Her shoulders shrank back, she didn’t want to let Changhong see her gloomy side. Quickly adjusting her mood, she raised her hands to pat her cheeks, and turned around to rush to his side. She held his hand to run together, and with a big smile on her face, she didn’t look the slightest bit guilty: “I knocked the vase down accidentally. Let’s run, when grandmother finds out she will certainly get angry!”
Changhong was pulled along to run, a helpless expression on his face.
Ah Luo kept running ahead of him while thinking, she didn’t have a mother, but she had Changhong, and also had herself. Madam Du believed she could escape unharmed? It wasn’t over yet, they weren’t done. She had plenty of methods to pay her back.
Like the vase, she wanted to see her fall, break apart, and meet a gruesome death.
*
Pine courtyard.
Wei Kun arrived at the entrance of the Pine courtyard with long, hurried strides. He stood there, observing for a long time, before he stepped heavily into the courtyard.
Before today, he had never thought that so many things could happen within a day.
The servants in the courtyard had just been punished by him, and now worked despite their injuries. They kept silent, afraid that they would agitate him and eat the wooden rod again.
Wei Kun walked into the main house directly. Seeing his mood, the two maidservants outside the room didn’t dare breathe deeply, let alone announce him. He walked past the screens with pine drawings, and entered the bedroom expressionlessly.
In the room, Madam Du was leaning on the yellow rosewood frame in bed, having just drank a bowl of medicine. Her face wore a relaxed expression compared to before, even smiling a little, thinking that this baby arrived in the nick of time to save her life. Two young maidservants waited on her by the bed, since Ning Xue and Han Shuang were now locked in the woodshed after getting beaten. Madam Du wasn’t worried. Seeing Wei Kun enter, she even smiled as she asked him: “Sheng Ming, did you hear what the doctor said? We’re having a child, a son or a daughter…”