After being reborn as a man, the woman improved her family's fortunes through education.

"Doctor, how is it? What kind of poison has it been?"

"This is arsenic, but fortunately the amount is not large, so the mother is saved, but the fetus in her womb cannot be saved."

"What! Madam Pan is pregnant? When did this happen?!"

"Magpie!"

Magpie's face was pale; she was the one who brought the white fungus and lotus seed soup.

"Reporting to Madam, my aunt is more than a month pregnant. I originally planned to inform the old master and madam after three months when the pregnancy was stable."

"Then what about this arsenic?! What did Aunt Pan eat today?"

"Good morning. In the morning, I brought back some congee and side dishes from the kitchen. At noon, my aunt didn't have an appetite and only drank some jujube tea to replenish her qi and blood."

In the evening, in the evening, it's a bowl of white fungus and lotus seed soup.

After saying this, Que'er hurriedly knelt down, awaiting her fate.

"Take her to the kitchen and lock her up. Don't give her any food."

Que'er was led away by the old lady's maid like a dead dog, without daring to resist at all.

"Mother, what has happened?"

"Moon Lady, what brings you here? Just take good care of Ming-ge'er, don't worry about these messy things at home."

"Mother, the maidservant came down and told me that Ming-ge'er is being looked after by Granny Zhou and his two older sisters."

“Such a disgraceful thing happened in the family, and Wenqing still hasn’t come back. I really regret it. I should have advised him back then that taking a concubine is no respectable thing.”

Madam Jiang was not a wicked mother-in-law. On the contrary, because she had also suffered mistreatment from concubines, she took extra care of Lin Yueniang, the first wife.

He treated his son's two concubines like half-servants, and even his distant niece, who was also a woman from the Pan family, was only slightly better treated than Aunt Qin.

That was because Aunt Qin's background was truly lowly.

Now that he has a legitimate grandson, he cares even less about his two concubines. So when he heard that Aunt Pan was pregnant but couldn't keep the pregnancy, he was only slightly disappointed and not very sad.

She was born out of wedlock, and even then, her gender was unknown.

Grandpa Jiang and Grandma Jiang prided themselves on being a family of farmers and scholars, so they naturally valued the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children.

Aunt Pan, who was lying in bed, was not unconscious; she heard everything the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law said.

The grief of losing her child left her numb, unable to cry or shout, only feeling an overwhelming sense of injustice surrounding her.

"Master is back! Master is back!"

"Father, Mother, what's wrong? Why are you rushing to find me? My best friend and I finally made it to Young Master Xu's poetry gathering today, and we were having a great time!"

"Alright, there's no time when you can't attend a poetry gathering. Besides, you bunch of commoners, instead of studying hard at home, what kind of poetry gathering is this? Pretending to be cultured, eating and drinking, just wasting money!"

The old man, who had been silent all along, suddenly launched a devastating attack. He himself was a student who had never even attended this ridiculous poetry gathering, while his son hadn't even passed the county exam. How could he possibly have the face to attend a poetry gathering?

Although the poisoning of the concubine in the family was not a big deal, it would not sound good if word got out, so the gatekeeper did not inform anyone outside what had happened.

"Wenqing, Aunt Pan has been poisoned and has miscarried. She hasn't woken up yet. Go in and take a look."

"Yes, my lord, let's go in and see Sister Pan."

"What! A miscarriage?"

Jiang Qingfeng suddenly remembered that he had indeed stayed overnight at Pan's place a little over a month ago. And she got pregnant just from that one time?!

This Pan family is really lucky, but now it's all gone. He really doesn't know what to say; this woman is just too stupid.

The room smelled unpleasant. After Doctor Wang left, the midwife came to help treat Pan's belly. After a bowl of abortion medicine, the unborn child was completely separated from its mother.

The smell of blood mixed with the smell of medicine was nauseating, and Jiang Wenqing was indeed nauseous. Ignoring Pan's weakness in bed, he fled the house as soon as he appeared.

With a "whoosh," he vomited all over the floor.

He vomited up all the wine and snacks he had drunk and eaten at the poetry gathering.

Lin Yueniang kept her distance. She couldn't keep this husband; he smelled too bad. Would the smell bother her precious son when they got back?

"Oh dear, let's help your master back home, don't leave him here."

"Useless thing, don't go out and say you're my son, Jiang Changshou's son!"

Jiang Wenqing didn't say much and had his personal servant escort him to the study.

I didn't go to the main courtyard or the west wing.

This suited Lin Yueniang perfectly; she had no time to take care of a smelly, drunkard.

“Mother, the poisoning of Aunt Pan is very strange. If it was meant to kill someone, the dosage was obviously not enough. If it was meant to harm Aunt Pan’s child, no one in the whole mansion knew that she was pregnant.”

"Not necessarily. The Pan family consulted a doctor, and many people in the family knew about it. It's inevitable that some clever ones would guess the reason."

"That's true. People come and go at Doctor Wang's place, so it's not impossible to find out."

"Who did Mother think it could be?"

Lin Yueniang was not worried about her mother-in-law suspecting her. After more than ten years of being mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, if she wanted to do something, her four illegitimate daughters would not have been born one after another and would not have grown up peacefully.

Why would they go to such lengths when they already have a legitimate son and their position is secure?

Since she wouldn't, it means someone thinks that if Pan gives birth to a son, she will have no way out, and it's obvious who that person is.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law exchanged a knowing glance, understanding each other perfectly, but said nothing more.

However, after what happened next, Madam Jiang's actions left Lin Yueniang with no choice but to admit her admiration.

Madam Jiang first had someone bring the twins, the fifth and sixth young ladies, to her courtyard under the pretext of seeing her granddaughters.

He then found another excuse to get the wet nurse's indenture from Aunt Qin.

This was a one-way trip, leaving Aunt Qin all alone in the west wing. People brought her three meals a day, but she couldn't leave the courtyard and couldn't see her daughter or husband.

He pounded on the door every day like a madman, so the old lady simply had the door sealed with wooden boards and nails, leaving only a small window big enough to put a bowl in.

Now Aunt Qin couldn't even see the servants who brought her meals.

She smashed everything that could be smashed in the yard and inside the house, and even cut up anything that couldn't be smashed with scissors.

There was no hot water, so she couldn't take a shower, and no one was there to take care of her. She even ruined her own clean clothes.

The man who used to dote on her never showed his face again.

Under the old master's strong pressure, Jiang Wenqing stopped going out and fooling around, and actually passed the county and prefectural examinations. He has now become a student like the old master.

When people are happy, they are in high spirits and attend poetry gatherings more frequently. Now, he is surrounded by young men who are also students.

The crazy woman who fought over him has been forgotten in the yard behind the door.