Chapter 29 Cutting Wrists
"How can anyone be so extravagant? He simply doesn't treat money as money."
Shen Wei pushed Xiaoman's hand away and smiled.
The young ladies and gentlemen from official families are certainly not stupid. On the contrary, they are very smart.
But what if cake is related to something?
Just like diamonds in later generations, they have no value in themselves. It is because someone has endowed them with true love. When lovers give each other diamonds, it will last forever, so it has value.
same,
Shen Wei will also add a layer of value to the cake at the right time and in the right way.
She believed that once this gimmick became popular, the cake would become popular all over Beijing!
"Madam Hou's birthday party is this month, right?" Shen Wei asked casually.
"It's the end of this month, young lady. The old lady is very dissatisfied with you. She has quarreled with the Marquis several times because of you. Now she has moved to the Buddhist temple to meditate. You must not make her angry again."
"Is this done by Miss Qin?"
"Of course it was done by my wife."
"Okay, I'll go look for her then. By the way, why haven't I seen her in the last few days......" Shen Wei hadn't finished asking the question yet.
There was a knock on the door.
Aunt Zhao's personal maid ran over with a pale face and knocked hard on the door: "Bang bang bang!"
"Miss Shen? Miss Shen........"
What are you in such a hurry for?
Shen Wei opened the door, but had no time to ask what was going on.
next second.
The maid said something that made Shen Wei stunned on the spot: "Miss Shen, it's bad, my aunt cut her wrists and committed suicide, she lost a lot of blood, what should I do?"
"Madam was punished by the old lady of the Marquisate to copy Buddhist scriptures in the Buddhist temple. She said that the rules learned by Madam in her natal family were not up to standard, and she violated the ancestral teachings of the Marquisate. She almost gave up the child of the Marquisate for a concubine."
"Without Madam's order, I cannot leave the house, let alone seek medical advice."
"Girl... please, save my aunt again."
The moment I heard these words.
Shen Wei’s first thought was why did he take the time to look for him?
Why did you directly shout for a doctor to save people?
But on second thought, she understood.
Aunt Zhao was originally just a lowly concubine in the Marquis' Mansion. She had lost her ability to conceive and was not liked by Xie Yuchuan. She had become a useless person with no value at all.
suicide........
Suicide is such a shameful thing for the rich and powerful! !
There had already been such an unlucky thing as a stillbirth, and if there was another scandalous thing like suicide, and it became known to everyone in the Marquis's mansion, Aunt Zhao would probably not be able to survive in this mansion.
You have to die even if you don’t want to!
Old Madam Hou would not tolerate a concubine like Aunt Zhao who brought disgrace upon the family!
"Xiao Man, go and ask Doctor Xu to come over immediately and tell him that I'm not feeling well. You are my personal maid, and even without Qin Shuyu's order, the guards wouldn't dare to stop you."
"Okay, okay, girl, I'll go now." Xiaoman ran out in a panic.
Shen Wei immediately followed the maid to the side courtyard.
Once inside.
She smelled a strong smell of blood.
Aunt Zhao's face was frighteningly pale, and she lay on the bed with a weak breath, like a piece of glass that would shatter at the slightest touch. Shen Wei's eyebrows were throbbing at the sight of her.
Aunt Zhao's body was completely drained by childbirth, and now she had committed suicide by cutting her wrists and lost so much blood.
If the personal maid had not discovered it in time and quickly used gauze to stop the bleeding on Aunt Zhao's wrist, she would probably have bled to death.
"Aunt Zhao?"
"Aunt Zhao?"
Shen Wei checked Aunt Zhao's breath, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, she's still breathing."
"Where's the ginseng slice? Give it to me now."
Shen Wei doesn't know anything about medicine, he only knows some general knowledge.
The book says that when excessive bleeding leads to coma, ginseng slices can be used to maintain vitality. I don’t know if this was written in the book at the time, but now that the situation has come to this, I can only try it.
Fortunately it didn't take long.
Xiaoman invited Doctor Xu over.
When the guard heard that Shen Wei was sick, he didn't dare to ask a single question and quickly asked Xiaoman to bring the person in.
After all, she is the pearl that the Marquis holds in his hands and is afraid of dropping. Even such a rebellious thing as leaving the house to go to the martial arts hall every day, the Marquis can agree. Is there anything that can't be done that goes against the rules? !
"It's not a good situation."
After taking Shen Wei's pulse, Doctor Xu looked at her with a serious and complicated expression, "She was pregnant at an advanced stage, and now she is committing suicide by cutting her wrists. This is too harmful to her body."
hum.
Shen Wei's heart skipped a beat.
"This is not the most important thing. The most serious thing is that she is depressed and overly worried. Even if I save her, there is no guarantee that she will not commit suicide next time."
"well........"
"You women are so convoluted that it's hard to understand you."
Shen Wei understood.
I guess this is postpartum depression.
It's not called postpartum, and the child is stillborn. This is probably more serious than the postpartum depression I understand.
In this huge marquisate, Aunt Zhao was just a concubine with no family background, no talent, and no beauty. She was not favored by Xie Yuchuan and had no feelings for him.
Her only value to the Marquis's Mansion is to give birth to children and raise them for support.
right now,
The child is gone.
Moreover, it was Aunt Zhao who indirectly killed the child. She must have felt extremely guilty and painful. In this depressing and desperate environment, she had no choice but to commit suicide.
"I understand." Shen Wei frowned.
He said to Doctor Xu, "Please prescribe some medicine for Aunt Zhao to help her recover. As for her mental illness, we will pay attention to her and give her advice."
"And last time I had a miscarriage, thank you for that."
Shen Wei took out a handful of silver melon seeds from his waist and stuffed them into Doctor Xu's hand.
Doctor Xu looked at Shen Wei deeply.
honestly,
He had been a doctor for decades and had seen a lot of intrigue in the wealthy families. He knew very well how vicious the women in the wealthy families were and how they all wanted to fight their opponents to death.
But this was the first time he had seen Shen Wei's style of doing things.
Especially the ridiculous thing of taking abortion medicine in advance and then framing a man. Doctor Xu has only seen Shen Wei in his life.
"Sometimes, I really don't understand what you want to do..." Doctor Xu shook his head, left a prescription and left.
The fact that Aunt Zhao committed suicide was kept secret by Shen Wei.
No one else in the entire mansion knew about it except her.
Even Xie Yuchuan didn't say anything.
Because Shen Wei knew that Xie Yuchuan would not be very sad when he heard the news of Aunt Zhao's suicide. It was nothing strange for an ordinary woman with Aunt Zhao's personality to die.
Aunt Zhao's death was like a passing cloud in the Marquis's Mansion.
It will scatter as soon as it is blown.
It won't cause any trouble.