Zhangjia Jinzhi

Chapter 49 Bitter Water
Bai Shi seemed to have had a long dream, and when she woke up, she was still in a daze, looking at Li Yao's face crying with joy, she couldn't recover for a long time.

"Auntie."

Li Pu couldn't help calling out.

Only then did Bai regain consciousness, opened his mouth and coughed a few times, and said in a hoarse voice:

"what happened?"

Seeing that Bai Shi was able to speak, everyone couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief. Several imperial physicians got Xin'er and hurried in from outside, and checked Bai Shi's pulse again, asking:
"Madam, is there any other discomfort?"

Bai Shi shook her head blankly, her mind gradually became clearer, and she sat up with Li Yao's hand propped up.

"Doctor, is my mother alright?"

Li Rui also came from outside. Seeing that Mrs. Bai could sit up, he saluted the imperial doctors and asked.

After discussing with several imperial physicians, they said:
"Madam's illness came on strangely, and it went away quickly. There is no serious problem now. The old man will prescribe a few more prescriptions for recuperation. Madam will take it for a few more days. Then I will come back to ask for Madam's pulse."

"There's Mrs. Laurin!"

Only then did everyone feel relieved, and Li Rui personally sent the imperial physician out.

"Where's your father?"

Bai Shi rubbed her drowsy head, she couldn't remember what kind of dream she had just now, but felt uneasy in her heart.

Li Yao wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said:

"Yesterday my father stayed with my mother overnight, and went to sleep in the wing room at dawn, and he hasn't come here yet."

Bai's hand rubbing her temples paused, and suddenly she looked straight at Li Yao, as if she remembered something, her face turned pale:

"What did you say?"

Li Yao was startled by Bai Shi's appearance, and quickly comforted her:

"Mother, what's the matter with you? You slept all night and just woke up, you can't"

"Quick! Go and order someone to invite your father over!"

"Where's Mrs. Xue? Where is she now?"

Mother Qin came in with a medicine bowl, when she heard Bai's voice, she hurriedly said:
"Madam is awake? What's the matter?"

"Mommy!"

Bai Shi grasped Nanny Jin's hand, and said in panic:

"Second Master! Go and see Second Master!"

Nanny Qin trembled, remembering something, spilled more than half of the thick soup in the medicine bowl on the tray.

"Old slave, go and invite the master!"

Everyone looked at Mrs. Bai and Nanny Qin in puzzlement, and when they were about to ask, the servants outside said:
"Master is here."

Li Rui and Li Qin entered the bedroom. When Bai Shi saw Li Qin coming in, he was relieved, but when he saw Li Qin's pale face, his heart rose again.

When Li Qin heard that Mrs. Bai had woken up, he rushed back with a rush of wind under his feet, but as soon as he stepped into the bedroom, his heart was seized, and his footsteps were as heavy as gold.

He lowered his head, not daring to look into Bai's eyes.

"Second Master."

Bai's heart beat wildly, and he called out in a trembling voice.

Li Qin's face turned even paler. He took a breath and tried to make his voice sound calmer:
"Huiniang. You. Are you feeling better?"

Bai Shi nodded with tears in her eyes, and did not look away from Li Qin.

"Where did the second master go?"

Li Qin's eyes froze and he opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to speak.

Seeing his father's expression was wrong, Li Rui was a little worried, and said:

"What's wrong with my father? You need to ask the imperial doctor."

"It doesn't have to be."

Li Qin thought about his words, closed his eyes as if trying to suppress the pain, and said after a long time:
"You all go out, I have something to say to your mother"

Everyone was puzzled, but Bai's heart sank suddenly.

"What does Second Master want to say?"

Bai looked straight at Li Qin, trembling.

"I"

Li Qin only felt that his whole body was icy cold, and he lowered his head to avoid Bai Shi's gaze.

Everyone saw that something was wrong, and was about to leave the bedroom when someone came in from the outside, walked up to Li Qin's side, and knelt down towards Bai Shi who was on the bed.

"Biao Aunt Xue, this is it."

Zhao Shifang called out in surprise, and Bai Shi raised his hand and threw the medicine bowl at Xue Suqin towards Xue Suqin.

With a sound of "pa", the medicine bowl fell on Xue's side, the porcelain fragments shattered to the ground, and the black soup splashed all over Xue's body.

Li Yao cried out in shock, stepped forward and hugged Bai Shi, and called out anxiously:

"Mother, mother, what's wrong with you?"

"you--!"

Bai's eyes widened, pointing at Xue's fingertips trembling:

"How dare you—!"

Mrs. Xue kowtowed to Mrs. Bai a few times, wiped away her tears and said:
"Madam. It's all the concubine's fault. It has nothing to do with the master. Please punish me. Madam."

These words made everyone stunned. Li Rui and Zhao Shi looked at each other with panic.Li Pu was also puzzled by what he heard, looked at Bai Shi, and then turned to look at Li Qin.Only Li Yao's face was as pale as paper when her eyes touched the lady's bun that Xue Shi combed up:
"you you"

"No how is that possible"

Li Qin looked at Bai's pale face, with regret, distress and despair in his eyes.

"Father! How... how could this happen?"

With a sullen face, Li Rui looked at Xun Rili's elegant and modest father, his heart felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.He couldn't believe that his father could mix up with Xue Shi at this time.
"Father, what's the matter?"

Li Pu couldn't believe what he saw and heard, so he asked.

Li Qin seemed to be carrying a heavy burden on his shoulders, and the eyes of his children and wife made him breathless.

He originally didn't want to talk about this with Bai Shi today, but during the years he and Bai Shi have been together, he already knew that he couldn't hide anything from her
Xue fell on the ground, covering his face and weeping. Li Qin felt so upset that he didn't even have the courage to raise his head.

Nanny Qin looked at Mrs. Bai in panic, wanting to persuade her but didn't know where to start.

She and Bai shi had calculated thousands of times, but they didn't expect Xue shi, a little bitch, to set his mind on her master!It's a shame that Mrs. Bai planned a fight for her like this, but she was lifting a rock to shoot herself in the foot.

Qin Nanny's eyes were like knives on Xue Shi, but Xue Shi bowed her head and cried, but didn't see anything, Qin Nanny's heart ached from anxiety.

"lady."

Nanny Qin endured her heartache, and called out Mrs. Bai, whose expression changed from mournful to numb.

Bai Shi still couldn't believe that she was trapped in a living nightmare, and this nightmare was built by her own hands.
Her heart seemed to be gouged out by life, and it was bleeding. She had never experienced such pain and despair from Li Qin. She poured a bowl of bitter water herself, but finally tasted it by herself.

"Get out of here!"

Bai Shi has never been so hysterical, her submissiveness, her virtuousness, all turned into boundless hostility at this moment.

"Hui Niang."

Li Qin's eyes were clouded with water vapor, he almost begged and looked at Bai Shi.

Li Yao didn't know where the strength came from, she stepped forward and dragged Xue Suqin and pushed it away, crying:

"Go away! Go far away! Go—!"

Mrs. Zhao rushed forward to hug Li Yao, stopped her, and cried while hugging her.

"Si Niang, Si Niang, don't do this"

Xue Shi was pushed to the ground by Li Yao, she was crying, clutching the corner of Li Qin's clothes in panic, and looked at Li Qin pitifully.

Li Qin felt his whole body froze, unable to move.

Bai Shi saw it in his eyes, and when his eyes went dark, he fell on his back.

(End of this chapter)