With Multiple Babies, Who Still Wants to Be the Marquess’s Wife? - Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Let Her Obtain What She Seeks

Li Qiu was momentarily stunned upon hearing this and looked at her in confusion.

She curved her eyebrows into a smile and said, “Pack up your things. We’ll be staying at the Medicine King Temple for seven days, so we need to prepare quite a bit.”

Although she knew they wouldn’t actually stay for that long, they had to put on a show.

Li Qiu had some doubts, but when she saw someone approaching, she swallowed all her questions.

The main and servant rooms were not yet packed up when a nanny came to urge them to leave.

Lan Qingxi responded softly but made sure to pack everything she needed before walking out slowly.

The urging nanny, Nanny Qu, came on Zheng Shi’s orders. Because Lan Qingxi was a bit slow, Nanny Qu gave her a cold look and glared at her.

As the wife of Yu Junshu, she held a very low status in the Marquis’s residence.

Li Qiu wanted to argue with Nanny Qu’s demeanor but was stopped by Lan Qingxi.

Arguing with someone as close to death as this was a waste of energy.

Li Qiu felt frustrated. Although the Lan family was wealthy and Lan Qingxi grew up as a cherished daughter, ever since her marriage into the Marquis’s family, she had been treated poorly by everyone in the household.

Because of her position, even the servants in the Marquis’s house looked down on her. Though they did not dare to openly insult her, their contempt was apparent.

When Lan Qingxi left the house and got into the carriage, she lifted the curtain and glanced at the Marquis’s gate, sneering before letting the curtain fall back down.

The Marquis’s residence was rotten to the core.

Nanny Qu, like before, was sent by Madam Zheng to accompany Lan Qingxi to the Medicine King Temple.

She looked down on Lan Qingxi’s action of lifting the curtain and said in a preachy tone, “You are the Marquis’s wife, and such behavior is improper.”

“I am here on the Marquis’s orders to accompany you to the Medicine King Temple and to teach you some etiquette and rules. You must learn them well!”

Lan Qingxi nodded obediently, “Nanny Qu’s words are true. I will work hard to learn the rules.”

Nanny Qu then went on and on with a lengthy discourse, which Lan Qingxi let go in one ear and out the other, not listening at all.

At this moment, she was thinking about Madam Zheng. Considering the timing, Madam Zheng should be in agony by now.

She had chosen this moment for Madam Zheng to suffer precisely because she was following Madam Zheng’s orders to leave the residence, making everything related to the Marquis’s house irrelevant to her.

She would neither be suspected nor called by Madam Zheng to attend to her illness.

If Madam Zheng wanted to torment her, she would first taste the agony of a fate worse than death!

As she had expected, Madam Zheng was now screaming in pain, her demeanor no longer resembling that of the Marquis’s wife.

It was so painful!

She felt as though she were being flayed alive.

The pain was not fixed in one place but constantly shifting, wherever it went, it was as if someone was slicing her flesh with a knife!

Nanny Zhang who was attending to her, was frightened and hurried to find a doctor.

Before the doctor arrived, Yu Junshu rushed over upon hearing the commotion and asked Nanny Zhang, who was attending Madam Zheng, “What’s the matter?”

Nanny Zhang responded, “This old servant doesn’t know what happened. The Madam suddenly felt unwell.”

As she spoke, the doctor arrived. Nanny Zhang quickly guided the doctor to prepare the prescription, sent the servants to fetch medicine, and ordered the maidservants to boil it.

After drinking the medicine, Madam Zheng felt the pain diminish significantly and thought she was better.

With no one else in the room at the moment, she asked Yu Junshu, “Is everything ready over there?”

Yu Junshu nodded, “Everything is prepared. Once Lan Qingxi returns from the Medicine King Temple, she will obediently help us get the money from the Lan family.”

“With that money in hand, Song Linyuan will no longer obstruct us, and the position of Minister of the Household will be secured.”

Although he had promised Song Linyuan many benefits and was willing to send Lan Qingxi to his bed, he had no confidence in Song Linyuan’s erratic temperament.

The position of the Minister of Revenue had been vacant for a while now, and he could no longer wait. The longer he waited, the more variables there would be.

Madam Zheng sneered, “Your grandfather must have lost his mind to arrange a marriage with Lan Qingxi for you.”

“A mere merchant’s daughter is not worthy of you.”

Yu Junshu smiled faintly, “Lan Qingxi does have some merits. She is at least beautiful and has quite a bit of money.”

He disregarded Lan Qingxi’s background but valued her looks and wealth.

Madam Zheng sighed, “Those are her only merits. It’s a pity for my son.”

Yu Junshu’s gaze softened, and Madam Zheng asked, “Have you made arrangements for Yan’er?”

Yu Junshu replied, “Everything is set. She will be brought into the residence tomorrow.”

Madam Zheng sighed again, “Although she was born noble, she still hasn’t recognized her biological father, King Chen, and grew up in the countryside…”

She looked at Yu Junshu, “For the sake of the Hou residence, I’m truly sorry for you.”

Even though the Hou residence was an old and prestigious house, the current Marquis was a frivolous man with no skills or position in the court. The entire Hou residence was already on the verge of collapse.

Although Yu Junshu was intelligent and capable from a young age, his marriage prospects were not smooth.

The young ladies in the capital that Madam Zheng approved of were unwilling to marry, and those willing to marry were not approved by Madam Zheng.

After weighing the pros and cons, the mother and son decided that Lan Qingxi was the most suitable: her low status made her easy to manipulate, and her wealth was useful.

That was why Madam Zheng agreed to the marriage.

Yu Junshu, by chance, discovered that Zhao Yan’er was the little county princess who had been carried away from the Chen King’s residence years ago.

So he pursued her in every way. With his good looks and the status of the heir to the Hou residence, Zhao Yan’er, who had grown up in the countryside and had not seen much of the world, quickly pledged herself to him.

The reason they were so eager to bring Zhao Yan’er into the residence was that they discovered the Chen King’s residence was already searching for her and would soon find her.

They needed to bring her into the residence before the Chen King’s residence could find her.

Yu Junshu’s face was calm, “As long as we can restore the former glory of the Hou residence, this little grievance is nothing.”

Madam Zheng looked at him with great satisfaction, but then suddenly changed her expression.

Seeing her discomfort, Yu Junshu hurriedly asked, “Mother, what’s wrong?”

Madam Zheng did not answer. The next moment, she uncontrollably began to vomit, and Yu Junshu, standing too close, was directly covered in vomit.

The smell of vomit made Yu Junshu’s face change drastically. Just then, Madam Zheng began to moan in pain.

In addition to the foul smell of vomit, Yu Junshu also smelled feces.

Madam Zheng had lost control of her bowels.

Yu Junshu covered his chest, struggling to suppress his urge to vomit. It was too disgusting!

Even though Madam Zheng was his biological mother, he couldn’t tolerate it!

He said, “I’ll call for a doctor,” and quickly left.

Servants outside heard the commotion and rushed in to attend to Madam Zheng, causing chaos.

At this moment, Madam Zheng was vomiting and having diarrhea. The severe pain she had just managed to suppress with medicine was now coming back, even more violently than before, affecting her entire body.

Combined with the vomiting and diarrhea, within a short time, Madam Zheng was in so much pain she wished for death.

As Madam Zheng suffered in agony, Lan Qingxi had already reached the Medicine King Temple….