Chapter 321 - Farce at the Wedding Night in the Duke Zhenguos Manor (2/2)

“She dares to conceive the eldest son!

Sima Lingyun dared to betray me and had another woman conceive his child. I had done so much for him, even at the cost of my reputation. Now, I had no alternative but to marry him. It was forgivable that he was not grateful to me, but how could he still have pleasure with another woman instead of thinking about how to help me when I was in trouble?

Had it not been for him, how could I have been ended like this…

Staring at Yun Yinqiu’s inconspicuous belly, Mo Xuemin was gut-wrenching and resentful. Her eyes turned red with anger. She could not control the rage in her heart, so she rushed up to pluck Yun Yiqiu’s hand back and thundered, “Since the mistress hasn’t entered the manor, how can a concubine conceive and give birth to the eldest son? The rules in Duke Zhenguo’s manor are really different from others.”

Looking at the delicate face, Mo Xuemin was burnt with anger. So her other hand threw out a slap fiercely. Then, the voice of “Dear me!” rang. Yun Yiqiu’s frail body ran into the bed edge, and she screamed, “Husband, cousin. Ah! Qiu’er’s belly hurts. Cousin, child, save our child quickly.”

The people in the room fell into a sudden silence and looked at the fallen Yun Yiqiu in astonishment.

“Blood, Concubine Yun is bleeding!” A little maid shouted.

Yun Yiqiu fell on the ground, and blood flowed out of her skirt. Sima Lingyun was shocked at the winding and thick blood, then collected himself immediately.

He pounced and shoved away the stunned Mo Xuemin, and then, he held Yun Yiqiu up and called anxiously, “Qiu’er, are you okay now? Is it hurt? How about you now?”

Seeing her face turning pale with pains and she was unable to say a word, Sima Lingyun urged the servants beside anxiously, “Hurry up! Find the doctor! Find the doctor right now!” After finis.h.i.+ng words, he held Yun Yiqiu up and rushed out of the door, without casting a glance at Mo Xuemin.

The people in Shuangyun Court were all in a panic, and most of them ran out after Sima Lingyun. No one took notice of the bride who was supposed to be the matriarch.

Tonight, Duke Zhenguo’s manor was bound to be a new topic.

Early in the next morning, everyone was talking that at the wedding night, Sima Lingyun stayed in the concubine’s room instead of the bridal chamber, which irritated the Mo Manor’s first miss, so the first miss made a terrible scene there, even beat the concubine to miscarry.

Speaking of this matter, even though Mo Xuemin did something wrong, Sima Lingyun did not do the right thing. Why did he not stay in the bridal chamber at the wedding night but choose the concubine’s place? The fight between his wife and concubine did disgrace him completely. Besides that, the wedding banquet and the legend of the pure white tofu added more ludicrousness to the wedding of the Duke Zhenguo’s manor.

When the words reached the Mo Manor, Mo Huawen just waved his hand to signal the servant to leave, and continued to read over the official doc.u.ments, completely indifferent to the words.

Since the master of the Mo Manor did not say anything, the d.u.c.h.ess of the Duke Zhenguo’s manor gave harder punishment on Mo Xuemin.

Mo Xuemin had been kneeling on the ground from last night until this morning, even unable to take a sip of soup. She just knelt in a trance in the ancestral hall. Her head was wrapped in a piece of white cloth which obviously was torn off somewhere randomly. Blood still oozed from her forehead. Last night, she was knocked to the table corner. But for two maids’ quick reaction, she would have been knocked to death.

Then, no one came to see her. What’s worse, the d.u.c.h.ess even coldly punished her to kneel in the ancestral hall.

In the history of Great Qin, there was no new matriarch as being humiliated as her—kneeling in the ancestral hall at the wedding night. Mo Xuemin gnashed teeth in anger and thought her humiliation could only be washed away by blood.

“Your Highness, the d.u.c.h.ess asks you to serve tea to the relatives in the front hall.” Qingxiang came in and said timidly. Mo Xuemin’s furious look last night frightened her and made her more fearful of Mo Xuemin. So she stopped at a long distance away from Mo Xuemin.

“Come here, help me up.” Mo Xuemin said calmly. She struggled to stand up, but failed because she had been kneeling for a long time. Then, she fell down heavily.

“Qingxiang, come to help hurriedly.” Qiuqiao stepped up and helped Mo Xuemin in advance.

Seeing Qiuqiao come to help, Qingxiang took the courage to help Mo Xuemin’s other side. The two exerted themselves to help Mo Xuemin up.

“How is concubine Qiu now?” Mo Xuemin asked about Yun Yiqiu first, even if Mo Xuemin’s legs got stiff and merely a stretch could twitch her legs.

“The child in her belly could not be kept, and her body is injured. Whether she can conceive a baby in the future has to depend on…” Qiuqiao helped Mo Xuemin move a few more steps and panted.

“Is His Excellency still in her place?”

Looking at Mo Xuemin’s deadly calm face, Qing Xiang trembled and almost failed to support her. For some unutterable reasons, Qingxiang thought what Mo Xuemin looked now was more ruthless than a look of cold sternness, so timid Qingxiang did not dare to look at her master, but just lowered her head immediately to s.h.i.+ft her eyes to the ground, afraid of making any sound.

“His Excellency has been staying by the concubine’s side, but he has gone to the front hall and asked young madam to go there quickly,” said Qiuqiao.

He was telling me that he had to see the relatives in the front hall with me. A wan smile flashed on Mo Xuemin’s face. It was the marriage that I determined to build up, and it was the marriage that Mo Xuetong gave me…

Smile on her face, but coldness in her eyes! All her hatred was on Mo Xuetong!

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