Chapter 5 When Did I Teach You to Be So Stupid
When Du Xueyi married Fang, he was thinking of living a good life with her.
The fifteen-year-old bride leaned shyly in his arms, her slender waist looking as if it could be broken with a single force from him.
Taking pity on her young age, he drank contraceptive soup before every sexual intercourse, thinking of waiting for two years until she was older before having a child.
He didn't expect that he would go to war two months after getting married, and he didn't expect Fang to get pregnant.
He never suspected her of doing anything wrong, he just thought that the doctor who prescribed the medicine for him was not skilled enough and the medicine did not work as a contraceptive.
While feeling sorry for Fang having to become a mother at such a young age, he also hoped that the war would end soon so that he could return home to see his wife and children.
But what he expected was Fang's betrayal.
So if he gets pregnant after drinking the contraceptive soup, could the child be his?
Fang's maid gave him the answer. Fang had an affair with the man before he went to the war.
He used great restraint to convince himself that the child was innocent.
But as much as he had been looking forward to seeing his daughter before, he became more resistant to the child after learning the truth. The most he could do was to let her grow up in the mansion.
Of course I won’t go to see him.
But he never thought that the child would be abused.
His thin arms were covered with dense needle holes, his back was crisscrossed with whip marks, and his watery eyes were filled with fear and anxiety.
Her small body shuddered at his touch.
"Someone, drag this dog slave out for me and ask who gave her the courage to abuse her master." Du Xueyi had no experience in dealing with children, so he turned around and kicked the old woman.
There was a cold murderous look on his face.
The wet nurse who had taken care of the child previously died, and this wet nurse was just replaced, but the needle holes on the child's arm were new.
He hated the Fang family, but he could not tolerate these bastards bullying a child under his nose.
"My Lord, please spare me." The old woman was so frightened that she broke out in cold sweats. How could she have imagined that the Lord, who had never treated the eldest daughter well in the past six months after returning to the mansion, would suddenly come here.
The guards obeyed the order and pulled the man out.
Soon, the old woman's shrill screams were heard outside the door, and the child, who was already huddled in a ball, looked even more terrified.
"Don't be afraid." Wei Qingyan, who came with Du Xueyi, squatted in front of the child and gently stroked her face.
"It's all in the past. No one will dare to bully you from now on. Your father will protect you, and your aunt... will also protect you."
Her voice was so gentle that it slightly reduced the defensiveness on the child's face.
Bending over and picking up the child, Wei Qingyan rested her little head on his shoulder and gently stroked the back of her neck. The child, who had been afraid to cry out loud, whimpered like a little animal.
Since her mother died, she had never been hugged so gently again.
Du Xueyi looked unhappy.
The whip marks on the child's back made him believe that the scene Wei Qingyan had just shown him was real, although it was unbelievable.
Then, that scene with Fang’s family… was also real!
She didn't hang herself, but was strangled to death by her maid and the old nanny in her grandmother's yard.
Grandma lied to him!
But, in a family like theirs, what way can Fang survive after doing something like that?
My grandmother has always valued the reputation of the Marquisate more than her own life.
He closed his eyes, looked at the child nestled in Chang Qingnian's arms, and whispered, "If it's as you said, then everything that happened in the mansion is related to her resentment.
Since she eloped with someone first, and even if her grandmother ordered someone to punish her, it was her own fault, so there was no reason for her to complain.
I neglected this child before, and such a thing will not happen again in the future. However, my greatest kindness is to let her grow up in the mansion."
He didn't care whether Chang Qingnian came to visit because Fang's ghost had asked him to do so, or whether he was using the ghost story to vindicate Fang.
He hoped that this would be the end of it.
After hearing this, Wei Qingyan turned around and looked at Du Xueyi. The gentleness on his face disappeared in an instant. His brows were cold and he moved behind Du Xueyi and kicked him in the knee.
Du Xueyi was caught off guard and fell to his knees. Just as he was about to get angry, he heard the woman say,
"You said that if it were a daughter, you would hold her in the palm of your hand, give her the best things in the world, and let her laugh only because of joy and never shed a tear because of grievance.
You said that you were away fighting and couldn't see her being born, so when you return home, you must spend every day with her as she grows up. Is that what you did?"
The thing Fang talked about most in her letter to Du Xueyi was her children.
Du Xueyi often showed off in front of her, asked for a pair of gold bowls and chopsticks from her, and forced her to be the child's "godfather".
After killing Wu Yuchu, she had planned to look for Du Xueyi today, but she didn't expect that when she returned to the inn, the room was filled with resentment, and it turned out to be Fang.
After waking up three years ago, her eyes could see things that ordinary people could not see. She also had new responsibilities, to redress the injustices of those who died unjustly and to extradite them to reincarnation.
But she didn't expect that the child who was like a glutinous rice ball in Du Xueyi's mouth would be harmed into this state, nor did she expect that Du Xueyi could be so stupid.
But she is not my child.
Du Xueyi roared in his heart, but he didn't say it out loud.
Immediately, he realized something, looked up suddenly, and his brain was buzzing.
He only said these words to the general.
"Who are you?"
Why do you know about Magnolia Mountain?
Why do you know what he said to the general?
Why was the tone she used when scolding herself so similar to the general's?
Seeing that he was still concerned about her status rather than the child and Fang's injustice, Wei Qingyan became furious and kicked him again, knocking him to the ground.
"When did I teach you to be so foolish? You just believed one side of the story and jumped to conclusions without any verification.
If you put aside your prejudice and think calmly, you will find that there are many doubts in this matter. If you look at the child carefully, you will find that she looks somewhat similar to you as a child.
Du Xueyi, have these peaceful years made you lose your mind?
Wei Qingyan's eyes were filled with disappointment. "I will take the child to Feng Xiaoyuan for placement first. You have half a day to find out the truth and then come back to see me."
Child and his portrait?
He had just not looked closely, and when he wanted to look again, he saw the child's face nestled in the woman's arms, and she was carrying him out of the house.
How could someone who had just visited the house for the first time so naturally mention Feng Xiaoyuan? That courtyard was where the general had stayed when he was young, hiding from the strict Madam Wei.
She said that the matter was full of doubts and he jumped to conclusions without verifying anything.
His expectation was replaced by anger at Fang's betrayal. He didn't want to mention it anymore, so why would he check it out?
Now that I think about it, can we trust the words of a maid who killed her master?
Huge waves rolled over Du Xueyi's heart one after another.
Horror, joy, anger, panic, all kinds of emotions surged up at once, leaving him at a loss as to what expression to make.
He really should check it out.
He stood up from the ground and saw the guard coming over to report, "My Lord, the old woman confessed, saying that she was ordered by my cousin."
Wei Qingyan paused slightly when he reached the courtyard.
When did a cousin appear in Anyuan Marquis's Mansion?
The small body in his arms trembled uncontrollably when he heard the guard's words. Wei Qingyan hugged her tightly and looked up into the sky.
In places invisible to ordinary people, a ball of black air intertwined and entangled, expanding larger and larger, as if to swallow up the entire mansion. Finally, a hint of blood appeared in the black air.
Wei Qingyan's heart sank, and he strode towards Feng Xiaoyuan with the child in his arms.
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