The maid's road to success

Ping'er had already returned to the study when Xu Jianing came back. She had specially asked everyone to go to bed early today and pretended to be still drawing.

Xu Jianing drank a lot of wine, held her in his arms and kissed her. When Ping'er came to her senses, she was left with only a bellyband. All the paintings on the table were thrown down, and she was already held and placed on the table.

The candlelight illuminated the lingering figures of the two people. It was so absurd that it lasted until midnight, and then Xu Jianing fell asleep holding Ping'er.

The next morning, Ping'er got up early and said she was going to pay her respects to the old lady. She deliberately met Wang, who was in disheveled clothes, on the way.

"Meet Madam."

When Wang woke up, she found herself and Xu Jialing lying naked together. Every mark on her body told them what had happened. Her brother-in-law had actually done such a thing with her sister-in-law. If people knew about this, Wang would be dead. She intimidated Xu Jialing, told him to get out, stop talking nonsense, and hurry back to the main courtyard.

The maids had been anxiously looking for her all night. Wang was very glad that they had searched quietly without disturbing others. When she hurried back, she met the charming Ping'er. Behind her were many maids, who were even more numerous than hers as a second-rank lady.

"Madam, why are you like this? This place is not far from the study. Can I ask the servants to get my clothes for you to change into?"

Wang didn't want to agree, but she really couldn't walk all the way back to the main courtyard in this state.

Ping'er gave up the sedan chair and followed behind. As soon as Wang changed her clothes, she saw that Ping'er's bedroom was filled with all kinds of precious things, and even the curtains in the inner room were made of the finest jade beads.

The servants were rolling up a dirty quilt and putting it away. Wang naturally knew what Xu Jianing and Ping'er had done yesterday. Thinking about how she had been ignored by Xu Jianing and had gotten drunk and hung out with Xu Jialing, and how this bitch was enjoying something that she didn't even have, she became furious.

Smelling the fragrance of plum blossoms in the room, anger immediately surged to her heart. Damn plum fragrance, this damn plum fragrance again. Xu Jianing preferred plum fragrance. She tried every means to find all kinds of fragrance, but none of them could compare to the natural fragrance of this bitch.

"Snapped."

A slap landed on Ping'er's face. She covered her face and looked at Wang in disbelief.

"Madam, why did you hit me? What did I do wrong?"

Wang hated the most this kind of woman who pretended to be pitiful to seduce the Duke, especially now that she had completely snatched the Duke's favor, which made her even more uncomfortable to watch.

After being slapped several times in succession, Ping'er cried and covered her face. When she was pulled by the servants to kneel on the ground, the blood marks on her face were exposed.

The servant serving in the study saw that Wang had injured Ping'er's face and no longer dared to pretend that he didn't see it. He went up to separate the people Wang brought with him, and the two sides started fighting each other. Wang saw that these maids dared to protect Ping'er and fight against her own people. She was so angry that her eyes turned black, and she grabbed Ping'er and was about to scratch her face.

Ping'er had learned martial arts in Xishan. She dodged Wang's nails that were scratching her face, letting her hands fall on her neck and arms. Then she took the opportunity to hit her head against the table leg and fainted.

Wang came back to her senses after seeing Ping'er fainted. She actually beat Ping'er like this. She felt good for a while but then she felt regretful. She was afraid that Xu Jianing would be furious when she knew about it. So, should she just kill this bitch?

Wang looked at the guards who had already rushed in, knowing that she was doomed to be defeated today. After all, she was the wife of the Duke, so it was impossible for her to bow her head and apologize to Ping'er. She pretended to be calm and went back to the main courtyard.

The more she thought about it, the more uneasy she felt. She had sex with her husband's brother, and then she beat her husband's beloved woman half to death. Wang couldn't help but suspect that someone was harming her. She asked the maid to carefully check the water, objects she used, and the food and wine she ate yesterday to see if there was anything unusual.

After checking everything, Wang found nothing wrong. She never imagined that the source of all this was the exquisite bone ring she had stolen.

Wang always felt that Xu Jianing would not let her off easily, and she was so scared that she packed up her things and went back to her parents' home for a short stay. As soon as she left, the old lady learned about Ping'er's experience and brought people to visit her.

"Greetings, old lady. I have checked her pulse. In addition to some external injuries, Miss Ping was frightened. Moreover, Miss Ping bled a lot from her lower body. I suspect that Miss Ping is pregnant, but the pregnancy is too shallow to be diagnosed. She may have had a miscarriage due to the fall."

When the old lady heard the following words, her eyes turned black and she had to hold on to the table to stand steadily. Another heir was gone, and Wang had once again killed the descendants of the Xu family.

In such a big mansion, there is only one legitimate son, and the second son has only a concubine's daughter and a concubine's son. She has killed many children before. I scolded her several times for the sake of the Wang family's old friendship, but I didn't expect her to do such a thing again.

