Chapter 73 Pregnant?
If Su Wanwan was really a fragile and naive woman, she would have collapsed long ago when faced with such provocation from Liao Cheng, but Su Wanwan was not like that.
She looked at Liao Cheng and nodded, "I understand. Then what? What is your relationship?"
Liao Cheng didn't expect Su Wanwan to react like this. She was stunned. "Aren't you angry that Pei Changfeng is unfaithful?"
Su Wanwan shook her head. "The girl said that he was given an aphrodisiac and he doesn't want to be a heartless man. Why should I be angry?"
Liao Cheng raised his eyebrows, realizing that he had underestimated Su Wanwan. After all, from a village girl to where she is today, how could it be possible that she didn't have any scheming or trickery?
"Do you know who I am?" Liao Cheng asked.
The maid beside Liao Cheng also raised her head high, looking down on people.
There are powerful officials everywhere in the capital, and there are as many powerful people as dogs. Su Wanwan knows without thinking that Liao Cheng is someone she cannot afford to offend now.
Su Wanwan played dumb, "I don't know, but judging from the girl's appearance and demeanor, she wouldn't be a girl from a poor family."
Liao Cheng's maid snorted, "You're smart. Our princess is His Majesty Qingfeng's Princess Qingyang. Why don't you, a country girl, kowtow and greet the princess?"
The place where they lived was not too remote, and some people had already looked over. However, when they saw that it was Liao Cheng, they had some guesses in their minds and did not dare to look openly. They hid in the house and watched the fun quietly.
Su Wanwan bowed to Liao Cheng in a normal way, "I, Su Wanwan, greet the princess."
Liao Cheng's maid Luzhi scolded: "You are indeed a country girl. You can't even kowtow. If you can't do it, then I will teach you!"
Seeing that she was about to attack, Su Wanwan quickly dodged, "As expected of a princess, even the maids around her are so majestic, it's really scary."
Luzhi gritted her teeth and said, "If there weren't so many people watching, I would have to slap you twice to teach you a lesson."
Is Su Wanwan afraid of Liao Cheng? In her heart, she is not afraid, but after all, Liao Cheng is now a cut above her in status, a royal relative, so she has to give in.
Seeing more and more onlookers, Su Wanwan lowered her eyes and cried softly, "No matter how much you like my husband, you have to wait until my husband and I get divorced before making any plans. Now you force me to divorce in broad daylight. I am really in a dilemma!"
She cried sincerely, her eyes were wet with tears, and she looked very pitiful. Liao Cheng was shocked by her sudden change, "You're blaming me for something else?"
Su Wanwan pretended not to understand, her eyes blurred with tears, "Princess, what did you say?"
Lvzhi on the side was aggressive, obviously even less smart than Liao Cheng, "How can a cheap woman like you comment on our princess's decision? Let me teach you a lesson!"
Luzhi stretched out her hand, and Su Wanwan was about to hide when an angry shout came from the side.
“That’s enough!”
An old man in his fifties came out, wearing an ordinary fine cloth robe. He was thin and kind, and his identity was unknown.
"As a princess, she actually allowed her maid to verbally humiliate and beat up the wife of the top scholar. Princess Qingyang is too domineering!"
This old man must be someone of some importance. Liao Cheng's face suddenly turned bad, and he slapped the maid Luzhi in the face. "Idiot, why don't you apologize to the wife of the third scholar!"
Luzhi covered her face and apologized to Su Wanwan reluctantly, "It's all my fault, Madam, please forgive me."
Su Wanwan wiped her tears, looking timid and unable to hear clearly.
Luzhi gritted her teeth, knelt down and kowtowed, "I beg you, my lady, to forgive me for my mistakes!"
After all, she was the princess's maid, so it would not be good to go too far. After Lu Zhi slapped her about a dozen times, Su Wanwan looked at her red and swollen face and said, "I know that the princess certainly did not mean to embarrass me..."
She was halfway through her words, looking like someone who had been bullied to the point of pity.
Liao Cheng wanted to laugh, but she was so angry that she laughed. She clenched her fists and asked Master Zhou, "Master Zhou, my maid has already apologized and knows that she did something wrong. This princess has something important to attend to, so she will leave first."
Tutor Zhou had also heard something about the behavior of this dissolute princess. He frowned but said nothing.
Liao Cheng left, and the people around him went in one after another. Su Wanwan bowed to thank Master Zhou, who just nodded lightly and went back.
After Su Wanwan entered the room, she wiped the tears from her face. Widow Liu hurried to the door and asked, "What's going on? I just heard that there was a commotion at the door. Did you see it?"
Su Wanwan took a deep breath and said, "It's nothing. Just two stinky rats passing by and scared people. It's not a big deal."
