"He's out of breath, but he's really holding on. If he keeps going like this, I won't be able to move my hands anymore."
"That's right. She pushed on my belly to change the baby's position and then pushed it back in. It would have been better if she had gone earlier. But she insisted on giving birth. She went through so much suffering and still ended up dying. She kept us busy all night."
"You didn't have the right to do it, but you insisted on forcing it. Not only did you hurt yourself, but your child would have been killed. You forced us to use force. Look, I'm covered in blood. Ouch, it hurts so much! Quick, bring me some water to wash."
"Are you really out of breath?"
"Oh, Madam Li still doesn't trust us, come and check it out yourself!"
Zero felt someone touching her neck and testing her breath. She wanted to jump up and break the person's neck with a backhand, but she couldn't move her body or lift her hands. She couldn't open her eyes and felt so tired and painful.
There were a few people chattering there - annoying.
"Okay, I'm finally done with my anger. I'm tired of watching all the commotion this day. You guys hurry up and clean up. I have to go and report to the Marquis and the Second Madam!"
I heard someone open the door and go outside.
"My Lord, Madam"
Nanny Li didn't even call her Second Madam, but called her Madam directly.
"Ms. Bai had a difficult labor and couldn't give birth. Now she has passed away due to heavy bleeding."
Glancing at the second wife, Rong, she added:
"The child also suffocated to death in the stomach."
Changping Hou Su Chen frowned as he looked at the old woman covered in blood. He wanted to demote her to a concubine on the grounds that she had no children, but she became pregnant at this time. The legitimate son of the marquis's mansion could not be born from the wife of a merchant.
Looking at Rong Wanting who was already pregnant, her father was a doctor of the fifth rank in the Ministry of Revenue after being sent out. Although it was only the fifth rank, it was a very lucrative position in the Ministry of Revenue. After all, he was a legitimate official, which was much better than the daughter of an imperial merchant of the Bai family.
Bai insisted on occupying the position of legitimate wife and even dreamed of giving birth to a legitimate son to inherit his mansion. Humph! Death is not a pity. He originally wanted to kill the mother and save the son, but ended up with two lives in one corpse. What bad luck!
Rong was overjoyed to hear that Bai had finally died. She smiled without even trying to hide it, but she kept saying,
"Poor sister, after five years of marriage, finally conceived a child, but the difficult labor cost her life. It's a shame that the child died along with his mother. The Marquis could have had another child, but that woman took him to the underworld. Oh, how unlucky he was!"
Su Chen's face darkened when he heard this. It's not that he is unlucky. A child born to an unlucky woman is also unlucky. Forget it, he will still have offspring, and the one in Rong's belly is what he wants.
"She's nothing to be pitied for. She married into my mansion as a merchant girl and enjoyed five years of prosperity, yet she has no children. If it weren't for my generosity and tolerance, I would have divorced her long ago. Now that she's dead, let's deal with her quickly. Don't pass on the bad luck to the baby in Ting'er's belly!"
"yes"
The old woman was a little embarrassed. How should she deal with this situation?
Marquis Changping embraced Rong, and stroked her belly with his big hands. Rong Wanting fell into his arms.
"The Marquis is right. We can't let her influence our Bao'er. He is the Marquis's only child now!"
When Su Chen heard this, he thought it was not right. That unlucky woman died with her belly pregnant. She must not let it affect Wan'er and the baby in her belly.
"Tell the housekeeper to find a coffin and immediately place the body in it and carry it to the farm. Don't keep the body at home. Find a few monks to perform a ritual and bury it somewhere outside the ancestral tomb. Such a person is not worthy of being buried in our ancestral tomb.
"Send someone to the Bai family and tell them that she died in childbirth and that they won't hold a funeral at home to avoid bad luck. Anyone who wants to mourn can go to the farm. Just let the other families know; they don't need to come; just bring the funeral gifts."
Marquis Changping was not worried at all about the Bai family's dissatisfaction, nor was he worried that they would make trouble. He didn't have the courage to do so.
"yes"
The old woman followed the Marquis's instructions and turned to find the housekeeper.
Rong lowered her head, her mouth corners almost splitting to her ears.
"Haha, Bai Shi, oh Bai Shi, so what if you're rich, so what if you're pregnant, you'll still die in pain, helpless. How does it feel to be betrayed by your own people? How does it feel to die in agony, bleeding to death bit by bit?
You didn't even have a proper funeral after your death, yet you still need to perform a ritual to dispel your resentment. Haha, if you still have a spirit, I wonder if you would be angry. What can you do if you are angry? After all, you can't beat me. From now on, your dowry will be mine, and the splendor and wealth of the Marquis' Mansion will be enjoyed by my son and me!"
In this world, if you don’t have power and a strong enough backer, you will only die miserably even if you hold on to mountains of gold and silver.
She had been plotting to seize the position of Marquis's wife for a long time and had wanted to kill Bai. Before, the Marquis's wife was concerned about her dowry and the annual tribute from the Bai family, so she let her live for the past few years. But she should never have gotten pregnant before herself. If she had been childless, perhaps she could have lived a few more years and made more money for the Marquis's family. But this time, she had no choice.
She understood what the Marquis meant. He wanted to go to the Mother-Staying House and continue to take the opportunity to ask for money from the Bai Mansion, but she could not leave such a threat behind. The Marquis Mansion must belong to her son.
Apart from the annoying people, Rong was in a very good mood.
"Will people gossip about you doing this? Why don't we just have a proper fight at home? At worst, I can just hide away in the manor. We absolutely cannot let you get into trouble."
Rong was so anxious that tears were about to fall, as if the Marquis was the most important thing in everything and she didn't care at all.
"She has already killed one of my sons, and Ran Dao wants to kill another one of my children just to save her face. How can you go to a country farm to suffer in your current state? The dead are not as important as the living, let alone my offspring. For the sake of my offspring, who can say anything?"
He said all this just to prove that he would not hold a funeral for Bai, and would suppress her and make her lose face even after her death. How vicious!
"My Lord, you have suffered for me and my child, and I have no way to repay you!"
As she spoke, she sat on his lap, touching and rubbing him, which made the Marquis of Changping burn with desire. He picked her up and carried her out of the main courtyard to the nearby Rong Garden, the courtyard of the second wife Rong, completely ignoring the fact that it was broad daylight and that the recently deceased Bai was lying in the side house of the main courtyard.
In the side room, Zero finally gathered enough strength and suddenly opened her eyes, frightening the maid Caisi who was trying to steal her ornaments and screaming.
"It's a zombie, it's a zombie! Help!"
Zero stretched out his hand and accurately grabbed her neck. With a snap of his hand, the cervical vertebrae were broken and the person died quickly.
After this action, Number Zero felt as if she had gone through the most terrifying experimental process in the laboratory in her previous life. She felt weak all over and her bones were limp. The pinch just now had used up all the strength she had just accumulated. A warm current kept flowing out from her body, and she knew that the original owner was still losing blood.
Barely managing to keep from falling, he stared at everyone in the room with wide eyes.
The two midwives, one was the original owner's wet nurse Qi, and the other was the original owner's maid Cai Qing, before they could react to what was happening. In the blink of an eye, they saw that Cai Si had died with her eyes open.
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