Chapter 268: Make a Choice

Shi Qingxue hesitated.

After a moment of silence, under Shi Junhe’s eyes almost with a plea…

She gave up the simple and cruel idea of checking Leng Yan’s body to expose her true face.

When Leng Yan got complacent once more, Shi Qingxue took out a pill from her pocket and gave it to her.

Meeting Leng Yan’s doubtful eyes, Shi Qingxue smiled and said casually, “Since you are unwilling to be checked, I won’t force you. Eat this pill.”

“What’s this?” Leng Yan stared at that pill alertly and didn’t want to move.

It was joking. She knew that Shi Qingxue felt hostility towards her and she would eat this pill only if she was a fool.

“Don’t worry. It won’t take your life.” Shi Qingxue saw through Leng Yan at a glance and smiled faintly, explaining, “It won’t harm you, but it is tonic.”

Leng Yan looked at Shi Qingxue and still didn’t believe her.

Her eyes seemed to ask, “Are you so kind-hearted?”

Shi Qingxue took it for granted and nodded, expressing that she was always kind-hearted.

Then she said unhurriedly, “But some kinds of medicinal materials have been added to this tonic. I wonder if you will mind.”

“What medicinal materials?” Leng Yan hurriedly asked.

“Flowers carthami and musk…”

As soon as Shi Qingxue started to speak, she saw that Leng Yan turned pale.

She wasn’t anxious and added, “But since you said that you are not pregnant, if you eat the two kinds of medicinal materials, it will strengthen your physical health instead of harming you.

“What do you think? Eat it?”

Shi Qingxue intentionally pushed the pill to Leng Yan again and urged her to eat it.

Leng Yan stared at the pill in Shi Qingxue’s hand and couldn’t be so hard-hearted as to receive it.

As long as she ate it, her baby couldn’t be saved.

However, at the moment, she didn’t even have the right to refuse.

She couldn’t refuse to eat the pill with the same excuse that she had used earlier.

After all, as Shi Qingxue said, she would help Leng Yan if the latter ate the tonic.

It was under the condition that Leng Yan wasn’t pregnant.

“What’s wrong? It’s just a pill with tonic. Can’t you make a decision?” Shi Qingxue pushed unhurriedly.

Leng Yan raised her head resentfully and glared at Shi Qingxue, silently expressing her grievance, “I didn’t offend you. Why do you aim at me?”

Shi Qingxue met her eyes calmly, even with a colder gaze. “Humph, you provoked my mother first. I just get back at you in a crueler way.”

After all, Leng Yan was the one who felt guilty. Under Shi Qingxue’s gaze, she didn’t have confidence anymore.

She lowered her eyes, with lots of thoughts in her brain.

On one hand, she would never give up the position that she almost got; on the other hand, Shi Qingxue’s pill would make her lose her only backup.

And even after she ate it and proved her “innocence”, probably she couldn’t end it smoothly, but…

After pondering for a long time, Leng Yan pinched her thigh with strength and made a decision in the end.

She raised her head again to look at Shi Qingxue and received the pill from her while trembling. Then she stressed each word. “Okay. I will eat it.”

Raising the pill in front of her, Leng Yan had tears in her eyes.

No matter how inhuman she was, when she had to do that, she was still unwilling to.

After all, she would take the life of the baby in her womb.

“Baby, don’t blame your mother.

“I have no choice but to sacrifice you in order to gain glory and wealth.

“If you want to blame somebody, just blame the heartless members in this family. They forced me to do so.”

Leng Yan closed her eyes and prepared to put the pill in her mouth.

But at the crucial moment, a small hand blocked between her mouth and the pill.

Leng Yan opened her eyes, looking at Shi Qingxue and her hand in astonishment.

“You…”

Looking cold and serious, Shi Qingxue grabbed the pill under Leng Yan’s startled eyes and sneered. “Although I will expose all the evil things you have done, I am not so cold-hearted as to kill an innocent baby.

“Leng Yan, you are the baby’s mother, but you are so cruel that you can sacrifice the baby in your womb in order to protect your glory and wealth. Does such a person like you deserve to be a mother?

“Even a vicious tiger will not eat its cubs. You are worse than a beast.”

Leng Yan felt too ashamed to show her face after Shi Qingxue commented on her to the point, and she couldn’t raise her head.

Shi Qingxue stared at Leng Yan sternly and stressed each word. “Leng Yan, if you have conscience, just admit what evil you have done. There is no secret in the world. Do you really think that you can hide it from everybody? I will give you the last chance to tell the truth. Maybe I can spare your life for the sake of the innocent baby in your womb.”

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Leng Yan’s mental defense was broken by Shi Qingxue’s exact and harsh judgment.

She almost kowtowed and admitted what she had done, let alone retorting Shi Qingxue.

Leng Yan didn’t say anything, and Shi Junhe noticed her attitude of tacitly admitting it. He didn’t think that he needed to ask more.

He leered at Leng Yan coldly and questioned, “Who is the baby’s father?”

Leng Yan raised her face and glanced at Shi Junhe sadly with a complicated expression in her eyes. At last, she lowered her head again and stayed silent.

