chapter 62

The reason why Zhang Xiu’e was satisfied with Ji Xuewei was very simple. Ji Xuewei had a gentle temper. Ji Xuewei followed Zhang Xiu’e’s arrangement for everything. Zhang Xiu’e had been disciplined by her mother-in-law all her life. Now she felt satisfied with an obedient daughter-in-law, Ji Xuewei, and enjoyed her compliments.

Therefore, Zhang Xiu’e hoped that her son and his daughter-in-law would always be courteous to each other. If her son was too kind to her daughter-in-law, her daughter-in-law was bound to disobey her.

Ji Xuewei knew how to please Zhang Xiu’e. So in front of Zhang Xiu’e, she had always played weak. Even if she had problems, she pretended that she didn’t understand and asked Zhang Xiu’e to make a decision for her. It didn’t matter whether she had a weak personality or not, as long as Zhang Xiue thought she did.

“Did Qin Zheng come to take care of you last night?” Zhang Xiue asked casually.

Ji Xuewei’s pale face blushed a little, and she nodded appropriately, “He visited me after work. He didn’t leave here until he finished dinner with me.

Zhang Xiu’e nodded with satisfaction, “After this, Qin Zheng knows how to take care of you. This is also a good thing. You should take good care of yourself these days. You’ll be pregnant in the future. Don’t be so sad. Your health is the most important thing.”

Ji Xuewei nodded. After a while, Zhang Xiue left the hospital with her bag. It was really tiring to pretend to be submissive all the time. After letting her guard down, Ji Xuewei showed a little sarcastic and sneering expression.

But no matter how tired she was, her goal was achieved. Ji Xiaoli could not be successfully married into the Qin family. As her mother-in-law said, the old lady would not allow such a vulgar and cruel woman without father and mother to marry into the Qin family, especially since this woman caused her granddaughter-in-law’s miscarriage.

Ji Xuewei sneered and stroked her flat stomach with her right hand. She looked at the time and found it was only ten o’clock in the morning. Looking at the greasy chicken soup on the table, she had no appetite at all. She rang the bell by the bed. Then, before long, a little nurse came in.

Ji Xuewei solemnly ordered, “Help me buy some food outside. Go to the restaurant you went to yesterday. Be careful not to buy greasy food.”

Seeing today’s chicken soup, she felt like vomiting. For the first time, because Zhang Xiu’e had been staring at her, she could only drink the chicken soup. If she drank chicken soup again, she would snap.

Although the little nurse was not satisfied with Ji Xuewei’s attitude, she had received Ji Xuewei’s money. Even if she felt resentment in her heart, she couldn’t show her anger. She nodded and went out.

Ji Xuewei watched TV for a while because she was idle and bored. Then she took an apple from the fruit plate. After eating the apple, she yawned lazily. She was about to lie down for a while when someone knocked on the door. In order to cheat the Qin family, even if Ji Xuewei was not ill, she had to pretend to be ill and lied down in the ward. So she felt suffocating, and she became very irritable. She asked in a loud voice when she heard someone knocking on the door, “Who is there?”

The man outside said in a low voice, “It’s me.”

‘Qin Zheng? How does he come? These two days, he came after work, and he would leave in less than an hour. Today is not a weekend. Why does he come here early in the morning?’

She thought it strange, but she didn’t think much about it. She arranged her clothes and put on a sad look, “Come in.”

When Qin Zheng came in, he saw a sad woman leaning on the head of the bed and didn’t know what she was thinking. He knew that he should not suspect Ji Xuewei. But subconsciously, he didn’t believe it was caused by Ji Xiaoli. He and Ji Xiaoli had been dating for nearly four years. He knew Ji Xiaoli’s character, ‘Even when she sees a stray cat on the road, she will buy cat food and send it to the cat regularly every day. How could she have done such a wicked thing?’

He didn’t believe Ji Xiaoli would do so. But he had to believe what he saw. Now it seemed that there was another truth, so he was eager to know everything.

Qin Zheng was very contradictory in his heart. On the one hand, he hoped Ji Xiaoli was innocent, and this matter had nothing to do with her. But if so, his child never existed. He also did not want all this to be Ji Xuewei’s plot. After all, they were engaged. Anyway, he didn’t want his wife to be a sinister woman.

“A’Zheng, why do you come here so early today? Don’t you have to work?” Ji Xuewei leaned against her bed, and she had a faint smile.

There was nothing wrong with all these. Qin Zheng sighed in his heart and laughed quietly, “My work is important, but your health is more important. My mother often tells me to spend more time with you. On the one hand, she is afraid that you will be too sad. On the other hand, she wants you to take good care of yourself.”

Ji Xuewei smiled with sadness, “I’m fine. Your mother asks the chef to stew chicken soup for me every day. Besides, I’m not that weak.” Qin Zheng nodded and let an old man waiting outside the door enter the ward.

“Who is this?” Looking at the old man who came to her, Ji Xuewei’s agitation became increasingly stronger.

Qin Zheng took a look at her. He said with implication, “This is the old director of the Institute of traditional Chinese medicine. He is my father’s friend. My mother said I should take good care of your body, so I invited the old director to take your pulse.”

There seemed to be nothing wrong with Qin Zheng’s words. Abortion was a big deal for women. If the later rehabilitation work was not done well, the woman’s body would be greatly hurt. But Ji Xuewei was not pregnant at all. If the doctor took Ji Xuewei’s pulse, the doctor would know the truth of the matter.

Even if Ji Xuewei was calm, she would be a little flustered in the face of this situation. She looked a little flustered. She said quickly, “Qin Zheng, I have no problem with my health. And I’ve been recuperating for a few days. I’m much better now…”

Ji Xuewei didn’t believe that Qin Zheng was looking for a doctor for her health. And his implication was obvious. ‘How could he suddenly suspect me? Which link is wrong?’

