the seventh bride

Chapter 67 Drive Out of the House
He raised his eyes and took a peek at Nangong Chen, fortunately, there was no trace of anger on his face.

Nangong Chen glanced at the fruit basket in his hand, and smiled lightly: "Coinate."

"Unfortunately, I heard that my cousin is sick, so I came here specially to visit." Lin Annan handed the fruit basket to the two of them: "I wish you a speedy recovery."

"Thank you, thank you for your good words, I have recovered." Nan Gongchen took the fruit basket and placed it on the trash can beside him.

Seeing his behavior, Lin Annan's expression changed, as if he was humiliated.

If his mother hadn't forced him to come, if it wasn't for Lin's future, he wouldn't have come to the hospital to suffer this humiliation.He knew this would happen before he came here, who is Nangong Chen?Not a normal person at all!
And Bai Muqing lowered her eyes, men and women duel!Can not bear to look!
Seeing Lin Annan gnashing his teeth, Nangong Chen laughed mockingly: "What's wrong with Young Master Lin? Could it be that I want to eat this basket of fruit?"

"No...the fruit basket just represents blessings and wishes, as long as my cousin can see our Lin family's wishes." Lin Annan forced a smile.

"Your Lin family's intentions." Nangong Chen mused for a moment, "I really can't see through it!"

In order to prevent them from continuing their blazing heat, Bai Muqing hurriedly opened her mouth to smooth things over: "Well... Eldest Young Master, the driver has been waiting outside for a long time, let's go out quickly." After speaking, she dragged Nangong Chen to the hospital gate .

Until he got in the car, the expression on Nangong Chen's face still didn't ease. At this moment, he returned to his usual indifferent and indifferent look.

When he is in a bad mood, she usually shuts up tactfully and keeps silent.

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At night, when Bai Muqing was bored in the house, she took a piece of paper and a pen and sat on the balcony to draw a sketch.

The brush stroked across the snow-white drawing paper, leaving behind a series of dark and shallow lines, and soon, the outline of a man appeared on the drawing paper.

Bai Muqing was stunned, and found that the face on the paper was so similar to Nangong Chen, what happened to her?Since when did you start drawing with a paintbrush, instead of Lin Annan but Nangong Chen?
Could it be that she has really started to like this ruthless man slowly?No, how can this be?

Nangong Chen didn't belong to her, his heart belonged to that mysterious woman surnamed Zhu, his person belonged to Bai Ying'an, and she, Bai Muqing...what right did she have to like this man who didn't belong to her from the beginning to the end!
Annoyed, she crumpled up the drawing paper and threw it into the trash can, then stood up from the chair.

Worrying for a while on the terrace, she turned and went back to the house. When her eyes swept over the dressing table, she inadvertently landed on the scroll on the table.

In the past two days, she was busy dealing with scandals and taking care of Nangong Chen. She almost forgot the existence of this painting. Now that she saw it again, she couldn't help admiring it again.

I don't know why, she has never liked a portrait as much as the painting in front of her, knowing that it was given by Lin Annan, she should not take it home, let alone keep it.But I still couldn't help falling in love with it, couldn't let it go, and even hung it on the wall of the bedroom.

Have a good night.

The next morning, as soon as Bai Muqing opened her eyes, she saw "Mrs. Jing" on the wall. The moment she met her eyes, her heart suddenly missed a beat, and she felt a little flustered.

Maybe it's because she has never seen such a large-scale portrait of a person at first sight when she wakes up, so she feels flustered, she thought.

In order to maintain the nutrition of the fetus, Bai Muqing ate a little more breakfast than before. Fortunately, everything was safe, there was no morning sickness, and no one found out that she was pregnant.

Pu Lianyao claimed that she was on vacation today and invited Bai Muqing to go shopping together, but Bai Muqing declined but had to agree.

After breakfast, she asked Pu Lianyao to wait downstairs while she went back to the bedroom on the second floor to change.

The door of the bedroom was ajar. It was already closed when she just left. Could it be that the servants were cleaning it?She pushed the door suspiciously and stepped in, but saw Nangong Chen standing in front of the painting called "Mrs. Jing", staring fixedly at the beautiful woman above.

It turns out that he also likes this painting, and he is so obsessed with it. Men are indeed lustful!

Before she finished despising her in her heart, Nan Gongchen had already turned around to face her, with an extremely ugly expression on her face.Just seeing the indifference on his face, Bai Muqing's heart tightened.

