Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress-Chapter 2066 - 2074: Seeing Through Her (4)

The nanny realized this matter while washing the underpants for her. Secretly, she interrogated her son and learned that it was her son’s wrongdoing. Not daring to disclose it, she quietly bought herbal medicine to treat syphilis for her but told her it was medicine to protect the fetus, deceiving her into believing that it’s normal for women to be like that when pregnant.

Although Dong Wan’er was cunning, she was ultimately an inexperienced girl, no match for Ma Liubo. Besides, she had always trusted the nanny, so whatever the maid said was taken as truth, completely under her manipulation.

Under the maid’s treatment, Dong Wan’er’s syphilis was temporarily alleviated. However, she did not realize that the medicine was three parts poison, and while the syphilis was temporarily controlled, the medicine poisoned the fetus in her womb. It was just that, being an indirect infection, the toxicity was not strong enough to cause a miscarriage.

Dong Wan’er did not know that the child was already doomed, and she was still dreaming about marrying into the Mu Family, believing that having a child would ensure her marriage into the Mu Family. Therefore, when Dad and Mom asked about the child, she confessed about Mu Chongwu.

In ancient times, unwed pregnancy was a shameful matter. When Princess Zhao Qing saw her daughter pregnant, she was furious. If she hadn’t spent so long in jail, reducing her anger, she would have slapped her daughter with a big earful.

But when she heard her daughter say the child in her womb was the seed of the Second Young Master of the Mu Family, her resentment vanished instantly, and she praised her daughter for being competent, saying that if she couldn’t get the elder, getting the younger was also good.

As long as they could establish a relationship with the Mu Family, they wouldn’t fear a lack of good days in the future. If her daughter’s womb was strong, giving birth to a son might mean the restoration of their noble lineage was just around the corner.

Thus, Dong Wan’er became a great achiever in the eyes of Princess Zhao Qing and Prince Consort Dong. The husband and wife felt at ease living in Chongwu’s fur coat shop, waiting for the Mu Family to come and propose marriage for their daughter.

Chongwu returned on the eighteenth of the twelfth lunar month.

Previously, he had stayed in Tongzhou, trying every possible means to gather the information he wanted. However, what he found was not much different from what his sister-in-law had said. He couldn’t believe the results and tried using different methods to investigate, yet the outcomes remained unsatisfactory.

His elder brother and sister-in-law were not wrong. She truly was an unbearable person but had concealed it so well in his presence that he mistakenly thought she was merely a gentle and serene lady, untainted by dust! Or perhaps it wasn’t that he misjudged her but that she deliberately played such a role in front of him, luring him to have affection for her!

The investigation’s results left him distressed. The woman he intended to marry and spend his life with was actually such a person. It would be intolerable for anyone!

Looking back on their interactions now, they were full of glaring flaws. As a young miss from a wealthy family, how could she possibly have entered the Capital with just one nanny? Besides, her grandfather was a high-ranking official; how could he risk harming his reputation for a bit of her money, swindle her and then drive her away?

If her grandfather were genuinely such an unworthy person, wouldn’t keeping her as capital for a political marriage be better than cheating her out of a little money?

Such obvious flaws, yet he didn’t discern them, really foolish and confused, mistakenly thinking his sister-in-law targeted her, repeatedly clashing with his sister-in-law for her sake!

The last time he slept with her, it must have been some trick she used. Otherwise, how could he find it difficult to control himself and ignore shame? Originally, she insisted he try whether the medicine was too hot; it must have been the medicine he drank that was problematic, or the incense in the room was suspicious; otherwise, it would not have been like this.

To verify his suspicions, after returning to the capital, he hurriedly visited the father of Prince Consort Dong, the grandfather of Dong Wan’er, Dong Qinghe, who once served as Junior Minister of the Department of Justice and now holds the position of Definition.

He had long heard of his youngest son and daughter-in-law’s behavior and felt deeply ashamed. Nonetheless, he would never be angry at his granddaughter because of this. If the granddaughter indeed came to the capital to save her parents, he certainly would not turn her away, nor would he covet her bit of travel money, deceive her, and then drive her out!

Once he clearly understood the whole situation, Chongwu’s heart turned cold, and the last traces of pity for Dong Wan’er vanished completely.

He sent someone to inform her to leave as soon as possible and never come to find him again.

He had already decided to sever ties with her completely. Just looking at such a shameless woman made him feel disgusted, let alone associating with her.

The incident of sleeping with her last time was certainly a scheme she orchestrated. Thinking she had used such means even on his elder brother — although his brother escaped, he fell for the trap — he felt so ashamed that he wished he could just kill himself.

Therefore, he would never go to see her. Even with his gentle temperament, he feared losing control and killing her upon seeing her.

The little boy who went to deliver the message returned shortly, with a face as if he had just eaten excrement.

"What’s wrong?"

As he spoke, Chongwu was in the pawn shop reviewing account books, and upon seeing the troubled expression on the little boy’s face, he couldn’t help but ask further.

"Young Master, Miss Dong... She..."

"What about her?"

"She... is pregnant!" The little boy steeled himself and said the words his master least wanted to hear.

"Crash—"

The account book fell onto the table, and Chongwu was completely stunned.

What was going on? Could it be such bad luck? How could it just happen like that? He even wanted to distance himself from that hypocritical woman, and now it was over; there was a child involved. In this lifetime, he was destined to be entangled with her...