It was she who brought Ping'er into the mansion, and it was she who discovered the fragrance of Ping'er and gave it to Xu Jianing on purpose, just to make the mansion flourish. She never expected that.

“Why wasn’t it diagnosed before?”

Doctor An broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this.

"Miss Ping has only been serving the Duke for less than a month. It will take at least two months to confirm the pregnancy. This, this, this subordinate also..."

The old lady waved her hands. She knew it was not Doctor An's fault. Who could have known that Ping'er would get pregnant just after serving her? Who could have thought that Ping'er would be poisoned after kindly asking Wang to come and change her clothes and put on makeup?

When Xu Jianing came back, he looked at the servants kneeling on the ground with a gloomy face. He had promised Ping'er that he would protect him, but he was hurt so badly by Wang, and even his and Ping'er's child was killed.

The more Xu Jianing listened, the uglier his expression became. He cursed Wang in his heart for being so cruel and wanted to rush to Wang's house and drag her over.

But he soon noticed something wrong in the maid's words.

"The girl has to go and chat with the old lady every few days. Today, she wanted to get up early to collect some dew to make tea for the old lady, so she got up early on purpose. She happened to meet the lady going to the backyard. The girl saw that the lady's clothes were wrinkled and her hair was messy. She was worried that the servants would see it, so she asked the lady to come here to wash up. I don't know why the lady suddenly started to beat the girl. The girl had been serving carefully and had never said a word. She was beaten like this..."

Xu Jianing did not listen to the rest of the words. He noticed that the maids said that Wang went to the back yard from the outer courtyard before dawn, her clothes were wrinkled and her hair was messy. He had a bad feeling at that moment.

Call the butler next to you.

"Go check if the Madam was in the main courtyard last night? What did she do?"

In the study, Xu Jianing was looking at the unconscious and weak Ping'er while waiting for the servants to investigate Wang. He never expected that Chen Luolan would actually leave Duke Xu's Mansion with the divorce letter and the three thousand taels of silver notes she got from Xu Jialing.

Chen Luolan sat in the carriage, looking at Duke Xu's Mansion which was getting farther and farther away. All the grievances accumulated in her heart suddenly burst out.

When the incident happened in Huaiyuan Marquis Mansion, she was under house arrest in the mansion and could only listen to the news of her family's tragic death and exile. She begged her father-in-law for help, but was beaten half to death by Xu Jialing. She wanted to commit suicide many times in these years, but who would burn incense and sweep the graves of her father and brother?

Duke Xu's Mansion didn't want her to leave alive and had long arranged for her to die of illness. Unexpectedly, someone sent her a painting last night, which was a pornographic painting of Xu Jialing and Wang.

And let her use this to force Xu Jialing to write the divorce papers and leave as soon as possible.

Chen Luolan didn't know why that person wanted to help her, but the pills sent to her a few days ago successfully helped her relieve the toxins deposited in her body. She was sure that this person was here to help her and not to harm her.

"Miss San, please hold on tight. I will take you to a safe place to hide for a while."

Chen Luolan heard this familiar name, Third Miss. Only people in Huaiyuan Marquis Mansion would call her Third Miss. Could it be that the person who helped her escape from the sea of ​​suffering was an old employee of Huaiyuan Marquis Mansion?

Chen Luolan lifted the curtain and saw only a strange and sturdy figure with a dozen strong men on horseback beside him. The groom who had brought her out was gone.

"You are?"

The man did not turn around and concentrated on driving the carriage.

"We were ordered to take you away from Kyoto. This is a token. You will know when you see it."

The man threw a purse behind him. Chen Luolan looked at the familiar pattern on it. It was Wen Niang. She was still alive, and it was she who asked someone to save her.

She was very familiar with this pattern. Before getting married, she asked Wen Niang to help her make a lot of handkerchiefs, purses and belts. After the incident at Huaiyuan Marquis' Mansion, her dowry was taken away by Xu Jialing, and not even a purse was left. She hadn't used anything made by Wen Niang for a long time.

Thinking of the happy days she had in the Marquis' Mansion, Chen Luolan put her purse to her chest and cried bitterly.

When An Wenniang heard that Chen Luolan had been properly settled in a shop in Linjing, she felt relieved. After thinking about it, she decided to let Bai Mei tell An Zizhong the news.

I don't want to be taken advantage of by An Zizhong again.

In November, Princess Baozhu fell and lost the baby in her belly, so she kept making a fuss in the villa.

Liu Yan from Jingnan Lane successfully became pregnant, and the Sixth Prince stayed in Jingnan Lane every day, as this was his first child.

In the main courtyard of the Sixth Prince's Mansion, the Sixth Prince's wife placed her hand on the broken porcelain pieces. The maids and nannies hurried over to check and bandage it.

"Can you tell me what happened in detail?"