Why is he angry again?Is it because of this painting?He knew that the painting was given to her by Lin Annan?still……?
"What do you want to do?" Nan Gongchen stepped over, grabbed her jaw and stared at her coldly.

"What...?" Bai Muqing pretended to be stupid.

"Where did this come from?" Nan Gongchen waved his long arm, pointing to the painting on the wall: "Who allowed you to hang it on the wall? Remove it immediately."

"I... I just like it...." Bai Muqing was frightened by the anger on his face. She had never seen him so angry when she had an affair with Lin Annan two days ago. How could a painting start a fire?
what to do?How should she explain to him to make him believe in herself?

She was about to explain that she simply liked this painting, not because of Lin Annan, but Nan Gongchen turned back to the painting, tore it off the wall and threw it at her feet: "I ask you Where did this painting come from? How much do you know about this? Who else knows besides you?"

Bai Muqing was completely confused, this time she was not pretending to be stupid, but really confused, she really didn't understand what he meant.

Looking at his appearance, it seems that Lin Annan is not angry, but... yeah, what is he angry about?What kind of thing did he mean by 'this thing'?

Unable to wait for her response, Nan Gongchen became even more impatient, bent over and took out the scissors from under the glass table, then bent over and grabbed the painting at her feet and cut it into pieces like crazy.

Seeing that he was so abnormal, Bai Muqing was worried that he would cut her palm in agitation, so she rushed forward and hugged his arm and said anxiously: "Eldest young master, what are you talking about? I don't understand..." After a pause, she continued, "I saw this painting in the Cultural Palace, and I brought it back because I liked it. I don't know anything else, I don't know anything!"

Nangong Chen's back stiffened, and the movements of his hands stopped.

Bai Muqing looked at him in a daze, and asked cautiously: "What's wrong with you? What's wrong with this painting?"

After being silent for a while, Nangong Chen turned around, stared at her expressionlessly and asked, "You really don't know anything?"

Bai Muqing hurriedly shook her head, she really didn't know anything, although she really wanted to know why he had such a big reaction after seeing this painting, but it seems that now is not the time to ask the truth.

She clearly felt that Nangong Chen took a deep breath, then dropped the scissors and stood up from the ground, and ordered her: "Take it out and burn it."

He had already cut it into tatters, and she had to take it out and burn it?She felt more and more strange about the painting.

Of course, she knew very well that asking Nangong Chen about this matter would not give her an answer, so she was not stupid enough to touch his bottom line.

Picking up the cut drawing paper piece by piece, when Bai Muqing got up, she saw Nangong Chen standing in front of the French window facing the direction of the ancestral hall in a daze.

In fact, her bedroom is not facing the backyard, and the auditorium is on the west side of the backyard.

She walked over and called out cautiously: "Eldest young master..."

However, Nangong Chen turned around and interrupted her calmly: "I think Sister He should have told you that if you want to stay in this house, the first thing you need to do is to put away your curiosity, and don't ask me what you shouldn't ask." ask."

The courage that Bai Muqing had finally mustered up was instantly extinguished by her, so she had no choice but to stop talking and fell silent.

Sister He did say this to her, and it was also stated in the document!
*****
Walking on the street with Pu Lianyao, Bai Muqing didn't have the slightest intention to go shopping. Pu Lianyao felt that her mind was absent-minded, so he pulled her to sit down in an open-air coffee shop and asked, "What's wrong? She looks absent-minded."

Bai Muqing looked at her, and couldn't help feeling a little suspicious in her heart. This painting was introduced to her by Pu Lianyao, so did she do it unintentionally or on purpose?
But it's not right, the painting was given to her by Lin Annan, not Pu Lianyao.

"Lianyao, do you still remember the picture of a girl named "Mrs. Jing"?" She asked.

"Remember, why? Do you want it?" Pu Lianyao smiled ambiguously: "If you want it, let my cousin buy it for you. With the current relationship between you and my cousin, he will definitely be willing."

"What kind of relationship do I have with him?"

"You still pretend, I saw the scene of you two hugging on the same bed in the hospital that day."

Knowing that she was referring to the time she slept with Nangong Chen in her arms, Bai Muqing was a little ashamed.But soon he returned to normal staring at her and asked: "Actually, I just want to ask you, how much do you know about "Ms. Jing"?"

"What do you mean?"

"It's like this. I brought "Ms. Jing" home, but the Eldest Young Master reacted very strongly after seeing it, and ordered me to take the painting and burn it."

"How did this happen?" Pu Lianyao asked in surprise.

"I just wanted to know why this happened, so I came to ask you."

