Chapter 131 Check, Great News!
Qin Wanru nodded and followed Shui Ruolan with a smile. They walked together on the small path in the courtyard, followed closely by two girl servants.
“Wanru, thank you!” After taking two steps, Shui Ruolan said softly.
“Mother, you are being too polite. I am still young, and need to rely on mother. I don’t want to see anything happen to you. I will definitely protect you!” Qin Wanru’s long eyelashes shivered twice, leaving the irregular shadow on her white face. She slightly lifted her small pink lips. She was such a pretty and pitiful child.
Why was Madam Di reluctant to let go of such a pretty and delicate girl!
Thinking of her life experience, Shui Ruolan could not help but sigh lightly. She wanted to tell her something, but she didn’t know much about it. If she made a wrong guess, she didn’t know if she would mislead the child. After all, she was just a little child.
Moving her mouth, she decided not to say anything for the time being! She would treat her as her biological daughter.
“Just tell me if there is any problem in future. We can get along very well in the past, and now we can get along better,” Shui Ruolan softly told her.
“I will definitely tell you if there is any problem!” Qin Wanru said with a smile. At the thought that the current atmosphere was proper, she said with a bit of innocence, “Mother, it will be great that if I have a little brother. Today I saw a kid on the road. The kid was very cute and interesting!”
On hearing her words, Shui Ruolan fell silent for a while, slightly blushed, but became increasingly gentle. “As a kid, how can you talk about something like that?”
“Mother, why can’t I say that? The kid is particularly cute and seems to come from an aristocratic family in capital city, followed by a few servants. He is such a little kid who looks cute and energetic with a nice voice!” Qin Wanru continued saying with a smile. Both her eyebrows and eyes were curved, which showed that she really thought so.
She then reached out to pull Shui Ruolan’s sleeves. “Mother, if I have a younger brother, will father stop being biased and have more consideration for younger brother?”
Qin Wanru said with some grievances, which greatly accorded with her character as a little girl.
“You are so childish!” Shui Ruolan gently touched Qin Wanru’s chignon, and her face became increasingly red. “You talk nonsense again. Others will ridicule you on hearing that.”
“Will they? But I heard that there is going to be a baby in our mansion. Aren’t they talking about you? Have you deliberately hidden it from me?”
Qin Wanru reached out to shake Shui Ruolan’s sleeves with childish ignorance and effeminacy on her face, but Shui Ruolan’s face changed…
“When did you hear that?”
“They are not talking about you? Maybe I got it wrong. That day… Nanny Yu said that when she passed by the rockery and heard two girl servants saying… something like having a baby… I don’t know exactly… Nanny Yu didn’t hear it clearly and make it clear when she came back. So I thought they were talking about you…”
Qin Wanru blinked and looked a bit ignorant.
“Who did you hear it from?” With her face darkening, Shui Ruolan continued asking.
“Nanny Yu said… She just took a glance at the time and didn’t see clearly who it was, but I heard that it seems to be someone from mother’s yard,” Qin Wanru said, seemingly not knowing many details. Thinking about it carefully, it was true. She just heard some words by the road and didn’t hear it clearly. It was naturally inconvenient to go over and find out who was talking.
Shui Ruolan’s face darkened, and her hands were slightly trembling. This was an incomprehensible gossip for others, but it was like a bolt from the blue for her. She had felt sick these days and her menstruation had delayed for several days. She thought her physical discomfort was caused by being tired upon arrival in the capital with various affairs in the mansion.
She didn’t care much about it and just asked a doctor to make a diagnosis. The doctor said that she was just too tired, told her to have more rest and worry less, and made up some regular prescriptions for health preservation for her.
She asked the doctor to come yesterday, and had taken the medicine once, but faintly felt more and more uncomfortable. Old Grandma summoned her in a hurry, so she directly went there to talk with Old Grandma without taking the medicine. She originally intended to take the medicine after returning and then sleep for a while.
Qin Wanru’s words suddenly ignited the starlight in her heart and reminded her of another possibility. She was shaking slightly all over at the moment.
She reached out to hold Qin Wanru’s hand, ignoring that she was just a kid. “Wanru, take my pulse!”
“Okay!” Qin Wanru originally wanted to seek such an opportunity to take Shui Ruolan’s pulse.
She just remembered one thing. In the last life, Madam Di made Shui Ruolan deliver prematurely and die with her baby. But before she died, she once told Qin Wanru that she had a miscarriage before, so she got pregnant again after losing the vital energy for many years.
That incident was inextricably related to Madam Di. However, without the evidence of Madam Di’s doings, the incident ended up with nothing definite!
Qin Wanru did not know the specific time, but Shui Ruolan said that it was during the period when they just arrived in the capital.
She had originally speculated whether it was now, and thought that she must remind Shui Ruolan, so she said that on purpose. But seeing Shui Ruolan’s face change greatly, she was basically sure of that.
