When Aunt Chen learned that her daughter had fainted and been brought back, she hurried over. Seeing Xue Ying lying on the bed with a pale face, she burst into tears.

She stretched out her trembling hand and gently stroked Xue Ying's cheek, choking with sobs: "Ying'er, what's going on?"

Qiu Shuang said cautiously, "Aunt, the young lady was pushed down by the brother-in-law's sister-in-law. The doctor took her pulse and said..."

Aunt Chen asked anxiously: "Doctor, what did you say?"

"The doctor... the doctor said that the baby in the young lady's belly is gone."

"The child is gone. Did you go to the Jiang family?"

Qiu Ju said timidly, "After you left, the young lady took me to the Jiang family. There, she had a conflict with my brother-in-law and his wife. The shrew pushed her down, causing her to faint from the pain in the carriage."

Aunt Chen pointed at the two servants and angrily scolded them: "Young lady, you are being bullied. Are you servants dead? How can you watch young lady being bullied and remain indifferent?"

The two servants quickly knelt down and said, "Please forgive me, Aunt Chen. This happened so suddenly, and that shrew was so cruel. We didn't have time to protect the young lady before it happened."

"Waste, what's the point of raising you? My poor Ying'er has suffered so much."

The two servants were so frightened that they dared not speak.

"Our Xue family supports their entire family, yet she actually dared to lay hands on my daughter. She raises a dog and still knows how to please its owner. The Jiang family is worse than pigs and dogs. I can't let this go."

"You guys look after the young lady, I'm going to find the master."

"Yes."

Aunt Chen walked angrily towards the main courtyard where Xue Zhong and his wife lived.

Mrs. Xue smiled smugly when she learned that Xue Ying had a miscarriage. "Xue Ying's miscarriage was retribution for Chen's actions. When I was more than four months pregnant, Chen took advantage of my pregnancy to seduce the master. The master took Chen into the Xue family despite my objections. As a result, I was so angry that I fell seriously ill and lost the child.

"Now it's her daughter's turn to suffer this pain. This is her retribution. She will never be able to rise to prominence in this life. She will have to live under my control for the rest of her life."

"Madam, if the master knows about this, he will definitely intervene."

"Have someone watch over Chen and don't let her see the master."

The servant was worried: "What if the master finds out about this?"

"The master wouldn't know about this little thing. Besides, the master has been completely bewitched by those two enchantresses and has forgotten that there is a person named Chen in the mansion."

"Even if the master knew, what could he do? Would he dare to attack me? Even if he holds a high position now, it is because of the support of my father and brother. Otherwise, he would be serving as a county magistrate in some remote corner of the country."

"Madam, you are absolutely right."

"Madam, the Third Miss will never be happy in her life if she marries son-in-law Jiang. After all, she looks down on him from the bottom of her heart. She thinks that for a young lady from the Shangshu Mansion to marry a widower is a lifelong pain for her and she will never be truly happy."

"She will have a hard life, and Chen is also suffering. After all, she is the master's first concubine, and she is the culprit who caused this lady's miscarriage."

At this time, Chen came over, her eyes red and her face pitiful. She said cautiously, "I am your concubine, and I pay my respects to you, Madam."

Madam Xue said coldly, "Why are you coming to the main courtyard? Didn't I tell you not to come here? Have you forgotten my advice? Do I need to remind you?"

"I dare not forget Madam's advice, but I really have something important to ask Master."

"The master is busy with official duties every day, so how can he have time to deal with your love affairs?"

Aunt Chen quickly knelt down and said, "Madam, I really have something important to ask Master. Please show some mercy and let me see Master!"

"Master is not here, didn't you hear? If others hear this, they will think that I am mistreating the master's 'favored' concubine."

"If the master is not here, I will come back later."

"You pretend to be pitiful just to win a man's pity. That's how you seduced the master back then, and finally climbed into his bed and made him take you as his concubine."

"Now you're trying to use the same method to win the master's sympathy. Unfortunately, there are young and beautiful concubines in the mansion who are better at acting than you. They are better at pretending to be pitiful and innocent to win the master's favor. You are old and this ghostly look is disgusting."

Aunt Chen knelt on the ground in silence.

Mrs. Xue was even more furious when she saw this. She angrily said, "Why don't you go back to your own yard and be a turtle? If you dare to stick your head out again, I will order someone to smash your turtle shell and leave you and your daughter with nowhere to hide."

Aunt Chen was humiliated by Madam Xue and stumbled out of the yard, covering her cheeks with a handkerchief all the way. Madam Xue had never given her a good face for so many years.

Madam Xue gazed into the distance and recalled, "Back then, Xue Zhong promised my father that he would be devoted to me after we got married, but he took a concubine when I was pregnant, and the child was lost."

"Over the years, I've been able to turn a blind eye to the addition of several concubines to the mansion, but you, Chen, are the only one who cannot be favored."

The nanny stood by and looked at her young lady with heartache. She would rather find a woman for her husband in order to make Chen fall out of favor. What woman in this world would be willing to push her husband into the arms of another woman?

