Su Muge and Zhao left the mourning hall to the Peachblossom Courtyard, even if she was prepared, she was astonished when seeing the yard.
This yard was remote and empty. Except for an old and dying tree, there was nothing in the yard, not conforming to the yard name Peachblossom Courtyard at all. The table and chairs in the room had lost much paint and were so mottled that couldn’t recognize what’s the original color.
Zhao and the predecessor lived a dozen years under this condition, however, as the husband and father, Su Lun didn’t care at all.
“Mumu, you fell into water and scared, you should have a good rest tonight, I’ will invite a doctor to see you tomorrow morning.”
“OK.”
She just woke up and was feeble, so she fell asleep as soon as she lay down, closing her heavy eyes.
This night, the whole Su mansion was messy, but the “chief criminal” slept tight.
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“My Miss is to see the eldest Miss, go away quickly!”
“The eldest Miss hasn’t wake up, Miss Jingwen, please...Ah!”
“Such a dirty slave, how dare you stop the second Miss!”
In the morning of next day, the dispute outdoor woke up Su Muge. When she sat up from the bed, the door was pushed open.
Su Jingwen walked in in a threatening manner with her maids. Su Muge saw the fleeting terror in her eyes, guessing that she was scared heavily last night.
Su Jingwen wore a begonia dress, belted at the waist. In the corner of her dress, there was a cute flower when she walked, which added a feeling of quip.
Su Jingwen looked like her mother An, with a pink and cute round face, full forehead and big eyes, slightly cocked nose and rosy cherry-like lips. All of these made people dearly love her whether she was smiling or being angry.
Unfortunately, she was always spoiled by An, bullying and arrogant. She was not adorable but hateful.
Su Muge turned her sight to the weeping maid Yueru, the close maid of the predecessor, the only one who tried to save her when she fell into water.
“Yueru, what’s wrong with your face?”
Yueru sniffled and choked, “Miss Muge, I’m OK. I hit something accidentally.”
Su Muge’s eyes moved a bit, and thought “Do you really think I’m blink?”
“What did you hit that can leave a palm print?”
Su Jingwen noticed that Su Muge ignored her and thought of she’s scaring her last night, she burst into anger.
“Sister Muge, this maid didn’t behave, I guided her for you.”
“Oh,really? Which maid guided her?”
Su Jingwen’s close maid Yinghong bowed her head slightly without any respect and says, “It’s me...Ah!”
“Pa!”
Yinghong hadn’t finished her sentence and her face suffered from a slap.
The slap astonished not only Yinghong but also Su Jingwen.
After coming to herself, regardless of Su Muge being a human or ghost, Su Jingwen frowned and gnashed her teeth and said, “Su Muge, how dare you hit my maid!”
Su Muge looked at her and smiled slightly.
“Why are you saying that, my little sister. I’m teaching your undisciplined maid for you because she didn’t bow to me when she entered the room. Don’t you think she is undisciplined?”
“You, good, you dare to talk back!”
Su Jingwen glared at Su Muge and thought how strange the girl was, especially the face. It was the same as before, but with different feeling.
In the past, no matter how she bullied Su Muge, she just cried to faint, but dared not to talk back.
Was there a dirty thing in her body!
The sunlight shined on Su Muge’s pale face. Su Jingwen saw the dark red birthmark on her whole right eye. It’s conspicuous.
She was not afraid of light and she had a shadow. Su Jingwen now believed Su Muge was human, not ghost.
No matter what Su Jingwen thought of, now that Su Muge possessed the body and she should decide how to live.
“Kneel down.”
“What?”
“Don’t you come to apologize to me?” Su Muge wore a faint smile on the face and looked at her. Her eyes that seemed to see through the heart frightened Su Jingwen.
“You pushed me into water and tried to drown me. I just let you kneel down to apologize to me. Do you feel wronged?”
“Nonsense...”
“Greeting to my lord and madam.”
There were some footsteps outside, Su Jingwen changed her attitude suddenly and some tears were in her eyes that glared a moment ago.
“Sister, please forgive me, I won’t beg you to play in the lotus pond again.”
“What are you doing!”
