After being forced to leave the marriage, I became the wife of a top scholar.

Chapter 112 How Did I Get Injured (Part 1)

Old Wei went up to look at his son and saw that his chest was still rising and falling, so he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Madam, can my son Qian'er be saved?" Old Wei asked with great concern.

Bai Wanqing glanced at Old Wei, it seemed the Wei family was aware of the severity of Wei Qian's wound. "He's infected."

Old Wei nodded. "So..."

“Fortunately, my grandmaster has a good prescription, which can be given to Young Master Wei to try. Perhaps he can pull through this ordeal.” After Bai Wanqing finished speaking, she looked at Old Wei.

Old Wei immediately nodded and said, "Let's try it. No matter how expensive the medicine is, our family will buy it."

The commotion woke up Madam Wei, who had just fainted. Hearing her husband's words, she ran over and nodded repeatedly, saying, "Yes! We'll treat her, no matter how expensive it is."

Bai Wanqing then finished writing the prescription, and together with Ruixin, they prepared the medicine and handed it to Lao Wei.

“Mr. Wei, Young Master Wei’s condition is still quite critical. Please brew this medicine for him and give it to him. If there are any further changes in Young Master Wei tonight, you can come to my house to find me.” After Bai Wanqing finished speaking, she asked Ruixin to give out their address.

Old Wei thanked him repeatedly, but when he saw the address on the note, he was stunned. "Madam, are you the new prefect's wife?"

Bai Wanqing nodded slightly. Suddenly, Old Wei remembered something, pulled his wife to kneel on the ground, and pleaded, "Madam Prefect, our Wei family has been wronged! Please, Madam Prefect, save our lives!"

Bai Wanqing had been waiting for them to speak, so she immediately stepped forward, bent down, and helped the two of them up. "Mr. Wei, Mrs. Wei, let's brew the medicine and feed it to Young Master Wei first, and then we can talk slowly."

“Madam Prefect, you don’t need to call me Boss Wei. I’m just a wonton seller. You can just call me Old Wei.”

"Yes, yes, we are all rough people. I am not Madam Wei. Everyone calls me Sister-in-law Wei. If you don't mind, Madam Prefect, you can call me that too."

Bai Wanqing nodded slightly, and Sister-in-law Wei took the medicine to the kitchen to brew it.

Bai Wanqing was afraid that Sister-in-law Wei wouldn't know how, so she specially sent Ruixin to teach her. Old Wei saw all this and tears welled up in his eyes without him realizing it.

Perhaps there is still hope for the Wei family.

After arranging everything, Lao Wei took Bai Wanqing to the side where they lived.

Old Wei poured Bai Wanqing a glass of water. Looking at the glass, he said somewhat apologetically, "Madam, I'm sorry, we're out of tea. Please don't mind."

Bai Wanqing picked up her water glass, took a sip, and said, "Old Wei, these are all minor matters. Why don't you tell me how Young Master Wei was injured?"

"And who are these people who came to this wonton stall asking for money today?"

Old Wei poured himself a glass of water and said slowly, "Madam, our Wei family has messed with the wrong person!"

Whenever this matter is mentioned, Lao Wei is heartbroken and filled with regret.

"To tell this story, we have to start with our daughter."

Old Wei's eyes welled up with tears when he thought of his daughter. "That was two years ago, when my daughter had just turned sixteen and was of marriageable age."

"Her mother and I were thinking of arranging a marriage for her in Huaizhou City."

"Because my family runs a small business, we know quite a lot of people, especially repeat customers. Don't underestimate my small wonton stall, because I have quite a few repeat customers."

“We thought that we had gotten to know these guests quite well, so there was nothing wrong with choosing one of them for our daughter.”

"And our daughter thought it was a good idea too. In a moment of impulse, I brought Man Niang with me when I set up my stall."

“Man Niang is petite and delicate, but she is quite beautiful. I didn’t expect that after only a few days of working with us at the stall, many young men from noble families would come to propose marriage.”

Old Wei's eyes lit up as he spoke, proud of having such a daughter, but the next second, his gaze dimmed.

“But most of those young men wanted Man Niang to be their concubine, which my husband and I couldn’t bear to do, so we turned them all down and found her a job as an accountant at a grain store who often came to our stall to eat wontons.”

“Man Niang also thought it was a good idea, so after the two families had discussed it, they prepared to get engaged.”

"But who would have thought that at this time, Master Fang had already set his sights on Man Niang."

"He was very forceful in demanding that we marry Man Niang into their Fang family as a concubine, and he even threatened Man Niang that if she did not comply, our whole family would not be able to survive in Huaizhou City."

“If anyone else had said this, we might have been able to get away with it.” “But it was Master Fang who said this. He has already driven many families out of Huaizhou City, so not only does Man Niang believe it, but even those of us who know the inside story believe it.”

“Maniang didn’t want to make things difficult for us, so she secretly agreed to marry into the Fang family as a concubine. Because of this, we even made enemies with the Zhou family. The Zhou family thought we went back on our word and were dishonest.”