Pu Lianyao shook her head: "All I know are the written records I saw in the exhibition hall, and I don't know anything else." She thought for a while, and then said: "But the Nangong family has a lot of secrets, and we outsiders can't find out. I guessed it, so let’s forget it, don’t worry about it.”

Seeing Bai Muqing's suspicious expression, Pu Lianyao hesitated for a moment and then said: "For example... the ancestral hall of the Nangong family, I heard that there are hidden secrets about the life experience of my cousin and his so-called lover in the past life, but in that place, apart from the old lady and the cousin Except for Brother and Master Wang, no one else has ever entered."

"Past life lover?"

"Well, Master Wang said that my cousin owed a woman in his previous life, that's why he was cursed to get sick." Pu Lianyao took a sip from the water glass, shook her head and laughed, "It's so funny, grandma believed it."

Bai Muqing was taken aback by her words, thought for a while and said, "No, I've been to the ancestral hall twice, and I didn't see anything special..."

Having said this, Bai Muqing suddenly stopped talking.

No, she has been to the ancestral hall twice, and she encountered unimaginable and strange things both times.

"The ancestral hall of the Nangong family is huge, and you only came to the front hall of the ancestral hall." Putting her finger on her red lips, Pu Lianyao said in a low voice: "These are all rumors from other people's mouths, so it is difficult to determine whether they are true or not, so You must not tell it, and don't foolishly go to ask your cousin or go to the ancestral hall to find out the truth, or grandma will be unhappy."

Bai Muqing nodded quietly: "I see."

Despite Pu Lianyao's ten thousand warnings, Bai Muqing couldn't help but seize the opportunity to come to the gate of the Nangong family's ancestral hall.

Today, Sister He accompanied the old lady to a famous temple in C City to offer incense, and she needs to accept three days of fasting in the temple.Nangong Chen also went to the company, and it is said that he will come back very late.

Although she was full of fear about this place, she still couldn't help walking forward in order to find out the truth.

The former lover, is the picture of the girl named "Ms. Jing" really related to the rumored Nan Gongchen's former lover?That's why Nangong Chen lost control after seeing the painting?
She didn't know what good it would be for her to pursue the truth, and she was well aware of the consequences of being discovered. She should have turned around and left, but there seemed to be something pulling her forward in the dark.

The two servants guarding the door in the auditorium saw her and looked at each other, wondering if this unfortunate young lady would be punished again?

"Please open the door and let me in?" Bai Muqing said to the two servants.

"Young madam wants to go in?" The servant looked at her in surprise. Everyone in the house avoided this place for fear of being late, but she wanted to go in?
The old lady had ordered that no one should enter except the Nangong family, so is this young lady in front of her a member of the Nangong family?
"That's right, the young master asked me to come here." Bai Muqing lied.

Sure enough, they were punished by the family again, and the two male servants immediately showed sympathy on their faces, then opened the door and let her in.

Although she has been here twice, Bai Muqing couldn't help shivering as soon as she stepped into this gloomy ancestral hall.It is said that pregnant women are more cloudy and are more likely to see unclean things than ordinary people.

She took a deep breath and looked around. The Nangong family's ancestral hall was really big. There was a front hall and a back hall, side halls, and side rooms.

Looking at the wooden door in the upper right corner, Bai Muqing immediately remembered the woman in white she saw when she knelt down for the first time, and when she turned her steps, she instinctively walked towards the gate.

However, after only taking two steps, she stopped. If she just turned around and left like this, how long would it take for her to find out the truth?How long will I be tossed by this fear and curiosity?
In order to strengthen her courage, she took a deep breath and secretly reminded herself that there are no ghosts and gods in this world, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

She took a flaming candle from the candlestick, and walked carefully to the door in the upper right corner. With her strong push, the door panel creaked open.

This is a door leading to the back hall, and the back hall was pitch black, she held up the candle, and looked around the entire back hall.

The back hall is different from the front hall. The front hall enshrines the tablets of the ancestors of the Nangong family, while the back hall only enshrines a tablet and a stick of incense.The memorial tablet is also different from the general memorial tablet of the deceased, and only the word 'Jingqi' is simply written on it.

Jingqi?

Bai Muqing wondered suspiciously about this person's real identity, why did he appear alone in the Nangong family's ancestral hall?
In order to see the face of this Ms. Jingqi, she moved the candle up, trying to find her photo.

