Farming in the Mountains: Max Level Jiaojiao Is Three Years Old

Chapter 1779: Chapter 1779: All Paths to Survival
 

Xue Yifu said, “Didn’t Xue Shi say someone would take good care of her, and that she’d eat and drink well? You shouldn’t bother with this. Xue Shi also mentioned that we shouldn’t go to the town to see her for fear that we might encounter misfortune. I think Xue Erfu is right; if the child really is one of our family’s, once it’s born, the best thing we can do for the child will become clear. Surely when the child grows up, he or she will be able to understand why we did what we did.”

Although Li Hehua agreed with these ideas, she was still a person with too tender a heart. Even though she nodded and seemed to utter a sound of agreement, she still didn’t lie down to sleep.

Lying down for a while and seeing that his wife had not lain down as well, Xue Yifu opened his eyes and said, “Well, do as you like, but we really need to listen to the family and not go ourselves. The family won’t harm us. We don’t have such clever minds; we might end up being controlled by her.”

“Okay.” Li Hehua then felt considerably more at ease and started to feel sleepy.

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The next day, Li Hehua got up, slaughtered an old hen, saying it was for Wu Lingxi’s unborn child to drink, and repeated the same thing she had said to Xue Yifu the night before: regardless of whether the child is theirs or not, it’s innocent, and Xue Dafu and the others had no objections.

Jiang Yue and Xue Yan knew that their sister-in-law wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if she didn’t do this, so naturally, they said nothing.

Afterward, each day, Li Hehua was either doing this or that, having it sent to Wu Lingxi.

But Wu Lingxi, no matter how good the things placed in front of her, had little appetite. She didn’t dare abort the child, nor did she dare give birth to it. She was afraid that no matter what, she would be dismembered. This was because even an honest man like Xue Bai had said so at the time.

However, even without an appetite, she still ate quite a bit.

She didn’t have a habit of mistreating her body.

She lived in this residence and could go out for walks, but there were always people accompanying her.

Xue Shi and the others were not afraid at all that she would cause a miscarriage. Even if she managed to frame someone else for causing her to lose the child, she didn’t dare to do so. After all, Xue Shi and the rest had laid down that line, especially Emperor Hao.

Every time she remembered Emperor Hao’s words spoken with a smile, she shivered, breaking out in a cold sweat. Previously, she thought that as long as she had control over Xue Bai, she had nothing to fear. But then, such a demon appeared, which was truly terrifying.

Emperor Hao was different from Xue Bai and the others; Xue Bai and his peers were just princes without inheritance to the throne, but Emperor Hao had already been made a prince in his own right alongside Xue Yifu and the others.

Everyone knew that the Emperor had just one brother.

There were even rumors that the Emperor wanted to pass on the throne to this brother.

Before, seeing Emperor Hao’s seemingly indolent demeanor, she had thought that even if his brain worked well, it couldn’t be that clever. Yet, with just a few words, he had cut off all her paths to survival.

She and Xue Bai hadn’t actually done anything that night; she was completely certain that the child in her belly was Wu Changcai’s. Therefore, if the child were to be born, it would most likely strongly resemble Wu Changcai, and she naturally didn’t have the courage to give birth to the child, letting it become irrefutable evidence of her slander against Xue Bai.

But she couldn’t do that, nor could she miscarry in this residence. Just as Emperor Hao said, miscarrying would also mean admitting her guilt, and she would be immediately dismembered. After all, aside from the fact that she was being well taken care of, a doctor would occasionally come to check on her pulse; she wouldn’t miscarry.

She thought for many days and there was only one path left to her, that was to escape before the child was born.