Mrs. Wu was sitting on the bed holding her daughter in a daze when she heard a gentle knock on the door.
Cai Zhaoji's voice came from outside the door: "Madam, can you come in?"
Mrs. Wu quickly fixed her makeup and went forward to open the door, only to see that besides Cai Zhaoji, there was also Mrs. Zhen outside the door.
Her heart sank. Was the secret exposed?
The three of them entered the room and sat down, then they heard Zhen Mi say, "I know everything that happened."
Mrs. Wu thought to herself, "That's exactly what happened. No wonder Zhen Mi came here in person!"
Her mind raced, wondering what to say.
Are you insisting that Yuan Xi forced himself?
It's like this, does it make sense?
And Zhen Mi came here because she was afraid that giving birth to a child would pose a threat to the Yuan family, right?
She felt a little bored and said softly, "I will take medicine to abort the baby, ma'am, please rest assured."
Zhen Mi and Cai Zhaoji looked at each other in surprise, and Zhen Mi asked, "Madam, don't you want this child?"
Madam Wu shook her head and said, "Madam, please don't test me. If you are worried, you can ask Mr. Yuanhua to prepare the medicine himself."
Zhen Mi wondered why Madam Wu reacted so strongly. Who was the father of the child?
Is there some hidden story? Was Mrs. Cai forced into this?
The only person who can threaten Madam Cai must be her husband's important subordinate, which is why Madam Cai is so afraid of him.
She quickly said, "Madam, you misunderstood me. No matter what happened, Madam and the child are innocent."
Mrs. Wu was angry in her heart, but she said it lightly, "After all, I am the General who breaks the enemy's will, the first wife of Sun Jian, the Marquis of Wucheng, and I am of the same generation as Yuan Shao. Now I have the flesh and blood of Yuan Shao's son. If this matter gets out, how can I face people?"
What made Mrs. Wu even more upset was that although she didn't know whether Yuan Xi was just going along with the matter or knew nothing about it, to be honest, it was all her own fault from the beginning to the end.
If she hadn't been trying so hard to escape, getting people drunk and sending everyone away, things wouldn't have turned out like this.
Seeing that Madam Wu was speechless, Cai Zhaoji said, "Madam Zhen came here to seek justice for Madam."
"Madam, can't you trust me and me?"
Mrs. Wu listened and said indifferently: "Whether I trust you or not, what does it matter?"
"I am in this state now, and I don't ask for anything more. I just want to find a place to live out the rest of my life in peace and quiet."
Zhen Mi and Cai Zhaoji looked at each other and thought to themselves, was Madam Cai really forced?
Could it really be Guo Jia?
Zhen Mi knew it was not a good idea to ask any more questions, so she stood up and said, "Madam, I understand your feelings very well. I will discuss with my husband what to do."
"Ma'am, please rest assured. I will let Mr. Fengxiao give an explanation for this matter."
Mrs. Wu didn't react for a moment, and blurted out, "Mr. Fengxiao?"
"What's that got to do with him?"
After these words were spoken, the three of them were stunned.
After a while, Zhen Mi's face gradually turned pale, Cai Zhaoji covered her mouth in surprise, and sweat ran down Mrs. Wu's face.
The three people present were all very smart and realized immediately that the previous conversation was totally irrelevant!
If not Guo Jia, who else could it be?
Zhen Mi shook her body and said to Cai Zhaoji in a hateful voice, "He just swore that it wasn't me, but I didn't expect he was really lying to me!"
She stood up and walked out, "I want to know why he lied to me!"
Cai Zhaoji didn't stop Zhen Mi for a moment. She turned around and looked at the stunned Madam Wu, and said in a hoarse voice, "Did the young master really do it?"
Cai Zhaoji couldn't understand it. There was absolutely no need for Yuan Xi to do such a thing?
If Yuan Xi really wanted to marry a lady from a noble family like Madam Cai, it shouldn't be difficult. The problem would be that Madam Cai is very loyal to her husband, right?
Yuan Xi was interested in Madam Cai, but was rejected by her, so Yuan Xi had to use force to get his way?
Cai Zhaoji was a little confused. This didn't seem like Yuan Xi's style of doing things!
If Yuan Xi really wanted such a person, wouldn't he have taken action against Gongsun Zan's widow Hou long ago?
While Cai Zhaoji and Madam Wu were staring at each other in a daze, Yuan Xi and Zhen Mi in the other room had already started arguing for the first time ever.
Zhen Mi's eyes were filled with tears. "I never said that I would not let my husband find another woman, but I never thought that my husband would lie to me."
"I never expected that my husband would force Madam Cai to get pregnant, but then push the blame on someone else. Is this still the husband I know who keeps his word?"
Yuan Xi's head was about to explode, and he was furious: "You women are really unreasonable. If I did it, how could I not tell you?"
"I clearly didn't do anything, why should I admit it?"
"And why do you think it was me who did it?"
After hearing this, Zhen Mi said to the maid, "Please invite Madam Cai over."
Soon, Cai Zhaoji helped Madam Wu, who had a complicated expression on her face, into the house. Zhen Mi sent all the maids out, and seeing Cao Xian peeking outside the house, she asked, "Do you want to come in?"
Cao Xian shook his head like a rattle, turned around and ran away.
Zhen Mi closed the door and said to everyone, "We are the only ones here now, feel free to say whatever you want to say."
"I have a problem. If I don't figure things out, I will be miserable for the rest of my life."
"Besides, I am now the legal wife and I have to be responsible for my husband's offspring. What should be is what should be, and what shouldn't be is what shouldn't be. I don't want to make any mistakes."