Under the dim candlelight, the first thing Bai Muqing saw was a painting of a young girl. From bottom to top, from clothing to face, this painting was actually exactly the same as the "Mrs. Jing" that Lin Annan gave her!
Her brain buzzed and went blank for an instant!

how so?How did this painting appear here?

She suddenly remembered that Pu Lianyao said that the "Ms. Jing" hanging in the exhibition hall was actually copied by a certain master, and the real authentic product was collected by a mysterious rich man.

Could it be that the painting in front of me is a real collection, and the mysterious rich man who collects this painting is the Nangong family?

Jing Qi, Mrs. Jing... What is the relationship between her and the Nangong family?In order to find out the truth, she took a deep breath again, boldly bypassed the spiritual position, and groped behind the portrait.

Behind the coffin is another door, Bai Muqing carefully pushed open the door and stepped in, she didn't have the time to look at the exquisite decorations around, her eyes fell on a coffin-shaped object covered in red satin in the center.

Is it a coffin?It seems that it is.

Bai Muqing was so frightened that she almost shrank again, but reason overcame her fear, she walked over hesitantly, holding the candlestick tightly with one hand and lifting off the silk corner of the coffin with the other.

Both hands trembled uncontrollably.

Finally, she saw it. This is a crystal coffin that can only be seen on TV. The coffin body is transparent and crystal clear, and inside the coffin...

The last trace of strength in Bai Muqing's heart finally collapsed, her pupils were wide open, her legs became limp, and her breathing gradually became short of breath.

"What are you doing?" A cold and biting voice suddenly sounded from behind.

Bai Muqing screamed in fright, and turned around quickly. In the night, Nangong Chen's figure was slender and cold.

She opened her mouth wide, and it became harder to breathe.

Nan Gongchen grabbed her arm quickly, pushed her towards the crystal coffin, and with the other hand lifted the silk cloth from the coffin.Pointing to the woman sleeping peacefully in the coffin, she gritted her teeth and said, "This is the truth you have been searching for. Now that you finally know it, so what? What can you change?"

"I... let me out."

But Nangong Chen didn't let go, instead, he moved up the palm clasped on her arm, and instead grabbed her neck: "Master Wang said, only when she comes alive, can I have a chance to live, how about it?" ? Can you dig out your heart to her and let her live? Can you?"

"No! Let me go out!" Bai Muqing struggled hysterically and yelled.

"Why are you rushing out? Don't you really want to know the truth? Don't you always want to know how long I can live?"

"Let go..." Bai Muqing, who was already having difficulty breathing due to fright, was pinched by him, and her eyes darkened, and she finally fainted in his arms out of strength.

Bai Muqing put herself in a series of nightmares again. Ever since she married into Nangong's family, she had often had nightmares, but every nightmare was worse than today's one. She almost woke up screaming.

It was bright outside the window, and the time on the wall pointed to eight o'clock in the morning.

She raised her hand to touch the cold sweat on her face, closed her eyes, and everything in her dream came to mind again.

In the dream, she came to the Nangong family's weird ancestral hall alone, saw the portrait of "Mrs. Jing", and saw a quiet woman lying in a crystal coffin, and then Nangong Chen appeared...

Bai Muqing opened her eyes suddenly, no, this is not a dream, it is a fact!

She really went to the ancestral hall last night, she really went there, and Nangong Chen really said those things to her...!
"Are you awake?" An indifferent voice sounded from the side.

Bai Mu was stunned for a moment, only to realize that Nangong Chen had entered his bedroom at some point, and was leaning on the bar counter with his arms crossed and his expression unfriendly.

"Young Master Chen?" Bai Muqing immediately sat up from the bed and stared at him: "Last night..."

"You sneaked to the ancestral hall last night, and you fainted in the front hall after being frightened. It was the servant who brought you back." Nangong Chen said first, with a deep displeasure in his tone.

"Scared out in the front hall?" Not the back hall?
"Miss Bai, I think it's really not suitable for you to stay in Nangong's house." Nangong Chen stood up straight, walked over, leaned over and stared at her closely: "You are the first one who dares not to change Nangong's house rules." People who are in your eyes."

"I..." Bai Muqing was confused.

Did she really faint in the front hall last night?What about the portrait of Mrs. Jing?What about the woman sleeping in the crystal coffin?Is it all just a nightmare imagined by her?
Is it true that, as others have said, pregnant women are prone to hallucinations?

"Is there really no woman named Jingqi in the ancestral hall?" She stared at Nangongchen fearlessly and asked.

"What do you mean?" Nangong Chen frowned.