"Miss, so many years have passed, and Chen is not doing well. How can you be happy? You can only be happy if you let others go."

"Madam, I will never be able to live with this. My family was living a happy life, but it was Chen who destroyed this happiness and caused the death of my fifth child. With the first concubine coming into the family, there have been many concubines coming in. Chen is the culprit who destroyed my happy life. How can I let her go?"

Nanny sighed deeply, but there was nothing she could do. This was her obsession.

Jiang Zongwei didn't know about Xue Ying's miscarriage. He planned to go back to the Jiang family to talk to his parents and see if he could persuade them to return to their hometown to live. He started to organize his words on the way, but unexpectedly ran into Jiang Zonghai.

"Second brother, why are you here?"

Jiang Zonghai said excitedly: "Brother, I'm rich."

"What fortune can you make?"

Jiang Zonghai whispered in his eldest brother's ear, "Let me tell you, I met two guys a few days ago. They won over a thousand taels of silver in a casino. I was skeptical, so I went over to see what was going on. They were amazing. They won every time. In a short while, they won over a hundred taels. I followed suit and won over fifty taels too."

Jiang Zongwei's expression changed instantly, and he angrily shouted, "Second brother, don't ever touch gambling. If you do, you'll become addicted, and that can bankrupt you."

"Brother, I understand. If I win this time, I won't go."

"That's good to know. Otherwise I'll tell my parents and see how they deal with you."

"No, no, don't tell Mom and Dad, or they'll keep nagging me."

Old Lady Jiang and her second daughter-in-law have been in a state of panic ever since Xue Ying passed away, fearing that she would have a miscarriage and that Lord Xue would drive their entire family out of the capital.

As soon as Mr. Jiang came back, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were about to tell him about Xue Ying, when their brother came back.

Old Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Zhang looked at Jiang Zongwei timidly, afraid that he would come to settle the score with them.

Jiang Zongwei looked at his entire family cautiously, hesitant to speak, "Dad and Mom..."

"What's up, Boss?"

Mrs. Zhang and Old Mrs. Jiang's hearts instantly rose to their throats, and they looked at Jiang Zongwei nervously.

"Father and mother, your daughter-in-law is unfilial."

"Boss, what's wrong with you?"

Jiang Zongwei felt that he was useless, but he didn't dare to anger Xue Ying, so he could only let his parents return to their hometown.

He avoided looking directly at the Jiang couple and whispered, "Dad and Mom, why don't you go back to your hometown and live there? I'll send money back from time to time to support you in your old age."

Mr. Jiang's face darkened instantly, and he said coldly, "What do you mean? Is it because your wife can't tolerate our family living in the capital?"

His silence indicated his tacit agreement.

Old Master Jiang pointed at Jiang Zongwei angrily, "Boss, you, you, you...what can I say about you?"

"Whatever your wife says is what it is. Although she is the daughter of the Minister of Revenue, she is your wife. How can you drive your parents-in-law away? You will be punished by heaven, don't you know?"

"For so many years, our whole family has saved money to support your education and care about you. How have you repaid me and your mother? It's really heartbreaking."

"Our whole family followed you to the capital to enjoy a life of luxury, but after just one year, she can't tolerate us anymore. How can we have the face to return to Jiangxing Village? Where can I put my dignity?"

Jiang Zongwei lowered his head in shame, not daring to look directly at Jiang Jiajia, "Dad, it's my son's incompetence that has wronged you and mom. I..."

"We're leaving tomorrow. We don't even have the face to go back home, so just let us die out here!"

Old Mrs. Jiang was unwilling to leave when she heard that Mr. Jiang was leaving. She was living well in the capital, so why should he leave?

She had already forgotten about Xue Ying. She stood up and slapped Jiang Zongwei's shoulder, angrily saying, "How could I, your wife, give birth to a useless thing like you? You dare not go west when your wife points east, and you dare not chase chickens when your wife asks you to beat the dog."

"How can you stand up straight and be a man in the future? Even if she is the daughter of the Minister of Revenue, you can't just go along with everything. We agreed to marry her, but now I feel like you are worse than a live-in son-in-law."

Old Mrs. Jiang pounded her chest with her fists, crying as she did so. "My Jiang family hasn't had a scholar in decades, and now you've achieved the third place in the imperial examination. The whole county is proud of you. You've brought honor to my parents."

"My whole family followed you to the capital, and the county magistrate even came to see us off. But after just one year, you sent us back to our hometown. How can we, as a family, have the face to go back and live there?"

"In order for you to marry a noble lady, you forced such a good daughter-in-law to death and did so many evil things. If we go back to the village, the villagers' spit will drown us."

Old Mrs. Jiang cried and winked at her second son, but Jiang Zonghai didn't understand what his mother meant and watched her acting with a confused look on his face.

"Since you won't give our family a way to live, Mom won't live either."

She suddenly ran and hit the wall. Before the whole family could react, she hit the wall directly, blood flowing from her forehead. Before she fainted, she glared at her second daughter-in-law.

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