Chapter 337 Feeding Pearls
Mapo County is not big, and most young ladies have their own contacts before they get married. Everyone knows that Fan Pingfang got married the year before last, which means it has only been more than two years. Moreover, Ling Jie'er was born just last year, so where did this son who looks only three or four years old come from? !
When Fan Pingfang saw everyone's reactions, she burst out laughing.
At this moment, Ling Jie'er probably also felt the warmth of her mother. She lay on Fan Pingfang's shoulder, sobbing softly.
Fan Pingfang still patted Ling Jie'er's back gently and said slowly, "This is Yang Zheming's son. I am Yang Zheming's wife. Isn't this my son?"
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
It was Bai Runiang again. She frowned and looked at the little boy carefully. She lowered her voice and asked, "How old is this child?"
A hint of sneer flashed across Fan Pingfang's eyes: "...I just celebrated my fourth birthday this month."
Bai Runiang's brows furrowed even more tightly: "That's not right. You got married in May of the year before last... This child is four years old. In other words, Yang Zheming already had this child before you got married?"
Fan Pingfang smiled faintly: "Isn't it? The biological mother of this child is the maid who served Yang Zheming's writing. When she was discussing marriage with me, the maid was about to give birth... Later, the Yang family drove the maid to the manor and let her give birth to the child on the manor. She has been raised on the manor ever since."
Now everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.
Although every family has its own problems, and there are many families with illegitimate sons, but for a family that is truly particular, how could they let an illegitimate son be born before the legitimate son?
Or she had a bastard before getting married!
If this isn't cheating, then what is this?
For example, in Bai Runiang's family, after she gave birth to Bao Ge'er, the two concubines in the family stopped using contraceptive soup. Both concubines became pregnant one after another, and within three years, the two concubines in the family had already given birth to two sisters and a boy.
But Bai Runiang felt that it didn't matter. If the illegitimate son was well educated, it would be a great help to the legitimate son.
Everyone's family has gone through this.
But!
There is no one like the Yang family!
"Then, what did Yang Zheming say?" Bai Runiang felt more and more unhappy the more she thought about it, and asked Fan Pingfang.
Fan Pingfang's eyes were filled with more sarcasm: "...What can you say? Every time the academy takes a break, he would go to the manor to share the joy of family life with others. What else can I say? This time, the reason why he brought the child back was because the maid was pregnant again. She said she was pregnant with twins and her pulse was unstable, so he brought the mother and child back. Only then did I know that I actually had a four-year-old son."
All the ladies present were furious.
Bai Runiang was so angry that she wanted to curse, but when her eyes fell on the four-year-old child, she forced herself to hold back.
The child is innocent after all.
Xing Xing hadn't said anything the whole time, but when she heard this, she couldn't help but go forward and hug Fan Pingfang.
Fan Pingfang's originally strong self-esteem and pride were almost shattered by Xingxing's silent and gentle hug.
She suppressed her hot eyes and smiled at Xingxing, Bai Runiang and the others: "Look at me, I'm here to do Xingxing's bidding. Why am I saying these boring things? ... Have you been waiting for me for a long time? Actually, before I left, Yang Zheming suddenly asked me to take this child out to see the world, which delayed me for some time. Come on, come on, let's take our seats."
Everyone just felt like there was a fire burning in their hearts.
In the past, Fan Pingfang was one of the central figures among this group of people because of her good temper, personality and good family background.
At that time, everyone thought that her marriage with Yang Zheming was a perfect match between a talented man and a beautiful woman.
Who would have thought it would end like this?
However, seeing that Fan Pingfang didn't want to say anything, and the children were there, it was not easy for everyone to scold Yang Zheming in front of everyone, so they could only sit there and sulk.
Most of the children could not sit still, so it was basically the adults who sat there eating and chatting, while the wet nurses held a few children in the side room, separated by the museum shelves.
After getting married, many young ladies have their own support and families to take care of, and it is rare for them to get together like today.
If the Yu family had not been a popular new noble family, and their husbands' families had not wanted to get close to them, they might not have been able to come out today.
In addition, this time we had to do the deed for Xingxing, so everyone couldn't help feeling a little sad as they chatted and drank.
Although we drank a mild pomegranate wine this time, as we drank, everyone started to feel a little intoxicated, perhaps because we drank too much or the atmosphere was intoxicating.
"What are you doing!?"
Xing Xing's sudden shout suddenly interrupted the intoxicating atmosphere in the hall!
Xingxing suddenly stood up from the table.
She was young, and even if the pomegranate wine had a low alcohol content, it still contained alcohol. She had been drinking tea, so the movements she made when she stood up were very neat and strong, without being affected at all.
Everyone watched as Xing Xing stood up and ran straight to the cubicle.
Ling Jie'er and two younger children were sitting on the couch in the cubicle playing.
Xingxing ran over and immediately stretched out two fingers and reached into Lingjie'er's mouth!
He actually took out a round pearl from Lingjie'er's mouth!
Xingxing's forehead was sweating.
It turned out to be pearls!
Fortunately, Sister Ling didn’t swallow it!
Fan Pingfang saw that she was almost sober, with white sweat on her back. She pushed the table and ran over in a panic, "Sister Ling!"
Lingjie'er had her throat dug out and felt a little uncomfortable. Her eyes were red and she looked like she was about to cry but didn't.
The wet nurse was so scared that her soul almost flew away!
She had just put the young lady on the couch and turned around to talk to another wet nurse. How could this happen?
Fan Pingfang was so frightened that she hugged Ling Jie'er and tried to cover her mouth: "Good baby, let me see!"
Lingjie struggled for a while and then started to cry.
"Don't worry, Sister Fan. I've checked and it should be just this one." Xing Xing took the handkerchief, wiped her hands, and put the pearl back in the handkerchief.
Fan Pingfang was speechless as she held Ling Jie'er in her arms.
Bai Runiang and several other women with children were frightened and rushed over to check on their babies.
Fortunately, everything should be fine.
"What's going on? Why did Lingjie eat the pearls for no reason?"
Fan Pingfang couldn't help feeling scared and asked in a trembling voice.
None of the children today are wearing any pearl jewelry!
After they become mothers, they won’t carry these little things with them!
Xingxing looked silently at the four-year-old child brought by Fan Pingfang.
He didn't know when he stood in the corner, with his head down, looking frightened.
If Xingxing hadn't seen it with her own eyes just now, she would never have dared to imagine that this child would actually take advantage of others' unpreparedness and stuff pearls into the mouth of a one-year-old child!
"...I saw it just now." Xing Xing was silent for a moment, but she still told Fan Ping Fang the truth, "He secretly gave Ling Jie something to eat. I felt something was wrong, but luckily I took it out in time."