In Nanyuan Pavilion.

Zhao Wan knelt on the ground, lowered her head, and said nothing.

Madam Meng held a rattan stick half an arm thick in her hand, standing high above her. She glanced at Zhao Wan on the ground and said sternly:

"You have only been married into the Meng family for a month, and you have committed one of the seven reasons for divorce, and you are pregnant with someone else's child. Since the Zhao family has no way to discipline you, I, as a mother-in-law, will discipline you on behalf of the fourth son of Zhao."

Madam Meng raised the rattan stick and whipped it hard on Zhao Wan's thin back.

Zhao Wan closed her eyes, waiting for the pain to come.

It happened so fast. Meng Xun rushed in at lightning speed outside the door and protected Zhao Wan under his body.

"Hmph..." The man frowned and groaned as the rattan stick half an arm thick was whipped on his body.

When Madam Meng saw that the person protecting Zhao Wan was Meng Xun, she coldly scolded: "Xun'er, why are you protecting this whore? Get up quickly and let your mother teach her a lesson. When your eldest brother comes back, you can give him an explanation."

Meng Xun hugged Zhao Wan tightly in his arms, unwilling to get up: "Mother, the child in her belly is mine. No matter how you punish her, I will bear it."

Madam Meng looked unconvinced, "Xun'er, are you possessed by a ghost? What nonsense are you talking about? Zhao Wan has only been married to the Meng family for a month. Even if the two of you have a secret crush on each other and made a mistake on impulse, that is impossible. The child in her belly is two months old."

Meng Xun raised his head, looked at Madam Meng, and explained "Mother, the baby in her belly is indeed mine. Two months ago, I went to Bozhou for business, and on the way I encountered a girl being robbed by bandits.

I was chivalrous at the time, so I went into the bandits' den and rescued the girl. However, the bandits had given the girl an aphrodisiac, and in order to save her life, I had to have sex with her.

I wanted to take responsibility, but the next day, the girl left without saying goodbye. I couldn't find her, so I returned to Anyang and dropped the matter.

The girl I had sex with was Zhao Wan, Miss Zhao, but I had never seen her before, so I didn't recognize her. If I had recognized her, I would have gone to the Zhao family to propose marriage before my eldest brother got married."

"Xun'er, are you telling the truth? Did you deliberately make up a story to deceive me just to favor her?" Madam Meng still didn't believe that there could be such a bizarre coincidence in the world.

"Xun'er doesn't lie. This is absolutely true. If you don't believe it, you can test your relationship with your blood when the child is born."

"This... this..." Madam Meng helplessly threw the cane in her hand to the ground. She looked at Zhao Wan, who was pale, and sighed, "Forget it. Get up first and take her to bed to rest. Don't hurt the baby in her belly. Let me think about how to solve this problem."

When she heard that the child in Zhao Wan's belly was her grandson, Madam Meng's attitude immediately changed 180 degrees.

But she was a little worried. If the eldest son's wife was pregnant with the second son's child, if she told others, the Meng family would be laughed at.

Meng Xun picked up Zhao Wan and gently placed her on the bed. He stretched out his hand and gently touched the woman's belly, which was not yet bulging. He felt a very strange feeling in his heart.

Here, his child was born.

He had never thought that he would suddenly have a child before getting married.

When he first heard Xia He say that Zhao Wan was pregnant, he was shocked. After the shock, he felt a little happy in his heart.

It turned out that he was also happy about the arrival of this child.

Although this child now had to call him second uncle.

Meng Xun tucked the quilt for Zhao Wan. He held her little hand and said softly, "Don't be afraid. I'm here. Nothing will happen. I will take good care of you and the child, and I won't let mother punish you."

Zhao Wan's eyes fell on the two hands clasped together. She was thin-skinned. After all, she was not used to being too close to a strange man, and this man was her brother-in-law.

She moved her wrist, pulled her hand back, hid it in the quilt, and said lightly, "Thank you, second brother, for saving me."

The word "second brother" made Meng Xun's face stiffen slightly.

He paused and said, "Don't be polite. If you encounter anything, you can send a maid to Xiyuan to find me. I will come forward to deal with it. You don't have to be afraid."

"Yeah."

Zhao Wan, who was kept in the dark by the Meng family, didn't know that her husband had already run away to find another woman.

She is very sad now. She is pregnant with Meng Xun's child. Her husband will be back in a few days. What should she do?