Old Wei sighed as he finished speaking. He didn't notice that Bai Wanqing's expression had become somewhat gloomy. She listened to these things as if they were her own story, except that she was lucky enough to escape this calamity, while Man Niang was the one who couldn't escape it.

"Man Niang married into the Fang family and became Master Fang's concubine. At first, Master Fang treated Man Niang very well and gave her the best things possible. Even Madam Fang was very jealous of Man Niang."

"Originally, we thought that if Man Niang could continue living like this in the Fang family, it wouldn't be bad. If she could have another child, her life in the Fang family wouldn't be bad either."

"But a year has passed since Man Niang got married and there's still no news."

"Master Fang took three more concubines in succession, and gradually he paid less and less attention to Man Niang."

"We thought we could just swallow our grievances and get by."

"But we underestimated the dirty tricks of this wealthy family. Half a year ago, Man Niang finally found out she was pregnant, and our whole family was very happy."

“Manniang is also very happy. At this moment, our happiness is not because of whether we can gain a foothold in the Fang family, but because we think that if Manniang has a child, she will have someone to rely on in the future, and her life will finally have some hope.”

"But Madam Fang said that the child that Man Niang was carrying was not Master Fang's, that Man Niang had cheated on her husband, and that the child could not be kept, forcing Man Niang to abort it."

“How could Man Niang be willing? This was a child she had been longing for for so long, so she had a conflict with Master Fang and Madam Fang and secretly ran home.”

“At that time, my husband, her younger brother Qian’er, and I felt really sorry for Man Niang when we saw how thin she was. We thought that if she could leave the Fang family, it wouldn’t be a bad thing. At worst, our Wei family could raise the child.”

"But Madam Fang disagreed. She sent people to pick up Man Niang. Our Wei family only has a few people, so naturally we couldn't go against the Fang family. Moreover, Madam Fang also relented and said that Man Niang's child could stay, but could not take the Fang surname in the future. We thought we could accept that, so we agreed to let Man Niang go back."

"That's how she went back, and Man Niang lost her life." As he spoke, tears streamed down Old Wei's face.

Even Sister Wei, who was feeding medicine next door, couldn't hold back her tears and started sobbing as well.

"And then what happened? Wei Qian was injured while trying to avenge his sister?" Bai Wanqing asked.

Old Wei shook his head. "It's not about revenge. Our Wei family has never even considered revenge."

"When Man Niang returned to the Fang family, she was locked up by Madam Fang. Madam Fang found a doctor and prescribed an abortion pill for Man Niang, but Man Niang was a stubborn child!"

"Even after taking abortion pills, she managed to prevent the baby from being expelled, and the baby died in her womb."

“The child died, so Madam Fang naturally released Man Niang. But the child inside Man Niang’s body was already dead; it was still inside Man Niang’s belly, and Man Niang’s health deteriorated day by day.”

“Wei Qian didn’t want to see his sister suffer like this, so he and we went to the Fang family to persuade her for several days. Only then did Man Niang agree to take the medicine again and get rid of the child.”

"Madam Prefect, you don't know, there used to be several pharmacies in Huaizhou, but for some reason, ever since Master Fang started doing medicinal herb business, those pharmacies were acquired by him not long after. Now, in Huaizhou, if someone wants to see a doctor, they can only go to Master Fang's pharmacy."

"When we found the doctors at the pharmacy, they all shook their heads and refused to treat Man Niang when they heard that she was a concubine of the Fang family."

"There was nothing we could do, so Wei Qian thought of taking his sister to the county next to Huaizhou City to see her, but we didn't expect that Man Niang would be stopped by the officials before we even left the city."

"The reason given to us was that Man Niang was a concubine who had escaped from the Fang family. They reported to the authorities that she had been missing, and now that she had been found, Man Niang was sent back to the Fang family."

“My son, Wei Qian, was so angry and couldn’t bear to watch his sister die. He took all the money in the house and borrowed some more from the pawnshop, intending to buy some medicinal herbs from other places. On the one hand, these herbs could help his sister’s illness.”

"On the other hand, he also wanted to break the Fang family's absolute authority in the pharmacy, so that those who had offended the Fang family would not be left without a cure."

"I originally disagreed; going against the Fang family would be like throwing an egg against a rock."

"But seeing that Man Niang was getting worse day by day, I couldn't care less about anything else and agreed to let Wei Qian go to buy medicine."

"But this trip to buy medicine almost cost my son his life."

Just then, Wei Qian's cough came from next door. Bai Wanqing quickly went over and checked on him. "Although he still has a low-grade fever, his pulse has stabilized."

Old Wei, who had run over with her, finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, and his wife wiped away her tears.

Old Wei sighed and continued, "Just half a month ago, Qian'er wrote to me saying that he had bought the medicine. He had someone send the medicine that Man Niang needed back to us first, and he himself was slowly driving back with the cart of medicine."

(End of this chapter)