She looked at Yuan Xi and said, "If you think what I said is wrong, you can just divorce me."
Yuan Xi smiled bitterly and said, "Madam is right."
He then said seriously: "But I have a clear conscience about this matter."
"Although I admit that Madam Cai is extremely beautiful, I will not take advantage of someone in distress!"
"If I attack Madam Cai, God will punish me."
Madam Wu interrupted Yuan Xi and said, "Sir, don't say anything. This is all my fault."
Yuan Xi was stunned. He angrily asked, "Madam, are you sure you want to bite me?"
"I didn't offend the lady, did I?"
Madam Wu sighed and said, "This is all my fault."
"Sir, don't you remember anything about what happened on New Year's Eve?"
When Yuan Xi heard this, he was stunned. He thought about it carefully and his expression began to change.
He stammered, "On New Year's Eve?"
Zhen Mi said, "I guessed it was almost certain, it was New Year's Eve!"
"Before I went to bed alone that night, I asked you to sleep in Zhaoji's room. Did you take the opportunity to run to Madam Cai's room?"
Yuan Xi said flatly: "That's not the case!"
"I slept in Soji's room all night!"
"Shao Ji can testify for me!"
Seeing him thinking for a while, Cai Zhaoji nodded and said, "Young Master is right. I drank too much that night and slept in the study. When I returned to my room, you were indeed asleep on my couch."
After hearing this, Zhen Mi became uncertain again and asked Madam Wu, "Madam, what's going on?"
"Wait!" Yuan Xi's face suddenly turned pale and he said to Zhao Ji, "I was sleeping when you went back to the room?"
"Aren't you pretending to sleep?"
Cai Zhaoji was also stunned: "What are you talking about, sir? I don't understand."
"When I returned to the room, the young master was already fast asleep. I pushed him but he didn't wake up, so I just fell asleep next to him."
Yuan Xi stammered, "That's not right. I drank a glass of wine that day. When I came back to the room dizzy, I saw you facing inwards pretending to sleep, and then, then... I spent most of the next hour with you..."
Cai Zhaoji bit her lip and said, "I remember it very clearly. There was no such thing."
Everyone turned around blankly and looked at Mrs. Wu who was keeping her head down and silent.
Mrs. Wu was so ashamed and angry that her palms were almost bleeding from pinching her fingers inside her sleeves. After a long while, she said with difficulty, "It's me."
As soon as she said this, she felt a lot more relaxed, as if all the shackles on her body had been removed.
With a broken jar mentality, she admitted: "It was indeed me in Soji's room that night."
"I was drunk and walked into the wrong room. When I woke up, the incident had already happened."
"I didn't want to make this scandal public, so I didn't tell anyone and kept it to myself."
At this point, although Mrs. Wu had given up on herself, she understood that some things could not be concealed and could be told, but some things could not be told.
Just like her identity, once it is revealed, it will only cause great trouble to Sun Ce now. This is her last bottom line.
Of course, he couldn't tell anyone about entering Cai Zhaoji's room and stealing the token.
Yuan Xi and the other two finally understood what had happened and fell into awkward silence for a moment.
Zhen Mi was the first to speak out with difficulty: "So, this incident was just an accident?"
She turned to Yuan Xi and said, "It seems that I have wronged my husband. I am really ashamed."
Yuan Xi laughed dryly and said, "No, Madam, it is reasonable for you to have such doubts."
Zhen Mi sighed, "Although my husband didn't mean it, what should I do now?"
Everyone began to be stunned again. This matter was too bizarre. Now that the truth was out, the child in Mrs. Cai's belly was indeed Yuan Xi's flesh and blood. This was a bit troublesome.
Mrs. Wu said, "I will take medicine to get rid of it."
Zhen Mi said decisively: "No."
"This is my husband's offspring. Who knows who will give birth to him in the future? How can I not want him?"
Yuan Xi hesitated and said, "But, we should ask Mrs. Cai what she thinks about this matter, right?"
He turned sideways and bowed to Madam Cai, saying, "Xi was immoral after drinking and harmed Madam. I feel extremely guilty."
Mrs. Wu was in mixed feelings. She had tricked Yuan Xi into drinking the wine. What else could she say?
She had heard Cai Zhaoji say that Yuan Xi had some trouble after drinking, so he couldn't drink. At that time, Mrs. Wu didn't quite believe it, thinking it was either an excuse or an exaggeration.
However, after she experienced it herself that night, Mrs. Wu finally understood what the so-called trouble was, and it was not exaggerated at all, but it was too late to regret.
She could only whisper: "This is my fault, it has nothing to do with you, sir."
Zhen Mi suddenly asked, "Madam, do you want to marry your husband?"
When Mrs. Wu heard this, she opened her eyes wide in horror and for a moment suspected that she had heard it wrong.
Zhen Mi said, "Since you are already a widow, if you are willing, I would like to persuade my husband to marry you as a concubine."
She turned to Yuan Xi: "How do you feel, husband?"
Yuan Xi was also in great confusion at this time, and said, "I will follow Madam's arrangements."
Madam Wu thought that all this was crazy. She had concealed her identity and now appeared to be just an ordinary woman from a noble family. In this situation, most people would agree to it.
But if this is the case, her identity will be exposed sooner or later, and won't she become a laughing stock in the world?
She stammered, "Please let me think it over again."
After hearing this, Zhen Mi smiled and said, "It's okay. Madam's character and appearance are no less than mine. This arrangement is really unfair to Madam, and I feel bad about it."
She said to Zhao Ji: "Give Madam a few more maids. This is a happy event for the Yuan family."