“I want to strangle that bastard!”
“Peng!” An pounded on the pear wooden table heavily.
“Oh, my Madam. What are you doing? It will hurt yourself.”
“Why didn’t she go to die!” An was so furious, up and down in the chest. For many years, she designed numbers of methods for killing Zhao and Muge, but she didn’t put into practice. The reason why she permitted Zhao being pregnant many months was because she was intended to make Zhao and her fetus both die and no one can suspect her.
“Relax, my Madam. Now the baby is here. What are you worrying about?”
“That bastard? You think I should bring up him? Don’t forget, he is Zhao’s son and with her blood, that bitch!”
Li Mama understood that An had a higher birth than Zhao who was humble and An looked down on Zhao. However, An couldn’t give birth to a boy.
But Li couldn’t say that out.
“Madam, the young master is a treasure of the lord and nothing can happen to him. He is too little to know who his own mother is. You can treat him as your own son, so that he can take care of you after the second Miss getting married.”
Hearing that, An was more indignant.
She couldn’t have a baby any longer because Zhao came to Su mansion and made her so angry that she had an early labor, which made her have difficulty to be pregnant.
“Let me think.”
Li stopped talking. She knew that An was not so easy to put down the resentment.
……
“Mumu...” Zhao opened her dried lips a little, looking at Muge lying prone on the bed and wetting her eyes.
“Mom, you finally wake up.” Hearing the voice, Muge opened her eyes.
“I’m useless...”
Zhao was almost crying. Muge got a cup of warm water for her.
“Mom, don’t cry. You are in confinement. Crying is not good for your health. My brother is too young, and he needs you, so you must be healthy and strong.”
Zhao looked weak but she was strong inside. Her son was so young that she couldn’t leave him alone.
“OK. Where is your brother? Hold him here and let me see.”
“Mom, don’t rush. You have had a coma for a whole day and night. Let’s eat something first.”
“OK.”
After Zhao eating over, Muge said, “My daddy hired a nanny for my brother. You are not in good condition. When you recover, my brother will be back.”
Hearing that, Zhao became quite nervous.
“It’s An. She took your brother away, right?”
Muge comforted her and said, “Mom, don’t worry. Do you trust me?”
Zhao was in panic and raised to looked at Muge. After seeing her calm and clean crystal bright eyes, she said, “Of course I trust you.”
“So be easy. I will guarantee his safe coming back.”
“But...”
“No but.”
Looking at her firm eyes, Zhao moved her lips a little but stopped talking.
Her Mumu was really different from before.
Muge came to the wing room. She looked indifferently at Chunju kneeling on the ground.
Zhao was in the delivery and was in the crucial moment, but Chunju ran into the room and said loudly that something happened to Zhao’s mother. She had no good intention!
“Who told you about my grandmother?”
Chunju was not afraid of Su Muge at all, but since Muge woke up from the coffin, she felt that Muge was a little intimidating and frightening.
“I... I wanted to invite a doctor and met a Madam's fellow-villager at the side door, who ever came to deliver things to Madam before. She said that your grandmother fell down accidentally and was to stop breathing.”
Muge maintained the same expression and put down the porcelain cup. “Where is she?”
“She sent the message and left. I don’t know where she is.”
Muge looked down and squinted at her. “How my mother fell down?”
Chunju's eyes twinkled and kowtowed for mercy. “Forgive me, Miss. Madam Zhao was tired while walking and said she wanted to drink water, so I went to take water for her. But she had fallen to the ground when I’m back. I really don't know how.”
Su Muge squinted and shouted. “You don't know? What does Madam Zhao want of you! "
“Miss Muge, forgive me, forgive me.” Chunju was frightened on thinking of the second Miss was pressed by the eldest Miss into the basin and almost passed out.
“Forgive you? If something happened to my mother, can you afford it? Drag her out and flog her forty times, then throw her out of the mansion!”
Muge didn’t give Chunju the opportunity to beg for mercy, walking out of the wing room.
Chunju was shocked. “Miss Muge, I serve for Madam. You can’t drive me out!”
Muge stopped her steps and looked down at her. “Serve for Madam. Which Madam?”