Widow Liu said, "Oh, I thought it was something else. The people in the capital are really delicate. They probably have never seen a mouse before. They are so scared."
Widow Liu walked beside Su Wanwan and said with a smile, "I recently heard that a great general from the border is coming back. I heard that the great general is very powerful. He led his soldiers to defeat the Di people at the border. I have never heard of this person before. It is said that he became a monk in the past two years."
She asked about this news all day long, and Su Wanwan just said "hmm" indifferently. She was indeed not in the mood to chat with her more today, so she went back to her room on the pretext of feeling unwell.
Widow Liu was still muttering, "It is said that the general's surname is Su, the same as my old Su. It's a pity that my old Su didn't have such great ability, and his life was short. Otherwise, I could have become a general's wife, which would have been so impressive. But now, being the mother-in-law of the third place winner is not bad either..."
Su Wanwan felt upset after entering the house. She paced back and forth in the house. Somehow, she held on to the table and retched a few times, feeling very nauseous.
"This princess is so disgusting." Su Wanwan rinsed her mouth with tea, but still felt uncomfortable, so she asked Hong Xing to eat some sweet and refreshing fruits.
Hong Xing brought chilled watermelon, sweet peaches, and honeydew melon. Su Wanwan looked at them and wanted to eat something sour.
"Are there any sour apricots?"
"Yes, I'll go get it."
Su Wanwan ate four or five apricots in a row before she felt better. "It's hot, so I have to eat something sour."
Hong Xing nodded, "Madam is right!"
"My son!" Widow Liu came in crying. Seeing Su Wanwan still eating apricots leisurely, she couldn't help but feel sad. "Why didn't you tell me that you were bullied? You even lied to me and said someone was beating mice. If I hadn't just gone out, I wouldn't have known that you were bullied to the point of being speechless!"
Su Wanwan dismissed Hong Xing, her eyes reddened at this moment, "I didn't suffer any loss, forget it."
Widow Liu felt sorry for her. "Although you are not my biological child, I still have something to tell you. You are Pei Changfeng's legal wife, and you saved his life! Don't say that what happened today was provoked by that princess. Even if Pei Changfeng really did something wrong to you, you are right! You are not afraid to bring the matter to the emperor!"
Su Wanwan couldn't help laughing, "Okay, okay, I know everything."
Widow Liu was really anxious. Her whole family had benefited from Pei Changfeng's success. On the one hand, she was afraid that she would not be able to become the mother-in-law of the third place winner in the imperial examination. On the other hand, she was even more afraid that Su Wanwan would be bullied. Then she would be sorry for her husband who died early, and she would not be able to face death with shame.
Widow Liu said a lot and Su Wanwan listened carefully. Widow Liu did not leave until Pei Changfeng was about to go off duty.
Pei Changfeng obviously also knew about this. He came back half a quarter of an hour earlier than usual. His back was wet with sweat, and he must have run out of the palace.
"Wanwan, have you been bullied?"
Seeing him, Su Wanwan crossed her arms and crossed her chest, "I'm not being bullied!"
As she spoke, she glanced at Pei Changfeng, and seeing the anxiety and panic on his face, she pursed her lips and threw herself into his arms and sobbed, "You don't know, she is a bully. If I didn't know that you wouldn't do anything to let me down, I, I..."
She cried in fits, and Pei Changfeng patted her on the back, his eyes filled with anger. "Don't be afraid, I will find a way to help you vent your anger."
Pei Changfeng gently wiped her tears, "Are you wronged?"
Su Wanwan nodded, "Don't worry about me for now. Remember to go to Master Zhou's house to thank him. If Master Zhou hadn't come forward, Liao Cheng wouldn't have let me go so easily today."
"Okay." Pei Changfeng stayed with Su Wanwan for a while before taking the tea that the emperor had given him some time ago and going to the Taifu Mansion not far away.
Taifu Zhou was not surprised to see him coming. He looked at Pei Changfeng with admiration in his eyes, "You don't have to thank me for anything. Princess Qingyang was so domineering and bullied your wife. I just helped her because I couldn't stand it. It's not a big deal."
Pei Changfeng bowed and said, "My wife is more important to me than myself. Your help saved my wife from being insulted and allowed her to escape unscathed. I must thank you."
Master Zhou nodded, "What a neat and magnanimous scholar, you are not a heartless person, unlike other scholars who, when they become successful, will first abandon their wives. You are indeed a good person."
"My wife saved my life," Pei Changfeng said, "I dare not disrespect her."
"Okay, okay," Master Zhou smiled, "Are you getting used to everything in the Hanlin Academy now?"
"Everything is fine. Thank you for your concern, Master."
"Only Hanlin scholars can enter the cabinet. If you can keep the cold bench of the Hanlin Academy, you will have a new world with great potential in the future."
