Free Web NovelChapter 1386: Chapter 1381: Settling Taohua
Mu Shuangshuang arrived at the alley entrance to find Taohua.
At this moment, Taohua was trembling all over, her face pale with fright.
When the thugs described that person’s appearance, her whole world collapsed!
Mu Dade wants to kill her!
No, is it the madam who wants to kill her?
Why?
Why?
Didn’t they say they wanted her to keep the child?
Didn’t they say they would find her a good family?
Why deceive her, and want her to die with two lives?
She hated it...
Noticing something was wrong with Taohua, Mu Shuangshuang reached out and knocked her out with a palm.
She carried her out of the alley. On the way, she met Wang Dali but didn’t rush to save her.
Instead, she found a nearby inn to settle Taohua down.
Then she asked the waiter to get a doctor.
While the doctor was examining Taohua, Mu Shuangshuang moved the carriage along with Wang Dali to the inn.
As she entered the room, the doctor had just made a diagnosis.
"She is pregnant, and she just got very emotional, the child almost couldn’t be saved. Fortunately, you brought her in time!
The wound on her forehead seems to be from knocking her head. I’ve bandaged it too. Just change the dressing regularly! I’ve also prescribed the fetus-preserving medicine, you can go fetch it later."
The doctor spoke unhurriedly.
But his instructions were very clear, and Mu Shuangshuang didn’t have to ask a single question.
She said, "Doctor, can you help fetch the medicine and then brew it for me? As for the silver, just name your price, and I’ll pay!"
Anyway, it was that damned group of thugs who wanted Taohua’s life and took Da De’s money.
"Forget it. Is she your wife? I rarely see a man so good to his wife! It’s just as well that I’m free today. I’ll go get the medicine and brew it for you, no charge!"
The doctor’s words left Mu Shuangshuang completely bewildered!
What kind of husband was she? She was a girl!
Nonetheless, Mu Shuangshuang still smiled cheerfully on the surface.
After seeing off the doctor, she wiped the sweat off Taohua’s face.
She didn’t dare to touch the forehead.
In her heart, Mu Shuangshuang still had doubts.
Taohua was pregnant, but whose child was it?
Mu Dade’s?
Ruan Xiao Jiao surely wouldn’t let Taohua serve Mu Dade, right?
Thinking it over and still not understanding, Mu Shuangshuang gave up trying to figure it out!
She stayed by Taohua’s bedside for a full two hours.
The meal during that time was brought to her by the waiter, she hurriedly ate a few bites, and then returned to guard by Taohua’s bed.
As it was nearing dusk, Taohua finally woke up.
However, as soon as she opened her eyes, they were filled with despair.
"Why does the madam want to kill me? Why? Wasn’t my service good enough? I..."
"It wasn’t that your service wasn’t good enough, it’s that you were too good. You know too many of her secrets, even those not meant for outsiders!
Taohua, having survived this calamity, you should think about not why you’ve ended up like this, but how you’re going to rely on yourself to live from now on!
After all, having a life in this world is indeed something to be thankful for!"
Mu Shuangshuang said.
She couldn’t really understand Taohua’s emotions, even though Ruan Xiao Jiao was her lady.
Perhaps Ruan Xiao Jiao had done her a favor, and she valued her greatly in her heart.
But after all, she knew things she wasn’t supposed to know.
It’s human nature for most people not to keep such a threat around, let alone someone as morally bankrupt as Mu Dade!
"To live?" Taohua’s eyes showed a touch of confusion.
"Not just for you, but also for the child inside you! If not for yourself, at least for the child’s sake, right?"
Mu Shuangshuang said.
Mentioning the child finally brought warmth to Taohua’s eyes.
"The child, my child..."
"Yes, for the child!"
"Taohua, can you tell me what happened? Of course, you don’t have to if you don’t want to. I respect your choice!" Mu Shuangshuang said.
Taohua shook her head, "I’ll tell... the child, the child in my belly is the County Magistrate’s!"
"What?" Mu Shuangshuang was stunned!
This... the child is Zheng Zhi’s father’s?
Is Zheng Zhi’s brother?
"Yes! The madam..." As soon as she mentioned the madam, Taohua felt her heart pierced!
"That woman got pregnant with Mu Dade’s child and didn’t want to serve the County Magistrate, so she made me replace her!
Every night, she turned off the lights and had me lie in her bed to be with the County Magistrate!
Time after time, and every time, I told her that I wanted to give up, that I wouldn’t do it!
I wanted to deceive the County Magistrate, and I didn’t want my lifelong happiness to be ruined just like that!
But every time, she found my weakness, first my parents, then this secret, until..."
At this point, Taohua paused.
"Until you got pregnant?" Mu Shuangshuang asked.
"Yes! Until I got pregnant! She wanted me to abort, saying my life would be ruined, and that she’d provide me with lifelong wealth and honor.
I don’t want those things, I just want this child, I’m already too tainted, I can’t harm another man!
Even if I have to work like a beast, I will raise the child! She argued with me, fought with me, but yesterday... she suddenly told me to have the child and promised to find me a man who would treat me well and not mind the child in my belly!
But I had to help her buy fetus-preserving medicine today from the clinic in Five Miles Lane. I came, and the rest you know!"
Mu Shuangshuang indeed knew.
That so-called plan to find Taohua a man who wouldn’t mind the child in her belly was to send her to her death!
Luckily, Taohua met her. Otherwise, it would have certainly been two lives lost!
"Miss Shuangshuang, thank you! Without you, Taohua would have died, and the child wouldn’t have been saved!"
As Taohua spoke, she began to cry, sorrowfully.
Mu Shuangshuang handed her a handkerchief, "Don’t cry, the doctor specifically advised that you shouldn’t get emotional, for the sake of the fetus—no, for the child’s sake!"
Indeed, Taohua stopped crying. She accepted Mu Shuangshuang’s handkerchief and wiped her tears.
"What do you plan to do?" Mu Shuangshuang asked.
"I want to go to the County Magistrate and report them, even if it costs me my life, I will..."
"What about the child? You’ll risk your life?" Mu Shuangshuang asked.
Taohua was stunned, uncertain about what to do.
"I’ll find someone to send you to the countryside and decide what to do after the child is born," Mu Shuangshuang said.
At this point, it’s impossible to report it to the County Magistrate, as he wouldn’t believe it.
Even if it was Zheng Zhi, she might not receive a response!
This switcheroo with a commoner’s child plot was played skillfully!
The County Magistrate thought he was sleeping with Ruan Xiao Jiao, but it was the maid Taohua all along.
"Countryside? My parents’ place?" Taohua’s eyes dimmed.
"No, it’s my parents’ place! Mu Dade and Ruan Xiao Jiao’s hometown! There’s no place safer than there!
I’ll tell the people that you’re my aunt, a relative from my mother’s side, whose husband just died, and you’re staying at my mother’s place to recuperate!"
The most dangerous place is the safest one.
Moreover, unless Mu Dade falls down from power, he’d never return to Er Gui Village in his lifetime.
Besides, if he does fall, Taohua will be safe!
