claimed she had lost her memory.
"Consort Nian, what are you doing?" Qian Shengyan asked, frowning as she hid the two children behind her back. "What's wrong with you?"
At this moment, Lady Nian's face was ashen, her lips deathly pale, and her hair was disheveled from running. She approached Qian Shengyan step by step, demanding in a shrill voice, "Where is Hongli! Hongli, come out! Come out here!"
"What are you doing?" Qian Shengyan said angrily. "Is this how you call out the prince's name?"
"Brother, hahahaha! Brother!" Lady Nian suddenly burst into laughter, her expression softening instantly. "The one in my belly is the real brother, the real brother is this one!"
Qian Shengyan: ...
What happened? Has Nian lost her memory or gone mad? Why is she like this?
"You, you deserve to die, you deserve to die!" Lady Nian suddenly went berserk and lunged at Hongli, but fortunately the maids pulled her back with their help.
But they dared not exert themselves too much, after all, the news of Lady Nian's pregnancy had spread throughout the entire village this morning.
Qingxue was anxious. She was afraid that Qian Shengyan would be unhappy to learn that Nian was pregnant. She coaxed her to go out for a walk early in the morning, but who knew that she would be so unlucky!
She turned around and grabbed Qian Shengyan's arm: "Master, let's go back first."
Qian Shengyan agreed. That woman, Nian, was a crazy woman faking her pregnancy, while she was a real pregnant woman who was almost four months along! Moreover, she had two children with her. It wasn't worth confronting her head-on.
Just as they were about to leave, they heard Lady Nian become even more frenzied, shouting "Hongli deserves to die!" Her cries were shrill yet resolute, enough to ignite the fury of even a clay figure.
Seeing that Hongli looked somewhat frightened, Qian Shengyan was furious. She turned around and took two quick steps, ready to yell at Nian Shi: "If you keep talking nonsense, I'll tear your mouth apart!"
"How dare you! I'm pregnant with the Prince's child!" Madam Nian thrust her belly forward, but after speaking, her gaze fell on Qian Shengyan's already protruding belly.
Suddenly, Madam Nian's eyes changed again. Her previous pride turned into deep jealousy. She stared at Qian Shengyan's belly with hatred and suddenly said with a forced smile, "You can't give birth to this child."
This is fucking ridiculous!
Cursing her grown-up son and her unborn child—how the hell can you tolerate that?
Qian Shengyan was already experiencing significant mood swings due to her pregnancy, and now, after being repeatedly provoked by Nian Shi, she was losing her temper. She turned around, looked around, snapped a branch off a tree, and lashed at Nian Shi through two or three layers of people, yelling, "I'll teach you to talk nonsense! I'll teach you to talk nonsense!"
"Ah!" Nian screamed, suddenly raising her right hand. A cold glint flashed in her hand; it was a pair of scissors that she had hidden in her sleeve at some point!
Evening Glow was stunned. After regaining her senses, she desperately stepped forward to stop her, saying, "Master! What are you doing with this? Don't hurt yourself! Quickly, give it to me!"
When Nian Shi went berserk, she would even chop up the wet nurse who raised her. At this moment, she didn't remember Wanxia at all. She frantically waved the scissors and cut a long gash on Wanxia's arm.
Blood gushed out, and Wanxia screamed in agony, staggering two steps before being supported by someone. Nian Shi, however, seemed stunned. She looked at the blood, then at her own blood-stained hands, and suddenly screamed as well.
"Ah! Ah!!"
Her screams grew more terrified and shrill with each one, as if she had seen the most terrifying demon in the world. But then she clutched her chest and began to retch, her eyes glued to the blood she was cleaning up as she vomited loudly.
Qian Shengyan calmed down somewhat. Seeing that someone had been injured, she quickly ordered, "Where are the guards that Lord Tu left behind? Quickly call someone here and invite Doctor Zhou again. Hongli, Guoguo, let's go back first."
She held one child in each arm; if she weren't pregnant, she would have picked them up. Worried that the children might be scared, she walked with them saying, "Consort Nian must be sick and not thinking clearly, which is why she did such a strange thing. Isn't Guoguo a brave little girl?"
Although she was still a little scared, when her mother asked her that question, she immediately raised her head again: "Guoguo is the bravest child!"
“Yes, Hongli can protect his sister now, right?” Qian Shengyan encouraged him again.
Hongli had now passed his most frightened moment, and he calmly said, "I will protect my sister, and I will also protect my mother!"
"Yes, Mother's Hongli is so brave!" Qian Shengyan praised with a smile.
But in truth, she hated Nian Shi to death!
If you're going to go crazy, go crazy in front of the children! If you leave any psychological trauma on her child, she'll come back for it someday!
At this moment, Qian Shengyan was accompanied only by Qingxue and Lvliu. The others remained at the place where the conflict had just occurred. However, the more she walked, the more uneasy she felt. Just as she was about to turn back and instruct the two maids to pick up the child and run away quickly, she saw a light blue figure running towards her like a madman not far away.
Holy crap, why did the Nian family follow us again!
"Quick, quick! Green Willow, pick up Fourth Princess! Qingxue, you hold Fourth Prince! Let's go!" Qian Shengyan was truly exasperated. "Where are the guards?"
"I just saw a group of guards coming," Qingxue said. "They should be here soon."
But it was too late.
Nian was running at what seemed to be her fastest speed ever. Her hands and sleeves were covered in blood, and she had probably wiped her face with her hands as well. Her face was still covered in blood, and she looked like a demon. She was holding scissors and shouting something like "We're all going to die" as she rushed toward Qian Shengyan and her group.
Foerguochun was picked up by Lvliu, but Hongli refused to be held by Qingxue. He stubbornly stood behind Qian Shengyan, saying, "Hongli must protect Mother!"
"Silly child, hurry up and go!" Qian Shengyan was really anxious! Didn't you see that the Nian family was almost here!
Ignoring her pregnancy, she grabbed Hongli and tried to run back, but after only two steps, she heard Qingxue's cry of pain. Turning around, she saw that Nianshi had already stabbed Qingxue in the shoulder with a pair of scissors. Then, Nianshi's eyes turned red from the sight of the gushing blood. She suddenly pulled out the scissors and aimed them at Hongli's neck to stab him!
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