The servant kneeling below said tremblingly.

"The prince asked me to get some herbs from the mansion and send them to Jingnan Lane. They were top-quality wild ginseng and nourishing herbs. I felt something was wrong, so I used the excuse of helping out to pay more attention. Then I heard the maids in Jingnan Lane say that the girl was pregnant. I stayed in the front yard for a long time until they brought the medicine and left. You know I was serving in the pharmacy, and I could smell the herbs that could protect the pregnancy."

The Sixth Princess's face turned pale and blue. She actually made that bitch pregnant? How is it possible? There are at least seven or eight concubines in this mansion. So many of them didn't get pregnant, but that bitch got pregnant!

"The prince promised me that he would not let her get pregnant. The prince promised me, wet nurse, he lied to me, he lied to me again."

The Sixth Princess couldn't stop her tears from falling, and her wet nurse held her in her arms.

"Don't cry, Yu Niang, don't cry, there is still the Empress Dowager, she will not ignore it."

The Sixth Princess shook her head, took the wet nurse's hand, and said with a fierce look in her eyes.

"The Empress Dowager will not care. This is the Sixth Prince's first child, and most likely his only one. She will not let anything happen to the child, and will find a better mother for him. I'm afraid that when the child is born, it will be registered under my name."

The nurse wiped her tears and smoothed her hair.

"This is not the best way. You should hold him in your hands first and then deal with him when you have your own child."

The Sixth Princess shook her head. She would not let this child be born legitimately. To be more precise, she would not let this child live at all. Who is Liu Yan? A singer from a troupe, pretending to be pitiful to follow the Sixth Prince. She had found so many ways and even selected a concubine to marry, but she didn't make her disappear and she got pregnant?

There was no way she could let a child with the blood of a pariah become her son, not even the thought of it.

The Sixth Princess rewarded the messenger with ten taels of silver and sat on a chair thinking about how to deal with this situation. Liu Yan's child could not be born.

When the Chinese New Year is approaching, there is a lively scene everywhere, and every household is preparing things for the New Year.

Liu Yan lay in the room resting. In order to save the child, she ground her delicate face into powder and mixed it into a snuff bottle, which she gave to the Sixth Prince. She also bought two beautiful maids to serve the child.

At night, Liu Yan felt a little heavy in her lower abdomen, so she called Xing'er and asked why this happened?

Xing Er looked at Liu Yan carefully, which was a sign of an impending miscarriage. Liu Yan's body was weaker than they thought, and if they couldn't wait for the Sixth Princess to take action, she would have to find a way to frame the Sixth Princess.

It seemed as if the young master wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to alienate the Sixth Prince and his wife, so naturally he would use Liu Yan as a scapegoat.

The Sixth Princess's family is an old-fashioned aristocratic family with many powerful officials in the family. She is the Sixth Prince's right-hand man.

If the couple becomes alienated, if Xing'er puts more pressure on them, there's no doubt that they will fall out. What Xing'er fears most is that the Sixth Princess will be cautious and not take any action.

Xing'er simply evaded the question and kept an eye on the people in the mansion every day, until she finally discovered something fishy.

In order to protect herself from being harmed by her delicate face, Xing'er always carried with her a wooden bracelet made of wood soaked in detoxifying pills. When she was packing Liu Yan's clothes, a red spot inexplicably appeared on the bracelet.

Liu Yan is now being pampered by the Sixth Prince, so the clothes she wears will naturally not fade. The most likely possibility is that there is something wrong with this dress.

It is impossible for Liu Yan to do anything on her clothes, and neither can the Sixth Prince, so the only one who is worthy of suspicion is the Sixth Prince's Consort.

Xing'er deliberately placed this dress in the most conspicuous place. In order to pretend to be more like a pitiful and weak woman, Liu Yan likes to wear this light blue color in front of the Sixth Prince. Because there were too many red costumes in the previous plays, Liu Yan rarely wears red clothes.

Xing'er remembered that Liu Yanxin had the dress made by the shop. At that time, she had to go out to find the antidote for Wuxin Powder, so she deliberately helped to get it. Liu Yan liked it very much. But the beads on the stamens of the dress seemed to be light pink at the beginning, and now the color of the beads is a little red.

Xing'er picked it up and smelled it carefully. The method was too direct. This smell was not what Liu Yan liked recently. Liu Yan used to use heavy incense, but since she became pregnant, she didn't dare to use those strong spices. She usually sprinkled a little perfume made from fresh flowers on it.

Xing'er took the clothes out, shook them and dried them for a while, then sprinkled perfume on them again.

After the wooden bracelet was rubbed, the color of the rubbed area did change, but it was only pinker than before.

The Sixth Princess is cruel and wants to kill both adults and children. But that won't work. Liu Yan is still useful. Given her condition, even mild drugs that harm the fetus can cause her to have a miscarriage.