For a moment, Shen Mingzhu couldn't tell what she was feeling in her heart. But when she saw the concern in Xie Lang's eyes, the emotions she had been suppressing just now instantly exploded, turning into a deep sense of bitterness. Her eyes immediately welled up with tears. "Ouch—"
When Xie Lang saw Shen Mingzhu crying, his heart skipped a beat. He quickly took out his handkerchief and continued to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes. Then he said, "Don't cry! Why are you crying after just a little while?"
As he said this, he instinctively reached out to pull her up. But when he saw the mud on his hands, he froze in place.
[Forget it! It's just mud. Shen Mingzhu won't notice.]
Shen Mingzhu: "..."
Is this the reason you wipe your muddy hands on me!
Shen Mingzhu gritted her teeth secretly, finding it both funny and exasperating. She instinctively reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, then looked at Xie Lang and said, "Don't touch me with your dirty hands."
"They're so dirty."
Xie Lang was still hesitating when Shen Mingzhu stopped crying first. She looked at him and said, "Let's go."
Xie Lang instinctively wanted to clean the mud off his hands. So he took back the handkerchief he had given her to wipe her tears from Shen Mingzhu's hand, wiped the dirt on his hands, then stuffed the handkerchief into his bosom. He turned to look at Shen Mingzhu and said, "You're so heartless. I wanted to give you a hand, but you actually dislike me."
Hearing this, Shen Mingzhu felt a bit guilty for no reason. She secretly glanced at Xie Lang. When their eyes met and she saw the smile in his eyes, she suddenly let out a sigh of relief and unconsciously curved her lips.
When they returned to the mansion, it was still early.
Shen Mingzhu never expected that she would really be able to learn these things from Shen Mingyuan today. Suddenly, she felt as if she had nothing to do. Most of her original plans had fallen through. But since Shen Mingyuan's booklet hadn't been delivered yet, she couldn't take action.
Just as she entered the room, a bright flash suddenly lit up the previously overcast sky. Immediately afterwards, there was a deafening thunderclap that made the whole house shake. Then the rain poured down.
"We're really lucky today," Xie Lang said, looking at the rain. He quickly closed the window and lit the candles in the room. Then he said to Shen Mingzhu, "Why don't you take a break first? You can tell me everything slowly tomorrow."
Seeing the calm look on Xie Lang's face, Shen Mingzhu remembered that this person in front of her still knew nothing. So she just sighed and said to him, "I'd better tell you now."
After saying that, Shen Mingzhu told him everything. Xie Lang was stunned on the spot. He never expected that this was what was really going on behind the scenes. He felt a chill in his heart.
The rain was pattering outside the window, as if it was pouring directly down. Even though the candles were lit in the room, there was an inexplicable gloomy atmosphere.
When she finished speaking, she found that the rain outside had stopped at some point. She originally thought she might cry, but unexpectedly, she felt an unusual calm after she finished speaking. On the contrary, Xie Lang looked solemn, with a hint of indescribable worry in his eyes.
She pushed open the window, and a gust of wind suddenly blew in.
Shen Mingzhu shivered and quickly closed the window with a bang. She turned to look at Xie Lang and said, "The rain has stopped."
Xie Lang then came back to his senses. He looked at Shen Mingzhu and said, "Are you not going to take action against the Zhou family this time?"
He wasn't very sure. Finally, he sighed and continued, "Tomorrow. I'll go see Zhou Chengyu tomorrow."
As he spoke, Shen Mingzhu saw him stand up. Then he walked behind her, reached out from behind and hugged her. He buried his head in the crook of her neck and said in a muffled voice, "Or if you're going, remember to take me with you."
[Alas, how sad must Shen Mingzhu be now?]
Shen Mingzhu nodded and sighed.
...
Qu Yunhua instinctively reached out and touched her stomach. She felt a heavy weight in her heart and instinctively wanted to cry.
"Is it... really impossible for me to have a child?"
Qu Yunhua had never felt so desperate. Her face instantly turned pale, and her eyes were filled with tears. There was even a hint of madness in her eyes as she looked at the doctor.
It couldn't be! She still wanted to give her husband a son!
The doctor was startled by the fleeting look of cruelty on her face. Finally, he said, "This... Madam has taken too many herbal medicines before, so it's inevitable that her ability to have children has been damaged. If you take good care of yourself, it's not necessarily... not necessarily impossible to conceive."
He didn't dare to be too definite, for fear that Qu Yunhua would take out her anger on him. So he spoke even more euphemistically and kept his head down.
Qu Yunhua still didn't give up. She said to the doctor, "Thank you. Please prescribe a few more doses of medicine for me."
"Alright! Yes!"
Watching the doctor leave, Qu Yunhua lowered her head and found that her nails had dug deeply into her palm, making it look bloody.
"Madam... This servant will go and get the medicine for you."
The little maid beside her was trembling with fear. When she saw the cold look on Qu Yunhua's face, she didn't dare to say anything. She just wanted to escape quickly and not face her current expression.
What should she do?
There was still a glimmer of hope in Qu Yunhua's heart, but finally she trembled violently, knowing that the doctor was just not being too definite.
Was it possible that she would never be able to have a child in her life?
She heaved a heavy sigh. Suddenly, she thought of her younger sister, and some other emotions gradually emerged in her heart.
"Someone."
She said to the little maid, "Call the doctor back. Tell him I have something to say."
When the doctor came back with his medicine chest and she had the little maid driven out of the room, Qu Yunhua looked at him and smiled. "I wonder if the doctor has any aphrodisiac medicine?"
The doctor instinctively nodded. But the next moment, he was trembling with fear at the paranoia in Qu Yunhua's eyes.
Qu Yunhua thought that since she couldn't have a child, Qu Yunli definitely could. She had raised her for so long. Wouldn't she be willing to have a child for her?
After the child was born, she would give her a manor and wealth and let her leave. Then she could live a life of comfort for the rest of her life. This was a great thing!
Thinking like this, Qu Yunhua stared blankly at the wound on her hand.
...
Qu Yunli tightly held the account book in her hand. Her eyes gradually darkened, and she still couldn't make up her mind completely.
Was she really going to hand this thing over to someone else?
Just thinking that she might have to submit herself to her brother - in - law, she instinctively felt a tightness in her heart and felt nauseous.
In the past few days, her brother - in - law's looks and her sister's attitude had become more and more ambiguous.
She had overheard that her sister might not be able to have children anymore. So in the past few days, she had been extremely careful with the things her sister Qu Yunhua had sent.
They were born from the same mother. How could she not know what her sister meant!
Qu Yunli gritted her teeth secretly. Her expression was distorted by the dim candlelight, and there was even a hint of madness similar to Qu Yunhua's.
"Knock, knock, knock—"
There was a knock on the door.
She instinctively put the booklet under the cushion beside her, then said, "Come in."
"Creak—"
She looked over and saw the little maid beside Qu Yunhua walking in with a bowl of soup. The maid said with a smile, "Miss, this is the soup Madam cooked for you. It took two whole days to cook. It's good for your health."
Qu Yunli instinctively stared at the soup and sneered in her heart.