But she couldn’t think of what went wrong. And at this time she got into a position from which there was no retiring, and the old doctor of traditional Chinese medicine was standing quietly beside her.

Ji Xuewei was a little embarrassed, but Qin Zheng said, “It’s just because you’ve been resting for a few days that you need a doctor to diagnose your condition. Don’t talk too much. Old Doctor Jiang will give you a good diagnosis.”

Old Doctor Jiang opened a private clinic in Beijing. He often diagnosed for family members of rich and powerful families. He was also exposed to a lot of intrigue and privacy in rich and powerful families, so he became inured to the unusual. Seeing Ji Xuewei refusing to reach out, he took the initiative to reach out and said with a smile, “Madam Qin, please let me take your pulse.”

Ji Xuewei stretched out her hand with reluctance. She was trying hard to find possible solutions in heart, but she felt that none of them worked… She looked up at them, and her heart was beating fast.

Before long, Old Doctor Jiang asked, “Young Madam, have you always been in good health?”

Ji Xuewei thought and nodded. After all, she could not deny what she had just said.

“Well, my diagnosis should be no problem. Young Madam, you are in good health and have no problem at all. Not only is your health OK, but your previous abortion is not tenable. You are not weak at all. And your body is healthier than normal people.” Old Doctor Jiang laughed sarcastically.

Old Doctor Jiang’s smile disgusted Ji Xuewei. She shook Old Doctor Jiang’s hand off and pointed at him angrily, “Nonsense! A’Zheng, you said he was a doctor. I don’t think he’s good at taking the pulse. You all saw that I had a miscarriage because of my sister… Can he deny all my pregnancy just by taking my pulse? A’Zheng, I was pregnant with your child.”

Old Doctor Jiang did not speak, with only a faint smile.

In fact, Qin Zheng knew the truth. Old Doctor Jiang’s pulse checking skill was second to none in the capital. Otherwise, he would not personally find Old Doctor Jiang to take Ji Xuewei’s pulse.

He was surprised to hear the result. And he seemed relieved, and he didn’t have to feel guilty about his failure to protect his baby.

“Ji Xuewei, Old Doctor Jiang never makes a wrong diagnosis. Now there’s only one possibility that you’re not pregnant at all.” Qin Zheng was disappointed. In addition, he also had a trace of inexplicable emotion. He looked coldly at the woman in bed.

Ji Xuewei seemed to have gone out of control, “Why do you believe him? So many doctors in the hospital can testify to me. And you saw what happened that day. But you don’t believe me. Qin Zheng, you just don’t trust me.”

“It’s not that I don’t trust you. I just believe these facts.” Qin Zheng’s tone was full of satire and ridicule. With Old Doctor Jiang’s words, he believed that Ji Xuewei indeed deliberately framed Ji Xiaoli.

‘She actually bribed the obstetricians and gynaecologists from the municipal hospital.’ Qin Zheng sneered in his heart, ‘This woman is really something!’

Ji Xuewei wanted to defend herself, but after the little nurse brought her dinner back, she seemed to have lost all the room to explain. Women who just had a miscarriage usually paid great attention to what they ate. Doctors must know this well. But the nurse actually bought her a lot of food that she shouldn’t have eaten. So there must be something fishy.

Old Doctor Jiang soon saw Seafood Fried Rice, Crab Dumplings, Pepper Fried Meat and other food, “Young Madam, women should not be able to eat these foods after their miscarriage. Didn’t the doctors here tell you about this? Spicy and seafood food should not be eaten. Don’t doctors in municipal hospitals even know this?” Old Doctor Jiang said jokingly.

Qin Zheng looked at her coldly, “What else do you have to say?”

Ji Xuewei’s look was a little bleak and said with a bitter smile, “What do you want me to say? You’ve already decided that it’s all my fault. Now you know the truth. Do you extricate yourself? You don’t have to doubt my sister anymore. She is the kind one, and I am the bad woman?”

“A’Zheng, I don’t regret doing so. I know it’s wrong. But I love you. I’m afraid if I don’t, I’ll lose you completely. If I didn’t pretend to be pregnant, you wouldn’t be engaged to me. I know you’re still thinking about her. I can’t take her place in your heart. A’Zheng, I can’t help it. I can only do this because I love you…” With that, she cried.

By this time, Old Doctor Jiang had already left the ward. There were only two of them left in the ward.

Qin Zheng was a little tired. He rubbed his eyebrows and said helplessly, “But you will be found out sooner or later. Ji Xuewei, don’t take advantage of my feelings for you for other purposes. I said I would marry you. I won’t let you down, so you don’t have to…”

Ji Xuewei staggered down from the bed and hugged Qin Zheng with her hands, “A’Zheng, forgive me this time. I promise I won’t do it again. A’Zheng, I’m too impulsive this time. I will never do it again. I’m jealous of my sister. It’s all my fault. I’m afraid you will abandon me…”

Men could be persuaded by reason but not be cowed by force. So Ji Xuewei’s crying was effective. Qin Zheng knew the truth, and he even thought about breaking his promise to marry her. But at this time, he seemed to be hesitant.

“Let me go first. I want to think about how to deal with it…” He really hadn’t figured out how to deal with with Ji Xuewei. However, he could not easily forgive Ji Xuewei.

Ji Xuewei was anxious and cried, “A’Zheng, I know you are angry. I accept all punishment. Please don’t let your mother know about it. If she knows I wasn’t pregnant, she will be very sad. A’Zheng, we will have our children in the future. Please forgive me this time…”

She certainly didn’t want Zhang Xiu’e to know about it. Once Zhang Xiue knew about it, Ji Xuewei might not be able to marry Qin Zheng. Zhang Xiu’e might not have cared so much about her.