Taifu Zhou stroked his beard and smiled. He looked at Pei Changfeng's eyebrows and thought to himself that he was indeed much more outstanding than the emperor's current princes. He was worthy of being the child that the little girl of the Yang family was willing to die to keep.
Pei Changfeng had no idea what Master Zhou was thinking. After expressing his gratitude, he returned home. The next day, he found Bai Jitong.
"Has your family arranged a marriage for you?"
Bai Jitong's face turned pale. "Stop talking. Everyone knows about the princess and I. Now I can forget about marrying a noble lady in the capital."
Pei Changfeng nodded and said nothing more, but Bai Jitong felt that he had something to say, "What are you going to do?"
Pei Changfeng turned a page of the book and said, "Don't do anything, just ask, she insulted you, but you don't hate her?"
Bai Jitong gritted his teeth and sighed after a while, "Forget it, I'm a man."
"A man's innocence is not innocence?" Pei Changfeng found it funny. "If I lose my innocence one day, I will definitely not be able to face my wife. Now that you have lost your innocence, others will laugh at you for being seduced by the princess. Aren't you afraid that your future wife will have a grudge? Will she worry every day that you two have an old relationship?"
"Stop talking! It's even a question whether I can get married," Bai Jitong couldn't stand it any longer. "Pei Changfeng, do you think you're the only smart person in the world? Just tell us what you want to do. At worst, we'll suffer together!"
That Liao Cheng was really abominable. He clearly recognized that he was not Pei Changfeng that day, yet he still came up and touched him. Bai Jitong felt like it was a nightmare whenever he thought of that day.
Pei Changfeng said calmly, "The question is, what can hurt her? She doesn't care about her reputation, and her father, the Fourth Prince, is a loyal minister. It seems that everything is flawless."
Pei Changfeng drew a circle on the paper.
The big problem is that the woman doesn't care about her reputation, which makes it difficult to know where to start. After all, who doesn't know that Liao Cheng is a promiscuous person?
In the blink of an eye, it's time to go off duty again.
"In half a month, the Fourth Princess will celebrate her birthday. Brother Bai, have you received the invitation?"
"No," Bai Jitong said with an unpleasant expression, "Even if I was sent, I wouldn't go. My Bai family is a big family in the south after all. What can they do to me if I don't go?"
Pei Changfeng whispered something in Bai Jitong's ear. Bai Jitong looked surprised and doubtful, but more of awe-inspiring. "If we talk about scheming, who can compare to you?"
"Thank you for the compliment." Pei Changfeng smiled.
Just wait for the good show later.
After finishing his shift, Pei Changfeng was summoned to the Yangxin Palace alone. The person who came to pick him up was Eunuch Li who was beside Emperor Chongming.
Although Pei Changfeng was confused, he did not dare to show it.
Emperor Chongming was somewhat happy and somewhat annoyed when he saw Pei Changfeng. He asked, "I heard that both your parents died when you were young? Then how did you get to know the Yang family?"
Pei Changfeng told the story one by one. When Emperor Chongming heard Pei Changfeng talking about his mother, the ink from his pen stained a piece of fine paper.
"Well," Emperor Chongming sighed, "It's not easy for you either."
He already understood everything, but he still wanted to hear the child tell it in person about his mother.
Many things happened so long ago that even Emperor Chongming could not remember them.
"Don't worry, I won't be a bad person."
When I left the Palace of Mental Cultivation, it was already dark.
Pei Changfeng always felt that there was something else behind Emperor Chongming's words, but he couldn't think too much about it for the time being because Su Wanwan was sick.
The disease came like a mountain falling. Su Wanwan fell ill suddenly and no one was prepared.
The doctor hadn't arrived yet, but Pei Changfeng had already walked around the room anxiously for many times. He was sure that Su Wanwan was angry yesterday. If he could break into the palace at night, he would definitely have tied up Liao Cheng to vent his anger on Su Wanwan.
Su Wanwan saw him spinning like a top. She wanted to laugh but felt sick to her stomach. "Okay, stop spinning. I feel dizzy."
Pei Changfeng held her hand and said, "Okay, I won't turn around anymore. Do you feel better now?"
"Much better, nothing serious, I just feel a little nauseous, probably because I ate something bad, don't worry."
Pei Changfeng rested his forehead against hers, his heartache was beyond words.
After waiting for a long time, the doctor finally arrived. He stared at the patient like he was interrogating a criminal, and the doctor was puzzled.
"It's a happy event," the doctor smiled, "Madam is pregnant, and it's been more than two months now."
When these words were spoken, even Pei Changfeng, a calm person, was shocked and couldn't recover for a long time. The joy on his face was a thousand times more obvious than the day he passed the palace examination.
"Pregnant!?"
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