Quick Transmigration: Pangu is Actually My Brother

Chapter 538 Do You Know (5)

After a while, Granny Sun ran out with blood on her hands. "Young lady, Miss Wei's pregnancy is big, and the baby is breech. Should we save the mother or the baby?"

"Of course we'll save the baby; it's the master's child." Without even looking, you could tell it was Lin Xiaoniang's voice.

“Young mistress, young mistress said she would protect the child,” one of Wei Xiaoniang’s maids ran out and said.

"Minglan, what do you think?" Yan Shi didn't dare to make the decision on this important matter, so she lowered her head and asked Minglan.

"I want my stepmother! I want my stepmother!" Minglan cried.

"Sixth Miss, my mother said she would save the child; if the child dies, she won't live either," the maid said, hugging Minglan.

Minglan didn't know what to do, so she nestled in front of her maid and cried. Granny Sun was at her wit's end.

After a moment of contemplation, Madam Yan said, "Save them as many as you can. If all else fails, then listen to Madam Wei."

"Yes, young lady." Granny Sun hurriedly ran back.

The sounds inside were chaotic, but thankfully, after a while, everyone heard a faint cry, indicating that the child had been born safely. They just didn't know how Wei Xiaoniang was doing.

"It's born! Mother and child are safe and sound," said Granny Sun as she carried the swaddled baby out.

At this moment, the doctor finally arrived, took Wei Xiaoniang's pulse, and said that Wei Xiaoniang was deficient in both qi and blood after childbirth, which would be detrimental to her ability to have children in the future, but she could recover slowly with proper care.

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaoniang was so angry that she tore her handkerchief apart, but she still had to force a smile and congratulate her. In the end, everything returned to silence.

The next day, Wangyou woke up to hear something. In the middle of the night, Wei Xiaoniang suddenly had a massive hemorrhage. Because she had been busy all night and the doctor said there was nothing wrong, she didn't pay attention after cleaning Wei Xiaoniang up. Who knew that when she looked in the morning, Wei Xiaoniang was already cold.

"Mother~~"

"Don't be afraid, it's all fate!" Madam Yan hugged Wangyou and comforted her. No one knew how Wei Xiaoniang died; the waters in the inner quarters were very deep.

With the return of the lord and the eldest daughter-in-law, everything was settled. However, Sheng Hong didn't care much about the death of a concubine. He was quite happy to have gained a son, as it meant that the Sheng family was thriving.

Wei Xiaoniang was buried soon after, as if these two people had never existed in this inner quarters.

Forget-Me-Not is not surprised at all; her father is actually quite cold-hearted.

Time did not stop because of Wei Xiaoniang's death, but continued to move forward.

Sheng Hong named the newborn baby Sheng Changsong and temporarily placed him in front of his wife. Although she was not happy about it, she reluctantly accepted him.

Fortunately, Mr. Zhuang arrived at the mansion not long after, and all the young ladies and gentlemen of the mansion went to attend the lecture.

Wangyou quite liked Mr. Zhuang's class; it wasn't rigid at all, and the teaching was very interesting. He truly deserved to be called a famous Confucian scholar.

Wangyou was the fastest learner among them. Mr. Zhuang liked this youngest student very much, but he also understood the principle that the tallest tree in the forest will be felled by the wind, so he gave her extra tutoring in private.

Mr. Zhuang's kindness in helping me forget my worries was appreciated, and I tried my best to hide my shortcomings in my daily studies, but my progress was still faster than others, even Sheng Changbai and Sheng Changfeng, who had started reading much earlier.

In order not to lose to their youngest sister, the two of them started to study extremely hard, and Sheng Changfeng visibly reduced the number of times he went out to play.

Wangyou wasn't idle at other times either. Besides attending classes, she would practice horse stance and basics with Buwei. She also studied medical books. However, no one thought Wangyou would have any high level of medical skills; they just treated her like a child playing around.

Seeing her daughter so exhausted that she would fall asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow every day, Madam Yan felt heartbroken. However, her daughter was so persistent that she didn't know how to persuade her.

Sheng Hong felt he couldn't show favoritism, so he called his daughters and asked if they wanted to learn some self-defense skills. The fourth daughter, Mo Lan, didn't want to; she wanted to be a lady.

Fifth Sister Rulan was also unhappy. She didn't even have enough time to sleep in a day, so where would she find the time to learn anything else?

In the end, only Minglan decided to learn some self-defense skills, but she stopped reading medical books. She couldn't finish the homework assigned by Mr. Zhuang every day, and she knew very well that she didn't have the talent of her seventh sister, so she would just learn what she could manage.

And so another year passed. At the end of the year, Sheng Hong's triennial performance evaluation came out, and he was directly promoted to a high-ranking official in the capital. The whole family happily sold off the property deeds and other documents here and started moving.

Before leaving, the old lady decided to raise Minglan herself. Although Wangyou initially heard that Sheng Hong wanted to send her to him, she was not happy about it. Sheng Hong then wanted to send Molan instead, but the old lady was not happy about that and scolded Sheng Hong for being biased. She insisted on raising Minglan herself.

However, none of this had anything to do with Wangyou. She was currently taking stock of her little savings, while her mother was busy selling off her shops and estates and packing up their belongings. She was also extremely busy.

Because Sheng Hong needed to make arrangements at the government office in Shengjing first, he took Sheng Changbai and Sheng Changfeng with him and went ahead.

After some packing, the women of the Sheng family finally set off. It was Wangyou's first time on a boat, and she was overjoyed.

"Mother, look! There are so many fish in the water!" Wangyou leaned over the side of the boat, looking at the water, while Granny Sun held her firmly behind her.

"Yes, Mother saw it."

"Mother, I want to go fishing."

"This boat keeps moving, how can we possibly catch any fish?" Madam Yan said helplessly, this girl just does whatever she wants.

“Mother, I’ll give it a try, just to pass the time.”

"Then you might as well go and finish the homework that Mr. Zhuang assigned."

"I'd rather go fishing. I can do those assignments once the boat docks," Wangyou said with a grin.

In the end, Madam Yan still couldn't persuade Wangyou, so she went to get her a fishing rod. Fortunately, she had once had a sudden urge to fish for koi in the manor, so they had prepared one for her.

He struck a pose of forgetting worries and then stayed on the deck.

"Seventh Sister, what are you doing?"

"Fishing!" Wangyou turned her head and saw that the Fourth Sister, the Fifth Sister, and the Sixth Sister were all there, as well as Sheng Changsong being held by his wet nurse.

"Fourth sister, fifth sister, sixth sister, you've all come out for some fresh air."

"Yeah, it's stuffy in the cabin, I came out for some fresh air," Rulan said with a smile. "Will we be able to catch any fish here?"

"Whether it's possible or not, we'll find out by trying. Anyway, it's just a way to pass the time."

"Seventh Sister, do you have any extra fishing rods? I'd like to try my luck too," Rulan said with a smile.

"No, we didn't have any more, we just prepared one."

"Sigh, then I'll watch you fish." Rulan was a little disappointed, but she didn't ask for it back.

"Look, isn't that a school of fish?" Mo Lan looked at the water and soon saw a dense school of fish.

"There are so many fish!" Minglan couldn't help but exclaim.

"It looks like these fish are heading down Seventh Sister's fishing line," Mo Lan exclaimed after a moment.