After looking around, she pulled Shui Ruolan into a pavilion. She pulled her to sit on the fence instead of sitting on the stone bench. The fence was wooden, so it was not as cool as the stone bench.
She put her hand on Shui Ruolan’s wrist and quietly took her pulse with her eyes slightly closed. Shui Ruolan looked at Qin Wanru nervously. Even Qionghua, her girl servant, looked nervous, putting her hands at her back without moving, for fear of disturbing Qin Wanru.
After a long while, Qin Wanru put down her hand. Shui Ruolan was about to ask questions, but Qin Wanru shook her hand, took her pulse from the other hand and closed her eyes again.
After putting her hand down this time, she looked slightly dignified with her long eyelashes fluttering on her eyes.
“How? How… am I?” Shui Ruolan looked at Qin Wanru with a pale face, for fear that she would say something bad.
“Mother, rest assured. There is nothing serious, and you are pregnant indeed,” Qin Wanru said with certainty. She was not quite sure by taking her pulse from one hand, but was very sure now after taking her pulse from both hands.
“Really? Madam, it’s really great!” Qionghua jumped up happily and excitedly.
Shui Ruolan did not say a word, but the tears hidden in the corners of her eyes indicated that she couldn’t even speak with great excitement now. A child, Qin’s mansion really needed a child, no matter for Shui Ruolan or Qin Huaiyong.
Even Qin Wanru also thought that Shui Ruolan could really consolidate her position in Qin’s mansion only with a child. Otherwise, things like this would happen from time to time.
Qin Wanru even faintly thought that Qin Huaiyong was not so reliable!
In such a situation, if Shui Ruolan couldn’t count on Qin Huaiyong, she could only count on her child!
“I, I took the doctor’s medicine yesterday. He said that I was too tired recently. Does, does it matter?” Suddenly thinking of this, Shui Ruolan said in a trembling voice. She tried to hold Qin Wanru’s hand, and even her hands became cold.
If she really hurt her child because of taking the improper medicine, Shui Ruolan would really consider herself a sinner through the ages!
“Mother, where does the doctor come from?” Qin Wanru asked.
Shui Ruolan looked back at Qionghua, and Qionghua stepped forward hurriedly and said, “I got out of our mansion and found the doctor at the clinic opposite to the intersection. I heard that he has good medical skills!”
“When did you go there?” Qin Wanru asked again.
“It’s yesterday. Madam said that she didn’t feel well and felt a little sleepy. So I suggested that we should ask a doctor to come here and make a diagnosis for Madam. Many people say that people are unaccustomed to a different climate upon arrival in a new place. I thought so was Madam. Besides, after moving into the mansion, Madam has been busy dealing with the affairs of the mansion…”
Qionghua picked up the edges of her clothes with her face turning pale in horror, and explained in a hurry.
That was to say, it was an unexpected situation. Besides, Madam Di had been engaged in dealing with Shui Ruolan at the banquet recently. Even if she perceived something unusual, she would not act immediately. Thinking of this, Qin Wanru relaxed, stood up and said, “Mother, take me to have a look at medicine offered by the doctor!”
“Okay, okay, come with me!” Shui Ruolan got up in a hurry and almost fell. Qin Wanru and Qionghua hurriedly reached out to support her. Thus, they went to Shui Ruolan’s yard one after another.
After they arrived in Shui Ruolan’s yard and took their seats respectively, Qionghua hurriedly took the medicine offered by the doctor yesterday. Qin Wanru opened a pack, looked at it, picked up some medicine and put them under her nose to sniff them. After that, a faint smile appeared on her face.
She put her hands down and wiped her hands with a handkerchief.
“Mother, rest assured. It is just a general medicine for building up health, not harmful medicine. But you should not take many of these medicines. Every medicine has its side effect. Mother should take care of yourself at this time!”
On hearing Qin Wanru’s words, Shui Ruolan finally felt relieved and her face slowly returned to normal. She took the warm water offered by Qionghua and eased her breath after taking a sip of it.
“Mother, you are not in good health. You had better rest more during this period.” Qin Wanru suggested.
“But, but there are so many things in the mansion…” Shui Ruolan put down the cup, frowned and said. Upon arrival in the capital, she had many things to buy and many affairs to deal with. She could not rest at all at present. The reason why she could go to Huaguang Temple with Qin Wanru was that upon arrival in the capital, there were some formalities Old Grandma had not handed over to her and Old Grandma deliberately let her have half a day off.
If she really left the affairs of the backyard, could it be possible that Madam Di would take charge of them?
If Madam Di managed to take charge of the affairs of the backyard again, she would arrange servants everywhere as her scouts like she did in Jiangzhou. It would be difficult for Shui Ruolan to take over again afterwards.
Moreover, the more servants Madam Di arranged, the more unsafe Shui Ruolan’s baby would be.
“Mother, leave half of the affairs of the mansion to others!” Qin Wanru slowly squinted her watery eyes.