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Chapter 745: Chapter 750 My Egg is Flawless_1
"Don’t you see who I am? You just focus on resting, and I’ll take care of the rest," Granny Liu said, patting her chest.
For Five Hundred Taels of Silver, she’d be willing to even call her "Mother."
Ruo Lan nodded obediently, but her heart was in turmoil.
She lay on the bed, anxious, suddenly feeling that no matter what she did, it was wrong.
After a long internal struggle, Ruo Lan finally opened her eyes.
By this point, the only option was to give birth to the child.
She could only hope the child would resemble her and not that old thing, to avoid any unpleasant rumors.
Thinking about the Niu Family still made her liver ache with anger.
They had agreed that once she became pregnant, she would become a concubine, and she held onto that hope until she overheard the master and madam’s conversation that day.
Their plan was to make her abort the child and then sell her to the Qing Building!
The reason was simple: the madam didn’t want the master to take a concubine and especially didn’t want anyone else challenging her child for the inheritance.
So she stole the Servitude Contract and ran away from the Niu Family.
Since the Niu Family knew her home address, she could only hide in Big Willow Village.
Alas, why was her life so hard?
Some time later, Granny Liu brought in hot water to bathe Ruo Lan, who quickly hid all her cunning thoughts.
Some secrets were better kept within her own heart, not to be let on to others.
Ever since the document was made, the Liu family hadn’t stepped foot in her home, but the odd looks from others never stopped.
The villagers turned Liu Village upside down, but nobody had done anything to Ruo Lan.
The only possibility was that Tan Zhenghong had taken advantage of her while drunk, a deed unworthy of a gentleman for not owning up to his actions.
But with the document in place, Tan Zhenghong couldn’t deny it.
The most unlucky was Qiao Duo’er, demoted from wife to concubine, with Ruo Lan in charge now. If she couldn’t produce a child, what kind of life would she have?
Thus, the winds of gossip in Big Willow Village changed once more.
"I think Tan Zhenghong got tired of his own wife and pulled this stunt."
"How is that possible? Ruo Lan is pretty, but she’s nothing compared to his current wife. If it were me, I wouldn’t trade even for ten Ruo Lans."
"Look how dumb you are, can’t he have both women?"
"Ah, it’s good to have Silver. Both are beautiful, way more than my wife by a hundredfold."
"Poor Ruo Lan, it’s obvious she’s no match for Qiao Duo."
"Who knows, Ruo Lan has stayed in a big household, doesn’t she have some insights?"
Sitting in the carriage, Qiao Duo’er furrowed her brows. When would this darn issue ever end?
If only they had technology like DNA testing now, why go through all this hassle?
They just needed to present the test results, and everything would be clear.
It wouldn’t be like now, with nobody believing Tan Zhenghong had taken contraception.
Tan Zhenghong let out a sigh. He was just sitting at home and trouble came from the sky; his heart was troubled!
"Wife, it’s all my fault," Tan Zhenghong weakly said.
Qiao Duo rolled her eyes. "Only attracting rotten peaches, flies don’t bite an egg without cracks; you’re no good-fer-nothing!"
Xiao Biyu made a big fuss and got thrown into jail, thinking that would be the end of it. But then came a more troublesome Ruo Lan, proving that Tan Zhenghong was too discreet for his own good.
Tan Zhenghong said with an aggrieved tone, "How could my egg have cracks you don’t know about?"
Qiao Duo tossed him a disdainful look. Could he be any more lewd? Any more shameless? Couldn’t they have a decent conversation?
Every time they talked, he would start on these risqué topics.
And she was no better, getting swept up every time Tan Zhenghong spun his lecherous yarns, extinguishing any anger she held, no matter how great.