Su Lun wore a blue gown embroidered dark lines, with an agate belt which demonstrated his status. He was more dignified than wearing the loose dark gown.If Zhao had not repeated again and again that Muge was alive, he would have never entered this room.It’s so unfortunate!An wore a long dress to the ankle, lotus leaf colored with a pattern of moonlight in lotus pond, making her beautiful and elegant.An was a little over thirty and took a good skin care, so her skin was smooth and delicate while that of Zhao was withered and yellow.“Daddy, help me to plead my sister for forgiving me, please.”Su Lun saw that his favorite daughter was crying heavily and his face clouded. “Why are you blaming your little sister? It’s your own idea to play in the lotus pond and fell into water, is this your sister’s fault?”Su Muge had already given up on her slag father, but she had not expecte
It provoked Su Lun that Zhao was to kneel down to Su Jingwen. Even though he didn’t like Zhao and he didn’t treat them as human, she was his original wife and he thought that Su Jingwen looked down on him for bullying her blatantly. Maybe it’s because he had a low birth, he was inferior subconsciously.“How can you prove that your little sister drowned you intentionally?”“Daddy, maybe you don’t know I can swim from childhood. I can swim in big rivers, let alone the little lotus pond?”“Nonsense, you can’t swim at all!” Su Jingwen was anxious when hearing that.“Daddy, if you don’t believe I can swim, I can prove it.”Zhao thought this Muge was so strange and she was so different from the before.Su Lun thought Muge had no reason to lie. He frowned and turned to Su Jingwen, now he thought she lied.He knew that An and her daughter always didn’t like Zhao and Muge, but he thought
“You, you are chopping the logic!”Su Lun pointed at Su Muge with a shivering hand, and his eyes were fierce, as if he would eat her.“You don’t care about whether I was pushed by Su Jingwen into water and almost died. You only care about her. She just takes a little punishment, and your heart, liver, spleen and lung all ache, right? So that is what it is, I’m lower than a servant in your heart!”He did!An was to cry out when she saw Su Jingwen almost choked to faint.They were all astonished that Muge became so eloquent after dying one time.“You, how could it possible that I do not to care whether you live or die!” Even thought he was, he couldn’t speak out.Some fellow official accused him behind his back when he abandoned Zhao and married An. If they knew he didn’t care about the life of his original wife and truth-born daughter, he would get a bad reputation.“I just think y
Su Jingwen was choked with some water, and when she was lifted to Orchid Courtyard, she had fainted.An loved her daughter best and she was heartbroken when seeing that.“My lord, if something bad were to happen to Wen, I will die with her.” Su Lun was also worried about Su Jingwen.“Don’t worry, Wen will be OK.”The doctor came soon and felt the pulse for Su Jingwen.“Doctor, how’s my daughter?”The old doctor stood up and said, “My lord and madam, don't worry. The lady is just choked and scared. It's OK after taking the medicine for two days.”“Thank you, doctor.” An winked at Li Mama, an old maid of An, and Li gave a pouch having some money in to the doctor.“I will walk you out.”“Good bye.”Su Jingwen woke up after taking some medicine.Her eyes were red with blood because of congestion.“Mom, I will kill her,
The labor pain became more intense after Zhao eating some sugar porridge.Su Muge took a look at Zhao’s private part. The cervix had opened two centimeters. “Mom, hang on, the cervix is to open.”Zhao was healthy generally, but she had been bullied by An for many years, which harmed her health to some extent, and she went into labor early. She was dizzy but she made all her efforts to keep a clear mind. She had no energy to think why Muge knew a lot about labor.Su Muge sent Yueru to collect all she needed, at the same time, the cervix was open fully.“Mom, listen to me, breathe in and breathe out, try hard!”Zhao grasped the quilt and obeyed Muge unconsciously.Zhao had given birth to a child and this was her second labor. It should have been smooth. However, it’s been a long time, there was no more progress.Meihua and other maids were too young to know the childbirth things, and they were a
“Congratulations, my lord, Madam Zhao has given birth to a boy.”Su Lun was back from drinking, and everyone congratulated him on having a son. He was so excited that he treated the maids of Peachblosoom Courtyard better.He was in his thirties and expected a son for a long time, so he was so excited to see the baby.An followed Su Lun and she forced herself to smile, pinching Li Mama with her sharp fingernails so heavily that Li was frown for the pain.She really gave birth to a baby, and it’s a boy!“Congratulations, my lord, heaven is blessing you.”“It’s right, my lord. Madam An prayed for Madam Zhao in the temple in the daytime, and Madam Zhao gave birth to a boy in the evening.”Su Lun looked at An gently. “You are so kind.”An glanced at the yard and said, “My lord, the young master is precious and he should be taken good care of, but Zhao is so weak after a labor that she
“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 n
“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