She knew that her dream about becoming Duke Shi’s concubine turned into nothingness, but she still had a ray of hope. Even though she wasn’t carrying Shi Junhe’s baby, it was a descendant of the Shi family, and maybe she could marry into the third master’s family after Shi Junhe abandoned her.

Although Leng Yan hated the third master Shi Juncai who was mercenary and sensual and had nothing to do all day long, it was better to be a concubine in the third master’s family than be a maid in the Shou’an Hall who was as lowly as a dog.

As long as she was lucky and gave birth to a son, perhaps in the future he had a chance to…

Leng Yan made up her mind and gritted her teeth, refusing to reveal any information.

Shi Junhe asked her several times but didn’t get an answer, which made him furious.

Although he didn’t like Leng Yan at all and he married a concubine this time just to finish a job, it didn’t mean that he was willing to be fooled like an idiot.

And he wouldn’t be completely indifferent after being fooled.

“Father, don’t be mad. Let me hear this case.” Shi Qingxue patted her chest and looked confident.

Shi Junhe stopped talking and stepped backward to make room for Shi Qingxue.

Shi Qingxue walked to Leng Yan once more. As soon as she stood, Leng Yan shrank her neck as expected.

Gee, Leng Yan was so scared even before Shi Qingxue spoke, and it was…

“Since you can’t hide the fact that you are pregnant, why do you insist on covering up for somebody else? If you tell us who got you pregnant before marriage or who incited you to fool my father, maybe I can let you get away with it,”

Shi Qingxue said slowly, with temptation in her words.

Leng Yan was tempted while listening and almost told the truth.

However, at the last minute, she still gritted her teeth and turned away, without saying a word.

“If you insist on refusing to tell us, it means that you will take all the blame alone. Not to mention that my father won’t forgive you, even my grandma probably then…” Shi Qingxue was good at giving methodical and patient guidance.

In another word, if Leng Yan didn’t tell them who the baby’s father was, Shi Qingxue would spread the news.

Leng Yan would be a concubine but got pregnant before marriage, so she would be drowned in a pig cage, which might not be a severe punishment. If it was worse, she would probably be executed with fire.

However, nobody knew what Leng Yan considered. After hearing Shi Qingxue’s words, she didn’t feel scared anymore but even looked at the lady complacently, with her eyes seeming to say, “Just spread it. I am not afraid. At the worst, I will die with others.”

Leng Yan’s thought was not a daydream.

After all, Mo Shujun cared for her fame so much and wouldn’t let the news spread.

Under the pressure, no matter how unwilling the people in the mansion were, they had to keep it a secret.

And Leng Yan was carrying Shi Juncai’s baby, which was a treasure to protect her. As long as the baby was in her womb, she would be fine…

“Gee.”

When Leng Yan had a beautiful dream, Shi Qingxue sighed with emotion.

With a faint smile, she looked at Leng Yan and asked unhurriedly, “Leng Yan, till now, do you think that I really have no idea who your baby’s father is?”

“What? You know?”

Shi Junhe interrupted in surprise and looked at Qingxue doubtfully.

If Shi Qingxue knew who the man was, why didn’t she capture him and send them to the government but talked so much?

Duke Shi had never expected that the father of Leng Yan’s baby was his younger brother Shi Juncai. He just thought that Leng Yan didn’t have self-respect and slept with a servant, and she attempted to marry him to deceive everybody.

Shi Qingxue glanced at Shi Junhe, silently telling him to keep calm and then took out the paper that Rou’er had signed, showing it to Leng Yan in a flash.

Seeing that Leng Yan’s face got ghastly pale, Shi Qingxue finally revealed the answer and exposed this maid’s intentions.

“Do you think that Grandma would show mercy to you anyway because you are carrying Uncle Juncai’s baby? But why don’t you consider how she would kill you and ruin the evidence in order to protect her most favored son after such a scandal is exposed?”

She purposely stressed the words “kill you and ruin the evidence”, which made Leng Yan out of mind at once.

She emotionally shouted at Shi Qingxue, “No way! The princess royal won’t do that to me! I am carrying a child of the Shi family. How would she…”

Her sharp shout stopped abruptly. Leng Yan met Shi Junhe’s angry eyes and suddenly realized that she spilled the beans, which meant that she admitted everything that Shi Qingxue had said.

At the moment, Leng Yan made it worse and yelled at the father and daughter, “Right. My baby’s father is the third master, so you can’t do anything to me. You can’t. Otherwise, the princess royal won’t let you go.”

Shi Qingxue sneered and almost didn’t know how to comment on Leng Yan’s naivety.

She was not in the mood to explain so much to Leng Yan and just asked with a smile, “Who do you think is more important, your unborn baby or Grandma’s most beloved son? You can give up your baby without hesitation in order to gain glory and wealth. What do you think Grandma would do if this baby may threaten Uncle Juncai’s bright future?”

“I…” Before Leng Yan had the momentum, she was frustrated soon.

Leng Yan understood that Shi Qingxue didn’t cheat her.

Mo Shujun was hard-hearted. As long as it would be helpful to Shi Juncai, she could wipe out any obstructor, including Leng Yan and the baby in her womb.

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