Chapter 412: Twins (2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Gu Yanfei nodded. “The bleeding has stopped for the time being.” She fed her a pill before asking, “Is there a village nearby?”
“Yes, yes!” Imperial Duchess Wei hurriedly replied. “It’s at most two miles away from here.”
With Imperial Duke Wei’s order, the guards first worked together to straighten the cart before replacing it with two horses.
In the end, Imperial Duke Wei carried the unconscious Wei Wan into the carriage.
Everyone hurried on their way in a hurry, led by a guard who was familiar with the terrain. After ten minutes, the group of carriages arrived at the manor that Imperial Duchess Wei had mentioned.
The people in the manor didn’t expect Imperial Duke Wei and his wife to suddenly come here. The entire manor immediately boiled over. The lights were brightly lit, as if it was daytime.
In less than an incense’s time, everyone settled down in the manor. Everything was in order.
Wei Wan was placed in a room. An old woman wiped her body and carefully bandaged the wound on her waist before changing her clothes.
In order to avoid pressing on the wound, the old woman carefully adjusted Wei Wan’s sleeping position.
Xu Yao held Wei Wan’s hand and stayed by her side. She stared fixedly at her peaceful sleeping face and refused to leave for a moment.
After Gu Yanfei drank half a cup of tea, she heard Xu Yao shout from the side of the bed, “Mommy… Mommy, how are you?”
On the bed, Wei Wan’s eyelashes trembled slightly as she slowly opened her eyes. Her eyes were still a little dazed as she subconsciously held her daughter’s small hand.
Gu Yanfei, Imperial Duke Wei, and Imperial Duchess Wei all went over when they heard the voice. Gu Yanfei glanced at Wei Wan’s face and raised her eyebrows calmly.
Wei Wan’s glabella on the bed was still covered in a layer of death aura.
Wei Wan blinked. Her eyes were much clearer, and her lips were as pale as snow from loss of blood, but she was still very weak.
She looked straight at Gu Yanfei and said sincerely, “Second Lady Gu… thank you.”
If Gu Yanfei hadn’t arrived in time, she and her daughter would have died there today.
Recalling everything that had happened before she fainted, Wei Wan’s heart was filled with an indescribable sadness and powerlessness.
Wei Wan slowly looked at Imperial Duke Wei and his wife and asked in a hoarse voice, “Brother, Sister-in-law, how did you find them?”
Imperial Duchess Wei sat down on the edge of the bed and stretched out an index finger to gently tap Wei Wan’s forehead. She sighed. “You, you’re just impatient!”
“You’re so fast that we can’t catch up…”
“…” Wei Wan pursed her lips and looked embarrassed. She was speechless for a moment.
She had always treasured her two children the most. When she was at Duke Wei’s Mansion, she was furious when she heard Gu Yanfei curse her and the child to die. She didn’t want to hear Gu Yanfei finish his sentence, especially when she saw that her sister-in-law and mother were on Gu Yanfei’s side. She was even more furious and left in a fit of anger.
Just because she was impulsive, she almost harmed herself and her daughter.
Wei Wan closed her eyes and asked with difficulty, “Where’s Xu Yan?”
She took a deep breath and said slowly and firmly, “I want to see him.”
Actually, Imperial Duke Wei didn’t want his sister to see Xu Yan again, but he also knew that with his sister’s personality, he had to let her see Xu Yan. Otherwise, she would probably not be able to let it go for the rest of her life.
“Bring Xu Yan… and Xu Luo here,” Imperial Duke Wei instructed the old woman serving beside him. After the old woman received the order, she hurried out.
Right on the heels of that, Imperial Duchess Wei got another old woman to take Xu Yao away. Xu Yao turned around and left.
Only the four of them were left in the room.
The room fell silent for a moment.
Wei Wan took a deep breath and said bitterly, “Xu Yan said, he said…”
Her tense heart finally snapped because she was facing her family.
Tears fell crazily from her eyes as she said in a hoarse voice, “He said that I… I didn’t give birth to Xu Luo.”
“Xu Luo’s birth mother is another woman…”
Thinking of Xu Yan’s deep love when he mentioned Qing’er, Wei Wan’s heart ached again. Her eyes stung even more as tears rolled down.
Her husband had betrayed her. The child was already six years old, which meant that he had been secretly in a relationship with that woman for at least seven years… or even longer, and she hadn’t noticed it.
Wei Wan closed her eyes again. Her teeth sank deep into her lower lip, and she bit so hard that it almost bled.
Imperial Duchess Wei bent over and carefully wiped the tears from the corners of Wei Wan’s eyes with a handkerchief.
Wei Wan forced a comforting smile at Imperial Duchess Wei, but her smile was extremely bitter.
She composed herself and said, “Back then, I invited many doctors and imperial physicians to take a look. They all said that I was pregnant with twins.”
“How could I not have given birth to Xu Luo?!”
Even now, Wei Wan was still unwilling to believe this fact. Her breathing was chaotic and rapid.
“…” Imperial Duchess Wei’s heart was as heavy as a mountain. She pursed her lips hesitantly and couldn’t help but turn to look at Gu Yanfei.
Gu Yanfei immediately continued, “From the divination, your daughter has a twin sister.”
“You should have given birth to a pair of twin baby girls.”
Baby girl?! Wei Wan’s eyes widened. For a moment, her mind went blank.
She swallowed hard and asked, “Where’s the child? Where’s Yao’er’s sister?”
She didn’t dare to think or guess at all, and her heart constricted violently.
Gu Yanfei looked into Wei Wan’s eyes and said slowly, “The hexagram shows that the child is already dead.”
The moment she heard this, Wei Wan suddenly grabbed the mattress below with one hand and clenched it tightly. She clenched it so tightly that her fingertips turned white, and the veins on the back of her hand bulged.
Wei Wan’s mind was buzzing.
After the extreme shock, a strong sense of sorrow swept through her body, and something in her heart seemed to break into pieces.
This time, she didn’t say that she didn’t believe her.
No matter how unwilling she was to believe it, that was the truth..