"It's just...." Bai Muqing couldn't tell clearly, because even she herself couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality.

"Are you looking for excuses for the mistakes you made?"

"No." Bai Muqing shook her head, "I'm sorry, I'm just curious about what's in the ancestral hall, why don't people approach it."

"Who told you that there is something inside?" Nangong Chen's eyes flashed a dangerous light, Bai Muqing was frightened, she shrank instinctively and shook her head.

It was Pu Lianyao who told her that there was a secret in the ancestral hall, but Pu Lianyao said that this was just a rumor, and she repeatedly told herself not to investigate the truth, she could not betray Pu Lianyao!

The door was pushed open, and Sister He walked in.

She glanced at Bai Muqing who was on the bed, and said to Nangong Chen: "Eldest young master, the old lady was furious when she heard that the young lady broke into the ancestral hall last night, claiming that she would personally teach the young lady a lesson and drive her out of the house."

Hearing Sister He's words, Bai Muqing's heart trembled. It is a terrible thing for the old lady to get angry!
She turned her eyes to Nangong Chen for help, but Nangong Chen seemed to be unable to receive her help, and said indifferently: "As long as grandma is happy."

Throwing down this sentence, he turned and walked towards the bedroom door.

When Bai Muqing was brought to the old lady's bedroom by Sister He, she really saw the old lady pacing back and forth in front of the French windows with a sullen expression on her face.

Seeing her coming in, he swept his eyes wide and shouted angrily at her: "Kneel down!"

No matter what age, I still kneel at every turn.Although Bai Muqing didn't want to kneel, in order to reduce punishment and for the safety of herself and the baby, she had no choice but to kneel on the ground obediently.

The old lady is not young, but her body is very strong. After a few quick steps, she slapped her both left and right and scolded: "Did Sister He tell you not to go to the ancestral hall? Did you?! "

With two slaps, Bai Muqing only felt a burning pain on both sides of her cheeks.

She fought back tears and nodded.

"Since I told you, then you committed the crime knowingly?" The old lady became more and more angry, and swung the crutch at her body.

Bai Muqing screamed in pain, her body trembled slightly and crawled on the floor.

The old lady closed her eyes, and said coldly: "Call someone to come over and send her away to me immediately!"

Sister He responded, walked to the phone and started dialing.

Bai Muqing understood that the old lady sent her away not to send herself back to her natal home, nor to throw her out of the house, but to a place where no one could find her, and it would be difficult for her to return to City C in the future.

No, she can't live under the control of others, and she has to find her mother and brother back.

Tears finally flowed down uncontrollably, she rushed forward and hugged the old lady's legs.The old lady resisted and wanted to shake her off, her face was full of disgust: "Get out! Don't stain my clothes!"

"I'm pregnant." Bai Muqing choked out a sentence.

It's not a last resort, she won't disclose this news, she still thinks about switching identities with Bai Ying'an in three months, and taking the child to live in secret, but now she can't do it.

Hearing her words, the old lady was obviously stunned for a moment, and the anger on her face dissipated in an instant, and she stared at her in disbelief: "What did you say?"

"I'm pregnant," she repeated tearfully.

She didn't expect that the one who saved her in the end was the child she wanted to kill several times.

The corners of the old lady's tightly pursed lips moved, revealing a hint of a smile, but she still asked suspiciously in her tone: "Really?"

Bai Muqing nodded.

Forgive me for such a thing, she would not dare to lie about it, although the old lady believed it to a certain extent, but...

She looked at Bai Muqing and asked her doubts: "Since you are pregnant, why didn't you tell me before? You know that I have been expecting you to be pregnant."

"Because... Eldest Young Master has warned me more than once not to allow me to conceive, and I'm worried that if he finds out, he will force me to abort the child." At this point in the matter, Bai Muqing could only tell the truth.

"Then you can't even hide it from me." The old lady threw down her crutches and bent down to help her up from the ground. Sister He hurried over to hold her other arm, and helped her to sit on the sofa.

"How is it? Did you hurt your stomach just now?" The old lady began to look at her nervously, then regretted and blamed helplessly: "You should have told grandma when you came in. If grandma knew you were pregnant, how could grandma be willing to beat you?" you?"

The old lady gently caressed her flushed face with her palm, anxious.

It was the first time for Bai Muqing to see such an amiable old lady, but such an old lady made her feel uncomfortable, as if she was sitting on pins and needles.Especially the little hand that slid across her face, which was obviously gentle and delicate, but she felt as uncomfortable as being cut by a knife.

(End of this chapter)