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Chapter 345: Chapter 348: Is This My Son?_1
Widow Xu lay weakly on the bed and upon seeing Tan Zhengyuan enter, she said, "Get me some water, I’m so thirsty."
Tan Zhengyuan curled his lips, thinking she still expected to treat him like a slave even after losing his son?
In her dreams!
Feeling unsettled by Tan Zhengyuan’s gaze, Widow Xu couldn’t help but pull her quilt up a bit.
As she expected, what Tan Zhengyuan gave her wasn’t water, but his fists—a beating she could have resisted or fled from on any other day.
But now, having just miscarried, even the slightest movement caused her belly to ache terribly. What could she do?
Fists rained down on her like falling drops, and Widow Xu’s forehead was covered in cold sweat.
"Help! Someone save me, he’s going to beat someone to death! Help!" Widow Xu frantically cried for help.
Panting heavily, Tan Zhengyuan demanded, "Who do you think will save you? Tell me, who is your lover? Is the child mine?"
"Whose else could it be? You’re with me all the time, whose child could I possibly bear?" Widow Xu retorted angrily.
Every time she was with Tan Zhengyuan, she felt it was over before it even started, every time it was the same.
Unable to bear the frustration, she had been with Lao Guang and Wang Mazhi.
In her haste to have a child, she hadn’t taken any contraceptive measures, so she herself had no idea whose child it was.
Perhaps... each had a share.
But she couldn’t admit it now. If Tan Zhengyuan found out, he would definitely kill her.
Seeing her unwilling to confess, Tan Zhengyuan slapped her twice more, "You won’t talk? Do you think I don’t know how the child was lost? It’s because you and your lover were too intense!"
"You’re talking nonsense, I did not!"
Widow Xu moved further inside the bed, evading Tan Zhengyuan’s fists, but then she felt a warm flow—it was surely blood.
Grandma Feng had warned before leaving that if she bled again, she might not survive.
The blood seemed to flow more and more, and she grew increasingly terrified.
Widow Xu pleaded, "I’m bleeding again, quickly find a doctor, I don’t want to die!"
"You deserve to die, just tell me if that was my son or not!" Tan Zhengyuan was only interested in the answer.
"Save me... save me..."
Widow Xu’s voice grew fainter and fainter.
Fury blinded Tan Zhengyuan to the emergency; he grabbed Widow Xu’s collar, "Have you gone mute? You dare seduce other men, why can’t you admit it? Speak!"
Widow Xu’s teeth chattered, she couldn’t even speak.
Tan Zhengyuan threw Widow Xu roughly back on the bed, and her silence surely meant she was guilty.
That meant the son he had so yearned for wasn’t his at all!
Damn it, he had poured out his heart and been so careful for the child’s welfare, only to end up with this!
His rage found no outlet, his gaze inadvertently falling onto Widow Xu’s belly.
What use was keeping that belly? To bear children for another man?
At that moment, the household from the Main Room just happened to return from the fields.
Hu’s Clan hurriedly said, "Child’s grandfather, you all need to see this, Tan Zhengyuan is beating Widow Xu."
She had been anxious upon hearing the commotion inside, but Tan Zhengyuan had bolted the door, and she couldn’t get in. Just as she was worrying, the people from the Main Room came back.
Tan Yuancheng glanced at Hu’s Clan, but quickly realized he didn’t have the ground to be angry.
After all, Hu’s Clan had already divorced Tan Zhengyuan, and her willingness to inform them was already quite commendable.
"Father, mother, let’s go take a look."
Tan Zhengyong reckoned that Tan Zhengyuan’s uproar was for the Twenty Taels of Silver, could he not go?
What if his father, in his confusion, gave away the silver again, what then?
