Chapter 416: Connection (2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“The person who is related to her by blood and the person who is related to her enemy by blood is the best candidate. This is karma.”
“It’s just the beginning.”
“The scar on his body will become more and more serious, and then the pain will be unbearable. The baby spirit attached to his body will gradually corrode his soul and finally tear it apart… so that he can never reincarnate.”
“Soon!”
As Gu Yanfei recounted, Xu Luo, who was at the side, suddenly frowned. He scratched his arm in frustration and muttered, “Mommy, I’m itchy. My back is itchy…”
He scratched the red marks on his arm hard, his little face scrunched up. “It hurts… Mommy, 1 feel a pain and an itch on my back.”
The boy twisted his body and scratched the red spots on his arms and back. He was restless and his eyes turned red. The dim and strange room seemed to fit the “ghost face” on his back.
Xu Yan was afraid that Xu Luo would injure himself if he scratched randomly. He hurriedly hugged his son and looked at Gu Yanfei in surprise, as if he was wondering if she was telling the truth.
Qing’er looked at her son and then at Gu Yanfei. Her heart felt like it was being pricked by a needle.
Her eyes were filled with fear as tears filled her eyes. She begged pitifully, “Miss, can you save him?”
“Children are innocent.”
“Don’t take it out on him.”
Qing’er’s eyelashes trembled slightly, and two streams of tears rolled down her snow-white face, like night dew rolling on the petals of an epiphyllum.
This scene seemed to have agitated Xu Luo. Xu Luo scratched his skin and shouted, “Mommy, why are you begging her!”
Wei Wan pretended not to hear her and looked at the woman in green beside Xu Luo in a daze. Finally, this face overlapped with the face in her memory.
She finally recognized her and blurted out, “You’re Yu Qing!”
Qing’er squatted on the ground and pursed her cherry lips without saying a word. Her jade-like and fair face was delicate and moving.
At this moment, silence was an admission.
Imperial Duchess Wei, who had been watching for a long time, frowned and asked Wei Wan, “All Wan, do you know her?”
“She used to be Xu Yan’s concubine maid,” Wei Wan said with difficulty.
Nine years ago, not long after Wei Wan married into the Ji’an Mansion, she had asked Xu Yan if she wanted to give Yu Qing a status.
For noble families like theirs, it was normal for men to have one or two concubines before their wedding, so Wei Wan didn’t care. However, at that time, Xu Yan had personally told her that he had let Yu Qing out of the residence.
In the past, Wei Wan had always thought that it was Xu Yan’s respect for her. Even if she wasn’t pregnant with a child two years after her marriage, Xu Yan had never taken a concubine.
How could she have thought that everything Xu Yan did wasn’t for her at all, but for another woman!
Imperial Duchess Wei’s expression turned even colder. With a dark face, she questioned coldly, “Xu Yan, since you already have a sweetheart, why did you come to Duke Wei’s Mansion to propose?!”
It wasn’t like Wei Wan couldn’t get married. There were many people who wanted to marry her. As long as Xu Yan showed the slightest unwillingness, the Wei family would definitely not force him.
“…” Xu Yan hugged Yu Qing with his other hand and remained silent. His thin lips were pursed into a straight line.
He had always liked Yu Qing, but he also knew that Yu Qing’s status was too low to be his first wife.
At that time, he was still the heir of the Marquis of Ji’an. For the sake of his title, he needed a legitimate son.
Therefore, he could only follow his parents’ arrangements and be engaged to Wei Wan. He thought that after they got married, he could take Yu Qing as his concubine.
Unexpectedly, on the day he returned home with Wei Wan for three days, Yu Qing left by herself, and her whereabouts were unknown…
Every time he thought of that bitter past, Xu Yan felt as if a piece of his heart had been gouged out.
“Daddy, 1 feel so uncomfortable! Mommy, I’m itchy!” Xu Luo, who was in Xu Yan’s arms, was about to cry. He twisted his body like a snake.
The crimson scar on his bare back seemed to be oozing blood, as if this “ghost face” was crying…
Another gust of cold wind rose and almost blew out the light of the oil lamp. There was only a small flame left in the wick. The room suddenly darkened a lot, and even the facial features of the surrounding people became sinister and strange.
Yu Qing was completely flustered. She knelt on the ground in a daze and kowtowed heavily to Gu Yanfei. “Miss, please save my son. He’s just a child.”
As long as her son was safe, she was willing to give anything.
She had the heart of a loving mother, with a touch of earth-shattering sadness.
The corners of Gu Yanfei’s lips curled up slightly, making it impossible to see through her emotions.
“She was also just a baby,” Gu Yanfei said meaningfully. Her eyes locked on the other party’s gaze. “How can she be reborn if her bones aren’t complete?”
“…” Yu Qing’s pupils moved, and her forehead turned slightly red. Her eyes became dazed again, as if she could hear the unwilling cry of the baby girl again.
If the bones were incomplete, how could one be reborn?!
If the baby girl couldn’t be reincarnated, she would pester them for days until they died…
Yu Qing’s heart was bitter, and her pale lips moved. After a while, she said softly, “She’s… at the mass grave.”
Even though her voice was as low as a mosquito’s buzz, the others around her could hear her quite clearly.
Wei Wan gritted her teeth.
Yu Qing lowered her eyes and grabbed Xu Yan’s robe with one hand again. Her eyes were filled with tears again as she said slowly, “That child’s body was too weak, so we couldn’t keep her alive.”
The light that had shrunk to a point slowly lit up again. It swayed and burned on the oil lamp, and light and shadow intertwined.
“Is that so?” Gu Yanfei sighed meaningfully.
“Mommy!” Xu Luo screamed. Her body twitched violently, and the whites of her eyes rolled up slightly. Her back was straight, and she looked extremely strange, as if she had been possessed.
“Luo’er, don’t scare Mommy.” Yu Qing was so frightened that she almost lost her mind. Her heart ached so much that she couldn’t control herself. Her son was her life.
She couldn’t think at all and said excitedly, “She froze to death!”