“Madam, Chunju is kneeling in the yard. She said the eldest Miss was to drive her out of the mansion. She begged you to save her.” Li Mama opened the curtain and walked into the room, whispered to An.An was upset about Su Wenmo’s ceaseless crying. Su Wenmo was the name of Zhao’s son. And Su Lun gave the name to him.The baby had been always crying since he was sent here. An was so angry that she wanted to throw him into a well.Chunju was a spy that An placed around Zhao in those years. It wasn’t strange that she came here now. “What’s wrong with her? Just because she couldn’t call a doctor, Su Muge then drove her out of the mansion?”“I heard it’s because...” Li Mama told An the sequence of events about Muge’s grandmother—Zhang.Hearing that, An became calm.“Now that she made such a big mistake, isn’t driving her out a bit too easy? You know what I mean, Li Mama.”Li Mama knew
“Why?”“Mom, don’t worry. Nancheng prefecture is close to Shunyang prefecture. I will be back ten days later.”“But I will worry about you.”“There is no need to worry. I will go along the official road and I have bodyguards. I’ll be safe.”Zhao worried about Muge, but she saw Muge was determined and she was concerned about Zhang, so she said yes finally. “You are away from home. Promise me to be very careful.”“Mom, take it easy. I’ll be OK.”Before she left, Muge enjoined Yueru on many things.“The eldest Miss, I’ll remember.”Su Lun was told that Muge would go to Nancheng prefecture. It’s rare that he kindly arranged a carriage, three bodyguards and one driver for Muge.“You are a young lady. Why don’t you bring some maids when you go out?” Su Lun noticed that there was no one around Su Muge and frowned.She was his daughter who was born
“Crack!”A bolt of lightning lit up the temple, and Su Muge could see the statue, dilapidated and hideous, which made her frightened.The temple was shabby but it’s a shelter from wind and rain. Su Muge lit the wood and straw with Huozhezi, a roll of paper that could be blown to fire. Her clothes were wet from the rain and it’d better dry them. Otherwise, she would catch a fever by wearing wet clothes.Su Muge took some food from the carriage and she put a wooden stick behind the door of the temple for safety.Despite this, the temple was in the middle of nowhere and no one could come here.She took off her outer clothing and dried it by the fire.“Ah Qiu” Muge sneezed.It’s darker outside, but the rain continued.“It’s so cold.” After a long journey and all-time tension, she was so tired that she leaned on the pillar to have a rest by closing her eyes. However, she
“What did you say?” The man squinted at her frighteningly.Su Muge rubbed herself between her eyebrows and wore her outer clothing. She had a fever and felt cold so she made the fire hotter.“You are wounded on the waist. If you don’t take off your clothes, I can’t deal with it.”Hearing that, the man stared at her and observed her carefully.She covered one of her eyes with a handkerchief. She looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, but she was audacious and calm when facing him.He pulled his clothes off. Muge caught sight of his muscle on the chest.She hated to admit it, but he was really in good shape, and there is literally no flab on her body at all.“Stop staring at me.” His voice was still ice-cold.Su Muge got closer to him and stared at his body more carefully. “If I don’t observe carefully, how can I know where the wound is?”She squatted down to
Su Muge started the carriage and continued her journey to Nancheng prefecture. She wanted to visit Zhang on behalf of Zhao since she had made the promise.She took a whole day to travel along the official road and finally saw the lofty gate of Nancheng prefecture.When she entered the prefecture, it was already dark and too late to continue the journey. She had to head for Zhao village till tomorrow.Several days’ journey made Su Muge exhausted, so she found an inn to accommodate herself after buying some medicine she may need.“Please arrange a first-class room for me.”The innkeeper took a look at her covered eye, freezing a bit, and said, “OK, lady. Please wait for a moment.”“Where is the manager? Come here quickly.”A yell burst out outside when the innkeeper just finished his words.Su Muge turned back and saw two soldiers wearing military uniforms, followed by a man wearing
“There is an assassin. Catch him!” The soldiers rushed to the man in black from the front yard.The man in black saw so many soldiers coming to him, and he was about to grab Su Muge. Su Muge tended to avoid him, but it was too late to escape. She was finally caught by the man in black and controlled before his chest, and the sharp point of his sword was against her neck.“Don’t push me, or I’ll kill her!”Su Muge closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She told herself to be calm!The soldiers hesitated for a while when seeing Su Muge was caught, but instantly they relaxed.For them, saving a common person was less important than catching an assassin aiming at the princess!“Catch him, and he must be alive!”Bastards!Su Muge didn’t expect them to save her, but she was still angry when hearing that. She bit the man on the hand when he didn’t pay attention to her. “Ah
It was not only his face but also his lofty and noble temperament that fascinated others. He seemed to be a sword to be unsheathed. Even if he stood still, he looked scary.The man wore a white gown with dark patterns and had a jade belt on his waist, which demonstrated he was slender and straight. Despite this, Su Muge thought his white gown was like a battle robe because of the formidable ambiance.Xia Houmo looked ahead, without giving a glimpse to Su Muge without any rest.Hua Zheng wore a sweet smile on her dainty face the moment she saw Xia Houmo and said, “Your Royal Highness, were you OK last night?” “Is everything done?” Xia Houmo ignored Hua Zheng’s inquiry and said to his bodyguard.“Your Royal Highness, everything is OK.”“Start off.”What Xia Houmo said made Su Muge returned to herself. She thought that man didn’t know a little about romance and didn’t have any tenderness toward
“Oh, she was still alive.” The Taoist priest reached Su Muge’s nose tip and sensed that she was alive.Looking at Su Muge who was comatose, the Taoist priest hesitated and frowned. “It’s not my fault, but you are comatose.” He reached his hand to her waist and got her money, weighing them up.“Lady, earlier death, better life.” Guima put the money away and was about to leave. Suddenly, he was caught by someone.He looked back and saw Su Muge had been awake!“Give it back to me!” Su Muge stared at Guima with her light eyes. Her fingertips whitened due to grasping him tightly.Zhao and her previous body had been bullied by An for many years and Zhao was born in a peasant family, so she didn’t have much own dowry. Even if she had some, she gave Su Lun to let him take the examination in the capital. The twenty-liang silver in the purse was all Zhao’s private savings. Without this money, she would not starve to death. But n