novelraw Chapter 222 - 143. A child over 1 month old is gone like this. _3
Chapter 222 - 143. A child over 1 month old is gone like this. _3
"Slap!"The loud sound of a slap echoed in the quiet living room, and everyone’s breath seemed to stop.
Cheng Shihong’s raised hand came down, the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes became more pronounced with anger, her voice was warm with rage, "You’ve got some nerve, daring to act on your own initiative."
Zhao Ying’s head was slapped to one side, a red handprint quickly appeared on her pale face, but she didn’t dare to even touch it, directly kneeling on the floor.
Tears rolled down one after another, dripping from her chin onto the expensive wooden floor, not because of pain, but out of fear.
Her voice was choked and trembling, "Madam... I know I was wrong... I beg you to give me another chance..."
"Give you a chance?" Cheng Shihong sneered, as if she didn’t even think it worth looking at her.
She walked to the sofa, sat down, and picked up the teacup to take a sip of tea, "If you can make heaven give my grandson another life, I’ll give you another chance."
She might not like Nan Wan, but that doesn’t mean she didn’t like the child in Nan Wan’s womb.
Zhao Ying couldn’t comprehend, stopped crying, and blankly asked, "Wha... what?"
Cheng Shihong put down the teacup, her movements were extremely elegant, but her voice clearly restrained with anger, "The doctor said, my daughter-in-law mistakenly ingested mifepristone and prostaglandin, and the child, just over a month old, is gone just like that."
She paused for two seconds, her icy gaze looked at Zhao Ying’s pale face, and spoke words that terrified Zhao Ying to no end, "Besides the breakfast you made, she ate nothing else."
Those dagger-like eyes frightened Zhao Ying into a cold sweat, her mind was blank, only by pinching her thigh hard could she focus a bit of her sanity.
After thinking for a moment, she suddenly understood the meaning in Cheng Shihong’s words.
Dared not get up, she crawled on her knees in front of the sofa, stretched out her hand but dared not touch Cheng Shihong’s feet, crying and incoherent, "Madam, I’m innocent, I did not do it, I don’t even know what those two things are... I made breakfast according to the tastes of madam and sir, I didn’t put anything weird in it, if you don’t believe me you can let the doctor check, yes, let the doctor check! Madam, please believe me, I’m really innocent..."
Cheng Shihong did not stop her, but at this point, she suddenly couldn’t continue.
Even if checked, evidence is needed.
The leftovers from their breakfast had already been thrown into the trash can and taken away by the garbage truck, where was she going to find evidence to retrieve...
Cheng Shihong only thought Zhao Ying was guilty, compared to Zhao Ying’s unconvincing words, she trusted her son and the doctor more.
She glanced sideways at Aunt Zhou and asked in a deep voice, "Aunt Zhou, you live and eat with her every day, didn’t you notice anything?"
Aunt Zhou was initially puzzled, but after listening to the entire conversation between the two, she understood.
Madam’s child was gone...
She suddenly regretted not finishing breakfast in the morning before leaving, giving the scheming Zhao Ying an opportunity.
This Xiao Zhao’s mind has not been right for a long time, she used to think she was just a young girl momentarily greedy for wealth, hoping to rise above, at least she thought her nature was kind, but never thought her mind could be so vicious.
If you’re not a parent, you won’t understand the pain of losing a child, and Aunt Zhou had personally experienced it, the pain in her heart was a hundred times heavier than physical pain.
At this moment she couldn’t help wanting to go up and give two slaps on the madam’s behalf, even though she was furious, she knew she was just a servant, and didn’t have such a right.
She walked to Cheng Shihong, neither exaggerating nor hiding, she just said what she saw, "Madam, these past two days Xiao Zhao has been absent-minded, particularly abnormal. Many times when I called her she didn’t hear, she was dazed as if she’d lost her soul. I thought she was just physically unwell, so... so I didn’t think in this direction."
Cheng Shihong looked at Zhao Ying, "Do you have anything else to say?"
Zhao Ying’s face turned ashen.
At this moment she had already forgotten her status, clinging tightly to Cheng Shihong’s feet, eyes filled with hatred, "Madam, that woman wasn’t even pregnant! She’s deliberately framing me, believe me, I really didn’t do it..."
Aunt Zhou was immediately furious, stepping forward to defend Nan Wan, "Xiao Zhao, madam treats you so well usually, how can you say such things with a clear conscience?"
Zhao Ying’s mind and eyes were only on the outcome of being taken away by debt collectors, she didn’t hear a word of Aunt Zhou’s, her makeup already cried off, black eyeliner streaming down her eyes, looking both disheveled and miserable.